Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CONGRESSIONAL. Daily Doings of the National Lawmakers. SENATE. Fortieth Day A joint resolution, authorizing the president to appoint one woman commissioner to represent the Fnited States and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the unveiling of the statute of Lafayette at the exposition, at Paris, was passed. A bill was passed to erect a public building at Selma, Ala., at a cost cf $10,000. Mr. Cattery. of Louisiana, then resumed his speech on the Philippine question, at the close of which the Sen ate adjourned. Forty-first Day. Mr. Vest, of Misnt\ iry flua Qnnoto 111 Q mPTI (1 nv/ui I, J/i Vf/V.'CU 1*1 Vltv k/cuuiv v*4* ?.Uv.. . ment to the pending financial bill, providing :hat the secretary of the treasury shall have prepared $200,000,000 of treasury notes." They shall be full le# gal tender for all debts and shall be loaned by the secretary of the treasury to anybody who may deposit Vnited States bonds for them, the note to bear the same interest as the bond deposited. A joint resolution increasing the limit of cost of the new government printing office bv $129,000. on account of the increased price o? buliding materials, was passed. Mr. Till man. cf South Carolina, offered anu had passed a resolution calling for information from the secretary of th" treasury as to the status of the claims of South Carolina for moneys paid out by the State in the Florida war. Forty-second Day. Almost imwe riiately after the Senate convened dis cuss ton cf the Financial measure was resumed. Mr. Allen (Neb.) concluded his speech charging the Republican party with breaking faith with the people on bi-metallism. Mr. Cockreli (Mo.) analyzed the Financial bill. A * bouse bill was passed granting tin New Orleans Levee Board authority to move the existing lines in front of thn I'nited Spates Marine flospital in New Orleans. Forty-third Day. .As no Senator wcs prepared to proceed with a discission of the financial bill the Senate transacted only routine business and adjourned early to enable member-* to attend ine ousequies m wmni.i Lawton. Mr. Allison presented the credentials of his colleague. John H. Gear, re-elected Senator from Iowa, for a term of six years from March 4. 1901. The credentials were filed. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, introduced a free silver coinage substitute for the pending currency bill. The substitute provides that "from an 1 after the passage of this act. the mints of the Tnited States shall be open to the coinage of silver, and there shall be coined dollars of the weight of 4121-2 grains troy, of standard silver 9-1?? fine, as provided by the act of January IS. 1827. and upon the same termFcr.y-fourth Day. A resolution ex proving sympathy fo r.'he Boer- in i-> iincf firpo* Britain uu * c** "e-ft*" sr.J urging mediation on the part of t.h? United Spates between the bell.ig? ren-ts. was adopted by the Senate in a tit of temporary abtiiat'on of attent'on. The resolution was offered by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, and went Mirough without attracting the .slighter t eoxaxiot from aiiy one of the doz en or rrrce Senators present. A mir. u:e li.ee, however, at the request of the chair (Mr. Frye>. Mr. Allen <011teated ?o a reronsidelation of nlie vo:-by which the resolution was pr-?ed and the incident closed, amid muck a.:gh:er. The financial d:':a v.afjrc.'inueJ by Mr. Chandler. who opposed the gold standard and strongly urged the double stands: d. Mr. Money, of Mississippi. also spoke. HOUSE. Fortieth Day The Philippine question again occupied the attention of the house. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, presented an argument against th-> annexation of the Philippines, whim attracted much attention. It was devoted almost entirely to the commercial aspects of the acquisition, holding that the absorption of the islandv.ouid be ultimately ruinous to the American producers cf cotton, rice, tobacco. hemp and sugar. After some remarks by Mr. Smith o! Michigan, supporting the Roer side <?' the South African contention, ti:. house at 5 p. m. adjourned. Korty-nrsi i?y.? mt- nyu-c uu.-nod the diplomatic and consular approprint ion bill, passing it substantially ,:s it ramo treni the committee. There sva-; some desultory discussion of the Philippines question and the war in Bnnth Africa, the principle feature being the speech of Mr. Shafroth. in favor if the mediation in the BritishBoer war tinder the provisions of the H :g :?> treatv. The diplomatic bill as o;e-?(l carries $1.74i?.90S. The House passed the Senate bill authorizing tiie Sr"ther.stern railway to construct a bridge across the Lumber river in Robeson county. X. C. Forty-second Day.?The house \ .rein -sion only an hour ami a half and only minor business W3S tran.-.o- ed The Ways ac I Me ins Cornmitte" Dill establishing tariff rates upon goods from Porto k:^o jhto thc i ii::eu runu-.an.\ vl:-e versa, was reported and Chairman Payne gave r.otic tha. nihil! would be called up next Thin sd.y. The debate upon it will inn for a week. Mr. Richardson (Tenn.i presented the views of the minority and Mr. M-Cali (Miss.) presented a separate dissenting opinion. Forty-third Day. The Hous? was ir: session scarcely an hour, adjourning early to permit members to attend the Lawton obsequies. When Mr. Payne, of New Vorlt. moved a recess until I night Mr. Siyis, of Tennessee objected, on the ground thai it was unfair to cut out the consideration of private claims, the regular order, and then devote the evening to private pension I legislation. After a motion by Mr. th Loud, of California, to adjourn, in- <T? j stead of taking ret ess. had been debat- of j ed and voted down, the House by a bi i vote of H>7 to 15. recessed until even- iz. ; ing. fo I or Tobacco Hands Fight. v' I Norfolk. Ya.. Special.?At Ma-tins| ville Thursday night, there was an in I cipient ric-t. The tobacco rollers at *.e ' Spencer's Tobacco Factory are on a w< ! strike, anil one of them. Joseph Fin- ha ney. broke his pledge and agreed to re. turn to wcrk on the old te-nis. A hurt- se ! dred negroes gathered arcttnd the fae- 3/6 er ! tory to give Finney a beating, and h? : opened fire on the cr.-wd v ith a pistol. Nineteen of the rioters were arrested. ^ British Again Driven Back. yo , Headquarters Camp. Springfield Eh Bridge. By Cable.?The position taken he north of the Tugela river proved a dif flcult one to maintain. The regiments "" sent across as re-enforcemcnts went ' mi Into the front lin* of trenches, but ow- Re ing to the great strength of the Beers the in th? Brakfcntein hills, to the left, it < i was four I impossible to advance with- ' j out. risking unnecessary loss. The ? | Beers continued shelling the British (.J( i position. Their superiority of shell flro rendered the advance iniposs'hle. 1 set sii The Angler Fish. *'is tio Most remarkable of the strange lisb- ins 1 es is the anglerttsh. whose very name tie seems a paradox. The rislilng-lisli is pje nevertheless, a reality, and a stern one na to all that approach those awful jaws the of his. With a body tne color of mud. get he generally lies in the shadow of some ^ rock on the bottom of the sea. waiting. apj motionless, for the approach of his sjn prey. He is provided with nil odd kind Ar of tin just over 1 lie month, and this is held out in front of him to give warning of the coming of something to he swallowed. One taken nlive was ex- < perinieuted on. and it was found that ^ if this projecting tin w:u6 touched with a< a stick, even though the stick did not we come near the mouth, the jaws close.i pa as soon as it is touched. The mouth is , tremendous, growing to 'he width of Wf a foot when the whole tisli is only jjo three feet !oag. One <>i these anglers co was caught not long since, and though tet it was only twenty-five inehes long, a I jo lisli fifteen inches long was found Vc syeking in its throat. The angler is Br provided with peculiar teeth set in dotllde or treble i >ws ;iJonjr the jaws. ] ! and at the en trance <>r tlie throat, sui Some of these tooth are a foot long. gn lie is not a pretrv fish to look at. hut Re he attends strictly to business i.tid will iot swallow- anything that touches his i warning tin: whether it is meant for jn food or not. All kinds of things have th< boon found in the stomachs of anglers. foi from hits of lead and stone to fish al- j most as large as the atiglcr itself. This CAJ is without doubt one of the most pe- \*0 ctiliarand interesting tish in the whole ocean. rie tea The Now Maslcm Wining fain p. One of the latest and most promising I of tiie Alaskan mining camps is Nome, am It is located on the Snake river and of had a population of 5.000 on Nov. 1. ] , At that time, however. 2.000 people An nere expected to leave for the staie3 at by the last boats, and the winter population will not be more than 3,000. There is not a tree or a bush as thick as a man's wrist growing within fifty miles of .Nome, and there is. therefore. ^ 0 Rr a ready market for lumber at $230 a " thousand, while shingles sell for $10 ^ a bunch. Coal costs $73 a ton and the ;n. purchaser is expected in addition to act as his own delivery v agon. I'ota- ' eolt t''ll i hnnHrW. un.1 lioanc tcil ivxra o<r.i v_v .. """ gQ locally known as Klondike strawber* on ries. at eight cents a pound. Gold t? rj, the amount of $.1 000.000 is said to have . been taken out of the Nome placers ^ this season, and every available claim ' in the limited district was long ago p-n ' staked out. There is at present great 1 activity in the Nome real estate mar- , * 1)0] ket. The last important sale, prior to ^ Nov. 1. was that of the El Dorado building, a frame shanty on the main * 'ha street. 50x75 feet, on a lot measuring .">0x150 feet. It sold for $22,000 cash. 1S The ruling price for day labor is $1 an 1 ' l i ... tU : ~ 4 ... 1. .1 _ fro r nour, i>ui mere is muuum uu vturn uu-i ing. Longshoremen get $:'0 a day. but be ! are torn pel led to stand up to their tb( waists in ice cold water most of the rlv day and are consequently soon laid up I with sickness. his dui but In one of the historical volumes of I John F. Magginuess is recounted a pos most remarkable coincidence. On the the very day that the Decla: atiou of In- at dependence was promulgated and old I I Liberty Bell proclaimed the joyful R. news in Philadelphia, a little band of in Scotch-Irish settlers, without any ?f knowledge, of course, of what was oc- I 1 curring elsewhere, assembled at a hai ! certain place on the banks of Pine sto Creek, about fourteen miles above where now stands the city of Williams- t,or port, and declared themselves free | from the vote of British rule, i ' df( THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South.. Governor Taylor, of Virginia, sent to e General Assembly Friday a mess, 3 abating that the board of miliuty fieens of the Scale have formula;.xl a j 11 suggesting a plan for the reorgan it ion of the Stale volunteers ;n conrmity w?ch the laws governing like j ganizations in the United States ser- j ce. He submits the same with the ; ^pe that it may meet with approval. D. C. Jenkins, for nearly twenty-five ars the editor-in-chief of the Gal- , ston News, has retired from active >rk on account of advancing age. and | .s gone to live in Southern California. I I>e:nocratic and Republican Reprentatives met in I>ouisville. Ky., and : reed upon terms for setting the govnorship contest. ^ | Isaac E. Emerson, of Baltimore, gave j itimony in the Molineux trial at New I >rk. Charles Weissenborn. the Baltimore uth accused of murdering Hugh igan in Philadelphia Sunday, was ' Id without hail by Magistrate South, that city, for the action of the cor : \ majority or a nouse election com- , ttee will report in favor of Pearson, ; publican, in the contested case from ; Ninth North Carolina district. >outh Carolina last year made more jgress in cotton mill building than y other State, and now stands set- ! d in that industry. Phe citizens of Savannah will proit Admiral Dewey with a splendid ver vase upon the occasion of his I it there next month. The presenta- : n will be at the public reception. The cription will commemorate the batof Manila and the date of the visit. ' I lief figures will show the "Savanh," the first steamship that crossed ; ocean, and a modern fast passen steamship. The governor of Virginia Wednesday pointed James B. Dohortv, Commisner of I.abor Statistics, to succeed ch P. Montague. The North Secretary of State Hay has presented ,; St. Paul's church, in Warsaw. 111., 1 :arved oak altar as a memorial to his 1 11 represented in one Washington rents. 1 The heads of Commonwealths were , 11 represented in a Washington ' tel the other day, where, by an odd incidence, the following had regis ed one after the other: Governor oinsbury, of Connecticut; Governor j ! orhees, of New Jersey: Governor ! own. of Indian Territory, and ex- j | ivernor Crawford, of Kansas. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has been i j ceeded as pastor of the South Con- j ?gational church, Boston, by the v. S. A. Eliot, son of President El- j i r\f W.afriirH i j iVitnesses in the Clark investigation ! behalf of the defense, denied manyof j 1 tales of bringing told by witnesses the prosecution. Hon. William J. Bryan discussed mpaign issues at Carnegie Hall, New rk. j ^fter a quarrel with her lever. Ma- ! Wynecke. of New York, who was ching languages in Berlin, killed self. 'orty thousand people are injured j nuall.v in the factories of the Suite 1 New York. | 'lie strike of the employes of the lcrican hide and leather company, : Lowell. Mass.. has been settled. i ? i Foreign. V dispatch from Naauwpoort. Cape ! lony, states that a large force of : ( itish troops has been sent to seize real's pont, a bridge over the ( ang^ river leading from Cape Colony j o the Orange Free State. Russian newspapers openly advocate 5 ;ing advantage of British trouble in : nth Africa to secure ports for Russia < the Indian ocean and the Mediter- 1 lean sea. < lenexal Kobbe has succeeded in ^ zan Samar and I?yte Islands of tho j rrisoning many of the hemp ports in iladelphia group. dajor Allan is pursuing the Tagalog oeral, Lukban. who is said to have t >0,000 in gold. 1 Spanish stevedors at Santiago. Cuba. < ve struck for higher wages. Thel) J ' some disorder. The Argentine government has enjed E. L. Carthell, of New York, to t the engineer in the canalization of s Rio de la Plata and the Parana < er. 1 )umas. the noted baritone, fractured arm by a fall at Luebecfc, Germany, ring the performance of "Carmen" t pluckily finished his part. < lieutenant Herron and party, sup- ( ;ed to have been lost while exploring * > Copper river country, have arrived ' Fort Gibson, Alaska. ( lattalion Sergeant Major William Staff, has been appointed a captain the Forty-ninth infantry on account gallant services in the Philippines. < )r. Robert Davies, cf San Francisco. 1 3 secured from England the grave- ^ ne of Lawrence and Elizabeth Wash- ^ ;ton, ancestors of George Washing- 1 i, which he desires to deposit in the J lithsonian institute. I ^ William H. Gilder, arctic explorer, , >d at Morristown, N. J. 1 ' iif i rA' ?jj HOUE ASPPROPRIATION BILL. What Is Allowed for the Various State Institutions. The items as adopted in the Houiie appropriation bill are as follows: Salary of governor. $3,000; private secretary, $1,330: messenger. $400: con- j tingent fund, $3,000: stationery. $300. j Salary of secretary of State. $1,900; i clerk. $1,350; contingent fund. $150; stationery. $500; books. blinks, etc., general election. $500; extra clerk hire,1 $300; for books, blanks, etc.. $500. Comptroller General's salary. $1,900; two clerks, $1,400 each; contingent fund. $200; printing. $300; stationery, $300; traveling expenses. $500. Satte treasurer, $1,900; chief clerk, $.1500; two bookkeepers, $1,350 each; contingent fund. $200; printing of j bonds and stocks. $500; stationery, $200. < Superintendent of education. $1,900; ' clerk, $900; contingent fund, $200; j printing, books, etc.. $000; State board I expenses. $500; stationery, $125; travel ing expenses, $300. Adjutant general $1,200; clerk. $900; State armorer, $350; contingent fund, i $500; stationery, $150; traveling ex- ; I penses. $550, and $S,000 for the militia ( of the State. Attorney general. $1,900; assistant $1,350; contingent fund, $150; station- : cry. $75; litigation expenses, $1,500; 1 for emergency $500, if necessary. I Railroad commissioners' salary. | $5,700; secretary. $1,200; contingent i fund, $750. lihrorion 4S00* fnntin?pnt 1 fund, $125; stationery, $300: other expenses. $100; for Moorman's digest, < $187.50. Two watchmen State house. $S00; janitor. $160; engineer. $75 for seven j months and $25 for Ave months; two ; firemen at $35 per month for five i months. i Supreme court. Chief Justice Mclver. j $2,850; Justice Gary. $3,229.17; Justice s J(*ies, $850; Justice Pope. $2.S50; clerk, t $800; librarian. $800; reporter. $1,000; t attendant, $200; messenger. $200; con- < tingent fund. $500; books for library. 1 rt/v _c -r.i. ,J -C,i. Cn.irh 1 paw; 1UU cupi^-b U1 auu i;uta ^?-r. Carolina reports, $900; for 57th, 58th , 1 and 59th reports, $880. For each of the eight circuit judges, i ^ 13,000, and solicitors and stenographers as provided by law. , 3oard of Health?For quarantine t purposes. $15,000; for State board, ' j $2,200: Charleston quarantine station, j $2,050; St. Helena's, $900; Port Royal, j ( $1,175; Georgetown, $600; lazaretto, $300. t Salary of county auditors. $25,500; \ printing for county auditors. $2,500. I : oSuth Carolina college, $27,500; Win- , i throp. $33,000; and $5,450 for scholar- 1 ships. The Citadel. $23,250, and $6,250 \ for deficit, State colored college, $8,000; J ' $100,000 for the common schools. ; 1 Cedar Springs deaf, dumb and blind j isylum, $20,000, and $10,000 for erection of a building for negroes. Salaries of State penitentiary ofll?ials. $4,750. j Catawba Indians $800 and $200 for school. The State hospital for the insane is to gei: For running expenses, $100,- j )00; building purposes, -10,000: Wal- ; lace property debt. $4.601; salary of 1 superintendent. $3,000; beard of re- * Events. $1,200. i The largest single it*m is $2S3,S32.5l to meet the interest on the public, i :lebt. In the same connection is $20.- ; 000 for the payment of past due interest liable to accrue on old bonds ind stocks liable to be funded under I I under the laws of this State. j For pensions $100,000; $000 for clerk i ind $170 for postage, etc. ! 1 Public printing, $12,000; claims. $3,- i )00; governor's mansion repairs. $250: water. $2,000; lights. $2.S90; fuel. $i,- j )00; phosphate inspector. $1,200; State i fair. $1,200. For the general election this year ' 516.000 is recommended, with $2,000 1 Additional for advertising. There are i number of legislative committtecs i * ivhose pay is provided for in the bill. 4 A number of improvements on tthe J State house are contemplated, among them $2,000 for rewiring. The amount for repairs to roof is $250. i I Phosphate inspector's salary. $1,200. 4 State fair. $1,200. j . For legislative examining commit- t tees on penal and charitable institu- , ' ticns. $632.10. 4 Salarv of messengers of election, ; 4 51,500. j ' Salary of code commission, $400. J " Storm doors on State house, $400. i For printing copies of State consti- 4 ution. $200. rnp information in regard to tlaims against United States govern- I < nont. $."?00. ; Palmetto Notes. The secretary of State has granted a 1 ^ iharter to the Socastee Joint Stock 1 'ompanv of Stalvey, Horry county, f! capitalized at $5,000. The officers are f Ino. W. McCorinick, president. Jos. D. . A'est, vice president, and Albert D. , stalvey secretary, treasurer and gen- , vral manager. ! \ Fully half the students of -the Medi al college of Charleston have the numps. One unfortunate student developed a case of them about two I veeks ago, and since then they have >cen spreading very rapidly. Some arc 5onfioed to their rooms for two or hree days, while others for over a veek, and don't knew how long some vill ha^e to remain in. MM?_I Largest on the Continent. The largest theatre on the Xo$h American continent is located at Guadalajara, Mex., known as the City of Palaces. It is of the classic type of architecture, and covers an area of more than 11.000 square feet. The stage is 155 feet in width by 55 feet in depth. It has been building for 46 ^ears, and is not yet entirely completed, though over ?3,000,000 has been expended upon it. A few years ago the Koreans came to Washington in the quaintest of Ori- , ental garbs, from which they never de-fji y viated. This winter the Korean Minis-*?^ , ter is making the afternoon social > ? - - r>_;?A A IKort on/I ?trin^d rounds in a i rune .? trousers. REWSY GLEANINGS. The area of Alaska is 579.800 miles. An automobile club has been formed in Philadelphia. The lower part of Havana. Cuba, bordering 011 the bay is to be disinfected again. By the State Superintendent's decision. the Bible may be read in the public schools of Nebraska A Chicago street railway company has placed buffet cars on its lines for the benefit of its patrons. The first issue, with the new year, of the new Kind ot postal cards in uermany consisted or 5.000.000 cards. The boundary dispute between the Congo Free State and the German colonies has been satisfactorily settled. A system of preventi\e inoculation igainst typhoid fever is under extensive trial in India and South Africa. The Swedish Budget which is the largest on record, calls for forty-six new batterie> of artillery by the end of IQ03. The D, y Arch, in New York City, is to be covered with a paint that will insure its preservation for a year, at least. The transports Olympia and Pennsylvania at San Francisco have been turned over by the Government to their owners. ^ Major Thomas Taylor, of Wakefield, the oldest coroner in England, is dead, it the age of seventy-eight years. Durng his career lie held more than 30,000 inquests. The Mayor of Haverhill. Mass.. has succeeded in getting cheaper gas for the mi _ I. .own > nmuujuwu>. i iic> nuw yay uign:y cents per thousand cubic feet instead ji $i. After some improvement had been made in North Capitol street. Wash- Ml ngton. D. C. it was discovered that the workmen had thoughtlessly made away ^^^9 with a historic stone set in place by HI jeorge Washington. ^HB| Twenty-six more bodies were erenated last year in Heidelberg. Germany, han during i8q8, when the number was ^ [25. Only twenty of the bodies were rom Heidelberg families; the others :amc from forty-two different places. There are in the Massachusetts House he unusual number of 122 members vho served in tlie last House, and there __ 4 . ... 1 ?.!j _ _e A.\ ire nineteen meniDers. uuisiue ui uicse, ivho served in years previous to 1899. naking a total of 141 members whoW. lave had previous experience in the^ Hlouse. Only ninety-nine are entirely tew to legislative life. A Million Women f have been relieved of female troubles by Mrsm VMKnam's aavice ana medicine. The letters of a few are printed regularly in this vsper. If any one doubts the efficiency and sacredly confidential character of Wlrs. Pinkham's methods, write for a book she has recently published whloh contains letters from the mayor of Lynn, the postmaster. and others of her jlty who have made careful Investigation, and who verify all of Mrs? PinkHam's statements. and dahns? riie Plnkham claims are sweeping. Investigate !hem, THIRTY YEARS OF CURES So. 7. . Tn nnrtc nf India ral.-p? nf tpn and til Zhina pieces of silk pass as currency. Dxen still form the circulating mediuOJc. iniong many of the Zulus and irs. T Cure.-, a Cough or Cold at once, ^9H Conquers Croup without fail. P|1 I'M Is the best for Brouchitis, Grippe, fj| M Hoarseness. Whooping-Cough. and ??| Ij for the cure o.' Consumption. CJ , F^l Mothers praise it. Doctors prescribe it. lul 1 fg. Small doses; quick, sure results. JW 111:11# A