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THE COUNTY RECORD. Pablished Every Thursday AT \ING8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. BY C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. The popular election ol senators, according to a poll made by the New York Herald, is favored by 22 out of d6 governors who answered the Herald's request for an opinion <m this subject. Of the opposing governors, a majority are in Now England. In the West and South, the sentiment of the governors, and, according to their statement, of the people, is very strongly in favor of an amendment which will provide for the popular election of senators. .A writer in a French review has made a careful analysis of the wages of women in various countries. He says that in the United State; a woman will earn about half as much as a man for doing the same \\o:k, and in England rather less. In Vienna the average earnings of a woman are from SI.20 to SI.60 a week. In Italy she gets about a third as much as a man. In Germany her earnings average Si.40 a wetk, while in France she is paid somewhat more than half a man's wages. The demonstration in South Africa of the enormous advantage modern arms give to the defence suggests, moreover, that there lias occurred a change in the conditions of warfare itself and that British misfortunes there have been due to it rather than to any mere defe.-t in the particular British military system. Hereafter, this little war with the Boers is likely to afford more material for the study of military men the world over than Ih3y will lind iD mauy of the greatest contests of history. Stengel exauiiued nine members ot a football team immediately after playing, and found a systolic pulmonary murmur in tlireo probably due to dilatation of the right \entrie!e. This murmur disappeared after a iest. Muscular exercise, aufticieutly rapid to eause breathlessuess, puts a strain on the right ventricle, which in the robust and trained"' individual is soon recovered from, but in the middle-aged may bring about lasting disease. The question of "second wind" is a question of the right ventricle. Athletics continually indulged in tend to bring about some hypertrophy of the heart, says the London Hospital. The United States is slowly discovering how many islands she has. Moua and Monito have just been nn across, between Sun Domingo ami Prterto Rico, by the mapmukers of the postoflice department,ami it wrote to Washington to thid out whose islands they were, any way. They turned out to be ours, coming under the head of "all other islands" ceded by Spain. They are not really of any mi<?nI<>r but islands are a kind of ornament to a nation, like the heads on a lady's dress, and t lie more * he-islanded we are the prouder statistics we can flaunt to the international breeze. Kotli Mono and Monito ate uninhabite<l and offer precious opportunities to any one desiring a retired country home with full riparian rights. Dr. Pearson of Chicago goes Mr. Carnegie one better in the matter of being his x>\vu executor. The revelation of Mr. Carnegie's profits last VtJIir liave III! 1 t*-n irit. i tin i iiv was giving away iiis funds at a too rapid rate; but Dr. Pearson propose* to get rid of Jus remaining inillion aud a lialf at once, leserviug only an annuity during tlio rest of his life, and he is nearly SO. W'liat tie chief! v V . hopes for is tliat his example nit! be contagions. It may be wit it some rich men about his age, but in this phase of philanthropy the time element is important. It deneiids upon how long a man is willing to act as his own executor. The margin of working years left him will likely decide that. Dr. Pearson's example would, { erhaps, bavo-been more effective had his intentions been declared 15 or 20 years ago. To make laws complete they should 9tward lie well as punish. I MURDERED AND Bl'RNED. K Young White Woman Horribly Mutilated. Chesterfield. Special. News reached (hi.- place last week of a most horrible luurJer ccnraiittcd in the upper portion of this county, about five miles J .-muheast rf the town of Jefferson. On ; Monday night, the 12th inst., Oassie Roan, a white woman of very qites: tlonaolc character, was cut and burned I to tie- ath in the woo ls. Her body was cut in five different places each, cut being a deep flesh wound, i'ne gushes tanged from four to twelve inches in | length. This not satisfying :he per| pet rat":- cr pzipftr ators of the deed, ! th? poor weman was sec on fire and all . clothing burned from her body. This crime is .-hooking in ??very detail. A helpless i\ om.tr. cut tind burned to tie >th in the dead hours of ih? nigh; in tho woods, neatly a mile from any oif's house. Her screaars for mercy 1 .-nun.ling in the night air only led to he discovery or the deed. The unfortunate wen:an lingered in iur misery until Tuesday, the lfith inst.. when | dfuth came. I A murder most foul! A blacker ' . rime cannot be conceived. The very thought of it sickens a civilized people. Our civilization demands that the guilty .?e brought to speedy justice. Henry Jackson. Ben Jackson. J oil.1 Jackson and Tern Stten. all white, were brought to Chesterfield 011 Thursday. the l"?th inst.. and lodged in jail. They are .harged with the murder of Cassie Hoan. The murder of this worn ::: is by far the most atrocious crime thai has ever been committed in Chesterfield county. It is said that Cassio Hoan 1 heme 0:1 ?nnday afternoon, the I lib ins:.. and that nothing was seen or heard of her until her mutilated bedy was found !n the woods. The rase wjll cctne up I;afore Judge Klustli at th April term of court. Cass it Ho.ni was single, aged 20. She was part Indian, the daughter of George Hcau. The poor creature was set en fire; all the clothing burnt from her body, and when found was s.-rMiiing ami crying for help. Skin would slip off when touched. There was a ! bloody trail o' about half a mile along where she had crawled over legs and tried to escape. Doss Jackson. John i Jackson, one of the accused. Abb Kirkley an J Jim Viuer went To her after fits: going to each othei's house collecting a ccwd. She asked John Jackson to take her hand, hut lie refused. The ethers asked her name an J she told it. They threw an overcoat over hrr an i went away for help. Sum Woodward carried her from her father's house Sunday afternoon to the house of Vime Melton.-, about two mile? away. From that place she went away with Tom Stecn and James Jackson. Nothing mere was heard of her until found in the woods. Coroner Woodward went ;n.ur:di ately to the s.-ene of the crime and hold an inquest. (he result of which the aires: of Harvey Jackson. Ben Jack,-on. .fohn Jackson. .1. T. Steen. who are now in jail awaiting ;rial. All of the men are white and of had characters. Il is said that, one of the prisoners turned State's evidence. (Beat indignation is fell in this county over this horrible crime. Palmetto Notes. On TuciJay a prisoner was received ;ti tii*? State penitentiary who-o career has h"on an interesting one. His name is Allen and he came fioni a good family. He was school .-onimis loner of his county Dei .hester up to the time lie got into the trouble which has made him a convict. He was eon vie ted of forgery and has eneretl upon the service of a sentence of 10 years. The fellow is a man of intelligence. hut is one of the "fell-byhe-waysido" class. He has been put to work in the hosiery mill, and seems | disposed to make a good prisoner. i The death of \V. L. .Miller. Ksq.. master of Abbeville county, created a vaj cati' V in the office which devolves upon tiie governor the duty of making an appointment to fill it. The governor has received a number of letters ' from friends of Messrs. L. \V. Perrin i ami .1. Pullet l.yon urging their qualifications for the place. The governor has not ypt taken any action in the alter. i>nt will doubt le.-s i)o so in a ! few days. ! Mr. Cole Ij. l>lea-e. of Xewberrv, I lias derided to enter the race for lietiI tenant governor against Lieutenant ' Governor Soar borough, and the mails i are now carrying to hundreds of peoI pie all over the State a brief circular J frc-ui Mr. Blea.se announcing his ean! dietary and asking the hip pen of those to whr.ni the circulars are addressed. | According to a special ;o the New 1 York Sun from Richmond. Va.. (Jen. i Wade Hampton, who has been ill at the home of (Jen. Thomas Man ford. af. Lynchburg, for a fortnight, has recovered sufficiently to start for his home in Columbia. Many of Gen. .Hampton'.'? friends did not even know he was sick POWERS ON TRIAL Kentucky Court Proceedings Interrupted. (jRLAT tXCITEMENT IN rRANirORl. \ flan Drops His Pistol, Which is Discharged by the Fall and a Rush is Made for the Scene. Frankfort. Ky.. Special. The pr> ! liminavy examination of Secretary of j State Caleb Powers, charged with abet- ! ; ting the assassination of William (roe- j be!, began Friday before Judge Moore. ; The court was guarded inside and out with militia and scores of deputy sherj iffs. armed with Winchester rifles, to ( prevent possible interference from "mountaineers." who were reported 0:1 their why to Frankfort. hut their pres- j. cnce was unnecessary, as the mnun- [, I taineers failed to appear and no disor- :. ; der occurred. The Ooramonwe-jlth'.* i witnesses were called, numbering 40. [, : ' : Golden was net in the list. The wit- ) ( jnes-es Included Warden h'])h Lillard. j ,I)etective Armstrong. Sheriff Bosworth i 1 of Fayette county, who arre-ted Serve- ! tary Powers and Captain John Davis. | ; and Silas Jcnes, cf Whitley county, j who are now under bonds charged with ' complicity in th? murder. The testi- ; I mouv tended to show that the shots j ' oome from that section of the execu| ] hive building in which Secretary P w: rrs' office :s located, although no one j j swore that ihe shots were from t:hc ' I Secretary's office. F. Wharton Gold- j ' cn. who is said to oave made a confes- 1 son. will be uut on the witness stand ! ' Liter. Prosecuting Attorney Pols- \ ; grove .said that sufficient evidence had j : I already been heard to warrant holding ( Powers. l?ut that the ease would be I ! much stronger before he was through. 1 Former Governor Brown, for the de- 1 ; fen.-e. says the evidence so far is de! cidedly weak. It is probable that all j of the witnesses for the prosecution i , will be heard by Saturday afternoon. | j During the afternoon a soldier in the ] ! rear court yard dropped his revolver on I the stone flagging and i: exploded. In 1 an instant every man in the crowded [ j court foom w i? on his feet, fully a j third of them with their hands to their i , rear pot kets. Eph Lilian!. warden of the Frankfort 1 \ penitentiary, testified that he walked ' ' just a little ahead of Senator Ooeb?d j and when tiie fir.-l shot was fiered he ; , i saw that the second window in the of- I i fico cf the Secretary of State was slight i ly rai-.ed. The c.iher shots, he said, did \ ' not come from the same place. The j first, shot was evidently from a rifle, | while the others soemed to he from pis- | < hols. Policeman Wingate Thompson testified that as the crowd was carry- I ii:;: Senator Goebel out of the yard, he saw armed men a; the entrance to the ; executive building and recognized John ! Davis and Berry Howard among them, j Detective Armstrong, of l^ouisville. . said that Secretary Powers refused any , i information whatever at the time of ! the shooting as to who was in the building. j Captain John F. Hawn, of Barbours- j | V'ille, testified iha-t Powers had asked j i him to turn ever his ammunition and ;, ! company to Lieutenant Gibson previ- i I oiis to tlie shooting. Governor Brown j | made the point that a man can not be 1 I convicted as an aider of a ciime unless ! ' some principal is convicted of the] . crime. As -the actual murderer of Goe- ! ; dpi nas not ve: neen named. tne point ! possibly involved the liberty of Sec rei tar.v Powers. Judge Moore ruled I against the defense. Porto Rlcans Starving. Ponce. P. R.. By Cable. The situa- j i lion here is now more serious than at i | any time before or since the terrible i hurricane. In many places the poor | are starving. The price of rice, beans 1 i and codfish has increased from 30 to K?0 per cent. Demonstrations -against { the delay of the United States government in settling open questions have I recently been held at Mayaguez. Yu.-o, : AgnatriHa. Fajardo. Juana Diaz. C.uuy. j a ma and other -towns. Watson and Hay. Indianapolis. led.. Special. -Secretary Walter, of the middle-of-the-road ' Pnnulietc c-?irt tr? Iw fru- n-a iional chairman. "Tom Watson, of Georgia, ran have the nomination for | ; President, if he wants it." said Mr. , i Walter, '"and 1 believe l>r. B. F. Hay, of Minneapolis, will be his running m ?te " I'reparing for Convention. Philadelphia. Pa.. Sp?rial.--Several l-wiofn ? . r? r m.itft"' > n.rn> ? a \ n ! Hie *rt th<? Republican convention. received the at tent ion of the sul>-;o;nnrit:fe of the national executive committee Friday. Four:pen fbcujar.il admission tickets for r-ach day cf 'ho convention wore apportioned. arrangements for the dissemination of the proceedings were made jnd the convention badges. 9.0G0' in all. were ordered. Sergeant-ai-arma Wis well will have th appointment of 500 assistants. 200 door-keepers, 250 pages and ],000 additional employes, besides issuing permits to the press, messenger and te-legraph operators. ,-^.out .*.0,000 tickets will be engraved. CONFESSION OF GOLDEN. i i Says He Knows Who Was Goebel's ] riurdcrer. I j Louisville, Ky.. Special. Thie stories '< growing cut of che conference bttweeE ^ Sergrant. P. Wharton Gclden, of the j Bauboumille ccxpiny of S ate militia i and tihie a:timers who are managing fhe investigation of the assassination r*.' Governor Goebel, have caused a ' sanation Uhroug'hout the State. Golden will be placed cn the stand ^by thtj prosecution in 'Jhe trial of tho prison p.rs a J ready ajpreiihed Tor alleged com- ; plkfoy in t-ho ascafesinuitlon, 1/u: infer- ! ma: inn as to the exact nature of the ; testimony he is expected to give is | ^ larking. Specials from "Winchester j euy Golden is still rJt that place in | torn pony wMfo 'his attorney. ; " "I wiH <lo all I can for my friends all | the time." Golden is reported as say- ! inc. "but I must first be true to my- | tdf. When -the time ccmss I will tell j iili I know. Whatever else may he 1 said atixiut me, 1 dto not think I can be ' 5 accused of 'being a Bar. a, coward or a ] Democrat, and I wad1: it distinctly un- j ' den-good that I am not here under | guard." The story is published th.tr. Golden ; ' has divulged to the attorneys the name ( of the man who fired Che shots that i 5 . I 1 killed (Jcebel. The person mentioned j is a mulatto who formerly lived ?t j Winchester, was prominent in the i French-Eversole fetid, and is known as j a good sihot. This man is now gap- ; posed to be in the wilds of one cf the J in out;: a in comKies. Evidence c'hu-t he | was in Frankfort at the time of the ! l-sassincuciou was found among papers i taken from W. H. Culcon, a clerk in Lhe Auditor's office, when the latter i was arrested some time ago, on a war. j rant charging him wl.li i>ein? a:n a^-' pes-ioty to tihe crime. Among these': papers were receipts for ooaid bills j u mounding 'to aihoir; $300 incurred: by 18 men who were in Frank for: for some time before, and at tihe time Governor Goehel was she:. In oneY>' these receipts :.he nijume of the mufaicto men- i lioned is given. The receipt in fhia j i - *?->- Ifvm 1/ inn I I JLSfV l> ic; ICvCilvu 4 > ^ui. uvuM . Perkins by Bettirn. Pittman, for board of vbree men. Perkins is a por. ' ter atl>ox:-t the Slate house. .1 iidgv? Field has suytained the <ie- j muiTci* of coun.-el fur Cover nor Berk, firm and giraivied 'i,:ie motion to stitlke 1 out certain parts of 'ibe amended reply to 'tire Rfjprj'jlir-ans in the can .-oil. lifatct gubernatorial cor.ee.-;t suits. V.'rCt thr!s wawt a judgment, .-igncd by Judge ; Field, in con'foravrty with this derision, the former sustaning the first demurrer and motion to strike out. The i judgment is interlocutory, no. final, and two questions o'. farts sail remain t.) be pa--.jd upon' by Judge Field: Was or was no; Governor Back, ham of the requisite constitutional o IT-.... .... .,o n- rain L?i;v ; IU3 I.i nun uwv vair. x..., J bel's detail before or after the I^esislu- } tiire !hi<l declare;! him the legally ! elec ted Governor of the Common- u wealth? When .1 tuf^e Field park's on s these two points depositions ou which !' are now being taken, the next stef 'r ill be an -appeal by the Hep::hiicans to t the ourt of Appeals. J Dewey Sick. ^ Savannah, Gu., Special. The pro ; gramme for t'he enter; aiaymeaK of Ad- t ' miral and Mrs. Dewey was broker J Tuesday evening by the illness of the ' r admiral. A public reception had beet ! c asslgErnl Cor t.ee 'hoars between 9 ati-d c 11 o'clock and 5,000 persons gathered ' ait 'the DeSoto Hotel to grcoc 'the (lis- j j1 ringui.-hed visitors. But the admiral ( t was too ill to appear and the function , *? - ' - ?* TU- ' 'hud o >be set net antsy < uiieo on. i u? < aimUral's at:u -k. which is of indiges-: t iion, occurred on hoard the revenue ' cutter Hamilton, while the pasty was j ^ on a trip down the river a.n*J lurl?>r. I _ ! e News Notes. s A company has boon formed in An- e gusta. Ga., to build a bleachery near r Augusta, in South Carolina. Air. Tom v Ifarrett is president of the company j and the capital stock is $;>00.000. The <" bleachery will be built on Little Horse h lireelc. just below the Aiken Mannfac?-i - L - +V>a eita 1 turing Company, waicn is uu mc af the old Bath Paper Mill. Special ar- g .angemeats have been made about ' treaghts to ami from the b Lea'h err. The Republican State convention a.t Jhttie Rock. Ark., adjourned Tuesday nigh: after electing delegates to the 1 national convention and declaring ftar ' thp renomii natron of President MrKin- '' ley. Gen. Po-well Clayton was made permanent chairman. The plaiJorm * adopted endorsed the AloKinley ad- . ministration. favors Philippine annexation. American ownership and con- ' trol of the Nicaragua Canal, opposes J trusts a'nd denounces the Goebe! and [ similar acts. The amount of bends r? :riv?d a* the ( Treasury oo-day, a -king -Joe new 2s, t was $10,000,000. making a total Ci date , of $87,000,000. Of <this amount $3,300,. 000 c&me toon persons or Cnetitiriunf , other rhon raiiccrl l>?rlts. I V i 3Lr ' V % r GREAT OVATION. Jiven Admiral Dewey and His Wife at Savannahs ? I,will MEN IN MILITARY PARADE. landsome Gift Presented to the A^^B $ ral A Splendid Banquet and i^B quent Speeches. 9aranwa!h, G-a., Special. Fifty thousand iperrons ca the streets 'here WeJniasHov n.ft<M*THrv?n tmvo 1/J-nrirol n<vvr<r^ Dewey -as enthusiastic a welcome as was ever accorded to any public man mywhere. The admiral had recoverej Groin his 'indisposition of Tuesday sufficiently for film, to take part in the military parade and review the parade in 'h,ls honor and as he rod's through ! the streets, with Mrs. Dewey at his ude, ringing cheers rent the air cud waving colors made the scene one to % je lc'ng remembered. There were present in tire parady ive military companies from Cbarhs- / . on under command of Major Schachte/. >ne or more companies of naval r??> serves from each Charleston, Mo^ut , \ Pleasant and Beaufort, S. C., ar'U c Brunswick, Ga.; and military rations from Columbia, Pfizer rimmonsville, C.. and AuTasta, Brunswick and Thomasville, Ga. - hero were in all 17 out-of-town ?itgvniza- r ions. Adding the local militia 'hfc-awere nearly 4,000 men in line. The r<,-eiw took place in the park extensi:.v { Vhere an admiral's solute was fired by he Chatham) artillery frctaa brass ? >ieees presented to the organization jy President George Washington. v* Business, public and private, was ?usjendcJ from neon in honor of Admiral >wey. The climax of the occasion occurred 1 it the banquet at the D^Soto Hotel at light. where the admiral was present- *; ?d with a beautiful silver vase cr. belalf of the city of Savannah: roy Hen. > ?\ C. DuBig'oon. The vase is elegantly mgraved and nearly three feet high 3 m a marble base. At the banquet able General Nelson A. Miles, who arrived in the city during the evening oo late for the military feitrjre. sat r; i>ext to Admiral Dewey. While the e nain funbticia was in progress, a com niCtce of 30 ladie.s entertained Mm. iewey at a banquet in 'the annex ad-' oin'iwg the banquet hall. Upon :onalusion ct the (Waiter t'he fc^esvere acc-oaravcxlated with eha^TB in the nain room that they might hear theipeeches. Axons; the sipf-akws were ludge Ex-ory .Speer, of the United *ta:cs Court, Hurgeoa General Wyram, Congressman Bnaaxley, of Georgia, ex-ACtcrney General W. O. Smith. of Hawaii, and others. In peaking to the toast "the President ;f "the United States," Judge Emory peer said in part: , f While the admiuistration of Present McKiniey more than any other, i ave that of Lincoln, will nfTo<rd to the listorian material at once to attract, to nstruot and thrill the students ami j eaders of the future, it is nevertheless rue that his Americanism, -while rompt and purposeful in conviction/ ; nd decisive in action, had l>een cauious and toa conciliatory at home and .broad. "The war was inevitable Its results tave followed in inevitable sequence. }y the supreme law of -the land the 'Siilippine islands became the territo y of the Lnited States with, a title as lear as that which we have to Florida >r to any foot of that marvelous emiire to the westward of the 'Mississippi cquired by the Louisiana purchase or iy treaty with Mexico. Who will say \ hat the President had the power or ight to ignore his duty to the Ameri- 'J an people and to mankind in. a terriory thus a<'citiir*?d? The udminstrtion of William McKiuley and its ;reat achievements will receive proud countoense. He will live in. history s the first, prc-ideut who di-reoted thp liergles of this nation in a great and uccessfttl war beyond the seas. Greater civic renown may yet be his, but to ny mind the crowning glory of his life rill be found in those simple words of ir.'<ff?red kindlv iw:ion.il rdewniVinn WVOHHrlW" if the honor doe the sacred ashes of lis once incomparable foes." This peroration refers to President. iIcKinley's recommendation that the ;raves of the Confederate dead should y i?> i r'or |?v rhc nation Commission (iots to Memphis. Atlanta. fJa.. SpeciaL The iodw- j trial conroission finished its thrc . lays of investigation hers Wed-nsfJa.** ift^rncctn. and left for Memnhils f. .1. Kilbura. c* Macon. and Andrew \iv. of Augusta, testified this mcwrog in regird 13 the later in their rc&po ;ive cities. an;l Samuel C. Dtmlap gave icme htcerestin-g testimony. Mr. Dun lap is receiver for a roatt runwinsj from Ijunesvillr, Ga., to Social Circle, and is genera'l manager of the Tallulah Fails road. Mr. Dunlap states that on? af the lines and' insolvent and the ether hai no money. He believed lb? :rreation or the Georgia lallraad com odsrsipu haul woikad to the benefit of . the '.urge aye:ems only,