Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CO'JHY RECORDS Pabliahed Every Thursday AT 1LING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. I I BY C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. tant feature of this issue is that the proceeds of the sale - f the bonds will be wholly disbursed in the United States, and will bo devoted to purchasing American staples and manufactured goods. Ami this is not all, for it is regarded by competent authorities as probable that if this bond issue is a sue ess, as it bids fair to be, it. will bo followed bv others. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's address before the National Educational association at Chicago the other'day t , ? was au impressive statement as to'the condition of education at the close of the century. As it was necessarily restricted to th large aspects of the i-- --- 1 ~ -.*4;,.iie 4|UeM10U u:m ?? -? most interesting feature was the preeminence of this country in support of education. The fact that our annual expenditure f.?r commo 1 schools alone is ounal to the sum total of the expeu litnre of (treat iiritaiu, France ami (tormany upon their navies suggests the comparatively free hand that uu industrial community like our owu has in ad saucing the intellectual interests of tlie pc >ple. The greatest advance has been since 1870,aud it has been marked uot only by liberality in expenditure but bv systematic development of the educational idea as a whole, beginning with the common school and ending in the university. Professor Albert Shields, presidt ut of the New York State Society for Child Study, Rays that u* loug hs the . municipality does not see to the examination of the eyes of each child T A?. VI- _1 4l.? .. aiU'IlUIIlg I!1H pilOUC M'UUUin IUU |i;i' ents should do so. The mother with a simple chart can easily asccrtaiu the extreme distance at which the child can see the letters, and the experiment should he tried first with one eye and then with the other. It requires only common sense to form a general idea of the staie of the eyes, and he promises that the experimenters ai!l make some surprising and often startling discoveries. One child who was examined m this way was found tobe totally Hunl in one eye,and it had never Leeu known. A similaexamination with the ticking of a watch at the ears will he valuable, lie says, and if defects discovered are reported to the child's teacher a! school, conditions will be made more simpl-1, . or ft >/? tin* tniifltop UJlll IV rt ?? W.%. ? iuterosting thing t hat Professor Shields si.i.t<'s is that :i child's physical forcis arc at the lowest ebb bet* cen 3 and-1 o'clock in'too afternoon, and they should never be allowed, upon coming homo front school, to go to work at tho lessons for the next day. There should be a period of recreatiou, and then study, and the child will be letter and the teaeona better learned. 1 I Some people are all tore up over j the problem: "if a bank borrows . ' money at 4 per cent and tends it at 5 per ceut, what is the bank's profit, 1 ! per cent, or 25 per ceut. ? Peoplo who are getting weary of the new century discussion may get relief from conside.ing this substitute. The first ocean cable was laid across the British Channel ia IS 1. Croat Britain now owns 135 cables, Frame 54, Japan 70, Austria 41, Denmark, 73 and Spain 15. Norway has in use 325, niaiuly short lines. 'ihe United States owns no cables, though it is a first-class customer in ocean telegraphy. Two new bridges which New York City intend* building over hast river wili comu high. The main structure of one will cost $0,522,000 aud $0,281,000 for the land to be appropriated for the approaches, making a to.al of 515,883,000. The other bridge will cost $ >,400,000 and 83,148,500 for the land approaches or a total of $12,518,5UU. A development which is of great importance to our export trade is the recent i-sueof bonds by the Russian government to the value of $25,000,01 0, for sale in this country. The impor mOliuBOUT THE COUNTRY. TL? ?? 1 lie JUUlll. Friday might tit.tr Crrafcett,. Texas, j while w. IF. <3lfy|r Ar.clrJ. A. Ciatling. brothers-in-law, and their tvives;' were i fitting up with ibo-corps s o: B. M. i More-head. their father-in-law. the two . mm quarrelled, an.:] Oliver, was stab- j bed to death. Castling is in jail. The i mc-a are among .Lite most prominent j planters in southeastern Texas. George Armstrong walked up to the he-use of J. L. Smoak. near Oeali. Fla.. early Sunday morndng. and railed out his brother John. Wheel John appeared. George emptied the contents of fus snot-gun into u:s orxner s 'txwy, inflicting probably fatal wounds. The trouble, it is alleged, grew out of improper relations between John and In the Seventh South Carolina Con| gressional District, J. H. Fcrdham, ; ; colored, and W. W. R. Wallace were j j elected Republican national delegates, i All the coal miners in Indiana struck ' | SaturdiHVaud all of the Beaver Dam | | (Ky.) district will strike Monday. Ex-Senator Cibson, of Maryland, | died In Washington City, j It is said Kentucky Democrats have gdne to Indianapolis to kidnap ex-Sec- j ; rotary of State Finley, who is hiding j ! there. . Savannah naval stores receipts for [ tile "year just closed were 1.286,340 ! packages, against 1,453,408 for the pre- 1 ceding year. Steamers between European ports and New Orleans which used to coal i for the round trip at the former, have j now reversed the proceedure. j Coal operators put no faith in the rc! pert that Alabama coal to the amount j i of 2,000,000 tons has been sold to ai: j | English syndicate at 75 cents a ton at ' i the mines. I The North. The machinists' strike is ordered off, ! hut the Cleveland. Ohio, strikers re- . fuse to obey the order. | Cornell again defeated Georgetown | at baseball. The Illinois negroes lose their case ! brought to enforce mixed schools. The governor of Indiana sends a requisition for a criminal to both of the governors of Kentucky. i >amucl L. Clemens (Mark Twain) am! his family will soon return from d abroad to Hartford,' Conn., and take j up their permanent residence there. The woman under arrest in Cincln* ; nati for poisoning the divorced wife of", ! C. 0. Winohi. confesses. It was done in order that she and Winold might be.: married. ! ! The New Yorl: World says that An- j gust Belmont and his construction. | company will operate the rapid transit ' system. * ; Michael Donnelly, of New Yorjc. an : iron merchant, has filed "his petition in .1 bankruptcy' Liabilities, $119,317; a>- j sots, $353,010. , , r ' I ' ? -.1 Revival ;c;;vj^ei; at the Third Baptirt church of lui^h'napoiis, Ind", disturbed the neighbt? s/and after the complaint was made some one set the building on are, and it was destroyed. Thomas McGregor, a New York boy, j died Sunday from the effects of a blow * * Knvlntr lmnt reecn tu in u mi'iiui) uu.MUh Thonvis Nelson, tho boy who delivered j the blow, has been arrested. Gas escaping from a hearer- asphyx- j iated John Pruselle, a clerk, at Buffalo, . N. Y. Damage from an. ico gorge, just j broken in the Raisin River at Monroe, Mich., is estimated at 580,000. Michael Fleming, of Chicago, 111., ; set fire to the bed on which his wife was ly.ng, anu sat* h-s iauuj uumu>, Before a large crowd at Ogden, ! T'tah, on Saturday night. Col. William ! J. Bryan spoke on the money ques;:on \ He is now at Salt Lake. i ! ! Foreign. . News has been received from Mafeking up to March 10th. All was then well. Oxford suffers a most iuglorius do- : . feat by Cambridge in the annual boat race. Lord Roberts sends a telegram ot j ' condolence to Kruger on the death of i ! Joubert. The Chinese General, I'ana, com- ! i mandiug the Luzon,surrenders to Gen- j i eral Kobbe. ; The Liverpool spring cup of one j , \ thousand sovereigns, w.u> ?uu ycoici I day at London by Lord Durham's Os- ' J bach.* Sly Fox ridden by Sloane, was j : unplaced. ! A Havana (i.sp.ibch says: United ! Stairs Senator.- Butler and Potli^iew , are r?esca.iti .1 by El Cubanio, as sayi in-g they w- iv convinced that the Ca-! i-an-s are li" c- -r -elr-govemment: that j tv.e Cubans want indep'.aden.e and r>?rSo rwo-mln nt :he Ini--i rtavr. \>w or- grateful to them. The Boers -t arcaten to send thf Brit- i i n prisoners to Koomatiponrt, a fever porthole, if their prisoner.* are Stnt to S'_ Helena. ijovernov (ieueral Davis of Porto A ico say.- if Porta Kican free trade is rata bits bed the isnnd nil! bare no revenue?. The Porto Rlean American Tobacco Company is angle::# for free ' tra.de. I DEWEY'S PLATFORM. The AcSmira Expresses His Views on Public Questions. MS NOT GIVE Oil HIS POLITICS, j Says He Will Obey the Will of the American People in All Things. An Editorial. New York, Special Tho -Brooklyn Eagle's Washington dispatch on Admiral Dewey's announcement of Ui3 candidacy quotes the admiral as follows: "I am in <the position of tin officer, waiting to carry out the orders of the public. Tho editorial in Monday's Eagle was the means of causing me to come cut at this time. It forced the issue and directed mo to let the public know where I stood.'-' Admiral Dewey was then ask eel to ni7>line thA nlatform on which tie would run and whether ho would seek ! the nomination from the Democratic or Republican party. "Presidents." he replied, "do not make platforms; they are formed by the people. I am not in -the attitude of forcing issues or platforms. I will say, however, that I think the platform of the American flag would cover most of the pending notional questions." "The people will want to knew what you think of the silver question," w-to suggested to him. "The fact that I am from Vermont," said the admiral, "ought to settlo that." 1in- v?a n\-nfw>t/v1 o nfvrri- I K-v-t*. so far as his shoulders are concerned. speculation in anc:p:':hies." A* Washington dispatch to The Evening Telegraph says: "It Ins developed that the announcement of Ad'tnir.A Dewey's candidacy Ls a part of a wcll]aid plan of Eastern Demo-rats to heal off Mr. Bryan's nomination. The Evening Telegram's dispatch continues: The admiral will not admit that there is any ongnr.il zahion behind his candidacy. or state whether he would like the Reptx.liuin cr the Democratic nonainatton. He told me that he was in the hards of the American people and that he was as willing to cf.ay orders from them as he has been from his superiors in me navy. He said: "I have every reason to believe that there is a popular demand for my nomination. I decline to say what her I am a Democrat or a Republican. "I want to be the people's candidate, i I fullv realize in announcing my vil- | lingiK'SS to become a candidate my ! troubles are beginning, but a man who j has the intere-t of his country at heart can not escape his share of them. and I am willing to risk all that may come to me. From every State in the Union and from all clashes of the people I have received gratifying evidences of a desire for my nomination." Brevities. .John Goly. a negro who was under a-Test for attempted murder, at Richmond. fki.. set fire to the jail thcro Monday night and was burned with it. Colonel Parra, it is reported, will j take th? portfolio of War and Marine In Pern, succeeding Senor Corillo. Aged Thomas McConnell was struck bv a Pennsylvania railroad train at Paroli and instantly killed. ? Prisoners and Insane Persons. i S.m Fraaeisco. Special. 'The trans port Sheridan iias arrive.! from Manila I She reported- typhoid fever aboard and was pla-rd in qiiiri&tlne. where she will prohahly remain for several days. The Sheridan brought frcm Manila 110 army prisoners, S6 sick. 11 insane and 32 cM.-. hargod soldiers; 11 navy prison-: r> ar l 14 sick sailors. The steamer riii.no-. whira arrived from liOfHJ? IVOiifj k: irtgtn , wiu> vusu ijukii aatirw^. .Si? reported toe daa'th of one cf her ObiiK.-v pr/canvjirs and the steko-es* of attjther .Vi>:oad. The ship's doctor heri no-, ^'e: tnitrrF :&*? naf't of t!?r ._ VV'JIVUI itoivru Jl uv ?? . nation 'by the Republican or Democratic party, Admiral Dewey replied: j "I do not care to go into that feature. I stand by my general statement. My ambition to be President is an honorable tone." "1 wisih you would suy for nic," continued Admiral Dewey, "that. I took no offense at the sentiment contained in the editorial in Monday's Eagle. I was really net angry at the publication of the article, and <lo not object to it at all." V The editorial in The Brooklyn Eagle of April 2. to which Admiral Dewey refers says in part: ' "Not what kind of candidate, but whait sort of President Admiral Dewey rE'igOl irhaice, IS ail Uiqun; iikvi. i u>.vm cruelty to him and calamity to the country, to the mind, at least as possibilities, when the* dilemma or desperation of those who arc for him is faken into philosophical account. He might make a fine Pre.-'dent. That is a chance. He might make a very weak . or ineffective one There remaiin other fa.'cts. He is no; wanted tor President fcr presidential reason.-*. He is net wantsd for reison of abilities. but cf avalabilities. He is ne t wanted for political reason- cf a high sort, but for political and personal rrr.,i-.n^ nf n v?r.(!ictive sort. He re-pro neal case moveqSays He Cannot Get Justice in Rlch> 1 . land Ccun y. j ' Cannot Get Justice in Richland County Col: Neal's counsel cn Monday moved for a change of venue of the cases pending against him in the Richland { court. Formal notice for the change j of venue has been served cn the solid- . tcr and a copy upon the attorney general. Hero is the notice: Pursuant to notice given J. W. Thurmond, on Wednesday, March 28th, 1300, you are notified that on the affi- 1 davits and showing hereto attached, 1 shall upon the call of the above stated ; cases move the court for an order I s changing the venue from the said coun- I ( ' ? 1 T..1 r> ^rrrrc ! ' ly 01 mcnianu. junua n. I Defendant's Attorney. I To J. W. Thurmond, Solicitor. The principal affidavit upon which the motion will be made is the follow ing of the defendant, Col. Neal: Personally appears before me W. A. Neal, the defendant, w.ho, having been duly sworn, says on oath, that a fail and impartial trial of the above stated ; cases cannot he had In Itichland county | for the reasons: First. A great many charges prejudicial to the good name and reputation of the defendant have been printed in the county newspapers and widely read ; I throughout the city and county in tnc < last six or eight months. Second. That deponent was superin- ( teudent of the penitentiary; that a J committee was appointed to investi- . gate the affairs of the said institution J under the management of deponent, I and he is advised and verily believes 1 that much of -the testimony adduced in 1 said investigation was incompetent and j would not be permitted in the trial o) ! | these cases; that the same was pub-1 . lished in the county papers, widely cir- j ' culated and read throughout the coun- 11 ty and was calculated to inspire pre ' judice against the good name and repti- , tation of the defendant \ Third. That a copy of said testimonj 1 is herewith submitted, and tlio sam< 1 was widely published and read in this ! ritv .mil rnuntv and caused the charge* < against the defendant in the above j j cases to be prejudiced. i I W. A. NEAL. | 1 The following affidavit is -also at- ; 1 tached: Personally came J. H. Berry, who j , being duly sworn, says that he is e ; resident of Richland county and thai; ; from information he does not believt ! that tho defendant can obtain a fail ! and impartial trial In this county. J. H. BERRY. !'! Affidavits s'-iilar to that of J H Bc.:> wtic >?guau by Mr. It. M. Rich- ! ardson, who is chief ..f (he Alliance ex ! change; J. P. Matthews, cashier of tin i Farmers and ^Mechanics Bank; P. H Haltiwanger, president cf the farmers' and Mechanics Mercantile an> Manufacturing cjmpaay (Alliance j ftore); Mr. W. W. Adams, sergeant o ! ' tlie penitentiary guard; -Mr. F. M. Mix. son, broker; Air. J. M. Graham, proprietor of the hosiery mill at the peni j ' tentiary; W. H. Dondley. a guard a , the peniteniiary; John G. Friday, inc.- ! ' chant; \Y. J. Shi Itan, agent for a mcr- j ! chant tailoring house; li. C. DuPre, su-! perintendent of the Way of Faiti | printing house, and I). P. Duncan ! secix-ta.y b:a:d > f lailiar.d commission . ers. < < 11 Progressive Greenville. The industrial revival in Greeavillt and vi<*!n!tv ?hows cverv siirn of VI- j tality. Not cnly are new mills one ! i o.'her enterprises being founded, but i the ones already in existence are doing 1 well and paying dividends. Several eon- ] eerus paid quarterly dividends a few 1 1 days ago. .Mills mill paid U per ceut ( ] seiui-annaal dividends on ?13U.000; the j1 People's bank yielded 2 per cent, it ! i quarterly returns on $100,000; Victo: mills handed f per cent, seml-anntia 1 gains; and the Piedmont Savings anc j Investment company declared S pet \ cent, annual. The majority of corpora- i tions declared dividends in Januarj : and Jiilv. j < J, A commission was issued to the Me-; 1 Coll Novelty works of McColl, which 1 proposes to sell lumber and buildina ' materials and a general contracting 1 business on a capital of $15,0U0. The ' corporators are F. P. Tatum, T. Ik I Cibson, A. M. Morrison, C. W. Spencer j and Charles Iceman, all of Mt-Coll. 1 h Telegraphic Briefs. j, Eleven fresh casns cr ouoonic piague t and two deaths from the disease were 1' reported Tuesday a: Sydney, New South Wales. In saving a woman from in front, of, < a train at Schenectady, N. Y.. James'; Mynderse, of the local police force, j: was killed. The woman was not in-1 1 jurcd. From the fcot of Mrs. Davis Sweet,! of Boston, Mass., which had swollen, a! i .-.urgeon removed a bone formation! i the exact counterpart of an incisor i ; toothf The boiler of a French torpedo boat : exploded off Cherbourg. FVancc.during forced draught trials, and Ave of the crew were terribly burned, two of them J dying. '*V ; AGAINST TAYLOR. [he Kentucky Democrats Come Out Winners. REPUBLICANS WILL APPEAL CASE. Will Ask for Writ ot Error, and Carry the Matter to the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfort, Ky., Special.-The court or Appeals has handed down a decision n the governorship in favor of the Democrats. Ex-Governor Bradley, hief counsel for Taylor author.zsd the itatement that an appeal on behalf of Joveynor Taylor and Lieut. Governor darshall wul be carried bo the Supreme ?ourt of the United States. Mr. Bradey and W. H. Yost, counsel for the Republican State officers, were In consultation with Governor Taylor for .everal hours and the above statement vas made at the close of the confer;nce. It is stated that Col. W. C. P. ' 3reekinrldge and Republican leaders !rom different parts of the State, will neet Governor Taylor in conference lere. Ex-Govornor Bradley said: "We will not take advantage of anv technicalities to delay the progress of he case. The decision of the Court of \ppeals is not disheartening to U3. We tvill ask for a writ of error to the Supreme Court at once, and these contests will now be at an end in a very hort time." The Court of Appeals bands down its lecision in the gubernatorial contest in 'avor of Beckham, Judgo DuRolle dissenting. The other two Republican ludges, Burnam and Guffcy, baauled lown a different opinion, which differ'ercd in its reasons from the opinion of :he Democratic judges, but agreed with :hera in its conclusion. Judge Hob9on. . me of the four Democratic judges, wrote the opinion of tho majority of :he court, affirming the decision of Judge Field, of Louisville. It recites the work of the State canvassing board ind contests before the legislature, and :ontinues: "We have no more right to supervise < the decisions of the General Assembly J In determining the result of this elec- A tion than we have to supervise the ac- fl tion of the Governor in calling a special session of the legislature, or -in pardon ing a criminal, or tlie action or tnr legislature in contracting debts or determining upon the election cf its members. or doing any other act authorized by the constitution. There is no conflict between the action of the Statf canvassing board and that of the legislature in these cases. Tho State canvassing board was without power to 50 behind the returns. They were not authorized to hear evidence ttnd determine who was in truth elected, but were required to give a certificate ofy election to those who, on tho face of the returns, had received the highest number of votes. For the State boars to have received evidence to impeach the returns before them would have been for them, in effect, to act as a board contesting the election, and it they, had-^dono .this they would have usurped ttiV. powctyvested in the gen eral assembly Gy the constitution, for by its exprssed terms, only <tho general assembly can determine a contested election for governor and lieutenant governor. But the certificate of the State board of canvassers us no evidence as to who was in truth..elected. Their certificate entitles the recipient to exercise the office until the regular constitutionality shall determine who is the de jure officer. The right of tht de jure officer attached when he waelected, although the result waunknown until it was declared by the proper constitutional authority. When it was so declared it. w:vs simply the aceertainment of a fact hitherto in doubt or unsettled. The rights of tht de facto officer under his certificate from the canvassing beard wore provis lUllUI Ul truJ^uiaj; uuu * ittw tion of the result of the election as provided in the constitution and upon that determination, if adverse to liim. they ceased altogether. Such a determination of the result of tho election by tho proper tribunal did not take from him any existing right shrdlu d from him any pre-existing right for. if not in fact elected. In- hrul only a right to act until the result <;f the election aoiild he determined. We are therefore " unable to see how this cane can be detc-rmined from any other legislative action taken in the matter over which the constitution h is given the legislature exclusive jurisdiction, and we are. therefore, of the opinion that tho court Is without jurisdiction to go behind the record made by the legislature under the constitution. Such a record seems to us entitled to every presumption in Its favor which the records of this court, kept under its supervision, would lie entitled to receive at the hands of the legislature in a matter before it. It is also argued that the contest board was not fairly drawn by lot; that certain members of the board were liable to objection on the score of partiality jnd that, therefore, rids hoard was no: properly constituted, K any of thftie objections were well founded, the gen-J* era! assembly had full power to taktt siit/Ii action as was proper In tho premises. It does not appear that any of llie objections urg^d were presented to the general assembly, but if they were nml it refused to make correction, it inust be presumed thit: ft"had sufficient fear>ons for iU artiou.^ Besides, the board was only a preliminary agency to take evidence and report Iho fact* to the general assembly. The assembly Itself finally determined t!n> coo* est"