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:i x 7' . TT- w- ;? THE COUNTY RECORD. _ I Published Evorj Thursday at \INGSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. BY C. W. WOLFE . Kdltor and Proprietor. T " I Europe may object to American ! fruit an 1 American meat. But there j is as usual no objection to Aiuericuu money. We have all heard the story of the customer at the drug store who asked for trading coupons with a purchase of postage stamps, but the Kansas City Journal goes this one better. It says that in Topeka candidates for muuicipal and couuty offices gave tradiug stamps with their announcements. The first to do this was a candidate for probate judge and others quickly followed suit. It nus long been predicted on the Contiueut that a substantial increase of England's military resources would ; soouer or later become inevitable. It would seem that England is now real- \ izing the prediction. Already rneas- j nres are being discu-sed with a view i to formulating an organization which j will take the place of the present mil itary system, whose inefficiency lias j been so strikingly demonstrated. The Theatre Franca is, at Paris, which was burned the other day, was iu vealitv a national institution of France, with centuries of venerated traditions clustered around it. Its support was one of the concerns of state, and the maintenance of the great company of players attached to it the "Comedie Fraucaise" enlist- | ed the earnest etlorts ol both influential public officials anil liberal private I citizens. The company will soou be honsetl anew; but Paris will long miss the century old edifice, with its manycolumned porticos, which through three generations had been the inspiration of dramatic art in the world's art centre. The rapid growth of cities is one of the most serious problems the so?iologist has to fnce, thiuks the Christian Register. Late in the history of the wnrld lias the hone nf doinfr irond i " o o ! to people by simply awakening their J preceptious to duty, venderiug them i a little le*s numb and indifferent to the pleasures of the eye, the new conceptions that come with this wid- ; ening of the realm of soul, this open- j ing of the closed shell of the brain ; and heart to vision, to fancy, to admiration and love. How sad the pic- j ture of an ever-increasing concentra- j lion and crowding of human beings in towns, dwarfed nud stnuted more 1 in mind and body, accentuating the coarse, callous, indifferent urban type ! of unfortunates aud criminals, in- ' .iwAAemff nnil til fill ntll' J "'""'"d """ 1"-' 1" almshouses, prisons, and idiot asylums ! So much has been done in receut years to promote the convenience of all classes of riders and drivers that it is a pleasure to read a decision which asserts, negatively, at least the relative importance aud rights of the man who walks. Bicycle-paths have been built for the bicyclist, speedways for the drivers, bridle-paths for riders, and trolley-cars roaui almost at will though the cities aud over some of the fairest stretches of country roads. Meantime the man on foot has been finding himself more and more crowded in the city; and in the country ho has continued to stub bis way through mini nnil ilnst nr r?VAV stmipn and gravel, asking and getting no special privileges. Now comes a bicyclist, in the person of a Syracuse girl, ami asks the courts to declare that the city must give the bicyclist a hotter sidewalk than it gives the pedestrian. She claimed that a depression in a sidewalk in Syracuse caused her to fall from her wheel. She sued aud got a verdict for $30D. The trial court charged that the city was bound to furnish "a leasonably safe sidewalk for the purposes inteuded, that is, , bicycle-riding." The appellate division of the supreme court has set as?ie this judgment on the grouud that the city was hound merely to pro vide for the bicyclist "a walk iea>ouably safe" for a pedestrian. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. X < i:The South. Wealthy real estate dealer Alfred C Green committed suicide by shooting at New Orleans, La. The fund which is being raised by subscriptions for the widow of the late General Guy V*. Henry, has reached $9603. Emory Ford, of Allegheny, Pa., and Miss Eliza Gordon, of Pittsburg, Pa., with a number of other Americans, are detained at Italian ports by smallpox. The North. The jewels of Mme. Adelina MurioCelli, who died at New York on Sunday. cannot be found. Someone with an air rifle shot 10year-old Kittie Broock in the eye. at j Tarrytwown, N. Y., dangerously wounding her. Th? New York legislature adjourned Friday. W. J. Bryan spoke for two hours to 3,000 people at Eugene. Ore. The will of the late Sidney A. Kent. ,of Chicago. 111., disposes of $3,700,000. i of which $100,000 is given to educa- j tionul institutions. The Building Trades Council at Chicago. 111., is trying to pnd the industrial j war there through arbitration commit- ; tees. John \V. Noble, Secretary of the In- | ericr under President Harrison. is ill i at St. I.otiis. Mo., and has been ordered to Florida. A light engine ran into a work train | on the Buffalo Creek Railroad, at Buffalo. N. Y.. and si:: men were injured. ! Charles Choen seriously. Albert Davis and Samuel G. Brook-, ! convicted at Cleveland, Ohio, of rob- i bing the city, have been sentenced to *" - ? nom'tonft'orv JLUU1 > t'Ui 5 l'.aui 1.1 uac. ['Cuuvuvi?t/I 0 \V. Mussev. former cashier of the Merchants' National Bank, at Rutlandf ; Vt.. has bean held in $50,000 bail for j court, on a charge of embezzlement, having waived preliminary hearing. Ohio G. Barber, president of the Diamond Match Company, has offered to | give to the Akron. Ohio, City Hospital I $100,000 to be used as an endowment fund. Republicans at Davenport, la., elected Kred Heinz Mayor, and a proposition to buy a site for a free public library, for which $50,000 was given by Andrew Carnegie, was carried. George Magill, formerly a prosperous ! banker, was sentenced to imprisonment j and to pay a fine of J3.027.40 for receiv- I ing deposits after he knew his bank, j the Avenue Savings, of Chicago, ill., was insolvent. The charter election in Jersey City resulted in a Democratic victory. The Democrats elected two members of the street and water board and eleven of the twelve candidates for aldermen. Admiral Dewey declined to make his jtrip to Chicago a political one. He was ! offered a special train, the runs to be | made in daylight, and even promised | crowds to hear him if he desired to i make speeches in the furtherance of his candidacy. The Chicago commit- : tee. to lav before the admiral the plans | of the fete of May 1, arrived ak the | capital. Foreign. Near Auburn Indiana, Ve3 Steel was shot and killed by William Davis, who j resented nis auenuuus iu .uis. uaui. i The English Parliament rises early j this week for a fortnight's holiday. The President of Venezuela has ! signed the parcel post convention with j the United Slates which is expected to j augment the American retail trade by > about $1,000,000 a year. When she tried to whip the mother I of two boys, alleged to have talked j about her. Miss Maud King was fatally i shot by Mrs. John Johnston. The Gorman coal famine is causing ! many factories to close. The Kaiser will on April 29 visit the Grand Duke of Baden at Carisruhe. Berlin has voted $10,000 to send teachers and school omciais to tne i Paris Exposition. Earthquakes and heavy snow storms | have occurred in the Saxonian Mount- : ains. Germany. Gifts from the Czar and Emperor j William to Arndt. the well known mini- I ic, were stolen yesterday In Berlin. Russia has agreed not to tak? a port on Quelport Island, and Corea has promised to give one to no other Power. The Russian transport Psezoafe is ordered to sail for the Danubian station, near Galati, to protect Russian interests in Roumania. At Emperor Francis Joseph's request Elenora Duse will play in Vienna on Wednesday for the Actors' Fund. The Gladstone statue, being designed by F. W. Pomeroy for the central lobby of the House of Parliament, will be unveiled May 19. Eleven government engineers have loft lxmdon for Asnantt to survey tne extension of the Gold Coast railroad from Sekondl to Coomassie. "Britisher" is suggested by Arnold White, the author, as a substitute for "Colonist," as aplied to Canadians. Australians and South Africans. State Councilor Ebuzzia, of Constantinople, has been exiled for writing an article displeasing to the Sultan. , / PARIS EXPOSITION Formliy Opened President Loubent Threw Open the Great Show. ALL NATIONS IN ATTENDANCE. Exposition, a Mixture of Rubbish and Splendor The L'uioted States Taking a lligh Rankin thaExhibits. Paris, Hy Cable. The exposition ot 1900 is opened, but it will be at least a ir.cnth before anything but buildings is to be seen. The day's ceremonies were a peculiar mixture of sumptuous splendor in the Sailes des Fetes and widespread confusion everywhere. Nothing could have exceeded the picturesque stage setting in the beautiful building in which the inaugural cerDmonica were held, the gorgeous uniforms ot diplomats and soldiers, the spicpdid orchestra and chorus and the magnificent effect produced by the grand staircase up wmca rresiaeiu Loubct proceeded to view the exposition, lined with some i'OO picked men of the Republican Guards, with jackhoots. white breeches, gleutning cuirasses and horse-plumes streaming from shinning helmets. At the top of this stairway was a room, the interior of which could be seen from the Salles ' dts Fetes, and this was hv.ng with priceless bobelins from the Louvre. Into this splendid apartment Presid mt Lcubct entered and from there walked down the avenue to his bout. This pari ot ine iiuy s unaugeiuiuis ?\?io perfect, but the rest was chaos. The weather was luckily all that j could be desired. Fourteen thousand , guests had been invited to the function and they had. because of the fine | weather, only the dust to endure. Had | the day been wet the unrolled paths I of the exposition grounds would have : been turned into a mass of mud. The afternoon was a holiday in Paris t by general consent, and a host of peo- | pie crowded into the city to swell the multitudes, who front an early hour trudged in the direction of the exposition and took up positions along tho route of the procession and about the j grounds. Hundreds of vehicles did not reach the exposition at all, and the occupants were either left stranded en route or were obliged to abandon their carriages and proceed on foot. This was the expedient ordinarily adopted, even by several members of the diplomatic corps and two gor- ' geously-attired officials of the Chinese l embassy, after hastily walking several I blocks, arrived in the Salles des Fetes | just in time to hear the cheering at j the conclusion of the ceremony. The ceremonial within the Salles des Fetes was simplicity itself. The recep- | tion of President Loubet at the entrance lasted but a few seconds, and on j reaching the presidential tribune, M. j Millerand, the Minister of Commerce. I immediately delivered his address. ; handing over the exposition to the i chief of state. The address was couch- j cd in most eloquent terms and read in a resonant voice, heard throughout the . vast hall. Mr. Millerand's peroration was especially fine and it brought forth a storm cf plaudits. President Loubet 1 then replied, and the speaking part of the function here ended. A feature of the proceedings was the series of grandiose tableaux presented i to the gaze of the President and his : party by the wonderful spectacle in the j Salle des Fetes and the imposing I vists from the Palace Trocadero down i the Champs de Mars, to the chateau i D'Eau along the esplanade of the Hotel ' Des Invalides. from Napoleon's tomb ! tn tiio Chamn? RIvspps. while the view from the Seine along the embankment, , on which stands an irregular line cf i multi-colored national pavilions, presenting every conceivable form of architecture, might have ueen a scene from the "Arabian Nights." Opposed to Constitutional Convention Lynchburg. Va., Special. United States Senator Daniel, in an interview hero Saturday, authorized a positive denial of the statement that he opposes the proposition to call a constitutional convention in Virginia. He declares that he favors the present movement to held such a convention and will advocate the proposition in the State Democratic convention i which assembles at Norfolk, May 2. Bayan In New Mexico. Alburquerque, N. M., Special lion. W. j. Bryan delivered two addresses Saturday to a large audience in Alburquerque. He left at midnight for EI Paso, Texas. Mr. Bryan said that eight States had already authorized their delegates to the Kansas City convention to vote for his nomination for the presidency. In response to a question, he said he believed it was right for delegates to go to the convention instructed, and if he were nominated he wanted to be nominated by uelegates who wer? acting fot* the neople. # TREASURY STATEMENT. the Secretary Submits His Report to Congress as Requested. i ; Washington, D. C., Special.?The i Secretary of the Treasury has sent to Congress his reply to the House resolution of April 2d, which called for infor- j mation a3 to whether, in his opinion the present revenue laws are creating and will continue to create a surplus in the Treasury, and if so, to what ex-, tent at the end of the fiscal year and a like report as to the next fiscal year;1 ! also his estimates of the probable reI ceipts of the Treasury from all sources ^ : of revenue for those years, and also the t 1 amount of -in^prnnl rpvpnnp itn\-p.a rp-' _ , J ceived under iihc war revenue act upon | articles not theretofore taxed: The secretary, in his reply estimates the surplus for the fiscal year ending | June 30, 1900, at $70,000,000. as follows: Receipts: Customs $233,000,000; in- V ternal revenue $292,000,000: miscella- e | neous $35,000,000; total $300,000,000. ^ Expenditures: Civil $104,000,000; 8 war $135,000,000; navy $33,000,000; In- ^ | dians $11,000,000; pensions $143,000,000; v : interest $42,000,000; total $490,000,000. 1 The surplus for the fiscal year ending ^ | June 30, 1901, is estimated at $S2,000,- ' | 000, as follows: Receipts, customs 6 i $240,000,000; internal revenue $300,000,- ! 000; miscellaneous $37,000,000; total ! c $577,000,000. Expenditures, civil $115,000,000; war $123,000,000; navy $30,- | ? 000,000; Indians $10,000,000; pensions c $143,000,000; interest $40,000,000; total c 1 $495,000,000. i Total internal revenue taxes received t under the war revenue act upon arti- ^ eles not theretofore taxed was $97,055,- r 249. This amount includes $45,724, 541 p for the fiscal year 1809, and $33,330,708 , h for the first nine months of the fiscal I t year 1900. fader schedule A $28,618,- j c 0S1 is given for 1899, and $27,439,622 t for the first six months of the fiscal; f year 1900; under schedule B $5,219,737 j i and $3,403,000; legacies $1,235,435 and g $1,6C0,S72; excise tax $643,446 ana t $820,000; mixed flour $7,841 and $6,- s 314 i, I ! c Against Clark. [ Washington, D. C., Special. The r Senate committee on privileges and ij elections have decided by a unanimous t vote to recommend the adoption of a c resolution declaring that Hon. W. A. g Claxk, of Montana, is not entitled to h occupy his seat as Senator from Mon- & tana. This decision followed a two- e hours session at which the members p spoKe ai lengtn on nne question. se?- i e ator Harris, of Kansas, said that what- ' S ever-Mr. Clark's offenses, they were but ' F little worse than the methods pursued : B by Congressman Campbell and ex- n State Senator Whiteside in their efforts : to expose the Senator, and if he insist- j B ed that If the report was to be antag- ; ? onistic to Mr. Clark, it should at the p same time relate in full detail the S course pursued by the two principal witnesses against him. Senator Pettus practically agreed with Mr. Harris, j ( The concensus of opinion of the com- j " mittee was that the cumulative char-, acter of the testimony should be con-1 side.red, rather than any one especial 0 feature. Senators Chandler and Turley u were directed to prepare the report. It i* expected to be pesented at an early h d?v p t< Georgia Populists. 1 n Atlanta, Ga., Special. The Middle | of the Read Populists of Georgia have : nominated the following ticket: Gov-! ( ernor J. H. Taylor, of Troup county; ^ Secretary of State, Dr. L. L, Clements d of MiKon; Attorney General, F. H. Saf- i c< fold, of Emanuel; State Treasurer, J. e< W. Park, of Meriwether: Commissioner li of Agriculture. W. T. Flint, of Talla- tl forro; Prison Commissioners. J. T. ti Dickey, of T'pson. and S. G. McCandless, of Butts. The eight delegates at tc large to the Cincinnati convention o< were instructed for Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, for President, and Igna- n tius Donnelly, for Vice-President. te To View the Eclipse. Princeton. N. J.. Special. Prof. C. A Young, .head of the astronomical de- r< partment, announced that Prof. Win. Li'bbey will go to Wadesboro. N. C., ^ to make the preliminary arangements tl for the Princeton party, which will view the total eclipse of the mm at that qi place on May 28. The party will leave b Princeton on May 18. w The Telegraph Troubles. ^ Atlanta. Ga.. Special. President E Powell has wired the President of the ^ Southern Railway system, laying before n him the position of the telegraphers ^ in the pending controversy over wages n and asking his intervention with the jg view of settling the differences peace- ^ ably and without a strike. Mr. Powell, president of the Railway Telegraphers, says he will be willing to lea^e the disputed points to W. H. Baldwin, Jr., ' president of the Long Island Railway. w and abide by his decision or to three g( responsible and fair-minded citizens of 8( Atlanta w ' m 1 rHE TELEGRAPHERS. Resident Powell Makes a Statement About the Affair. JOTH SIDES CLAIM TO BE SATISFIED ? rbs Railroad Officials Say that Less Than 10 per cent, of the Men Are Out.?The Situation Well in Hand. Atlanta fin Snrrlal?T.ittlp clianee las occurred in the situation of the elegraphers' strike on the Southern. iailway. Both sides claim they are atisfied. Officials of the railroad say hat they have been given little inconvenience by the strike and that the rains are moving on schedule time, vith no congestion of travel or freight it any point. President Powell, of the )rder of Railway Telegraphers, in a tatement expresses the greatest confllence in the outcome. Southern Rail w >ay uumo Xiuvc uccu oiuiiug IU .iLanta considerably off schedule, but all lelays are not attributed to the strikng operators. President Powell in hi? tatement Friday says: "We are highly elated over the sacess of the strike. The members of he organization went out to a man. ly information shows that the traffic m the Southern is almost totally demoralized. Not a freight train is mov- ' j ng and dozens of trains are sideracked. My reports show that the tlabama Great Southern is unable to un freights and only the principal lassengers are moving. 'Wild' order* iave been put into effect on some of he divisions and I am -uformed this aorning that the engineers and train j aen of the Columbia division have re- ! used to run on them, declaring that hey will not endanger their lives by o doing. On the Washington and ,ynchburg and Charlotte divisions the ituation is more than favorable. Neary all the men went out between ,'harlotte and Washington. Western Jnion operators inform me that the ailroad ofTice3 cannot be raised on the Ines from here to Charlotte, Chattaooga and Birmingham. I have reeived telegrams from P. M. Arthur, rand chief engineer of the Brotherood of Locomotive Engineers; P. H. lorrissey, grand master of the Broth* rhood of Railroad Trainmen; FVanh '. Sargent, grand master of the Brothrhood of Locomotive Firemen, and amuel Gompers, president of 'ederation of Labor, expressing luei/^P ;ish and hope that the telegraphers lay be successful in this strike, and ffering their support in every way onsistent with the laws of their repective organizations. I am satisfied uth the situation from every standoint. The following from Genera} uperintendent J. H. Barrett, presents tie attitude of the railroad towards tie strikers; "Salisbury, N. C. J. S. B. Thompson, Assistant General Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.: "Referring to the sensational reports f the situation at other points, you an say that everything is moving on tie entire sy3tem as though the strike ad not been ordered. Less than 10 er cent, went out on the entire sys?m. On some divisions not a single lan went out." Strike in Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special. Thetrike of telegraph operators on the labama Great Southern and Memphis ivision of the Southern Railway is implete. No response can be obtaini to calls from any station along the ne and the 0. R. T. offlcere state lat all the men with one or two excepons are out. Freight traffic is already beginning ? congest here as no trains were sent ut this afternoon. ?jn me ueorgia aivision ana on linelain Knoxville line cf the road very :w operatives remain. Repulsed With Great Loss. Bloemfontein, By Cable. Accounts jcelved here of the fighting of the oops under Colonel Dalgety, at Tepener, show the Boers attacked lem vigorously, but were repulsed ith great loss. The Boers subsejently relinquished the attack, and it ; said here they are returning northards Rouxvltle Commando Patroling. Aliwal North, By Cable. The deichment of 200 of the Rouxvllle comlando is patrolling in this direction, [any of the men go to their farms at ight and rejoin the detachment in the lorning. The Rouxville commando _ umbers 700. A large body of Basutos ^ i i closely watching events from the ardor. The weather i3 too cloudy to srmit heliographing. It is reported le Boers lost heavily in the recent ?htiug at Wcpener. There is much eeping among the women and an nr?nt message for assistance has been ;nt to the Rouxvillc commando. There as fighting at Dewc-t's Dorp to-day. <