The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 19, 1900, Image 6
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-' _
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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
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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
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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
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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. <