THE COUNTY RECORD^
Published Every Thursday
? AT?
*ING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
? BY ?
C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
Three Herman courts recently derided
that if the Berliu police should
judge any particular color scheme of
a house to be improper or too gaudy
they could order the painter to change
it.
A Tegular business, carried on in
France by ladies of the highest standinc.
is to secure rich American brides
o? ? - for
penniless aaen of title. These
matrimonial agents receive fees when
tlie.y are successful.
A prominent New York life insurance
company, upon petition of t
large number of the heaviest insurer'
in the United States, has conseutec
to keep a separate class of total ab
stainers who may hereafter take policies
in the company, and give them n
the end of their dividend period tin
beuefit of any better mortality among
total abstainers than among the geu
eral class of assurants.
In a recent address in Brooklyn,
Charles W. Price stated that o-.e
8600,000,000 had been invested ii
electric lighting in the United State
and that the total horse power re
4 quired iu the electric lighting o
Greater New York was not less that
200,000 horse power, ami that iu tlw
last 13 years, since the birth of tin
electric railway there had been an ex
peuditnre of more thau SI, 700,0011,000,
and that now anyone could travel b^
electric cars from Paterson, X. J.,
via. New York, to Portland, M?..witl
only three insignificant interruptions
which collectively amount to less thai
lo miles.
Wesleyan university is threatens
witli a peculiar danger. Women wen
let in some years ago, and they uuilti
plied so rapidly that the alumni fear
that it will end in the transforniatioi
of the institution into a woman's col
lege. The percentage of women rose
from seven to 23 in 10 yeais, a rate o
increase which in about 15 years fron
now would bring the number of worn
en up to that of men. Coedueatioi
is seen to be safe only within eertaii
arithmetical limits, and the Weslevai
alumui have done educators a servioi
ai- ~ J i;nA .v.)
Ill (leuuillg lUtJ iiaufjei uuc ui - ) i?ui
cent. Above 23 per ceut. women lie
come terrible to mam He begins t<
cut lectures and to blush furiously
when he recites. Perhaps the oul;
way out of the difficulty is the organ
ization of a separate woman's college
within the university. Yon never eai
be sure that women will keep belov
23 per cent. In going to college, as ii
ehoppiug, they defy all numerical re
?traiut
The remarkable growth of the can
ning industry in the United State!
was -shown by facts preseute<
at the recent meeting in Detroit of th<
three associations of canners. It
1885 there were only about 100 firm
in this country engaged in the busi
?\ Ann /innnin/v ?aa/1 a Tz-kIov t li.
iwoo ui vauaiu^ ^uvuo, X WI ?j iu
manufacturers of canned goods ar
locat-ed all over the land, and are ove
2000 in number. Each year the Amer
lean canners "put up" as the house
wires would say, 0,000,000 cases o
tomatoes, 0,500,000 of corn, 2,000,
000 of peas, and 10,000,000 of peache
and other fruits and vegetables, mak
iug a total of 23,500,000 cases of aI
kinds. Estimating the average price
at S2 a case, the total output would be
worth $17,000,000. The packers es
timate their profit at 15 per cent o.'
the selling price, at which calculation
they would pocket $7,000,000 a year,
The otitlav of the packers is mosth
ill the raw product and labor. A lac
tory costing S10,000, iucluding ma
chinery, might have a capacity of 30,000
cans a day. There are on the average
100 hands employed at eacl
canning factory, or 200,000 in all.
Adding to this 250 or 300 firms mak
iug machinery aud supplies and each
employing about 50 hands, would giv<
a total of 215,CO) people who derivi
their living from this industry. A1
lowing $100 a year for each hand, man.
woman aud child, there is a total oi
$30,000,000 a year paid out in wages.
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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.
In a fight with revolvers at Lexing
ton, Ky.t Dr. Joseph N. Parker shot
and killed Veto A. Antonelli. The
fight took place in front of a grocery
store on Chestnut street, in which the
men became involved in a quarrej
shortly before.
Mrs. Mary J. Furman has bequeath
cJ her etate, at Nashville, Tenn., valued
nt frnm 820ft tr? ftftft tr
Vanderbilt University.
The entire town of Wharton. Texas,
and the country for eight miles around
is flooded.
The strike at the Coal Creek Coa!
Company's mines, at Coal Creek
Tenn., continues and the company proposes
to have its property vacated bj
all strikers.
The trial of ex-Congressman David
i G. Colson. the surviving principal ir
the Colson-Scott duel of January 1C
began Tuesday at Frankfort. Ky.
On the result of his almost unani
mous endorsement by the Alabamr
Democracy in Saturday's primaries
Senator Morgan wires: "The very re
k markable vote of so many counties
give a safe assurance of the futun
' strength and harmony of the Democ
I riav nf Mnhimn TVip rrknfiHpnrp
. expressed towards me as one of th?
Senators from Alabama excites mj
gratitude to the people and will in
t crease my devotion to their interest;
? i and prosperity."
, The Transmississippi Commercia
Congress met Tuesday at Houston
Texaifi, and every State and Territorj
west of the Mississippi river was offi
daily represented.
> The grand jury a't Frankfort. Ky.
i- "which has spent the last two weeks i:
investigating the assassination of Gov
Goebel. will resume its work Wednes
B i day, and a report is expected scon.
- ' Hamilton W. Babie has been chcsei
f to deliver the fourteenth annual coursi
t | of the Thomas endowment lectures a
: the Richmond, Va., College. Hi.
9 ; subject will be "Literary Criticism."
i ; Clarence Knowles, of Atlanta, diet
. ! at Pensaccla. Fla., last Saturday. Hi
i was a highly successful business man
and was well and favorably known al
i i rwar the*
, j Rev. O. B. Wilson, superintenden
A of the Stillman institute cf Tuscaloo
sa. Ala., was killed by lightning whil
' | u.;ing a telephone. He was a Virginia]
i and at the time of his death was em
ployed in the work of educating ne
| groes under the direction of the South
I ; ern Presbyterian church.
i i At Marion Junction, 14 miles souti
; of Selma. Ala., on the Birmingham cii
* vision, a hotel has been secured by th
strikers on the Southern railway am
j j headquarters established. Prom thi
point it is und; rstcod the organizer.
" j will operate. Seventeen men register
j j eu there.
a | The North.
An irreligious and some.what cycica
1 ' correspondent sent the followinj
i !.? Vnm Vnrlr Trihnrtp
J I quel V lO uitr i-\\n iwin . .
"Don't you think the Tribune ought v
1 j rebuke the Fifth Avenue Presbyteriai
3 church people for recording the fact oi
- a memorial tablet that they thiul
themselves well rid of good old Di
Hall's preaching?" After referring .
0 his faithful service of thirty-one year
y the pas-age is quoted: " There re
maineth therefore a rest to the peopi
r 1 of God."
Ex-President Cleveland began hi
1 second Princeton lecture in a charac
i 1 teristic way. "I am in something o
j the predicament," he said, "of th
r preacher who said to his congregation
i j 'I propose to speak to you of som.
- j things which only I know about, c
some things which both you and
! know something about, and, finally, o
' other things which neither voi
i unr i know anvthine about.' 0
j things under the last head I shall en
i deavor to steer clear."
3 ! Throe thousand, two hundred am
i fifty dollars were given at the sale ij
1 | New York last Friday, of tho Orienta
s i objects belonging to William Churchil
. i Oasiler. for a medium sized blue an.
white vase of the K'Ang-Kci periou
9 The vice is a record one for a speei
3 men of China-e blue and white porce
r lain clhtx uban of the Hawthorn pat
tern. The vas-, is onl 24 inches high
Mr. Pendleton was the purchaser. Tin
total sum realized was $16,319.
^ While the ministers of the New Yorl
Methodist conference were discussini
j the Question whether to approve Mr
. Sheldon's experiment in journalism o
1 not, one frank member of the confer
ence interrupted by saying: ' The dry
! est paper I ever read is Sheldon's pa
J per. I think the editors of the grea
. newspapers can get up pretty good pa
, pers. I think the children of the worlc
are wiser in making newspapers thai
our good brother. Sheldon."
Water Bound 39 Hours.
Meridian, Miss., Special.?1This city
is cut off from the outside world, ex
C 'pt by telegraph. All trains ars
marked annualled for an indefinite
1
period. 1 e Atlanta and Vicksburc
passenger, due here at 12:30 p. m., yest
terday, has been water-bound 12 miles
^ from the city for 30 hours. The passengers
are without food. Tne damage
to the Atlanta and Yicksburg, Alabama,
Great Southern, Mobile and
Ohio and New Orleans and Northeastern
Railroads will reach $50,000 in
I tracks and trestles swept aw?v.' -4
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~ BRITISH IMPEDED
By The Rains of the South African
Wet Season.
LARGE DEVELOPMENTS-EXPECTED.
The Removal of Buller and Roberts
I
Demanded For The Safety of the
Army,
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[ ivonnion, uy v^ame.?neat j iwug im
, pede the progress of the British col
umns. The blockade at Wepener continues,
although relief is near. Large
quantities of stores are being moved
' southward for Bloemfontein, which is
1 a reversal of the course of freight for
the last six weeks. These shipments
are made necessary by the operations
i in the southeast of the Free State.
, There are 2,000 sick in the field hospi
tals, most of the cases being dysins
tery and enteric fever. With the exception
of these facts, the embargo up5
on war intelligence is almost complete,
j The special correspondents send trivir
altics, or statements which obscure,
rather than explain, the situation, in
5 their efforts to prepare matter that
1 will pass the censor. Here and there
a phrase indicates an expectancy that
j large things are about to happen.
What is to be done with Sir Redvers
Duller and Sir Charles Warren occu,
pies everybody's attention. The pa1
pers continue to comment earnestly upon
Lord Roberts' censure of these
commanders. They ask if more errors
1 are not likely to ocour, together with
2 fruitless waste cf life, in the event
t that men who have been declared in?
competent by their superiors continue
to command 40.000 men. It is now
1 generally accepted that the government
had a purpose in the publication of
j Lord Roberts' dispatch/ and that the
recall of General Buller and General
t Warren probaly (had been decided up
on. According to Boer reports there is
r a steady flow of volunteers to the
1 Transvaal. Heretofore these adventurers
had been attached to various com.
man does. Now it is said they are to
be formed into a special legion, with
j continental officers, and there is a ru
mor that the command will be given
c to a distinguished French soldier, late
' retired, who is now in the Transvaal,
* or is nearing the end of the Journey
. thither.
The morning Post has the following
from Bloerafontein, dated Tuesday:
"In view cf the advisability of a re
I treat through Swaziland, emissaries of
* the Beers are now endeavoring to pur?
chase secret information concerning
0 the caverns in the Creystone country,
11 "which are only known to the natives,
n with the cbject of accumulating proK
visions and ammunition. Large quan^
titles of British forage and stores were
a dispatched to the south Monday.
a Japan and Russia May Fight.
Yokohama, By Cable.?If the quick
s and steady dispatch of telegrams from
Korea mean aught of a really serious
* nature, the inference would be that Ja0
, pan and Russia are on the verge of
e war. Outwardly, however, there is
i absolute calm. The present opinion of
* the community seems to he that, as the
* conflict is inevitable, the sooner it oct
curs the better it will tye for Japan.
- The latter, with her great fleet, far superior
to mat of her enemy in those
1 waters, would make short work of
i Russia's naval force, and command
1 the situation for some time at least,
j with the advantage that added prestige
would coafer. Russia demands a
* concession of territory near Masampo,
or as an alternative, the island of Ko^
toku. Either would be a standing
menace to Japan and one of the hard^
est of diplomatic fights is now on at
Seoul
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Offered Poriagal $5,000,000.
Pretoria, By Cable.?As soon as the
r Berne award in the Delagoa Bay arbi.
ration was published the Transvaal
- government offered to lend Portugal
- the amount she was condemned to pay,
t $5.000,U00, which, however, was cour
teously declined, the statement being
1 made that the money was already proJ
vided.
Wheeler, Lee and Wilson to Retire.
Washington, D. C., Special.?Representative
Grcsvenor, 01* Ohio, has introduced
a bill authorizing the President
to appoint three volunteer officers
' as brigadier genqfctls, with a view to
? their retircment^yrhe bill is an ad>
ministration measdre, having been
presented by Mr. Grosvcnor after conference
with administration cffic'als
1 and at their request. It is designed to
benefit General Joseph Wheeler, Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee and General James H.
Wilson, all of them volunteer officers,
,1 who by the terms of the bill would be
given rani: as brigadier ^generals in
the regular service, and subsequently
1 retired. yt ?
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GRAND LODGE ADJOURNS.
Election of Officers Closed the Sessiei.
in Columbia. j
The Grand Lodge Knights cf Honor
closed its meeting in Columbia last
week by electing the following officers
frjr the ensuing year:
Past grand dictator. W. A. Temple- '
ton. Abbeville.
Grand dictator. J. W. Todd, Seneca.
Grand vice dictator. M. F. Kennedy, .
Charleston.
Grand assistant dictator, J. J. Ver
ir?..j
>vc:nuiu.
Grand reporter. L. N. Zealy, Columbia.
Grand treasurer. J. T. Robertson.
Abbeville,
Grand chaplain. A^Buist, Blackville. j
Grand guide. J. B. Lewis. Anderson.
Grand guard, J. B. Bonner, Pelzer. {
Grand sentinel. John Kennerly, j
Edgefield.
Grand trustees. J. G. Tompkins,
Edgefield: H. C. Moses, Sumter, ana 1
D. A. Smith. Walhalla. ]
Representatives to the Supreme ,
Lodge?L. N. Zealy, two years, with
P. K. McCully, alternate; J. J. Vernon,
alternate to J. W. Todd, one i
year. I
The following committees were ap- ,
pointed:
Finance?N. \V. Trump. Columbia: (
L H. Wanamaker, Orangeburg, and
J. 0. Ladd, Summerville.
Laws and Supervision?C. A. C. Waller.
Greenwood, P. B. Waters, Summer- (
ville, and C. P. Quattlebaum, Conway.
The beard of trustees constituted
the advisory board of the Grand Lodgeto
act in conjunction with the grand
dictator as to all matters pertaining to
the interest of the order for the ensuing
year.
Ex-Convists Not Exempt.
In response to a letter from County
! Supervisor Owens, of Richland county.
; Attorney General Bellinger has prepared
the following:
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 17th instant
has just been received, in which I
) you refer to the question recently ask,
ed the governor as to the "liability of
: ex-convicts to road duty." The proi
vision as to ihe working of the public
reads is purely a statutory one and the
subject, as far as the same relates to
, "persons liable to such duty," is covi
ered by section 4 of the acts cf 1900,
jpage 2S9, which provides. "That all
! male persons able to perform the labor
herein required between the ages
of IS and 55 years (here follows certain
exceptions as to certain counties and
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Wit' dJ'tTlllcu, aau a.ir+j ******
liters of the gospel in actual charge
oi a congregation, and persons permanently
disabled in the military service
of this State and persons who served
in the iate war between the States
and persons actualy employed in the
1 quarantine service cf the State),
j shall be required annually to perform
1 labor on the highways under the dij
reeticn cf the overseer of the said dis'
trict in which he shall reside, as folj
lows." etc. It seems clear from the
l nhovp which is exhaustive, that ex
convicts arc not exempt from the performance
of road duty. The question
of citizenship does not arise, in my
opinion in this connection.
Infantic de in Florenci.
Florence, Special.?Dosia Brown, a
negro woman in the Hyman section o?
this county, is accused of having beaten
or stamped her infant child to deatii
and the circumstances of her marriage
a few months ago and the condition of
the child's body seem to point strongly
to her guilt. Magistrate Hyman, upon
the request of some of the people of
that section, empanelled a jury and
held an inquest over the body of the
child. Dr. J. H. Munn, who hold a
post mortem examination, stated that
the Child's death was not from natural
causes. He found bruises upon the
head and body which indicated brutal
treatment, and it evidently had been
stamped to death. The verdict of the
jury was that the child came to its
death from brutal treatment at the
hands of its mother, or words to that
effect. The acting coroner sent the case
up to the May court of General Sessions.
The woman is now very ill at
her home, but under guard. As sooa
as she is able to stand the trip she will
be brought here to jail.
Cross H ll Asks For an Expert.
The citizens of Cress Hill, in Laurens
county, have written to Governor
McSweeney, asking that a smallpox
expert be sent to that town at once. It
is stated that so many people are quarantined
that business is at a standstill.
This matter ha3 already been referred! <
to Dr. Evans.
A BatesburgMill.
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Tfte UllUaieDUrg luuuii mui, w
Batcsburg, 'has been chartered with aJ
capital stock of *75,000. It is an old
mill, which is being rebuilt W. P.
Roof is president, O. H. Fester, vice
president, and Allen Jones, secretary (
and treasurer.
Palmetto Notes.
A cyclone struck Ross's quarry, ir, i
Lexington county, Friday afternoon. !
It tore down buildings and destroyed 1
derricks. Six men who had taken ref- '
uge in the small office building had ? i
narrow escape from death. The win. 1
uprooted a very large tree and threw il
upon the building, which was deraol- '
ished, but thpy escaped "nharr^ed 1
1 uWuilh.
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fiVLOR A SUSPECT.
jrand Jury Indicts Ten Persons Connected
with
ME MURDER OF WILLIAM GOEBEL
High Officials Named as Accessories JH
--Tallow Dick, Combs, Voutsey,
Whittaker and the Two Howards.
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Frankfort, Ky., Special.?The Franklin
county grand jury has returned iniictment
against ten persons, charging
them with complicity in the murier
of Wm. Goebel. The principals
aamed are: Henry E. Youtsey, James*
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Howard, Berry Howard, Harland
Whitaker and "Tallow Dick" Comb?
(colored). Those indicted as accessories
before the fact are Secretary of
State Powers, Captain Jcftm T. Powers,
ex-Secretary of State John Finley,
W. H. Culton, and F. Wharton
Golden. In the indictment relating to
the alleged accessories, three other
men are indirectly referred to as accessories,
though no indictments are
reported against them. They are:
Governor Taylor, Green Golden and
Captain John Davis. Henry E. Youtsey,
who is mentioned as the first principal,
was a clerk in the office of State
Auditor Sweeney. He formerly lived
at Newport. Youtsey was first named
in the case by Wharton Golden, the
Jtar witness for theprosecution at the
examining trial of Caleb Powers.
Jim and Berry Howard are cousins,
and mountaineers of note in connection
with the old Howard feud. They
were with the men alleged to have
been brought here by the Powers
brothers, Finley and others, on thO
"excursion of mountaineers." Harlan
SVhitaker lived in Butler, Governor
Taylor's home home county, and is alleged
to have been in the room in the
executive biulding from which the
snot was nreu.
Dick Combe, the negro lived at Beattyville,
and also came here with the
mountain men. Caleb Powers is tlio
Republican ccntestee for Secretary of
State, and Jchn T. Powers, another of
the defendants named as accessory, is
bis grcther. Charles Finley was Secretary
of State under the former State
Republican dministraticn whoa W. 0.
Bradley was governor. Charles Fin- ^
ley is now in Indianapolis, having gone \
there just before the warrant charging
him with complicity was sworn out,
six weeks ago. W. H. Culton was a
cierK in me oince 01 Auuuur owetsuc^.
Wharton Golden was a member of the
Taylor State guard, and claimed to
turn State's evidence cn the stand in
the examing trial of Caleb Powers,
when he recited what he claimed to be
the inside facts relating to the alleged
conspiracy to murder Goebel and
enough Democratic members of the
legislature to give the Republicans a
majority. It is stated that the Commonweal
1 ihtlonlwl shrdlu cmfwyy c
monwealtb will nolle prosse the indictment
against Golden in consideration
of his testimony.
Frankfort, Special.?In the circuit
court Judge Cantrill overruled the demurrer
to the petitions filed by the
Democratic minor State officers. Thi
result is in favor of the Democrats and
the Republicans can appeal now by refusing
to plead further, or may ask
leave to amend their answer, which
will only delay matters a few days.
Washington, D. C., Special.?Governor
Taylor, of Kentucky, called at the
White House, and had an interview
with President McKinley. He remained
half an hour. He said his call
was a social one. He refused to discuss
the indictments at Frankfort.
Track Men Will Go
Atlanta, Ga., Special.?There are
persistent rumors that the trackqjen
will go out Saturday. President Powell
of the Order of Railway Telegraphers
said to-night that all the operators on
one division of the Southern, including
those who had taken the places of the
strikers, would go out at 10 to-morrow
morniing.
Foreign.
Numerous fusion projects in the iron
ana coai ministries are en root in Germany.
Dr. Cheva.=se, the new bishop cf Liv- 2r
erpcol. is the hero of a story of a ser- *
mon with an appropriate text. At Ox- ' /
ford, where he was known by the undergraduates
as the "little shaver"?
a title which distinguished him from
his brother, "the big shaver"? he was
the incumbent of the church of St. Peter-le-Bailey,
and on a certan Saturday
night he became the father of twins.
On the Sunday morning the curate,
whose turn it was to preach, gave out
;he text. And the text was: "Are not
two better than one?"
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