Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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. Vj 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 ? ... ~ 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, i ? ? n.VU ..A [ 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 ? - ~7 77 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 ? * ^ 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 * *- ? " ?-? r\ A m i n 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. i ? .1 Iflll 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. : ^ 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. , 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* J 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?" / i,,.. J M * -- -