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W. COUNTY RECORD. Pnblished Every Thursday ?at? i \ING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?by? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Russia seems to be wiuuiug her way at l oth the East and West. Tnrm i K0V U1K.1 L ort'il liuve UUIII Jiviuuu iu hor demands. It is estimated that at the present rate of consumption there is pine enough in northern Minnesota to last 35 to 40 years. The probability i3 that twice that length of time will see the same forests now being cut still furnishing timber, and, with a reasonable conservation of the forests, the establishment of a northern Minnesota forest park and the adoptiou of forertrv. systematically undertaken, as is now propose,!, the northern Minnesota woods should furnish timber and * revenue to tho commonwealth for an unlimited time. Success publishes an account of the rise of Presideut^rreeland and the reasous therefor That is extremely luminous both of success in life and of failure. (For instance, Yreeland was an "extra" switchman and wav discharged. He begged for work. The official of the company told him there was nothing but a job at sweeping and dusting out oars. Did Yreeland stand upon dignity? Did ho iusistupou certaiu wages? Did he ask questions about the hours? On the contrary, he "jumped at tho job," and, says he, "I thereby learned the details of another importaut railroad department. fart a in butchers in San Francisco have been detected iu using horseflesh as a substitute for beef in sausages, Hamburg steaks, etc., owing to the cheapness of the ocjuine flesh. The local board of health carefully investigated samples and has brought the offenders to justice. The flesh oi horses selected with proper care aud killed under proper conditions is by 110 means au unwholesome article ol sliet, says the New York Medical Journal, and there is no excuse for foist? iug it under false pretences upon customers in place of more expeusive beef aud other meats. If intended to bo used as a food it should be sold openly, so that tho9o who partake of it may know exactly what they are to consume and get tho beuetit of the difference iu price. It seems probable that good is iu creasing and is gradually winning, dominance over its antithesis, reflects the Atlanta Constitution. We seldom or never hear of the noble actions which are a part of the lives of many of the people whom you pass oi your way to business every day. There is no earthly record kept of the numberless soul-wrenching sacrifices made iu order that truth and right may prevail, and could we look into the souls of our neiguoors we suouiu uouutiesa Had there the history of good done and siu resisted which would more than offset tLe discouraging annuls of crime and evil which daily obtrud. themselves on our notice. It is wisest never to indulge the spirit of pessimism. We may rest assured that | human natuie is uo worse than it was a few centuries ago, and that the future i3 just as reassuring. A marked increase in the number ol ? loft-handed persons is noted by a Washington physician. The only reliable statistics on the subject known to mo wusuingiou doctor are to tue effect that in America up to 25 years ago only 2 per ceut of the people were left Landed. This statement has been allowed to run along without question, but the Washington observer thiulis that it is now far from correct His estimate is (5 per cent. In the manual-training school in Washington that per cent, of the boys is left-handed, and a like proportion was found among the girls in a sewing-school. Left-handed members of baseball teams* are so many that they attract little attention. "It is curious," the doctor com hides, "that left-handedness rarely occurs among the colored race, and a Chinese lanndryman tells me that the Chinese are not allowed to V? left-handed." THfc MlrtDfcR TRIAL. Host Important Testimony Yet Produced. , I Frankfort. K>\, Special.?The most important testimony yet in connection with the Ooebel assassination, was brought out Friday night in the hearing for bail in the Culton case. As- j sistant Secretary of State J. B. Matthews. and MoKenzie Todd, private secretary to Governor Taylor, were star witnesses. Matthews stated that pardons were issued to Charles Finlev, John L. Powers. Hariand Whittaker and possibly W. H. Culton. Assistant Secretary of State Matthews testified: "I was in the. Governor's reception room when the assassination occurred. The shot sounded to me as if it came 1 * ^ 1-..M T I irom uetwoen tne c wu uuuuuiga. i i got a pistol and started out As I 1 opened tbe door I met Henry Yout- 1 sey, who was coming in. He had a, revolver in his hand. We tried to get I in the Secretary of State's office. *o 1 get some guns there, but the doors < were locked and I had to crawl ovpr ' the transom to get inside. A rifle was i lying by one of the windows with the I butt toward the east. There was also a rifle in each corner on the left side 1 of the room. Two were of 38 calibre. I -I examined them to see if they had re. I cently been fired. I am positive that two of them were loaded, but am not I sure as to the other one. It soiled my hands, but I do not know that this was caused by powder. Don't know where this rifle is now. The extreme west window was raised about j four inches when I inspected the room." 1 McKenzie Todd, private secretary to Gov. Taylor, testified that he saw two guns in the office of the Secretary of State on Saturday prior to the assassination. Yoiitsey picked up one of the guns and took a position near the window, saying he wanted to be prepared j for any trouble in the executive building. Witness said the shots seemed ! i to come from the west end of the building. Davis and I went out for a ' gun and came back immediately. The j door to the ofTice of the Secretary of State was opened while we were! 6U"CEd Steffe, who was standing on the portico in front of the State Hous?, saw Goebel fall. Looking up he i thought he saw the barrel of a rifle pointing out of the window of the ; : office of the Secretary of State. The : rifle, according to the witness, was drawn in and the window closed. On < cress examination he said that after J the shot was fired he thought he saw a little smoke rising above the win- j do.-. "Wade Watts, a bootblack, said he \ heard somebody run down the steps into the basement after the assassi' nation, and then saw Ycutsey running ! j into the basement. ! | Dewey at St. Louis. St. Louis, special.?Ten thousand' Sunday school children, waving A me-'. j ican flags, cheered and sang sacred , ana patriotic songs in honor of Ad- ( , iniral George Dewey, at the public re- ( ception at the Exposition building. | | The two days' celebration in honor )f ! Admiral_Dewey began Friday morning } with a short informal reception on the floor of the merchants' exchange, I j trading being entirely suspended it ! , the pits during the visit. The big [ , d the galleries around it were: j packed. Escorted by President White-1 , law, of the merchants' exchange, the admiral ascended the rostrum and j after a few brief remarks by President j Whitelaw. Mayor Ziegenheim made a 1 . characteristic speech, bidding the ad-1 1 miral warm welcome to SL Louis. The; 1 admiral, amid renewed cheering, re- , 1 plied, thanking the citizens of St. | ; Louis for his reception. "I am not, ' ready to be called Uncle George Dewey ' of America, as the mayor suggests." j .aid he with a smile. "At least not 1 yet. I'm net old enough." Another Partv Surrounded. .Manna, oy ^auie.?uispaicu rt- 1 reived hero from Iloilo reports that a! i desperate fight took place at Leamba-) 1 nao. in the center of the island of Pa- j nay. It appears that a reconnciterinfj, party of the Twenty-sixth infantry was I surrounded, and that four of the Amer- j icans were killed and 16 others severely vnunded were left on the field. Tht remainder of the soldiers had a narro w escape. Lord Roberts' Report London, By Cable.?Lord Roberts' ' report to the War Office, dated May 3, > on the occupation of Brandfort, fol- 1 dov.s: We occupied Branc}forf with < out much opposition and without, 1 ; hope, many casualties. The first brig- 1 ade of mounted infantry covered" the i left flank of tne Fourteenth Brigade i of the Seventh Division, and the ngut I flank was suported by the Fifteenth < Brigade. Pole-Caxew's division ad- s vanced directly on Brandfort. The i Boer army, which was under com- '< mand of DeLarey, retired in a north- ; easterly direction. ( J THE FAMINE ININDIA. Fearful Suffering From Hunger and Diseases. ^3,5000,000 POEPLE IN DISTRESS. -? Fhc Native States Dotted With Heaps cf Dead and Dying?A Pitiful Description Sent by a Eombay Correspondent of the Scene at Ahmedabad. I^ndon, By Cable.?The report that cholera is strengthening its deadly licld on famine-stricken India, brings the pitiful condition of that country more than ever to the public view. About 93,500,000 persons, for this is [he population of the district affected, ire sweltering their squalid existences iway amid pestilence and misery that show no signs of abating. Hundreds Df thousands of pounds in good British gold, good German marks and American coin, have been thrown into the country, but, judging from the latest advices, all this charity is merely a drop in the ocean. The famine and its attendant complications appear to exceed in virulence an> previous visitations. The Viceroy, Lord Curzon, tit Kedleston, and the government are making ceaseless exertions to meet the terrible emergency, but the stupendous difficulty confronting them prevent the present supplying of relief to more than ?>,uuu,uuu. in the meantime the native states are dotted with heaps of dead and dying and the roads are crowded with ghastly bands seeking to escape from the stricken territories, but who, for lack of food and water, mostly succumb in the attempt One of the most hopeless features of the whole.affair is contained in the statement of a special correspondent at Simla, who writes:1 'Ten times the total relief could bq laid out in a single district without fully relieving its distress. All'wej. can hope for is a succession of good years to put the people on their leg* again." The British districts are reported to be so far escaping the large starvation and mortality that mark the nativq States. But that their condition is noc enviable is evident from the following rips^rintinn spnt bv a Bombay corres pondent of the scene at Ahmedabad, a city in the presidency of Bombay: In an open space upwards of 20C were 3eated, old and young, being famine personified. The smell arising from their filthy rags was sickening, and had attracted myriadfe of flics. Some, especially the old men, were bony frame-works. A girl suckling two children was ghastly to look at. but the little ones, with hollow temples. sunken eyes and cheeks, and the napes of their necks falling in under ! their skulls, which seemed to over- j balance their emaciated bodies, and | with wisp-like arms and legs, were ; more dreadful still. Many were suf- | fering from disease and numbers had , the fever. Those who could work were sent on where tanks were being j dug. They were given- meat and passed on to the poor-house. This picture is from a less seriously affected part of the country. The sufferings in the remoter districts, where the fa-line is severe, where all the cattle have long since died, where the water is precious and where cholera lias now added its dread scourge, can well be imagined. Florida Sugar Company. Tampa, Fla., Special.?Northern capA - ~ ?? *Krt??/\nnrKltr ovominSnir cllltTl uiuiuuftui; CAaiiiiuiuo he lands in the vicinity of Tampa, organized a company for the purpose of planting sugar cane on a large scale. ind refining the raw material. The organization, which is known as the * South Florida Sugar Planting and Reining Company, has now received ar;icles of incorporation, under the New lersey laws. Weekly Bank Statement. New York, Special.?The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve decreased 11.095,800; loans increased $3.2 1,409; specie increased $2,010,900; legal tenders increased $1,166,500; deposits increased $17,092,800; circulation increased $89,800. The hanks now hold J15.978.475 in excess of the requirements cf the 25 per cent. rule. Otis Sails For Home. Manila, By Cable.?The fnited States transport Meade sailed for th$ L'nited States at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon with Major General Otis and two aides-de-camp on board. The warships in port fired a major general's salute as the steamer raised her anchor. The General's launch left the palace at 4 o'clock, carrying General Otis and General MacArthur's stalls to the Meade. The Fourteenth and Twentieth infantry, drawn up ashore in front of the city wall presented arms, and the hands played 'Auld Lang Syne" while a shore battery saluted. TilRUUGHUlIT THE COUNTRY. The South. A Huntsville, Ala., dispatch says that Secretary N. F. Thompson will go to Chattanooga to make final arrangements for the meeting there of the Southern Industrial convention. Mr. Thompson believes that not less than a thousand delegates, representing the commercial organizations, will be present. Railroad traffic in the Brazc-s Valley, Texas, is again being delayed by floods. A special from Apelika. Ala., says: "The State convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy voted to buy the old Jefferson Davis home at Montgomery. This was the white house of the Confederacy. Mrs. John Kiipatrick of Montgomery was elected president. Fiftv-five members of the Ceorcia Cotton Compress Association, held a meeting to discuss ways and means for bringing about the general adoption of the standard cotton bale, 24 by 54 inches, by farmers and ginners, for the next ginning season. The transportation committee of the board of trade and a number of business men of Tampa, Fla., are planning for a direct line of steamers from that city to New York. The expansion of the naval stores business requires belter freight facilities io the North, and now that a deep water channel has been made to the gulf, a new steamer line will soon be in operation. The Charlotte Supply Co.. which does the largest textile business of any nouse in me oouin, nas passeu into the hands of Northern capitalists, R. M. Eddy, S. C. Clark, J. Goff and R. B. Goff, of Warren, R. I., and C. H. Child, of Providence, a Rhode Island company organized twelve years ago, handling all kinds of supplies for factory. mills, etc., the largest business in its line in the country. It is stated the business is worth considerably over $100,000. The North. Fifty Catholic priests sailed on the Trave from New York Saturday to make a pilgrimage to Rome. Edward Blair, former County Treasurer's clerk, has been arrested at Chicago, 111., charged with falsifying tax records. Thp rhnre'ps against Publishing Agent Dr. Jennings, of the Methodist Book Concern, at Chicago, 111., have been dismissal. "Miss Murphy." the hippopotamus at Central Park, New York, has become the mother of the fourth "hippo" born in the park. Burglars cracked the Bank of Cou!terville. 111., owned by J. S. A. Nisbett. and stole $50,000. The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, from Oriental ports, has arrived at San Francisco, Cal. The Sixth Massachusetts District Republican Convention indorsed John D. Long for Vice President. The Ecumenical Conference on ForMioclnno continued its sessions in New York city. Manifold blessings came to Farmer Milton Mellott, of Pennsylvania, a couple of nights ago. His wife presented him with lusty twin3. In the morning when he went to the barn he found that one of his best cows, during the night, had given birth to twin calves, and in the sheep pen he discovered that a ewe had twin lambs. A peculiarity of the occurrence is that one of each sex made up the three pairs. Farmer E. R. Rolfe, of Pine Hill, N. Y., was killed by a vicious stallion, which bit him and stamped on him with his forefeet. Mildred Preston, an astrologist, has been arrested on a charge of fraudulently securing $S00 from Miss Ethel Quimby, a young society woman of Grand Rapids, Mich. Forego. The Marquis of Lome, the new Duke of Argyll, will benefit but little he acquiring the late Duke-s incumbered estates. Mrs. Jno. Jacob Astor has arrived at the Langham hoted, Paris, taking the suite formerly occupied by exPresident Harrison. Germany has found last year the most prosperous in her history, and her surplus over the estimates will be about $15,000,000. The Prince of Wales admits that he is one of London's "slum landlords,' but says he can't break his long-term leases of tenements. Cardinal Richard, of Paris, will appeal to the Pope against the edict of the exposition management forbidding the Cardinal to enter thegrounds to bless the Catholic mission pavillions. An American debutante who will be presented at court at Queen Victoria's May drawing room is Miss Winans, the only daughter of millionaire Walter Winans. Miscellaneous. A corporation has been formed by A. Garcia, Jose Voga and P. F. Garcia, with a capital stock of $100,000, to establish a cigar factory in St. Augustine Via., and one in New York for the manufacture of fine Havana cigars. ' ALLEN INAUGURATED The New Governor of San Juan Takes the Oath. THE PEOPLE WERE ENTHUSIASTIC, The Infantry and Naval Bands Paraded the Streets Playing National Airs. Ndlft ? * San Juan, by Cable.?The inauguration of Ohas. Herbert Allen, former assistant secreary of be United States navy, as the first civil governor of th? Island of Porto Rico took place Tuesday. The ceremony was most impressive. Governor Allen made the inaugural address. There could have been no more beautiful day to usher in Porto Rico's new governor. The streets were thronged with people. The day's exercises open. aH Qiinria^ wifH coronoHoa hv tho hanHs of the Eleventh Infantry, the Fifth Cavalry and the Porto Eican Regiment The city bands also played the island and United States national airs before the executive mansion and on the principal plazas as well as while marching through the streets. The enthusiasm of the people was greater than expected, in spit^ of the publication in The Diario, the organ of the Federal party, a letter from Julio Henna, of New York, suggesting that the people remain indoors and refrain from taking part' in the auguration, "thereby silently protesting and showing the American government that Porto Rico is dissatisfied." The speech of General Davis, the retiring Governor General, in part, is as follows: "The duty has been involved upon me by order of the President, to this day transfer to the Governor of Porto Rico the charge assigned to me. This j charge involved the grave responslhil ' uy 01 administering iub guvcmuicui ul ' a million beings, which has been in my keeping for nearly a year. Without the cordial support of the inhabitants, it would have been impossible for me or others to perform this task without constituting and maintaining the rule of a despot, the very thought of which is abhorfent to every American. Military control of the civil affairs was began with the landing of the army in July, 1893, and which included the whole island in October, is today brought to a conclusion. The Porto Ricans have eagerly longed for this : day, the dawn of a new political and i industrial life, while the military gov, ernor has anxiously awaited the mo! ment when he could place in the hands' | of the duty-constituted civil authorities ' these responsibilities which have beenV ' devolved upon him. ' "The transfer of thr. sovereignty of Porto Rico was ratified in April 1899, and it is proper to r ote as a coincidence that a year later exactly, the final step was taken in the organization of a civil government. The principal executive officers will be the 47 provided by Congress. At least 40 of these will be citizens of Porto Rico. The appointment of the other seven piULClllUU, anu H'u/*uO event would usher in the dawn of a brighter future Governor Alien took the oath of office at 10:30 a. m., under a flag canopy at the executive mansion. Among those present were Rear Admiral Farnuhar. com m an deMn-chief of the North Atlantic station- Capt. Brown. *"sbon B'ank. Judge Chuiros. of the Simreme Court, and the meir.bens of that court. Governor ^"nernl Davis. , the annnirtees of yesterdiv.oll the f<.4lelm consuls, the families of Governors D?vis and Allen and armv and navr offlrers and 30 prominent citiaens. No soldiers were In eieht The chief justice administered the oath pledging the new Governor "to sunnort and defend the constitution of the United I States." rests with the President, ine wnoie of the judiciary may also, in the discretion of the President and Governor, be Porto Ricans. The laws familiar to you will continue in force except as ' they may be modified by military oiv I ders. Such modifications from my orders will never be promulgated until they have received careful consideration and have been endorsed by distinguished natives learned in the laws and Institutions of the country and familiar with its social and industrial conditions. "The laws provide a basis for industry, trade and commerce, which warrants the beMef that the dark clouds of misery and want which have shadowed the past and present will soon roll away. By these laws every pound of sugar will find a purchaser at 50 i per cent, greater price, tobacco will be doubled in value and coffee will be protected. You are offered absolutely free trade the moment your ability is shown to support the government. Your laws, religious and private rights are all preserved and laws can only change by the w of the local legislature. No island in any sea has a fairer future of peace, happiness and prosperity. The privations and miser/ | of the past will soon be replaced by happiness and plenty." ' Then followed a prayer by the priest invoking the Almighty's guidance and I ?nrdrino- tVinf thj