Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE COO.m BfcCUBD, Published Erory Thursday ?at? I 1INQ8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. I ?BT ? C. W. WOLFE . i Editor and Proprietor. The Ohio legislature has actually passed a law to protect skunks, as if i the little auimals were powerless to ! protect themseives. Next to New York's S-)",000,003 j tunnel, thebirgest municipal under- I taking now on the tapis is Phiialcl- i phia's scheme to tiltrate its water sup- | ply, for which the inagni6ce.it sum of j $12,000,09!) has been appropriated and piacea in tue nanus 01 me mavor ivu i prompt work. No doubt it will l>e j worth the moaev if it accomplishes ; the purpose aimed at, anil relieves a j great an 1 wealthy metrop >lis of the j perils that always go with impure i drinki" - - The ,?.c i.tjU.uy becoming j up to date. A dispatch stat-s that in j a recent cricket match at Snvaii the j competing teams and their respective j admirers took bfi'euce at a decision of one of the umpires and indulged in a free for all tight, which resulted in ten men being killed and the field ' being covered with wonndel. Ju*t how the umpire lured the dispatch : does uot state, but had the incident j occurred on a ball Held here liis uame j would uuduuotedly hea l the list of i casualties. At an English police court recently ' Captain Herve II. A. Ilrriugton .Jos-e of Normau Villa, lSurgate, Grimsby, was summoned by the inland revenue | for keeping a carriage without a li- j cense. Theqne.sti'>u raised was w hether a vehicle consisting of a car attached to a motor cycle was one carriage or i two. If it was considered as one, the maximum traveling speed allowed ; would be twelve miles, and if as two. : six miles per hour. The magistrate ' decided that it was one vehicle, aud 1111- ; posed a liue of one guinea. A society has bees formed ia New , York City for the prosecntiou of the ! science of healiug through music. It is believed that luauv of the i Is that flesh is heir to spring from disordered mental systems, from inharmonious I uerves and unadjusted fibre-*. It is asserted that music, which is known to have a marked efleet upon the mind of many hearers, will, if properly produced, with a judicious choice of i chords and melodies, restore balance to the mind, nerves and fibres of the body and thus produce health. The science is of course in its infancy. 1 Much groutld is yet to be covered, j Many researches must be made. At; present nothiug is plainer than the [ fact that all music does not appeal J alike to all people. The world is still divided into the rag time and the Wag- j nerian schools, for instance, with many gradations between these extremes. A puzzling problem for educators is how to increase the proportion of j high school pupils who coutiuue to the end of the course, albeit the solution of the problem might necessitate an increase in many places of high school accommod ations. From an inquiry on this subject, instituted in * Philadelphia, it appears that one reason for the dropping out of pupils from the girls' high school in that city is a failure on examination iu one or two subjects. Probably the same reason exists in the boys' schojl. Dr. Thomas O. Morton, cbairuiau of tho An t lia m'elo' liirrl* ifuai vi t> V.VU1.UIUCU wu iuw iii^u school, points out that many a bright girl is now practically driven from the school because she does not possess special aptitude in oue subject, "liecause a 'M 1 can't draw a picture of a horse," yid Ar. Morton, "is no reason for k%?p*5> her out of an education in other branches." lie 1 elieves tiiat the present curriculum of the school is drawn on liues not suflfieient. ly elastic. lie would discriminate for the 1 euefit of the individual girl and her special aptitude. And he would readjust the courses in the high schuol in a manner to permit any girl of intelligence to continue her courso in spite of a failure iu one or two subjects. THMJlillOUl W? COUNTHY. The South. A fire at Ton's Creek, Wise county, Va.. nines, destroyed the tripple .and other machinery to the value of $100,000. General A. L. Prldenore, ex-C-cngressraan from the ninth Virginia district. is reported dying in Lee county, Va. Alec Whitney, a social leader of Angusta, Ga.. was killed In a street car by Gus Wilson, a negro, who was lynched. Roswell Walser. a young white man was drowned in the Yadkin river Saturday evening at the county line between Davidson and Davie. Walser and Richard Tucker, of Advance, were attempting to cross the river in a boat when it struck a rock and turned over, capsizing them. Tucker swam to the shore, but Walser sank. His body was found the next morning fifty yards from where he was drowned. Walser lived in Davidson county. News reached Richmond of the shooting in Lee county of R. B. Young, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He was shot by a man named Horton and his wounds are thought to be fatal. Nc particulars are given. T!ie North. Despondent through inability to obtain work, Samuel H. Handy killed i himself at Chicago. 111. New York's Corporation Counsel Monday started the work of digging the rapid transit subway by turning a shovelful of earth. Mrs. Lena Anderson and her eightyear-c" * niece were burned to death r.t Omaha as a result o:' u.-ing gasoline to start a fire. Illinois Democrats have Judge Worthicgton's acceptance of a Guber-, p.atorial nomination if the State ccn- j vention selects hini. Three hundred delegates attended , the opening session of the convention of Presbyterian Women, at Decatur, j 111. Lawyer Thomas Taylor shot ana ia- j tally wounded E. H. Barrett, a School ' Director, of Dunlap. la., because the latter did not reappoint Taylor's; daughter, who is a school teacher. i The Epworth League posts held a great anniversary celebration in the ; Chicago auditorium Tuesday. The revision of the discipline was the chief order of business at the American Methodist Episcopal General Conference, at Columbus. 0., Tuesday. No vital changes were made. Rev. R. M. Cheeks was re-elec?d editor of The Southern Christian Recorder. The police, in beating back the crowd attacking the crew of a transit car in St. Louis, fired several shots,1 one wounding a man named FIndley.; Thmnc Kins' >? venrs of ace. one of I a crowd that stoned a transit com- j pany's repair wagon, was shot and i badly wouLded by one of the wagon men. The Republican State convention, at Kansas City Tuesday got no further than to effect a temporary organization and name committees. The most important incident was the with-1 diawal from the race for delegates-atlarge of Major Warner, of Kansas j City, who. in answering a call for a j speech, declared emphatically that he J would not permit his name to be used, | owing to jhe friction it created. Foreign. British troops have occupied Krcon- j stad. in the Orange Free State, and , have pushed five miles beyond it. John E. Redmond, in an address at Manchester. England, said Lord Salisbury's recent speech was "an insult to | Ireland." Large crowds heard Rev. Dr. T. Do- j Witt Talmage preach in Edinburgh. ! Confl onrl uv.viiauu. Rumors have been circulated in Manila of a probable native uprising in , the city. General MacArthur's policy in the ! Philippines is said to be to devote his j time to general questions and leave : considerations of detail to his staff. Cuban officials fear trouble in the i island at the time of the elections. Belgian railways ""will ask bid3 for 1.300,000 tons of coal. A shipment of Pocahontas coal brought a ton in Germany during the past week. Miscellaneous. German shippers protest against the proposed tax on bills of lading and ocean passenger tickets. The papers in the suit of Robott J. Trimble against the American Sugar Refining Company, were filed in the ; Court of Chancery, at Trenton, N. J., Trimble, who is a stockholder, charge es that the company has been more than $1,000,000 of surplus and that this surplus is now being used to depress the price of sugar and to force Arbuckle Bros., independent refiners, into a combination with the Ameriea-i Sugar Refining Company, to illegally restrain trade. All the land belonging to the C'arrabelle Land and Lumber Company, in Liberty county, Fla., and all its floating property, such as barges, steam tugs, etc., nave ueen so:u tu a Mr. Conger, of New Brunswick. The cash consideration was $95,000. * INDUSTRIAL MEETING The Great Gathering in Session ct Chattanooga. VICE PRES. KILLEBREW SPEAKS. A Letter From Col. HcClure Creates Enthusiasm?Advocates a Textile University. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.?The second session of the Southern Industrial Convention net at 10 a. m. Tuesday in the auditorium, with an encouraging number of delegates present. In the absence of President McCorkle, Vice President Killebrew, of Tennessee, presided. The proceedings were opened by prayer. A. S. Glover, president of the Chattanooga chamber of commerce, and Mayor Wassman, welcomed the delegates and their addresses were responded to on behalf of the convention by Vice President Coffin, of Florida, and Edwin Brobston, vice president for Georgia. Vice President Killebrew followed, telling o? the wonderful industrial growth of Chatt mcoga. saying in part: "You are surrounded here practically by coal, iron and timber, with cotton fields within sight of your borders, and what is to prevent your going on and making yourselves a Manchester, or a double Birmingham for that matter, if you use the material that is around you? Think how much better you are situated than any portion of England. England ransacks the world for material and for a market. You have the raw material and marsets at your door, and what then is to prevent Chattanooga from being one of the great industrial centres of the earth?" The various committees appointed are: Educational Interests, V. W. Grubbs, of Texas, chairman; railroads and immigration, Edwin Brobston, of Georgia, chairman; industrial intereta, John P. Coffin, of Florida, chairman; commerce, W. P. Wil3on, of the Philadelphia Museum, chairman; agricultural, Frank Hill, of Arkansas. The secretary read a letter from Col. A. K. MeClure, of Philadelphia, which was received with great enthusiasm. The Business Men's Club, of Cincinnati, and the delegation from New Orleans, want the next session. The afternoon session was mainly devoted to the needs of a textile university. The subject was opened by Mr. H. H. Hargrove, of Louisiana, who presented the matter in a most masterly manner. Mr. Hargrove introduced a resoluicn asking the support of the convention for an appropriation from the government for a textile university. He was followed by Hon. W. B. Swanev, of Chattanooga, who made an eloquent appeal for textile education. The discussion was very general and was participated in by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson; S. W. Grubbs, of Texas; I)r. Wilson, of Philadelphia; Judge Story, of New Orleans, and Mr. Hargrove. The matter was referred to the committee on education, and the convention adjourned until 8 p. m. Francis B. Thurber. of New York, addressed the convention on the subject of trade expansion in the South at the night's session. Mr. Thurber said that circumstances were now propitious for the South to make an effort for expanded trade and the results only depended on the effort put forth. He prophesied a brilliant trade future for the South. He was followed by Vice President Edwin Brobson, of Georgia, who delivered an address on "The Southern Industrial Convention and its possibilities of Usefulness." Brevities. The Republican State convention at Sacramento. Cal., adopted a platform indorsing the McKInley administration, an inter-ocranio canal under government control, and ownership against Asiatic labor, and instructed delegates for McKinley. The relief of Mafeking is reported, though not officially confirmed. Emergency River and Harbor Bill. Washington. D. C.. Special.?An emergency river and harbor bill was agreed upon by the river and harbo: committee. It provides a large number of surveys and makes several anpropiatlons for work of pressing necessity. This includes $200,000 for the South pass of the Mississippi, with authority to terminate the contract with the late James B. Eads, for the maintenance of this channel, and to purchase the plant now used for this work; also a provision making available $50,000 for jetty work on Cumberland . s-od JCloridft * PRESBYTERIANS IN ATLANTA Much Interest Being Manifested In Their Meeting. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.?The commissioners to the Southern Presbyterian uenerai Assembly, wmcn is noiuing its thirty-ninth annual session in the Central Presbyterian church, of this city, met for the first business session Friday. The attendance was larger than Thursday, and an active interest was shown in all tne proceedings, not only by the 200 commissioners, but a large number of visiting members and laymen of the Presbyterian Church, officially connected with the Assembly and many resident Presbyterians. The day's sessions opened with devotional exercises, after which the transaction of routine business was begun. Stated Clerk Alexander read the committee report, which had been appointed by the Moderator. The personnel of the committees is considered very important. as much of the work of the Assembly will be directed by them. The committees on records for each State were named as follows: Alabama, Byron Clark, Geo. Stevenson; Arkansas, W. T. Walter, J. M. Carothers; Florida, R. A. Hardin, P. McGregor; Georgia, R. S. Brown, S. D. I Reynolds; Kentucky, J. B. owanu, J. M. C. Moore; Memphis, R. A. Brown, A. E. Dimmock; Mississippi, V. R. Gaston. G. W. Taylor; Missouri, T. D. Latimer. D. McCarr; Nashville, j W. D. Shoemaker. J. J. Wood; North Carolina, Dugald Monroe. George Hartfleld; South Carolina, J. F. Lloyd, H. L. Money; Texas, J. fi. Anderson, W. H. Mitchell; Virginia. T. T. Wade, D. M. Killam. Interest was intense as the stated | clerk read the overtures from the Synods and Presbyteries of the South, j The overtures were referred to the | proper committees and constitute the j work which will come before the Assembly. The Presbytery of Suwanee, Fla., protested against the "spectacular and 1 theatrical features" of children wearing fancy costumes in the exercises to j be held on Children's Day, May 27. A time was set apart for raising funds for foreign missionary work. The question of divorce and re-marriage will be a leading one be fore the Assembly. The Synod of j Alabama and the Presbyteries of Mem- \ phis and Norfolk sent 1n overtures asking for definite Church laws, gov- j erning the re-marriage of divorced people. The question of salaries for secreI taries of the executive committees will | j be an important one, many overtures I being filed asking that no increase be j made in them. On the adoption of a | new hymn book, there were overtures j ! strongly protesting against a change I this year, it being claimed that the ex- I pense will be too great Hester's Cotton Report Orleans SDecial.?Secretary i Hester's weekly New Orleans cotton exchange statement shows that for the ; 260 days of the season that have j elapsed, the aggregate movement Into i sight is behind the 260 days of last year 2,008,000 bales and behind the j same days year before last 2,073,000. The amount brought into sight during the past week has been 56,780, against | 68,157 for the seven days ending this date last year. The total movement for the 260 day3 from September 1 to date is 8,681.iSS, against 10,680,406 last year. The movement since Soptem- j her 1 shows receipts at all United j States ports 6,444,610, against 8,139,685 i ! i??t. vear; overland across the Missis- 1 sippi. Ohio and Potomac -rivers to I Northern mills and Canada, 1,116,368, against 1.214.258; interior stocks under September 1st, 54,331. against 265,002: i Southern mill takings, 1,174,851 against 1,070,451. Presbyterians at St Louis. St Louis. Mo.. special.?The 112th I annual session of the Presbyterian I General Assembly, the law-making body of that Church, began the day ' at the Washington and Compton Ave- ,' nue Presbyterian church. Nearly 1.005 ! commissioners and delegates attended. Tfie session, owing miim. .? ters pending. proL*^ will occupy a fortnight. Brevities. Three municipal ice plants are pro| Jected at New York, to meet the raise in price by the Ice Trust Rev. Dr. Henry Granjohn, of Baltimore, has been appointed by the Pope Bishop cf ^ucscn, Arizona. 1 After shooting at his wife and miss- < ing her, Henry Simmons. Bremen, f Me., shot his daughter and then killed himself. ' Dr. Johannes Trojan, editor of the | 1 comic-satrical weekly, Kladderadatsch, ' arrived at New York last week from 1 Eremen. i Probably fatal injuries were -inflicted upon Jacob Harnell, a nonunion carpenter, at Chicago, 111. Thursday night by strikers. ' I i v GREAT WAR NEWS. Account of Feverish Activity at Pretoria. KRUGER WORKING DAY AND NIGHT. ^ The Relief Column Reported to Have Been Defeated With Great Loss? Builer Moving. London. By Cable.?The British relief column fougot the Boers at Kraapan, 32 miles south of Mafekiug. on Tuesday^ according to a telegram received Wednesday night at Lorenzo Marques, from Molopo, 100 miles north of Mafeking. This intelligence is accepted here with some reserve because it is difficult to understand how the news could have been so quickly put on the wire from a place 132 miles from the scene of the engagement. A correspondent of The Morning Post, presumably John Stewart, is reported captured by the Boers at Kraapan. The British public is keenly expectant of the announcement that Mafeking has been relieved. Douglas Story, The Daily Mail correspondent at Pretoria, wires: "The Boer government is holding back some Big news. Feverish activity prevails here. President Krugcr is working day and night. The latest Boer official bulletin is that the relief columns has been defeated with great loss. Lord Roberts continues passive at Kroonstad. His cavalry are stretching like a semi-circular screen many miles in length, with overlapping flanks." The railway will probably be completed soon. General French's cavalry had one lively fight after crossing the Zand river. A mixed squadron, composed of the Scots Greys, the Inaiskillings, Carbineers and Australian Horse, took a kopje and dismounted. The r% -* -1 1? /S -1 Boers suaueuiy ureu num a. tumcoiru position, tilling many horses and stampeding the rest. The Boers then advanced in overwhelming numbers and drove the equadroa. capturing some. The Beers robbed the dead and looted the saddle. Finally a brigade of cavalry drove them off. Farther north the Hussars charged the Boers, killing and wounding many stragglers with sabre3 and pistols. t Lord Roberts' infantry marched 122 miles in seven days. General French marched 30 miles in one day. The Boers, when retiring, dragged 32 guns through Kroonstad. General Buller is moving toward New Castle, ttc appears to ue using 25,000 men against 5,000 or 6,000. His operations will almost certainly result in his forcing his way into the Transvaal, possibly in time to co-operate with Lord Roberts' advance, although General Boiler is now 252 miles from Johannesburg, or 25 days' march. A Dane, who was captured by the South African Horse, says there are 500 Frenchmen with the Beers who ire opposing General Duller, together with many Germans and ether foreigners. General Rundle is sweeping through the northeast of the Free State. The Boers are dissolving before him and some are surrendering. Their main force is assembled between Ficksburg and Winburg, but it Is without close organization. The occupation of Giencoe was merely a logical sequel of General Buller's advance and the Boers' retiring movement. As usual the Boers are rennrted to be flyiue nreciDitately. but. also as usual, the accounts add that their transport and guns were removed in safety which, in itself, is a contradiction of any statement that the lloers were panic stricken. The prolongation of the Mafeking siege enly Intensities Great Britain's anxiety to hear of its relief. About 1.100 more troops have arrived at Beira, Portuguese East Africa. The British Advance. Pretoria, By Gable.?A war bulletin Itas been received here ann n.ncing that the British are advancing against the Federals at HHpmaaker and Tonder's Kek. The Burghers attacked MateLT1,? Mil&. i lie eve \sy<ja lays that a heavy rifle and cannon fire teas heard before 6 o'clock Saturday, ind that the Kaffir location was in lames within a:i hour and was totally lestroyed Georgia Pemocratlc Primary. At the Georgia Democratic primarfe* held Tuesday the following ticket was named: For Governor, Allen D. Candler; for ' Secretary of State, Philip Cook; for Comptroller General, Wm, A. Wright; ror State Treasurer. Robt. E. Park; for Attorney General, Joseph M. Terrell; for State School Commissioner, G. R. jler.n; for Commissioner of Agriculture. 0. 13. Stevens; for Prison Commissioners, Clement A. Evans, Tom Ea;on; for Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, Wm. Little and Henry T. Lewis; for United States Sena* tor, A. 0. Bacon. . . - '