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?AT?
UNOSTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
Thousands of Italian women, skilled
In embroidery work, have emigrated to
Switzerland for the ivurpose of securing
higher wages. In their own country
they receive twenty to thirty cents
a day. In Switzerland they get from
tliirty-siv 1o fortv cents oer da v.
' Spain has on the average over bOOO;
fliours of sunshine (luring each yearj
and yet, perhaps, possesses more poverty
and suffering in proportion to popillation
than any other nation. This
reverses the old saying of "the sun behind
the clouds," and leaves the clouds
behind the sun.
Nebraska has no bonded debt. The
tast bonds outstanding were redeemed,
and canceled on the 2d of June last,
which leaves the State clear of indebtedness
with the exception of about
$1,750,000 in warrants issued against
the general fund, with a balance of
$819,281.90 in the treasury at the close
of the last fiscal year.
Direct gifts to educational institutions
from the living exceeded largely
the bequests of decedents last year.
The latter only numbered sixty-seven,
while the former came from 140 persons.
Thi practice of making these
gifts before death is a gjod one to encourage.
The donor has. at least, the
pleasure of noting the appreciation
with which his gift is received, and
possibly seeing some of the good it
The constitutionality of the Michigan
statute forbidding the playing of
baseball on Sunday has been upheld
by the Supreme Court of that State.
A Sheriff is declared to have been negligent
in the performance of his official
duties who failed to arrest the participants
In a Sunday game after he had
endeavored by milder means to dissuade
tuem from playing. He went so
far as to sue a clergyman for libel in
publishing a letter criticising him for
his conduct in allowing the game to go
on, and a jury actually mulcted the
minister in damages to the extent of
$1000, out the Supreme 0>urt held that
the alleged libel was justified, and
that the facts showed that it was the
Sheriff, ami not the clergyman, who
was in the wrong.
The first step taken by the English
authorities in the Soudan after the
capture of Khartoum and the end of
the Mabdi's interference was to seud
an expedition UP tfle ^"e to cut away
the vegetation that was blocking the
waters of the river, and not only hindering
navigation, but preventing also
the summer irrigation of Egypt The
success of the expedition in cutting
through the seven blocks of sudd that
stopped up the Bahr of Gebel has already
l?eeu rep< rted. The cost of J he
undertaking was about ?.",75.000. and
Mr. W. Willeocks, late Director General
of Reservoirs in Egypt, asserts in
the Westminster Gazette that it has already
this year prevented the loss of
one-half the cotton crop, a loss that
would have amounted Jo more than
fgo.ooo.ooo for Egypt.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.
Judge Cantrill, of Georgetown. Ky.,
denied a reopening of the murder case
against Powers, but suspended execution
of the life sentence for sixty days,
in order that the defendant might appeal.
The city council of Atlanta ha- begun
impeachment proceedings against
Mayor Woodward.
Jerome B. Kerpy, aecuneu uie rup ilist
nomination for Governor of Texas.
and E. W. Nugent, for the nominee
for Lieutenant Governor, will be substituted.
Southern Pines will at once put in
a water works system. It will include
a cypress tank that will hold 60,000 gallons.
The pump and engine will be
large enough to supply 9,000 gallons
per hour.
John W. Yerkes, Republican nominee
for Governor, opened his campaign
in Kentucky at Bowling Green, Tuesday,
and Governor Beckham at the
same time opened his campaign at
Henderson.
False reports that he has been active
in the Lillian Clayton Jewett antilvnehing
movement having gone to
his home, I. H. Thomas, colored, Is
afraid to return from Boston, Mass., to
Galveston, Texas.
Sick and discouraged. Otto A. Burton,
formerly a writer on the Atlanta,
(Ga.) Constitution, committed suicide
at Dallas, Texas.
The North.
Connecticut Republicans have nominated
George P. McLean for governor.
~ * A ? nnfan
wneraj junu a. mi^iciuau, a. uv^u
civil war veteran, is dying at Springfield,
111.
An effort is being made to have the
headquarters of the Brotherhood of the
Locomotive Firemen removed from Illinois
to Rochester, N. Y.
Gov. Roosevelt has extended 15
days te time in which Mayor Van
Wyck, of New York City, may answer
charges of his improper connection
with the American Ice Company.
Governor Heber M. Wells has been
nominated for re-election by the Republicans
of Utah.
Rev. Clifford W. Barnes, professor
of social science at Chicago University,
was elected president of Illinois College.
Governor Wiliahm A. Stone, of
Pennsylvania, with a party of personal
and political friends, arrivid at Colorado
Spring, Col.
Farmer Angus McDonald, his wife
and two children were killed in a tornado
which lifted their houee at Wapella,
Manitoba, high in the air.
A trolley car at Silver Lake. 0..
caught fire from a fuse burning out,
and in the panic one passenger was
killed and tbree were badly crushed.
Twenty-eight men. women and children
were poisoned and made s-rlously
ill by eating a solid at the reunion of
the Biggerstaff family at Prospect, 0.
Judge Lacombe. of the United States
Circuit Court, in New York, denied the
application of Contractor Michael J.
Dady for an injunction restraining
Governor General Wo^l. of Cuba,
from promulgating a new carter for
Havana which will nullify Dady's
franr-hisps
Sampson Wellman, a veteran of East
Su Ixiuis, 111., was run over by a cab
at Chicago, 111., and killed.
Charges growing out of the recrct
investigation of immigration affairs at
New York have been preferred against
310 employes of the Barge office. .
The Grand Army of the Republic
in session at Chicago, elected Major
Leo Rassieur, of St. Louis, commander-in-chief.
Foreign.
Russia has proposed to the pow?rs
that the troops be withdrawn from
Pekin.
Japan's action in seizing Afo.v, China.
is said to have been unnecessary
and in tended for territorial aggrandizement
only.
The Boers who have been oppo;ir.g
the British at Mac-hadodorp. in the
Transvaal, have retreated safely.
Oaetauo Bresci. the assassin of King
Humbert, was sentenced at Milan to
life imprisonment.
The coal famine in Germany is causing
gr<?it distress.
Turkey has again made a proposition
to settle the missionary claims
against her by including the $100,000 in
a contract of a cruiser, but the President
uill likplv decline to accent it.
The United States. Great Britain.
Russia, France and Japan have expressed
a willingness to withdraw their
troops from Pekin.
What sppeors to be the bubonic
plague has caused two deaths in Glasgow.
Scotland, and 11 other suspected
cases are reported.
Gen. Maximo Gomez has been nominated
cs a delegate of the \atior#.i
party to the Cuban Constitutional Convention.
A Ponce, P. R., newspaper in an ex
tended article, declares the natives are
more oppressed by the American than
they were by the Spanish rule.
President Krugcr has moved his
headquarters to Neispruit, on the Delagoa
Bay Railroad.
It is believed that Russia will take a
hand in the Balkan cris'* and avert
war.
The telephone is pot a mere oon?enlenee:
it is working 11 social revolution,
observes the Xew York Independent.
It is grouping the people after a
maimer without precedent. Telephone
circuits do not correspond with town
lines. < r with village boundaries. Gradually
they are displacing such boundaries
as measurements of social relations.
A group of telephone circuits
may be formed for literary, musical or
religious ends, quite as easily as for
business purposes. '1 hese may in turn
be connected, if desirable, by long<'iO:iiicc
connection, with the cilv Is
this cliiti:?*ri4-:ilV Not in the least. Telephone
toueoru arc not uncommon.
These can Ik* hoard with clearness
through circuits covering many miles.
And yet we arc only at the beginning
of the revolution. What shall ho the
<ntl cf it v. l.o can fcroeast? --
ARP'S RUMINATION.
Death of Friends Makes the Philos*,
opher Sad.
niDCC niFH THF SAMF DAY
I i 1IV L. 1 1/iuir UI1 lux
Colonels Moore and Jlynatt and Dr.
(Joetchlus?They Were All Good
Friends of His.
How like a butterfly our thoughts flit
from flower to flower feeding upon the
ever-changing mental fcods. Sometimes
they soar to heaven ur nestle
ix.ong ;he stars, but their home is here
among our people, our friends and
kindred and the concerns of our daily
life./ Who has not wondered how he
came to be thinking of th s thing or
that and traced it back to something
wholly irrelevant, but leading on by
shadowy lines. But a little while ago
1 was sadly thinking about the sudden
death of three more of my good friends,
?friends whom I loved and everybody
irv.,n,i c-noTi/ thom Mr. Moore, of
?v/? cu nuv nuv ?
Auburn; Colonel Mynatt, of Atlanta,
and Dr. Goetchius, of Rome, left us on
the same day. They were good men
and the world was made better by their
presence.
I was thinking especially about Dr.
Goetchius, the preacher, whose journey
and destination was so suddenly chang- :
ed, for he had bought his ticket for Tallulah
Falls, there to spend his vacation,
and was to take the train at 3 o'clock.
He rose from his bed at 2 and at 3 he
was dead and his spirit soaring heavenward.
Then I thought about Mrs.
Barbauld's lines that fit so well:
"Life! we have been long together
In pleasant and in cloudy weather,
'Tis hard to part when fricnd3 are dear,
Perhaos 'twill cost a sigh or tear.
Then steal away?give little warning;
Choose thine own time.
Say not goodnight, but in some brighter
clime
Bid me good morning."
Then I ruminated about that wonderful
woman.How she was the first to
write story book3 for the children and
hymns for the chruch and how her life
was spent in the schoolroom among
the children that she loved. And
then I recalled that beautiful hymn
that she wrote:
"How bleast the righteous when he
dies.
When sinks the weary soul to rest.
How mildly beam the closing eyes.
How gently hraves the epiring
breast."
And then 1 thought of the words ol
Balaam, upqo which that hymn was
founded. "Oh! may I die the death ol
the righteous and may my list end be
like His." And this reminded me ol
those other words of Balaam: "What
hath God wrought?" That was th1
first message sent over a te'egraph
wire. It was sent from Washington te
Baltimore by Miss Anna Ellsworth, the
daughter of the commissioner of patents.
She had been very kind to Professor
Morse and he had promised that
she should send the first message.
This was sent on the 24th day of May.
1844. and two days later the second
message was sent from Baltimore tc
Washington, announcing that James K.
Polk had been nominated rcr prcsi
dent. I remember all this, for 1 wa3 in
college then. But still the people were
incredulous and waited for the mail
train to bring the news. Then I
ruminated on the hard lot of great inventors.
.and how .Morse spent all ol
his small estate and received but little
encouragement, being so utterly poor
that he had to go without food at timp?
for twenty-four hours, and how he
pleaded with congress for three years
in vain for an appropriation to help
him perfect and build a line to Baltimore?and
how at the very last, when
he was in despair and had given up al
..nntrfoce <iirl at midnie'.it. on the
"?t"t "'"tl"-'. ?
lest day of the session. pas3 the bill foi
$:',0.000. and Anna Ellsworth came
running to him in delighted haste and
told him the good news. What an agonizing
life he had led during all these
years, for he had been refused help
at home and had been to England a'id
to France in search of it and found it
Hot. Now just think of it. After he had
built his first lines and his success was
established he offered his patient to the
United States for $100,000 and it was
refused and he was constrained to sell
to private parties, an invention that
soon came to be worth one hundrel
millions. But he died full of year?
and full of honors, and even Franc?
made him a donation cf 400.000 franc.
What a wonderful man?perhaps the
greatest all around man that ever lived
?for he was a painter of disunctior
and renown, the pupil and the pe?r (I
AUston and West and the city ot
Charleston was his best friend and pa
tron and lias now his portraits cr .Monroe
and Lafayette. He was a r ulptor,
an architect, a philosopher and a po i.
and would have reached the top in a'l
had he not become so absorbed in
harnessing toe lightning. As a matter
of cour.-e he was kept in litigati in aevoral
years and other parties tried tc
steal his invention, but the siipr# me
c urt of the United States did finally
affirm everything that he claimed. H?
died in 1X7L' in his eighty-first ye nr.
Here my thought reted lor a while
and then returned to Dr. Goe'chiu- and
the many other friends who hive gone
betore and have left me alrm-t alone.
How fondly our minds cling to the
friends of our youth?our s hotdntiti s
and college mates?and every no 2nd
then we. hear of another who has dropped
out of line, and like the barber In
a barber shop, old Father Time whispers
"next." My dear old friend Jim
Warren still lives to greet me when I
come and so does Chets Howard and
Dr. Alexander and his brother and
Evan Howell. Then I recalled the
grand and beautiful words of Installs
spoken in his eulogy, on Senator Beck.
"ThA rieht to live is. in human esti
mation, the most sacred, the most inviolable,
t'Ke moat inalienable. The
joy of living in such a splendid and
luminous day as this is inconceivable.
To exist is exultation. To live forever
is our sublimest hope. To know, to
love, to achieve, to triumph is rapture;
and yet we are all under sentence
of death. Without a trial or opportunity
of defense, with no knolwedge
of the accuser or the nature and
cause of the accusation: without beins
confronted with the witne-ses against
ps we have been summoned to the bar
(Of life and condemned to death. There
lis neither exculpation nor appeal. The
jtender mother cries passionately for
imercy for her first born, but there is
mo clemency. The craven fellon sullenly
prays for a moment in which to
be aneled, but there is no reprieve. Tin
soul helplessly beat* its wings npon th?
bars, shudders and disappears.
"But the death of a good man is not
an inconsolable lamentation. It is a
strain of triumph and he may exclaim
with the Ttoman poet, 'Non omnis
Moriar,' and turning to the silent and
unknown future can rely with Just and
*-1 - nnon that mfmt
reasouati? wuuucuv^ u^u u<?. ?.
impressive assurance ever delivered to
the human race. 'He that belleveth in
me. though he were dead, yet shall he
live and whosoever liveth and believcth
in me shall never die.'"
Mr. Ingalls might have added one
more shadow to his dark picture ef
death by saying that he not only condemned
us without trial or witnesses
or an accuser, but the pitiless old rascal
would not even give the date of our
execution nor the manner of it. We
are to die. that is certain, but when or
how or where we know not. Think of
Dr. Goetchius. dressed at 2 o'clock with
pleasant anticipations of a rest at
Tallulah. amid the sound of falling
waters that soothe the soul, but within
corpse.
Senator Ingalls was a gifted manin
hour he was a helpless, lifeless
jot a word painter, but a thought en
traver. For years he was our enemy
;nd harbored prejudices against our
?eople. but after he had visited Texas
md studied the negro and his race
.'raits, he returned home and declared
that he was unfit ?nd unowrth^ of freedom
or any political franchise.'
But euough of this. Now let me add
that up to ?)iis date I have received
one hundred and seventeen copies of
the poem that-1 asked for and the
number increases with every mail.
They have come from every scuthern
State. I began to write pleasant words
and thanks to thrse who have troubled
themselves to please me, but I hive
>io,i ?? tnn for mv nld pvps are weak
and my hand gets tired. I can only
thank them all at once and say hew
grateful 1 am that so many know what
I did not know. It humbles my pride
and takes away some of my vanity.
Some of my scattered friends give the
authority to Miss Flora Hastings.
Queen Victoria's maid of honor, and
soiae to George D. Prentice, and one to
S. S. Prentis. but the large majority
are correct in naming Charles Mackiy.
He was born in Perth. Scotland. In 1S12.
and during our civil war was the American
correspondent of The Londcn
Times. He easily stood first among
the modern English poets, and Wis the
author of many prose works.?Bill
Ar? in Atlanta Constitution.
BKJ EXPOSITION.
The city of Danville will hold" a
Street Fair and Carnival October 1st to
6th. 1900, under the auspices of Danville
Lodge of Elks. It Is proposed to
have a tobacco exhibit in connection
with the street fair, and to that end
the following premiums on tobacco a'e
offered. The premiums are offered ex.
elusively to tobacco growers of sections
enumerated.
All farmers are requested to send
their samples and compete for the different
premiums, and come and bring
their families. A good time is promised
them all.
SOUTH CAROLINA TOBACCO.
1st Premium. Bright Wrappers, 25 lt>s. ?50.00
:M " Mahogany " 25 lb?. 35 00
3d ' Fine Cutters, 50 lb?. 25 00
PASTE KN NORTH CAROLINA.
1st Premium. Bright Wrappers. 25 lbs. 50.00
2d " Fine Cutters, 50 lbs. 25.00
3d " Export Leaf. 50 lbs. 25.00
OLD BELT NORTH CAROLINA.
1st Premium. Fine Bright Muaogauv,
25 lbs. 50.00
2d Premium. Dark Mahogany. 25 lbs. 35.00
3d " Mahogany tillers, 25 lbs. 25 00
FOR VIRGINIA.
1st Premium. Flue bright Mahogany,
25 lbs. #50 00
2d Premium. Dark Mahogany. 25 It's 35.00
31 " Mahogany Fillers, 25 lbs. 25.00
FOR ALL SECTIONS.
Best Bright Fillers. 50 lbs 20.00
Finest Wrappers. 50 lbs 50.00
Special reduced rates on all railroads.
1?.._
AO quantity less unn mai uiiriiiiuuevl
will be Accepted for the content.
No charge mad? for entries.
Farmeis can send their simpie; direct
to any member of the committer
who will take great pleasure in lo k ng
after them and seeing that they are
properly exhibited, and to look after
selling of same and turn the proceeds
over to the owners of the different sample*.
Address D. J. HOLCOMBE,
Chairman, Danville, Vu.
In Spain the Infant's face Is swept
with a pine bough to bring it good
luck.
MR. SEWALL DEAD.
Former Candidate For Vice-President
Passes Away.
ANOTHER TICKET IN THE FIELD.
National Party Holds Convention In
New York and Names Its Candidates "*
for President and Vice-President.
Bath, Me., Special.?Arthur SewaJI,
vice pTesTQent candidate on the Democratic
ticket with Mr. Bryan four
years ago, died at his summer home,
Samali Point, about 12 miles from this
city, at 8:15 Wednesday morning of
apoplexy, the stroke having been sustained
last Sunday. He was 61 years
of age. Mr. Sewall had not been in
good health for some time, although
he was not considered to be seriously
ill. He hud been ad-vised by his physician
to rest, as early as last June, and
he attended the Democratic national
convention in July against the advice
of hi3 doctor. He appeared to have
suffered no ill effects from the Journey,
however, and was passing the
summer chiefly at Small Point when
the fatal stroke seized him. The unconsciousness
which followed the attack
continued until death came.
Arthur Sewall was born in Bath, in
1835. His father for years was prominent
as a ship-builder and the son
fitted himself for the same trade. The
firm of Arthur Sewall and Companywas
formed and the corporation now
controls one of the largest of American
sailing fleets.
Mr. Sewall also was one of the
prominent railroad men of New England.
For nine years he was president
of the Maine Central, and he was
president of the Eastern Railroad until
it was absorbed by the Boston and
Maine. For many years he was the
Maine representative on the Democratic
committee. Mr. Sewall is &ur
vlved by two soils, Harold m. Sewall,
who was stationed by the government,
at Hawaii, and Wm. D. Sewall, who
is in h'Lsiness in Bath.
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Another Ticket Namea.
New York, Special.?The National
party, the ofiklal name of the Thirl
ra;tv, met in convention n Carnegie
Hall, and nominated cani.dates for
President and Vice PriM uent of tlio
United States. \ platf um was adopted
and a title and an emblem were
sen. These are the OKnJiit-.es: J'or y/
President, Donaid Ca.tfer/, of l>mit?iana;
for Vice President. Archibald
Murray Hcowe, of Cambridge Mass,
The platform adopted pledges the par
ly:
"First, To procure iha renunciation
of aJl imperial or colonial pretensions
with regard to foreign countries claimed
to have been acquired throouph or
in coonsequence of military nor naval
opoerations of the hst two years.
Second, We further pledge our efforts
to secure a single gjii standard and a
sound banking system.
"Third, To secure a public service
based on merit.
"Fourth, To secure ihe abolition of
all corrupting special privileges whether
under the guise oof subsidies, boun
ties, unaeserveti pens?i/u?? -ji u uo?breeding
tariffs."
The convention was called to order
by Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn, N". t
Y., who presided at the Indianapolis
preliminary meeting a month agoo. Everett
V. Abbott was secretary. Ail the
delegates were volunteers, who had replied
by their presence to the invitation
issurd to all persons In sympathy
with the objects of the party.
It was derided that the party be
Known as Ult? ixauvutti |j<ul.v ana >nai
its emblem cf the statue of Mbe-ry on
the capitol dome at Washington.
iA resolution was passed instrtcting
the campaign committee when it ha 11
be appointed .o provide pasters for \ot?
ers.
Birmingham's Population.
Wishing on. D. C.. Special.?The
population of the city of Birmingham,
Ala., as officially announced is 38.415.
as again-t 26.178 in 1S90. These figur< s
show for the city, as a whole, an increase
in population of 12,237. or 4C.75
per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The populaticn
in 1SS0 W3S 30.08G. showing an
increase r.f 23,092. or 248.28 per cent,
from 18S0 to 1890.
Negro Company Disbanded
Columbia. S. C., Special.?Governor
Alcsweeuey nas ctisurfiaeti tr.e capital
City Guards, a local colored militia
company, which engaged in riotous
conduct on the State capito! grounds
on Labor Day. M. R. Cooper, Sec re- f'
tary of State, has forbidden colored
militia to use the capitol grounds
hereafter. In the police court the
rioting members were fined $40. and
some double that amount, for contempt.
This is the best drilled company
in the State, white or black, and
has been largely supported by white
people. But stringent methods were
deemed necessary to avoid another
clash
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