The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 08, 1900, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD.
Published Every Tbnrsday
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ttNQSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
' The principal languages now used!
In the United States, judging from reCent
statistics, are English and golf.
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The Christian Life, speaking of the
discouragements of missionary work,
'cites the story of "a poor woman who
contemptuously rejected the warning
jthat it was hazardous to feed her baby
Jon red herrings. 'I ought to Know*
jhow to bring up a baby,* she cried;
'for I've buried ten.'"
That a great manufacturing and
commercial country like France should
[have no trade journals is one of the
(curiosities of business. The French
(Office of Foreign Trade has put forth
ja circular on this subject, urging
Chambers of commerce throughout
the Republic to establish papers devoted
to various branches of trade.
For t ? convenience of the hustling
[American who liates to lose a minute
jfrom his business, one of the big transatlantic
steamship.companies has installed
a telephone service on its dock
at Hoboken. This is connected with
the steamers lying there, so that the
passenger leaving for Europe may
from his stateroom transact business
up to the minute of sailing.
Some astonishing speed trials have'
.
Leen reported from Newcastle, England,
where the Viper and Cobra, destroyers
fitted with turbine engines.
have been exhaustively tested. The'
latter craft, which is of regular dimensions,
has engines of 12,000 horse
power, and has attained 37.7 knots
speed, or 43.41 statute miles, per hour.
If these results should be measurably
maintaint 1 in active service the navies
of the world would hasten to eonsign
a large share of their motive machinery
to the scrap heap.
A department store development in
St. Louis is the addition to the many
features of a branch postofflee. Such
offices are to be established in six
stores, not for the special benefit of
the stores, but for the convenience of
their patrons, especially the women,
who will then be able to do their postal
business as part of their shopping.
The branch offices will have money order
and registration departments, and
women who now have difficulty in establishing
their identity at the moneyorder
department in the central postoffice
can be vouched for by their acquaintances
in the store.
It is surprising to find the number of
nuns figuring \ipoa the life insurance
companies' lists nowadays. Nearly
all the sisters belonging to religious
orders in this part of the country have
their lives insured for a greater or less
nmount?commonly greater. The ob
ject is, of course, not personal benefit
to themselves, nor to their fami.ies,
from which they have been separated.
At the death of the nun, all the accumulated
money goes to the church or
to that particular branch of its work
with wliic i she was identified. The
yearly premiums are saved by the nun
out of her slender savings and such
alms rs may be given ber for the purpose
from time to time.
A new piece of household furniture
is the family weighing-machine. Some
are made in the form of graceful
chairs, upholstered in blue or white
leather to match the bathroom decorations,
and some are artistic studies
in walnut and tapestry for the ornamentation
of the hallway, the machinery
being concealed as far as possible
or made highly ornamental. The reason
for the introduction of the machine
is the new theory that it is flesh,
that tells whether one is well or ill
m6re truthfully even than color or appetite
or ill feelings. Mothers are instructed
to put their children on the
scales every morning, keep a close record
of the fluctuations, and once in
I
'three weeks turn the tables of weights
over to the family doctor, who will
draw Inferences therefrom.
76,295,220 PEOPLE.
Total Population of the United States
i ?~~..r,rnA
rtimuuiittu,
FIGURES BY STATES ARE GIVEN.
The United States Have Hade a Net
Gain Since 1S90 of 13,225,404 or
Nearly 21 Per Cent.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The official
announcement c f the total population
of the United States for 1900 is
76,295,220, of which 74.627,907 are contained
in the 45 States representing approximately
the population to be u-:ed
for apportionment purples. There is a
total of 134,158 Indians not taxed. The
total population in 1S90, with which
the aggregate population of the present
census should be compared wa3
63,069.756. Taking the 1S90 population
as a basis, there has been a gain in
population of 13,225.464, during the
past 10 years, representing an in
crease of nearly 21 per cent, f ollowing
is the official announcement of the
population of the United States in 1900
by States:
Alabama, 1,S23,697; Arkansas, 1,311,764;
California, 1.4S5.053; Colorado,
039,700; Connecticut, 908,305; Ucla
ware, 184,375; Florida, 02S.011; Ojrgia,
2,216,219; Idaho, 161,711; Illinois,
4.S21.550; Indiana, 2,516.469; Iowa, 2,215,829;
Kansas, 1.4C9.496; Kentucky,
2,147,174; Louisiana, 1,381,627; Maine,
694.266; Maryland, 1.1S9.946; Massachusetts,
2,S03,346; Michigan, 2,413.782;
Minnesota, 1.731,895: Mississippi,
1,551,372; Missouri, 3,107,113; Montana,
243,239; Nebraska. 1,068,801; Xe
vada, 42,334; New Hampshire, 411,5SS;
New Jersey, 1 8S3.6G9: New York. 7.268,009,
North Carolina 1,831,992;
North Dakota, 319,040; Ohio, 4,157,r45;
Oregon. 113,532: Uenn-vl/ n?:?.
6,301,365; TThodo Island, 429.5*6:
South Carolina, 1,340.312; South Dakota.
401,559; Tennessee, 2,022,723;
A A i A ono. TT*rtL OTI* . Vftf.
i exas, uum, ^iu^vn, ?v<
mont, 343,641; Virginia, 1,854.18 i;
Washington, 517.672; West Virginia.,
958,200; Wisconsin, 2,068,963; Wyoming,
92.513; total, 74,627.907.
Alaska, 44.000; Arizona, 122,212: Dist
of Col.. 278.718; Hawaii, 154.001; Ind.
Territory, 391,960; New Mexico, 193,777;
Oklahoma, 398,245.
Persons in sen-ice of the United
States stationed abroad (estimated)
81.400.
Indians, etc., on Indian reservations,
except Indian Territory, 145,2S2.
Total for seven Territories, etc.,
1900. 1,667,313; 1890, 952,945; Indians,
89.451.
The Alaskan figures are derived
from partial data only, and all returns
for Alaska and for certain military
organizations stationed abroad
nrinrinnllv in the Philippines, have not
yet been received. Bulletins will be
issued for the various minor civil divisions
in the different States and
Territories as fast as possible. The
The entire number, it is expected, will
be ready for the public use before the
1st cf January.
The total population in 1890, with
which the aggregate popultion a the
present census should be compared,
was 63,063,7c6, the gain during the
past decade being 13,225,464, or. very
nearly 21 per cent.
Lynched "Queltly and Orderly."
Birmingham, Ala., Special.?At
Duke, a small station on the Louisville
& Nashville and East' & West
Railroads, 16 miles north cf Annistoa,
Monday night,an 18-year-old negro
youth named Abernethy attempted a
criminal assault on the 14-year-old
adopted daughter of W. N. Thompson,
eection foreman on the Louisville &
Nashville. The negro was captured
three hours after the attempt and was
indentified and lynched. Those who
composed the lynching party are said
to have been among the best citizens
of the community and they went
about the work quietly and orderly.
The negro was found at the home of
another negro in the neighborhood.
Farreil to Hang.
Marysville, O., Special.?Tho jury
haa returned a verdict of murder in
the first degree without recommend
elation aginst Rosslyn Ferrell, the
train robber charged with the murder
ot Express Messenger Lane. Tho verdict
carries with it the death sentence.
'lhe murder was committed for
the purpose of robbery. Ferrell secured
S 1.000 in money from the we!y safo
of the Adams Express Company.
Earthquake at Caracas.
Caracas, Venezuela, By Cable.?At
1:46 a. m. Monday, Caracaa was visited
by a severe earthquake. Fifteen persons
were killed nd many others injured.
Great damage was done to
buildings, including the Pantheon and
the churches. The United States legation
was badly damaged, but all the occupants
escaped unhurt. President
Castro, who leaped from a balcony on
tho second floor of the government
house, had one of his leg3 broken. Wm.
Henry Doveton Haggard, the British
minister, had a miraculous escape, the
second floor of the British legation
having fallen upon him and buried him
in tho deb:;i*.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
The President Sets Apart November
29th In Usual Proclamation.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
State Department has issued the following:
By the President of the United States
of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
It has pleased the Almighty God to
bring our nation in safety and honor
through another year. The -works of
religion and charity have everywhere
been manifest. Our country through
all its extent has been blessed with
abundant harvests. Labor and the
great industries of the people have
prospered beyond all precedents Our
commerce has sp :ead over the world.
Our power and influences in the caus?
of freedom and enlightenment have extended
over distant seas and lmds. The
lives of our official representatives and
many of our people in China have been
marvelously preserved. We have been
generally exempt from pestilence and
other great calamities, and even the
tragic visitation which overwhelmed
the city of Galveston made evident the
cent'ments of sympathy and Christian
charity by virtue of which we are one
united people.
Now, therefore, I, William McKin
ley, President of the United blares, ao
hereby appoint and set apart Thursday,
the 29th of November next, to be
observed by all the people of the United
States, at home or abroad, as a day of
Thanksgiving and praise to Him who
holds the nations in the hollow of His
hand.
I recommend that they gather in
their several places of worship and devoutly
give Him thanks for the prosp
rity wherewith He has endowed U3,
for seed time and harvest, for the valcr,
devotion and humanity of our armies
and navies and for all His benefits
to us as individuals and as a nation;
and that they numbly pray for
the continuance of His divine favor,
for concord and amity with other nations,
and for righteousness and peace
in all our ways.
in witness 1 nave nereuiiiu set ujjt
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to he affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
29th day of October, in the year of Our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred, and
of the independence of the United
States, the one hundred and twenty*
fifth.
(Signed.) WILLIAM McKINLEY.
Bv the President.
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State
A Sober View.
Berlfc uy Cable.?More sober views
about China now prevail here, owing,
doubtless, to the fact that Count Von
Bulow is known to entertain reasonoKrvitf
nnv'o TQnHhlA
auic iucao auvui. uvi
interests therein, and that his influence,
as Imperial Chancellor, upon the
Impetuous Emperor, and especially in
foreign affairs, is decidedly greater
than Prince Hohenloe's. It is now
generally believed here that the Chinese
muddle wili slowly but 6urely
unravel itself and lead to a satisfactory
issue without necessitating any
furuier large amount of actual hostilities,
or an elaborate strategic campaign.
All the utterances of the semiofficial
pre-.s this week show this belief
Cnly the military party is dissatisfied
with thi3 view. Douts are
still entertained here though regarding
the value of the credentials of Li
Hung Chang and Prince Ching, and
their ability to enforce the tr^ms of
any agreement reached. The alleged
latest edicts of Emperor Kwang Su
are also regarded here with suspicion
and even the possibility that Li Hung
Chang himself is their author or instigator,
to facilitate the negotiator's
task, is considered.
Barbarities of Novico.
Manila. By Cable.?The rebel Capfain
Novico has been tried by a mili*
Rolor Northern
lary uuiinuuoiuu c*,.
Luzon, charged with burning alive a
seaman named McDonald, of Lieutenant
Gilmore's Yorktown party. Novico
was found guilty and sentenced to
death. The commission's sentence is
now in the hands cf General MacArthur
for approval.
After Politicians. I
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
tivil service commission has just completed
inxestigation of charges of violations
of civil service law, mostly of
political assessments and coercion,
against Federal officials, whose names
are withheld. In .'Philadelphia, Pa.;
Louisville, Ky.; Cincinnati, 0.; Topeka,
Kan.; Birmingham, AJa.; Jersey
City, and in Iowa. In some of these
cases the commission has recommended
to the various executive departments
to which the accused officials
belong the prosecution and dismissal
of the latter,
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THE "OPEN DOOR."
England and Germany Agree Fully
Regarding China.
LAND-GRABBUG NUT ALLUWtU
This Government in Line With Other
Powers Favoring Unrestricted Commercial
Relations.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
State Department has made public the
British-German agreement respecting
the maintenance of the "open door"
and territorial Integrity of China with
the answer of the United States government
set in duplicate to each of
the principals to the agreement. The
answer is as follows:
Mr. Hay to Lord Pauncefote:
"Department of State.
"Washington, Oct. 29. 1900.
"Excellency: I have the honor to
ackncklcdge the receipt of your note
of the 23d of October, enclosing the
text of an agreement b::weeix Great
Britain and Germany relating to affairs
in China which was signed in
London on the 16th inst., by the .uarq
tills of Salisbury and the Gorman
embassador on behalf of their respec-*
tive governments and inviting the acceptance
by the United States of the
principles recorded in that agreement.
These principles are:
"1. It is a matter of joint and permanent
international interest that the
ports on the rivers and littoral of
China should remain free anu open to
trade and to every other legitimate
form of economic activity for the nationals
of all countries without distinction.
and the two governments
agree on their part to uphold the sume
for all Chinese territory so far as they
can' exercise influence.
"2. Her Brittanic Majesty's govern|
ment and fhe imperial German gov
[ eminent win not on p-nt
use of the present complication to obtain
for themselves any territorial advantages
in Chinese dominions, and
will direct their policy towards maintailing
undiminished the territorial
oundition of the Chinese empire.'
The United States have heretofore
made their opinion known, to both
these principles. Curing the last year
this government invited the powers
Interested In China to join In an expression
of views and purposes In the
direction of impartial trade with that
country and received satisfactory assurances
to that effect frcm. ail of
them. When the recent troubles were
at their he.ght, this government, on
the 3rd of July, once more made an
announcement of its policy regarding
impartial trade and the Integrity of
the Chinese empire and had the gratification
of learning that all the powers
held similar views, and since that
time the most gratifying harmony has
existed among ail the nations concerned
as to the ends to bo pursued,
and there has been little divergence 01
opinion as to the details of the course
to i>e followed.
It is therefore with much satisfaction
that the President directs me to inform
you of the full sympathy of this
government with these of Her Brittanic
Majesty and the German Emperor
in the principles set forth in
the causes of the ag-eement above
cited. Tho third clause cf the agreement
provides: I
"3. In ease of another power milk- I
ing use of the complications in China
in order to obtain under any form
whatever such territorial advantages,
the two contracting parties reserve to
themselves to come to a preliminary
understanding, as to the eventual
steps to be taken for the protection of
their ion in respect to it.
JOHN HAY.
As this clause refers to a reciprocal
arrangement between tbe two nigu
contracting powers, the government oT
the United States does not regard itsolf
as called upon to express an opinion
in respect to It.
JOHN" HAY.
A simi'ar note, mutatis mutandis,
was addressed on the same diy by the
Secretary of State to the imperial German
charge d'affaires.
The Russian Reply.
London, By Cable.?Russ'a's reply
to the Anglo-German agreement was
received at the Foreign Office this
evening. Officials of tbo British Foreign
Office do not regard the Russian
note as adequate Anglo-German agreement'
note. They say the Russian reply
"lacks the definitiveness so deslr
| ed Dy i^ora sansDury.
Telegrapphic Briefs.
In an interview at Berlin Prince
Hohenlohe eaid hi3 resignation from
the Chancellorship was mainly due to
his being frequently ignored in foreign
affairs.
Prof. Max Muller, the great philologist,
is dead at Oxford University.
A train in France has just made a
record of 185 miles in 184 1-2 minutes.
A body found on the lake shore at
Port Bay, has been identified as that
j of Rchard M. Gordon, of Hamilton,
yachtsman, drowned September 15.
The President has appointed Josa
Guzman Benelez and Jose Gomez Brioeo
membeere of th.e executive council
of Porto Rice, to fill vacancies caused
| by resignation.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Notes of Remarkable] Development In
Every Section.
Baltimore, Special.?Intent upon uncovering
raw material for industry.
extending railroad orancnes 10 vrrgin
forests and mineral deposits, and
strengthening trade connection, witl^/
foreign countries as indicated by re^
cent developments in Hampton Roads and
by the fact that within ?even
week3 after its appalling disaster, Galveston
is able to ship a cargo valued
at more than $1,000,000 and to be
leading at once 36 vessels for foreign
ports, Southerners are leaving nothing
undone to build up local manufacturing
enterprises in various imaa.
Take wood working, for instance.
Among the contemplated undertakings
of the kind during the week
noted by The Manufacturers' Record
;are the rebuilding, enlargement and
iremodelling of a plant ac Ridgedale.
(fenn., fcr the manufacture of boxes
xd butter tubs, the erection at Knoxviile
of a two-story box factory, to
which will be added a three-story
trunk factory and the addition of machinery
for the manufacture of handles
to the boat oar factory at the
same place, a broom factory at High
Feint, N. C., a lumber plant at Damrscus
with a daily output of 100,000
feet for the development of timber
lands at Johnson city, lenn., a stave
and heading factory at West Point,
Miss., a spoke factory at Johnson
City, Term., and saw mills to develop
timber lands in. Grundy and Coffee
; counties, Tcnu., at Kenner, La., at
Kirbyville, Tex., at Lees vibe, La. It
is proposed at Waycross to organise a.
stock company with a capital of from
5100,000 to $200,000 fcr the erection of
gineries, ccttcn seed oil mills and
guano factories, the Cleveland, Tenn.,
| stove works will double its capacity to
I 35,000 stoves a year, and a company
has been organized by men of PitU^
burg, Pa., Louisville, Ky., and EI
Peso. Tex., to establish at the last
named place a plant for the manufacture
cf insulators and other articles
of glass. In textiles among the announcements
are negotiations for
water power on the Catawba river,
near Hildebran, N. C., to be used to
operate a cotton factory, the incorporation
at Columbia, S. C.. o- the
Capital City Cotton Mills, for the establishment
of a 6,000 spindle and a
2,000 loom mill, with a capital of
1 $100,000, subscription amounting to
$10,COO for the erection or a knitting
mill at Fort Valley, Ga., the incorporation
of the Leaksyille, N. C., House
j fnd Power Co., for the erection and
operation of cotton mills, the establishment
of the Farmvilie, Va., Knj?!
ting Mill, with a dally capacity of
I dozen half hcse, and the preparation
of plans for the development of Wat# *
power at Lancaster, S. C. Among other
general industries are ice factories
et Abilene, Tex., High Point, N. C.,
Richmond ,Va., Salisbury, Md., and
Anderson, S. C., paper mill at Crowley,
La., development of zinc mines at
Rerryville, Ark., of gold mine in
Union county, S. C., of gold and copper
mines at Kirkpatrick, Ark., brick
works at Tunder, Ga., and an entire'
new plant at the Neches Iron Works,
at Beaumont, Tex., to be used for machine
shops, forging department and
foundry.
Evidences of progress appear al30 in
contracts already let or planned under
contemplation for work upon water
works or sewerage system, or both at
n A In r\o rurlllo, A v?lr HpAf
ma., i/uuuuv, ?... v.
getown, Ky., Ruston, La., Buffalo, S.
C., Chattanooga, Toon., Beaumont,
Tex., Falls. Church, Va., New Iberia,
La., and Hattaburg, Miss., while here
and there electric light plants and the
construction or extension of telephone
systems are among tne improvements.
Notes.
At a meeting of parties interested in
the proposed knitting mill of Waycross.
Ga.. held last week, a committee
was appointed to solicit additional subscriptions
to the capital stock of the
company. This company is the one in
which Mr. Woodin and other Northern
capitalists are interested. As stated
last week, about $10,000 additional will
be required before work on the erection
of buildings can commence.
Constitutional Conven'lon at HavanaHavana,
by Cable.?General Leonard
Wood, commander of the Department
of Cuba, who arrived here on tne
steamer Kanawha, has appointed Senors
Llorente Castro, Rivera and Quesada
as a commission to arrange the
opening ceremony at the constitutional
convention next Monday. The board
Sif *?"? ntfoecoro hoo nnt vot rar/iJ + Vi
reference to contested seats, and the
question will be decided by the converttion.
An Island Disappears.
Caracas, By Cable.?Further detai*
received regarding the earthquake (F ,
Monday last show that San Casimiro,
Cua and Charallano were entirely destroyed.
An islet situated at the mouth
of the Never! river has disappeared.
At Tacarigua, Brochico end Curiepe
the damage done was considerable.
There are many dead and injured. Rai'road
and telephone communication is
Interrupted. Railroad service betwee 1
La Guayma and Caracas was resumed
this morning.
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