The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 03, 1901, Image 2
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Editor asd Proprietor.
In tbe recent municipal election
In London very little interest v.-as
taken by women, although large numbers
of them were entitled to vote
for the county councillor. It is reported
that not more than 22
percent of those entitled to vote oast
their ballots.
Dr. L. G. Powers, chief statistician
of the census bureau, declares ihat
the present census will show that the
American people in the last 10 years
have saved the astonishing sum of
$25,000,000.000. The actual visible
wealth of the country now amounts
to $90,000,000,000.
It is noteworthy that California,
Connecticut and Alabama have had
nearly the same percentage of growth
r in population during the past decade,
although widely ueparalcd and hav^
ing in nothing in common. California
increased 22.9 percent. Connecticut
21.1 and Alabama 20.8.
There is a good deal of sympathy
lasted when we offer it to the poor
Egyptians who are being robbed of
their mummies. Of course we should
be properly horrified to find our own
cemeteries invaded and their bodies
scattered in foreign countries, but between
the present representatives of
the Egyptian race and their ancient
progenitors whose mummified remains
we dote on for our museums
?
there is about as much actual kinship
in sentiment and in fact as there is
between Americans cf the ir?ili century
and the cave, bones of France
or the petrified belies of Swiss l?'*e
dwellers.
There are strange discrepancies in
the salaries paid to members of the
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"Rritisb rahir^t. The nrrmicr. as such
gets no pay, and Lord Salisbury took
in the last cabinet the secretaryship
of foreign affairs to help him out. In
the present cabinet he is lord of the
privy seal. The best paid member ol
the cabinet is the lord lieutenant of
Ireland, who getsSl00.000 a year. The
secretary for war gets $25,000, the
first lord of the admiralty $22,500, the
lord chancellor $50,000, the lord
chancellor of Ireland $40,000. the secretary
for foreign affairs $25,000 and
the minor members and under-secretaries
from $7500 to $12,500.
A Boston school teacher v?ho re
v^utiv iciuua'u ii vui Hi'' .rails CAJUT
sition was allowed to bring in free
of duty a passionate conviction that
we need a new and universal language.
Something may have liap*
pened over there about which he is
unable to express his mind adequately
in any existing tongue, or he may
have added to the gayety of Paris and
suffered mortification by his efforts to
address the people in their own
speech; but, whatever the cause, he
clamors in a Boston newspaper for
a universal language to be constructed
on strictly scientific principles by a
commission of wordsters representative
of all the different races of
civilization.
American enterprise in Great Britain
now promises to revolutionize the
methods of the war office. The problem
of the transportation of stores,
guns and men over a country having
no railroads has long excited the army
experts. Traction engines, bullocks,
elephants, horses and mules have been
tried with only moderate success.
With the view of displacing these a
series of experiments is occurring in
England, before a war office commission,
in which an American motor car,
suitable for war service, having on
board the driver, an American, and
the inventor, attained a speed of 30
miles an hour on grass, going over obstacles
and undulations without the
t .
slightest difficulty or injury. Further
trials are still necessary, but the
British officers wore favorably impressed
with the performance of the
motor car, and are likely to recommend
its adoption by the war office.
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VALUABLE INFORMATION.
Tlx Secretary of State Er>c!?avoring
to Instruct lha Office s.
The Secretary of State is endeavoring
J-i 11 ic frirthrnmitic annual rcDort to
Rive information of a character tlmt
.vill be of some real service to the
State, and to present it in such a way
that it will always be ready for rererer.ce.
Chief Clerk Gantt is doiar:
some excellent work along this line a?
the statement in regard to the cotton
mill industry shows. It is the fir.-t
time that any such statement has been
go.ten up in the office and such work
requires time and trouble.
Secretary Cooper proposes also to
make some timely suggestions as to
public officers, their bonds and commissions.
He points out defects in tae
present law as follows:
"I submit herewith to your honorable
body a record of the election, appointment
and commission oI ail oiiicers
of the State occasioned by this
office, not only for the information of
your body, but that a permanent acrrs-ible
ro.crd may be preserved
thircof. It will be noted that, ia spite
o fthe constitutional m.anda.e that "ail
officers of the State shall b: commissioned
by the governor." there doe?
not appear in the record, nor have
there applied to this office for commissions,
various officers elected by your
honorable body, and appcincl throgn
o:Ler ehann ls. Parties have assumed
and been allowed to exercise official
functions, without proper authority to
do so. In other casos county office-s
who have been re-elected have neglected
to give new bonds and receive new
commissions for the second term, holding
their offices under the terms of
their former commissions, providing
for occupancy of the office until the'r
successor qualifies I have attempted
' ~ nn?p{om!tQ r?7T? Of iPf
IU IMICVl kutoc |IV*M*V.vuw
as far as possible. reporting to his
excellency the governor various of his
appointees ro county offices who r.eg'ected
or refused to qualify within a
reasonable time. However, the law
should be m;de mere stringent.
"An examination cf this record will
recommend to you. as I mo;t earnestly
do, the ennc.'ent of a mersure fixing
some definite time upon which office" s
of the various classes shall assume
their duties when electel or appointed.
In the pest it has been left to the convenience
of the officials, to the detriment
of efficient public service.
"I would call to the attention cf your
body the fact that the bonds of State
office's are not required to be recorded
but are simply filed in the treasurer's
office. By a ridiculous anomaly, the
State treasurer is required to g've a
bend of J90.0C0?but this bond is not
required to be recorded, nor is it do-"\
! or..* io in the kccnine of *ho
S:ate treasurer!
"I would further recommend the
abolition of all fees fcr coramis-ions
of public officers. The requirement
that $3.21 be paid is an inhpritar.ee
from our colonial ancestors?be'"orp tV
adoption of decimal currency into
which it was translated?and of course
has long since outgrown its original
purpose, which was the provision of
salary for the office of Secretary of
State. Certain offices have been exempted
from its payment, until it is
no longer uniform; even here it is sj.
there is no reason why the Sav
should give an officer a fixed salary for
his service, and then require him :o
give back a portion of it for the cv dence
of his election or appointment.
Of course this dees not refer to fees
for appointments as notaries public
and commissioners of deeds, wliica
could well be iucreared."
The Cotton Supply.
New Orleans. Special.?Secretary
IU ter's statement of the world's visible
supply cl eot'on shows the to'al
visible to he 4,073,293 halts, against 4.2S4.47G
las: year. Cf this the total tf
Amcrkan cotton Is 3.406.352. against
3.623.476 last year, and cf all other
kinds, including Egypt. Brazil. India,
etc.. 667.000, against 660.000 last year.
The total world's visible supply of
cotton shows a decrease compared
with last year of 221,0S3. Of the
world's visible supply there is now
afloat and held in Creat Britain and
continental Europe 1,793,000, against
1,890.000 last year; in Egypt. 170.C30
against 194,000 last year; Indian 277.
000 against 230.000 last year, and the
United States 1,21$,CQ0 cgaL-t 1.2J0,
000 ls^t jcar,
' To Open Headquarters.
Cincinnati, Special.?It is announced
that Ed. Ccok, as the representative of
Manager Wm. A. Bradley, will be here
to open up Jeffries' headquarters this
week, and that Jeffries is expected to
go into training at West Baden. Ind..
next week. Gus Beesonah is trying to
make a match for the preliminary of
the Jeffrits-Rulifir fight here February
15tla
Fighting in the Philippines.
Manila, By Cable.?Sunday brought
many reports of captures of Insurgents
as the result of scouting throughout
Luzon. The Americans in this work
sustained no causualties. A detachment
of the Fourth Regiment captured
60 in tne province or uavue. uenerai
Wheaton reports having captured and
burned Gremono's camp in the peninsula,
near San Antonio. Genral Funeton
reports that ^ve insurgents were
killed and several captured near Gaysay.
eGneral Smith wires that the proclamation
of the governor general has
had good resu.ts In his district. >
CLEVELAND'S IDEAS,"
Ths Ei-President Writes on 23tl;
Century Po'itics.
FOR LONGER PRESIDENTIAL TERM.
Argues That Numerous Presidential
Ejections T?nd to Demoralized
Business.
New York, Special.?Writing cn the
President of the twentieth century, for
a copyrighted special issue of The iNew
York World. ex-President Cleveland
refers to the presidential tenure in
these ternii:
"Thoughtful citizens will more and
more appreciate the objection; urgel
against the present in-direct and cumbersome
mode of electing their Presidcn:3.
The circumstances in which
this plan originated, if ever of controlling
importance, ought no longer
to excuse such a baffling confusion of
ideas as grows out of proposition thet
in a popular government the people/a
chief officer and their most direct
representative may be made the recipient
of their trust and the depository
of their power in flagrant opposition
to the declared popular will.
"Strong arguments are from time to
time uraed in favor of a chanze in the
tenure of the presidential office. These
should challenge eerlou3 attention, to
the end that the present constitutional
limit be removed and a more reasonable
and useful one be substituted.
There h:s been a continual increa e in
Federal legislation of a peremp ory
character and related to the immediate
and routine necessities of the
country; and so it has come to pass
that of tho four sessions of Congress
held during a presidential tern: two are
so brief as to scarcely iiermit the passage
of necessary appropriation bills
while of the other cue occurs vkea the
President is usually stange in his new
office and burdened with importunities
and labors inseparable from a change
of administration: and the remaining
on** crrni'ntoro rTnrincr "itQ onnfirii nnri\
the interruptions. timidity and demoralization
of a presidential and congressional
canvass. The?? conditions suggest
the scant opportunity allowed for
the initia'ion and aJopt:on of new and
important -remedial legislation during
a sirgic presidential term.
"Another argument cf considerable
weight in favor cf the change is baed
upon the complaint, that the business
ar.-.l o;hcr important interee s of o:u"
people are now too frequently disturbed
and disquieted by tbe turmoil and
heat cf a presidential election. It is
not crniss to rou mat a suostanuai fxtension
of the executive tenure wotH
pave the way far establishing the ineligibility
rf an incumbent to succeed
himself, which has long found favor
with a large class of our pKOD'e as a
consummation ranch to be desired.
"TbtiS American citizens in the
twentieth century, will be charged with
the duty of securing for themselves
the actual substance of popular rule
by establishing a more direct mode of
selecting the people's chief executive
in strict accordance with the people's
will, and by so extending the tenure of
his office, rs to enable him to better
serve his countrymen and more thoroughly
protect and defend all their in?
terests."
Heavy London Failures.
London, By Cable.?The London and
Globe Finance Corporation, limited,
has suspended payment. When the
brokers deliver*" 1 stock purchased on i
account of the London and Glebe, and i
a ked for payment, they received ,
checks which were dishonored. Thi3
was followed by the failure on the
slock exchange of Haggard. Hale pud
Pixley, Carle and Driver, Douglas Jr.,
and Company: Cornfoot Bros.. F. A. I
Choen, B'.ockey and Buckingham, !
Gunn ard Aubrey. Richards and Slop- I
er, Baker and Smith. F. C. Watts and
Co., Flower and Company and F. Boully
and Co. The first named is a big
firm with important connections. It is
f*-.red a number of smaller jobbers
will be effected. While the difficultly
of the firms closely connec'ed with the
London and Globe division were largely
discounted, the repeated fall of the
hammer this morning caused a great
sensadon. It is feared the full list of
failures Is not yet known.
Another British Reverse.
London, By Cable.?The War Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Kitehner:
"Pretoria, Dec. 30, 7:15 .a. m.
"General Littleton reports that our
post at Helvetia wss captured Saturday
morning by the oEers. About fifty
were killed and wounded and 200 taken
prisoners.
"Colonel Kitchener reports that he is
following with a shall force In the
track of the enemy, Helvetia oeing reoccupied
by Reeves, who has been re?
enforced from Belfast.
The Bloody Ground.
London. Ky.. Special.?Four m?n
have bnen killed and ten wouDded in
Clay county fights, within the past two
weeks, while two other Chy county
men were killed and two Ivere wounded
in a fight just over the C'ay county
line during the same period, making
a total of six killed and twelve wounded
within two we?ks. The fact'ons
are again becoming hostile and dras"c
mwures may be necessary to quell tb? I
feudists. \ !
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A REMARKABLE SHOWING.
South Carolina's Easy ^.cad In Indus*
trial Development.
No State in the Union will be able
to keep up with South Carolina's record
this year in the matter of building
cotton mills. Including the increases
and the charters granted this
year, covering, of oourse, actual subscriptions
of stock and organizations
the toal is $7,795,000. To this for the
year must be added the companies
commissioned, but which have not
managed to file their returns and get
t'noi r charters in time for the annual
report. This adda $1,495,000. which
mfslrns the hanrfEftnA frvral for the veir
of 1900 $9,290,000. There have been
31 cotton mills actually chartered, this
year, while 14 have made increases and
enlargements. With last year's chartors
this makes the magnificent showing
of $13,499,000 actually subscribed
and invested In cotton mills in a period
of only two years. Then there are
tho mills commi sioneJ this year which
have not sent in their returns yet, but
will doubtless do so aggregating in
capital $1,405,000. making a grand total
of capital projected in new cotton mills
in South Carolina in two years of $14,994,000.
The figures speak volumes for
the smallest of the Southern States.
Here are the names, location and
capitalization of each of the new mills
for the year 1900:
THE CHARTERS.
Charters were granted to the following:
The Clear Water Bleachery
and Mfg. Co., Aiken $300,000
Anderson Yarn and Knitting
Mills, Anderson 200*000
Co-x Manufacturing Company,
Anderson 50 000
Williamston Mills, Anler~on. 100,000
Rosemary Knitling Mills,
Barnwell 30,000
Black?burg Spinning and
Knitting Mill. Cherokee . . 15.000
Limee one Mills, Cherokee .. 200 000
Wylie Mills. Chester ... I.. . 100,000
Hartsville Cotton Mill, Darlington
250,000
Fork Shoals Cotton Mill,
Greenville 50,000
The Carolina Mills. Greenville
50,000
Franklin Mills, Greenville .. 45.000
Monaghan Mills, Greenville . 500,000
DoKalb Cotton Mills. Kershaw
200,000
Goldville Manufacturing Coin
Pftny. Laurens idv.vvu
Dillon Co ton Mills. Marion . 150.000
Iceman Mills, Marlboro .. .. 200.000
Octoraro Mills. Marlboro .. . 30,000
Glenn-Lowery Mfg. Co., Newberry
300,000
Newberry Knitting Mills,
Newberry J3.000
Orangeburg Mfg. Co., Orange
burg 200,000
Orangeburg Knitting , Mills.
Orangebirg 10,030
Ecsley Cotton Mills. Pickens. 200,000
Liberty Cottcn Mills, Pickens
101.000
Capital City Mills, Richland . 100.000
Woodruff Cotton Mill2, Spartanburg
230,000
S'xon MilPu Spartanburg ... 200,000
Monarch Cotton Ills. TTnloa . 200.000
Alpha Cotton Mills, Union .. 100 000
Buffalo Cotton Mills. Union . 600.000
Sutro Cottcn Mills, York .. . 50,000
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1 OIUI (til ) t^l,OUV,VVV
INCREASE OF CAPITAL STOCK.
Tho following shows the net increase
of capital s'ock in co'ton mills:
Andersen Cotton Mills, Anderson
$100,000
Cox MPg. Co.. Anderson .. . 150.000
Riverside Mfg. Co.. Anderson 150,0 0
Beaumont Mfg. Co.. Spartanburg
70,000
The Ccurtnay Mfg. Co., Oconee
150,000
F. W. Pee Mfg. Co., Greenville
230,000
The Greenwood Cotton Mill,
Gresn-wco.l 300 000
M^n^hes'er C tton Mill, York 50.000
Williamston Mills. Anderson. 100,000
F-'^ld Co:tcn Mills, Fairfleli
135,00)
Olympia Cotton Mills, Richland
250,0)0
Lancaster Cotton Mills, Lancaster
850,000
Glenn-Lowery Cotton miiis,
Newberry 200 001
Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester 90,000
Total (14) I2.943.00J
Charters as above 4,850,000
Total 17,795,000
FORMER FIGURES.
Capital
Number. Stock.
1898 6 $510,000
1899 (including Olympia)
11 3,273.000
1900 31 4,850,000
This refers only to new charters
granted and does net. take into consideration
corporations commissioned or
increases of capital stock.
THE COMMISSIONS.
During 1900 commissions were issued
to ccrponVors of the following projee'ed
mills, which ha? not as yet fil
tr] their returns ana seeurea cnarters:
The Croft Mtg. Co., Aiken .. *200,000
The Winona Mills. Aiken .. 100.000
Wilmot Mills, Ande-gon .. . 200,000
Barnwell rxmnty Cot:on Mill,
Barnwell 100,000
Che-aw Cotton Mills, Chesterfield
100,000
Blacksburg Cotton Mill Co.,
Cherokee 100,000
Johnston Cotton Mills, Edgefle'd
50,000
Verdery Cotton Mills, Greenwood
100,000
Kershaw Cotton Mill, Lan
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caster 125.00ft
Ashby Cotton Mills, Marion. 100,000
St. Matthews Cotton Mill,
Orangeburg 100,000
Inman Mills, Spartanburg .. 200,000
Total ri2) $1,495,000
ReporU.l above 7,755,00?
Total $9,290,000
And among these mills could be included
two others which are assured.
One is the mill at Carlisle for which
the money has been raisea, ana xne
other is a Union mill now under construction:
yet neither have erven asked
for commissions
Blown to Atoms.
Keyser, W. V., Special.?One of the
most disastrous accidents in the his- }
tory of railroad building in this section
happened at Baker Camp, near
Durham, Pocahontas county, * on the
line of the Coal and Iron Railroad,
now building from Elklns. As theresuit
of a dynamite explosion six men
are dead and several others are not
expected to live.
A man is not superstitious because
he believes in the supernatural.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
August Belmont, who has been ill at
Hempstead, L. I., Is rapidly recovering.
Ambassador Choate, at London, lias
denied the report that he is about to
resign. 1
Princess Clementine, daughter of
King Leopold of Belgium, has become
a nun.
Frank Rockefeller is said to be
about to purchase 140,000 acres of
land in Kiowa and Clark Counties.
Kansas, upon which to raise blooded
Block.
The President has promised to extend
his trip to San Francisco in May.
to include Seattle, Tacoina, North Yakima,
Spokane and other towns in
Washington.
Robert W. Wilcox, the Hawaiian
Delegate to Congress, has been royalist
and revolutionist by turn, and is
now married to the last descendant of
Kamehaineha III.
Oom Paul Kruger, according to the
sentimental French papers, is not by
any means so homely as he has been
described. One reporter writes that
his face, "though rough, is thut of a
hero."
The Kaiser has made Queen Wilhel- '
mina a present of a hotrle of water
from the River Jordan, to be used in
the baptism of her .future heirs. The
Kaiser's generosity has caused some
amusement.
Secretary Long has purchased a site
for a residence, which he will erect in
Colorado Springs, Col. Mr. Long's
daughters, who have befit there for
the last year for their health, will
make that city their permanent home.
Senator Baker, of Kansar. carries an
odd pocket piece. This is a small
crystalline cube, about an Inch square
and as transparent as glass. It is a
piece of .the huge saltbed that underlies
Kansas, where it is supposed the
ocean once was.
LABOR WORLD.
Prussia has 311 beet-sugar factories.
Over 11 ?,000 railroad cars were built
Id the United States In 1S99.
The strike of dock laborers at Callao.
the port of Lima, has ended.
One hundred puddlers at the Lebanon
(Penn.) rolling mills are striking
for $3 50 a ton.
Tlirt Snmnfnn iPenn.l Railway Com
pany refused its employes' petition for
nn increase of wages, and a strike ?
possible.
The Southern Car and Foundry Company
Ik to erect a pressed steel ear
works at Birmingham, Ala., with aj
annual capacity of 0000 cars.
Thirty railroad companies hare
opened their shops to the apprenticeship
of students of the railroad department
of the Cornell University.
At Wilkesbarre, Penn., the employes
of the Wyoming Valley Lace Mill have
struck in sympathy vriih the weavers,
who were locked out nine months age.
The National Steel Company's blaet
furnace at Sharon, Penn., has resumed
operations, with several months' business
on hand. About 175 men are employed.
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The overseers of machine shops In }
the larger cotton factory towns of ;
- ? ? ? ?? ? t.:?u
JSoutn caronna receive as mgu a?
$3.50 a (la}% and the second hands
from $2 to $2.25 a day.
Each of the 3000 employes of the
Crane Company, of Chicago, received
a ..Christmas present to an amount
equal to five per cent, of his year's
earnings, the aggregate reaching $100,poo.
m
The Edgar Thomson steel mills of
the Carnegie Company at Pittsburg, m
I Peuu., have been put in operation.
Work was suspended several weeks
ago to allow extensive improvements HN
in the rail, roll'and finishing mills. H0
New machinery has been placed in the^^g
rail mills. It cost about $250,000. n
In the last year or two a number of^^g
American horses and jockeys haxe^^M
been carrying off the palm at the big^Hg
English races. Lately there have beei^ES!
many complaints among English turf-^Bgj
men that English racing is becomin^^gH
too Americanized, and rules have novH|S
been adopted that will shut out Amer-^^H
lean turfmen. In recognition of
anti-American feeling, the Prince oHujjfl
Wales has discharged an America^RlE
jockey whom he had engaged. ^HSj
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