The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 24, 1901, Image 6
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COUNTY RECOUP.
Published Every Thursday
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TING8TBEE. SOCTII CAROLINA.
4 -srC.
W. WOLFE .
Bdltor and Proprietor.
Of the C"."kJ Finns who came to the
TTnifo/l fitnfoe illirin'T 1 hl? TK*CViOUM Veht
only seventeen were sent back; only
sixty-two were unable to rend and
write, and only fourteen were said to
De likely to become public charges.
A paraffin lamp has been invented
by aii expert of Dublin for the purpose
of lighting buoys. The lamp has
been tested aud found to afford a
brilliant light for three months without
attention. Those who go dowu to
the sea in ships will have additional
cause for thanking the inventing ge?
r\inc at rrnn
Enforced military duty, even In
France, does not seem to be relished.
During the recent military maneuvers
in that country numbers deserted and
crossed the border into Italy. On one
day eight men from the same regimeut
deserted, preferring exile for several
years to the prospect of completing
their military service.
The famous stallion Axtell, which
has now been sold for $14.ltd. fetched
the record price of *100,000 eleven
years ago when he was a three-yearold.
However, he has earned $240,000
for his owners meanwhile, not to
mention the price which he now brings
as a fourteen-year-old Oh. yes, there's
bic monev in good horseflesh.
It will not l*o many years until Zuluiand
will l*e fully iu the civilized
belt. Immense coal tields liave recently
boon discovered, many of them
forty-five feet in depth. The coal is
said to be of prime quality. In addition
to the coal it is generally supposed
that minerals in great variety
abound throughout the country.
It is said that 'JO.OUO people will winter
in >'ome and contiguous camps.
How many of them will never see an,
I
other Summer is a matter of rather
serious conjecture. Si ill the preparations
go on in the States for immigration
to that section next summer, and
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It lo mnen tKon nt*nltn)tlu lliflt tllo
4V *C UiV* V VUUU VUWir?v IUUI i uv UV unt rate
will be overbalanced by the newcomers.
The most difficult features to imitate
lp Uncle Sams bank notes,
wBether national or of the greenback
.variety, Is the water mark. The oouu*
terfeiter effects this by placing the
note onder a heavy die. The siuiplest.
and possibly the only way to as- j
certain if the mark is genuine, is by j
dampening the same with a sponge. ;
If genuine the water-murk will stand :
out stronger; If counterfeit it will a I* .
most, If not entirely, disappear.
New Zealand's latest legislative novelty
is ft "fair-rent" bill which has
Just been circulated by tbe Government.
The Intention of the bill is to
set up boards with power to tlx the
,rent payable for any land or buildings.
If a tenaut Is dissatisfied with
the rent fixed by his landlord, he may
apply to the "fair-rent" board of the
district, and under the bill the board
will hare the power to fix the rent
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which the proprietor could legally demand.
The boards are to consist of
three members, with a magistrate as
president. Fair rent is defined by the
bill as follows: In the case of agricultural
or pastoral land, such a rent as
a tenant using or cultivating in a husbandmanlike
manner can fairly be
expected to produce from the land
over and above the necessary cost of
cultivation and production, and also
reasonable Interest on capital invested
in stock and working plant, aud
also above the reasonable maintenance
of hiuisclf ami his family or of such 1
of them as arc living and being maintained
on the land. In the ease cf
town, suburban or village lands, such
a rent as a tenant can fairly be expected
to pay Laving regard to its site,
buildings and business advantage.
congrlssional doings.
Daily Proceedings of the National
Lawmakers
SENATE.
Twenty-eighth Day.?In the Senate
after several hundred pension bills
were passed or referred. Mr. Morgan
asked unanimous consent to take vote
February 11 on the Nicaraguan canal
bill and amendments,
i The resolution was referred to the
Committee on foreign relations.
Twenty-ninth Day.?Consideration of
the army reorganization bill was resumed.
Mr. Teller moved to strike out
that paragraph of the bill which empowered
the President to place on the
retired list any officer who has been
suspended from duty by sentence of
court martial or by executive order in
mitigation of such sentence. The amendment
was agreed to. Mr. Teller said
that the paragraph might apply to Major
Joseph W. Wham, whose record he
dwelt upoft as a splendid one. filled
with acts of gallantry at Nashville,
Franklin and other battlefields.
After almost an hour's executive sesBiou
the Senate, at 5.50. adjourned.
Thirtieth Day.?In the Senate a bill
to provide for sub-ports of entry and
delivery in the Hawaiian l9lanus was
I reported by Mr. Hanna from the Comi
mittee on Commerce, and passed.
A bill fixing the compensation of
district superintendents of the lifesaving
service at $2,500 per annum,
except in the case of the superintenI
dent of the Eighth district, whose salary
is fixed at $1,500. was passed.
! Much time was spent in discussion
of the army bill.
At 5 o'ekx-k the Senate proceeded to
1 executive business and at 5:05 adjourned
until to-morrow.
I Thirty-first Day.?Just before 6
o'clock the Senate finally disposed, of
the army reorganization bill. The
measure having originated in the Seu;
ate. the final question was not upon its
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passage. Put upon agreeing 10 me ornate
amendment?. They were agreed
to by a vote of 43 to 23. While party
Unas were drawn on the measure four
' Democrats voted for it. Senators Lind;
say. of Kentucky: Mcl^aurin. of South
I Carolina: Morgan, of Alabama and
Sullivan, of Mississippi. Senator Hoar,
i of Massachusetts, who was detained at
, his home by illness, was paired against I
the Mil with Senator Spooner. of Wis- !
con?in. The bill has occupied practi- j
1 cally the entire attention of the Senate
since the 3rd day of January when [
ft wae made the unfiflnished business. .
Thirty-second Day.?The Senate !
committee on finance granted a hearI
ityg to a delegation from the tobacco
rrowing States of Virginia. Xorth
| Carolina, South Carolina. Kentucky.
West Virginia and Georgia in support ;
of the proposition to reduce the tax on
tobacco in conneotion with the legislation
on the war revenue. ' The delegation
was composed entirely of members
of congress and was accompanied
i by Senators Pritchard. Tillman aild
I Martin. They represented the tax had
been doubled in the war revenue act
and that over S35.000.000 of the revenue
of the country is raised upon to
bacco. and they asseu ior a reaucuon .
from tho present tax of 12 cents per j
pound to 8 cent*.
There was nothing of important
done by the Senate. After a brief ex- j
ecutive session, the Senate at 5:15 p.
m. ad-journed.
HOUSE.
Twenty-eighth Day.?The first half j
hour of the session of the House was
taken up in a discussion of the joint ,
resolutions providing for inaugural j
programme at the Capitol on the
fourth of March. i
The river and harbor b.11 was then
taken up for completion.
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'I wenry-ninin lmy.? i uc mu nu-a
harbor appropriation bill was passed
by* the House. It went through practl ally
as it came from the commattee.
It carries slightly less than $60.000.0(K>,
of which $23,000,000 is in direct appropriations.
' Thirtieth Day.?There were hardly
fifty members in their places when the
House of Representatives met. A
majority of the members had gone over
to the Senate to witness the adminis.
tratlon of the oath to Senator Quay
of Pennsylvania.
The House, without preliminary
business, went into <-ommittee of the
wfiole (Mr. Lawrence of Massachusetts
in the chair), and took up the consideration
of the bill to Revise and Oodify
the Postal Laws of the United States.
The order for its consideration mad?
last week was modified so as to CMtke
it % continuing order, not to interfere
with appropriation bills, conference
reports and private bill day.
Mr. Ix>ud of California, in charge
of the bill, made a brief explanation
of the provisions of the measure and
explained in answer to many inquiries
that the bill rnsde no modification of
existing statutes
mail pay. the salaries <rt railway mail
clerks or any of the mooted quo* ions
regarding the postal service.
Thirty-firt Day.?The House spent
the entire day. on the bill to refer to
the Court of Claims the claims of the
Willem Crampp and Son Ship Building
Company, of Philadelphia, for alleged
damages due to the delay cf the government
in furnishing the armor plate
and material for the battleships Massachusetts
and Indiana and the cruisers
New York and Columbia. The
claims aggregate $1,376,244. The bill
has been conspicuous at every scstion
of Congress for several years.
Thirty-second Day.?The session of 1
, the house was devoted chiefly to the {
j-oMal codification bill, which way
m ? - i i ip mum ,ym
about hah' completed. The discii 2ion j
turned mainly en lb" p-oposition \o j
compel star route contracts to be let
to persons living contiguous to the
route, but the proposition was defeated
after extended delta e. Among
the bills passed was 'he granting or
2S days' annual leave to employes of
navy yards, arsenals, et,.
During November 137.738 working
people of England obtained advances
in salaries averaging (pfjd. weekly per
capita, while 11 had their wages
rcdiui'd.
Then- is a great ileruand for bauds
bv tiie plauters in Hawaii. No less
than 30.000 men are needed there in
the cultivation of sugar, and efforts
are being made to secure them in this
country.
. I'll ion carpenters iu San Francisco,
t'al.. have fully demonstrated what
ran he done by organized labor as a
unit. They have a union planing mill
iu full operation, giving employment
to 2000 uuion men.
The report of the State Mine Inspector
for 1'JOO shows that thirty-five men
lost their lives in the mines of Alabama
during the year, which is live j
less than during the previous year, j
though the , oal production last year j
was much greater.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
The German coinage for 1000 wai
about &J5.G00.000.
Germany's Meat Inspection law will
be put into effect as soon as possible.
fihe Japanese Government has decided
to construct five torpedo destroyers.
A British punitive erpedition has
routed a force of rebels of Gambia,
.West Africa.
The town of Glen Flora. Wis., has
just been sold for the sunt of $2800 under
the foreclosure of a mortgage.
A society to furnish legal aid gratuitously
to needy persons worthy of
such assistance has just been organized
in Boston.
Nearly $4,000,000 has been expended
on the British royal yacht Victoria and
Albert, whose defects render her practically
worthless.
The city of Toronto. Ont.. has voted
overwhelmingly in favor of the city's
buying out the plant of the Consumers'
Gas Company.
The British Colonial Office has agreed
to pay the passage of Canadians desiring
to 20 to South Africa to join Gen
eral Baden-Powell's police.
*Tbe King of Italy has granted permission
to Captain Brescl, brother of
King Humbert's murderer, to assume
his, mother's maiden name.
The Humane Society of Illinois con
(templates a series of lectures throughout
the State in the interest of the
horse especially, but looking to the belter
treatment of all domestic animals.
When Governor M. B. McSweeney
was inaugurated Governor of South
Carolina for the second time, at Columbia.
he called attention to tbe fact
that there was not a lynching in the
State during 1900.
It is estimated that debts amounting
iu round numbers to $25,000,000 were
wiped out in Massachusetts between
August 1. 1898. and January 1. 1901,-'
timo in xchieh the nresent National
Bankruptcy act has been in operation.
CONTENTS OF A WOMAN'S PURSE.
He i^neli upon the. pavement flat
A woman saw his upturned face#
Emptied her purse into his hat
And left with charitable (trace.
He found of buttons one or two,
A recipe for rabbit hash:
A bill to her dressmaker due.
Rut not a cent of ready cash.
? Chicago Times llereld
The nava' appropriation 01:1 was rcI
pomd to the 1 reuse to-day with an
elaboratt t arhent of its piovisicns,
by Chairman Fcss c. the naval committee.
The hill carries 577.016.635,
the largest ever rt ..ortcrl to ibe house
from the cotumlrtre 0:1 naval affairs.
I Th'.s is S11.SC5.71S abo.e the oil! of last
year and $10.229.295 below the estimates
submitted by tr.e navy department.
The bill provides tha., 11c. more than
one battleship or cruiser shall be built
in one yard or by one party and the
usual prevL-ion i- made that at least
one and not more than two of the battleships
and armored cruisers shall be
built on the Paeitt; feast.
The following places received appropriations
for naval work: Norfolk.
$594,260; Key West. $144,000; Peusaeola.
$41,500;* Algiers. $230,000; Dry
Tortugas. $100,000.
LABOR WORLD.
The printers of tilassboro. NT. j., Uu<?
organized a union.
Kansas City, .Mo., claims to have established
fifty new factories iu 1000.
Chicago plumbers have decided to
ox-filo fmin ih.? Hnildinir Trades'
I'uioii.
The si l iking machinists of the Erie
Kaiiroad Company. ;it Horuellsville,
X. V.. have returned to work.
in Illinois waires not yet earned cannot
lie assigned. Coups hold that such
assignment would he illegal and void.
A eourse or lectures for journeymen
electrical workers has been arranged
to lie git en at the New York Trade
School.
A threatened strike was averted by
the rnion Coal Company. Shainokiu.
I'enn.. agreeing to pay its miners semimonthly.
A bill introduced in the South Caro- :
liua Senate, makes it a misdemeanor I
for a cotton mill to employ children
uvi.li .i vnnr< ,.f !i?e
FAVOR .4 DELAY,!
Republican Caucus Opposes Early
Consideration,
CANAL BILL WILL BE KEPT BACK. I
Caucus Decides Not to Set a Day For
Its Consideration-Great Britain's
Attitude.
Washington. I). C.. Special.?The Republican
Seratois. in caucus, have unanimously
decided not to .set a day. at
leost for the present, for taking up the
Xioaraguan Canal bill. After a general
exchange of views, the Senators concluded
that so long, as Great Britain's
attitude toward the amendments to j
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is unde- ;
fir.::!, it would not be wise or expedi- J
ent to agitate the question of the con- j
pi ruction of the pioposed canal. This '
dec is-'on was embodied in a resolution
presented by Senator i.odge. who stated
that the conclusion as there set
forth was the result of the best deli
brat ions of the < cmmittce's order of
business. Several Senators, however,
gave notice that in case there should <
be a motion to take up the canal bill, j
they would not be bound by the resolut'on
of independence. Senator Piatt, !
of New York, was the leader. He said [
he considered the proposed canal of j
prime importance and would not re- ,
train from voting to take-it up whenever
a motion to that effect is made.
Senators Simon, Foster and Bard f<tlLrtiviwl
3-imlls.r fioolnrations TheV I
did not, however, express determination
to themselves initiate a movement
in behalf'of the canal bill. and.
it v.as suggested that Senator Morgan
could be prevailed upon to allow the
present status to remain.
' No decision was reached upon other
questions because no formal action i
was considereu necessary. There was.
however, considerable discussion of
other questions. Among these were the
ship subsidy bill, the war revenue re- j
dixstion bill, the confirmation of Mr. ;
Harlan, as Attorney General of Porto
Hico, the ratification of the treaty with |
Spain for the acquisition of some of
the Philippine islands not included in
the original Paris treaty, and the appropriation
balls.
Senator Hanna expressed his desire i
ta have the ship subsidy bill paa?ed j
upon during the present session and :
said that with the army bill out of the j
way. be should ask that the decision !
arrived at early in the st??ion to press ;
Kill ahauil hj? curried out. !
lilt? ouusruj Ulli wuvtvvi, -T^ - ?
It vis Dot intended that the subsidy
bill should receive attention wnen the
appropriation bill* were not up for
consideration. Senator AJdrieh explained
the necessity of getting the
war revenue reduction bill through
this session and he stated that he
hoped to be able to report it from tue
committee on finance during the early
part of next week. He hoped to secure
an unanimous agreement from the
committee and urged that to secure
promptness there should be no effort
to amend it by putting on tariff amendments.
That would, he said, cpen up
the entire tariff question. There was
general assent to this propoation and
assurance was given that the caucus
would sustain him in tnat position.
Senator Foraker state that he
would again seek to get up the Harlan
nomination at the first opportunity
an<f he asked tbapt Republican Senators
remain in sufflciest .numbers to guarantee
a quorum beoauee of Senator
Pettigrew's notice that he should require
a roll call on the vote to confirm.
' The importance of gelling the Span
14ft treaty inrvmru * ?> ...
Senator Ixidge. who said that the ratification
of tne treaty was necessary to
dean up our daalla?8 with Spain.
Senator Proctor alao asked hi me for
consideration of thp olemau-gariive bill.
The committee probably would be prepared
ta report nert weak.
Confederate Veterans Dine.
New York. Special.?The Confederals
fetarans' camp held lu*edayenth annual
dthner wfc the' Waldorf-Astoria Friday
night. About 260 diners present,
of whom.about hatt ware ladles. MaJor
Edward Owen, the comander of the
camp, preaided. with Bishop Thomas
N. Dudley, of Kentucky, on hie right.
Mrs. Jogferson Davie. Colopel and Mrs.
John C. Calhoun. Augustus Van Wyck.
president of the North Oarolina Society:
Dr. William Polk, president of the
Southern Society; William McAdoo
Thompson. Colonel T. P. Ochiltree and
General Joseph Wheeler were preseot.
Signed and Delivered.
Washington, D. 0.. Special.?A message
was received Friday from Minister
Conger, art Pekln. dateJ Thursday evening
...faiina: that the Chinese plenipo
"O ? w
tentiartee had signed and delivered the
protocol. This removes the last doubt
that had arisen as to the sealing of tne
agreemnt. for it would not have beeu
aeeepted by the Spanish minister unleet;
k bore aJl the s<bai-. and signatures
neceaary ix> give It full force.
QUEEN VICTORIA DYING.
Her
Death is Hourly Expected ?Her
Life.
Cowes. Jsie of Wight, By Cable.?
The official bulletin issued at midnight
Sunday sasy? that the Queen's oonditlcn
be.-ame more serious, with increasing
weakness and diminished
power o; taking nourishment. A collapse.
or what physicians feared was a
collapse, occurred unexpectedly about
10 o'clock Sunday evening. Arrangements
were hurriedly made to provide
special telephonic and telegraphic facilities.
Details are not obtainable
but it is asserted that Her Majesty's
condition is chiefly due to a severe ^
sinking spell and an increase of the \
paralytic symptoms. It is understood - 1
that the physicians have resorted to
artificial means to prolong life such as
are used only in case of persons in extremis.
The Associated Press learns
that the paralysis is chiefly evident in
the face, one side of which appear? to
have lost all nerve and muscular power.
At 6 o'clock the malady had not
reached the vital organs, although it
Lmd naturally caused -an almost total
loss of the power of speech. What was
so much fearetf was that the brain
might be attacked. Keenly sensitive
to her affliction and appearance, the
Queen had absolutely refused to see
any one but her nurses amd paydteians,
and it is understood that the PPrince
of Wales is the only exception to this
rule and that his interview with the
Queen lasted but a rew moments.
Hence the exact nature of the malady
is known only to a very few. and it is
the royal wish thai the public should
not Be informed of the existence of
paralysis. Arrangements have been
made with a local undertaker to have
all the preliminaries to burial ready
in case of an emergency.'
Victoria's Life and Family.
Queen Victoria was born May 24,
1819. On June 20th. 1837, she became
queen of England, succeeding her uncle.
King William IV. On Feb. 10th,
1840. she married Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg-Ootha, who died Dec. 14,
1 01 c
Victoria has been the mother of
nine children, as follows:
1. Victoria Adelaide. Princess Royal,
who married Emperor Frederick Wilc'am
of Germany. She is the motner
o? the present emperor of Germany.
2. Albert Edward. Prince of Wales,
and heir to the throne.
3. Alice Main* Mary. Grand Ducheea
of Hesse. Deceased 1878
4. Alfred. Duke of Saxe-CoburgGotha.
Duke of Edinburgh. Married
Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of
Alexander II.. Emperor of Russia.
5. Helena. Princess Christian. Married
Prince Frederick Christian of
S: hlesburg-Holsten.
6. Louise. Marchoness of Lome.
7. Arthur. Duke of Ccnnaught.
8. Leopold. Duke of Albany.
9. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore.
Married Prince Henry of Battenburg, ~
to whom the queen was greatly attached.
The Prince of Wale* was born in
1841. and is therefore 60 years old. In
1863 he married Princess Alexandra
of Denmark. Their eldest child. Alhprt
Victor. Duke of Clarence, born
1864. (lied in 1892. At the time o? his
dtath he was engaged to Princess Mary
Victoria of Teek. who afterwards married
his brother. (Jeorge Frederick.
Duke of York, the ?erond oldest living
child of the Prince and Princess of
Wales. The Duke of York is next to .
his father in succession to the throne
of the most powerful kingdom of modern
times. He was born in 1865 and
has two sons and one daughter.
The other children of the Prince
and Prince*; of Wales are: Louise
Victoria. 1867: married the Duke of
Fife: Victoria Alexandra, iso?, ana
Maude Charlotte. 109. who are unmarried,
and Alexander, born 1871 and
died in infancy.
The Czarina of Russia is the granddaughter
of Queen Victoria, being Victoria
Alice, daughter of the Grand
Duchess of Hesse. By other marriagete
the queen of Great Br.uiin is connected
with all the powerful reigning
ftuniliee of Europe. Through these relatives
she has often exerted her influence
in international affairs, especially
for peace.
Telegraphic Briefs. 1
Thinking the visitor a burglar. Barney
Pitts shot and tilled John Trotter,
under his window, at Guthrie. O. T.,
and then found that Trotter was trying
to elope with his daughter.
In a head-on collision between
freight trains on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, at I>ockes Mill, Me., Are
men were killed and four locomotives I
and 12 cars demolished. J
WUliam H. Crocker, of San Francisco,
Cal., has offered to pay tne expenses
of a solar eclipse expeumon to
be sent , from Lick Observatory to
Sumatra to observe the total eclipse of
May 15.
The wrecking tug North America is
stripping the schooner Wm. J. Lippsett,
for Savannah, which is ashore and
full of water on Winter Quarter
Shoals near l.ewes. Del.
A Buenos Ayres dispatch say.? that
the Argentine wheat crop is estimated
at 2.600,000 tons.
The congresional committee will
probably finish the investigation at the
West Point Military Academy soon.
The Congressmen have obtained a mass
of evidence additional to that announced
at the military court of inquiry.
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