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. - THE COUNTY RECORD. Published Every Thursday ?AT? TINQ8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BY ? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. As many men art scrauch like menkeys. the efforts of Professo- Carrier to reduce monkey language to a prnctical form assumes the aspect of a philanthropic effort. The Argentine Republic is seeking Japanese immigrants. She offers free , lands to 20,000 of them if they will come. No better class of irtunlerants could be secured by any country. A Philadelphia Judge has decided that a husband is not bound to sup port a wife who smokes cigarettes* This supplements and complements the' recent decision of a Wisconsin Judge that the excessive smoking of cigarettes by a husband entitles a wife to divorce. The cigarette looms up large as a destroyer of domestic harmony. "Government by Public Opinion" was the subject of a recent address by President Hadlcy, of Yale. He maintained that the controlling force in government is public opinion. Put he does not hold that public opinion always gets clear manifestation in political party actioD. This is the reason why laws that get a place in the Statute book often arc impotent to effect the ends sought. Public opinion. In fact, ,does not support them, and Is better content that they should be dormant than that tncy should be active. Vha /?/?n*rrtlUn?r fnri'fls of mihlic St'Uli ment In the interpretation and enforcement of laws is a phenomenon constantly in sight. Wise statesmanship takes due account of it. The moral, of course, is that the main thing to be attended to by those who would renovate existing conditions is to educate the minds and consciences of the people. That women are not qualified to advance in any line of work seems not to be a sound argument for discharging them, when we reflect that women nowadays are educated in all lines, their Intellectual ability is proved equal to men's, their executive ability Is demonstrated, and they signify a willingness to assume the burden of any sort of work, states Harper's Bazar. Wherein, then, are they not qualified? In this: They are not per manent Marriage intervenes. According to the most recent statistics, but eight per cent, of women in industry are wives. The average period during which a woman engages in an occupation is four years, nine pnd twotenths months. At the time when a Woman in the natural course of business experience becomes eligible to promotion, she retires?presumably retires into matrimony, and the wealth which employs her it put to the loss'of training sor body else to take her Dlsee. Searching as they are in all directions for light on England's fififure to keep the lead in the industrial procession, the London papers are making every now and then discoveries that are not less surprising to outsiders than painful to themselves. One of the most curious of these revelation^ \is that of a Loudon Mail investigator, who started out to ascertain wpy almost all the typewriters on sale in the English market are of foreign make? of American make, to be explicit. The explanation he secured was that ifie British workman simply could not cpu', struct a good typewriter. A uian 'familiar with the business is quoted as saying that some years ago an American firm mnlrin?' <ine nf the standard machines endeavored to introduce the typewriter industry into England. Premises were opened at Coventry, and thousands of pounds were spent in eildeavoring to produce a satisfac&Jrjr ] machine, but in spite of the fact {bijft; the best American tools and materials werep^d it was found, after several years*.work, that it was impossible to produce a good machine. In additi'on ! to being unsatisfactory, the machines that were made cost twenty per cent, more than those from America, eveD after paying freight and charges. ! A HORRIBLE CRIME. A Girl in Brooklyn Assaulted By Three Men. GIRL IS THOUGHT TO BE DVISG. Mary Paige, 16 Nears Old, Lured to a Livery Stable by Three Young Men, Drugged and Made Their Vlclim. New York, Special. ? Unconscious, and the physicians say, dying. Mary Paige, the pretty lC-year-old daughter of C. H. Paige, lies at her father's home, Brooklyn, the victim of assault. Since she was found Tuesday mornfng wandering in the streets it is said she has been conscious only a few minutes wihen she managed to gasp out that she had been lured to a livery stable ? . 'jf > * by three young men, Tforced to drink < a drugged drink and then assaulted by Jhe three. The police acted promptly after the girl's father had ieportsd to them. Tuesday afternoon they arrested George Abbott, Jr., 17 years old, of Brooklyn. He admitted knowing Marv _caid he had taken her for a_ walk Sunday night and that two young men had jqiced them, but declared that he knew nothing about her having been drugged, and denied that there had been any assault. He gave the names of the two other youths, and on Mr. Paige's complaint warrants were sworn out for them. Late ia the afternoon the detectives took a young man to the Adams'street police station, where he made affidavit be- r , fore Magistrate Brenner. The dete;; 1 tiv'es said the youth was a iht&t trri-' I portanoe writness in the tfese. They would not permit him to talk. ' Tuesday evening young Abbott was taken before Mayor Paige and fully identified by her as the one who had givc.il her the supposed drugged liquor and assaulted heT. The gill's condition wa<s very much improved at night and the attending physician soys there is little doubt of her recovery. i Treaty flatter Dropped. Washington, D. C., Special.?No step has been taken t>y either side since | the delivery 'of the British note treattag of the Senate amendments to, tho Hay-Pauncefote treaty and it is understood that none will be taken in the immediate future. The treaty expired March 5, and it is said that at this moment'our government IS undecided as to whether or npt it shall attempt- to draw a new treaty with Great Britain. It is said that before anything of this kind is done the administration will take steps to learn the views of Senators anl the party's lead-era in Congress. There will be no tteaty submitted to the Senate except upon a pretty clear understanding , that it is strcng enough-to. jsecure the n vote of two-thirds or ute^.gsQayr_ said at the State Departoie^-that thj British com m u n i cat i orr's ebmi t ted yesterday will not.be gi'^jsT'ouf "for pubii? cation for t,he praaent 1 Grounding of the Training Ship. Washington,* 6. C., Special.?'WcW has roictied Navy Department tha: the training .ship Dixie which has tyecn j aground for over a week past at Maryland Point, irf'ihe lower Potomac, wre successfully Abated Tuesday morning. .The Secretary 'of the Navy has eivj eroded court of'Inquiry-to meet at, the Norfolk navy yard, next Saturday, ;o eJlx the rfcspon&[biUty>far.Whe grounding* of -the *Dix:e, by ufh-loh the vctsoI was prevented. Jfrom reaching Wos;:lington'op {h?tocjpasion:<j''>lhe inaugifratioirr. The vassal Is to be docked a: .Norfdfk,' to m^ke sure that she ha> smrthiAed no serious Injury from the grounding". Rec'procity Treaties Kxtendsd. Washington,.. H C..! Special.?Tt 13* probable the time for; ratifying', treaties with Gretft Britain, respecting reciprocity with. t?ie?- BrUJsh We?t Indian tolcnies will be' extended duiipj the present week-for a pdridd'of (0"Pm year ?or 18 months, ini order t^at th? treaties may be cort^ider^I by Seaate text 'December. Telegraphic Briefs. A Fltt-tn;rg ai.^P^icn. gays: j\ turn contract .worth ' upwards of $2,000,000 to be fulfilled, in jpase of vrzg6 trouble, .in.the aratiracfye. '-fieddfe i^hext *,mrinlti .was closed here y es ler d&y; , *th1 Qufeeae Jlolel. *Thd cohplfb *to*'go. to su,f)plj- Extern,Tdafi^svcff^e d^.ffra_ cite oollierle6 from .the' 'minefe' of .he ftew combination of operator*' a.' .he Kanawha and New ttiver*di?tri<~;<? 'fj j -West' Virginia." k '' A Qape Town count-mart ta.1 has eeater.cSd to ;deo.th t>wo-rebels connected v.ich the reoehlt-wrecfeihg of'a train a*- > T^aiboeoh. Others cocicerped in .fr crime were" Vctftfdeiriried' to vanjouf I terms of imprisonment. .a BURNING OF A KENTUCKY TOWN Half the Inhabitants Home'ess--Food anJ SuppI cs Destroyed. Cloverport, Ky., Special.?In tbe bluing air Oi the early morning hours the citizens of Cloverport looked on, almost powerless to act Thursday, while fire destroyed $of,0,000 worth of property and left 1,000 persons?half the population?homeless. Every business house, was bumed. The distress of hundieds of women and children was relieved only when trains loidtd with supplies arrived from Louisville and Henderson. At noon the fire was still burning in spots, but the remaining structures were scattered and no further spread was anticipated. By the hurting of a natural gas pipe in the kitchen of a private house shortly after midnight the building was set afire. A high wind was blowing and the burning* embVrs were carried to the immense, -tobacco warehouses owned by the American Tobacco company. These buildings were soon wraped in flames -and efforts to save them wore abandoned in order to fight the fires which were springing up on all sides. The tobac ?- - 1 * f ? JO /v' co company s pram, cuhmui.^ v?i i?v stemmeries and l.pOO.OOU pounds of tobacco was sdoh- destroyed and the fire continued to spread. The local fire department was totally . inndurunte to c6pe with the fire and Louisville and Henderson were asked to send assistance. As Louisville is 75 miles distant. however, no help arrived until 4:30 o'clock and by that time the fire had about exhausted its material. Every business house was gone, together with afl provisions and clothing. Over halfafif the residences, tco, had been destroyed and 1,000 people were wantkylEg aimlessly through tlie streets. ? taring at the ruins. Sale of a Railroad. A Rome, Ga.. special says: President Wilburn has called, a special meeting o.' the stockholders of the Chattanooga. Rome and Southern railroad for May 15, to consider the sale and conveyance of that property to the Central of Georgia. It is understood here that the headquarters o.' President Wlbtirn s road will be removed to Savannah. The price paid for the Phaitunooea. Rome and South ern is anr.cur.ccd as $4,500,000. It is 129 miles lcnp and extends from Chattancoga, Tenn.. to Carrolkon,. Ga. Mining Through Ice. Victoria, ..B. C?? j>pe^j?l.?News ha? reachod here from (Jape Nome that during December'a rich bar s.taked which is beneath Behring sea and par-* allels the coast for about 100 miles up from Snake River. Those who located the claims had to cut through five feet of ice to reach the send and gravel which was very rich. In summer the claims will bo totally submurged. Stampedes have occurred from Nome to American creek in Kourock and Norton sound where rich strikes have been made. Incumbents Will Be Reappointed. Washington, D. C? Special.?Attorney General Griggs talked with the President, about a number of places - under ine ar.panmeni 01 juKucr, iu< ternrs of the incumbents being about to expire. This includes a large nfim-a ber of United States district attorneys and marshals. Except where charges have been made ?ag::ir>st. incumbents and where the sensorial statute has - -.1 tho-e willbe no new appointanen's. Tfie-in: urnbe nts wfll be reappointed as .their terms expire.- : *" ' Freight Rates on Coal to Ri e New York, fryocial.?A ;oin.t notics advancing the i: eight rates on birutrinous co-aJ fre u the mine--, t'p t.idc(water has tef*n r?4u:d by the Pennsylvania railroad, the Baltimore" and Ohio, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk arid Western. The ad.ance will'be 10 ccats per ion and k will take euect on April 1. Carnegie's Laies Move. New York, Special.?Andrew Carnegie, w..o since retiring as active figure lrom the steel world, has been able to devote his time exclusively to hi= ftfhcr nassion. the founding of libraries, has made his departure foi Europe this spring memorable by the ?aagest'Offer of the kind ever advanced. If New York" jsvill pip lie a the sitjfes and the maintenance, he lias promised to give $5,20t),000 to establish 60 branch liberies in this city. The offer in a letter to Dr. Johjt S. Bllin$s,-^director of-the New York'Public UbraY^r last Tu-jeday. Carnegie's Q.'ft to Charl6tte. Charlotte, Nr'.\ C., Special.?Andrew Carnegie, rle Rtttsborg philanthropist <has offered the ?ity of Charlotte $20,000 -with whtich .to ajiot a librlry building. The" offer is based on the conditions that the oitjy will donate a free site and estbliah an annual fond of $2,500 for the maintenance of! the ifhrary. The offer will doubtteas be accepted. ^ V ; ' / ' *' \ ' % - , . y * 1 * !* EX PRESIDENT DEAD Hon. Benjamin Harrison Passes to His Reward. HIS LIFE AM) PIELIC SERVICES. Elected to the Highest Office in the Gif: of the Peop e, He Served Well His Day and Generation. Indianapolis, Special.?Genial Benjaania Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon without regaining consciousness. his death was quite and puirilc&s, thete being a. gradual sinking until the end ea'tnfe which was marked by a sing'e gasp ior breath, as life departed from the body of the great, guatesjinan. The leiarjvts, with a few exceptions, and several of his old and tried, friends, were at the ior.i.er President's be.l-side when- he 'passed away. General Hanri.on had been unconscious for hours help re his death, the exact time when he passed into a comatose state being dai^-ult to deter... / . ivs L -TtJt +^1 BKNJAMIJf HARIUSOX, mine. Ho ?poke to no one during the d'iy, falling to recognize even his wife. | The greater part of Tuesday also lie was la a semi-compaitoso condition, although he was at times ad>le to recognize those at hU bedside?" At that .lime he recognized and spok? to Mrs. Newcomer, his aunt, ahd also to Mr. .kitlier, ihe words being very indistinct. '"Doctor" and "my iung>" were the only words understood. Almost +v.? <- ?v\rHc Vib wfrp afldres ?<1 to his wife, of whom ho inquired, shortly before he became unconscious If the doctors were present. From one who was present at the deathbed it is learned that the al!e?ntions of cruelty and injustice dealt oift by England to the Boers in- their struggle for liberty had been- a subject f?r thought in the mind of General Harrison. In his semi-conscious condition.. when the sentinels of discretion and propriety had gone firm their posts and the mind of the man was wcixiering, he bcg2n to speak of the Beers and their hopeless 'struggle for national life. His voice was. weak axri trembling, his tnougnt;s were u\n. c<mneotv<l; but the listeners bending over him could hear words a.' pity for the dying f.-.nmer republics. , .?/ * . f^Sketch.of Oen. Harrison. Benjamin Harrison was born, at North Bend. O.. August 20. 1332. and was-therefore nearly 68 years of age. He graduated at Miami Univp sliy, Oirlo. f^mosied to Indjanapo'.is and settled in ^he practice cf his profession. In 185<Vhe w^; electcl reporter of Jft'e Supreme Court of Indiana.- He on ei-ed the Ili^n army in 1862, as a subaltern 'to the rank of colonel and tfhfcvet^.arigndier general, serving nnriL 1^63". "While in th; field j he was re-elected" as reporter of the j Supreme Court, and after leaving the army served iour ^ears in ihh nation.. la- 1876 hs.*was an unsuccessful candidate forGbvernorof Indiana, an*. Jn 18^9 wasAppointed a member of the Mississippi river commission. He was elected a Senator of the United States from.Hidfasa for the term of six yean frMn 5!tirch 4. 1881. In 1888 he was electel'/Presiden-tefcf the United States oVer'Grovfcr Clevefcpd, and was'again a candidate for the presidency in 1892, wljen he was defeated by Cleveland. 'A.thciyh a man of great ability. General liarri-on was so often accuseu of being merely the grandson of Wil* 1 liaim Henry Harrison, that during ths candidacy for the presidency cartoonists pictured him as wearing his grandfather's hat, that t?rm finaUy becoming a by-word with his political opponents. Since retiring from pubjic life General Harrison had devoted himself to the practice of 7aw, at which he ' was very successful.' He was arbitrator in a Venezuelan territorial contro? rersy recently and S said to have earned a fee of $100,OOk He waa son? k months ago' appointed by President McKinley-a member of tho Lnternation' 'ai arbitration commission on the part of the United Statea, In accordance with the action of thefi&ace conference at The Hague. The death of Geneial Harrison leaves only one living ex -President of the United States, Qrover j rClevalanl. > f ?* ' p LONG HOPE REALIZED. The Iron Horse Visils Chesterfield for the First rime. Chesterfield, S. C.. Special.?Saturday brought the iron horse within the corp_ri;e limits of our town. There are only about; two miles of track to bj laid, then the road will be completed t > Chesterfield court house. It has tvn>n n hard thine to do to build this read, but then it has ben accomplished and that is all there f> it? Before this article is read, Chesterfield wi'l be a railroad town, something she h is never before been since the beginn ng. of time. | This road places a gre:t opportunity within the grasp of every busine-s " man. If he is awake to bis own gco',. he -will feel it and know It. * The coming of the road alon-^ will mean nothing. But the opportunities it brings mean much. > Our merchants mu:t keep'largor an l better stocks o" goxis. A p omin ut gentleman said todiy: "The disposition cf the people s to come to transact their 'business at Chesterfield end ?. . if they can find the proper Inducements the town will grow and pro;per." Cotton buye s shot ld-be on titer alert this fall and net let a single-bale P2S6 here if possible. If farmers canget the market price for their cotton here and find ready sale for the'ir other products why the future of the town is go'den." But Ches e:field at last is a railroad town. After y.ars crf-wa'.t*- s ing and longing we are brought into contact with ihe great business world, and this is a big thing for a place thai has been in Isolation since its formation. , Our propie a^e preparing for a great big JubiWe tin the day the commission - ? ?nn(l Tl'O 'r tcn 'R tr? be . I r ggei up in holiday attire. We p.-oj post; to make it a memorable occasion. riarble in Union. Union, 9pecial.?Mr. Felix G. Gregory of-.New York, who recently fell i heir to a tract fit land in this county, has discovered a marble quarry on it. Mr. Gregory was down here about a "month ago, when it was discovered. J He re:urned a few days ago, accompjnicd by Mr. Carpenter, an export geologist, who has examined the quar; ry. The examination is not as good as was hoped for, but Mr. Gregory : says he will put his money into it. : a/id further said that he would try and get the 9ta:te examiner to come up and examine it also. The quarry ia nine miles from Enoree, and if-there is enough marble in it a railroad will v be buil-t out to Enoree. It is said the road can be rebuilt for about J75.0C0. There is no question as to the raa.b'.e itself, but only as to the quantity to be found there. Those who have examined the marble say It can stand 6,000 pounds more to the square inch, than., any. so far discovered in Georgia. Then again it is a whiter marble, i not containing so much iron, which v makei it tester as a building material. ? - - -1 A ii ^ Mr. Gregory says ne snuweu it IV ? large contractor In New York, and was told that he would take 500,000 cubic feet or it if he could supply him within the next year. Just what the result of the examination will develop is not known. f . * ? : . *' New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued .1 commission tto the Ware's Shoal,1 Land company of Laurens, which is to be capitalized at "$40,000, and will sell !a*d. The corporators are J. O. C. 'Fleming", O. B. Simmons, W. L. Gray, W. R.".?J?bey. N, B. Dial, J. H. Sullii van and/W. H. Dial, of. Laurens; J. T. * Simmons* of Greenwood, and J T. j John-on of Sphrtanbirg. A charter was granted the P-epics' ; Supply company 0? Estill, which is to 1 ' do a general merchandise business on a capital of $13,00J. Ti e offices are J. N. Peeples. pres.dent; G. T. Peoples, vice president, and ,V. E. Peeples, sec* retary and treasurer. A commission was issued to the BishepviUe Telephone campany. o| Riahnnville. which propeses to operate telephone lines in the counties of Sumter. Darlington and Kershaw. The capital stock is to be $5,000. Too cov;m,rators ^re W. S. Smith, of Smithville; Nat. Barrett, of Mannville, and J. E, McLure, of Bnnopviiie. A Shocking; Story. Nashville, Tern., Special.?Bailie Crticcaiield, a colored woman li.ving ! neap- Iloaie, Smith county, was killed i during, the night by a mob" who took I her from her cabin, carried her to a bridge "wh*re she was bound, shot to death and Ui?ftwn into the creek. The woman was suspected of having found , and fajled tt*, return a lc3t purse containing $120. A Drunkard's Sad Fate. Allendale, Special.?Friday morning the body of Mr,t Perry Allen wa? found ^ ' V. 4 in a1 field" near town, in a oauiy </u ji u condition. His* h~me I? a short dis- . tance i>p the Souchera road, and on big way thete-f ran* town Thursday evening, he being intoxicated, and went to sleep , on , the t track. 3om?* one snatched him from this dangerous position only to allow him to wa^ckr into an adjoining ' fie id where :ome stumps were on fcrc. It is supposed ?" that In hLs effocts to warm 311-^:1 hds clothing caught and he was l/urned to death. * < *' * V* Ah '