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-T 1 r JHEJOiKiTY R5S0RD. ' Published Every Thursday ?AT? WNG9TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BT? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. "The Extirpation cf itabiiitr.'' "Heaven's Dead Letter Office" and "Revivals by Constitutional Methods" have been recently announced in Australian newspapers as subjects of Sunday die courses. So it appears that America is unfortunately not the only country where sensational titles are chosen to attract listeners to sermons. Besides being a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the Spanish moss grown in Florida is exceedingly useful. It is used in great quantities in upholstering, and it has recently been discovered that aside from this and other values, it makes an excellent strainer and purifier for cane syrups, the juice runs through it producing fined syrups than any in the world. Tho p-irle in thn "nonr lnv.* schools'' of Great Britain are not without ambitions. According to an English paper, one quarter of them want to be housemaids. There is one at least who wants "to be useful." Another desires to be at poetess cr novelist. Another chooses to be a "lady adopting orphans," who must be first cousin to the girl who wants to become a duchess, being able to/ be "hind to little children," helping them "in different ways." The most difficult tesheet themselves by any of these poor children, however, is that essayed by the girl who would be a milliner, adding: "When I am making the hats I should make them neat and tidy and so help to get some of the pride out of people.' There is a vein of shrewdness in the ordinary child, which even sad condi It will be a surprise to most lovers of Seott that the oak which he made famous in "Ivanhoe," the trysting oak in Harthill Walk, Sherwood Fores*, fell but a short time ago. This great tree was one of the genuine relics of antiquity. It stood when the Romans were in England, and underneath its branches on the eve of St. Withold'3 day a letter of defiance to Front do Boeuf was written to "a holy man, clerk to God, Our Lady and St. Dunstun, in the chapel of Copanhurst." and signed by Wamba, son of Witless, the jester; Gurth, son of Beowulf, born thrall to Cedric the Saxon, and their allies; Locksley the yeoman.and the black knight. Where the oak stood is an ancient glade in Sherwood Forest, on the confines of the West Riding of Yorkshire and on the estate of the Duke of Leeds. The Duchess of Leeds purposes to save the trunk and have it placed nearby, with an appropriate inscription on it. Where it stood will be planted this spring a young tree to take its place. J. D. Whelpley gives in the World's Work these startling statistics of President Diaz's administration: Twentyfour years of peace for a nation of 14,000,000 people who had been at war with others and among themselves for half a century; compulsory education; religious freedom; safety for foreign and domestic life and property; the creation of a middle class; a modern army of 38,000 trained soldiers armed with Mauser rifles and officered by graduates of a modern military school; representation for Mexico at the capitals of all foreign nations of impor tance; an increase from 420 to 8000 miles of railroad; an increase from 535,000,000 to $78,000,000 in the output of precious metals; an increase from $20,000,000 to $51,000,000 in imports; an increase from $23,000,000 to $75,- ! 000,000 in exports; the investment of j $30,000,000 of foreign capital in cotton ! mills and millions more in breweries, i paper mills and many other forms of ' enterprise; a general increase of wages 1 pr.:d for common labor from IS to GO cents a day; a government the ex- ; peases of which are always within its ' income and which has an accumulate 1 surplus in bank of $18,000,000 in cur- ! reicy; a capital city with 400,000 in- ' habitants i:i which is now being spent cbout $10,000,000 for water, light, 1 sewers and pavements. / TILLMAN WILL NOT RECANSIDtG. Writes Governor Mc$\\eency Tltc! Mis Decision is Finai. C'),'::r.,)'n. S. Spe- :c.!.?f rr.'r r Ti ktm has dee!in?.! to wiGi Ira.v i:i; ri sip.;-.aiTo:, an I diaries thet Gj\m> V tr. :i , c a.'.e ! his til ili.rit/ in .?vn :in^ tlio ro_>i :ua:lum; la'!: ;o l ho Soaat jrs. .Venator Tiii:::a:i has written sr. < j\ u lett r. in which ho says in , a t: "Vr.ur iency, ci course, has t o right. and it is entirely prefer t j turn iay rcri n-.tlea ami advise rno:c sc.ions ecu ie-.alioa. In fie:' u n v to acccpl. 1 am sure yen have nan:cended your authority. It w ill la ve:y little investigation and reilocti n to e* tivince you of this. Ycu cannot ' o n] tl a rr.cmlcr of the United S.a es Sena c to holl hi ? commission tn 1 e\e cise the l' notions of that office ? he choo e to surrender it. My action in teudc ing my resignation, while hastv. was not ill-advised, and I run firmly convinced cf the wisdom cf my course upaa reflection. "Personally, I had nothing to ga'n an'. everything to lose, and I do not feci the ner-1 of further instructions or vln Mention, because I had just hv th.-? nonn'p with I'Ull I WIV V IVU I/; WAV. |/VW|<.? - pract'cal unnn'inity. I offered to resign in order to bring about the resignation ( f my colleague anil thus put us en a Ic\e\ with equal rights to jo belore the penie an i ask an enlorsenrcnt c: ou respe. .ire courts, 't is /0:newhat remarkable that you should ask the S< n iters who have re-irnei to take time to consider, v.h?n you yours If are reported to be reul" to appoint tv. j Senators in two na nu c3 i ml a hah. after receiving an imircdiato resignation. "Vcur (oaceplicn ef the ofuces o.' Senator an 1 its powers can le lest understood by the ease with v. hi it j you think you could fill it. It war not ray fault th:it an immediate re- I signatioa was not sent you. You do- j elate that the 'people are entitled to i one year rf peace an! freedom' f.om j political battler and bitterness. I an i ready to acknowledge that this it j very desirable, but our race ha3 ever thouyht war preferable to di:h nor, cr.d unlrss 1 am very much deceive', a large majority of the people of South Carolina would be glad cf an opportunity to have those principles end policies which they support loyally represented in the Congress of the Unite 1 States. "I am aware that there is ?ome strong opposition in re-tain ltiartors to a campaign in this 'oh yea.* to fi'.l two vacancies in the der ate. Many unthinking citizens do not know its importance. Many who would be aspirants are not just ready for various reasons to enter the contest brought on so nexpeetedly, it is not convenient or suitable and therefore they have, no doubt, importuned your excellency to await their convenience, claiming that it is for the public welfare. "On the other hand it migh* be remarked that the session of Congress b? ginning next December marks an era in the history of our Republic and the patriots who will then inaugurate a struggle for the restoration of the old landmarks and the preservation of our free institutions, will need every voice and every vote that can he had. The fact that the Republicans have a good majority In the Senate does not alter the case in the least. Tin recent decision of the Supreme Court promul gating the damnable doctrine that th's republic whose bedrock principle is the 'consent of the governor.' can acquire by conquest or purchase territories and peoples to be controlled and tax?i without representation through Congressional absolutism' must be met and exposed. and plants must be laid for a battle to the death by the lovers of Democracy and liberty, against this heresy. "I claim to represent the people and to voice their wishes. The result of the Gaffney meetings had brought Senator McLaurin wfthin reach of his constituents. and it was to obtain this answer at once that prompted my conduct ft Gaffney. Your excellency's action gives him a loophole and the censure or blame must rest where It belongs. "There is nothing personal in my attitude towards Senator MoLauric. Nothing but a sense of duty forces me to the course I have pursued. Material prosperity and progress may be worth mere than strict abhenoe to principle a?rl lovnltv to trust but I cannot see it in that light. "Holding this view I decline for the present to withdraw my resignition. I, was tendered in order to secure tn resignation of Senator McLaurin and wili net be withdrawn until he shiii have shown his unwillingness to let Oj" people pass upon his conduct ihi. yeninstead of next. He declares in his latest interview that he 'will .-peak on such invitations as he did at ; when possible, and will not consent to any interference by Senator Tiiirnan o* anybody else. "Whether or not Mr. Mo Laurin will be allowed to do this :emains to be sc:n. If the people have a right to hear him, the same people have ?a right to hrar me and others, he no longer seems to have anxiety about his health, and if allowed to speak by himself, rather enjoys the prospe t." T / NtGkO WAS BURAcDj Drrj.'e Pcn:!iy Paid tor .More Horrible Crime. A raiAN DaITALLY ASSAULTED And I hen Murdered ip a S!a rcking ! i iTsnncr?Ir.furiai.d People Takj i Quick nr:d T-rribie Ven;j?ar.c-%. Eartcw, Fla., Special.?Fred E> I 1 ! cfcclle, a black ncgio 25 y-ars c* age, who at noon Tuesday criminally asca;It*-* I and than murdered Mrs. Ren t Taggnrt, a well-known an.I respectabla white woman cf this city, was burned at the stake here early Wednesday evening in the presence of a throng oi people. The burning was on tbe scene of the negro's crime, within ICO yards of tne principal throughfare of this city. ! The assault and murder was one of the boldest and coldest-blooded climes ! ever committed in Florida. At 10 | o'clock Tuesday morning, Mrs. Taggart, who was born and reared in this place and was a woman of good family and reputation, went fishing alone in a small row boat that she kept at the city bridge over Placeo creek. This is in fuil view of the public throughfare. A few minutes before noon Mrs. Tsggart, desiring to return home, rowed ; her boat to the bridge and made it fast, j A negro man was fishing from the bridge at the time. Mrs. Taggart starred heme and had proceeded only a few 1 steps in the swamp toward the cp^.n prairie and thence to the street when she was approached by RoLhelle, who I had been hiding in the swamp. He seized her and she broke loose and screaming ran from the swamp into the prairie, where he overtook her, overpowered her an 1 assaulted her. After the assault, while she was prostrate. he held her with his hands and knees and taking his knife from his pocket cut her throat from ear to ear, causing instant death. He then walked to the negro, who had been Ashing from the bridge and was thoroughly frightened, anl asked him what he should do with the body. He was told to leave it where it was, but unheedful of this request he took the bleeding form in his arms and carried it back to the swamp, threw it down and escaped into the interior of the swainp. in a few minutes the crime had been reported and in less than an hour practically the entire city was in arms and well armed posses were moving in every direction in search of the criminal. Bloodhouds were secured and all night a fruitless starch was continued. Wednesday morning no trace of the negro had been secured and the people were becoming more desperate in their determination to apprehend him as the chances for his final escape seemed to prow. About noon a courier arrived announcing that ihe negro had been captured by two other negroes south of the city. Pcssc-s were immediately on the trail, but the capturers evaded detection and succeeded in getting theii prisoner quietly into the city and in turning him over to the sheriff c ! Polk county. In less than ten minutes after the transfer had been made, as if the matter had been flashed voluntarily throughout the city and neighborhood, the streets became congested with people. augmented as they marched upon the jail. In spite of the sheriff and a strong guard of extra deputies who made every effort to protect him from mob violence, they secured the prisoner and took up the march to the scene of -a-nc riisined and his body saturated with oil; the match was applied and with shrieks and howls, he expiated the crime of whicJ he was guilty. The crowd dispersed fi, good order. Nicaragua Pays Up. Washington, D. C., Special.?The Niearauguan jovernraent has paid over to the State Department the sum of $S,700. being the award in the arbitration of the claims of Orr & Laubenheimer. of Mobile. Ala..for a launch seized and of the Post Electric Company, of Cincinnati, for electric supplle; taken by Xicaraugua o?3clals. Qe:i. Gordon Re-Elected. The Reunion at Memphis adjourned mi r*r?aw o ronr n"nfifohlo on 1 1 <1111 t CILIA'A c*. ? v.; j )'t v<?vMwtv . largely attended session. It will meet next year in Dallas. Texas. G.n. Jclm B. Gordan was re-elected commander, amid scenes of great enthusiasm. Memphis, Tenn., Special,?The sens ' of Confederate Veterans closed their convention in one of the stormiest sessions in the history of the organ- 1 ir.ation. it all arose over the choice 1 of a commander-in-chief to succeed ' Bresc-oe Hindman, who declined to ' become a candidate for re-election. ] Judge R. B. Haughton. of St. Lcuis, i was finally declared elected by ac- i clamation, but the decision was j reached after a hard parliamentary , battle. i i ' ' M SOUTSERNiNDUSTR1AL G!car.:r?r. From A!1 Sections cf tlic Busy an A Prosperous S->uth. A Valuable Tree. There is more wealth in our forests than .n gold n:iae3 if the timber is properly cared for. One walnut ti e , cat in Hayvrcod county last week, brought ons thousand dollars. The people who live in _uch a country arc rich if they only knew it. This recalls an interview with Mr. S. L. Rogers. Corporation Commissioner of Noith Carolina, which recently appeared in the High Point Enterprise. We quote: "Railroad Commissioner Rogers.who was here Saturday was talking about the value of North Carolina timber. Ho said that he had only one story to relate and that was a big one. A man in Western North Carolina was selling standing timber?walnut trees. The man who was buying came to one vary handsome tree. He told the owner he would pay as much as (5) for that tree. This excited the owner. He did not sell but sent for experts. The owner got $1 510 for the tree (curled walnut) as it stood. The man who cut it down realized $3,000 for it on the cars. It was shipped to New Ycrk and veneered 1-6 to 1-2 inch. The sal<j3 were watched ar.d estimated a3 best that could be done and when all was di;posed cf it turned out that the tree brought near $30.0)C. The point is this: We have no idea as to the value of cur timber, much of which is being sent North for a mere song. We cau become rich in North Carolina if we work our raw material as others work ' ? r>-UJ,U v? ? J AU. a. li. i\Ji ui. ?rtiwui&ii i>e\vs ttju wj-*;.ver. Texas Prosperity. Ths Texas merchants are not all boring tor cil la Beaumont. Many cf them are in the field for business, and they seem to know how to go after it. Dallas is sending out through lad an Territory, Oklahoma and contiguous points a train load of her business nun who go, a3 the Dallas News tells it in red ink. "as excursionists to sprea i the fame of Dollar in the land north of the Red river, to cecnent the relations existing between this city and the Territories, and to advertise the great Texas State Fair. These gentlemen are not sotting cut with thoir bar!: upon an unknown soa, for many of them have visited the Territories before, and Dallas already enjoys a gord share cf t'ne trade with the thriving and prosperous towns in that land of promise. But they will during the ucxt 10 days travel more extensive y *1 1. 1 i - ? .1 ..m 1a. IXI run'J II i."Hv Itftliu uau uaaci ucuci auspices for getting acquainted with it and with the people who have developed it to its present state thaa they have ever had before.' ' Notes of Progr(*sr. It is good news everywhere that the Jefferson Hotel at ichmond is to be rebuilt. The Dispatch makes the authoritative statement which will be gladly read all over the South. Eastern North Carolina is coming to be fine stock raising country. Mr. Upton. of West Virginia, has bought a farm in Cumberland county upon 4hich he will raise stock. Those who have tried it in other eastern sections have made more money man m growing cm. ton. A tobacco man remarked in Winston, N. C., that Winston would sell at letut 2.0<W,000 pounds of leaf between Jun^ 1st and October 1st. A half million of this will be of the new crop. Th* total sales for this tobacco year will be fifteen or sixteen million pounds. Ucer Oenernl Killed. Pretoria. By Cable.?The Boer gen eral. Schoeman. and his daughter hare been killed, and his wife and two others have been badly Injured by the explosion of a shell. General Soho?man. his family and some friends we.e examining a 4.7-inch lyddite shell which they kept In the house as acu-i riosity when the :-he!l exploded, killing ! the general on the spot and mortally v.*minding his daughter and severely injuring his wife and two other persons. .Supreme Court Adjourns. Washington, D. C.. Special.?After a session en three minutes the l'n:ted Suites Supreme Court adjourned until I the second Monday in October. The I brief session was devoted to the formal ! disposition of motions. The two re- [ maining insular eases ,one of the n that ; )f the fourteen diamond rings, dealing r.'ith importations from the Philip- 1 pines, and the other known as the second Dooley case, involving the question of exportations from the United States to Porto Rico, failed to reecive attention and they go over until the next term. WILL NOT ACCEPT. Governor Me Sweeney Returns Resi?? nations to Senators. OPPOSES OFF-YEAR CAMPAIGN. Sees No Reason Why The Rest and Progress of the People Should Be Needlessly Disturbed. Columbia, Special.?Governor McSweeney has refused to accept the resignations ot Senators Tillman aal McLaurin. Their resignations we4e made at a political meeting in Gaffney>s. May 25, and were mailed the Governor ^ that night. He received them the following morning, when about to leave for Chickamauga to participate in the unveiling of a monument to South Carolina's dead. The Governor returned here early Friday morning and announced his decision shortly after noon. He wrote a communication to the Senators in which he first said that he "returned their resignations for fur ther consideration, as their action might have been taken in the heat of debate without full consideration of7 the effects on the people. In closing paragraphs of his letter, however, the Governor unequivocally "declines to accept" the resignations. His reasons may be put in a few words. A canvass between them would result in bitterness, stir up the people just at a period when they are trying to get together for the material progress of the State and would be a campaign or personalities intead of education. Next year there will be ample opportunity for a full discussion. Holding these views the Governor says his duty is plain. Governor McSweeney's loiter in full is as follows: "Gentlemen:?Your letter, tendering your resignation as United States Senators from South Carolina wa3 received on the eve of my departure to Chickamauga to take part in the ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the monument which South Carolina has just erected to her brave and heroic soldiers who lost their lives in defence of a principle on this historic battlefield. Hence my de-lay In acknowledging il. i rtx>^ecu.uiij r-iuiu yuu. ica.su?~ tlons that you may havo more time tor serious consideration of the effcMs upon the people of this St:ife of this action on your part. The commission which you hold is the highest compliment and testimonial which the people of this Sflate can pay to one of its citizens. It is possible that you have taken this step hastily in the hea* of debate and without due reflection on the consequences to the people who have so signally honored you. "It was only last year that our people had the excitement and turmoil incident to a campaign, and in another year we will be in the midst of further political strife. The people are entitled o one year of peace and freedom from political battles and bitterness. The indications are that a campaign such as would be precipitated by vacancies in these two exalted positions would be a very acrimonial one. and personal, rather than a discussion of issues, and from such a canvass as that our people should be spared. In fact it would bo a calamity to the state to be torn asunder by a heated canvass in this 'off year' in politics. There can be no possible good to come of it. The people of the State are getting together and working for the a Ivancement and upbuilding of the material prosperity of the Commonwealth, and I should regret anything that would retard this progress. It is net my purpose in thus writing to prevent the fullest and freeest discussion of ail public questions and the education of the people along all political lines. On ? the contrary. I heartily favor that and believe it can be best ao 'omplished without the bitterness and the personalities which would be inseparable from a campaign during the coming summer. Under our party rules a campaign will be necessary within a little more than a year .and ample time can be had for a full discussion o? the issues now before the people. Holding these views .and looking to ue inteiests of the people of this Srate? their peace, prosperity and happiness?I respectfully decline to accept your resignations and bog to return t'aem here with." Carter Mortgage Cancelled. Atainta. Special.?A cancellation of jj .1 mnrtrncp for S10.750 in t v. r of ex Captain Olerlin M. Carter, who is new serving a sentence in the United States prison at Fort Leavenworth for alleged i conspiracy to defraud the government, 3 was filed here. The mortgag was given s in l?io t v T. rdayhew Cun:.i..gham, cf .i Savannah, to Robert F. Wtstcott and ^ Margaret J. Westeott, the father-in- f law and mother-in-law of Carter, and was transferred by the lat, r in 1S99. ? The e::cct;tion of " the transfer was made in San Roino, Italy, where the { Westectts were sojourning at that S time. 1 ; . I