The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 06, 1901, Image 2
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Published Every Thursday
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WNG9TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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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 $10,000,000 for water, light, 1
sewers and pavements.
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TILLMAN WILL NOT RECANSIDtG.
Writes Governor Mc$\\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."
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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
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Quick nr:d T-rribie Ven;j?ar.c-%.
Eartcw, Fla., Special.?Fred E>
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! 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
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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
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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
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.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.
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