The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 27, 1902, Image 6
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PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
Address to the People at Memphis,
Tennessee
OCCASION WAS LARGELY ATTENDED
President Called Attention to the
Fact That Much Honor lias Been
Won By Ex-Confideiaies.
Memphis. Tenn., Special.?Alt. .>ugh
the festivities Wednesday celebrated
the home-coming of General Luke E.
Wright, vice governor of the Philippines.
it is no reflection upon the
warmth of the welcome extended to
bim that President Roosevelt's presence
was the overshadowing feature
of the day. Excursion trains were run
into the city and a number of distinguished
people were present to participate
in the celebration. Anting
them were Gove: nor Benton McMillan
and General Joseph Wheeler.
The President was welcomed by a
.arge crowi. that showed great enthusiasm.
In speaking he said in part:
It is a real end great pleasure to
come to this typical city of the Southern
Mississippi Valley in order to
greet a typical American, a citizen of
Tennessee, who" deserves honor net
only from Lis State but from the entire
country?General Luke E. Wright.
We have a right to expect a high standard
of manhood from Tennessee. It
was one of the first two States created
west of the Alleghany Mountains, and
it was in this State that the first self
govenieg community of American
freemen, was established upon waters
Covins into the Gulf. The pioneers of
Tennessee were among the earliest in
. * that great westward march which
thrust the nation's order across the
ccnticor.t to the Pacific, and it is eminentiy
fitting* that a son of Tennessee
c should cow play so prominent a part
In the further movement of expansion
beyond the Pacific. There have been
Presidents of the United States for
but one lyandred and thirteen ' years,
and during sixteen o? these years Teanesseeans
sat in th? White House.
Hardihood, and "daring, and iron resolution
are cf right to be expected
azpeng the sens of a State which nurtured
Andrew Jaclrson and Sam Houston;
which sent into the American
navy onr of the most famous fighting
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Iu'duuruis ui tf.ii uuir, rii.ugui.
There is mother reason why our
country should be glad that it was
General Wright who rendered this
service. General Wright fought with
distinguished gallantry among the
?. gallant men who served in the armies
of the Confederacy during the civil
war. We need no proof cf the completeness
of our reunion as a people.
When the war with Spain came the
.sons of the men who wore the blue ani
the sons of the men who wore the gray
vied with one another in the efTort to
get into the ranks and face a foreign
foe under the old flag that had been
carried in triumph under Winfield
8cott and Zachary Taylor and Andrew
Jackson. It was my own good fortune
to serve under that fearless fighter,
old Joe Wheeler, a memory of which
I shall always be proud* But if we
need any proof of the unity of our interests
it would have been afTorded
this very year by General Wright, the
ex-Confederate, in his administration
as acting governor of the Philippine
Islands. Upon him during the months
of summer rested a heavier burden of
responsibility than upon any other
public servant at that particular time:
and not the least of his titles to our
regard is the way in which he was
able to work on terras of cordial good
will with the head of the army, himself
a man who had honored the blue
, uniform as Wright had honored the
gray.
General Wright's work has been as
difficult as it was important. The
events of the last four years have definitely
decided that whether we wish
to or not we must hereafter play a
great part in the world. We cannot
escape facing the duties. We may
. shirk them if we are built of poor
stuff, or we may take hold and do
them if we are fit sons of our sires?
but face them we must, whether we
will or not. Our duty in the Philippine
Islands has simply been one of the
duties that thus have come upon us.
We are there, and we can no more
haul down our flag and abandon the
islands than we could now abandon
Alaska. Whether we are.glad or sorry
that events forced us to go there is
aside from the question; the point Is
that, as the inevitable result of the
war with Spain, we found ourselves in
the Philippines and that we could not
leave the if'ands without discredit.
The islanders were wholly unfit to
govern themselves, and if we had left
there would have been a brief period
of bloody chaos, and then some other
nation would have stepped in to do
the work which we had shirked. It
cannot be too often repeated that there
> was no Question that the work had to
be done. All the question was. whether
we would do it well or ill: and.
thanks to the choice of men like Governor
Wright, it has been done well.
The first and absolutely indispensable
requisite was order?peace. The reign
, of lawless violence, of resistance to
legitimate authority, the reign of anarchy.
could no more be tolerated
abroad than it could be tolerated here
in our own
; . The American flag stands for orderly
liberty, and it stands for K
abroad as it stands for it at home. Th?
task of our sol iicrs was to restore
and maintain order in the islands. The army
had the task to do. and it. did
it well and thoroughly. The fullest and
heartiest pra'se belongs to our soldier
who in the Philippines brought
to a triumphant conclusion a war.
small indeed compared to the gigantic
struggle in which the older men whom
I am addressing took part in the earlv
J 60s., but inconceivably harassing an-'
difficult, because it was waged amid
K the pathless jungles of great trom
J islands and against a foe very clusiv
f very treacherous, and often inec:.
B ceivably cruel loth toward our mei:
K. and toward the great numbers c:
E peace-loving F-' upinos who gladlI
welocmed or; . :it. The soidivrs i:
B- duded both regulars and volunteer.I
men from i~ > rth, th? South, ik
B East and the West, men from Penn
?
svlvania and from Tennessee, no loss
than men from the Rooky Mountains
and the Pacific slope?and to all alike
we give honor, for they acted as
American soldiers should. Cruelties
were committed* here and there. The
fact that they wore committed under
well-nigh intolerable provocation affords
no excuse for such cruelties, nor
can we admit as justification that they
were retaliatory in kind. Every effort
has been made to detect and punish I
the wrongdoers and tho wrongdoing j
itself has been completely stopped. But
these misdeeds were exceptional, and
their occurrence in no wise alters the
fact that the American army in the
Philippines showed as a whole not
only splendid soldierly qualities but
a high order of humanity in dealing
with their foes. A hundred thousand
of our troops went to the Philippines.
Among them were some who offended
against the right. Well, are we altogether
immaculate at home? I think
not. I ask for no special consideration
to be shown our friends and kinsmen,
cur sous and brothers, who during
three years so well upheld the national
honor in the Philippines. I ask
merely that we do the same equal justice
to the soldier who went abroad
and faced death and lived hard as we
show to his fellow who stayed at home
and lived easily and in comfort; and
if we show that equal justice we will
doff our hats to the men who has put
the whole country under obligations
by the victory he helped to win in
the Philippines.
The nation owes a great debt to the
people through whom this splendid
work for civilization has been achieved
and therefore on behalf of the nation
I have come here to thank in your
presence your fellcw-townsrnan. because
he has helped us materially to
add a new page to the honor roll of
American history. General Wright, I
greet, I thank you, and I wish, you
well.
Thos. Borden Dead.
Fall River. Mass., Special.?'Thomas
.T. 3:'den. a member uf the Borden
family, whose name is linked with the
textile history of southeast Massachusetts.
died Friday night at Providence.
He was president of the Richard
Por 'en Company and connected with
n: try finaucial institutions.
Fred Douglass, welter-weight champion
of George, 144 pound3, Friday
night knocked out Fred Wall, 117
pounds, in the first half of the first
round, at Augusta. Ga.
Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Portsmouth.
Va., has completed its bleachery
and put it in operation during the
week. This company will be prepared
to do a quantity of bleaching besides
that of its own plant.
Pacolet (S. C.) Manufacturing Co.
nas Degun me erection 01 an aaauionaj
building for its branch mill at Gainesville.
Ga. This building will be fitted
up as a clothroom, and the present
clothroom in the main building will be
equipped with looms. This company'?
Gainesville plant has 50,000 spindle?
and 2,400 looms.
Chicago teachers have Joined tb
Federation of Labor.
Jail Delivery In Tennessee.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?While
one prisoner held the jailer, six others
escaped from jail at Dandridge,
Tenn., Sunday afternoon. John Perry
was the man who grabbed Jailer Fuller.
and in the struggle was unable to
escape himself, although the others
successfully got away. I-ant Wright,
one of the men who escaped, was in
Jail on the charge of house-breaking
with intent to commit criminal assault.
Officers, with bloodhounds, are scouring
the country for the men.
Cleveland Saloons Closed.
Cleveland, O., Special.?In compliance
with the strict order from Chief
of Police Corner, the local saloons will
shut up Sunday. There were few arrests
because there were few violations
of the law. Chief Corner has
stated that the Sunday closing law
will be enforced from now on. The
reason for the non-enforcement of the
law heretofore has been alleged overruling
orders from the higher officials.
Heretofore it has been an easy
matter to get in a saloon on Sunday
in Cleveland.
LAST WORDS OF WEBSTER.
Neighbor Explains Significance of
Phrase, "I Still Live."
Concerning "last words," A. II. MoRao
of New York has this to say of
Webster: "I knew an old lady who
was a neighbor and intimate friend
of the Websters in Washington. She
explained to me th meaning of his
lost words?'I still live.' Webster, as
all the world knows, was a hard drinker.
Liquor caused his death. In his
last days he was kepi alive by brandy,
which he constantly craved. The day
he died his physician called on him
early in the morning and found him
very low and, as he thought, unconscious.
Turning to the nurse, he said:
if he is alive at 8 o'clock give him another
drink of brandy.' The family
gathered at the bedside to see him
ureal he his last. A cloqjk in the room
struck 8. For a moment he remained
silent: then, as no one offered to help
him, he sail, rousmg up and opening
his ox eyes, i still live.' The nurse,
recollecting the doctor's Instructions,
hastened to give him another drink,
which proved to be his last, as he relapsed
into a quiet stupor and died
within a:i hour. The old lady did not
have a very high opinion of Webster
rem a moral standpoint, knowing that
the immortal words, 'I still live,' were
uttered for the purpose of getting a
liual arink."
The electrical mechanism of the new
railway block signal system, by
which the minutest fraction of a volt
can be transformed to as high at 1,000,000
volts, consists of but four
pieces. There are no relays or stepups.
FOR A COMPROMISE
A Surprising Move Before the Strike
Commission.
PROPOSITI DM FOR A SETTLEMENT.
Now Believed That Satisfactory Arrangements
Can Be Made Between
the Parties.
Scranton. Pa., Special.?The mine
workers, through their representatives.
have agreed with the mine owners
to attempt to adjust the differences
existing between them cutsiue
the Coal Strike Commission. The proposition
was made on a compromise
basis, and negotiations, it is expected,
will be at once entered upon, with a
reasonable hope of settlement without
tho a?H r>f tho nrhitrntnrc Thf? much
proposition, which is to form the basis
of negotiations, is a 10 per cent, increase
in wages, a nine-hour day. and
trade agreements between the miners
and the company by whom they are
employed. The only one of the four
demands not touched upon is that of
the weighing of coal by the legal ton.
While both sides haxe expressed their
willingness to settle their differences
among themselves, it is not to be construed
that it carries with it the acceptance
of the terms proposed. They
are mentioned only as a basis, it is
understood, from which a settlement
is to be effected. It is possible that the
proposition can be wrecked by either
party holding out too strongly against
some questions, and thus leave the
whole matter in the hands of the commission.
who in the meantime will act
as a sort of a board of conciliation,
rather than as a board of arbitration.
Few persons were aware that an attempt
would be made at an outside
settlement until it was practically intimated
by Judge Gray, the chairman
of the commission, who read a carefully
prepared announcement from the
bench. The move, one of the most important
in the whole history of the
coal strike, created a mild sensation
when it became known. The surprise
was all the greater when it will be re
membered that numerous propositions
from the United States down and that
many organizations, from the National
Civic Federation to the small boards
of trade of the mining towns, failed
to bring the two parties together. It
is said it was all brought about by
both sides seeing that the proceedings
before the committee would be interminable,
and in the intermingling of
the lawyers for both sides the outside
agreement proposition was broached
and taken up.
It cannot be stated which party
made the proposition first. The attorneys
for both sides are adverse to
talking. An attorney for one of the
railroads said it came from the miners'
side, while one lawyer for the miners
said it came from the operators. Another
report of the miners said it was
a "spontaneous" proposition. It Is generally
believed, however, that the operators
were the first to make the
proposition. Wayne MacVeagh, who
carried on such a brilliant cross-examination
of President Mitchell, is
given credit for bringing abo tuthe
present situation. He went to New
York after he finished with Mr. Mitchell
and had a conference with certain
persons connected with the coal industries,
among them, it is reported,
J. Picrpont Morgan. He was in New
York in connection with the matter.
TVio f>nmnii?cinn(irs wpre informed Clt
the turn of affairs last night, and acquiesced
in the proposed arrangement.
The situation did Dot directly come
up in the public hearing today and the
adjournment proposition was made
ostensibly to permit both sides to complete
their work of preparing documentary
evidence.
Clarence S. Darrow. of Chicago, one
of Mr. Mitchell's attorneys, brought
the matter out when, near the close
of the day's session, he suggested that
the miners be given a little more time
to prepare their evidence. The miners
wanted to present the due bills or
wage statements of thousands of
miners running back for several
years, and they found that the task of
presenting them in a proper manner
was as stupendous one. They also
xrontorl ir\ nnr-ofn 11 v ovfjminp tho pom.
pany books and this, too. would take
considerable time.
President Arrives Home.
Washington, Special. ? President
Roosevelt arrived here at 8 o'clock.
Tuesday morning over the Southern
Railroad. A little crowd was at tne
station to witness his return. As he
left the train he shook hands with the
enginee- and fireman and thanked
them for the safe run they had made.
The President and Serrearv Cortclyou
were driven direct to the White House.
New Ship Yard For Norfolk,
Norfolk. Special.?A deed was filed
in the recording olfic? transferring to
the Norfolk-Hampton Roads Ship
P.uilding and Dry Dock Company from
the Norfolk & Hampton Roads Company,
in consideration of $339,500, 679
acres of lands fronting on Hampton
Roads, near Secell's Point to be used
for the $3,000,000 ship yards that will
be at cnce erected, including a dry
dock. The new yard will employ 8.000
hands and will be completed within
one year. It is capitalized at $5,000.000
with a maximum of $10,000,000 and
bonded for $3,000,000; Si.000.030 1.3 now
available and the purchase price of the
tract bought today was paid in cash.
Tim yard will he Independent of the
Nixon ship building combination.
Flood in Texas.
Beaumont. Tex.. Special.?There was
a terrific rainfall Friday throughout
this section of the State. The rain began
here at 1 o'clock this morning and
continued steadily until o o'clock this
afternoon, at which time there were
three feet of water in some of the
business streets. The stocks of many
merchants were ruined and the lor-ses
will amount to many thousands of dollars.
In the oil field the damage will
amount to probably $20,000,000, many
of the companies have suffered heavily.
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A SERIOUS COLLISION
Train Nor 35 on the Southern Runs
Into Wild Freight Cars.
Charlotte, N. C., Special.?No. 3e,
the south-bound night passenger train
on the Southern Railway, was wrecked
as it entered t le Spartanburg yard
about 2 o'clock Monday morning. The
colored fireman was killed, and Engineer
A. B. Solomon, of Charlotte,
was seriously injured and Baggagemaster
Joe Mitchell, also of Charlotte,
was hurt, but how badly could not be
learned. Three white passengers and
a colored woman were injured, the
latter probably fatally, but their names
could not be learned.
The wreck occurred oa a curve near
the Beaumont Mills at the Spartanburg
yard limits. Three box cars became
detached at the junction, two
miles distant and ran down the main
line at great speed. When they collided
with the passenger thain the engine
and three cars, the express and bag
gage car3 and one coach left the track,
and the cars were demolished. >
Engineer Solomon had an arm
broken and is thought to be injured
internally. Baggage Master Mitchell
was among the injured.
A short time after the accident every
physician in Spartanburg hurried
to the scene and everything possible
| was done for the relief of the in
jured.
The cars were going down-grade at
an incredible rate of speed and when
j they struck the engine it was turned
completely around.
Saloon Wrecked.
Mahony City. Pa.. Special.?The
most destructive dynamiting outrage
that has occurred in the thee oal regions
since the strike began was porj
petrated here at 5 o'clock Sunday
j morning. The dynamite, with fuse attached,
was placed on the bar of the
saloon of Christopher Portland. The
front part of the building was blown
across the street and the adjoining
1 buildings on either side were badly
1 wrecked. Windows were broken in ev!
ery house in the square. Portland and
: the other members of the familyk were
sleeping on the third floor and escapel
i without serious injury, although all
j were thrown from their beds. Portj
laud's two sons are non-union men and
worked during the strike.
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Resigned on Account of Organ.
Lexington, Ky., Special.?The withdrawal
of Rev. James W. McGrevy,
president of the Bible College of Kentucky
University from the Broadway
Christian church, became final Sunday,
when that church, by a vote of
361 to 202, adopted the organ for use
in worship. He opposed it on scriptural
grounds, being noted througout the
; denomination for his utterances
against it. Two factions developed iu
the church and the campaign was intense.
Rev. J. W. Searchy, late pro;
hihition candidate for Congress, has
1 also withdrawn, and Prof. Henry H.
, White, former president of Kentucky
i University, and others, say they wil!
: leave the church when the organ shall
be put in use.
A Narrow Escape.
Richmond, Special.?A Baydton, Va..
| special says Colonel J. Thomas Goods,
; who lives six miles from here, a memi
bcr of the State board of agriculture.
had a narrow escape from death Mon'
day by poison. Aconite, a deadly poison
' \ as emptied into a glass and left in
; tbr glass to be thrown away, and as
' aconite is colorless, the colonel rnis|
took it for water and poured more wa
j ter in and drank freely of it. As soon
| f-.s the mistake was discovered strong
I emetics were used and the sufferer wa
soon relieved. His physician says the
I dose would have ended his life in a
I v- ry al.ort timr had not the tiae.ics
liccn i!-:ul i-'craptly.
Aiilis Enter Alerter.
Greensboro. Special.?The cotton
mill merger committee practically com.
pletcd its work here last night, having
finally passed upon all properties offered
them, and there will be another
meeting here in about three weeks to
pass upon properties that were accepted
in every respect, except that some
formalities, such as affixing seal. etc..
to papers submitted had been omitted.
The Kitl'ng of Fitzgerald.
Washington. Special.?The State DeI
partment . eeeived reports from Dr.
I Hunter, minister at Gautemala City.
. and Consular General McNally, at the
same place, regarding the case of Godfrey
Hunter. Jr.. and Secretary Bailey,
of the American legation there, who
worp narties to the shooting affray re
j suiting in the death of 'Vm. Fitzgeri
Aid yesterday. Mr. McNally's latest
advices gives the affair the aspect of a
shocking and cold-blooded murder,
making it appear that Secretary Bailey
was a party to the crime, holding up
Fitzgerald with a revolver in f ont
while Hunter shot the man from behind.
A Large Collection.
j New York, Special.?Seventy thousI
and dollars was raised Sunday at a
mass meeting held in Ca-negie Hall by
the Metropolitan thank-offering commission
of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and In thirty Methodist
churches for the worn-out preachers'
fund. The plan was to raise $100,000 in
which event John E. Andrus, of Yonkers,
has promised to give $50,000 in
cash.
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tRt'PP PASSES SUDDENLY AWAY
some i lysirry connccicu wixn ms>
Sudden Death, But No Suspician of
Suicide.
Berlin, By Cable.?Herr Krupp, the
great gun-maker and the wealthiest
man in Germany, died suddenly from
apoplexy Saturday noon, at his villa
at Huegal. Herr ftrupp had been ill
for several days and a report of his
condition was telegraphed daily to his
wife, who had been several months in
Jena, under medical treatment. Concerned
by the latest dispatches regarding
her husband. Frau Krupp left
Jena yesterday, accompanied by Prof.
Binswanger, of the medical faculty of
the university there. She will reach
Essen early Sunday morning. According
to the medical reports, his physicians
succeeded in restoring Herr
Krupp to consciousness, but the patient
soon relapsed into insensibility.
He died at 3 o'clock. In the meantime,
the directors of the Krupp works and
Ht?rr Krupp's solicitors had been sum- j
moned. They had a consultation after J
his death and caused a bulletin an- i
nouncing his death to be posted at the
works at b o ciock.
The first question that everybody j
asked was: "Did Herr Krupp commit j
suicide?" There se?ms to be no test:- j
mony to support this suggestion, the j
physicians in attendance resolutely
asserting that the case was simply one
of apoplexy. That considerable time
elapsed after death before the news
was announced is taken by some persons
to indicate that the cause of
death is somewhat obscure. Near
friends of the dead man ^ho are aware
of the great mental distress into
which the recent publication in The
Vorwaerts had thrown him, reproduced.
as it was, in adjacent cities
and telegraphed over the world, are
confident that the charges contained
in the story induced his death.
Herr Krupp's villa, where he died, is
several miles from Essen. The great
gun-maker lived there in almost feudal
fashion and the place is unapproachable.
nobody being admitted within
the gates except police, the directors
of the Krupp works and the undertakers
and their assistants. The officials
and employes of the Krupp
works yesterday called a public meeting
for the object of expressing indignation
at the charges made by The
Vorwaerts. The meeting assembled at
11:30 o'clock this morning, but before
a deputation could be appointed to
convey to Herr Krupp expressions of
loyalty and confidence it was learned
that his condition was too serious for
him to receive such a deputation.
Herr Krupp was not regarded as a
hard master by his workmen. He mainj
tained various institutions at Essen
i for their benefit and built hundreds of
j mode! houses on sanitary priciples for
I their use, charging for them a mod|
erate rental. Moderate es^mates of
i the fortune of the deceased place it at
$125,090,000, and his annual income
! during his recent years of prosperity
! at $19,000,000.
It ic nnderiilnnil in I7!sspn that the
' great works created by Herr Krupp
will be placed in the hands of trus|
tees for the benefit of Frau Krupp
j and her daughters. Emperor William,
vpon learning of the death of Herr
Krupp, sent a telegram to the directors
of the works at Essen, eulogizing
Herr Krupp and expressing sympathy.
Chicago Post off !cs Robbed.
Chicago, Special.?The Chicago
j postoffice was the victim Sunday night
| of one of the most daring robberies
| that has ever been perpetrated in this
i city. Ten thousand dollars is the
amount believed to have been secured
by the robber, who made his escape
without leaving any clew to his identity.
Federation Elects Officers.
New Orleans. Special.?The American
Federation of Labor re elected the
following officers: President, Samuel
Gompers; first vice president. James
Duncan: second vice president, John
Mitchell; third vice president. James
i O'Connell; fourth vice president. Max
Morris; fifth vice president, Thos. I.
Kidd; sixth vice president, Dennis A.
Hayes: treasurer, John B. Lennon:
secretary, Frank Morrison: fraternal
delegates to the next labor convention
of Great Britain. Max S. Hayes and
Martin Lawler; fraternal delegate to
Canada. John Coleman. The place of
the next convention win ue tsosion.
Dr. Hunter to Be Relieved.
Washington, Special.?The recent
tragedy at Guatemala City, in which
Wni, Fitzgerald lost his life, may have
the effect of hurrying to hi3 post Mr.
Combs, of Louisville, the new minister
to Central America, who succeeds Dr.
Godfrey Hunter, the retiring minister,
j it is recognized here that Dr. Hunter's
j position at the Guatemalan capital
J canhardly remain tenable and for this
J reason he no doubt would like to be
reliVed very soon.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
(leorg'a's r'rogre.'JS.
Comptroller-General Wei. A. Wright ^ ""
of Georgia, in his report to the governor.
has compiled a mas-3 of interesting
and valuable figures shciug the increase
in proptry valuer, in the Scate
between 1S70 and 1302. The assessed
value of the whole taxable properly of
the State increased from $234.9->3.-51S to
*4 it 7 310 fi-in P/v.tif nr t ho n.-i.'nh'o fan
torics from $ 1.640,000 to $23,131,371,
iron works from $293,649 to $1,113,674,
railroads from $3,806,129 to $33,212,573,
bank capital from $4,667,567 to $13,442,45S,
city and town real estate from
$45,007,286 to $122,672,133, land3 from
$90,453,822 w $124,799,013. live-stock
from $21,017,634 to $25,102,836, firm
implements from $2,971,372 to $6,898,301,
household furniture from $9,156,404
to $16,611^652. merchandise f.om.
$12,012,755 to $24,104,341, and money,
etc.. from $25,513,005 to $33,916,679.
Especially significant are the figures
showing the progress made by the negroes
a3 property holders. That class
of the population owns $15,138,069
worth of assessed property, di.lded as
fellows: City or tbV:n real estate, $4;? * , ^
389,422; lands, $4,779,263; live-stock,
$2.5S5,831; tools and implements. $632,583;
household furniture, $1,683,541;
money, etc., $9^,538; merchandise, $96,- i
223; all other, $499,668. While the
values of ail properties in the State
have increased a little less than 100 per
cent, since 1879, the values of negroes'
property have increased a little more
than 193 ner cent. This fact is an evi
deuce of the friendly relations bet-Veen
the whites and negroes of the State,
manifested in other ways, and at the
same time suegccts greater achievements
by the negroes, provided they
may be relieved of that element among
them which in indolence, vice and
crime is a drain upon the whole community.
Textile Notes.
The Magnolia Cotton Mill of Concord,
N. C., is being established by J.
M. Odell, and its capacity will be 100
looms. This plant is of an experimental
character, and will produce a line
of fine goods not heretfore made in the
South. A large plant will probably develop
from this enterprise. Thomas J.
Hartfleld, a Philadelphia (Pa.) expert,
has been secured to act as superintendent.
Messrs. Henry D. Hale, W. S. Cook
and G. 0. Duncan of Mayfleld. Ky.,
have incorporated the Old Woolen
Mills Co., with capital stock of $100,(JDO,
and will establish plant. Further
details are not known as yet. The
parties named recently purchased
buildings formerly used for woolen
manufacturing, and it is presumed
they propose re-equipping the structures.
A dispatch from Anderson, S. C.,
states that the Orr Cotton Mills of that
city has definitely decided to double ita
plant. The company has a plant of 25,000
spindles and 700 looms, capitalized
at $400,000. To double the mill would
require an expenditure of about the *
present capital. No confirmation of the
report has been made by the company.
It is reported that the Sheswell Cotton
Mills Co. of Westminster, S. C.,
will make further improvements, to include
the erection of a three-story addition
and the installation of additional
machinery. The present plant has
11,000 ring spindles and 850 looms. No
confirmation of this report has been
given.
Manetta Mills of Lando, S. C., has
let contract for the erection of an additional
building. This structure will
be two stories high, 75x350 feet. It is
not stated what new machinery, if any
will be installed, but construction work
has begun on the building. Present
plant has 7000 ring spindles.
Seaboard Knitting Mills of Henderson.
N. C.. have passed into the control
of A. C. Zollecoltee as receiver.' The
plant will bgoffered for sale at public
outcry on December 10. It is equipped
with thirty-three knitting machines,
uses steampower and dyes its product.
F. W. Howard, superintendent and
buyer for Belding Bros. & Co. of
Belding, Mich., manufacturers of silk
threads and fabrics, has been visiting
Birmingham, Ala., investigating the
possibilities for manufacturing raw
silk in that vicinity.
Hawkinsville (Ga.) Cotton Mills,
now operating 3000 ring spindles and
eighty looms, will add sixty 40-inch v
looms. The company is prepared to
r?or?Qi.-ior PQtimnfpQ nn furnishing th**
machines, also on electrical supplies.
It is proposed to organize .a $100,000
stock company for th^ purpose of
establishing a cotton factory at Jacksonville,
Ala. Reports state that J. L.
McComb, a South Carolina cotton mill
operator, is leading the movement.
Robert Christie and associates of Colora,
Md., contemplate establishing
fiber works. They have held a meeting
to further the project, and obtained
$4000 in subscriptions to a company if
organized.
It is reported that Messrs. R. A.
Lewis of Belton, S. C., and E. A.
Smythe of Pelzer. S. C., will build a
cotton mill near Stantonville, S. C.
In one of the cotton chats of the
Draper Company of Hopedale, Mas3.,
its secretary says that the South is now
taing the bulk of the new cotton ma- -{
chinery, and that South Carolina is the n.
most prominent Southern State ir. this '
respect. He presents figures showing
that n? tho tnt.il nf fi4 ri-10 Innnu in
^outh Carolina mills 27,980 are Northrop
looms. . 1
Samuel L. Haines. 126 East Mins
street, San Francisco, Cal., wants to
obtain the agency for sale of a cheap
anil medium line of tickings in plain
blue ami white and fancy notions
made by Southern mills.
Messrs. J. E. Nelson. S. J. Shienker
and A. E. Bowen have incorporated
Mississippi Valley Batting Co., with
capital stock of $10,000, to deal in cotton
batting, etc.
The Smithleld (N. C.) Cotton Mills
has let contract for a quantity of additional
machinery. The company is
now operating 5000 ring spindles.
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