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SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1895,
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The Monroe Doctrine.
Its Principles Threatened by
Great Powers.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The pros?
pect of serious complications which
threaten the United States through
probable Earopean encroachment on
Veaezuela and Nicaragua bas assumed
a phase of such danger to the principle
laid down in the Monroe doctrine that
a special cabinet, conference was held
at the White House this afternoon to
consider the subject. There is no
doubt whatever that the subjects are
considered by the President and Secre?
tary Gresham as of much greater im?
portance to this country thao the A Ul?
and iocident or the recall of Minister
Thurston, and mast be handled with
unusual delicacy, and with the know?
ledge that a misstep may plunge the
government into embarrassing compila?
tions with not one, but several, of the
principal European nations.
The conference was attended by the
President, Secretary Gresham, Secre?
tary Carlisle, Attorney General'
Olney and Secretary Lamont. It
lasted several hours, but Mr. La?
mont withdrew after a brief at?
tendance. Mr. Gresham took with
bim to the White House the official
copies of much of the recent corres?
pondence on both the Venezuela and
the Nicaragua situations, and be re?
mained with Mr. Cleveland some time
after bis colleagues had left
It cannot be learned whether any ad?
ditional information in the matter
reached the State Department to-day,
but it is said that Mr. Bayard bas
failed to arrange the Mosquito troubles
with the British government in a man?
ner satisfactory to the United States.
Great Britain's ultimatum to Nicara?
gua demanding an indemnity ?for the
expulsion of Mr. Hatch, the British
consular agent, from Bluefields, aod the
report that a British warship is on ber
way to enforce her demand is the last
known serious phase of the difficulties
growing out of the Bluefields affair, and
as action by this government may in?
volve a new construction of the Mon?
roe doctrine it can be seen how slowly
and carefully the President and his ad?
visers are obliged to feel their way to
prevent any possibility of blonder or to
neglect any advantage that might
weaken the practical sponsorship that
the Uoited States bolds over the South
American and Central American repub?
lics.
In the Venezuelan affair the United
States government finds itself opposed
to sncb strong adversaries as Great
Britain, France and Germany, with
Belgium as an incidental factor. The
settlement of the claim of Great Brit?
ain to certain Venezuelan territory is
?b? main cause for alarm, and to this
is added the prospect that Germany
will send warships to co'lect a large
amount of money guaranteed to the
German contractors for the construction
of the Central Venezuela canal.
France aud Belgium have a common
ground for action disturbing to the
peace of the little South American re?
public, namely : The explusioo of the
French and Belgian ministers from that
country. Both countries have protest?
ed agaiost the expulsion, and France
will send a naval vessel to take their
envoys home.
The Monroe doctrine and its ratifica?
tions oontain ample authority, it is
said, for the Uoited States to display
an active interest in the threatening
attitude of Great Britain and Germany,
and while the probable action of France
and Belgium does not seemingly come
whithin the scope of th'e doctrine, it is
6aid to be thc belief of this government
r.hat all four powers involved will join
issue in opposition to the Uoited States
to secure their several ends, and such
amalgamation is likely to beget a
desire on the part of all to extend their
dominions.
The conference at the White House
to-day was necessarily of a strictly se?
cret character, but it is Iearoned to?
night on good authority that no defi?
nite action was agreed on.
The latest thing in watches is a re?
peater which pronounces the hours and
quarters, and so obviates thc trouble of
counting necessitated by the present
system. M. Silvan, a Swiss watch?
maker, is credited with having success?
fully adapted Edison's phonograph so
as to produce this ingenious result.
Some Facts About Cuba.
Timely Data Concerning
Spain's Treasure Island.
Cuba is about as large as England
proper, without the principality of
Wales. Its greatest length is 800
miles, its narrowest part twenty
miles, and its average forty miles.
The circumference of the island is
2,000 miles, and is supposed to con?
tain 35,000 square miles The near?
est port to this continent is Matanzas,
lying due south from Cape Sable,
Fla., a distance of only 130 miles.
Havana is sixty miles west of Matan?
zas. The climate is variable, but
snow never falls in Cuba. In the
cities and near the swamps yellow
fever prevails from the middle of June
to the last of October, but in the in?
terior of the island it is no more un?
healthy than in American cities in
summer. The average temperature
at Havana is TY, the maximum 89,
aud the minimum 50 degrees. The
population of the island is about
2,000,000 of which 300,000 are
Spaniards.
HAVANA.
Havana, the eighth commercial
capital of the world, with a popula
tion of 400,000, has a harbor popu?
lous with the ships of all nations.
Moiro Castle, with its big guns peep?
ing out through the yellow stones
and its sentinel lighthouse, ?tands
guard over the narrow entrance, with
the battery of La Panta opposite.
The city is rich in public buildings,
cathedrals and venerable churches.
The dwelling houses are universally
so constructed as to form an open
square in the centre, which consti?
tutes the only yard or court attached.
The Louse is divided into a living
room, a store room, chambers 1 and
stable-these all upon one floor
while the family vehicle blocks up in
part the only entrance, which is used
in common by horses, ladies, slaves
and gentlemen callers. The rooms
are lofty and the floors stuccoed or
tiled in marble, while the walls and
ceilings are frequently ornamented in
fresco.
The most striking peculiarity of the
town house in Cuba is the precaution
taken to render it Baie against sudden
attack, each accessible window being
secured with stout iron bars from top
to bottom, while bullet-proof doors
bar the entrance. The Cuban ladies
rarely stir abroad except in a vehi?
cle, and in consequence the feet of
the senoritas are marvels of small?
ness and delicacy. Their voices are
sweet and low, while the subdued
tone of their complexion is relieved
by the arch vivacity of night-black
eyes. But the domestic affections
are not cultivated-in fact, horne to
the average Cuban is only a place to
sleep.
CUBAN INSURGENTS.
The first attempt of the Cubans to
throw off the Spanish yoke was made
in 1823, when Simon Bolivar offered
to aid the disaffected party by put?
ting an invading force into the island.
Another was made in 1826, and a
third in 1828. Under the leadership
of General Lopez a conspiracy was
developed at Cienfuegos and Trini?
dad in 1848 to establish Cuban inde?
pendence, but the natives were timid
and after two years of desultory
fighting Lopez was overpowered and
executed in 1850. The island was
in a chronic 6tate of civil war from
1868 to 1876, a fact which so attract?
ed the attention of President Grant
that, in the interest of American and
Cuban commerce, he proposed an?
nexation. These outbreaks were
led by C?spedes, an able lawyer and
weathy planter of Bayamo, and
during the eight years of hostilities,
Spain actually sent to Cuba 145,000
enlisted men, of whom only a few
hundred ever returned. Since 1876
roving bands of insurgents have
caused the authorities more or less
serious trouble, and the mountains
and half-?nacces-sible forests of the
eastern shore still serve to secrete
many armed and disaffected people.
FORMER TROUBLES OVER CUBA.
In trie revolution of 187S the com?
manders of the little guardia costa
gunboats, probably in utter ignorance
of international law, interfered with
American shipping, and the Spanish
government had to pay for their rash?
ness.
In one year three of our vessels
were assaulted. They were all
whalers-the Ellen Rizpah, the Ris?
ing Sun and the Edward Lee In tin?
case of the first two vesseis they were
overhauled near the Cuban coast, the
captain taken off and the ships kept
under cover of the Spanish vessels
until the imperial naval authorities
saw flt lo let them proceed. The
Edward Lee, when signaled, adopted
the tactics of the Allianca a week
ago, and setting all sails, distanced
the gunboat, which opened fire.
The claims of unwarrantable deten
tention perferred by the vessel ow?
ners against the Spanish government
were allowed when presented by
United States Minister Lowell, and an
indemnity of $10,000 was paid to
the owners of the Rising Sun and the
Rizpah.
The Edward Lee, whose case was
so analagou8 to the Allianca, did not
get justice so easily. The Spanish
government stood out on the plea
that the vessel had Buffered in no
way, as she had not been searched,
and that the treaty between Spain
and the United States permitted them
to demand that any veesel should es?
tablish her nationality in quarters
frequented by suspicions craft.
Philadelphia Record
How Gen. Garza Pell.
Fighting With a Bravery Worthy
of a Noble Cau39.
MOBILE, ALA., March 19.-The
Register's correspondent at Bocas Del
Toro, United States of Columbia, under
date of March 13, says identification
of Gen. Catarino Erasmo Garza, slain
in the attack in Bocas, is complete.
Several letters were found on his body
addressed to him, also a telegram.
Individual;- also identified him.
Three times during the fight he ad?
vanced within ten feet of the barracks
and called on the captain to surrender
and each time the answer was a vol ly
of musketry. When killed be fell within
twenty feet of the barracks. As he fell
be shouted : "Fire the town," and a
rebel named Catro poured oil on a
building betweeu Wilson's store and
the barracks and struck a match, but
was shot dead in his tracks.
Government soldiers captured the
small schooner on the 9th in which the
rebels came from Greytown. Five re?
bels were on board, but they jumped
into the sea and escaped ashore in the
bush. These alone escaped lo tell the
tale of the defeat. On board were found
forty Winchester rifles and a large num?
ber of cartridges. From this the infer?
ence's that Garza expected to have had
a larger force than that which ap?
peared at Bocas. It is possible, he an?
ticipated that the force would have ac?
cessions at Bocas. Since the fight
forty more government soldiers have ar?
rived from Colon. The total record of
the battle is eleven dead, twenty-five
wounded and thirty-five prisoners. Sev?
eral of the wounded will die. The wo?
man and baby who were shot are doing
well. The prisoners say that they were
signed as laborers at Greytown to work
on banana plantations at Boycas. The
sailed from Greytown February 2d,
and visited Careta, Costa Rica, where
arms were taken on board and many
more joined the expedition. When
they arrived at Bocas, the arms were
given them and they were told to fight
or die. This story is not credited.
There was* but one Colombian in the
party. It is thought it was merely a
pillaging expedition.
The fruit steamer Briefond from New
Orleans, reports passing a schooner off
Cape Gracias, supposed to have soldiers
on board coming to Bocas. Should it
prove to be another rebel invasion, they
will meet with a warm reception. The
United States steamer Atlanta has
withdrawn her marines and returned to
Colon.
Church or Lodge!
No Suspension in the Edict from
Borne Against Pythians.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The dele?
gation of Fall River and Providence
gentlemen who visited Washington for
the purpose of invoking the good offices
of Mgr. Satolli in behalf of Catholic
Pythians in those cities have slightly
misconceived the monsignor's inten?
tions, according to the interpretation
placed thereon at the legatiou this
morning. Father Rooker, private
secretary to the monsignor, said:
"Thebe gtcilcmen presented two cases,
which were conceived to possess pecu?
liar features, entitling them to special
consideration, and the matter was re?
ferred to Bishop Karkins of Providence
for action. The two lodges, as stated,
are composed entirely of Catholics, and
it was suggested to Bishop Harkins if
there were no reasons to the contrary
that had not been presented at the lega?
tion he might permit the members to
perform their required church duty at
Kaster. Two members of thc lodges
are said to bc dying, and they were
desious of retaining their membership
in order to save their insurance to their
families. This Mgr. Satolli thought
might be permitted, and so advised
Bishop Harkins. Thc whole matter,
however, is one of local discipline and
rests with the bishop for fiual determi?
nation. There will be no suspension of ?
the edict against membership in thc
order and no decree will be issued.
Everything that has been received from
Rome since the edict was published :
looks to a more rigorous enforcement
rather than any relaxation."
In the British army one soldier in
seven is now under twenty years of age.
This of course, includes all recruits and
band boys.
Cotton Goes a Booming.
It is Nearly a Cent Higher!
Than lt was a Week Ago.
NEW YORK, March 20.-The Sun
says : Cotton advanced 13 to 14
points, closing firm, with a net rise
for the day of ll to 12 points, with
sales of 334,000 bales. Liverpool
advanced 3 points on futures, but re?
acted and closed weak with a net
advance for the day of 1 to i 1-2
points ; spot sales 25,000 bales at an
advance of 3-32d. New Orleans ad?
vanced 7 to 9 points. New York
warehouse stock is slowly increasing.
It is now 175,000 bales, against 243,
000 a year ago, 276,000 in 1893 and
387,000 in 1892. Silver continued
strong and advanced 3-8d in London
and 1-4 cent here. Print cloths were
firmer. Brown goods are stronger
than they have been in many months.
The semi-weekly interior receipts,
as reported by New Orleans, were
32,000 bales, against 112,000 last year
and 15,000 in 1892. Shipments "32,
000 bales, against 18,000 last year
and 24,000 in 1892. In Manchester
yarns and cloths were dearer than
last reported, but buyers refused to
go on. Port receipts t^-day 17,402
bales, against 23,929 this day last
week and 7,384 last year; thus far
this week 74,047 bales, against 92,
946 thus far last week. Spot cotton
here was quiet at an advance of 1-8
cent ; 300 bales delivered on con?
tract. Houston received to-day
2,216 bales, agaist 4,659 this day
last week and 771 last year; St.
Louis 1,215 bales, against 551 and
207 ; Memphis 872 bales, against
1,156 and 131 ; Augusta 284 bales,
against 482 and 83. The Southern
spot markets were generally firm.
Wilmington advanced 1-4 cent.,
Mobile, Savannah, Norfork and
Augusta 1-8 cent, and New Orleans
and Memphis 1-16 cent. New Or?
leans sold 5,000 bales and Memphis
4,725. New Orleans receipts to-mor
mow are estimated at 6,000 to 9,000
bales, against 2,093 last week and
1,449 last year. Prices are now 85
to 88 points higher than a few weeks
ago.
To-day's features: It almost seemed
as if everybody in town was buyiug
cotton to-day, and the bears seemed
to crawl into a hole and pull the hole
in after them. Wall street and other
outside people were buying. The
South, Liverpool and the Continent
bought heavily. On the advance
there was some realizing as usual,
but in spite of this the closing [fig?
ures were the best of the day. As
for speculation it exceeded anything
seen here in a number of years.
Everybody is thinking of the future
of the next crop and a possible de?
crease in the acreage as well as a cer?
tain decrease in the use of fertilizers.
Outside of that there is the increas?
ing activity of general business in
this country. The great strength of
the British cotton markets, the'steady
rise of silver, the advancing spot
quotations in this country, the better
outlook for the dry goods trade, the
broader stock market, the larger in?
vestments in bonds, betokening re?
turning confidence among capitalists,
the stronger rates for money, in a
word, the more cheerful aspect of
things in the domain of commerce
and finance Fixing their attention
on these things the cotton bulls find
their courage increasing and the
speculation has a breadth not seen
for many a month past.
Spanish Editors Leave Spain.
LONDON, March 20-The Standard's
correspondent in Madrid sends this dis?
patch- Senor Moravia, the professor
of history io the University of Madrid
and a conspicuous author, has written
a letter to the Barcelona press dealiog
with the crisis. Ho fled to Lisbon to
avoid a warrant for his arrest issued by
the :ni!ii?ry chiefs. Other Republican
journalists have fled to France for tbe
?ame reason. Some agitation is report?
ed officially among the Republicaos of
Valencia and Barcelona. The whole
question at issue is now to reconcile
the pretensions of General Campos and
the military officials to bring such cases
into the military courts, under articles
of the penal code, which every Spanish
government and supreme court have
decided have beer, virtually repealed
by the laws providing trial by jury in
the civil courts for all press offences
except treason. Counsel fur the jour?
nalists have already raised the question
of competency of the military courts.
The chief difficulty iu the situation is
to find Libcrial statesman willing to
assist Senor Sagasta in reversing the i
Liberal policy in such cases Any cabi?
net now taking office must be prepared
to do this, but many Liberal and Re?
publican deputies would obstruct the
movement. Gomezo, Maura, Canale?
jas and Gonzales have declared they
will not accept office under Sagasta if
he supports the military method of deal?
ing with press offences.
Bounding Like a Ball.
A Cyclonic Wind Strikes Ai
gusta Several Blows.
AUGUSTA, March 20.-At 9 c'cloc
this morning Augusta was visited b
the most destructive wind storm <
cyclone since 1878. The cycler,
came from the southwest with bi
little warning, and in less than
minute had passed over the city int
South Carolina.
In its track there lay destrnctior
and houses were utterly wiped froi
their foundations and sent in a
directions over housetops that wer
not touched by the bounding circula
wind. Strange to say there were n
fatalities, though in many instance
roofs were carried away while th
occupants were left unhurt.
The majority of the houses ruine
were small one-story ones, as the se<
tion of the city over which th
cyclone passed is that for the mos
part inhabited by the poorer class c
whites and negroes. The path c
the cyclone is about a mile in lengil
from the first place it struck to wher
it finally rose and passed over. Th<
path was in the shape of an "S," an*
the cyclone struck about even
quarter of a mile, making fou
descents and rebounds, but th<
second one was perhaps the worst
This was on G lynette Street, be
tween Eighth and Ninth Streets
The first two houses blown dowi
were two small ones on the outskirt!
of the city. The cyclone then ros?
and came down again on Gwyneth
Street. The house of Willie Sims
the great colored jockey, which is i
rather pretentious one, was the firs
to suffer It was twisted about anc
the chimneys carried away, doon
blown from their hinges and windov?
sashes forced in. Across the streel
five small houses were so completely
demolished that there was no trace
of them except a few bricks from the
chimneys and foundation posts. A
square further, at the corner of Sum?
mer and Eighth Streets, a small
house had the entire end taken out,
leaving the interior exposed like a
scene in a theatre. Persons were in
the house at the time eating
breakfast, but they escaped unhurt.
Outhouses in the yar?'s were lifted
and carried off several squares.
Three hundred yards further on is
situated the large flour mill of Miller
&, Co. It is an enormous four-story
building, covered entirely with sheet
iron. While the mill was not hurt
by the wind itself, it proved a target
for the flying bricks, shingles and
rafters from the ruined houses. A
small outhouse from a yard a quarter
of a mile away came sailin& through
*he air and struck the side of the
mill. The force of the missile shat?
tered the iron, and the little house
was driven into the side of the larger
one. Scantlings and boards also
pierced the iron sides of the mill
till it had the appearance of a
frontier fort after an attack by
Indians.
In front of Miller & Co.'s mill an
electric light pole was blown down
and the wires were crossed wit!, tele?
phone wires, which grounded and
6truck a mule, instantly killing him.
Several hundred yards further to the
northeast the wind came down again
and demolished one-half of the
round house of the Central Railroad.
One of the locomotives in the shop
at the time was badiy damaged, and
the tin roof of the remaining portion
of the building was stripped like an
orange peel The roof of the
Perkins Manufacturing Co. was also
carried away. Across Calhoun
Street from this two small houses
were demolished On Fenwick
Street, near the Southern Railway
yard, a house in which five people
were was blown away, leaving noth?
ing but the flooring, and yet no one
was hurt.
In all, about forty houses were
badly damaged, and twenty utterly
destroyed. The loss is variously
estimated, but it is conservatively
Dlaced at $30,000.
Augusta seems to be the only j
place struck by the wind. Persons I
who saw it say it looked like a whirl- ?
wind, and that it rose and fell like a I
rubber ball. The noise was like that
of many freight trains running over a !
long bridge. The width of the path !
was not over fifty yards.
The great cyclone of 1STS passed .
over part of the territory covered by !
this, but ?lid far greater damage.
Perhaps seventy-five people were j
rendered homeless bv this morninsr*s
wind - Thc St'tite.
Afloat, Lost or Found!
Through the Maze of Spanish Sto?
nes a Ship's Fate Still in Doubt.
MADRID, March 20 -El Im pare al
this morning says the report that the
wreck of the missing cruiser Reina Re?
gente bas been discovered ie utterly
without foundation. The Alfonso XIII.,
which was sent out to search for the
missing ship, has, the paper asserts,
returned from her cruise without hav?
ing obtained any Dews regarding the
fate of the cruiser. The government
still entertains the hope that the Reioa
Regente having run short of coal bas
been blown into the Atlantic and may
yet bejieard from.
The Correspondencia this morning re?
iterates tbe assertion that the Reioa
Regente was discovered in shallow wa?
ter at Bago Aceitunos ; addiDg that the
wreck was just visible at low tide.
The paper also says that the cruiser
Alfonso XIII., has brought from the
wreck the bodies of thirty of the crew
of the wrecked ship. The Alfonso XIII,
will return to the scene of the wreck
with divers and dragging apparatus.
A cushion washed ashore at Tarifa has
been identified as having come from the
cabio of the Reina Regente. It is as?
serted here that Admiral Pasquin, min?
ister of marine, knows the truth regard?
ing the missing cruiser, but that no offi?
cial announcement of her fate will be
printed until, a new cabinet shall have
been formed. Meanwhile Cadiz and
Carthagena, where most of the officers
and crew of the ship belonged, are in
general mourning and the ladies of the
cities heap, maledictions on the heads
of the Moorish Embassy whom they
look' upon as the cause of the disaster
as it was upon her return trip from con?
veying them to Tangier that the cruiser
was lost.
A dispatch from San Fernandina near
Cadiz says that the coast near Co iii
somewhat further south is strewn with
wreckage, uoiforms, flags and numer?
ous other articles from the lost cruiser
Reina Rogente. The officials along the
coast have forbidden the people to E.p
proach the points where the wreckage
has been cast up, ostensibly to prevent
the scenes of anguish which would ac
accompany the search for the bodies of
friends or relatives. The officials refc.se
to say what they are doing to recover
bodies and wreckage The people be?
lieve they are doing nothing.-The
State.
An Outrage at Blacksburg.
CHARLOTTE, N. C . March 20.-At
Blacksburg, S. C., this morning, about
2 o'clock, while Night Operator W. A.
Stewart, of the Southern Railway tele?
graph office, was lying down on his
desk asleep his throat was cut by rob?
bers. They secured only ten dollars
from the ticket cash drawer, however.
The operator was unconscious for half
an hour, wheo he dragged himself to
the hotel and notified the authorities.
His wounds-be received several severe
blows on the head besides the cut-are
not necessarily fatal. There is no clue
to the guilty parties aod the operator
cannot describe them He cnly knows
there were two.
The robbers, leaving Stewart for
dead, went to Parker's store and effect?
ed an entrance by cutting our. a pane of
glass in a window. They pried open
the safe and made way with the entire
contents; amount unknown
Willi ? --
An old gray parrot may ?ive for s
hundred years in the Australian bush,
or a wild turkey live to fifty on the
American prairie land where no Chro?
mas is kept, but they are esceptiocs.
As a rule, bird life is held on short
tenure.
A considerable nun^r of the bishops
of the Church of England are over
seventy. The bishop of London is
seventy-three, the bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol seventy-five, the bishop of
Hereford seventy-seven, the bishop of
Liverpool seventy-eight, and the bi.?hop
of Chichester ninety-two.
'.Perhaps you would not think so. bur a
very large proportion of diseases in New
Vork come from carelessness about catching
cold," says Dr. Cyrus Edson * It ii such a
simple thing ami so co ru nun that very few
people, unless it is a enif of pneumonia, pay
anv attention to a cold. There are a great
many cases ot catarrh and consumption
v.hich have their origin in this neglect of the
simplest precaution of every day lite. The
most sensible ad vice is. when you have one,
?et ri.1 of it as soon as possible. By all
meanSjdo not nt-glect it." Hr Kdson does
not tell you how to cure a cold but wt- will.
Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, it will
relieve the lungs, aid expectoration, open the
Secretions ?nd soon effect H permanent cjre.
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