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The Winthrop College. Interesting Information Cull ed From the Prospectus of the Winthrop Nor mal and Industrial College. THB EXPENSES AND OTHER MATTERS. I - Owing to tbe fact that tbe work of completing tbe buildings will consume more time tbao was expected the open ing of the Winthrop Normal and in dustrial College at Rook HUH, tbe great State institution for tbe education of women, has been postponed from Oc tober 3 to October 15 next. All ar rangements for tbe grand opening ex ercises are now being perfected. At last President Job oson has issued tbe prospectus of tbe college, aod it ia brimful of valuable information to those who expect to bave their girls attend the college. The composition of tbe faculty bas already been given ir. tbe State. A fall description of the magnificent buildings is given in tbe prospectus, together with ao outline of tbe interior arrangements. Extracts will be of in terest to some : "The main building is a grand aod imposing edifice, fronting 200 feet and extending back 90 feet, with a large chapel in tbe centre of the rear, with a seating capacity of 1,200. It is three stories high, above the* basement, with ao additional attic story, and contains over forty large rooms, exclusively for school aod industrial work. In addi tion to ample provision for academic, normal and industrial work, a library, museum, art and society halls have been provided.'? ?'The building is designed to furnish sufficient room for tbe instruction of 600 studente, though at present, tbe dormitory will only accommodate about 240 The structure is built of cut stone aod brick, with slate roof and galvao ized i roo cornices, f 4* large dormitory, shaped like ao L, built of brick, adjoins tbe main building, and a covered way connects it with the dining room and tbe main building so as to protect the girls from ihe bad weather of winter as tbey go to tbeir meals aod to tbe class rooms. This dormitory is three stories high and contains 150 rooms. It bas every eon valence tbat modem architecture ?en Revise It is beated by steam, lighted by- electricity, and furnished with bath rooms, with bot aod cold wat ; aod closets on each floor. Like tbe main building, it is supplied with a perfect system of fire proteotion. Broad piazzas for every story furnish ample space for exercises in rainy weather. Each room bas a speoia! ven tilating flue and transom over tbe door, and the corridors are heated by indirect radiators as well as direct, in order to insure plenty of fresh air and at tbe same time prevent hurtful cold drafts. Each of the rooms are furnish ed with two single iron beds and other necessary furniture of the best make. Only two pupils will be put io a room. This, with the single beds, secares the very best arrangement possible for health and school management. ?Tbie dormitory U designed to ac commodate 2S4 persons. Tbe founda tions of another dorminatory of tbe same size as the one already built have been laid, and it is coo?dently expected tbat it will be built when the necessity for it arises.'7 The college grounds consist of 34J acres. The buildings will bave a sew erage system ; tbey will have fine sup ply of clear d pure water furnished by the college's own system, a gymna sium, an infirmary, etc , and a farm of 147 acres. The scope of tbe college is beautiful ly explained in the prospectus. As to the courses of study tbe pros pectus says : **The courses of study embrace three pricipal departments : **1. The normal department. "2. The industrial department. i 3 The domestic science depart ment. "The student who completes the full eourse will be awarded a diploma, which will be a life license to teach in the public schools of the State. Tc meet the needs of special students, lim ited courses to be finished in a shorter time will be arranged. "A summer school to meet the leedt of teachers aod others unable, for lack of time or means, to attend the col lege during the regular session, will be organized and run one month during tbe vacation." Tbe scope of each of these depart ments is fully and comprehensively out iioed. Cooking, dressmaking, tbe ar acquirements will receive special at ten tton. Music, art, vocal, and physical cul ture have been classed as special de partmeBts. As to the requirements for admission the expenses, etc., the prospectus sayi as to admission. *'The college will be open to girl who are not less than fifteen years o age, of good moral character, aod soun< physical health. No pupil will be ad mitted who has not already an ele mentary knowledge of tho ordinar branch?e of an English education, viz Arithmetic, grammar, geography am history. "All applicants for a dmiseion wil be requested to stand an entrane examination. This examination wil ; be given at the opening of tbe college io October. The work of this college, which is a part of tbe public school system of the State, has been so arrang ed that those girls who hive properly utilized tbe opportunities offered by the best common schools may avail them selves of tbe advantages here provided by the State. "Those who wish to enter the college should write to the president at Rock Hill. In tbeir applications, to be writ ten by themselves, tbey should give age, place of residence, county, name of parent or guardian, previous prepara tion, and the lines of study desired. "The dormitory accomodatone are limited, for tbe present, and there is no place at the college for tbe idle or friv- j oious. Only those are wanted or will be allowed to remain who are wiliiog to do earnest, conscientious, hard work and will comply faithfully aod cheerful ly with the rules of tbe college. "All applications should be in the hands of tbe president by October let. BOARDING ARRANGEMENTS. "The dormitory will contain 142 bed rooms. Twenty-two of these will be occupied by members of the faculty with tbeir families. This will leave 120 rooms for the students, which, since only two will be allowed io one room, accommodate 240 girls. "Dormitory certificates will be issued by the presideot to those desiring to j attend the college up to tbe rooming capacity of the dormitory. So far as the accommodations will allow all pupils will be required to board at the dormi tory, except those who live with their parents near enough to attend from their homes. All pupils of the col'ege j in the dormitory and out of it will be i under the same rules and regulations, j "Tbe girls io their domestic life in j the dormitory will be under the direct j j care of the matron and the lady teach - | i ers, who will have rooms io different ; I parts of the building, the president ex- j j ercising general supervision. "The dormitory will be made a pleas ant home for the girls, aod special at tention will be given to tneir social life, and to tbeir health aod comfort, Con fidential communications concerning the health and habits may be addressed to tbe matroo. "Tbe rooms io the dormitory will be furnished with a bureau and looking glass, two single beds with good springs and mattresses, washstand, study ta ble, chaire, etc., but the students will be required to furnish their own blank ets aod sheets aod other bed covering, pillow cases, towels aod oapkios. "The board io the college will be fur nished the studente at actual cost. A good table will be kept, the food will be abuodaot, of sufficient variety, well cooked aod nicely served. "The cost of board to the individua! will be ascertained by dividing tbe ex act cost of running the establishment for a month by the number of inmates of toe dormitory. It is estimated that the average cost of board, iocludiog furnished room, heat, light and wash ing, will not exceed ?8.50 a month. "This small cost of living will be secured to the girle, not by stinting io anything, but by purchasing provisions io large quantities at tbe lowest cash prices, by reducing waste te a mini mum, and by the service of tbe girls themselves, in diniog room and kitch en, io place of hired help. "Tbe style of living will be as good j and refined as that of the very beet female colleges. "The dormitory will be opened for j boarders oo Monday, October 14th. j "Pupils arriving before that time will be charged one dollar per day for j board." EXPENSES. The prospectus gives the following : estimated expenses for session of nine months : Board io the dormitories, ioclud iog furnished room, light, beat and washiog at actual cost, (estimated), $70 50 Medical fee, iocludiog physi cian's service, oursiog and medicine, 5 00 Fee for use of books and apara tus, 5 00 Total exclusive of tuition, ?86 50 . Tuition for entire course, 40 00 - Total, iocludiog tuitioo, $126 50 Under the act establishing the col 1 lege indigent students p?y no tuition. j There will be an incidental fee of $5 to be returned in case no damages are j assessed. ! Tbe regular charges and this fee will be paid in three payments, as follows : For students having free tuitioo : October 15th, $41 50 Jaouary let, 25 00 April let, 25 00 For students paying tuition : October 15th, ?61 50 Jaonary 1st, 35 00 April 1st, 35 00 For regular students having free tui tion and oot boarding in the dormi tory : October 15th, $10 00 For regular students paying tuition and not boarding in tho dormitory : October 15th, ?30 00 January 1st, 10 00 April 1st, 10 00 No medical fee is charged to those boarding or living in the city. "The optional dues will be paid only when they are incurred, and then in variably in ?dvanee. "instrumental music and art will bt optional studies, and a fee of ?w a month for four weeks in each subjec! will de charged those who desire tc take either of them. "There will be no extra charge, be yond the regular tuition, for voca ' music aod free hand aod industria! ! drawing. ! "Students are furnished the use of I all needed text books for the text book I j fee. But tbey are expected to gather ! help from all available sources, and are \ requested, therefore, to bring with j ? them for private reference any good ! text book which they may possess re* I latiug to the subject to be studied, j Latin, French or German lexicons, \ j when needed, must be purchased by the \ j student. ' The cost of material*, such as chemical*, drawing materials, mimeo ! graph material, etc., will be met by I those using them This cost can hard ly be more than $1 for tbe entire ses sion. "Stationery, mueic and such like ma terials will be furnished to tbe stu dents at the college aod at cost. "To any woman, living outside tbe college desiring to take a special course io any one of the industrial arts taught in tbe college, a charge of $4 a month will be made "Graduates will be charged a diplo ma fee of ?2, and proficiente in tbe in dustrial arts a fee of 50 cents. "There are no scholarships to be j given out for next session. But those holding scholarships from last session in the Wiothrop Normal College at Co lumbia will have them extended one j year.ft Light Ahead. It is stilt too early to write compre- i hensively the result of the primary in the State, for full returns are lacking from many counties and the local con ditions have been intricate aod various. But enough is known to prove tbe nom ination of forty Conservatives. Such ! definite arrangements for a division of] delegates as were made appear to have j been carried out in good faith, and in i some of the counties gifts of "minority representation to the Conservatives have been made. There are probably twenty or twenty five "Reformers" of the Forty nomina- ! ted, but the most hopeful sign is that a number of the delegates named, not af- ' filiated with the Forty, are of such rec ord and disposition as to warrant the belief that tbey cannot be controlled by the bosses of the Ring. Tbe three ele ments combined will not furnish a ma jorty of the convntion, but they will ! come sufficiently near it to warrant the Straightouts in making a fight in the general election in all couoties where satisfactory adjustments have not beeo made and there is hope of success. We ! feel sure that if as many as twenty Straightout? shall be elected over Ring etere in the general election, it will be ! utterly impossible for tbe Ring to carry j out the Tillraan-Missiseippi s?beme, or any other fraudulent device for cou- j trolling elections. We now know approximately what | we have to do to save South Carolina from tbe shame and tbe wrong and the disaster of committing tbe suffrage of the people, white as well as black, to the "discretion" of supervisors of regis tration. We can easily secure the addi- ! tionai ant; Ring delegates needed. Let ! us resolve to do so ! The Greenville News says : "In counties where the tickets nomi nated are fairly good and composed of men wbo are not identified with or part of tbe Ring, let tbe Conservatives make no fights. In counties where men have been nominated who are known to be Ring men, fights ought to be made in behalf of the State aod the | ! people. We do not care one snap; whether the convention bas a majority of Conservatives or Reformers. It ? ought to be anti-Ring. Where anti-1 Ring Reformere?free men, who ac knowledge no master, who are dependent ' : on no political rulership for their liv ! inge?can be voted for. we advise all : Conservatives to vote for them. The ; Reform people?the people who do the work and the voting?have done what they could with the opportunity they had, to destroy the Ring. If they are given fair and proper opportunity they ' will complete their work " We bearti!*? co ur in this. Let no one think i.. ?^rt will be wasted. The cause of honest elections, of escape from Ring dspotism, can be won. yt needs only resolute effort in a dc?eo counties. Richland will act in about a week. We trust tbat by that time Straightout movements will be in prog ress elsewhere. The srake ih an enor mous one. It will mnke us or mar us. Is it worth three weeks" work ??The State. Starving and Naked. Washington, Aug 1.?The condi tion of the distressed negro colonists from Georgia and Alabama, who de oerted the Tlahualilo colony in Mexico, is more deplorable than was at first supposed. Consul Sparks, at Piedras Negras, telegraphs the State Depart ment that while rations are bein?; fur nished the throe hundred colonists who have reached Kagle Pass, Tex., they are practically uaked. The other three hundred, who have not yet crossed to the United States, have little to eat. No subscription to furnish these colo nists with food and cluthing and trans portation to their homes has been started, and the^tatc Department ha* no funds for that purpose. Many of them are ill, but are receiving medical at tendance ?rom Assistant Surgeon Ten Kyck, of the army. It is not known how the colonists wiil be cared for unios? a subscription is started for thoir relief, *uch as was done in this country for the starving Russian peas An Early Hearing.. An Agreement as to the Dispensary Cases. Ad effort now on foot to have an early settlement of the question as to the constitutionality of the dispensary law, insofar as it providee rhat no citi zen of the State shall import liquors from another State ioto the State for his own personal use. Judge Simonton has declared this portion of the law. as all know, unconstitutional, and under bis restraining order be sent several | constables to jail for contempt of court for soiling this class of liquor, in vio lation of the order Then the State commenced habeas cropus proceedings | with a view to getting the case up ">n j its merits before the United States Su- j preme Court. Meantime tbe constables j have been in jail serving out their sen ten ces pending tbe hearing of the case, the advancement of which is necessari- j ty slow. Tbe State made no move af- ! ter starting these habeas crupus pro ceedings until a day or two ago. Then Assistant Attornsy General Townsend wen' to Charleston and held ! a consultation with Mr J P. K. Bryau, the attorney on tbe other side. Yes- I ferday, upon his return to tbe city, be j anoounced that he and Mr. Bryan had agreed take the case of Donald up immediately to settle tbe question an to Inter-state Commerce. He says they Lave agreed to prepare a case at once, 1 and have it docketed when the Sup-' preme Court meets on the second Mon- ? day in October. Tbey will then ask : the court to advance the case on tbe docket so that a hearing &nd a speedy settlement of the questioo may be bad. [n consequence of this agreement, Assistant Attorney General Townsend boarded the train and went to Flat Rock, where he appeared before Judge Simooton, explained the agreement and ; asked for bail for Constables Lafar and Wright, pending the adjudication of the ' case and subject to what ever decision ! the court might render. Judge Simon ton agreed to allow bond for Lafar, ? fixing it at ?500. In the case of Wright, he decided to release him : from imprisonment on Thursday next, j he having served by that time all but about nineteen days of bis sentence. Lafar yesterday gave the required bond aod was accordingly released from the Richland jail?TAe State-. Fighting in Cuba. Small Spanish Post Captured? Campos Shot in the Heel. j I - \ ! Santiago de Cuba, Aus 4.?In this district of Cuba, after M?me days of ! quiet, tbe insurgents ar- <gain begin- ; ning to make themselves It. Aooth er engagement has takm place at Baire, tbe town where the first in- j surgente gathered at the beginning of tbe present revolution. Tbe place was garrisoned by a lieutenant aud sixty soldiers. Oo July 20 a detacnmeot of 2,000 rebels, under the leader. Rabi, appeared there and demanded that the garison surrender, whereupon tbe sin gle offioer with his sixty troops en trenched themselves in a church aod kept tbe rebels at bay for a day aod a half. At the end of that time, how ever, the lieutenant surrendered with his men. The rebels, after disarmiug tbe surrendered soldiers, let them go free, but they held the officer prisoner. Then, after having hanged five or eix persons as spies, they left Baire. The rebel leader. Rabi, mentfoned above, is the same who the Spaniards said was kilied in the battle with Cap tain General Campos between Baya mo and Manzanillo over a week ago. In regard to that affair nothing au thoritative is as yet known here. Communication between Bayamo and Manzanillo seems to be almost entire ly cut off, and everybody here is eager ly awaiting news cf the engagement. The writer of this letter saw this morn ing a letter from Bayamo, saying that during the engagement Captain Gene ral Campos had the heel blown off his right shoe and his cane broken by a bullet from tne enemy, and that before he reached Bayamo he become so ex \ hausted from walking that some of hi? attendaurs had to make a litter for him aud carry bim into tbe city on it. Great excitement pravails among Cuban sugar planters and cattle deal er* on account of a proclamation issued by Maximo Gomez on July 1. In it he forbids cattle dealers to take cattle into j the cities, under penalty of death, and : also forbids the grinding of sugar oane, declaring that he will destroy the sugar ; cane and apparatus and burn the build ings of these who continue working, and that they will be considered as traitors. Kenneth Bazemore had the good fortune to receive a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, i Cholera and Diarrhoe* Remedy when three ', members of his family w;re sick with dysen ; tt-ry. This one small bottle cured them all and he had some !t*?: which, he gave to (?eo. W . Baker, a prominent merchant of the place, LewistoD, N.C., and it cured him of :he same complaint. When troubled with dysen tery, diarrhoea, colic or cholera morbus, give this remedy a trial *r;<i you will be more than pleased with the result. The prai<e that naturally follow? its introduction and use has made it very poj ul.tr. "_'."> and 50 cent tat tles for sale by !>r. A. .1. China. Success in Lifo depends oo little thing-. RipansTabule is a little thing, but taking <>m occasionally gives good digestion, and that means good blood, and that meaos good : :>ii;; and brawn, ana* I that meaos success; 7?25?o Campos Hemmed In. His Army Unfit for Fighting ?Startling News Expect ed From Bayamo? A Very Friendly Press. New York, Aug. 4.?Estrada Palma, the Cuban delegate, made the following official statement yesterday : 'We believe thac General Martinez ! Campos is hemmed in, unable to move until reinforcements reach him, and we have received information tbat the reserves he called for from Santiago, Sao ta Clara and other places, have been intercepted and held back. "My correspondent, writing from j Manzanillo." oontioued Senor Palma, ! "places Campos force at 8.000 men, ; including tbose ill and wounded, and estimates tbat not more tban a third are fit for fighting." "Both Antonio and Jose Maceo are j outside of Bayamo with more than 5,000 well armed insurgents. [ can as* ' sure all that the next news from Bay amo will be of a startling nature. "Tbe Spanish press in Cuba, with the exception of three papers, arc showing a disposition to accord us fair treatment This is a great point gained, because, to win, we must bave tbe aid of the press, in the ten years' war tbe entire Spanish press was against us j "Tbe rumor that General Campos' son was wounded in the battle of Val enzuela, which was at first strenuously denied, has been confirmed, the fact having been published in the Havana Express and republished in the news papers of Madrid." Telegraphic Briefs. - Julv 31. Fred Wahlgren, of Minneapolis, i went to Omaha yesterday aod killed Mrs. August Maitland by shooting her j through the heart. ^The wages of tbe employees of tbe : Maryland Steel Company have been in creased 10? per cent. According to reports received by the | Marine hospital services, tbe yellow fever is making largely increased rav- j ages among tbe people of Cuba. Tbe medical inspector at Havana states tbat in the week ended July 25. there were seventy new eases in tbat city and '? twenty-three deaths. The settlers in Utah and Wyoming are still greatly excited concerning tbe Indian uprising. Twenty convicts made an attempt to escape from a coal mine at Coalburg, Ala , yesterday. One was killed. Small pox has broken out among tbe negro colonists in Mexico, who are endeavoring to return to this country. One hundred and seventy-two are in quarantine near Eagle Pases, Texas. Tbe managers of the Corbett-Fttx eimmons prize fight are arranging for excursion rates to Mexico in case it is decided to transfer the fight to tbat country. Tbe price of bar iron bas been ad vanced two dollars per ton. Tbe richest vein of gold ore ever found in this country was struck at Victor, Col., yesterday. It is worth $140 u ton, with millions in eight. Two firemen were seriously injured in Camden, N. J., last night. Tbe de partment was called out by a false alarm. A fall of 4.02 inches of rain at Ft. Scott. Kansas, yesterday did immense damage. The country is inundated, the streams all on a flood, and crops ruined. The strike of the tailors of New York is about ended The employers have agreed to the new scale of wages. August 1. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky bas come out for free silver at 16 to 1 and will make a fight for re-election. Robert C. Scott, ex-city treasurer of Jacksonville, Fia., was arrested yester day on a charge of embezzling $10,707, of the city funds. Judge Simooton has decided that the tax on drummers is unconstitutional as it interferes with inter-srate commerce. Ed. West, depot agent at Potts Camps, Miss , was murdered yesterday by J. A. Gatlin, a politician. Louis C. Nelson, president of the St Louis National Bank has declared for the free coinage of silver. Four blacksmiths were seriously in jured at Cleveland, O., yesterday by the explosion of an irou tube filled with water which they were heating. A commission has been issued to a Charleston Company which propos?e to manufacture pianos The Oklahoma divorce mill has been stopped and the divorces already grant ed have been declared invalid. George Dixoo, the champion lighf weight boxer, krocked Tommy Con nelly out at Boston last night (?ov. Mitchell, of Florida, has re quested the Jacksonville Light Infantry to go as his escort to the Attinta Im position and to carrv forty men and a band of fifteen pieces. Senator Gorman has selected John K. Hurst, of Haitimore. for the Demo cratic candidate tor governor. The cruise of the South Carolina Naval reserves on the I . S. monitor Ampbitrite came to an end yesterday. Hunting for Filibusters. Washixgiok, July 30.?The cruiser Atlanta returned to Key West yester day from another search after Cuban filibustering exp?diions. A tele gram announcing her return at the iSavy Departmen to-day was the first information vouchsafed to the Navy Department officials, that ehe had been away from Key West It can not be learned what results, if any, were achieved by the vessel, aa everything eonected with hei mov ements is kept in close secret by the few naval officials who are informed on the matter. It is learned at the State Depart ment with reference to the report that the recent trip of the Atlanta was for the purpose of preventing the Spanish soldiers from lynching San guilly, Agurrie and Gomez, alleged revolutionists, who claim to be Amer ican citizens, that no information had come to the department from any United State? consular officer and all the department knew of the alleged threated lynching, was read in news papers. Caught by Bloodhounds. St. Matthews, July 30.?Yesterday afternoon, while Mr. John P. Chart rand aud family were absent, a negro broke into his house aod robbed it of several articles of food, a watch and a pistol belonging to Mr. Chartrand. He then saturated the floor with kero sene oil and fired if, which after burn ing the floor nearly through, went oat. Mr. Chartrand returned about If.* o'clock last night, and upon discovering the robbery and iotended incendiary act, at once wired for the celebrated Duekes bloodhounds Tbe dogs reach ed this place on the early morning freight and were at once taken to the sceno of the trouble, about two miles from town. The hounds at once took trial and ran a circuitous root, to the bouse of one Dave Brush, who was im mediately arrested. Bush at first de nied all knowledge of the affair, but finally broke down, owned up and told where tbe things be had stolen could be fooDd ? The State Say! You Bee-Keeper! 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