Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m SO tH ADVERTISED. McLaarin's Recent Speecb Attracts Attention. HE ;;> New York Sun. The liberal opportunities for gen g . aral debate allowed at the present ^session of congress have been im fs proved by Representative John L McLaurin of South Carolina with some interesting remarks about the I part of the country from which he i.v comes. U. Dr. Depew has described the south F - as a region of vast, untouched forests ' and coal and iron veins, favored by health conditions unparalleled and ?fc*'tbe best climate in the world." Mr BpMcLaurin, coming to particulars, Runds 183,000,000, acres of unbroken Kforeets in the south, with p De, wal Bfcirat, oak, cherry, cypress hickory S d other woods ; enormous stores of Bpmarble, granite and sandstone ; phos K'phate rock in wonderful abundance ; Band in some places, as he learns, coal, iron ore and limestone close to '0 gether in the same range, "a condition ftthat exists nowhere else in the world." K~ Last year's cotton crop of the south Kvas 9,837,000 bales, or 82 per cent, ?lof the whole world's production, and V "brought more money from abroad than alt other agricultural productions combined 99 The total cotton produc rion since 1790, at its price in gold Bleach year is reckoned at $15,000, B000,000-in* exacter figures, $14, g 998,588,430. The exports alone for pia century, or since 1195, have r brought us $10,400,000,000. List p year the south produced 729,392, I 561 pounds of sugar, 37,617,076 gal H ions of molasses, and 168,665,440 Rpounds of rice, although of each of these articles far more was imported Manufacture are growing enor >asry*at the south. According to m..Longstreet, their products dono in value between 1880 and 1890, nie the wages of factory hands ly tripled, also did the capital in ted in cotton manufacturing But, it is very remarkable, that capital, :ording to the general, bas already irly doubled since 1890, being mt $120.000.000 now to $61,100, then. In 1880 the cotton seed capital was $3,500,000, and now is over $30,000,000 ; in 1880 the ith made 397,000 tons of vpig iron, 1895 it made 1,702,880 tons; in 189a its coal output was 6.000,000 tons, andi now it is at the rate of 30, 000,000 tons Low cost of labor, j freedom from strikes, nearness to the cotton fields and low taxes all favor the mills of the south Congressman Lovering' of v Mas sacbnsei ts, himself a manufacturer, |k<with large interests in the south, pgave like; testimony in bis recent l^speech on the tariff Within two year* the south's addition of spindles, . ie said, had been 882.746, and New England' only 671,223, the former being an inorase of 39 per cent, and % the latter of 5 1 3 "If I were asked . where in all our country was to be found the best planned, best ordered and best equipped mill running in !&lowv numbers, and the best profit, woold point to Sooth Carolina." Tbeu the people of the South, says Vt Mclaurin. ' are religiously in clined, and churches are found every where Their educational facilities will appear to visitors from other * parts of the country "not disappoint ing, and their standard of morals ful ly op to the average " The land titles are perfect and the taxes en & viably low Bat of the favored State of South Carolina Mr McLaurin particularly speaks. In 1890 Mr J Z Drake of T'lailboro county won a prize < f $1, : .000 offered for "the largest yi-ld by gathering 255 1 4 bushels of com! |* from one acre This amount looks large, bot he did it by getting two crops, planting the first so that l y the time it matured he had a second ready to cultivate between the rows ?. .* I have myself," say Mr. McLau rio, made a crop of oats, cut them the lat of Jone, planted rorn and I peas, and thns harvested three crops the same season from the same land have also made a fair crop of cotton aft'-r wheat and rye On another pr;z fctunutus. year before last, Mr J O' Flt*itcher. from 100 acres, pro duced at market prices, $3,726 45 worth of farm products, ranging from 48 bales of cotton to 400 dozen eggs hi 1893 South Carolina raised 30, 3355 895 pounds of rice, or about one fourth of the whole country's pro j dost, 29,261,422 bushels of corn 4,767,821 of oats, 1,732,834 of wheat, 747,471 bales of cotton, 222, 298 pounds of tobacco, besides rye, potatoes and so on. Apricots, cher ries, olives, pomegranites and many other fruits are raised in abundance There are 10,000,000 acres of yellow pine alone, and the turpentine stills turu out an annual product of $3, 000,000. The.gum, magnolia, syca more, ash, and other trees are well known Beautiful building stones and fine clays and orchres are also among Sooth Carolina's treasures, while her bone fertilizers, in deposits sometimes a foot thick, and with 500 to 1,000 tons to the acre, are de clared to be the richest on the con tinent. Of spindles there are more than a million at work in the Sfate, their capital of $12,000,000 to $15,000, 000 being drawn from the north and east. Of Colombia's four cotton stills, one, the Granby, was built in I a cotton field, and inclosed a patch from which cotton was picked while the brick walls were goiog np. That was minimizing the distance between crop and aril Pointing his moral, Mr. McLaurin says that the south asks a fair share of consideration for her interests in the current tariff bill, and also wants northern thrift and capital to enlarge ber materia' interests. "Are we not of the same great national family, an integra! factor of the same great na tion V Certainly he hasset forth with enthusiasm what the south has ac complished thus far. A leacherv for Cotton Goods. It Would Cost $65,000 and Would Pay 35 Per Cent To the Editor of The News and Courier: I see by the Journal ur Commerce that the business men of Charleston have been talking of the possibility of erecting a bleaobery for cotton goods, and, being a practical man on all classes of bleached and dyed goods of twenty-eight years' ex periecoe, and being a firm believer io the future greatoess of the South as a manufacturing country. 1 thought a few remarks =?ould be acceptable on the bleaehery question. In the first place, the question has often been asked is there water to be found South suitable for bleaching and dyeing purposes? Second. Is there work enough that erected to make it a paying concern ? would be sent to such a bleaobery if Third, ls the bleaching business profitable enough to induce capitalists tc invest? I will answer the first by saying that I know personally of three places where there is water clear and pure enough, and io quantity enough, to run a bleaobery of twenty-five tons per day, and I have uo doubt that if [ had the tine and money at my command, so as to ook the Southern field well over, I could fiod a large number of suitable places for a bleaehery. Io auswer to the second I wilt say that over sixty tons of cloth are ship ped daily from the Piedmont region to Northern bleacheries, enougo to keep six good-sized bleacheries running every working day through the year, ind find work for about 1,1000 mee, ; omen and boys and girls. In aoswer to* the third, ls the bleaching business profitable? I wou'd say that a bleaehery of ten tons per ' day capacity, if erected and laid out in i proper manner by a thoroughly prac- i tical man, oan be made to pay from 30 J to 35 per cent. J The question may be asked, for bow j much could a bleaehery be erected and I equipped, all ready for doing business, >f ten toos per day capacity : Rostof machinery for ten- | ton bleaehery, $30,000 00 Eogine and boilers 10 000 00 t Buildings, about 10,000 00 s Land and water privileges 15.000 00 Total $65 000 00 So that if a company was organized with $100.000 this would give a work ng capital of $35,00. And should business warrant it the ' >leacbery could be run night and day, , hus terning out twenty tons of finish- ' loth very twenty four hours and dou bling the profits, and finding work for \ louble the bands. Any gentleman ffbo wishes further information on the < mbjcot will please address HENRY ROWE STo 44 Sommer street, Lewiston, Maine. April 17. 1897. CL. Woods, of Pittsburg, and B. : T. Farrow, of Brooklyn, have been in iicied for writing fraudulent insurance [Hvi,rieir io the N. Y. Mutual Reserve rui-.d Life Ins. Co aggregating $200,- ] )00. I. The inhabitants of the Red River Hiuntry io the vicinity cf PembinaTN. D , have been lefr in a destitute c n iition by the rec-nt flood, and hav apppahd to the government for sid. Walhalla, April 21.-Jesse, a young on of the Rev. J L. Mulliniz, was so badly burned Mor>dav that he died three hours afterwards I was caused hy attempting to kindle a fire and the oil can exploded satur t lng his clothing with oil and enveloping him in the fi mes. He w s\ a bright boy of about 6 years of age. Cbailotte, N. C., April 22-S. T. Pender, general freight and passenger agent of the Carolina and Northwest ern Railroad, in attempting to board a moving train on that road at Lin eolton, this afternoon, lost his foot ing, fell between two cars and was crushed to death under the wheels Ile was a son o the late General Pender, of the Confederate Army, was about forty years old and leaves a wife and six children W. F, Martin, member of the board of oootrol of Richland County, has been arrested for violation of the dis pensary law. Maj. J. B. Chandler, an old and prominent citizen of Williamsburg County, died on Tuesday. Three negroes were arrested at Fayetteville. N. C ,Q Thursday on suspicion that they are the murderers of the Italians st Salters They gave their names as John Hayes, Cary Hicks and Sam Owen. They bought tickets from Sumter acd were going to Oxford, N C. REGICIDE IN ROME! Attempt to Slay King Hum bert on the Streets. Rome, April 22 -As Kiug Hum bert was riding along the street in a carnage to day an iron worker out ol employment made a desperate at tempt to kill him. He rushed at the carriage with a drawn dagger and King Humbert seeing his dan ger, rose from his seat The man was overpowered and taken to jail The news spread with great rapid ity and when the king reached the royal stand at the race course, it was soon surrounded by a cheering multi tude The members of the diplo matic corps present at the races and a number of other distinguished peo ple present congratulated the king on his escape King Humbert treat ed the matter lightly and remarked : "It is only one of the little incidents of my trade." The king remained at the race course with his nephew, the Duke Aosta, until the royal derby was run. Accarito, the would-be murderer, is 24 years old and a native-of Ar tegna, a village * the province of Uoine, three mils south of Gerona. His majesty returned to the Quiri nal followed by hundreds of carriages and thousands of people gathered about the palace and gave bim an imposing and frantic ovation They called for the royal hymn, and the band of the guard on duty at the palace played it repeatedly. King Humbert and Queen Margaret were greatly moved by the popular demonstration, anetwice appeared on a balcony of the palace and bowed their acknowl edgements of the frantic cheering of the populace The ^mbassie^ public offices and private house were deco rated with flowers as an expression of happiness at his escape. This is the second time that the life of King Humbert has been attempt ed. As his majesty was leaving for Naples, on Nov 17, 1878, the year of his ascension to the throne, a man named Giovanni Passante approached j the king's carriage and attempted to stab his majesty with a dagger. The king, however, was only slightly scratched by the blade, but Signor Cairoli, who was then prime minister and who was with his majesty in the carriage, was severely wounded in the thigh. Passante was sentenced to death, but the king commuted his Bentence to imprisonment for life. Queen Margaret arrived at the race course shortly after King Hum bert, who informed her of his escape. The queen was greatly agitated and affectionately pressed his hand The newspapers and public universally execrate trie attempt At the the atres and many other places of public gathering thorougbout the country, loyal ;-anifestations indicate the pop alar sympathy Accarito declares that he was im pelled to the act by hunger, but it Appears yesterday he uttered vague threats of an intention to kill an ex il ted person fHE PRESIDENT'S MAIL. Be Receives as Many as Eight Hundred Letters Per Day. "As many as 800 letters in one day are received at the White Honse, but comparatively few of these, only the most important ones, reach the presi dent, for if he dealt personally with all his correspondents he could do nothing Bise," writes ex-President Harrison, telling, in The Ladies- Home Journal, of "A Day With the President at His Desk." "Very many of the letters ad dressed to the president," he adds, "are trivial, not a few of them impertinent, and some" of them angry and threaten ing. These, if the private secretary 3 a judicious man, the president never hears of, and the malicious intent of the writer is thwarted. The requests for au tographs arc scarcely numerable. Patch es for bedquilrs and lunch cloths add to the burden. Begging letters, for num ber, take the second place in tho presi- , dent's mail. They come frciu every pa t cf the , lund and relate to every possible sub ject. Some are appeals to aid the writer \ to get an education, cr to pay eff a i mortgage, or io bay a piano or a ]3ony, : and ro form of public appeal is absent to aid the building cf churches, to en- j dow schools, to build monuments, and j * to aid every ether good purpose for \ ' which men or women cr children assc- I ciate themselves. On one day the re quests for specific sums aggregated 9, 000. These appeals are unavailing in the nature of things, and self respect ought tc restrain the.practice." A Migratory Journal. The new journalism is not confined to America. Two young Frenchmen, members cf the "fourth estate," arrived in this city early last week on a-tour of the world, which is a rather unusual ex ample of journalistic enterprise. They are MM. J. Leroy and H. Papillaud, who left Paris two years ago without a cent in their pockets and have supported themselves throughout the tour by pro- . fessional work. In each considerable city where they stop they issue an edi- ] tion of a paper calle d En Route, the business and editorial offices of which j are located "in the wcrld." It is a ten i page paper, copiously illustrated from j photographs which they take by the ! way, and it contains articles describing their tour printed in French, in the ! vernacular of the country in which the issue is published and, in the case of 1 East Indian, Japanese and Chinese cit ies, in English also. The paper is quite " a journalistic curio. The publishers have received generous support from ad-1 vcrtisers in all countries, and they state that their circulation ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 copies.-San 'Francisco Argo- j nant. Imported Stock. H. G. Os teen A Co. received this week s fall assortment of the latest acd prettiest de signs in Dennison's Imported Crepe nod Tis soe Paper for making lamp 6bades, flowere and all sort3 ot fancy work. This ts guaran teed to be the genuine imported paper and far superior to any and all imitations. We sell at New York prices, as we buy direct from the importers. The stationery etcck is complete and up tu date Hoods is the Finest Spring Medicine-Tonic, Ap petizer, Strength Builder lt Makes You Eat, Sleep, Work and Happy. "We think Hood's Sarsaparilla is the finest Spring and family medicine. I had been bothered with headache while at my work, many a time having to go home, and loss of sleep, tired all the time, and getting up in the morn ing weak. I decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and felt better after three doses. I kept on taking it, and now I can go into the quarry and do a day's work and come home feeling well and always hungry. We have also been giving Hood's Sarsaparilla to our youngest child, who was weak, lan guid and losing flesh. We could soon see a marked change. He ate better, slept well, and in a little while was like a new boy. He has continued to improve, and today is lively as a cricket, and the neighbors say he can talk more than any man around the place.7' ' THOMAS WHITE, Park Quar. ries, Freedom, Pa. N. B. Be sure to get Hood's because Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Puri fier. Sold by all druggists. SI, six for S5. ww , -_. are the only pills to take flOOu S Fl S with Hood's Sarsaparilla. SO YE RS EXPERIENCE. TRADE MARKS, DESIGNS. COPYRICHTS &c. Any onesending a sketch and description may : uicfciy ascertain, free, ?whether an invention La probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Oldest agency i"orsecurin<r Patents In America. We have a Washington Oiiice. Patents taken through ilunn & Co. reoeivo special notice in the SCIENT'FiO AMERICAN, beautifully illnstrntcd, largest circulation of any scientific Journal, weekly, terrosS&CO rear; ?<1.50six mont? . -. Specimen copte* and HA>'3 BOOK OX PATENTS sent iree. Addresa ' MUNN i CO., S61 Br**"--1'"0 - x'I-TV". TASTELESS 5S JUST AS CGCD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTES. PRICE 50cts. GALATIA, ILLS., NOV. 1G, 1803. . Pnri3 Medicine Co., St. .Louis, ilo. Gentlemen:-Wo sold last year, 600 bottles of SHOVE'S TASTELESS CHILL T';NIC and havo bought three cross already this year. In all our ex perience of 14 years, in the drug business. ha70 oeversold an 'irtiole that cave such universal satis faction as your Tonic. Yours truly, ABXEY, CARR & Co SOLD-No Cure, No Pay, by A J China f. F. W. DeLormp, J. S. Hughson & Co. Great Mtta Meeline Apcj, CHARLOTTE, IC. C., DO ALL KINDS of legitimate Detective Work at revocable rates. ARSON, MURDER, DIVORCE SPECIALTY. March IO-6m* OTTO GARHARDT, FLORIST AND GARDENER. NFORMS HIS CUSTOMERS nd the public that be is prepared to furnish coe articles in ?Vuit, Trees, Roses and all kinds of Flower Plants Also Cabbage, Plants ard Other Va rieties of Vegetable Plants. 1C0 Cabbage Plants, $ .25 1,000 " " 2.00 ICO Pansy Plantp, 1.00 He (fifers his services to lay out gardens in'l put them in shape. Reasonable terms. M ch 1. D. M. YOUNG, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prompt attention to all business entrusted o bim. Office on Court House Square, in Handing office. We Will Offer: 10 doz. Knee Pants, worth 25 at 10c pr. 5 doz* Knee Pants, blue Cheviot 25c pr, 50 doz. all-linen Collars, 75e doz. 1 case Men's Straw Hats, the 50c kind at 35c. 10 doz. Boy's Straw Hats, 50c and 75c kind at 30c. Our stock of stylish and well made Clothing as usual leads Each and every garment guaran teed to fit as well as cus tom made goods W*e heep all mils said from $10 p9 lit thor owgh Repair for Six months. BROWN. CUTTiNO & DELGAR. Sewing Machines. The horse season is about over, but I must be doing something. It will nev er do for a man to be idle in this pro gressive age,so am^Croing into the Sew as T ing Machine Business, and will place upon the market an old favorite in this community. THE LIGHT SUNNING which will be sold either for Cash or upon favorable terms This branch of my business will be run by Mr. E. W. Vogel, who will try and meet the views of all purchasers. Machines delivered in any part of the County. A full stock of sewing machine supplies on hand. tc H. Harbv. Sumter, 8. C., April 19, 1897.