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MB 8CKXXB WATCHMAN*, Establish eil April 1350. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." . THE TSUE SODTHBOM, Established Jone 1266 New Series-Vol, XVUI. So. 27 3M. CSv Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TKRJfS : 1.50 per afjnum-ia advance. IDTIKTISl lIf: Ooo Square first iasert;on..........>.......$l 00 Every subsequent insertion........ 50 - Contracts tor three months, or longer wil be made at reduced rares. AH communications which subscrre private j , interests will be charged for as ad reniements, i Obituaries od tributes of respects win be charged for. -M irs WAE TO THE KNIFE. Filipinos Becrmting Every Availabie Male. Manila. Jan. 20 -Via Hong Kong Jae. 24.-Tbe Independencia so-day issued a supplement eontainio a dis patch, purposing to come from Ma dos, the sett of the rebel government. It com men ta upon the appoint me nt of the commission, and tare : "The Filipinos naturally saspeefi this is a new attempt to humbug. Both Dewey and Spencer Pratt promised is iocependeocs if tbe Filipino republic waa . stable. Til3 Filipinos are disillusioned. I believe "the. ena mission is a rase to gain time till they have asenmulated formidable forces, wheo America, - abasing ber strength, will begin e.war to ratify ber sovereignty 'v ? Tbe Independencia then alleges that aU the commissioners are partisans of colonial explosion, aod incidentally as serts that toe arehbt3hop also favors 1 asoexattaa "with the sole object cf gaining toe sympathies of tbe winning side." Tbs Filipinos of Caloocan and Geglaagin, mistaking saintes exchang ed between British and German war ships on January 18, moved 3,000 men to the front io. order of battle, covering the adjacent coco try, bat they did sot sucked the American lines. Kcpotts from the interior indicate that Aguinaldo's authority is now geo orally recognised. Every available male is being recruited and arms depots are being established at San Bern andino, Union, Trinidad and other large towos. The surrounding country is being levied on for supplies, and tbe Filipino troops j are living on the fat of the land, while the native villagers are compelled to subsist on rice There is some friction between the Filipino civil abd military authorities, bat they are united on the question of independence It is estimated that there are folly 3. OOO Filipinos under arms, and it ie said there are nearly 50 Maxim guns at Ma lolos, some of them having been recent ly acquired* The Filipino military authorities are convinced, they say, that the Amerisaos will be nuable to work effectively out side of Manila in the event of hostilities, hence they leel confident of the fntore. Many of the Filipino officers com plain of discourteous treatment opon the part of the Americans at Manila. Sherman on Expansion. New York, Jan. 25.-The Even jog World to day prinls an interview with John Sherman, in which the latter forcibly expresses nimseif against expansion. The ex-secretary is quoted as saying in part : "ram decidedly opposed to the invasion of the Fbilippines Tbe idea of our country forcing its way into -these islands and. forcing its government opon the 7,000,000 or 9,000,000 population of those islands ia monstrous It is subversive of the basic principle of oar government, that tbe pst powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed, and it is in violation of the traditions of oar country." "Thea if jon were in the senate you would not vote to ratify the treaty of Paris as it stands ?" "If I were io the senate I would not vote to ratify the treaty aa it stands. I wonld vote to withdraw from tbe islands as soon as possible. The papers say tbat 4,000 soldiers have jost been sent to Manila. Why are they sent ? Are we going to war against a straggling republic ? They have U?en fighting for many years against Spain, and have practically driven Spain ont. Are we to take the place of Spain in tyrannizing over these struggling people ?" The "Oceanic," tbe largest steamer afloat, was successfully launched at Belfast. Sba is owDed by the White 3tar Line and is 704 feet loog and weighs 17,000 tons Her ooai bunkers will bold enongh coal for ber to circum navigate tbe world without reooaliog. She is buiit open different lines from the "Great Eastern" and will be used for freight. IS A STATE OFFICER I TO BE INELIGIBLE ? ? Can Governor Ellerbe be a! State College Trustee ? INVESTIGATION DEMANDED. Senator Connor, of Orangeburg, will to-day in trod ace a concurrent resolution that the judiciary com mittees of both branches of the general assembly be constituted a com tait tee to ascertain whether any State official is holding another office ic violation of article I, section 14, artic; e II, section 2, and article III, section 24 of the constitution This committee to take testimony and to report ta the general assembly not later than Feb 10th. Senator Connor says that when Gov Ellerbe last year accepted an elective membership on the board of trustees of Clemson college, be vir tually vacated the office of governor, and having been recently inaugurated as governor, he has virtually vacated the position as member of the board of trustees. There is another Clem son trustee, Senator Mauldin, of Hampton, who is holding two posi tions of trust, and Senator Connor claims that one or the other is ! vacated The proposed resolution will also ! demand an inquiry as to whether or not there are officials at the State i capital who are violating the statute forbidding that any State officer sha!; ! appoint in his office any man who is not over six degrees removed io con I saoguiuity and affinity. Senator Connor claims that the ; governor s private secretary, Mr. W. Boyd Evans, is nearer kin to the governor than six degrees removed, aod this will debar Mr. Evans from holding that position There are two conditions to be confronted One is whether or not the general assembly will take any action on bis resolution, and the other is whether the joint committee will do what is expected Mr Con nor claims that no State officer, ex officio or otherwise, can be a member of the board of trustees of a State institution. The Lee county people will fight to the last. A concurrent resolution was drawn op in the engrossing department yes terday authorizing an investigation into the question as to whether or not the representatives from Darling ton, Kershaw and Sumter counties are entitled to seats in the general assembly The resolution will prob ably be introduced to day. It reads as follows : Whee eas, the legislature io 1898 passed an act nuder the constitution of South Carolina creating Lee Coun ty from portions of Sumter, Darting- ! and Kershaw counties thereby ma terially changing the lines of said counties and made Lee county an election district for the election of one representative and an election j was held in Lee county and j one representative was elected to the legislature of South Carolina under the act creating Lee county, and Lee county when said election was held was to all intents and purposes under the constitution and law of South Carolinaas much a county as any other county. The constitution of the State provides for an election for 124 members of the legislature from the different counties or election districts which, provision of the constitution has been complied with And whereas the supreme court of south Carolina has declared the act creating Lee county uncon stitutional, null and void, and the house of representatives refused to seat the Hon. D. Keels, the mem ber-elect from Lee county, and as the Hons E D Smith, W. A. bettles, Samuel Young and J. Harvey Wil son were elected to the legislature from a part of Sumter county, and that the Hons. John Floyd,* W\ F. Dargan and W. A. Dowling were elected to the legislature from a part of Darlington county and that the Hons. C. L. Wink er and J. G Richards were elected to the legisla ture from a part of Kershaw county, and that a large number of the quali fied voters of said counties, by act of the legislature were deprived of the right lo vote for said members to the legislature, therefore, be it Resolved, That the right of the members elected from parts of said counties, to wit : Sumter, Darlington and Kershaw by a part of the quali fied voters of said counties to seats in the house of representatives, be referred to the committee on privi leges and elections to consider and j report separately on the following : ! First-The right of the delegation j from Sumter county to seats in the i house. Second-Tbe right of the delega ! tion from Darligton to seats io the house. i Third-The right of the deiega tion from Kershaw to seats in the house in accordance with the reasons as set forth in the preamble and reso* lunion AQother resolution was prepared yesterday looking to the election of; another representative from Sumter county to sueceed Mr. Keels, the gentleman from Lee county who was unseated The r solution reads as follows : Whereas the county of Sumter is j entitled to five members in the house j of representatives ; and, whereas, at ! the general election for the year 1898 the said county chose only four mern bera for said bouse and there is DOW a vacant seat therein ; be it Resolved, That the speaker of this house issue a writ of election for Sumter county for the purpose of filling said vacancy-The 8tate, Jan. 27. Gen. Sagan Before the Court martial. Washington, Jan. 2<5 -The feature j of .he proceedings before the Eagan conrtmartial to day waa the testimo- j ny, dramatic, in many parts in its quiet intensity, of Commissary Gen eral Eagan himself. Not more than fifteen or twenty people outside of the court and a i dozen or so newspaper correspond ents were admitted to the trial rooms., Several witnesses preceded the chief figue in the trial. Gen Eagan listen ed intently to the testimony of these witnesses, and occasionally held brief whispered conferences with his counsel. He was dressed in full uni form without sword. His florid faoe, white hair and mustache and soldier ly bearing re-called to many the late Gen Sheridan, to whom he bears a distinct resemblance His call to the I stand this morning was something of a su rprise, as it bad been thought if he testified at all it would be later. When his name was called be rose and, standing before the witness chair, raised bis right hand, took the oath administered by the judge ad vocate, and at first related his army career. As he proceeded in his test imony it became apparent that the I line of defence would be justification ; and extreme provocation, finally I bringing on a serions nervous condi tion which rendered the witness unfit for business, and made bim to a de gree irresponsible for his acts The president's order of immunity, it was also evident, would be relied on as applicable to Gen. Eagan 's testi mon y before the war commission, and that, therefore, the courtmartial had no proper jurisdiction of the case. W hen Gen Eagan began the story of Gen. Miles' aspersions on bim he raised his voice somewhat and spoke with great earnestness, though with perfect enunciation. In speak ing of the criticisms of the newspa pe rs which, he said, had been called forth by Gen. Miles' testimony, his manner was intensely dramatic and impressive. His eyes filled with tears; and his voice trembled, and the impression he left with many was decidedly favorable. After the court adjourned several members shook his hand and in a friendly way asked after his health. LANCASHIRE'S COTTON TSADE IN 1898. Writing shoat the Lancashire cotton trade for the year jost closed, the Pall Mall Gazette ssys : "Io brief, the salient festeres of the Lancashire cotton rade daring the year 1808 are low priced American cotton, averagiog little about 3d. in fatcres, extensive supplies-two enormous corps beiog assured, one'of 11.200,000 bales, aod the current yield likely to be 12,000, 000-a profitable spinning trade in OldaiD and South Laneasbise (Ameri can yarns), a poor maoufactariog margin where bought yarea are used, a better manufaetariog situation where owo yarn is spas, and a most unsatis factory trade for spinners io Bolton of Egyptian ootton. Oldham and vicinity has had the best year's trade since 1890. All tbe companies excepting two feave declared not unsatisfactory profita. Many adverse balances have been wiped out, and several private firms have been pat on their legs. Things are so promising that several new eaills are being erected in Koch dale, Oldham and Stockport." The journal qaotud Baye that tbe Board of Trade retaros will show Eoglaod's larges!, exports of ootton good io point of yardage. - - ? ? - Speaking of speeches in the assem bly reminds us that the boys were not slow to take advantage of a good opportunity to display their oratorical powers yesterday in the flag debate. The subject was one admitting of the display of the grand passion and it was displayed, by a number of very eloquent men. Mr. Wilson's speech in opening the debate was generally regarded as one of the most effective that has been delivered in toe assem bly for years-Columbia Record. WILL IT BE RATIFIED? Day Named for Voting on the Treaty Accepted. Washington, Jan. 25 -The senate consumed forty-five mino tes in exe cntive session to-day in arriving at a decision to vote on the peace treaty As soon as the doors were closed and the public exclnded Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, took the door and annonnc ed that he was authorized by the committee to accept the proposition made in executive session by Senator Gorman yesterday to vote on the treaty within ten days He, there fore, asked for unanimous consent that the vote should be taken at 3 o'clock on Monday, February 6, say ing that exactly ten legislative days would intervene between this time and that. He intimated that if there were any objections to this date he woold iike to hear them, but none were beard, and the hour and the day were unanimously agreed to The remainder of the forty five minutes were spent in an exchange of que s tions and answers, which are usually heard in efforts to fix a time for a vote and in making sure that all un deretand the fact. There was also an agreement that the Senate should go into executive session each day be tween this time and February 6 for the discussion of the treaty Au thority was also given for making the announcement of the agreement pub lic The opposing Senators made no objection to itie date, neither sug gesting an earlier or later one. Smart London Brokers. London, Jan. 26.-Justice Bigbam, in the Queen's Beach division of the High Court of Justice, to day decided in favor of Pellay Br Sers, the ship brokers, in the snit of the U cited Stares against them to recover 5.300 paid the brokers on April 21. 1898, on two 600-ton colliers, by Dient Sims, who was then acting naval attaobe of the United States embassy in London, tbat amount being 10 per cent of the total sam, 53,000, for which the ship brokers agreed on April 21 to deliver the colliers lt was claimed on behalf of the Uni ted States that Peile? Brothers, accord ing lo the contract, were to deliver the colliers "as soon as possible," aod that they promised verbally that one of them was to be ready to sail in twenty four boors, and the other io forty eight boors, but they failed to deliver tbe ships before the neutrality proclamation of April 26, claiming that they were unable to get them ready in time to do so. The case hinged on whether a state of war existed on April 22, when the owners ceased their preparations to fit ont the ships They testified that they sounded the foreign office on the subject, and were informed hat they might be liable under the Foreign Enlistment Aot rf they carried out their contract* The Justice said they did what be boped any English gentleman would do coder the circumstances. He himself believed that war existed on April 21, and the;re was no ground to insinuate that the brokers acted in bad faith. They were entitled to keep the money under the clause of the contract which provided that it should be retained if a state of war prevented the delivering of the ships. Statistics on Manure Values From recent carefully prepared statistics taken from United States government bulletins on this subject, we find that there are in the whole country, in round numbers, 16,000, 000 horses, 53,000^00 cattle, 45 200,000 hogs, and 45,000.000 sheep, lt 8 further shown that if all these animals were kept in s .ails or j pens throughout one year, the value of manure produced by each horse would be $27 ; each head of cattle $19; each hog $12, and each sheep $2. The total value of fertilizers thus produced by the dif ferent, classes would be, for horses $ 32,000,000 ; cattle $1,007,000, 000 ; hogs $542,000,000, and sheep $30,000,000 : making a grand total of $2,071,400,000, or about ten times the value of the present cotton crop. These estimstes were calcu lated upon the values usually placed upon phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen found in commercial ferti lizers, io their relative proportion, as they exist in manures. -- mt^i ? -' The newest gun in the United States army is a balloon gao, made especially to bring down ballooos. it is mounted so that it can be fired at any point from zeoith to horizon, and bas a range of a mile and a quarter. This is a new feature io warfare, as heretofore there was oo way of reaching those eogaged in spying out the Iny of armies. It is claimed by army officers to be the thiog most needed. Ex-Attorney Genera! Garland Stricken Down. Addressing Federal Supreme Court When Stroke Came. Washington, Jan. 26-Former Attorney General Angostos H. Gar land was stricken with apoplexy while addressing the United States supreme con rt at 12 15 o'clock this afternoon and died within ten minutes The oeenrreoee came with startling and tragic unexpectedness, changing the usual calm and dignity of the ooort into temporary oonfosion, while the dying man was carried from the cham ber in a fntile effort to alleviate his con ditton. When the conrt convened at noon Mr. Garland resumed an argument in the case of Towson vs. Moore, which had begun yesterday. There was a fall bench, with the exception of Justices Brewer and White. Mr. Garland spoke calmly and with no evidence of agita tion or effort. He bad read from a law volume and bad followed with the sen tence : "This, your honors, is our coo tention.1* As the last word was uttered Mr. Garland was seen to raise his haod and then gasp. He tottered and fell side wise, striking against a chair and overturning it as fae fell heavily to the floor. A succession of load, deep gasps came from him as he lay on the floor. Hts associate in the case, Mr. Franklin Mackey, was at once by bis side and with the aid of other counsel and officials, the head of the dying man was raised, his shoes removed and a gi aas of water given him. A deathly pallor had overspread his face, and this gave soon plaoe toi a deep purple, which foretold the gravity of the attack. He was carried from the c'a amber across to the room of Chief Clerk MoKenny, and there placed on a i:ofa Senator Gallioger, who is a physician, was near at hand. A single glance told him that the attack would he fatal. Within ten minutes from the time of the stroke Mr. Garland breathed his last Dr Moseley Goe3 to Cuba. Florence, Jan. 25.-The Rev. Dr. H. R. Moseley, pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city, will leave here to-marrow night for Miami, Fia, where he will embark for Santiago, Cuba. It will be remembered that Mr. Moseley has recently been offered the position of general missionary to the Eastero provinces of Coba by the Amer ican Baptist Home Mission Society, of New York. Mr Mosely has been granted a two months' leave of absence by his church here, which time he will spend In Cuba organizing the mission work for the home board As soon as this is done he will return to Florence. If,- however, he decides to accept the place offsred him by the board he will not resign his charge here after bis return until the end of thia year. Daring his absence the Rev. Will B. Oliver, of North Caro lina, will fiiil Dr Moseley's polpit. The soldier correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, writing from Ha vana, says : "The Cubans are greatly interested in a play at ons of the theatres here It has no pict; hut is simply a patriotic demonstration. In the first aot Weyler, clad io scarlet, storms about upon the stage, flourishing a big dagger, aod trampling and stab bing the miserable, defenseless recon centrados, huddled together in etarviog groups. At last ali are gone, and 'Cuba' stands before him. a woman clad io white, defenseless, having lost ail save parity. A9 the slaughterer is about to end ber, 'America' suddenly appears wrapped from head to foot io Old Glory. The slaughterer falls back, and iostantly nearly every hat io the boase ja flung on the stage, while .vivas' and 'bravos' drown all other sounds. As soon as some qaist has been restored, stage supers collect the hats and disbribnte them in the audi ence with surprising ease. Both 'Cuba' and 'America' are types of beaatiful women. 'Cuba' is a brunette, and 'America' a blonde. A story comes from Madrid that Ave Spanish officers have been rewarded for valiant and successful services as spies in the country daring the war. The spies may have done good work but the mistake that Spain made in the matter was that they were not detailed to learn the weakness of their own nation before the war rather than the strength of their foes after it was too late.-Louisville Courier-Journal. Makes the food more de BOVAt BAX!VG PO* ABBEVILLE FOR WHITE MEN. Abbeville, Jaooary 25.-Special : A roeetiog of the citizens of Abbeville was called this evening, Mr A g W. Smith presided and Mr H. T Wardlow acted ae secretary. Tbe object of the meet ing as expressed by oooFervative r solu tioos, whioh were offered by Mr. Wyatt Aikeo, was to inform Mr. E. B. Tol bert, Jr., that io view of his recent con duct in the Phoenix trouble his pres ence here is undesirable and for the peace and good order of the community he bad best make his permanent abode beyond the limits of this county. No objeotioo was offered te bis remaining to transact necessary business, bat it W29 ad?ised that be leave as soon as possible. The sense of the meeting was that this is a white man's government, and i* lld be maintained by citizens of this community. Messrs Wyatt Aiken, LG. Haskell and Jones F. Mi ler were appointed as a oommittee to inform Mr. Tolbert of the action taken by the meeting. AUGUSTA STRIKE ENOS. Angosta, Ga , Jan. 26 -The strike in the cotton mills of the Augusta I district which began Nov 21, will ! end to-morrow and the strikers will j return to work at the reduced scale j after nine weeks of idleness Some ! sroalS concessions are made by the mills in the matter of house rent and fuel, but the details of the agreement "are not given out tonight About 4,000 bands were involved in the j strike. In Statu Quo at Manila, j Washington, Jan 26 -Ged Otis ea j bled the war department to-day from Manilla ae follows : Manila Jan 26.-The transport Zea - landis left yesterday for San Francisco with 224 officers and enlisted men. The soldiers oo the Zaalandia are said, at the war department, to be eon j valescents. The dispatch, like the last i received from Gen Otis was regarded as satisfactory because he made no men i tioo of any change in the conditions at j Manila, such as he would be sore to do ? had there beeo any insurgent outbreak. - ? ? ; In New York there are not only a i great number of church buildings, . but there are many very rich ones. ! Trinity church, Episcopal, is assessed j at $5,000,000 St Patrick's Roman I Catholic Cathedral is assessed at $3,500,000 St Paul's Chapel, $2, 475,000 ; St John the Divine ; 2 000,000 The most valuable Presbyterian church is the Fifth avenue of which tbe late Dr Hali [ was pastor This is valued at $900 , j 000 Three other Presbyteriaa ! churches are valued at $550,000 and $420.000 Other costly places of : worship in New York are the Col legiate Dutch church, $900,000 ; I Temple Emanuel, $850,000 ; Broad ; way Tabernacle, $600,000 ; Grace ! Episcopal, $500,000 ; St George's, i $400,000 ; St Bartholomew's, $450, I 000, etc. Church property exempt from taxation $63,996,000. In all there is property exempt in the great city aggregating $96,000,000. Tax es are enormously high in the city i now. i _ t t ^ _ i If you want a new organ for yoor o ld ene see Randie. It is stated by the Southern Farm I Magazine, of Baltimore, and we be Heve the statement is correct, that one hundred million dollars are spent : annually for food stuffs by the Sooth that are produced inside of its own borders, and all of which couid easily I be grown at home Let us think for ; a moment what this means Suppose ! we raise fen million bales of cotton and that it is worth, at 5 cents per j pound, $250,000,000 ; we see at I once that two-fifths of the whole ! amount is Bpent Ipr food, every dollar j of which migh'i and should be kept j at home. The useful beetle known as novios j cardinalis, and employed in Califor ! nia to eat up the "white or fluted I scale/' insects of the orange groves, bas been exported to Portugal for ihe same poi pose. The beetles were packed in moss with a quantity of' seale insects to eat, and sent by mail to Lisbon. Only a few reached their ! destination alive, bot they are prc ! lific and in a few months thousands j were available for work on the scale insects which infest the orange groves of the Tagus. j AMUNO IED POWDER &RE cious and wholesome T R CO., N W VC* .