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imE DEFENDS - IMPERIALISM. He Spoke ia Favor cf Spool? er's Philippine Resolutions. Washington, March T -Seldom, indeed, is it th3t the senate accords to any of its members a greater com pliment than it accorded today to Mr Lodge of Massachusetts The an nouncemeot that he would deliver, a speech on the Philippine question was the magnet which drew to the - senate every senator cow in the city and to the galleries an unusually large number of attentive auditors. As chairman of the Philippine committee and a prominent member of the committee ou foreign relations, who had studied the Philippine ques tion exhaustively, he presented a notable addition to the literature of the great problem which now con ii outs congress and the American people. Soon after the senate convened Mr Sullivan of Mississippi offered a res oiution that the Philippine islands are the rightful property, honorably ac quired, of the United States, and that '.while the misguided Fiiipinos con tinue the present war brought cn by them against the rightful authority of the United States, so long as a single gun in their bands is. trained upon our ?ag, eo expression of intention as to the future course of the United States with respect to them should be made by the senate " Mr. Sullivan asked that the r?solu tion iie on the tabie until he should call it np Mr Mason of Illinois then gave notice that tomorrow he would move that the committee on foreign rela? tions be discharged from further con? sideration of his resolution expressive of the senate's sympathy for the Boers As the committee clearly intends not to act upon it, he wants it placed oe the calendar The committee could give us a report if it would If a majority of the committee is opposed to the resolution let tbem report it adverse? ly That wouid be making some progress. I am satisfied that 95 per cent of the people of the country are in sympathy with the Boers in their war with Great Britain, and I am just as certain that a majority of this body would favor the resolution 1 introduced. It is the merest child's play for us to sit here and not be able to get a vote upon it " Mr Lodge then spoke. iiis speech lasted three hours and was based upon the Spooner resolution authorizing the president to govern the Philippines pending legislation by congress War is Over, Except for Work of Guerilla Bands. San Francisco, March 7 -Geo do* Wheeler and party, who have been io quarantine sines their arrival from tb? Philippine.- oe the transport Warren last Mayday, were permuted to ISD? tonight. Gen Wheeler eaid that bis health wa? excellent. ' Ho speaks enthnsiasti of his tC3pre?3'oas of Guam He said he retened frote the arc? Nov 20. bu- was cor crdsred h ?tas anti: : the tni?ic;e cf Jica^ry He di i co. care t'? discBsa bis reasons fer leavicg the :;my. "I 8ha ! ?p to W?-ciagton," he 3??, '.having resigned froT fr.-? troij, asd wira a proper c?rr;?csre of election exp '"t to ba swern ic. It will be coted that, ct'.y resignation troca the arm? was hanc?? in before con^re?? mp*." A- to 'be. si'o^'iat. -.he Philippines and G aas. be 6>~ii : "Ail i** very Si;isfa)r? :y io bot) pUce< The tsar i- <<v r ( xc( p* fr >h - ?orir. or the guerilla hands ihat aa hu*h eur troops and do a little dam age. . ? w*a occb pbas.-d * th -he F.-i pm'? t-eopit" i cey are J ijteHigeat, ki:d an*! c-ur - .u* Taey are r>o? deposed tc resolution 2nd vioieoce, bu; the false represeatariooa rjo^d0 tn tb<'?:i rezardiog America*": v:ry na-a ra ly aroo9sd 'h'a> -ci ?ed them ro belicv- tbar r'6:staooe t > ocr ruie wa tb^ i i,i7 praj??r??3 escape from iapenc iog evil .I focad that ween they learned the real charaot?r and porposes of Amen eao* they seemed weil reconciled to oar government aod I firmly believe that after the establishment of a good and wise civil ad cits ist r ?tion of affairs, ao era of great prosperity will bless tbe people of tho archipelago '' Mi-8 Wheeler, daagbter of the geo eral, who accompanied her father, 4eoie* the story of ber reported engage? ment to marry Story ? 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March 8 -A member of the cabinet tonight gave out the following authoritative statement : "There has been a wide misappre hendion of the Puerto Rican tari? bil!, of the attitude of the president, of the action of congrass and of their relations to each other. The cri ti cism and the concern which have come from some well meaning quar ters 8re due almost entirely to a misunderstanding of the real facts. "The attempt to represent that there bas been a disagreement be tween the president and congress is j wholly unfonuded There has been no essential differences between them Both have sought the same object The recommendation of the president and the house bill, in their purpose and their effects, come to the same thing. As a consequence, each rightly sustains the other "The president in his annual mes 83ge of December urged that the custom duties a trade between Puerto Rico and the United States be removed. Imports from Puerto Rico I to the United States have been acd I are now paying the Dingley rates. They have no preference over goods j from any foreign country The president felt that Pueto Rico should be relieved of this burden. He urged that it should be removed, not as a matter of legal rigbt, but of j liberal and humane public policy. "What he proposed was that the j United States should offer the largest j and most generous measure of help j to the distressed and suffering island, and he has never wavered a single instant ic the object he sought. Had his suggestion been accepted and followed by ail in his spirit and a3 he meant it, with the limitations he intended, all would have been well There would have been no harm in any direction But when the time came for action in congress two tendencies were seen. Oa tue one band, there were good men and some business and agricultural interests that, while not objecting or little objecting to free trade with Puerto Rico alone, feared that free trade with Puerto Rico would be made a precedent for free trade with the Philippines They felt that there should be a distinct assertion and exercise of the power to impose j duties, however small, &s an as6ur? ! ance that this power was reserved for other cases. "On the other band what the president proposed as a worth}' act of national generosity and liberal policy was seized by political oppon eats and claimed as a necessity and inevitable measures of inherent con etitutional right of its own force extends to Puerto Rico and all the new island pos sessions and spreads ali its pro? visions ever them, including uniform taxation. They were eager to com j m't a Republican congress to the ! adoption of free trade with Puerto j ! Rico, not a3 a measure of generous j expediency, but because they could ! then claim that it had riveted a hard ! j and fas! principal which would tie j j the hands of the government every i where, in the Pniiippines as weil a3 j j in Puerto Rico ! "It wss a cunning game but it did ? j not succeed The apprehension oil j the honest objectors who feared tha? ? j the concession of fu.l free iradi- to j ! Puerto Rico would lead to raiscon ! j st ru ct i on and the designs nf the ! j crafty partisans who meant that it ! should, were both met and frustrated j by the bill which passed the h:use? ! and which ievio3 15 percent or less] ! than one sixth of the Dingley rates - -ri -??--?man j Szld Burglars Workiag zhe Upper Towns in the j State j _ ! A irentieman who arrived in the j city last night brought the newe of ? the snecessful work of safe crackers j at Jonesville during Wednesday j night Ile says about two weeks ! 3go a short thick set white mau went I to Switzer on the Charleston and j Western Carolina railroad and j remained there some days, represent j ing himself to be a mind reader j Tne night after he left a safe was j blown opeu, but ouly $10 was lost. : The fellow then came to Jonesville I Tuesday he left Jonesville for Union ; He had a truuk At Union both j checks were found in the station, but j the trunk was gone The next night j five white men were seen to leave Union ; the next morning it was discovered that Mr Sam Littlejohn's safe had been blown open and $50 taken and the same treatment had been given Mr. Alman's safe, ?30 being secured An effort was made to break into the postoffice, but it failed. The man then stole a lever car and went as far as Glendale, where they dumped the car off the track and all trace of them was lost ! Both safes were broken into by meanB j of a safe jack and dynamite These latest safe crackings point ; to an organized gang operating in the i small towns of thc State In the last j few months safes have been blown j open at Lexington, Peaks, Rockton, ! Lewis', Blackstock and other points, i the same methods being employed in ! each case.-The State March 9. Killing in Blackville. i Cause of Trouble a IS y su rr j Blackville, March 8 - B R. Carroll ! was fatally phot here at 2 o'clock . today No particulars at present j can be ascertained Jt appears that Carroll was on his j way or returning; from a blacksmith ; shop when D P Johnson emerged j from the store of Bigga, Buist & Co and fired twice at Carroll with a j shotgun loaded with buckshot at i I very ciose range, the gun wads i ; entering Carroll's clothing After Carroll was shot down ! Johnson emptied the contents of a revolver into Carroll's head and body, almost touching him with his pistol Carroll can live but a short while; his brains are shot out No one seems to know about the shooting through the streets were filled with people Carroll was to have beeu tried for his life at the coming session of our court al Barnwell next week for the killing of James Bolin last Christmas Carroll has a wife and two children. Later -Carroll died at 5 o'clock this afternoon His mother. Mrs W. W. White, arrived from Charleston tonight. Coroner Nevils is holding the inquest. Mrs Hughes to Rave Anoth? er Trial. The State cuprcme court had dis? missed tho apceal io the case of Mrs I Rushes, the Grenville husband slayer. ? Her attorneys went to the supreme j coure on the prior jeopardy plea, i he j woman having had several mistrials. ! Now the case most be tried again Mrs Hughes id now running a ?tore io the city of Greenville -State/ The Plague in San Francisco. y San Francisco, March 7.-A case of j what is sanpoeed to be bubonic plague, though the esac: cature of the disease is yet uncertain, has been discovered io Chinatown The patient, who id a Chinese, was immediately isolated, and the whole cf Chinatown bas been placed nader strict quarantine regulations No fear is apprehended of the spread of the disease, whatever it may prove to be A large force of police is kept io Chioatowo to maintaiN the quarantine. The physicians ioteres'ed in the case are not yet prepared to make a definite sratecaetjt regardiog the case, but from j others who have had experience io such matters it ?9 learned that the case will hardly provo to be one of plague, as the dead maa has long been a resident of this city Had be beeo a recent arrivai from the Orieor. greater alarm wouid bc felt The cordoo of police cow watching Coioatowa is kept there simply as a precautionary measure. - ? ? - - A Farmer Who Made Mon? ey. Oraiizeburg, March 3 -A state mont cf the rf SQ!: of the farming operation:? of Mr Tbctnas I?. McCaors, i ss a substantial, idling farmer ol the j MHdicpea section of this county, vc-??? j be interesting to th's readers of Trie News ?ni Courier ?r i-bows conclu j sivrly that farcing rays, whoa proper Iv ci2.rjr.?sd ned in the hands of careful. ; progrer: ive Dic-c The iand of Mr ! McCanrs is not originally of the best! quality, though it- was fairly god lace, | but by iibtrai fertilizing and intelligent ! cultivation it bas been brought up ro a j decree cf fertility aod productiveness j than can best be shown by tbe rc.-uits. i Two acr^s in wheat made 40 bushels. , z-.? at. ?1 25 per bushel, *as rcorth ?50 ; 9 acres in cats mads GOO bushel?, at 50 cents per bushel, equal ?300 ; 5 acres of tobacco brought tor bim $200 ; 62 serfs in cotton made 65 baies, weighing in all 31,694 pounds, which was only reoeotly sold at S 40 cents, j bringing bim in oasb $2,662 20 ; cottoo f-eed weighing 65,000 and was worth ?455 ; 600 buebels of corn at a low estimate was worth ?75 ; syrup, 528 gallons, and worth 22 cents per gallon, total ?116 16 ; 250 bushels' of peas are worth ?250 ; 75 bushels of pinders, worth ?85. In addition to the above Mr McCaots made a supply of meat for family use, although be did not have nearly as macy bogs this year as usual, owiog to the cholers having killed a large portion of hi? porkers. He also made a large quantity of potatoes, which were cot measured and hence are not iooloded io this calculation. He gin? ned 900 bales of oottoo at bis public gio, aod was paid one dollar per bale for so doio^, and also sawed a quantity of lumber at his saw mill. The total of the values above given reaches the handsome sum of Dearly five thousand dollars, wbioh was made on a five-horse farm. Thc diversity of the orops made by this farmer, wbioh will always bring a fair yield, regardless of the price of cotton, is of especial interest, and it proves that farming may bo made profitaol? oven without cotton or with a snail crop of ootton - - ? ?*? ? -- It has cost the Government ?27, 000 to lind out how much Senator elect Ciark ' 'or the votes be got in the Mi aun Legislature These Western 1 juatorial elections are ex? pensive. Iii a kies: F?e,r?ni Rivages ic Mississippi. Jackson, Miss. M: resort made :o tee Hinds County hoare of ^supervisors reveals ac appaling stitc of -flairs if* rho Jonesville :;>j:i>h?or hocd io the southern psrt or the ccuof7 The county is literally honeycombed wi:h smallpox of ibe mest virulent and loathsome form .and, dering the past six weeks, oearly one hundred deaths have occurred On some days tbe death rate bas been so large that it was impossible to secure coffins and rude caskets were made from raiis. Whole famiiies have been wiped oui of existence and of several large famiies one or two children are left. Many of the patients are now ic a critical condition, are without medica! arteotion, and dying at the rate of from three to five per day. The death rafe exceeds 75 per cent and the eotire lower portico cf the coucty ts demoral? ized. The board of supervisors will make an effort to check further spread and at its morning session carte blanche was given to the physician to purchase cupp'ies and medicines. A bill for 43 coffins used wubin the past two weeks was allowed It \< not ?er.-eraiiy knewo rbat the United States .supports the largest and costliest standing anny in the worid, from which, however, it gf>;? norning in return except demands for more members and more money, but such nm -he facts Tee Boston Pose say? : "It is interesting to compare cur pension army with the standing armie? of the great military powers of Europe. There is not a European nation tbat maintains a force equal io number to our army of pensioners, and few of them reach it when on a war tooting Russia, with her standing army of 949.1S8, comes the nearest ; even Germany bas cciy 687,383. Yet the reason assigned by the czar for calling the peace conference last year was to seek some means of relief for industry from what he styled the crushing burden cf European armaments. When we further consider the comparative cost of our pension army to that of the standing armies of Europe, the contrast is yet more vivid. There ?3 not a European nation whose army budget rose last vear to the figure of ?139,482.696, which the United States paid our in peosioos, with the addition of ?3,854.774 for expenses of disburse? ment. " The sole reason for the organization and support of the enormous establishment, is. of course, that the money to maintain it is drawn from beth sections ot ibo country, and is distributed in the one which was victorious in the war between them.-News and Courier. if reports are to be beiieved we are soon to have something entirely new in tbe culinary line The Yezo oysters of Japan, wbich have as much of a repu? tation io Japan a* blue points have on this side of the globe, are to be trans planted to America These oysters grow to a foot in length and they will work a revolution in tho culinary dojartmenis of American households. Though it sounds somewhat impossible, lbs serving of twelve-inch oysters cn the half-.-hei!-yet ir. is probable that the Japanese ibsmselves eic them raw, for they cat a gre*-: dei' of their fish in inst way. ?! is net a iong step fi om ra?? oysters to fish and bat for the prejudice other Decpic might agree wi'h tbeo?. Bat we sro net to get the big cjsrers in this p-?rl of the country > o soon that we need speculate upon whit we will co with ?hem. They are to te planted io ?he tidewaters of Washing* t n and Oregon, and it w I i i be sotte time before wo shall hare Yezo oysters shipped with our California fruits. Major j John R. London, president cf the Victoria cottee mili at Rick Hill, was in the city ooe day this week Io speaking of the penitentiary and its affairs, he exclaimed that it is a pity cjcvict labor cannot bo used entirely for making gocd roads, and thus build? ing up tbe market value of land. As an instance of thc value of road build? ing, Major London stated that be bas a farm about three miies from Rook Hill which was a few years ago almost io* accessible in the winter on account of the blackjack mud. But the people of Rock Hill and the farmers dubbed io, the one furnishing funds to pay for labor, the other hauling rock to the crushing plant, and now the farms around Rook Hill are reached by plea? sant drives, and the lands have greatly increased io value -State Blackville. March 9 -Tbe remains of Mr B. R. Carroll were interred io the Blackville cemetery this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The funeral services were conducted by the Rsv S. E. Prentiss, of Barnwell. The cause of tho trouble is not yet known, today bringiog no oew developments of facts the case. Tbe verdiot of the coroner's inquest was that B R Carroll came to ' his .death by guasbot wounds in the I hands of D. P. Johnston. Mr Jobn I eton surrendered to Sheriff F. H. ! Creech at Blackville last night and was taken to Barnwell on the v\20 ; train and committed to jail. Gen Corbin bas turned over to ; Mrs Lawton, window of the late j Maj Gen Lawton, the fund subscrib i ed by the people of the country. It amounted to $98,432,07. SGROFUL? ?ND ITS AWFUL rlORR?RS ??fi -CUI:?:D ir. fl ?l Qt on9 ? S ? ii a il fi,. ^ > iL ii ?hS '&zy er? QUART 30TTLES. A MOST WONDERFUL CURE. A Grand Old Lady Gives lier Experience. Mrs. Thankful Orilla Hurd lives ia tho beautiful village of Brighton, Livingston Co.. Mich. This venerable and highly respected lady vras born in the year ISRi. the year of the great war, in Hebron. Washington Co., New York. She came to Michigan in 1S40. the year of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'* All her faculties are excellently preserved, and possessing a very re? tentive memory, her mind is full of interesting reminiscences of her early life, of the early davs of the St.-ito of Michigan and the interesting and re? markable people she has met, and the stirring events of which she was a wit? ness. But nothing in her varied and manifold recollections are more mar? velous and worthy of attention than ;:re her experiences in the use of JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. Mrs. Hurd inherited a tendency and pre? disposition to scrofula, that terribly destructive blood taint which has cursed and is cursing the lives or thousands and marking thousands more as vic? tims of the death angel. Transmitted from generation to .generation, lt is found in neary every family in one form or another. It may make its ap? pearance in dreadful running sores, in unsightly swellings in the neck or goitre, or in emptions of varied forms. Attacking the mucous membrane, it may be known as catarrh in the head, or developing in the lungs It may be, and often is. the prime cause or consumption. Speaking of her case, Mrs. Hurd says: "I was troubled for many years with a bad skin disease. My arms an? limbs would break out in a mass o? sores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very unsightly in appearance. My body was covered with scrofulous eruptions.. My eyes were also greatly inflamed and weakened, and they pained me very much. My blood was in a very bad condition and my head ached severely at frequent intervals, and I had no appetite. I had sores aiso in my ears. I was in a miserable condition. I had tried every remedv that had been recom? mended, and doctor after-doctor had failed. *One of'the best physicians in the state told me I muse die of scrofulous consumption, as internal abcesses were beginning to form. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and his famous Sarsaparilla. I tried a bottle, more as an experiment than any? thing else, as I had ?O faith in it, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I began to grow bette'-. You can be sure I kept on taking, it. I took a great many bottles. But I steadily improve^ until I became entirely well. All the sores healed up, al1, the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health, and I have never been troubled with scrofula since. 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