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ENLIGHTENING TBE NOR Congressman Norton's '. liant Defence of tbe Sou Washington, April 25 -Sp< Judge Norton made a short s] in the House on Monday, on c tiona io the Sooth, in reply to comparasona which bed been d by Representatives between Northern States and the Sou ones. Ile presented the si tu ali the Southern States ia a very < concise manner, and it will pro* teres ti n g readinfog to a?i Soother He said in part : 'Some days ago the gentle from Iowa made some compar between his own State and i Southern States, referring espec to Alabama, in the matter of ed tional facilities, making the con strongly against the Sooth Tbi only a sample of many of the references to the Sooth on the flo< this House. I desire to address self somewhat to these misappre sions. "I wish to say that all things conditions considered, the Sooth done and ia doing as much in tl and other directions as any other of th ecoontry. The disadvants nuder which the Sooth has labe for the last thirty years are gre than anyone outside of it can i conceive of or even believe "The sooth has paid to ot sections of this coontry since the in three items, viz : pensions, in est and tariff protectioo, enough hare paid the public debt at the ci of the war, or aboot $2,500,000,0 And al! this, too, after she had b devastated by war and robbed millions and millions by the carp bag governments after the war. M ot of the Sooth, assuming to disci questions, never consider these fa in their comparisons "Sooth Carolina, with a prope assessment of less than $200,000,01 has paid for pensions over and abc every dollar received by pension* in that Sute aboat $40,000,0( The eieven seceding States have pi in the same way, for the same pt pose $500,000,000 above ali going them "The Sooth has paid aboot $1,00 000,000 interest for money to ma and harvest her crops, aod not le than $1,500,000,000 for special pi tection to the proteced interests other sections "The people of the Sooth, bei; mainly producers in the markets the wodd is competi?? with ? coontries and were forced to buy ibo protected markets of the Unit< States, guarded by protective laws "In addition to this dirent financi drain great damnge has been suffer? by the South, growing out of tl prejudice, and falsehoods, and tl misrepresentation of the Nor! against Southern people. Much . this has come of the reconstructs period Missionaries with carpi bags came South from the Nort after the war and took control of tfc negro, voted bim to suit their nef rions purposes, and taught him tm it was not wrong to rob and murde white men, to burn and despoil whit homes "Here began lynchings The never occurred at the South until th John J Pattersons, the R K Scotti the B F Whit temores and their fe! low raissionaries from Pennsylvani and Massachusetts and Ohio an oSber parts of the North brough their malevolent political influence and ?ocia! teachings tc the Souther negro No case of, or cause fo lynching can be shown among th negroes of the South until the re construction period, '??e days cf th Non bern carpetbagger :n the South "Trie reputation of ?tie South ha bf en affected by these men, who after ij'>ing Nerta, painted the peopi of the Sooth as black in itrquity a their own souls Bet during a!! thes year?* the South has 8-J ff.-red i: siteuce, patiently awaiting a prope vindication of ber people by an na pa;ii-?i future. 4 Notwithstanding tja?? war wa' heil, military rnie, humiliation anc reconstruction were worbe-worst thai; the f?ogs .'?nd flies, the locust; and rice, the darkness and death sen upon the Egyptian* : yet tho soutr stands :cdsy resplendent in the char aci-r o? -t great .?nd splendid people, nn^c-.: ed oj' the blight of war, uri' so??ied by she rot of reconstruction, undaunted by poverty -md oppres? sion Sb:- raaititaiti? the iategriiy o? ber character ;*rt(i on trie top of the Pis^^h of Hop--* looks out over ?. go ?;:;; laad in fall view of as grund anrl g ericas future as is vouchsafed to rnr;t ?: roan "The south has emerged from this condition of helpless dependency. Energetic and progressive, she leaps forward by bounds to her natural po cition of industrial and commercial supremacy. As was so well said by the immortal Ilecry W. Grady : 'Of the three essential items of all indus tries-cotton, iron and wood-that region baa eapy control. In cotton a fixed monopoly ; in iron, proven su? premacy ; in timber, the reserve supply of the republic. From this assured and permanent advantage, against which artificial conditions cannot prevail, has grown an amazing system of industries ' '.Today the sooth has one billion dollars invested in manufacturing; paying to labor annually $350,000, OOO in wages ' Twenty years ago the south had ?21,900,000 invested in cotton fac? tories ; their 584,000 spindles used 221,000 bales of cotton. In JS90 there was $48,000,000 invested in southern cotton mills, witu 1,605,000 spindles, using 545,000 bales of cot? ton There has been a greater growth during the last ten years, until now there is $125,000,000 in vested in southern cotton mills, and their 6 000,000 spindles will use 2,000,000 of this year's crop of cot ton. There is no reason why this rate of increase should not continue Twenty years from now we shall see 60,000,000 southern spindles, supply? ing the increased demand for cotton goods and using three fourths of a twenty million bale crop of cotton. "In the production of coal the southern mines have risen from 5, 959 209 tons in 1880 to 42,863.448 tons in 1899 ; in coke production, from 299.430 tons to 5,140,977 tons ; in pig iron production, from 308,031 tons to 2,360 554 tons ; in phos? phates, from 750,000 tons to 2,000, 000 tons "The south produced 474,614,756 bushels of grain in 1880 ; the crop last year was 748,796,476 bushels. The south had 20,000 miles of rail road in 1880 ; iast year there was 50,000 there "The southern states have half the standing timber of the country, and are now building up rapidly an im? mense trade in wood and lumber. It will not be long before she wiil control this field of industry The south grows 72 varieties of field crops and 65 varieties of garden truck, fruits and melons. "But with all today sees only the beginning of tbe south's industrial and commercial development. What has been done by our people during the last 30 years has been done in the face cf intensely adverse condi lions, and in spite of the heavy hand of unfavorable legislation Our in? dustries have suffered from discrimi nating freight rates by land and water, and do so yet They have been retarded by the lack of money and its increase in value year by year. We have worked and strug? gled against our poverty io tbe face of a social and industrial ostracism such as few sections of the world have ever known. "But when we remember that sue cess begets success, that oppressive restrictions and prejudices fall be? fore power, then we see the south, industrially free, moving forward with leaps and bounds to the indus? trial and commercial supremacy she carns "We only hope for the domination cf our common country in every field of life when we iook forward to the day when somewhere south-maybe i at Charleston, S C , and I hope so there will be built a commercial city ! that will be to the modern world what Rome and Venice and Oartnage were to the ancient world From it will go forth the most variable and valuable products, mineral and vege table, to all the parts cf the earth to j bring retaros for the enrichment and the glory of the southern states. "The day will come when miilions of bales of southern cotton, manu factored at southern iooni3 ; wheu millions of tons of southern iron, manufactured ia southern forges ; when millions of feet of lumber, cut by 6outbern mills, wili find their way to every port upon the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indiau oceans We are called upon to supply the needs of the Occident and the Orient. The duty is ours, and the rewards of the honest worker, of wealth, of honor and of power, shall be ours also." - - i-mi- >?4?. m - Tho Nsw Board of Education Columbia, April 25 -GovetLor MoSweoney has appoicud the members of ree Stale board of education. For some time cast there bas been a ^reat deal of interest taken io the appointments of this board, and Gov? ernor .^oSwseney has received a great oa?s of suggestions and recommen?a tioos. Io making the appointments Governor MeSweecey has undertaken to appoint men who are weil known throughout their districts and in tbe iti'.c as h??h-too.f:d, hooe<-t sod coo scieoTK-us men He bas selected one j laymso and ali o? the other apooint i cuecis are from among tbor-c who have ] for yeard beeo connected vrith tbs j ! schools cr cciieges cf tho Stite. Under the lac Governor Mcorene/ j is chairman of the O'^.e b:tard a:;d Superintendent of Education McMahan i H fccretary of rho biatd, br.th beio^ members or the bou:d. Tc-'e appointments as announced today are : First district. Henry P Archer, of Charleston ; 2i district, Graves L Kci^at, of Gran;ft vii!:- ; 31 darter, J " I. McCain, of Due West ; 4:b district, H. T. Cook, cf Greenville ; o h uistrict, Pref A. R Baakb, of Hod: Hill : 6:h district. Senator V7. A. Brown, of Marion ; 7:b district, the Hon Titos M. Raysor. of Oraugeburg New York. April 24.-The United States transport Macbesou wiil paii tomorrow for Puerto Rico witn be? tween $400,000 and $500,000 in subsidiary coin This is the first in? stalment of the $2,000,000 voted by congress to be distributed among the inhabitants of that island Buttericka'^ Delineator, Standard Design? er. H. G. 03tecn k Co., Liberty Street. Great Fire in Canada. HULL DESTROYED AND OTTAWA SUFFERS TER? RIBLY. ESTIMATED LOSS $20,000,000. Ottawa, April 27 -Five square miles of territory burned over ; more than 2,500 dwellings, factories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing a ioss estimated to reach $20,000,000 and between 12,000 and 15,000 men. women and children homeless, is a summing up of the havoc wrought by the fire which has been raging at Hull and Ottawa since yesterday morning, and at mid night was not completely under c ou trol Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Hull have disappeared and are now mere$heaps of charred wood and ashes. Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the Hull waterworks, the Hull court house and jail, the postoffice, the convent-al? most every business place and about 1,000 dwellings and shops in Hull have been destroyed Indeed prac tically nothing of Hull is left but a church and a few houses beyond it The spot where the fire originated is about a quarter of a mile from the main street of Hull and as a gale was blowing from the northwest right in the direction of the lumber piles and mills on both the Hull and Ottawa shores of the Ottawa river and Ohandi ere falls, it was soon seen that the fire was almost certain lo be a large one. By half past ll o'clock the fire had got a good hold on Main street and the entire street with dozens of cross Btreets, wa? burned Practi? cally-there is cot a house left on the street. About this time the fire had made a jump of nearly half a mile and ignited Eddy's wood yard, near the match factory It was soon in Hames and a 50 mile an hour gale was blowing a high column of flame across Bridge street and set fire to the Eddy paper mill and the other buildings of the company. The fire at this time also sprang across the Ottawa river and caught the sheds in the rear of the Nackay Milling com? pany on Victoria island and in a few minutes the iumber piles on Victoria Chaudierie islands, one the power houses of the Ottawa Electric com? pany and half the buildings on the two islands were in flames In this city it is estimated that be 6ides the milis, factories, etc , burn? ed 1,500 residences were destroyed The total loss is estimated at ?15, OOO 000 and the insurance at $2.500, ooo --- -t f-'flTT^*" WHAT OTIS SAYS Washington, Aprii 24 -Gen Otis cabled the following account of re? cent engagements in the Philip pices : Manila, April 24. Early morning 7th several hundred Tagalos and Vizayans attacked bat? talion Fortieth infantry at Cagayan, j north coast of Mindanao Our eas ualties 2 killed, ll wounded; ene | my's loss 53 ki : led, 18 wounded and j captured in city, besides other iosses i suffered on retreat Young reports \ from northwestern Luzon several I hundred natives influenced by Agui- j naldo's bishop, Ag?ipak, attacked his | troops at several points and in turn had been attacked. Their loss in attack on Batoc, 15th inst, 106 kill ed and during the entire fighting from 15th to 17th, 333 killed. Our loss during period, 2 killed, 4 wound? ed Young has plenty of troops and will have iittle further opposition Affairs at other Luzon points improv? ing, local presidents and inhabitants of towns giving information and I rendering assistance, troops now taking possession of interior small towns - - II .? ?. -?nm. - QUESTION ANSWKIIED. Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in tiie civilized world, i'our mother."? and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for indigestion or billicus no^s. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of appendicitis, nervous prostration or heart failure, cte They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigisfed food, regulate thc action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the system, and that is all thc}' took when feeling dull and bail wita headaches and otlur aches. Voa only r.eed a few doses of Green's August Flower, in liuuid form, to make you sat? isfied there is nothing serious Tlie matter with y><u, For rale by A. J. China. A j Gov McSwoeney bas ~ppoia?cr? and ! is-ued a commission to M ra Dr T. 0. ; Robertson of Columbia to bo lady com j missioner for Sou?h Carolina at thc Paris exposition Mrs Robertson ex : poets to spev.? all of 'hi? sum mer I abroad, spending moat of her time in : Pari?? at the exposition. No? a Safe Juryman. ! *:I should iiiie to bc exc^c?, your honor,"* says a man woo has been summoned on a jory "What for 7'7 ' "I o.ve ;? man ?10 and wish to ituct him up and pa> it." "Do you cacan tc tell the court thur you would hunt np a cjr.n to pay a bili instead of waiting for him to bust you up ?" "Ye* ; y cur honor." "Y.u aro excused i den'c tract i any man oe the jury who rrill lie like that." Bloody Work Going on ! in the Philippines. j Though Peace Presumably j Prevails the Soldiers are Hard Worked. Manila. April 25, 6.20 p. m -Offi? cers who have arrived here from Nueva Carceras. province of South Carma rines, bring details of a fight April 16, in which 80 Filipinos were kiiiea. The American outposts reported 300 natives assembled three miles from the town, and Gen Bell sent three detachments of the Forty-eighth regiment with two Maxims, who nearly surrounded the Filipinos, a majority of whom were armed with bolos. The Filipinos wore Caraban hide hel? mets, coats and shields. They were put to flight, leaving the field strewn with armor Their rifbrnon were unable to shoot straight and the boiomen never go: near enough to the Americans to do any execution. Therefore noce of tbe Americans were wounded. Lieut Bath with 20 cavalrymen from the Thirty seventh cornered 50 boiomen in a river and soot every one, the bodies floating away. Ooe soldier hsd bis head struck off smb. a bolo. Gen Bell's two regiments are bard worked in clearing tbe country. They j meet with many small squads of bolo- ! meo and last week killed a totai of 125. A squadron of the P^.eventh j cavalry is about leaving Manila on board tho transport Lannox to reen force them. The insurgents keep the provioce in a state ot terror and are wreaking vengeance on natives who trade with the Americans, burning many villages, inoluding the populous town of San Fernando. Gen Beil issued a proclamation declaring that be will retaliate releot lessly unless this guerrilla war ceaeee and that hs will burn all the towns which harbor guerrillas. In a fight at Sorgogow, Albay pro? vince, on April 16, three companies of the 47th iofaotry, Capt Gordon com? manding routed a large foroe of insur gents, mostly boiomen, killing 53. It is understood Geo Otis intends to siil 09 tho Mead or the Grant early in May. He will be accompanied by his staff and will probably visit Hong Kong and ocher ports. Maoila. Apt il 26, 6 16 p. m - About SOO of the enemy have been kilied recently io North liosos, includ? ing Dodo's fight and the attaok on Bitoc(?) April 16, when from 600 to 700 rebels, a quarter of whom were armed with rifles, determinedly attack? ed the Americans, charging their positions and S/kting at close quarters. The engagement lasted all tho after? noon, 'hs ouctDj burning the town, but th y wee repulsed after the arrivai ut American reenforcements. Thc insurgents geoerally were ag? gressive in that provioce. Tbcy cap? tured an American provision wagon near Layo The Americans having obtained ?vidence that the alcaldes (mayors) of L300, Magsingal, Cabogas and Sioait were holding treacherous communication with the insurgents, imprisoned them and bumed Lapo's town ball Cotton Seed Oil Bill. The following from the News and Courier about tho Grout bill, which, it is said, will seriously affect the cotton aceS oil industry if passed, will bo of interest to many people herc: A vigorous fight is being made before the agricultural committee of th? house against the passage of the Grout bill, which, if successful, will effect very injuriously tne cotton seed oil industry of the south. Representative Stokes, who ia a member of the agricul? tural committee, is taking an active part in the fight against the bili in thc interest of bia own constituents and the cotton seed oil iodustry of tho s^uth generally. He said : The newspapers of thc eouth are not giviog as much ! attention to this measure as its import? ance to the intereeta cf their section would warrant, and ii seems to me that the people of the south are not aware how seriously this bill will affect their j industries, or they would take a keener ! I interest io the procecdiogs before the j ? committee. There nave been cotton j j seed oil men from Norih Carolina, J South Carolina and Georgia up here j lookiog after individual interests, but ! j as yet there has only been one deleg3 ? tion before the committe, and that was ? I from Texas. Io his judgment tbe j people who have large intercuts io the j cotton seed oil trade should at ones get ! their side of thc questioo before the j I agricultural committee ar. the earliest j j possible moment, for tne people of the j ' north and northwest srctiosH of the 1 oountry are working very bard for the 1 passage of the bill, and if there is not ! ?orne bard and effective work done by I thc people of thc south and other sec- i tions which wiil be affected by ?bs ! passage cf thc bill it seems to me that ? the cotton 6ced industry will suffer very ! greatly. Not a Violent Cuse. Mrs Peck-Henry, what would you do if i were to die suddenly ? Hc:?ry-Pray don'r talk cf such a thing. I think it would almost drive mc crazy. Mrs Peck-1)0 you think you wouid marry agaio ? Henry-Oh, no ! I don't think I would be as crazy as that. ? mn * 1 UBI w w The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has beea in use for over 30 years, has borne the signatnre of and has been made under his per /??jr jL/^Jtyj*~??~?/ sona* supervision since its infancy. y^tarvjr? /-cc<??u4? Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Chii??ren-Experience against Experiment? What is CASTORIA ?astoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare? goric, Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep? 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Columbia Business College, COLUMBIA, S, C. Most thorough Business and Shorthand Courses. Better inducements, and more graduates placed in good posi? tions than all other Business and Shorthand Schools in South Carolina combined. Write at once for a catalogue and full information. W. H. Newberry, President. Saiesmau Wanted Enclose stamp for particulars Will straighten curly and kinky hair without injury to tho scalp cr hair. Price per box. Endorsed by the United States Health reports Darragh & Rich, jSIew York, Sole Manufacturers Feb 14-12c FIRST MTSOML BASK OF SIETES!, STATE,CITY ?ND COUSTY DE POS1TORY. SUMTER, S. C. P.iid apC-ipital.S 75,000 CO j Surpius and Profits - - - - -?,000 00 i Addit'^nu! Liability cf Stock? holders m excf?3 cf their stock. 73.OOO 00 : Total protection tc d?positers, ?iTj 0C0 OJ Trm SAC'? :\ Genen?! Banking Bus:ccss. Spfctnl attention ?i?en to coliectioas. SI VI S (? S D Ei'A RTM ES T. Deposits ot $1 and u^^.-irds received. In ter.'.-'t aliowed e.t thc r>?:<> ot 4 per cent, per | annum, on anionnts above $f> and not exceed- I ing $300, payable quarterly, on firet dav3 of ? Jauuarj, April, Julv arid October. ' R M. WALLACE, L. S. JARSON, Fres;d2ot. j Cashier. Notice of fieptraii Tbe Stflte of South Carolina-Sumter Couo tj-OSce of Supervisors of Registration, Sumter County. Sumter, S. C., February 1st, 1S99. Notice is hereby given that ia accordance with an Act of <h? Geoeral Assembly, and in conformity wilb tbe requirements of the State Constitution, tbe books for the registration of ail legally qualihed voters, acd for tbe issuing of trar.s'ers, e'c,, will be open at tbs oSce of Supervisors cf Registration in tbe court boose, between the hours of 9 o'clock a m . and 3 o'clock p. m., cn the tiratMoc day of each month, until thir.y days before tbe next general election. Minors who shall become of age during tba*, period of thirty days sbail be emiried to registration before the bocks are clo.?ed, if otherwise cuaii5ed. The requirement? ter a qu*!:?ed roter are :hat the applicant for registration shall be ubie to read and vrrite correctly, or possesa tn bis owe nude property to the amount cf tr.ree huodred dollars, upon which be pavs usfs E. F. BURROWS. T. D. DcBOSE, J. M. KNIGHT, Supervisors of Registration Sumter Co. M ch ! THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depositary Capital stock paid in, . . $75,000 CO [Jsdivided surplus, . . . 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockholders io excess of their stock, . 75,000 00 Trs.'i?-icts a general bankiog bu?iness.; also has a Savilles Bank Department. Deposits of ?1 and upward received. Iuteres? allowed aj the rate ot 4 ter cent, per acnurr, payable semi-annually. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH. President. MARION MOISK, W. F. RHAMK, Vice-Presidert. Cashier. Jan 31.