The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 05, 1900, Image 6
BRITISH BLUNDERS
IN AFRICA.
DISAFFECTION OF TEE
DUTCH IN CAPE COL?
ONY
Cape Towra. Deo 2 -Replying, at
Stellenbosh, Cape Colony, ro an adare??
presented to bini by the leaders of the
Afrik?nder Bund, Mr J X Merriman,
fermer treasurer of Cape Colony, in the
coarse of an impassioned speech, de?
ooooced the war in Sooth Africa as
.'.Be of tba blackest epota in British
annals." The preseot method* of
British warfare, he said, were such as
encouraged the worst elements oo both
sides and were booed to prove fatal to
the ui ti mate peaoe of the o ou o try. Be
deolared tba; neither be cor Mr J W.
Sawer, former commissioner cf publie
works, would attend the Worcester
Coegrese, lest it ahouid be said that
the congress was engineered by politi?
cians, and he appealed to all Afrikan?
ders to speak boldly when upholding
their right* and yet to "avoid wild
language or actions, which ITO ig fat lead
te the abrogation ef the last vestige of
freedom 99
Mr Saner, whose speeeh tras rather
militant, demanded tho removal of Sir
Alfred Milner, whom be described as
"violently Aoti-Dmoh 99 He deelared
that if Great Britain deprived the two
republics of their independence she
would lose the affection of ali South
Africans. Referring to the Worces?
ter Congress, he urged the delegates to
show their firmness
LORD ROBERTS AT LADY?
SMITH.
Ladysmith, Natal. Dec 1.-Lord
Roberts, who arrived here on Friday,
had inspected Majaba aod Laiog's Nek
while en rente.
Replying to an addre:? from the
townspeople here, be expressed his
admiration of the gallant defence of
the town, which he characterized as a
"glorious memorial of British pluck
and eoduranee, only equalled by the
determination and bravery of the
relieving force w
He said he trusted the day was cot
far distant when peace would reign
supreme, and ' without ill feeling to
ward a conquered foe."
Lord Roberts has visited CoIeBSO and
the surrounding battlefields.
PAGFT'3 FIGHT WITH THE
BOERS.
? bern foo te is, Deo 2 -Further de
tails have been received regarding the
"fight near Reitfonrein between the Brit
iso, under Gen Pager, ara the Boers,
ander Commandants Viijoen and Eras?
mus, Novencb?r 28 sod 29
Gee Paget, toward evening OD the ?
second day. closed in upon tbs Bc-cr j
position with tbs intention of cttackio;? j
next day at dawn. The Boer, ho-? j
ever, with reinforcements, including j
three guns, made a desperate attack aod ?
6evcre fighting ensued.
The Boers, who were repulsed wi?h :
heavy loss, wiiUdrew in a northeasterly j
direction. Geo Paget, having occupied ;
their position, sent mounted in pursuit !
Tho New Zealanders- displayed groat j
gallantry, losing five out of the the eix
officers.
DE WET HAS 7 BRITISH GUNS.
London Dec 3 -No further details
have been reoeived regarding the
capture by tbe Boers of the British
garrison at Dewetsdorp, November 23,
bat it is ?aid that Gen De Wet has
sever, guns.
ALGER INSULTS GEN
MILES.
Nashville, Tenn, Deo 1-Ex Sec
retary ot War Russell A Alger passed
through Nashville today en route to ?
Georgia Speaking cf Commissary Gen
Egan. Gen Aiger said :
"Gen Egan's restoration is a matter
which lies entirely in tbe discr?tion of
the President He forgot himself,
and was aoso!??ierly in bis vitupera
ttoos, bet be stated what he believed to
be true and what was proved to be
true, io iaogaage unbecoming a soldier.
He was wronged by Gen Miles in bis
charge on the beef question and lost
control of him^eif. He was ene of tbe
best commissary generals ever in tbe
army, and, while I regard the affair as
a very great mis-fortune, at the same
time it ie impossible to make a state?
ment as to bis restoration to active
service."
ARS?ma?LSr BEER
London, Dec 1 -The beer poison
ing epidemic at Manchester, which
has so worked ap the north of Eng?
land, has now spread to London.
The county council announces it is;
taking: active measures to protect the
community Many samples of glu ?
close used by the brewers have been i
found to contain arsenic In the j
Manchester and Liverpool districts :
there are already a thousand patients, j
and there have been nearly 70 deaths
due to a particularly bad lot of glu
close supplied to favorite local brew?
ers.
A public analysiot suggests that j
the mystery in the May brick case j
might have been solved had the facts
now made public in regatd to arsenic
in beer been known at the time of the
]
No Settlement in China.
German Foreign Office Offi?
ciai Discusses Situation.
3eriin, Dec 1 -A representative
of the foreign office here iuformed
the correspondent cf the Associated
Press' today that Germany bas not
indicated a disposition to modify l^r
demands for the punishment of guilty
Chinese officiais, since she does not
yet know wtjat the different powers
want
"Germany, above all," the official
said, "wants harmony of action
Germany foresaw that tbe note
formulated by the Pekin ministers
would not be accepted entirely by
tbe powers We have to admit that
several of the powers, including
Russia, desire a change in several of
the provisions. The whole matter is
still involved in great uncertainty, so
that it is impossible to predict what
form the final agreement will take."
The correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press today interviewed the
Chinese minister here, wbo said :
' There cannot be a question of the
execution of Prince Tuan or Gen j
Tung Fuh Sian, who are still de
facto in control of tbe court They
both keep tbe emperor and empress
virtually prisoners Tbe court is
unable to go to Fekin even if inclined
to do so Besides the long journey
from S i an Fu to Pekin, now that the
snow is on the gronnd, is almost
impossible with the vehicles in those
primitive districts Starving out the |
court is not feasible The allies will I
be unable to carry out such a meas
ure However, even if it were pos
8tWe, the provinces would ri*6e in a
body for the court's defense.
"The worst feature is that the
court bas lost confidence io Li Hung
Chang and Prince Ching, who bave
demonstrated their impotence to deal
properly with the invading powers
Under these circumstances it is cer
tain the Chinese troubles cannot be
adjusted before spring or summer " !
Baron von Wangerbeil's assertion!
in :he reichstag that Emperor Wi!
liam is systematically misinformed is
still discussed by the press.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says
editorially that it is notorious that
his majesty does not read the papers
representing the various parties, but
only daily extracts made by personal
employes
"Thus," the paper adds, "depend j
ing upon the personal prejodices of !
bis entourage, he sees only such
clippings ss his entourage wants
and is necessarily getting wroDg im
pressions '7
The Volks Zeitung strongly ed
moniehes the emperor to hereafter
devote half an hour daily glancing
oersonal?v over the ieadir. - organs
of each party, saying that then he
might really "feel the 'pulse of toe
nation "
The disproportionately large shore
which the socialist members of the
reichstag have had ir: the debates
since the reichsteg convened arouses
much press comments Tho Deutsch i
Tag Z i tung says :
' It sounds strange, but ii canrfot
be denied that the socialists already
dominate the parliamentary proceed?
ings "
Frankfort, Ky.. Dec. 1 -An ap?
peal of ex Secretary of -State Caleb
Powers from the life sentence ver?
dict for alleged complicity in the
Goebel shooting was filed today in
the court of appeals
Raleigh. N. C., Dec 1 -Thejury in
?he ?bel case of Gattis against Kiigo,
O'Dell and Duke, at Oxford, returned
a verdiot ibis evening of $20,000 for
tbe plaintiff.
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Hobson Taken to Hospital.
New York, Dec. 1 -Lieut Richard
Pearson Hobson. U S N , was this
efternooo taken frr.m the Army and
Navy hocse to the Presbyterian hospi?
tal. He is threatened with typhoid
fever. Lieut Hobson was taken ill in
Washington three days ago. He imme
diateiy came to this city and put up at
tbe Army and Navy club Lapt night
he became woree, and a physician
who was called in stayed witb bim all
night. Today it was deoided to take
him to the hospital.
Aiken, Dec 1 -Senator D. S.
Henderson had a narrow escape from
being shot last night He was a
passenger oo the train from Charles?
ton due here at 9:20. When the
train was pulling out of White Pond
some uuknown party fired a pistol
from the outside The ball passed
through the window and passed jost
over Mr. Henderson*? head, the
broken glass failing into his lap. The
a?m was so deliberate that there is
some suspicion that it was an attempt
to a88asinate him
DOES IT PAY TO BUY CHEAP?
A cae-ip remedy for cough - and colds i? all
right, but you w*ut roocthin? that w? ? re?
lieve und cure the moro severe and dangerous
results of throat and ?ung :roubles- What
shall you do ? (?o to witrmcr a-:<i more r> gu
lar climat? ? Yes, if possible: if :.'..t possible
for you, then i:? either rase tak? the onty r? :a
edy that has 'cen introduced in ali civilized
countries ?i:h succe-s ii; severe throat and
lung troulde.fi, "Bo?chee's.German Syrup." ir
not oniy heals and stimulate); th?; tissues t<>
destroy the germ disea-cs. hut aliays inflate
mation, causes easy expectoration, gives a good
night'? rtst, and cures the patient. I rv one
bottl ; Recommended many years by all drug?
gists in the world. For PHIC by A .J China, li
: Germans and French
Are Still Lootififf.
Removing Instruments From
Famous Observatory at
?
Pekin.
I Tier: Tsi"3, Dec 2. v:a Shanghai, D o
? 2 -Protests *;:d rrqaesrs hiv?, been
forwarded to Field Marsha! Count von
Waidersee by the repn>ceoM'iv>s ot' the
powers urg?a* th? prevsnri ;o of 'r.o
j rt-movai of astronomical instruments
j frocu ?DR ob-ervatory st Pekin. Mos!;
j of the principal instruments have been
j prepared for shipment and iabeiied for
j Borlio or for Pari-?.
Tee Chinese themselves do not pretest
beoauae, as members of Li Hung
Chang's staff put it, their objections
would be useless, as whatever they say |
or do io the way of protests only elicits
unoivil treatment.
The observatory is universally recog?
nized as one cf the most interesting
sighti io Pekin. Most of the instru?
ments now nut of place are over 150
years old. Many of them are magnifi
oent bronce,and although not of modern
type, can still be used for tbe purposes
of astronomical observation
The number of Chinese returning has
been considerably augmented during
the list few days. Apparently they are
friendly.
The provosts marshals of the various
nations are being daily informed as to
whereabouts of the returning Boxers,
bot only those are arrested against wbom
there is conclusive evidence of bav
inf killed native Christians.
Tbe first locomotive since the siege
of the legations ran yesterday from
Tien Tsin to Pekin. The line will not
be opened, however, for general use
I until about D20 15 h
London, Dec 3.-Dr Morrison, wir?
ing to The Times from Pesio says :
"io pursuance of their regrettable
policy of appropriation the French and
German gener?is., with Count von Wai
dersee'a approval have removed from
the wail of Pekin the superb asironom
ical instruments erected two centuries
ago by the Jesuit fathers. Half of
them will go to Berlio and the rest to
Paris.
"Tbe explanation of this act of
vaodaiisaB is that inasmuch as the
return cf the court i> ?-o improbable,
such b?autifui ii srrumesTs should rot
be exposed to tit pessin;!: ie* of i: ju y
when Pekin is longer the capital ?;
- mil ????-??-?-imm
Emperor William Snubs
Kruger
_
! Berlin, Dec 2 -Mr Kroger bas
i abandoned his proposed visit to Ber
j lin owing io the receipt of an rfBciei
j intimation that Emperor Wiiii&m re*
j grets in consequence of previous
arrangements be will be unable to
i receive him The Boer staiesiaau,
I therefore, will proceed direct from
j Cologne for Holland He telegraph?
ed to this effect this afternoon.
The Cologne Gazette, in an inspir
commnnique, says :
edfi?i?r. Kroger's visit is not 8gree
able to Germany, his aim being to
bring about intervention iu Sooth
Africa lt would be a grave political
mistake, it would be even a great
crime, to allow him to entertain even
3 spark of hope that Germauy will
render bira any practical support "
This declaration is accompanied
with reproaches, Mr. Kruger being
charged with "having encouraged a
useless guerilla warfare and having
disregarded Germany's advice when
he still might have followed it "
The press generally strikes ibe
same note.
The Best Plaster.
A piece of flannel dampened with Cham?
berlain's Piin B*lm and boaod to the affect?
ed parts ia saperior to any plaster. When
troubled with lame back or pains io the side
or chest, give it a trial nod yoa are certain to
be more than pleased wita the prompt relief
which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheu?
matism. Oae application gires relief. For
sale by A. J. China.
Tne Cotton Crop.
As is usual at this time of the year
there is a great discrepancy between
estimates of the cotton crop.
Mr Neill, secretary of the Now
Orleans cotton exchange, whose cotton
estimates are always received with
respeot by the public, places the crop
now being marketed at between 9,500,
OOO and 9,750.000 bales.
The New York Commercial, a very
careful newspaper, considers Mr Neill's
estimate too high The Commercial
estimates the crop at 9.237.793. This
conclusion is based upon information
from correspondents in all parts of all
the cotton skates aud if it is correct rbis
year's crop is about 200.0U0 less than
that ff last year
Texas and Arkansas arc the only
stare- in which lhere waa an increase of
co'ton production this year.
The mcre;.:-e in Fexas was over f>00,- !
OHO bal<>> arri in Arkansas 40.000 -
baies. Th* C oimerciii places Georgia's
crop at. 91.?U0 bales less than ic was
last year The Mississippi shortage is
piaced at 200,000 bahs. Tbe Commer?
cial's C'Mma'e is the most conservative
one that we have seen, but it comes
from a vsry intelligent souroe and is
based on lar?o. information from trust?
worthy sources. - Atlanta Journal.
j Treaty With Nicaragua.
mt ^ J
I
I Granting U. S Solo FrlFiiego
of Building Canal,
j Washington, D c 1 -Secretary Hay
? this Rtoroio?, for tso government of
? rbf United Siate?, and S-.-G^r C ?rc-a, the
j Nicaraguan minister for h. s own gov
? ernment, signed a treaty whereby tho
i ?'?'?cr government concedes to the gov
ernraent ? ' of the Uoitsd S : a r e > tho
ncv-fSiary ughs and privil?ges ??iih;?
her bestowal for the construction of th^ I
Nicaraguan canal
Tbis action i* taken in anticipation
of congressional action upDo the plod?
ing Nicaragaan bill sod the Hay
Pauncefote treaty. Pending the sub?
mission of tbe document to the senate,
which body man ratify the agreemeot,
its terms will cot be made public. Ic
is understood, however that geeerally,
Nicaragua grants to the United States
government thc exclusive right to con
struct aod operate the oaoal between
the Atlantic and Pacific across Nicara?
gua, including the free uss et the San
Juan river, and of Lake Maoagua as
part of the water coarse Niosragaa
?3 also to rid herself of any oatstaodiog
treaties that would tend io any way to
abridge the privileges to be arquired
by the United States. It is understood
also that Nicaragua concedes to tbe
United States full authority to police
tba eanal. Nicaragua is to receive io
compensation a certain amount of the
securities of the canal construction
company, although it is not DOW possi
ble to learn the fijare set dowo in the
treaty, it is believed to approximate
$5.000.000
Tbe State department ha? already en?
tered toto an agreement on similar
iioes with the republic of Costa Rica.
Thia wa? because Costa Rioa has es
tablisbed a claim to the right back of
the San J ran river, which must of ne
ctesiry form about a third of the lengtb
cf tbe canal, should the Nicaragau
route be selected and constructed on
lice0 wbiob will b3 fuggested by the
Walker commission.
An understanding also bas b^eo ar
riued at with the United Seater of Co
! lembia covering the sarao rijbts and
privileges for tbr? Panam* route a* are
conveyed by Nicaragna and Costa Rica
in the cafe of the Nicaragua rouie. S".
the State depcrmf-ot ba* now cleared
the way for such action as congress
mav CiTf to tafe- in tb? case of tither
of the caf al routes which bave been
: foos.d iVasibtf'
HOW KINGSTREE RAPIST
ESCAPED
Gov McSweeney has received the
following letter from Sheriff Daniel
relative to the escape of the negro,
Lesesne :
Kingtree, S. C , Nov 28. 1900
Gov M. B. McSweeney, Columbia,
S C
Dear Sir : Yours of the 24th ask
iug why I did not at once report the j
escape on November of Mason j
Lesesne has just been received and j
in reply I desire to say that at the
time I did not think it necessary to ?
report and ask that a reward be
offered, as everything was being
done that could be for his recapture
I had a posse out in every direction,
the roads and bridges guarded Im
mediately wired Greeleyvilte, his
home, Salters and Lane's, the rail
road stations below Kingstree, Cade's
and Lake City, the stations above,
and Sumter, bis old home. I at once
wired Capt Wheaton, with chain
gaDg, to bring dog (we only have
one), also to the eheriff of Florence
couuty for their dogs, but did not
get them I felt confident that we
would get him that night or next
? day Thought be would, on account
of his youth, surely return borne or
! to that neighborhood at least I
kept up the search and a vigilant
lookout for several days. I took
Lesesne out of jail that night, about
8 o'clock, after putting a pair of
handcuffs on him ; did not bind his
legs, as I intended taking bim a
roundabout way across fields, ditches,
etc, to or near the depot and secret
him there until the down train to
Lane's I did not use or exercise
the precautions I would have had he
been a man He was a mere boy,
sciie 14 or 15 yoars old, said he was
14, weighed about 90 or 100 pounds
When I got him down to a little
cnlvert on the railroad just above the
jail be made his escape. I could, of
course, have gotten help to tak* him
to the depot, but did not wish to at?
tract attention, if possible. After
his escape I immediately went to the
jail and gave the alarm and apprised
others of the facts and immediately
began the search, with results an
6tated. In conclusion will say that I
bad LO desire for him to escape or
the remotest idea that be would
Neither did any lynching party take
him from me Respectfully your
obedient servant,
J D. Danie!,
Sheriff WiiiiarosbiKg Co
Chicago, Dec. 1 - --Tho Times 1
Herald tomorrow wiil say : A corner j
has been mude ot) eggs Tho price
is now ll* <.. -nts a dozen ?nd how j
Ililli it wi'1 g;) no out4 but the men i
who engineering the deal CHU |
tell. The men, Armour, Swift and
other packers and dealers who con
trol the corner, have already made
about half a million dollars and their
profite have o':ly fceguu.
CLEMSON COLLEGE
SUDDENLY CLOSED.
One Case cf Sear ie* Feyer ta
the Corps is lae Cause
iSprcial to Tho Sra-c.
Clem sos College. Dc S -Bj the
. ia)- ibis is real coo?: of rh? Clemson
I coliege sri3clc-r:tt? ?iii be a? their bornes,
I thc i OJ med late canse ~f thc disbacdicg
of i bc coiie^o Diing th'? deve!opaiv?'jt ot
* case of scarlet fever in the hospital.
The young coan who bas the dis?a^e is I
Cadet G D Levy of Sumter. It has !
been known for two weeks that there j
were a cumber of cases ar Newry,
a mill town six miles west of Clemson
The auihorities here redoubled their
rigid precaution?, and it wes thought
that by establishing a strict quarantine
i?ere would be no danger of getting
the disease here. Dr Redfearn, the
college surgeon, watched closely evsry
slight iddispositioo and had noy young
man who was even slightly nowell to
report to the hospital.
How Mr Levy contracted the disease
is not koowo Dr Redfearn deoided
yesterday that Mr Levy had eoarlet
fever. Dr Hardin, a prominent phy?
sician of Washingtoo, D. C., who is
visiting bit father, Col M B Hardin,
concurred in this opinion.
What to do was a question It was
thouf ht to be a serious matter to dis
I band- a more serions ooe not to At
I most institution where tba studeot body
is scattered it would not be necessary
to do so. bat here, where tb?re are 476
students in one building, the ease is
different Not to disband m ea at aBout
500 capes ; to disband meant possibly
only one. probably a doren After
careful consideration of the matter the
authorities decided to give tbs students
laave of absence until notified to report
for duty. It was thought beat to sus?
pend immediately, because the disese
would have spread here until St would
have been necessary to suspend a little
later anyway, wheo there wouid be
dangar of spieading the fever else
where
Tbe corps was assembled tn the col
lege chapel and Dr Hartzog explained
the existing conditions Dr Rafeara
*L'ave advice as to what ?hould be don?
if anyone developed a case ic was a
?solemn sc?oe, not because of any great
danger, but because the work of a great
iofikurico muss stop S til I. . since
Christmas holidays are so near, not
more than two or three weeks7 work will
be lost. During this vacation, barracks
will be fumigated and every means of
contagion removed.
Dr Harfzog will keep in touoh with
the students, snd the exercises of tbe col?
iege will be resumed as early as practi?
cable.
- milli or?-..I III,
Twenty Persons Stiled and
Ssly Injured Ina Colli?
sion.
San Antonio, Texis, D.-c 2 -Ed?
ward Rischc. of this citj. har. jost ar
rived with thj details cl a terrinie
wreck of two trains on tho Mexican
Central Railway last Thursday, cy
which n.ore than a score cf persons
were killed and sixty injured, m?oy of
tharo fatally.
Both trains were running at thirty
miles an hour, when they met in a val
ley between two great billi", fifty miles
sou:h of Jumilico, midway between tbe
towns of Tamacacbr Symon One traio
carried a conotruetion crew of 150 men,
and the other was a freight made up of
fifty-five empty ears Three engines
and forty caw were piled up in a mass
of debris thirty feet high, in whioh the
dead and wounded were buried.
Two of the train employes are Amer
icam* and they saved their lives by im?
mediate Sight, as in Mexico employees
of a traio must suffer death if fatalities
attach to a train wreck. The survivors
attempted to lynch the Americas, but
they have reached the United States
territory, where they are safe.
Mr Kische oan give but scant details
of the wreok, which is said to be the
worst io the history of M?xioo He left
the scene before the names of the killed
and injured bad heed obtained.
A movement is on foot in New Or
leans and elsewhere to have cotton seed
quoted io the market the same as cotton
is quoted. The New Orleans exchange
will probably adopt a regulation provid
iog for quotations. The ootton seed
industry has now grown to be of so
much importance that the need of some
authoritative guide to prices is serious?
ly oeeded.
The Wright dispensary bill bas been
defeated in the Georgia Legislature.
Mark Twain, since bis return from a
long sojourn abroad, is doing straight
forward talking to bis northern country?
men. He suspects that the devil bas
more to do with the burning and
slaughtering and seizure in the Philip?
pines than any other agency employed.
A grand daugb er of Commodore
Vanderbilt has just gone up^t: the
vaudeville stage because she says she j
is poor and must make a itving
Atlanta, Ga , Dec I -Al a meet-j
inor of prominent citizens here today I
it was? decided to begin a movement j
ior an international textile expoei
lion to be held in this citv in 1902
London, D??c 1 -A special dis- i
patch from Naples says the steamer
St Mare, tradi.i^ between Naples j
and Marseilles, has been wrecked j
and that 45 of her passenger and a j
patt of lier crew have been lott. 1
SMALLPOX BREAKS
OCT IN ASYLUM.
Supt Babcock, However,
Hopes to Control Disease.
Ii does seem bard thar afrcr ali the
eg rcs Dr J W. Babcock, (he able su
peri?tecdent of the ?tate hospital of the
in.-aoe, bis GiROe jince tho ac-per?r^nee
o? ??L???P< X in '.tis Stare io ke:-p that
afease frota getting witbio tho walis,
it should be sect to him as the negro
fo we!? expresses- i; :'ui>bekoowost "
But it is tbe?e, and Dr Bdboocs is ap?
plying ail bie koowiedg6 and exter
ieuce to confine it to tee ward icto
which it was introduced.
It was ?eot into the institatio? io the
most unexpected manner. Ii seems
that there are a Dumber of cases io
Uoioo county, aod receotly several
cases developed io the county jail. The
couoty officials, despite this, teDt a
negro lunatic to the jail whiie bis com?
mitment papers were beiog prepared.
&s soon ss the papers were made oat
the fellow was brought OD here to the
hospital. No word of warning waa
given te the hospital authorities aod the
mao was placed io the ward io tba
sen's building Io * day or two be
dsveioped a case of smallpox. He was
forthwith takes from the ward, and
isolated upon the hospital farm ander
guard.
But the mischief wat dose Io a few
days others developed the disease and
DOW there are three other cases, eteb of
rather malignant type. Dr Babcock ia
applying ail his knowledge of the
disease aod hopes to control ic. At
present thc infection is eouGoed to the
men's building for Degrees, and il ts
believed it can be kept there
Dr Babcock states that all cf the
patients io the institution have been
vaccinated and rcvaccioated io the last
lew days* He was the mao who d<d so
much to stamp out the disease when* it
was io Columbia, and met with success,
earning the gratitude of the people of
the State. He is now confroofed with
a bad situation at a most unexpected
moment, bc; there is no mao1 in the
State more competcot to meet ir and
master it. Those who have frieods and
relatives within the walis may rest se
sured that Dr ?abeoek will kok after
them with the same personal interest
that he would display were they his
OWD cliidrc-n. Tbe man is constituted
that way.-The State.
An English View cf Our Cen?
sus.
The mighty nation has now a pop
uiation of 76,250,000 In the short
space of ten year? there has been an
increase of Dearly 13 250.000. which
is equivalent to almost 21 per cent
for the decade, or rather more than 2
per cent per annum When we
remember that 200 years agc the
population of the States was under
o!!0,C00-or rather more than the
present population o? Bradford-and
that 100 years sgo it was but little
over 5,000.000, it will be seen with
what amazing rapidity the young
giaDt among the nations has built up
his strength The growth of popu?
lation is the infallible test of national
prosperity and advancement Ne
nation has ever yet risen to greatness
with a dwindling population, and
probably none ever will. Declining
numbers have been the invariable
concomitant of national stagnation
and decadence The growth of the
power of Great Britain, Germany
and Russia beare witness to the truth
of this sweeping generalization.
Americans, therefore, may be weft
content with the progress they have
made in the last decade. These
figures afford them ampie reason for
pride and jubilation The only great
power of the present day which can
vie with them in numbers is Russia,
and in wealth, in energy, in adapta?
bility, in education and in that
cunning industrial skill which is the
foundation of material prosperity
they far outstrip the subjects of the
czar.
Rapacity Knows No Bounds.
Tbe extortion of the trusts are first;
made io tooee artioles whioh constitute
tbe nectaries of life. It is easier to
collect tribute upon the food which the
people eat than io aDy other way. Bot
we have also the spectacle of Aodrew
Caroegie boldiog up tbe Uoited -States
government on a cootraot for armor
plate for our new warships, sbowiog
that thc limit; of the power of mooopcly
is oot the domestio oeoessities of the
pecple, but extends to ioolude tbe need?
of tbe uatioo as a whole -Bostoo Post.
It is said that the feud between the
Rockefeller brothers bas become so bit?
ter that they will noi attend the same
church. If they keep oo at this rate,
thev may both fiod theooselvss io the
same hell.-Wilmington Star.
Vinegar.
I have on hand a lot of
Home-made Vinegar of very
line quality. The flavor is del?
icate, while the strength is
e^ual to any to be had.
Will be sold at my residence
or 40 cents per gallon.
N. G. OSTEKiV