The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 05, 1900, Image 6
ITISH BLUNDERS
IN AFRICA.
DISAFFECTION OF TBE
DUTCH IN CAPS COL?
ONY
Cape Town. Dm 2 ?Replying, at
Stelleajboab. Cape Colon j, to an tddres*
preeeoted 10 win by the leaders of tbe
, Afrikeoder Bond. Mr J X Merriman.
?Ottoer treosorer of Capo Colon?, in tbe
OwOrao of oo itapeeeiooed speech, de
?psjossd loo wnr to 8notb Africa aa
???wool tbe blacken spots io Briliab
ettoele.'' Too p.sseot method* of
gVitieb warfare, bo said, woro aoab aa
?SJOOOref ed too worst elements oo botb
ooooo ood woro booad to pr oo fotal to
tbe oiaieooto poooo of tbe ooootrv. Re
4poOw7oeJ tbet oeither bo oor Mr J W
Svwot, former commissioner of public
woold ottend tbo Woroootor
loot it aboold bo said Ibot
roe engineered by poltti
Otoo? owe) bo appoaled to oil Afnkeo
slofo to apeak boldly wbeo opboldtog
bwoir rigwbt aod yes to "avoid wild
. ItOMfJof o or ootiwwo. wbteh might lead
' to two ?brwgetioe of tbo loot toot ig o of
oft Sowar, wbooo apooob wss rotbor
wjpgojgH, desoaodod tbo removal of Sir
AJsYed Miloor, wboso bo deveribed aa
' ?f loltoHy Aoti-Dotth " Ho deelered
obwt if Oroot Britalo deprived Iba two
tOfoAHoo of tbotr iodopoodoooo obo
tJOtjH looo tbo affootioo of all 8oo?b
AMoowi. Roforriog to tbo Worere
OOf Oowgrooo. bo orged tbo dolegatea to
tbotr sVoaoooa
LORD ROBERTS AT LADY
SMITH.
UsJyetoitb, Natal Deo 1?Lord
Roberto, who arrived here oo Friday,
trod ioepeeted Majoba aod Lsiog'a Nek
?Jwitt ow rooto.
I Ro pry tog to oo eddrere frost tbo
?PWwepeople boro, bo ei pre seed bia
wiotiratioo of tbo fallest defence of
?to towo. wbtob bo ebereoteriged oa a
"gleriooe memorial of British pldok
ooo) oodoraooo. ooly equelled by tbe
slotec mioaitoo aod brovery of tbs
roUcviog for oo "
Ho to id bo treated tbo day wot tot
for ditto ot wbeo poooo woold reign
More eat, aod 1 without ill feeiiog to
Wwfd o eoeqeoved foe "
Lord Roberto bee eiaited Ooleoao tod
Owe eorrooodieg battlefields.
FA0IT'8 FIQHT WITH THE
B0ER8.
0|>omfontein, Dee 2 ?Fortber de
?aim beta boot reeeived regardiog tbe
*fgkt oear Reitfooteio between tbo Siii
tab, ?oder Geo Paget, end tbe Loers,
?oder Commaoriao'e Viljneo aod 15-as?
?two, Notember 28 tod 29
Qeo Paget, toward oveotog oo tbe
aeoond day. olosed io opoo tbe Beer
pee in on with tbe iateutioo of etttokiog
wen dty at daoo Tbe Bear, bow
teer, wttb r hfore meets, itoloding
tbree foot, made a deoperale atteek anil
tevere sighting ensued m
Tbo Boers, wbo were repolard with
beivy loss, withdraw io o northeasterly
dtrootioo Geo Peget. bating oocopietf
tbotr pooitieo. seot eooooted io norsuit
Tbo New Z'elender* displayed grear
gallaotry, loeiog five oot of tue tbe rix
DI WET HAS 7 BRITISH GUNS.
Loodoo Dee 3 ?No fortber detail?
bove been reeotved regarding tbe
ooptore by tbe Boera of tbe Britieb
garneoo at Dowetsdorp, November 23,
bot it ta ?eid tbat Qeo De Wet baa
oo?eo goes.
ALGER 1N8?LT8 GEN
MILES.
Nee. till*. Teoo, Dee 1 ? Ex 8oo
rotary or War Rosiell A Alger passed
tbreogb Nashville today eo roote to
Georgia Speakiog cf Commissary Qeo
Kg to Qen Alger seid :
"Goo Egeu'e reetorattoo is t mttter
wbiob Itee entirely io the discretion of
tbe Preeidoot He forgot bimse,I,
ood was ooeoldierly io bis vitopera
ttoea, Oot bo eteted what be believed to
bo troa aod what waa proved to ha
troe, io ieogoage onbeoomi? g t eoldier
Ha wee wroogad by Geo Mitee io bia
ebarga oo tbe beef question and lost
eootrel of himself. He waa coe of tbe
boot eommtssary geoerala ever in tbe
Orsoy, aod, while I regard tbe affair sa
o very great eaiefortaoe, tt tbe same
time it it impoasible to mske a state,
etooi aa to bie restoration to aettve
oerviee n
ARSENIC IN BEER
Loodoo, Deo 1 ?Tbe beer poieou
iog epidemic ot Mencheeter, which
boo oo worked op tbo north of Eng*
lend, bee sow apretd to Loodon.
The county cooncil ootiouocee it ie
taking ootive meoeuree to protect the
community Many eempleo of glu
eiooo oeed by the breweie hove been
foood to cootoin ereenio In the
Mancbeeter end Liverpool diatrioto
tbero ore already o tboueend patiento.
ood there hove been nearly 70 deotho
doe to o particularly b%d lot of glu
oloee aopplied to favorite local brew
A poblio enalyaiet euggrnt* that
tbo mystery in the Maylirick caee
?tight b?te been e<?!?-? I V.ri the facto
oow anode poblio in regeid to areeoio
is boor been koown ot the 41roe of tbe
trio).
No Settlement in China.
German Foreign Office Offi?
cial DiBcuaaea Situation.
Berlin, Dec 1 ?A tepresentative
of tbe foreign office here informed
the correspondent of the Associated
Press today that Germany bas not
indicated a deposition to modify her
demands for the punishment of guilty
Chinese official, since she docs not
yet know what the different powers
want
"Germany, above all," the official
said, ''wants harmony of action
Germany foresaw that tbe note
formulated by tbe Pekin ministers
would not be accepted entirely by
tbe powera We been to admit that
several of tbe powers, including
Rossis, desire a change in several of
the provisions. Tbe whole matter ie
at it I involved in greet uncertainty, ao
that it ie impossible to predict what
form tbe final agreement will take."
Tbe oorreepondent of tbe Aaso
oiated Preae today interviewed the
Ohioeee miniater here, who eeld :
? There cannot be e queation of the
execution ef Prince Toon or Gen
Tang Fab Sine, who ere still de
faoto Io control of tbe eourt They
both keep tbe emperor eod empreee
virtually prieooere Tbe oourt ia
unable to go to Pekin even if inclined
to do ao Beeidea tbe long journey
from 8iao Fo to Pektn, now that the
enow ie oo tbe ground, it almost
impoeeible witb tbe vehiclea in tboee
primitive districts Starving oat tbe
ooart ie oot feasible Tbe allies will
be unable to oerry oat eocb a mess
ore However, eveo if it were pos
sible, tbe provincee would riae in a
body for tbe coort'a defeoee.
"The woret feature ie that tbe
ooart bee loot confidence in Li Hang
Gbeng end Prinoe Ohing, wbo have
demonstrated their impotence to deal
properly witb tbe iovading powers
Under tbeee circumstances (l ia cer
tain the Chinese trouble- cannot be
edjneted before 6pribg or summer "
Baroo Von Wangerbfttl'e assertion
in tbe reiohatag that Emperor Wil?
liam ie systematically misinformed ie
?till discussed by tbe preee.
Tbe Cologne Volks Zeitung says
editorially that it it notorious that
hie majeaty does not read tbe papers
representing tbe various partiea, bot
only doily extracts made by personal
employee
"Thus," tbe paper adds, "depend
ing upon tbe personal prejudices of
bie entourage, be sees only such
dippings aa bie entourage wants
and ie necesasrily getting wrong im
presaions "
The Volks Zeitung strongly ad
moniabea the emperor to hereafter
devote half an hour daily glancing
personally over the leading organs
of each party, saying that then he
might rea'ly "feel the pulse of tbe
nation/*
The disproportionately large shnre
which the socialist members of the
reichstag have had in the debates
since the reichstag convened arouses
moon press commeuta Tbe Deutsch
Tag Z Hung saya :
' It sounds strange, but' it csnrfot
be deni"d that the socialists already
dominate the parliamentary proceed*
"V"_k_
Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 1 ?An ap?
peal ol ex Secretary of Htate Caleb
Powers from tbe life sentence ver?
dict for alleged complicity in tbe
Goebel shooting wae filed today in
tbe court of appeals
Raleigh. N. C , Dee 1 ?Ths jury in
ths libel ease of Gsttis againat Kilgo,
O'Dell aod Duke, at Oxford, returned
a verdiet this evening of $20,000 for
tbe plaintiff.
?i?a**w*^msa???
Hob9oo Taken to Hospital.
New York, Deo. 1 ?Lieut Richard
Pearson Hobson. US N , wss this
sfternnon taksn from ths Army aod
Navy hooss to the Presbyterisn boapi
tel. He is threatened witb typhoid
fever. Lieut Hohaon was taksn ill in
Washington three days ago. He imme
diately came to this oity eod pot up at
the Armj eod Navy eloh Last night
he breams worts, sod a physician
who wss sailed io etayed with him all
night. Today it was daeided to take
him to ths hospital.
?awje* ^ns?
Aiken, Deo 1 ?Senator D. 8.
Henderson bad e narrow escape from
being sbot Isst night He waa ?
passenger on tbe train from Charles?
ton due here at 9:20. When the
trstn wee pulling out of White Pond
some uuknown party fired a pistol
from the outside The ball passed
through the window and psssed just
over Mr Henderson's head, the
broken glass falling into his lap. The
aim was so deliberate that there fs
some suspicion that it was an attempt
to essssinete him
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UOR1 IT PAY TO BUY CHEAf T
A cfu?' *remedy for BBSJSjfel ami Sales H all
right, but y u w mi ???Ii.-tl. hi; that wil re*
lievo and cure the BN fa sfvru aad daageeoBI
remit* of throat m l lung Iveoblei What
?hall j'*u do ? Oo to | ?armer ami ware NgB
l*r climati* ? Ye*, if Beostbls | if not aaeeible
for you, then in Sttaei rg?e take the i?alj fBW
?dj thiat ha* ' en ifitini'uced in all Sivtllssd
countries with nueee** mi severe thront ami
loni( troubles, ,4B.??clie')'n Herman SyrBB.N It
not only h ein ami ntmini.iten iho tissue* tu
destroy the germ dise*-<s, hut ?Iinjr? iriH.iiu
nation, causes easy eipe 'torat ion, give* a good
eight's r. -t. and cure* lha |>atient. Trj one
bottl i Reeasjmended muny years by all drug
glftf in the world For s.le by A J China. 1)
Germans and French
Are Still Looting.
Removing Instruments From
Famous Observatory at
Pekin.
Tien Tain, I) c 2. via Sbanehai, Deo
2 ?Protests aud request! hav3 been
forwarded to Field Marshal Count vou
Wuldcrsee by the representatives o( ihc
power? urging the preventioo of tho
removal of astronomical instruments
from Iba observatory, at Pokin. Most
of tbe principal instrumenta have been
prepared for shipment aod labelled for
Brim or for Paris
Tbe Chinese themselves do not protest
because, as members of Li Hang
Chang's staff pot it, their objeotiona
would be useless, as whatever they say
or do in the way of protests only elicits
uncivil treatmeot.
Tbe obsbrvatory is universally reoog
oiied ae oae of the most interesting
sights io Pekin Most of ths iostro
msots oow not of pises are over 150
years old. Many of them are magoifi
oaok bronae.and althoogh not of modern
type, ean atill bo need for the purposes
of astronomical obaervetioo f
Ths number of Chinese returning baa
been aooaidarably augmented during
the laat few days. Apparently they are
friendly.
The provosts marshals of ths various
nation* are being daily informed as to
whereabouta of the rotnrniog Boxers,
bot only tboss are arrested against whom
there is conclusive svidsoee of hev
ing killed native Christiana.
Tbe first locomotive since the siege
of the legations ran yesterday from
Tieo Tsio to Pekin. Tbe line will not
be opened, however, for geoersl ose
' until about Dee lfnh
London, Deo 3.?Dr Morrison, wir.
ing to Tbe Timea from Peiio says :
"Io porsuanoe of their regrettable
poliey of appropriation the French aod
German generals with Count von Wal
dersee's approval have removed from
tbe wall of Pekin tbe euperb aatronom
ioal instruments erected two centuries
ago by tbe Jesuit fathers Half of
them will go to Barlie and the rest to
Paris.
"Tbc ezplaoatioo nf this aet of
vandalism is that inasmuch as tbe
return of the court h so improbable,
snoh beautiful iesiruraevs should not
be exp'>8?d to lbs pJsHOih ies of u ju y
when Pekin is longer tho capital "
? m?m * ? ? ? BWS
Emperor William Snubs
Kruger
Berlin, Dec 2?Mr Kruger has
abandoned his proposed visit to Ber
I'm owing to the receipt of an rfficiai
intimation that Emperor William re?
grets in cousequence of previous
Arrangements be will be unable to
receive him The Boer statesman,
therefore, will proceed direct from
Cologne for Holland He telegraph?
ed to this effect this afternoon.
The Cologne Gazette, in an inspir
I communique, says:
ed"Mr. Kruger'e visit is not sgree !
able to Germany, hie aim being to
bring about intervention in South
Africa It would be a grave political
mistake, it would be even e great
crime, to allow him to entertain even
a spark of hope that Germany will
render him 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 "
Tbe preae generally strikes the
atme note.
The Boat Plaster.
A piece of flannel dampened with Cham?
berlain's Piin Balm and bound to tbe affect*
ed parts is superior to any plaster. When
troubled with lame back or pains io tbe aide
or cbest, give it a trial nod you are cartaio to
be more than pleased with tbe prompt relief
wbicb it affords. Paio Balm also cures rheu?
matism One application gives relief. For
sale by A. J. Gbioa.
The Cotton Crop.
As is usual at this time of the year
there is a great diaorepaooy between
estimates of tbe cotton crop
Mr Neil I, secretary of tbe Now
Orleans ootton exobange, whose cotton
estimates are always received with
respect by the public, plaoes tbe crop
now being marketed at between 9,500.?
000 and 9,700,000 bales.
Tbe New York Commercial, a very
oareful newspaper, considers Mr NoilTe
estimate too high Tbe Commercial
estimates the crop at 9,237 793. This
conclusion is based upon information
from correspondenta in all parte of all
the ootton states and if it is oorrect this
year's crop is about 200,000 less than
that of lau ytar
Texas and Arkansas are tbe only
stati'i in which ihero watt an increase of
ootton production this year.
Tbe moroses io Tries wan over 500,
0(10 belaa and in Arkansas 40,000
bales. Tho Uommoreiel plaoea Georgia*!
crop at 91,000 bales less than it was
last year Tlx- Mississippi shortage ia
placed at 200,000 halts. Tbe Coaiuior
oial's ostitnato is the tuost conservative
one that we have seen, but it oomes
from a very jotelligeut souroe end is
based oo largo information from trust?
worthy sources?Atlanta Journal
i
Treaty Willi Nicaiagua.
Graotiog ? S Solo Prtvilego
of Building Caoa).
_?
Weibiogtoo, Djo 1 ?Secretary Hay
this moronic, f>r tbo government of
the United State?, aod Seoor C>roa, tba
Ntcaraguan tninis'er for hin own gov
eminent, bigncd a treaty whereby tho
latter governroeof. e mcede.; to the gov
ornment ' of tbe Uoited S;ate* the
oec(8)ary nghifi and privilege*, within
her bestowal for the construction of th>
Nicaraguan canal
This aotiou is takoc in anticipation
of oongrefsioual aotioo upm the pond?
ing Nioaraguan bill aud the Hay
Paunoefote treaty. Pending the sub
mission of tbe document to tbe eeoate,
whioh body most ratify the agreement,
its terms will oot be made poblio It
is understood, however that generally,
Nicaragua grants to the United States
goveromeot tbe exclusive right to eoo
struct aod operate the eaoal between
the Atlantic end PaeiOe aoroes Nieare
goa, ioelodiog tbe free oae of tbe See
Juan river, aod of Lake Managua as
part of the water course Niearagoa
ia also to rid hereelf of toy ootataodieg
treaties that woold teod io any way to
abridge the privilegee to be arqoired
by tbe Uoited States. It ia understood
also that Nicaragua oooeedea to tbe
Uoited States foil authority to police
the eaoal. Nicaragua ia to reeeive io
compensation a eertaio amount of the
securities of the eanol construction
company, although it ia oot oow possi
ble to learn tbe figure set down io the
treaty, it is believed to approximate
$5.000.000
The State department has already en?
tered into an agreement oo similar
lines with the republic of Costa Rica.
This was because Costa Rioa has ea
tablisbed a olaim to the right hank of
tbe San Joan river, wbioh must of ne
otssity form about a third of the length
of tbe canal, should the Nicaragau
roote be selected aod ooosttucted oo
line* wbioh will b? tuggested by the
Walker oommission
An understanding also has troo ar
rioed at with the Uoited States of Co
Icenbia covering the eamo right* and
privileges for the Panim* roote as are
convened by Nicaragua and Costa Rioa
in the cafe of tbe Nicaragua route. 5i
the State department has oow cleared
the way for suoh aotioo as oongress
mar Bare to tuk?' in tho case of ?Mtber
of tho on al routes wbioh have beco
foui d feasible
HOW KINGSTREE RAPIST
ESCAPED
Gov McSweeney has received tho
following letter from Sheriff Daniel
relative to the escape of the negro.
Lespsne :
Kingstree, S. C , Nov 28, 1900
Gov M. B. McSweeney, Columbia,
SO
Dear Sir : Your9 of the 24th ask
iug why 1 did not at once report tbe
escape on November of Mason
Lesesne has jtiet been received and
in reply 1 deBire to gay that at the
time I did not think it necessary to
report ond ask that a reward be
offered, as everything was being
done that could be for hie recapture
I had o posae oot in every direction,
the roads and bridges guarded 1m
; mediately wired Greeleyville, hie
home, Salters and Lane's, the rail
rood stations below Kingstree, Cade's
ood Lake City, the stations above,
ood Sumter, his old home. I at once
wired Copt Wheoton, with chain
gang, to bring dog (we only hove
one), also to tbe sheriff of Florence
county for their dogs, but did not
get them I felt confident that we
would get him that night or next
j day Thought be would, on account
' of hie youth, sorely return home 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 potting a pair of
handcuffs oo him ; did not bind his
legs, as I intended taking him a
roundabout way across fields, ditches,
etc, to or near tbe depot and secret
him there until the down train to
Lane's I did not use or exercise
tbe precautions I would have had he
been a man He was a mere boy,
some 14 or 15 yoars old, said he was
14, weighed about 90 or 100 pounds
When 1 got him down to a little
culvert on tbe railroad just above the
jail be made bis escape. I could, of
course, have gotten help to tako him
to the depot, but did not wish to at?
tract attention, if possible. After
his escape 1 immediately went to the
jail and gave tbe alarm and apprised
others of the facts and immediately
began the search, with results an
stated. In conclusion will say that I
bad no desire for him to escape or
the remotest idea that he would
Neither did any lynching party take
him from me Respectfully your
obedient servant,
J D. Daniel,
Sheriff Wiiiiamsburg Co
-?? * ? ? ? mm
Chicago, Dee. 1 --Tho Tiroci
Herald tomorrow frill Hay : A corner
bap boon made on eggs The price
is now HI cente a dozen and how
high it wi'l go no one but the men
who ore engineering the deal can
tell. The men, Armour, Swift und
other packers and dealers who con
trol tho corner, have already made
about half a million dollars aud their
profits have only begun.
CLEMSON COLLEGE
SUDDENLY CLOSED.
One Case of Scarlet Feyer io
the Corps is the Cause
Special to Tbc Bitte.
Olemsoo College, Doc 3 ?Hy the
tioje thin is read most of tbj Glemeoo
001lege students wili be at their homes,
the immediate c?u*e of the dilbaodiog
of the college being th* development of
a oase of scarlet fever in the hospital.
The young man who has the disease is
Cadet G D Levy of Sumter. It hap,
been known for two weeks that there
were a number of oases at Ncwry,
a mill town six miles west of Clemsoo
The authorities here redoubled their
rigid precautions, and it wes thought
that by establishing a striei quarantine
tbere would be no danger of getting
tbe disease bere. Dr Redfearo, tbo
college surgeon, watobed olosely every
slight iddtepoaitioo and had any young
mao who was even slightly uowell to
report to the hospital.
How Mr Lsvy contracted tbe diaease
is oot known Dr Redfearo decided
yeaterday that Mr Levy had scarlet
fever. Dr Hardio, a prominent pby
sietao of Waabiogtoo, D. C, who is
visiting bio father, Col M B Hardio,
oonourred io this opinion.
What to do waa a question It was
thooght to be a serious matter to die
baod? a snore seriooa one oot to At
most institution where tbe atodeot body
is scattered it woold oot be necessary
to do so. bat here, where tbere are 476
students io one buildiog, the ease ia
different Not to disband meaot aBoot
500 eases ; to disband meant possibly I
only one, probably a dogeo After
eareful consideration of tbe matter tbe
authorities decided to give tbe stodeots
leave of absence ontil notified to report
fur doty. It was thought best to sus*
pend immediately, because the disese
woold have spread here until it would
have beeo necessary to suspend a little
Inter anyway, wbeo there would be
danger of spieadiog the fever else
where
Tbe corps waa assembled io the col
lege chapel and Dr Hartzog explained
the existing conditions Dr Retlfearn
?gave advioo as to what ehould be done
if anyone developed a case It was a
solemn scene, not because of any great
danger, but because tho work of a great
iottituticn must stop Still, since
Christmas holidays are so near, oot
more than two or three weeks' work will
bo tost. During tbis vacation barracks
will bo fumigated and every meaos of
contagion removed.
D.* Harting will keep in touch with
tho students, end the exercises of tbe coU
iege will be resumed as early as praoti*
cable.
Twenty Persons Killed and
Sxty iDjured io a Colli?
aton.
San Antonio, Tens, Dc 2 ?Ei
ward Rische, of this oiiy, ban Joel ar
rived with the details t a terrible
wreck of two trains on thi Mexican
Central Railway last Thorsday, by
which more than a i-core of persons
wsro killt d and sixty injured many ot
thorn fatally.
Both trains were running at thirty
miles an hour, when they met in a vai
ley between two greit hills, fifty miles
south of Jumilioo, midway between tbe
towns of Tamanachr Symon One train
carried a coontrootioo orew of l?? men,
and the other was a freight made up of
fifty-fivo empty ears Three engines
and forty car* were piled op io a mass
of debris thirty feet high, in which tbe
dead aod wounded were buried.
Two of the train employes are Amer
loans aod tbey saved their lives by im
mediate flight, as in Mexico employees
of a train most suffer death if fatalities
attaoh to a train wreck. Tbe survivor*
attempted to lynch tbe Amerioae, bot
they have reached the Uoited States
territory, where tbey are safe.
Mr Kieobe can give but scant details
of tho wreok, wbioh is said to be tbe
worst io the history of Mexico He left
the scene before tbe names of the killed
and injured bad heed obtained.
A movement is on foot io New Or
leans and elsewhere to have cotton seed
quoted io tbe market the same as cotton
is quoted. Tbe New Orleans exchange
will probably adopt a regulation provid
iog for quotations. Tbe oottoo seed
industry has now grown to be of so
much importance that tbe need of some
authoritative guide in prices is serious?
ly needed.
Tho Wright dispoosarv bill has been
defeated in tho Georgia Legislature.
? ? i ^s^^^?
Mark Twain, since bis return from a
long sojourn abroad, is doing straight
forward talking to his northern country?
men He suspeots that the devil has
more to do with the burning aod
slaughtering and seisure in tho Philip?
pines than any other agenoy employed.
? ? ????
A grand daughter of Commodore
Vaoderbilt has just gooe upm the
vaudeville stage because she says sne
is poor and must wake a living
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Atlanta, Ga , Dec I ?At a meet?
ing of prominent oitiieoi here today
it was decided to begin a movement
lor an international textile eipool
tioo to be held in this city in 1902
London, Dec 1 ?A special dis
patch from Naples nays the steamer
St Mare, trading between Naples
and Marseilles, has been wrecked
and that 45 of her paeeengers and a
part of her crew have been lost.
SMALLPOX BREAKS
OUT IN ASYLUM.
Supt Babcock, However,
Hopes to Coutrcl Disease.
h doeg n'Qtn hard tb.it aftcr all the
efl rr* ])r J W. Babc.ck the able so
periettcdent of the state hospital of tho
tof-aoe, bns aiade since tbe appearance
of smallpox io this State to ker-p that
ui-ease from getnug wuhio the walla,
it ebould be sent to him as tbe negro
fo well expresses ir unbeknownst '*
Bat it ts tbe>e, and Dr Bibcock ts ap?
plying all bis knowledge and rxper?
ieooe to confine it to tbe ward ieto
which it was iotrodooed.
It was sent ioto the institstiou io tho
I most unexpected oiaooer. It ceeme
that there are a number of cases io
Uaioo county, aod reeeotly several
oases developed io the county jail. The
couoty offioials, despite tbis, tent a
oegro lunatic to ths jail while bia com
mirmeut papera were being prepared.?
e>a eooo es tbe papers were made oat
the fellow wae hrooght oo here to the
hospital. No word of warning waa
giveo to tbe hospital authorities and tho
man was plaeed io tbe ward to the
eaeo'a baildiog Io a day or two ha
developed a ease cf smallpox. He waa
I forthwith takes from tbe ward aod
isolated epoo the hospital farm aoder
guard.
Bat the micebief was dote lo a few
days others developed the disease aod
oow there are three other oaaes, eeeb of
rather maligoaot type. Dr Babeock ta
applying all his knowledge of tbe
disease aod hopes to oontrol it. At
present tho infection is eoo6oed to the
men's baildiog for negroes, sod it te
believed it oan be kept there
Dr Babooek states that ell cf tbe
patienta io the inetitu:ioo have been
vaooinated aod r< vaccinated in tbe last
few daya* He was the snao wbo d?d so
much to stamp out tbe disease when it
was in Colombia, aod met witb success,
earning tbe gratimdo of tbe people of
the State. He ie now confronted with
a bad situation at a mc6t unexpected
moment, bui there is no man in tbe
State more competent to meet ir end
master it.' Those wbo have fricods and
relatives within the wails may rest in?
sured that Dr ?abeoek will kok after
them wiih ibe same personal interest
that be would display were they his
own cliidren. Tbe man ts constituted
that way ?The State.
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An English View of Our Cen?
sus.
The mighty nation has now a pop
ulation of 76,250,000 In tbe short
epace of ten years there has been an
iucreese of nearly 13 250 000, which
is equivalent to almost 21 per cent
for the decade, or rather more than I
per cent per annum When we
remember that 200 yesre sgo the
population of tue States was under
3l'0,00G?or rather more than the
present population of Bradford?and
that 100 years ago it was but little
over 5,000.000, it will be seen with
wuat amazing rap'dity the young
giant among tbe nations has built up
his strength The growth of popu?
lation is the ii.fallible test of national
prosperity and advancement No
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 tbe
power of Great Britain, Germany
and Russia bears witness to the truth
of this sweeping generalization
Americans, therefore, may be welt
content witb the progress they have
made in tbe last decsde. These
figures afford tbem ample reason for
pride and jubilation The only great
power of tbe 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 tbe
foundation of material prosperity
they far outstrip tbe subjects of tbe
czar.
Rapacity Knows No Bounds.
The extortion of the trusts are first
made io those artiolee which constitute
tbe necessaries of life. It is easier to
oolleot tribute upoo the food whiob the
people eat than in any other way But
we have also tbe spectacle of Andrew
Carnegie holding up tbe United .States
government nn a coctraot for armor
plate for our new warships, showing
that the limit of the power of monopoly
is oot the domestio necessities of the
people, bat extends to inolude tbe neede
of tbe nation as a whole ?Boston Post.
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It is said that tbe feud between tho
Rookefeller brothers has become so bit?
ter that they will not attend the ssme
church If they keep on at this rate,
tbey may both fiod themselves io the
same hell.?Wilmington Star
Vinegar.
I have on hand a lot of
flome-made Vinegar of> very
(ine quality. The flavor is del?
icate, while the strength is
ecfual to any to be had.
Will be sold at my residence
or 40 cents per gallon.
N. a. ostki;v