The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 19, 1900, Image 1
euarvwm watchman. Batabiiehed
Ctralfdated Au?. 2f 1881.
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8?MTBR, 8. C.
Y1RMB :
i 1.60 per annum?in adveooe.
Oes toj?w tret insertion.................,$1 00
Wvery eabeeaeist lesertioe.- so
OnHiHi ter three months, or longer wil
00 nil ol red need raiec
All ?oesnaaaicatlons which inbeerre pr irate
maaresW wltl he charged for aa adrertiements.
? Obiteartee aad tributes of respect* will be
tot.
TBE CORNERSTONE
LAID ON TUESDAY.
Ao? 8outb Carolina Exposi?
tion la Undor Way.
Special to Tho 9t ate.
Oberteetoo, Dec II ?The ooroer
etooe of too textile building or oottoo
palavw. ike ?-in boildtog of the Sooth
Ceroliae Ir.teretete tod Weet Indito
Oipoeitioo, woe leid thie oftenioon
with appropriate ceremonfee.
Two exeroieee were of oo interest
lag sod eUborele cherecter end iveie
etieoded by eeverel iboaoeud pople
Two groaode hod been cleared, a
epeaaora' auod aod a triumphal arch
ewootod The eta od aod arch were
beeetimlly decorated The weather
oleer, bright aod cool aod waa
eaepieiooe for the aoooeaa of the
irpriee wbioh Oharleitoo
The parade of tie troops wne a
foot are of the day s'a exeroieee The
famalty, eeval reeervee aod the Ger?
ate* Artillery aod two military baoda
were la Hoe, aoder oommaod of Maj
Howry dobaohte. The militia pasaed
ia rwwrow of the diatingoiebed goeete
la> Iba oarriages, wbioh fell into lioe
be a i ad toe troops The parade n?ov
ed eat from tho Fourth Brigade plaxa
at t o'clock, aod io leae thao ao boor
too oalamo wheeled ioto the expoei
lioe growodo and the exercieoe vere
bewao.
Oa the etaad were W A Hemp till,
of Atlanta. representing Oov Geedler ;
Ose tte8wceney, Mayor 8mytb. Qratd
Meefcr Orlaado Sbepperd, of iba Grand
L?dfe 4 F M , a number nf umoeisof
the Gtaed L>dgo, Oeo r'loyd. Prasi
deat P W Wagener, the architect,
Bradley Gilbert end hie apeoial paly,
a ad dtraetore of the eipositioa. ioelud
ieg CM Wilie Jone? ; a number of
member* of the Lsagoe of Aworioao
Meeieapalitiei aod uiaoy other promt
aeei people
President Wageoer called tbo sts?nu
blage io order aod make a britf addi eaa
eo the ptaae and purpose* of the etpoti
tioa aod iatrodoeod Mayor Smyth, who
presided The mayor epoke briefly io
teiieg tbe gavel. Oov MeSweeoey |
aeai spoke. He waa followed by Mr j
W A Hemphill aod other*. Tbe |
epeeehes ware iotertperaed with roosie
by tee Pint Artillery bae J.
Tbe M aeon to oeremoous followed tbe
eddreeoee. The oeremooic were of a*
iotetestieg aod tmpreaaive obaraorer
Tbe Greed Lodge appeared io tbe
ieeigaia of tbe order wearing white
glares aed aprooa "When Earth's
Peeodetion Wae First Laid" wee eoog
by 60 ablest voteea A player was
offered by tbe graod obaplain aod then
a number of artielee were depoattei in
tbe ooraeretooe box. Grand Master
Sbsppsrd theo applied the plomh,
aqaare aed iavel to tbe etooe, aod eflrr
it bad beeo properly plaoed, be pro
ooaeeed it re be "well farmed true aed
trusty Tbe ceremony of sprioklr.g
tbe e'oae wito eoro. wine aod oil wbo?o
sigoiflsaoee is pteoty wan tb*n perform
Tbe graod master tbeo. atruok tbo
eloee ibtee times wub bis hiram aod
eeotb r eel e too by th oboir an 1
beaedietioo eoooieied f :> ? eieroises
Tb? trowel wbiob w is u*ed by Irr.od
Metlr Sbepperd ie too same whioh waH
esed at ihr ay ng of ihe coroers^ooo
of Geo DsKelb? m ouufo: at Camdtu,
?*??'. by Marqai* de LiUyette
After tbe exMonee s ipeetai tram
wee roe to Sommert tilt' and the di*
tiegaiabd gaosu wem cLtertaiaeJ win
a diauer at the Pine Forest fnn
Th<* etore? ol i4id shortly efter noon
a?d bssioee* waa generally noapended,
givieg tbe eity the appearance of a
Io I f
PHOSPHATE ROYALTY.
It has before been mentioned tlint
the pboepbate royally would likoty
be very mooh less this year than last
Thie eooditton it eeeme ie duo to the
ioatility of the companies to secure
bottoms for shipping the rock Th'<
records at tbe cepilol ehow that tip to
Deo I, tbe State has received in
pboepbate royalty tbe earn of $21,.
270 73 If tbe same ahowing for tbe
last month of the year as wso made
laet December reeulta tbe totsl for the
year will be at least $10,000 less
tbaa last year Up to Deo 1, last
year, tbe reoeipte were #31,946 23
an 1 the foil yeere reeeipts were $39
379 29 -The State
April, I860.
"Be Ju
STJMT
The State Pensioners.
THE RULE8 TO BE FOL
LOWED UNDER THE
NEW ACT.
The Stete, December 12th.
Tbie year there ere e oumber of
oheogee io the pootioo depertmeot of
the Stete government which sboold
receive the oerefal ottootioo of ell mem?
ber* of county board? aod applicsots
as well Io the first plaoe eaoh pen?
sioner hae to make on entirely oew
application In order that the peosioo
ere or tho*e intending to get on tbe list
may folly ooderataod tbe requirements j
the State board bae prepared and issued |
the following * ru\es for too guidance |
of oouoty boards of panaiooe, ax author
tsod bj tbe not approved Feb 19,
1900," wbieh are given for the informa?
tion of tbe veterans:
(1) Toe county r. enorm boards will
meet as required by law in January at
the oouoty seers, for the purpose of
eismioiog the applioations of tbe various
ez Coatedereto soldiere and sailors and!
widows wOo are enpliomts for pensions
under aet approved Feb 19 h, 1900.
Said applioations most have the
approval of the oouaty hoard b?(oro tbe
State board will approve.
(2) The attention of tbe oouoty
peotioo boarde is directed to tbe oertifi
oato of tbe two witnesses, wbioh
requires that they shall oot be oo the
pension roll This is a obaoge- from
th| old form and too mueh atteotioo
oaooot bo given to it
(8) Do oot aeod to this office ditap
proved applications for pensions
(4) Do oot ose old blank?, bot thoss
prepared under aet of 1900 They will be
draignated by "Application, under sot
1900 N
(5) It will be oeeeeaery for every old
p'osiooer to make oew application
oiaotly as if thsy were applying for the
first time
(tt) The oouoty boards srs oaottooed
to provide the spplloanta with blanks
suitable to his or her iodividual oaae.
The State board will oot ooosider
applioations where this role has oot
bsen observed
(7) Oleae A.?Thoee who aa a resolt
of wooods received io tbe wsr are
phystoally helpless, or who while in
sseh device lost both arms, or both
tegs or eight ; or who are disabled by
paralyats aod are unable to mako a
living, and whose inoome does out
eseeed $150 Tbie does not toolode
soldiers ?hose disabilitiea artue from
diseases and oauses sinoe tbo war.
Olaea B.?Those who have lost one
arm or ooo leg aod whoae inoome does
oot exceed $150
Glass C. No 1 ?-Too** soldiers and
?ailors disabled by wounds duriog the
? r, whose inoome does oot exo?ed
$150
Class 0 No 2 ?Those who have
rcooned the age ot 60 year* aod whose
ioeome dooe oot exceed $75
Class C No 8.?Widows of those
who lost their lives while io the servioe
of tbe State or the confederate, Statea,
and whose ioeomo does* oo ezoeed
$100.
Class C No 4 ?Widows above tbe
ago of 60 years whose inoome does oot
ezoeed $100
Coooty Boards oaooot be two earefol
io these metiers of ?'moorne'* and "pby
sioal cooi'on " He is a very poor man
whose cross inoome from labor, reot
sod other sources does oot ezoeed $75,
or poor laods, tf soy that will not pro
duoe this amount gross Property
sufficient io produce $75 in applicant's
or hia wife'* nasie debars him. Whore
scldtera or widows dispose of their prop?
erty by giving o* selling to tbeir oh11
?Iren tho? era debarred
Widows of pensioners who remarry
are nor ootijled aoy longer to pensions.
PeWtMOfS who have moved to ao
oih<r ate are no longer entitled to a
pension Thoao who btvo moved to
another oouoty must have their names
transferred and draw ?huir peosiors
from thai ooonty
Please note vory careful I y the fol?
lowing :
Let oounty board* act promptly and
fairly, giving tho State board full in
forme'tnn with oomplnto reports by
townships for ertoh Snfjnti and writing
th? ??UNI alpbabetioally, full anr* olenr,
at il b'ginniog with olass 1 a->d giving
th?ir reasons for approving Ip making
reports to ihe State board the reports
should be signed by each member of
tit" county pension board.
J P Derham,
Comptroller General, Chairman.
W. D Startling,
W. I, J.mes,
W H llardiu
Robbesl the Grave.
A iturtling ncilent of which Mr John
OttVOf of Philadelphia, wan the nuhject. in nsr
rsted by hiiu as follows : "I wan in a roost
wfSndlwl condition My akin wit* almmt yol
low. eyss sanken. t'>ngas coated, pain continu?
ally in bsrk sad ?dies no sppstite? gradually
growinc wesksr dir by day. Three ihyai
oten? hi I given me op Fortunately, a friend
elvi?ed trying 'Klectric Hitters,' sr.d to my
<rsat Joy end ?urprine, th? flrnt bottls rnsde a
deei led iaiproTemsnt I continued their u*o
for thrss week*, and sm now a well man. I
know they aavsd my life, and robbed the grave
of another victim." No SSM should fail to
try them. Only 50 cents per bottle st J. F
W DsLome's Drag Store. I
st and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou
ER. S. C. WEDNESI
OTHER SIDE OF
THE PICTURE.
Liberals Paint a Gloomy Pic?
ture of Conditions
Liodoo Deo 12 ?The bouse of com
moos, after a flood of recriminations,
today agreed to tbe report of eopply for
goreromeot. During subsequent die*
ooseioo io committee of ways and
means, tbe ohanoellor of the exchequer,
Sir Michael Hioks Beach, promised
that a considerable proportion of tbe
ooet of tbe war ebould be obtained from
(be* traoHvaai
He added that the treasury committee
was about to proceed to tbe traoevaal
to asoertoin its assets and their taxable
oapaoity. Sir David Miller Barbour,
K. C. M. G., has beeo seleotod for this
task. Sir David was a member ot tbe
ooonetl of tbe governor general of India
in 1887 1893. was royal ooaimissiooer
to ioqoiro into tbe conditions and pros?
pects of sugar growing colonies, 1896,
aod latterly, oommissiooer to inquire
ioto tbe fiiuccea of Jamaica.
In tho hous.\ Sir Robert T. Raid,
Q 0 , liberal painted a gloomy picture
ot tbe o')uditi jns io South Afrioa. He
eaid that after 14 months of war coating
?5.000,000 permontb, anarchy vcas
prevalent aod famine threatened, and
this may bo followed a native rift*
log. An attempt to place tbe colonies
ooder military rele, be eaid, would
imperil the very existence of tbe em
pire. He thought tbe time bad arrived
for offering tbe Boers terms not inooo
eieteot with their dominion. All ideas
of ooooodttional surrender ehould be
diersgarded
James Bryoe, liberal, followed oo
similar lioee He eaggeeted granting
geoeral amnesty to tbe Boere oow io
arms aa legitimate eombataots. Tbe
government, be held, bed no right to
treat the Boers as rebels. The oego
tint ions' Mr Bryee also eaid. eboold oo
be entrusted to Sir Alfred Mtloer,
who was tbe object of almost uoiversal
dietroet, inoludiog at loaet half tbe
queeo's subjects in South Africa.
Mr Broderiek, tbe eeoretary of war,
hotly oballeoged tbia etatemeot He
declared that whatever elee it might do
tbe government woald oevor weaken
the power of tbe reeponeibilty possessed
by Sir Alfred Miloer.
Sir Albert Reid'e s^peeob, Mr Rrod
oriok asserted, was impraotioable, un
wise and mieobeviou?. He went out of
bis way to gratify the queen's ooemie9
Tbe government was perfectly williog
to offer terms of enrreod t. ao loog as
it oould not bo interpreted as proof of
weakness, and thereby oauso a pro
ioogatioo of tbe guerilla warfare.
? ?mw> *meaa?
How Many Asses Were Sent
to South Afrioa.
? Londoo, Deo 13.?Powell William,
tbe former fioaitoial eeoretary of the
war offico. answering a question, said
182,460 horses and moles had been
landed in South Afrioa 'luring the war.
Timothy M. (lealey'a interpellation
as to tbe oomoor of asses sent to South
Afrioa was not answered.
Lord Craobero, reverting to tbe sub?
ject of tbe oootraote for the Ugaode
railroad bridges going to Amerioaoe,
eaid tbe Amerioan Bridge company
would build 30 bridges, usiog 7,000
tone of steel. The oontraots aggregate
135,000 tone He said it was oot fair
to tbe lowest bidder to invite other
tenders to revise their bids
Daring tbe second reading today of
tie war loan bill Sir Wm Vornoo Har
oourt oritioised in detail tbe govern
moot's finaooial makeshifts. He said
tbe ministers would have trctnotidous
support io makiog tho Transvaal share
tbe ooet of the war. But, be pointed
cat, tho gold nuioos were the only
s luroe of revenuo and tho mine owing
capitalists would no; pay for the war
except on oompuUion. aod tho capital
iHts were masters of South Afr.iou, con
trolled ite polioten and would bo
supreme in tbe oolonies.
He o intended that tbe cost of British
rulo in bo Transvaal and the Orange
River oniony would be far greater than
Boer rulo bad been He estimated
that Gen Bodes* Powell's polico would
oo<it 4*4,000,000 a year, a turn equal to
lbs I w Transvaal budget.
Sir Michael Hioks Be a ob said that
possibly tbe now colonies could not bear
any part of tho ooit of tbe war for a
year or two after the war ended, hut he
had io mind tbo future development of
tbe Transvaal's vnst wealth and had
tuado the falling in of ibe fariosi
lo tils at suoh periods as would enable
the government >o sen whit burden
m<ght be imposed on tho Transvaal.
In any < v<*nr, no unreasonable demand
w )uld b" made.
Mr Bfodriek, eeoretary of state for
war, aeooonoed that tho policy of the
war oflioe was not to give commands
to Homo of those who had not succeed
id with communis in tho finld. The
supplem utary war loan and appro
pnation bills were then piss-id to a
neeorid rending
Naw Orleeoe, Dee 13 ?Tue *outh
b-und Illinois Central "Fast Mail."
doe ht re at 7 15 p. m. held up and
robbed by a lone train robber about ooe
mile outside the city tonight
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Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's
)A Y.DECEMBER 19
SIXTY MILES
THRO?GHTHE AIR.
Wireless Telegraphy Between
Belgium and England.
Coosul Roosevelt writes tbe State
department from Brussels : "There
has been reoeotly established at La
Paooe. Belgium a station for the ex?
change of wireless telegraphio messages
between Belgium aod England. The
reoeiviog apparatus to be used on the
Eoglish coast was taken across a few
days sgo from Ostends on board
tbe Dover Ostende mail boat Prm
0088 Clementine, which is also fitted up
with temporary apparatus to bo used in
the experimental trials, La Paono has
been seleoted on account of its being
tbe point on the Belgian littoral nearest
tho English coast. The mast of tho
Maroont station at La Panne h 130
feet oigb. To tbe foremast of tbe
steamship Princess Clementine is affixed
ao additional mast, which increases its
original height about 60 feet. From
this extremity tbe telegraphio waves
will be projeoted towards each ooast
A speoial room has been fitted up oo
board tbe steamer for the instruments
and from this room the cable will bo
oarried to tbe top of the exteoded mast.
It is confidently expected to obtaio
communication between ship and shore
for at least thirty miles, wbiob is about
halfway across. With stations at La
Panne aod Dover those oo board tbe
vessel woold be able to keep io touch
with the laod during the entire cross?
ing.
"Oo November 3 experiments began
about 5 P M. Telegrams were ex?
changed between the boat, theo moored
ot Osteode wharf, ood the station at La
Paooe. Later ir the evening several
of the Marconi men weot oo board the
vessel aod oommuoioated with the laod
station throughout the crossing, exoep*
wheo they arrived io Eoglish waters.
Communication was theo discontinued
as the Belgiso Goveromeot has oot yet
received from the Eoglish Goveromeot
authority totelsgrapb from Dover by this
oew system. This week?probably
Wednesday or Friday?tbe official trial
under tho supervision of the Govero?
meot delegates will be msdo.
"The experiments showed that re?
plies arrived with tbe same regularity
1 aod celerity as ordinary telegrams.
When about 40 miles from Opcode
tbe captain of tbe vessel was able to
telegraph to (he station master at
Oitendn the probable hour of his arri?
val Various telegrams were scot from
the vessel to Ostoodo, Brussels, Djver,
London aod to tbe officers of the chief
bureau aod branch offioes of tbe
Maroooi Company. The reception of
eaob messago was acknowledged
promptly, tbe first and last letters beiog
given io each iostaooe."
ALL THE POWERS AGREE
London, Deo 12.?The negotiations
of the Powers io regard to tbe joint
China note were concluded satisfactorily
yesterday, all agreeing to theeou ..one
identically as outlined b- Couot vc?j
Buelow. tbe imperial chancellor of Ger?
many, November 9, with tbe exception
of tbe introductory olause saying the
demands are irrevooablo, which is eiimi
nated.
London, Deo 12 ?The Pekin oorre
spoodent of the Daily Mail firing on
Tuesday and confirming the reports o
the agreement as to the oolleotivo note,
says that a committee of representatives
of the Powers baa been chosen to
regulate tho conferences with tLe
Chimse plenipotentiaries
Berlin, Deo 12.?Tbe Lokal An
zoiger has a special dispatch from Pck'n
saying that fire bas destroyed |he quar?
ters of a number of nffioers about a
thousand paces from Count von Wal
derseo's
A QUESTION OP ANNEX?
ATION.
New York. Deo 12?The case of
William II Cro^sman & Bro against
the United Staus was argued in tbe
Unite i States oircuit court today.
Decision was reserved. ' ?
Tos oase involvos tho question as to
whether tho Hawaiian Islands came
under tho constitution anr1 ! .ws of tho
United States immediately oo tbe pas
sago ot tho joint resolution of annexa?
tion of July G 1898, end before the
aot of April <10. 1900 Orossmso &
Bro imported OJOroboodtSS from Hono?
lulu into tho port of New York on
April 20. 1900 Tho collector of tho
port assessed duty under tho Tariff art
of 1887 The importers claimed the
Hawaiian Inlands wero then a part of
the Uuitod States aod thoir goods were
not, therefore, sutjeot to any duty
? ii? ? ?
Manila, Deo It ?A detachment rf
the.Fifh oavalfy had a fight with 100
insuigents south of Santa Cruse.
Sunday The insurgents were chased
for four miles Fourteen of them weie
found dead There were no \merioan
casualties. In addition to this engage?
ment there hud hern s? veral minor
encounters between troops and the
insurrectionists
landlTruth's.
THE
? 1900. Xey
The Unconquered Boers.
De Wet Seems to be Holding
His Own.
London, Deo 12.?Lord Kitobeoer
cables tbe war office from Pretoria
under date of Deo 12tb, that Qen Knox
reports from Helvia that be ie engaged
in a running fight with Gen De Wet and
that the enemy ie moving toward Red
dereburg, where there is a column ready
to cooperate with tbe other British
forces.
Lord Kitchener in another diepateb
reports that the Boers attaobcd tbe post
near Baborton The British casualties
wero three killed, fivo wounded and
13 taken prisoners. The oaptored meo
have sinee been released
The Boers raided the Rivertoo Road
station, Dao 11. They arc being fol
lowed up. Qp? Kitchener's message
indicates that De Wet has again evaded
Knox. After the Utter had foiled the
Boer general at Coomassiednfr, tbe
Boers seem to have doubled hack,
crossed the Caiedon river elsewhere,
and turned thence northwest, in the
direction of Reddersburg, the memora?
ble soene of tbe British disaster in
April when De Wet captured the Irish
Riflae.
Thought That DeLary Has
Captured Four Companies.
Johannesburg, Deo 14, 3 25 p m ?
Tbe battle still continues in tbe hills a
few miles from Kragcredorp. Gen
Clomeote has asked for reinforcements, 1
and mounted men ooder Gen French
have already gooe.
There have been many casualties oo
both sides.
It if estimated that the Boers Dam?
ber 2,800
Stsoderton, Transvaal, Thursday,
Deo 12.?Gen Louis Botha is reported
to be 20 miles from hare with 1,500
meo and one goo. He has ealled a
meeting of tbe burghers for Saturday.
Loareoio, Marques, Deo 14.?Tbe
British troope at Koomatipoort are
staodiog to arms io the expeotation of
an attaek by a Boer force of 1,500,
which is in that vicinity. It is believed
to be tbe intention of this force to make
a dash upon the town. Tbe situation
is regarded as perious.
A foroo of 150 iofantry. a squadron
of oavalry and two^gaos were dispatch?
ed to the frontier today
London, Deo 14.?Lord Kitchener
reports that after severe fighting at
Nooitgodaobt, Goo Clements' forces
were compelled to retire by Command?
ant DcLuy with a foroe of 2,500 men
Four British obioers wero killed. The
other casualties were not reported
Lord Kitchener'* official dispatch to {
the war office is as follows :
?Pretoria, Dee 13, 1900.
"Clements' foroe at Nooitgodaobt on
tbe Magaliesburg was attacked et dawn
tode: by DeLary, ruicforoed by Beyers*
oommand from Warmbatb making a
force estimated at 2,500. Though the
first attack was repulsed the Boers
managed to get on top of the Magaliee
burg. which was held by four compa?
nies of tbe Northumberland Fusiliers,
aid were thus able to command
0lem?ntf8 oamp. He retired on
Hckpoort and took up a position oo a
hill in tbe oontro of the valley.
''The casualties have not been com?
pletely reported, but the fighting was
very severe, and I deeply regret that
Col L*ggc, of the Twentieth Hussars,
and Capts MaoBeio, Murdoch acd
Atkins were killed Reinforcements
have left hero v
Lord Kitchener also report that the
Boers made an attaok aod were
repulsed at Lichtenburg, and that Gen
Lotmer was killed Attacks upon
Bethlehem ond Vrodo were also
repulsed, the Bjers losing ton kilkd
and 14 wounded. Vryboid was attacked
Ded 11th. Soipiog continued when
the message was dispatched.
OMINOUSLY CLOSE.
The soeue of the fight is ominously
close to Pretoria. Nooitgedact is oniy
22 miles northwest of Pretoria. It is
reported that Gen Knox, cooperating
with the British column at Rodders
burg, has stopped Gen DaWet aod that
a battle is prooeodinp. Tho report
adds that many of Gen De Wet's follow?
ers hero been captured.
Tho scenes at the war office today
reeall those witoeered in the early
stapes of tho war. A constant stream
of excited and anxious p.^ple filled the
lobbies Tho abseeoo of tho names of
any of the officers of th*? Northumber?
land Foniliers in Gen Kitchener's dis?
patch loads to the foreboding that the
four oompani(B of the Fusiliers
mentioned are in the bands of tr<
Boers
Tli" war offioe officials evidently
eg peat a heavy casualty list, but they
aro hopeful frem tho fac that the die?
pateh doei to|n:ention the capture of
be NorthumberUnds ; that such a
great catastrophe has been escaped
Orders were i?suod at Aldersbot,
Malta and other military centres to
dispatoh all tho available mounted
infantry to South Afriea.
TRUE SOUTHRONi Eetabllthed June 1?66
7 Series-VoL XX. So. 21
TOO EXTRAVAGANT.
The manner in which one default?
ing caebier wae detected wae rather
peculiar. It was all due to the
curiosity of the women of bis neigh*
borbood. He went to no expense in
the way of dressing; they never
heard of his gambling cr drinking to
Any extent; he was a model boa*
band, bot be loved a good table.
There was nothing unusual in this,
but one day, when the ladies of the
vicinity wera discussing the best
method of cooking meats, the wife of
the cashier declared very innocently
that her husband doted on bam, but
be would not eat it unless it bad been
boiled in champagne. "Boiled in
champagne !" exclaimed the listen
era "Heavens, bow expensive ; wo
couldn't afford to have bam on our
table often if we cooked it that way.1'
It was 6oon noised ail around the
neighborhood that Cashier Blank was
a high liver, indeed, and the men
began telling of bis uplifted i?eas cf
cookery This soon reached the ears
of the directors of the bank and they
ooncluded it might be wise to tnveeti*
gate the accounts of such an epicure.
Plain water was all they could afford
for their haras, so the champagne
lover was called up snd subsequently
relegated to the pen, where he had to
forego his pet dish for many, many
'eary years.?Louisville Times
UNION'S SEWERAGE.
Union, Dec. 12 ?The city council
mot this evening, Mayor Yooug
presiding, to accept bids on thirty- i
five tboussod dollars worth of coupon
b rinds The swsrd was made to J.
A Sawyer, acting attorney for Robt.
Robinioo, Atlanta, Ga , at four per
oent Tbey were sold at a premium
of three hundred and seventy dollars
and fifty cents
These bonds were for the building
of a sewerage system, and Union can
consider herself lucky as she had
rine bidders, and bonds sold st a
piemium
DEATH FROM BITE OF
A RAT.
Beaufort, Dec 11 ?Edward Alston,
colored, of Keane Neck, came here
last night to bri.ig his son, eighteen
months old to a physician.
The man stated that two creeks
since a huge rat bad bitten his five
children, who had ail apparently re?
covered except the boy whom he
brought here
The child showed sigi;e of impiove
tnent also, until yesterday afternoon
when he bled profusely from the end
of the middle finger of his left hand,
and appeared to b? suffering intense
agony. The father hitched up his
buggy and drove fifteen miles to this
place where be arrived shortly after
dark and took his child to a friend's
house and immediately summoned
Dr. C M Griffin
The doctor could do nothing but
allay the intense agony and the boy
died about an hour after reaching
town Dr .Griffin stated that there
was not so ounce of blood in the
child's body, and that death was
literally due to hemmorage which
could have been checked had medi*
cat aid been obtained earlier.
Alston killed the rat and stated
that it was fully as large as a half
grown cat The other four victims
appear to be doing well.
DESPERATE FIGHTING.
New York, Dec 12 ?Advices re?
ceived today from various parts of
Colombia and coufirmed by passen?
gers who arrived from Panama, tell
of desperate fighting
The government troops are in a
poor physical condition and suffer?
ing from several forms of tropical
fevers
^enor Brigard, Colombian consul
genera! in Ibis city, has been ordered
oy his government do purchase nud
ship immediately a Urge quantity of
quinine for uso of the army. The
most desperate fighting is bow goiug
on in the department of Bolivia
In a battlo fought at Tolfl Viejo,
on No? 25. lbs revolutionists lost,
among one hundred killed and
wounded, two able ofiicrs, (fan P.
Camacho and Col. Enriqne Pmedo.
The rebels took two hundred prison?
ers besides which the government
force lost one hundred in killed Five
cannon were also taken by the rebels.
From tho departmeut of Magdalena
came the news that Oeu Sautes,
president of the revolutionary govern?
ment with his force, had arrived at
the poit of Rio Macha and establish?
ed his government there
Hampton. Dec 13 ?Henry Young,
the negro who murdered Tom Rubi?
con, colored, on the afternoon of
Nov 17, near Luray, and for whom a
eward was recently offered by the
governor, was captured in Georgia
reaterday by Mr M 0 Youmans, of
juray, and brought here this after
iood.