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NEWS ITEMS. Darlington, S C , has voted for a $20,000 Opera House A little more than one-sixth of the pension appropriates comes to the South. The expeases of Harvard University are exceeding its iocome, the deficit amounting to ?40,000 this year. Birmingham is preparing to bold an International Metaliio sod Industrial Exposition in 1904. The American Phosphate Company of Columbia, Tenn , has made an assign meet. Judgs Hasan, of Topeka, has put Mrs Nation under a $2,000 peace bead. * The government majority ia the boase of commons on Monday vas v reduced from 130 te 45 Tva bara burners were lynched near Macon, Miss , oa Monday. The cigar makers7 strike it Tampa has been declared off. Eievea States have laws prohibiting cigarettes from being* sold within their borders. Wilcox, the Hawaiiac delegate, ?ii! retain his seat ia congress. Dr Geo. Kirby, superintendent of the insane asylum at Raleigh, is dead. The dispensary question was defeated 10 Cumberland County, N. C, on Feb 19. Mrs Natioo is behind the bars and refases to give bond. She will act as aer own attorney. The building of the Manufacturers 011 and Grease Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on Feb 19. The Southeastern Freight Association met at St Augustine, Fia, on Feb 20. There were eight murders in Fairfield County since the last term of court The city of Newberry bas bad its limits extended, tsking io High Point, a suburb. County Superintendent of Education for Spartanburg County, J. M. Bailen ger, died on Sunday last, before enter? ing oe his duties. The passengers on toa quarantined steamer Alpha at Savannah, were rather badly treated by the fumigation process as applied to their clothing. An effort was made in the senate yesterday to repeal the section of the post office bill which authorizes the payment of $171,288 a year for neces? sary and special facilities on trunk lines from New York anet Washington to Atlanta and New Orleans. If this appropriation ts withdrawn the South will be deprived of quick mail service. Mrs Carrie Nation says she wiil edit The Smasher's Mail, a paper to be run in behalf of negroes. She says also that she has declined tempting offers from theatre managers. ' Army officers and other American effise holders in Manila and a lot of reconstructed Filipino held a bsnquet ia honor of Washington's birthday os Thursday eight. Gen MacArthur made a speech chock foil of rot, of which the following is a specimen : "Ucder the American flag injustice and oppres? sion are impossible." Secretary of the Navy Long bas announced that hereafter Pensacola, Fla, will be the regular winter bead quarters of the North Atlantic squad? ron. Thomas Vital, negro, was lynched at Fenton, La, Thursday for rape. Sam Maddox, who attempted to defend Vital, was shot to death. Architect Gilbert, of tae Charleston Exposition, bas prepared the grouod plans and elevation for the proposed Slate Buildiog to be erected with the j appropriation recently made by tie j State. At the meeting of the premium Hst committee of the South Carolina Agri? cultural and Mechanical Society held in Columbia on Wednesday some import? ant changes in the premium list was decided upon. Last year, the premiums amounted to, io round cumbers, $7,000. This year the Hst will carry ?8,500. Increases will be made ic the cattle, sheep and swine department. A young colored man by the name of Rufus Low was shot and instantly killed last Saturday night a few miles from Society Hill by another negro msc by the name of Cain. A company with $15,000 capital has been organized in Spartanburg to manufacture soap. Now tbat tbe sut: pass law bas been repealed judges will be allowed to accept passes from the railroads if they see fit. Think of a judge who is liable at any time to have import? ant railroad cases before bim travel? ing with a pass in bis pocket. The idea 13 preposterous-Darlington News Amsterdam, N. Y, Feb 18 - Three trainmen were killed today in a freight wreck on the New York Central near here. The engineer failed to stop the train at the sema? phore signal, proceeded to the next block and crashed into another freight. A Texas mao bas invented a ma? chine for tsking the whole kernel from the cotton seed In this shape the seed is in greater demand in France to which large quantifi?e are shipped because it saves the co6t of transportation OD the bulls The in ventor says this wili add to the for eign demand for the seed and add considerably to its value When Shakespeare asked : "What'? io aaame ?" he hadn't beard about the girl who msde her sweetheart change his from Jorgenson to Vogel bofer before she would marry him - Chronicle Adeline Patti has been on the operatic stage for forty one years, bot ssys she bas never ceased to nervous at appearing in pcblic - Chronicle Zolfo, Fla, Feb 22.-While trying to arrest a negro *t Bennett's *till las eight. Edward Vestal, the deputy sheriff, was (?hot jost below the heart by Oscar p8?Be, another negro Vestal is ,not expected to live. A posse is after tho negro assailant with bloodhounds aod there will probably be a lynching if he is captured* Berlin, Feb 22.-it is announced in a dispatch from Pekin, dated Feb 21, that Count von Waldersee bas post? poned the expedition be planned, a? Chioa bas oonoeded the demands of ! the powena for punishment of guilty officials. Paris, Feb 22 -During an attack a-. 4 o'clock last Monday morniog upon tho French garrisoo of 160 at Tuni mooo, Algeria, by 1.000 native Barbaos, three officers and six men were killed and 21 men wouoded. The oatives were repulsed with 100 killed and about the same number wounded.. Coostantioople, Feb 22 -Fighting has occurred between a large body of Bulgarian agitators and a large force of Turkish troops at a village near Ghevgheli, Macedonia. Six Bulgarians were killed and three taken prisoners. Five of the Turkish soldiars were killed aod several wounded. Mr McKinley has selected Hon Mark Hanna to ride with him at the inauguration A very appropriate recognition of Mr Hanna's services Without him there wouldn't be any inauguration of Mr McKinley. APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FAST MAILS. Mr Yest Argues That They Are Not Subsidies. Washington, Feb 22.-Two of the great supply bills of the government, the postofSoc aod the diplomatic acd consular appropriation bills, were pas.-ed by tbs senate today. Dar ic g the greater part of the session a proposi tioo to discontinue the appropriations for fast mali facilities from New fork to New Orleans via Atlanta, and from Kaosas City, Mo, to Newton, Kans, was under discussion While the debate was not protracted it. was not particularly lively. By a decisive vote the senate oontioued tbe appropriations. An effort was made to obtaio an appropriation to continue the pneuota tic tube service io New York, Boston and Philadelphia, bot is failed. Ag amendment was agreed to authorizing the postmaster geoerai to investigue the question of establishiog a postal telegraph system and co report his finding to the next congress Tillman .Dined With toe President. Washington,Feb 19 -Thc president and Mrs McKinley gave their regular annual dinner at the White House io honor of the supreme court. Senator and Mrs Tillman, Represen tative and Mrs Rtxey, Rapreseotative and Mrs Fleming ?Sd Representative acd Mrs Elliott were the guests. PRESIDENT GILMAN RE? SIGNS. I Baltimore. Feb 22 -The celebra tien of the 25th annual comm?moration day at Johns Hopkins this morning was especially signalized by the resignation of its president. Daniel Goit Gilman, to take effact September 1, and the an nouncomeo; that friends of the uciver sity hare almost succeded in raising :he fund of $1.000.000 necessary to secure the completion of the recent coo ditiooal gift to the university of a msg nificsot tract of iaod for a new site fer the institution. The resigaation of Prof. Herbert B Adams, who together with Dr Gilman has served the univer sity sines its inception, was announced, based on ill health Both resignations were accepted with resolutions of regret and respect The exercises were marked by an attendance unprecedented in the history of Johns Hopkios Hoo. David Jayne Hill, assistaot secretary of state aod former president of the University of Rochester, delivered the oration. A Negro Scoundrel Caught. Atlanta, Ga, Feb 22 -Upon com plaint of Scilla Smith, a negress, I H. Dickerson, of Nashville, Tenn, general manager of the National Ex Slave Mutual Relief Bounty and Pen sion Association of the United Slates of America, in default of a $G00 j bond, has been incarcerated here on a charge of ebea'ing and swindling It is alleged that Dickerson, who is a negro, travel over the country j and sells certi?cates in the associa j tion be represent? for 25 c^nts and collects 10 cents per mon?h dues The object of the association ia said to have passed in congress a till pensioning former slaves The SRSO ciation claims a membership of 250, 000 negroes. $10,000 IN A DIRT PILE Unexpected Find in a Store Room of the Peabody Museum. New Haven, Feb 20 -Yale Univer? sity officials in tbe Peabody museum made a dUoovery last Satarday that nearly took their breath away. In one of toe store rooms in tbe cellar of the mn?euoi herding a workman wbo bad been instructed by one of the managers G? tbe building to elean op things was at work sweeping away a pile of rubbish. A professor connected with the museum bsppeoed into the room and picked out of the dirt a small glittering piece of metal that he ascer taiced was a gold ornament. He ordered the workman to take ever7 bit of tbe stuff to bis room. Io tbe pile was $10,000 worth of gold io Aztec jewelry. How it came to be there no one in the Peabody museum can explsio. No one dreamed there was any snob wealth lost io the store rooms of tbe place. There is one theory about it, and it is this : The late Prof O. C Marsh, who for years was at the bead of the Peabody museum, had probably pur I obased the jewelry in bis travels and when be returned to Yale placed ic in ibis store room temporarily. Then he forgot all about it. The jewelry ie now tn the big safe io the museum. TO MAKE WAR MORE TER? RIBLE. A writer in the Philadelphia Poet says : A new French illuminating shell bursts in the air and emits a fiery body of globular ebape, which vividly lights up a large area for a considerable time. It is the latest improvement in a branch of military pyrotechnics which has recently been receiving much attention The idea of the illuminating bomb is to expose at night the position of an enemy, or to reveal the character of bis defences when an attack is contemplated There sre already several such projectiles, of different, varieties, on the market. With one,, a .shell is fired from an ordinary csnnon (a mountain howitzer will serve the purpose, the bombs being of various calibres), and is so con staucted as to explode on impact, liberating a Haming compound One compound is said to be some? what similar to the ordinary "blue light mixture" used in Fourth of July pyrotechnics, consisting of sul? phur, saltpetre and a hydrocarbon It is meant to burn as brilliantly as [ possible, aod to keep on burning for at least a minute or two The illum? ination lasts as long as the saltpetre supplies oxygen to maintain com? bustion Another species of bomb, which on bursting liberates dense clouds of smoke, with the purpose of conceal iug the movement of troops in the field, uss not yet been introduced in actual warfare, although both the French and Germans have beeD ex perimentiog with it In the "meli nile" shell the French have originated a type of projectile not only extreme ly destructive when it explodes, but which also achieves an effect similar to that of the ancient "stink pot," inveuted by the Saracens in the Middle Ages This stifles the enemy with poisonous gases, and the same purpose is accomplished by the pro jectile loaded with melinite. FERTILIZER TRUST. A Big Transaction on Foot in Charleston. Charleston, Feb. 22 -It was learn? ed here today that the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, com? monly known as the fertilizer trust, has bought out the Charleston Min? ing and Manufacturing company The latter concern owned 2,700 acres of the be6t phosphate land in the world, located in Charleston. Berkeley and Colleton counties, and only recently efforts were made to induce it to put up a million dollar plant here Tbe price paid for the stock of the Charleston Mining Company was $130, and the total sum involved is a million and a half dollars As lons: as this company was inde? pendent it was a constant menace to j the so called trust and now tbat it bas been bought, the Virginia Caro lina concern han virtual control of th? fertilizer situation in the south. The Charleston Mining and Manu facturing Company is owned almost entirely by Philadelphia capitalists, j It began operations in 1867 and has perhaps paid more handsomely on i its original outlay than any other I corporation in South Carolina A Pennsylvania soldier writing from the Philippines to friends at hom? says the American people hsve no idea of tho horrors of that war, and if they had th^re would be n howl from one end of tho country to the other to stop it at once. He ex? presses the opinion that the war of \ subjugation will not end in a gene ration There are others who agiee with bim. I BOOMVILLE HOMELETS. [Oapyrisht, 15(50, by C. B. Lewis.] Boomville ought to havo a fire de? partment. At the present time the only conveniences for fighting the lurid destroyer are a stepladder and an old bucket without a handle. Let ?3 not wake up when it is too late. We received a call a day or two since from Mr. Sam Norton. who lost a dol? lar on Main street a few weeks ago and has not recovered it up to date. He may never recover it. but be bxs the consolation cf knowing that the dis? honest finder will not go to heaven along with the rest of us. It now transpires that Mr. John Gris comb's year-old baby did not swallow a pair of scissors, as stated in our last issue. What it got away with was half a dozen tacks and a brass thimble, but the doctor anticipates no malign re? sults. Boom ville cherubs have healthy appetites. The editor of this paper, while on his way to the postofiice the other day, was picked off his feet and thrust head first into an empty barrel in front cf Strong's grocery. The thruster was Abner Green, who had been drinking and was in a jokeful mood. We trust it may not happen again. The position was undignified. We are sorry to say that we missed the item last week about a cow break? ing through the Looking Glass river bridge and breaking her leg. but we are in time to announce that it was her left bind leg and that she is owned by Farmer Savage. He thinks be can amputate the leg and save her life. Among those who remembered the struggling but undaunted editor last week was Mrs. Jason Williams. She brought us in a pound of butter and a basket of potatoes, and could she bave seen the tears in our wife's eyes as we carried the luxuries home she would have felt amply rewarded. We love to be an editor, and we love our subscrib? ers. M. QUAD. ITT o Ways of Telling; lt. Once upon a time a king in bis sleep drer med that all of his teeth fell out before him. one by one. He summoned a soothsayer and ask? ed Lim to interpret the dream. The soothsayer said, "0 king, the meaning of thy dream is that thy fam? ily and relatives shall di* in thy pres? ence, one by one. till all are gone." Tb.e king was very angry at that and sent, the soothsayer at once to prison. Then he sent for a not lier soothsayer and again asked for an interpretation of the ?dream. T.'je soothsayer made answer. "G king, the interpretation of thy dream is that thy family and relatives shall die. one by one. and thou thyself shalt outlive them ail." With this answer the king showed approval and commanded that a pres? ent be given to the interpreter, and that he should l>e sent home with honor.-"Persian Tales" in Century. . "When to Select Diamonds. "It may appear strange to you,"" said a diamond expert, "but damp, murky weather practically kills the diamond business. No dealer dare buy for fear of cheating himself. The purest white^ diamond will on one of these dark, fog? gy days take on a straw shade and to all appearances is off color. Always pick out a diamond on a clear day, but see to it that you have a good light on the gem, for many dealers tint their ceilings and walls a delicate hue, 'which gives the stone a bluish tint which it dees not or should not possess in a clear light' "-Washington Star. The Prayer Re Didn't Make. In a certain parish near Dumfries. Scotland, a newly made elder was sum? moned to the sickbed of a parishioner. Being naturally a bashful man. he was in great anxiety as to the "prayer he wad ha'e to pit up" and wished to avoid going altogether. At length he was persuaded by his wife and start? ed on his errand. On his return his wife greeted him with the-query: "And how did ye get on, William?" "Oh, grand! He was deid." Had a Good Start. Two colored men on a late Long street car were congratulating one an? other. The last to talk was newly wedded. "Sam. I understand youse tookin unto youseself a new woman?" said Mr. Johnston. "I'll kuufess I'ze guilty." meekly re? sponded Sam. his countenance covered with a broad grin. "Did you all get a good start?" Sam was apparently very anxious to ! answer this question and iu a much | louder tone said: ."Weil. I should say I did get a good start. I gol an old woman wid eleben little pickaninnies." Everybody who heard the remark was satisiied Sam had really a good start.-Columbus (O.) Dispatch. ? The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has horne the signature of and has been made under his per? sonal supervision since its infancy? 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 ChilUren-Experience against Experimente What is CASTOR IA Castoria 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. 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