Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ini im mmiHuiiM m 11.m mm m. . Current Events in the Palmetto State Laconically Recorded. Mr. W? H. Haile's barn was burned down Saturday night about 10 o'clock. The origin of the fire is unknown. Its entire contents were consumed. Mr. Hai le had some insurance on his barn. This is the second time he has had a similar loss within a year.?Wateree Messenger. The vacancy in the Camden Graded School, caused by the resignation of Miss Margaret S. Bnrnet, was filled by the trustees at the meeting on Tuesday by the election of Miss Emily Zemp.?Wateree Messenger. The railroads have made a rate of one cent a mile each way on account of the Confederate reunion in Green ville. August 6th to 8th. Cotton, says a James Island corres pondent, holds out better and is in very fair condition, except where?n jured by blight. This disease has spread to lands unaffected heretofore,, attacking to a serious extent immune cotton, which has up to this time offered marked protection. Charleston county will soon have a kennel of bloodhounds with which to run the criminals to earth in that section of the State. At the last term of the court of general sessions the grand jury suggested that the sheriff procure a few of these valuable dogs. Sheriff Martin stated yesterday that for some time he had been in commu nication with a prominent dog fancier and owner, and that he expected to get a couple of splendid hounds at an early date. gDuring a .recent severe thunder storm lightning struck the stables of Mr. M. T. Fersner, who lives in the East Orange section, of Orangeburg county and killed two valuable mules. Owing to the heavy rain the stables did not catch on fire. Reports from the crops in Darling ton county are good, especially in the western part. The area of tobacco is large and if no disaster in the shape of hail comes in the next six weeks there will be a good deal of business done in Darlington this fall. Will Walker, a negro convict, was killed Monday evening while trying to escape from.the county chain gang> about three miles east of Yorkville. Walker was convicted at the recent spring term of Court of arson, having burned a house on the place on which he was living for the purpose of con cealing the fact that he had carried off and sold cotton due the landlord for rent, and was sentenced to a term of eighteen months. The Camden electric light station' which was burned recently, will be ready for business again within three weeks. P> H. Madden, white, of Laurens county, who was bound over to court last Saturday on the charge of arson* has been granted bail by Judge Watts in the sum of $300, which was given Monday and Mr. Madden released. The secretary of the state granted a commission to tbe Kershaw Telephone Company, which proposes to do a local telephone business with a capital stock of #5,000. W.'W. Moore, of York ville, who is interested in several tele phone concerns, is president of this company Since J. J. Stone has gone out of business Abbeville has been without a jewelry store. And a jewelry store is needed in every town of the size of Abbeville. If Mr. Bernau or any oth er merchant eould be induced to inves tigate the conditions that exist we are quite sure that Abbeville would soon have another jewelry store.?Press and Banner. Maj. T. W. Woodward and wife of Fairfield. have gone to Hot Springs, Ark., where the major goes for his health?and he carries with him the wish of many friends for his improve ment. Governor Aycock, of North Caroli na, has notified Governor McSweeney that he has issued requisition papers ?:>r Dan Gould, alias Thomas Madday, who was captured in Georgetown re cently. Gould is a condemned negro murderer and his case is one of the most remarkable ever recorded. Gould killed a white, man with a fence rail in Anson county over twenty years ago and was tried in Montgom ery county and sentenced to be hang ed. Before the day for his execution arrived he broke jail and made his escape. Since then he has not been seen until about ten days ago when he was arrested under another name at Georgetown. He denied his identity and refused to go to North Carolina without a requisition. Truly, it looks like Hey ward for governor. He is decidedly the favor ite in every county which the cam paign party has visited.?Bamberg Herald. Mr. J. A. Byrd went to Sumter last week to visit hie son, Clifton, who has been sick, and found him improv ing .nicely. Mr. Byrd also took in the firemen's tournament while there. He says there was a tremendous crowd in the Game Cock city, and the races were fine.?Bamberg Herald. Seven hundred bales of cotton that were recently damaged in the big cot ton fire in Columbia were sold Wednes day to Mr. LeRoy Springs, of Lancas ter; for $14,516. The cotton was not damaged to any great extent and seal ed bjds for the whole lot were receiv ed at Mr. Barn well's omce. There were several bids, but Mr Springe's was the highest The Governor, as Commander-in chief of the militia forces of the State, has been notified by th? war depart ment at Washington of the shipment of something over $3,000 worth of rifles, uniforms, etc., to the Adjutant General of South Carolina, this being the first distribution under the ap propriation for State militia, availa ble on July L It will probably be some time before these equipments arrive. They will be used m equip ping companies that have been wait ing for some months for the year's fund to become available. When Dr. S. S. Daniel was convict ed in Spartanburg of fraud the sen tence was $150 and fifteen months. He made arrangements to pay for the piano he bought, paid the fine, and > then Judge Watts reduced the impris onment to five days, which sentence he is now serving. Governor McSwee ney will issne a pardon, no doubt, so that there may . be- no question as to citizenship. It was rumored in Columbia Thurs day that a negro had confessed to the murder of Mr Kinard, on the Evans place in Newberry, and the burning of the house over the dead body. It will be recalled that about a week ago the house in which Mr. Kinard lived was .burned and his charred body was found in the ruins. The circumstan ces were suspicious,. but the coroner was unable to get at sufficient evi dence to hold any particular person. It is said here today that a suspected negro not only confessed to this crime, but went on to say that he had in tended to kill others in the same way. The Fruit Dispatch Company, of New York, which controls ninety three freight and passenger steamers, has established a new steamship line between Charleston and Central Amer ica, and the first vessel will arrive in Charleston from Port Limon, Costa Rica, on July 10. Mr. E. C. Gedney, resident manager of the company, says that this service will not interfere wi(th the regular, sailings between Charleston and Porto Rico. The former line was established during the winter and the advantages of the port appealed to the company so strongly that it was decided to withdraw the Central American fleet from Mobile and make Charleston one of the Amer ican ports. The town courfcil of Kershaw has granted an exclusive franchise for 20 years to the Kershaw ,Oil Mill to fur nish the town with electric lights and water. The machinery and piping and other necessary material for both systems have been ordered and the water and lighting systems will be in operation by fail. . A. McNinch, white, while drunk on Thursday, shot and killed Stephen Jackson, colored, near the cotton mill in Darlington. ; McNinch attempted to shoot several others. The appointment of Maj. Micah Jenkins as collector of internal re venue for South Carolina, of W. L. Harris as postmaster at Charleston, and of Jeff Richardson as postmaster at Greenville have been officially announced. ; Ont this out and take it to Dr. A. J. China's Drug Store and get a box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The best physic. They also correct dis orders of the-siomach. Price 25 cents. _ _ NOT SO VERY GREEN. The. Florida Han Rather Evened Hatters Up With the 5ew Yorker. When the young/man from Florida came to live in New York, he woke up one morning last winter, and, going to the window, he looked out on what was to him a novel scene. It was a snow storm, the first he bad ever seen. Jumping Into his clothes, be ran into the street He stooped and gathered bandfals of snow and threw them in the air. He jumped into a drift and sent it flying with his feet He finally lay down and rolled in it all the time shouting and laughing at the top of bis ~oice. One of the crowd which bad gathered to watch-his antics went up to him and told him how hi? mother .used to cure fits and volunteered to try it oa him. "1 haven't any fit" the young man said. 'What's the matter with you. then?" "Whj. don't you see the snow?" "Yes, I see it What of it? I have seen it before." "Well. I haven't** said the Florida young man. "What! You never saw snow be fore?" asked the astonished questioner. "Never. Seems strange to you. don't ft?" "It beats any sample of verdancy I ever run across." "Ob. I don't know." mused the Flori da cracker. "Did you ever see an alli gator eating a nigger? No? Well, you are not so many after all. I have seen It many times." And. throwing a hand ful of snow down his shirt collar, he pursued his joyous gambols.?New York Mail and Express. Quotation Harks. Speaking of the use of quotation marks, the London Chronicle says: But why all these inverted commas, "the silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli?" You will find none of these bacilli in the Bible.*Take this passage, chosen at random: Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. and said unto them. Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? The modem compositor would set that passage between two brackets of in verted commas, for it is a quote within a quote. But it is beautifully clear as it stands, and among ail Biblical mis understandings no one, we think, has been misled by the absence of an in verted comma. A Story oZ Browning. Browning himself couldn't always ex plain bis meaning at first reading. Dr. Furnivall, founder of the English Browning society, frequently consulted the poet as to the meaning of some passage in bis works. "Bless me," Browning would say. "I really have forgotten what I did mean, and as I haven't got a copy of my works by me I really can't enlighten you. Just lend me the book, there's a good fel low. 11 look it over at my leisure and try to find out what was in my mind at the time," Realisation. "We never realize the full value of a thing until we lose it" remarked the moralist "That's right" remarked the practi cal man. "especially if The thing lost was Insured/*?Philadelphia Press. Timely. Muggins?Youngpop is going to have his baby christened Kill. Boggins? How strange. Muggins?Oh, I don't know. He came on the first of the month.?Phila delphia Record. Laugh, and the world laughs with you: weep, and the world laughs at fou.?St Louis Star. PICKINGS FROM FICTION. ?<-?. Ghosts went .out with gas.?"The Pa gan's Cup." It is only selfish people who cannot believe that they are selfish.?E. B. Benson, "Scarlet and Hyssop." The things men inherit are mostly weights; they must grow their own wings.?"In White?and Black." Kings are great in the eyes of the people, but the people are great in the eyes of God.?J. Huntly McCarthy, "If I Were King." One must love at least two. women to appreciate either, and did the silly creatures but know it a rival becomes them ? like a patch.?Edith Wharton, "The Valley of Decision." Men are singularly unoriginal when they make love or pray. Women and the Deity have been perpetually hear ing the same thing from the beginning of speech.?"The Story of Eden." A woman never does care for her own soul so much as she cares for the man she loves, but If she is good she cares for her. soul more than for her happiness or even than for hi? happi ness.?"The Alien." A Good Memory. When Theodore Roosevelt was gov ernor of New York, he was a great friend of the porters and employees of the New York Central. One morning he took the 9:15 train from Albany west, and as he entered the car he said to Adams, the colored porter: "Hello, porter I You here still?" "Yes, sir," replied the porter, "and I'm going to stay here till you get to be president, and then I want you to give me a job." "I'll go you!" promptly replied the governor, and, sure enough, when Gov ernor Roosevelt became president of the United States be surprised Adams by sending for him to go to work in Washington.?Schoolmaster. What He Really Said. Mrs. Buffers?The teller at that bank says you are just the meanest, stin giest Mr. Buffers?Great Scotti Wha? what is that? He says Mrs. Buffers?Well, he didn't say it in so many words, but that is what he meant of course. Mr. Buffers?See here! What did the fellow say? Mrs. Buffers?He asked me to indorse the check, and when I told him I hadn't the ghost of an idea what he meant he said be presumed I hadn't had much experience getting checks cashed, so there!?New York Weekly. The Book Agent. Agent?I bave a book yon should boy for your son telling how to become a politician, statesman, president of the United States, banker* broker Mrs. Hennesy?G'wan! Did yer moth er buy wan for you??Brooklyn Life. A Simple Remedy. The readiness of some people to send for a man to do those little things about the house which the smallest amount of enterprise or ingenuity would enable them to do for them selves is illustrated by an incident re ported in the Chicago Tribune of a family named Chuckster. They had bought some new gas burn ers with mantles. For a week or two the light was satisfactory; then it grew I dim and dimmer until Mrs. Chuckster sent for th? gas fitter. "It grows worse all the time," she ex plained, i "When was it put in?" asked the j man. "About a month ago." "Ah, yes; I see." Then he lifted the chimney off, took It out to the kitchen, washed it with soap and water, and the light burned as brightly as ever. "Fifty cents/' said the man. An Argument For Social Frankness. It is best to be sincere, as a family in Germantown recently found out They had been entertaining a distinguished novelist from abroad who was not alto gether acquainted with society's way of saying things it does not mean. The time came for her departure, and as the host was handing her to the car riage he said very courteously, "I am sorry you cannot stay longer." To which came the unlooked for re tort "Oh, but I can!" There was only one course open. The trunks were taken down, the carriage sent away, and, to the consternation of her hosts, the lady re-entered the house.?Philadelphia Times.. Red Scott. In the arctic regions early explorers were astounded to find large areas of red snow, but the phenomenon Is now familiar tc men of science, who know that red snow, like a green garden fence. Is due to the presence of unicel lular alga?, the only difference being in the coloring matter of the protoplasm. It is said that acres of snow are fre quently covered in a single night by these tiny plants.?Good Words. The Climate. "Don't you think you have a very changeable climate?" said the stranger. "No," said the native. "It changes fast enough when it's pleasant but when it's disagreeable it bangs on like grim death."?Washington Star. Access to books Is an open door to wide knowledge, to a disciplined mind and to immense extension and variety of Interests.?Ladles* Home Journal. Bard Luck. Hewitt?It's sad about Gruet losing hi9 leg In that railroad accident Jewett?Yes. It must be a great dis appointment to him. He was always talking about "getting there with both feet"?Brooklyn Life. If a thing isn't true, why try to make yourself believe that It is? Why not ac cept the truth on every subject? Why fool yourself?-Atchison Globe, NEWS ITEMS. Congress decided to have one of the battleships authorized by the naval ap propriation bill built at the Govern ment navy yard, and others, in an emergency. The general rain which visited Texas last week came too late to save ihe corn crop, but in some sections farmers are replanting. Cotton was not damaged much by the severe drought and a good crop is expected. A statement of the net earnings of the United States Steel corporation for the quarter ending June 30 was issued July L Earnings"for April last were 812,320,76; for May $13,120,930, 3nd for June, estimated, $12,250,000 making a total of $37,691,696 against $26,362,000 for the same period last year. This statement shows an in crease of net earnings for the quarter of $11,329,696. The census bureau has issued its re port on printing and publishing in the United States for the census year 1900, showing a capital of $292,517,072 in vested in the 22,312 establishments re porting for the industry. United States District Attorney Gould has announced in the Washing ton Probate Court that William S. Yeatman, formerly disbursing clerk of the war. department, was, at the time of his death, April 20, 1901, a defaulter. So far as now known the alleged defalcation amounts to $18,000. The Governemnt will take steps to re cover the full amount. The defalca tion, Mr. Gouldjannounced, was only recently discovered and was effected through the manipulation of vouchers. The Louisville, Ky., Times of Wednesday said : War is on between the Southern railway and the Louis ville and Nashville in Louisville over all shipments out of or into this city from competitive points. The South ern today issued a circular offering to Louisville shippers payment of drayage on a number of articles which are sent out of Louisville in large quantities and with which competition with the Louisville and Nashville is keenest. A tornado swept over Racine county, Wisconsin late Wednesday afternoon. One man was killed, several persons injured, 40 houses and barns were wrecked, 30 or 40 head of stock killed, hndreds of trees blown down, hundreds of acres of grain ruined and other damage done, estimated at $50,000. The commission created by the last Georgia legislature to select two prominent Georgians whose statues shall occupy niches in the statutary hall in the cap?tol at Washington met in Atlanta on the 20 instant. Th? prevailing sentiment was that only one name should be selected as long as Gen. John B. Gordon, lived, and accordingly the' commission adjourned after deciding upon Dr. Crawford W: Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia, as the first Georgian to be thus honored. Among the other names considered were those of Alex ander . Stephensand Robert Toombs. If a Man Lie to You and say that some other salve, ointment, lotion, oil or alleged healer is as good as Bucklen's Arnica Salve tell him thirty years of marvelous cures of Piles, Burns, Boils, Corns, Felons, Ulcers, Cute, Scalds, Braises and Skin Eruptions prove it's the best and cheapest. 25c at J. F. W. De Lorme's drug store. John W. Gates of Chicago is in an other spectacular speculation. Back ed by a coterie of New York capital ists he is swinging a line of from ten to fifteen millions of bushels of July corn, and that means a gamble of al most as many million dollars. Bull traders declare that there is to be a corner that will run the price of corn up to one dollar. The board of trade is the scene of this gigantic grain gamble, which is the greatest deal in its line since Jos Leiter's famous at tempt to corner the world's visible supply of wheat a few years ago. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the s4*-STfiSTST Signature of ?J?&rfZ ?&???UA? Ilio Last Meeting between Longman <fc Martinez Paint and white lead was on the occasion of a certain test with a very large order for the winner. Longman & Martinez Paint won ; had to win ; people must believe what they s?e with their own eyes. Let me explain how much oil is added to each gallon and figure cost of material for your home. W B. BURNS, SOLE AGENT, Sumter - S. C. Entrance Eiamatis. The examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Fri day, July 11th, at 9 a. m. Applicante must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 11th, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this exami nation. The next session will open September 17,1902. For further information and a catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. May 26?July 11?1 a w. The latest in fine stationery just re ceived and placed on sale at H. G. Osteen & Co's book store. Detective stories of all kinds at H. G. Osteen & Co's book store. ygtg ? cgetable Preparationfor As - I si?Tii?atinguieFocdandBcgula |l? ?ngtticS?oinacisandBowelsof Por Infants and Children. Kind You Have Always Bought Infants /Children Promotes DigesomCheern^ ness andRest.Contains neither Opium>forphine nor "Mineral. NotNarcotic Tb&pe ?f OldlYS?lfUEL PITCHER Pumpkut Seal' ?lx.Seuta * Ro&dUSdss Siaise Seed. * Uppemtbst - Bi CarbanckSoda '* Clarified .iaffor Tfi/htenpwi. .Haver. Aperfecl Remedy for Cons?pa Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions Jeverish ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature o? NEW YORK. Atfe mo'Whs old j 5 D o ses \- } 5 C : i\ r s; EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. n0rS6 AND' We took in a lot of s Good : Young : Stock : Which have since fattened up, and being acclimated axe really more fit for present use than fresh ones. The time approaches when planters are pre* paring for the next year. Come and see them. They will be sold worth the money. HARBY & CO. Dec 8 C?LEMAN WAGENER HARDWARE CD. (Successor to 0. P. Poppenheim.) 363 King Street, ----- Charleston, S. C. SHELF HARDWARE A SPECIALTY. ;?Agents for? Buckeye Mowers, Brinley Plows, Oliver Glied Plows. OFFICERS: GEORGE ?. WAGENER. President; GEORGE Y. COLEMAN, Vice President; L G. ...-?- BALL, Secretary and Treasurer. Correspondence Solicited. Jone 11?3m. GLENN SPRINGS. South Carolina, QUEEN OF Southern Summer Resorts, HOTEL Open from June 1st to October 1st. Electric Lights, Electric Fans, Elee* trie Bells, Baths and complete water and sewerage system. Pure air, free from malaria, free from mosquitos. JttlJFE RJlL WJIT EU Still in the lead for the Liver, Stom ach, Kidneys and the Blood. For further information apply to THE GLENN SPRINGS CO.