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CORBETT RETAINS CHAMPIONSHIP.
Put McGovern Down and Out in
Eleventh Round.
Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco,
March 3L-Wm. Bothwell, better
known as "Young Corbett" of Denver,
showed decisively tonight that his vic?
tory ever Terry McGovern of Brooklyn
at Hartford a year ago last Thanks?
giving was no finke by defeating Mc?
Govern in the eleventh round after a
fight in which there was not a second
of idleness for either man. In nearly
every ronnd Corbett, fighting like a
machine, never overlooking an oppor?
tunity to send home his blows, had a
shade the better of the argument, and
' when finally in the eleventh ronnd he
got the Brooklyn^ boy fairly going, he
never let up on him until Terry sank
to the floor a badly defeated man.
George Harding, the, club time
keeper, who counted McGovern out,
stated after the fight that the blows
that knocked McGovern out were left
and right swings on the jaw and a
right upper cut on the chin. Harding
said McGovern was in a dazed condi?
tion; that when he counted nine he
motioned him to get up, but Mc?
Govern was too confused to notice
and was unable to rise. At the count
of ten McGovern started to rise, but
it was too late and the referee award?
ed the fight to "Young Corbett."
Harding said that McGovern was com?
pletely out and that it was a mercy to
him that he was unable to get up.
Corbett was strong and ready, and
had McGovern risen to his feet he
probably would have been seriously
hart. As it waa, it was nearly a min?
ute after McGovern had been carried to
his corner before he was able to sit
up or understand what bad happened.
The men in McGovern'? corner
claimed that the decision was an out?
rage. They said McGovern had been |
instru<:ted to fight cautiously and
when he was knocked down he was to
take the full count and that McGovern
obeyed his instructions. They claim
that at the count of ten he was on his
feet arid although dazed, knew what
he was doing. They also claimed
that he had plenty of fight in him
and wonld have lasted the rest o? the
round. Harding's position in count?
ing McGovern out was sustained by
41 Chalky " Roberts, another timekeeper,
Paddy Sullivan, the third timekeeper,
was very much in favor of McGovern
and contended that the count, as ac?
cepted by the referee, was wrong,
Referee Graney's decision seemed to
meet with the approval of most of the
spectators, as McGovern was apparent?
ly thoroughly beaten.
Crura is in Charge as Port Collec?
tor.
Special to The State.
Charleston, March 31.-Dr. W. D.
Crom, the colored collector o? the port,
assumed his duties today. He quietly
took the oath of office yesterday after?
noon before Deputy Clerk D. M.
Murphy of the United States circuit
court and this morning he repaired to
the custom house, presented his com?
mission and certificate of oai;h and as?
sumed charge. ' He was not to qualify
until tomorrow, but the agitation of
the matter of securing an injunction,
restraining him from taking the office
on the ground that the appointment
was made without the consent of the
senate and therefore was unconsti?
tutional, caused him to take charge
one day earlier and forestall any such
action. Tomorrow is the first day of
the quarter, as well as of the mooth
and would have served the department
better for his assumption of affairs,
but the fear of the injunction hasten?
ed his movements.
The qualification of Crum may not
dispose of the inquiry into his right
to hold the office. Mayor Smyth
referred the matter anyhow to Cor?
poration Counsel Moffett and he will
report upon it, and his opinion will
determine what steps, if any, shall be
taken to oust him from the office on
the grounds just stated.
Inspector S. E. Barnwell did not re?
port for duty today. He is the only
special who has resigned so far, rather
than serve under the negro collector.
There are three inspectors, provided
for and the vacancy will have to be
filled for the civil service list of eligi?
bles. Crum will only have the power
of naming the. inspector who will per?
form the special duties of Mr. Barn?
well as weigher, gauger and appraiser,
which properly belong to the collector.
He may designate one of the other
two inspectors or appoint the new man
who will be put in office. The clerks and
officials are all in the civil service and
Crum can only get in his favorites by
making charges of incompetency or
neglect, or perhaps abolishing the
offices and reestablishing them under
new names.
Crum has nothing to say, but it is
reported by his friends that he pro?
poses to run the department as satis?
factorily as he can for business inter?
ests and the threatened changes may
not come.
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Everybody's Magazine at Osteen's.
A HI6H ESTIMATE OF TILLMAN.
A Good Man to Have in the Senate
-What Prof. Dowd Says.
Written for Charlotte Observer.
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wis., March 22.-Senator Tillman
spoke here Thursday night on the
negro problem. The weather was bad
being cold and rainy. ? walked in the
auditorium a little late, expecting to
find not more than 100 people present.
Much to my surprise I saw an audi?
ence of 1,800 people, each member of
which had paid 50 cents for admission.
There is something remarkable
about this fact. Was this large audi?
ence due to the deep interest felt in
the negro problem? If so, it is not
remarkable that Wisconsin people
should wish to hear a man on that
subject who is. known to represent
views the most opposite from those
now held or formerly held by the
majority of the people?
Did these people come out to hear
simply because he is sensational, a man
with a pitchfork, a sort of wild man
from Bcrneo?
After hearing the speceh I answered
this question in the negative. I saw
Senator Tillman in a new light. A
few years ago I heard him in a South
Carolina campaign. The subjects
discussed were local and personal and
I came away unfavorably impressed.
His speech here showed me that he
had developed a good deal since that
time. His style was better, his lan?
guage better and his grasp of ideas
and his store of information rsepect
ing history ?md literature, were more
those of the scholar and statesman.
There is no discounting the fact
that Senator Tillman is a man of ex?
traordinary power. The demagogue
who rides into office upon popular cur?
rent may attract attention for awhile,
but he soon collapses as he has noth?
ing solid to rest upon. Senator Till?
man has been to the front too long to
be classed as a demagogue. He is an
honest man, an earnest man, a
courageous man and fundamentally
actuated by the highest feelings and
sentiments. When he told this audi?
ence that all of the political honors
that could be heaped upon him were
as nothing compared to his love for
home and family he was loudly ap?
plauded. The people believed what
he said. In this particular he is a
genuine representative of the best that
there is in the southern men. How?
ever people may have differed from his
reasoning, and felt themselves oppos?
ing his ideas, they could not but
realize that there was in the restless
figure pacing- up and down the plat?
form, a type of man too rare not to be
admired. He suggests something of
the rugged characteristics of Andrew
Jackson, and in one sense he repre?
sents the best that there is or ever has
been in southern statesmanship. He
has profound convictions, an over?
whelming passion for the cause which
he espouses, a frankness and an ag?
gressiveness, together with the ability
to hit the mark that he aims at which
are indispensible requisites of effect?
ive oratory. Attachment for some
great cause and deep sincerity of pur?
pose count for more than erudition,
rhetoric or grace of style. First of all
the orator or writer must have some
irresistible devotion to a principle be?
fore he can hope to win and retain the
ear of the public. In the case of Till?
man his passion is for democracy, in
the sense of maintaining the rights
and manhood of the individual as
against any political or economic or
social domination. All of his feelings
side with the commonality and oppose
any power which may take an unfair
advantage of the people. Of coarse he
cannot appeal to people of opposite
sentiments although such people open
their ears to him and dread him. It
is his intense personality and his
burning love for democracy which ex?
plain the secret of his power in South
Carolina and explain why 1,800 people
in this city pay $900 to hear him speak.
I differ in many respects from his
political views and doubt the discre?
tion of many of his utterances, but
fundamentally, especially as regards
his general sentiments, I believe that
he is one of the best types of men and
that it is fortunate for the country
that such a man has a seat in the
United States senate. His errors of
judgment and his lack of liberal educa?
tion, militate against bim and prevent
him from taking the highest rank.
Jerome Dowd.
Filar?a is a New Disease.
Captain Charles Kieffer, a United
States army surgeon, says the Philip?
pines are infested with mosquites more
troublesome and dangerous from a
medical point of view than those that
swarm in the Jersey swamps. A
strange malady kown as filaria is
traced directly to them, and is com?
mon among the American soldiers
quartered on the islands. Soldiers
contract the disease by drinking water
from stagnant pools in which the mos?
quitoes have laid? their eggs.
2 The first indication of filaria appears
in the form of a worm in the victim's
thorax. This develops into elephan?
tiasis which causes the patient terrible
pains, accompanied by a constant
cough. The suffering is worst at
night, and the patient becomes a prey
to insomnia.
The only remedy lies in an operation,
which in itself is dangerous and rare?
ly successful. If the worm, which is
a female, is injured and dies through
the operation its poison gets into the
blood, the disease is increased a thou?
sandfold and the chances of recovery
are small.-Exchange.
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SHOWING THEIR TEETH.
The Blind Tigers in Charleston
Claw the Chief of Police.
A dispatch from Charleston to the
Augusta Herald says war against the
blind tigers of Charleston has develop?
ed quite a sensation in which some
startling assertions against the char?
acter of Charleston's chief of police
have been made by means of placing
placards in the window of one of the
places recently closed up. Since the
first of his administration Governor
Heyward has been keeping the con?
stabulary moving actively against
the blind tigers, of Charleston. The
developments in the Chicco affair were
spread broadcast and read with con?
siderable interest in a great many
newspapers, but the latest "affair" is
the first of a really sensational type so
far. Several days ago a blind tiger
run by R. M. McManus was raided by
order of Mayor Smythe and ever since
there hav6 been placards placed daily
in the window knocking on the char?
acter of the chief of the police depart?
ment to stare pedestrians in the face.
The day following the raid this one ap?
peared :
"This business was closed by or?
ders of a drunken, incompetent
Chief of Police.''
No notice was taken of the placard
by the officials, but it was read by ev?
erybody that passed the place. The
following day an even more sensation?
al placard was exhibited in the win?
dow, reading as follows :
"Why don't this drunken Chief
of Police be as active in closing
other places as he has this. The
Governor could then call in the
constabulary."
The affair did not stop with this
placard, nor was it allowed to remain
long in its place. Apparently not sat?
isfied with the effect a single placard
was having, the advertisement was
changed this morning, and instead of
one card, the show window was decor?
ated with an array of cards that was
calculated to stop anyone who might
be passing, and could not help but
have some resting place in the minds
of the readers. The signs displayed
are as fellows : \
"What the community wishes to
know is why this Chief of Police
disgraces the uniform that the tax?
payers put on his back. Who pays
the rent of No. 37 Coming street?
Who runs that den? Let him ans?
wer that, too."
"Closed by order of that De?
baucher, Imposter upon the tax?
payers as the Chief of Police. Had
he been sober instead of a state of
beastly intoxication on the night
of the murder of Young Pinckney
the perpetrators of that foul deed
might have been apprehended."
"Who but this rotten Chief of
Police is responsible for the rob?
bery of the old Veterans during
the reunion in the year 1898? A
privilege was granted an import?
ed gambler and ex-convicfc, at the
cost of $5,000 to do the work.
Why was such a privilege granted?
Not for the love of this convict.
Who got the privilege money? Let
him answer that."
"This drunken Chief of Police
occupied the time of the special
detectives in hounding down those
that are distasteful to him, while
the thieves have their own way
and the taxpayers pay the costs."
It is the chief of police, W. A.
Boyle, who is referred to in the signs
or cards that appear in the window,
and everybody in Charleston expects
that some serious trouble will be
the result of what many of the best
people here are referring to as a "dirty
piece of work" on the part of a
'* blind tiger keeper" meaning Mc?
Manus. While Chief Boyle has taken
no action in the matter, treating it ap?
parently with contempt, ' it is plainly
seen that the manner in which his
name is being handled by the blind
tiger is not at all appreciated by him.
The chief of police is pretty well liked
by the best element of Charleston's
people and the community is siding
with him in the work he is doing,
while on the other hand McManus has
very little standing here at all. The
fair-minded element of the city are re?
ferring to his action in using the
placards the wav he has as "a stab in
the dark."
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., knew
what to do in the hour of need. His wife
had such an unusual case of stomach and
liver trouble, physicians could not help
her. He thought of and tried Dr. King's
New Life Pills and she got relief at once
and was finally cured. Only 2oc, at J. F.
W. DeLorme's Drug Store.
The State board of education has
been confronted with a serious proposi?
tion-the possibility of losing this
State's share of the Peabody fund.
The Peabody board is said to have
some plans for applying the large sums
in their keeping to the building of a
great school for the instruction of
teachers. Should this be done South
Carolina would suffer, for there are
several institutions in the State which
aro beneliciaries of the fund.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident, is narrated by John
Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows: "I
was in an awful condition. My skin was
almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coaled,
pain continuallj in back and sides, no
appetite, growing weaker day by day.
Three physicians had given me up. Then
I was advised to use Electric Bitters: to
my great joy, the first bottle made a de?
cided improvement. I continued their usc
for three weeks, and a:n now a well man.
I know they robbed the grave of another
victim."' No one should fail to try them.
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COUNTRY'S COTTON PRODUCTION.
First Annual Statement Based on
Census of Ginneries.
Washington, April 1.-The censns
bureau today made public the first
annual statement of cotton production
under the permanent organization of
that bureau. Th9 statement is made
by Wm. Suart, chief statistician of
manufactures. It places the cotton
production exclusive of linters for the
eyar at 11,078,882 commercial bales,
equivalent to 10,630,945 bales of 500
pounds each. The total crop, includ?
ing linters, was 11,275,105 commercial
bales, or 10,827,168 500-pound bales.
The difference in the figures in com?
mercial bales and 500-pound bales is
due to the fact that some of the com?
mercial bales are round bales, which
contain only 255 pounds, or little more
than half the weight of the square
bales.
The explanation is made that the
figures are the result of personal
visits on the part of census office
agents to 32,753 ginneries. The can?
vass extended until March 28, but at
that time there was still unginned a
small quantity of cotton. This is es?
timated at 84,205 commercial bales,
and these are included in the figures
given. The production by States in
commercial bales is given as follows :
Alabama, 1,011,325; Arkansas, 999,
629; Florida, 67,287; Georgia 1,509,
199; Indian Territory 409,591; Kan?
sas, 45; Kentucky, 1,308; Louisiana,
911,953; Mississippi, 1,451,626; Mis?
souri, 49,552: North Carolina, 568,884;
Oklahoma, 218,390; South Caro?
lina 948,200: Tennessee, 328,019 ; Texas
2,587,299; Virginia 16,575.
YOONG CROPS OF THE COUNTRY.
The Monthly Bulletin of the De?
partment of Agriculture.
Washington, April L-The agricul?
tural department's monthly bulletin is
as follows :
Reports from all points indicate that
winter wheat is in promising condition
generally. The crop has wintered well
and is now making vigorous growth
in all sections. Too rank growth is
reported from limited areas in Ken?
tucky, and some damage by water on
lowlands in Maryland and the lower
Ohio and Central Mississippi valleys.
Fail sown oats are making vigorous
growth in the southern States with ex?
cellent prospects, although seriously
damaged by lice in some portions of
South Carolina.
Very little corn has been planted
north of the Gulf States, and while
the bulk of the crop is planted in
Florida, and planting is general in
Texas, it has been greatly delayed by
excessive moisture and is confined, as
a rule, to the uplands. Where the
early planted is up the stand is fair
to good, and in extreme southern Tex?
as is receiving its first cultivation.
Cotton planting is in progress in
southern Georgia and eastern South
Carolina. A very little has been plant?
ed in Alabama and Florida. Prepara?
tions are general for this work in
Louisiana arid Mississippi, except in
the flooded districts. In Texas the
crop is being planted in the central
and southern portions, and some is
coming up.
Serious injury to the peach crop by
frost is reported from nearly all sec?
tions east of the Missisisppi and from
Oklahoma and northern Texas.
Scarcity of Leap Years.
It is very unusual but still it is a
fact that the completion of the month
of February marked the first time in
history for 100 years when seven suc?
cessive Februarys of only 2S days have
occurred and it will be 200 years ?ong
er, or the year 2,100. The unusual oc?
currence is due to the workings of the
rule of astronomers for calculating
leap years. The rule by which the
present or Gregorian Calender as cal
calated is as follows:
Every year divisible by four shall
be a leap year except the centuries
and these shall be leap years if they
are divisible by 400. According to
this rule the year 1900 was not a leap
year and therefore the present year,
1903, is, the seventh year since a leap
occurred Th9 year 2000 will be a leap
year beause it is divisible by 400 so
that the next time when seven com?
mon years will be from the year 2096
to, 2103, the year 2100 not being a
leap year. The above rule was in?
stituted by Pope Gregory in an effort
to keep the solar and calendar years
together. ^
The solar or sun year is 365 days, 5
hours, 40 minutes and 47 seconds long,
so that every four years the solar year
gets nearly but not quite 24 hours
ahead of the common year and ac?
cordingly one day is added to February
every 4 years to take up the discrep?
ancy. There is, however, still a slight
difference, the calendar gaining on
the solar year by about one day in ev?
ery 40 years so that on every century
year divisible by 400, the extra day is
not added.
The passenger department of the
Southern Pacific, railroad has just un?
earthed at New Orleans what promises
to prove a huge swindle and forgery of
railroad tickets.
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There wai a big sensation in Leesville,
Ind., when W. H. Brown, of that place,
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a competitor in our Big Word Contest, which will close on the
First day of May, 1903, the contest to be decided by the fol?
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No letter can be used twice in one word.
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