Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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k i ^ nriMFQ p=?^^ 1 11 ?j li ii rtf11 1 11*1 Hi O. I sS5;;:s | " VOL iWllI. KO. 1. US10N, SOOfH OfftojjTCA. JAKOARY 7,\s98. $1A YEAR; | THE PENSION BOARDS. NEW INSTRUCTIONS* J?t hum by tlx Stf PiimIh 0,? J. HiHrPmuiofleri Mart n?m< by giving or setting to their children, they are debarred from receiving a pension. The question of service to the State in connection with the various classes of reserves called into the service of the State just at the close of the war, will depend rnneb upon the evidence submitted to the Stats beard. When ?iplii 'fT** ^ vei7 carefully the fbl- j e c *1 ax Ad* ^ f v. ?d tste; W. A. i>arber. Attorney Gen- foi ral; L. P. Epton, Comptroller Gen- th ral, State Board of Pensions. no Attest: Kste F. MaliAr P?nainn ufi from wounds, aro equivalent to the lt loss of either, and whose income docs not exceed $250. This does not in- ? elude soldiers whose disabilities arise from diseases or causes arising since * the war. Class 11.?Those who have lost one 0 arm or one leg, or whose disabilities from wounds are equivalent to the * loss of an arm or a leg, and whose income does not exceed $250. n Class C.?(No.l)?Those soldiers ? and sailors disabled by wounds, but " not sufficient to be placed in Class B, 8 whose income does not exceed $250. ? Class C.?(No. 2.) Thoso who have |j reached the age of sixty years and whose income does not exceed $100. Clof s C.?(No. 8.) Widows of those j" who lost their lives while in the service of the State or Confederate c States, and whose income docs not ex- v cced $250. f Class C.?(No. 4.) Widows above 1 the age of sixty years, whose income 1 does not exceed $100. Class C.?(No. 5.) Widows of pensioners. This class is not mentioned in the printed act sent out, but by the j act approved 0th December, 1804. y Blanks for the reports of township , ? i j _ 1 _:.t una county Doarus in accoru wuu these classes and sub-divisions have j been prepared and will be mailed to , auditors for distribution among the j boards. Class A get $t> per month or ] $72, and will be paid this amount; | ('lass B, $4 per month or $3(5. After ( class A shall have been paid, the j balance will be pro rated between B , and C on the basis of $4 to $8. This money will be sent to the clerk of court as heretofore as has been pro- , vided in the appropriation act each yoar, and will be sent just as soon as the roll for the State can be corrected and verified. Township boards cannot be two careful in these matters of "income" and "physical condition." It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor, rent, and other sources, docs not exceed 8100, or poor lands, if any, which will produce tnis amount gross, l'robably sufficient to produce 8100 in applicant's or his wifo s name debars him or her. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property \ . Jhl I n> MV UIJM? The pension board will m?tt in a few days and in order that there shall j>6 as little confbsion as possible* ansl in order to enahlg-t^ faicAon bou*? >^1 in orffanl4eu jra^ jom they know to be deau. - may add to the roll only such S names of new applicants as may filo ei applications. Those already on the ei pension roll need not prepare nor filo pew applications. C All new applications not properly and correctly nled in each particular, although approved by township and county boards, will be disapproved by ~ the State board. The county boards arc requested not to forward to the State board the names of any pen- ?j sioncrs disapproved by the township or county boards. Complete county and township lists as approved for 1897 are herewith sent to the town- " ship boards from which they are ex- P pected to make up the list of those to w . J. i V. it. ir. nrr? IK UUDVIUUTU UU IUCIV1I, WC WUiO nut be handed to the county board for their approval. Township and county boards will notice that the law provides three classes,-'A," "B," and "C," (with {J1 five sub divisions of class 4<C,") as follows: Class A?Those who have lost both w hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or ^ whose absoluto disabilities arising lerk. toi lai WHAT A MAN EATS. ca, ec< The Royal Statistical society of ^ reat Britain has been calculating |je to amount of food eaten by an aver- j)0 to man who lives to be 70 years old. ^ le will eat between fourteen and Heen tons of bread or one thing. Two compartments of an English kilway carriage would hold the giant )tato, cut in halves, which this man ould eat, but no one man could ^ mj Auiiiur. -TiBTitrmillion peas, fnc squiring a pod four miles long to hold ca] tem, a carrot twice as big as a don- ttII sy, enough lettuce to carpet a twelve pe, >om house, besides smaller vegeta- lu aa fnn numormii fa mont.inn would 3 CEteil. y^j If a man ate nothing but beef ho ^v0 ould consume a bullock weighing irer eighten tons and standing fifteen tj1( et high, and would likewise eat five frc >ns offish and 10.000 eggs. ur Four tons of sugar, three quarters tj,( f a ton of salt, a ton of butter and a ja, necse weighing nearly 800 pounds rj^ ould be consumed, together with pp 00 tins of mustard and fifteen pounds f pepper. p? The solid food taken in a lifetime ould be nearly fifty-four tons, and ^ lie liquid would be 1.280 times a tjt rnn's weight. If all this was of the nc onsistencv of a frothed egg, it would g( e 20,000 times as big as the man, q'j nd if the total amount of sustenance jn ros converted into mechanical power \\ t would be equal to lifting 87,600,- 8C 00 tons one foot high. A cigar smoker consuming half a n( lozen cigars a day for fifteen years t|, ias, if all were lumped together, a g, igar sixteen fe? t long and two broad -k0 weighing a ton and requiring a steam m mgine to create a through draft when tj, t is lighted. A pipe smoker would n< ise half a ton of tobacco. tl, Growth of the South In Wealth. lJ . tl The value of the assessed property n the South today is just double y vhat it was before the war, when the legroes were included as property. ^ Taking the South as a whole, the 11 increase has been greater where in- al lustries have been diversified and in- ^ tensified. Mississippi is joined to lier old idol. King Cotton?hence P that State which, comparatively, was xv ono of the wealthiest before the war, is now one of the poorest?at least f1 one of the least progressive as far as ,fi material progress goes. North Caro- ? lina, one of tho poorest, or rather one 11 of tho slowest in ante-bellum days, 0 is now become one of the wealthiest. 1' Within a few years the old North h State has built 180 cotton factories u and 240 tobacco factories. Iler old, 8 worn-out rcdgo fields, with 03 per 0 cent of silicious matter, produce the n fine yellow leaf tobacco in abundance. 8 The building of railroads has been one of the most important factors in this unexampled development of f wealth.?>Tashville Banner. 8 ,, n One Minute Cough Curo cures quickly. 1 That's what you want! For sale l>y F. 1 C. puke and Lockb&rt Mills. ? HEW ENGLAND'S DECL1N THE SOUTH HAS HOBBE1 HEH OF HKB COTTON INDUSTRYv^ii Some Otter Hmw o? flaillffl the Ftttere?Cterlee E. WtgtfMt Anffwh, teye tte "hor WhHi <k*t of tbo Bamfctfl Sa^^ tCS ? ?? ?<I ?t.;fco^?7ur O Wfew?T?M in,",? SoU,h ?? ^vloK Jr J aDd ^P^ciaWj to of mdustiy represented n manufiwturing interests. " acen on the train ****'" by a repre'erday, ^ng| ..id its ?on mills and .of New England. J must make up her ^lr. Wiggin, <4that the uer manufacturing glory a passed, and that, for the future, r their support. This section of o country cannot ?I repeat?canit compete with the South in wanacturing the cheaper grade of cotn goods, and the sooner New Engld manufacturers realize that they nnot. and that all attempts at Dnomizing and cutting down wages d lessening the number of their Ip, or even going back to longer ure of labor, is only postponing 9 inevitable the better for them and jir holp." What is the chief reason that >w England cannot compete with 9 South ?" "Labor, of course?labor. The ttiif ?' ? ' ??? ' iturer of the South depends upon a live for about one-fourth the lount that his New England comtitor is forced to expend. Why. Georgia, a man can get enough to pport himself and his family the ar round out of one carefully irked acre of land. Here in the irth, in my time, and I don't think 9 conditions ore very much changed ?m what they used to be, the luxies and conveniences in reach of e cotton operative of the Now Engid St: tea are looked upon as his ;bt. To the cImss of help now cmjyed by the averago cotton mill ol e South they would simply be hap dreams, * 1 ? \ 1 _ -i-i-j 1 nave seen constuerame siaieu m e newspapers of the North," conmod Mr. Wiggin, "regarding the gro labor of the cotton mills of the >uth. Now this is all a mistake, here are very few negroes employed tho mills, and it will always be so. by ? Because one of tho chief csntials of a cotton operative is to be eady and reliable, and this the jgro will never be, I have seen it in e South time and time again, appose a manufacturer were hire a negro to operate n ule. For one week, that is during ie time that he had no money, that jgro might bo a pattern. But at ie end of the weelc. The minute tat negro gets into his possession ie five 'cartwheels'?as he calls icm, whtch he may have earned, lat minute he becomes perfectly injpendent of all manufacturers and lanufactorics. lie may show up at ie mill Monday morning?and then gain he may not. The chances arc iat, if he has any of his money left, c will not. No manufacturer can ut up with help of this kind, and ill not. "The kind of help that is employed 1 the Southern cotton mills today i the 'poor white.' Men, women nd young children arc now working i families in the mills. In the bulk f the Southern States there arc nc iws regarding hours of labor or profiting the employment of children ndcr a certain age. You sec, foi o many years the South looked upn as impossible the growth of ti manufacturing class in her midst thai he neglected to provide safeguards or their und her own safety. "Consequently, these people worl rotn 0 a. m. to G p. m. In tin pring and summer, this means fiou ibout sunrise to sunset?the same w ho operatives of Lancashire in Eng. and did many yours ago at the be ginning of tbis century and befori i E thereof the le^wAMniaatione. f) end nogwho can read me par>r! after ^>?thC and f I amnno iL. . V^Cd . --vu# ,uu ginrmopcyeo in tne factories at Ikudo nJpa North. The 1 P??r white' of thrwnith is colorless. t?lood seems to be a forgotten quantity with him. Hlftyeeks are sallow and lean. Hie lips have no color, unless an unhealthy blue may ferjliied such. I suppose that coo'bjig his food constantly in grease ["my be, in part, responsible for this, nd his ignoranoe in some manner 0fc\rtled out of it?4ie will never take Up the pursuit learning of his own volition?he will never improve his oondi.*'011*" "Should you advise New England operatives t? emigrate to the South in case woriy ?t" the North becomes too poorly paid to support thomselvcs and their families byjts aid?" "No, by all ^oans no?unless they are prepared to enter into competition with the ^>hites " of the I South in manner of living as well as the means. I doit' say to them not to go South?bu&I do say that if they do go there, gst out of tlie factory and the millNAct into market gardening?or sounfiing of that sort ?there is the indtf|try of the future for Georgia in4 8$*? Carolina, and branch o?t an^.*lttfa track. There is inoney aiid there is means to New England, Mr. Wiggin?" was asked. "Well, I suppose she has always found out a way to live in the past, and I suppose she will in the future. At all events, she has left for her that last resource to which, it may be remembered, the late Kate Field consigned her, of becoming the summer resort for the entire nation, and of going out of the manufacturing business."?Boston Herald. DRUMMER PASSES AS BRYAN. node Sound rioney Speeches at Various Texas T6wiu. William Jennings Bryan arrived here this afternoon from a tour of Mexico, and left here tonight for Austin, whero he will be the guest of Governor Culberson tomorrow, says a San Antonio's special of Dec. 31. lie was silent on the subject of his impressions of Mexico. It was announced that Mr. Bryan would arrive here yesterday, and at all towns along th<> line between here and Eagle Pass demonstrations were given by crowds of admirers in his honor. Henry Long, commercial traveler of St. Louis, who bears a strong resemblance to Mr. Bryan, was in the pullman car of the train on which Mr. Bryan was exx'ccted and when the crowd caugli sight of him they cheered and called vociferously for a speech. Long walked out on the platform and wua introduced by the conductor as Mr. Bryan. Long then startled the audience by making a strong sound money speech, stating that his views on the financial question had been completely changed by his visit to Mexico, and that he had reached the conclusion McKinley was one of the best presidents the country ever hod. This speech was repeated at several places, to the amazement and disgust of a majority of the bearers, who were silverites. The sound monev ; men in the crowds were highly ela e 1. No one learned of the imposition until > today! PHILOSOPHY UP THE HUDSON. One reason why so many girls? . and boys?men and women, too? i arc interesting is because nearly l nv/nwKrv/1 if Irina tin tianl tn hn J -- j Homebody else rather thun to be content to remain himself or herself in life. In nature you don't seo an ; oak tree posing as a willow, or a , black duck as a yellow leg, or a ,, horse as a cow, or a lily as a rose, - or a lilac aa a peony, or a dog as u . cat. 13e natural und you'll be all B right.?Yoakcrg Statesman. Burial Place and Causes of Death of our Presidents. 1. George Washington died from a cold which brought c;? laryngitis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. 2. John Adams d;ed from senile debility; buried at Quincy, Macs. 8. Thomas Jefferson died from chronic diarrhea; buried on his estate at Monticello, Va. 4. James Madison died of old age; buried on his estate at Montpclier, - -?? 5. James Monroe died of general debility; buried in Marble Cemetery, New York City. 6. John Quincv Adams diod of paralysis, the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass. 7. Andrew Jackson died of consumption and dropsy; buried on bis estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. 8. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the threat and lungs; buried at Kinderhook,' N. Y. 9. William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy, induced by a cold taken on the day of his inauguration; buried near North Bend, O. 10. John Tyler died from a mysterious disorder like bitlious attack; buried at Richmond, Ya. 11. James K. Polk died from weakness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nashville, Tenn. 12. Zachary Taylor died from cholera morbus, induced by improper died; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky. 13. Millard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. 14. Franklin Pieicc died of inilamation of the stomach; buried at Concord, N. II. 15. James Buchanan died of rheumatism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Penu. area oy o. vr nites x>uuiij, uuncu ut Springfield, Illinois. 17. Andrew Johnson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville. Tenn. 18. Ulysses S. Grant died from cancer of the throat; buried in Rive side Park, New York city. 19. Rutherford B. Ilayes died from paralysis of the heait; buried at Fremont, Ohio. 20. James A. Garfield, assassin atcd by Charles J. Guiteau; buried at Cleveland, Ohio. 21. Chester A. Aithur died from bright's disease; buried in Rural Cetu ete -y, Albany, N. Y.?Mass. Med. Journal. A BRAVE SOUTHERN WOMAN. She Refused to Leave Her Home Though a Battle Was Expected. Summer Hill, close to Studlcy, Ya., is a very interesting place, built over 100 years ago, and was the arena of much active warfare about the year 18(32. Mrs. Newton resides there, the widow of Capt. William B. Newton, a scholarly gentleman i ?i i i.? 1&I1U uiuvf UU111U1U11UU1 ui va* an j m Gen. Fit/hugh Lee's brigade, who was killed at the battle of Culpepper Court House. He was a brother of the late Bishop John Brokenbrough Newton, who died last Ascension Day. Summer Hill was taken for headquarters by Gen. Grant, and there be held a council of war with Gen. Hancock and Gen. McDowell. Gen. Grant told Mrs. Newton he was expecting an attack, and that a battle would be fought under her very rooflrcc, and added : "I advise you strongly, madam, to go over into King William county with your little children. I will be glad to furnish you an ambulance and safeguard to cross the lines." She answered: "No, I prefer to stay here. This old home is all 1 have left, and if its fate is to fall down it will have to fall on my head. I can put the children down in the potato cellar, and, general, if you should get scared when the firing begins, you can go down there with them." Gen. Grant laughed heaitily and said: "Have your own way, madam. You are brave enough." After the war was over he inquired very particularly of her, and expressed the hope that she came out ad I right. I ?Boston Transcript. ruin II IIHillIrifllliiarn | Wm. A. Nioholson ic Son, Bankers ! | RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT YOUR 2 RANKING RllftlNFfift AVflllR CIRC IMQHDAVnC m i And promise you tbe best protection and tbe best serrice. ? m|imiimnmihihnnnininmmmhnnhni|m UNION SHOE CO. ' SHOE MERCHANTS UNION, S. C. - *w? \ - ' ' TALK IS CHEAP~BUT FACTS ARF STIIRRORN THIMCC J You may say why should 1 pay you u^P \ $15 for a ready made suit when I can ' have one made lo measure for the same y rl?ra0r f\ j price, because we want to Rive you goods / | \ \ \ that are all wool, give a color that is fast; 1 ? I \ 1 1 give a suit that will wear and hold its \ I J shape. Alter the suit as often as you \ I ? : like at ' OUR; EXPENSE. . 1 J j We give a guarantee if it isn't right. We VI j will make it right. Isn't that why enough. 1 : Men's Suits $10 to $25; Overcoats any _ J' v price you wish them. Clothing. Shoes, Hats and furnishings for man or boy. SMITH CLOTHING CO., LEADERS IN STYLES AND LOW PRICES. GO TO BEATY'S FOR CLOTHING. I0U III IB HELL DRESSED? If so Rose & Company's Garments Have an established reputation for style and taste. Give them a trial. Their line of suitings, overcoatings and pantings are the most complete in every detail. They give you fit, finish and fashion ; besides a guarantee bond goes with every purchase. "They wear so well and cost no more than Keady Mades." Don't forget the mans full suit at $2.50, a good appetizer. Good boys' suits from 75c. up. Boys' ready made knee pants 26c. Cheap sugar will soon be in season. Be sure to call on us for clothing. Yours very truly, W. T. BEATY. ? ii Hhft if ? "^DR. H. K. SMITH. cj DENTIST? ' ' *" T > -f V i. .. < i l l \\tiM*m'\ 11 i irfti ilh"