The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 21, 1898, Image 7
THE WORLD OP TRADE.
Manufacturing Activity a Venture In
the South?Uuth for Alaska Begun.
Brad street's Commercial Review for
the past week says: "Distributive trade
remains rather quiet, mild weather
throughout the country tending to
check the distribution of winter goods.
Pricos generally romaiu steady or tend
upward, except for Borne grades of iron,
and orders for spring trade, where received
are encouraging. Industrial activity
is most manifest at the West,
where the demand for iron is large. The
featuro of the week was the placing
of an order by one railroad for 100, 000
tous of steol rails, with smaller
orders aggregating in the neighborhood
f of 20,000 tous more. 1'iir iron nroduc
tion is now at au unprecedented rate,
i the furnace capacity being estimated at
1,000,000 tons a month. At the bouth
manufacturing activity is a feature,
aales of iron being very heavy. A good
export dcmuud for cotton and grain at
steady prices is also a feature. At the
East a number of strikes against wage
reductions are reported or expected in
the cotton industry, borne woolen mills,
working 011 heavy men's wear goods,
are refusing orders, their capacity being
fully booked. Anthracite coal production,
it is ho|>ed in tliut trade, will
be restricted sutlicieutly to allow of the
advance of 'JO to 40 cents per ton being
maintained. The weather has beeu disappointing
at the Northwest, but an
improvement in the demand developed
at some centres as the week advanced.
The rush to Alaska has already begun
on the Pacific coast. Freight charters
are reported lower. Export trade conf;
tinuos large, a gain of 8 per cent, on
the totul export of broudstufTs, cotton
and minerul oils, cattle and liogs and
provisions bomg shown both for Decomber
anu the calendar year. "
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1900.
Wm. ,1. Bryan's Intentions If He is
^ Nominated.
W. J. Bryan, in concluding a speech
before the Bryan Leaguo at the Tre11
? -
uuui nuusu, v nicago, ill., during a
banquet made Home reuinrkH wbicli are
interpreted as showing his intentions if
he is nominated for tho presidency in
1JKH). In speaking of the next presidential
electiou, Mr. Bryan said :
"It may bo we will bo strong enough
to wiu without any outside help. But,
nevertheless, I prefer to win with the
Populists on out) side and the free silver
llepublicuus on the other. And wo
must not forgot when tho victory is
won, that in the campaign of last year
it took more conruge on the part of tho
freo silver Republicans to desert their
old party, and nioro self-sacrilice on tho
part of the Populists to go outsido of
their organization for n presidential
** candidate, bocuuso he agreed with them
' on the paramount issue, than it did for
the Democrats to support tho ticket
which was nominated by their own na
tional convention."
FOR A FUSION OF ALL.
Jones Is Acting for the Democratic
Party, Hotter for the Populists.
As n result of conferences held within
the last few days at Washington between
tho silver leaders of various parties,
it is understood that Chairman
Jones, of the Democratic national committee,
Chairman Butler, of tho Populist
national couimittoo, and Chairman
I'owne, of the Silver national Republican
committee, will issue a joint manifesto
with a view to socuring common
action by the three organization* in the
political contest of ISjiS. Tho draft of
tho document is now in tho course ol
preparation. They will appeal to all
those interested in the cause of silver to
work in union and to avoid rival organizations
by which their common strength
will he dissipated.
LKFI" 8AFH KMPTY.
Vice President of Louisville Trust Co.
Steals $100,000.
Tho Louisville (Ivy.) Trust Company
lias been compelled to close its dears
on account of tho embezzlement of its
fuiuls by one of its most trusted oflieers.
William Reiuecke, vico-prosident
of tho company, has disappeared,
leaving tho enfo empty. Reinecko was
manager of theeoncorn and whs trusted
with all its business. The exact
amount of the shortage is not known,
but it is thought ho secured nearly a
i> hundred thousand dollars. Koinecko
and his family have disappeared, leaving
no trace behind. Tho detectives have
no clue as to tlioir whereabouts. The
affair has created a great sensation in
litinncinl circles.
Death of Dev. K. A. Kauisey.
Wev. E. A. Ramsey, pastor of tho
First J'resbytorian church of Memphis,
Tenu., and one of the host known divines
in the South is dead, aged 4tS
years.
South Carolinian Wins His Suit.
A spocial from Now Haven, Conn.,
I..J 1 *'
n?.>n. .F lUWIISeilll, OI TllO I II I 11'( I
States Court, has decided the case of
i'.dward X. I'j'att, of South Caroliua,
against Horace Wahlo and others, of
New York, in favor of tiro complainant.
The suit was brought to collect from
the heirs of Sarah H. Waldo, deceased,
tlio uiuount due on a bond made by her
in her lifetime, the amount hoing
??n,i;oo. The statute of limitation figured
in the claims of tlio defence.
I'liilitdclpliin Has liaised $.*>,000.
I iio Secretary of State has been notified
b.V Mayor \\ y-wick, of i'liiladelphia,
that the Cit? ' JJ*?-iuanent Belief
Committee, o has collected
(HiO for the 10 sullering
Cuiians.
A Crer '0r *<?<>.
'I ho British steams.iV,# Jlaii/o cleared
from Savannah, On., for Bremen, Oer
many, wit h is, ?(((> bales of cotton, weighin?,
r.t'iitt.s.Vi pounds, valued at jf.VJ-1,This
is the largest cargo of cotton
ever shipped from an Atlantic port, and
is over 7,000 bales more than was over
shipped from this port on any other
vessel.
llaniia Cots Both Terms.
?,j areas A. Hnnna received both tho
long and short terms in tho I*. S. Senate
, from the Ohio Legislature, his job bo- |
^ jug good until lWu.
PRICES 100 M 160.
Some Items Copied by Rev. R. P.
Smith From an Old
BUNCOMBE CO. ACCOUNT BOOK.
fa the Old Times It Took a Week's
Work to Buy n Bushel of Suit?How
Do You Like tho Times Now?
The Gastonia(N. C. )Gazette, of arecent
date, says: People talk of the cood old
days of long ago when times were bet
ter aud money wasn't tight. How
would you like to have a dose of old
times as they aro indicated in the pricos
copied below from an old account book
kept *J'J years ago in Buncombe county,
N. C.
Having an opportunity recently, Bev.
R. P. Smith copied somo items from
such a book in kind remembrauce of his
home paper. Tho old book is now
owned by Mr. S. AV. Davidson, of
Swaunanoa Valley, Buncombe county.
It might have beon kept by a blacksmith
who run a store or by a merchant
who also ran a smithy. Here are some
items copied under <late of March, 17'J8
? nearly 100 years ago:
1> EDITS.
To l(i pounds sugar $4 00
To 2 bushels salt 3 00
To 1 gullou whiskey 75
To 1 iron wedgo 50
To laviug plow 50
To 1 pair shoe soles 50
To one-half yard muslin 37?
To 1 pouud powder 1 00
To 10 pounds of nails 2 00
To 1 (piire paper 37
To 15 pounds sugar and 0 pouuds
coffee C 00
CREDITS.
By 3 days' work 81 '17J
By 1 bushel com 50
By 70 pounds beef nt 3 cts 2 37
By 1 week's work 3 00
Seo that 10 pounds of sugar for ?4.00?
And a bushel of salt for $1.50? How do
you like it? The price of muslm was
out o'siglit?nouo was then manufactured
in this country, perhaps ull imported.
Powder at u dollar u pound
was too high to burn nt Christmas. At
20 cents a pouud people couldn't afford
to hit luauy nails on tho lioad. And
people must have bad something important
to write aud wanted to write it
mighty bad when they paid 37 cents a
quire i'or paper. Jn other items tho contrast
with today is not so marked,
but in the old times when it
took a week's work to buy a bushel ol
suit tho contrast is strong enough to
made a body inint. Ho who in those
days could earn tho salt that went in his
bread ought not to have been counted u
lazv follow. 1
VICTIMS OF TUF TORNADO.
43 People Kilted ut Fort Smith--130
Houses IIIown Down.
The latest from Fort Smith, Ark.,
shows a total of forty-three lives lostiu
the tornado which swept through that
city. Xot less than seventy others are
injured, a lurge number of whom are
seriously hurt, and several are expected
to die. The full extent of the storm
maj' bo comprehended from the fact
that thirty-five miles northeast of the
city u quantity of tin roof from Garrison
avenue building was found.
l<ndies of the city are at work distributing
food and clothing to the needy.
The relief committee, composed of the
prominent business men find difficulty
in housing the suflersrs. One hundred
and lifty buildings were demolished.
Memphis, St, Louis, Kansas, Little
Lock, and other cities havo wired readiness
to lend u:d if necessary. A census
of the dead, injured and property loss is
being taken. The number of dead will
not exceed fifty.
Organized War on Hnnnn.
A Columbus, <)., special of tho 13th
says: Leaders on both sides are still
here,' preparing for another fight. The
opposition to Hanna was defeated in hie
election, but it proposes to tight now
against his being seated for the long
term. His enemies say they have not
tho time to interfere on the short term,
i?ui tbey will press tho bribery charges,
as such charges were pressed ou Henry
Jl. Payne, fourteen years ago, to the
United States Senate. Subpoenas have
boon issued for Senator Hanna, Major
Dick, \V. I). Hollenbeck, H. H. Hovee
and others to appear before the Senate
committee. Jjihel suits have been
brought against several Kepublieau papers
for damages in connection with the i
bribory charges, notably one by T. C.
Campbell, for #100,000 against the Ohio 1
State Journal. *
VlHsknippI for Intervention In Cuba.
The Mississippi Legislature adopted
unanimously a rousing Cuban resolution
offered by Senator Hardy. After
reciting the fact that 1>0,00() persons
have been starved to death in the
province of Sauta Clara siuco January
last, and that it is the policy of Spain
to exterminate the "Queen of the Antilles,"
it demands that the United
States government HKall at once intervene,
"peaceably if .? can, forcibly if it
must,"
Reduced the Hill.
The supervisors of Queen's county,
(N. V.) struck the items of $1150.15 for
wine. $J12S.-10 for cigars and $52.40 for
billiurds from the hotel bill of the
Thorn jurors. The net sum of the bill
was reduced from $2,049 to $004.
Killed Ills Sweet heart and fllmaoif
At Hurlock, Dorchostor, Md., a
negro nnmcd Coleman shot and killed
his sweetheart, a girl named Matthews,
and hadl.v wounded her companion,
named Hughes. Coleman then wont
home and killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
More Legislation.
The Postoflico Department will recommend
to Congress legislation providing
that postoflico clerks be required
to give bond to the government and not
to the postmaster.
I
CUTTING WAGES.
Lower Kate* to Prevail In Cotton Mills
of Six States.
The operatives in over half a hundred
cotton mills in New England States
ceased to be paid under the old schedule
of prices on the 15th. On Monday
morning, the 17th, the general policy
of the manufacturers to reduce wages
went into effect in nearly every mill
centre in tho six States. The reduction
becomes operativo in the cotton mills
of New Bedford, Lowell, the Pawtucket
and Blackstone Yalloy in Rhode Island,
and in the States of Maine and New
Hampshire.
The Fall River mills with the exception
of three corporations, cut wages in
the month, as did also tho Amoskesg
Company, of Manchester, and the mills
in Salem and u number of smaller
places.
Notices were posted in the cotton
mills of the Atlantic & Pacifio corporations
at Lawrence, Mass., announcing
that on and after Jan. 51, a reduction
of 10 per cent will he made in the employees.
Tho Pacific corporations employ
about 5,500 hands and the Atlantic
about 1,200. It is thought tho operatives
will accept the reduction, as
the strike of about two years ago was
unsuccessful.
The Lawrence Mills urn Ui? Inst in
New England to join in tho general
movement. The Everett, Poinberton
and Washington Cotton Mills here have
not as yet announced a reduction, but
it is generally believed that they will do
so soon.
A special from Pawtucket, R. I., says:
In the Blackstouo Valley, 7,000 mill
operatives avill work at reduced wages.
Tho reduction is announced nt from 10
per cent to 11 10 percent. The operatives
say that iu some instances tne reduction
is moro than announced. The
mill hands uro vigorously protesting,
but they have thus far decided to continue
at work.
GENKRAL BOOTH'S VISIT
To This Country Is to Further Ills
Schemes to Ilcnellt tho Poor.
General William Booth, tho head of
tho Salvation Army, reached New York
on tho 15th, on board tho steamer St.
Paul, from Southampton. Tho general
was met down tho bay Commander
Booth-Tucker. On tho pier a large
delegation of headquarters Salvationists
were awaiting their chief. General
Booth was given a warm reception.
Ho stopped at Commander BoothTucker's
house in Fordham, where he
remained a fow days bofore ho left for
Canada, whero he was met by liis
daughter, Miss Eva Booth, who is in
charge of the army there. Ho will remain
three weeks in Canada, inspecting
the work of tho army, aud will then
return to the United States. Ho will
begin his American tour on February
Kith, in Washington.
"General Booth's idea is not alone
to look over the work und progress of
the Salvation Army in the United States
and Canada, but in traveling through
these countries bo will c-onfor with n
number of citizens of the leading eitios
concerning his schemes for tho assistance
of the poor. General Booth will
inspoct and suggest improvement in tho
socinl institutions we have established
iu iins country, which now li&vo ac
coinmodation for 4,000 persona."
FROM Till-: 81XTKKMII FLOOR.
Alfred Crcenlcuf's Leap From the
Chicago Masonic Temple.
At Chicago Alfred ('. (ireenleaf, u
bookkeeper committed suicide by
jumping from tho sixteenth floor of the
Masonic Temple. (Ireenleaf had been
out of employment for some time uud
becoming despondent decided to mako
away with himself. His first, attempt
was made in the Chamber of Commcrco
building, where lie was caught in the
act of jump'ug over the railing from
tho twelfth loor to the rotuuda,
and ejected l'lom tho building.
(Ireenleaf tbei. wont to the Masonic
Temple, ascended ro tbcsixteenth lloor,
climbod upon the railing and jumped
otl into the rotunda. His body struck
a marble landing on the third floor,
shattered a slab two inelieH thick and
landed on tho balcony of tho second
lloor. Tho body was reduced to a mere
pulp. Greenleaf's fall was witnessed
by a score of people in the rotunda.
Striking Engineers (live I'p.
London, (By Cable)?Tho engineers
and allied trado unionists, now on
strike at Glasgow have decided to
abandon the struggle and give notice of
their decision to tho secretary of the
Federated F.niployers. Emploj-ers held
a meeting at Manchester and allowed
the lockout notices recently issued to
lapse.
The Walls Collapsed.
At Baltimore, Md., the walls of two
bouses being erocted 011 Twenty-second
Btreet fell aud seven men were injured.
two probably fatally.
Ihc Cuban Itellcf Movement.
A letter from Stephen E. Bartin, cf
the Central Cuban relief coinmitteo of
tlio Stato Department nt Washington.
D. C., says that tho committee is receiving
communications from bovornors
throughout tho country, all indicating
a satisfactory response to tho appeals
of tho Department of State, and
the committee.
Cold Ulooded Murder.
At a negro fair, near Palmira, Yu..
l'hillip dailies colored, shot and in"
stantlv killed (icorge (ireen, also colored.
Tho murder was a cold-blooded
one. Dailies escaped.
A Triple Murderer Hanged.
Archey Lackey, colored, tho triple
murderer, was hanged at King ami
Otieen courthouso, Virginia, on the
'I .,?? ? i ? "
J I?U. H1VJU n tlUMU ft I 1 lie j
court house, and the sheriff auc' his!
doputies had to produce pistols to pre I
vent soma of thoao present from fore j
ing their way into tho enclosure around
the scaffold.
Football Onme Itccclpts.
Princeton and Yolo each pot 812,* j
3S2. Ti as their pro rato share of tho re- i
ceipts of tho lost Princeton-Ya!o foot-i
ball gamo,
TOID IN A PARAGRAPH.
Tbe South.
Mormonnre making libeir appear*
nnco iu North Carolina iiL great numbers.
*
Thoro is n movoiuout to change the
capital of Alabama from Montgomery to
Birmingham.
Tho orangti crop of Southern California,
now being harvested, isinprimo
condition. The
Citizens* Excliaugo Bank has
been organized in ltichmondf, Va., with
a rupitnl stock of g'JOO.OOO.
.) ndgo Dick, of North Carolina, baa
gone to tho .Johns Hopkins Hospital,
at Baltimore, for treatment.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has
announced himself us a candidate for
election .to tho United States Senate.
The Vir.Tiuia Legislature has passed
a bill providing that clubs must secure
license to sell wines and liquors.
Mr. J. ,T. jNowinan, of Salisbury, N.
C., is making efl'ortu to organize a
ltownn county sottleru' association.
The car "City of Chorlotta" was
slightly damaged at Marion, N. C-, by
a shifting freight car oa the side track.
Thieves entered Morris' store, Alexander,
N. C., rolled the safe out of the
building, and broke it open, stealing
$70 in cush and soveraJ checks.
The President has named Owen L.
W. Smith, of North Carolina, to be
minister resident and consul ;fenoral of
the United States to Liberia.
The Isboll Corundum Corapany has
been organized at Ashevill e, N. C.,
with $27)0,000 capital stock, mine the
Clay county mineral, twenty miles from
Murphy.
There is a movement on foot to embrace
in one national park tho battlefields
of Fredericksburg, Ohancollorsville,
the Wilderness an dSpottsylvania
Court House, Va., eLabruciug 0,500
acres.
At Huntington, W. Va., Cartor
Shifllotte huH been arrested for passing
old city orders which mysteriously disappeared
from the vaults at the city
hall. Fifteen thousand dollars worth
havo been paid a second time. ShitHetto
says he came by'the orders honestly.
The aggregate amount of tho missing
orders is $140,000.
Tho North.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
rear-end collision on tho Long Island
liailroad, in New York.
The Inland and Iron Forgo Company
of Chicago has started, giving employment
to 500 men.
By a gas explosion at Daleville, Ind.,
the tile factory of II. F. Lefter was destroyed
and .John Pinker killed.
The site of a prehistoric village has
boon discovered near Massillon, O.,
and evidences of cremation found.
Adlai F. Stevenson, former Vico1
resident of tho United htatos, has
accepted tho position of Western counsel
of tho North American Trust Company
of New York, with a membership
in tho board of directors.
Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly charged,
with Martin Thorn, with tho murder of
Wni. (iuldonsnppe, ji bath rubber, at
Woodside, If. I., mi June of last year,
has been sentenced to fifteen years in
the State prison at Auburn. N.W
On February 1st 114 looms in tlio
Manchester (N. H.,) Cotton Mills will
be stopped for an indefinite time. The
fftiiso assigned is tlio fulling oft' in tlio
demand for print poods. There will also
be a reduction of about 10 por cent, in |
wngep, aft'ectinp about ?U) per cent, of
tlio employes, on Junuary :14th.
Miscellaneous.
Corbett oflers Fitzsimmoiis$,'15,000 for
a light to a finish.
John Lincoln, of Bolshow, Mo., a
second cousin of Abraham Lincoln, has
! asked for a pension.
Secretary Loup has nsked Congress
for an mcreaso of 1,000 enlisted men in
the navy and TOO apprentices.
The Mexican Congress has concluded
a long teim contract with the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
'J lie whole story of the Indian uprising
in the Indian Territory is a fuko,
says the Associated I'ress.
The body of the murdered, W. H. T.
Durrant, was cremated at the crematory
of ilcynolda and Van Nuys, at Aldenu,
Cul.
A delegation called on Chairman
Dingley in the interest of legislation
reducing the internal revenue tax on
distilled spirits.
The deaths from the plague at Bombay
during the past week iiiiml?Mnl
l .o. There were 1,897 deaths daring J
the same period from all causes. 1
The estate of tho late Georgo M. Pull- ^
man, from an inventory Hied in court ^
at Chicago, was estimated to include j
?S,009,000 in stocks and bonds and 8'J,000,000
in real estate. ,
The contral Cuban relief committee i
of New York, recently made a large 1
shipment on a Ward Lino steamer, i
consigned to Cousul-General Lee, con- ;
Risting of 80,208 separate packages and l
in addition 800,000gruins ofquinine. ]
Lev. Dr. John 8. /ahm succeeds the *
late Dr. Corby as provincial of tlio 1
Catholic Order of tho lloly Cross in 1
this country ?
Kx President Cleveland, owing to
press ot business, has resigned tho position
of trustee of tho Now Jersey His- \
toricnl Society, but will contiuue to be :
a member of tho society. '
The Atlantic Const Lino's New York t
and Florida special llyer was put in x
service, for tho eleventh season, on the j.
17th. It is tho fastest train running c
between New York uud Florida. j
Washington Jottings. t
The superintendent of engraving nnd *
printing jit Washington denies that the
counterfeit silver certificates were made
from the government plate or from nn ?
impression taken therefrom. ?
Tho Postoflice Department has decid- J
cd that postmasters cannot bo required
to cash pension checks.
Robert P. Porter has declined a tender
of the superintendoncv of the next e
census, nn<l Henry Gaunott, of Wnsli- 1
in^ton, I>. C., inaypretit. j,
'i'lio nomination of E. C. Duncan for "
collector of mtornal revenue of North
Carolina, has been contirmod by tho
I' nited States Sonate. f
The United States Henato has con- ?
firmed tho nomination of Thomas ('. ,
Fuller, of North Carolina, to be jndgo
of tho Court of rrivato Land Claims. I
IlFEMS*
Annual Session of the General As*
sembly Convened on the 11th.
PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSES.
Senators and Representatives Prom
New Counties-Sworn ln--RcsoIution
to Kxtend Time for Paying Taxes.
The assembling of the Legislature on
the 11th was not attended by any unusual
incidents. The members wore
promptly in their seats and business
proceeded with the usual formalities.
The principal business of the day in
both houses wns the reading of the
Governor's message. Below can bo
found, that part of the work accomplished
in the Senate, that is of general
interest to the public:
THE SENATE.
Tuesday.? Pres. McSweenoy called
tho Senate to ordor promptly at 13
o'olock, aud spoke in part as follows:
"Senators: After a parting of nearly
a year, we moet again to discharge
the duties of this co-ordinate branch of
the Legislature of the State of South
Carolina. I feol assured that we have.
one ami all, come to this session with
the full determination to perform those
duties on suoli a mnnuer as to meet aud
obtain the approbation of those who
sent us here; whose welfare we have at
heart and whose interest we are bound
to subserve."
The roll was called and all were
present except Henators Norris, Talbird
and Sauders. Prayer was offered by
Chaplain Willoughby. He invoked
divine guidance that all might realize
hat they wero the representatives of
ho whole po ople, that the deliberations
tf the present ses?.on might be
characterized by large wisdom, largeness
of heart, sympathy and liberality
of sentiment.
The following new Senators wore
sworn in: Win. T. .Jeffries, Cherokeo;
S. G. Mayfield, Uainberg; C. A. ('.
Waller, Greenwood; itobert Aldrick,
Barnwell; J. H. Losesne, Charleston;
T. O. McAllianey, Dorchester.
The following wero among tho bills
introduced:
Henderson. An amendment to except
licensed df uggistH and their agents from
the operation of the act to prevent
modicine venders from plying their
vocations.
Henderson. To facilitate and economize
tho enforcement of tho crimiual
law b/ providing that solicitors aud
htuto witnesses shall appear ut the
county courthouse on the {Saturday
before the convening of court, so that
solicitors may ascertain such witnesses
as are maternal; and discharge unnecessary
witnesses who shull be paid a
per diem and mileage for one day.
Henderson. To make the embezzlement
of public funds a felon)', making
>f l'lckenB county from SlOU to SvJ.
dcAlhauy?To authorize an election
u the town of St. George in relation
o bonding said town, and to authorize
he issue of bonds under prescribed coalitions.
Maytield?A bill providing for
ho registration of births, deaths and
carriages in this State. Lesesue?To
.uthorize town authorities to exohanga
ibor of town convicts with county uu<
Uorities.
THE HOUSE.
Tuesday.?In the House the roll call
liowed only twenty-four absentees,
'he proceeilings were opened with
iraver by Dr. kinard. The s|>eaker
made a brief address before actual buscess
was begun. He said:
"We aro again assembled as repreeniatives
of the people of South Caroina
to enact such laws as in our judgment
are needed. Coming as we do
rem evory section of the Siate. and*
opresenting all classes and conditions
iiiu iiuuiHiiuieui in mo discretion oi tlie
court, etc.
A concnrrout resolution, offered by
Mr. Heudersou, was adopted and sent
to tho House for au election on tiie
17th, ut 12 o'clock for a Chief Justice
uud judges for tho first, second, third,
fourth and sixth circuits.
W rdne8d a y.?The session of the
Senate was exceedingly short and devoid
of interest. Very little was done,
and the body, which convened at 11
o'clock, adjourned before 12, having
been iu session but little over half au
hour, nothing of trreat interest liaviug
been accomplished.
Thursday.?Tho Senato got down
to business, and if the present pace is
kept up, tho session will not be needlessly
prolonged. The House concurrent
resolution was adopted lixing
Tuesday, Jan. 25, for balloting for a
United States Senator to succeed tho
late Senator Joseph H. Karle. A petition
was presouted from citizens of
Hdgefield county questioning tho right I
of Senator J. M. Gaines to hold a seat I
as Senator from tliut county. The bill
providing for townshipaud local boards
of health was killed. Tributos of respect
to the late (leu. Hugood was
adopted.
Friday.?In tko Senate Mr. llagsdale's
joint resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment providing for
tho election of circuit judges by the
tjualitied eloctors of the respective circuits,
and a similar joint resolution relative
to the election of justices of the
Supreme court, were killed after extended
debate, and Mr. Mnytiold's bill
to divide the Stute into judicial districts
was recommitted to a special committee.
Third reading bills: A bill to amend
lection ill of the Code of Procedure, so
as to permit circuit judges to qualify
before any officer authorized to administer
an oath; a bill to amend section
of the .Revised Statutes of this
State, the same being a part of tho
Cord Campbell act; a bill to provide for
die transfer and investment of the
[iowuei fund; a bill to inuko the embezzlement
of public funds a felony,
wid to fix the punishment therefor.
New bills: Waller?To approve the
iction of the town council of the town
>f Greenwood in the matter of tho contact
for tho county of Greenwood and
o declare the bonds issued pursuance
>f said contractu valid debt of the town
>f Greenwood. O'doll?An amendnent
to the road law of the
itate, increasing tho commutation tax
, ofpeope, we matt realize that last year
was one of great hardship on the
masses. They look to us to relieve
them, of the burden as far as possible.
It behooves us, therefore, to dispatoh
the business as expeditiously and economically
as is consistent with good legislation.
As you all know, there are a
number of elections to be held this session,
and it is well known that the business
of the house is retarded until they
are disposed of, and I suggest that they
be held as soon as possible."
The new members sworn in were M.
P. DeBrnhl, of Abbeville; D. E.
Hydick, of Spartanburg; F. O. West,
Hpartanburg; Horace E. Johnston, of
York.
The messago was road, and then the
various subjects touched upon by the
Governor were referred to the proper
committees.
Among the new bills were:
Rainsford. A joint resolution to extend
the time of paying taxes without
the penalty until March 15, 1898.
I a vuvvn. au riuvv < vuivt juouw auu
judges of tho first, second, third,
fourth, sixth aud eighth circuits on the
14. Adopted.
Goodwin. A bill to require persons
holding mortgages to have it entered oa
record in a limited time.
Pollock. Joint resolution to extend
the time for the payment of taxes to
aud including Feb. 20.
Thomas. To amend section 44 of an
act entitled to declare free school law,
approved March 0, 1806. by adding
thereto another subdivision to the subdivision
defining tho powerstand prescribing
the duties of boards of school
trustees, so as to facilitate the acquisition
of 6itesfor Bchool buildings; to authorize
the levv and salo under execu-'
tion of personal property, notwithstanding
the same may be covered by mortgage
or other incumbrance. A proviso
is that such sale shall not affect the
lien of said mortgage or othor incumbrance.
Wki>nk8dat.?The House went to
work in earnest. Tho calendar from
last year was taken up and the following
were among the sixtjr-three bills
disposed of: Haselden's bill to equalize
the railroad fares of all students
hereafter attending tho Winthrop College
was killed; several bills relating
to tho establishment of voting precincts
iu various couuties were recommitted,
in order that a general bill on the subject
might be Introduced; the bill to include
Hampton in tho provisions of a
measure to regulate tho sale of seed
cotton passed to r third reading; MoCullougli's
bill relating to negotiable
instruments, being an act establish
a law* uniform with the laws
of othor States on tho subject was recommitted
after some discussion; Patton's
redistricting bill was made a
special order for Tuesday next and
from day to day until disposed of;
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iuui n uiu lunmeuu iuo oouuiy governmeutbill
in connection with working
tbo public roads, was referred back with
amendments; Cushman's bill to regulate
tbe speed of railroad trains and engines
passing certain stations, was
killed on motion of Magill, though
Cusbman argued its necessity; Owens'
bill to provide a licenso fee for owning
and carrying a pistol was passed over
on motion of tbe author; Thomas, of
Richland, had a bill which would allow
aliens to own five thousand acres of
land in tbe State, instead of five hundred,
as the law allows, but it was
killed; the Child's prohibition bill
came next, but as the author was
not present it was passed over;
Action on tho bill to regulate the public
printing was postponed until another
day. This bill was introduced
last session by Mr. Reynolds and puts
the public printing on a competitive
basis. Mr. Reynolds moved that it be
passod over for the present; the joint
resolution to extend the time for the
payment of taxes to Feb. 20th was
passed, after considerable discussion
pro and con.
Among the bills killed were: To
create the office of State geologist and
to provide for a geological, mineralogicat
and physical survey of the State.
Another bill with the same object in
view will be Introduced by Mr. Lancaster,
of Spartanburg; to prohibit railroad
companies from employing any
person under the age of lit years as night
telegraph operator.
The two bills following were among
the other proceedings: The bill to re
ijuiro hii mo institutions ot tlxib state,
educational, cbaritablo and penal and
State dispensary to furnish an itemized
statement of all receipts and disbursements,
inclusive of saloons, passed to a
third reading; Tuesday, the 18th, was
agreed upon as the (lay for eleeting
judges, and Tuesday, the 25th, to eleet
Senator McLauren.
Among the new bills introduced were:
Caughman?To require railroads to provido
separate lirst-class coaches for the
accommodation of white and colored
passengers, and enforcing a penalty for
each violation, to be recovered by suit
of any citizen; McCullough?An act to
amend the dispensary law; Price?To
license the carrying of pistols, dirks,
razors, knucks, knives, having a blade
over three inches in length or any
other deadly weapons upon the i>ersou;
Rogers?to repeal the lien law.
Thursday. ?The house put in a hard
day's work, and anions; other things
passed the committee's substitute to the
Reynold's public printing bill, which
provides that the contraot for the
State printing shall go to the lowest
bidder. Some amendments were made
enabling the General Assembly to
| award tho contract for the next two
years at the present sessiou. There was
quite a fight over the bill of Mr. C). P.
Goodwn directed against all kinds of
labor on Sunday. When it was ahowntliat
servants could not be required under
the bill to work in the household
on .Sundays the bill was killed. There
was quite a lively racket on the
third reading over the joint resolution
providing for the extension
of the time for the payment of
tlixuf* It, ilifl nnl nmniint in ninnli in
tho end, however, for the House passed
the measure aud ordered it sent to the
Senate.
Thoro wcro quite a number of now
bills introduced, among them being
Mr. W. S. Smith's bill to repeal the
metro|>olitan police act and Mr. Reynobis'
bill to provide for the reorganization
of the engrossing department.
The last hour of the day's proceedings
wore devoted to the memorial addresses
upon the late ex-Governor Gen.
Johnson Hagood. Even while theso
addresses were being delivered tbo
llags on the building were at half-mast,
out of respect to the memory of another
deceased Confederate general and exState
official?Jno. D. JBratton.
I'kioay. ?TheHouse had a brief session,
but managed to dispose of several
bills coming over from last eessigft..
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Tho public printing bill passed its third
reading without debate or opposition.
All bills relating to the dispeuBury
wore referred to a special committeo on
that subject, except one by Mr. J. 1\
Thomas to provide for the sule of native
wines by county dispensers which was
promptly killed.
Thobill to establish a bureau of labor
for tho purpose of gathering tlio labor
statistics and inspecting the weights
and measures of {South Carolina was
withdrawn. It was n measure championed
by Mr. Ilderton during the last
session uud caused u great deal of
debato.
The bill to prolvbit tho reduction of
wages of operatives was killed without
debute.
The graduato license lull figmi last
session was knocked in the head without
tho least commotion on motion of
Mi*. Voided. .Lust yeur it came near
passing the house, but members after
mature deliberation evidently felt that
tho bill w as one which good policy con*
demned.
A bill regulating tho work of immigrant
agents in the State wus,passed to
a third reading. This bill is of greut
interest to farmers, and is as follows:
{Section 1. That section 1 of an uet
entitled "An act to prohibit emigrant
agents from plyiug their vocation with
4* >uia uiaio WllOIll Iirst OtltUinillg a
license therefor, uiul for other purno
sea," approved JMtli of December, 1SJ1,
and all actsnmendatory tbtreof, be uud
the Maine are hereby, atneuded by striking
out all of the words between the
word "titate" and the wora "without"
iu ?aul section, so that tho same wheu
so amended shall road ns follows, towit:
Section 1. That from and after tho
approval of this act no person shall
carry on the business of emigrant agent
in this State without having lirut obtained
a license therefor from the iStuto
treasurer.
Mr. Reynolds introduced tho following
concurrent resolution, which went
over for consideration:
Kesofved, 'ihat tho Houtli Carolina
Senators und Representatives in the
Congress of tho United {States be, uud
they are hereby, requested to take such
action as they may deem advisable to
induce the passage, by Congress, of un
act submitting to tho several {States of
tbo Union an amondmeut to tho constitution
of the United {States, which shull
require tliut {Senators of the United
{States sliull bo chosen by a vote of the
people in the several States.
Birds* Kgga.
Next to that of the British museum
the largest collection of birds' eggs Is
that belonging to a lawyer named Xehr
Korn, lu Braunschweig, tJennnny. lie
Intends soon to issue a catalogue of Ills
collection, with Ufty colored plates depleting
the more valuable specimens,
of many of which no other sample Is
known to exist.
The statement of the British commander-in-chief
that to carry the colors
into battle under the modern conditions
of warfare will be an act of suicide, is
well grounded. They would only be a
mark for "wea|>ons of precision," while
the victim would, from a military point
of view, fall in vain, sluce his rank
would not be high enough to give promotion.
It is a serious blow to the romance
of war,
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