The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 01, 1898, Image 3
HIGH WATER IN 0110.1
A Record Breaking Rainfall?RaiU
1 road Traffic Demoralized.
| THE GREAT RIVERS FLOODED.
Report* From All Over Indiana Hayi j
The Lou Will Reach One Million j
j Dollar*.
A special from Cincinnati say* the
water at Pittsburg ia phenomenal.
There has been a steady rain here since j
last Saturday, the 19th, during which
time 2.40 inches have fallen at this
point, of which four-teuths of an inoh
fell within the last thirty-six hours.
News from central points in Indians,
and from Troy, Springfield, Urbana
and Zauesville, O., indicates a fall of
from to 4} inches at these
plaoes. Nearly all the railroads in
oentral and Southern Ohio are eith?
er crippled or totall}' disabled for the
?present. All over Ohio and Indiaua, ex- |
oept, perhaps, in the extreme northern
parts, railroad traMo is demoralized.
The Muskingum, the Hookiug, the
Scioto and the two Miami rivers in
Ohio, seem likely to break the record
from source to mouth for high stages
of water and for damage and destruction.
lteports from Indiana indicate
that the same may be said of rivers
and streams in that state.
Three Grout Klvern Flooded.
A Pittsburg speoial says: Three ;
great rivers, the Manogahela, Alio- j
gheny and Ohio, aro now in a flooded
condition, and there is evorv indicu
tion thut the loss to coal operators,
manufacturers and property-holders in
general will eclipse that of the freshet ;
of 1091. Already river coal interests |
Lave Buffered lossos aggregating $100,- j
OUt), whilo manufacturing interests aro
o severely crippled that great loss
and inoonvenieuce must necessarily
follow.
Train Plunged Into a River.
Baltimore and Ohio train No. 105,
which ia compelled to run over the
Pennsylvania road because of llooda
between Zauesville, O., and Newark
jumped the track into Wakotomiua
creek. The engineer and fireman and
several passengers were killed, and a
number of others injured.
Loss May be $1,000,000.
The reports coming in from Indian*
apolis from all over the titate concern,
jng the damage done by the lloods will
send the aggregate loss up into the
hundreds of thousands. Perhups the
figures may reach $1,000,000.
KVACTUATION OF HAVANA.
K?vol Officers to bo Withdrawn unci
tiiw Wreck of the Maine Destroyed.
The Navy Department baa arranged
for tllO ovlivftl nUUdiU .e?l '.? ?!L *'.
naval officers from Uavuua, and the
abandonment of the wreck of tbo illfated
battleship Maine. Captain SigBbee,
Lieutenant Commander lticbard
Wainwright, Surgeon Henoburger,
Chaplain John 1*. Chidwick, Knginoer
Jumea 1*. llowell and Naval Cudotu J.
A. Holden and \V. T. Cluvoriua, who
have been in llavnuu with the wreck,
will return very soon.
Although it is in I finally nettled, it
is more than probable that the Fern
will oIbo return to the United States ns
Boon us it is determined that nothing
more is to be gained by her presence
there, in the event ol' the ubundoument
of the wreck, it is more than
likely that 1 ho Navy 1 iepai tmuut will
arrange for its complete destruction by
the use of dynamite or torpodoua. In its
present condition it is u duugeroun obstruction
to navigation, unci it ih not believed
any opposition will be offered to
its removal.
Contruct for Cannon Hulls Awarded.
The Bureau of Ordnance at Washington
has awarded contracts for supplying
about 1,<100 cast iron projectiles |
for Beacoast fortifications. Ah rapidly
. as completed they will be shippod to
the various places at which thoy are
needed. The Virginia companies were
given the contracts, the Petersburg
Iron works and the Tredegar Company,
of Richmond, the awurds being distributed
as follows: One hundred and
eighty-seven tun-inch solid shot and
?4<r> twelve-inch mortar shells, the lutter
of tSUO pounds, to the Petersburg
compauj', and 1 Gii of tho twelve-inch
mortar shells, of 80U pounds each, and
fiOO twelve-inch mortar shells, of 1,0??0
pounds each, to the Tredegar Company.
Calllngcr'u tircnt Speech.
Senator Cnllinger in a speoch in the
United Stages Senate on the :Wd arid
the time had arrived to drive Spain
from the Western Hemisphere, lie
asked if the power that starved six hundred
thousand persons to death would
hesitate to blow up the "Maine."
Speaking of indemnity ho said: "Human
life, purposely taken, cannot bo paid
for iu gold."
l'oiiU OUiriut:-. <\ipt:irnd
Tl;o altond' of Abbovillo, (!a., arrived
in Tuibuio, V t'., on tbo ~"?i with a
bench wunu:i: for .iio uno;>l of .lir.uea
i.h Mchngun and i. 1.album, too
cashier nud pi'enidr!:t, i c pcctr* oly, 01
tSiO Hank of Abbevillo. 'ibn v. arrant
rlmrgeu tIn: o y>i.t:g men ill tin- <loiuiilti
:g j! 1 ou , tin; money of the
bank depotitora at Abbeville.
To Pension DrM'rtcrBi
V Wnnbingtou special anya: "'hocommittoo
ou petirionii reported favorably
upon i-ionutor J rilchiudn bill lor an
amendment to section I, , i of tlie lioviuoil
Mutator., providing that robbers
may be placed on tlio pension roila who
t, eerved iu tbo Confederate army and
v Bubhoquont 1 v joined tbo l ederul army.
i This amendment will alVect a largo
t number of vetorana roBiding iu tlie
l' C'ftroliuaB, and there Beema to bo a fail
proHpect of it? becoming a law. A similar
bill ban been introduced iu tin
liouae by Mr. Uibuon.
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The Happenings of the Past Few
Hays Condensed for Our Keuders.
The South.
Jiul00u VV. Lyons, of Georgia, has
been appointed register of tho United
States treasury to succeed Bruce, deceased.
Thomas E. Watson has declined to be
the Populist candidate for Governor of
Georgia and W. B. Hill refused to run
for chief justice.
Frederick L. Smith, of Norfolk, Va.,
was arrested at Philadelphia, charged
with larceny of $1,000 from the SmithLittle
company, of that city.
Smallpox is still spreading iu East
Tennessee. Five new cases have develsped
at Knoxville and there are muuy
in tho smaller towns.
Fire in tho postoflice block on the
Main street of Elkiu, N. C., destroyed
property to the amount of $20,000.
Believed to bo incendiary.
Til ft 1A ft AT fn Hio Imnvil nf vicif/wo nf
tho University of Virginia Mr. C. B.
Rouss inclosed biH check for 310,000 to
complete tho physical laboratorj'.
The lutul>or men of Georgia will donate
tho material to be used in the construction
of tho building for the (State
exhibit at the Omaha Exposition.
At Chester, H. C., Jim Anderson,
colored was found guilty of tho murder
of Capt. James lv. Marshall on the
25th. He will be hanged in three
weeks.
Tho famous summer hotol at llerkley
Springs, W. Va., in Morgan couuty,
has boeu burned to tho ground. Most
of tho contents of the building were
savod. Tho loss on the building is
350,000; insurance, 318,000.
Dr. C. A. Ryder, of Gaiuesville,Ga.,
brother of the man who murdered Miss
Owen, and was subsequently killed by
a mob, has written a lettor to Governor
Atkinson, of Georgia, naming those
whom ho says were implicated in tho
lynching.
A special from Roanoke, Va., says
that three postotfice inspectors have arrived
there and think that Howard and I
Moore, tho two men arrested on sua- 1
pioion of attempting to blow open the I
Salem postollice safe, are the leaders of '
a gang of postollice burglars that for
tnrn ? . 1-_ I
V?x/ J V 1*1 o u?vc MUIllfU I LIU Mucrut
service.
At Mooresyillo, N. C., tho Methodist
school house, full of children, was
lifted from its pillars to the ground
during a rain and wind storm a few
daj's since. A fow of the children were
slightly injured. The colorod school
house was blown down and badlv
damaged. Other property throughout
this section were damaged considerably
by the high wind.
The North.
Tho New York Legislature will appropriate
$50,000 for good roads.
I)r. Dowio, of Chicago, III., will establish
a colony of faith curists in Newton
county, Iud.
The building law in Chicago, 111., ,
lias been amended, limiting the height
of structures to ten stories.
At Jersey City, N.J., Thomas Shields,
his wife and two children .ere probably
fatally poisoned by eating'c<niiod sardines.
. JhS^a^i.^'V^lioTa tG^VPefP^Tn^
convention at Dubuque on September
1st.
The next annual meeting of the
American Bankers' Association will bo
held ut Denver, Col., about September
1st.
Eight hours a day for factory hands
is the demand mndo bp united labor 111
Milwaukee, Wis., with throats of u
strike is not conceded.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger
station at Jersey City, N. J., lias
been buruod. Loss, 000. A large
annulii i ui man uiuiiur \\ us HISO destroyed.
At Van Francisco, Cat., Jim JclVries
knocked out Peter Jackson in a prize
light. Jeffries' ^smashing licks on
Jackson caused him to become groggy
and he fell helplessly against the ropes.
By au explosion at the works of
the United States Smokeless Powder
Company, Sau Bafnol, Cab, ('. A.
Jenks, 0110 of tho head employes,
and a laborer named Jensen were
killed.
Several men were killed or injured
and twenty others are missing as the
i result of an early morning tiro in a
lodging Iioubo at Butte, Mont., occupied
by minors of tho Anaconda copper
mines.
M1 sect lu neons.
Tho Austrian cruiser Donau loft Havana
for New York.
Mrs. John M. Thurston, w ho died in
Cuba, was buried at her home, in
(imulun
Thirty-five States havo thus far voted
to participate in the Trans-Mississippi
Exposition at Omaha, Neb.
Two robhors held up a train in Cali
fornia, blew up the express car and
drove off with a registered mail pouch.
By tho explosion of a lamp in their
homo at Fresno, Cab, James Thompson
and his aged wife wero burned to death.
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Moore, of
Kansas City, Mo., poisoned herself homuse
a school hoy did not return her
love.
A cold wave of zero weather sweeps
the West. the'.thuruuillicin''ileitis liclow,
zero west ol'tho Miasouri river. !l?av\'
snows fell in Homo places.
Dun ?'v ('o's coinineveinl report for the
pa-'t week shows pieat .1, dust rial :i?- I\ ity
and exports lurjje'y in e\ci ;-s of
those for tlio sanie time last year.
Ai: s Christine Dradh y, sponsor ;'oj*
the hft'.tle-hip ' eiiti'tkv, launched at
Newport News, cone rate, in ted h\ieliv.raoh
by i:-.r '-a'loi.a' \? . I . a .
on her action in n.-niii; water n> ihr;.
ti'!i ' lit- ;nnt:-el \? nr.
in 11 tilico'iiii!,' nii.av nl : mi.'1 ;.i.
Mia., hlicrilV \\ . liiry i. i < > I
ami ?!t*| ut.v Sheriff Homer ? il.m.re
dangerously v oniui< i).
'i'Jnee lm^ino' s men of Willis I'oint.
Tovr , are under arrest for swindling
by bu^ils bills of ludi.ti for omlton.
\ t < I in liisynteh slates I'.nt S| am
lias suiely nin<le overture*! io \nslriii.
(iermiiny and Italy ior support in ease
| of wnr.
('iti/.nn s of I Ion-nee, Ma., will imi'd
u ^Id 1,001) cotton null.
' The ben illy <>!' i lie \\ inter jiirl may be
' '.'lily sealskin dei p.
Mill OF MUCH CONCERN..
Attorney-General's Opinion on Taking
Insane Charged With Crime.
p!
THE REGENTS WISHEDTO KNOW ?
r?
Wliutthe Law is In Regard to Method ^
of Unloading Such People on the ^
Institution. ! ei
I tl
n
The following opinion from tho At- pi
torncy-General's office as to the iin- ^
portnut mutter of the admission of 'u
criminals to the hospital for the insaue si
was received by the authorities of tho ; jl
institution: |
Dr. ./. II' liabeock, Superintendent s<
Hospital for the Insane, Columbia,
s<
Dkah Sin:?Your communication, in ; li;
which you saj', "1 am directed by the '
board of regents to ask your opiniou in ' w
the matter of the jurisdiction of judgeB "
of probate in cases of porsous under in- i u
dictment for, or accused of crime," has been
received, and has had attention.
You also ask the question, "Whether
such cases should not be referred to .1
one of the circuit judges before they .
can proporly be committed to tho hoB- a
pitnl?"
Tho statutes of this State confer jurisdiction
upon probate judges to commit h<
persons to the hospitul for tho insauo, l>
when prerequisites aro complied with, of
Section 1785 of the revised statutes of b<
1895 also proves: fe
"Any judge of the circuit court is cl
authorized to send to the asylum every ni
person charged with the commission of 11
any criminal offense who shall, upon tl
the trial before him prove to be non ni
compos mentis, and the said judge is 01
authorized to make all necessary or pi
ders to carry into effect this power, cc
Where the person so sent is not a pau- Si
I _1_ 1 I 1- - A - J A 0 %
uu niiiiii uo supported oui oi uia I w
own cstntp, according to tho regulations h<
to ho prescribed by the court, on a writ fJ
de lunutico inquirendo." a1
Section 1881 of revised statutes is an in
follows: at
"It shall be the duty of the regency in
to admit us subjects of the institution cc
all idiots, luuutics and epileptics, be- C<
^ t'LEMSON TKXTI1
The above cut represents tho new bn
Textilo Training Department of Cleinsou C
designs for a cotton factory and will have,
chiuery in operation for teaching tho proce
ing citizens of this State, according to tb
tho following regulations, and subject m
to the following conditions, that is to ai
say: .
"1. All persons who shall be found m
lunatics or idiots jby inquisition from nr
the ]>robate or circuit courts, or on Si
trials in the circuit where the court Bhall
order such admission."
The Supreme Court of this State lias c;
1. _l .1 ;11, .. n'olli? fa Unanll
JLI13111 111 VUU CiVOU Ui 11 umvi ? *?. I j j
10 S. C., 82, in constructing this sectiou
that probate and circuit courts fc
have concurrent jurisdiction. When j)(
there are courts of concurrent jurisdiction
the rule is, the court lirst acquir- j,
ing jurisdiction can maintain it to the C(
exclusion of the othor court. rj
When u person is accused of crime, cj
and committod by a magistrate to jail ^
for trial in the court of generul sessions p]
that court then acquirus jurisdiction (j
and tho probate court cannot exorcise
its concurrent jurisdiction.
Ju addition to this, section 1785 expressly
gives to the circuit judge tho ^
power to send to the asylum persons j(
in jail, accused of crime, when upon ^
trial they uro proved to bo nou compos
j mentis.
It would seem, then, that tho probate
1 judge would have no power to send
such persons to the Stnto hospital for J1
the insane. If ho has jurisdiction to ?'
declare such insane, according to law, v
then clearly ho would not have the a
power to send them without authority tl
of a circuit judge. Very respectfully tl
yours, C. P. Tow.Nsr.Ni>, 81
Assistant Attorney-General. ?
The Privilege Tax.
i The privilege tax receipts have been
] falling off somewhat lately, but it is c
! probable that tho gross receipts will
bo much in excess of those of last year. (
I The total received last year was nearly *
! ?-00,000. Tho totr.l amount received ,
?ti;i isi'.i-i, up to tho 1 '.Itli, was ." .*?('?,000, \
'l against 8 >1.<>00 for tho > .ui.u timo last li
! year. Following is an itemized estimate
of tl*o receipts for the j ast few '
(lavs; < hi .\lareli Mill, x"'? <m tlio
; mill. i;;h. i-'lli. '
'Jh-t. .\'ls.\ .,ti; oil the '.'.'>1 and ~ Jit I.
j s*>l,(r?i>. The total for this year will
IIVCM ,!' lit least- I'illl 1.: ""'O t illlil last
j ^enr. Ail of litis 1.1:141.' sum \\:!i '
oe devoted to l Icinsou v 1 .lege, us pre- 1
tioribod l?y law.
! . : : 'fr . ,
; 'i he Statedispeusary a lilioFitios liavo
: , nt itj> to '..,0 I. niletl M.il'M roveuuo '
; ollico iiui'i obtained a < if.uplote list of 1
, the 1 eoplo in this Stat-1 'toblinj* fnited '
i {States retail lienor licenses at tliis "
! time. The list aj^ows that there are '
1 -I'll i.iieli iietmr.es outstanding. Charles- t
tomans held a ^ooil proi <>: tion of them, i
These figures nre exclusive of the #
lieonaos liohl hy the c muty dispensaries
ami it in said represent tho uuui- 1
her <if original package and blind tiger '
,\?eoplo in the State.
SEND IN THE DOCUMENTS. T\
ho Confederate (tolls aud the Work [J
of (Jompletlug Them.
The following in regard to the Con- _
(derate rolls of the State has been C
sued: The general assembly, at the
scent session, provided for the coinlotion
of the Confederate rotls. The
udersigned proposes to bringthe work
> n close by Oct. 1 next, when he will p
roceed to consolidate the retferns and
iport the result to the general assemly
of 1899. Pending the closing of the B
scord, another api>eal 1b made to all
ie Confederates to whom Gen. Farley
utrusted rolls for revision .to return
lem promptly to the office?revised or
ot revised. This State has done its
art in the effort to perfeot the record
1 its soldiery in the war between the ^
tut es. If tho record shall, by October
ext, bo found incomplete, the respon- ,
llliliivr fr.- I>UIa.U ; -1 l
-J .VI UIOIV11V lU|(l>VIIUUa uuu iu- ?'
istico to a portion of our Confedorate Y<
uik and tile, will fall upon those who RC
ave neglected tho obvious duty of
suding in tho rolls of their respective :
nnmands. In addition to the Con- 10
nlerate rolls, the rolls of the State re- U]
jrves are called for, and of all other
lilitary bodies who served the State,
i01-05. The contribution of historio
ar data is invited. The papers of the M
tate are requested to extend this
otice. John P. Thomas. ^
PITHY STATK ITEMS. Jj
The following items 4re Veiled from
le News and Courier's correspondents *
. the following points: j"
Spartanburg.
There was a singular case in court fQ
jro. It was not exactly the two b(
romios, for there was only one fQ
them present. Ed H. Smith has ai
jeu at Pacolet Mills for some time. A to
w days ago he was arrested on tho R0
largo of stealing $285 from a man
nned Morrison, in Abbeville county. B1I
e was released, having established Qt
o fact that he was at Pacolet when the in
oney was takon from Mr. Morrison pr
er near tho Savannah river. Th? th
'osecution was not satisfied. Two ca
mstablos came with another warraut. fe
nith was arrested again. Another Wl
rit of habeas corpus was issuod, and av
> was brought before Magistrates eH
uuter and Kirby. Witnesses from UI
bbeville made oath that he was the th
an. Mr. Hay, with whom he boarded re
Pacolet, swore that Smith was board- pI
g with him at*the time the theft was th
Tl.o it-- r>
.a **? liuuao vi IUU I ttfUItJfc
otton Mills showed that he was on ^
_ he
LB SCHOOL. ^
lilding that has been designed for the te
olloge, S. G. It is modeled after the
besides the class rooms, cotton ma- n<
sses practically. lo
su
leir roll ot that time. Various good ^
en swore that Smith was at l'acolet,
id had not left. The only explanation
that Smith has a brother that is very
ucli like him, and that the witnesses m
e simply mistakeu. The Pacolet
inith is free again. ( j[]
Columbia. flit
is thought likely by tho Stato cfli- hi
als that the question as to the right of T
10 State board of control to make the bi
.ircliase of tho Robertson warehouse or
ir the new quartets for tho Htato dis- tl
ausary will very shortly roach tho At- tl
irney-General's oflioe in some form, tv
1 the last few days there has been tl:
msiderable public discussion over the u<
glit of the board to make this pur- 01
jaso in tho light of tho constitutional tr
revision as to the ncliool fund and the b<
rolits. The authorities aro expecting C
10 issue to bo made. d:
Hampton. h
Corn planting is being generally
ushed throughout this county.... nc
othiug further has been heard regard- t\
lg the suspicious characters in Coluniir.
supposed to be connected with tho g
ibbery here. r<
Sellers, Marlon County. ci
The opponents of the new county of ^
ee-l)ee, at Marion, haveemployed'Mr. u
osoph liruusou, of Florence, to resur- 8
63* tho linos run by Capt. 8tonoy, with '*
view, it is supposayl, to show that ?
lcro is not the con t\tutional area in *
lie proposed now county. Mr. Urunl>u,
with a force of yluds, is now on- P
aged in tho worK\f r
c
( raliniu Inspec ft Our Forts.
Brigadier General ?Villiain Graham, r
ommauding tho department of the *
ulf, and Lieut. S. Hobor and Lieut, j &
i. F. Barnov wero in Charleston on c
ho 21tb, ami iuspeetod tho fortifica- | y
ions of tho harbor. Tho report of .
leu. Craliam will bo forwarded to J V1
Vashington. This is (ion. (irahnm's >
irsi visit to the new forts and the in- i B
pcction required much liuie. Tho 1 ?
ilieers and men of the garrison wore ' J'
Iso inspected.?Charleston cones-, '
undent Columbia State.
! v
Thrown Kruiu W'iiroii and Killed. ; *
Mr. Crank ilogus. of .Mullins, Marion
onnty, was thrown from a v.agon, ' jIrawn
by a runaway hoi o, and in-'
tantlv killed. *
-*?*I'lii1
<> hh't" Clerk Chosen.
Comptroller (leu oral liorLam lias at j
list chosen his chief clerk. The lucky ?,
nan is .Mr. T. 1*. Ciyhurn of l.ancas- ' 1?
er. Mr. Clyburu will, it is understood, ' c
sf.iinio tho duties of his oiiice in u few ^
lays, llo Miccoeds tho prosont comp- (1
roller in this position. Mr. Clyburu e
illed the unexpire<Uleriu of his father
is auditor of Luumstcr county with j
nucii croilit to himself, iio is a well i
tnow 11 young cotton buyer.?The ?
State. n
Ill HHP'S PHHWIS
ause the' Neighbors Trouble; and
He Gets an Anonymous Letter.
AMILIES FALL OUT AND FUSS
!ut Such Troubles Occur In the Bent
Regulated Families, So Arp Decides
To Let It Drop.
"Sio utre tuo nt alieum non toedas,"
hioh means if your chickens pet in
jnr nabor'a garden lie must sic the
jg on 'em, or words to that olfect
esterday 1 received a kind letter from
ime unknown frieud Baying that our
saiowis were Annoying tl e neighbor*
g gardens and if tlioy were not put
p they would be killed. I was ruiuiiting
about this anonymous letter and
y opinion is that this is not the best
ay to make a complaint. Our uabors
e all good and kiud to us and 1 sup>se
it was the fear of giviug offense
tat kept the writer's name from the
tter, but I really would have felt betr
if the writer had told me face to
tie about the peafowls. As it is, I
n afraid several nabors have been
eling unkind and I dou't know who
> apologize to. My wife has told me
iveral times that she feared the peawls
were trespassing and that we had
itter get rid of them. Well, we huvehad
ur or five every your for twelve veurs
id they never did an}* i er otis harm
our own garden?not liau at much us
m? of our nabors' chickens and dogs
ivo done, but folks are lolks about
ich things and nobody likes to huvo
her folks' bipedsorqundrupeds prowlg
around. The peafowl is such a nice,
etty, aristocratic bird that we thought
e nabors would like to see them ocsionallv
nn<? if ilmu i,^i.o?..?.i l.-.n? -
1/vuaiou I'OVIIV I*
w stones and clods and sticks and
omanly "shoos" would drive them
rav for Rood, for they are timid aud
.sily insulted. As for putting thoin
>, we can't do it, for wo can't catch
em and they roost so high we can't
ack them. A colored Methodist
eacher couldn't. And so when 1 got
e anonvmous I engaged a friend to
m? and Bkoot them in the troetops,
it they had flown away before he got
ire. Wo then kattlod them into the
arkshop and finally canght them and
ive sent them to the country where
diors are not so noar or so anonymous.
The peafowl is a historic bird. Solqou
sent his ships to Tarshish aud
ought back ivory and gold aud peacks.
And the Lord said unto Job,
Who gave the peacock his goodly
ings?" It is said to be the most
agniflcent of all birds; its form is eleint;
its movements graceful; its pluuge
respleudent with tints of greeu,
ilden, bronze and blue; its long bushy
il is beautiful beyond description
ith its iridescent hues, velvet centers
id brilliant eye spots. In thoiri inmparable
robe we iiud all tkayfclisns
iu the rainbow and sparkleron the
ine; the azure tints of lieavn and
e emerald of the fields. Xqjfr isn't it
nitv to kill a bird like that y And yet
ieir brains killedw^them for
000 to furnish enough for a%reat onrtainment.
^
The peafowl is a galinaceous nfcrd, but
>t graminiferotis. How's that.* It bongs
to ;ho polyplectron genera of the
ib-family of pavonine. Just think of
The bill is moderate with the base
the culinen elevated, tho apical half
ched ana vaulted; tarsi long and
njfiun tuuiV/m, uuiouui IUWM UI11- |
d ut the bane and the tarsi in the feulefl
tuberculate.
Mirable dictus! Some people don't
low all that. Maybe mv aunouyinous
ieud didn't know it or ho would have
id more consideration for the bird,
heir food is grain, seed and insects,
ut they aro uon scratchibus. They
m't scratch for then legs are not built
lat way. They sing but one song and
int song has but one short struiu of
vo notes that sounds like "peon," and
tat word is its French name. Thero is
it much melody in this song, espeally
when oft in the stilly night it
ies' to plav upon its grauimaphoue and
sgins and finishes with a wild
amauchee screeoli. I.iko some chilren.
they are to ba seen and not
eard.
But I have long wouderea why the
tale was made so much more beautill
than the female. This peculiar dis.
notion seeuiB to nark the males of all
allinacoous birds And mnkos them arigant
and vain. "As vaiu as a peaock"
is one of the oldest proverbs,
i'kon one is in fr.il array ho will sit
pun the balustrade for an hour and
urvey himself in the half reflecting
rindow glass. What ho would do
efore a large plate mirror i do not
now, but 1 found out loug ago that
lie host way to steal your neighbor's
igeons was to set up small | ieces of
lokiug glass on tko sliolf of the dove
ote.
But in mankind and most all quadupeds
the male is coarse, domineering
nd unadorned. In fact, most all men
re positively ugly and unattractive,
nd woman weds him only because she
an't do any better. It is woman who
rears the ornaments of nature, and,
'when unadorned is adorned the most."
>trnugo to say, sho want8 more than
ho Creator ?ave her, ami delights to
nay herself in beautiful fabric - ami to
rear pearls ami diamonds ami ;>tln r
owclry. 'I'llIk is her nature and sho
annot help it. She loves the heautiul
ami wottld bo mi era: lo in 11 room
uthont a mirror, though i have M en
nine who never hub but one admirer,
wonder \ ho wero tin r?. sons of (toil
' iii> a"' that t d,;ir. it ol men wore
air and took wi-a Coin r.:noiij? tlieni
Uil ra. e l up gia : all i i.iu.hi n: n
f rcnovvn. i v, omit:" ,f tin.- won.en
f that day wero so beautiil
that tho annuls rninu down
1 mute with the in. There is no
1'iiip v.aut men or nn,ve!s will i!o
jr a boant fnl woman. 1 have never
.at I to be sorry lor Jacob, who
forked seven Ion;; years for r.aehel
lid then had to take her homely sister,
ml le.nl to work : oven yen s inure to
,et the girl of his ehoico. Hut the
acred hn-terinti says those seven years
'see.mod to him but a few days, for the
ovo he had to her." W as ever love
ike that? Not in those days. Men
oust have been scarce in that country
r ll&chol wouldn't have waited thai
long for Jacob. Old Labaa was a sheep
raiser, aud I reckon his nearest neighbor
was another about fifty miles away,
and those poor girls never saw a young
man once a year. Rachel let Jacob kiss
her on eight before she knew his name
or where he camo from, aud that historic
kiss has come down to us through
alhthe corridors, of time for 4,000 vears.
I remember that away back in the 40s
when I was young ana fairly haudsome
my father sent me on business to Mississippi
and as there were no railroads
I bought a horse in Mobile aud rode
aorosa the oouutry to Vioksburg. One
night I found comfortable lodgings
with a big cotton grower in the Cliicaflftha
rivflP Ha ltml am i rrfo tn.1 f
South Carolina many years before with
his wife and little children and about
200 negroes. His name was Calhoun, and
he was a cousin of John C. Calhoun.
There he lived outside of civilization;
not a school nor a church within miles
of him and he kept putting oil' moviug
his family to where thero wero sumo.
His oldest daughter, a lass of eighteen,
was as shy of me as fawn, but she
brushed her hair and washed her face 1
aud changed her dress and shoes and
gazed and lingered on the sly long aud
sweetly I made advauces to her that
nicht in the parlor and pleased her ! ,
father aud mother and bewildered her. ,
for 1 boou found out that Bhe was a I
flower born to blush unsoen. When 1 !
left the next morning the old gentle- j ,
man followed me to the gate aud
begged me to come back that way.
"Maybe you aud Sally might iix up
thing to yonr notion," said he, "aud if
you do I can spare you 200 or 800 acres
of the finest land in Mississippi and as
many niggers as you want to tend it," j
aud he laughed in a half serious and j
half joking way. There were no four
teen years about that, but I never saw
Sally any more, l'oor girl, I have often |
wondered what became of her. She
was of good old Carolina stock,
i..,t ....... 4i. i :.. ii-- 1_ i
uuv nno nuiuiuuitu 1U IUO WUUUD.
No companions, uo books or newspapers,
no nothing but niggers and cotton I
?much like Iiachel, I reckon, who saw i '
nothing but sheep and longed for a nice >
joung man. I remember that two lie- |
gro boys held torches for us to eat our 1
supper by and everything else was of
the same primitive style.
but what ban this little episode of
mine to do with peafowls and anouy- I
rnouR letters? 1 don't know how my
thoughts drifted that way, but they : J
will drift. To go back to them, I will ' '
say that a woman did not write the let- '
ter, for she is too fond of the beautiful
to want to kill a peafowl. And if ;
the man who wrote it had have known
their ancient, historic renown he would
have taken off hia hat to that beautiful 4
bird and said. "Good morning, sir, I |
hope you are well." Bill Ahp. t
P. a.?Some Georgians in Texas and , ^
Indian Territory have sent me some ,
mule-eared rabbit feet aud rabbit ears.
They write that the feet are for Colonel '
Candler when he is "hard run." My 1
daughters are wearing the ears on their l
hats and I will keep the feet till later.
B. A. 4
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FIFTEEN DAYS IN OPEN BOAT. i
Tcrrialilc Kxpcricncc of Crew of Kin- 4
korn in Miikini; Acuptllco. <
While the sailing vessel Kinknrn was J
on her way from Vancouver to Gun j
don she sprang a leak. All hands ,
pumped till April 117, when the crew i ,
io'tfunip ini.r -iy~ i . 1IJ
innke for Cllpperton , T.
off. Late on April i.M.? flu; island was "
sighted. There were three inert on the
island and tlie stars and stripes were
flying. The port lifeboat was pnlled
through the surf. She capsized, but the
six men managed to swim ashore.
When the crew were next able to visit
the ship?two days afterward?everything
was under water. The island belonged
to the Oceanic Phosphate Company
of San Francisco, and the three
men had been on It since September |
of last year. There was not a tree of
any kind and not the slightest vegeta- ;
tion. After being on the Island elgh- j
teen days, and no schooner turning up, j
the Americans said it might be next '
September before the vessel would ar*
ri v??.
So Captain ami his crow
decided to put off in their t>??. boats
for Aeaptileo, in Mexico, distant abotu
Ton miles.
When the shipwrecked people were
on the island they cnuglrt quantities of
lish, which, with gannet eggs, was their
chief means of subsistence. One of
the boats got smashed in the water.
It was agreed that the mate, Mr. McMnrtr.v
(who was a brother of the com- j
mandert. Mr. Snap-* ami six seamen |
should go. Tliey calculated they would |
take twelve days to reach Aeapnlco; I
they took fifteen.
For the llrst six days and nights they
had very heavy tropical rains, with
nothing to shelter them; sleeping or '
waking they were drenched. When the ,
snn e.ame out in the day it was scorch- '
lug hot.
The men arrived at Aeapuleo on June j
They never saw a sail during the
tlfteen days, but the day before they ;
got in they saw smoke rising at n dis- j
t a nee. It was from II. M. S. Amphion. j
which left Aeapuleo the day before I
they arrived. Had the Amphion seen
them it would have saved II. M. S. i
t'onius going to (Tii>perton Islands.!
They were about forty days on the is!
and when the ('omits rescued them.
(b rinatts are adopting American machinery
for their manufactories a' |
A tin t e a:i ideas as \ ii. Tite KmrMsh
liiauufac iitir p'.-i" I; i ;s bolol.t i rob
ioi i .r i II '' i 11 may I .1 * i 11 {.1 in
i h's workmen 'hat ii' lie earnm: adopt
American um ry and methods in
* I !"* :: I 1 > i*l:i ii hi will have lo shut it;?
fhop. The ClerinniiM and ISitjfltah iniiy
:ie :iM > to co to with eneli other
with the aid of A:;:i : ;*t liitieiiin . ,
itl: I they lii.l.V lie a hie to exeel :i!l the
World : .1 Ve this great eollllf.v. frntil
which they are drawing new in ;?irations.
lint 11: *y canti'i: go the Aaieri* j
can pare. Hating caught up with)
them, we will pax them -distance
them, perhaps for in till the world
tffTc is go sueh emuhiO'itioii of excelletiee
lis in these I nitcd States of
A merle::.
WHEN m if HI.
Assistant Attorney-General Construes
the Act
IMPORTANT TO SUPERVISORS.
When Ofllcea Must be Held Open
During tlio Present Year Preceding
the Fall Flections.
Owing to the fact that be baa been receiving
many inquirios as to wben the
State registration books shall be kept
open by the new boards of supervisors
under the registration law, Secretary
of State Tompkins, after an absence of
some days, referred to the attorneygeneral's
office and asked for an opinion
cleat ly dellning the law.
This opinion was given as fallows and
is of particular concorn to registration
officers and voters alike:
CoiiUkiBiA, S. C., March 21, 1898.
Hon. D. A. Tompkins.
Dear Sir:?The letter of W. A. Nesbitt
referred to this office has had attention.
i
Seotion 7 of the aot of 1896 provides
that after the general eleotion in 1896
the books shall be kept open for three
successive days in each month until *
thirty days before the general eleotion
of 1898. It then provides, "after each
succeeding general eleotion, the registration
books shall h? nnnnail nn fV.
first Monday in eaoh month until
thirty days preceding any general election."
It seems clear from these provisions
that the books of registration for the
year 1888 must be kept open for three
days until thirty days before the election,
and that after each general eleotion,
succeeding the general election of
1888, they aro to be kept open on the
first Monday in each month.
I am of the opinion therefore that the
books should be opened on the first
Monday in each month during the year
1888, and kept open for three days until
thirty duys before the general election
in i888. Very respectfully yours,
O. P. Townhrnd,
Asst. Atty. (Jon.
STATU MILITIA.
Sen. Watts' vien? ? to tu notations
to the U. 8. Authorities. ( .....
On the night of the 21st, aceording to
'.he Columbia State, Adjutant Genoral
tVatts received a telegram from the
Hew York Herald asking his opinion as
to the authority of the President of the
United States over the militia of the
liflerent States in time of war and
taking his opinion as to whether the
President eould call upon them to form
i part of the Federal forces for the purpose
of eeuding them outside the country
as well as to repel invasion; his
opinion was also desired as to whether
in attempt to send the militia to Cuba
would meet with any such opposition
from the militia aB in 1812, when the
luestion was raised; the message concluded
with a request for an opinion as
to. the bill introduced in Congress to
.. "-'..,,,77*,; " * ' *-* ? over V;
(Jjl? liiO UUiu? Gen.
Watts read the message c?i?
fully and then wrote oufethe following
reply which will be of especial interest
to the State's volunteer troops:*
"In my opinion the President may
make his requisition upon the Governor
of the State or upon the militia
officers directly. I believe'in all cases
he should call (lrst upon the Governor.
The militia are first of all State troops
and I do not believe it is the intention
of the constitution that they can be
called upon to form a part of tpe Federal
forces for the purpose of sending
them beyond tho borders'tif the
United States. It would bo * prejudicial
to the interests of this State for
the militia, as an organized body, to
be ordered to Cuba, but should a call
for volunteers be mado a large proportion
of the militia would respond at
the first call.
"Keali*i??? the power of the Presid?n+.
wow bv law I think any
bin giving the Pres.v^ - White power
to call upon the miluftruirecuj
without waiting for the Governor to
act, unnecessary."
Decision Against the Governor.
The case of tho Governor's suspension
of the clerk of court, W. R. Bullock,
of Abbeville, was argued here by
Assistant Attorney-General Townsond
and Mr. William N. Graydon on behuli
of Mr. MoMillan, the Governor's appointee,
and by Mobbi-h. Ellis G. Graydon
and Frank B. Gary on behalf of
Mr. Bullock. Judge Klugh, who heard
the case, decided that the Governor had
no authority to remove tho clerk at this
time. Tho grand jury may act on the
case again in June.
Start for the Klondike.
A party of Charleston men headed by
David McMillan and W. M. Lebnard.
two very popular and well known citizens,
started for the Klondike gold rogionB
on the Kith. They expect to reach
tlio gold regions by the middle of May
at the furthest and when thoy come
back they propose to bring somo fine
samples of the dust they raised in that
lino country. Messrs. Leonard uajL
Millau have been preparing for the mp
for somo time and have their plans fully
and carefully made. They left via the
South Carolina and (icorgia Railroad
and will go by way of Atlanta, Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. J'util and then take
the Canadian Pacific for Vancouver,
from this point going by stcauior to
Alubku.
Palmetto Pointers.
Near Itidgeway an unknown wlnfa
man was run over by a train uud
killed.
(iovernor Fllorbe will give all parties
who are interested in the formation
of the new county of J'co Dee a
bearing ou the dlat.
(iovernor Ellerhe appointed Mr.
(libbes Wlialey to be master in equity
for the county of Charleston. This
appointment about winds up the filling
of vacancies iu county oilicos in
Charleston.
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