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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.

Democrats in the House caucussd on the
best policy to pursue against the Fepuohcs1
majority.
In the House Mr.. Simpson Pop. Kan.
criticised the policy Of Speaker Feed In NOT
appointing committees.
A late canvass Of the Senate showed that
the peace treaty lacked one vote Of the two
thirds necessary for ratification.
Certain Democrats. Silver Republicans
and Populisrs in the Senate formed conoi-
nation to dictate committee assignments.
Mr.. Mcclellan presented In the Senate the
petition OF the Washington Board OF Trade
n-aying for the immediate completion OF the
Washington aqueduct tunnel.
The Senate adjourned for day owing to
the death Of ex-senator Voorhees,. OF Ind
lana, who. until a recent day. was con.
spicuous member Of that body.
Tho Senate subcommittee engaged on the
Tariff Bill have found It necessary 10 pre-
pare practically q lew bill. 1t Is not be-
iieved that they can finish their work before
Nav Is.
Representative Ball. Of Texas. introduced
bill appropriatiug sl25.000 to aid and en-
courage the holding OF the Airo-Amerlcan
and Interstate Exposition In Houston,
Texas, next year.
The paper on Hswaii which was recently
read bv Mr. John W. Foster before the Ma
tfonal Geographic Society was presented to
the Senate bv Senatrs Morgan and will %
printed az document.
Senator Mcmillan introduced joint reso-
luton directing the Secretary OF War 70
prepare and submit to Con nes by the LIST
OF next December a project for the reclama.
ton Of the Anacostia fats.
Mr.. Bailey met with opposition in his
policy of giving the Republicans . free
hand, and the Democrats held a caucus to
agree on policy at the close Of the session.
Financial legislation Is demanded.
Mr.. Simpson. OF Ear3as, leader OF the
Populists, declares that he will carry into
effsct his threat to block any business which
the House may attempt to do by unanimous
consent before the Speaker has appointed
committees
Il number Of Western Republican sena-
tors, moro particularly those from tho
Rocky Mountains, have united In move
nent to make SURE OF securing certain ON
ce.sions In the tariff bill. The articles which
wool, hides, coal and lead ore. The ten
dency Is to ask a change.
Mr. Hear introduced In the Senate reso-
luton directing the Secretary OF State to
ascertain and report 10 the Sennte from time
TO time the following particulars 10 regard
to each Of the nations with which the
United States has diplomatic r0lations: The
amount OF taxes Or excuses and the mode of
collecting the same Statistics Of exports
and imports and methods Of collecting du-
ties. Tariff lava. Several objects Of public
expenditure. Judicial system. List OF
crimes, offenses and punishInents. Mem
hers Of the army and navy. Police or other
arrangements for preserving the peace and
enforcing the law. The administrative
mechanism. Public Indebtedness. Methot
Of enacting laws. The character OF legisla-
tive chambers; the public offi,ers who have
practically the determination Of what laws
shall be put upon their passage.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

How far the officers Of militia or
CARNATIONS may go in furnishing MEM
bers is q, question which has recently
como before the supreme court OF
Minnesota. That tribunal has decided
that the captain of a company OF the
national guard of the state when it is
not acting as military force has no
authority ysummsrily to punish mem
ber OF his company by imprisonment
for refusal to obey bis orders.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
PALMETTO STATE PRUN|NGS.
About CoIumbia's Spring Floral
Show.
STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
Watermelon Rate Not Yet Settled
Judge Thomas A. Cook Dead-south
Carolina Presbytery.

All the arrangements for the coming
second annual Floral, Horse and Bicy-
Gle Show to take place on the 2Sth and
29th insts., are being rapidly oonclud-
ed. The show promises to be the best
spring carnival Columbia has had for
years and many from neighboring cities
and towns will doubtless avail them
selves eff the cheap railroad rates offer
ed. The show is to be given under
the auspices of the Wade Hampton
Chapter. q. D. c., and Camp Hamp-
ton, q. O. Y.
The judges for the horse show will be
Col. Thomas Taylor. J. G. Robertson,
W. A. CLARK, Geo. L. Baker and J. G..
Graham.
The judges for the floral show will be
Mesdames Ehlrich, W. @. Wright John
A. Willis, and A. NJ. Meetz and Miss
Carrie Berry.
The committee in charge of the horse
and floral show, consisting of Messrs.
@. B. Simmons, w. 0. Fisher ana l..
b. Meighan, request that all communl'
cations be addressed to MI. ". M;
Glbbes, Jr., secretary: faraes saouso .ha
MAKE enuies ~ os 'Ie % nus LIZ -. ant.raS I'D
in 40 manv CLASSES "a marty desires
nnon tbs nayment of each entry
E Eptr;o. % sboniJ I hs msda n Mr. Gibbss
ot tbe Cantr.I ha.k who will furnish
az a. VIC . oonG Th. 49, L.dn.s Ill, ha 90 foi-
iows. E,ecnt;ve committea. yellow;
iSs., ~ a., u sho, wh;.a. ;ndce horse
sIooh sSa hIUa. I nar.h.ls I'd
sn0m' Sn WaS,,aaSan W., S. , ths horsa sbow u;l,
n 80 w eeSsy 49, sy.ro sao h.;n@ - 90 toIlows
ts taAe r;aas ps h.in@ aS ~ nSsreS @ ;p each cIa,
'~o S,aaa pSs 30 o1 I,. % L.st no;r - nf dnnble
,ass Slsss w. 49,. f ''' pun '. ~
rns hesS Noi' ,o.t .;,o,. herne.s
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
Circulars About Them Sent to the
County Superintendents.

Circulars About Them sent 20 tae
County Superintendents.
State Superintendent of Education
Mayfeld has sent to the several county
superintendents of education the fol-
lowing important circular letter in re-
gard to the examination to be held on
the 23d inst.
"I enclose herewith copy of rules
adopted by the State board relating to
county examinations and teachers GER
tiicates. AS the board did not say
when these rules should go into effect
and ss that board will meet again on
the 7th of May, in all cases where the
applicants pass satisfactory examina-
tions and are not aected by the rules ut
all, grant them certificates; but when
the parties are aected by the rules let
all such cases stand over until after the
meeting of the State board. Admit all
applicants to this examination regard
less of age, but hold the papers of those
under age, and of those not making the
required average or o first or second
grade certificate, object to the State
board. First grade certificates may he
renewed, but hold the others until
after the meeting Of the state board.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
MRS. E. r. TILToN DEAD.
Passing Away or the Woman Whose Hus-
band Prosecuted Henry Ward Beecher.

Passing Away or the Woman Whose Hus-
band Prosecuted Henry Ward Beecher.
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton, vile Of Theodore
Tlton, who prosecuted the great preacher,
Henry Ward Beecher, on the charge Of hav-
ing alienated her affections, died IN her
home, No. 1903 Pacific street, Brooklyn, N.
Y, q few days ngo.
Mrs. Tllton had been very Ill for the last
Eve weeks. She had been stricken with
paralysis. Her daughter and few friends
were with her at the last. Theo lore 1fleon,
her husband, went to France after the cole
brated trial. He took up residence In Paris.
Hs still lives there.
The Beecher-Tilton trial, which was begun
10 January, 1875, was one Of the most
sensational in the history OF this country.
The reputation and character OF the foremost
preacher Of the Ian were placed in the bal
aIlce. ard while the proceedings lastsd the
world, for Mr.. Beecher was well known In
Europe at the time of tSe scandal.
Theodore TIlton. Il y plaintiff, had been .
friend Of Henry Ward Beecher for years.
The great clergyman had united hi N and
his wife In marriage. They were worshlppers
in his church. Later Mr.. Nton became
associated with Mr.. Beecher In the editing OF
a religious Journal
In his bill OF particulars Mr.. Tilton de-
clared riiat his wife and Mr., Be cher had
made confession OF guilt to him. To all
the accusations OF the plaintiff Mr.. Beecher
answere with a sharp denial. Mr. Tilton
sued TO recover &100, 900. The jury w,s nm
able to agree upon a verdict, and wis dis
charged. In 1873 Mrs. Tilton was excom-
municaied from Plymouth Church. Her
husband was forced out OF the church at the
time OF the trial. The confession which Mrs.
Tilton was alleged to have made to her hus-
band was denied by her.
After the trial Mrs. Tilton endeavored to
seclude herself from the pubic as much as
possible. About five years ego her eyeeight
failed, and she was nearly blind, until year
ago, when an operation WIS perform j. She
was ovosjoyed when she reRained her sight.
Mrs. Titon. subsequent to her expul<ton
from Plymouth Church. became q neinper OF
q religious sect known as tho Plymouth
Brethren. The sect held most Of tho naeet.
ines In Mrs. TIlton's homo. Mrs. Tilton was
sixty-two years old. She had seven chill.
dren, OF whom several are living.
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ExPOsITIONOFT THE CAROLINAS.
Industries Will be Shown That are Not
Generally Known.

A special correspondent writing from
Charlotte, n, c., concerning the Wo-
mems Exposition of the CaroLinas,
among other things, says: lone OF the
most interesting features of the exposl-
ton, which takes place during the
month of May, reaching into June, vii!
be the showing of the industries OF
these States that are not very generally
known. For instance, as fine kaolin as
is produced in the United States is here
found, and is made into earthenware,
china and an excellent grade of porce-
lain ware. An exhibit of this product
will show the process of manufacture
from its crude state into articles OF
dainty shape and attractiveness. Moore
county yields sand of most excellent
quality for the manufacture Of fine
glassware, and samples of this finished
ware wi also be shown. Splendid col
lections of minerals will demonstrate
the varied resources Of the Carolinas.
The industrial department is attain
ing large proportions, and manufac'
turers from all sections are taking
space. It is especially desired that
each and every cotton mill in North
and South Carolina will place on e1-
hibit q bolt or more of each class Of
goods they manufacture, so that com
plete showing of our enormous and
fast growing milling industry may be
made. 1t is necessary to arrange for
space at once.
A collection of colonial, revolutionary,
Mexican and Confederate relics is be-
ing gathered together, probably larger
in extent and general comprehensive
ness, and greater historical value than
any similar collection ever made in the
two States.
Very low passage rates to the Exposi-
ton have been granted by all the rail.
roads; and the admission fee is placed
at only half the usual charge for such
exhibitions, but the desire Of the man
agement is that every one may avail
themselves of the opportunity which
offers so much of interest along art and
educational lines.
Arrangements are being made to ac-
commodate the large crowds that will be
here during the month of May. To give
some idea of the events outside
of the Exposition, which is of
course the main attraction, that are to
occur in May. it may be we'll to recall q
few: State Lodge of Odd Fellows meet;
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in session; State Dental So
ciety and Board Of Dental Examiners
convene; interstate bicycle races will
be held; interstate firemen's meet
with firemen's fecss; baseball games
between leading Southern teams; o
series of theatrical attractions; and any
number OF entertainments both at the
Exposition and elsewhere; lectures and
addresses by prominent men, while one
of the leading Southern women will
deliver the opening address Of the
Women's Exposition.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

The statistics of .Lloyd's Register
show that the proportion OF steam
ships being built nowadays is greatly
on the increase as compared with the
number OF sailing vessels In 1895
$50 new vessels of $40, ,961 tons were
classed, and of these 49S of S53. 579
tons we're m.craft and so of 81, 1872
tons were sailing vessels During the
same period the steam vessels on the
official register of the United Kingdom
increased by Ia. while the number OF
sailing vessels decreased by $40.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

There are now 40 stass colleges in
the United States having an attend
ance Of about 80, 900 students Mn
nesota educstes the largest number,
801A ct state expense, Michigan being
next with 2S7s. then California with
2400. followed by Wisconsin with
1000, Nebraska with 1900, Iowa with
1900 and Illinois with HOO. Tuition
fees are charged 10 only six states, the
fee in North Caroliua being $50, in
South Oaroliaa $40. in Iowa S25, in
Missouri $40. in Oregon $40 aud in
South Dakota, 50.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

People blessed with the judgment and
sense developed by the modern civ
ilization, smile at the childish revenge
of the king Of ancient times who had
the sea scourged for wrecking his YES:
sells. But the family likeness to this
act Of ancient folly on the part Of the
modern system of burning flags and
hanging obnoxious persons in effigy IL
rather a caustic comment on the afore-
said smile Of superiority.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

An English newspaper man, who
visited this country recently, has
written book in which he says that
Boston s'breathes refined golden me-
diocrity." And the newspapers OF
the city are puzzled to know whether
he intended this for compliment or
not as was the Congressman in the
play when somebody called him
dodo
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
Oysters in Englnnd.

Probably few Americans even have
any conception of the immense number
Of oysters shipped to England, which is
the sole market for American bivalves,
az France rears her own, and the Ger
man duty of Sl6 per barrel is rather too
steep to allow any margin for profit
Hundreds of thousands of barrels are
received yearly in England, many of
which are transplanted for a few
months, when they are taken up for the
simmer trade. Norfolk, Baltimore and
other points ship large quantities, and
the Connecticut trade is also large.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

Florence Kelley. state factory in.
spector of Illinois, shows thst while
tho number of children engaged in
manufacturing in that state has de-
creased by 1884 since December, 1895;
in the sveasshops the decrease has
amounted to but 12i children. There
are still 1000 girls and LES boys in
sweatshops-one in six of all the chill
dren employed in msnu!aetare. In
1896 this ratio was one to seven; in
1894 it was but one in IL. 1t increases
from year to year in spite Of the
persistent prosecution Of sweaters for
violation OF the child-lsbor provis-
ions
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
Beginning Of the End.

According to information received
from trustworthy sources at Washing
ton, the withdrawal of at least part of
the great army that Spain has main
tanned for several years past in the
island of Cuba will begin when the
rainy season sets in. The initial move.
ment will be the departure of 10, ,OoO
Spanish troops from Habans for Spain,
and within short time after that
30, 600 troops, it is understood, will fol-
low.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
South Carolina Presbytcry.

The South Carolina Presbytery con-
vened at Anderson on Tuesday 9. ening.
The retiring Moderator, the Rev. B. P.
Reid, of Pendleton, preached the open.
ing sermon. At the conclusion of the
sermon the Presby terry was organized
BY the election of the following officers:
The Rev. r. P. Nall, D. D., of Green
wood, Moderator; the Rev. G. q.
Mays. of Walhalla, clerk; Elder W. A.
Templeton, of Abbeville, assistant
clerk.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

Parents in some of the suburbs OF
Chicago complain bitterly taat Nor.
mon elders have been working secretly
in their neighborhood ever since last
fall and have gathered colony, in
cluding . large number OF young
girls, which have left for Salt Lake
Civ.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
The Naval Militia's PAY.


The Secretary of the Navy has made
the annual allotment Of the fund of
$50, 900 appropriated by Congress for
the naval militia of the States. De-
Quoting 81, 900 reserved for the pur-
chase Of text books, the remainder of
the appropriation is slloted among the
States having naval militia organiza-
tions in proportion to the number of
uniformed petty officers and men they
had on their rolls on the lst of January
last. The result in the Southern States
is as follows: South Carolina, 185 off
GERS and men, allotment, S1,8l4; North
Carolina, 140 officers and men, allot-
ment, l,1ss; Georgia, 1888 officers and
men, allotment, 81, 436. Louisiana, 203
officers and men, 81, ,4S6.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
TWO BOYS KILLED THEMSELVES.

They Were Frothers. and Angry Bocausa
Loft ut Home.
Two young SONS Of 4r. Herson. living
near Fayetteville, Ark. aged nine ard fifteen
years respectively, committed suicide by
poison.
The boys were angry because thsir par
ants, coming to town, left them at home.
Both youngsters bathed themselves, put on
their hest clothes, wrote notes to their par.
ents, swallowed strychnlne and went to bed.
Both boys died before their parents returned
home
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

Thomas A. Edison, Jr., must be q
chip of the old block. He is 20 years
old and has alreedy invented over a
hundred articles 1t is good stock to
perpetuate. thinks the New York Ad-
yeftiser.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
The Landing Of nolo6.

An expedition from the United States,
commanded by General Rolon. the Cuban
Minister OF War, has safely landed ct Mulas
Point, Gu u. force OF three thousand In.
surgerlts under General Calixto Garcia re-
csived che expedition AMI carried the arms
into the interior. Seven wagons and num-
I,er OF horses and mules were employed to
transport the large quantity OF arms and
ammunition, three cannons and consider
able quantity OF dynamite.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

The present royal family of Greece
are not the first Norsemen to figure In
Greek affairs The tottering Byzsn-
tine empire was upheld for many
years by the varangisn Guard, com.
posed af Danes, Swedes, Norwegians
and Saxons
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

Mrs. Spooner-Char!es, DO you think
you would ever marry again? Mr..
SpHoner-What, after having lived with
you for ten years? Never! Mrs. Spoon
er would give something handsome II
she only knew just what he meant by
that.-London Figaro.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
All Alone

There is poetry In everything"
unused the editor. Now, there Is yon-
der waste basket" And he laughed, as
he sometimes did when he was all
alone.-Detreit Tribune.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
Receivers for Big Mills.

Receivers were named for the Bennett and
Columbia mills In New Bedford, Mass, when
It WAS discovered that $2,.0o,0 ,0oj In notes
hal been issued, Of which no account has
appear d, AMI that more than Sloo 300 had
ban charged TO The account OF the plant.
when It should havo appeared as profit and
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
France and Brazil to Arbltratr.

Trance and Brazil to Arbltratr.
n. Eanotaux, the French Minister for For.
eigu Affairs, informed the Cabinet that a
convention had been signed between France
and Brazil for the purpose OF arsitratIng the
GUIANA territory which Is In dispute between
The two countries.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
The only states west of the Mis-
sissippi represented in Congress by
natives are California, Oregon, Texas
and Utah.

"Hatwifs" is proposed in London.
after the analogy of housewife and
fishwife, to designate woman who
persists in wearing big hats to the
fheetre
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-22

Our German Sugar Imports.
America imported 45O, 100000 pounds Of
sugar from Germany last year:
The record-union., 1897-07-18
Two Political Hoodoos.

There are certain SuDerStitiOnS in Ma
tional politics concerning particular
places which are always eagerly sought
after but are tOlerably sure to turn out
cemeteries of dead hopes, comments a
writer in '"The Illustrated American y
One of these is the Embassy to Great
Britain. 1t has even been said that a
successful Presidential candidate car
res the British Embassy a a knife up
his sleeve to cut the throat of his most
dreaded opponent and the offer of this
splendid mission has been declined with
loathing by several ambitious states
men who did not feel ready to mount
the funeral pyre. The Speakership of
the House, however, carries with it a
more frightful hoodoo than the British
Embassy. Every man who has sought
the Speakership of the House since the
foundation of the Government has done
so with a view to the Presidential NOM
ination of his party. 1t has always been
enough to defeat his election, except in
cne lone solitary instance-that of
lanes X Polk
The record-union., 1897-07-18
An Irish School-house.

Nearly every day l saw the children
going to school in the morning, and met
them returning in the evening. Their
aspect had the same untamed WldneSS
then that it had as l saw them run
ming about the bogs and cragS that
surrounded the home village, is the
comment of a writer in The Outlook.
The schoolhouse was four miles dis
tant along a desOlate road winding
through the dun marshes. The chill
dren went barefoot and bareheaded, eX-
cept for a few OF the older boys, who
wore caps. They each carried a piece
of dry bread for their noon lunch,
and that was all the food they had
till they returned home late in the
afternoon But, with all their hard
ships, they looked sturdy and healthy.
Probably weaklings DO not survive long.
Once l notice that a boy in a group OF
children returning from school carried
a book, and l asked to see it. 1t was a
most forlorn little third reader a
wreck of a book-covers broken, mark
ed and greasy within, and many pages
gone or torn.
The schOolhouSe was a bare modern
building, with gray plaster walls. 1t
yard, that was surrounded by a high
stone walls. Outside the inclosure all
was bog.