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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10
Notice..

ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE
n Estate of A. J. Counts. deceased. will
please settle on or before February 1lth,
1897; also all persons having claims against
said Estate will present the same on or be-
fore the above mentioned date
H. Fl COUNTS,
j. COUNTS.
Agents for Heirs.
Peak, S. C, January 20. 1857. 3wl3.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10
P. H. NELSON,

Attorney at Law.
Will be in Lexington on Friday of each
week.
Nov 4-tf
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10
STATISTICS PROVE

That M. L. Kinard, the Peoples Clothier,
gives the best Bargains in Clothing. Be-
ginning Monday Morning, January :4th,
1897, and continuing thirty days, we will
place for your inspection
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10

January 25, 1897 -4w14,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
THEIR FIRST SERVICE.

Two italian Triests From Turin In
stalled in Their Church.
The congregation attending divine SER
vice in SITS. Pietro Paolo's RomanCatholic
Church yesterday morning were rather
surprised to find two new priests in charge
of the church.
The new clergvmen arrived in this City
last Wednesday afternoon from the parent
house at Turin, Italy, to take charge of
the Italian parish in this City. Their
arrival here is at the express request OF
archbishop Riordan, who had renewed a
request made by his predecessor, Arch
bishop Alemany, some twenty years ago
to the superintendent of the parent bouse
in Italy to supply the Italian wants in this
City with some priests belonging to the
order of st. Francis de Sales. But at the
time that Bishop Alemany made this
request, the superintendent had no clergy
men TO spare, consequently none came
until now, when Fathers Raphael Piperni
and the assis ant pastor, the Rev. Valen-
tino Cassini, have taken charge of The
Italian colony with its $4,000 inhabitants
to minister to.
Father Pipesni, who speaks English
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

One of the most notable things in the
progress of the world at the present time
is The great plan that has been formed.
and the rapid advance of the execution Of
it, by Russia for the construction of q
railway to connect Western Europe with
the Japan Sea. 1t is considered that it
will be an event as important in history
as the cutting of the Suez canal. While
we are attending to rumors of war and
reading so much about it we almost over
look the large events of peace, which
may, in their far-reaching results of con-
quest of the earth's resources for human
happiness, transcend in importance the
squabbleS that threaten to waste blood
and treasure.
1t is now certain that in few years
fast trains will run from Calais to VIadi-
vostock. Early in the next century, that
is so nearly here, swift locomotives will
be Transporting passengers overland to
the Orient in one-third OF the time it
takes to go by Suez and the sea. The cost
OF passage will likewise be reduced 10
one-thIrd OF the present price, and with
this double saving OF time and money
there can be no doubt travel will be
greatly increased. and consequent on the
extended communication commerce will
be stimulated and industry expanded.
Already 5000 miles of steel rails have
been laid on the great railway. Conserva-
tive China has SO far overcome the inertia
fixed upon her by the slandstill custom of
many centuries that she has granted Rus
sia the right to build and operate the road
through Manchuria. It Is estimated by
the engineers that when the road is fully.
equipped the entire trip across the two
broad continents will be made in nine
days and two hours. A ticket from Lon
don to Japan to-day, via the Suez canal,
costs $428; by the new route it will be
about $119. Over fifth OF a million pas
sengers have been going annually to Aus
tralia and China via the Suez canal, and
it is calculated that large majority of
these will prefer to make the journey
overland in nine to twelve days rather
than spend twenty-eighs to thirty-eight
days and some hundreds of dollars more
on the trip by seas.
Great as the profit of this travel would
be there is little doubt that the addeu
ia acilities will cause many more to make
the trip. The freights that pay the high
est rates are expected to como by the
quick route. The enterprise will be SO
immense revenue-producer it is sure to
result in the keeping OF this great high
way OF Communication between the East
srn and Western worlds in the best con-
dition for the safe and speedy transport of
merchandise and men.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
NAT GOODWlN ms JOKE WITH
SULLIVAN.
Chicayo Record.

When Sullivan was in his prime and was sup
posed to be the invincible champion of the
universe, he came to Chicago to play an en-
gagement Nat Goodwin was playing here at
the same time. Goodwin, like every other man
with drop of sporting blood in his veins,
admired Sullivan. He knew him very well, as
the great actor and the great pugilist both
came from Boston.
Sullivan was standing near q fancy bar at
one of the hotels when Goodwin entered. The
usual circle of admirers were at a safe distance
from the mighty warrior, admiring him in
awe-stricken silence. Goodwin pretended not
to recognize Sullivan. he strolled over to the
bar'and asked in loud voice: ''Who is that
big duffer"
s.sh-h-h! That's John L. Sullivan" said the
bartender.
"Well, what do carer" demanded the actor,
and with that he walked over and brushed
against the fighter.
Sullivan glared down at Goodwin and pared :
s'Sav, who are you pusbin'?"
''Oh. keep still, you big bluff" replied Good
win.
Two or three of the spectators tainted, and
others pushed forward 10 save the actor life.
Before they could interfere Goodwin wss driv-
ing right and left at the "big fellow" who was
backing away, apparently frightened out of
his wits. Most of the people who had been
looking on ran for their lives, and never came
back TO find that II was all joke.
It was said that Goodwin made it q practice
to assault Sullivan whenever he saw him, and
the big fighter thought it was the funniest
thing the comedian ever did.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15

we'll. has been resident OF Mexico for
sixteen wears. AT Puebla he established
a college of bis order and was rector OF it
until two months ago, en- he was re-
called to the parent house,in Turin, Italy.
and there received his credentials for this
archiepiscopaI diocese The present Faith
ers are the first of their order in the
United States though in Sonth America
and the continent of Europe there are be-
tween 500 and 800 of them in various
places.
The order to which these two clergymen
belong was established in Turin about
fifty years ago by Don Jean Bosco. holy
man who rose out of the poor class OF the
Italian population. He received semin-
ary education and was ordained a priest
by the chbishop of Turin. lie was
man of ability and education and to
share these blessings with the down.
trodden was his hearts desire. He gath
cred around him the waits of society and
in his zeal for them established his order,
the SaIesians, the first object OF which is
the educating of the poor and the teach
ing to them of trades. and second, the du-
ties entaiIed in the charge of parishes.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
SHAM AND IRRELEVANT.

The Examiner, after several days Of elo-
quent silence concerning its purchase OF
prison-made twine, came out yesterday in
an editorial wherein it attempted to offer
sham and irrelevant excuse for the
hypocrisy and 1niquity Of its relations to
the San Quentin jute mills.
It alleged that 1.-THE proprietor of THE
CALL is heavy purchaser Of sugar bags
at San Quentin" It obscurely intlmated
that ''Mr. Spreckels' was the proprietor
of THE CALL. With equal falsity it in
dulged in the lnsinuation that the pur.
chase of jute bags by the Spreckels sugar
interests from San Quentin was ques-
tionahle transaction, for the reason that
in some way it affected the interests of
free labor in California.
There are three answers to the foregoing
triplet OF falls hoods, and they are:
First-The proprietor of THE CALL is
not purchaser of sugar bags or anything
else at the San Quentin jute mills.
Second-"Mr. Spreckels" is not the pro-
prietor of THE CALL
Third-The purchase of sugar-bags by
the Spreckels sugar interests Is not in any
sense questionable, but, on the other hand,
is in every way a commendable business
transaction, as reference to the personal
interviews with Mr.. Spreckels and with
the re representatives of the California free
labor jute mills, which appear else
where in our local columns, will show. The
kind and quality of sugar-bags purchased
at San Quentin are not manufactured in
this country, and the Spreckels sugar in
terests have therefore the alternative OF
buying such bags of the State of Califor-
mia, and thus assisting to support its
penal institution, or of buying them in
Calcutta. They are bought exclusively
for use in the Sandwich Islands and for
use in competition with the English
trade. The arrangement for the pur-
chase of these goods was made with the
prison authorities with the iril concur
renee and approval Of the California
manufacturers of other lines of jute goods.
from whom the Spreckels interests are
large purchasers OF the class of goods
which they produce and are only purchas-
ers from San Quentin of goods which our
free-labor factories do not and cannot pro-
duce in com petition with the Calcutta
trade.
The Examiner, on the contrary. buys at
San Quentin kind and quality of prison
made twine which the free.labor factories
of California do produce and which the
San Quentin mills should not produce.
The Examiner is responsible for this
lapse on the part of the prison authorities
by which they have been misled into
making jute goods which come directly
into competition with free labor.
The sham and falsitv of its attempted
evasion of responsibility for its purchase
of prison-made twine is too transparent
for further discussion, and only intensi-
fies the contempt with which 1t is re-
earded by every lover of decency and
truth.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
';THEIR SACRED PLEDGES"

1.-THE newspaper men who refused to
break their sacred pledges suffer for their
honor"
1t is with this canting and assumptio us
phrase that the Monarch of Filth Folly
and Falsehood" refers to the imprison.
ment of Long Green Lawrence and his
more unfortunate than criminal associate,
Mr.. Levings.
Their sacred pledges!" What does
the unsavory and unlettered Lawrence
know OF sacred pledges? As well
might the unmasked hiehwsyman whine
about his "sacred pledge" not to divulge
the identity or the whereab bouts OF his pal.
"Their honor"l What does this lick
spittle and spaniel OF absentee Hearst,
both OF whose careers are leprous with sin
and crime, know or feel OF honor?
However, to turn from the unclean, It
Is gratifying to the childhood. woman
hood and manhood of California to know
that these precious newspaper men" are
rot altogether insensible to shame. even
though lost to decency. and that their in.
generation with the thugs and thieves Of
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
TRADE STEADILY REVIVING.

Dun's report of the last weeks business
shows a steady increase of trade, and the
Repiep comments on the strange qnality
OF human nature which keeps up discour-
aging talk in spite of the evidence of sta
tistics proving there is good reason for
buoyant hopes. Hard times have been SO
long continued that it seems as if gloom
has become habit with many people.
That trade is surely though slowly reviv.
ing is now a certainty, and it is perhaps a
matter for rejoicing that 1t is not doing SO
any faster, for long experience has proved
that gradual growth is almost invariably
the only way in which permanent pros
perity comes.
1t is considered by students of econom-
les that the iron industry is the pulse of
a nations prosperity. On March the
iron furnaces of this country were pro-
ducing per cent more than on February
l. This Improvement is much larger
than 1t sounds. for the same rate would
be so per cent in one year. Judging by
the increasing strength of this pulse beat
invalided industry is getting decidedly
convalescent.
The number of failures for the past
week were reduced about one-Sixth from
the record of the corresponding week of
last year. This is wide margin of inn
provement and If such ratio is kept up
for a few months it will mark all the dis
tance between disaster and prosperity.
The money market is reported to be in the
best Of conditions for healthy expansion
of industry and there are no indications
of surplus capital being absorbed by big
speculative enterprises to the deprivation
of more conservative business and the
risk of panic reaction.
The extent to which Western farmers
are finding foreign market for their corn
is another item of information to help
brighten the outlook. The export of the
last two we eks amounted to over s. 900, 900
bushels as compared with 1,500. 900 during
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
THE FEDERAL BUILDING.

With the opening of the extra session
of Congress to- day renewed efforts should
be made by the California delegation in
Congress to bring about speedy begin
ming of the work of constructing the Fed
eral building in this City. The agitation
on the subject should not be dropped nor
allowed to flag for a single day. The
work has been already too long post
poned, and the beginning OF new ad-
ministration is the best possible time for
the beginning of a new policy in regard
to the building.
The industrial and commercial bodies
of the City which have co-operated with
THE CALL in the movement to start the
work should continue that cooperation
until success is attained. Only by inces-
SAINT vigilance here can we be sure of
activity at Washington. We must keep
every mem Der of the California delegation
constantly reminded of the importance
Of the work to San Francisco, lest in the
confusion and the engagements of the
opening of the new session of Congress
they should be led to overlook the need of
beginning the work at once.
The questions which the people are ask
ing are pertinent They recognize that
the beginning of this work would afford
employment to many persons who are
now without the means OF supporting
their families. They are aware that the
money expended for construction would
be put into circulation in the City and
would aid in bringing about the much
needed revival OF business. Knowing
these things, they desire to see the work
begun.
What Is Senator Perkins doing? Why
are not Congressman Loud and Congress
man Mcguire more active in urging the
advancement of the work? Why is not
Senator " hite showing as much interest
in the welfare of San Francisco as he Is in
that of Los Angeles and San Pedro2 Why
are not the other mem bers of the Cali
fornia delegation doing something to in.
duce the Government officials to rouse
themselves and begin this work at once?
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
PERSONAL.

DR.. J. /. stephen OF Petaluma is at the Grand.
DR.. c. C. Wood OF Oakdale is q guest at the
Grand.
Stephen Doyle of Stockton is registered at
the Russ
H. c. Ross Jr., an attorney Of Sacramento, is
at the Grand.
H. J. Jackson OF San Jose is at the Cosmo-
politan Hotel.
R. Matheson Of Salt Lake is at the Cosmo-
politan Hotel.
william Driscoll Of Salt Lake is at the Co.'S
mopolitan Hotel.
E. Gest, banker Of Reno, New, is registered
at the California.
J. d. Woodwork, . Santa Rosa business
man, is at the Russ.
G. R. Barrett, stage-line proprietor OF Ukiah,
is guest at the Russ.
J. Rummelsburg, merchant OF Winters, 10
visiting at the Grand.
William Wiley Thomas Jr. OF Stanford Uni
versity is at the Palace.
George Fletcher, q mining man OF Grass
Valley, is at the Palace.
7. Goldfish, Petalums merchant is among
the guests at the Grand.
]. c. Cramer, a miner Of West Point, is at
the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
John H. swisher OF Newark, Ohio. is q guest
at the Lick with his wife.
w. H. Braden, q hardware man Of Portland,
is late arrival at the Russ.
T. s. Bullock the railroad contractor, arrived
at the Palace last night from Oakdale.
Thomas r. Minturn, founder OF the fruit
district Of Mtnturn, Is guest at the Occiden-
tai.
Frank Bergman, proprietor OF the Pioneer
Pickle Works at Sacramento. arrived last
night at the Grand.
Captain Thomas Couch, Montana mining
man, has returned from the southern part OF
the State aLd Is at the Palace.
IT,. Trafford Huteson, young capitalist of
Nebraska, just returned from tour OF South
ern California, is at the Palace.
DR.. NJ. H. Cassell of NJ. S. Mill. Sierra lum-
Der camp. is registered at the Occidental with
Mrs. Cassell and Miss Bessie B. Cassell.
Ed Russell, representative of big elevator
factory Of Chicago. arrived at the Palace last
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
PARAGRAPHS AbOUT PEOPLE.

The German Empress is the latest recruit to
the royal army OF cyclists.
The first treasurer OF Rush County. Kans., is
$500.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth of
the late Emperor William l will be observed
at the royal castle in Berlin on the 22d of this
month.
1t is rumored that the Duchess Of Saxe-Co-
burg-Gotha is anxious to have her daughter,
Princess Beatrice, married 10 the young King
of Servia.
The once-famous Russian actress, Nine. Or
Law, who is 95 years old, recently made her ap-
pearance on the stage at Ostakow for the
benefit of charitable institution.
The city of Baltimore claims the credit of
being the birthplace OF long list of American
artists, including many of the most successful
and few of the most gifted.
The proposal was seriously made in South
Africa to make Cecil Rhodes the namesake for
every baby born there during the great mans
period of trial before the Parliament's COM
mittee.
Professor Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hop
kins University has received the Matteucci
medal, awarded to him by the Italian Society
Of Science for his achievements in science, and
especially for his spectroscopic gratings
A life-sized portrait Of Henry w. Grady was
unveiled the other day in the library of the
University of Georgia at Athens. This tribute
is from the students Of the university. Mr.
Grady was born and reared in Athens.
The Queen of Greece ostentatiously broke
with the royal family Of Russia last month by
sending back Russian decoration. However,
she is once more on speaking terms with them,
and Russian ships are bringing back Greek
wounded from Crete.
A Frenchman recently visited this country,
went home, and, as usual, wrote book about
us. Perhaps nothing in the book is more
CALLING 10 the Bostonians than the French
mans story that one of the leading swells OF
Boston makes good thing out of the business
of subet:ing pews in three different churches.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
THE EXTRA SESSION.

The extra session of Congress which
assemblies to-day has every prospect be-
fore it Of enacting legislation more impor-
tant to the welfare of the country than
any which has been enacted since the
close OF the war. The committee in
charge OF the tariff bill promises to have it
ready as soon as the House is organized,
and careful study of the members oi
both houses gives promise that the bill
will be adopted without any intense an
tagonism or any attempt at diIatory tao
tics.
With the passage of the Dingley bill we
shall close the struggles, agitations AID
antagonisms of the last twelve years.
Ever since Grover Cleveland came into
office with the avowed intention of de-
stroying the protective system the busi-
ness of the country has been disturbed,
industry has been rendered uncertain,
enterprises have been made doubtful and
the interests of one class of people have
been arrayed against those of another.
The defeat of Cleveland in 1888 on free
trade platform gave the country tempo
rary respite from these agitations. In
1892, however, they broke out again with
increased vehemence, and despite the fact
that under the Mckinley tariff the coun-
try attained degree of prosperity never
known before the ince ssant clamors Of the
free-traders misled the people into re-
electing Mr.. Cleveland in 1892.
Since that time the country has had ex-
perience with a Cleveland tariff. 1t has
learned by that experience the folly of
trusting agitators and demagogues. 1t
now returns to the protective system, and
the tariff which will be enacted at the
present session of Congress will be per-
manent part of our industrial system for
the rest of this generation.
One of the gratifying features of the out
look is the prospect that the new bill will
be passed by what will be virtually the
unanimous consent of all sections of the
Union. Leading men of all parties in
Congress have shown willingness to per-
nit the act to be passed promptly in order
that it may be given a fair trial before the
next election. 1t is estimated that The
bill will be adopted by the House of Rep.
resentatives by about the middle Of April
and will reach the Senate in time for that
body to discuss it deliberately and still
send it to the President in time for it to
go into force with the beginning of the
new fiscal year, on the 1st of July.
Some congratulation is due to the Dem
ocratic leaders in the Senate on their wis
dom in advising the members of their
party to make no factious opposition to
the measure. By acting in this conserva-
tive way they will go far to redeem their
party from the folly of the last campaign
and win back the confidence which it lost
by the action of the Chicago convention.
The Democrats will lose nothing by the
course which has been outlined for them.
They would lose much, however, if they
persisted in further opposition to protec-
ton. The country has now finally passed
judgment on that issue, and any party
which proposes any longer to continue
free-tr agitations to disturb business
might just as well make up its mind to re-
tire from politics.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15
NEW TO-DAY:

We tell your doctor all
there is in SCOTS Emulsion,
Just how much cod liver oil,
hypophosphites, glycerine.
But we do not tell him how
these are combined. You
have your secrets; this is
ours. This knack of max
ing the very best thing has
come to us from years of ex-
perience with just one thing.
We make only SCOTS Emul-
sion-all our energy is bent
on making that better than
any other emulsion in the
world. We have no other
business thought. Is it any
wonder that it is thestandardl
scoTT 4 eowHu, Chemists. New York.