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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
The Conquest of Diphtheria.

In a treatise on diphtheria and its
treatment by serotherapy, shortly to
be published, DIR. Charles Richet, who
was the first to apply the serum inlec-
tions made famous by the work of DR..
Roux at the Pasteur Institute, Paris,
gives some interesting statistics on the
practical results attained since the dis
covery and application of the method.
He goes back thirty years for statls-
tics relative to the mortality caused by
diphtheria.
In 1867, when the population OF
Paris was just half what it is now,
there were 696 deaths from the
scourge. From that year they in
creased gradually until 1872, when
they attained the number OF 1135, and
did not fall again below 1000 until
after the discovery of serotherapy. In
1875 diphtheria caused 1900 deaths,
and in 1877, 1890. For three consecu-
tive years then the average was over
2OOO. 1t fell little afterward, butup
to 1894 the annual average ranged be-
tween 400 and 1000.
In September, 1894, the RCux
method was applied, and at once be-
came widely used. For the year 1894
(only four months of wk:ch should be
counted) the deaths fell to $50. In
1895 there were but 440, and last year
only 423. 1t would seem, then, that
serotherapy has reduced the mortality
in diphtheria to an average of less than
one-third of that which was main
tanned for quarter Of century.
If the statistics be examined, not
year by year, but by periods OF two
weeks, the improvement is even more
marked, not only in true diphtheria,
but also in diphtheratic affections. In
the years up to 1894, for instance,
there were never less than forty deaths
from Group in any fortnight; but since
that year there have never been more
than six for a like period. In short,
since the introduction of serotherapy,
even in the most unfavorable weeks,
the mortality has been invariably less
than half the average for the years
1s67-94, and many times only one
tenth as great.-New York Sun.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
SOUTH CAROLINA AT PARIS.
This State Urged to Prepare for the
Big Exposition.

This State Urged to Prepare for the
Big Exposition.
Governor Ellerbe is in receipt of q
letter from Federal Secretary of State
Sherman urging him to take immediate
steps towards securing representation
for this State in the Paris Exposition.
In his letter Secretary Sherman says:
In this aspect of the matter, and with
special reference to that provision OF
the law which requests the Governors
of the several States and Territories to
make q proper representation OF the
productions of our industries and natur-
al resources of the country and to take
such further measures as may be ceces-
ary in order to secure to their respective
States and Territories the advantages
to be derived from this benefcent un-
dertaking. l desire to respectfully urge
the propriety as we'll as the necessity,
of Immediately taking steps to secure
representations of the natural and in
dustrial resources of your State, to the
end that an exhibit on behalf of the
government of the United States befit-
ting in material and industrial impor-
tance may be assured.
The report of Major Handy, when
laid before Congress, will upon its pub
lication by that body, be sent to you,
and it is believed that further CORES
pondence with him upon the subject
cannot fail to produce beneficial re.
suits.
1 bespeak your earnest and hearty CO.
operation in this matter IN whatever way
you may think the object can best be
accomplished.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN SHERMAN.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
A Mother and Child Drowned Near
Georgetown.

n MOtner aRu CnhQ drowned NcaE
georgetown.
A shocking accident occurred on the
bar Of North Inlet, near Georgetown,
the details OF which are indeed pa
thetic: A young fisherman by the name
Of s. 7. Leonard with his family, con-
sisting Of his wife and young child,
were going into the inlet when their
small sailboat struck a shoal and
capsized. The mother, holding on
to her baby, was recovered by
the husband and both had hopes Of
escaping watery grave. A second
wave, however, released their hold on
the regained boat and for the second
time the mother with her child was
washed away. Weak from struggling
with the waves, but nothing daunted
in the work of saving those dearest
to him, the anxious husband and father
once again rescued his wife and child.
But fate had ordained it otherwise and
the mothers strength completely failing
her, she kissed her little treasure and
surrendered it to the next terrible
wave that engulfed them. Her husband
reaching her again for the fourth time,
she clasped him around the neck, kiss
ed him and sank into Inconsistencies
as the next black swell of the sea separ-
ated her from him and carried her into
its depths and eternity.
Mr.. Leonard reached the beach in an
exhausted state and was picked up and
carried to the opposite shore and thence
to his home TO which the small family
had been making. The body of the in
FAINT only was recovered.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
20. P.o GOODS.
Some Legislators Want to Retaliate
on the Railroads.


on the Railroads.
It is understood that the wholesale
liquor dealers who have opened original
package stores in the State are going to
pack the different bottles in wooden
boxes and thus give the railroads no
excuse for refusing to accept shipments.
According to the Savannah Morning
News the dealers in that city have been
paying q great deal of attention to this
matter aud have been schemlnS and
devising to evolve some scheme to ship
LIQUORS in accordance with the circulars
of the railroads, and do so at the least
possible extra expense.
A legislator who was in the city C
day or two ago referring to this matter
said that he expected under the circum-
stances to see all railroads hauling
original packages again. Being firm
friend of the dispensary he was inclined
to make threats about what would be
done by the Legislature, although no
legislation ought to be for revenge.
This law-maker said, however, that
the "Jim Grow" car bill, would be again
introduced in the Legislature and that
it would be pushed much more actively
than it had ever been and that Ihe be-
lieved all friends of the dispensary
would vote for it and that the prospect
of its passage, in his opinion, was
good.
The railroads have always opposed
the institution of the "Jim Crow" car,
because it would require them to separ-
ate white and colored passengers and
give each equal accommodations and
coveniences. They have held that such
a law would put them to extra and un-
necessary expense.
The same legislator intimated that
there would be a great deal of railroad
legislation next session, the idea being
evidently that if the railroads are to
haul original packages, the Legislature
will retaliate.
The question arises whether there
will be enough votes in that body to
carry out these retaliatory schemes?--
The Register.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
Child Sent by Post.

A novel parcel for delivery by e1.
press post was recently handed in at
a Birmingham (England) Postofice.
A workingman, who had been out OF
town with his three-year-old child, ar
rived at Birmingham in time to reach
his place of business, but not in sufi-
cient time to take his child home. Be,
therefore walked into the nearest post
Office and rendered the youngster as
an express parcel. The authorities,
under the rule regulating the delivery
of live animals, accepted the child and
delivered it at charge Of nine pence.
st. James's Gazette.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
POPULAR SCIENCE,

The habits of ants are more like
those of a man than are the habits of
any other of the lower animals.
The Bethlehem Penn. Iron Com
pany successfully cast the tube for the
first sixteen-inch gun to be constructed
in this country. More than 100 gross
tons of metal were used. The casting
is nineteen feet six inches long and
seventy-four inches in diameter.
The biggest brain in existence is
that of the elephant, though not in
proportion to the size of the animal.
But the matter of proportion does not
seem to be of absolute Importance asan
index of mentality. There is little
South American monkey, which,
though not particularly intelligent, has
o brain bigger than mans relatively
to size.
That insects have an acute sense OF
taste is assumed from the way in
which they pick out the sort of food
they want to eat. Sir John Lubbock
made many experiments, from which
he drew the conclusion that ants have
an excellent sense of smell. The
same authority states that insects are
able to hear sounds which are entirely
beyond our range Of perception.
There are 10 mountains in Colo
RADIO whose peaks are over II, 600 feet
above the ocean level Forty OF these
are higher than IA, 900 feet, and more
than half of that number are so re-
mote and rugged that no one has
dared to attempt to climb them. Some
of them are massed with snow, others
have glaciers over their approaches,
and others are merely masses of Jagged
| rocks.
The needle of compass does not
point directly to the north. In the
first place, the north magnetic pole
does not coincide with the north pole,
and then east or west of zigzag line
which moves east and west the needle
of compass points west or east OF the
north magnetic pole. A ships COM
passes have to be corrected and the
variation determined once or twice
year, at all events.
Within few years the question has
been raised whether sun spots are
really depressions, or holes, in the
SUMS surface, as they have generally
been considered to be by astronomers.
Professor Ricco, of Catania, concludes
as the result of long series OF obser-
vations, not only that the spots are
cavities in the sun, but that their
depth can be approximately measured.
He states that the average depth OF
twenty-three sun spots measured by
| him was about 640 miles.
The pigment in the human skin has
been recent subject Of investigation
by NJ. Bruel, who finds the coloring
matter to be distributed in patches in
the interior of the epithelial cells, the
tissue between the cells being color,
less even in black races. The pigment
itself may be quite black, or of any
shade up to light yellow. The diff
ference in the color of races depends
upon this difference in the shade OF
the pigment, the distribution Of the
coloring matter being the same in all
races, and the actual amount probably
| the same. Z
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
CURIOUS FACTS.

The firm of Black & Green, paint
dealers of Sandusky, Ohio, has been
dissolved.
There is a colt in the English Derby
of 1899 named "Neurasthenipponske.
lesteriZo.
The Red Lion, an inn at Ardmore,
Penn, has been a licensed public
house for 100 years.
Mrs. J. P. Miller, of Chicago, has
in her possession the sword which
Lord Byron carried in the war for
Grecian independence.
Blondel, the harper, did not discover
the prison of King Richard. Richard
paid his ransom, and the receipt for it
is among the Austrian archives.
Horatius never defended the bridge.
The story was manufactured by the
same gifted author who gave the world
the account of Scaevola's heroism.
Mrs. Nancy Baker, q cripple seven
ty-fve years old, of Valley View, Ky,
put her hand in hens nest in which
she had placed twelve small chickens,
and found fve-foot snake which had
swallowed six of them. Her son killed
the snake.
II. J. Jones, of Cincinnati, bought
violin a few years ago for S75 and
gave it to his daughter. While it was
beingrepaired gently he accidentally
discovered that it vas an instrument
he himself had made in 1S4S as an ex-
pertinent and sold it for So.
At Trier the remains of a large
Roman house have been excavated. 1t
faced on the main street OF the old
Roman city. A richly-colored mosaic
floor and the first window discovered
in Roman building are the most in
teresting things brought to light.
A West Auburn Me. man agreed
to share the blueberries in his pasture
with a neighbor and to placard the
pasture to keep others out. After the
placards were put up his neighbol
picked half the blueberries and told
the owner that his were on the bushes
ready to be picked.
A Caribou (Me.) farmer grubs
stumps by building q fence around
them, poking some wheat under them
in holes made with a crowbar, and then
turning two hungry hogs loose in the
inclosure. The hogs root for the wheat
and break up the dirt so that the
stumps may be dragged out easily.
In view of the computed seven thou
sand earthquakes within historic times
twenty-nine of which destroyed nearly
one and a half millions of lives, i
is some relief to know that the shocks
are proof that the earth is alive. Wher
its seas and air shall have been alb
sorbed, it will be q quiescent deac
globe like the moon.
Mary Cryan, of New York, was
young and pretty, but she had an ey'
to the future, and was fearful OF be
coming too fat to conform to the usua
standard of beauty. This fear preyec
on her mind so much that she finally
became insane, and while crossing th'
river on a ferryboat jumped off tht
deck and was drowned.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
WILL FIGHT THE TAX.
Greenville Original Dealers up in
Arms

Greenville Original Dealers up in
Arms.
a special to the Register from Green
vile, says that the publication of the
tax ordinance aimed at original package
houses has stirred up the dealers, and
it is probable that judicial fight will
result. The proprietors of the original
package houses were visited to ascer-
tain their views of the ordinance. 1t
was the general opinion of each that u
tax should be paid the city, but that
under the rulings of Judge Simonton
the city could not enforce the ordinance.
They considered the tax unreasonable
and entirely out of proportion tosthe
business done.
The original package men are lot
defnant or aggressive, but from what
they say it is certain that they Viii
make fight against the city. One of
them said that there would be meet,
ing of all engaged in the business, and
that this meeting would decide what
steps would be taken.
The city authorities are firm and pro.
pose to test the right of foreign estab.
lishments to locate in the city and do
business without paying for the
privilege. The contention of the city
is that there is no icepse, but simply
q special tax on business done.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
: AFTER FOUKIEEN YEARS
A Deserted Wife Finds Her Recreant
Husband Married Again.

A Deserted Wife Finds Her Recreant
Husband Married Again.
A special to the Register from Man
ming says Charleston woman created
o sensation on the courthouse square,
when she was seen sitting on the steps
of the courthouse expostulating on her
rights as the wife of J. NJ. Their, Of
this town. Their has been living here
about ten years and was married to q
Miss Andrews. The first Mrs. Their
had her marriage certificate with her
and her youngest child, hoy now Is
years old. Their left her suddenly
fourteen years ago with this-boy an
infant in her arms. She also has two
other children, boy of 20 and girl
of Il.
She accidentally learned of Thier's
whereabouts by an application filed in
Charleston by him to get his pension
money, he having been a Yankee sol
dier. She Immediately boarded the
train and came to Manning, and has
pat in her claim for her pro rata of this
pension money. She denounces Thier
and does not want him, but wants the
money. She sent for Ihier, who reiuc-
family came. She was determined to
revenge herself by prosecuting him for
bisamy, but on an assurance from
Thier that if she would stay the pro-
ceedings he would give her share of
his pension she acquiesced. She re.
turned to Charleston with her son.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
WHISKEY BY WAGON.
New Kind Of Original Package Store
in Chester.

A two-horse wagon load of whiskey
in bottles pscked in sawdust has ar
rived in Chester. The agent, Mr.. d.
S. McCarter, rented q vacant store
room on Wall street and opened his
establishment as agent for A. c. Nc
Carter, manufacturer and distiller, of
Kings Mountain, n. G. There are
several more wagon loads on the read,
which will arrive in day or so. .!.-uch
speculation is INDUCED in as to the
outcome of these original package
stores-whether they ore protected by
Judge Simonton's Injunction or not.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The State dispensary authorities have
at last paid into the State Treasury the
entire amount of S1SS, 800. 40 due the
State on the general fund, and it is
now considered that the State has been
relieved from the necessity of borrow
ing money to meet the current expenses
of the government.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Gov. Ellerbe has offered reward of
$50 for the apprehension with proof to
convict of the party or parties who re-
Gently fired upon w. N. Hasel from
ambush in Saluda county. This was
the second attempt to take Mr.. Hasels
life in this manner, he having been
badly wounded several months ago.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

VIM. Lyttle, a citizen of Spartan
burg, has been arrested there for
counterfeitipg. He waved a prelimi-
nary investigation and gave bond for
S5, 900 for his appearance at the United
States court at Greenville.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

A crowd of negroes were in the woods
gambling, near Kelton and they had
quarrel over the cards. One Of them
named Bird, shot and killed another
named Henderson. Bird walked of
and has not been arrested.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Rabt. A. Van Wyck, Tammany's
candidate for mayor of New York, is re-
membered by old settlers in Greenville.
He was born near Pendleton, his
mother being Miss Maverick, of Ander-
son county.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The new county seat Of Saluda,
through the enterprise OF Messrs. j. A.
Attaway and Alvin Ethridge, has
placed herself n touch with the outside
world by building telephone line from
Saluda 10 Johnson.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

In turning curve third Of mile
beyond Hilton, Lexington county, the
down train from Laurens, oyer the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens rail
road, struck and Instantlp killed John
Henry Haltiwanger, 65 years of age,
who was slowly walking on the track.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

In view Of the sharp competition of
the original package concerns the State
Board Of Control has decided to change
dispensary hours from s a. m. to 6 p.
m, to the full constitutional limit
from the rising of the sun to the setting
of the same.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

A meeting of road commissioners will
be one feature of the State fair and diff
ferent towns in the State are already
electing delegates. The subject OF
good roads will be thoroughly talked
over and some plan will be decided
upon that will enable all the counties
to have roads that will be dream to the
people who travel them.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

( 4 eless personal friend of the Hon.
w. 81 Talbert, and one who said he
led anthority to speak in the matter,
sc}s fh6t there was no truth in the al
leeed eabernatorial candidacy Of Mr..
TSbeM Mr.. Talbert this friend
stttsd, would not oppose Governor Ell.
i1kbe, but would try to succeed himself
) "a Congress. The Register.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The following charters have been
granted by the Secretary of State:
Cheraw Agricultural Fair association,
of Cheraw; the Charleston Fire De-
partment Aid association; the George:
town Grocery Company. The capital
stock of the latter is to be $50, 00O
divided into shares at 800 each.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

It is very probable that among the
strong attractions at the State fair this
year will be Pains new and brilliant
ssBsttle Of Bunker Hill, or the Spirit
Of 1776, and that three exhibitions Of
this justly celebrated spectacular per-
formance viii be given during the
week, followed each night by Pains
thousand dollar fireworks display.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The Secretary of State has issued
commissions to 1.-The Carolina Loan
aud Trust Company, of Greenville,
and s'The Mutual Manufacturing and
Cold Storage Company" of Charles
ton.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
Property in Three Cities.

The value of the house property OF
London is So, 1866, 900, 900 that of Paris
81, ,4sO, 900, 900, that of New York 81
355. 600. 900.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The Secretary of State has issued a
commission to A. W. Love, G. B.
White, I. n. Cross, S. NJ. Jones and
A MI. Aiken as corporators of the
Chester Telephone company of Chester.
The capital stock is to be $4,000, di-
vided into shares of $40 each.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Harris Nickel Plate Shows refused
to give their performance in Bennetts-
Vile because the county tax had to be
paid in advance.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14
REWARD FOR AMbUSHERS.
Armstrong, a Member Of the Legis-
Iature, Dies at Fire.
SOME NEW CHARTERS GRANTED
Pardons Granted--Winthro Open
ing--Dispensing Back Prohts-Otner
Palmetto Happenings.

The Winthrop College at Rock Hill,
opened with prospects for q bright
year. To make room for more pupils
in the dormitories, many of the teach
ers are boarding in the vicinity this
term. In that way room has been
made for about forty more dormitory
students than last year. These quar-
ters being fully taken up, brings the
number to about 2sO or more living
there, while un der the supervision OF
the teachers who board out, many more
are being accommodated. Although the
college Las only been open for afew days
everything is running along as smooth
Us clock work under President John
sons able supervision.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

DR.. S. NJ. Dayega's sanitarium, at
Chester is to be enlarged by the addl-
ton of twelve rooms to accommodate
new patients.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

A meeting of the Western Carolina
Game Protective Association was held
at Greenville at the Office of the presi-
dent, C. F. Dill. Action was taken
along the line of enforcing the game
laws, especially the shooting OF quail
before the season opens on Nov. l. 1t
is said that gunners are already hunt
ing birds and the association will in
yestigate the matter.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The South Carolina Synod will be
held in the Presbyterian church at
Darlington commencing OF the 2Sth of
October.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

The laying of the cornerstone OF the
new court house, on October Goth,
will attract large crowd to Ander-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

WYATT Aiken is urged as candidate
for Congress from Abbeville.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Gov. Ellerbe has granted full par
don 70 Norton Marion, who was con-
victed during the last month in Oconee
county Of the violation of the dispen-
sary law aud sentenced to sixty days on
the county chaingapg. The pardon
was granted upon the presentation of
strong petitions.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Governor Ellerbe has appointed Col.
John P. Thomas State historian, to sue
ceed the late iamented Gen. Hugh L.
: Farley.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Gafney has presented her magnifi-
cent S12. 000 city hall and its handsome
grounds to Cheroke county for court
house.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-14

Senator McLaurin pledges himself to
support the repeal of the prohibltlve
Federal tax on State banks and the
creation of State bank currency.