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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-01-27
STATES SENATE FOR SILVER.
Take Up the Teller Resolution
\ Stood Al TO 2S.

% Take Up the Teller Resolution
u Stood Al TO es.
fhe United States Senate by vote fH
20 a5, I'd K up the Teller resolution dec'nr-
ing thaA Government bonds may be paid in
silver. fenator Mantle says this vote is
simply q notice to gold men that no bill
proposin& to establish the gold standard
can be pub through the Senate. A dispatch
to the Neky York Herald, in regard to the
vote says3
Ths silver Senators have won the day.
Currency legislation OF any kind by the
By an overwhelming majority the silver
men have demonstrated their complete con-
troll of the United States Senate. They
have forced the Senate to practically de-
clare in favor OF paying United States
bonds in silver dollars. The majority was
obtained by tls combination OF the Demo-
Gratis. Silver Republicans and Populists and
by the votes Of seven Republicans who have
hitherto been aligned with the administra-
tion. Among them was Senator Quay.
The fight occupied less time than 1t takes
to relate its details. There were three en-
gagements. IN the first round the silver
men who were anxious to take up Senator
Teller's resolution providing for the pay
ment OF bonds in silver voted down q mo-
tion to 60 into executive session,
purely antagonistic proposition, by ma
iority of twelve. They followed up this
victory by proceeding to the consideration
OF the resolution, this time obtaining the
large majority ofsixteen. They compieteiy
intrenched themselves few minutes iater
by displacing the Census bill, which was
the regular order, and giving the resoiu.
tion the advantageous position OF unnn-
ished business.
This is the way the Senate divided on the
second and most important vote:
Yeas.-Messrs. Allen. Bacon, Bate, Berry,
Butler, Cannon. Chiffon, Clark. Clay, Cock-
rell, Faulkner, Harris, Heitfeld Jones Ark.6
Kenny. KYLE, McEnery, Mallory, Mantle.
Martin, Mills, Mitchell. Money. Morgan,
Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus, Prttchard,
Quay, Rawlins, Roach, shoup, Stewart,
Teller, Tiliman, Turpic, Vest, Walthau,
Warren, White and Walcott-41.
Nays.-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Baker,
Cullom, Davis, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye,
Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hale, Hanna, Hans
brough, Hoar, Lodge, Moorhil, Mcbride,
Nelson, Plett (Conn.), Proctor, Seweil,
Spooner, Thurston and Wetmore-25.
Senator Murphy, Of New York. and Sena-
tor Smith, OF New Jersey, were absent. ME
Smith was impaired, and Mr.. hurphys
position was only Indirectly asserted by
Mr.. Platt, who said, when his name was
cailed:-'1 have q general pair with my
colleague, and I assume that he would
vote AYE Iwould vote no." Mr.. Cor
man voted with the silver men on the first
call, but was absent and impaired when
the second and more significant vote was
taken.
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gum bough in itynatural stage, bent
with greet ACCURACY to the requisite
position. The front fork Is another
gum boush inits natural state, except
that the parts forming the fork are
bent together, so as TO be parallel This
works through an old wheel box from a
light cart, which IS fixed In the thick
part of the first branch, which forms
the backbone. and an iron rod passed
through near the top serves as handles
md the pedals are ingenious adapta-.
tions of some old iron utensils. The
maker is a Lad Of Il" ~
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THE NEWS sPrToMIzso.
Washington Tfe,n.


na1he President made the followinrtor,.
Me- Jions: Consuls-Charles Burr Torie of
BUD Hampshire, at Saltillo. Mexico; Robert
Iader Malone, OF Virginia, at tNueyo
Nodedo. Mexico; Robert 8. s. Bsrcb. OF
Cain Dakota, at Gothenburg, Sweden:
Bell Bic Ravndal, Of South Dakota, at
70, te House passed the Djp,o,,,,o md
a loI hiar Appropriation bill at tbe end OF
cipats oeoate, in which Cuba wss the prin-
to ref issident McKinley's Cuban g olicy is said
was nam the same as when His message
.distuseht 10 Congress; whil9 no further
Amer, in Havana are expected.
With lean Narships can be iri that harbor
arisea siA hours SHOULD an emergency
Tt.
Gorge H. Murphy. one OF I he cIerts ~ tho
anl lsular Bureau, to 60 at/once 70 Colon
m take charge Of the 6onenl.ta there
de vacant by the death ~ Consn, asbby
aront er of the Currfency Dawes has
IS ie prohibiting National Bank
~ aceep Ting employ ment
,ASS,9 Benjamin Butter
hey has effected reform
!se receptions. He gave
might atIwhioh, while there
Ind brilliant company OF
Was none ofthe crushing that
lormer receptions dreadful for
INK Of.
!itain has again declined the re-
,.Ss,!na the United States to reopen the
President nominated ". J. Mills for
Justice Of the New Mexico Supreme
III.
The Democrats In the House made IN ut
tempt to force consideration OF Cuban
beligerency resolution, but were defeated
after an exciting contest.
The Senate Committee on Finance voted
to rcSort the Teller resolution declaring
for the paymvlt Of national bonds In silver
as well as gold.
House Committee on Election No. re-
ported that Thomas F. Clark pad aban-
doned his contest against Jesse 2. Stallings,
OF the Second Alabama District.
The effort to open the pension arolls for
inspection was begun in Congress, by Mr..
Sulzer, who introduced resolution pro-
vii;ng that Congressmen be permitted to
examine tho list OF pensioners OF their re-
spective districts.
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PRESIDENTS .eAoTHER GIVES UP.
Cuban Rebel omeert and Many Privates
Lay Down Their Arms.

The Spanish authorities report that the
Cuban insurgent general Juan Masso Para,
with the forces under hts command; Lieu
tenant Colonels Augustine Feria and Jose
carmon Hernandez, Majors Feliciano
Quesada Saturnino Leon and victorano
Gomez, with six other officers and ITO pr.
Yates, we'll armed and well supplied with
ammunition, have surrendered in Fomento
to the Spanish General Asuirro and ssnor
Marcos Garcia, Governor OF Santa CARA
province. J.,
The insurgents, it Is said, delivered up
their arms according to the ordinances,
shouting, "Long live Spainp' 'Lons live
the Queen Regentp' "Long live Spanish
,Cuba!'' "Long live autonohy!" General
Juan Masso PARA is brother OF Senior
Bartolomc Masso, President Of the Cuban
Republic
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WHITE ELECTED CHAIRMAN.

Bailey's Friends Mako Him Head OF the
Democratic Congressional Committee.
The New Democratic Congressional Com.
mittee at Washington elected as Chairman
Senator White, of California. The election
has attracted good deal Of attention In
the House, owing to its bearing on the
Speakership contest.
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McKeuua n Confirmed.

The United States Senate confirmed the
Of Joseph McRenpa, Of Cali
fornia, to be an Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court OF the United states. The
opposition to his confirmation MAD mar
rowed down practically to one Inan-Sen-
stor Allen. OF Nebraska. There were few
other Senators who did not consider the
a wise one, hut they we're not
active l
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India,s Plague Grows.

During the last week the deaths in Bonn
bay, India, from the bubonic plague, num-
bered ISL. From all causes there were 1910
deaths. The exodus Is Increasing and
business Is staznapt.
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eompbeto tbe WORK Sne 6taso appfOpi
must be increased to $500, 900. and this the
Road Improvement Association recon-
enends TO the Legislature.
N 1888 and 1894 over "a miles OF new
roads wsre built; In 1895. over 46 miles; in
1896, over 81; making the total length OF
the roads built under the law about I38
miles. for which the State spent &466, $3.50
and the counties and property owners along
Tho l1nes Of roads over 81 ,00o,00e.
q Bufiington County leads In tile extent OF
improved roads, having 61H miles, or
moro than one-fourth the totii, and 1t Is
in thfs county that the rural mill delivery
Evsfam m 20 be tried. Most of tie roads are
built of macadam, but In South Jersey
gravel has been used.
Commissioner Budd says the average
cost por milo has been reduced fully one
third. some roads having been buit at from
5000 70 $4,000 . mile In neighborhoods
where they have been costing from S6oo0
30 e9o00 per mile, and the wearing ability
SFill be as great and In some cases greater.
SOrpositian to the law has changed to en-
thusiasm In It's favor, the Commissioner re
ports. and moro roads are being applied
Tor than can be- built In many years under
the present State appropriation, There Is
I q great demand for the reports OF the New
Jersey Road Commissioner, which shows
that the subject Of good roads isbeing con-
( sidered In many other States.
Nearly all the larger cities and towns
have macsdsmized roads from their cen
kres 10 the farming districts. Union Is
~. Morris. and Passaic have built many
iniles OF road under the county law, but are
.now. embracing the State aid law. The
faxmers have found by experience that the
Increased taxes sit lightly upon them and
ara q small expense compared with the
saving made BY the more easy transporta-'
tion OF their produce 10 markets @ao tne
'lnducenenk II oners 10 city peopieto iocaae
In the country. -
The Ccmmiasiouef says fne Omce Sol Oh h1ao 1aN
sey farmers to try steel tracks for roads.
Such tracks would save four-hfths OF the
power nop expended on macadamxed
road. The nee OF broad tires s recon-
mended. and the report Urges the Legisia-
ture to pass law giving rebate IN taxes
les than three and . half inches Wide.
The work Of abolishng toh ROADS mas
been begun, and two turnpikes 10 Surhns-
ton and Camden counties are % % eon.
demned ss soon as the County. 6oaros OF
Rrseholders ratifY the action OF the ap'
pxa.sers. This viii cost the counties S4S,.
0&S. the property owners SASV4, ana inc
State 81, ,3d7.
Commissioner Budd's report says:
sIt costs OK cents per busnei 10 snip
whsst from Chicago to New fofk, Gus,
sance Of 800 miles; It costs een.s ousnes
to haul wheat ON level soso 9istance W
are miles. and on sanoy roaa s Miu
cost = least eents psf %Ie S,t 80 v;sS aSu nood
roads for distance OF fve miles would pe
about oquiyalent TO that OF e00 miles OF
TRANSFORMATION BY steamer or canal poat, OF
! OF SIS miles by railroad. One mile OF good
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screen Goods" Operators Arreated.

Anthony Comstock, with q Postoface In.
spector and Deputy Marshal, sprangi q trcr
on gang Of "green goods" Operators at
Portchester, N. Y, and arrested George
Morris, who Is apparently the leader. John
Reedy, station agent OF the New York and
Putnam Railroad, and telegraph operator,
tax collector and postmaster at Pocanttco
Hills, NY, was arrested as an accomphce.
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Volunteer Lassie sandbassed.

Volunteer Lassie SandDaSSeus
Miss Lnnie Hughes, private secretary OF
Eailington Booth, was sandbagged in
Orange, n. J. Erich A. Prieman, an ex-
convict who was dropped from the Tolun-
teers, has been arrested for the crime.
Miss Hughes rejected the advances he made
IN her
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-01-27
1Ereaf InducemsnE.

Ny. but. Sales & Specials do a big,
business" IL
"Why shouldn't they? Look at the
,,6ucements they offer-free novels to
irad while you are waiting for your,
rbance.n-Indianapolis Journal.
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A Government Monopoly.

j The Niearaguan Government, in orderts
Increase the public revenues. has ea1eb-
lis6ed monopoly OF the sale Of lead, ps
and cartridges. ~
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III 1900.

He-WM you fy with met g
She Certainly. Bring your airships
around at 8 o'clock and I'D be ready butt
putting on my hat. Then we can start
at 4.-Someryille Journal
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1t is estimated that to about .,ove,,
600 persons in this. country
contributes means Of liyeiihooo.
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Yar,c., :, :, 10Th ways.

.n,,,or.Thls Is an unappreclatiye {
,rnr,a why.ff I had written whes
~ E d.,est ,,ay Written ] wouIdn't be tam
CRITIC THAT may be true. and if Fadl
dast lad written estun You write be
didn't be famors, either.y
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NEW JERSEYS ROADS.
Chosen For Experiment in Free Rural
Postal Delivery.
ROAD COMMISSIONERS REPORT.

If>DeeIares That Great Work is Going on
Under the Good Roads Law-Farmers
g Are Brossht Much Nearer to Markets
= Opposition GivAs Way to Enthusiasm-
New JERSEY Leads>In Improved Roads.
: TRExroS, N. J. (spe,iao.-The New Jer-
sey State Road improvement Association
has selected q route from Riverton to Gin
naminson, Moorestown, Stanwick, Bridge
boro. Riverside and back to Riverton, on
which the Postofice Department Aili try
she ezpsri~.- I iI60|1 In IN
rursi - "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

There may be some pretty fair poker
playing nowadays, but nothing that will
hold candle to the sort that the old-time
sports enjoyed in the days when DR.. Craw-
ford and CID Perkins were the acknowl-
edged kings of draw. said Mr. F. M.
Fairburn of Cincinnati. according to the
Washington Post
Perk,' as the boys called him, was the
smoothest article that ever shuffied deck,
and 1t is related that he once won SIS 900
on a single hand but 1 will not vouch for
the figures myself. Anyway, he had never
met his match at poker till fate threw DR..
Crawford in his way. The doctor was from
Dublin, Ireland, and a typical soldier Of
fortune. He and Perkins met on a rail-
road train, bound for Cincinnati and it
was not long after their acquaintance that
a proposition to play cards was made and
accepted.
Perkins was an illiterate man; he could
neither read nor write, and the major part
of his nose was missing-the result of a
personal difficulty. The loss of a large
piece of that organ caused him to talk
through his nose In a way that was pc
culiarly comical. His opponent was a pol
ished man of the world, and proved to be
as much superior to the uncouth Perkins
at poker as he was socially.
1.-THE game must have been a great one,
from all accounts, and Perkins resorted TO
every smart trick of manipulation that he
knew, but he was outclassed and was
loser from the start.
Finally he had all his remaining funds
showed up in a pot and DR.. Crawford
showed down the best hand, breaking
Perk' completely The defeated gambler
never swore an oath, nor could any one
tell from the workings of his face that he
was the least bit sore over the loss of a
huge pile of bills.
"TIe looked long and with keen scrutiny.
however, into the face of the man who
had bested him. and the only words he
uttered We're: Your tougher than leath-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16
THE KA1sER,s PILGRIMAGE.

The Emperor William is doubtless glad
that he changed his mind about going
to Egypt. His original programme in
Guided that country in his pilgrimage to
the Holy Land. But If anarchists await
ed his coming to Alexandria will they not
seek him out at some other point on his
route? He is going to Constantinople as
well as to Jerusalem. There will be
plenty of opportunities along the route
for anarchists to attack him. He will
of course be we'll guarded, and the
chances are that 1t will not be possible
for the assassins to reach him.
But what is the Emperor's purpose in
visiting Jerusalem at this time? No one
seems to be able to give a satisfactory
answer to that question. There are
guesses in all the capitals of Europe. and
no two guesses, so far as they have ap-
peared in the public prints, are alike. One
guess is that he has an idea of colonizing
Syria with Germans and making a Ger
man province out of it. Another is that
he intends to have some sort of ceremony
performed at Jerusalem that would indi-
cate that he regards himself, or wishes
himself to be regarded, as the head of the
Christian world. That is so ridiculous,
however, that it is not worth second
thought.
The probability is that he is going to
Palestine for the same reasons that other
devout Christians go there. He wants TO
see the land in which Christianity had its
origin and he desires to visit the tomb of
the Saviour. If he should do or say moth
ing sensational the world would be great
ly disappointed, and the chances are that
il wall be disappointed. The Emperor
wants a change of scene and new expert
ences, and if the anarchists let him alone
he will have them on his Holy Land
trip.
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sible to keep him. And that is about the
feeling of the Northerners generally.
But they lose no opportunity 20 make an
outcry about the treatment Of the negro
in the South, ignoring the fact that the
negro. when he goes North. gets much
worse treatment than he ever received in
the South
They were Northerners who, at the meet
ing of railroad men in Atlanta the other
day, wanted all negro workmen on South
ern roads smissed-dismissed was not
exactly what they wanted they wanted
them driven from the roads
AS a matter Of fact the negro has very
little chance at the North to get ahead in
the world. There are but few occupations
open to him there. There is much talk
in that section in his behalf, but the talk
means that there is a disposition to in
sist that the Southern people shall make
greater concessions to the negroes than
the Northern people are willing TO make
20 them. VIII the Republican party of Hi
nois repudiate Gov. Tanners treatment OF
the Alabama negroes? 1t certainly will
not. Tanner represented fairly the spirit
of that party
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16
A Country correspondence,

Dear Editor: write a line
From Chigger Ridge to say
That craps is lookin middlin' fine,
Leas' wise, they pear that way.
OF Bony Tank hez beat the race
For bailiff o. Mud Hill,
He got sech a start o. Charley Chase
They say he's runnin' still
Pete Pike is wearin' smiles o. joy,
An steppin' high aroun'-
This is his thirteenth bouncin' boy
An weighs jes thirteen poun'
Camp meetin closed a-Saddy las,
A free-foot washin', too,
1t lacked the warmth O. meetin's pas,
An feet wuz lookin' blue
An Nellie Mogg an Tackey Num-,
Run off from home to mate
The Of man got thar with his gun
Jes' twenty minutes late.
They had a shin-dig 'tother night
At Pelog Folks, O. course
Them low down gowns wuz out o. sight
Communion thar wuz close.
The still down at the HoIler Hive
Hors up for meetin' straight;
The Sunday hours is eight to five,
An then from five till eight.
The farmers roun' is raisiu' cane,
Their rains is good fer SIGH;
Can't raise NOR gage, tho, it'e plain,
Hain't none a-gettin' rich.
But news is sca'ce an times is hard,
More dots another time
Z n SO l SEN you my regard,
An sign my name, VIII Rhine.
ID. G. Bickers.
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Tanner and the Coal Company.
From the Chicago Chronicle Dem.).


Gov Tanner has no right to demand Of
this company whether or not it employs
Illinois labor exclusively or whether or
not 1t employs exclusively union labor. The
time has not come in Illinois nor In this
country when the right of an individual to
live and labor and make his own contract
can be denied and Gov. Tanner cannot I'M
dertake to refuse peace and order to the
people of Macoupin county because the
company fancies that It can make money
by importing labor from other states. But
there is nothing in the law which COM
pels the executive, while preserving and
maintaining order at all cost, to conduct
a private business. The men, union or nom
union, whom the coal company chooses to
employ are entitled to full protection if
their lives or limbs are menaced by per-
sons whose places they take. They have
been guilty of no crime; their necessities
doubtless have compelled them to accept
what wage a tariff-protected company
chooses to give them.
There ought not to be any confusion In
the popular mind concerning the relative
duties of the company and the state The
state must preserve order. But the state Is
under no obligation while preserving or
der TO run the business of a private cor
poration. That business may be conducted
as its responsible owners see fit as long
as il is done without tumuH or disorder or
trespass upon the rights of anyone else.
The governments sole duty in the prem
ises Is TO preserve order.
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THEY LIKE THEM AT A DISTANCE.

1t has not been so many years since
Lovejoy, Lincoln and other Illinois Repub-
leans made their voices heard through all
the land in behalf of the negTo-particu-
larly the negro of the South. The other
day, when a train load of negroes, who
we're being taken from Alabama to that
state to work in the coal mines, were fired
into by a crowd of striking miners, and
quite number of them killed, the act had
the approval of the Republican Governor
of that state How times have changed!
OF course, Gov. Tanner did not say that
he was glad that the negro miners had
been attacked by the strikers and some
of them killed. but he said that the ne
groes had no business in the state and
that the company, which was instrumental
in bringing them there would, in all prob
ability, be indicted. He made 1t quite
clear that no negro laborers were wanted
in Illinois.
He is typical Republican. He has use
for the negroes about the time the Re-
pubicans hold Their conventions and at
elections. At other times he wants the
negro as far away from him as II is pos
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

The New York Journal OF Commerce has
found out from inquiries addressed to
bankers in different parts of the South
that five-cent cotton does not mean bust
ness or industrial depression in the South
ern states. The sum and substance of
what the bankers TOLD the Journal of Com
merce is that the cotton growers are pro-
ducing cotton at much less cost now than
it was produced ten or fifteen years ago,
and that they are, TO a great extent pro-
ducing their own food supplies.
No doubt there is a small margin of pro
fit in cotton at five cents, but it is so
sman that a large percentage of cotton
farmers have very little money for luxu-
ries after they have paid their taxes and
provided themselves with the barest neces-
saries of life. 1t can be stated that the
South isn't going to get rich very fast
on five-cent cotton. Cotton at that price
means very low wages for the farm la
borer, and in proportion as his wages are
cut down the business of the country mer-
chants, and of course the wholesale mcr-
chants, is reduced. A cent a pound in the
price of cotton makes a difference of fully
100000 600 in the amount of money distrib-
uted in the cotton belt In a season.
The low price of cotton is due of course,
to the fact that more cotton is produced
than the world wants at price that would
yield the cotton growers fair profit. The
South can get along when cotton is only
five cents a pound, but at that price she
will MOI make rapid progress in accumu-
lating wealth. The cotton growers at one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

1t was provided in the win of the late
Jay Gould that If either of his children
married without the consent of the major
lty of the others, or the surviving execu-
tors of his will, the inherited fortune of
the child so marrying should be reduced
one-half. Howard Gould is understood to
have married Miss Clemmons the other
day against the wishes of his brothers and
sisters; nevertheless it is stated that he
will not be required 10 lose half of his in
heritance. for the reason that the Gould
children are tired of the courts and the
law and hence will not make any protest
against the marriage of their brother.