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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
Accused of Theft.

Jocob s. Wilson, colored, who was
appointed under civil service rules as
janitor at the United States custom
house at Charleston, has been suspend
ed by order of collector Tolbert, who IS
also custodian of the building. The
young negro lad had not been in the
employ of the government very long
but since his arrival at the custom
house small articles of personal value
began to disappear. Such things as
stamps, bicycle lanterns, glasses. etc,
were seen in their proper places in the
morning and in the evening they had
gone. No one knew what caused the
trouble until collector Tolbert and
deputy collector Ostendorf caught jan
itor Wilson quietly helping himself to
q demijohn of liquor that had been
placed in the collectors private office
for safe keeping.
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In Fine Condition.

The fourth annual report of the
Southern Railway Company for the
year ending June 30, 1898, has just
been issued. 1t is a complete and
comprehensive statement of the great
railways business affairs, and shows a
most encouraging increase in receipts
and profits over the preceding year in
all branches. The report shows the
gross earnings of the road from opera
tions to have been S21, 095, S3S. IS; the
operating expenses and taxes Sl4, SOL
S64. "a, a gross increase of 80, 0l6, 33S. 81
over 1897, which makes the net earn
ings from operation Sc. 593, 974. 81, a
net increase of STAT, 63O 40. The state
ment then shows the net income from
other sources, and other expenditures,
as interest, rentals, and others, which
leaves balance carried to the profit
and loss of 81, OO7, Ola. 09, or an increase
Of S56l, 003. "A.
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NEW INDUSTRY FOR GREENVILLE.
A Roller Mill for Cotton and Corn Being
Erected.

A Roller Mill for Cotton and Corn Being
Erected.
Work was begun recently on another
enterprise which is indlca-
tive of prosperity and success, and adds
another to Greenville's factories: The
concern is the Eagle Roller Mill, and
the officers are r, E. Allen, president;
d. ID. Davenport, vice president, and
W. l.. Gassaway, secretery and treas
urer. The mill will be situated at the
Pendleton street crossing Of the
Columbia and Greenville railroad. The
main building will be 80 feet long and
four stories high, with all the latest
improved flour and grist mill machln..
cry. The engine and boiler room OF
one story will make the entire building
90 feet long. The capacity of the mill
will be 1,5OO bushels of grain day,
and as machinery will be put IN Tor
both wheat and corn, the OUTPUT Will
be about G5 barrels of flour per day,
the rest in meal and grits.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08

The authorities of Portland, Ore,
believe that they have solved the
problem of economical street sprink-
ling, and the explanation of the way
they do it is revelation Of how that
far Western city is gridironed with
street railways. There are at least
thirty miles of track within the city,
as the contract for sprinkling covers
that amount of highway on which
rails are laid. Each mile of the thir-
ty is to be sprinkled once daily, Sun
days excepted, the work to be done
by the street railroad company with a
motor sprinkling cart. The city fur
nishes the watee and the railroad COM
pany distributes it for S4OO a month.
Not counting the cost of the water, the
expense is about S13 per mile per
month. That is certainly less than 1t
would cost the city to do the work
through its street department. The
cost per city lot of fifty feet frontage
is about seven cents a month.
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SECONDPR|hhRY necessary
EIIerbe and Featherstone Will Make
the Race.
SILENT VOTE IN EVIDENCE.
Election Was One of the Quietest Ever Held
in the State-The Congressional Can.
didateS.

In the primary the ''sileut vote" was
much in evidence. The election was
one of the quietest from all accounts
ever held in the State. A total Of &c.
173 votes was cast, which go to the
several candidates for Governor as fol-
lows, indicating that Mr.. Featherstone
is to make the second race with Gov
ernor Ellerber in the second primary:
Ellerbe, "a, rs; Featherstone, 14,914:
Schumpert, 2,9C1; Tillman, 10, 32l; Wat
son, 3, 472; Whitman, l05.
Congressman Elliott and Talbert had
no opposition. Congressman Latimer
heads all competitors, and is safe. Con-
gressman Strait race is close. In Con-
gressman Wilson's district it is also
close. Stokes is -e.elected. Norton also
seems safe.
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The New York Tribune says -
Amid all the talk about German in
terests at Manila, it is well to bear in
mind that there are only four German
trading g-houses in that city, that there
is no direct line of vessels between
Germany and the Philippines, and
that no cargoes are ever sent from
either country to the other. The
amount of German trade must there
fore be small. 1t could not we'll be
large. The chief products Of the is
lands are sugar, hemp and copra. Ev-
identity no sugar could be sent to
Germany, which is sugar-exporting
country. The hemp goes to al parts
of the world, but chiefly by way Of
Great Britain. The copra is practi-
cally all taken by Great Britain and
France. The tobacco, now minor
product, goes chiefly to Spain, or did
before Admiral Dewey interfered
with the trade. 1t is one thing to
protect existing interests. 1t is an
other and very different thing to try
to establish new interests.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08

APennsylvania commission, charged
with the difficult task of fevising
some means whereby convict labor
can be utilized without interfering
with union labor, has found, after two
years Of inquiry, nothing better, un-
der existing statute restrictions, than
the New York plan of utilizing such
labor in the making of supplies for
state institutions. The members of
the commission approve of the Euro
pean plan of making army stores and
equipments in the prisons. That plan,
of course, is not applicable in this
country, where ordinarily there is no
such demand for war material, but
Pennsylvania is supporting 80, 900 in
sane in its various hospitals, and it is
believed that the furnishing of sup
plies for that INDECENT army would
keep all the prison inmates in the
state busy.
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SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN.
Cotton Opening freeIy-0Id Corn FULLY
Made,


Considerable fodder was saved IN
fairly good condition, but much was
damaged by rain. Old corn is fully
made, but it is too wet to gather and
huose 1t. Stubble-land corn not doing
we'll generally.
Cotton is opening freely, and picking
has commenced over the State general
ly. Rust is widely prevalent, while
shedding and rotting of bolls continue
to reduce the yield prospects. 1t is
stated that the large "weed" has
caused the crop to be overestimated.
Sea Island cotton looks yellow, Is she'd
ing, and blooming to the top.
Some pea vines have been cut, but
they do not cure we'll. A heavy crop
of grass for hay awaits favorable
weather for cutting. Sweet potatoes,
chufas, pinders, and cane are doing
nicely. Rice harvest has begun, but
the weather was unfavorable, and much
rice awaits favorable weather for cut
ting. The rice crop has been some
what damaged recently. Pastures con-
tinue excellent.
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NATIVE COREAN COSTUMES.
They Wear Thickly Padded Stockings
All Summer.

Corea Is the land Of white garments
and black hats. All the men in this
country, except coolies, wear either
white or blue long foEiSsSswRs. Get,
ton and silk goods age worn in winter
and linen and hemp in summer. Dur
ing the last several years great deal
Of silk has been imported, both from
China and Japan, the native article be-
ing Of little value.
The ordinary street gown generally
has three broad flaps, one Of which
hangs down the back and the other
two in front overlap each other, then
are tied with a pair of long ribbons
of the same material. The flaps reach
within few inches Of The ground. The
gown has very wide and long sleeves,
in each Of which one might carry
baby without its being noticed, and
they are long enough to conceal the
hand completely, while ILL extension OF
the sleeve reaches almost as low as the
flaps above mentioned. Another gown
of the same pattern. except with short
er and narrower sleeves, is always
worn under the first. But persons in
the Government service, including all
members of the nobility, wear gown
having from one to three large flaps,
which are broad toward the ends. This
gown, with the exception Of its sleeves,
is more like the dress Of an American
girl of II or II. 1t is always made Of
fine goods, well starched, and on windy
days it's flaps and sleeves create quite
a futtering and rustling noise in the
streets. The winter coats and trou-
sers-the latter always white-are very
large and heavily padded with cotton.
A most singular thing is that the hose
worn by Coreans are always thickly
padded in summer as we'll as In winter;
consequently, every one seems to have
thick and large feet, although quite the
contrary is true.
The ordinary street hats have broad
brims and high crowns. They are
made Of fine bamboo splits and are COW
cred with fine linen cloth and then lac
quered with black. Hats covered with
silk are worn by people of rank. Per-
sons in mourning for their parents
wear hats as large as umbrellas and Of
similar shape. They are made Of coarse
bamboo splits without any covering OF
cloth. 1t is customary for every MOURN
er to carry a little hempen screen at
tached to the ends of two bamboo
sticks held up conveniently in front OF
his face. These uncomfortable trap
pings are intended to indicate his re-
gret that he did not make his parent
or parents happier while they were llV-
Ing. So it is that for period of one OF
two years he is ashamed of seeing the
heavens and of looking upon the beau
tiful objects of nature. There are
great many other varieties of headwear
by which one can tell conditions and TO
a great extent positions in society
Roanoke Collegian.
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To Reclaim Fallen Women.

A commission for charter has been
issued to the Christian Mission of Char
lesion, which is new kind of charita-
BILE organization for this state. AS stated
in their declaration of purposes the OBJ
iect of the organization is to develop
Christian life and stimulate Christian
activity, and its special aim will be the
establishment of refuge for erring
women and girls, with view of re-
claiming them to respectable Christ
ian life. The projectors of this noble
movement araElizabeth Walton Null
lins, Rosalie S. Brandt and Claudio
Tharin, all OF Charleston.
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Palmetto Notes.

Abbeville's first new bale of cotton
was sold on the Gath byJohn Ferguson
to w. d. Barksdale at five cents per
pound. 1t graded rather low. In a
former year a bale was sold there on
the 18th of August, the earliest on rec
ord there.
Col. J. @. Marshall, Richland's new
senator, was given an ovation by his
friends at his residence recently, and
thew celebrated his victory with SER
enade by the regimental band, which
furnished some excellent music.
The French steamship Olinde- Ro-
drigues, which was sent to the Charles
ton port as prize of war, has not been
released on bond and the chances are
that she will remain there until the
case is settled for good.
The Standard Cotton mill of Rock
Hill was sold at auction recently and
was bought by Mr.. Johnston of the
Highland Park Manufacturing COM
pany, of Charlotte, n. c., the figures
being $50, 600.
The Marlboro Mill company, at Ben
nettsville, will not this season rebuild
the oil mill, which was destroyed by fire
recently. They will operate the ginnery
and buy cotton seed.
Mr.. W. r. Gruber, who was nomi-
mated in the primary election for the
State Senate from Colleton, will easily
become one OF the leading spirits Of
that august body.
The secretary of State has granted
the directors of the CRANKY cotton
mills, Columbia, an increase in their
capital stock from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900.
The State Lutheran synod will meet
in Columbia in the Ebenezer Lutheran
church on Friday before the fourth
Sunday in September, 1893.
DR.. G. E. Nesom, of Ellisville, Miss. :,
has been chosen professor of veterip arv
science at Clemson College.
Jim Munnerlin. colored, charged
with assault and battery with intent to
kill, recently broke jail at Benefits
vile.
About seventy-fve thousands dol
lars has already been subscribed to-
wards the erection of the Bennetts-
Vile cotton factory.
The First South Carolina regiment
has been ordered to be mustered out
of service.
Herman King shot and instantly
killed W. T. Mabrey at Hodges.
Anderson now has o Young Men g
Business League
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
Probably Fatal Shooting at Lexington.

Immediately following the campaign
meeting at Lexington, Mr.. Nc. John
son, O policeman, was stabbed in the
breast, penetrating the left lung, and
Mr.. Quitman Roberts, an inoffensive
bystander, was accidentally shot in the
thigh, and Mr.. Tom Seay was shot
through the bowels. Young Roberts is
only slightly wounded, while both
Johnson and Seay are in very critical
condition. Mr.. Seay is hardly expect
ed to live. Policeman Johnson, it is
said was endeayoring to arrest Seay
fer disturbing the peace, when the lat
ter overpowered Johnson and, after
beating him, stabbed him with knife.
The policeman used his weapon in the
melee with the above results.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
THE PRESIDENT AT CAMP WIKOFF.
He Reviewed the Calvary and Made Speech
A Pathetic Incident,

President Mckinley spent five hours
at Camp Wikoff recently, bareheaded
most of the time, visiting the sick in
the hospitals and inspecting the well
in their cantonment. He made a
speech to the assembled infantrymen,
and reviewed the cavalrymen.
General Wheeler, his staff, and
nearly every officer of prominence in
the camp, met the President at the
station, except General Shafter, who
was still in the detention hospital.
After greetings and introductions on
the railway platform, the President
took General Wheeler's arm and went
to carriage. Colonel Theodore Roose-
Welt, of the Rough Riders, was among
a group Of korsemen near by. Mr..
Mckinley saw him and got out of the
carriage to speak to him. Colonel
Roosevelt hastily dismounted and
tussled with gauntlet for fifteen
seconds so that ungloved he might
shake hands. The column of carriages
wound up hill, escorted by the Third
Cavalry Regiment and the mounted
band OF the Sixth Cavalry. The party
paused moment on the hill and the
President looked out on the wide, un-
dulating cape, water bound on either
side, and whitened on the levels and
hilltops by the tents of $4,000 men,
laid out IN geometrIc lines.
Mr.. Mckinley drove to General Shat
ter's tent in the detention camp. The
general, who was flushed and weak
from mild case Of malarial fever, was
IN full uniform, sitting in chair at the
door OF the tent He tried to rise, but
Mr.. Mckinley said: "Stay where you
are, general. You are entitled to rest. {"
The President congratulated General
Shafter on the Santiago cam paign and
after few minutes rest proceeded to
the general hospital When seemingly
all the wards Of the general hospital had
been gone through and the President
was about to get in carriage, Attorney
General Grlggs detained him. miss
Wheeler has told me-" said he, "of a
Lieut.. Prado, who is in tent back here
by himself, and ne is in dying condi-
tion. He has asked about your coming
and Miss Wheeler has promisd that you
shall see him. " Certainly, let us go
to him, Mr.. Mckinley said. The 9TH
ers OF the party discreetly remained
outside the tent. The President reap
peared with the nurse minute or two
later, his eyes moist and downcast,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
The popuIace InfIamed nv Posters

A Paris special of Sept Sd says: The
Dreyfus agitation is not abating. The
populace was again infamed today by
posters, printed by The Steele, with
which the town has been plastered.
They reproduce two letters which
Dreyfus wrote to the Minister for War,
in 1894, and one which he wrote to his
counsel, NJ. Demange, in 1894, protest
ing his innocence and denying that he
had ever even been guilty of indiscre-
tion. The posters also call attention
to the fact that Col. Picquart wrote on
July 9, affirming the falslty of Lieut..
Col. Henry's documents and they de.
nounce the arrest and imprisonment OF
Col. Picuuart.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08

The Frankfurter Zeitung, leading
German paper, reviewing the war and
the role Germany has played, regrets
the attacks OF the German press on
the United States, and arrives at the
conclusion that Germany has behaved
in thoroughly injudicious manner. a"
1t says: "Two German vessels at Ma
Mia would have suffced amply, and IN
the future we hope the foreign office
will take into its own hands the set
thing of all incidents in connection
with Germany's foreign policy, includ-
ing those relating to the navy,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
She Was Born in Charleston.

In brief dispatch recently was an.
nounced the attempted suicide, in
Paris, of the Vicomtesse de Henriot.
She was visiting friends in the Rue
Blanche, and threw herself from a
second-story window. This was not,
as might be inferred, the romantic end
of member of the European nobility,
but the act of an American woman, who
was born in Charleston, and whose
notoriety few years ago flied New
York and San Francisco. The woman
used to go by the name of Vesta' Dore
Hastings.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08

1t was significant of the trend of
English feeling that at the Fourth of
July celebration at Constantinople the
Americans resident along the Bospo-
rus were taken to the Princes Islands,
where Minister Angel was residing,
in the British Embassy dispatchboat.
There were present, also, alarge num-
Der of English officials (all wearing
AmericaE colors), and even Admiral
Woods Pasha, of the Turkish navy.
1t was q graceful courtesy, which we
may be sure the Americans appreci-
ated.
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DESTROYED by a Torpedo.

The government steamship John r.
Meigs, was totally destroyed by an ex-
plosion at Fort st. Philip, La. recent
ly. She had aboard Lieutenant Jer-
vey and party engaged in removing
the torpedos laid in the Mississippi
river during the beginning of the war;
Lieutenant Jervey had narrow escape.
The killed were: Captain Starr, COM
mander of the boat; Sergeant John
Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos
and Ralph H. Rogers. Those wound
ed were Fritz Kock and D. r. Reddy.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
Outlook Very Bright.

The outlook for the approaching ses-
sion of Clemson is very bright, many
inquiries are being received, and Presi-
dent Hartzog expects to have about as
many students as can well be accom-
modated. The building for the new
textile school is completed aud much Of
the machinery will soon be in place.
The school will be put in operation
without dollar of expense to the State
for equipment. All of the machinery
needed has been or will be contributed
by machin cry manufacturers. Already
about $40, 900 worth of machinery has
been presented to the school.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08

Suicides in Italy, caused mainly by
destitution. increased last year III num-
her tiftv per cent. The number of vol
untary" deaths enumerated by the sta
tisticians does not include thousands
of frantic women ana men who rushed
despairingly on the bayonets OF the
soldiers in rhe great bread riots OF
last spring-the awful but ineHectual
protest of a starved people against
government responsible for the cause
of their starvation.
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AIger and Sternberg Much Relieved.

The report of Gen. 3oynton as to the
condition of Chickamauga military hos
pitfalls has greatly reassured the Off
cials of the army and administration.
Secretary Alger, is delighted with the
refutation of the sensational charges.
Surgeon General Sternberg, who has
been decidly worried, is much relieved
by the report
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
No More Black Powder.

Probably the navy has fought its last
war with black powder. Bids were
opened recently at the Navy Depart
ment for supplying the new warships
with 1000, 900 pounds of smokeless
powder, quantity sufficient to supply
at least the secondary batteries of all
the ships in the service and this sup
ply will be augmented from time to
time until within the course of year
or two, all the black powder will have
been retired, except possibly some that
will be retained for saluting purposes
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-08
General Macias' Clever Action.

A special from Guayamo, Porto Rico,
says: Captain Palma, of the Spanish
civil guard, brought General Brooke
under flag of truce, dispatch, from
General Macias, extending to the
American general, the use of his pri-
vate residence at Rio Piedras, near San
Juan, during General Brooke's stay
there.
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RESIGNATION of Cayaignac.

NJ. Cavaignac sent the following let
ter of resignation to NJ. Brisson, Premi-
or and President Of the Council: 81
have the honor to send you and beg
you to transmit to the President of the
republic, my resignation as Minister OF
War. There exists disagreement be-
tween US, which, being prolonged,
would paralyze the government at a
time when it most needs full unity of
decision. 1 remain convinced of the
guilt of Dreyfus and as determined as
heretofore to combat revision of the
case. I do not intend to shirk the re-
sponsibilties of the present situation,
but cannot assume them without be-
ing in accord with the chief of the gov
ernment to whom l have the honor to
belong"
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Great Fire in a Michigan Town.

Owosso, Mich, was visited by a
destructive fire recently. The follow
ing firms were burned out: Wood
wards Furniture Factory, consisting g
of three story warehouse, kilns and
lumber yards. totally destroyed, loss
500. 000; the Owosso Brewing Com
pany, loss, S3j, 900; Grove &; Payne's
implement store, loss $4,000; Vim.
JoplinS's livery establishment and
several smaller buildings, asgregating
about S25, 900.
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Clarendon Cow Thieves.

Two negroes, Frank Holmes and
Warren Campbell, who havo made a
regular business of stealing cattle in
Clarendon and Williamsburg counties
for some time past and selling them in
Sumter and other towns, have been ar
rested and lodge in Jail. Two cows were
taken from them, and will be held un.
til claimed by their owners. There are
other members of the gang who are
wanted by the officers.
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ElOurishing Flour Mills.

The patent process -four mill, at
Yorkville, has ground over 10, 900
bushels of wheat since January l, and
that of Mr.. q. L. Riddle, at Zeno,
York county, has ground over 1000
bushels. Mr.. Riddles mill is only
about one-half the capacity of the York
vile mill.
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PROSPEROUS York Farmers.

There are farmers in York county
who could hold their cotton four years
# they go desired, but there are not
enough of them to dictate prices. They
are, however, prosperous notwithstand-
ing the prevailing low prices, and it is
possible for their number to be in
creased thousand fold by the others
who have the same facilities initiating
their business methods and not buying
anything that their farms will pro-
duce.