The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
SPANS IDEA OF Us.
A Remarkable Display Of ignorance
Over There.

over Inere.
The ignorance OF Spain passes under
standing, says the Chicago Times her-
aid. The proud Castillians who pTate
about their national honor" have no
ADEQUATE conception OF America or the
Americans. In O nation GS per cent OF
which is illiterate, tits not strange that
popular misapperheIsion should De en-
tertained concerning q foreign nation
thousands OF miles away; but It seems
queer that the press and the PUBIC
leaders Of Spain should be so woeiully
in the dark concerning American mat
tiers.
General Co-rea, the Spanish Minis
ter of War. recently said: The war
will not be confined to Cuba. What IS
to hinder us from taking our army 10
the United States some night and IL
yesting the capitol at Washington next
dSy 2"
One OF the leading journals Of Mao
rid, the Impa-cial, cditoria!ly remark
ed on April Cd:
1t is O fact we'll known to al Euro
pean statesmen that only By means OF
armed force stationed IN the late Con-
federate States has the Washington gov
ernment been able to preserve the sem
blance of peace. Even now the new
generation of the C0nfederacy Is but
waiting for the word to revolt NEe2
war is declared General Lee, who has
been Consul General at Havana and
who was kicked out of Cuba by Gen
eral Blanco. will raise the standard OF
revolt and the old Southern Confeder-
acy. This Lee is the same Lee who
was general IN chief of the civil war IN
1850 to 1855, and who surrender TO
Gen. Lincoln in the last named year
broke the revolution. His acts a. Ha-
vana were for the purpose OF p!unSlnG
the government into wGr with the
kingdom OF Spain, at which time De
and his followers would rise against
Senor Nackindley.
e. Heraldo de Madrid furnishes this
valuable bit Of information concerning
the United States troops.
All the troops of the Yankees ere II
the far western part Of the country,
many thousand miles from the Atlantic
coast. There are only few thousand
men, all told, and they are i'll paid and
Il.fed, and not willing to fight. 10
utilize this force it will be necessary
to bring it to the eastern seaboard.
There is but one railway by which 1t
can be transported, aud that is an old
and poorly constructed affair. AT one
place this railroad passes over Niagara
Falls. q cat5r2ct q thousand feet high,
near Labrador. At last accounts the
bridge ct this place was IL very Gan
cerous condition. 1t need surprise no
one TO hear that some agency has made
~itstilI r>e.>So.
FL Tempo prints this sfeclai ais
patch /. ON Havana:
Word has Just been received here that
the Indians are rising against the yam
KEGS IN Illiuois, Ohio, and other places.
The farmers are petitIoning the govern
ment to protect them from the blood
thirsty savages, who are burning houses
and killing OF every side. Troops are
asked for at Colorado. in the State OF
Denver and at st. Louis San Luis In
Missipe News is brought to us that
Buffalo Bill, notorious outlaw and
leader OF 6 band of halfbrecds, has
risen against the American government
and is burning towns near his birth
place in New York.
I'll Diario truthtully says: 'It will
no doubt surprise our readers to learn
that the Yankee President, Nagglnly,
is a naturslized Chinaman, having been
born III Canton.
Ii Pals draws this beautiful pen pic
ture of the United States.
The country is not tit to live IL. The
climate is execrab!c, When it IS not
sleeting or showing the heat is almost
unbearable AvalaEches are frequent at
all times and these threaten the prirci.
pal cities As for the people, besides
the few whites engaged IL business
along the eastern shore, the remainder
of the country is one vast plain, cover
ed with Indians called cowboys, and
great herds of roaming cattle.
1t is q mistake to say. as our school
histories do, that America was dis
covered by Spain in 1872. SPAN has
not discovered this country yet.