The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-12-08

'9S. The net earnings during that time
have been S4S4, SS1, against S43S, 554 for
the fiscal year 1S96-'97. The following
extracts from the report of President
Parsons will be of interest: General
Results-The increased facilities at
your wharves in Charleston for leading
grain and for the storing and handing
of their commodities, and the efficient
management of the Charleston Trans
portation line, which runs in connection
with your road, account for much o.
the increase in earnings. This steam,
ship line dispatched during the fiscal
year "a steamships to European ports,
and since the close of the fiscal year,
June 30, ~ steamships have been
placed to take grain and other COM
modities. Improvements - During
the pas. summer wharf No. 3, 45S feet
in length, and width of Sal feet, has
been built in substantial manner
all piling covered with zinc. Substan-
tial betterments, costing S3S, G45, nave
been made during the year and charged
to operating expenses, by the purchase
of new machinery and tools and the
lengthening Of siding, made necessary
BY the increase in the number OF cars
per train hauled by your new COM
pound locomotives. Five compound,
consolidated locomotives and 1 y new
fiat cars, 60, 600 pounds capacity have
been added to your equipment. Seven
hundred tons OF 70-pound steJl rails
have taken the place of llchte: rails.
An old abandoned roadbed, ID lilies In
length, between Nateree sta ON, on
the Camden branch, and the city OF
Sumter, has been bought, and your road
will be extended during the coming
winter to the centrally located terminal
lands purchased in the heart OF that
city. Prospects-The prospect is fairly
good for freight and passenger traffic
for the fiscal year 1895 '99. Industries
on the line of your bed are do doing
we'll, and new ones are projected.
ST.. MATTHEW'S. Capt. S. S. Berger
and Mr.. John McSween, of Timmons-
Vile, were here, where they met a large
number of farmers who contemplate
planting tobacco another year. The
meeting was large and representative
one, and it is a foregone conclusion
abouts next year. Many acres of the
best lands have been and are now being
seeded in wheat and oats. Many Of
our largest planters affirm that they
cannot and will not attempt to raise
cotton at the present ruinous prices,
but will leave the erstwhile king for
the negro renter and lien merchant
for his vassals.
South Carolinians don't seem to have
the proper reverence for the master
minds who have made our States his
tory so glorious in the past. A commu-
nication has been received from gen.
tleman in Pennsylvania asking for o
copy of Robert Y. Haynes memorable
speech, to which Daniel Webster made
his famous reply. Webster's speech IS
q classic and HAYNES should be. 1t is
no longer found i'll the school text
books as formerly Northern enterprise
keeps northern gerius ever before the
public, while southerners are different.
COLUMBIA. The War Department
will not allow the claim of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical society for
$50, which is for damage done to the
buildings at the fair grounds by the
volunteer soldiers. The department
has also suspended the payment of $3.50
for the use of the grounds and build
iass This latter. however, will be paid.
The War Department has conceded the
right of claims to the amount of $50
for supplies furnished the First Regl-
meut before it was mustered in. The
total amount OF claims was ten times
that amount, aud Gov. Eilerbe is de-
termlned that these claims shall be
paid.
ANDERSON. Chief Constable J. r.
FAINT and Deputy Sheriff E. G.. Rose,
with several assistants, made raid on
Savannah river, near Croft's Ferry, cap
turing q white man giving the name of
Scott Russell, and about 40 gallons of
whiskey, besides several hundred gal
Ions of beer. 1t seems that Russell has
been carrying on extensive operations
in that section, he boing resident of
Georgia, and using certain old dlstil-
l.ry buildings as a blind as well as
Headquarters. Russell waived prellm-
mary and gave bail in the sum Of $500
for his appearance at the sessions court
next February.
Gov. Ellerbe has received letter
from Mrs. 'Laure f. Howey, librarian
of the Historical Society of the State
of Montana, asking if this State has
historical library apart from the law
library, and if there is State museum
CT curios, relics, minerals, etc. The
Montana library wants copy of the
history of South Carolina "as written
officially" That State has already is
sued three volumes of State history.
and MoDtana is IN its infancy, histor-
ically speaking, in comparison with
grand dame Carolina.
Reports received from the truck
farming region above Charleston show
that the business was damaged to the
extent of $780,, 100 by the frost and cold
weather which prevailed during Satur
Cay and Sunday. All the tender crop
was lost. Th> vegetables were badly
pat behind by the cold snap in October,
and since then the seascL has been so
damp and cold that vegetation was de-
layed. All OF the crop Tor miles up the
river was cut down and ruined. Cab
bage, turnips aud strawberries are the