Georgetown Times : volume 28, number 51 - 08-30-1893

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CHAINED TO NO PARTY'S ARBITRARY SWAY, WE'LL CLEAVJi! TO 'JRUTH AVHERE'EE SHE LEADS THE WAY.
BY JOSIAH DOAR.
GEOEGETOWN, S. C, AlFGUST 30,1893.
VOLXXVIII--NO5I1I
A DEMIICro MM. i Loss Of
Our Little City   Almost   De¬ molished    by   the   Wind And Bain.
This community^was visited laat Saturday evening by one of tho most severe and destruc¬ tive storms wo havo' evor seon. In the early part of the evening It strong breeze from the east .sprung up which soon develop¬ ed into a gale, with a perfect deluge of rain, and continued until Monday night, dfcstroying iiiiich property and almost ruin¬ ing the town.
Tho course and severity of the wind occasioned an appalling I iso ill the tide, and the schoon- (irs, steamers and small boats along tho docks "caught it,"— Ronio sinking, ^omo boing driv¬ en ashore, some bumped and battered out of shape, .ind oth¬ ers breaking their moorings and beiug driven along before the gale.
Tho schooner Chas. C. Lister parted her lines and. was driven ashore near Serenity.
Tho sloop Encore oliafod a liolu in lier side at Kaminski's dock and went down.
Almost all of tho small boats broke loose, but most of them floated lip on the docks and tho margin of the river.-
Immense quantities of wood, barrels, shingles, etc. wore swept from the wharves and scattered broadcast, some float¬ ing up into tlio streets and spmq following tho current on flp the rivor.
The tide flowed into somo of the stores and warehouses along the water-front, damag¬ ing and destroying quantities of goods.
Tho peninsula,' just opposite the town, is almost a compete wreck. The entire placo was uiidor watoi', tho stills wero de¬ molished, and most of the prop¬ erty thereon swept away.
The old city Hall, which has stood for so many years, could not stand'tlio pressure and had to succnmb; that is, the sides wero blown in, domolishing the clock anil leaving tlie steoplo tottering on its four pillars, Voady tq tumble at any mo¬ ment.
Many    old    liouses,     trees,
fences, etc., woro blown down,
and tho remjiining trees  were
stripped of all of their  leaves
,    find most of their branches.
The railroad,  county roads,
bridges and ferries were in such
a cond I tion t hat tho mails could
> not get out.   All the wirori are
down,  and nothing has boen-
heard from,tho outside  world
jip to (his timo (Tuesday moni-
Tho Waverly mail boat was unable to get out ot the creek mouth on Monday morning, and considerable anxiety was en¬ tertained for tho residents of Pawloy's Island; but the tug Brow.stcrmanaged to' got over to Waverly in the afternoon nnd ascertained that ovorybody was still existing.
The following list,   .although
incomplete, will furnish a slight
-   idea of how much damage was
done: , M. Moses &Bro.,135 bbls rosin, 500 bbls dip, 200' i!ords wood, 30(( sacks salt, 75 bbls rico, 10 bills lime, 30 bbls ce. mont and 26,000 shin¬ gles $1370 00
8. Brijlea & Bro., 1 plato glass in front vfindow 10 doz ladios hats, ac pajri* shoes, sovoral pieces dress goods - •.
Baxley & Collins, gen¬ oral merchandise ..:.     75 00 L. Glick,glass front,gro-
ceries and dry goods..   200 00 0. B. Lawrence,   glass
front to oflico        5 oO
Watts & Arnholter, ice     75 00
Base ball park      50 00
H. Kaminski & Co., dry goods and notions with slight damage to build
ing...,    500 OO
W. -vy. Taylor, fruit and shade trees and fenc¬ ing'     150 00
G. A. Lohr, corn,   salt,
rice, flour, &c     250 00
H. Inman, glass front to
store and tin roofing..   100 00 Capt.  G. R.  Congdon,
real estate    nOO 00
Gardner. & Lacy Lum¬ ber Co., lumber shin¬ gles and timber  lOOO 00
Bauk building      15 00
S. 0. Steamboat Co., wharves and ware¬ house    SOO 00
Sittenfield '    15 00
Ford     150 00
Rice Milling Co    200 00
Bourne & Lucas      50 00
Birnbum  ..     50 00
City.     300 00
Ii.  S. Ehrich, shingles
anil cross tios     200 00
Ealinetto, Cypress  i-'o,
shingles, timber, &c.. 1300 00 (.-ongdon. Hazard & Co.,'
estimated ,.... 2000 00
Miscellaneous 1000 00
Karket Quotations.
CORECTED SE.1tI-WEEKLY BY MESS H. KAIIINSKI AND CO
Corn, 05 to 70 cts.
ilfoal, $1.30 to 1.40
Grist, $3.15 to 3.30,
Oats,—feed, 55 cts.;
D.' S. bellies, U 1.4 cts; S. butts, S aS 1-3
Rice, whole, 3 l-4a3 cts.
COKKECTED SEJII-WEEKLTEY .MESS CONGDON, HAZARD AND CO. Virgin dip, 1.75. Yellow dip. 1.40.     , Scrape, 1.15.
D.
IS
the
To Connect the South Directly
With  Europe   Financially
And Commercially.
$10,2,-)0.00 The rice crop has been dam aged extensively, -some people estimating the loes at 35 per cent., which wo consider a fair estimate. Of course, there are higher aud lower fisuves. One planter takes such a gloomy view of llis prospects, that he predicts the utter abandonment of rice planting in the future.
150 00
This Editor returned . home from Augusta yesterday even ing, after a long aud oirouitous route by way of Columbia, Sum ter.Florence and.Lanes, by rail, hand car aud boat.
Tho damage to the places named is incalculable; ruin and devastation staring us. in the face all along the route of trav¬ el. Between Florence and Lanes we saw the most water, as well as along the lino of the G. & W. R. R. Travel and telegraph is interrupted all over country, but frora what we coiild gather tho gale was the most severe in years, and crops are almost gone,
'Wo saw peoplo paddling about in boats in several places, and Johnson's swamp, about two miles from Harper's, is impass¬ ible. The G. & W. track is washed away and the water is rushing over it in torrents. It will take all of to-day at least to repair it. Jlfr. Brightman and Mr. Murphoy kindly took us in out of tho wet at Lanes and brought us to Harper's on a hand-car. They also got a small amount of mail.
Charleston has not been heard from yet. Several passengers informed us that the old city had suiTored worse than she did during the cyclone and earthquake periods. The tall steeple of the German Church was dawn, as well as others. About fifteen houses on Sulli¬ van's Island wore blown down and evory house on the island is damaged.
Several hundred new and popular volumes of Fiction for Summer reading at Iseman's Drug Store.
The ' colebr.atcd Thompsons' Glove fiittng Corset can he had only at the Iiadies' Biizaar.
Just received a new assort¬ ment of Yachting Hats at the LadiesBazaar.
Marine News.
The steamer Ruth arrived on ho SOth 24 bbls spirits and SG bbls of rosiu.
Tho steamer Janie arrived from Bucksville on thc2Cth, with 40 bbls of rosiu
The steamer   John   M.  Colt- arrived from Pee Doe on the anthwith 31 barrels ot   rosin, 1 barrels of spirits.
Ho Guarded His Freedom.
~A certain wealthy young club man is just now telling, without mentioning any names, his last narrow escape froni liiatrimou- ial toils. ¦   .
At a country liouse visited by 1^'" him recently woio sevei"al in- teiosting and accomplished younji' ladies, aniong them ho divided Iiis .attentions about equalli', altliough one of them was continually thru.tt forward by the designing mothm-. . Just as he .was about to take his departure the latter jiroceed- od to consult him upon a matter which sho alleged was causin,g her no little distress.
"It is reported," said sho "that you are to marry my daughter Mary. All the noighbor.s are talking .about it. What shall we do ? What shall wc tell them ?"
' "Oh," responded tho consider¬ ate young gentleman, "just say sho refused me. I've been so unfortunate in my love affairs, you know, that the report of one in'ore disappointment won't hurt me and you'll bo spar.ed all fur¬ ther annoyance."—iVe!» York 'Weekly Herald.
There will be a musical enter¬ tainment at the Winyah hall on Tuesday night Sept. 5. A vory interesting programme is being arranged and the contfert prom¬ ises to lea delightgul occa¬ sion. The ohject is to aid in buying a pipe orgaii for the Methodist church. Let all lov¬ ers of music and wellwishers of this enterprise attend. Furth¬ er notice will be given in our next issue.
Tho Sottth's opportunity is at hand. It lies in the advantage we take of the present crisis and of the avenue now opening to connect the Soutli directly with Eroupe in a fiuancial and commercial way.
The Port Royal Company has signed a contract with the great Johnston Ship Company of Liv¬ erpool for a lino of steamers. Sow, what aro we going" to do about it?
Shall we sib still and see the South's cotton sold at a low price and shipped by the way of New York to Liverpool? Shall we be silent and not let tho great West know of the opening of a line of ships to and from a port nearer to its grain produco than New York? Or, shall wo get together, and not cnly patronize onr home line and send our Southern cot¬ ton by tho new routo, but also givi; wings and voico to tho good HOWS and send it out West?
Whicli .shall it be? This is the oiiportunity of the South aud it is in our hands.
It is also the opportunity lo mako big money. The man, tho syndicate, the bank or cor- por.ition thiit will come South or rise np in tho South, and put monoy ill Soutlinrn cotton and ship it by this line,, will grow rich. Ho or they will not only make big money but be doing a servico to farmers, railroad.^, ships and all our business in¬ terests.
If a company like the Jarvis Conklin syndicate, or thLs syn¬ dicate itself which has already done so much for Southern de¬ velopment in this city and sec¬ tion, will pnt money in this en¬ terprise and move the cotton crop by way of this Southern steamship line, not only will tho ships prosper and the tide be turned, bnt enough money will be made to enrich tho company and fairly opon up the rush of investment and immigration to Ihc South.
Isn't this so. Col.   Dyer^—Ait- gii,ita Evening Neius.
Hints for  Mariners in Hurricane Season-
(JTcvv Tork Wcclil)- IlcvivW.)
Now that tho tropical hurri¬ cane hns put in its appearanco, it may be well to point out how the navigator at sea may, from his own observations alone, foretell tho approach, intensity and track of the storm relative to his ship's position.
Of course the cirrus clouds moving from i;he west or nortJi- west aiford an invaluable indi¬ cation that a cyclone is nearing his ship. If the cirrus is tlying from the nortliwest, and his ship is standing to the west, ho can count on the storm reach¬ ing him very soon. If tho cirrus is moving from the southwest, and his ship-is going south or east, ho may escape tho worst of the gale. The rapidity with which hi.s barometer falls and the cirrus flies will foreshadow the intensity of tho cyclone.
But the storm's future track may bc more closoly prevised. Running before the wind in the Northern Hemisphere the centre of the storm will be, as Toynbco and others point'out, about two points bofore the port beam. It the world's direction remains nearly unchanged while -its forco increases and the glass falls, the centre is directly ap- Iiroching him. If the wind is veering, c. g., from south to southwest with fall barom etar, the centre will pass north of the ship, but if veering to southeast and east tho vortex is passing- south of the shilV. Whether tho gale is traveling rapidly or leisurely will be kuowu by the quickness or ' slowness with which the baromotov falls and tho wind shifts.
Oloso attention to thoso fow points would savo many a ship¬ master from disaster.
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He Thinks Goveraor Tillman'S"' Move   is Disgusting   and   '¦. Outrageous.
Handsome as.«ortment of trimmed and untrimmed Hats in the latest styles and newest shades. Also, the handsomest Flowers, ever shown in this town. Ribbons, Laces, etc. A call is'solicited. iUrs. W. A. Lohse.
Sol. Brilles & Bro. has sole 3ontrol in the City of George¬ town of the PatentSquareShoul- der Garments, equal to custom ado. Patented and manufactu¬ red by Strouse & Bros, largest clothing house in the United States.
After mnd has been brushed from black dresses there fre- quentl.v remains a stain. This can be removed by rubbing witli a slice of raw potato.  "
Toilet Waters, Extracts, Odors, Colognes, for the mou n- tains and sea-side, at Isertian's Drug Store.
A special importation of real old Castilo Soap, just received at Iseman's Drug, Store „
We ioel much relieved sinco we found out how the crises has been brought about.    Bill  Nye makes the matter  as  plain   as noonday snn.   Ho says:   "The engorgement of the channels of trado  with  over-production of unearned  increment  over  the percentage of former years, and making the bimetallic and bas¬ er metals  subservient  to gold and the reserve of gold and- pa¬ per money the  geueral funeral currency and noticeable hesita¬ tion of goods to go out duringthe season   of   mourning, together with shrinkage values of things you have got, while things that you want real had become  sud¬ denly of groat valuo,  causes what yon might call stagnation of satisfaction  and  a  general revival of sadness in the realms of trade.
Speaker Crisp lias proven himself not only a statesman but a good politician. He serves his country, and in doing it he supports and stands by his Presider.t., Qood for Mr.   Spea-
No Bluff.   .
((.ircciiville Ncvv.-(.)
.'\ttorney General Townsend objects to having his recout de¬ liverance on' Judge Simonton's deoison described as a bluft', because the word ''bluff" im¬ plies an element of untruthful¬ ness. The State newspaper re¬ minds tho attorney general that Governor Tillm-an whon asked last year what he meant by say¬ ing at Chicago that Cleveland could not carry South Carolina replied that he v/as "only bluffa ing," and that tho attorney gen eral's definition of that techni¬ cal term implies a gravo imput¬ ation on tho governor's acity.
Wo do not think tho attorney general can be  justly  accused of bluffing, or even bf attempt¬ ing to bluff.   Thero is uo harm in the actual bluft', whieh does not neccessarily moan deceit but is simply tho venture of a cer¬ tain amount of collateral on the chance that your opponent has not sufiicient confidence in his own hand to contribute a like amount forthe privilege of com¬ paring its strength with that re- resented by. your cards.   Attor¬ ney General Townsend in this dispensary decision matter had no cards and no chips.   Ho sim¬ ply, feebly and automatically gathered   a few  random dis- caids and .shoved in a splitter in an abortive attempt to con¬ vey the impression that he was still in the gamo.   But he isn't in it.   Ho is not bluffing.   He is not blowing.   Ho is merely talking through his hat.
Jfust received,' a fresh supply of Ladies White Lawn Hats at the Ladies Bazaar.
ker!     Now likewise!
let    Congress  do
Doublo Zone Bolts—somothing new—at Ladies' Bazaar.
For that tired, gono fooling, take .1/bnterey. "That tired fcel- ini;;" is getting to be a chestnut, but nothing so well expresses a system poisoned with malaria Monterey will positively curo malaria iu any form.
When news becamo known, in Washington circles that the Governoi of South Carolinahod mad-j api.ilication to tho dopart¬ mont oi' !h(! Commissioner of/ Patents to have tho palmetto treo made tho trado mark of hia Dispensary wliiskoy, it bocanio, the general topic of discussion. It is considenul b'y all that thia move of Governor Tillman ia one of tho most di.sgusting and outrageous propositions that has ever been -attempted"by any Governor that has over reigned in power, even in tho dark days of damning- infamy and Radi¬ calism.
The General public look upon tiiis act as one in which Gover¬ nor Tillman is  attempting  to destroy the great^prido  ot his State by placing her proud in- si;;iiia of tho past upon tho flask >vliich holds tho damning ini¬ quity, which ia said to bo pure, unadulterated    ryo    whiskey, made  out of sour Irish  pota¬ toes and Porto Rico molassos. Shame it is that Governor Till, man has fallen   so low as to want to traducii liis State anil show his coiili-inpt for her by    '^ besmirching- luu- emblem whicli   .;| has ever been llu; pride of ovory   "'^ South CavoliuUui, Canitbetlml   ?| tho Palmotto   ti-eo   which  hna    '3 been sustained and defended by     | the great lioi-oc:;   of war—such   ,,| men   as   Hampton,    Kershaw,    ^l McGowan, Butlor,   ICoitt, Dun-    y^ tzler, Erwin and   Hart and ot-   ,'| her distinguished leaders along    ,^ with    sixty-fivo   thousand   of    sl the   heroes that   mado up tho    is grand nrmy of tho lost causo—     t shall it be tho troo and tho flag   ~ ¦ that they carried to victory  on     -i many a battle lield, and at tho     ^ end of war furled it without a     > stain, now dosccratod and low¬ ered to tho slums of B. R. Till-    ,;¦ man's low  and  degrading in¬ stitutions which  deal   out tho     '. damning   iniquity,   which   ho purchases at a nominal prico. and charges the poor and un¬ fortunate man from threo   to  . four dollars per gallon, all qt    , ¦ which he  could purchase tho same figures as  tho  Govoruor ver- does if his individual right was I not   destroyed by .unconstitu¬ tional legislation ? -
Itisfrequentlyasked by thoso who aro prominent as ropresou- tativos from  ono end   of tho government to tho othor,  wh.y is it that the  poople   of  South Carolina will submit  to such a usurpation of power whon thoy have always been so active in resenting and so quick to strike . at any attempt to encroach upon thoir vested right.   My answer to them is that our people aro ready at  all times to sti'iko a blow at any encroachment upon thoir vested rights, but that it being an act of our own  Legis¬ iaturo thoy Wil   ;:l tho propor time and througli   -he regular Chanel relegate thos.   roprcson- tative to tho rear, who have so flagrantly abused thoir   powers by attempting to coerce and de¬ stroy the individuality of  tho great commons of the countr,y. It ovor thoro was anything in tho administration of Tillman that deserves the condemnation of overyone who has ariy pride fov its ensign namely,   that of the palmetto treo which is  en¬ graved upon tho  great seal of the State—it is.tliis act of  Qov- ernor's.ln  attempt to   destroy tiio highest  and   most  sacrod part of hor great ensign, thero- b.V ' polluting and   dragging it ii'ito"his dirty slums of pollution, where he seeks to debauch tho citizen  and   raiso   revonuo for the Stato.   F. C. CAiKimiAN, Washington, D. 0. Aug. lO.isOX-
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