The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, August 30, 1894, Image 1

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VOL. XXII. PIC KENS, S. C., THURSDY, AUGULST 30, 1894. NO, 50. THE SILVIR QUlFSTION. AVERY ABLE ARGUMENT FROM THE FREE COI \11AGE SiDE. N A QuIet Man Who 11a 81u1ddenily I Pretard lita-lt Up1Os the Puil-A 1 PreseIstation of Ilan QeiltmnUi 11tbt to Well Worth Rteading. ( t-1 GREICNVILL.E, S. C., Aug. 23.-",Ioe" JohnEon, as everybody in Laurens calls him, made a quiet canvass r for Congreps in this district In 1892. lie strictly toted his own skillet, but V received very little more than the Con- 0 servative vote because he frankly t avowed everywhere that he was not a t Tillman man and did not intend to p vote for Tillman. This year he is making another quiet 1 canvass, speaking often to small gath ( erings at country places. The people, a however, have suddenly waked to the C conclusion that in this comparatively , little talked of candidate they have a very able man and the one who knows t more about the all important financial p question and talks better about it than anybody else. The following is a synopsis of Mr. t Johnson's speech on free coinage which t. was declared by Governor Tillman to d be the ablest, clearest and strongest P talk on the currency question he had 0 ever heard or read: Upon the proper solution of the fi nancial problem depends the future ( prosperity and happiness of our people. e T'hat solution demands thorough v knowledge of all the principles under- h lying money. t Money is not only a medium of ex- C change but a measure of value. Sugar, p coffee or nails give so many pounds for d a dollar, so that the dollar measures all 1 human labor and sacriflice. Money has d its price and is bought and sold in the j markets. The rule that prices are fixed by supply and demand applies to mon- c ey as well as to other commodities. If 1 money is abundant dollars must be 1 cheaper; if it is scarce dollars must be I high. John Stuart Mill says that the a price of money moves in reverse ratio c to other commodities-that it rises as r they fall and falls as they rise. If that t be true the proposition follows that 0 when money is high more labor and r sacrifice are required to get a dollar 8 than when it is low. In 1870 the salary p of the Governor of South Carolina was , 83,500. When the tax payers went to r market to buy that $3,500 to pay their f governor with they carried thirty-five f bales of cotton for it. In 1893 the gov- c ernor's salary was still $3.500,but when the tax payers went to buy those dol- E lars they had to carry over a hundred ( bales of cotton to get them, represent. 1 ing three times us much labor and sac- f riflice as in 1870. All political economists have -recog- t nized this principle as the true one on e which to base financial legislation. t The trouble of having limited money d or contracted currency arises from the fact that where one man has money to t sell ninety-nine are trying to buy it. 1 Legislation which increases the value t of the dollar belonging to the ona man a who had it to sell must decreaso the value of the other commodities, the a labor and the sacrifice with which the e remaining ninety-nine men must buy g the dollar. To show that the volume 1 of money controls the prices of com1- a modities the familiar course of wheat t may ba considerd. In 1882 the wheat a crop of the world was 500,000.00 bush- . els more than the crop of 1893 and the v surplus brought into 1882 was great.er i than the surplus brought Into 1893. The supply of wheat in 1882 was h un- r dreds of millious of bushels mom Ihan i In 1893; the population of the world had increased enormously tro. 1882 to I893. Yet with a lessened supply and an increased demnd the average p)rie of wheat in New York in 1893 wais 69 cents a bushel against $1.13 in 1882. This cannot be explained on the overa production theory because there was less wheat in 1863 than there was in 1882 and more people to buty it. The one fair and reasonable explanation is that between 1882 and 1893 dlolla in creased in value so t hatt1 ihe m~mvho carried wheat, to mar ket to buy (101lars had to carry mnore of it t o get t hemt with. So it was with cotton and allt other commodities, for there is a geni. eral range of pricls which in the first instance are fixtd by thet supply or money, or In other words, by the aver age amount of sac-ilice in all line s of business that, is riClred to get a dol lar. Te effect upon t~ho country of' a con stantly countracting ciur rency is a con stant fall in the price of Itabo; and its 1 products. People have fixed lhabil'ties c to meet which rcquiire so much more ofr the results of t heir labor to satisfy that nothing is left for comforts or luxuries j or to meet current indebtedness. in this country since 1873 there has been t a persistent fall in the price of com modities so that the people who depend on the sale of those commodities for i their livings have been unable to meet the debts they had contractedl and havet been sold out. The census statistics show that many thousandsa of people who were land owners ten years ago i are now tenants. These facts rouse in 1 the people the spirit of disconten~t and < unrest, such as We have had in) bouth Carolina. They seek to apply local remedies for a general trouble and by St ate legisla-1 tion and changes to remove evils which I are as potent and as patent in Nebras ka, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas as in South Carolina makes it low in Missis- I sippi andi the same causes make cheap corn and wheat in Kansas andi No braska. t Another difect of the increase of the value of commodities andl property is that it prevents men from investing in and dleveloping enterprises and nd us- I tries. Tihie fact that money is steadily I gaining in value induces those who' have it to hoard it and lock it up. it is withdrawn from the channels oft trade and the laboring man is dleniedi the opportunity to earn support. '[Tiat 1 makes hard times. All commercial history shows that whenever for a so- t ris of years there has been a constant p fall in thme price of cornmodities hard a times have come. England had an 11- t lustration of this, when, in 1819, she I demonetized silver. She had tihen 160,- i1 000 real estate owners. Ten years later s she had but 50,000. The peeple wore y sold out,ruined in the steady rise in the r price of money. t A great deal is said about "honest dl money." The only honest money is y money which always mneasumes the a same average reqluirement of labor or d acrifice to obtain it. A money to bi ionest must keep pace with the in rease in bisiness and population Vith any other kind of money then nust becontraction. In this countr3 vhenever a railroad is built or a facto y conistriietd or a mine opened th noney to pay for the work must bi aken from some other line of busines, nd thereby contraction results. Ai usiness increases the facilities for do ig business should increase. .ohn C 4lhoun taught that if the country had n billions of property and a giver uantity of money and the property ras doubled, unless there was i cor esponding increase of the money sup ly the money value of the property ?ould not be increased. Blackston< no of the greatest thinkers of modern ines, said that a horse might sell foi 3n pounds at one time and twenty ounds at another time, the difforenc4 i price resulting from the differenc4 i the amount of money in the king om. If a man give his obligation t( nother for one thousand bushels of orn and the government should after rard change the bushel measure so ai D require 112 pounds instead of 56 t( lie bushel to discharge the obligation aying the enlarged bushels wouk lace upon the debtor a burden lie nev r contracted for and give to the credi Dr an advantage that lie was not en itled to receive. The principle is noi ifferent when the obligation is ex. ressed In dollars. A striking exampl f this unearned profit appears upon in estigation of the public deb r the United States. Thai ebt in 1865 amounted to $2,803,000,Ot nd 14,000,000 bales of cottoi iould have paid th6 entire debt. W ave paid on the debt in princival, in 3rest and premium more than $5,C0, 30,000. We have reduced the princi al to $635,000,000. Today the balanc ne calls for more cotton, more (lour iore labor and sacrilice than the entir ebt would have commanded in 1865 'lie burden has grown no lighter. One of the most eminent bimetallist! f the country in the early part o: 873, before the United States and Ger iany demonetized silver, wrote that i case any country of importanc4 dopted the gold basis, a persistent de line would set in in the prices of coin iodities, money would appreciate hat times would grow harder, a spiri f unrest and dissatisfaction woulk ianifest itself and would result ii trikes, idle workingmen seeking em loyment, &.. The history of the pas wenty years could be no more cor ectly written. This prediction wa ollowed by another, in almost th ame paragraph to this efTect: Variou auses will be assigned such as, in roved machinery, new invention nd over production; some will als laim that falling price and hard time ave resulted from local causes, bu ew people will realize that the trui ause of the appreciation of money ani he depreciation of property. Our owi xperleuce and observation that al hese causes have been laid hold o uring the last few years. The remedy, however, is the impor Ant question. The Democratic part] oth by its platform anti by its tradi ton is pledged to the restoration ol liver to the mints. That platforn rys: "We hold to the use of both gok nd silver as the standard money of thi ountry, and to the coinage of botl old and silver without discriminating gainst either metal or charge for mint ge." At the tine of the adoption o Ils platform in the hlouse of ltepre nitatives of the United Satas seven apresentat.ives to one hard voted in fit or of free silver and eight to one it hio senate. Whenever a propo!ilion is made Ui r-sore silvrr it) tne ininis various oh c3ions are urged against ii.. For in ta nc11e, 1 ln III o ppe la in I hat. the iII riscve iof thei i le inI a dollar i ot worth a dlollar. Th'lere is no sucd hing as intrinic value. 1itrlnsic leans to lie in. Silver has propertiles Lch as hardnes.", which accompany 11 rhierever it goes. Value is not a prop rty; value is a concep~tion of the mind is something that resides in the mmn f the person andl not in the objec right. If a man was on an uninnhab: .ed liland arid hard no hopen of ever get ng cif he would prefer ar bushel o hleat to a bushel of goldl. So wvha he intrinsic value advocatos realle rieani is commercial value. 'The comr nercial value of gold or silver Is al way qulal, at least to the coinage value. lie mints of the United States wer pen todany for thle coinage of siyve -a lie rate of 412% grains t o the $1, tY sa vold h)0 its valttie for all other pur loses, because if a mnl)( hadilvel nough at that rate to coin one hun red silver dioliars, that silver couild 1no e purchased for less than one huindre< ollars, for so long as tile purchaser die ot olfer tire owner as many dlollars a lie silver could coin t he owner wouhI inst mak e dollars ou t of11t. Tlhere has never been a time wher ihe commerciai valure of a morey metai eli be-low t.he coinage value when thi riints were open to it. TL welve of thi blest men in Great Britaln alter lost thorough inivestigation re'porles C) the liritish government that Franci and kept the commercial value all OVal he world at 15% to 1 fonr a period o event~y years, arnd that France, 10ng rind, Germany, United States, or any thor leading cournti y coukld malin aln tihe value of silver a vhatever rates it might fs ablish. If value Is a conicepion of ti find, it may be asked whether it cai 0 created by law. N o it can not. De nand, however, may be~ created by lawt nd that makhes the value. T1o illns~ rate, suppose the United States gov rnment should prohibit by law the se of any kind of horses irn this~ c0opn ry except yellow horses, time result o1 uchr legislation would be to destroy th lemanrd for all otheor kind of hiorse ,ndl their value would go down. O) ho other hand there would be a largel ncreaseed demand for the yellow hornier hat is precisely what the United State lid other countries have done whre hey have declared b~y law that the pee le could only rise the yellow meti or money. It is to be observed that all reference o the repeal fall in price of silver neve o back on 1873 when its value was de troyefd by legislation. To Put whit orses on an fequality with yeliou orees, the law prohibiting the use o rhite horses must b~e rep~ealed. To pu liver on a parity with gold, the iaw~ rohilbiting its use as money must bi spealed. Another ob'jction urged ti rie coinage of aliver is its cost of pro uction. A few silver mines havy felded their owners fabulous fortune nd in those rare Instances, ni oubt. silver hite hbeen mIned at a ama] i cost, but that %roves nothing, for some farmer fortunately circumstanced may produce corn at a very low cost, but I that would not prove that all farmers in the United States produce corn at the same price. These alleged statistics of the cheap protuction of silver are misleading, because they do not take ti i into account the tens of thousands of e silver miners who are working at a loss P I r you ask why these tens of thousands LI of silver miners are working at a loss A the answer is that "hope springs eter- re n1ni in the human breast," the mining gi business is peculistrly fascinating and o every minor in the lRocky mountains expects to strike a fortune to morro w. The tviith is that the value of silver in 0 a dollar does not depend upon the cost .c of production, but it depends upon the d amount of sacrilice necessary to get the P dollar. Common lborers in 1818 and f( 1849. made $8 to $10 per month in di 3 mining gold, but the commercial value g - of gold remained at the mintage value. 6 It is argued that if silver were coined ti free, the world would be flooded with o - cheap money. What is cheap money y I but the opposite of dear money ? What is inflation but the opposite oCcontrac l tion ? The floods will not come, for if a I all tile gold and silver in the world - were coined into money at 16 to I there 0 - would not be a per capita circulation a of $5. b It is also claimed that we would be b the dumping ground for the silver of al allcountries. If the silver were brought it here the people would hardly give it to al t us, and they could not leave It with us p in exchange for property we wanted L to sell and where would be the loss ? cl i When it is claimed that a silver dollar B will buy as much sugar in any store in the United States as a gold dollar, the a gold basis adv.cates admit it; but they insist that it is the credit of the silver dollar. If it is the credit of the govern ment that sustains tile silver dollar, 3 why such apprehension of the govern- ( . ment coining a ezvw hundred millions 0 of silver dollars ? At the close of the war C i we owed two billion eight hundred 'I C million; we have now doubled in popu. L lation and quardrupled in property; is , we would certainly be able to 11 at a n debt of three billions live hundreds - millions. There is but three billions live hun dred million of silver in the world, so P that the United States is able by its c I credit to float all the silver in the i world. It is a remarkable fact, how- 1 - ever, that those who are so apprehen- ' t sive of the government injuring its C - credit by putting its btamp on silver r, s are very anxious to have the govern- [I B ment bonds. What is the difference? r s The bonds draw interest; silver s docs not. Tile bonds prevent an ' , increase in currency, and keep products a low, while the silver if coined into s money would increase the currency, t and make products higher. Every ar 3 gument that is now used against free 3 silver has been used against free gold. 1 In 1848 to 1850 when the gold mines of I Australia were yielding large quanti 1 ties of gold, it was then claimed, that silver was the staple metikl and the I people's money. In 1856 Germany act- V r ually demonetized gold upon the c strength of such arguments. The truth is that between the men who have dol t lars to sell and those who have dollars I to buy there is a conflict of Interest. ? Those who have money to sell wish to e i make dollars scarce. That is the under- c lying principle from which either me- e - tal is kept out of the mints. 10veryboby p f in Congress claims to ho a bi-metalist u but nothing that is don or proposed ( ever meets the approbation of the gold q basis advocate nor does he ever suggest j anything except international bi-metal lism. International ht-met:llismii is an inpossibility. Mr. Gladstone it it speech Iefore h111 house 01' comm1i1ons said that, the world owed E1tglamd . 10,000.000,(00. on which the annui hal S , interest is $50,000,000. lie further ~ istated that any step which would in- t Screase tile voluime 01ofmey and thlere- I ,by depreciate the value of England's E claim against tihe world would be op- . .gpsedl by any E0nglish goverment hay-i , itlg dug regard to the interesis of tile j 10nglish people. The statefumanship t and dliplomacy of the world unite in .. the conviction that 1no valId or binding aigrcement on currency can be mrade f without the friendly co-operation of 1, E0ngland, tile wvorld's greates9t commer cial power. . A dlistiniguished international himet. I s allist hlas dlefined very accurately arnd I f' distinctly wheon international bi-met- if a allismn will be possible. It will come, lien t said, by the wg.d.('s common consent,y t, when the wo1~d is uniting in gin effort . to extricate itself from universal and e overwhelming r'uiin, prodisced by persis - I once in the egfort tO (d0 buineiss with t, an inflexible and inadequsate supply of I mfonley. SAnother relmedy p)rom ised by3 t~he Di- . a mocratic platform 1a the repeal of thi e iten per cent, tax upon the Stato banks of issue. Some people oppose this on 1 thle groundl that they wYant a money I whiichl will be good all over the world. 3 My check for $10 M 011ld be0 as god in I a Laurens as gold. I t wouild not be good Sin mLondion, Liverpooll or Milwaukee,e j but that fact would not lessen its valuet a or its us~e as a circulating medium at ,iLauirens. The people wan', not 'io muchir f a currency to enabile them to transact . their business an:l move t~heir crops ' , withouit going 1.0 the great money .centers. A niatlinal money naturally t seeks national cent~ers. Tihe State bank t .currency would b)e locail in its1 chiaraicer y a and there might b'j a money center in 1 every county whilch would decentralize 1 .money. TLhere are 9,000) banks inl the 1I , United States, all wvith dieposit aic- Il .counmts ini New York amnd with their .basis or credit depending Oil their aver-n :iage dleposits. The banks 0outh1 and1( c . West have to keep balances of fromi r $l80,U000 to $20,000 in New York, concen- I a trating an enormous amount and deC s privinig their home customers. A local N a curency supply would obviate the ne- j y cessity for thesce concentrations. 'There ,wouldl be no lear of wild cat banks a wIth the railroads and telegraph wires a Keeping tile Paucille and Atlantic coasts .andl every coroner of tile country in a .1 closs contract, withl exaict advices of y commercial coniditionsm everywhuere in r. e the country accessible everywhere else L r at almost any minute of' tile day.-Th'le c - News. A New IDanger.[ e l(FF~uisoNVI I..i, Ilid., Aug 23i.- c f LyL man .lar ki, tweinty years old, son of I b D~r. Filovd Th'lomais, l)irector of the mnd- h 'lana prison South, lost hits eyesiht yes- e 3 terday throu4gh tihe explosion of the ; peneum at tire of huis bicycle. l'arks h - was an route to Corydon, wvhen in some ( s manner the air tube 01' lis wheiel ex a phoded. After having adjusted a new s Sone, Parks commenced to inflate the I I tube, and thisto expeed AN APPEAL TO CHARITY. ,x Thousand sout1 at Pitmitan in Need ot Breod. CICA(4o, Aug. 21.-Al'ter making a trough investigation of the conditions Cidting among the eX-employes Of the alliman Con pany, who pirticipated in e recent boicott and -trike, Governor ligeld, tonight Isenued the following liet appeal: To the ppople of the late of Illinois and especially to those the city of Chicago: Thero is great distress growing out the wont of Food in and around the wn of Pullmar. More than 1,000 fara es, or in the neighborhood of 6,000 30ple are utterly destitute. Nearly ir iliths of them are women and chil :en-. The men have endeavore:J to Bt work. but were unable to do so. I ave made a personal examination of' to county and learn from the olii ers f the Pullman Conpanv, that prior to te Btrike they had 3,260 names on the >ll. Yesterday they had 2 320 people . work, but over 600 of them are new ien, so that 'diey have only about 1,600 F their old employes at work, leaving I)out 1.660 that have not been taken ack. Several hundred of these have left, ut the remainler are unable to go away .d have nothing to eat. I (ud that amediatelv after the beginning of the rike a relief association was formed to rovide for the needy and the books of uis associations shows that 2,463 appli ,tious wete made by the Pullman em. loyes, mostly heads of families to this isociation for ai(. In f ct, nearly all F the employee, except tihe few hundred 'ho left have been supported by charity )r nearly three months. As a rule they re a superior class oflaboring people in astrious, capable and steady, and some r them have worked for the Pu1lmnu ompany for more than ten years. 'hose who have bean given wark can At food, but are still in such an impovar. bed condition that they can't help their elghbors if they would. Reliel cociety unable to get more supplies. Oa last aturday it gave to each family two ounds of oat-meal and two pounds of )rn meal and having nothing left., it uspended operations, leaving the peo le in an absolutely helpless condition. 'he county commissioners of Cook outy as overseers of the poor have Bndered some assistance, but owing to mited appropriations, they can furnish elief for a short time only. We cannot top to inquire the cause of this distress. L'he good people of this State cannot al ow women and children by the hun. Ired to perish by hunger. 1, therefore, ,all upon all humane and charitably die )osed citiznsu to c'ntribute what thel -an toward giving relief to these people [ am satiatle(d that any contributioni ent to the Pullman Rtellef Committee a Censington will bejudicinusly distribute< find their treasurer has given bond Cc oroperly account for all moneys re. eived. (Signed) JoirN P. Airanr,n, Governor. 'The ov ;rior also sent a com muni, Wtlon to tho commilsioners of' Conk ounty, appealing to tem1 a3 the oll1 ers upon whion devolved a duty of roviding for cases -I this kind to the imost in their power to lurisiih Ininm inte assistance to the )!o,)le in distre is. 'lie correspon] deice hetween Governor L hturehl and George M. l'ullman, inl rela. on to tho destitutiotn inl fhe town was veii to thn press hv the Governor. It evaun last Suuday, vhlen the Govuauor iut a tole..'raml t Mr. I'illbrmnal riom'i priueiebl, inl repi).Isn to a fn nh:ir of lplenisa made to him b~y strikers for ai ituen, In this dbspaltc, thi Governor allIs Mr. i'allm'um that au~lhough~ the~ ltate of Illinois has not the innut desire 0 medIdle in thie a fl.tirs of the company, cannot allow a whole community rithin its borders to p~erIshi of hunger, rad informs the p~residbent, of' the coin any that unless reliof comes he would ither hanve to call a special session ii thue i.'ilature to make ati appropria ion or else iseu3 an appleal to the hu uianc people ol the State to give broad ,o the companny's former employee. I1e Lddes: "'It seems to me YOU would pre er to relive the situ ationi yourseif, especi .lly as it has .inst cost, the State up. rards of $50,000 to protect yu'ti pro)pr y.'' Three Lynche d. ,JACKSONVIr!Jd, la., Aug. 22. -N4ews as rea':hiett here from Mayo, ''la., to the effect that thre3, Ins teadi ot wo negroes, were Jynched for the rape af MIss IPert, last Tuesday. After the wo, who confessed tat thfey hiad comn nitted1 the assault, had been strung up, inother negro was founld in the vicinity >y the avengers. Th'iis negro was sus Iectedl of comiplicit.y in the crime, and ho suspIcion was~ conllrmned b~y strong dircumstan tial evidence, aund lie sharedl lie late of the other two. The three aegroes wern unknown In this aelghborhoodl. They were tramps mnd claimed to lhe from GeorgIa. 'here is no doublt that they yore guilty of the assault on MIss 'ert. 1I, is saidl that, alteor the bodIles of he negroes haid hung awhile, they iere cut dlown and buirned by the nchiers, F0xctement over the alfair i running hIgh, and rumors of other ynchings are in circulal ion, but it Is rnpossible to secure partIculars. The eople here regret that It has become ecessary to take the law into their wvn hands, but they are dletermined to lake an example of every man who ys violent hands on a woman. MIss 'ert in still in a pitIable condItIon. tne .o' y never recover from her in it r Ies. a Fatat Loa1p. IUJCIMOND, Va., Aug. 23,-Col, J1. M, Vlnstead, presIdent of the P~iedmont ad the P'eoples' banks of Greensboro, I. C., committed suicIde here this orning by jumping from one of the aiconies on the Oity Ihall near the lock tower. The plunge was one of Inety-lve feet and the body was im ailed on an Iron railIng. The cause f the act Is not kno wn here. When Ir. Winstead got the key to the to wer, e showed no sIgn of nervousness or xcitemnent. lie was about sixty years f ago andi( marriedl. Bsfore jumpnling e throw Ils cane and shoes (Iown. ~olonel Wilnstead'sa nep~hew arrived ere from D~anvlle to-nignt and tatedl that there was no reason why is uncle shotild have corn mitted suit icita. THE EDITORS ADJOURN. P'rastident Atlt--- O.hor New Oficer iR eoiution or Tihic. PiAwLEYS Island, Aug. 18.-The second day's. meeting of the Souti Carolina State Press Association ant in fact the last iession of this ineeting convened in the Barracks prom ptlv at 10 o'clock this morning. All the jour nalists present on the Island were in attendance. After some routine business was transacted Mr. N. G. Gonzales of Th State, made a motion which was carried that the address that had been appoint ed to be delivered by several of th< editors be postponed until the nexi meeting of the Association on account of the absence of several of those wh< were to speak on the different, themes Following this tihe place of the nexi annual meeting was decided upon. Mr Gonzales gave the Association a mosi heartly invitation to come to Columbli again, while Mr. Osteen of Sumter in vited them to meet there. As Column bia had been the place of meeting hist year several of the editors thought Mr Osteen's invitation should be accepted which was done. Then came the election of olilcers fo the ensuing year. The following wer, unanimously elected: E. Ii. Aull pre sident, II. M. Ayer first vice president 11. G. Osteen second vice president, C C. Langston secretary, F. Melcher' treasurer,.8ldt II. Brown chaplain, am Messrs. Gonzales, Clarke and Browne the three members -)f the executiv committee. After the election of olicers had beei proceeded with Mr. II. M. Ayer offere< the following resolutions which wer adopted after which the Associatioi adjourned subject to call: In appreciation of the courtesies ex tended this association on the occasioi of this, our twentieth annual meeting be it Resolved, That we express a vote o cordial thanks to Vice President A. 13 Andrews, of the Southern ltailwa Company, General Passenger Agen T. M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coas Line, W. ). Craig, of the Port Roya and Western Carolina Rtailway, E. I McSweeny, of the Charleston and Sa vannah Railway, and other railroa officials for transportation generousl granted on their roads for the editor and their families; to Capt. 11. Cordes and other oflicials of the Sout Carolina Steamboat Company, an Capt. .1. T, Ilubbard of the steami Planter, for their generosity .in alfor Ing us transportation and unusu courtesy shown us, to make the tri by sea as thoroughly enjoyable as If in their power. That our thanks be extenwded throul this resolution and through our broth Josiah Doar in person, to the hospit ble people of Georgetown, and espm fally to Capt. Springs of the tug Con L don, for their attention and for ti I pleasure afforded us durirg our stay I the beautiful little city of Georgetow That especial recognition 1s de I us to the hotels of Georgetown for the exertion In our behalf and the ente tainment given us. That thanks be extended the Man gault Light Dragoons for the use ( their comfortable hall for our meeting That we recognize by special vote t h thanks due to Mrs. Winthrop William for her kindness, and courtesy to th association, which has made this mneel ing so delightful to us all and that w shall be equally generous in spreadin to the public at large such reports o our treatment here and the natural ad vantages of this resort as will convinc others that l'awley's Island is tit choicest of all stimmer resorts, and tha Mrs. VIlliamns Is a queen among host. esseP. Tlhat a copy of these, such part, parts, of' those resolutions as effet those whmo have contributedl to ou pleasure ho drafted by thme secrtetar and sent In the name and under thm seal of the association to thoset whom we are so much indebted. itesolutions were also adoptedi 10oo lng to further agItation of thme impoi tance of these meetings andI the propti preparation for profltable work by th members anti to the securing of mtor hearty co-operation of the entire purem of tima State. Also resoluations of al preOcation of Mr. C. II. P~rince's wvor as aecretary. Also the following: Itesolved, That the thmks of' th associatien be0 extendled to the people<4 Sumter and Columbia for their cordli Inv/itatoin to us t o hoil our meeting with them. Swail,ted Wives, l'A NA, Ills., Aug, 22.-Judge Williai l'rIce married Mrs. Elsie liarrisoi aged 30i, to Edward Munday, aged 4 anid Muss J~tzzle McIermott, aged : to 'Thomnas Ellison, aged 53, at the r4 spiective homes of the bridied. And bi hind1( this prosaic announcement ther is a story. Monday's present wife wi the formuer wile of Iallison, andl ElI son's wife was the former wifte of Miiu dlay. illison was legally (divorce f rom his fIrst wife last Wednesday, an Ora tihe same day the new Mrs. Elliso was divorsed from Munday andi restoi 0(d to her maiden name. The contrac ing parties are all upon the best terms, andl are, in fact, intImate assi ciates. Th'e present Mrs. Ellisoni mad the wedding gown of the new Mr Mundiay, arnd vice versa, and~ the wc< dined were all plannedl before the d vorces were obtained. llown tr 'tecea. BU;FFA 1Lo, N. Y.. Aug. 23.,.Josep issinger was drIving along G rac street this afternoon with a ioavl c ammonia umsedl for making ice in brew ornes. One of the tanks containing thm stumf exploded with a loud report, hurl ing IBissinger twenty feet, throwinig him through the bows of a tree, wvhic1 overhung the streets. lie came dowl on the opposite side of the street. ill. hands and feet were torn off by the ex plosfon in his Ilight through thme tree Vie was instantly killed. No reason fo the explosion 18known. IHA-roN ih)Io, Ja., Aug. 23.-News reached the city this morning of a dii tressing accident near Hatonm ltimge which resulted in the dleath of thre estimable youngr lirdies, and which ha cast a gloom over the entire capita city. T'he unfortunates were Mis Mary Lee lRead, Miss lielle Chmmmber and Miss Elenore Garland. The young ladies were bathing in the Amite ltivei when one of their number got beyon her depth. She screamed and the othe two went to her assistance and all thre were dhrownnd, A SERIOUS CHARGE About a Personal Letter Made Against Dr. Ityrd. COLUMBIA,8. C., Aug; 2.-A copy of the following card addressed to the editor of the Register, was yesterday given to the press for publication. The clrd is rather sensational in its nature and makes very racy literature: Columbia, S. , August 24,1894. To the Editor ot the Register: I have noticed your coup d'etat in a recent issue of your paper and your editorial comments thereon, in which you pub lish a personal letter written by me to the Rev. L. 1). Bass, on June 27. Mr. Bass was at that time a Butler candi date for the State Senate and the let ter, containing, as it did, some sugges. tions and information from "Butler headquarters," as you express it, was made much of by you and your politi. cal sagacity and activity, as demon. strated in securing the letter, was em phasized to commend yourself and your paper to the movement. Now, Mr. Editor, in the ilrat place it Is due Mr. Bass to say that in a letter received from him recently he says: "I was never more surprised than when I r saw the publication of your letter to me of June 27th. I regret it and as sure your that I am innocent of the thing being made public." So much for Mr. Bass. A high and honorable gentleman, by the way, who smarts under even the shadow of inference that he would break conildence in the way indicated in your comments and by the publication of the letter. But here, Mr. Editor, is the part of your great political and sagacious ac tivity, which I want to make public. I am reliably Informed that very re cently, Dr. Byrd of Florence county (an ex-legislator from that county) has spoken more than once, on the streets of Florence of having found (?) a let ter written Mr. Bass, and that in i1s publication lie, Dr. Byrd, would make a ten-strike. 1 am further informed that when the public speaking took place at Timmonsville, in Florence county, that this afitute Dr. Byrd asked a number of candidates to his house at that place to dinner. That at the sug gestion of the host the guests took of their coats in the bed room and retired to the sitting room, after dinner to smoke. Mr. lass had the letter yot have published in his pocket when hi h went to Dr. Byrd's house, it was "ou d of sight" when lie left. r The letter, 1 am informed and b lieve, was sent you by Mr. McCall o Florence, and was given him by DI plByrd (our hospitable host). In you editorial comments you say: "The lei ter has been sent to us by one of th most active and vigilant Reformers I er the eastern part of the State." Alloi me to suggest that this "activity an vigilance" is taking a very dangerot1 9 turn and this very "active and vig lant" individual and host may hav n been down into Mr. Blass's pockets f paper of more commercial value for a we know. Not finding that, lie seems I r have taken everything else in sight an r- let his find of political paper act as th next best thing. . You are welcome, Mr. Editor, to a] letters gotten at the houses of peopl, from the pockets of their guests, whei e coats, by invitation, are hung in an ad s joining room and the guests lure< e away by a cigar, are out of sight. have written Bro. Bass to take warn 0 ing himself and to memorize the fol ? lowing lines and repeat them for thi f protection of his people: - Will you walk into my parlor? said thi e spider to the fly. Well, hardly, said the insect, and h( t winked the other eye. You parlor has an entrance, 4ut of ar exit it is shy, r So i'll stay on the outside and remair I, a little "fly." r This communication is written oli v the supposition that Mr. Bass and my. a self are correct in "placing our mnen.' 0 If we are wrong, let him make an lion orable disclaimer. -All names desired will be given or1 -applIcation and the untcersignedi is per r sonally responsible for every line ci A this commnitcation. a Very truly. 'J OHN G . CA Pi'RS. T{Ilim an speaks, COL UnIA , S. C., Aug. 20..--ly re. e qunest Gov. TJ.illman delivered lo-nighi f tan address onMain street to about, threc ml hundred 1)eopl1, about half of whom a were reformers. ie was well receivedl thiough at times lie receivedi many jeers, lie spoke of the city of Columbia in a caustic way and ridIculed its manage. n ment as. being undeor the domination of 1, men who wvere antagonistic to the 'whole of the rest of the State. l1e said lhe proposes to criticise l'resident Cleve . land as often as he violates the Demno ,. cratic platform which lie had spit upon e Tihat Cleveland had betrayed his party a andl had bauiked the D~emocratic sena ~. tors andi representatives in Congress in .their desire to carry out party pledges, dl TIhat Cleveland was in league with the (I powers of the northeastern section of n lte country who were Intent upon .keeping the volume of currency as ~. small as possible. That lie thanked Ghod f~ that he would leave Columbia in a few ~. months, buIt that his p)1acc would be e filled by a man who would keep the ~.people dlown as he had triedl to (10. .s uggar niapgingt Nm~ X' Yon , A ug. 21.-Many letters having been received by the Cotton 10x change both for an d against th6 use of sugar bag cloth for LDaling cotton, ithe boaid of managers, after a lull diei 0 cussion of the matter, have passed the ffollowing resolution: - lesolved, Th'iat many of the inqluiries 0 having been received by the New Y ork -Cotton E~xchange as to whether or not the use of what is known as sugar bag cloth in covering cotton is contrary te ri the rules of the exchange, the secretary be instructed to advise the Southerri -exchanges and others interested in thu -matter of the fact that cotton covered ' by such bagging constitutes a good de. livery under the rules of this exchange A Narrow Egcape, MAmDSONV I L LIC, Tex., Aug. 19.--Al Midway in this county Mrqs. Luncindi ,Alien was seized with colic. P~hysic ains andl nurses after six hours of at tention pronounced her dead. She was dressad and1 placed in her colln ani i just as the contege was about to star 1 to the grave a neighbor asked for laist look at her. She (the neighbor , thought she disqoyered signs of animii ll tion. The supposed corpse was take r from thme coflin, placed in a tub ( e water and soon revived. She thus ei caped being burined alive. THE TEST CASE AT LAST. THE 1893 DISPENSARY LAW TO BE DECIDED ON. The Aiken Cape Agroed On for the Pur poseo aLd the Suppeome Court to be Oelled In Extra Seusion--Tho Points to bo Ar aue d Apreed On. COLUMBIA, S. C , Aug. 23.-The Aik. en case is to be the one which will de cide the 1893 dispensary law and which will forever settle the coI'stitutionality or unconstitutionality of the famous law unless it can be gotten into the United States Supreme Court. The State and the city authorities of Aiken hava made an agreement that this case shall be the test case before the State Supreme Court. The agree ment was made in Aiken on Tuesday whila Assistant Attorney General Bar bor was in that city. Of course everybody will want to know when the case can get before the court. The truth is that Governor Till man has requested, and Attorney Gen eral Buchanan has joined in the re quest,,that Chief Justice McIver call an extra session of the court as soon as possible. The request was sent to the Chief Justice a few days ago and his answer is expected today or tomorrow. If the request is acceded to the extra session will be held the last of this month or the firat of September. The court will consist of Chief Justice Mc Iver and Associate Justices Pope and Eugene Gary. The case is to go to the court on ex ceptions to the. decision of Judge Al drich and the points to be argued have also been agreed upon. They are av fol lows: EXUEPTIONS OF THE RELATORS. Tie relators except to and appeal to the Supreme Court of South Carolina from the decree rendered and made herein by his Honor Judge James Al drich on the 18th day of August, 1894, upon the ground that his Honor erred as follows: 1. In holding that the respondents, a municipal corporation,could set up and plead that the Dispensary Act of 1893 is in violation of sections 1, 2 and 41 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina. 2. In holding that it is competent for the respondent to set up and plead that the Dispeneary Act of 1893 is in viola tion of the 4h. 5th and 14th amend f ments to and of section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States r and also in conflict with the inter-State 1 Commerce law. B 3. In holding that the Dispensary Act I of 1893 is an amendment of the Dis v pensary Act of 1892 and unconstit u tional. s 4. In holding that the said Act con stitutes a monopoly in the sale of in toxicating liquors and is therefore r void; whereas he should have held that 1i the exclusive sale by agents of the State 0 is a proper police regulation regularly I passed by the Legislature in its wisdom F in furtherance of Its judgment that such a measure was a necessary re quirement for the regulation of the liquor traflic, to protect the health,mor. als and welfare of the people; and that the execlusive control by the State of such a recognized subject of police su pervision is constitutional and valid. 5. In holding that the said Act is unconstitutional in providing for the exclusive sale by agents of the State and forbidding all other persons;where as he should have held that said Act providing for such sale exclusively by agents of the State is a constitutional exercise of the police power of the State over a recognized subject matter of police supervision. ii. In not holding that the Dispensary Act of 1893 is a valid law and in no wise violates the Constitution of the United States or that of the State of South Carollna. OSMUND W. JIUCHANAN. Attorney General, for Relators appel lant. EXCItTIONS OF RESPONDENTs. The following are the exceptions of the respondlental:, 1. Because it is respectfully submit ted that the relators herein had ample remedy at law for the correction of any grievance of which they complain, and therefore they were not entitled to the writ of prohibition and his Ihonor the Circuit .1 udge erred in not so deciding. 2. Because the said Act of thme Gene. ral Assembly oif this State violates sec tioii 8 af Article I of the Constitution of the United States and also violates the Act of the Congress of the United States regulating commerce between the States and is therefore null and void. 3. Because the said Act of the Gen eral Assembly of this State violates the 4 th, 5thm and 14th amendments of the Constitution of' the United States and is therefore null and void. 4. Because it is respectfully submit. ted that the ordinance of the city of Alken referred to in the return herein is authorized by section 1737 of the General Statutes of this State; that the same is lawful and of binding force within the corporate limits of the city of Aiken and his IHonor, the Circuit Judge, erred in not so deciding. 5. That his Ihonor erred in granting the writ of prohibition and deciding that the respondents should pay the costs of thme proceedings herein. MI. B. WOODwAnD, Attorneys for Respondents. TH'IE AGRIEElMENT. We agree that the foregoing shatli constitute the "case" upon which this cause shall be heard in the Supreme Court of South Carolina and that a copy thereof shall be used in lieu of a return in the ofllce of the clerk of said court. 0. W. BUOHIANAN, Attorney General for Relators. M.B. WOODWARD, Attorneys for 11esponden'ts. A Horrible lind, Pm'T'rnUnow, Pa., Aug. 21.-Thomas, llarris of Esplenborough returned to day from Mount Clemens where he had been for his health. ie found his home closed and after considerable trouble - broke in. ie found the dead and de compose~d body of his wife on the bed, I and by her side slept their two childreni t aged 2 and 4 years respectively. The woman died last Thursday trom hem , orrhages and the bed was saturated -with blood. The neighbors supposed ri that the tamily was away. The cili I dren arein a precarious condition ftrns - lack of food and breathing the contatt. inatad atmnanhaete .o long.