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10AL O' LOVE. hacs its tholni, here is thUn; Iih s 1o 6 could find It, im it, dqhreas mine; my t.I'd wear it - relloe-Y-C t pin Back from me again. -,Iregorisiar that shines,.doar, spurpfluh o9, the ustre of thIne eyes, To me you'd'not.bo fairer, 11 -lovo of my heart; AXV tbiowrirt not of earth, dear, But of hefien itself apart. If every bird that sings, dear, With passion in its breast, Would sing his songs for you, dear And brought unto you rest, I'd wish their tenderest music Would whispor unto thec, 'hat I loved you and only you, For all eternity. 'THE ETERNAL REST. There Is no Peace Here, but a Glorious ExIstence in Eternity. BRtoo1KLYN, Aug. 20 -Rev. Dr. Tal. mage, who Is now in Australia on his globe girdling tour, has selected as the subject of his sermon for today through the press' the words, "Everlasting Life," the text being from Micah ii, 10, "Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest." This was the drumbeat of a prophet who wanted to arouse his peOple from their oppressed and sinal condition, but it may just as properly be uttered now as then. Bells, by long exposure and much ringing, lose their clearness of tone but this rousing bell Df the gospel strikes in as clear a tone as when it first rang on the air. As far as I can see, your great want. and mine is rest. From the time we enter life a great many vexatious and annoyances take after ua. We may have our holidays anud our seasons of recreation and quiot, but where is the man come to midlite who has found en tire rest? The fact is that God did n t make this world to rest in. A ship might as well go down ol' Cape Hatter. as to find smooth water as a man in this world t9 find quiet. From the way that God has strewn the thorns and hung the clouds and sharpened the tusks, from the colds that distress us, and the heats that smite us, and the pleurisies that stab us, and the fevers that consume us, I know that he did not make this world as a place to loiter in. God does every thing successfully, and this world would be a very different world it it were in tended for us to lounge in. IL does right well for a few hours. indeed it is magnificent! Nothing but infinite wis dom and goodness could have mixed this beverage of water, or hung up these brackets of atars, or trained these voices of rill and bird and ocean, so that God has but to lift his hand, and the whole world breaks forth into orchestra. But, after all, it is only the splendors of a king's highway, over which we are to march on to eternal conquests. You and I have seen men who tried to rest here. They builded themseives great stores. They gathered around them the patronage of merchant princes. The voice of their bid shook the money markets. They had stozk in the most successful railroads, and ii 'safety do. posits' great rolls of government secur ities. They had emblenned carri ages, high mettled steeds, footmen, plate that eon founded lords and1 senators who sat at their table, tapestry on which Iloated the richest designs of foreign looms, splen dlor of canvass onl tile wall, exquisite. ness of music rising arnorig podestals of bronze and drop~ping, soft as light, on snow of sculpture. Ihere let them rest. -Put back the embroidered curtain, and shake up the pillow of do,vn. Turn out the lights! it is 11 o'clock at night. Let slumber drop upon the eyelids, and the air float, through the haltf opened lattice dirowey with midesumer per fume. Stand back, all care, anxiety and trouble! But no, they will not stand back. They rattle the lattice. They look under thie canopy. With rough touch they startle his pulses. They cry out at 12 o'clock at night: "Awake man! 11ow can you sleep when things are so uncertain? What about those stocks? Hark tn the tqp of that fire bell, it is your district! How if you should die sooli? Awake, man! Think of it! Who will get your property when you are gone?~ What will they do wit~h it? Wake up! 10.ches somnetimies take wings. how if you should get ponor? Wake up!'' Rising on one elbow the man of fortune looks out into the dark ness of the room and wipaes the da mp ness from his forehead and says: "Alas! For all this scene of wealth and magil cence-no rest!" I pasPed down a street of' a city with a merchant, ie knew all the nest houses on the street. lie said: "There is something the matter in all these houses. In that one it is con jugal infe licity. In that one, a dissipated son. In that, a (dissolute father. In that, an ithIot child. In that, the prospect, o1 bankruptcy."i This world's wealth can give no permanent satisfaction. Thib is not your rest. You and I have seen men try in an other direction. A man says, "if .I could only rise to such and such a place of renown; if I could gain that office; if I could only get thme stamnd and have my sentiments met with one good round (' hand clapping applause; if I could only write a book that would live, or mnake a speech that would thrill, or do an action that would resoundi" The tide turns in his favor. is name is on 10,000 lips. Hie is bowed to and sought after and advanced. Men drink his health at great dinners. At his fiery words the multi tudes huzza! From galleries of beauty they throw garlands. From housetop~s as he passes in lonig procession, they shake out the national standards. Here let him rest. It Is 11 o'clock at night. On pillow stufled with a nation's praise let him lie down, Hush, all disturbant voices! In his dream let there be a hoisted throne, and across it march a * coronation. Hiush, hushl "Wake up!" says a rough voice. "Political senti ment ls changing. How ii you should lose this place of honom? Wake up! The morning papars are to be full of de * nunciation. Hearken to the execrations of those who once caressed you. By tomorrow night there will bse multitudes sneering at the words which last meht you expected would be universally ad -mired. How can you sleep when every thing depends upon the next turn of the great ttagedy? Up man! Off of this pillow!" The man, with head yet ho from his last oration, starts up suddenl' looks out upon the night, but sees noth ing except the flowers that lie 0on hIt stana, or the scroll from which he rea< his speech, or the books from which he quoted his authorities, and goes to hlh desk to finish his neq dtc~ correspon dence, or to pan an .dInant line tc some reporter, or to sketch the plan for a public defense against the assaults ei the people. Happy when he got his fitst lawyer's brief; exultant when he triumphed over his first political rival, yet, sitting on the very top 'of all that this world offers of praise, he exclaims, "No rest, no restl" The very world that now applauds will soon hiss. That world saiki of the great We'hter. "What a statesman! Whatwonderlul exposition of the con stittitfon A man fit for any position!" That satme woild said, ofter awhile, "Down wi.h him! IIA is an oilice seek eri Ile is a, sot! IHe is a libertint Away with him!" .And thero Is no peace for the man until he lays down his broken heart in the grave at Marsh field. Jeffrey thought that if he could only be judge that wculd be the makIn ofhi1m; gt to be judge and cursed the day on which lie was born. Alexander wanted to sibmeree the world with his greatness; submerged it, and then drank himself to death because he coulI not staud the trouble. Burns thought, he would give everything if he could win the favor of courts and princes. Won it, and amid ithe shouts of a great onter tainment, when poets and orators and duchesses were adoring his genuins, wished that he could creep back Into the obscurity in which he dwelt when lie wrote of the Daisy, wo, iodcst, crimson tipped iower. Napoleon wanted to make all iurope tremble at his power; nade it tremole; then dted, his entire military achieve ments dwindling down to a pair ofmili tary boots which he insisted on baving on his feet when dyinv. At Versailles I saw a picture of Napoleon in his tri umpsli. I went into another room and saw a bust of Napoleon as he appeared at St. Ifelens; but, Lob, what grief and anguish in the flace of the latter! The flrat was Napoleon in triumpb; the last was Napoleon with his heart broken. How they laughed and cried when silver tongued Sheridan in the midday of pros. perity haranged the people of Britain, and how they howled at and execrated him whin, outside ot the room where his corpse lay, his creditors tried to get h's miserable bones and sell them! BAs world for rest? "Aha," cry the waters, "no rest herel We plunge to the sea," "Aha," cry the mountains, "no rest herel We crumble to the plain." "Aha," cry the towers, "no rest herel We fbilow Bab-lon and The. bos and Nneveh into the (lust." No rest for the flowers. They fade. No rest for the stars. They die. No rest for man. Ile must work, toil, suf'er andt slave, . Now, for what have I said all this? Just to prepare you the text, "Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest.." I am going to make you a grand oflier. Some of you remember that when gold was discovered in Oalifornia large con. panies were made up and strated of' to get their. fortunes. Today I want, to make up a party for the land of gold. I hlol( in my hand n doeed from the proprie. tor of the estate, in which lie cflers to all who will join the company 10,000 shares of infinite value in a city whose streets are gold, whose harps are gold, whose crowns are gold. You have read of the crusaders-how that many thoua. ands, of them went cfr to conquer the holy sepulcher. I ask you to join a grander crusade, not for the purpose of enuuering the sopulcher ofa dead Christ, but for the purpose of reaching the throne of a living Jesus. When an army is to be made up, the recruiting of fceor ex.muies the volunteers. H[e tests their eyesighlt. ie sounds their lungs. ie measures thoir stature. They must be just, right, or' fho~y are re;ected. Buit there shall be no partialiftay in making iup this army of' Christ.. Whatever y our moral or physical statunre, whatever your dissipation, whatever your crimes, whatever your weaknessos, I have a comimissioni from the L~ord Alnighty to make up the regiment, of redleemled souls, and1 I cry. "Arise ye and depart for this is not, your rest!" Many of you have lately joined this company, and1( my desire is that, you may all join at. Why not? You inow in your own heart's experience that what I have said about this world is true that it is no place to rest in. There are hiundre'ds here weary-oil, how weary with sin; weary with trouble; weary with bereavement! Some of you have been piercedl through and~ through. You car ry tihe sears of' a thiousaind conflicts in which you heave bled at eveiry pore and1 you sigh, "'Oh, that I had the wings of' a (dove that I might ily away and be at, rest!" You have taken the cup of this world's pleasures and drank it to the dregs, add still the thirst, claw at your tongue and the fever strikes to your braini. You hlave chased pleasure tlhrough every valley, by every str'eam amidl every birightness and( undler every sha-~ dlow, but just at the moment when you were all readly to put your hlandl upon0 the rosy, lauighing syiph of the waod she turned upon01 you with the glare of a fiend and the eye of' a satyr, her locks add~ers, and her breath the chlildl damp of a grave Out of ,Jesus Christ no rest,. No voice to silence the storm. No light, to kindle the darkness. No dIrydock to repair the split bulwark. Thank God, I can tell you something better. If there is no0 rest on earth there as rest in'hieaven. Oh, ye whlo are worn out with work, your hands calloused, your backs bent, ycur eyes half' put out,, your fingers worn with tile needle that, in this world you may never lay dlown; ye discouraged ones who have been wag ing a hand to hand fIght for bread; ye to whiom the night brinags litt1le rest, and the morning more dlrudgery-oh, ye of' the weary hand, and of the weary sidle, and the weary foot, hear me talk about rest! Look at that company of enthironed ones. Look at their hands. Look at thleir feet. Look at t~heir eyes, It, cani not ba that those bright ones ever toiled? Yes, yes! These packed the Chinese teaboxes, and through mission ary instruction escaped into glory. These sweltered on soutiherra plantations, and one igh~t after the cotton picking went, up as white as if they had never been black. Those (lied of' overtoil ,ii the Lowell carpet factories, and thlese in Manchester malls; those hlelpeod build the pyramids, and these broke away from work on the day Christ was hounded out of' Jerusalem. No more towers to build. Iheaven is done. No more gar anents to weave. The robes are flaished. No more harvests to raise. The gardens are full. Oh, sons and daughters of toll, arise ye and depart, for that is your rest! Scovill McCallum, a boy of my Sun day school, while dying said to his mo thier "Don't cry, but sing--sing. "1hlero is rest for tile weary, '1here is rest for the weary." Then putting his wasted hands over his heart, said, "There is rest, fir me." Oh, ye whose locks are wet with the does of the night of grief; ye whose hearts are hleave, because those well known footsteps sound no more at the doorway, yonder is yobr rest! There is David triumphant, but once h~e bemoaned Absalom. There is Abraham enthroned but once lie wept for Sarah. The... i. Paul exultant, but he once sat with his feet it the stocks. There is Payson radi ant with immortal health, but on earth he was always sick. No toil, no tears, no narlings, no strife, no aonliwng cough tonight. No storm to ruflle the crystal sea. No alarm to strike from the cathedral towers. No dirge throb. bing from seraphic harps. No tremor in the everlasting song, but rest, perfect rest, unendin rest. into that rest how many of our loved ones have gone! The little children have been gathered up into the bosom of Christ. One of them went out of the arnis of a widowed mother, following its father, who died a few weeks before. In its lest moment it seemed to sec the departed father for it said, looking up. ward with brightened cru'tenfnauce, "'apa, take meo upw!'' Others put (own the work of midlife feelina they could hardly be spared from the ofllce or store or shop for a day, but are to be spared from it forever. Your mother went. Having li-ed a life of Chiris tian consistency here, ever busy with kindness for her chldren, her heart full of that meek and quiet spirit that is in the sight of God of great price, suddenly her countenance was tranflIgured, and the gate was opened, and she took her place amid that great cloud of witnesses that hover about the throne! Glorious consonution! They are not dead. You cannot make me believe they are dead. They have only moved on. With more love than that with which they greeted us on earth, watch us from their hugh place, and their voices cheer us in our struggle for the sky. Hail, spiries blessed, now that ye have passed the flood and we.a the crown! With weary feet we press up the shining way, until in everlasting reunion we shall meet again. Oh, won't it be grand when, our conflicts done and our part ings over, we shall clasp hands and cry out, "This is heaven?" NEW COVERING FOR COTTON. Tihe anbutitui ton it Sigar Sack lor . ute 11agging. NEiW Yonu, Aug. 31.-The Cotton Exchange, as alrandy reported, has of ficially decided that the use of sugar bag cloth in covering cotton is not coun tr ary to its rules. t was rumored on the Exchange yesterday, though nobody cared to stand spoonsor for the rumor that the matter had come up before the Board of Managers, through the action of the various jute manufacturing companies, which saw the threat of a damaging competition in any encroach ment of other kinds of bagging, con sequently they had induced the cotton manufactuerers to unite in a protest again.st the use of sugar bag cloth, and address it to the Board. Mr. Richard Sledenberg, of the Cotton Exchange, acknowledged that letters of protest had been received from a number of Eastern cotton spinners protesting against the use of sugar bag cloth. But lie knew nothing of the motives that prompted this move, and presuimed they were entirely disinterested. "On the other hand, he added, "the Board received a number of communi cations from farmers and cotton grow era asking whether it digcriminated against the use of sugar bagging and Intimating a preference for the latter. It was in answer to these applicetions pro and con that we passed our resolu tion of the 20th and issued in the form of a lettar to all our patrons. We de sire to make no discrimination what ever, buit to leave them to~ their own elecion in the matter. Only wvhen there is a serious defeat in any partic uilar sort of bagging wouild the Board care to interfere. For example, last May it was constrainied to give notice that pi no straw bagging was objecti on able, inasmuch as it stainedl, and~ there fore, deteriorated the cotton covered by it in the event of its becoming dlamp or wvet. This was in answer to numi erous bitter protests that came to us, especially from Eulropean customers, which made immediate action ipera tive." "lhow dioes the Farmers' Alliance stand ini this matter?" was askeal. "We have no olhicial notice as to how they stand as a body. The only coim mumlcationl of this sort was received from secretary of the Farmers' All I ance in Charleston, S. C., in wh ich lie put the same question that had been put b~y other correspondlents from the agricultural districts andI intlimiated thle same preference for sugar bagging. lie thought that it would be a hardship to be forced to use jute." "To what (10 you attribute this pref erence for sugar b~agginlg ?" "Well, it is cheaper, in the first place; and in thle second place, being more tightly woven , it is satid to protect the cotton better than jute." Mr. WV-lter T1. Miller, secretary of the Exchlange, was in substantial ac cord with the president. Sugar bag ging,"hle explained, "can be obtained by the cotton dealers either at secondi or first han-is. in either event it is cheaper than jute. Second hand, it may be as much as 3 cents a yard cheaper, which would be about 18 cents a bale. You see that is a con sideratfon. Bagging that has been through a steam process of cleaning anld may readily be utilized for cover ing bales of cotton." "Have any now crop bales neon cov ered with thle sugar baggIng ?" "No, It is too early for that. But now .that the Board has declard itself thlere is 1no debut that the sugar bag ging will come into extensive use. Naturally, all purchases of cotton made throughl the New York Exchlange are subject to the rules of the Exchage and no customer can object to the bagging which the Exchange approves." A pioneer trader in cotton who has been In the business for twenty-live years assured the reporter that the more tightly woven material was pre ferred by the planters of the South, not only because it was chleaper, but because it protected the cotton from dust and ashes and also, to a moderate degree, from the cinders which occasionally fall upon bales of cottonl in cars or when piledI up at the station and set lire to them. And in any case, lie added, they did not care to be dictated to by any combination of manufaturers, but wanted full liberty to usle any material they preferred. Kolb'a Seheme. MEMPH'Is, Aug, 2.-A special to the Commercial-Appeal from iBirminghlam Ala., says: A prominent Republican who was active in Kolb a interest dur ing the recent campaign is authority for the statement that the Kolbites will, in Nlovember, when the regular Legislature meets, convene a Leghisia turo of their own, elect a United States Senator to succeed Morgan, who will, it is thought, be0 a Republican, and ad journ. Tihley will then let their Sena tor contest with Morgau who will be re-elected by the regular Legislature for the latter's seat. The Kolbites hope to hlave their man seated, as thley believe tile Republicans will control the Unmted States Senate next year. This will, it is thought be the extent of the dual government~of the Kolbites, as they cannot hope to prevent Oates SENATOR M. C. BUTLER WITHDRAWS HIS PLEDGE TO ABIDE BY THE PRIMARY ELECTION. Wilach Mloans That the Mombers of tho Stato Legjniaturo are to bo Fought For In the Gastoral EItetItOn II NOVennleor. Tho Nogro to uone in. COLUMIJrA, S. C., Aug. 28.-Senator Butler has withdrawn his chances for #he Senate from before the )emocratic primaries andl he and his friends are going to make the light in the Novem ber election. That was the startling and unexpected news received in Co lumbia yesterday and it will f urnish a sonsation throughout South Carolina. Many people will find it hard to believe, but it is a cold fact; a fact which means serious times for this turbulent little State and her people; a fact which ap pears to mean an appeal to t4e negroes; a fact which means bloodshed when the negro again tries to loom up as the balance of power. The die is cast and with it is c~ast the politcal fortune of the man who foulit the negro harder than any other man in 1876. Not only is the fortune of General Butler at stake, but the for. tunes and lives of hundreds of others are involved. General ititler's determination was announced in the following brief tele. gram to D. 11. Tompkins, Secretary of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, and came yesterday about noon: Washington, 1). C., Aug. 27. "I hereby withdraw the paper I tiled with you on the 16th or 17th of June, announcing my candidacy. "Ml. 0. BUTLER." When the newspapers first got hold of General Butler a brief telegram yes terday they were in doubt. It was sub ject to two constructions-one that Senator Butler had withdrawn from the Senatorial race altogether atd the other that he would no longer submit his claims to the primaries. So that there w ould be no doubt on the matter the city editor of The Reglster at once telegraphed General Butler for an ex planation of his telegram to Colonel Tompkins. The following a'uswer was received: "Washington, 1). C., Aug. 27, 1894. "To W. W. Price, Correspondent Co lumbia Register: " Replying to your telegraphic inquiry just received, I beg to say in withdraw ing the paper I filed with Tompkins, secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee, announcing my candidacy, I am following In the footsteps of dis. tinguished Iteformers who are unwill ing to submit their claims to a primary, where eveiything from coroner up his been cut, dried, packed and salted down by the ring; where the resuIt is slated and known by the ring before a vote has been put in the ballot box. "M. C. BUrLER." A copy of the Tompkins telegram was shown before General Butler's an swer was received, to Captain John G. Capers, who was supposea to know just what it meant, and in reply he said: "The telegram must speak for itself. Certain It is, however, that it places General Butler entirely independent of the action of the primary on the 28 lh. You will know a great deal before ten (lays elapse, and you can rest absured that Senator Butler is still a most act ive factor in State and national poli tics. 'The news of Senator Butler's first telegram flow over the city rapidly and was talked of on every corner and in every 1)nsiness p~lace. It caused hun direds of comments and will cause hm (Ireds more. Thei bitter element of' the Conservatives rejoiced over it but ft plroduced no joy among that class of men whlo believe in standling by the D)amocratic party, no matter what its woes or its tribulations. TIhie alleged cause for Senator llut Ier's action appears to be the failure of the State Democratic Executive Comn mittee to grant the separate box which Senator Butler asked for. General Buitler's action, even with this, is strange in viewv of the fact that in his camplaign speeches lie made elo quent appeals for white unity and suprema cy, at times urging this with tears in his eyes. There was always something peculiar, something apparently hidden, something which appeared to convey a warning in these appeals and this was nioticedI. Captain Capers, in his rem arks, inti matet that the public will know a few things in the next ten days. The Till mnanite leaders believe that they know the plans of the Batler men without waiting ten days for the~m andl sum them up like this: In six counties- Ricchland, Charles ton, Georgeto wn, Sumter, Beaufort and EdXgefeld-the Butler men have legis lative tickets in the flid in the Demo cratic primary. They believe they can win in the primary in these counties and are Democrats, excepting that If they win the Reformers will have to vote for thier nominees ira the regular election.- It the thIrty remaining colm ties there are no Butler candidate3 in the field before the primaries. It will be in these counties that the Butler men wIll put Independent candidates for the Legislature. With the members of the Legislature from the six counties that are to stay Democratic andl with what few they hope to elect ini indepen (lent counties-there is the politic ii jack-o'-lantern which the Butler men are following. The next hope of the Blutler men is that if they (do not succeed in electing a majority of the Legislature theywill find~ some ground for a contest in the United Statas Senate, using the pretext of fraud, etc , as a basis for the contest . They presume that liutler's popularIty in the Senate and the hatred for Till man wvili lead many a Senator to vute against Tillman. It is a game in which two desperate chances are being taken by desperate men, but it is a game which will be blocked. Tilimanite leaders say that Senator Butler obtained his seat in the Senate by a contest an d that is what suggestedl the plan to him and his friends tnhis time.-Register. Fatal Fire in Now York. N xw Yongi, Aug. 29.-The six story building, 2261 Rivington street, was burned at 2:30 thIs morning. With one exception all of six floors were occupIed by tailor shops. The fire startced on the third floor in Fabrici L~evene's tailor shop at 2:30, and in less than ten minutes the flames had started up the stairways to the roof. Firemen were on the ground in three minutes after the alarm was sent out and ladders were put up against the Iron fire escapes. Fireman Timothy Collins first started up the ladders. ie had not climbed more than ten feet when a wild yell was heard above the noise of shouting firemen and roaring flames. The peo. plo were horrified when they sawv a boy, clad only in an undershirt, shoot out from the fifth floor. The boy landled on Collins, who had on a rubber helmet. The boy and firemen went to the groundl together, the boy being killed almost instantly. Collins was knoeckedl insensible. Hie is seriously injured and his recovery is doubtful. When the flames were extinguished the fIremen found on the fIfth floor the bodies of a watchman named IHerman and a boy. Both boys were Ilerman's sons. The property loss was small. UPR18ING OF NEGROES. now a Few Determined, Nervy Whit mOR& Prevented a Miot. An embryo race riot started on Mori day of last week near Vances in th Eastern part of Orangeburg Counti and for a time things looked Equall but an open riot was happily averte by the coolness and nerve of the whit men in that section. Two or three te egrams were sent to Governor Tillmai about the matter. The first, fror Trial Justice 0. B. Whetsell, read a follows: Harlin City, Aug. 29. "Governor B. It. Tillman: "Order out the Santee Riflemen t, my aid, as a race riot is imminetl Eleven prisoners on hand and can commit them because of trouble by n( groes. O. B. WIIETSELL, "Trial Justice." The second telegram was from Mi M. R. Evana, First Lieutenant ani Commander of the Santee Itiflemer and was as tollows: "1 have been notified by Trial JuE tice O. B. Whetsell that he has aske for the Santee Rililemen. I am read to respond upon your orders." Governor Tillman sent the followinj telegram to the trial justice: Columbia, Aug. 27. 0. B. Whetsell, Tilal Justice. Ilarlii City, S. C. What Is the cause of trouble? Don' attempt to move prisoners to jail til tomorrow. 13. i. TILLMAN, Governor. The Governor also sent the followini to Lieutenant Evans: Columbia, Aug. 27. M1. It. Evans, Lieutenant Comnianding Iarlin City. Hold your company subject to order of Trial Justice in maintaining th peace and enforcing legal process. B. R. T ILLMAN, Governor. A dispatch from Parlers to the Cc lumbia Register says the negroes ar holding meetings all about in that sec tion of Orangeburg County for th, purpose of making a strike on cottoi picking. They are pledging themselve not to pick for a white man for les than fifty cents per hundred. and fort cents for negroes. Some of the bes element among the negroes are oppose( to the strike, as many of them hav nothing to eat, and a great many havi got money and goods from the white with the promise to pick it out in cot. ton at a fixed price. They threaten b whip any one who disobeyed this de termination. As a result of the agita tion one old negro, Peter Pelzer, wai taken out of his house last night aboul 1 o'clock and severely whipped b1 about twenty-live negroes for pickini cotton for Mr. A. It. Ithame for fort' cents. Most of theni were recognize( and Trial Justice 0. 13. Whetsell wil issue warrants for the parties today which it is hoped will break up thi strike in this section. The following is Trial J uistice Whet sell's statement concerning the diflicul ty. He says: "When the cotton season first openec the negroes in our section organizet into a body, about 250 strong and rc solved not to pick cotton for less that 50 cents per 100 pounds. If any ont violated this rule in picking for i white man for less, he was to be takel out and whipped. These rules were t be enforced against all negroes, wheth er the offender be a member of the or ganization or not. Last Monday, Pete Pelzsr, a non-member, picked som cotton for a white man near Vance' for less than 50 cents. He was prompt ly taken out and given about 100 Jash es by a mob. Peolzer, as soon as he goi able, swore out warrants before met against seventeen negroes, all of when: he recognized in the mob. I dleputizec ueven men to arrest the seventeen in dicted. They were brought before me and given a preliminary hearing. The evidence adduced was strong enough to) send the cases up to the Court of General Sessions. About 250 negroes had gathered around the oflice and ir the house, who swore tne men shoult not be taken to jail. Some were armet with pistols, guns, axes and billets o: wood. They were cursing and defiant Those who were unarmed went home got guns and returned, leaving a sufi cient number of the men to guard thi oflice until they returned. About ont dozen white men were there and the drew their pistols." A riot was imminent, and thing looked squally indeed. He told tni white men to stick to him and gay them authority to shoot the first mat who interfered with the prisoners. lII telegraphed the Governor for the San tee Rifles as above stated. The negre were raging, swearing and tossinj their glittering wveapons about thel heads saying, "d-n the Rtifles." Thi white men and constables were al armed; they stood together with pis tols in hand and marched upon the ne groes, who at this time looked lik blood wrs all they wanted. With tha characteristic nerve of Carolhnians, th whites held a solid front and marcher the prisoners out of the office into vacant place. Thence they wer brought without molestation t Branchville and turned over to Sherili D~ukes, who had been telegraphed for TLho SherifT lodged them in jail, wher they will remain un.ii court meets o released on bail. Fortunately not a shot was fired. I the negroes had fired one time tiher would have been a bloody riot. Tih negroes saw the nerve and determina tion of the whites and it caused then to flunk, although they had twenty five to one. Justice Whbetsell says hi is going to arrest tile whole mob, bu will get the ringleadiers first. .lie say he fears that a general race riot wil occur when he attempts to arrest th others. ie made an ofilcial call upoi the sheriff to assist him with plenty o (deputies. The Santee Rtifles hold then: selves in readiness to obey the orders o ,Justice Whetsell, but it is hoped tha their services will not be needed. Tw of tile prisoners have turned State evidence and have been discharged. Another Murcnier, AJIKEN, Aug. 29.-A fatal shootin, scrape took place about 9 o'clock t( night in front of JBlue Mountain .Joe tent, near the passenger station, b( tween Nighit Marshal James 1. Wir gardi and( Will Chatfild, and the resul of' it is that Chiatfield lies with a morti wound in his abdomen. 'The reports I reference to the affair are conflicting One is that it was a personal diflicult andi Wingard was in the wrong; thi other is that Wingard was acting I thme discharge of his duties as marsha Ihowever, that will all come ouitat Lih coroner's inqluest. Thmey had word and in the scullile that ensued, a b3 stander grabbed Wingard's club to pr. vent his using it, when he drew il pistol and shot twice, one ball pOne trating the abdomen, entering at th~ navel, the other making a glancin1 wound in the side. (Chatfild wais taket to the P'ark Avenue llotel anid JDre Wyman and Edwards calledi ir' They are now with him trying to fini the ball. Will Chlattild is a son of Mi B. 1P. Chatfld, proprietor of thle P'ar Avenue Hlotel, and is about twenty flveyears of age. lie is unmarriedi. Win gard gave himself up and is now in th custodiy of the sheriff. Chatlild ha ncn died. pp. THE WEATHER AND GRO e The Weekly nulletit ot the state 1JU OAU C for the Past Week. W The following is the bulletin of the " e condition of the Weather and crops of h the state for the week just ended, as 1 Issued. Tuesday by State Observer c( Bauer:' During the week ending, August 27 I the temperature fluctuations were bi somewhat below normal limits owingto uit more than the usual amount of cloudi. I 2 nees, hpecially during the hottest por- vC tion of the day which prevented very t high maxima, and at night which re- Oa tarded radiation preventing low min- to Ima; the result ing average temperature W for the week did not vary more than til two degrees trom the normsl in any tii t poition.of te ,Stat ) being generally W slightly below. Ilighest temperature On for the week, 05 at Oakwood on the 25th; lowest 60 at Greehville on the 22d. in most sections of the State the sun shine was deficient averaging some. what less than 50 per cent. of the pos sible over the entire State. The rainfall was local in its charac ter, although fairly well distributed on the 25th and 26tb; the showers were heaviest in the southern portion of the State. The amount of rainfall varied greatly, ranging from nearly four in ches in pertions of the south and south eastern counties to a trace or none at all in the upper counties. A cloud burst was reported from Orangeburg county that did much damage, and washing rains from various other Dlaces. There was severe hail storms in Sumter county, however, causing no particular injury, and a severe wind and hail storm in Grcenville county breaking down corn and cotton. Thle excessive rains of two weeks ago were very destructive in )arlington county, ' damaging old corn and ruining late "f planted, and it is estimated that cot ton was reduced in propect 10 per cent. Communication with the town of Dar lington was interrupted for nearly two weeks by the high water. Te diversity of soil and topography of theState makes it improbable that the same weather conbddtions would be equally favorable for crops in all por tions of tile State, and the condition of cotton at the present time exampli Iles this very strikingly; owing to the A heavy rains for tile past few weeks cotton on sandy soil is a poor crop, con 3 tinues to shed too freely and rust is ' ~ developed very generally, while the 1I plant's growIt has stopped with ' scarcely any top crop; from this coldi- t tion cotton grades up to as good fields as can be produced any time or where, but taken all together tile prospects fall considerable short of an average crop. Bolls are maturing and opening rapidly and preking will, in a siort time, ble come general. Corn has received nu Eetback, arAd fodder pulling which Is ending in the low counties, is general in the "up country." One correspondent who hasti traveled extensively throughout tile _ State, state- that in his opinion tile corn crop has been over estimated and at will not prove to be much, if any, great er than an average crop. Tobbacco suffered severely during L the first of the month and the rains ruined to a large extent tihe very pois. ing cropof July. Reports from tile rice counties con lirml previous estimates. Peas are giving evidence of' hearing and are growing Iixuriently. Syrup inaking is the prevailing oc cupation in districts where cane is grown extensively. aind the general opinion is that the yieldi or syrup (does not comel up~ to expetadtionl, althloughI tihe cane is juicy. Potatoes, turnips. gard(ens and paa turage continue to do weil, the warmi moist condIitions having be'en extremely favorable. T1ruck farmers are begin ing to prepare their lands for winter andi spring vegetables. The wet ground is causing irish 1p0 tatoes to rot in places. Scuppernong grapes are ripening and are reported pientiful in p~ortlOns of tile State, being about the only native fruit grown in any abundance this year. iButlot's Mova. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Aug. 30.-Ix- ' Mayor William A. Courtenay arrived y. In the city yesterday from tile upcoun try. ie was encountered by a Sun man today and anticipated his ques tions wIth regard to the state of poll tics, by Inquiring: "What does this move or Butler's" mean ?" Not waiting for a reply, lie -. said: "To give any promise 01 success he should have inaugurated it from cr the beginning of the campaign. ie should have adopted the suggestion of m Ilamptoni and formed .N ational Demo. cratic clubs. "It is too late to change tihe result no.I come from the un-country and -1 know that the iax vote in tile party primary is nlot a good test of Tillmnan's tstrength. Thle farnmers In my section Sargued, as they 1oubi.h'4 argued in other sections, that t~he uunrg was all one-sided and that, It wats not necessary for them to leave their work in the h ieighit of the season andi go a do-zen miles to vote, lint a Butler manife~sto would bring out thlis dlorment si rn g tht, ( and mark my words;," concluded tile sage of Newry, "lhe will ilnd twenty eight counties solid against him if' he Sattempts to make an independent race." lilledl in the Surf. - A T I.ANTIC C ITY, N. J., Aug. 16. William Carr, agen 20 years, was in . stantly killed this afternoon, by a bolt, 3 of lightnmng, while ill bathmlne inl comipany a with two 30ung women, ie had just a entered the surf and1 had but riseni from I a dive beneatth a breaker, whlen the 3 flash came, the flrst intimation of' a 1 coming storm, and a boit struck him with fa fatal shock.IIis companions,theo Misses -Farnlum, were within ten feet ot him, when the bolt, descended. They anileredl a severe electrial shlock andl wore also Sprostratedi by frighlt at sight ci' thbeir companion's liteless body. TIhere were hiundreds 01 people ini the sur ioer by ? anid thouisands Onl tihe stand1 and beach who saw the fatal ilash and tue miark it strucek. There was aln instnt painic s among the hbathlers, who mloreo or lead b It the radiating ithock, andi they hurried out. on to tile stand1( as iilfearful of' an I other visitation of theo destroyingc ele 1 menlt. Although restorautives wer-e ipromptly appliedi, yonug Jarr could not -be revived. Ilis death is said to be tile fIrst, by lightni~ing ever occurrin~g at this resorti,A e CI'i'INNA' TI, 0., August 30.- -''he Sh 5 Timnes-Star Lexington, Ky., special -says: A duel to death with knives oc -clrred ini Clark county in iloonesboro a yesterday, over the scandal feature of - the Ashland Congressional contest. 3 .John King,a lireckinridge man, living fi. n Fayette county, mnet on the higwaty l his old friend who lives in Clark couin .ty. Cook said that anly woman who .went to hear lireckinridge speak was I no better than a courtesan. Kinig dis .mounted from is horse, Haying his wife C and daughters had heard Bre::kinridge. - Cook insisted it was a shame. ie also -dismounted. Both drew knives and 5 11l0o( flowed freely until Cook dropped, a having thlree stab~s in the breast; King has escaped. ,pan itt, of toa, an'1d ?M~ ifo and stepson, were passengers on a Normandle, Just arrived. Senator 1oCott said that during his trip abroad had spent much of his time in Eng. ld, France and Germany, the three untries most interested in the silver testion. In Germany the feeling was most entirely in favor of bimetallism it that country would make no move itil England took the initiative. In igland, Balfour and Chamberlain fa 'red bimetallism, and thought that a system adopted in India was not fisfactory. Gladstone was opposed bimetallism, and Lord Rosebery )uld express no opinion onthe ques. m. The senator thought that the ne was not far distant when there )uld be an international agreement the subject. . i'- PAYS MH FREIGHI 'W;hy i v "stm Pdwas In Ge d r t aiogue and See What YON CM SiI $69 'c z $37 jal IJust ronaetoc. .elNo fattC n uethm N rem~ht paid on thia Or. grn. uaranteed to be a uV eodra r %money re funded ~ d o e ".": m'momb PA Rl,0R .iIrs, consisting Nater A em, ('hale, Rocking Uhair Diva, Th% iNo. i rjju h$46. ill e $15 Li- ae daieeM i ed to yetoe _pot for 01313a aswnfo xAOEls LI,h aul atwichnrta, for -ON 1 Y $189.50 1ehvere< to Y 41r dtepot, a l!- regulasr p;rie-ofthie Ei JV i e KS6 141 75 l.1lare, e na eau-tettiarer v:iyx all Ci ex "ae taun! I Reel them ou for g-,,"70... tuaranteto every ono a r.in. N.) freight paid A 043dOC PIANE fjrrlkqJ panidf fo111 n.1 %r coaxlogeAs of lFurniture, Geeking ivesf liaby Ourriagea, lueyeloa, organs, P4 qa osni Mwat, Dinner Seto. IAmp., &o., aM& MO~ ~N C Y. 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