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A Little Coup FEtat. Gen. Watts Resorts to a Bit of Strategy. Gen. John Gary Watts, with fif? teen policemen sprinkled ad libitum over Marion Square, performed the coup d'etat of his military career yesterday. According to orders Charleston's colored militia turned out with colors flying to suffer in? spection. The regular annual in? spection had already been held, but nothing strange or unusual was ex? pected to come out ot the orders At 3 39 p m. the troops were forming in line on the square and the bass drums were being thumped with vigor on every side The col? ored soldiers were enjoying the mar? tial doings to their hearts' content and a great crowd of their friends and relatives formed four living walls around the plaza. Gen. Watts and Gen. Stopplebein, in foll regalia, appeared on the scene in due time and the brigade was turned over to them by Gen W. II. Robinson, its commander. The usual form of inspection was carried out while the brass band discoursed vio? lent martial strains. Gen. Watts in? spected every company and when every one thought it was all over the surprise came One of the compa? nies was ordered to lay down its arms on the plaza. After obeying this order, with wide open eyes, the soldiers were marched to one side and a squad from another company, with fixed bayonets, took charge. Another and then another company received like treatment until only four companies remained under arms and they were in charge of the mus? kets of the others. The soldiers thus deprived of the means of de? fending the great Commonwealth of South Carolina were then summarily dismissed. There was just a little glowling and a few insubordinate mutterings, but the fifteen cops and the four armed companies had the bulge on them, and Gen. Watts se? cured the victory. For over a year the Adjutant and Inspector General has been trying to get the arms of the colored compa niest hat were mustered out of service whee the new enlistment law went into effect. The companies were notified to turn in the arms, but they took no notice of the orders Men were sent out to get them, but the companies refused to turn them over, and in some instances, it is claimed, the men hid the guns so that they conld not be located. Gen. Watts resorted to strategy as a last resort. He ordered out the militia for inspection, and included in the order the mustered out com? panies. The idea of a grand turn ont and parade was tempting and the fish nibbled. When Gen. Watts had the men dismissed and the guns in charge of the enlisted militia a police wagon was driven across the square Into it was stacked the whole lot of weapons, and the load driven off to a place of safety. The guns number in .ail about two hun dred, and they will be shipped to Columbia to-day. The companies deprived of their arms and dismissed were: Hawkins Rifles, Hunter Volunteers, Douglass Light Infanry, Governor's Rifle Guards, South Carolina Rifles. Ran? dolph Rifles, Lincoln Light Infantry and the Simpson Light Infantry. Two companies only did not come ki on the inspection idea. Their guns are still being held back. These companies are: The Attucks Light Infantry and the Lincoln Republican Guards. The companies now comprising Charleston's part of the brigade are: Carolina Light Infantry, South Caro? lina Volunteers, Garrison Light In? fantry and tie Mishaw Rifle Guards. The seizure of the guns on the part cf Gen. Watts was accomplished with the aid of Gen W. H. Robinson and the captains of the enlisted compan? ies. It was a great surprise to the colored people to see the troops walking away empty-handed after marching around under arms during inspection. Gen. Watts will get the arms of the other two companies in time. The polio? officers prevented disorder during the seizure. (-Jen. Watts wiil return to Columbia to day. - News and Courier. - ^m- - - A Long Term Has it occured tc you that the present j governor and State officers of South j Carolina are going to have the longest j terna of offioe that perhaps any one bas | ever had under the present form of gov- J eminent ? The truth of the matter is j that Gov. John Gary Evans7 term will fee longer by over two months than that of any governor since the war and that much longer than any governor can have again so long as the present State Constitution is of force It is due to the fact that the fiscal year has been changed by the Constitution so as to be? gin on January 1, instead of November 1, as heretofore and the new governor cannot be inaugurated until the annual meeting of tho State legislature, io the meantime the old governor holds over and will not relinquish the office until his successor has been inaugu rated. And so it is that Governor j John Gary Evans will retain the mantle of the chief executive until midwinter. If elected senator, there is nothing, it is said, to prevent bis serving out his full term as governor as he will not qualify and become a senator until the time that Ellerbe will ?upplaot him io the executive chair.-The State. The Bill is Dismissed. i _ I Judge Simontoa's Decision in the Inj unction. ! Judge C. H. Simon ton's decision in ! the fatuous railroad injunction case was ! filed in the United States Circuit Court ! yesterday morning. The decision de I clines on three several counts to take ! jurisdiction, and dismisses the bill I brought by Receiver J. H. Averill, of j the Port Royal and Augusta Road i The ca?e was too recently made au at- j traeted far too wide an interest while it was before the Court to need more than the briefest recapitulation of the lead ing features now. The Seaboard Air Line system, alleging that the Southern system established a line of steamers cn the Chesapeake Bay for no better pur? pose than to injure it and its connec? tions, retailiated by making a cut of 33J per cent in existing rates from the East to Southern interior points. The fight of the Southern was taken up by the Southern States Freight. Associa tion, of which the Southern system is a member. After some delay the Asso? ciation met and ordered a cut of 80 per cent, in the rates. Many minor details in rate cutting were subsequently devel? oped, but these, in a few words, are the points of the war. After the Association had ordered its | cut of 80 per cent, the Port Royal and Augusta Road, which is a member of that organization, applied to Judge Si monton, through its receiver, Col. J. H. Averill, for an order restraining both sides from continuing the rate war Mr. A. T. Smythe, acting as Receiver Averill's attorney, applied to Judge Simonton for the injunction and ! it was granted. The order at first com- j manded an immediate restoration of the i old rates, but it was subsequently modi- ? tied so as to allow the Seaboard Air Line time in which to give the ten days' notice required by law of ifs pur? pose to raise its rates. The time set for heariog the case was the 15th of August, and the place was the United States Court House io Greenville. An imposing array of legal talent assembled there at the appointed time. The hear? ing lasted for several days. Judge Si monton declared that the first point to be considered was the jurisdiction of j the Court, and the arguments were for the most part confined to that subject. . The briefs of the lawyers and t^e arguments on both sides were given io > fall in The News and Courier, a staff correspondent being kept on the ground during the continuance of the hearing The ca9e excited more interest than any other that has come up in one of the United States Courts of tthe Sout ern district in a score of years. Th? is ??u*"? involved were national aod far reaching. The poiut raised by the temporary injunction was new to the authorities of Courts, State and Federal. Some adequate- conception of the inter? est taken in Judge Simooton's decision may be gathered from the fact the in? quires about it from thc press asso? ciations of the couoty have been well nigh unoeasiog. What "Mick" Says. State Liquor Commissioner Mixson had but very little to say yesterday in regard to the latest matter from Mr. Hubbell in regard to the ques? tion about the whiskey rebates. In the first place he stated that he simply wished to say that R. M. Mixson was not ''young Mixsou," but that he was a man fully as old as himself, a railroad man and a resi? dent of Augusta, Ga. He also wish ed to say that the letter given was dated December 20, while his com? missioner only bore date of February 1. He wa6 not elected, he says, until some time in January and was not commissioned until the date named. He sad, "When I gave that letter, I was simply a private citizen. But if any of my friends want letters in the same language now they can get them That is all I have to say about it."-The State. Knights of Pythias. - i CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 31.- At the : morning cession of the Supreme Lodge ; of the Knights of Pythias a roso- j lutiou was introduced prohibiting the , payment of death benefits to a suicide, j whether the victim be 3aoe cir iDsaoe, ? or whether the self-destruction be ! brought about delirium tremeus, des- j nondency, narcotics or opiates. If the ! deed is done within a period of five \ years after bis reception ioto the Order the suicide's heirs do oct get a cent. A j move is on foot tm cut the time down to j one year. The resolution will elicit j red-hot discussion, but will probably be ' adopted. She Changed Her Mind. Mrs. Pious-I do wish, Mr. Mc Snorter, that you would would come up j and see my husband -lie is very ill, i and I am afraid will die without cxpe riencing religion Don't you think you can convince him of the necessity of j atoning for his past neglect '? Rev. MoSnorter-I will try, Mrs. Pious ; I will come up this afternoon and see if I can't induce him to leave Borne of his fortune to the new theolog? ical seminary. Mrs. Pious-On second thought, Mr. MoSnorter, I don't believe your ? presence will be necessary. ! Washington Leiter. WASEIGTOX, August 31. 1S96. ? Sewall will not be withdrawn ; CJn?ees he should himself decline if allow ii, he will receive the vote a every democratic elector elected Nox. 3d. This may be considered official and authentic. Notwithstand? ing reports to the contrary, the dem? ocratic National Committe has never even considered the question of with? drawing Mr Sewall from the ticket Indeed as Senator Faulkner said, no one has a right to withdraw bim, even if his withdrawal were consider? ed desirable, which it is not The democratic ticket is Bryan and Se? wall and Bryan and Sewall it will re? main, notwithstanding the absurd de mand of Tom Watson and the action of the Indianapolis bolters conven? tion. Nobody in Washington takes any (stock in the story, which comep via New York, that Hanna is finding it difficult to raise campaign funds, be? cause of the over confidence of the Eastern millianaires. The story was probably started for effect. It is cer? tain that the republicans have plenty of money, because they are giving the very best proof by spending it with a lavish hand. I cannot say whether the Eastern millionaires are over-confident, but if they will spend a few days in Washington, keeping their eyes and ears open, it can safe? ly be guaranteed that they will not be over confident. It is very cer that there is nothing approachingover confidence at the republican head? quarters in Washing ; on the con? trary, there is every indication that fear of defeat is making them work night and day in their efforts to stop the spread of silver sentiment Speaking of campaign funds, Sen? ator Faulkner, who returned from a j conference with Senator Jones at the Chicago headquarter several days ago, says that while the derv>. crats are not receiving any large con? tributions from singie individm?'??, they are getting enough money in small amounts to pay the legitimate campaign expenses with economical management. It is learned from McKinley sources that a careful canvass of the agricultural districts of Iowa, just completed under republican auspices, shows that sixty percent of the here? tofore republican farmers of that Stale are for Bryan and silver. The daily average number of ap plcation8 for charters for silver clubs is now between 40 and 50. It is de? sired that all future applications shall desiguate the past political affiliation of each member, in order that a com? prehensive idea can be (rained of the number of republicans who will sup? port Bryan. Among recent letters was one from Col. Nathan Holloway, a lifelong republican, who is now president of the Bryan silver club at Canton, McKinley's home, which winds up by saying : "We confi? dently expect to carry this city and county for Bryan." A number of the new silver clubs are composed of negroes who are apparently becom? ing deeply interested in the subject. Ex Senator Rice, of Ark , who was a prominent pepublica? politician du? ring reconstruction day6, wrote to Democratic headquarters several day6 ago to announce that he had abandon ed the republican party and to offer to take the stump for Bryan and sil? ver. His offer was accepted. Hon John W. Kern, of Indiana, who, although not a silver man. will vote for Bryan, said while in Wash? ington: "The assertion that free sil? ver sentiment is dving out is not true, so far as Indianna is concerned. Though a believer in sound money, I shall vote for Bryan. As Ex-Sena? tor McDonald, of our State, used to say, even though your platform has one bad plank with all the rest good, it ?6 more worthy of support than i the opposition platform with one plank half way good and all the rest rotten. I have no doubt that the electoral vote of Indiana will go to j Bryan. The defection of sound j money Democrats will be more than j balanced by gains from the Republi- ? cans The bolting Democrats in In- j diana are all Generals aud Colonels; j there are no privates in their army, J and so everyone on the list is con- ; spicious. I believe that Bryan is j going to win, although a systematic campaign cf coercion will be em? ployed by the agents of Mr. lianna. Neither bribery nor threats will be effectual, and the more they are u?ed the greater will be the resentment ol \ t he voters " What Ex-Presideat Harrison j Said About Tillman. Considerable interest is being ta? ken in the open challenge of ex-Pres- j ident Harrison by Senator Tillman to j meet him in joint debate. Tillman 6aid he sHggested that the debate take place at Harrison's home pur? posely. At the same time he has no idea that the challenge will be accep? ted, notwithstanding the fact that Harrison "nae dignified him by spe-1 cially referring to his name in Iiis j New York speech Thus, Tillman ? says, he cannot say that he can refuse to debate with him. There were two passages in Harrison's speech upon which the challenge was bas- < ad One reads thus: "They denounce in their platform ? interference by Federal authorities in local aff aire as a violation of the Con-j i btitaticij of the United States am \ ;\ crime against free institutions, i Tillman in his speech approved ' declaration II was intended ti in words a i'irect condemnatio Mr Cleveland as President o? United States for using the po wc t the executive to brush out of the I every obstacle to the free pa9sag ! the rna il trains of the United ?l ami the inter State commerce, my friends, whenever the people prove the choice of a President believes he must ask Gov. Altgel \ any other governor of any other S ; permission to enforce the laws of United States we have surrend the victory the boys won in IS (Great applause ) The other reads this way: "One of the kindest and most criminating critics who ever w with a foreign pen about Amer affairs, Mr. Bryce in his 'Amer; Commonwealth,' pointed out danger that the Constitution did fix the number of the supreme c< judges, and it was possible for a r< less congress and a reckless ext tive to subordinate and practically stroy the supreme court by the \ cess I have just described, and Englishman, after speaking of t says: " 'What prevents such assaults the fundamental law? Nothing the fear of the people, whose bro good sense and attachment to principles of the Constitution may generally relied on to condemn si a perversion of its powers ; "Our English friend did not ri judge, I think, the sound good se of the American people when an is: like this is lo be presented Wh ever the question is. whether 1 Bryan'6 views or Mr. Tillman's vi of the Constitutional question sr prevail or that of the august tribu appointed by the Constitution io s tie it. the courts are the defense tiie weak. The rich and power have other resources, but the p< have not. The high minded, itu pendent judiciary that will hold the line on questions between wea and labor, between the rich and t poor, is the defense and security the defenceless A hacking cough Keeps the bronchial tu in n state of constant irritation, which nof speedily removed, may lead to chro hroi.fhitis. No prompter remedy can found than Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Its eft* is immediate and the result permanent. - maim IC ? - . - The Early Fackel Service. The lirst institution of packet servia across the two channels and the Nort sea probably dates back to very anciei times. In the days when England Wi a province of France, and during tl later period when Prance was a provine ot England, the need of a channel fe regular correspondence must have mac itself irresistibly felt; and even af te the loss of Calais the; long presence e English troops and English agents i the Low Countries called for almost a constant means of communication wit Holland. The service probably made a gren stride in the days of the protectorate for Secretary Thurloe, who hung th secrets of all Europe at the protector' girdle, could do so only by means o uninterrupted corresponelence with hi agents abroad, and, being postmaste himself, could regulate the packets ti suit his wishes. Still the system wa not exteuded outside the narrow sea either during Cromwell's reign or tha of his successor. T-he need for such ex tensiem became lessing only througl the growth of our colonial possessions. -Macmillan's Magazine. Nelson's Teasel. Nelson's Foudroyant has been refitted again at a cost, it is said, of $100,00i and will be exhibited at the principa British ports, going first, however, t< the Kiel naval exhibition. The vesse is a splendid specimen of the great S< gun line of battle ships. Her timbers ari in good condition in spite of her 10" years. She was Nelson's flagship for em ly one year, the most elisgraceful erne ii his career, when, under Lady Hamil ton's influence, he encouraged and aid ed the atrocities committed by the Na? ples Bourbons. It was fre>m the y arelara: of the Foudroyant that Prince Caraciolo, admiral of the republican fleet, a pris? oner of war, was hanged without ? trial. It was eui the quarter deck of the Foueire)yan: that Sir Ralph Abercromby died of his wounds after defeating thc French at Alexandria in 1801.-Bostoi; Herald. A Great Kelief. Tramp-Please, ma'am, I haven't a friend or a relative in the world. Housekeeper-Well, I'm glad there's no erne to worry over you in case you get hurt. Here, Tiger!-Boston Trav? eller. _ Copper wires are used for Mexican telegraph lines, so that they will hold inc waight of the: birds auel monkeys Shat e-rowd them at night Conversational Slovenliness. Conversation also is often marked by moral slovenliness. Not emly is there that kind of talk stained with dirt which some men shamelessly exhibit, but there are the conversations in which there is a covert looseness, a demblemess of ixeaning, a hint of that which may ne>t be said with manly straightforward? ness, which has in it a certain laxity, as far as me>ral rectitude is concerned. There is that ready knowledge of every? body's misdeeds, as of their humbler relations, which people dispense, some with glittering mischief in their eyes, e?the'rs with confiding demureness-"s( dreadful, you know!''-only it happens that they do not know and are only re? tailing a lie which they have procured from senne dealer in lhat infamous ;u ticle, hinting away a man's or a wom? an's character and proving that they have none of their own.-Gexxl Words. ! VOLTS DG NOT KA KM "'PEOPLE. It Is thc Amperage That Doe? thc Deadly Damage. Newspaper reporters, copy readers and head writers aro in need of a pri? mary education in electricity. Every nov and again tho newspapers record the death of somebody from the effect of a given number of volts, or tell of another's wonderful survival after re? ceiving the shock of many thousand volts. Strange enough, in the news? paper accounts nobody is over killed, nor has a remarkable escape from am? peres of electricity been chronicled, nor is the damage often don,- by a cur? rent, nor has anybody (vcr seen ' 'watts" figure in the matter. Ti:?' num? ber of volts in a current of electricity is its speed or pressure. The number of amperes is its volume. Volts with? out amperes would be speed without substance. A light molecule moving with a speed or voltage of 180,000 miles per second strikes the eye without injury, but if the molecule had a weight or ! amperage of one two-thousandth part ? of a giain it would have the same effect as an ounce ball moving 1.0-00 feet per j second. Any number of "amperes'' with- I out voltage would be a dead engine in a roundhouse. An article in a New York paper was headed, "Net Killed by 2,000 Volts." It told of a boy who had become locally famous because "2,000 volts of electric? ity had passed through Joe's body with? out killing hini. " Without the am- ; perage of the current being known the statement means nothing. Another story j of escape from electricity was headed, "Shocked by 2/080 Volts. " Thc electrical current- used in the Ed? ison fluoroscope has a minute fraction of an ampere, but an almost incalcula? ble voltage of perhaps above 100,000. To receive these 150,000 volts iu the body would feel like the prick of a nc edie. Ar the state penitentiary the victims of the law arc given about 1,800 volts of electricity, but it is the electrical en? ergy, as expressed in watts, that kills. The amperes multiplied by the volts give the energy of the current, or watts. He who would caress a "live wire" need care nothing for the volts or am- J peres it may have concealed about iis person, but let him carefully calculate its watts before lie grabs hold.-New York Mail and Express. The Public Service In China. Ex-Secretary John W. Foster, who was the confidential adviser cf the em? peror of Ciiina in the peace negotiations with Japau, contributes a paper on "The Viceroy Li Hung Chang" to The Century. Mr. Fester says of the vice? roy: He does not regard the competitive educational system of admission to the public service as a perfect method, and moie than once he has recommended to his emperor material modifications in j the existing system. But it must be J confessed that it has steed the test of centuries with much benefit to China, and its practical operation has demon? strated that it possesses two merits of inestimable value to any nation. First, it brings all the offices of the empire within the reach of the lowest subject, and, secondly, it diminishes the incen? tives to and opportunities of corruption and favoritism in securing entrance into official life. But in China the com? petitive examination ends with the ad? mission. Beyond that step promotion must come though other methods. Li Hung Chang secured the right of ad? mission to office through his assiduous application to study, and every succeed? ing step in his upward career has?been attained by his own genius and capacity. Portraits and "Pictures." If one can give the portrait and make a picture at the same time, so much the better, but if the portrait be given with frankness and sincerity, if the model be rendered with knowledge and truth, the result will be a picture-a work of art -whether the painter so designs it or mot. Holbein and Velasquez told the exact truth about their sitters, and their simpler portraits are today their better pictures, Lawrence and his followers in devoting themselves to "stunning" ef? fects not only compromised the likeness, but made the picture bizarre by em? phasis in the wrong place. The tale has been more than twice told in the history of art. A simple truth is always better than an ornate falsehood.-Scribner's. Minnesota and South Dakota are the only two states i:i the Union that have hali of their population madcap of for- j eign born residents. The standard dollar was authorized by act of congress Feb. 28, 1S7S, and j coinage was begun in the same year. ! It is a safe rule to wet the wrists be- | fore drinking cold water if at ali heat? ed. The effect is. immediate and grate? ful, and danger of fatal results is ward? ed off. Holland, though small in size, has 1,070,000 women, young and old. Buggies. Buggies. Buggies. Buggies. "jj Buggies. Buggies. Buggies. Q Buggies. "22 GS Buggies. r> Buggies. Sumter, S. C., Sept. 1, 1896. Attar of ?ioKc. Theveso, the .-queen tl Hewers, tha has been said to preserv? "ail the fra granee af sommer, when .Limmer i. gone," yields its fragrant ustar -r, otto to the villagers of Turkey and the peasant proprietors of (iras.-!-. Cannes, Nice and the Valois in no nig igardly quantity. Set the true attar does nor satisfy the needs of the toilet. Pur? attar of roses is of extreme rarity, and is worth its weight in gold, the rost attar cf commerce being hugely adul? terated with sandal, or wit;: attar of ros. -, geranium, which is largely grown for the parpes? in Franc, and Turkey. The characteristic rose scent is shared by Paeonia a?bi?ora fragrans (au ally cf the lovely rose scented china peonies of our gardens;, the root of Rhodiola rosea (a speen s of sedurn growing on damp rocks on the high mountains of Scotland, Ireland and in the north of England, and on sea cliffs), and by the rasped wood of the Brazilian tulip tree. -Chambers' Journal. --f Bncklen's Arnica Salve. Tho Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bru:.-ee Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum. Fever Seres. Tetrer Chapped . ?r.<*k Chilblains, Corns ace all Ss n Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. I? ie guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. .nrice 52cents per box. For sale by Dr J. F. Vf. De Lorine BR. E. 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