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TRUE TO THE FAITH. | SOUTHERN FARMERS WILL STAND BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Preiident McGrath Realizes that the Third Party Movement Cannot Com- j mand the Snpport of the Southern Alliance Men at this Time, and that the Xssne Must be Postponed. Topeka, Kax. December 29.?The following interview with Prasident Frank McGrath, published to-day, would indicate that the Alliance has lor the pres#nt decided to drop the Third Party saovement. He says: "The agitation in the South over the r nArr* wu the r>ossibll!tv of t any independent movement at this time. While in Oeala I investigated conditions as thoroughly as my limited stay would permit, and I came to the conclusion that more time was needed. It will come abou: in time, but the time is not this year." The delegation of Kansas editors which has returned from a tour through the South, having made a thorough ivestigation of the Farmers' Movement there, ' found that a large majority of Southern ir> wnrkinor for their re ICii. LUVi O VVUVIV *?-* ..v??_ forms within the Democratic party. In Louisana, tor example, the editors found few if any advocates of the Third Party movement. The president of the Alliance in that State, Thomas S. Adams, secretary of the State board of agriculture, in conversation with a '.correspondent who accumpanied the Kansas delegation, said; \ ''The political condition^i^^^^^^i any movement, wmcn wilt divide the white people politically will not find favor." T'n? p^itnrs ?found that Adams ex pressed the sentiment pretty generally held by Southerners, and for this reason they also concluded it would be impossible to do anything with the movement at the present time. Judge Frank Doster, ot Marion, appears to-day as an Allirnce candidate for Senator. He is .Jud^e of the District j Court at Marion. He is the ninthcandi-; date who hopes to succeed Ingalls. THE THIRD-PARTY MOVEMENT. j yezrc Supremacy It& Chief Obstacle in the Southern States. - - t\ . Kansas City, alo., uec. -o.?xuc leaders in the Farmers' Alliance moremeat are a unit in opposition to the projects of Gen. John II. Rice and others to hold a National Convention in Cincinnati. February 25. to form a third party. They all declare that the time has not yet come when tha Alliance men of the Carolinas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida can be induced to leave the Democratic party for a new organization. They say that the fear of negro supremacy is an insuperable stumonng block in the way of the movement, and the force bill will, so long as it is alive, keep white formers united in the Demcratic ranks. Frank McGrath, president of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance, in an interview to-day said: "I am opposed to tile attempt to form a national third party at this time. Tbe calling of the convetion at Cincinnati was premature and can result in no good to our cause. The South is hardly ready for it yet, but it is coming around, r "The"Farmers' Alliance offers the I only solution of the negro question, f and" the Southern farmers, both white and black, are beginning to recognize it. Xrthiug can be done, nowever, wuue the people are agitated over the force bill. The colored Farmers' Alliance has a membership of 60.000 in Georgia. 15,000 in Florida, 25.000 in Tennessee, 10,000 in Louisiana, 12,000 in Mississippi and 25,000 in each of the Carolinas. Their affairs are conducted, if possible, on a better business basis than ours. The very name of Democracy is repulsive to them, and the more intelligent ol them recognize that tfco*'- only hope of suffrage is through a third party. It will all come about in time, but it is something that cannot be forced upon the Southern people." The Alliance Meeting at Washington. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 25.?Mr McGrath, the president of the Kansas Alliance, m an interview to-oaj saui me I legislative committee of the National g^lliance will meet In Washington some time in Feburay. "'Thirty-five States," pe said, ''will be represent;*'"' <tt the meeting, and the third party movement will be ?ne of the principal things to be acted upon. The movement," said Mr. McGrath, "will eventually embrace all the labor organizations iu the United States. In fact, about all of them are committed to it now except the Grange, and most of the Grangers are members of the Farmers' Alliance. I cannot say when thfi nsrt.v will be orsanized, but it I will be done at the proper time." Two Hundred Cbinanjen Drowned. London, Dec. 27.?Further advices from China, as to the burning of the steamship Shanghi at Xarvoo Hoo, in the province of Nyhan Hosi, about fifty miles from Nan&ingr. show that the disaster is much more serious than at first imagined. The earlist advices received stated that the victims consisted of about sixty natives, together with several European efScers who are supposed to have" met death either in a. oi-iVieonnontlv bv drOWn tile Lit)luco vyi ou ? ing while attempting to"escape from |& the burning vessel. It now seems that Mlgasl the number of lives lost will amount B to over 200, aud all lost their lives by drowning. A terrible panic appears to have occurred among the Chinese passengers and the crew as soon as the alarm of lire was heard and the panic increased terrbly when the flames spread beyond the control of the terror stricken Crew. The few European oficers on board of the Shanghi seem to have done their best to maintain some kind of; order among the Chinamen with soine result. The large majority of those who lost their lives aid so b\ jumping overboard in order to escape thd? flames, while others met death through the swamping of the ciumsnj lowered and overcrowed boats. Charleston is Kuffled. cMklestox, C., Dec. 22.?The gove^fcr's appointment of oilicers foi the cWutrv, has raised a howl not onl\ among the reformers or Tillmauites, bu tlso among a. large class of what i; knownthe regulars or rin^s. It turn: k, outthatv the rumors of a deal betweei Col. Irby, chairman of the Tillman com mittee and the executive committee here iiiiHillll toy promisingjfor Capt III 111 IBUI lllll in WW I I. HWWWWHi THE WORK OF THE SESSION. A List of >'e\r Laws of Local or of General Interest. - ? ? - -> ^ Tiie numuei' ui iu;is ?.nu juiul iwumtions passed at the session of the Legislature was 212. Below will be found a list of those of local or of general interest. Act to amend section R21 of the general statutes of the .State, relating to the annual meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of several counties of the State. Act to ratify the amendment to article 4 of the constitution of South Caro lina, relating to the Judiciary department, by repealing section iy, which provides a JJoard of County Commissioners. Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend sections 2236 and 2237 of the general statutes, in relation to juries." Joint resolution extending the time for the collecting iftate, county, railroad and other taxes due for the liscal year commencing November 1, 1S89, until the tirst day of February, 1891. Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibt the catching of terripins between the 1st day of April and the 12th day of June in any year, within certain counties,'' approved December 20. A. 1)., 18S5. Act t? amend section 2 of an act entitled ''An act to regulate the fees of physicians and surgeons for testifying asesperts in criminal cases," approved December 26. lbS5. j Act to amend paragraph 1, section j 91+7, of the general* statutes, relating to meetings of State JJoard of Examiners. Joint resolution to provide for the i purchase of complete copies ; era! statutes of other j Ac^njimend srctionaSBSSsgHgSl | titledjEg^|^^irel|^ ^PWSrcoa^tionj ISsMi^^utioii to provide for the ap- j pointment of S. S. McBryde one of the J trustees of !Dr. J can ue i^a jtiowe, ue-: ceased, in place of David Morrah, now ! deceased. Act to provide for a license for the i sale of pistols and pistol cartridges within the limits of this State. Act to amend section 5 of an act eni titled "An act to provide for the formation of certain corporations under the general la^vs." Joint resolution directing the executore of Thomas G. Clemson to mark his grave and procure a good portrait of the deceased. Act to authorize school trustees to """ r,v,T- cnVinri] Tirnnorfv rp;il or nersonal. OCXi di-lj OVI^VVA , - - ? x- t in their several districts, and to apply the proceeds to the school funds of their several districts. Act to make appropriation for the perdiem, mileage and stationary certificates of the members of the "General Assembly, the salaries of the subordinate officers and employees thereof, and for other purpose? therein named. Act to raise supplies and make appropriations for the fiscal \ear commencing November 1, 1890. Act to provide for the election of chaplains of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina and for their compensation. Joint resolution providing for the investment of all funds in the hands of the State Treasurer under the Clemson bequest. Joint resolution to inquire the penitentiany directors to furnish additional convicts to Clemson college. Act to amend an act to amend section 1090, titie 10, chapter 22, of the general statutes. Act to regulate the practice of Trial .Jestices in equity causes. Act to reorganize and provide for the University of South Carolina, constituting a Board of Trustees for the same and defining their powers and duties. Act to create a Board of Phosphate Commissioners. Act to charter the Savannah, Seneca and Western railroad company. Act to authorize Richard W. Simpson, executor of Thomas J. Clemson, to pay certain legacies to Isabella Lee. Joint resolution to appoint a special commission, consiting of the Governor and Superintendent of Education, to confer and correspond with the Governors and Superintendents of Education of other Southern States as to the adoption of a uniform system of text books used in the free schools of the State. Joint resolution to provide for the payment of the taxes of the South Carolina railroad for the fiscal year beginning November 1.1888, on certain conditions. Act to provide for the appointment of county boards of physicians to examine diplomas of physicians and sargeons in this State. * -1 *- - - ? OXO f Ka ACt CO HUieUU. sect-iuu -oa ui iuc 6oueral statutes of the State, relating to the compensation of the members of the State Board of Equalization. Act to prohibit any person from transporting horses, mules or asses into this State infected with glanders. Act to abolish the Department of Agriculture and the office'of Commissioner of Agriculture, and to devolve oil nf t.hrir Tjnwers and duties on the Board of Trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, except the coutrol of phosphate -interests of this State. Act to amend sccticn 44, chapter IV, of the general statutes, relating to the distribution of public funds. Act accepting the benefits of an act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the beneiit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established under the provisions of an act of Congress of July 2, 1862. Act to provide for the sale of the lot and building known as Agricultural hall, the ilsh pond lot and the agricultural experiment stations, with their personal property at Columbia and In Darlington and Spartanburg counties, and to appropriate the proceeds thereof. Act to punish frauds or misrepresentations in the manufacture, analy SIS Or SH16 01 icrtliix^rs ciuu. uuLuuici manures in this State. Act to regulate the appointment and term of office and deline the duties of 11 Trial Justices in this State. Act relating to the renunciation of ! dower by married minors. NEW RAILROADS. Act to incorporate the Lockhart Shoals railroad company. ; Act to incorporate the Anderson and ! Port Royal railroad company. Act to incorporate the West End rail: ! WAY mmDanv. ; Act to incorporate the River and Sea [ coast railway company. [ Act to incorporate the Little Bluff, p Kaemont and Maxton railroad company. i Act to incorporate the Highland railroad company. Act to charter the Bennettsville and 1 Gibson Station railroad company. j Act to incorporate the South Caroli'f | na Seaboard and Western railway. * j Act to incorporate the Spartanburg 5: Clifton and Glendale railroad company 5 j Act :o incorporate the Greenwood - j Edgefleld and Atlantic railroad com - I pany. ,! Act to incorporate the Charleston . i andSejU^Mteriroadcompany. THE POSTMASTER KILLED. A 2Il*sJLssippi Republican Shot by the j 1 3Ian he Sought to Slurder \rw\r-PTTTs; Tpnn.. Tinr. '2r>.?Asneciall to the Appeal-Avalanche from Carroll- j ton. Miss., says : "A fatal tragedy oc-; j curred on the principal business street in this town to-day at 12 o'clock noon, = in which John Prentiss Matthews, the Republican postmaster at this piace, * wa3 killed by W. S. McBride, wealthy i and prominent youns druggist here, i Matthews was walking toward the dru? j store of McBride & Co.. armed with a j Winchester ride, when McBride stepped t fy r?/%/T tViQ f O 101 ftlmt IUWUIU 1111JL1 tint* m k,\j. tuv/ Alibi** W4AVW while Matthews had his gun uplifted 1 and was preparing to shoot McBride. ' On last night Matthews had an alter- * cation with McBride at the postoffice. McBride went to the office after hi* mail, and Matthews began cursing and ^ abusing him, which led to a personal ; encounter. This hostile feeling was re- ; newed this morning bj Matthews appear- I ins on the streets armed with a Win- i Chester rifle, with a large pistof on him, < whooping, cursing and threatening to > kill joung McBride. lie paraded the I streets several hours this way untill he was placed under arrest by the Sheriff. ' He wa* carried before the Major ari'd released under bonds for his appearance to-morrow morning. Alter few a minutes he went dosr,u the street toward the drug store, /where he was killed. > i lie has rendered himself v^ry odious to the people of this commuMy by his offensive conduct while h^Radbean here as the carpetbag post^^^^^^e ofiicer^tf^^P^H^GBftL ?MB^^2^B|i^SRc^veapons, j assaults and battery, and other oflensrs. , He took possession of a passenger train ; ou the Georgia Pacific Kailroad while drunk, and was only conquered by the j porter and conductor beating him down 1 and disarming him, for which he is now : under indictment in the Courts of Web- i ster and this (Carroll) County. His administration of the office has 1 j Deen rnueraoic. ALcxmuc is u peaceful and quiet young men, industrious and popular, and public senti- 1 ment is highly in bis favor because he was goadeiTinto the difficulty by Matthews's canduct. Foraker's Deep Laid Plot. Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.?Both of tiie great leaders of Ohio Republicans, Sherman and McKinley, have reached a stage at which they must make a desperate fight for their very existence. There are powerful forces at work to destroy them both, and the country will watch the contest with interest. The State Legislature of Ohio, which is to be elect ed next Fall will choose a successor to Senator Sherman, aud at the timethatt is elected a Governor will also be chosen, Senator She-man will be again in the saddle, and so McKinley. it will be apolitical life or death struggle for both, for unless they are successful both will sink back into the cbscurity of private citizenship. Both will meet bitter opposition form the same source ?the men who were lately the followers of Governor Foraker. These men have an oath bound organization within the Republican party, with branches in sixty-seven of the elghtv-eight counties of the State, and a meeting of the leaders nf t.his organization was held in Coluni bus a few days ago to formulate plans for the accomplishment ot their purposes, the beginning of which is the defeat or both Sherman and McKinley. They concludcdto kill otT cne with the other. They decided to divert the attention of the masses of Republicans from McKinley, who is generally named as die man who ought to be nominated for Governor, by springing the name oi Senator Sherman for the Governorship, wi th the design of so dividing the opposing forces as to open a way for a man of 1 hoir .urn Within last few days, consequently, a great deal has been said and published ~as to the propriety of Sherman rounding out his political career as Governor of his native State, which he has served so long. This kind of talk had its origin at this meeting, and goes on without the ap .roval of Sherman. The next thing to do was to select. a candidate?a real candidate?for the Governorship. The Foraker men settled upon Major Morey of Hamilton, who represents the Seventh District in the present House ofR presentatives. Major Morey was in Columbus while the meeting was held, although he was not - * TTo a'oe enmrnAfftf] a b LIl'J '' CiC ouui U4vw vm from Washington by a telegram, and was met at the depo by a delegation, who had a conference with him and obtained his full assent to the scheme. General Asa Bushnell was the favorite, but it was feared that his connection with the $35,000,000 harvester combine, which is looked upon with great disfavor by the Farmers' Alliance, would be a serious handicap to him. So Major Morey was nominated. The candidate for the Senate against Sherman was not determined upon. But it was agreed that the organization should take care '' - 1 a1-- ?i- -w-.Kn e?lanfuA f n mat Llie n^Ub men ouvuiu I/U viw>v. the legislature. A warm friend of Senator Sherman who is here from Ohio tonight says that Sherman had thought to retire trom public life at the close ot his present term, and would have done so had he not been made aware of the plans of the plotters. Then he concluded that he would make another race just to vindicate himself and prove that he was not to be frozen. Jadjo Simpson Dead ! Columbia, S. C., Dec. 27.?The announcement of the death of Chief Justice William Dunlap Simpson at his resiI dence in this city at 7:30 yesterday I Cfailnpa ufoc rpppiv morumn, ltUUi Ileal t lauuiv, .vv... ed with profound .repressions of sorrow throughout the community. It was not even kuown generally that the Chief Justice had beeu ill at all, consequently the news came as a great shock to almost every one that heard it. . Judge Simpson was taken ill with . what was apparently only an attack of indigestion on Sunday night, but was not regarded as ill enough to inquire the services of a physician until Christmas , Day. at which time he appeared to he so much worse that his family physician, ur JD. >> JL iljr 1UI ?l UO I i ^ summoned to his bedside. Everything] that was possible was doncTo restore him but lie was then sinking. lie retained consciousness almost to his last moments, and when he knew that the end was near bore himself with the ' calmness and fortitude which had al] ways characterized his life.?Register. Knjiines and Bftllars. . 1 Attention is directed to the adver! fiop^.pnt of Talbott & Sons, to be found ,"in another part of this papsr. The South Carolina branch is located at I Columbia, with Mr. V. C. Badnam in i charge. ^ ^ ^^^ie/?Slbo?| Kit was one of the H^hotable a^HPrecect State Fair, insisted of a handsome 20-horse working the machinery in the Hieiy Hsil. lUiy Ht the Tsibott works Its high finish, its Hdesign, gave it great Bvoked many words Higine took the first H stationary engines, Hp groui i '.s. Hbuiid only th*? highBQHHHHraHH^y, unci tieir exH^^thesati9iac THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. 'im Roi T)r. DIxou Sara it Is the Great Event of thii Generation. Rev. Tom Dixon in his sermon in s'ew York last Sunday eulogized the Alliance movement as follows: The real sensation of the year 1S90 s the advent of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. It s the resistless movement of millions mder the oppressions of centuries. Its notive power is social, economic, reigious and political. The advent of iliese embattled hosts is me most, pregiant event of this generation. It is ;he beginning of a revolution that will shake this continent and move the world. The irst time they gathered rouud :he ballot box was the 4t.Ii day of last November. They polled between two and t) ree million votes, elected the Groveri or of three stated, sent forty tneii to Congress and scared the life out d' hundreds they did not send. Wha:is the moral meaning of this ?reat v orement? . 1. It :s the protest of the patient burden b< arers of the world, who have toiled ' hrough weary years struggling beneat'i the wrongs of economic and politic J superstitions. In America the tar .ners have literally become the k^oci-c >f burden of the nation. Their l/caowc busin-?'ts has been to feed over G5,000,000 pet pie, together with the hosts of the olc world, with the products of the year's r'ork, and through the winter eke O'; : a miserable existence wrestling w:th their mortgage,cyclones and floods. While they are doing this, we, laugh -ndgrowfa^gijflgeand^H^^ l^ptfitr^^^^Rrtyear^i^ind sell their cops fifty times before they are plant- i and charge old "Hayseeds" with 1 our losses. The juestion is whether these men. the fr ast of the free, the authors of the country's liberty, shall assert their rights md obtain justice, or degenerate into t:;e condition of tenants and serfs. The condition of labor in all other industries have undergone marvelous development ana cnanges in me paso i bundr id years. The farmer works under th same stern conditions, perishing in the midst of boundless prosperity, for others. He has determined to effect ;i change in these conditions, and readjust himself on a living basis to the new civilization. 2. This movement means the education of the masses, as masses?of the farmer as a farmer. It means the assertion of the manhood of the Nation. This is real education. The accent of our education has hitherto been to get on, "to rise." "We have been taught to climb or.t of the humble sphere in which we >. ere born into some so called higher sphere. The smith learns to ~ * * ^ * W < ? /%1 Vt/\nr\ar despise nis anvii, ctuu cuc uuunu^^i to look with contempt upon the plow. They rise to "higher" things. They become lawyers, and doctors, and preachers. and bankers, railroad men and politicians. We now hare fully eight million men in this country educated to be I Presidents of the United States. We j only need about a dozen Presidents in ; a hundred years?an awful waste of: raw material! I The farmers are learning and teach- j ing it to their children, in this organi-1 zation, that the farm is as sacred, as noble, as honorable as that of any sphere in life. Women too are admitted t:> the Order. Well they may. There are more farmers' wives" in the, insane asylums of America than any other class. They have actually recognized the fact that women are human beings. A reporter once asked an old farmer in the West what he thought about the questi on, "Is marriage a failure ?" He replied, "What,marriage? "Well, let's see. There's Luclndy gits up in the mornin,' kindles the lire, milks six cows, starts four children off to school, tends to three others, skims twenty pans c'milk, feeds the hens, likewise the he zs, looks after some motherless sheep, gits breakfast, washes up the dishes, sets dinner, etcetera?why, man, doyoi think I could hire anybody to do all that for what she gits? Not much. Its a great success, sir!" Ah! these lat.ient, sad faced, weary millions of wo nen! The pathos of their lives. They have entered this organization with <heeks flashed with hope, many of the n for the first time in iife. May God 1< ad and bless them! 3. 'his movement means co-operation a 3 against competition. It h In this principle of Socialism that i. te Order has its strongest foundation . They are pledged to co-operate with? ach other in the production of econc> aic goods, and not only so, but to co operate in the distribution of these ;oods. The Alliance stores for suppJ.es are a prominent feature of their vork. These stores contain the germ dea of the great Industrial Coopera' ive Societies cf Workingmen in Great Britain. They are asserting in life tL e principle, that it is better for men i > tight for each other than against one aaother. They are learning the secret of associated powers that in unioL there is strength. It is in the light >f this fact that we solve the apparen . paradox, that while they cry out against trusts and monopolies, in the same breath demand that the Government press its functions to the very verge of State Socialism. These cries innnnei'etont ThftV arfi the CixC iiUl ILHA/UOAUWVUW. -w ? __ assertion of fundamental principles. They recognize the important fact that government is not something separate from the people, but when normally administered, is simply the people governing themselves?that it is not a power to be forced, but a power to be utilized for the happiness of all. 4. The Organization means Brotherhood. It is a fraternal and benevolent Order with principles of love and fraternity, wide as ttie world, universal as the rose. The 5th and 6th article in their St. Louis Declaration of Purposes. A second Declaration of independence read thus: 8. To constantly strive to secure entire harmony and good will to all mankind, and brotherly loye among ourselves. 6. To suppress personal, local, sectional and national prejudices, all unhealthtul rivalry, and selfish ambition. An ideal as high as Heaven?an echo of frhe life of Jesus of Xazareth. They have determined to'bear one another's burdens and so fuHl the law of Christ.' They pledge themselves to alleviate i suCeriDg and pain, to care for the j widow? and educate the orphans of I their ' dead. This is climbinur the I heights of life. This is pure religion undeiiled. They have gone into politics not beI i-jiisp thev area political organization. They have been forced to gcr into politics because their principles were social, economic and religious. All social and economic questions have become political questions, and all political questions are religious. The political arena is where all the great questions of to-day and to-morrow must be fought and settled. Let no man deceive himself by believing thai, this organization is but a passing episode in politics. Kemember its foundation is not primarily political, but social and econcmic. It is the embodiment of I or?nc moral ideas- it is the movement 1 of a evolution. It will not go backj ward May God give its leaders wisdom, Russian Brutes. London, Dec. 24.?A letter received from a Russian exile at Seurich, charges j thatophie Gunsberg, a nihilist, whe was c jndemned to death for being concern-: I in a plot against the life of the czar, :ias been subjected to torture in prise i, and that her cries were heard b\ other prisoners, who managed to make the : .ct known. The object of the pei > x. 1 1 ? | secu ions is supposea w ua,vt uccu ^ Lobte: 1 revelations regarding other ac | compiiets. NEW SUGGESTION. Oolainns of Soma Congressmen on tue Hew Jleasure. Washington, Dec. 24.?The cnarges made by Senators Spooner and Ingalls that the south suppresses the uegro vote, but retains its increased representation gained by his enfranchisement, has led ro considerable discussion among the Democrats relative to a proposition to disfranchise the negro. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is leading the movement. lie intends to introduce a joint resolution providing for the practical repeal of the fifteenth amendment, or the disfranchisement of the negro. He says the south is willing to loose her representation gained by enfranchising the negro to elimlatehim from politics, but he does not believe the Republicans vriA accept it in spite of thCil ravines of the south holding her representation and suppressing the negro vote. "I shall tell the Republicans," he said, 'that they will not dare vote for such a measure, and I shall also tell them that on the contrary I will give it my hearty support." Senator Pugh. of Alabama, said the south w ould not hesitate to give up any representation based on the negro vote, if by so uoing we could forever eliminate the negro as a political factor. "Thi? " caiii ha i'q r.h?-' nnl versfl.1 SPP. timent of the southern peopie. But I know of no way to eliminate the negro," he continued, "except by repealing the fifteenth amendment, This amendment was adopted as safeguard for the negro. The amendment had demonstrated that suffrage, instead of protect ng t he 1^enaVjr Vance, of Xorth Carolina, is opposed to the proposition. He says the whites of the south have nothing to gain by abridging the negro's right of suffrage. The negro without su if rage would l?e an incubus upon our material prosperity. They would be without responsibility, and, as such, a dangerous element in the community. We are gradually working out this race problem to a happy solution. A few years more and we will have solved it completely. As the negro acquires property lie becomes a better citizen, lie then becomes as desirous of good government as his white neighbor. In North Carolina we are satisfied with the existing social and political condi-; tions. Gen. Catchings, of Mississippi, said the elimination of the negro from politics by disfranchisement, would be a happy solution of the race problem. Public sentiment in Mississippi, he believed, would favor this solution. Col. Gates of Alabama, was the first man to propose this solution, in an interview over a year ago. He still favors it. Mr. Mills, of Texas, said: "The i-tepuuiicans woum never uuuI sent to the disfranchising of the negro, even though the southern representa; tion was decreased thereby. If you J eliminate the neero vote the Democrats | would control the government by an overwhelming majority. If the negro vote was eliminated Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and other states would be Democratic, for the simple reason that the Republican majority in these states is less than the negro vote. I believe the same could be said of Michigan, Connecticut and Massachusetts." lion. Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, was nominated for associate justice of the supreme court, vice Miller, dead, He is judge of the Eastern District court of Michigan. Kobbery of Walterboro. Walterboko. S. C., Dec 27.?The express otlice at this place was broken into and robbed of over $400 last Wednesday night. Simon Wasson, the night watchman or the depot, says he was sit tins in a cab alongside the depot ana that about 12:30 o'clock he suddenly heard a suspicious noise in the vicinity of the exprese ollice. Taking his shotgun in his band he stepped out upon the platform and advanced in the direction from whence the suspicious sounds proceeded. He had made but a few steps forward when he was ordered to halt and throw up his hands. Up they went, for at this raomeDt he was covered by two revolvers in the hands of two masked men. Simon says they were ''White Caps." While the two k;gentlemen" on the platform held Watchmen Wasson in this position, three others entered the express office on the opposite side by breaking open a window. They then proceeded to the safe in the corner of the buildinj and soon succeeded m hammering it open. The theivei, having securi ed the ?400 which they found in the safe. ! permitted Watchman Wasson to trarel, while t ie}' took the opposite end of the , road. They left something over $100 in I cash, t*vo gold watches, etc., in the j drawer which was not touched, the pari ties being evidently frightened away be lore tncy corapietcu tueu w vtu uuuu^u the itrong protest of the watchman. They left hurriedly, leaving some money scattered on tha floor. Th? Lame Walk. Pitiful indeed Is the condition of those who ?;re confined to their beds or chairs unable to walk. How grateful all such must feel when they recover from their helplessness. 13. B. 13. (Botanic B'ood Balm) has made more than one lame person happy. Mrs. Emma Griffiths, Lnitia, Tenn., 1:ionrAfnlCA writes: "j>iy ntuc uu) uau ooiv/xum bad his knees were drawn up and his knees stiff, and he could not walk. He derived no benefit from medicines until I tried B. B. B. After using it a short time only, he can walk and has no pain. I shall continue its use." Mirtle M. Tanner, Boonville, Ind., writes: "I had blood poison from birth. Knots on my limbs were as large as hen's eggs. Doctors said I would be a cripple, but B. B. B. has cured me sound and well. I shall ever nralsR the dav the men who invented r- - ? Blood Balm were bcm." A Severe Drouth. Chicago, Dec. 31.?The Farmers' Review says: "A severe drouth prevails over a "large section of the wheat-producing States. The country thus affected includes nearly all of Illinois, twothirds of Missouri and half of Iowa. About one-third of Indiana also forms a part of the dry region. The effects of the drouth are felt far more severely in Illinois Ulan III an; yuivi ports from ninety Counties show that only twenty have seen a fair water supply. The next greatest sufferer is Missouri, where seventeen correspondents report a sufficient supply of moisture and thirty-five a lack, especially of surface water. The professional "inashera," those of the real .lady-killer kind, have become such a nuisj'inceiu Pittsburg as to elicit an order concerning them from the inspector of police, '^he inspector says he has "actuhly grown sick and tired of hearing complaints at police headquarters daily of the doings of these ! barnacles on respectable society." Sat urday evening last there were jusc nine complaints made at police headquarters a sout ladies being'insulted by so-called mashers who had posted themselves on the postoilice steps. Therefore the inspector has issued an , order to the police that the masher and corner-loafer, the statue and postoilice , lobby loiterer will hereafter have to give a good account of themselves, or they will be gathered in the net. Fell One Hundred and Thirty Feet. > Piiila?::lpiiia, Pa., Jan. 1.?Robert Sincox,30 years old, an engineer employ; ed at the city liall, while watching the i .New Year's parade this morning from -v .4.? "-I'-uimr in th? htiildincr. tte si>:iu slui v Vr xuuv m -a- ? ^ slippel and fell to the pavement beneath. 13u feet. Although frightfully . mang.ed when picked up, he was &>tiD alive, but died in a few minutes after reaching the hospital. TRIED TO CUT OUT HER TONGUE. Sho Beard a Sermon on Scandal and Brooded Over It Two Long. New York, Jan. 5.?While sufferin? from temporary insanity, caused partly by a protracted illness, but particularly by a religious craze, Mrs. Catherine Thrope, aged forty years, livt?/\(S*AMn r\ C T^taa!. ILiy 111 tilt: JLUOl/UlU X/iSllll.1/ VI JJI Wftij i-i, made a determined effort yesterday to kill herself. The weapons she used were a pearl handled penknife and a pair of scissors. She failed in the attempt so'far as immediate results are concerned, but the attending physician entertains grave fears that her efforts may eventually prove successful. She no w lies at her home in a critical condition with her left breast and throat cui, while her tongue is torn into shreds. A small piece of the toague is missing, she having cut it off in her frantic attempt at self-destruction. Mrs. Thorpe, who lives with her husband on Vermont Street, at Ridgewood Heights, became ill some time ago. Before that she was a regular church attendant, and some days before she was obliged to take to her bed she heard an impressive sermon on "scandal." Left alone while sick, she must haye pondered on the sermon. She has not an enemy in the world, so her husband says, and all her neighbors apeak well OI ner. j.\eyermeiess, sue ap^ateuuv thought that she must have at one time said something derogatory of her neighbors. This idea, hastened bv the illness, made hp.'-, &s rcletermiinatf*1 -fercut her tongue, so that It could offend no one auain or give cauce for scandal. The fact that alter cutting her throat and stabbing herself, she tried deliberately, with a pair of scissors, to cut off her tongue, would tend to corroborate this idea. A series of piercing shrieks startled several pedestrians on V ermont street i shortly before noon yesterday, and they rushed in the direction of the Thorpe j residence, on the stoop of which they saw a woman frantically wringing her hands and appealing for assistance. In one of the rooms another woman, who proved to be Mrs. Thorpe, was slashing her body with a pair of scissors and pen-, knife. The neighbors who responded to the cry of alarm rushed into the house, and after a lierce struggle with the demented i ?> /J J cr? fminrr Vior Wdiuau, SUCUCCUCU IU u?aiiuiuj .1VK Owing to the length of time Mrs. Thorpe had been left alone and the extreme violence she had used, the floor and walls were covered with blood. Iu the struggle with her rescuers, Mrs. Thorpe exhausted ail her strength, and sank to the floor unconscious, with blood flowing freely from half a dozen wounds in her neck and breast. A policeman of the Seventeenth Precsnt. who had been attracted by the woman's screams, left his post and entered imnsp T-Tfi sent out an ambulance call, which was responded to by St. Catherine's Hospital. Dr. Whalen accompanied the vehicle. Meanwhile some one notified Dr. George Law of Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenues of the occurrence, and he assisted the ambulance surgeon in dressing the woman's wounds. She was not taken to the hospital, but remains unguarded except by her husband, at her house. Being outside the city limits, the case does not come under the jurisdiction of the authorities of the Eastern District. The instruments with which the woman endeavored to end her life were taken to tne seventeema jrrecmi;i police station. The police or the woman's husband can assign no cause for the deed, excepting her temporary derangement or, as stated, her religious motives. Snow Two Miles Deep. Xew Yokk, Jan. 5.?"Yes, I have been in a country where the snow is two miles deep," said X. B. Lazard, a mining expert ffom Tombstone, Ariz., at the Palmer House yesterday. Mr. Lazard was in the East during the recent snow storm, and was talking about what people in Pennsylvania called blizzard. "They thought the two-foot fall of snow was something to talk about," continued the visitor, "but if they would visit Alaska about two hundred miles up the Yukon river they would find snow that for miles is so thick that the banks almost reach the skies. If it keeps on accumulating as fast as it has during the last ten years, scientific men will not be able to say truthfully the earth is 1UUULU. "1 was in Alaska in the Consonllake re gion, in 1885, and that year the snowfall was quite heavy. Snow that falls there remains, for it never melts. A prospector named Jim Thomas was with me that trip, and one beautiful morning he fell from a glacier about one hundred feet. The fall broke both of his legs one of his arms, and crushed in several ribs, besides injuring him internally. He was conscious when I reached him, and he told me that he knew he was going to die. He begged me to see that his mother and sister in the East received all the property he had left in Harrisburg. 1 promised, and have fulfilled the trust. Just before he died he asked me to pray for him, and for the first since I I had knelt besides mv mather when a little boy," I got down "on my knees and asked God to receive the soul that was about depart. I prayed as I have never since, and I meant all I said. There was a smile on poor Thomas' face when I said "Amen," and with a most peaceful expression on his countenance, he breathed his last. I buried him in the snow, and to-day, if his body could be ~ 1 T 1 ^/\lr 00 r>ofnro 1 I0UI1U X KI1UW IL >VUIUU lwa c*s? XJ.mvmj.MA as the moment he died?peaceful expression and all." PoliOM?d by a Cat. Willman, la., Dec. 31.?A strange case of poisoning occurred near here,the other day. Harry Yoder, aged three years, saw his pet cat catch a mouse, lie took the mouse from her and began playing with it. An hour afterward he became deathly sick, his eyes swelled so that he could not open them and he suffered terrible agony. Mr. Yoder fortunately returned home about that time and knew the boy had been poisoned. He gave him a quantity of sweet cream to drink and sent for a physician. After tu-pntv hours of dreadful suffering the boy was saved. The doctor explained the case as follows: The cat in its battle with the mouse threw out a poisonous tluid, which the boy afterward got on his hands from handling the mouse. Rubbing his eyes and putting his lingers in his mouth carried the poison to his system. The bite of a cat is not poisonous under ordinary circumstances, but when it is after a mouse for dinner it is as deadly as a rattlesnake. The Failures of 1890. Xew York, Dec. 31.?The business failures occurring throughout the I f<->r thp. pnti^e vear 1890. as uu?u\.o ~ ^ reported by It. G. Dun ?& Cos Mercantile Agency, are 10.907 in number, being but 25 greater thau in the year 1889. The liabilities, however, show a very large increase over 1889, being 8189,000,000 against SI48,000,000, an increase of over 840,000,000, the largest liabilities since 1884, when they amounted 8225,000,000. In Canada, failures for the year 1,847 in number, against 1,775 the year previous. ! The liabilities are 818,000.000 in 1890, i against 814,000,000 in 1889. Tiie Columbia Register says Attorf n Patio has rpr>??ivfid informs* IICJ' UC.U.CX CiA JL V UMU WW w. ? tion that certain large New York capi| talists are ready and willing to refund 1 the State debt on advantageous terms. This would indicate that the outside world have every confidence in our Stat* ! securities. _ Quay is represeujgdHltang about -.j ^ whit* to yieiu to House and vot^WWii^W^ bill. TEN THOUSAND MEN TO GO. 1 Effect of the Ccnsclldxtion of the Harves- j tfr Coiup^nJeo. St. Louis. Dec. 31.?It was learned here to-day that the first official act of the American Harvester Company of Illinois, a consolidation of the elghteeu harvester companies of the United States, will discharge about 10.000 employees, whose services are rendered unnecessary by the consolidation of eighteen separate and distinct companies into one monopoly. Teu million dollars per annum is expected to be saved in wages alone through this consolidation. Threeliftlis of the estimated savings iu wages are said to be realized from the cutting down of the force of traveling men, and besides the general decapitation of the drummers there will be a sweeping discharge of office men, warehouse men. skilled workmen and others, which it is acknowledged by the combination will throw at least 10,000 men out of employment at the beginning of the year. This is made possiblle by the fact that under consolidation management the output of harvc-st machinery will be limited to the gro it plants whose brands are standard all "ver the world and that mrtot nf tVir> cnf-.11 nlflnfe* will hf> ?>ilUt clown. The Minneapolis Company has. it is said, already closjd down and dischargrd its force, ana after January 1 many J others will follow suit. 1 The formal notification from Chicago j that the American Harvester Company atfairs is-expecK'd this week. All the companies are waiting for it. and the moment it is issi.ad tae grand sweeping performance wi/i be^inandthe books of every concern will be closed up to the date of the actual consolidation. Complete confirmat jn of the above statements was obtained to-day from Assistant Manager Kc-iso ofM. M. Osborne & [ Co. of this cit}. He said the most sweeping discnaige wouici De 01 traveling men. Of every ten now employed eight would be discharged on January 1. The new monopoly, which contiols the output of the hasvesting machinery of the entire United States and a large European trade, has a capital of $35, 000,000. It is incorporated under the AC TllmAto tnrtAim/vnofArO litW3 Ui J.J.IILI ViO, tllv iUVVlj^VLUUVlW VVMq Cyrus H. MeCormick, William Deering, Walter A. Wood. George A. S. Bushnell and Col. A. L. Conger. Cyrus II. McCormick is President of the consolidated company, Walter A. Wood is "Vice President, and A. L. Conger is General Manager. "A Chamber in Hell." Louisville, Dec. 31.?The following recently appeared in the CourierJaurnal: At a time when the acerbities of public life yield to the soft influences of the home and fireside, when the gospel of peace on earth, good will to men sends its thrill of generous feeling to the sternest hearts, when warring neighbors suspend their rival Interests to drink of the flowing bowl and drain the loving cup, and when even the lion and the lamb lie down in harmony, the Republican leaders at Washington are to be seen scowling like beaten demons over the failure of plans to wreck their country, or licking their chops with the horrible glee of cannibals as the prospect hrj.-rhtonc for thp. realization of schemes of rapine, conflagration and murder. II has come to this at last that the Republican party can no longer hope for existence by the will of the majority. It muit erect a machine to defy and set aside that majority or perish. Hence I the force bill. Ilence the conversion of' the blested Christmas season in Con-! gress into a Saturtanalia of gibbering greed and hate. Prom feeble Grandma Hoar, bursting with senile rage, to poor * 1' - ? ? Canofo I CFii^V >Yitll lUVy kjvuauv of the United States presents us a picture of a Chamber in Hell set apart as a lunatic asylum for spirits maddened br partisan hate, and lost alike, to religion and patriotism ;and it would seem that there is no use exclaiming: 'kFor#ire them, Lord, they know uot what they do," because it is ?. curious feature )f their insanity that they do. Pianos and Organs. N. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' com-1 missions. The celebrated Chickering j Piano. MathusUek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Uprigt t Piano. Sterling Upright Pianos, from 3225 up. Mason & Hamlin Organs surpassed by none. Sterling Organs, S5u up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on Instalments. Tiie "Washington Post desires to know what's the use of the Farmers' * '' ' - - " Al. A o*-v/-3 APT'\Qr>QQ I Alliance going iU uue pama auu. of organizing a third party when there are so many second-hand and but slightly used third parties on the bargain counter. Mi*. George M. Pullman, the pos sessor of 850,000,000, recently said when asked how it feels to be a millionaire: "I have never thought of that. But now that you mention it, I believe that I am no better oil?certainly no happier than I was when I didn't have a dollar to my name and had to work from daylight until dark." Diseases Peculiar to Women especially monthly disorders, are cured by the timely u*e of Bradfield's Female Regulator. A complete Bedroom Suit for $16.50 freight paid to your depot. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, Ga. 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From the 1st. of JanuaiyB i <t of February offers a convenient time new pupils to enter, who are charged ofl| from date of entranoe. for terms, <SflH address the President, the S REY. WM. R. ATKINSON^ H Columbia, Sj B READ THESE FlGUBEfl Farm Wagons, complete with body efl 2 3-4 in Thimble Skin....- ?~ 3 in Thimble skin - ? 41JMB Vyi in Thimble Skin 42,|J? One Horse Wagons, 534.50, ?2S.3 ajH $28.50. Warranted second to none. Write for Circulars. fl Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts, &o., ffl 10 per cent less than''regular prices. S?M for Catalogue. This o2er is for only jHB days in order to reduce swck?io wucr n HOLLER'* ANDERSJ BUGGY CO..' ROCK HILL, S. CM jgKHj In writing mention this paper, ' 0 COMPLETE GI^ERIESflj R TTPON THE MOST APBROTO U plans, with Suction Fan or Sffl H Belt Seed Cotton Elevator furnishe* competitive prices. COTTON GIVS and PRESSES oM | makers. 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