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' " * >' ' ;: . V ' gjpgqgB C^| 1 . ;/2^g VOL. XLYI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1891. NO. 39. -:| THE UNIVERSITY. QUICK REORGANIZATION WORK BY THE TRUSTEES. The New Chair* Filled?Dr?. Woudrow. Alexander and Others Left Oat?S&laVJ-rn/? 7? r?f th? Kntlre PrO ceedinsn. Columbia, s. C., May 2?The Board of Visitors of the South Carolina University met in the Library yesterday morning, with every member present, and proceeded to organize the institution in accordance with the recent act of the Legislature. The members favoring a broad plan took charge of the matter, and, without calling up to a vote either of the plans presented, mov( d at once to go into the election of the different chairs, fearing that the minority report would very likely be adopted otherwise. The motion wa3 carried, and without the slightest opposition the selection of the chairs was begun. The following chairs were adopted: Chair of chemistry. Chair of geology, mineralogy and biology. An adjunct professor was allowed this chair. Chair of ancient languages, also with adjunct professor. Chair of mathematics. Chair of physics and astronomy. Chair of modern languages. Chair of English language, literature and rhetoric with adjunct professor. Chair of mental and moral philosophy WHO logic. Chair of history and political economy. Chair of law*. As will be seen this provides for ten chairs and three adjunct professors, giving thirteen in all. The lesult is said to be far better than any of the friends of the University expected. The salaries of the professors were fixed as follows: Ali the profesc.orswiil get $2,000, the president 83,000 and he will rffinirpd to OCCUDV on8 Of the chairs of instruction. The adjuncts S1,200 each, the chaplain $300 extra, the secretary and librarian $900, the assistant to the secretary $200. The librarian is also to be required to act as secretary to the board of trustees. The office of marshal was abolished. One of the adjunct professors will be chosen and requested to act as secretary to the faculty. Governor Tillman favoring it, the beard decided to give an annual appropriation of $2,000 to the library. A resolution was adopted appointine a special committee tc investigate and * Li 1 : report on a scoeme ior me puvsiuai culture of the students. This is to be made a portion of a curriculum. Provisions were made to allow the students now in the mechanical and civil engineering courses who will graduate next year to complete their courses and obtain diplomas. Dr. Alexander, who at the former meeting of the board refused to reply to a question of the Governor as to whether he believed in Christ or not, appeared before the boasd and read a statement he had prepared. Therein he declared his Unitarian views and clearly defined his position. As will be seen his chair is abolished and combined with another. The two chairs of geology and mineralogy and biology are now consolidated also. The two chairs of English language and English litera lure are com Dined, too, ana tne trustees say tbey propose to place the English department of the institution squarely to the front and make it the principal feature of the courses. The status of j the trustees on political lines was cur-1 iously divided. Upon adjourning, at 4 o'clock, the tri stees indicated that the main fight was to come on the question * of the standard of admission. It was stated that no orofessors would be elect ted until next June, but that the board would indicate to the incumbent piofessors whether they were to remain or not. They were decided that those competent should remain and those that were not should go. The board met again at 6 o'clock and instead of taking up the reports at once as expected, proceeded immediately to i the election of the professors. The" results are given beiow: Chair of mathematics? Prof. ?. W. Davis. KJJL JJUJOiVCj UUWUMUAVU astronomy?Prof. Benjamin Sloan. Chair 01 biology, geology and mineralogy?Dr. J. M. McBryde. lie was also elected president of the institution, and Professor E. A. Smythe, the former professor of biology, was elected adjunct to the chair. Chair of chemistiy?Professor W. B liurney. Chair of EDghsh language, literature and rhetoric?Proiessor F. C. Woodward. Chair ol history and political economy?Professor li." Means Davis. Chair of mental science, logic and evidences of Christianity?Dr. J. William Flinn. Chair of law?Professor Joseph Daniel Pope. The Chair of ancient languages was not filled, and the tilling was postponed until June. The adjunct in this depart-1 ment was also not elected. The fight for the position is between Dr. Patton ana i.*roi. iviurray, auu wjciuuicaoiuus are that a new man will fill the position and both be left out. The selection of the professor of mod-1 ern langurages was also postponed until J une. Dr. Joynes is the only applicant before the board, and the reason r? he was not elected last night was that there was a considerable question as to the amount of woik. He will undoub? tedly be elected to the chair next J une. [ For the chair of geology, mineralogy, L and biology, ana consequently the presidency of tne institution, Drs. McBryde and "\Voodrow, were before the board. Eft Several members raised the objection HI to Dr. Woodrow that he could not give ||L his entire time to the duties of the Kb chair. The board commuicated with Dr. Wood row on tbis subject and he Bfljjgag^ sent a letter to the effect that he couic not give his time to .the duties. GonSkssquently Dr. McBryde was elected. K&ut for this the race might have been jg&ose one, as Dr. Woodrow had many on the board. gkmembers of the old faculty left follows: Professor E. E. fifcrof pedagogics?chair abol^j^ssor J. W. Alexander, B^logic?chair abolished. Bra Woodrow, professor of out |?n and Murray still j least and will be retired. asgSffiRutors ana assisll&so out. HmE&he plan were Hfi&the election standard of ! executive Iplilfi. McBryde, i Mayrieid, Res Mciver 1S t0 Rtird to be 1 fflSee was were BAtsult rudini in a rage. italy's premier stops correspondence * with lilalne Rome, May 3.?The Green Book on the Xew Orleans lynching comprises twenty-four dispatches, dated from March 14 to April 28. It shows that the Italian Government from the commencement perseversed in asking that criminal proceedings be taken against the lynchers and that indemnity be paid * ~ r\f + v* Ck x'i i ty> Q tha PY. IU tilC laiULll^d VJ. H1W Y IVVlUlWa A.L4.W V<? pression ''brought to justice" recurs in the official dispatches as well as Baron Fava's private letters. The principal communications have already been published. After Blaine's note of April 14 the volume concludes with a telegram from the Maquis di Budni to the iJarquis Imperali, the t*xt of which is as follow: I have now before me a note addressed to you by Secretary Blaine of April 14. Its perusal produces a most painful imnression upon me. I will not stop to lay stress up'i the lack of con IOriMty WILLI UipiOU-iaLiU u;x??cc uwplayedin making public, as Blaine did not hesitate to do, of a portion of a telegram of mine communicating tohimir. direct confidence in order to get rid of the question clearly defined in our official documents which alone possess diplo matic value. JSor will 1 stop to point out the reference in this telegram of mine of March 24, that the words "punishment of the guilty," in the brevity of telegraghic language, actually signified only that the prosecution ought to be commenced in order that individuals recognized as guilty should not escape punishment. Far above all astute arguments remains the fact that henceforward the Federal Government declares , it self conscious of what we have constantly asked, and yet it does not grant our legitimate demands. I31ame is right when he makes payment of indemnity to families of victims dependent upon proof of violation of the treaty; but we shrink from thinking that h? considers that the fact of such violation still needs proof. Italian subjects acquitted by American juries were massacred in the prisons of the State without measures i?<?ing taken to defend them. What other proof does the Federal Government expect of the violation of the treaty wherein constant protection and security of the subjects of the contracting parties is expressly stipulated. We have placed on evidence that we have never asked anythihg else but the openincr nf rAcmlar nreceedincrs. In reeard to this, Baron JFava's first note, dated March 15, contained even the formula of a telegram addressed on the same day by Mr. Blaine under order of President Harrison to the Governor of Louisiana. Xow, however, in the note of April 14 Mr. Blaine is silent on the subject, which is for us the main point of contro versy. We are under the sad necessity of concluding that what to every other Government would be the accomplishment of a civil duty is impossible to the Federal Government. It is time to break off this bootless controversy. Public opinion, the sovereign judge, will know how to indicate an equitable solution of this grave problem. We have affirmed and we again affirm our right. Let the Federal Government reflect upon its side if it is expedient to 4-t-VA TV> /\?ATT Af QO 1C<4YC UV uUO VJk CI/MWU VA. Union, irresponsible to foreign coun tries, the efficiency of treaties pledging its faith and honor to entire nations. The present dispatch is addressed to you exclusively, not the Federal Government. Your duties henceforward are solely resiricted to dealing with current business. Devastation by Forest Fires. Xew York, May 1.?The most destructive fire of many years is raging m iSouth Jersey. The great pine region and cranberry bog district from Pleasant Point and Bay Head, on the north, down to Egg Harbor, sixty miles south, and from tha Atlantic to points from thirty to forty miles inland, is being swept by fire. Thousands and thousands of acres of pine and cedar timber have been burned, many towns have been threatened, dozens* of houses have been destroyed and fears are entertained for the M/vfrvf.. i?v*f 4-Wr\ ^r*? tKn t\ Qtroof of ?><S1CLV 'iJl. l/UC JLi?X V^*.V/ T t*s)CC?lVU country. So dense is the smoke that hangs over the burning forest that farmers going from town to town have to c:rope their way along the roads. Rain has not fallen in weeks, and the inhabitants are unable to check the spread of the llames. At many places the residents have been forced to flee to the open country to save their lives, leaving their household^ goods behind to be burned. At one place a sick woman, covered by watersoaked blankets, wascarried out of her burning home in her bed. At a rough estimate the loss will be over SI,000,000, and many farmers will be impoverished. Forest fires are also reported in the mountains ohnnt TfAiarfinor P? and in t.hp virMnit.v of Newburg, X. Y Democratic Gains in Indiana. Indianapolis,Ind., MayG? Returns from the elections in the second and third class cities throughout the State show gvneral Democratic gains, with the exception of New Albany and Jeffersonville, where the Republicans made ciean sweeps. At Fort Wayne Sallinger, Democrat, was elected mayor by ninety-seven majority, with nine Democratic councilmen out of ten. At Lafayette the entire Democratic ticket was elected?a Democratic gain. At Hammond the entire Democratic | ticket was elected?a Democratic gain. At Jctfersonville T. F. Warder, Democrat, for seven terms mayor, was de! feated by L>. F. Robinson, Republican. The Rep'uDlicans also gained a marshal and clerk and two councilmeD, although ; the Democrats still retain the majority. i TKq tttoq JLiJC* ll^iiu II OO OUHUJ 4VVMA* In !New Albany "Morris McDonald, Republican, was re-elected mayor by a large majority. A Fatal Duel. Koaxoke, Va.,. April 28.?A terrible tragedy occured at Marshall's cafe in this city at 6 o'clock this afternoon. ; Nick Flood, a son of Major John II. 1 Flood, a prominent tobacconist of I Lynchburg and Charles L. Rose who i came here from "Washington in Febru ary last, engaged m a auei witn pisiois. Kose fell pierced by several bullets and died in a few minutes without speaking. ! Flood was shot in the mouth and breast but will probably recover. Both men j were gamblers and the shooting was tne result of a quarrel at a card table about six weeks ago. Some days ago they were prevented from shooting: each other and Dlaced under bonds to keep I the peace, liose had ST 12 in his pockcts Flood is a dangerous character. Two months ago he stabbed Martin O'Meare, i a Lynchburg tailor, nearly to death and subsequently almost killed a man named Payne of this city with a billiard cue. L?t Us Hare Washington, M*y 6?It is learned here th*t the government of the United states nas instructed ^iimswcr iv offer to mediate between the combatants in Chile in the interests of peace and good order, and that France and Brazil, the other great republics of the bgorld, have joined in the proffer of their fcsL offices in the interests of per^^frepublican principles of gov ALLIANCE CAMPAIGN. PRESIDENT POLK MAPS IT OUT IN AN ADDRESS TO THE ORDER. . j Two Great Rallies in Cach State this Fall j and an Army of 35,000 Lecturers to j Talk Until Xext Year?The Order Must Expel Disloyal Members. President Polk, of the Farmc.s'Alliance has just issued a proclamation to the Order in which he sets forth the plan of campaign which the national executive board has adopted for the next year, and counsels the Sub-Alliances to cease internal bickerings and to get rid of dif" ">yal members. This is the document: To the Brotherhood of the N. F. A. andl. U : We are now approaching the most critical period in our existence ~ ^ T'Vvrv Arw swn lifyinr* Q!I%_ j a.5 'dll VlUCi. X UC ucm^an^iug ments which always enter into a political campaign are already being marshalled by the enemies of our Order, with a determined purpose to divide and disrupt us, if possible. No device or scheme will be left untried. Every Tifill Via morlo fn rlivort. I C1HJ1 U T* XXI 4^JV?U^/ WV MtfVAV V ? of the people from the great issue3 which are essentially the very life of our great reform movement. It was this knowledge of the situation that prompted the action of the National Legislative Council in maturing a plan for a lecture system and for presenting it to the Order for adoption. The ultimate, inevitable and triumphant success of our principles is assured, if this system be actively and faithfully prosecuted for the American farmers and all other classes and interests which are so intimately related to them will not fail to stand together for right, justice and equity, if properly informed. If prosecuted as designed, this system will engage the services during this year of not less than 3o,uuu lecturers in our cause. I earnestly invoke the aid and co-operntion of the entire brotherhood in securing a faithful lecturer for every subordinate and county Alliance and for every Congressional district within the jurisdiction of our Order throughout the whole country. Arrangements are also being made for the holding of two or more grand Alliance mass meetings in each of the Alliance States during the year, or as many more as the brotherhood may desire. Let us have your active and earnest sympathy in making this the ' ?r*-?inrr> iroar in nnr ^ 1 KJ&IJ CUUtcitl?JUUi. vaui^/uigu JVMI, *44 w?* history, and thus be prepared to meet any emergency that may arise. State and county officers especially are earnestly admonished to push this work iD their respective jurisdictions zealously. The enemy is actively on the alert, it is his purpose to buy or control our press as far as possible. Failing with money he will substitute office or its patronage. Failing in ail this he will strive by every means, foul or fair, to create divisions and dissensions in our ranks. If a convention of the enemies of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union was called to devise a plan for the overthrow and destruction of the Order it would doubtless adopt, as the most speedy and effectual, such methods as would create dissention and strife among the membership. How eagerly and how exultantly they hail the least indication of this! If an erring brother so far forgets his obligations to the Order as to assail its principles publicly he is heralded by the nnrttinians and the Dartisan Dress as a hero. If a paper which has been designated a representative of the principles of our Order proves false to its most sacred compact and assaults our members or our principles, it thereby gains speedy admittance to the respect and confidence of our enemies. If influential or prominent members, disregarding their obligations to eacli other and to the Order, engage in a public personal warfare through the press or otherwise, our enemies are abundantly satisfied. Xo member of our Order has the right to assail another member publicly, through the press or otherwise, so long as their names are on our roll of membership. Such an offence is a violation of his obligation, and should merit expulsion. JS o paper vested with author ity to represent our Order omciauy nas the right to assail our principles or any member of the Order while acting in such a capacity. Such an offence should cause all true Alliance men to repudiate such paper promptly. Xo member, while his name remains on our roll3, has a ris?ht to assail the principles of the Order publicly. He is not only permitted, but is encouraged by our law, to discuss any and all measures coming: within our province with the utmost "freedom and to any extent he may desire within the Order. But the will of the majority is the law of the Order, and if he cannot acquiesce in the decision of the majority, and feels that he is conscientiously impelled to go before the public and assail our principles, he should first divest himself of his Alliance uniform. With what consistency could a Baptist or Methodist go before the world and publicly oppose and denounce some of the' most cherished tenets of his Church ? How long would his name remain ou ms church book? How long ought it to remain there? Why should he expect or desire to remain in the Church? Loyalty to Alliance principles is the only true Alliance test, not only as to membership, but it should faithfully be applied m the selection of all officers, from the steward in a subordinate Alliance to the president of the National Alliance, and it must be applied in the selection of those who are to make and execute our Jaws, if we would reasonably hope for the reforms which we seek. We want no foes within our camp | We can live better without them than with them. Let the membership be j watchful and faithful, and guard with untiring vigilance the principles of the A J? >T A?flAAb- -frvr /"vttT* uraer. j.\ever wns mc uuuuua jlvi vm. cause so hopeful and encouraging. We have only to be true to our principles, true to our obligations, *nd to our noble Order and all will be well. Fraternally, L. L. Polk, President X. F. A. and I. I*. A Modern Abraham, Bridge'.vater, Conn., May 6.?Oliver H. Jessup. one of the most "prominent citizens of the town has gone insane. i He was taken violently ill a few days : atro, but refused to allow a doctor to | come to the house, and he relied solely j on the faith cure advocates, who surI rounded his bed day and night. Jessup at length conceived the idea j that he was a second Abraham and that I t.he Lord reauired a human sacrifice. On Thursdiv, being left alone for a few I minutes, be prepared for the horrible j affair by constructing an alter out of tis i bedroom furniture, around which he ' piled a heap of combustibles. Then he | caught his little grandchild, a year old, i and placed her on the altar and prepared ! to ignite it. The child's cries attracted a member of the family, and the old man was nearly killed in the struggle to restrain him* BENNETTSVILLE IS BEWILDEREDMysterious Occurrence Savoring of the Supernatural. .Bennettsville, S. C., May 1.?There was a IXIJr'bienuus *Ji;i;uii.cuv;c; iu jjcunettsville a few nijrhts ago, which has puzzled ti^r most philosophical minds. Many the^y^ have been advanced, yet the mystery' K^mains unsolved. Doors and windows are barred at night; nocturnal pedestrians ambulate the streets with lighted lanterns; the cracking of a twig or the rustle of the wind causes ? sudden halt and rapid pulsations of the heart. The colored people are alarmed beyond description, and are daily expected to institute a general exodus from the town. For two months Mr. P. C. Emanuel has been living in Mr. St. P. Covington's house in East Eennettsville. This is comparatively a newly settled place, splendid building, surrounded with sweet and luxuriant flowers, situated in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in town. On the night in question, Mr. Emanuel and wife had just retired, but had not gone to sleep. ine mooii was shining brightly, everything being quiet and serene. About 11 o'clock, the report of what seemed a gun was Leard at the bed chamber window. The shot was plainly heard falling in the room. Mr. Emanuel is not a timid man by any methods. He has plenty of nerve and scarcely can be frightened bv or dmary means. lie at once concluded tbat some one had accidentally shot into his room, but directly a second report, at the same place, was repeated. Mrs. Emanuel was terribly frightened. Her husband lowered the lamp, rushed to the window, threw open the Diincis, ana aiscnargea nis pistoi m me direction of the ground. For a minute or two all was quiet, when suddenly, in his room, near his trunk, in rapid succession, two reports of what seemed to be pistol shots, were heard. After a short interval there were two reports under the house, directly under the bedroom, and just at that moment the house shook and crockeryware rattled, and a noise was heard as if glass were being ground in a mill, and simultaneously every rooster in the neighborhood commenced crowing. Mr. Emanuel says he was sure that judgment day had arrived, ana mat ne had no other ihought but that in a short time he would be facing the Immaculate Judge. Mr. Emanuel vacated the house at once, and the place is now unoccupied, where "gobblin damns" can hold high carnival. Mr. Emanuel is an honest, truthful and intelligent citizen, and the above facts were recited to The State correspondent by him in a special interview.?State. The War In Chile. Washington, April 30.?Rear Admiral McCan, in command of the South Atlantic Station, has sent the Navy Department a long report, dated Caldira, March 24. in regard to Chilean affairs. The Congressional deputies (the insurrectionary chiefs,) he says, had their headquarters on board a transport in the harbor of Iquique. During the forenoon of the 17th, while the Pensacola (his flagship) was at Iquique, the insurgent man of-war Esmeralda, and the transports Aconcagua and Maipo put to sea to attack Autofagasta, with about 1,500 troops on board. The ironclad Blanco Encalada was blockading Autofagasta at the time. The Chilean officers stated that it was the intention to attack and capture Arica, then blockaded by the Huascar. The admiral, iu his account of the capture of Iquique by the insurgents, says that by the tire of ships five blocks of houses were destroyed, considerable coal burned and the office of the United States consul destroyed. The fighting back of the hills culminated in a battle with 1,600 men on each side. Before the fight 200 government troops deserted to the insurgents. The fight was brief, but sanguinary, the insurgents acknowledging .200 killed and about the same number wounded, while the government had 400 killed and 200 wounded. Early in the fight the government cavalry fled, killing everyone that came in their way, whether friends or foes. Col. Robels, the government cammander, was wounded and captured and afterwards assassinated in his bed. The sovernment force in the neighbor hood ol Iquique seems to have entirely disappeared. A number of troops raised in the south and sent north to fight have gone ovei to the insurgents, and it would see 11 as if President Balmaceda was to a small extent recruiting an army for the benefit of his enemies. The insurgent forces are at present iu possession ot'the entire northern coast from Arica to Taltalancr, 400 miles, as well as holding the extensive nitrate deposits on the pampas, which have been the great source of revenue to Chile, and they are able to maintain their position so Ion? as the government is without a navy, as tin mountain coasts and the great desert are impracticable for extensive military operations. Will Not Run. Pougiikeepsie, X. Y., April 30 ? Stephen B. Elkins is authority for the statement made to the effect that James G. Blaine would shortly announce his decision not under any circumstances to allow his name to be used at the next Republican convention as a candidate for president. It is said that Mr. Blaine's letter or announcement will bo so positive as to admit of but one con struction, ana tnat is uihl ae wm ucvci again be a candidate for the presidency. The Xews Press also quotes Hon. Smith M. Weed as saying that when the time came Mr. Blaine would be found positively declining a nomination. Also that \V. J. Arkell says that Mr. BlaiDe is about to come out with a most positive refusal to allow his name to be used again in connection with the presidency. Five of the Crew Drowned. Sault Ste Marie. Mich., May 0.? | The schooner reported iD distress by the barge Sitka is the Atlanta, Captain Knelton, which left here in tow of the barge Wilhelm Saturday night. A heavy Northwest gale struck the Wilhelm with the Atlanta in tow Sun.iay morning. When they were off Sable bank the tow line of the Atlanta parted twenty miles Northwest of No 10 life saving station. When she foundered the crew endeavored to reach the shore in yawls, five of them perishing in the attempt. The crew from the life saving station put out in the breakers and succeeded in saving two of the ill-fated schooner's men. The Atlanta was coal laden for Ashland. A Horrible Death. Charleston, S. C., May 1.?George Carter, colored, lost his life in a horrible manner today, on Central wharf. Carter was the engineer of a hoisting machine which was unloading a cargo of coal from a vessel at the wharf. By some unexplained accident, he was caught between the rope and drum, the fatal ceil twisting about the body and gradually crushing the life of out it. If he made any outcry the noise of the machinery drowned it. There were no eye-witness. , When found the remains were horribly lacerated. i THE COLD SNAP NORTH AND WEST. Fruits and Early Vegetables Seriously Damaged. Cincinnati, May G.?The Signal Service department reports no frost in . this vicinity last night. At Wooster 0., the farmers report that all early fruit was destroyed w'Monday night's frost. Some say that the wheat, which ia now jointing, has been injured. The mercury was down to the freezing point thig ( morning. At Washington Court House 0., there was a biack frost and the ice was more than one-eighth of an inch thick. Leading horticulturists say that all the early cherries are killed, and many peaches, pears, apples, grapes, etc. The full extent of the damage is not known, but it is thought to be very great. At Frankfort, Ky., a light frost throughout the section last night did considerable damsg^tot^ vegetablesanu berry crops, but IruTf was too lar advanced lor much damage. Th?re is a promise of the finest yield of fruit known for years. At Lima, 0., there was a li^ht frost last night, extending all over this section and doing considerable damage to early fruits and vegetables. Wheat wa3 scorched in some places very severely. At Madison, Ind., it is reported that the Kentucky and Indiana peach orchards are uninjured by last night's frost. Bethlehem. Pa.. Mav 6.?The cold wave reached here last night. Snow semails are frequent and ice formed in exposed placed. Farmers report this morning that the strawberry crop is seriously injured. Fruit is also frozen in some parts of the country. Wilmington, Del., May 6.?There xxroa o VinotTTT tall r\F annar in f Vna tr ""-1 ""VttTJ mi. V/i. ^ ~ throughout the northern part of the State early this morning, but it melted at once. The temperature at noon is 50, with a cold north wind. Fruit, it is feared, has been damaged. Johnstown, Pa., May 6.?Snow fell in this city last night and this morning, covering tbe ground. In the northern part of Cambria and Somerset countries a fall of an inch of snow last nisht is reported Pottsville, Pa., May G.?A snow 3torm set in early this morning and con tinned for several hours. During the past few days the whether has been exceptionally cold for this season of the year. Charlottesville, Ya., May G.? There was a severe fro3t in this vicinity last night. All early vegetation was injured on the low grounds, and grapes were badly bitten. The weather is colder, and another frost tonight is feared. Danville, Ya., May G ?There was a heavy Irost here last night, and vegetables were badly damaged. Xo damage to wheat and fruit. A Delusion and a Snare Jackson, Miss., May 7.?In reply to a request from the Weber County Alliance asking for his views on the subTiwjry plan, Governor J. M. Stone, who has been frequently and favorably mentioned as the successor to ex-Senator Walthall, has submitted a letter, the fnllowinor hein^ an extract therefrom: The government should give equal rights and administer civil and exact justice to all and imposing as few burdens as possible, should essentially be distributed, leaving every individual to his own efforts ror success and happiness. The government has no wealth to beslow and when it undertakes to dispense favors it always has favorites and gives to them at the expense of those not favored. It must be so from the very nature of things, for it has to take from some to give to others. We of the South, chiefly an agricultural people, have felt this evil with crushing force, for the high protective system of the Republican parly for the benefit of manufacturing interests, mainly of the North, has operated in a twofold manner to injure us by depressing the price of our cotton and greatly increasing the cost of many articles we are compelled to buy with the proceeds. The cause of our depression is the protective system, maintained for protection, and the enormous burdens of government which fall heavily upon us, while we get little to compensate us for tnese grievous lmpusiuuujs. So far as the sub-treasury is iatended to supply an increase of money, It promises nothing good to the farmers, who, above all others, will be the victims of the evils of any inflation which will disturb values. They need for their welfare a currency as steady and stable as themselves. Traders and speculators, those looking out for corners, can not amid the excitement of speculative values and fluctuations from the disturbance, the irritation leaving the farmer and laborer no sort of even chance in -c ii: rnu? uiac condition ui iuili^s. mc of an opportunity to obtain money at a lo v rate ot interest by depositing cotton and getting an advance of 80 per cent, ot its value is, I think, a delusion or a snare. The Strong Arm of the Law. Uniontown, Penn., May 4.?Another collision has occurred between the coke strikers and deputy sheriffs, the result being that one striker is dead, and one seriously wounded. Last-night Superintendent Gray and Pit Boss Callaghan, of LeisenringXo 3, went to house No 17 to arrest two of the strikers, who had seized two men who had been at work and held them at the house of the strikers. They were set upon and stoned QTirl The> wmc to their aid. One of the strikers tried to take a <run from one of the deputies, when a shot was fired by the strikers. Superintendent Gray then ordered the deputies to fire, and in the volley which followed John Mahan, a striker, fell dead and another, whose name is not known, received a mortal wound. The strikers then scattered and the two men who were held prisoners were rescued and taken to Leisenring. The situation is now re [jurieu quiet. Heavy Frost and Ice. St. Paul, Mmn.. May 4.?Dispatches from many Northern Minnesota points says that a heavy frost prevailed Saturday night in eight or ten counties. In Kittson County ice was found, and in Polk, Hubbard and Marshall youcg wheat and oats were cut down. At Park River it is said that strawberries and other small fruits were so tar advanced in the bud that they are ruined. Young leaves on trees were ?o badly frozen that fKlaolr I'UVJ lUlU^U UiUVUp A Chilean Kebel Ship Seltxl. Sax Diego, Cal., May 6.?The steamship Etata, which putin this port a few days ago, for the purpose of obtaining provisions for the war ships in possession of the Congressional party of Chife, has been seized by the United States marshal. ; \ A SHOOTING SCRAPE. * SOUTH BOUND ROAD CONTRACTOR SHOOTS A MAN. A Squabble About Pay the Cause of the Difficulty?The TFonnded Man Brought to Columbia?Particulars of the She?tIdS. Coloibia, S. C., May 1?Xews was received in the city yesterday that a difficulty had occurred at the construction camp of Messrs. Webb & Oates, on the South Bound Road, about ten miles from the city, itf which a white man named John Ham met had been shot and mortally wounded by T. J. Stack, a member of the firm of Stack & Roof, sub-contractors under Webb <x Oates. The first news of the affair was brought to the city by Felix Sharp, who was the bearer of a letter to H. L. Williams. The letter is as follows:' Stack & Roof .Camp, April 30, - Mr. S. L. WiUiams. ' Bear Ybsekd: John Hammet got shot this morning. Seriously hurt. Dtto't think he can live. Please notify the Masons and K. of P.'s. He belongs to both orders. Bring a good doctor with you. He will be paid well for his n. A olr AA W> A r-t TT T AIM rt I WU1&.. VULLie IJgLLU ? CLLU dlUiiC. Also I want you to send a telegram to H. J. Hammet, Blackville. He will come to your stables. Have him brought out here, and look on other side for telegram. Your friend, Bob L. Williams. The telegram referred to is as follows: B. J. Hammet, Blackville: Johnnie is dangerously shot. Can't live without change. Come at once. R. L. Williams, At H. L. Williams's stables. In response to the request contained in the letter, Dr. Prank Green *ras asked to go out to the camp and attend to the wounded man, and he started witn tnat intention, but when he reached New Brookland Trial Justice Green informed him that news hadreachedhim that the man was dead, and that it would therefore be no use to go. The party who gave this information to the Trial Justice stated that Hammett had been shot three times, viz.: through the wristf, the upper portion of the arm and through the abdomen. It soon appeared, however, after Dr. Green's return to Columbia, that the report of the man's death was premature, and at the last accounts he was still living, but with no apparent chance of recovery, ana a wagon ana mattress naa Deen sent to the camp to bring bim into the city. He is under the medical attendance of Dr. Geiger, of Lexington, who was sent to the camp as soon as the news of the shooting was spread abroad. THE CAUSE OF THE DIrTICTLTY. There were many conflicting reports on the streets as to the causes which led to the difficulty, but the following account of it from a gentleman who was at the camp yesterday after the occur- J rence, may be regarded as strictly relia- j ble: ; It seems that Hammet and his friend, R. L. Williams, two Barnwell men who were in the employ of Stack & Roof, decided some days ago to quit work and ^,3 4.1^;- rrntw a ucLLiauucu biicir yaj. >v ltu wjia ucuiauu Mr. Stack was unable to comply at once, as his firm only has monthly settlements with the chief contractors, which are made on the 20th of each month. When informed that they could not get their pay at once, the report is that these men became very troublesome and riotous, and with pistols in hand, prevented the other hands from working. Mr. Stack then saw the chief contractors, and with the view of getting rid of these men arranged to hare them paid off, and they were paid off by checks on the Loan and Exchange Rank Hammpt rpppivincr th*> sum nf $24, which it is said was the amount due him. The gentleman who gave the above information says that the story of the further trouble as given to him by the people at the camp, was to the effect that Hammet and Williams came over to Columbia after getting their checks, and then returned to the camp and still interferred with the hands and prevented them from working, and that this state of affairs continued until vpster day morning:. At that time Mr. Stack beinj: on horseback at the camp, was assaulted by Hammet, who came at him with a pine knot in his hand and threw it at him, and Stack then drew his pistol and sbot Hammet through wrist. Hammet felt for his pistol, and, missing it, called to Williams to bring him his, which he did. Then Stack rired twice again, one shot striking Hammet in the upper part of the arm, the other striking him in the middle of the abdomen, passing clear through the body. It does not appear from the accounts received that Williams took any part in the difficulty except to hand his friend the pistol. As soon as he had done the shooting, Mr. Stack rode off and came on to the city- He has employed Messrs. Melton & Melton as his counsel, and by their advice has remained quietly at the residence of his father, Captain "W. H. Stack, to await the result of the wounds and submit to the process of the law. The statement of Williams, as made to his friends in this city, varies from the above in one or two important particulars, and it is to the effect that Stack and Ham met renewed their dispute about the settlement vesterdav morning, and that Hammet told Stack that if he would get down off his horse he would whip him, whereupon Stack rode off a short distance and was followed by Hammet, who had no weapon of any kind, and that Stack then turned and tired five shots at Hammet, three of which took effect as above stated. The brothers of Ham met came up to Columbia liict. nicrht. anH prrmlnvpd Messrs. --- C J bkinner & Williams, aud together with Mr. Skinner proceeded to tbe camp to get the wounded man and brine him to the city. It was stated that Mr. Skinner would endeavor to procure Hammers ante-mortem statement if possible?Register. A Younc Great-Grandmother, Philadelphia, May 7.?Mrs. Henry K. Updegrave, wife of a hot?l keeper at Tower City, Pa., is prolably tbe youngesj great-grand mother in the United States. She was born August 11, 1843, near Gratztown, Dauphin County, and is not yet forty-eight years old. In 1856, in her fourteenth year, she married Emanuel Shoffstall. Aggie her oldest dauguter, married at fifteen, a Mr. Kumberger, and had one daughter, Maggie, so that Mrs. Shoffst3ll was a grandmother at thirty. Maggie Rumberger married at tbe" age of sixteen Daniel Messner, and to this pair a son was born a couple of months ago. Dmanuel Shoffstall died in 1888, and his widow married Henry K. Updegrsve of Tower City. liarned to Death. Rochester, X. Y., May 4.?A limp exploded in a tenement house on Nassau street at 3 o'clock this morning and set me tmnaing on nre. ivzust vi mc m-; mates escaped, but after the fire was extinguished the bodtes of HennaD Stephanski and his wife were found in oae of the rooms. Their usual habit was drunkecess and it is supposed they were too stupefied with liquor to underataud their danger uniil too late. A DEAD ROGUEWhoae Lonr-Coutinned Thievery is Just Discovered New York,'April 30.?The Ninth Xa tional bank is in trouble. There has been a defalcation of nearly $500,000, was the startling rnmor that circulated about the city. It proved only too true on inv?stigation. The late president. John T. Hill, who died at his home in New Brunswick, N. J., last month, was discovered to have ; been a defaulter for over 3400,000. . The fact was not known or dreamed , of until an examination of his own and " the bank's affairs was made after his * death. He died honored and respected, with a reputatirr untarnished. The . rpv#?iat.inns nf thfi last few davs have as- ' tonished and shocked his friends and brought soirow and disgrace to the family. j The actual condition of affairs was , learned when President Hill's successor [ was .elected, in the person of C. Henry Garden, who had been the acting vice : president for many years, and upon^o- i ing oyer Mr. Hill's private papers and the securities of the bank, which, dur- ; ing his life, President Hill took almost 1 sole charge of. President Hill's methods were peculi- i ar and very simple. He was the execu- , tor r.nd trustee for several large 'estates ' in "N^w .Terspv. were his renutation for t honesty and shrewdness as a financier : j was such that he was frequently select- ; ed for such offices of trust ant' responsi- < bilitv. As executor he had t&e handling'and control of a large number of : securities of greater or less value, which were held as investments. These i for convenience and safety he kept at : the bank. His plan in brief was this: When loans were made to customers of the bank they deposited collateral in the < shape of bonds or stocks. These were placed in envelopes and put away in the strong box of the bank, which was kept ; in the vault, and was under immediate supervision of the president. Subsequently when the loans were paid, usually by certified checks, the collaterals were returned to the borrower. President Hill, however, instead of < ? *- ?- ? ? a V A 1 AflP ?n 4-T-* /-V f V?A LUariLlIJ^ LilCiUdll Uli. vu IlUC uwiu U1 uuu bank w ould substitute soma of the seeuries he held as executor, replace the envelope In the oox, and pocket the check. So far as was shown by the books of the bank the loans to the customer was still outstanding. The customer himself would know nothing of i this, and so far as appears none of the people in the bank were any wiser. It was an easy matter to arrange for any , interest payments that might become : due. , In time it seems that Hill became i bolder in his operations, or more desper- , ate, for it appears that he did not even go through the formality of substituting his trust securities in the envelopes when the other securities were received by the bank's customers, for many of the envelopes have been found to be entirely empty. Hill carried on this form of business for several years, for so far as can be learned his first act was committed some four or fife years ago. His death on March 1 caused the most profound sorrow, and his widow and four children had the sympathy of all the people of the city in which they lived. The defaulting president had been tnifK tho hont AVPf Ql'nAP 1 fft WUUCtlCU TT 1UU WUV A V T V4 . vorganization in February, 1864. He was first paying teller, then cashier, and finally became president in 1877. He was a man of unsullied reputation up to the time of his death and the discoveries following. As a business man he was considered careful, conservative and very shrewd. Kome In a State of Panic. London, May 6.?A letter received herft from Rome describes a number of uew facts in regard to the riots which took place there oil May Day, and as to the general feeling of the people upon the same occasion. According to this letter public officials at Rome, as well as the people, have been in a state of panic for a week or two.This state of affairs is due to several caues, the. most prominent of whicn are the lall of the ministry headed by Crispi, ttie accession 01 me .Kucum miuisiry mw power, the strODg public demand tor an equalization to expenses and receipts without fresh taxatioc, diplomatic troubles which have arisen between Italy and the United States, and, fin illy, the explosion -it Pozzo Fantaleo, which caused so much damage and alarm in Rome and its vicinity. In spite of all denials and official statements to the effcct that the explosion at Pozzo Pantaleo was not the work of So Ciaiist or Anarcnisis, tae ivuuiaus are convinced to the contrary. This letter was written previous to the fire which destroyed the barracks and stables of Carabineri yesterday, and which added to the state of uneasiness, creating such alarm at the Vatican that the entire torce of Swiss Guards was kept on duty all night. The letter says further that all religious organizations and a majority of the wealthy citizens prepared for a disturban op. hv laving in stocks of provisions. fuel, etc, prepared for a state of siege in fact. The air was full of alarming rumors, which gradually grew in importance until it was actually believed that a revolution was impending. As In a Is'oveL Pottsville, Pa. April 30.?Miss Anna L. Otto, daughter of Daniel Otto of Cressona, this county, was engaged to be married to John A. Deiter over a year ago, but a lingering illness from which Miss Otto suffered prevented their marriage. A few weeks ago she recovered her health fully, as she believed, ana with it her old-time spirits. I f\ -? /-3n*? loaf- rxroolr hnaroror cho UU 1 J.1UOJ VA. mow Tl VV/O) iiV ft V T V4. f UUV was again taken ill. She and her lover had agreed beforehand that they should be married at once, and Saturday was fixed as the wedding day. When Saturday dawned Miss Otto's physicians declared that she had not long" to live. The lovers, nevertheless, decided that the marriage should come off on that day. The llev. C. E. Bartholomew was called in, and be performed the ceremony with the girl's parents and relatives gathered about the girl's sick bed. Two hours later the new made bride was dead. Footaore, Weary, Destitute. Chicago, April 30.?Martin Cupota, his wife and three children, were arrested yesterday, jast as the father and mother were about to drown themselves in the lake. The whole family huri walkpd from Harrisburcr. Pa., and the feet of the children were great masses of sores and blisters. Xone of the members of the family bad eaten for some time. Cupota is a furnace man, and was obliged to quit work at Harrisburg on occourt or the strike in the coke regions. The family arrived here yesterday morning, and, being utterly weary and destitute, were on the point of throwing themselves into the lake [ when accosted by the officers. They ; were taken to a police station and fed, and an effort will be made today to find i employment for the father. In the < meantime, the mother and children will be car?d for by the officers. GOV. TILLMAN'S VIEWS. . m AS EXPLAINED TO A REPORTER OF THE ATLANTA JOURNALHe Favors Cheap Money, Free Silver and Tarift Reform, and Denounces the Sab-Treaanry Scheme and Third Party jxovemenu COLUiiBiA, S. C., April 30.?Governor Ben Tillman was looking spruce, cool md comfortable in a new light alpaca summer coat, when I found him .is. hia Dffice at the capitol this morning. "Will South Carolina b6 represented at the coming third party convention in Cincinnati ?" I asked. "There may be some volunteer delegates from this State," answered the governor, but if there are, they will go kherA as individuals, and t.hftv will reu- k resent nobody, but themselves. They certainly will not represent either the Alliance or the Alliance sentiment in the State, "I am convinced that the farmers of .J this State are unalterably opposed to any and all third party scheme. So long as they have negro rule and Federal inter : 4.1* A r? lereuue soaring mem m mo law, me instinct of self preservation tells them to stick together and to work out their sal ration as Democrats and inside the ranks of the Democratic party. "Yes, sir," repeated the Governor, earnestly, "you may put me down as absolutely and unequivocally opposed to ihis Cincinnati third party scheme and all similar schemes. I am and always have been a South Carolina, Edgefield, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, anal ex pect to do my fighting, as I have done it in the past, strictly within the party ranks." "Instead of running off after this third party will-o'-the-wisp" said Governor Tillman, "what the farmers of South Carolina expect to do is to try to get a . Democratic candidate for the next Pressdential campaign who will represent the reforms thev advocate and who will be pledged to their support In other words, while they don't want an Alliance candidate for President, they want the Democratic candidate to be a man who is in accord with the ideas of the _ Allianee on the great issues of the day, such as the free coinage of silver and the reform of the tariff. ' Tr* 4-V* tttcx orn J.U KUg UVUUU TT\/ CtiC yiUV/UlVAUXJ UijUV^Vi on the three issues of tariff reform, free silver and the retaining of State control of all elections, and those will be the issues, in my view, in the next presidential campaign." "But," continued he, "the free coinage of silver is only one phase of the financial question. We want not only more silver, but more greenbacks, and I favor the direct issue of greenbacks based on the government's credit. 'If the government can float S3T)0,000,000 of greenbacks, why not SI,000,000,000? Or if it is found impracticable to issue this money on the country's credit alone, a system of land banks might be estab lished by which the money could be issued to the people, based on land as a security. It seems to me that the government, with its powers of taxation and its unlimited resources, could issue the money on its credit, but if not, then such a system as I suggest could be devised which would give us a circulating ? medium as good as gold, and relieve the asphyxiation that has been produced in the agricultural States by the disastrous finahcial policy of the past." "To sum up the matter," said Governor Tillman, "we want more money, we want the tariff reform, and we are too afraid of the negro to run off into any third party." .j " >y mca ui tnese quesuous uo yuu wusider of the greatest importance'? I asked. The reply was prompt: "The financial question, undoubtedly. It is of more pressing import to us than the tariff. We can stand the tariff a while longer, but more money we must have, and at once. It seems to me how- '-?2 ever, that we can afford to neglect neither the financial or the tariff issue. They are both of overwhelming importance, and they will not down. Least of all, could we afford to relegate the free silver issue to the rear." Slnoolrinor nf t.hA snh-f-mtxjNrv hill V*. VU.V WfckV V* VVWWVU. J IVMAf Governor Tillman said: "I am opposed to the measure. I want 'something better,' and that 'something better' I believe to be what I have already suggested?the free coinage of silver combined with the issuance o? greenbacks either on the government's own credit or on land. The sub-treasury bill violates the Alliance doctrine of 'equal rights to all special privileges to nrtno ' 1 H/vn't holio-u-o that, t.rco wrnnfrs can make a right, and because farmers have been systematically and outrageously imposed on in the past is no reason;why they should demand class legislation lor their own benefit now. , "My opinion is that the majority of the farmers of the State are not in favor of the sub-treasury bill though in thaS opinion I differ from some of the Alliance leaders. The reason no opposition has been developed to it inside the Alliance in this State is that it has never been made a square issue. In any contest with an Alliance advocating the fi?Ar?PTTw on/1 A 111or>/>nmon ouu'tiCCvOUJ. j auu o uvu-? mlouvvmaii \j%rposing it, the suo-treasury would be S3? pretty sure to win, but as between two Alliancemen, both loyal to the order, one opposing and the other supporting the sub-treasury, I believe the anti-subtreasury man would get as maay votes as the other. In other words, where Allimen have the subject presented to them clearly and are allowed to vote without the interference of prejudice, I believe the majority of them would go against the measure." "However," continued the Governor, "I don't believe the Alliance can atford to split on the sub-treasury. They will hunt something better rather than attempt to force it down the throats of the very large jection of the order op posed to it. They must agree to disagree as to details in order to achieve the great reforms at which they are all aiming."?T. E. Ilorton in Atlanta Journal. "A Snap Shot Picture." Cincinnati, May 6.?A Wooster, Ohio, dispatch says that on the night of August 20, 1890, the farm residence of Michael Shelby, near this city, was forcibly entered by four masked men, who bound and gagged Shelby and his azed wife, and stole cash amounting to SI2,000. Mrs. Shelby died from nervous prostration brought on by the excitement of the robbery. The detective bureau has just caused the arrest of Henry II. Binckle>, his grandson, Harry Webb, and his soil, Daniel lJinckley, who are neighbors of the Shelbys. Daniel Binckley was, un til a few weeks before the crime was committed, a member of the police force in Kansas City, Mo., where he was discharged. Among the bills stolen was one of a thousand dollar denominat.inn_ Dame? Bineklev's wife made _ a trip to Canada to get this bill changed. "^1 The Canadian bank officials,suspicious of her actions, took a snap shot picture of her aj she was receiving the money. The men .Till also be prosecuted for murder. - is A