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V VOL. XLVII. WINXSBOKO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2G, 1893. NO. 50. A GOOD ADDiiyS. DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT CRMS HEAO OF CLEMSON COLLEGEO.i the Ope'ilcc Day rf ilmf Ornin! It Btitution-?Tbe I'si* hi <1 ol Agrrcaltura! College* Ab'y Set Kortli It impossible to give trie spsecn in full, but t?ie following extracts will show what a graud oration it was: There is no more inspiring spectacle on earth thaii t^iat of iife wrestling with itsfo'->. The bird rrbuildiugits . torm-shattered nest, the spicier reconstructing its br: kon web, and even the unfeeling tempest-torn oak driving deeper into the earth its upturn routs, elicit our admiration, and inculcate lessons worthy of imitation. Specially do human beings struggling to free themselves, and to walkoutiatoths broad light of liberty, deserve the sympathy and admiration of the brave and magnanimous. It is not simply ia the hour . oi supreme ana giurious iriuuipu mat, nations cr individuals deserve our ad||B| miration, but it is a ho in the hour of daraness anu defeat, when the proud spint, refusing to cower or whine, K"' takes up once more the load of iife. No laurei-erowned victor of the Olympic games, chieftain homeward turning from victorious battle ever deserved the homage due to him, who, though defeated, recollects his latent strength and marches once more into the conflict. Germay was great when Wi-liam lied his victorious legions under the trimuphal arch of Xapoleon the lirst, but far grater was the Germany ot Pichte, which, though conquerd by the Corsican, began to ponder the problem of transforming bv the reconstruction 1 f o U1 Iier 5CUUU15 Iliac ucicai iutu a, ^iauu and glorious victory. Ere the last Frenchman had deserted the German capital, her statesmen and educators h;id on foot a plan for the foundation of a great national university, a university which was to permeate all German life and theught* and which is today world-wide in fame and intluence. This was heroism ihis was statesmanship. Three hundred years ago tne city of Leyaen was besieged by the Spaniards For long and weary moaths the Dutch refused to yield, although starvation Stared them m the face. So brave and heroic was the defense of Ley den that when the Spaniards were at last repulsed the states ot Holland granted to the city immunity from taxation. Her citizens refused the oiler, asking instead for a great school, a university, which tor two hundred years was trie mosi famous in Europe. That was herjism. That was statesmanship. For a thousand years France 1 has been a land rich in heroic deeds, in song and stor\; but in all her marvell- j ous history her s^me has never shown ! more resplendent tbau in that hour of j degradation anideteat, when the wnole nation arose as oae man and rolled ol'f the incubus of her war drbt, a debt amouniiog to a thousand million dollars. It was then that, her statesmen and educators, realizing that it was the schools of Germany that conquered at Sedan, that France bad been defeated by Kant and Fichte, by Goethe and Shiiler, by Ilumboidt and Helmholtz and Gauss, as well as by Moikte and William, began the work of national regeneration^" iggaii'yinr ? r-nmr-i?.r? system ot public instruction beginning with tbe aisiricS^cnoij: ai^ti^ ^^^ruaning to her great nationair was heroism, that was statesmanship, and France of today is greater than was ! ranee under the Empire. , v. t. But iore"m home, the N^rJiern * .. 1 ii?? ariuy marctnug nomewcuu 0.1^1^ v... beating of drums ana ;he waving of victorious banners was a 3ce^tcicle less grand than thai cf tbe ratged ami starving veterns of Lee, * tio with sad ana aching hearts reamed to their desolated firesides and disdaining lo pme or whine rebuilt tbeir ruined homes; translcrmed blood-stainei battle grounds into waving fields of golIden grain. This was heroism, that heroism which has ever distinguished the peopis of South Carolina, rhat heroism which Ilaynedeclareu in\ ?uc-ible. that heroism which shone, resplencant upon evrry page of the first seventy years of Carolina's history, that heroism that never paled aur>ng all the dnikuess and desolation of lour long \ears of civil war,' V thai heroism which, >\hen it?e war was over, ".'Dade bricks out, of straw' and "spread splendor" amid ihe ruins of blackened homesteads, that heroism that Hashed out again in seventy-six wnen a tand of Carolinians, as brav^ as Sparrans who guarded the gates of Thermopylae, plai red themselves in our State Capitol and drove from her legislative halls greedy herd of conteiutible carpet-baggers and besotted slaves. That was heroism a.vd Carolina alter ? 1876 was greater aii'i grander than the Carolina of ant*'b.-lium dajs. But the work ot ^construction and of regenerate* hasnotyet ended. I 11 u,. ~^^^^anew : ever anew du-juiu ue wc solution of t lie great prohliuman lile is as barrea as era 11on ,oi iu-.n are^.s- Jiti Homer puis itlike tfife leaves of the trees which fall and renew themselves withjut amelioration ur change. Ilector returning home from the tumult of battle to bid a last farewell to Andromache is to me the most touching and inspiring picture in ancient literature. Laying aside the lofty "" plume, that grimly noaded from its * ^-. . - * ITr thu Irn i rrh r 1 QOrsy-Ililli t di., ntvwi, tuv **>,*>? soul of all ihe Gietks, look up his infant boy and dangling trim in his arms prayed thus to-love and ill ^SS^5' "Oh Jove and all ye goods, gflBWnat this my son may be oetter than his farther was." May this, my irienus. De the prayer of every true Carolinian whose sonshall join our rauks. Grant that this my sou may be belter ihau his farther was, and when he returns from Clemson Collt-ire laden not with spoils of conquest, out rich in knowledge,in wisdom and m manly virlures, may his mother $ heart rejoice. > 1 am myself anopimist. I have no faith in those who pine and whine loi the good Old UOJfS lOi..'? pits', -M1U ui> to reconstruct tne past and bnug back the lite and times our fait tier lived and saw. It can never te done. We ma} remove mountains and stay the on ware march of mighty riv.-rs, Out we car never ieconstruct a civilization thai has forever departed. L<ei uce not bt misunderstood. There was much 11: the civilization ot tne Oid sk>uth thai must win ihe admiration ot good mei in all climes and times. Let u: cherish the good and lorget the had it the lite our fathers and grandfather* lived. The marii} man and the wo manly woman, no matter under whai skits they dwell. must ever uespise tin the man who, ignoring the virtius parades the vices of tne his lathers ^ The North can have no ix-specf. tn> B civilized world can have no respect, tin K. coming yetieratiou can have nor*spec forthe man or woman who Ourn iuu ortt Oeneutn tlirse skirs is not i-roul to gar lanl the gravcsot our heroic dead. Let us Eot-J^Sme the old men of th 1 f South, who, "jjiitingin the dismantled I porches of their homes iato which dishonor has never entered, to which dis courtesy is a stranger," sometimes look wistfully back to the days that are goae. L'.vmg, as they believe in a gr<-ss.rr cii.d more material civtiiz vt i . than that which their hanaswere bnil Jiry. let them look b?ck with regretful ' longing to that which Northern thrift and cunning uever brine:, that old fashioxeu .Southern hospitality, generosity | and courtesy, that chivalry which chose ! honor rather than riches, which preferred poverty to meanness. Hut. we of a vonrirrerpenerat.ion must I face the issues of the present. A great work lies before the Southera people. What we have already ac complished is insi^nitieant ia comparison with that which yet remains to be dune. Oar vast forests, our exhaustless mines, our lertile soil offer untold riches to those who have the pluck and the skill ai-d 1 :<iin to develop ih^m. it )S with us a question of lile and death. We must conquer or be conquered. Since the war, millions or dollars have gone from the impoverished South to ke<*p up pension soldiers at the Xori h, millions of dollars have been wrung from the down-trodden people of the South for high protect ve tariffs, thus swelling the already overflowing coffVrs of the nabobs of the North. To save ourselves from intellectual and material bondage will require the united effort or the most cnivalrous and the most magnanimous people on the American "continent. There is not a great magazine in the South, there is not a great, publishing house in the ; South, there is not a great university | in the South tliit could for one mom ;nt compare with Yale or II -.rvard or Michigan. There are no great libraries in the South, do great collection of paintings, no great galleries of sculpture. 1 say this not in a spirit of depreciation, but, if possible, to do something to arouse the people of South Carolina to a sense of their intellectual and material bondage. It is high time tor the Southern people to assert themselves, to shake oil' the dust and humiliation of defeat. Never, while the South suffers her history to be read f hrrvicrh thp riist.nrr.pd nf thp k"v r sr? ~ historians at ttie North, never whiie she is dependent upon Northern periodicals for a hearing, never while she is compelled to senu her s^ns and daughters Northward for a uuiversity education; never while she puts into the hands of her children bistoires written by men without sympathy for her institutions, never while she is compelled to go to the North for skilled labor and to the West for commodities that can be oetter produced uud-r her own skies and in her own fields?never a^ain while she submits to this "can she wear the lofty look of conscious indepenence." In the language of Prentiss. "Burning shame shiil set its seal upon her brow, ana when her proud sons go forth to other lands they will cower beneath the withering look of the stranger." Look abroad over this country and see how lamentable is the condition of the agricultural classes. It is a fact, though the cause may ce hard to liod, that agricultural lite is at a discount. Wvpr h^rnrn in t,hn historv of the world has there been such v an influx from the country to the city as the last twenty-live years have witnessed. The ureat city is becoming crowdgd. "life ~n ad a fascination for -ti.cAm-rican people. In 184U 1-12 of _Our population lived in. cities of more than Sinhabitant?: in 1850 '^in I860,1 6; in 18VC? J-o; in 1SSQ, }+; in 1?U0 perhaps }*. \ it was no", soia: the olden times. Washing on, Jeff&rson, Calhoun, and Clay, and the x&si majority of the great men in oufv* early history,' lived from choice upotfi the farm. Today it is not simply Sekiators and Congressmen. tae rich an5] great, but ail classes, high and low, riich aud poor, are driven as by some irresfwtable impulse to forsake ihe fai/cn. Energetic, brainy young men, as} sooq as they reach their majority, bidyiicg adieu to their ag?*<l fathers and nfiothers, forsake the peao ful pursuits /of the farm aud plunge iuto the madJlening strife of city luV, some to sai/ serenely upon the advent nrniK sDfculation. but the vast majority^to sink forever beneath its , billows.; Well-to do prople, those who can live/ without laoor, renting their plantations, cr turning them over to negroea. Hoc* into the cities and bringing up tbeir children in idleness and iu doiei^ie.swt 1 the constantly increasing danger of our city population. The poorer classes, especially these who are content with a merely animal existence torsake their cabins and mortgaged homesteads and dock into factories, any where, any wherp, to get away from th? farm. Xow what are t!ie causes of the sad state into which agricultural pursuits bav* fallen? There is no disguising the fact?I speak as a student of politics and not as a partisan or politician ?that the tide has been agiinst agricultural life. Speculation, gambling. dealing in futures, controlling ttie markets by unlawful methods, theft on a grand scale, robbery and rascality have usurped the place* of honest gain. In other days men looked with wonuer upon the conqueror as he returned ladened with the spoils of foreign conquests; but today tie idols ot the peo1 'pi-tiTcT "t'TTe men w'liyiu ?. tew years pile up colossal lurtunes surpassing the tabled wealth of kings of other days who form grand combinations to control the markets aad thus wring from the million laborers tu the land tribute such as no king in the darkes: days ot feudalism would have dared to levy! When our fathers, with a heroism for which we should be eternally grateful, declared tnat all just government derived power from the consent ot the governed and that the best gouernment is that which confers the greatest good upon the greatest numoer, little did > thf-y dream that in less than a century there would be developed in tms conntry a dtsot.tism vastly more oppressive . than that against which they rebelled. 'TiiYjition without representation." : they said "was tyranny;" yet, within a i century after that declaration the Wall street kings were wringing trib, utes ot millions and millions of dollars from the A-nerican people. It is idle to talk of liberty and equality when one man owns au eighteenth p irt of the nation's wealth. The love of mon. ey is preparing lor us a despotism 1 vastly more oppressive than ever a p Caesar or Napoleon imposed. \Ve ?re I nidKiug Mammon our god and the mili i houaire our idol. , I it is well for us who live in the New ; S-nitti to take heed to ourselves. Not i un.il the alien and clear-headed, but t.1 cold-hearted, speculators Ironi the II Xorih came Southward, stretching 5 j their nets lor the loaves and lisnes i i were the mass of 'he Southern pejple > in ths race f- r weaitd. IIow times - nave cluuged! Never be;ore in the L 5>outhwas sucu an impulse given to : mat coarse and seliisn utilitarianism i, which has spread like leprosy over the i. .North ana West, infusing the seeds of e dr-Hih into ail tueir tree institutions r We are trying to out s-rip eaeh other, t nut in the liobl.T virtues, the sweet J chanties and refinements ot sl>ci J life - tLe sacred claims of the lireside ana the huine, oi prtriotisui and religion e ; but iti the crazy greed for gain. Wna; f . j means it when a distinguished commencement "ra'.or tells tin-; graduating cias-: "Young m"u, put money in your pockets. A man with money is a kintr; without a Mgmy?" \Vhar- me ins it wh'-n :o~a ot wealth aad nr>t mjn of j brains are the mighty nv-*n in the council chambers of the nation? What plice is there among us for letters, for art, tor culture, for social distinction, superb mental endowment, when the j millionaire, the patent medicine man, \ the maker of toilet soaps, th^ railroad j magnate, the great monopolists, are | set high above the poet, the painter, t he sculptor, the statesman, the teacher j and the farmer? God grant tli-it th? Sou Mi whose e-vI ery foot ot soil is hallowed by the bloo.l of brave ra^n, here, where nature has done h'?r best?where skies as sou as | those of I tally are hung in beautiful j transparency above, and glory like a I summer's dream ibatso'er the rich j Ian Jscap-r"?God grant that this OUl South, "rich in the rn-nnry of bygone | years, long glowing sunshine, genial South-waids sigh, wit, music friendship, all tha* life endears," tiny keep J torever from her territory the Eastern j a-ibobs, who bow at no shrine save | mammon's; who would, if they could, j monopoliy. i the very air, bottle the sunshine an t dew, corner the rains that quench the thirst ot withering llowers and Xidas-like, would turn to mammon's ram*, the goMea robes of dying day! Weil did Virgil say: "Accursed craving for goid, wlut dost thou not drive mortal brents to do?" what has mammon ever done for man V Corroding the heart,drying up the fountains of affection, eradicating the love of beauty, of honor and of trutn, thou hast taught him now to be cunning, to pill-age, to plunder and to slay, but thju hast not given him on* high and enobliag thought, has never incited him to one unsellish a<;t, to one rn it; m An<i nnrrtAca Ko h } hn liruiwuvsuo pui ?T uao M\jzo LI i ^ world owe toOrusus, to Nidas, to Crassus. or to Gould? The men at whose shrines humanity worship, the intellectual and miterial saviors ?t the race, the poet, the artist, the teacher and th- missionary, the men who have joined "That countless choir invisible Ot" thoie immortal dead who live again .In lives made be'ter by tneir presence; live la pulses stinep to generosity, In dee^s of daring rectitnde, in scorn .bor miserable anus that endm self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night l i e .stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues," these men have never bowed at. Mammon's shrine. Shakespeare, a Northern professor informs us, wrote his dramas, uor. for glory, uot to make the world better, but to pat money into his pocket. Was then the bard of Avon, tne <;mvriad minded." "chousind soulei" Shakespeare, that "sweet and gentle spirit, beloved by all wno knew him," a greedy, grasping, avaricious man? Hear the words of On^rles Litn:>: "Nothing can be more delightful than to contemplate this wondertu' man, lu the vigor of his life aad in the full possession of his amazing faculties, retiring irom the scenes ot his welleiraed triumph, to lind in the seclusion of his native cown that repose and quietude. ; both of boily aud mind, whicn is not to be looked for ia tt"e bustle of tie lAwVfS-rr'ain^-WTiose pursuits i were worthy of an immortal soul i could print for re'.irement in theme- < ridian ol MS any?, wnao exuusr nave they",who, msenectitudeand feebleness, > continue to toil for aliule periahibls * gold f .?r which they have no use when they nave obtained it?" Tf.e inordinate desire rapidly to be come r:ch is sapping th- very foundations of our rural life. K is this that is putting tiie blight or' death and decay upou agricultural pursuits. 1 have traveled our country and I know that coarse and seJlish greed has put its curse upon the life even of the poorest countryman. I have seen cabins placed upon the naked hillside exposed to the burning heat of summer and the chilling blasts of winter. Why did that po-T fellow fell those ma^-nilicent oaks that stood like giaut sentinels around his lonely cabin?" Wny no llowers in. front of that humble home? Why no vine above the door with, "grapes gro wing purple in I he kisses of the autumn sun ?" It is because he has no taste for the beautiful, because h<- puts a mouey value on everything. In this Southland where for six months m the year a family may always live uprj the produce 01 a good garden, hundreds or farmers seldom see a vegetable upon their tables, scarcely have any girden at all, and why V" Because one can live on hog and hominy; what is me use of growing a garden. There is no hominy in a garden. There are hundreds of farmers, and well-to do farmers. who rarely see any books but; almanacs and reports of Congress, sent to them by some politician at the expense of the government; no psriodii cals, no bo\s" and girls' papers. And why? Because there is no money id the^e things. Thev eat and sleep and sleep and eit and il and toil all day long. 1 nav^ he in myself a farmer boy and I know that it ha? i's dark side as \VPii us us urigru. xae luucuucaa, tuc monotony. i he l ick or' genial companionship, of social and literary circles is making farm life sad and dreary and repulsiv;. ! :. does not mjet the craving of iIh hum in heart for companioifttup. f'?r uuedectml an 1 social life. Is it any tfttyder^ttier, that the rising generation lie* the larfiV -:i3 a house of bondage? before the war, tuft case was different. Th? planter gathered around him a colony of slaves, lie keptopr-n h.jtise. lie iial leisure. lie enjnt-d trie soci-iv of friends and neighbors. To the <>!d (Ii-eeks. especially the Athenians, the body farm house was almost unknown. Tnev lived in villages and f >iiud unfailing pleasure in the society or friends. We must destroy the barrenness and monotony of country life. O.ir civili/.ition will be a a failure as 1 ms as it ignores the training of the intellect. the cultivation or | the heart. We must nuke life on tne I farm more attractive, more happy, tn^re joyful, more intellectual. Ami how shall i: be done? How else out by educating the farmer, by teaching him to love the beautiful, to love books, to enjoy the companionship of the'choice jspiriTsoi o'her ages and other climes :' u revel in the glorious ashievemems ot tht* past, 1.0 quicken his interest in the great movements of our aire, to appiy to agricultural pursuits the discoveries ot scienc-. the inventions of ;irt. to put him in control of the main mo h forces j of nai lire, to give him Ot-ttrr load and J better homes and better bjoks and bct! ter schouls. - -- - - c iL a i The-maauuicumug po.ver m tue world, it is said doubled by the aid of ! ni-'.chiQfry every st-v>-n years. ^iaii ,! these mighty furjes which were The bid , dim? of idhu t? crash a id eosl-ive m! s'ead ot' liberating and elrv.ttiu*? him? j :?hali we not see in at day of winch th.e j poet siiii:s: i The niliihty >incwy powers that wait j la e?rth ami sea and air j Sual tireless eany toil and late Our meuuU burdens bare. > : Th.'ir iron fc t slid fleeter flee. 1 Our errandsspeed apace, t Till only arc and science b? : 1 Tlie helots of our race. May Clemson College perform her j part in this great work. To give fresh [ impetus to agricultural pursuits, to dig; nity labor, especially the most health| tul and independent of all labor?on the ; farm and ia the lields?tj swell the ! number of real producers, of the men j who e:irn the bread they eat and the I raiment wherewith they are clothed; s:u'ii is the aim ot u;emsou college. (The proiessions sd-cilled are overi crowded. We have too many lawyers. | too many politicians, too many middleI men, to many shopkeepers, in short too I many men trying to e-ce out an existance by some other method tii-in that or honest toil. Whenever the masses bee >me intelligent, whenever they comprehend the:.r own needs and know tiit-ir own irieods, the day of the demagogues, ot' tf.e charlatan, of the swindler, 01 the useless middlemen, of the millionaire, will be forever at an end. We shall hear no more talk of the po*>r, ignorant farmer. I'll tell you the "men who oug;ht to bethe lords of the !and, the s.dt of the earth, are the men wno, out, in the open country, under God's blue ciaopy, earn their bread by honest labor The men w ho planned this college are aeieruuueu uia\> usuitii ue uu mean otfair. Everything has been laid out on a maguili'jent scale. It is not to he overshadowed, a3 most similar schools have oeen, by the State university. It is not to be turned into a purely literary institution. Our boys are to 'lave a sound and complete training: in their mother tongue, shall be taught to wield the pen and when necessary to address a political assembly. In the departments of mathematics, chemistry agriculture, physics, mechanics, they are to have instructions as complete as can be given anywhere in this country. 60 that when young men leave these halls thfy will have intellectual training of the highest order, they will be prepared to stand side by side with men in other professions. Some people tell us that tills cannot be done. It remains to be seen. Agricultural colleges for the most part failed because they have be'"i mean affairs, the buildings have U5?JII ujcnu, ctjuipuicuu naa ucou LiiedLi, the support has been mean, students and professors have been looked upon as mean and everything about them has been mean. If such will be the case here great will be the disappointment to thousands throughout the State. Once more, this coilege is not antagonistic to any otner educational enterprise. We do not want the earth. We are not so ambitious as to wish to monopolize the higher education in -.his Slate. There is room and work for us all. With our State university, whicn 1 hops soon to see placed upon a more substaueial basis, with the denominational cjileges to which the State owes an everlasting debt ot gratitude for csuririnrr hiorhur n nation thu ti "JV/1. T iUfc, Ul^ UV.l \,UHV/MKiWU MU UUVy U1 liiV> , when the halls of the State university , echoed with voices of emancipated slaves, with our institution for the deaf and blind, which h is done so much to ! ameliorate the lot of the unfortunate, with our numerous private institutions ( aDd our our hundreds of public schools, ( with all good men and wome;. who la- | bor fortne public w*al, we hope to joiu ] hamTto haud, shouldtr to shoulder, and, , with one srdtid, uuited effort, lead t ie j people of" the old Palmetto State to higher plau-s of thought and action. , (111K ha -tt. f-vr- ervr, } Lori-tns. her novelists, her painters, her j sculptors, and above ail for her happy,- , contented, intelligent, harmonious people. May Ciemson College fulfill the ] expectations of her friends aud found- \ ers. May we who teach here never be- | Tay the trusts committed to our care. ; May you, young men. seize the golden opportunities ollere.l to you, but denied . to hundreds of your less fortunate J brothers. Here on t tie homestead of < Calhouu, 1 lie purest if not the greatest American statesman. here upon the soil j hallowed by the tootatrps of gre*t men , gone to their reward, here where life- , refreshing waters shoot sparkling from , the everlasting hills, here beneath the magnilicent oaks that stand out like giant sentinels bidding us stand lirrn ( and true, hers where fairest skies bend above greenest lields, here where theatmosph--* is pure and bracing, away f r^m tils din and strife and pestilence of the great city, here in light of the soul-inspiring mountains, may the youth of South Carolina trim generation to generation come to drink at the pure fountain of knowledge, to imbibe essonsol heroism, patriotism, of.home ly virtues, of l'aitb, fraternity and equality. A D-cislon .Suj?drnc(l<d. Colombia, 8. C., July 20.?Associate Justice Y. J. Pope yesterday issued the following order in the Darlington Dispensary injunction luatter: The State of South Carolina, Darlington County?In the. Supreme Court. John Buekuer Floyd and others, petitioners, 11 re Charles S. McCullougli and others, plaintiffs, John Buckner Fioyi' and others, defendants. ()a hearing the verilied petition of John Buckner Fioyd, George Just Brown, \V. J\ Carter and C. I'. Kirven, and it appearing that the appeal in said cause has b.en perfected by liling the ieturn in the o!hce of the Clerk of this Court: On motion of D. A. Townsend, Attorney General, for the petitioners, Ordered, that the s lid restraining or* - J -J I - k-v T,,1tt aer jri saia cause, uairu ii.u ui ijuij, 1893, and signed by his Honor J. II. Hudson, be, and the same is hereby, stajed and superseded until the further urder of this court. Y. J. Pope, Associate JusticeSapremeCourr., :S. C. -Wednesday, 19ch day of J uly 1893. The ?#ect of this orcbr is to set aside the id j unctiou-flf-J-Udge Hudson and to make valid f.he action 01 me liuar^ufCoutrol ot Darlington Countv iu the appuiDtmeat of a D.spenser. The whiskies were shipped to Darlington sometime ugo ana the Dispensary at that place *\ i 11 be opened at once.? Register. Almost * War. Topeka , Kins., July 19.?The strike SllUHilOQ 111 lYclUSiW 13 9CI1VU3, ?.uu uu>< tor the appearance of the sheriff's posse at Weir City this moroiog. a bloody little would have been fought. Iq the IvaDSHS aul Texas comp-iny's mines a number e>f men have been woikiog tor two weeks. President Walters of the Miners' Union was determioed to make tnetn quit work at all h-*/. -irds. All jlast night the striking miners were ; gathering ease of Weir City, and by four o'clock this morning 1,000 strikfr.-< were ready to commence a march For Xo. IS. shaft. belong to the Kansas and IVx is Coal Co., for the purpose of f.ircing the m-n to quit work. In No. j 1$. ihr men, about 25 m number, were ! heavily armed, and wheu wam-d to j return to their homes they declartd ; they would face death rather than see j tneir families want lor bread and with j drawn revolve-s marched into the ! mines. The sheriff had beeu tele| graphed for, and was on the ground j with a posse. Ye'low Fever. j Xkw Vokk, July 17.?Th^re lias been 1 a death ot yeliow fever aimost withia j the harbjr uf New York Captain Kiett, of the Ardaugorm. which arrived here last Suuday moruing while tbe vessel was oil the lightship. The vessel has been twice fumigated. AN UGLY AFFAlli. A SFRI :U3 CHARGE AGAINST UNITED STATES SENATOR IRBY. The Story of tlie D*v?np >rt SshIhIhI Nifraed bfa)l<o Who Seen' i t-> i> Xhoi"< ashly G'ouve rsatit WltJi *11 the FnctH in tt-e Cnse. Laurens, S. C., Jul/ 14.?A great sensation has j-ist come to light in this county, which has caused School Commissioner D.ivenuort to resign his of lice and llee to the West, where he should remain. It seems that a short timesioce that Davenport, who is over sixty years of age, in traveling over the county attendin-r to his duties, stopped at the house of a farmer by the name of Fuller, who was nbsent from home, but whose wit'e received and entertained Davenport. After being in thr house awhile Davenport made improper proposals to Mrs. Fuller and I iinally attempted to outrage her. The woman screamed and the old rascal desisted and begged his intended victim to say nothing about it, which she declined to do, and told her husband when he came home. Fuller then got after Davenport, who settled up the matter by paying a certain sum of money and agreeing to leave the State, which he has done as above stated. A correspondent from Laurens writing to the Greenville News of theabove affair says: I propose to give you some facts, and nothing but established facts, connected with the greatest disgrace and scandal that has ever befallen poor, unfortunate Laurens County. It' this shame could have been concealed or covered up as a "hidden mystery" it would have been better for tbe honor and fair name of Laurens. it is not with jocular feelings or ia a spirit of hilarity, gloating over the downfall of my fellow-man, that I pen the truth of this unfortunate scanJal. The patriotic Englishman of noble birth will exclaim: "God save the Queen!'' I, an humble citizen of Laurens county, exclaim, 'God save my county!" God save the virtue of our pure, innocent and beautiful women! God s ive them i ~ Ksm-I/4 Af thn A /.nfMnn/N?r. 4-' ..I 1IU1U LUC UdUU. KJL iun UCOblUVClO UL VU" tue! God save them from the machinations of corrupt and depraved politicians! Of all the misfortunes that has ever blotted the fair name of Laurens county the Davenport sc;ind-il is the most bitter pill that she h;is ever been ; forced to swallow. What are the facts in the case? An aged school commissioner nearly seven- 1 ty years of aire, a man once held in the I highest repute; a man elected to a high ( oflice ot' honor and trust; a man select* 1 ed to watch oyer and superintend the : educational interests of his county; to < guide and direct the many fair, pure aud model young lady teachers?that man accused and the accusations provgn beyond the shadow of a doubt of t 3rossing the sacred threshold of an ? bumble citizen and attempted by vio- i lence to destroy the chastisy of his i poung and pretty wife only about six- f ieeo years of age. Tuis young woman }j ii? aa Annfl the r\n r\l 1 /**f tY\ ia rkl H rrari *' vuw uuu u pn V/JL uuiov/IIA u&^/i a y cx ? JCllQxil finmmissinnor ii7h/vo? ;..r /I snaa)<v vviid a dark aud black stigna, for ctit? name and family are among 1 .he nest mLa-irens county. The vicfim of ilus ass-tuir, Mrs. **. W. Fuller, testified in substance rhat Div- 1 ;Dport came to her home while her husDaud was absent working on his farm, i md she was preparing to set dinner, s I'bat he hitched his. horse some dist- 1 ince from tne house, came in ami < made improper proposals to hfr. She [ screamed and he (Davenport) run away, j When her husband came home she in- j formed him of the conduce of Davenport. He (her husband, S. W. Fuller,; jot her father, a>Mr. BeDjamin, .and * they started to Llurensto get a war j rant for old man Davenport. On their * way to town (and hear comes another 1 dark side of this picture) they m6tJ. 1 D. M. Shaw and told him their busi- 1 pess. Shaw told them that it would i never do to expose this matter; that J. L. M. Irby was down at his (Shaw's) nouse; to come ma go oaus. mere auu he and Irby would settle the matter. ' They returned to Shaw's house and , Shaw and Irby held a consultation. They (Shaw and Irby) then told the partv, Fuller & Co., to retire and decide what would satisfy theai in the matter. 1 Fuller & Co.. after consultation, deci- 1 ded that 8100 hush money would satisfy all parties, pay for the attempted violation of the virtue of his wife, and all things would work as merry as the marriage bell. Shaw ana lrby agreed to the proposition and paid cash $50, and executed a note, signed by Shaw and endorse! by Irby, for S5C more to pay damages. This note has been pub ltcly exhibited,signed by J. D.M.Shaw, and endorsed by J. L M. Irby. J3ut, unfortunate for the parries engaged in this disreputable transaction, there is another woman in the caoe?the old lady Benjamin?the girl wife's mother. Tnis old woman, God bless her, would submit to no such dirty, black, nasty, villainous sale of her daughter s honor and virtue. She raised Cam, and-iias kept the whole matter brewing aud a SLCWXlig UL11JI tlltJ wiiuio guuuoijr 10 aroused, and indignation meetings are being held. An indignation meeting was held at Mount Tleasant last Wednesday afternoon and resolutions were introduced requiring Davenport to resign bisollice, leave tbe State in forty-eight hours and never return. These resolutions accused Davenport of attempted seduction, when from the testimony of Mrs. Fuller the crime was attempted rape .and nothing else, it is needless to say tbiiti&e chairman of the meeting', Oscar Cunningham, was a heart and soul sympathizer of Irby, Shaw, Davenport & Co. ButLLfr brave, chivalric cuant wmr.v was aroused. liuvju. ui uauicuo %- ??? ?v ---? , both Tillmanttes, and anti-Tillmanites. and they would agree to no suchi resolutions. The meetine, on receiving iir~ formation that S. W. Fuller, the husband of the unfortunate lady, had sent a card to the Laurens Herald denying tnat old man Davenport had made any improper proposals, or assault upon his wife, ne (Fuller) was required to take the stand and make a statement, lie then and there did state publicly that the charges against Davenport were true in toto, and that he was induced to sign a paper denying the truth of the charges, and as he was a poor ignorant fellow, he did not know what sort ot a p^jer he put his name to, but i.' it was contradictory to the testimony of j his wife he had signed ,;a lie bill" and would so publish to the world in tne n^xt Herald. This som*i>vbat allayed j the temper of the crowd and the meetI log was adjourned to meet toda> (Frii d-iy) at 2 o'clock. 1'tte darkest side of ibis Dictui>, 11 it has a darker side, was the forcing, pr-rsuadin*? or mduciug by any mea^is of tnis ignorant fellow tosigu tbis pap-r for pub'ication. which article apoeared yesterday in the Laurensvnle Il-rani. I am reliably informed that Jobu M. Hudgens, president, of the Lturens Guuiity A"iia<ce, did write this article fori? \V. Fuller sign for publication. If uns b- true, Gjd save the Aliiaace! I cannot attend the m-eting at , Mount Pleasant this evening, but am in formed that a desperate effort will be made to hash, smother or cover up the wtiole affair to save certain politicians, If this is done, I repeat: (ioa save our country. Thi is nota Tillrnanite or an antiTilimanite political affair. The question is the virtue and honor of our lair and beautiful women, our homes, our liresides, our earthly paradise. As manly, as noble, as pure as brare a heart beats in the bosom of the Tillrnanite as the aati-Tillmanite. We are all South Carolinians, and our name alme should make us join heart and hand and bear with pride our heritage the synonym of oravery and chivalry. We have confidence in our peopie. May God guide and dire-jt them and temper all their meetings with prudence, moderation and wisdom. I will state nere, most emphatically, t hat-tfhere is not one-particle of evidence brought out in this case, after through investigation, that places a stain upon the virtue and character of this young girl-wife, Mrs. S. W. Fuller. 'There is an effort to circulate rumors of this kind by interested p.irties?another mean, dark, black phase in this blackest and daikest of crimes. Surely the ashes of Calhoun, Hayne and McDufiie will either rise from their graves with renewed life, or their immortal spirits will hover as a dark shadow over the seat once occupied by these immortal heroe,*, when that seat is again disgraced by J, L. M. Irby, United States Senator from South Carolina. CAROLINA. Commenting on the above puolications, the Granville News, editorially. says: "We have conscientiously endeavored to obtain some knowledge of the English language and som3 skill in its use, but we hereby take a back seat and modestly confess that we have heretofore had no conception of the uses in thy way of moditication of facts of which it is capable. In felicitous descriptive powers Mr. S. W. Fuller, of Laurens county, or whoever writes his cards for him^ is distinctly entitled to premiums and preeminence. An attempt to feloniously assault Mrs. Fuller is spoken of by Mr. Fuller in the Lamensville Ilerald as an "incirlpnt" uriri nh?r?r?t;pri7vfl as "sr?mp inriis cretion" committed by "an old friend." It would be interesting to have printed in the Herald by somebody who is acquainted with the intellectual and moral conceptions of that part of the country a definition of tne difference between an indiscretion and a crime and an exposition of what kinds of proceedings are regarded as permissible in an old friend of the family. We do not think Mr. Fuller's rema'rks regarding Mr Davenport can be regarded ss unduly harsh; nor were the terms 3q which his griev nces were settled such as can be called ex'ravagant or rxcessive. Which ?re the Conspirators ? , Pittsburg. Pa, July 14.?Patrick 1 J. Gallagher an ' J. M. Davidson, who re serviuij tetrns in the Western peoi- . .eniarv for self-confessed complicity In .he alleged poisoning of onn union work- ( nen in the Homestead Mil', have marie j mother confession, in which they sav ,he^ wore.iwid to swgar^ajvav. j vere innocent of the crime of wh:cl they i verc convicted. They further stated that so tar as they ; t'.ICH-O '.l/UO t'Cl nOWHll ? (I fll 1 fl \ * 1 f>T C fl ' W UC *T tuviv M uo ?-?w f WW w.a v. _ o the raeu iu the Homestead Mill. Gdl- ' a^her'b confession is written by himicif and sworn to bsfore SquireS. D ' Wbiie, of Huysville. Davidson's was riven verbality in the presence of wit- , lesses. Davidson's confession is mere- , y corrob native ot Gallagher's, bur, the a'tcr .tells a story ol a cens > icy by ,ne Pir^erton men and otners of irreai;r pro'ii ncace to -ead Dempsev u irison birca.is.-i lie was at the head of the Knights ol L ibor and that organization *as no good and cusht to be broken up. Grallagher says the P:Dkerton men kept iiirn drunk and worked upon his fears till they induced him to testify agaLst Dempsey. Gallagher's counsel says that to-morrow au order from the Court will be secured lor the cod vie; s to give testimony, auci 1 he district attorney, together with the attorneys lor Dempsey and B.-<uiy, will have GaliagI.er and Davidson repeat their confessions, while the district attorney wiU cross-examine them. Then if they stick t"> the statements already nude the papers will be prepared and an appeal to the ooard of pardons will be made at the earliest possible day. This done attention will then be given to the several persons instrumental in depriving Dempsey and Beatty ot their liberty. A Lynching that Falle<l. Norfolk, Ya, July 17.?The most remarkable case ot attempted lynching took place at Beamon's Station on Saturday night last. Wilhiu the pas' twelve month j Mr. Cartwright. who lives near Bearnon Station, on the Atlantic and Danville Railroad, has bad twelve horses killed by poison. About three weeks ago his house was burned to the grouad in the night. Suspicion res'.ed upon a negro named Isaac Jenkins, who has had some trouble in mat neighborhood, and who was tried for breaking into the house ot D. B. I Mackey some lime ago, but n >t codvicted. lift relumed to the neighborhood ou Saturday, was arrested, and while bein^ taken to j iil by a c nstable was captured by a party of iwenty-live men, who handed nitn to a tree and shot him and left him foe (had. Atter the lynchers departed he took his knife from his pocket aod cut himself down and made his escape. As soon as it became known that the lynchers had failed there was a mad crowd and the woods were scoured, but the man could not be fouud. Ha arrived here to-day and was n medical attention. He, 1^8" two bullet^TToTes m his 'neck, his fcalp is cut in several places and me marks of ihe rope are upon his neck. Handcull's were upon him and were cut oil at the police station. He walked iwentv miles to-day aod is doing well, aud will do'ibtl?.3s recover. a IlHCorlau d-h<1. Auu sta. Ga., July 10,? Col. Ciaries Coicjck Jones, J:., died of B right's disease at midnight at his | home. ''Alt>n'rose," Summe.vdle, near * .. ...ai., if., ro.jj r.o nlii and Lhe tii'sl au.l oul > prtsidcul of tbe C'outedfcia'.c Survivals' Association, and the aurvivoss and soldiers will uaiie with t^ie cilz; s in payiD=' a tribute to Auuuila's loretnost aad best loved eitiz?Q eiuJ bis tor an. Cotion Mill Closed. JS'ew York. Jul> 10.?A. 13 >stou disj>i'.c i a luouuc'sa ibe ahu'Uaj; uo-vu tor AuxUit f tbe Atnoskea^ (J^'.ton Mill. Puis is tue largest en.o- mill iu i.he Uuited.Sratfsaud probtbly;in tbe w-.-rld. it employs 8,000operatives uses G,000,000 pou- ds of cotton a week and pays *22x000 d m )uiti >u Wdtres. Tue shu> tia^ do-vu was ueo-;ssitated by the present unsettled condition ot trade. ; SENATOR IRBY SHOWS UP' HIS CONNECTION WITH 1 HE DAVENPORT-FULLER AFFAIR. Statements Inm A1I I', rious Cocce -ned? Mr. Fuller Well I*iaa*ed vv,th th iSettlement Mads with I) ivenport?Violent Outburst from Some I-uireja* Citizen*. Laurexs. S. C., -July 16.?To the Editor of trie Greenville News: Oq last Saturday your paper contained an article on the Davenport-Puller scandal of this coun'y, signed "Carolinian.'' If I am not mistaken as to the true author, if would not have been unnecessary for me or any ooe else in this county or the I Piedmont section to answer it for he is known of all men. The first of last week, without my knowing or coring about it, S imuel \Y. Puller, the husbaLa of the woman concerned in tbis scandal, sent for me and said mat, as there were so many lies being told about this matter, he thought it best for all the parties concerned that he should make a written statement to the public; and asked.me to put in suitable language his idea of what had really occurred. He made his statement, and 1 wrote out what was published. I read it over to him and he made several erasures and corrections to suit himself. After these corrections, he said it was exactly as he wanted it. 1 then said to him: "If this is just as you want it, sign it iQ the presence of these gentlemen," and [he signed it in the presence of two men, wdl known citizens. After that, I said: "Oae more question, before we separate, which I wish you to answer in t,he presence of these gentlemen: "Did It;v to influence you or dictate an> of this article' > you?" He answered; ''You dm i;< t" In justice to other men, who haw o- ti drawn into this matter, I ask, Mr. Ejitor, tnar. you publish the following statement and certificates. John M. Hudge.vs. s. "w. fuller. I voluntarily make this statement to Mr. Iludgens in reply to criticism of the article that I wrote: "You publish word for word what I asked you to write, and as it appears in the Laurens- : ville Herald over my signature, I de- . clare it to b3 the truth and the whoie I truth of the matter." I have no idea i of writing any piece to correct it, bf- ] cause I tuve alre tdy siid what I be- < lieved to be true. s. W. fcller. i SENATOR IRBY'S STATEMENT. Oq Friday two or three weess ago I c happened to be at Col. J. D. Shaw's, t S'x miles in the country. AOoutll < o'clock a. m. William 6. Benjamin, the J father, and Samuel Fuller, the husband I of the woman connected with the Divenpor scandal, came up and called ort Col. 6baw. Atter talking a>vnile Col. Shaw came to t&e house and asked , met') join in the conference between t ttiem. I did so, when they unfolded their grievances and charges against * Mr. Davenport. Tnev said they were r>n the way to see Mr. D.ivenport to ljuu uui vvhau ur lutistuo uy iuauiuus? Mrs. Fuller. After going over in de- v itfi *JrUr-c-7T- ' in the presence of some neighbor.-* and v relativ-s of the woman. Mr. Bsujamtn i ind Mr. Fuller invited me to come jown with Mr. Davenport tnat afte' s noon. In the afternoon about 3 o'clock ^ Mr. Davenport came, and he and Col > Snaw asKed me to go down with them. * Upon assembling there were present * Mrs. B-ujamm, Mrs. Fuller, Watt t Cunningham, John Fuller, the father of Samuel Fuller, Samuel Fuller aucl x William S. Benj-imin. The woman t made her s:atement, whijh was not materially contradicted by Mr. Divenport. At the conference everyone present was of the' opinion that there was > no raprt or iutent to commit a rape , upon Mrs. Fuller. I stated, ds a friecd to both parties, that the element of _ rape or attempt to rape was absolutely j wanting according to the statement of , both parties and that tney vvouiu nave i to do one of two things: Either on account of the relationship by blood ex- ! lsting b.-tween Samuel Fuller's wife and Mr. Davenport's children, to drop the matter after an humoie apology ( from Mr. Davenport, or prosecute him ia the courts tor an assault of an inde- | cent nature. Thereupon, Samuel Full- , er, husband of tne aggrieved woi^an. ' said that lie was willing to leave it to j what bis father and her father should , determine upon. The two takers re- ! tired to the horse lot and were gone ' for ten minutes and then called me and said that they had agreed that Mr. {' Davenport should pay 8100 and that the matter should then be dropped. 1 ' told them that it was one ot tne kicd of cases that couldn't be settled with money, and that it would be a compromise of the girl as well as of the whole tamily, and 1 advised against taking it. They, however, insisted, and said that tbey would not be satisfied with anything but money and called Colonel Shaw, who is a nephew of Mr. Davenport, and told him that they would have to have 8100. Col. Shaw said that he couldn't give them any money, but if Mr. Davenport would settle It A L - ? - * 'J 1^-*^ Ki mrtnou nn. IIItil LLC WUU1U luau uilll uug luvu^v v-**-i til he could get it up. Samuel Fuller seemed to be hignly pleased with this settlement, especially the money part of it, when I advised him that heought not to accept money of this sort. Mr. Davenport gave Mr. Shaw his note for 8100, which was written by himself, aud Mr. Snaw paid Fuller -850 and gave him his note, endorsed by myself, for 850 more in sixty days. 1 drew an order on 0. U. Thompson, sigaed by Mr. Davenport, for the balance of what thei county owed him (Davenport) as school commissioner, in favor of Col. Shaw. This is all that I know about it; all that I had to do with it._._L^ed'urd"nbt advise, as I bad^sesr invited by both parU^ir-sficr, for other reasons, that Mr. Ijavenports life should be taken. I may say, incidentally here, that the most exaggerated accounts of what Mrs. Fuller"said have been in circulatioa iu this neighborhood. (signed) J so. L. M. I rby . Col. J. L). M. 5?iiaw. I have carefudy read Senator Irby's statemea'- of this matter and pronounce every word of it truth. (signed) J.D. M.SIIAW. Joiin R, Fuller. Mr. Fidler, the father ot S. W. Fuller, says that the subject of moaev was no1 mentioned uutii atter he and Wm. S i Benjamin went into the horse lot and I cad agreed tliat 8100 oughr to bj paid, lie then called S^rutor Irby au-i Mr. Benjamin aid the talking, telling Iroy tnat they thought Mr. Davenport ought to pay Sam (S W. Fuller) SIO). S-na tor Irby replied to us that rhis was not a money c-tse, and that he couldn't adVise the use oi m ?ne> in it. Billy Benj-im'ti (vV. S. Umj-icnin) said mat nothing hnr mnnev would satisfv SdUO: that I * -?>-> J - . I he knew S-iin would have to *10 souiei thing. Senator Irbv also stid iu the | house that we would have to do o je of j t^o things: K thrr just drop it on account ot the rd ttious dp bet ween Mr. Davenport's children and 'nelidyin| volve-J, or prosecute him. From what I heard I did not think that there was any rape or attempt to rape in it. (Signed) John R. Fuller. W. F. Cunningham. Tbe foregoing statement was read to me and I tinl it true as to; what took place m the house. I was present and knew that Senator Irby ad vised against taking money. (Signed) W. F. Cunningham. ^ W.S. Benjamin. Mr. W. S. Benjamin, the father of the iady in the case, says: '*1 have heard read the statement above of John R. x uxier auu ceruiy mat mat statement is correct and true to my own knowledge." (Signed) W. s. Benjamin. 'To the Editor of the Greenville News: We, the citizens of Oakville community, see a bundle of lies in Saturday's issue of July 15. signed "Carolinian." We think we know the little cur. We do not propose to reply to him now, but we do propose to correct his lies. VVe do not see how any true Carolinian c:>uld publish such falsehoods unless he has a political design. L'he meeting was held live miles from Mount Pleasant. That settles lie number one. We love the virtue of our womea, but we are lovers of truth. Mr. Editor, we demand his name to be sent to 0. C. Cunningham, chairman of the meeting, r. O., Maddea, S. C. and we will show hi?n up to the people of our State. We as true citizens of Sooth Carolina think that it is time newspaper liars were stopped. It was very ungentlemanly in any one to report a meeting before ivs final adjournment. Our county papers will give the facts in the case. We feel that we are slandered by the trilling puppy piece. Tleass send his na ne at once. 0, C. Cunningham, J. R. McDaniel, W. ILPinson, D. F. Balentine, v B. F. Terry, H. Y. Boyd, A. J. Irby, M. E. McDaniel, J. C. Williams, J. C. McDaniel, John Hamilton, Fo3tor Hipp, John R. Boyd. ' All papers that copied "Carolinian's" piece, please copy this. o. c. c. Mr.. Editor: As chairman of the meeting to wnich "Carolinian" alludes, I wisn to correct the lies that have been circulated by siid writer. The meeting was called for the purpose of protecting the educational interests of 3ur county and to appoint a commit;ee to investigate the matter, and the eport of the committee was tnat there tvas no malicious intent although the :oaduct of Mr. Davenport wa* found , ;o have been sucn as the good peDple )f this county cjuld not tolerate. The L?aurensviilt: Heral'd will give the full jarticulars in next issue. 0_C1^UNXINGHAM. Weather Crop Bulletin. Columbia, 6. C., July 20.?The fol owing is tne weatner crop report rrom h- Souch Carolina Bureau of the De>artaieat of Agriculture: The temperuure during toe past seven days has anged abuoriualiy higb, averaging ibouc three degrees above the normal, mh a large am )uik of sunshine, rlaric' er/'ana'' wnere ?tliey " occurred vere for the most p-irt in oae sbower. !n some sections these raias were ex:essive, and had they falleu in several howers would have beeQ of great ben tit. The heaviest fall occurred in the s'ortnwestera part of Berkeley county, rxrendmg into the adjoining counties )t Clarendon, Colleton and Orange>urg. The rain*in a p^rtof Berkeley t.vn.ifn wno A int-nnoaltT hflOrr (A. 19 ftf. /uuuuj ??ao ov luvcuogij j v?v ;rul) that cotton. will hardly recover rem tne evil effects. While cotton has ecovered from tne previous heavy aias in Orang-burg county, it is not 11-iking trie progress expected. The leavy rains there this week have done ? ittlegood to corn, which is not earing ' it all well, iliny reports are to the fleet that crops have not burnt as bad n years, and are unusually poor. Cot- N ;ou is firing at the bottom and bl wiling near tne top, making, indeed, a gloomy outlook Jor the crop. Little or 10 progiess has been made this week. i'he plant has eitaer stopped growing ir is growing very slow. The working 3ut of grass has nearly killed large }uanti:ies. A slight improvemeat has ir> T?/?nlA A ilr*jn onH U2CU LiUtl'JCU 111 .l^a^CUWU, mmm Sumter counties; also along the coast st-a island cotton is doing fairly well. Uorn is smaller than usnai and generally so badly burned as to causa great apprehension and some estimates r an below half a crop. Low-ground com is not suffering so much from the drought, but needs ram badly. The ground is baked so hard that young 20m cannot be worke j. Gardens are burned up. Melons in many sections are reported spongy and not sweet. J. H. "Harmon, Director. AfcerXwemy X-o+rs; Macon Ga., Jaiy iy.?Twenty years "JO the wite of 0. H. Flowers died, leaving three children. The eldest. Faanie, aged nine years, was intrusted to a well-to-do family, who promised to educate the child, -.ut not to remove her from Macon without the father's consent, v^-fte: a few months the family rem -ved with the child, and all trace of her was lost. A few days ago Mr Flowers receiv-d a letter from his daugh .er in JNew Yorfc, saying that every effort had been made to'cause her to forget her Macon home, but she jm desired to return, "she stated that sbe had been married and deserted by her husband with a cnnanow jasC, h?r oTO3 age when she left home. was overjoyed to hrarfro^?| ter, and seut her thg^tf| Macon. s'Lesms^djl Sav^^M Weir cfl hundred scrlH 100 women, one mileijouth^B ordered out thlH c )uld not persuaH miners in the pit made an atta *k>ancH ensued, in which tir^H ally used. Xooody f >ur of the aitiokin^ p-irt^^M on^ woman were more or less se^R slot. The mnn in the mine Wrr^W "nmhPMll tied *or th-ir lives. It caught they^M would undoubtedly have been killed. v^HDH Thti exoiiemeat is at a high pitch. Arms in a considerable quantity are coming in and further trouole is ex- wHH pecied. Kil'*-<1 Ab ?ut ? Dog. Savannah, Ga.. July 20.?At Vilidia, Montgomery Couoty, James Stnckland Killed James Lockley. It ia said ^ tn.it Lock:ey killed Strickland's dog > tiie day berore. When Strickland aeard rhi->be took His shotgun, weutto Lockley's bous- and shot him while at snpuer. Strickland was arrested and is now in jail. 2_ Four Fer?on? K 11 d. New York, July 20.?Late this afternoon a caa ot nup'ba exploded in i h?*S veat Bin-1 factory of J. L). C-itnpbiil, 211 VVal*-ort& street, Brooklyn, kiliiuz tour persons an1 lujuriog one. Toe building was completely wrecked. 9~ * . "I