The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, May 30, 1894, Image 1

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\ Ik fairfieli) lews anil Herald. [ VOL. XLVIII. WINNlSBORO, ?. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894. NO. 42. -1 | CURSING THE RED CROSS. ~ r AVERY BITTER FEELING AGAINST IT | IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. | A Sc-C?ll?dPhll?ntlircp'cil and Christian snwiti of Poor White Farm era as "D?n Crackerh"?I>oes Mlsn BartonKccw ot theea Thtvge T BLrFFTON, S. C. May 24.?"The Red Cross Society is the greatest curse which could have been inflicted on this county," are the words which a prominent white man uttered to me when I ; i first got into Beaufort County. I came here to investigate the condition of the Bluffcon cyclone snfferers, but the Red i Cross and its work have been brought ?n in averv conversation I have had. I have heard and learned much about ; the order which will surprise the gen j era! public. I have also heard much which it is hard to believe. I will say, however, that there are not a dozan ? white men in Beaufort county, unless it be in the towns of Beaufort and Port i- Royal4 who have a good word for the society. It is roundly cursed aod abused and the charge is openly made here that the suffering and destitution ^ pTOhitt. r>Konif> in this township!' u* uuv nuiwv JM- K are due to the discrimination of the Bed Cross Society or sonte of its managers Tbe negro has been the pet of the so& ciety since it took charge of tbe dis ri* butionof c&arity afrertbefearfuls'oruo. HL He has bt-en bugged closely and affecf tionately and tbe wbite men, wotpeo and children have had to beg to get any" thing. 1 will not say that Miss Clara Barton is responsible tor all tbat is charged to thesociety. She may be ignorant of ** * Womo fAf on. some or iij uui sue id tw uiou^v pointing managers of tbe society. The same maD whose opening remarks I quote finished his statement by saying: The society has Impaired and^ destroyed tbe usefuluess or the negro in this county and has been used or allowed itselr to be us8d for political ) purposes." I cannot speak of what has been done by the Red Cross in Bean fojt and on the islands around there. I only give what has been told me and what I know to have taken place in this section, where nearly all the white DeoDle of the county live. It is undestood that Miss Barton and the Btd Cross win depart from Beaufort the first of June. I do not know this to be a fact, but I predict that the society will leave many of the negroes of the county in a worse fix than when it found them. When the steamship "City of Savannah" was wrecked off the coast of this State just after the August storm one of the passengers who was saved and [ _ who made his way to Beaufort was j odd oicuonaia, who cwo uum o^wowhere in the JiTortb. It is said that he was on his way to Brunswick to nurse yellow fever patients there. He remained around Beaufort until Miss Barton took charge as the head of the Red Cross Society. McDonald soon came to be known as "Dr" McDonald. He became acquainted with Miss Bar[ tonJn- same manner and got into her ^-?uoa graces. JShe appoiutea mm as me i /" Red Cross agent of all the territory r South of the Broad River. This terri L tory includes Blnffton Township and Hilton Head Island. McDonald asJm sumed charge with a great deal ofdis play. Shortly after he got to Beaufort he was married *nd his wife joined him in his labors. McDonald personally took charge of the Red Cross commissary on Hilton Head Island, which does not have as many people on it as the Blnffton peDinsula. How much stuff he has gotten from the Red Cros3 I do not know, but even the honorable Pompey Riley, colored master of ceremonies of the Bluff ton commissary and ^ the bosom friend of McDonald, thinks that McDonald has had much more than his portion of goods for Hilton Head. McDonald is the esteemed citizen who speaks of the white farmers in Bluff ton Township as "d?n crackers." He has taken care not to say this to any of the white people here. The , aforesaid McDonald occasionally visits Bluffton accompanied by his wife. They wear big red crosses on ihtir ; sleeves and pass througn the town ! without speaking to a white person. , They "have spent nights here but no ; 1 '' * ?Ua). I wnue person Knows auyimuK ui tuoii , ? sleeping with white people. Toisisthe ' man who appointed a committee of 1 negToes to listen to the sorrowing sto- ' ries of white people here and to dish out J to them Rtd Cross cbarity. Early after he began his work McDonald became obnoxious to the white people. His ! appointment of a committee of colored politicians without previous knowledge of who they were excited suspicion and it was openly charged tbat Bob Smalls and McDonald bad an understanding, i %| Boo Smalls was sharp enough to seize i ^ " the opportunity presented of making : Wk political capital out of suffmtig peo- ! MK. pie. The committee of negroes here < In Bluff ton have been Bob Smail's lead r ers for\ears and it is singular thatail . of tbem st ou d have be*n selected At I an.v rate JtSon Smalis has risen largely ; > in the esitiuia'ion of the Degrees of Beanfoit in tbel->st few months. Two years ago be could not Dave polled one hUDdre.J votes. Today the ign >r<*n' . cgroes of tbe county believe tha? I Bod Smalls and 'be R-oublic-ios of the North sent them b'e-d. Howdio they get such an mpressioD? M'ss Clara Barton had thousands of dollars in be? bands contribu-ed bv <outhem people for the aid of the sufferers. Tbe negroes have gotten nearly all 'his and think tn^t Northern Republicans and Bob Smalls bave given it to ibem. Miss Barton may not have had anytn Hn fVia imnri/eiiinn hnt if. I VV WV ivr I/UV VMM aw exists and Bob Smalls will try to go to Co* sress on it I Wb-n all tbese things fir3t began to develop Tbomas Martin wrote a com K, munidatiOD to the News and Courier statiDg the facts. He was asked to 1 withhold the publication of it until the paper c<^uld mafeean investigation of ? the charges. Whether the investiaa-. tion was made Mr. Martin does not know. He told me, however, that the communication was never published, and that m some manner copies of "* Vk?. Ua/1 ff/%*% /?/% t/\ ino Poi*hArt W Licit iiC uau YV L ibtCU l\j Ultoo gvuf McDonald and all her staff. The effeet of the communication was that K more leniency was sbown to white sufferers for awhile and some of those who appiied direct to Miss Barton, at Beaufort, were eiven aid. It caused a bitter feeling, "however. Mr Martin has many friends among the colored people. The colored men who heard of the communication and endorsed it were afterward characterized by the Red Cross 8gents as "Martin negroes" and got itin the neck when they applied for assistance. Mr. Martin does not understand bow this communication Y should have been allowed distribution among Red Cross people and was never published. DuriDKtbe war a regiment of negroes was raised here oa the coast. How aoL bly these colored troops "fit," 1 am not ^ aware, but all of them draw S12 a month for getting shot at or rather for not getticg shot at. Pompey Riley, the chairman of the Red Cross commitfL tee here, is a pension agent. Miss Barton is said to have given instructions that pension drawers should not get w I _ relief from the Red Cross. Her intentions were Rood., bat it is said here that these negro heroes make a pull on Red Cross grits whenever opportunity affords. Riley, as a pension agent would not act so horribly as to refuse a poor pensioner some grits. It would not be policy for Pompey to do so. Pompey is a negro too. He told me of his patriotic work for nothing in distributing food from the Red Cross commissary and said ne naa never uiaue uve wuia out of it. Of course hs didn't make anything, but he has recently Improved his house here and has put a new fence around it. The venerable Christian McDonald has no doubt been working for philanthropicai reasons, and because of his noble nature. Of course he hasn't made anything out of the Red Cross but he is building a splendid house on Hilton Head island and has bought land to start a truck farm. The "doctor" is the same man who wrote an article In the New York World saying that the physiciaos in thelvicmity of Hiiton|Head would not go to storm sufferers until he had been paid in advance. The man be is supposed to have alluded to is Dr. MeJlichamp of this place, who never asked a person for a fee in his life and who has lived here forty years. I have an affidavit in my possession 9t?tibg that the Red Cross agents here had charged those who got Rood? from the commissary 10 ceDts for the writmg of their names. Pompey Riley explained this by saying that this was a levy to pay the expenses of a trip to bring over some goods. I asked an old colored mauma how much she bad ?otren from the Elect Cross. "Nutln,' child, cas?) I hadu't got 10 cents to pay dem niggers. I'm too poor, sir." 1 saw a number of negroes who bad paid 10 cents, and know of a white man who n-tnawi to Dav anvthinar. Negro laborers are demoralized by the assistance they are getting from the Red Cross. Ooe gentleman told me that he has ridden for miles trjtog to get hands for his farm, but did not succed. I have been told that it is the worthless class of negroes, who never bad anything in their lives, who had nothing to lose by the storm and who were as well off after the storm as before who are getting the chief benefit from the Red Cross. The poor negroes who are trying to raise a crop and are workiog hard get little encouragement, simply because they are at work. Justice and right would demand that this />luao of nacrrnea shnnlcl t.h? ftsatH tance and that the indolent and lazy should be allowed to look out for themselves as they have always had to do. 1 do know of Industrious negroes who Have never been able to get anything from the Red Cros?. To show how the Red Cross has also been impssed on I am told on trustworthy authority thatSavannah negroes quit their homes and went to Beaufort and the islands to get some of the stuff being dished out. In other instances a negro would draw from the Red Cross for bis family and then send his wife under a different name. She would also draw a share of the pie. All this is due to the failure to make a canvass on the islanus. It would be interesting to know how many thousands of doliars have been received by the Red Cross and how it has been spent. Negroes have gotton more than nine-tenths ot it. They will in a few weeks have to depend on themselves again. They must then go to work or perish, A gentleman toid me that a Beaufort contractor wanted one hundred negro laborers on a certain day. He spoke to Miss Barton about them, she having said that she nould supply hundreds of labors. Miss Barton was to have the hundred negroes on band one Monday morning. The contractor has never seen them. I have heard numerous thines about tbe Red Cross which I will not give I have been told that white people who bave applied to Yankee managers of the Red Cross have had it flaunted in their faces that tbey boasted of being Carolinians and then begged for aid. I know that letters have been written to the Red Cross Society by white people asking for help and that the letters were never answered and that the applicants never received help. I know that tbere is nothing bat the most bitter feeling against the society and the way it has been managed and that I never beard a good word for it irorn a wmte man. jl& is to oe regrebiBu that the feeling exists. The society has probably done many noble and Seneroua things and should be given credit instead of blame A big affair like that which the sciety trackled could aot be managed without complaint, but that there should De such wholesale jomplaint is at least strange.?Columbia Register. AXjwq tor Said. Manchester, N. J., May 24?It is nntnfren Ihntn whr>]p villacfft infillld ing huge railroad shops, churches, chools, stores aad residences, Is sold at sheriff's sale, but tbat'is the condition t>f bft tirs tfjat confronts the citizens of Maucn*-8t*-r. A mortgage given by John Torrey, nowaec?-iS'-d, in JauUary 1867. to tbe Mutual B-ue it Ute Iosurauoe company of N* *arfc, js the paper . \r? irttmh frtrwldQn r? nrn/*^?.din<7Q havr be?-n or ?ugnt. Mr. Torrey was an influential New Yoik tinaucier, and carried on ie-tl estate speculations "n a scale the noag&i'u ie or wbich would surprise tbe operators of today. He Doutfht up many thous-mds of acres ot Dine lands iq Manchester to.WDSbip, O.'ean county, atid laid out this to wo. He carried through successfully the project, of building ibeoid R^ritan and Delaware Bay railroad, whicn broke up atter years of fightiDg the monopoly that had been granted to tbe old Camden and Amboy route. In fact, he was the only man ?vho succeeded in coping with Commodore Stockton and John, Robert L. and Edwin A. Stevens, who so long dominated the New Jersey leg islature, aud caused the state to be dubbed tne "Camden and Amboy state." Iu building his railroad from the Raritan to Bay side, oil the Delaware bay, John Torrey negotiatrd a famous l^an of 90,000 pounds with the B*nk of Eogland through Brown Bros. & Co., on bis less than 10,000 acres of pine land, the like of wbich then or now would hardly bring So an acre in the open market. The desciptlon of the sale occupies two whole pages in one of the local newspapers in which it is advertised, set in nonpareil type, and this great length of description only serves to entangle all the more the un sophisticated working folks, who feai their homes are to be sold. Fifteen Years; Spartanburg, S. C., May 28.?Lou Parris, who stabbed a youog man to whom she bad been sngaged and killed bim at Saluda in April, was arraigned for trial yesterday at Hendersonville. Her attorney entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree and asked for the leniency of the court in passing the sentence. Judge Boy kin sent her to the penitentiary for fifteen years. She is about 17 years old now and she was said to be a pretty tough case. The railroad and all the travel and tarffic thereon failed to soften her character. I When arrested and carried to jail the coDStabled suggested to the sheriff that he should search her person. A dangerour knife was found concealed in her hair?Greenville News. THE BRIBERY CASE. ' Oae Senator Offered Sdventy-fivo Tbonsand Dollars. Washington, May 24?The special committee appoiated to investigate the charges of bribery alleged to have been Kir Ma-i RnM? and ?lsn thp auwsui^wvu Krj AUkMj* ~ doings of the sugar trust in connection with legislation, held two sessions Monday behind closed doors and with newspaper men and the public exclud- i ed. The first began a few minutes j after 10 o'clock and lasted until 1 , o'clock, when a reces3 for an hour was i taken. t During the recess Senator Gray, ] speaking for the committee, said that ? as soon as this case was concluded the i committee would print the testimony i and lay it before the Senate. He said j that it would be pretty much on the s line of that which has heretofore ap- t peared. in the newspapers, but with j more details. The fact that a direct offer of money was made has been j proven by one witness, at least, accord- r iog to the statement of the chairman ] of the committee. Senator Huaton knew nothing ex- \ cppt upon hearsay evidence, but told i the committee what he had learned ( from bis son. Ippa Hunton, Jr, was next put on the stand and told the < committee how he had been approach- j ed by Msj Battz and offered a sum of j money ir he would induce his father to ] vote against the pending bill. * Senator Kyle was on the stand lone j er than anv one else, for it was devel- , oped that the offrr to bribe had been i made to him direct by tbe man who t stands charged with the commission of E the offense. At least this sras the in- i terpretation put upon the testimony | hn fho/.nmmfrfofl Xpnfttnr Tvvle testi- t fied that Mr. Buttz had offered him money for his vote, sayiDg that he could have $75,000 and made an offer of $14,000 duwn. Immediately after the committee met, Buttz made a written request of the chairman of the committee to be present with bis attorney and cross ex amine witnesses. To this request no attention was given and Buttz subse- ? auentlv jrave bis request to the press. ( hie committee investigating the < charge of bribery in connection witb < t*ie tariff bill made but little progress j owing to the failure of Maj. Buttzto j return and conclude his testimony, j The Sergeant-at-Arms was sent after 4 the witness but did not find him. He j learned, however, that he had gone to 1 a suburban town for a man witb 4 whom he believed he should have a ( conference before he concluded his j testimony, and that he would be before \ the committee the first thiDg in tbe ? morning. This information was also t conveyed to the chairman of the com- . mittee, by Mr. McGown, the attorney t of Mr. Buttz, who called on Mr. Gray ! to explain the absence of his client, j The committee believes it will be able to conclude this branch of the case to- ] morrow. There are evidences of the fact that \ the committee intends to pnsh ahead { with the invtstigation of the charges ( that the Sngar Trust ha3 been interter- j ing with legislation, for the Sergeant- } at-Arms sras today instructed to /eire j Mr. E. J. Edwards, the author of the Holland letter in Philadelphia, Pa., i wherein the Sugar Trust was arraign- [ ed, and asked him if he would accept < service and appear before the commit- ] tee Thursday next. This was done and i Mr. Edwards replied that he would ac- ( cept the telegram as service aLd be in "] Washington at the time named. It is also unlerstood that a number of well ( known Washington newspaper men < have been decided upon as the j proper persons to summon be- < fnrfl thft committee to tell what ] they know regarding certain j stories they have been publishing in connection with the sugar schedule ( and the means by which that schedule j was adopted. If the committee cannot < do that it is said that it will at least , show that the newspapermen got tfceir \ information from what they believed ] to be reliable sources (presumably j members of the Senate) and will then . proceed to summon Senators and run ; the rumors to their foundation. The i committee expects to complete the in- j vestigation of this phase of the case \ within two weeks. i Will go to Na*hvllla. Columbia, S. C., May 23.?TheState's 1 dispatches of Sunday contained the in '-v.-- T).,? TT7 i IsCUlgCIJl/C UUttO XtiCV* TT JU? i ? D. D, of this city had been elected J Sunday school editor by the Methodist i general conference in Memphis, T^nn. i rhls was gratifying Qews to Dr. Kirk- i land's nosts of frieuds in this State, but I it could scarcely be called welcome news, for his election necessitates his < leaving the State. He will move to Nashville, the seat of the church's < publishing interests, Dr. Kiriklaod is a native Carolinian; was boro iu Orantr*- < burg county the 17th of Augu3f, 1849, I was educated at SV<>ff?rd College, ? where he grad' ated in 1870 He joined the confereDce tha following Decernner { aLdsoon look pusltlon amotg ihe fire . most preachers. While presidi' ? elder i of the Coff-soury district ia I88n, he was elected editor of the Sou nern i r*r>pisratn for fnilr Vf-rs arid 1 w?s re-elected iu 1889 aud in 1893. Id 1 1891 tie received thr aegr*n of doctor of uvuiityfrom E ory C 11-ge, Gra. Dr. Xirkland w<s a '1^1-jfate fo t%e general c mr't^rences of 1886 aud 1890, aod this year he beaded the del-gation from ? South Carolina. Dr. Xirkland holds < several other Important, positions in the ] church, among them trustee of his alma ( mater and a member of the mis- ( *it>nary board of the Southern Metho- , dist Church. The doctor is a mao of i strong character, tine executive ability aud of decided convictions, which he j expresses forcioly and fearlessly on all < proper occasions. As a journalist his < success has been very marked. He has made the Advocate one 01 me dbsl ] religoua papers in the South, and his | plaoe will be hard to fill. Dr. KirklaDd's i successor as editor of the Advocate will be selected by the publishing commit tee and the bishop will appoint ia ac- " cordance with its recommendation? j the appointment to hold uatil the next i session of the annual conference in Di- i cember. Dr.Kirkland i3 expected home ] today, the general conference having , adjurned on Monday, after a session of i three weeks.?State. i "Ele-ht Killed. < Princeton, Ky., May 21.?A disastrous wreck occured at 10 o'clock this 1 morning od the New Fort News and Mississippi Valley Railroad at S'acdinsr Rocks tunnel. An extra freight i train crashed into a pile driver tram 1 with a boardiDg car attached. The pile I driver train was backing with boarding . car in front when the two trains met in : the middle of the tunnel. Conductor Nick Hill of the pile driver train and ' six or seven occupants of the boardiDg car were killed. It will be several hours Jii-rnrothp pan ha takftn out Shot by the Shetlff. Lafeyette, La, May 24?Sheriff ' Isaac Brossard shot and killed Henry Jones, a negro ravisher, who has been 1 wanted for a month. The fiend met a 1 7 year-old girl and her little brother in the roadway and seiiing her carried < her off and accomplished his purpose. i rEACHERS OF THE STATEU.L ABOUT THEIR ANNUAL GATHERING 7K IS SUMMER. rhe Elaborate and Excellent Programme Airiiired tar the S3rd Annual Meeting: ot the State Teachers Association. Columbia, May 24.?Elaborate arangements are being made for the 23d innual meeting of the State Teachers' Association of South Carolina to be leld at Converse College at Spartan)urg, July 1 to 5 next. Dr. J. Wm. ?linn, of this city, the president of thfe issociation, and Professor J. Flemning Brown of Spartanburg, the chairnan of the executive committee, to jether with the other officers of the as ociation are doing all in their power ,o make the sessions the most interestn? ever held in the State. The programme and other arrangenents have just been prepared and an ?J rrifc* -v M?iA<MiAnr.mA a na fnl. iOUUCtSU. 1UC piUgiaLULUC JO ao i?iows. Sunday, July l3t.?11 a. m.?Sermon >y Rev. W. M. Grier, D. D., Due West. 130 p m.?Programme arranged by :iiy pastors. Monday, July 2d.?10 a. m.?Address >f welcome by Mayor A. B. Calvert ind President B. F. Wilson Annual iddress by tbe president. 11 a. m ? Import ot special committee appointed ir the last meeting; Superintendent f. P. Bailev, Marion. Discussion?12 m.~ Advantages of securing a permanent lome tor top association; oupennteuu;nt E L. Hughes, Greenville. Dlscuslioa. Afternoon?4 p. m?Meeting of -he primary department, Miss L. C. Elubbard, Anderson, oresident. Attrac;ive programme. 830 p. m.?Address Dy Superintendent N. F. Walker, Celar Springs. Subject: "The Education )f the Bii>,d and the Daaf." Tuesday, July 3d.?10 a. m.?History >f education in South Carolina; Pro :?ssor W. S. Morrison,Clemson College, Discussion. 11 a. m.?Normal training :or preparatory teachers and bow to >btain it; Superintendent D. ? John (OQ, vjoiumoia. juiscusaiuu. xa uu.? Jomparisoa of systems of prepartory schools in the Carolinas and Georgia; Superintendent B. F. Bailev, Abbeville. Discussion. Afternoon.?? p. m.?Deaartment of superintendents, F. L. hughes, President, Greenville 4.30U0.?Preliminary work 410-4.30? Pedagogical investigation; Sup?inendent T. P. Bailey, Jr., Marion."4.30 [ 40 ? Dissussion, 4.40-5.00 ? Some irawbacks; Superintendent W. H. Eland, Chester. 5.00 5 30?Echoes from ;he national superintendent's meeting; Superintendent P. T. Brodie, Spartan )urg. 5.30-540?Discussion. 5 40 6.00 -General discussion; departmental ;eachlng in grammar sehools. 8.30 p. 33.?Address by Piesident J, H. Car\X7 I 1 orro 10iCt TT UUV1U Wednesday,Joly 4th.?10 a. m.?Pubic school education In France; Rev. Fames Woodrow, D. D.. South Carolina Doilege. Discussion 11 a. m.?What ire the objects in view in teaching Gejgraphy? Superintendent Frank ?vms, Newberry. Discussion. 12 m.? Model lesson in teaching geography; M:ss Ella Cofield Spartanburg. College Department?Dr. J. H. Carisle, President, WofEord College. 4 p. n.?Paper by Professor Snyder, of Wofford College. 5 p. m.?Paper by ?roftssor H. T. Cook, of Furman University. Discussion. 8.30 p. m.?Adires3 by Geo. T. WinstoD, President University of North Carolina. Thursday, July 5th.?10 a. m.?Payis;ai culture; Miss Maud E. Masson, Converse Colledge. Discussion. 11 a. 21?The educational value of history is a school study: Rev. H. S. Hartzog, Bamburg. Discussion. 11:30 a. m.? Drawing in the schools; Professor William Welcb, Clemson College. Discussion. 12 m.?Business. Afternoon?4 p. m.?Department of School Commissioners 4:00 4:45?Call to order, jrganizition, etc. 4:45 4:55?The necessty of teaching English proverly; F. Horron Colcock. 4:55 5:10?Discussion. i:10 5:20?Qualifications and duties of i school commissioner, W. W. Bright. 3:20 5:35?Some suggestions in regard io our school system; Thomas VV. Keitt, 5;40-6:00?Discussion. 8:30 p. m.?A talk on music; Dr. R. H. Peters, Converse College; followed by concert and reading. The following information is given by the committee: Teachers who desire will be boarded in Converse Coilege; gentlemen at Si i day; ladies, who come by Sunday morning and bring sheets, pillow-cases, ;oweJs, Kc, and remain during the sesjiOD, at 75s. a dav. -?To deduction will De made for absence from meals. Those expecting to board in Converse College will please notify Mrs. L. B. rhompson, Spartanburg, S. C., a few lays before the meeting. Forties preferring to board in tbe uty will have reduced rates It is the 3opf> of tbe executive committee that ill will reach tbere by Saturday night. n?? "* fn i u cu1&5u3 ut o^ai u313uui ft vapvuu wv jive r.He teachers a fre* excursion to Danville on Friday. The lowest possible -tilroad rat^s will ne secured ror all at eadiug tbe association Parties wishug information abjur, board, aceom notations, r*res, etc, will please wrir.*o Presid-nt B F. VViisoo, or J. F Brown, Spartanburg, S. C. H<-m'ctde *t Lt?gl?r. Augusta, May 24.?On Monday -vemng about 7 o'clock a shooting scrape occurred In L-tngley wbich has > salted in the death of one of Laogley jitizsns. The facts concerning this depl raole affair are hard to get at, but we will give them as tbey were given '.o us: lc appears that old man John Augustine and bis son Charlie are engaged in merchandising, and on Monlay evening got into a dispute over j-ff-.ira a7h1r>h IpH tn hlnwjj. Dr. <i utvv. .v .... Maud, who was either in the store or passing at the time, hearing the disturbance ran in between fatner and son to separate them. What occurred then was not made clear to us, but at this juncture John, another son of old man A.u?ustine,ran in and drawing nis pistol shot Dr. To land in the back, the ball penetrating In the region of the heart. The Doctor lingered until about 11 o'clock on Tuesday when he died. Young Augustine tried to escape but was caught two miles out of Lang !^y and arrested. Me was taken bacfe to Langley and turned Dver to Sheriff Alderman yesterday who brought him to Aiken and lodged him in jail. The Augustines claim that Dr. Toland was fighting old man Jnhn Augustine. "VVe tried to cat his version of the affair but he declined. We understand the feeling against the Aujustines is quite bitter iu Langley. Dr. Toland has only been living in Langley a short while. He is from Edgefield County, and has a family which he expected shortly to bring to Langley to live. He was an old man. ?Chronicle. A Love Tragedy. Green Bay, Ala., May 24.?Silas Grilfiliaa, a young merchant, blew his brains oat on the step of the house of James Lewis yesterday. He was engaged to marry Miss Lewis, who i3 ill, and was reported dead. The girl was not dead, but heard of the suicide and is dyag from the shock. n CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONEThe Weekly Bulletin of the Condition of the Weather aud Crops. ?ne ioiiowing is lqb ween.iy uuuoiiu of the weather and the crops issued yesterday by Observer Biuer of the State Weather Bureau: The weather favorable for rapid growth during the greater.part of the week, and the staple as well as the minor crops were as a consequense of theexcesaive heat and copious showers very much improved. Oa Sunday there came an unf avoble change which caused the temperature to fall from 30 to 20 degrees in twenty-four hours, and on Sunday (20:b) morning minimum temperatures of from 39 to 45 degrees occurred over the entire State. Many of trie reports naci ueeu maneu picviuua i to the 20:h and so the full effect of the cold wave can be put partially reflected in this bulletin, altogether later reports indicate the occurrence of light frosts in favorably situated localities as far as Orangi-burg county. Thed amage, il any, resulting, appears as yet to have been but very slight and confined largely to sweet potatoes, and in a lesser decree to cotton. In next week's bulletin a b tter estimate can be made. Averse local conditiocs iojurine crops, were washing raios in portions of SpartaDgburg, Newberry and Greenville counties wt-re creefc bottoms overflowed necessitating some replantiDg. Hail also did some damage over small areas, onrt in RarnOTpll noiintv a sand storm damagKi cotton. The temperature was much abwve the normal until Saturday after wblch it was far below, (he departure on the 20 ih at Columbia beiDg 23 degrees. Toe sunshine did not average normal for the State but was not so deficient as to be harmful. Rain in the form of showers were numerous and in some instances heavy and fairiy well distributed, only a few localities beiog left dry. In places the ground was too wet to worfc and ^s a consequence grass and weeds are showing. Cotton ranges from fair to very good stand over the whole State. One field of .1 +- QAH Q/trAo hoQf ftVAT dUUUU WW awv^o vuu www VI V* seen." The only report of a poor stand comes from Williamsburg and Sumter counties were the ground Is too dry. Plowing and chopping is progressing nicely the latter being from one-third to two-thirds fiuished. Grass showing In places. Some forms or squares have been seen. Corn is doing fairly well but bud worms continue to do much injury. Stand healthy in color but very uneven.?Rice doing well; Irish pota toes being harvested along the coast with from poor to fair yield. Doing better in interior. Sweet potato planting continues. Tobacco in very good condition. Sugar cane doing well. Watermelon and kindred vines growing rapidly. wneatDutsngauy u ai an improved, and rust oa the blades is becoming more general. Harvesting will soon begin. Oats are ripening in the eastern portions of the State, and harvesting is aoout to begin with prospects of about half a crop. Gardens doing well. Some reports indicate a shortage of feed for farm stock which generally wintered poorly, although pasturage will soon be excellent. The following places report one inch or more of rainfall for the week: Saint Geossf" 2 20, Society Hill 145, Beaufort r.S&fjElioree 1 90, Ksio 105. Charleston 1.60. Hunters 2 50. Easley 4.75, (.?), Central 100, Greenville 2 44. Trial 1.68, Port 2 12Effinffham 1 74. Conwav 1.25. Loopsrs 1.00, Saint Stephen 2 43, Spartanburg 1.25, Camden 103,Cheraw 118, Florence 2.05, Hardeevilie 131, Batesburg 1.12, Greenwood 3.37, Santuc 1.26, Little Mouatain 103. Courted Hi* Own Wife. London, May 24.?A marvellously queer story of the reunion of a longseparated husband and wife without themselves knowing their former relations comes from St". Petersburg and eclipses in its strange circumstances the wildest invention of the novelist. More than twelve years ago Michael Yaltidze, then a-school boy, fell in love with a pretty girl of hi3 own age in Hungary and they married after a snort acquaiatance. The parents of Yaitidze. when they learned of the match, ssnt him to America under an aSwUmtJ name. He settled in Alabama, where the iron discoveries of the past few years enabled him to make a fortune. He fell in love with an American girl and wished to marry her. He commissioned a lawyer to obtain the necessary documents and witnesses to insure a divorce from bis boyhood wife and started for Russia to see the matter through. He stopped In London, Paris, and fioally Wiesbaden, where he made the acquaintance of a charming Russian lady, who soon supplanted the American girl in his aff-c ions. He prolonged his visit for weeks and some scandal arose. He declared his passion and asked her to marry him as soon as he obtained a divorce from bis American wife, which, he said, be was exp-cing bv mail. He was incau'ious en-ugn to give the name and addn-ss of the American girl be caller1 bia *ife. Fiually he harried on to sre how the case against nis real wife was pr?'grrssiug Tne la*ytr iuforcued Mm that me case was all rlaht, and no pe?jur> would be needed, as ber miscouduct was notorious. Re said the wife bad be^n living some time ur.der a stage name at Wirshaden, at d bad recently been notoriously intimate with a wealthy American, giving his client his owd American anas, me aiuaz-u Yaltidza demanded that he stop his silly Joking, out the lawyer declared he was ia earnest, and called in a detective to corroborate him. The latter entered. "What did you say was the name of the gentleman who was intimate wifh Madame Y. in Wiesbaden, aod is corejpoDdent in a divorce case?" "His name Js X, but that's the gengleman himself there." "What do you mean,you scoundrel?" shouted Yaltidze, and th*-n fixing his eyes upoD the witness: "Why, you are the blackguard I threatened to thrash in Wiesbaden if I found you hanging about my lodgings any more." "Yes, sir, I was engaged to watch Madame Y.'s movements in Wiesba deD; that's why I dogged her steps ana yours. The lady is willing enough to get a divorce. She has a promise of marriage, she says, from an American millionaire." When Mme. Yaltidzs heard the story she wrote a sweet letter to her husband's alleeed wife in the United States, introducing herself as that lady's successor, and asking to be informed of the result of the divorce case. Then she instructed her lawyer to sue her husband for alimony on a high scale aud to assert that she knew all along her paramour was lord and master. Yaltidza has disappeared. The brother of the American girl is prepared to shoot him on sight. Looks Bright lor Repeal. Washington, May 23.?The friends of tne repeal of the state bank tax have been doing some active work dur ingthe past few days. A canvass made of the house has convinced them, they say, that they will be able to pass the bill. It is understood that much of the opposit ion on the part of the Democrats has been silenced through the eforts of Mr. Cleveland. J G1TE AND 61TE QUICKLY. _ ( THE BEAUFORT SUFFERERS NEED AID NOW. An Appeal Iiened by Got. Tlllman?Wlrte j People on the Ver/te o 1 Sfaivation? j TTiilte People Should Give Them Aid. 1 CoLUitBia, S C? May 25.?When g the letters concerning the destitution of c white people living on the sea islands j were published, The Begister sent a g representative to that section of the State to investigate the situation there. He j went and tound it far worse than bad c been pictured. This representative e retunred to the city jesterday, He { had a conversation with Governor Till- ?i man and sta ed to him what he had t learned. Oa ihe strength of his conversa- c t.inn with Thp. Recister*8 reDretenlative. f Governor Tillman yesterday issued the i following appeal: To tte people oi tbe State: 1 I desire to make an appeal on behalf < of the white rasidents of Bluffcon Town- < 3bip, Beaufort County. It has been t <.nly about two weeks since information , *as received at this efflce claiming that { great destitution existed among the pso- \ pie of ?ur own color in that locality. I *as somewhat sceptical at first, eight { months having elapsed since the storm ( wbich devastated tne coast, but from j entirf>lb tmar.HrnrLhv snnrrieaandthe tier* _ sonal laep ?ction of an agent I find that there is absolute w&ot and need of prompt aa3istaoce. else tbere will be extreme suffering and probable starvation. These people lost their entire crop by the storm aod ware unabale to meet their obligations of last year. They have exhausted ull meaDS of credit in the eflort to support thamselve3 aod to plant anew. Thev cannot cultivate their crops with gra3S fed stock and al c j ' Lcauj uuiLuzia uam uicu* I appeal to the chariiable in their behalf. Contributions in money sent to me will be promptly forwarded for relief. Contributions of meat, flour, corn or meal can be shipped to Thomas Martin, chairman of the relief committee, Bluffcon, care of the steamer Alpha at Beaufort or Savanah steamer Puot Boy at Charleston. B. R. Tillman, Governor. This appeal will doubtless meet with a prompt resiwnse. C LEMSON WXL RISE AGA! N . At a Meetlae the Board of TraUee* Have so Decided. Calhoun, S. C, May 25.?The Board 8 ot Trustees or uiemson met at Fort Hill this evening. Only nine members of the board were present. ? Architect Bruce of the firm of Bruce c & Morgan of Atlanta, the architects of 1 Clemson and Winthrop Colleges, met with the Board, and gave them the ben- ? efit of his experience and skill. i The Board decided to proceed at once 8 with the rebuilding of the main struct* g ure, which was laid in ruins by the fire j demon this week. The Board has no t funds in its possession which have not r already been appropriated for regular ( expenses, but it will receive $20,000 ; from the insuranctfupon the destroyed building, which cost 865,000 to erect, f though convict laoor was used. Much r of the brick in the structure can b8 J used again. The insurance money will ! carry on the rebuilding operations un- ? til after the General assembly meets, s when it is more than probable the nec- f essary appropriation will be made to r finish the rebuilding. r The Clemsen cadets have behaved j handsomely; they have shown them- t selves to be men. They feel that they c must prove themselves worthy of t what has been done to give them edu- , cations which will thoroughly equip them for the battle of life. They have the most intense and lively pride *n the 8 institution they attend and will do c everything in their power to maintain c its higb name, JNot a nail aozen or me ? studeuts have left for home since the 1 burning of the main building. The , cadets are determined to stand by Clem- f son as losg as there is anything left to t stand by. The boys of South Carolina \ are made of good s'tuff There Is noth- t ing mllksoppish about them. They y are neither sugar nor salt, though they are all "somebody's darliug." A3 loDg as the men of South Carolina are as true to tbeir State as the Clemson bojs are to their college, the State will be 1 safe from all danger. ! The work of Clemson College will go J on j list tbe same as if the fire bad not [ occurred. Chere will Have to be some v doable teaming and that sort of thing, * but it, will be done. Various rooms in tne other buildings on the grounds ?eill 1 be u?ed as lecture rooms until the ' main buildiua bas beeo re-erecfed. i Tbis will not be as pieasant as it wouM ' he to have tbe classes meetiu toe com- ' fort able and airy roums in which tney ? before tbe fire pursued their studies, ' but there are ot ber considerations which 1 are hignt-r <han m^re personal cmfort. ' Tbe Glemson boys are after getting s educated and will get what they desire, 1 if tbe classes have to meet under trees ' on the campus. Tbey are iu earnest { and so is tbe faculty. ' The health of the students at Clem- 1 son has never been better. Tfie hospital is in no demaod at all, and is not likely to be, judging bvtnegood appetites and hign spirits of the cadets,who are a3 hardy a set of young fellows as ever delighted the eye of the patriot, who se?s the future safety and welfare of the State in the high character, good attainments and thorough develop ment of those who, as years roll by. must be leaders in the place of those who now lead but in the inevitable course of events must be garnered In by old Father Time. President Craighead, who has the love and emulation of the cadets, has received many letters of sympathy from all classes and conditions of peo pie, for to ail aiiKe is uiemson uear. : All regret the burniDg of the maiD building, but all feel certain that it ought to and will be rebuilt as beauti- 1 ful and grand a9 it was before the flood '' of fire laid it in ruins.?Register. ! A Dim* Novel Tragedy. ' Indianapolis, May 23.?Wiley * Taj lor and Cioud Sanders played Dead- I wood Dick in J. L. Keach'a comrnis- J siou htuje with serious results. Sand- J ers said he was Dead wood Dick, and j Taylor challenged the roost and winked . ^ l-J ? J ??... ' nis eye. oanaers reauceu iuw a uianu ( and got a revolver and warned Taylor j Dot to wink hla eye again. The latter was defiant and repeated the offense, and Sanders shot him through the. heaL Taylor will die. Sanders insists he did j not know it was loaded. i Banditl In Texw. | Long view, Texas, May 24?.It 3 P. ] M. five robbers entered the First Na- ! tional Bank of LoDgview. The presi- ? dent and cashier were ordered to hold i up their hands and the robbers secured 1 82,500. Several officers and citizens 1 met tae robbers and a constant firing 1 was kept up, during which George i Buckingham and J. W. McQueen were g killed and Marshal Muckeiroy badly i wounded. One of the robbers was JI 'killed. ? ( 9 GORMAN'S GREAT TALK. ^ 2rl IcIms the Wilt on Bill and Sajs It Was F an Imperfect Measure. Waihington, May 24.?Senator TOrmtD addressed the Senate on the e anff bill yesterday morning. He opened a a prophetic strain, saying: "We are tearing the end. After nearly twenty /ears cf political progress, of positive growth, of constant development, and miversal enlightement tH.e Democratic ? )irty and American people are within _ ,lght cf the promised land. | Emacc'pation in at hand. Eaaancipa- t on from partizan oppression from greed ^ >f classes; from extortion; from willfal s xtragavance; from financial fantasy; t< rom spoils; trom restrictions upon indivi- 2 Inal liberty; from jingoism; from all a hose evils, in brief, which the Damo- s iratic party mberit as a natemi legacy * rom three decades of Republican malad v niDistrauon." 1 H? then touched upon ihe d:fficulties 0 ffhich confronted the Democratic party r m i'b return to power after thirty years t if opDosition and the vehemence of de- a nandj made upon them. He said: "We g vere not only urged, bat ordered perem- t )torily to reform the tariff at once. Why i wait. o He asserted that time and plenty of it a lad always been considered absolutely ,v sssential in reforming the tarifi. The Jj Hills hill did not pass the House till mid- ? maimer. The McKlniey bill did not re- c :eiye me signatured 01 ine rresiaeni uu t be last day of September. a Speaking of the House bill be said: J 'The Hcu3e in obedience to the obvious s viahe8 of the country passed a taiiff bill u larly in the session. Comparatively lit- o Je time was given to the consideration v >t tbe various schedules and the result t *as nectssarily an Imperfect measure, s vhicb not ouly failed to meet the re- * [uirement of the treasury, but actually 5 creased the deficit created b ? the Be* " jublican prohibitive duties. There was s to expectation that the bill would be- ? some law without change. o Then he added with significant em- g >hasis: uUur friends on the other side e teem very anxiou3io learn upon what t heory this bill was constructed. I will tl ell them. It was constructed upon fl Democratic theroy of tarif for revenue, a vith such incidental protection as cau be i] ;lveo consistently to industries of the ? ;oantry. It follows strictly the course ? narked out by President Cleveland in : lis letter of acceptance. It is not a free t, rade measure, bat is a larger step tor ? ree trade than either the Mills bill or ^ he tariff ot 1883. It Is not a protection v ict for the sake of protection, bat it does g liacrimiaate between raw material? and i< nannfactured articles to the fall extent s >f the difference between Earopean and b American wages. v m : ?11 A 1 UCUllJg UU mc OJic^cu 1UUUCUM/ Ultue ingar trmt and other like organizations q shaping the Senate bill he said: The 0 issertion that any trusts have dictated ^ my part of any schedule of this bill I e >rononnce ucqoalifiedly false. They a iave received some attention, although lot as much consideration as individuals e sngaged in the business of manufactur- t ng. No more and no less. Upon the t ;uf*j ect of an income tax, Gorman said d ie was in full accord with the sentiments n ixpressed by the Senators from New a Fork and New Jersey, and like them p :onsidered that in served its purpose as j3 i war tax and has no fitting place in cur jt iacal system in time of peace. He could r1 tot vote con8cientIouly to make this ? -? ? ^ ? 4. - r ^ neiaou oi Laxauuu a pari, t,i uui isetucu Q >olicy, but he could not ignore the fact t( hat a lar^e maj irity of his Democratic t :olleague8 honestly differ from him in r his matter and he was willing to put he subject to a test ot a few yeara. o During the delivery of Gormen's fi peech the drop of a pin could almost g iave beefl heard, so deep was the hush & ipon the chamber and at its close Bryce, J lurried forward to congratulate the J daryland Senator. ? .Aldrich replied to Gorman and was ollowed by Teller, who as a test quesiOD, moved to lay the tan ft bill on the able. The vote resulted, year3 28; f ia>8 38. Hill, Irby, Kyle and Peffer s roted agains the motion. 1 t Washington. May 25?Tbe ex-pri J 'are secretary of Ooogressm-tn L>ck- * vood, who sold a forged order for a Ob lot of tbe govurom-nc "horse joofc-" which oelonged to his employ- a s^a quota. Is locked up Mr. Locfc*ood c lays ae will Jet ihe law take its course *; Che case serves to call attention to a c egu'.ar traffic and brokerage business * ?hich is going on continually In seeds iod documents furnished free in great ? juanti l^s by the government to memDris of Congress. There was once a * ieoator who fed to his horses the seed J >ats *bich the department of agricul- " :ure furnished for distribution to farm- 1 us. Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, jays: '*A person whom I did not kno* out evidently a rascal, came into my :ommi*;tee room a short time ago and offered to sell me a large quantity of seed. I asked him where he obtained it, and he said he had purchased it of members and of members'clerks. I Listened to him a while and then told aim that I was half inclined to have lim arrested, but as I could not waste ime to prosecute him I concluded to iet the matter pass. I ordered him jutof my room and told him if I ever aeard again of his offering seed for jale I would swear out a warrant. I'm aalf sorry now I did not do it. I don't fcnow just how far members are themKAnnnnniVvla fthoaA hr/\lraro rhey have no right to sell government * publications put to their credit as rep- ! reseatatives. If they have no use for : :hem they can always give them to I members who are short, and can receive others that are valuable to their conrtitueats in return; bat I have no very aigh opiaion of a member who will try l x> make money by selling his govern meat documents. I had between 300 lad 400 volumes of government pablilations stolea oa a forged order," said t Elepreseatative McMillin, of Teaaessee. c 'I aever fouad out who did it, but,it is s strange hove many qaeer tricks are [ practiced by outsiders to secure seeds ind govern men t publications. Some me, whom nobody afterwards could identify, walked into this document room, where they are kept to the credit )f Bepresentatives, and presented an jrder that bore a very fair imitation of oay signature for 400 books." Kills Five. London, May 21?A Vienna disTho VfltTQ rannrtfl* Unr. fi W JkUQ A/AUJ i.lVfTU vw? ? v?* ? ng a dance in the village of Shutzen, a iear Oedenburg, a quarrel arose be- t ;ween the young men about some wo* t men. A gendarme intervened to re- t 3tore order, whereupon the young men o surrounded him in a threatening man- c ler. The officer believing his life was L n danger, drew a revolver and fired d nto the crowd. His bullets struck and t tilled four young men and a girL The v nfrutated crowd then set upon the ii gendarme and pounded and kicked him I intil life was extinct The whole vil- o age Is terribly wrought up over the I a iffair and further trouble is feared* si L BATTLE AT TIE MINES. % ATAL. FIGHT BETWEEN MINERSAND DEPUTY SHERIFFS. . 3 - - " 'Ive .tt'ners nuiea ana juist wounaou and Ttres Dipatle* Wounded?Conflictla* St >rlea aa to tlie Flrat^Slot. Uniontown, Pa., May 24.?This lorning the Stickler Hollow mines of > tie Washing-ton, Coal and Coke Comany, midway between Fayetie City "J <TTAn fJin AAanA Af LIU U&y ivll ooauluu| wwaa nu^ ovouo v/jl be bloodiest encounter sines the strike eg an Both sides were in fighting bape, seventy-five armed deputies conending with a mob of from 1.500 to ,000 striksrs, about 200 of whom were v % rated with all kinds of guns. Five trikers are dead and eight or more rounded and three deputies were rounded. The trouble had been brew g all t&e week. Tne mines were the - 3S inly one in the fourth pool that were unning and men were at work. " . - V-? Since Monday morning the strikers iave'been collecting at Stickle Hollow v ;nd the Monongahela and Yoturhioheny river mine?, and about 200 of v :M hem remained there all last nigbt. " holr threats nf violence and the siirht -X|g f so many guns in their possession larmed the company ana tne officials fired Sheriff Wilhelm at Uniontown, ast night lor aid and later sent a man .. -M n horseback with a report of the serius condition they were in. The sheriff onld get no more aid to them at that . ^ ime and believed that the seventy-five xmed guards under Capt. John M. lichards would be able to hold possesion of the property. The strikers " aarched about the plant all night and ccupied all the roads leading to the -*^3 rorks. When the men began coming o work at daylight today, strikers \ . ~;M fnnnprl t.hfim and drove them home. )ae report says they also made a harge upon the deputies with the in- . x-. *31 entlon of driving them off the works nd that precipitated the conflict. The trikers were only about fifty yards rom the deputies when the latter penedfire. The strikers returned the - m re promptly and stood their ground, ach firing as rapidly as possible,until be strikers' ammunition gave out and hey were forced to retreat. As they ed, the deputies followed them and rrested a great many who had guns a their possession and now are prisonrs.The deputies were forcedto fight for x heir lives and their shooting was most ffective. Five strikers fell,dead and icht were wounded, but it Is thought ' hat many more were wounded and gg pt away with the fleeing mob nnoticed. Three of the deputies wdfe rounded. The plant is now thickly uarded by deputies, but more trouble i looked for at Stickle Hollow. The trikers ran for home and in an hour ot a striker was in sight. The mob fas composed of foreigners. It was not a one-sided battle, as at xst reported, but was fought with as aany guns on one side as on the other |?j nd with as mnch firing by the strikers s by the deputies. Among the wound- % d are three deputies, while the killed oil ofribora ic ou oviiawjiu. When the workmen came to the strikrs in the public road, they were asked o go home. Th6 workmen were about N o comply with the command when the eputles rushed into the midst of the aen, got possession of the workmen nd escorted them to the pit. In this art of the performance, a deputy sherS fired a shot, which opened ap a batle in which volley after volley was red by each side at close range. The trikers stood their ground while their wftrp fallin*?! htit their am. " aunition gave out and they were forced _ /'M o give up the field and flee to escape he rain of bullets from the Winchester ifles. It is said the strikers were advancing n the line of deputies when the latter :A red the first shot. Many who had uns ic their possession were arrested y the deputies and will be brought to iil here this afternoon. The latest iews Irom toe scene of the'trouble says - v bat the strikers have all gone and that he situation now is morn peaceable; . /|| Pennv XV ?-f P'Uud Foolish. Columbia, May 23.?No positive inormatiou regarding the status at ClemKaa wnt rQ/>0! tra/? hofA ^ ^ *IUL VjUIiCgC uoojcu wutu AWvivv^A wv*v? Sveryoneis very much interested in be condition and sincere in " j= be hope tfiat the damage is tot as great as has been reiorted. Governor Tillman r?tnrned rom Rock HL?!i tbis nora ag, and iays bit. hf has got'ea very ait?**re reports * ,b>ut ih^ disaster Se tomks -htt the cum buildiug c >st tal-y 885,000. alboagh no posiiiv* figures <u o toe ost are to be had. G ivernor Tillman ays that no time will oe lost in tne ?ork and that all recicattoos will be :*rrierf rigbt along. The class work, ;dg im said, will g.o on without mrerrup ion ven if t>nts are foaod necess iry. v Dbere is, however, plenty of room for 11 cUs3es. speaking as an individual oemocrof tbe board of trustees lie , aidtnat tbe work of repairing tbe viS milding would be started at oac<\ The nsaranca money would be sufficient \i ?ith wbich to make the starl. Tbe ^ College had no available money as all >f its income bad already been appor- 1 ioned and could not be used for buildng. Governor Tillman relates that at 1 i recent meeting of tbe board of trusees a determined effort was made to ncrease tbe insurance on the main inilding from ?20,000 to ?40,003, but Thns? wan ODDOJSed tbe in xease ia ttie insurance tooK the josition that there wa3 a mtnmam risk, a3 there was no ine in the building at nights; that it ras lighted by electricity, and thai here were no chimneys or grates, as tie building was heated by steim. He ays, however, that hs is quite willing '--??5 o take his share of the blame for the mall amount of insurance on the ?n4 i/1iri<? W a mf.hat: t.hft Stata ^ ixhibit la the building was worth ibout $3,000. The board of trustees fill meet on Friday and consider the intire matter.?News and Courier. M Will Ran Again. Washington. May 23,?Rspresentaive Izlar has received numerous in[uiries recently from his political friend is to his intentions in the approachng Congressional contest. There ap- : >ears to be som9 question as to whether A fho I?OAQ fAi* FA clflftfmn in 1C vv111 Uiaao iuo *vi viowvavu au . - -, he 1st or tbe 7ch Congressional district 3e proposes to retain his residence in Orangeburg, which is in the newly aranged 7th district. To make the conest in the 1st district he would have to emove to Charleston. He realizes that le would labor under a disadvantage by hanging his place of residence and >robabiy excite antagonisms that can asiiy be avoided by remaining in Or ngebarg, Besides he desires to meas- . j ire swords again with his former an- j agonist, Dr. Stokes. There are a num?er of vlnable Democrats in the City f Charleston who are desirous of re- IS (resenting mac great cummmw tiu/ q Congress, and therefore he will reaain In the 7th district. He will make %> he race as a Straightout Democrat, adocating the principles as enunciated a the Chicago platform of 1892. Judge zlar reached tbis conclusion after due *'^6 on sulfation with his political friends nd advisers ana ne 13 connaent or access.?News and Courier.