The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 24, 1894, Image 1

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- f CW VOL. XLIX. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1894. * * NO. 11. | J ? ? ? 11 i l i 11. i ESCAPED A LYNCHINGQUICK JUSTICE SAVES AN OHIO NEGRO'S NECK. The [Crowd Were Determined, However, Cud Took the Fiend from Two M>lltla Companies Who Captured Him Agtjn After Killtnf Two of the Hob. Washington, Ohio,Oct. 17.?In the criminal court today Jasper Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Bird of tfarrottfa Station a week ago, confessed the crime and was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. There was every prospect of a bloody fight to-night as a great mob was in town bent on lynching Dolby and the Sheriff had two companies of State militia here to help him protect the prisoner. A special grand jury was called. Dolby was indicted today and his trial and sentence followed prompt ly. The county officers nopea oy cms means to quiet the mob and avert a fight. The sheriff with three companies or militia started this evening to take Dolby, the negro rape fiend to the penitentiary, but at the depot the mob got possession of the prisoner. The militia charged killing two of the mob and recapturing the prisoner. He was then . harried back to jaiL A call has been made for the First and Fourteenth re tedarkness came on a crowd of 1,500 ^anreounded the court house and ^are really one building, yelllynch him/ Finally Mjia stone which struck a Hraast. Then Colonel aroused, addresswhich was not to repeat the offence. 'If you want to Injure any one,' said he; 'hit me, and not those young men,' and with hat uplifted he walked out Into the crowd, and said 'here I am/ his face- ashen with anger. Thefcrowd gathered around Mm but not a man lifted his hand to strike the Colonel. It was probably f well that they did not for standing on f the court house steps were the soldiers with guns loaded waiting an order to fire. The crowd surged closer and closer to the court house steps, becoming boliler as the darkness Increased. CoL Coit addressed them again or rather attempted to do so, but they would not listen to him. He shouted that he would have to order the soldiers to fire Iftlunr ilM nnf *0!! KaMr hnh nn t.hftv 4UL D*1X2J VUU UVV 4W4A VUVM) WMV eame and finally the order to fire was given. Many were seen to fall and the mob fled like a lot of frightened sheep. The dead are- Smith welsh, 18 years of age, son of a groceryman, shot In the Head and abdomen; Jess July, 25 years old, shot in breast and abdomen. He was a laborer. Mack Johnson of Williamsburg:, Brown County, shot in bowel. The wounded are: William Sam, 23 years old, a laborer from Adams County, working here. "Theodore Ammerman, shot in right thigh, serious; Frank Neiterhouse, an aged man, shot in left leg;'George Seating, 14 yetrs old, shot in groin ?nd in both legs, will die; Frank Smith, flesh wound in foot; Dial Parrott, 20 years old, shot ! ****- T/vUt* VT/tPnttA floah W IlKUli JLWti tivuu iaoyum,. uwukh wcmmia IDOCr ErSa? xiiua,. blfUl ill ', foot. Others were undoubtedly injured, bat these were the most serious cases. The crowd secured a battering ram and began to beat down the door. Not a shot was fired by the soldiers until the door fell in, when the troops fired the volley which resulted so fatally: The remainder of the soldiers were stationed at the South entrance and unmind& ful that a portion of the crowd were making an attempt to batter down the door at the North entrance. The first ? fright following the volley having died H away, the mob became more bolster? ous and bold again. They are gathering about the court house and though they remained at a respectful distance, uttered loud imprecations against the soldiers and fears were entertained for their safety if reinforcements did not quickly come. The crowd made an attempt to secure dynamite and swore that they wonld blow up the court house. The wounded and dead were carried into the engine house and the stores near by. It looked very evident that the prisoner would be secured before morning. At 9 o'clock to-night ? ? Adjutant General Howe ordered oat as sn additional force Battery B. of the Pint Artillery at Cincinnati. The first message was received from CoL A.B. Coir, in command of the State troops at Washington C. H. since the report of the assault at 10 o'clock tonight It was addressed to General J. C. Howe and was as follows: "Your telegrams just received. No reinforcements have yet arrived. We can hoid the court house for hours. The doors I were broken in asd the guards fired. Beported to us that two were killed and three wounded. It is reported to the sheriff that the mob has broken into the powder house and taken the powder It la the most determinded mob I ever saw: The troops used every precaution. The sheriff and Judge Maynard approved our action. I pleaded and begged of the men to peacably disperse. Our men are all right now." Adjutant General Howe has been unable to get any answer to Colonel Colt and Sheriff Cooke. He believes that the mob has them surrounded and that they have cut off communication; Be is also having trouble in securing the necessary communication to move the troops ordered to Colonel Coifs aid. Af 1f? rv'nlrw/?V 1 ho frrwna 'frnm \farus yille and those to go from here joined them on a special train over the Midland Railway. It is thirty-seven miles from here to Washington. General Howe urged the railway company to send the train forward at the utmost speed. He haj arranged that the train hearing the (Cincinnati troops shall reach there about the same time so that there can be no question about having a sufficient force on the ground to control the mob when the first soldiers ajrive. The mob is so incensed against the soldiers now that a small force would be in danger there. General Howe is afraid the mob in Its frensy over the sbooting of f*?r? KlAtr UUO uiuzeuo may wijr w a/w np the whole jail and court house. The command of Colonel Coit is now In the jail and this would result in a terrible loss of life. "If they can hold the jail against the mob for a half hour longer" said General Howe at 10:30 tonight, *1 think the danger will be over. 1 will have enough troops in Washington court house by that time to control all the people in layette County." The safety of the little command of Colonel Coit, consisting of seventy-five men and the inmates of the jail and the jail officers as well as the wretched prisoner whose beastly crime has caused all the rioting and bloodshed, depends upon the events of the nest half hour. Upon the firing the mob dispersed in all directions. Immediately all places of business in the city were shut up. Wa?Aii rVoomor nfiMnr.nWllo clnciv! all iUAJVi VI.CCNUV4 places where liquors were sold. Every i street was filled with people. No tine was lost In carrying away the dead and wounded. Business houses and the engine house were converted into hospitals. All the surgeons in the citv were called into service. Mothers, sisters, wives, sweethearts, crowded around the dead and wounded and add-J w ed pathos to the scene and fire to the rage of the mob by their lamentations. Against the militia, the indignation was bitter, vicious and vehement. It pervaded all classes. As the time passed, the mob grew in size and f ary. AU over the country by telephone, by courier and by electric wire, the news had spread. All the roads leading to the citT wftro filled with men on horseback, in wagons and on foot, pushing with all possible speed to the scene of bloodshed, breathing vengeance at every step. Meanwhile,in Washington courthouse a search was going on for arms and ammunition and for dynamite. Shouts were heard "down with* the militia." "Blow up the dogs along with the black fiend." These shouts but feebly expressed the pent-up passion of everybody, for everybody was in the street and in the street were members of the mob, far at least as personal feelings were concerned. There was a certainty of organization of the forces going on. for that minous stillness that forebodes supreme excitement and deadly resolution succeeded the ebulition of feeling. Men moved about as if bent on business, but said nothing. There is no doubt of a purpose to blow up the coure house. Of thii the militia are aware* A full moon lighted up every ?nnrr>ju?h tn t.hft mnrt house. If mill tary reinforcements do not reach here before the moon goes down, there is danger of farther and greater bloodshed between an organized armed mob and militia, and in case the mob succeeds there is danger that many of the militia will share the fate of the human brute Dolby. OUR COAT OF ARMSGovernor Tillman Hu & Large Oil PaIxxClnCOtXt Made. COLuatBiA, S. C.,Oet. 18.?Mrs. A. J. Robertson of this city has completed for Governor Tillman a large oil painting on canyass of the Coat of Arms of South Carolina and a small plaquer painting of the great seal of the State. The paintings will be hung in the executive office and will remain there. They are the first ever maae ana wiu go down to the generations as the official pitcares. The object in having them painted was to perfect, as near as possible, the figures, emblems, etc., which have remained without perfection for so many years. The history of the seal of the State is known but nobody , hat any Knowledge of the history or exact meaning of the Coat of Arms. It wlil remain a mystery. The Secretary of State's offije furn ishes the following history of the seal: "The Great Seal of the State of S jutb Carolina, by order of the General Assembly, March, 1778, was designed by William Henry Drayton, assisted by some of the Privy Council, after the Fort on Sullivan's Islands had defeated the British fleet, which event suggested some of the devices. "The Palmetto tree' represents the fort, which was constructed of the Palmetto trees that grew on the island; tney still grow there. There are two 1 shields pendant uader the branches of the Palmetto. 'March 26 ;h,' the day the scribed on the one, on other, July 4, 1776, which refers to the Declaration of Independence. The son rising with peculiar splendor refers to the 28sh of June, as a fair day?also bespeaks good fortune to the State; a torn up oak. with its branches lopped off, ltes prostrate at the base of this erect Palmetto. The twelve spears, points raised, representin? twelve colonies, are bound crosswise to the Palmetto?the thirteen colony?and upon the band which unites them is inscribed 'Qais Sspsrabit.' Beneath the prostrate oak is inscribed Meliorem Lapsa Locavit,' and in large figures underneath '1776.' At the top of exerque ar 3 the words 'South ? - - - " A-A. C A Carolina,'?at tne ootwrn, .muiuia i Opibusque Parati.' R averse?A woman walking on seashore, over swords and daggers; in right hand a laurel branch, in her leftthefolus of her robe; she looks with hope to the sun rising In great splendor over the sea. The azure sky is above, and at the top of exerque are the words, 'Dam Spiro Spero.' In the field below is the word 'Spes,' showing that the design above it represents hope. "The first use made of this seal was by President Rutleige, May 2, 1777, who issued a pardon under the seal of the state." If as much was known of the Coat of Arms Governor TiTman would be a happier man. He h}?s ransacsea every history to find oat something aboat it and has offered a reward of $25 to any person who would g ive him the information desired. He is no wiser than when he began. The Coat of Arms, as is known, is made np of the seal of the State as a centre. Supporting the seal on the right side' is th>j figure of a revolutionary soldier; or. the left a female figure; above the seal and between the other figuj bs, the figure of an angel blowing a traupet, supposed to be a herald angle ct mmunicating tidings of some kind to the world. The Coat of Arris is presumed to have been adopted a !ter the seal, as the centre of it is the seal. According to instructions for Governor Tillman, Mru. Robertson has painted, as near as she cooia do so rrom the facts known, the face of General Moultrie on the figu re of the soldier, and the face of a lineal descendant of Emily G-aiger on the female figure. In the female picture the right leg is thrown forward and is exposed to the knee. This was painted this way because is some manner there has arisen a conflict as to whether the right leg or left leg should be thrown forward. Some of the metal juts used by the State in the past ha-?e been printed one way and some another. Owing to the position of the female it is impossible tbattne left leg could be advanced. Consequently Governor Tillman had the right leg pat toi ward, ana in me fatareno other position will b9 official. ?Register An Unclaimed Diary. Charleston, Oct. 19.?Postmaster Mowry has given to The News and Coorier for pablication the following letter which will be of interest to the family referred to: Postmaster of Charleston, S. (J.?Dear Sir: To-day I received a pocket memoranda, containing a short diary, the nrrmertv of the late Lieut F. J. L^s^sae, acting adjutant 25Lh S. C. Y., who wai killed ia the short but sanguinary engagement between Gen Hagood's command and the Bed Star brigade, 21 division, 18th army corps, U. S. A., at Arrowfield Church, Va, on the afternoon of May 9,1894 Adjc Lesesne's body with those of his gallant eomrade who fell that day in defence of the cause they thought to An fho nf uo iiguu, naj uunou ua hub battle. I will gladly mail it to the address of any of his family or relatives on receiving intimation of their desire to possess it. Very respectfully your obedient servant, a A. Uegiiiak, Late of the Red Star Bridge. Germontown, Philadelphia, Penn, ^ October 11,1891. LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET. The Annual Report ot Charters Granted by the Seoretary of State. Columbia, Oct, 18.?The report of the Secretary of State has been finished np to date. The proposed capital stock of the companies that have been chartered during the fiscal year is 32,764.000, and of this amount one company Intending to manufacture a car coupler is put down for a million dollars. .Lucre tuo a gtcau rnauj wipuiawv/uo that have takea out commissions for charters which have not yet made the proper return to the Secretary of State for the charter. The summary of the returns for last year did not divide the commissions from the charters and the aggregate amount reported last year was $7,413,000. There were a number of companies that reported increases of capital stock during the year, but that statement has not yet been made up. The following is a copy of the summary of the charters granted by the Secretary of State up to this time: Cold Storage, Manufacturing and Transporting Co 8 5.000 Cumberland Buff Stone Co... 30,000 Union Labor Co^of Port Royal. 1,000 Consumers' Coal Co 50,000 Citis9ns' Building and Loan Association, of Sumter 250,000 Anderson Telephone Exchange 5,000 TkavllnfffAn T2v>is?b- PA 9n fYYl jyaiuugwu i/uva v/v# > J. R. Stokea Lumber Co 10,000 Oconee News 2,000 Cannon Co 25,000 Thos. P. Smith, Mclvsr & Co.. 40,000 Bl&cksburg Phosphate Guano Co 100,000 Flerenee Cotton OU Mill Co... 20,000 South Carolina Detective Agency 3,000 Bryan Printing Co 6000 Planters' Grocery Co 2,500 Livingstone Printing and Publishing Co 3,000 Ganson Dry Goods Co 20,000 Homestead Building and Loan Association, of Columbia 20,000 National Manufacturing and Supply Co 5,000 Charleston Lumber and Manufacturing Co 25,000 Milford Mill Co 140,000 Elliott Manufacturing Co 5,000 Home Savings Association 20,000 Harley Medical Manufacturing Co 2,000 nKovliMifAn WIOQ Rol I AooAoio. VUOJLl^ibVU UOkOSJ JL>tlU XkUUWViU tion 2,000 Sumter Track una Park Association 500 Enterprise Banking and Trust CO 50,000 Carolina Pleasure Club 1,000 Exchange Bank,of Batesburg.. 50,000 Fulton Industrial Aid Association 1.000 Charleston Investment Co 2,500 Cnarleaton Provision and Commission Co 2,500 Rsform Publishing Co, of N-swberry county 1,000 E tas U-ondman Co 10,000 tt-form Patriot Publishing Co. 1,000 R.?ck Hiil Hardware Co 10.000 SiviDg", Lian and lavement A88elation 9,000 Charleston Hotel Co 25,000 Atlantic Beach Hotel Co 2.500 . n . * 1 AAA uaaneston uijrar ??A?vaA/_ OOgDOfte-ta Si H'^'i Willi"* W?>.V?r." -kJiA^J Oksetee CluD 45,000 Boys' Clothing Oj 5,GOO Chgrofcee Medicine Co 5,000 Marlboro Mill Cd 25,000 Chase Land and Improvement Co 20,000 Southern Land Advertising Agency 1,000 Beneficial Life Insurance Cj , of Charleston 10,000 Peeden-Anderson Banking Co. 20,000 South Bound Land and Improvement Co 50,000 Fairfield Granite Co 30,000 Harris Automatic Air Brake Co 1,000.000 Tucapau Mills 150,000 Union Times Co 1,500 Charleston Electro-Plating and Bicycle Cj 1,600 Chester Mills 100,000 Southern Investment and Home Building Co 10,000 Vamnora' "Raotrof anH Pa/?taorR * Cor.".7....7.......... 25.000 Walterboro Dry Kiln and Planing Co 7,500 Roma Land and Investment j 60,000 Ooooer Limestone Institute C x 40.000 Whltmtre-Good Oo 3,000 China Hall Importing Co 5,000 Total $2,764,100 Benlt of His Vlalt. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 17.?Governor Tillman returned yesterday from Washington where he went to see Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller on the suDject of taxes on whiskey seized from distillers and taking possession of it for the State. When asked for an account of his trip the Governor said: "I accomplished all I went for, and tnat was to prevent any connici; oi authority or friction between the Federal and State authorities. I found Commissioner Miller very desirous of co-operating with me in the matter. There is some doubt in his mind as to whether he has authority to allow the State to seize liquor in a distillery warehouse and to pay the tax on it. Tne question has never been raised before and there is no jadicial decision along tbis line; There have been cases of sheriffs attempting to seiza liquors and imported goods in bonded warehouses under warrants for the collection of debts, and the courta have held that this was not permissible. Until the passage of the last revenue law,the Wilson Act. as amended by the Senate, liquor in warehouses waa held under certificates which were sold In the markets and anyone holding the certificates was considered the owner and could pay the fare and remove it. Congress for some reason changed the paras eology and the law now provides that the tax must be paid by the distiller, and under a strict construction no one else is allowed to do it, not even an administrator or executor. I contended that the government only held the liquor for the purpose of securing the tax; that the State's right to police liquor within its borders,whether manufactured or imported, was unquestioned. Tha Sapreme Court in any number of decisions concedes this in the most emphatic language, and the Wilson Act of 1810, the last legislation by Congress on the subject, also concedes it. "The Commissioner will submit the matter to the Attorney General whose nnfntnn mil) nnrnrn ftnr mnrDA rint.il me L-glslature and Congress meet. Toe jcsisfcey in question will be proceeded against and Judgment obtained, if the e?id?ace will warrant, and it will Doki b? alioared to be removed from the warehouse mtil the matter is finally determined. I have no doubt that tne police pa wer of the State, which oiSdrs from the attempt to seize for tne purpose of collecting a debt, will receive recognition at the hands of the Federal authorities,and if the law is at present defective, so as to prevent this, it will be amended when Congress mflfltji. Tt-. tnw hp?nm? necassarv for the Legislature to pass an Act to proTide for the licensing of stills m this State and the control of the oatpat by State officers. One thing is very certain, the illicit sale liquor at distilleries will be stopped.* ' BONDED WHISKEY. THE QUESTION BETWEEN THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT* Commissioner Miller Thicks II Governor Tillman'j ideas are Carried Oat the United States Will bs'.Deptlved of Some of Its B&venue. "Washington, Oct. 18.-?Secretary Carlisle has forwarded to Attorney Gen eral Olney for his decision, the letter of Revenue Commissioner Miller, which presents in ditail the q uestion raised between Governor Tillman of South Carolina and the United States authorities as to the jurisdiction of each in the enforcement of the South Carolina Dispensary law. The letter is a3 follows: Washington, 0 jt. 16,1894. Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of Treasury. Sir: I enclose herewith a letter frem Governor Tillmm of South Carolina and a printed copy for warded by him of the "State Dispensary" law, and I have the honor to request that the same may be submitted to the Hon. Attorney General for his opinion as to the course which should be taken by this office in the event of selzares by State officers, for confiscation tinder tbe Dispensary law, of distilled spirits deposited in distillery bonded warehouses under the internal revenue laws. It 13 proper to state that the natural effect of acquiescence by this office in the courss proposed to be tafcen would be the probable complete destruction of tbe bonded warehouse system within the State; the consequent cessation of the business of manufacturing distilled spirits under the Inter* nal re venae laws and the loss to the United States of farther income from that source. The Dispensary law.it appears, has been construed by the State Supreme Gourt as not absolutely prohibiting the manufacture and sale of distilled spirits. But It appears also that under the law a distiller in the State cannot sell his product to private persons within the State, nor if I rightly apprehend the provisions of the Third Section, to private persons to be shipped out of the State, but only to the State Commisssoner or to persons out side of the State and under regulations which would seriously inconvenience the shipper. Under snch restrictions, there would hardly be any further lawful production of distilled spirits within the State. No distiller would be willing to produce an article to be sold only on compulsion to a single purchaser, and at the price fixed by him. The question is broadly presented whether a State can so legislate as incidentally to deprive the United States of one of its declared sources of Tcvenae and it appears to me a proper -; matter for the consideration oT the"; highest law officer of the government. Supreme Court in McCulloch vs. Maryland, 4, Wheat 310, declared that "the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into effect the powers vested in the national government." And in Hannibal and St. J. R. R. Co. 78. ilusen, yo u. ?., 400, H^.wa3 umu that "neither the unlimited powers of a State to tax nor any of its large police powers can be exercised so as to work a practical assumption of the powers conferred by the Constitution upon Congress. And in numerous other cases it has been held to the same effect. On the other hand such cases as Boston Beer Co. vs. Massachusetts, 97 U. S., 25, the right of the State to absolutely prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was npheld. Applying what appears to be the established law to the present case, it would seem that while the State of South Carolina has the right in the ex erclse of its police power to prohibit the manufacture of and traffic in distilled spirits within the State, it is doubtful if it has a right without pro ** -o- ? i-n. MDiung ine mauiu-auiiuc w wami, w practically take possession of business in all its details and carry it on, and through its own agencies, for its own profits, thus perhaps forcing the Unit ed states to surrender the income derived by this source. It follows, of course, that if one State may do this, all may, and the police power of the States will have been "so exercised as to work a practical assumption of the powers of Congress," and to "impede, burden and control the operation of its laws." 3Tou will note that the Governor proposes to recognize the lien of the United States upon the spirits in the warehouses for the taxes doe thereon, and to pay the same. The law (sections 48 and 50 of the Act of Congress, August 28,1894,) limits the right of withdrawal of spirits from the warehouse to the distiller himself. The State now proposes to personate the distiller. Such authority has been denied by United States Courts to stay officers. See McCulloch, Jr., vs. Henry Large, United States Circuit Court, Western ' ' - District or X'enasyivttuitt, at wc uxaj term, 1894, Justice Bradley of the Supreme Court concurring. It Is to be observed also that it frequently happens that a distiller is indebted to the government in a sum greater than the tax upon -tfee spirits themselves then in tae warehouse. Such indebtedness is by section 3,351, Revised Statutes, declared to be a lien upon the property and rights to property of the distiller. Taking spirits by the State in the manner proposed might easily impair if not destroy the ability of the government to collect its debt. For my own guidance, 1 wish to be particularly advised whether or not 1 may lawfully consent to permit the withdrawal of spirits in bonded warehouses in the State ef South Carolina upon seizure therein by tbe State and tender of tax to the Collector, or upon judgment of forfeiture by the State Court. Governor Tillman personally yester5 * ft M AntilfT ranlvr f A hill any reyueaueu <?u canj w **?> Inquiry He was told however that the matter is under consideration and will be disposed of as soon as possible. Respectfully yours, (Signed) Jos. S. Miller, Commissioner. Caba Inundated. Havannaii, Oct. 17.?In this province as well as the Vuelta Abajo district much damage has been done by the overflowing of the rivers due to the recent heavy rains, destroying ail kinds of crops: The low lands on which tobacco plants, are sown to be afterward transplanted, were entirely washed away by the flood. Railroad as well as telegraphic communication with that section of the island is still partly in terrnpted. A number of bridges/such as the Santa Coloma, Aglconal and Paso Viejo, were carried away Dy the flood. ' THE INSTITUTE FOR THE BUND. Interesting Talk from a Blind Member of the Commission. ? Columbia, S. Cm Oct. 19.?Two years ago the Legislature authorized the appointment of a commission to pass on the advisability of separating the blind department of the Cedar Springs Institute from the other departments end of making a separate institute for the blind. The commission was duly appointed and recommended the separation. The last Legislature provided for the appointment of a commission to select a site for an institute for the blind, to report on the probable cost of the bnildifig, to secure plans and specifications from architects and to put everything in shape for the Legislature to take action. The following commissslon was appointed: Representatives W.H. Yeldell of -Sdgefleld and T. J. Erkland of Kerzy.'-v from the House; and Senators R. $? Hemphill of Abbeville and T. S. Brice ot Fairfield from the Senate. These gentlemen selected Rsv. P. P. Blslock of Edgefield as the fifth member VI UlfJ OULIiLUUJHi'JU, Toe commission held its first meeting in the Jerome Hotel last night. All it did was to organize preparatory to a more extended meeting this morning. To-day it will receive plans and specifications and estimates of cost from architects and buil<lers, and will visit several places which might make suitable sites. A RsgiBter reporter had an interesticg talk with Mr. Blalock on the objects of the commission. Mr. Blalock is blind and is naturally interested in all that is to bs done for the benefit ot others similarly sfHcted. Mr. Blalock said that so far as be was concerned he wanted to see the institute built in Columbia. He said that the bill passed by the Legislature authorized the commission to accept offers from cities and towns in the shape of sites, moner. etc. Hb would be clad to see Columbia make a bid, but if it did not do so be was in favor of putting tbe institute here anyway. Then he gave splendid reasons why it should come hsre. He said that the blind l*.arn much by absorption, and tbe place where tbey are now taught affords no opportunity for this. He said that the Cedar Spring Institute is far away from any city or town and is not even on a dirt raod. The affl cted pupils have no chances theie to learn except what is taught them in the regular curriculum. Great progress is being made by tbe blind. They are learning to become musicians and in Philadelphia th?re are seventeen blind organists in prominent churches. In Columbia the blind musicians would have chance3 to show their learning and their knowledge of such things. They would have a chance to practice. They would have opportunities to vi?it concerts. By hearing is the only way the blind learn mu3ic. At Cedar Springs there are no Buch chances as in Columbia. tue miutr^afe--tOT:^QiTDmSWi^lWliy chairs, etc. At Cedar Springs there is no market for these thing. If the in* stitute were m Columbia there would be a good market. O'her State inatiutiocs could buy what was made if merchants did not want the articles. Mr. Blalock said he was in favor of asking the State to give a tract of land belonging to the South Carolina College on which to erect the institute. The tlock nearly opposite the South Carolina College, bounded by Samter, Main and Greene streets, he thought, would be a splendid site. This property is not being used by the College. Mr. Blalock said that the advantages ot this location would bs many. The Institute would be near the college, which the blind stndents could attend to listen to lectures. They would also hava access to the library of the college. Mr. Blalock estimates that the building would cost about $15,000. He sajs that the accommodations for the blind at Cedar Springs are so limited that the State will have to build an addition if it does not decide to make the institute separate, as is proposed. The commission will today visit the site spoken of by Mr. Blalock and confer with President Woodrow as to whether the college caa spare thai much ground. Stop Ovoi production. Atlanta, Ga,, Oct. 17?A special meeting of the executive committee of the State Agricultural Society has been called to assemble in Macon on Wed* nesday, the 24th Inst, to "consider the present ruinous price of cotton and to take some steps If possible to remedy and avert impending disasters." The call is issued by Hon. John 0. Waddell, president of the State Agricultural Sociaty. The meeting will take place on the second day of the State fair, which begins at Macon on the 23d inst. President Waddell, in issoing the call says he wishes "to be distinctly understood as opposing the selling of cotton to the injury of creditors, but it is believed that the best interests of debtor and creditor will be subserved if advances can be secured on cotton so as to allow 1e to be held over, thus stopping the large daily receipts and at the same time giving tho farmers an opportunity of securing advances on their cotton by which they can meet their obligations and at the same time hold their cotton for better prices." Part of the call reads as follows: A brief suggestion as to the plans indicated. Money is plentiful and at a low interest rate in the banks. The banks and commission merchants, who are our friends can be induced to advance a reasonable amount on cotton and thus allow the farmer to hold his cotton another year, and at the same time, enable him to pay his obligations to nearly the full amount of his cotton. At present prices, it Is impossible to more than pay the cost of cultivation, picking and ginning and guano bills, leaving the farmer nothing with which to meet other just obligations. If the plans and suggestions which you may proKa A Ktt fho Afhoi* | liiiugaw, SUiUl UD auu^bcu UJ uuo vguM cotton States, we believe good results will follow. There can be no doubt that the cotton acreage will of necessity be greatly reduced next year, the crop re duced in consequence, and the cotton carried over must command batter prices. Dr. J. Marlon 81ms. New York, Oct 16.?The statue in bronze of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the famous Southern physician, is to be unveiled in this city with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday, October 20, at 8 o'clock in the afternoon in liryant Park 42d street and 6th avenue Addresses will be made by Dr. George F. Shrady and Dr. Paul F. Mundi, after whlctot the statue will be presented to the city and accepted by the Hon. Tbomas F. Gilroy, mayor. This promises to be a memorable occasion, as it is the first instance of the erection of a heroic statue to tne memory of a member of the medical profession in the United States. HE HAS GOT ENOUGH. LARRY GANTT GOING TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF IN POLITICS. He 8aya Hencatorth the Peldmont Headlight Will ba Run In the Interest ot the People and Not the Politician! as Heretofore. il. _ J _ i ciuuo luo ttuujjuuu ul a gcuciai pii* mary by the Demorcratlc convention, it meain that hereafter politics in South Carolina will be ran on a higer plane. It also means that coat-tail swinging and man-worship will be put a stop to, and the successful candidate must look solely to the people and convince them that he is worthy of their support and confidence before he can get their votes. Henceforth and forever, no one man or clique cf men will be bigger than the people. Every white voter, it matters not how obscore and humble he may be, will be given an opportunity to record his preference for every public officer, from the highest to the lowest, and his vote will be counted. You will hear no more about Antis and Reformers. Since the ballot has b*.en placed In the hands cf the voters, and he alone is delegated the power to dictate who shall rule over our State, factional lines, will disappear, for the great people are in the saddle and :ti& their will that must be obeyed. And there won't ba any independent candidates, either, for it would mean an open appeal to the negro, and a public repudiation of the white vote. Henceforth, yon are going to see politics in South Carolina coDdacted on a higher sphere. No. office-seeker' will dare attempt to arraign one class against another, for they will all haTe an equal shoving, and there are enough fairminded, peace-loving men in South Carolina to defeat any candidate thai; appeals to passion and prejudice instead of to reason ard patriotism. And this is just as it should be. " .The Headlight edUor ha? long and earnestly battled tor a white primary, and now that we have secured our djmand, we are willing to bury all past animosities and work only for the glory and unbuilding of our grand old S'-ate and the happiness and prosperity of its people. We nave supported our last candidate until the brand of the people has been plac.ed upon him. We nave been in politics for many years, and, with very few exceptions, have found it an unthankful business, and assuredly an unDroIitable one. The verv men for whom we have worked hardest, were the first to turn the back of their hands t? as when their ends were gained and ambition satiated. It Is not what you have done for a politician that he appreciates, but what you can do for htm ia the future. So we have firmly and irrevocably made up our mind to hereafter cease to run a factional paper, but we shall run a newspaper In the fallest acceptation of the term, and battle in the future, as we have in the past, for the relief and the ?* >>? A11 TuiVb iunM standpoint, and we shalulommencmgQi and condemn wron?, it matters not where they appear. We shall always tell the people the truth, and lay before them whatever information we can find out. Strictlv soeakmcr. thera is not a news paper published in South Carolina. Too either fiad them partisan Conservative or partisan Rstorm papers. Hence, the reading public can only see one side and that reviewed through prejudiced glasses. Politics are permitted to overshadow all else. Well, we have done our fall share of sach work and now want a change and a rest. We believe that there is a broad field and a usefal field in South Carolina for such a paper as we propose to ran. Others can keep up this faction* al fight if they want to bat we are no glutton and know when we have enough. What inflaence the Headlight possesses will be U3ed In bringing about a better and kindlier feeling among the white voters of our State, and seeing if we cannot by ma tail concessions, come together again and work in peace and in concert for the general prosperity of our section and people* We propose to contend for what we believe to be the best for oar farmers, it matters not who it offends.. We shall criticise public men and public measures whenever occasion requires. But we shall never again become the champion of any political office-seeker, except to contend for a jast representation of our section and to reward real merit. We beheve the time has come whea our people are ripe far a change from political agitation, and they want to hear the truth from an unbiased and aon-partian standpoint. If so, subscriba for the Headlight and you will be given unvarnished and fair reports of all public matters. Bat if you want a partisan organ that will pander to the prejudice aad passion of the masses and strive to keep up bad blood and animosity among neighbors and men who should live in psao and friendship, then this is not the paper you need. Now that every white voter will be given the opportunity to go to the polls and record his ballot for the candidates of his choice and there will bs ho more conventions to force a slate ticket on the people, there Is neither need nor necessity for factional lines bein* drawn in our State. The people know a true man and a real friend when they see him, and will not make mistakes. Let us all now come together and work together for the upbuilding of our State and section.?Piedmont Headlight. The Froip<ct in aew ia?. Xeay York, Qzt- 17.?Gov. Flower arrived from Albany yesterday afternoon and today at 12 30 called Tat Democratic headquarters in the Park Avenue Hotel. He was closeted with Maj, Hinckley and Hon. John Bjyd Thacher for some time, but when he came out he stated that his visit was informal and merely friendly and that he came home to register. "If every Democrat will do the same thing, which tbey probably will," sard the Governor, "we will win the fitht this fall without any trouble. The prospects are good all through the State," the Governor continued, "and the Democrats will stand in line and be counted this fall." "Do you think that Mr. Cle eeland will write a letter or come to New York to Sake a hand in the election ?" rrrOn OqItq/1 TV AO ooagu* "I have heard nothing and know nothing about that," was the reply. "What about Albanj,locally speaking?" "I have been at Waterton all summer aad don't know anything about Albany locally, but I do know that, all throughout the country the Democratic feelings are strong, and think we will win hands down." Governor Flower is going to Bath, Stevben county, next Wednesday, tc visit the Soldier's Home there and make a speech to them. He states that this is the last speech he will make 1e *any institution during the campaign. SCHOOL STATISTICS. Some jPJsares Which Will Interest Every body. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 18.?Soma thing interesting regarding the public schools of the State is always to be found in the annual reports of the Su perintendent of Education. These re parts reach few people and are made ut because the law requires it and for the benefit of the Legislature. In the forthcoming annual report of Suparintendent Mayfield there are numerous facts and ficrnrp* whlfih t.hfi nnhlfrt shonlr know and will be glad to know. U a less the papers publish them they wil never get to the people. The Reglstei has already published some flgares anc will give more at times. Mr. Mayfield's report has not beer completed because some of tbe School Commissioners hare been tardy is sending In their reports. The reporl will be completed, however, by the first of November. The reports so far received show thai common school education is steadih gaining ground. Tear by year th< number of children enrolled increases the number of teachers employed increases and more money is being spent to build new school houses and improv( those already built. xne ioiiowing counties report new school houses built during the past year and the amount of money expend ed in building them: Anderson, 1, SICK) Barnwell, 6, $1,157.5?; Beaufort, 2 S418 85; Charleston, 1, ?1,500; Chester 2,81.250; Chesterfield, 1. ?60; Clarendon 4,8500; Coll6toa, 2,8115; Darlington, 3 S180; Edgefield, 4,8?; Fairfield, 6,8450 Florence, 6, 8600; Hampton, 1, 835.25 Kershaw, 4,810,200; Lancaster, 6,8318 Lexington, 3, 8307.35; Marion, 2,8680 Newberry, 4,81,330; Oconee, 13, 86,600 Orangeburg, 10, 815,591; Pickens, 25 82,631; Richland, 2. 8155; Sumter, 9 8596.32; Tjnion, 1, ?o; York, 1, 860. The following is a table of the num ber of teachers employed in each coun ty of the State and the amount paid t< them: jn amoer oc rdia to Teachers. Teachers Abbeville 212 $13,992.4! AlfcflD Anderson 168 13 627*2$ Barnwell 129 13.545 a Beanfort 84 7,402.0( Berkeley , Charleston 113 60,0210< Chester 131 10,212.0< Chesterfield 49 3,926 3! Clarendon 104 6,224 6< Colleton 114 11,187 3 Darlington 83 8,220.7 Edgefield 250 14,186.0: Fairfield 102 10,914:9 Florence 71 9,598.0 Georgetown 85 2,584.1! Greenville 221 21,122 4i Hampton 94 6,493.8 Horry Kershaw..... 81 8,446.1' mm Ledngton 94 7,516.2Marion 155 10,101.0 Marlboro .81 6.516 9: Newberry 122 11,226.3 Oconee J.03 4,972.2 Orangeburg 195 22,726.91 Pickens 91 3.4G9.4! Blchland 99 20,920.2 Spartanburg Sumter 128 15,996.8 Union 66 6,682.3 Williamsburg 110 Fork 179 21,837.5 There are more female than mal teachers employed in the State. This i especially the'case in the countie; where there are well regulated gradw schools, like Charleston, Greenville anc Blchland. It is interesting to know the salarie paid to teachers throughout the State The amounts vary in each county: Th average amount paid is about $20, mail teachers getting a little more than fe males. Charleston Caunty pay* hei teachers two or three times as much a: any other county in the State. Ther< the male teachers get an average 01 392.33 a month and the female teacher $11.90. Beaufort come3 next. Shi pays her male and female teachers th same salaries, an average of $36.02 i month each. York county pays unusu ally small salaries, according to the re port of the Commissioner of that coua ty, and the curious part is that the fe male teachers get the largest salaries The average amount paid -females ; month in York county is $18. Mai teachers in that county get an averagf of $14.50 a month. Abbeville pays hei male and female teachers au. averagi of only $15 a month each.?-Kegister. End ol the Ohio Blot, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. is.?a. spesia train bearing Sheriff Cook and Dspat; Sheriff Bostwick. of Fayette Countj with the negro prisoner, Wm Dolbj alias Jasper, In custoday arrived hen at 7 o'clock this morning. The trail bore also six companies of the 14th regi merit, all local companies, the remain der of the troops being left at Washing ton Conrt House. The train was stop ped near the State prison, and th sheriff and his deputy, with the prisone in custody, walked hurriedly, uuguard ed, to the main entrance, and in a fe? moments Dolby was b9hind the great stone walls of the penitentiary, wher he will attend, the next twentv years o his life at hard labor. Quite a large crowd had collected a the Cintral, station to see the prisoner and were dlsapointed to see only soldier when the train drew in. The crowd wa a curious one, however, and no violenc to the prisoners would have been at tempted if he had been brought to th union station on the train. The tri] from Washington Courl, House wa without incident. The mob was easil . controlled. When the reinforcement of militia arrived at Washington Cour House, at 3.30 A. M., they gathered ii knots but offered no resistance. Th prisoner was at once taken .from th jail and placcd upon the train and thi i journey here was begun. CjL Coic did not order the cartridges taken from th i rifles until the coal chute two mile north of Washington Court House wa i passed, as there Sheriff Cook feared ai attack on the train might be male, bu the train was not molegted. Governor McKinley arrived fron Cincinnati at 8 o'clock this mornlm ana acrer consultation whu onem Cook, of Favette Caunty, and receivinj a number of telegrams from prominen ' citizens of Fayette County, ordered al troops remaining on duty at Washing ton Court House to their homes. H says that they are assured that ther will be no farther lawlesscess there. Drifting Alone. Mobile, Ala., O^t. 13.?The bar 1 Thomas S. Fiack was picked up ia th gulf by the steamer Jari, Which has ja? I arrived here. The cargo and bark ar [ estimated xto be worth $150,000. x queer feature is that there was no on l aboard and the vessel was in fine cond lion. DR. POPE GETS PEPPERY. : j WANTS TO KNOW WHY GOV. TILLMAN IS SO ACTIVE. .. ' In Colombia for the Campaign?Haa ) >3 Something to Say About the DUpansary. A Series of Pertinent Question*. ) Columbia, S. C., Oct. 16.?Dr, Samp3 son Pope, who Is running as Dr. Pope's frtt* nrwawini? oa o twAfaaf 'Y' vauuiuauc IVL UVTWIUV1| OO n jt-\ against rings" and "ring" methods.Is 5 in the city. He will ba here until af- ^ I ter the election and has established - headquarters at the Grand Central 1 Hotel. He says that he is confident of : success and thinks that he is continui ally gaining votes. ^ Yesterday upon Jiis arrival in the city 1 he was seen and asked if there was i anything new in his campaign, and he l replied: k "I have recently read the dispensary > act of 1893 closely. Section 2 of the act reads as follows: The Governor, the t Attorney General and th6 Comptroller 4? r General, shall, ex offico, constitute a * i 3 State board of control to carry out the ^ ; nrftmolnna nf thk ar>t' SM>t(An 3 ori\rA4 "'-j3 the Governor authority to appoint at ; the expiration of the term of the pres5 ent commissioner (see the connection between the acts of 1892 and 1893) and r every two years thereafter a commls; sioner, etc.; the appointment to heap. proved by the Senate. The samesec; iaon elves to the commissioner the right ? to purchase all supplies, etc., subject . to such rule3 and regulations as may > bemads by the State board of control; > makes him subject to removal by the ; State board of control, and makes him >' a State officer. All rules and regula; tlons governing said commissioner in ; the performance of any of the duties ; of his office shall be prescribed by the > State board of control, etc. I fail to ? find in reading said act, any duty devolving specifically upon the Governor, more than any other law carries with it. The Governor is a member ex offi> clo of several boards?the penitentiary, tbe asylum, etc. His duties as such are aiuiyijr iuuoo ui auy uuudi iuoiuuoi . of them. The majority controls and 3 what is done is executed by the proper officers and not by the Governor. The -v | superintendent of the penitentiary carries them out for that institution, the sapesintendent of the asylum for that institution, and by parity of reasoning, Mr. Traxler should do so for the dispensary. "If the law had intended that the Governor alone should manage the dispensary it would have said so, but it does not say so, for it puts two others on the boacd with him, all of them ex officio members. It means that a majority of the board shall govern; shall say what Mr. Tr&xler shall do. The Governor has usurped power which does not belong to him. He admitted during the canvass that he did so when * he said that he did not consult the oth? ? : J -^|g er members about reopening the dis- um? teHe has no more right to issue orders g with regard to the dispensary than he r? has with ramml In thft uanitentiarv 1 and the asylum; he Is bat a simple 7 member of all of those boards, andhas . <1 ? only the authority that any other 2 member has. The board, I suspect, has 5 not had a meeting until last week In many months. All tliat has been done j[ of his own motion then is illegal, un5 lawful, and is a usurpation of power * *- * * that does not belong to him. South i Carolina has never had but one lawful dictator, JohnButledge, and the power B was given him during the revolution3 ary war when the State wasoverrun by \ an enemy, and when it was impossible I from the very nature of things to call 1 the Legislature together. Governor Tillman has as much right, and It is J as much his duty, to issue a proclama tion or an order, carrying out the proe visions of any other law, as he has as 3 to the dispensary. "Has he done it? Then why does he single out this law to be enforced at 3 this time? Is it to destroy the peace * and harmony of our people for political [ sect? Is it an attempt to bring back 3 those Reformers who have left the fold 9 because of rings? He has sworn to ex I ecute the laws ia mercy, not in a tec1 rorizlng, vindictive manner, calculated ' to frenzy the men and frighten the '* women and children. Letitbe remem' bered that when the dispensary was ' closed many of the constabulary went ' home, nnder instructions, it was said, * to open illicit barrooms for the purpose 0 of proving that prohibition did net pro? ^ *, 1 hibit. When the Supreme Court decld' ed the act of 1892 unconstitutional, was 3 it not as much th s Governor's duty to Issue a proclamation to prevent the sale of whiskey, <*is it is now to carry out the dispensary? Then why is it 1 that he failed to do anything then, and r* y now usurps authority that does not ber long to him?" Sg rf Dr. Pope may have something more 2 to say on this line later on. Is Sentiment Changing? - Columbia, S. C.. Oct. 19.?There has - been a decided change in the sentii. ments of the people of this city regardb ing the Dispensary law since the decls-' r lou of the Supreme Court declaring it - constitutional. Oil every side now can 7 be heard expressions to the effect that * ; the law ought to be maintained. Men * who have heretofore patronized "tigers" f declare that they will sp9nd their money with the Dispensaries hereafter. In t addition to this ttie taxpayers are getting anxious to see the iaw enforced s> 5 that some revenue will bs paid to the s city. Business men who pay licenses e to run their establishments are com plaining that it is not fair for them to e have to pay money to do business while o the "tigers" flourish without paying 11s censes. A good many of them have y been heard to say tbat as this is a diss criminatioa and as it involves city aff t air3 it ought to be taken in hand by the ? eYf?ln<afvAlv. Tft.hfl nollftfi Wfirft U V'fcV**?w? > W-J V ? ? ?? ? K .. ?-e to begin the Invasion of illicit estabe lishments it would not be long until 3 tney would have to stop business. At j l present the police do nothing but fole low constables around to see that there s is no trouble when raids are made. s There is little doubt now that public a sentiment would back the city authority ties in taking charge of the raiding and arrests in Columbia, and doing the i work without the assistance o? the cone stables. E A Register reporter, in conversation - 2 I with a constable yesterday, was told i that the raids on saloons would never 1 amount loanyunng; taai no "tiger piuprietor keeps anything more than a few e drinks in his place of business and that e these are carried in a bottle in the pock- L. ets of the bartender. The constable m stated that after awhile the officers will ^ begin to locate where all the "booze" is t kept and that descents will be made on these places. He predicted that there (? will be some surprises in store when M the officers sweep down on these deposit e tories. He believes that the "blind fl ^ tigers" have hundreds of gallons of ? whiskey stored .in various' places i- throughout the city and that lots of it is kept in private houses.?Register.