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jgaBP w RADICAL REVENUE BILL. | WHICH HAS 3EEN INTRODUCED IN j THE HOUSE. i It Provides tiist Eve:y Undines* or Pro- | fesaioiia! 3Iars In the State 3Iust Pa3- a ; License Except the Farmer. Columbia, Feb. 26.?'The following are the provisions of the bill to provide for a graduated license on occupations and businesses, which has been introduced in the House of Representatives. It is not likely to pass at this session, but will be taken up at the next session: Sec. 1. Every person, firm,company or corporation, engaged or intending Lo engage in business ic this State. shall obtain on or before May 1, 1S97, a license. Every person, ?rm, company or corporation commencing business after May 1 shall obtain a license, Sec. 2. Every person, firm, company or corporation for which a license is required, shall at the time of applying for the license maie a statement and file the same with the county auditor setting forth: First, his or her or its name and style, and in case of a firm or company the names of the several persons constituting said firm, company or corporation; second, the trade or business; third, the place in which such trade or business is to be conducted. Nothing contained herein shall ir any manner atfsct any other requirement of law elsewhere enacted in regard to any trade,business or profession Sec. 3. If any person, firm, compaby or corporation shall exercise or carry on any trade, business or profession, for the exercising,carrying on or doing of which a license is required by this act, without taking out a license as in that behalf required, the said person, firm, company or corporation shall be liable for the payment of the license tax required by this Act and in addition thereto for each and every offence shall be subject to a penalty of 50 per cent, of the amount of such license tax, -which tax and penalty shall be recovered as herein below provided; and if any person, firm, company or corporation shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the assessor on or before the day last named a statement as required by the second section of this Act, or shall make a false statement, or shall refuse or neglect to take and subscribe on oath as to the truth of such statement, or shall fail to take out such license as may be required, the auditor shall proceed to ascertain, as near as possible, the business of such person, firm, company or corporation; and for the purpose of said investigation the auditor shall noiify tne person, nrm, cum paiiy yr ration rfr default to appear before him in his office, and also such other persons as the auditor may desire to examine, and the party sought to be charged with license tax, if he shall attend, together with any witnesses called as aforesaid, shall be examined by such auditor under oath (which said auditor is authorized to administer) touching the nature of the business of such party, and from the information thus acquired by him, or from general representation, or from his own knowledge of the facts, the auditor shall assess against such person, firm, company or corporation, whether they shall have attended such investigation or not, such license as upon the facts ascertained by him, and under the provisions of this Act, such person, firm, company or corporation is or are required to obtain, adding thereto a penalty of 50 per cent., and shall turn over such assessment to the county treasurer to be collected oy him, and if the amount of such license tax and penalty shall not be paid within ten days thereafter the county treasurer shall issue his execution therefor to the county sheriff, certifying therein the said amount, and the said sheriff shali proceed to collect the said license tax and. penalty by distress and sale, or by levy and sale, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of other taxes, together with an additional penalty of 5 per cent on which whole amount so certified to him, which said 5 per cent together with such costs as are now allowed by law for such collections shall + tio />A)intTT cVidrifr a iVi bUU ? OxXVA MKS v. sation for making such, collection. Section 4. The license granted under tnis Act shall not authorize the person, firm, company or corporation mentioned to exercise or carry on the trade, business or profession specified in such license in any other place than that mentioned therein, except lawyers, physicians, dentists and auctioneers and every person, firm, company or corporation exercising or car, _ ing on any trade, business or profession or doing any act for which a license is required shall keep said license at ail time of business in a conspicuous parr of bis business place, and on demand of any authorized official of the county government shall produce such license. or shall be deemed to have no license. Provision is made for report ing those who have no licenses and for removals on proper endorsement. Section 6. Provides that licenses shall continue until December 31, unless otherwise provided. The Comptroller General is to prcvidethe forms. Section 7. All applications for licenses shall be made to the county auditor. Provision is made for the transfer of licenses. A3" INIQUITOUS SCHEDULE. The following are sums provided to be paid to the country treasurer for some of the licenses. Academy cf Music, theatres or Opera Houses, $5 in cities of 2,000 and ?1 for each additional 1,000 inhabitants. Bagging manufacturing companies, each $5. Banks, incorporated, $1 for each $10,000 capital stock, including surplus and undivided profits. Banks, unincorporated, $10, Brewers. ?15. Bottlers of beer, $10. Building and loan associations, each 50 cents per ?10,000 of paid up capital. Cotton manufacturing companies, 50 cents per $1,000 capital. Dredging companies, $5. Express companies, $500. Electric light companies, 20 cents for each $10,000 capital. Oil rehneries, each 50 cents for each $10,000 capital. Cotton seed oil mill, 50 cents for each $10,000 capital. Ferries, each $1. Forwarding agencies, $5. Gold or stock telegraph companies, $25. Gas companies, cents Cor each $10,000 capital. Solicitors of life and accident insurance companies, a^en^s, adjusters of lire and other insurance, unconnected with regular local agents, $2-". Canals, $10. Dun's or Bradstreet's or other agencies, $25. Collecting agencies, $10. Phosphate companies, 50 cents for each $10,000 capital. Railroad companies, each 50 cents for each $10,000 value assessed. Railroad ticket agencies, (scalpers) $25. Pull/nan. c.-r companies. $r>oo for; each system of railroad orer which I thev run. Rent and rea* estate agents and collections, 50 cents each for each i.COO | inhabitants in the city or town in i which such agency is located. | Steamship agencies or companies, j (regular lines.) $25 each and $1 for each additional 1,000 inhabitants o? the city or town where located. Steam ferry boat agencies or companies, each $10. Steam or other cotton compresses, each $1 for each $10,000of capital. Steamboat companies or agencies, $10 for each steamboat. SLearn, or other lightering companies or agencies, each $1. Steamboat companies, consignees or agencies, (regular lines.) each $10 and $1 for each 1,000 inhabitants of the city or town where located. Steamship companies other than regular lines and steamboat and sailing: vessel companies, each $10, and $1 for each 1,000 inhabitants of the city or town where located. Sailing vessel companies or agencies each $25, and $1 for each 1,UG0 inhabitants. S:reet railway companies, each $5, and $1 for each 1,000 inhabitants. Telephone companies or agencies, i j each $1, and /or esch 1,000 inhabitants. Telegraph companies, $1 for each j $10,000 value assessed. Terminal ware house companies or agencies, each $10. "Water works companies, each $10. Oil, creosote, or fernoline com pa-1 nies, each 50 cents on each $10,000 capital stock. Kerosene or coal oil companies, i each $100. I Agencies of sieam bakeries or ! cracker factories, each $3. i Lead companies?those rolliog lead or erecting lead acid chambers?2ach $50. Auctioneers, real estate and stock and bond brokers, each $10. Artists, ambrotypisls, nhotographers, etc, 25 cents foi each 1,000 inhabitants. Architects or civil engineers, each $10 Land surveyors, each $1. Fawn brokers, each $25. Street brokers, $2. Broker? dealing in chemicals and fertilizer materials, $5. Rice and cotton brokers, $5 Bankers, $25 each. | Billiard and pool tables, each $2 50. Bowling'alleys,, $2.50; bagatelle ta| bles $2 50. i Hotels, each $1 for each 1,000 inhaj bitants: private boarding houses, each SI. SLearn bakeries, *5; others bakeries, SI. Barbers, each chair 50 coats. Biii posters and distributors, ?5 each, i Butchers, $1. Builders and master mechanies, $5; carpenters, $1; engravers. $5; gun or locksmiths, ?1; tinners cr painters, $L; shoemakers, Cotion gianers, (as occupation,) each $2 per gin. Circuses, each $500, exclusive of county or city licenses. Goes: shops, SI. { Ship yards, $5; dry docks, $2. Owners of steam tugs, $10 for each tug. Dye houses, $2. Dealers in any article of merchandise, each ?L for tbe first $10,000 or less of goods, etc, sold, and 25 cents for each additional si,000 sold. Cotton, rice and naval stores, merchants $20. Sewing machine agents, $25; dealers in iron safes. $25; agents and dealers in bicycles, $25; agents or peddlers - "W J- - C m stoves or ranges, agems ior trees ori'iowers, ?5; canvassing book agents, ?25; lightning rod agents, $1,00 , canvassing agents for patent machines, ?100: canvassing clock agants, ?100; any show other than circus, ?5. Livery stables, ?10; horse, mule and catle dealers, ?20 a ye*r or part thereof; same transient. ?20; stock yards 1 for feeding cattle; brokers in cattle, i sheep and hogs, $5. Fruit and peanut dealers, with stand on street, ?1; dealers in ic? oil, coai: wood, etc, ?5; ice cream saloons, ?2, junk, ?10; soda founts and milk shak: ers, ?2; poultry, fish, vegetables or fruit on street, ?1; in market, ?1. Coal yard license, to which all dealers and importers are subject, ?5, Dealers, merchanise brokers, other than in cotton, rice or fertilizers, selling only on brokerage, in firms or singly, ?5; for each member of firm over two. ?2 each. Dealers in aoy other and every other article of trade or merchandise, sot specially named elsewhere, each ?2. Founderies or machine shops, 50 | cents per ?10,000 capital or fraction itherpof- basks*. willow and broom factories, same; bag facteries and paper bag: factories, and barrel factories, same on capital stock; cigar and smoking tobacco factories, $5 per $10,000, capital; concrete piping factories, 50 cents per $10,000. Candy, clothing, harness, mattress, shirts, under we?. steam sausage, sash ana blind, soap and candle and soda water factories and bottlers of soda, 50 cents per $10,000 or fraction on capital; furniture, vegetable, fruit, fish or oyster canning, ice, paper box or envelope and vinegar factories, same; gas fitters and plumbers, intelligence office, information or employment bureaus, steam laundries, $1; hand i j- - laundries, ou cenis. Lumber yards and ponds, other | than with mills, *5. j Lawyers, physicians, dentists, chemj ists, ?5 each; veterinary surgeons, ! marble yards, *5. I Planing mills, saw mills, rice mills, j spice, coffee, sea foam, iiour mills. 50 [ cents per ?10,000 capital. I Daily, morning, afternoon and | weekly newspapers, *1 on each 1,000 | circulation or * faction: newspapers | worked by hand, same; publishers, j other than napers, $1; job printers $1. Restaurants, saloons and cafes, *2, I shooting galleries, ricks, stevedoores, : $5; undertakers, *5; tailors of all kind ! and wood sawyers by machinery, $1. ! "Warehousemen and Wharf men, .$10. Wheelwright ana blacksmith, 50 cents per forge and 25 cents additional forge; shop with one forge, same and carriage and makers and repairs, ?2. Graia distilleries, $100: fruit distilleries, $25. Tobacco -warehouse, $L per $10,000 capital or fraction. ''Professors not mentioned to be. graduated by the auditor"?minimum, 25 cents: maximum, $5. The bill provides that a dealer who pays a license shall include clerks and employees in the business; that in all mining and manufacturing companies which mine outside of the State, and which trade in this State the provisions of the Act shall relate entirely to the business done in this State. Provision is made that licenses must be procured before trades or business are undertaken, and if not paid penalties are to be attached by the auditor, who is to turn over the papers j to the treasurer, and in event of nonpayment to the treasurer an execution is to be issued by the sheritT, includ ing license and penalties, the "same to be collected by distress and sale, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of other taxes, together with an additional penalty of 5 per cent, which per cent is to be the collecting fee for the sherisf." ^sax^nz. THE LESSON OF THE TURK, j HE STILL PnO-IT3 BY THE 3LUNDER OF HIS FOES. lint Grooc: K iS t'iri'I a Train 'Yhich ZVIsv j Kry'oile auu Scitt-r Devastation au?i JI>ueem the Fair L*:ici Ka Pollutes. We now purpose io fiance briellv at ihe broad outlines of Turkish history as Europe has experienced it. Uaiorlucaiely it is necessary presuppose a certain acquaintance and sympathy vrith the subject before the best results cm be had from tne teaching of historr: and there is no sym-! pa. lay a ad but meagre acquaintance j with this theme ia the mind of the j American people The Turk is re^ari ; ed merely as a nuisance, a dealer of j morals, a cumberer o: the ground, whose very existence is looked upon with disgust and loathing. H : is not so bad as he is painted but this concerns not oar enquiry. First a col- i lection of nomad tribes dwelling ia central Asia this rac? overran the fairest part of Europe, oecame entrenched ia it.andall efforts to drive them out have to this day been utter failures. As the Turk appears when bis growing power first menaced the city of Constaatine, he is a far better man than at present. The soft air of the Mediterranean has weakened his frame ; an indolent life, with its lascivious j I concomitants, has sapped the vigor of j his mind and borne down his once ' I stalwart virtue. Less coald not have been expected from a barbarous race that had fallen heir to so rich a prize, when religion, instead of checking, ministered to unholy desire. The day the Turk entered Constantinople is a red letter day in the history of nations. To conceive it properly one must behold the conquered race in its every d?.y life, the most aristocratic, the most learned, the most charming of the peoples of Europe. Take old Greek life with its *'" ? ~ ~ ^ v.-r T KQ Viuontir /-.fife | Llilll LU j , LU^, vvaMbj vi AVW j women, the keen intellects and golden tongues of its orators, the astute! ness of its statesmen?alas! we cannot | add incorruptibility and purity?all j this und^r the high pressure of a j modernised society; take this into aci count and you have a faint conception of the pristine charm that mvestI ed Constantinople?that lay over it like a dream and bound it in an enchanted sleep. The Moslem respected neither age nor youth, beauty nor talent. A sack and pillage, at which the m'.nd sickens with horror, disgraced iiis entry into the fated city. Royal princesses that would have scorned the hand of a European king became j the prey of the barbarian whose ha! rems were stocked with the flower of i Byzantine maidens. St. Sophia wherei in the incomparable Chrystom (liter! ally golden tonguea) once pointed I men to a pure and stainless life?St j Sophia, the synagogue of Christ, became a luohammedan mosque, and from it even vet the muezzin calls ' - * . - - X 1 S aiouci ttiat u-oa is great aau iuuiiaiii| med is his prophet. 0 shame on manI hoed that it is still a monument to the abomination and deceit of Islam! It adds to the pathos to think that the city could never have been taken had it not been adequately defended. 3at the army which defended it was filled t*-" . mercenaries only; and on the veiy day of the city's capture the citizens were not under arms. If behind the veil of passing events one looks for the realities, if back of the action he looks at the pur -se, this | dogged stay of the Turk ii_ ostiie ! land must prove of in Suite interest. It verily seems that he has been sent from his desolate home in Asia as a scourge upon a people given over to weakness, vice and folly, in that event, toe people along the Bosphorus have drained the bitter cup to its dregs?their social fabric dissolved, their good name soiled, their holy religion trampled under foot. But ever since that fatal day when Constantinople fell, the Ottaman power has loomed over 2urope as a dark and sinister shadow. It was a favorite threat of the Grand Monarch to turn loose the ^urk upon his defenceless neighbors. The greed of the great powers, since the waning or 'i'urisisn prestige, has prevented Russia from conquering the r ttoman empire. The Greek church Ox cou 's the national church of Russia ana is that church whose s&nctuaries the infidel has defiled and whose chief synagogue he now holds. Therefore Russia is the [ hereditary foe of Turkey. It will be J remembered that the Crimean war ) was undertaken to check Russia and {that the chief-motive in the present j alliance of powers is to prevent Russia from getting a safe port, which once | done the sea would soon be dotied j with Russian ships and all present alliances upset. Xow personally the Turk is brave to the verge of fanaticism. There have nevev been finer fighters nor troops that bore discipline with more fortii arsr? rosicmatinn. In belief he is a fatalist; and perhaps the idea current as to his social life is near enough true to need no restatement. He has squatted upon the fairest country on the globe?a vast extent of fertile lands tha1. grow all manner of fruit or I whatever else man's needs require; a j climate whose soft and vomptuous charm poets and painters haveimmor| talized in the balmy breath of its zephyrs. in the glory of its setting suns, in the tideless ripple of its seas and the starry splendor of its nights. To all this, and to the human loveliness that ? moves amid iis blooming bowers like houris fabled to exist in the elysium of the blessed?the Turk has become lord and master. And the great Christian nations whose fleets fill every sea, whose armies are a multitude and who control the liaancies of the world, what say they? Do the? not muster their armies and assemble their fleets to crush this awful power?this moral leprosy at their very doors? it seems an insult to ask the question ;yei instead of crushing the Turk what is done? Hang your head in shame, Christian man. They have aided him with men and money! The pious England, the philosophic Germany, the liberty shouting France, the proud and imperial line that governs at Vienna! Of course no one takes account of Signor Garlik who hops about among the statutes at Rome?relics of a past splendor in lurid contrast with the squalor of present Italian life. Signor Garlik. the cicerone of Eurote, can but follow his masters, and accept what they iling him with profound obeisance. But God help the masters: And what has caused all this? The greed of nations. How forcefully the thought cones from that ever blessed Book: "The Jove of money is the root of all evil." How pitiful is the plight of i'ruon iiflncrht.r nations?ear.h one of which would go to war if a pistol were fired at that old rag they ca!i their flag, and yet see almost without emotion thousands of their fellow Christians slaughtered by the remorseless heaihen! We approach the end of a lc3|r story. The Turk still profits by the blunder of his 'ces- But Greece has iired a train which may explode and scatter devastation. Force will no longer serve the powers. The best diplomacy alone can for a time avert general disaster: from the smoke and i dust and din of which a new nation ? rrrir ~v M~m i-r-rrr<r- f 1?rgfi'n t ?rfnrMtftrtMfH i may eraersr*1 into existence alon? the: sun-kissed B^spboru? ?\ nation which ! ! will at last turn the riches of these ! lands iato the treasury of the great i King and supplant the accursed bar! em with the happy home ?Columbia J State. COTTON GROWERS' CONVENTION. I'r*-s!dtut Hector i>. Lane Issues a strong A ppeal. Mr. H-.ctor L>. Line, President of the Association of Cotton Growers, has issued the fol'owitjg call: Athens, Ala., Feb. 17, 1S97. To the Oct ton Growers of America: The lime has arrived when the farmers should bd giving the prospects of the corn:ag crop most serious consideration : That the environments of the cotton grovrer are becoming more mimical to their interests each succeeding season, is discouragingly apparent; that the encroachments upon our concmercul ; rights are becoming more piratical in their character, is a fact that is not ! only appr dated but condemned by | all right minded men who recognize I the right and privilege of legitimate ! commercial methods, and the obtuseness of the Southern planter in failing to observe, and his subserviency in submitting to these ills that are being in tlicted upon him by this scourge in the hands of this reckless class of specI ulative gamblers, is encouraging them in their pernicious methods, is rendering him pitiable in the eves of trie world and subjecting him to the obloquy of being bcth stupidly ignorant of iais interests and ignominiousiy servile i in his forbearance. As is usual at this season the cotton ;;bear is agai.u in evidence, hewing down prices to the very lowest notch, using ail the sophistry that his cunning can devise and ail the artifices that he can so ingeniously invent to hammer values down to less than iivinsr prices. Tiiey are thoroughly indifferent to normal conditions and reck: little of the common weal. They are sowing the seed of incipient communism in fields in which it is an unknown and an unnatural growth. They should exult over four cent cotton and would contribute their active aid in pressing it down to the lowest point regardless of the sorrow and destitution that would prevail throughout the South under such conditions. At this time last year they were an-! ticipating matters by industriously circulating reports that it was the intention of the Southern cotton grower to enormously increase the acreage which they gleefully stated would result in the production of from eleven to twelve million bales. Like fabrications are again being circulated by with the hope of affecting future values The Southern planter has the power to checkmate these reckless despoilers of our prosperity by manly and intelligent action. The only remedy is to ' fight the devil with fire/'meet organ ization with organization. Do not be ltd into error that you can combat this po^ver without systematic organization. You cannotde ceive the great nrais mat Day your predict. They have their emissaries in every town and village; they are ever scrutinizing your actions and know more in regard to the general conditions than you can possibly find out. Destroy the annual surplus of cotton that is the active coadjutor of the cot ton "bear." This can be accomplished by increasing; the acreage of food crops and consequently the judicious diminishing cf cotton acreage. You will be better off with a seven million bale crop selling at ten cents, supplemented by ample food crops, than with a ten million bale crop selling at hve cents. j The world spends about three hunj dred and thirty-five million dollars ? annually for American cotton. If we make a seven million bale crop they run after us for our product. If we make a ten million crop we fall over ourselves to sell it to them. The ten million bale crop of "94 and "95 brought the South in round numbers two hundred and eighty-nine million. The seven and a half million bale crop of "93 and ;94 brought in round numbers two hundred and ninety-three million dollars. The seven million bale crop of *95 and ?9tl brought two hundred and ninety-two and one quarter million dollars, demonstrating the fact that a small crop brings more money irrenf -hcpH Tni* r.rons V. V^.w ? I and the labor and money expended on a larger acreage. Our only hope of protection lies in intelligent concert of action. We should keep ourselves informed of crop condition, amount of production, etc., throughout the cotton area. Then by systematic and judicious marketing of our crops %ve can realize inestimable benefits that never can be secured permanently otherwise. It is not my desire to incite prejudice, and I deprecate the arraignment of one class against another, nor would I wish to "fire the Southern heart" to any action beyond a legiti I mate resistance oi commercial vandalism, but I would that I could inspire {the spirit of the Southern cotton | grower without reference to class or | color, to a proper Appreciation of the : unfair attitude that we are forced to occupy in the commercial world, and I wish devoutly that I could arouse you from this lethargy which has grown upon you so insidiously that it can be likened to that of the freezing man who lies down and becomes actually comfortable through dormant sensibilities, though even in the icy grasp of death. Believing this to be o; paramount importance to our material interest ana that these questions in their most comprehensive form should be gravely considered, I deem it advisable that the cotton growers meet i a convention thac we may adopt some rule of action by which we may be ens.bled I., combat these agencies that ar5 daily growing more destructive to our interests. Pursuant to the advice: of my asso j ciates and with tne view ot meeting the greatest number of farmers, three conventions will be held, and in accoraance, I respectfully request the farmers of Texas to meet in convention in the city of Waco, Monday, March Sth. The cotton growers of tne Mississippi Valley will meet at Memphis, Wednesday, March 10:h. Those east of Mississippi will meet at Augusta, Monday, March 15th, I respectfully request the co operation of the commissioners of agriculture cf the respective states, ail agricultural societies, and those interested directly or indirectly in the growing of the South's main staple. I remain respectfully yours, Hector D. Lane, President. The Ciemson Opening. Clemsos, Feb. 13.?1The fifth annui a I session of Ciemsoc College opened yesterday with 230 boys present. Of these 13u are new ones, and the rest are cadets who were here last year. A 4 ? ? ?- ? ? AMMtfVA/] /V v> +U A ft . jit; W mure airivcu u aiwij noon trains to-day, and it is thought that the total number "will reach 350 j when all have arrived. Some will i not get in until March 1. ANOTHER NEF PARTY. ; - TELLER AND HIS ASSOCIATES TAK= | A DECISIVE STEP. Silver Repaldicans V7U1 Separate From j Their Goldbug Brethren and Form a j Partj" of Xlieir Own?National Convention j i Will be Held. "Washington, Feb. 23 ?The following address was issued to day by the silver Senators and Repsesentatives as a result of a meeting held at Senator Tellers house last night for the organization of the silver Republican parly: To the Silver Republicans of the United States: There could not bs a better illustration of the great law by "which in free governments the rise, progress and decline of parties ara determined than that afforded by recent and present political development in the United States. Political parties are practical instruments for executing the will of the people in respect to principles and politics of government. They therefore, should represent and respond to public opinion in its attitude toward tae problems which the experience of the nation from time to time brings forward for solution. It is not parties that make issues, but it is issues that make parties. For years events have been forcing upon the country, with ever increasing definiteness and emphasis, the necessity of reform in our monetary system as respects both the coinsge of metallic money and the regulation and control of credit currency. UnpUom r\f ovnsrand I UW OU too V/JL quent investigation, opinions - have been gradually crystalizing. In this process, the line of cleavage has paid iittle regard to previously existing | party demarcations; and today the : most careless observer cannot :ail to see that the genius of the nation is api proaching a settlement of this momenj tous controversy through the agency < l of political instruments now being J fashioned to its hand. j In the history of these formative events the so called silver Republicans have taken an important part and discharged a necessary function. In doing so they have not surrendered their convictions on certain other great principles of political economy and government; but they realize that those principles are not capable of successful application under present monetary conditions. They believe, therefore, that the ad- i equate treatment of all other issues | i. - C i- 4-U ~ rtA?uA/?f rtoftit-iAn r\f fVtO I H1USI ttWttib I LLC UUIICUL V/X , dominant one thus presented. Ia j this spirit they co operated with the organized forces of bimetallism in the last campaign. Every consideration of patriotism and expediency seems to counsel a continuation of that policf. Silver Repuplicans believe themselves to be in harmony with the original spirit of the old Republican party and they claim a properly in its great name and glorious traditions justified by the splendid services and sanctified by the sacred memories of the time when that party embodied the aspirations and spoke the purpose of the great masses of the American people. That party was born in answer to the cry for a champion of liberty. Its early, words were words of comfort and assurance to the oppressed. Its deeds by which it will hereafter live in history were deeas of patriotism. Its policies professed above all things to hold dear the safety and welfare of the American people as against the rest of the world. The silver Republcans cannot forget that history. They cannot to-day j follow those who have usurped the ! dominion of that party into a shameless abandonment of American interests and the tyranv of an alien money sytem. They believe that the auiy or our hour demands that they maintain their identity and perfect their organization. Cii'cumstances have sometimes in the past thrust upon the undersigned responsibilities on behalf of silver Republicans, which in the absence of formal organization we have felt warranted in assuming. Recently, moreover, we have been receiving a vast number of anxious inquiries from various parts of the country upon the question of party policy and requesting us to'give some definite direction thereto. These communications exhibit a surprising and gratifying unanimity in sentiment and piaa. Responding to these earnest suggestions and at the same time expressing our own deliberate opinion, we urge upon the silver Republicans of the United States and upon all citizens of whichsoever previous party association who are willing to co-operate with us in nolitical action until the great monetary issue is settled and j j settled right, that immediate steps bs ' taken to perfect organizations in the j various States and territories to the ; end thereafter a national convention may be held for the purpose of mak- j ing an authoritative pronouncement i to the country and effecting a'national organization. As soon as possible | earn of the States and territories should designate a member of the provisional national committee of the of the Silver Republican party, which committe will have charge of the naj tional convention and of all matters preliminary thereto. Meantime, we have taken the liberty of naming Hon. Charles A. Townes of Minneso ta as chairman ot trie saia provisions national committee, whose official address for the present will be the city of Washington and to whom all communications should be sent. The previsional national committee is hereby called to meet in executive session at the city of Chicago, at a place to be seasonably announced by the chairman, on 'Tuesday, the S;h dav of June, 1897. Singned at the city of Washington, this 22nd day of February, 1897, the anniversary of the birth of the "First American," whose life was a sublime example cf patriotism, and whose precept, placing duty to country above and beyond all party obligation, is a deathless watchword of politicall lib} erty. (Signed) H. M. Teller, Fred T. Du'1 " T ^ T> T D01S, X rails J. uauuuu. JLV- u . i CIHgrew, Lee Mantle, John P. Joaes, Charles A. Towne, Charles S. Hartman, John F. Shafroth, C. E. Allen. A Foolish Young Han. Boston, Feb. 2'j.?John Lewis Roche, a son of James Jefrry Itoche, editor of the Boston Pilot, shot himself in the right lung, while standing in the door way of the Castle Square Hotel. His wound is dangerous. A love affair is thought to be the cause of Roche's act. Seaman Creelmar. of the battleship Maine, was presented last week by I Secretary Herbert with a beautiful | gold medal for great heroism in jump| ing over ooard during a storm and j saving the life of a fellow seaman. The medal is aDoutme size 01 a suver; dollar, and bears on the reverse in high relief a picture of the Maine, while on the obverse the inscription: 4"William J. Creelman, Uniied States navy, for extraordinary heroism, February 6, 1S97. Presented fcy the secretary of the navy." \ A RAILROAD MASSACRE. >"cl)|f, <>r s FaaaUy <>t Tiv~lve Killed by a Traiu N^ar Chattaaoega. Chattanooga. Tea a., Feb. 2-i.? About 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Southern Railway, four miles from this city, incoming passenger train No. 7, travelling at a high, speed, struck a covered country wagon, which was trying to clear the tracks ahead of the1 rain atAvondalecrossing. The wagon was hit squarely in the centre and with its ten occcupants hurled high into the air. The occupants were; Mrs. W. J. Woodward, her eight children and ore grandchild, and all but one were killed. The dead are: Mrs. William J. Woodward, Mrs. Lizzie Woodward Mont gomery, a married daugnter, agea^u; her two months infant daughter; George T. Wood ward, aired 23; Delia Woodward, aged IS; Mary Woodward, aged 15; Daisy Woodward, 10. The last two named lingered several hours after the accident. A striking feature of the catastrophe is that no limbs were broken, but in nearly every csise the skulls cf the victims were crushed to fragments, each body seeming to describe an ellipse througH the air and falling upon its head, several fifty to one huundred feet from the scene. Lizzie Montgomery, I a comely joung matron, descended on the pilot of the locomotive and still held her two-year-old sister, who escaped with a few scratches, and was the only one saved in her lifeless arms. The unfortunates were the family o? a well-known farmer living near King's Point, Tenn. They were returning home from this city in a wagon of the "prarie schooner1' type and George Woodward, the oldest son, was driving. Nearing the crossins: the young man heard the danger ciarnfl] and tried check his team. I which however, became unmanageable and dashed on the track. This crossing is particularly dangerous, as trees fringe the railroad almost to the crossing, which is also partly hidden behind a curve. Fifty yards from the place the engiaee., Abraham Laird, reversed his lever, _ iving given the usual danger signal, but too late to do any good. Tne ground for some distance presented a sory sight. The bodies were gathered up after much searching and taken to the morgue, where the nine members of the same j family made a gruesome spectre. | The infant, which was undoubtedly I shocked to death, lay like a wax figI ure in its mothers arms. E?ery j window in the passenger coaches was | broken and the engine's pilot was demolished. The engineer is absolved from blame for the accident. The father and one child remain of a family of twelve. Threatens to Attack Lao. New YoRk, Feb. 24?.A dispatch to the Sun from Havana says: "Haolowmu/1 Tlio SnoniarHs are V&uQ JLO i-LJ-V, AUV ? wildly excited against Consul General Lee and the Americans. The report was circulated yesterday morning that American warships were coming to Havana by request of Consul General Lee, and the indignation of the volunteers was so intense over that report, that fearing a demonstrai tion against the United States, the j marquis of Ahutnada privately called | to his office the colonels of the battallions of volunteers in the city and I assured them that the report was absolutely false, and that General Lee, in investigating the death of Dr. Ruiz, only obeyed instructions from the state department ot Washington given in a friendly, peaceful spirit. The Spanish volunteers and merchants openly say that if any American warship enters the bay of Havana they will attack the American consulate." If no appeal for warships has been rVio rpmcjiris none the less. j that the? are needed, and that the American government could not send its naval vessels any where to protect the lives and interests of its citizens with better reasons. A Generous foe. Major General Alfred Pleasanton, who died in Washinaton Wednesday, was a brave cavalry leader in the Union army, and like all truly brave soldiers who wore the blue he had respect for the courage and patriotism of the men who wore the gray, and always defended them when sneering or derogatory remarks were made about them. The Philadelphia Times tells an incident which illustrates Pieasanton's friendly regard for the South. Oa one occasion, in an "all night'' house, a stranger came upon the scene and began the utterance of much abusive language concerning the Southern soldiers, saying that thej were braggarts and cowards. Genera 1 Pleasanton was there, and asked the stranger if he recognized him. The [ stranger said no, and the old soldier |Si-.id: "Well, I remember you very well. I am Alfred Pleasanton. I had you drummed out of my camp for cowardice before Antietam. Get out of the place." And the fellow disappeared. Wants to Fight. Washington, Feb. 25 ?The hottest phase o? the Cuban question develop ed in Congress today and was found in Congressman Gibson's resolutions. Gibson represents one of the East Tennessee districts, and although a little fellow in stature, has the reputation of being a fighter. His resolutions recite the many outrages committed upon Americans in Cuba, ?nd then go on to instruct the President to demand the immediate restitution to liberty of every American citizen, native or naturalized. The President is authorized to send warships to Cui rrrn 4- n v. f I/-* Ko/?lr ur* V?ic UiXLL VY&lvlC fcV/ u ,v uw and if in twenty-four hours this demand is not heeded, Havana is to be bombarded. The resolutions have not been acted on. Another Killing. Columbia, S. C., Fei>. 21?In a p?rsonal difficulty, the outcome of a trouble of long: standing, between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning, J. W. Powell, a well known wood dealer, shot and killed Charles W. Sloan, 24 years of age, near the Charlotte, Co lum'oia & Augusta depot. The latter ran a lumber yarn adjoining Powell's wood yard. Powell, after the killing, came to the sheriff's office and surrendered himself. He shot Sloan twice and either bullet would have caused death. Sloan lived about a half hour. Powell's life was saved by a package of law papers in his breast pocket- Sloan fired upon him. The bullet ploughed its way through the papers and merely bruised the il?sh nesr the right nipple. Pianos by the Kile. See Ludaen and Bates' new adver1 tisment of one thousand Mathushek pianos. Suppose them all loaded on to wagons in one grand procession, allow 15 feet for each wagon and team and the line would be nearly three miles long. That is just the wholesale way this great southern house does business. Having acquired an interest in the noted Mathushek Piano factory, they are now supplying purchasers direct and saving all intermediate profits. This meacs a saving of from $50 to $100 on each piano, and the securing of one of the oldest and most reliable instruments at a remarkably low Hgure, Better write them at Savannah, Ora., or at 93 Fifth Ave., New York City. PUBLIC PRINTING BILL. ! CONTINUED FKOil PAGE 0>TE.j The previous question was then ordered and the house refused to strike out the enacting words by the followin? vote: Yeas?Anderson, Ashley, Austell, Bacot, Banks Barkley, Burns, Colcock, deLoaeh. Edwards. Gadsden, Gage, Gasque, Kibbler, JLofton. Mehrtens, McCuilough. McDaniel, Nettles, Patton, Perritt, Pyatt,Reynolds, Robinson. Sanders. Seabrook, Sinkler, Siskins, Smith, W. S.; Smith, E. D.; Stevenson, Sullivan, Thomas, John P.; Townsend, Verner, Vincent, Wilson, Williams, Wyche?39. Nays?Speaker Gary, Ail, Arm strong, Bailey, Bedon, Bsthune, Breeland, Carray, Carson, Caughman, Crum, Cushman, Davis, 0. M.; Dukes, Enrd, Epps, Fairey, Garrris, Goodwin, H. P.; Graham, J. S.; Graham, Thos. A.; Hamilton, Hazelden, Henderson, Hiott, Hollis, Humphrey. Ilderton, Johnson, Kennedy, [ jLrinard, Henry J.; Kinard, J. D.; I .noaster, Layton, Lester, Lemmon, Limehouse, Livingston. Magill, Mauldin, Meares, Miller, J. E ; Miller, JoelH.; Mishoe, Moora, McKeown, Mc White, Owen, Phillips, Plyer, Pollock, Price, Prince, Rainstord, Rogers, Russell, Skinner, Speer, Sturkie, Timmerman, Toole, Wolling, Welch, Westmoreland, Whisonant, Wingo, Winkler, Witherspoon, Yeldell?70. Mr. Ashley then offered the following amendment. Add at the end of the amendment line 54. page 3, and also at the end of section 1 as amended the following: ''Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent any resident of the State from purchasing liquors outside ot this State in quantities not exceeding one gallon at a time and having the same shipped to said purchaser in this Slate for personal use only, said purchaser making affidavit that it was for personal use and having said affidavit attached to the package while in transportation." Mr. Dukes moved to table this amendment. This was done on a roll I 1 1 f-r-k* r\ TT/"\f ^ TTTO C ^71 f VsAlJ. WtO, XJUV V VIO tt Us) a a ?v wt The bill was then ordered to a third reading without further debate and the vote was clinched. lnt>the House on Wednesday the bill to prevent travelling medicine vendars from plying their vocation wss taken up and passed. Mr. Gage's important joint resolution directing the comptroller gener al to levy and collect a supplementary tax for the public schools was called up and passed. Under this joint resolution the comptroller general is directed to forthwith levy a tax on the property of the State sufficient to realize an amount equal to $3 pei capita of the number ot children enrolled in the public schools of each county for the scholastic year ending the C>i-s5U uaj KJi. W li V ILL yLLV JWWi. .A. w v w J which sum shall be apportioned by him amoDg the counties of the State in proportion to the respective deficiences therein. A motion to continue this measure to the next session was defeated by the following vote: Ayes?Speaker G-ary, Banks, Bedon, Burns, Caughman, Colcock, Crum, Cushman, Dukes, Efird, Fairey, Fox, Gadsden, Garris, Gasaue, Goodwin, 0. P.; Graham, J. S.; Graham, T. A.; Hiott, Kennedy, Kibler, Kinard, H. J.; Lester, Limehouse, Mehrtens, Miller, J. E.; Mishoe, Moore, McDaniel, McLaurin, Phillips, Pyler, Prince, Pyatt, Russell, Seabrook, Skinner, Simkins, Sturkie, Stevenson, Thomas, J. P., Jr.; Timmerman, Toole, Vir. cent, Welsh, Witherspoon?16. Nays?All, Anderson, Armstrong, Ashley, Austell, Bailey, Bethune, Carraway, Carson, Davis, C. M.; deLoach, Edwards, Epps, Gage, Goodwin, H. P.; Hamilton, Haxelden, Henderson, Hollis, Humphrey, Ilderton, Kinard, J. D.; Lancaster, Layton, Livingston, Mauldin, Meares, Miller, J. H.; Mitchell, McOullcugh, McKeown, McWhite, Owen, Patton, Perritt, Pollock, Price, Rainsford, Reynolds, Robinson, Rogers, Sanders, Sinkler, Smith, E. D.; Thomas, W. I TT W wtm nrp I an f} W hisOQ ant, Wilson, Wingo, Winkler, Wyche?58. The following special report of the joint committee appointed to investigate the public printing was received: Your joint committee appointed to investigate the public printing beg leave to report that the provisions of "An act to further regulate public printing reports of officials and compensation for the same," passed the general assmbly of 1S96, have been complied with and that under said act the cost of printing is less than last year. But your committee would recommend that the law be so amended as to require the heads of depart-1 .17 .V- :.i: meuis approve au uuis iuj: prxuuug for their respective departments before acted on by the attorney general. We further recommend that the law be so amended as to leave out of the comptroller general's report the ioil of pensioners and list of insurance agents. We think more economy might be practiced in the matter of unfilled pages and blank space in some of the reports. W. A. Brcavn, On part of the Senate. T. A. Graham, J. M. Sullivan, C. T. Wyche, On part of the House. The House Wednesday concurred in the senate amendment to the concurrent resolution fixing the day of adjournment The senate changed the date, making it read next Wednesday, leaving the hour open. The vote whereby the house agreed to the amendment was clinched. It Id Said That of all the diseases that affect mankind, diseases of the kidneys are the most dangerous and fatal. If this be so, hovr important it is tii -i the kidneys be kept in a healthy c <ndition. * The use of Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is *he "ounce of prevention" in thes troubles. mE HERE. IS.YOUR LIVER ALL RH IT? j Arc your Kidneys in a healthy condition ? If so, Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will keep there so. If not Hilton's Life ?o the L ver and Kidneys will mate them so. A 25c bottle will convince you of this fonf T&ien regularly after meals it is an aid to digestion, cures habitual constipation, and thus refreshes and clears both body and mind. SOLD WHOLESALE BY Ihs Murray Drug Go C JJLUMBIA, 8. 0. AND Dr. H. BAER, Charleiton, S. C, f ~ Tne trustworthy cure for the Whiskey, Opium, Morphine and Tobacco Habits. For further information address The Keeley Institute, or Drawer 27, Columbia, S. C. WE WANT A PARTNER IN ^ EVERY TOWN. Postmasters, Railroad Agents, Genera! tore ???iri, Claris tfulttdrt, or . i other person, lady or gentleman, who can devote a little or all of their time to one busi'ess- We do not want any money in 1 advance, and pay large com missions to I ; those who work for as. We have the best Family iieaicmes on earm, aau cau muduce lots of testimonials from oar home people. j Send for blank application and circular. Address BBAZILIAN MEDICINE CO., 844 Broadway, Aupusta, Ga Advice to Mothers. We tafce pleasure In calling your atten tion to a remedy so long needed In carry Ing children safely through the critical stage of teething. It is an incalculable blessing to mother aid child. If you are disturbed at night with a sick, fretful, teething child, use Pitts' Carminative, it will give instant rape?, and regulate the bowels, and make teething safe and easy. It will cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea. PiKa Carminative is an instant 'elief for colic of infants. It will proms'.? digestion, pjve tone and energy to the stomach and j bowels. The sick, puny, suffering child will soon become the fat and frolicking Joy of the household. It is very pleasant to the taste and only cost 25 cents per bottle Sold by druggists and by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. C. drti | "MATHUSHEK"?The Piano for a Lifetime. I PIANOS When other Pianos on hand. LUDDEN &, BATES, interested in this Factory, now offer this great stock at $50 to $100 less than former prices. Xo strictly High Grade Piano erer sold so loir. ONE PROFIT from Factory to Donsamer. Greater inducements than ever in slightly used Pianos and Organs?many as cood as new?sold under guarantee. Latest Styles. Elegant Cases. Also New STEIHWAY Pianos, Mason & Hamlin Organs. 1 Write lor -taciorv rr;eta ?au xjisus. LUDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH, 6A. All Sheet llusic One-Half Price. Machinery AND Supplies Engines. Boilers; Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Wheat Mills, Planers, Brick Machines, Moulders, Gang Edgers. And a'i kinds of Wood Working Ma chinery. No one in the South can offer you higher grade goods, or at lower prices. Talbott, Llddell and Watertown Ea^ines. We are only a few hours ride from ycu. Write for prices.. Light, Variable Feed Plantation Saw Mills a Specialty. V. 0. Badham, General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MITT* GRIST MILLS, AT FACTORY PRICES. E. W. SCREVEN, COLUMBIA, S. C.J