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* VOL LIV. WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 18, 1900. NO. 49 ON THE ROAD AGAIN" The State Candidates Resume j Their Speech Makir-g. ! THE ATTENDANCE SMALL. Tko WaM TmHHpn Ground Gone Over by the Vote Hunters. Not Much Interest Manifested. The State campaign mectiDgs were resumed last Tuesday week at Georgetown. The attendance was very small, and little interest wa3 manifested in what was said and done. A number of the candidates were absent. "WILLIAMSBURG MEETING. There were about two hundred people in attendance on the meeting at Kingstree on Wednesday. Capt. Jennings, ? -3 - J - ' ~ Tmoonr^f An^np(] e&auiuatc iui khhs ?? the speaking. Dr. Tim merman was absent. Brocker and Derham warmeo up a little. Brooker charged Derham with allowing treasurers to make settlements whenever the latter want to. Derham, interrupting, said this was untrue. , Brooker said he oould prove it in the record for 1897 in Ilichland county. Derham said that he had a ceriiScate from Sheriff Cathcart contradicting Brooker's statement. Capers made the crowd holler by assailing MeMahan for naming a flag on ft Winthrop college for "a Yankee solJtttoo foirtliintr af. tVip snniBlfir ? UlCt W11V HM -V school. McMahan was not here today. Col. Floyd said Williamsburg had > been one of his banner counties. Re wanted to keep its support. Dr. Rouse teste aKcptif fe W. D. Mayfield, W. D. Evans, J. H. Wharton, B. B. Evans, J. E PettiI - grew and Mr. Berry told why they \ ought to be railroad commissioner. B B. Evans prodded W. P. Evans. Barney denied that rate on cotton had been reduced, "and I defy him to deny it " W. D. Evans replied: "I do deny it." Barney asserted that one man's word is as good as another's. He then read some figures that the local rate from Kingstree to Greenville was i>y cents and to Norfolk 24 cents. Barney continued to make his charges, ''and I defy him to deny it." Col. W. D. Evans each time would say. "I do deny it." Barney stated that since the sale of the South Carolina and Georgia to the Southern the rates had increased. W. D. denied this. Barney said this denial was not the truth." W. D. advanced toward him and it looked squally, but the Marlboro gamecock kept admirable control of himself under the terrible excoriation of his Edgefield namesake. Barney, shaking his Anger excitedly at W. D., said that to prove his assertion the rates at Aiken had gone up since the sale of the South / -Carolina and Georgia he could cite the CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. Gary was the first speaker for the office of governor. He today for the first time referred to the fact that he has no papers backing him up. He reiterated nis support of the dispensary, and jumped on prohibition, bat advocated local option between the two. He produced the record showing that he had voted for the Archer bill as amended by Winkler so as to allow each county the right to establish or to remove dispensaries. Col. Hoyt said he had not referred to the Archer bill, but to the bill prepared by 31r. Kobinson of Anderson, which provided for a vote between dispensary and prohibition. Gary charged coalition between blind ligers and prohibition to squeeze the life out of the dispensary. He accorded all honor to honest prohibitionists, but warned honest men Dot to be persuaded to vote for prohibition. He again stated that factional lines had been drawn against him, as he was a Gary and a 'Tillmanite. He wants to be measured as an individual. Patterson began by saying that while Mr. Gary is discussing local option, he would discuss the dispensary. Pattersati Attfvmnted the role of humorist and told several jokes today. Gary is seeing ghosts. Nobody in the campaign has said anything about the Gary's hold-. ing offices until yesterday, when Walt Wnitman said something about it. Nobody is attacking Gary for supporting Tillman. He said that Gary didn't have the courage to come out in favor of the dispensary at Charleston. Gary?That is absolutely untrue. * Patterson said that at Charleston he had asked Gary if the latter was in favor of high license for Charleston, and the latter said that his position was understood by the crowd. Gary?I asked the crowd if they wanted me to explain my position again, and they said no. Patterson?But the people of South Carolina must have an explanation. Gary?The people know how I stand. You are the only one who does not, and it you haven't got the brains to take it in L can't give them to you. Patterson then paid his respccts to " prohibition. Everybody in South Carolina knows that if Gonzalez take3 up a fellow it beats that fellow, and so Col. Hoyt says he did not seek the support of Gonzales. Patterson then began on McSweeney, ' ? making the same old charges of non enforcement of the law. He made a "new point," that M. Welch, of the tirm. of Welch & Eason, runs a blind tiger and has a United States revenue license. Yet McSweeney has commissioned him a member of the Charleston county board of control. McSweeney stated that he had nothing to do with it. The appointments were made by the legislative delegation from Charleston. r Patterson said that McSweeney couid at least kick him out. McSweeney replied that he could not * * % *-- - 1- T? J ^ kiciv out a man wnom ne nau uui ay- i pointed. Patterson said he eould at least re- I port it to the grand jury. f MeSweeney wanted :o kcow if Pat' terson accused Welch of running a oiind tiger. Patterson replied, "Ves; I have seen the barrels seized in his place by the constables.'" There was scant applause when Patterson concluded. S$f ' ' ' Col. Hoyt said there were admirable features in the dispensary jaw as compared with the barrooms. But the people who are appointed to enforce the law do not do it. It is enforced in towns and cities with the aid of municipal authorities, but not in rural districts?at least not in his part of the State. Dispensaries sell to blind tigers. The colonel then paid his respects to Mr. Gary. The bill he had referred to was introduced by Robinson from Anderson, not Robinson from Pickens. It was introduced in 1899 and Gary voted acainst it. It was prohibition. The Archer bill was dispensary. Perhaps Gary had changed his mind within that time and thinks that a little local option would help his candidacy. Gary, from the crowd, asked if Col. Hoyt had not last fall favored coalition, and n he had not sincc changed his mind. Col. Hoyt stated that he had taken that position for a purpose last winter, and tha: purpose was to kill the dispensary first and to enact prohibition afterwards. The dispensary law is not a solution of the liquor question. Every legislature has changed the law. In reply to Patterson, he said there would be no corruption, or collusion or rascality in a "dispensary" in which whiskey and * " 1 H ? - _ 1 I wine is Kept lor merely meaicmai, sauramental and mechanical uses. Prohibition can be enforced by magistrates and their constables supported by public sentiment. G. Walt said he would divide his speech iato three tubjacts. He would say something of himself, then discuss measures, and thirdly do some skinning. He would settle the educational question two years hence, and the liquor question this campaign. A3 between prohibition and the dispensary he favored the latter properly enforced, but license is his latest fad. There is not a single prohibition injunction in the Bible, be says. He then proceeded to the "skinning," addressing himself particularly to McSweeney. The candidates for lieutenant governor then followed. Col. Tillman opened. He accused Col. Livingston of dodging the liquor question, and said he was like the poem on the back of a Confederate bill, ' Representing nothing on God's earth now." Winkler speaks of abolishing profit feature of the dispensar}', but ?cRirs<;f- it. He was followed by Col. Livingston, wjo made a clear exposition of his position on the liquor question and said that he was on record as to his stand. A prohibitionist himself, he believed in treating the several factions fairly and not forcing them. Col. Winkler said that he had never favored the dispensary to make profits, but to promote temperance, and he didn't care if they took away every cent of the profits. He said that "competency, honesty and sobriety'' are requisites fo." the office of lieutenant governor. He had the qualifications. Col. Sloan congratulated the farmers on the rain which the candidates had brought. If their talk did no good, the rain might. The constitutional convention thought it had settled the liquor question when it provided that the question may be left to each county. Each county manages its own courts and other institutions, why not the liquor questions/ .Local option is the gun to liill blind tigers. Cel. Blease said that the reason he opposed Winkler's referendum was that it left the question of dispensary or no dispensary to the general election. The 12,000 negro voters, the balance of power, would settle the question for the white people. Docs Gonzales love prohibition? Does he love Col. Hoyt? No, but he hates the dispensary. The liquor people want to kill the dispensary, make prohibition obnoxious and then get high license. Judge Moore was not here, and Gen. Bellinger had no opposition. Gen. Bellinger said that he had heard of nobody but a trial justice down in Charleston who had criticised his record and he would not tax the patience of the people by making a speech. JVlcSweeney looked bright and fresh today, after his rest. He stigmatized Patterson's charges -as little, absurd and flimsy. Did Patterson mean to charge that the editor of the county J Vk/* AW <t ^ AIIOI* ? T> paper vVUlU UC ?sjk a uvuai wuu a half a year? As to granting Unitea States licenses, how coald any power stop the granting of them. The constables get a list of those holding licenses and trail them, but it is impossible to absolutely enforce the law in a seaport town like Charleston. He (McSweeney) could not go around like Patterson leokiDg for blind tigers. He could not force the grand jury in Charleston any more than Patterson when a prohibitionist could prevent the grand jury of Barnwell from throwing out the warrants which Patterson plaoed in their hands. McSweeney defended his record and said the dispensary law had been enforced better than ever before and without bloodshed. He had appointed newspaper men on his staff. However, he had a dozen who were not newspaper men. He replied in like manner to all of Patterson's charges. He defended the dispensary law as the best solution of the liquor question. He was applauded when he concluded. THE FLORENCE MEETING. The campaign meeting at Florence Thursday was attended by about 600 people. Brooker and Derham had their usual spat. MeMahan was not present. Capers attacked his record as that of an unpractical man. Capt. House and Gen. Floyd threw bouquets at each other and declared an armistice until the meeting at Spartanburg. The candidates for this office made their regular speeches. W. D. Evans replies to charges that rate on cotton is driving mills away by saying that $9,000,000 has been projected in cotton mills in this State this year and Augusta mill men are estab lishing a bleacher? here. i Wharton had been here 30 years ago | as a ? -nfederate soldier and a few years j ago voted for formation of Fioreov county. Why is it flour can be shipped to Lake City 8 cents cheaper than to Florence? He wants to stop demurrage. Barney Evans sailed into W. D. again today. W. 1). had chaperoned the Jim Crow car amendments with uniform passenger rates in the last legislature. W. D. replied that he had not been before the legislative committee at all. He retorted Barney's own brother vot^d for the bill. Barney disclaimed responsibility for his brother's voting wrong. Harney was generously applauded. T. M. Berry made a prohibition talk and said a practical prohibitionist is a safe business man. W. D. Maj field contended that cotton mills in upper (Jarolina are sending to Alabama for cotton on account of local rates. Mr. J. E. Pettigrew was at home ana courteously declined to speak, but welcomed the candidates to Florence. Patterson was the first speaker in the gubernatorial tourney. He discussed briefly the failure cf the legislature to appropriate funds for the common schools after taking dispensary profits from them. He made his same dispensary speech. He said that the prohibition proposed is but the dispensary law without the beverage feature. The rich will then send, out of the Stat? for liquor and the poor will patronize blind tigers. Maine sells more liquor unlawfully than South Carolina does lawfully. Col. Hoyt charges all the crime in South Carolina to the dispensary. The \ attorney general of Maine attributes rascality there to prohibition. Repeated his old charges of coalition. Said that McSweeney is not a friend of the dispensary. A SHARP SPAT. Col. Hoyt took a hand primary, the first one since Patterson's dismal failure at Walterboro. Col. Hoyt was received with cheering. He was forced to omit discussion of other issues and confiae himself to the liquor question, as his opponents had devoted so much time to him. Patterson interrupted Col. Hoyt once and the crowd cheered the colonel. Patterson had claimed that nine-tenths of the people drink liquor. Col. Hoyt disputed it. Patterson?Take a hand primary. Hoyt?Why didn't you do it? rm - - -1 _ > i - -1- . 1 j ; I JLne coiucei iuuk. a nauii pumai,/ lu j see how many in the audience drank liquor. The number of fists poked up was absurdly small and the crowd howled for Hoyt. Hoyt then said that Patterson had said that the crowd was sober because the dispensary was closed. The colonel pronounced this a slander on the people of Florence and the crowd cheered again. If prohibition is a farce, why did Patteison advocate it in 1892? And does he support the dispensary now because, as he says, "the majority of the people favor it?" Col. ELoyt read a denunciation of the dispensary written by the Rev. W. R. Richardson of Columbia, and when he came to a paragraph where it was said that small politicians use it to ride into office, the crowd cheered again. Would Patterson refuse the support of papers if they came to his rescue? for he needs rescue? TVould Patterson accuse them of being subsidized if they supported him ? The Naws and Courier is too busy booming the exposition to notice the State campaign editorially. Perhaps if Editor Hemphill knew that Patterson is a candidate, he would support him, Col. Hoyt remarked sarcastically. The course of Mr. X. G. Gonzalez i3 as truly independent in this campaign as it has been in everything. Was Gonzales' support of Ellerbe in 1898 a failure? Gonzilcs supports him on other grounds. "Read his editorial and you will see something not very complimentary to you, sir," he said to Patterson. Patterson retorted that in the constitutional convention he had introduced a resolution charging X. G. Gonzales with falsehood against John Gary Evans and 123 delegates of all faotions naci supported n. Col. Hoyt said he was not Mr. Gonzales' champion, but lie was quite sure Patterson would not face him (Gonzales) and use the language he did here today. Patterson said he had said the same thiDg in the constitutional convention, pointing his finger at Gonzales at the time. Coi. Hoyt retorted that if Patterson had done so it had been under the protection of his privilege as a member of the convention. Patterson replied that Gonzales had opportunity to see him afterwards. During the controversy there was cheering at the conclusion of every thru3t made by Col. Hoyt, while Patterson had no applause. As Col. Hoyt concluded, Mr. Petticrrour nroSf?ntA(1 Mm with a boUGUet with the statement that the ladies of Florence looked for manliness in the governor's office if he were elected. WHITMAN AND GARY. Walt Whitman exhibited a map of South Carolina and said that three of the candidates for governor come from a bunch of counties down on the Savannah. Walt said Gary had asked him where hr was during the war. Walt replied that he was only 12 years old when the war broke out, but he plowed an old blind mule to make bread and meat for the soldiers, and two of his brothers shed their blood in the cause. What had Gary and Patterson and McSweeney done for the old soldiers whom they so profess to love? He put the laugh on uoi. Jtioyt me latter had admired Walt Whitman's ability to fashion a new platform every day, Walt said Col, Hoyt had only one, a miserable old thing. He would not tackle Patterson as the latter was in such a miserable fix already. McSweeney was not here and he could not hit him in the back as he is lame and sick unto death anyway. He helped out Brooker in his charges against the tax department of the State. He was tired of the liquor question. He would rather drink it than talk about it. (Laughter.) He too held a hand primary in opposition to Col. Hoyt's and the result was that there were but three in the audience who thus indicated that they do not take "bocze." The laugh was on tbe colonel. Mr. Gary was received with some demonstration. He was glad that Pee T^oe and Piedmont are alike?progres, ..73 and steadfast to the landmarks of I Democracy. He declared that it was false that he had tried to inject partisan politics iota the campaign. He had too many friends in all former factions. A few days ago an editorial appeared in a leading daily paper calling on the people to vote against him because he was a prominent Tillmanite. He deprecated this departure from the omniniT rVorr>i"!/?rat<5 fn flh UUUCi3S.<iUUiU? aiuvuj -- literate party lines. He himself had kept the faith. In public life he had known no Tiilmanite, no anti-Tillmanite. He argued against the practicability of enforcing prohibition and de clared in favor c." the dispensary, with allowances to the ca<? uiQtiG'j wsntin^ pro* j hibition. Col. Hoyt bad said that the dispensary had brought the State into degradation and dirt. Gary asked what is the state of degradation. God forbid the day when free liquor will come into South Carolina. Col. Koyt might not . be in the coalition, but the result of his election would mean a riot of blind tigers. Gary was applauded when he said that he was an original advocate /liDKiflncortT o r> r? olf-Vimiorh it". VlAR broken from its original moorings it is yet the best solution of the liquor question. He iavored the common schools and especially institutions for industrial training. He was liberally applauded. >fSWEENEY'S MESSAGE. Gov. McSweeney was not present at the meeting. The following message from him will explain why he was absent: ) "A bouncing baby boy arrived at the mansion early this morning. Request ' county chairman to present my best wishes to the Democracy of Florence . and my rajrets at Dot being able to attend meeting." The reading of the message was applauded. The candidates for lieutenant governor then spoke. Each improves daily in his exhortation for votes. Col. Livingston declared for prohibition; Col. Blease for dispensary; ditto Col. Tillman and Col Sloan for local option between prohibition, high lioense and dispens iry. and Col. Winkler for dispensary with a prohibition local option rider. Col. Livingston had the largest share of applause. Dr. Timmerman, Capt.- Jennings and Gen. Bellinger followed. Banks. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. ^ ^rr r* ? w oai me i oung urops a re .uouug in ; this State. The f llowing is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the United States weather ! bureau's weather and crop service: The week ending 8 a. m., July 9 th, was extremely hot, with the average < temperature between five and six de- i srees higher than usual, and for the 1 first time this season the maximum j rose to 100 or above, while the lowest 1 minimum was 67 degrees. - 1 The rainfall was largely local in char acter, with many localities that had. no rain, while others had from a trace to nearly two inches. The hot sun dried , uplands rapidly, and nearly all' corres- ( pondents report red lands and clayey , lands baked and hard to cultivate, and that showers would prove beneficial on such lands, while bottom land gener- > ally are still wet, and more raia at this 1 time would cause further injury. I Farm work made rapid progress and , was in the main devoted to cleaning J staple crops of grass and weeds, some- < what to the neglect of the less import- . ant crops. Much grass was killed, but | j another full week of dry, hot weather . i.1 vi :j I' ib requirea to tuuruugui^ nu tuc uoiuo of weeds and to put crops into good condition. \ The general condition of corn is im- , proved, but it is scalding on wet bot- , torn laods and firing on sandy lands to , a considerable extent. Old corn is be- < ing rapidly laid by, while young corn . is very grassy. Some overflowed bot- ( toms being replanted to corn. The ma- 1 turing portion of the crop needs rain. | Cotton fields that have been cleaned . of grass are doing well, but many re- \ main crassv nn which cotton is turn- , ing yellow. The hot, dry weather was | favorable to cotton, and in general this < crop is decidedly better than it was last ] week. There is some complaint of r lust and blight, the latter most se rere ^ on sea island variety. The plants are j growing too much to weeds in places, and in many instances are not fruit- . ing well. A few localities report cotton f very promising. ( Wheat thrashing is now being hur- ] ried wit'a continued heavy yields, but ] some grain is slightly damaged by rain ] usually only the top bundle of the i &hock. < Early rioe is doing well in all regions J except in the upper Combahee where ] rice is about ten days late and is not < doing well. ' Tobacoo improved in most sections 1 and is a fine crop, with cutting and cur- . ing under way, but the bulk of it will 1 J TTT^lr ( UtJ O U1CU UUUU^ LilC ^VLUlUg VTVVA* Sweet potatoes, pastures, cane and J gardens are promising. Melons are a ! partial failure. Many peaches, grapea and other fruits rot as the ripen. Figs 1 and LeConte pears are ripening. Yege- : tables for local use are plentiful. Field laborers are scarce in many counties. Why He SucceededThe Abbeville Press and Banner says: , "Governor McS^eeney, if measured by his early struggles, and his subsequent , successes, is the equal of any man in 1 the race, and there is no reason for ; maligning him, except because of his < past saccesses, and his future good prospects. He was a poor orphan boy, with neither money nor education nor influential friends to boost him. But be had character and an invincible determination, and the people will neither : allow an envious snirit to cast him I down nor permit the friends of license to deprive him of the office to which he should be elected, simply because he ( enforces the liquor law." A Tribute to TillmanOne of the delegates from Virginia to , the late National Democratic Conven- , tion says "Senator Tillman in reading : ?1 ~ ? 1- A** canf 1 f 111*? 11 Lilt; pjauik. uu iiajpci laii^ui aouu U but*** through the great convention hall which is seldom equalled in such au assemblage. The spectacle which greeted the South Carolina Senator's masterly ; reading of the plank, was one which may not be witnessed again for many years to come. A Queer Mixture. J. F. Pickelheimer was arrested at Middleboro, Tenn., oh the charge of bigamy. It is alleged he has seven wives, two of whom are in Middlesboro, and others will arrive shortly. In * 1 f i. 1_ I his grip were round a license 10 preacn, a teacher's certificate from Franklin ; county, Ky., four marriage certificates, < a deck of cards, bottle of whiskey and a pistol. NEWS FROM CHINA.! The Situation Said to Bear a Most Ominous Aspect. ALLIED TROOPS DEFEATED. Stories of Wholesale Murder Continuj to Come. Conflicting Accounts of the State of Affairs. Affairs in China do not improve much. No authentic news has been received from Pekin, and the impression is that all foreigners in that city have been massacred. Over twenty days ago Sir Robert Hart dispatched his last message declaring that the situation was desperate and since then no word has come from the Europeans in Pekin. The London Daily Mail Tien Tsin corresDondent savs: "The situation is about as bad as it can well be. I only trust that we shall not soon want relieving ourselves. A forward movement is impossible. From 30,000 to 40,000 troeps are wanted, and there are only 10,000 here. The foreign troops are working well together, but it is inconvenient that there is no supreme commander. In some quarters the feeling is, 'Let us rescue Pekin and then clear out in favor of Russia." All kinds of stories come from Shanghai, which it is impossible to verify. It is stated that the Boxers have murdered the chancellor of the Pekin university and 60 of the members of his family and retainers. A confidential officer of Gen. Yung Tu, disguised as a Boxer, is reported to have crept into Prince Tuan's tent while the Prince was sleeping with the intention of stabbing him. He was caught by the sentries, so the story goes, decapitated on the spot. His head was sent, with Prince Tuan's compliments, to Yung Lu as a warning to him to beware. The French consul at Shanghai has news that the Chinese prefect at Moukden himself murdered the Catholic bishop, Gruillon, in his yamen. Beside Bishop Gruillon, Fathers Crunoet, Corbet, Bor5Uois and Veuillenot and two sisters of the French mission and numerous native Christians were massacred. ALLIES DEFEATED. A dispatch from Tien Tsin says: "Gren. Ma has defeated the allied troops and reoccupied the Chinese eastern arsenal, after inflicting great loss upon its defendeis. The engagements lasted six hours, and was fought with ?reat determination by both sides, the Chinese were eventually able to ise the effective guns of the fort abut iin^ on Lbc city walls Dear the Taotal's ^amen, the allied troops suffering severely from lack of guns and cavalry. The Japanese commander sent an urgent appeal to hnrry reinforcements, as the allies were in imminent danger of i general defeat." The Shanghai correspondent of The Express gives the text of a long edict )f Prince Tuan, dated June 29th, and addressed to the Chinese embassadors, fvhich The Express declares is identical irith the message from Emperor Kwang 3u, mentioned by the Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Mail, and what she Chinese edict public had done in Washington. The Express considers ;hat the edict proves that Prince Tuan's irmy is making no attempt to disguise :he fact that the worst that could be intioipated has happened. The edict jontains the following paragraphs: ;'The anger of our people knew no rounds. They could not be restrained. rhe task of guarding the legations, ?hich before was difficult, was made impossible." Elsewhere, referring to the desire to protect the legations still unharmed, it jays: "If it is impossible for us to :ontinue this protection, let it be represented to the powers that we must be held blameless, for the anger of the people grows with the rising of each sun that sees more and yet more foreigners and soldiers ooming to overrun md lay waste our country and slay our people." The correspondent says the idiot is intended to pave the way for i final lifting of the veil over the resent history of Pekin. The German consul at Tien Tsin cables that the foreign settlements were jontinually bombarded by the Chinese from July 5 to July 8. On July 6th two thousand Boxers aataoked the Frenoh settlement and were routed by the Russians. The British and Japanese forces July 7th bombarded the Chinese batteries. Toward eveuing Chinese shells penetrated the roof of the German consulate and caused an outbreak of fire, which was extinguished after slight damage had been done. On July 6th the Peiping sailed for Taku with the German wounded. Hirer communication between Tien Tsin and Taku has been safe since the Chinese fort midway between the two towns was captured. FEARS THE WORST. A terrible veil of silence enshrouds Pekin and there is nobody but believes the worst has happened. It is taken for granted that all the powers have ex hausted every means to g9t direct news from their legations, and the fact that their efforts have been vain leaves but one interpretation. Statements are in circulation in in Shanghai accusing the Russians ?f indiscriminate slaughter of friendly Chinese non-combatants, without regard to age or sex. The manager of a Chinese steamship company who has arrived in Shanghai, asserts that he only escaped from Tien Tsin by cutting off his queue and donning Eu* -1 r. iL . m_? ropean ciotnes. u is saia mai me j.autai of Shanghai protested to the powers against these Russian slaughters. News is circulating throughout the Yang Tse valley that Gen. Ma has inflicted a crushing defeat upon the allies at Tien Tsin and that the foreign army has been cut to pieces east of Pekin. The actual impotence for the moment of the allied forces naturally give color to these stories with the worst results. The Shanghai correspondent of The Express gives Tien Tsin advices to July 8th, when the superior range of the Japanese artillery enabled tiiem to relieve tne xtuseians, who were hard pressed at the railway station. [ FOREIGNERS KILLED. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail says the following story re; gardingthe situation in Pekin emanates from Chinese official sources: "The two remaining legations, the British and Russian, were attacked in force on the evening of July 6th. Prince Tuan being in command. Tne attackers were divided. Prince Tuan commanded the centre, the right wing was led by Prince Tsai Yin and the left by Prince Yin Lin. The reserves were under Prince Tsin Yru. The attack commenced with artillery fighting which was severe and lasted until 7 o'clock in the morning by which time the legations were de stroyed and all the foreigners were dead, while the streets around the legations were full of the dead bodies of both foreigners and Chinese. Upon hearing of the attack, Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shae went with troops to the assistance of the foreignera, but they were outnumbered and defeated. Both Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shao were killed. Two foreigners are said to have escaped through the gates, one with a heavy sword wound in his head. Prinoe Taan, in celebration of the victory, distributed 100,000 taels and huge quantities of rice to the Boxers." A dispatch to the New York Journal and Advertiser from Cho Foo says: A courier from Sir Robert Hart, in Pekin, has jast arrived bringing this message, dated June 28: "Close to good bye. Near the end." A private letter from Pekin, dated Juae 24, and received at Tien Tsin June 3U, says: "We are in danger of death. Thirty thousand troops are attacking. Only three days' food is left. No news comes of troops. If no relief conies all seems hopeless. WHOLESALE MURDER. A dispatch from London says a news agency reports that an official message received in London states that ail the foreigners in Pekin were murdered July 6. All the foreigners and missionaries have evacuated When Chau and have arrived at Ning Po. Large bodies of Boxers appeared at Wen Chau and threatened to exterminate the foreieoers and Christians. They also distributed banners, badges and inflammatory anti- foreign appeals. The Tien Tsin correspondent of The Express, telegraphing under date of July 9, asserts that the Chinese are daily driving m t&e allies, mey nave mounted, says the correspondent, 12 fresh guns in advantageous positions, with which they are sweeping the streets of the foreign settlement, the incessant fire rendering position after position quite untenable. The Daily Mail's St Petersburg correspondent says that in the last six hours' battle outside of Tien Tsin, the Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The Chinese lost 3,000 killed, including H-or, TTal V* VU< AAVfti Train Robbed. The Illinois Central fast train from New Orleans to Chicago was held up and robbed Wednesday morning two miles south of Wickliffe, Ky. The train was flagged, and when it stopped the bandits entered the cab. The fireman was knocked in the head with the butt of a revolver and badly hurt. The robbers, six in number, cut off the engine and express car and ran a mile and a half to Fort Jefferson, near the Ohio river, and within sight of the Missouri shore. Here they blew open the express safe and secured all the valuables it contained. The robbers overpowered the express men and made them get off the train, but did not attempt to molest others on the train, which carried a large load of passengers. This morning a special train with blood hounda and an armed posse left Jackson, Tcnn., for the scene. It is understood that Missouri officers are hot on the robbers' trail. A.bout $10,080 were secured. A Biff Job. Some of our rampant imperialists are reminded, by the Salt Lake Tribune, that no foreign army can advance into central China except perhaps by her great river. No army could exist in that country. It would have to be in daily connection with its base, or starve and then if a million Chinamen were to be killed, that would be nothing. It would be as when a ship goes down at sea and the waters close over it, giving up no sign that any ship ever sailed there. Every well-wisher of his race hopes that, notwithstanding the provocation, some satisfactory adjustment can be made without a general war. A Cotton Pest. Mr. L. D. Landrail of Batesburg writes the governor as follows: Dear Sir: There is some kind of a ^est that has attacked the cotton m th.j seotion and in a few days will destroy a large section of the cotton. In fact, it is spreading all over the country. The botanist at Clemson has seen such specimens of the infected cotton and he suggested the use of sulphur, but this does not kill or stop the progress of the scourge. So at the request of a number of prominent farmers. I request you to have the botanist of Ciemson to visit this section and see if he cannot devise a means to help 3. After Negro Labor. A dispatch from Honolulu says it is to the colored people of the southern States that the planters of Hawaiian Islands will turn for lelief in the matter of the vexed labor question. John Hind and J. B. Collins of Yohala plantation, leave today for the southern States in quest of negro laborers. They have assurances that 300 or 400 can be recruited at New Orleans. The planters will pay their expenses to the country and give them $30 a month. If enough negro labor can be secured the services of the Japenese will be dispensed with altogether. Had to Pay for It. The Columbia State says: "Friday morning a white man giving his name as C. C. T. Enlow was before the mayor ?ir. +Vio nViarora of ftftpmnfinc finir.idrt. %J U UUV V* ??Q He claims to be a Baltimorean, and was arrested by Officer Bughson. His infatuation for a woman of bad character here is said to have caused him to put a pistol to his breast and pull the trigger. Only a flesh wound resulted. Acting Mayor Stanley fined the man $20, whieh he paid. He was then released and nothing more has been heard from him. OUTLOOK IS THE COTTON BELT. The Cotton Crops Have Suffered from the June Rains. Latterly the weather conditions have been more favorable to cottony permitting cultivation, and oleaning them of grass and weeds, but the results have not been entirely satisfactory and have disclosed the serious injury that the crop suffered from the June rains, especially in Alabama, Mississippi and the lowlands of Tennessee where many fields are so hopelessly foul that they have been abandoned. Abandoned fields are also common in portions of South Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas. Throughout a large portion of the belt cotton is not fruiting satisfactorily, and there is considerable shedding in places. The conditions in Teias are not uniform, but on the whole are as promising as they usually are at this season, and the fact that the crop is late in the southern portions does not necessarily indicate a short yield, as ihe plants have still a long season before them in that region. The following are the summaries by Oi.i otaies: In Alabama.?Cotton lias improved slightly, but has run too mach to stalk, is fruiting very slowly and poorly, and continues to shed, though not so freely as at the close of last week; there are fewer complaints of lice; it is still very grassy, and the concensus of reports indicates that the prospective yield of this staple has been materially lowered. In Mississippi?As the grass and weeds are cleared away the extent of injury caused by the wet weather is made manifest, and the reports are not encouraging, it is apparent, nowever, that conditions are decidedly better and while many fields have been rained by lack of cultivation, opportunity has been given to either clean them, or plow up and replant in corn, which is being done extensively in all but the southwhestern counties. Many low fields have been entirely abandoned; more have been plowed up and will be reseeded in other orops. Cotton is small and stalky, and gives little indication of fruiting satisfactorily. In North Carolina?Cotton has been greatly benefited by warm days and nights, which have caused rapid growth, good color, and increasing abundance of bloom; fruiting is taking ?i? tm ... ?uai;c? liioic nao vcijr ncnts wiu^iaiuu of lioe on cotton this week; some fields in the southwest are still very grassy. In South Carolina?Cotton fields that have been cleaned of grass are doing well, but many remain grassy on which cotton is turning yellow.' The hot, dry weather was favorable to ootton, and in general thia crop is decidedly better than it was last week. There is some complaint of rust and blight, the latter most severe on the sea-island variety. The plants are growing toe much to weed in plaoes, and in many instances are not fruiting well. A few localities report cotton very promising. In Georgia?Cotton shows a slight improvement, and has received much needed working. It is, however, fruiting slowly, and the forms are small. Ih Florida?Cotton has improved over a large section by_ reason of its freedom from grass. There are still complaints, however, that the frequent rains of June did very serious damage to cotton over limited sections. In Louisiana?The condition of cotton has improved, but the outlook for a largh crop is not as favorable as is that for sugar and rioe. On hill and uplands where the continued rains did not prevent cultivation the plant has grown too rapidly and fruited comparatively little. In the aggregate, a considerable acreage of late planted cotton on low lands has been either drowned out or abandoned to the grass; the late planted upland ootton and that in the bottoms where the stand is good is now being worked and cleaned, is improving in color and looks promising. In Texas?Cotton was improved some by the showers, but more rain would be beneficial in localities, especially in western Texae. Early cotton is bloom ing and fruiting well and is being laia by in some sections. The crop has all been chopped, except some late planting. Some fields are grassy in east Texas. Cotton is not looking well in some localities, while in other sections where the weather has been more favorable the ?rop is promising. The crop is very late and irregular, ranging from light to excellent The Mexican weevil is doing damage in some localities over southern Texas. In Arkansas?Local showers occurred during the week and interfered with farm work in some localities, but as a rule great headway was made cleaning the crops. Corn and cotton, which have been properly cultivated, are growing rnoolv m?nv in f.tiA lAwlanrls have been abandoned. The boli worm is doing some damage to cotton in a few localities. In Tennessee?Upland corn and cotton where fairly worked are in fair condition, and with favorable conditions, following, will make nearly average crops; bnt in lowlands many fields are absolutely lost; this is largely the case in the western division, where, in many sections, the prospect is indeed gloomy. In the middle and eastern divisions, en uplands, crops, as a rule, are rather promising. In Oklahoma?Cotton generally is doing well, aad is blooming and fruiing, and being laid by. Iq Mississippi?Cotton in the southeastern counties has improved somewhat during the week, but is generally in poor condition. Some is in bloom. The British Loses. A dispatch from London says the war office has issued another casualty list from South Africa, showing that during the week ending July 7, there were killed, wounded or captured 15 officers and 180 men; accidental deaths, 2 men; died of disease, 4 officers and 194 men; invalided home, 72 officers and 1,306* men. The total casualties as a result of the war are 48.188 officers and men. Made Him SickThe Chinese residents of Berlin have kept carefully under cover since the news of Baron von Ketteler's murder was confirmed. They have adopted Ea ropean attitxe, even sacrificing their pigtails, and are procuring wigs. The Chinese minister is said to be frightened worst of all. He is reported to be sick abed. i HOW IT WAS DONE. Inside History of Our Delegation's Choice for Vice-President. HOW EACH MAN VOTED, Senator Tillman Tried Hard to Get Them to Vote for Towne, but Failed and Gracefully Yieleded. At the Kansas City convention the South Carolina delegation was of course unanimous in its choice for the presidential candidate, but when it came to the vice-presidency the members were' pretty badly split, and from all accounts the members had quite a lively little verbal spat before the majority decided that South Carolina should support Stevenson. Senator Tillman was heartily and en* thusiastically in favor of the delegation supporting Towne. When the delegation met, the senator made a vigorous and characteristic speech in favor of his candidate, but all his art of persuasion and his blunt and unconventional though strong and emphatic language was in vain. G-overnor McSweeney and John Gary Evans stoutly opposed Senator Tillman's choice, holding that Towne was a Republican, even though he favored 16 to 1, and they declared that they would not support him when there were life long Democrats who were available. TTTl~ i-T- - V-11 i "" IT lieu tut) uaiiut "WIS t&KCIL, lowne was snowed under and a majority of the delegation, eleyen members, decided to support Stevenson. As the unit rule prevailed this gave Stevenson the whole eighteen votes from the state. It will be interesting under these circumstances to know how the delegation did vote: For Towne?Tillman, Stokes, Garris, Trailer and Wilborn, 5. For Hill?Latimer and William3, 2. For Stevenson?Governor McSweeney, Wilson, Bouchier, Stribling, MoGhee, John Gary Evans, Polaty, Talbert, Mooney, Gruber, 10. i?'or Uarr of North .Carolina?Wilie Jones, 1. Senator Tillman read the platform in the convention and he is said to have done so eloquently and was frequently interrupted by oheers. Ee took a very prominent part in the convention and in shaping the platform. The New York Sun correspondent, referring to the part he played at Kansas City, has the following: "From start to finish Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina has been about the most conspicuous man in the convention and in the conferences ont~ side of it. He dominated the committee on resolutions and dominated everybody on the presiding officer's stand during the convention sessions without regard to their official standing. Everybody seemed to be afraid of him, and At I T- T-- *- ^ ? - 3 -- iiu manici iiutv uiuuii ixe mtercerea in business that did not in any way ooncern a delegate from South Carolina, nobody saw fit to object. Mr. Tillman ran amuck in the hotel lobbies and in the street crowds just as he did in the convention hall, and at all times wore a huge oork helmet, lined with green, and a black alpaca jacket Those who did not know him thought he was a crank, and those who did know him were apparently not very proud of him, "It was Tillman who led the committee on resolutions to adopt the suggestion that was in the minds of several delegates, but finally put into language ViV RirWnrtll nf IVTink !<* ?? tn ?4+flTTirvt to nullify the free silver declaration in the platform by the insertion of the ^ sentence about imperialism being the paramount issue of the campaign. Then when the campaign document was finally licked into shape it was Tillman who, without anybody's motion, grasped the first copy and read it to the committee with the same dramatic effect that he showed later when he read it to the convention at the request of Sector Jones, the chairman of the committee, who had been much impressed with Tillman's powers of elocution. Veteran's Reunion. Preparations are now being made by the camps of Confederate veterans all over the State for the ooming annual State reunion to be held in Greenwood. Last year the State reunion was held at Chester and the veterans who attended had a delightful time. Greenwood does not propose to let Chester outdo her in the entertainment provided for the visiting veterans. The time for the reunion is rapidly drawing near and the arrangements are being rushed as much as possible. The programme has not yet been issued, however. me loiiowmg important notice preliminary to the gathering has jast been issued by the committee in charge at Greenwood: The executive committee of the Veterans and Sons of Veterans of Greenwood requests that the names of all delegates and sponsors appointed to attend the State Confederate reunion at Greenwood and the names of all veterans who will attend on Aug. 1 be forwarded as soon as practicable to the undersigned, so that quarters may be assigned* to such delegates, sponsors and veterans before the meeting. All newspapers in the State will favor us by copying this notic?. J. B. Clark, Seoretary. Greenwood, S. C. A Fatal Plague. A dispatch from New Orleans says President Souchan, of the Louisiana State board of health, last Wednesday received a telegram from the president of the parish board of health fer Caldwell parish, of which Columbia is the seat urging that an expert, a quantity of tents, disinfectants and sanitary inspectors be sent to that place at once as a mysterious plague had broken out there which was fatal in every instance. The telegram stated that fully forty people, mostly negroes, hadi? already succumbed to the disease. President + "Hp TJaw UVUUUVU OVUV JU1 UlC DUIW C4" pert, to the scene. It is believed that the epidemic is- a very malignant form of smallpox. %