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THE HOUSE DIVIDES! Shell to Lead In tJie Campaign Against lrfoy. Whon tbe announcement was made in December that the campaign this year would open early in January, a great many had doubts about it. Few outside. the "charmed circie" then knew that the !H/?al not within the ranks of the FU,,"4V Reform party was boiling over, and that there was a fight within the ranks of the heretofore solid phalanxes of Reform, imminent. But such was the case. It has been brewing for a long time, and now there is a crisis. There are to be two factions in the Reform party in the coming campaign. That fact is now no longer denied by the leaders of the more powerful faction. The indications are that Senator Irby, the present State chairman, will lead the faction which represents the minority, and that he will have but little to do with the real manipulation of the coming campaign as far as the Reform element is concerned. He and several followers some months ago cut loose a! most entirely frnm the main wine of the Reformers, and tliey are all likely to fall by the wayside, fighting as they fall. Congressman Shell, it is positively announced, was approached while in the city a few days ago by the leaders of tho Aliiance or farming element of the Reform party, and he has consented to be at the bead of the committee that will manage the campaign for this faction. He was the former president of the Farmers' Association in this State. The Cotton Plant, which is the official organ of the Alliance-farming element of the Reform party, will support the latter faction. When this week's issue of that ftaper is issued this afternoon it will pnbish the following double-leaded editorial, under the caption, "A March Convention," which is equivalent to a call for such a convention: "With the very beginning of this year we are confronted with the fact that this ts a campaign year ana mat we are soon to meet our opponents in a battle for the people's rights and the development of our State in business prosperity and the happiness of its citizens. Such being the case we at once realize the great importance of at once getting our forces together and coming to an agreement on the policy to be pursued so that there can be no misunderstanding, and the success of our cause assured. t "The politicians must be made to take a back seat and let the people themselves set the pace. To do that the people should meet in their neighborhood cluba and send delegates to a State Convention, which will adopt a platform and nominate a candidate for Governor to represent our people on that platform. A Lieutenant Governor should also be put up, but the remainder of the State officers can be nominated by the delegates to the September Convention. "The State Convention for this purpose should be held not later than the month of March?before the farmers get too busy in their crops to attend to it, and Ke?fr\?> hlnr?H risp* hflt wfifln the friends of the aspirants for the Governorship on the Reform side. "The Alliance cannot take part in partisan politics, and therefore has only the right to point out the necessity of calling the people together and leaving it to some one else to do the work. We believe that the last president and Executive Committee of the Farmers' Association of this State are the proper ones to issue such a call, and we are confident that the people would respond promptly and unanimously to a call issued by them. This is a movement of the people to reform and improve our government, and not a movement to place any man or set of men in office merely. We must keep on tbe high ground of pure patriotism, and seek out the men for service who will be the most capable of carrying out our wishes. Measures and not men must do maae prumiueuk. "It will be noticed that we do not agree with some pciDts in the resolutions passed on last Friday by our Laurens brethren and published elsewhere in this issue; but after mature consideration we feel satisfied that our position is the correct one. We hope that our readers will use our columns in a discussion of the matter, and in that way reach the most satisfactory conclusion. We have briefly outlined our views, with reasons therefor, and we shall use our best endeavor to maintain the rights and privileges of our people and promote harmony in the work." It will be noticed that the Alliance is to be kept in the back ground as far as being a political machine is concerned, but a great deal of good solid work has been done by the leaders among the Alliancemen all over the State, and they will be as a unit against the opposing faction. Yesterday a representative of the State had quite a long talk with one or two of the leaders of the Alliance side. They say that the leaders of the other side will be Irby, Stanyarne Wilson, Larry Gantt and John Gary Evans. They seem to think that a combination was formed nearly a year ago by Irby and his followers to run things to suit themselves and make a slate of the offioersfor the coming term, which would be swallowed by them. They say that the effort to crush out every leading Tillman man?the attacks upon Tindal, AIcLaurin and others?was the direct result of this combination engineered by Irby. They consider Irby dead as far as State politics are concerned. In regard to those Alliance resolutions adopted in Lanrens a few days ago, one of these men yesterday said that they were gotten up under Irby's influence, and represented nobody's views but his own. He was a good manipulator, and got the County Alliance to adopt them. He did not think that another Alliance in the State would have done bo. The leaders say that inasmuch as this will not affect Governor Tillman's fight for the Senate, he will be hands off in Ihe fight. They say that Irby has been spreading the idea that he and Tillman have been working together. They know *u-4 n ~ m: 11 i j luai uuvoruur xuiwau a views iu ruguru to a convention are not those that were expressed in the Laurens resolutions. They think, too, that Governor Tillman wants a farmer for Governor.?Columbia State. What the Reform Leaders Hart to Bay. Those leading men of the Reform party in South Carolina who happened to be in the city yesterday morning, lay in bed and read Senator Irby's card to the newspapers. And they smiled when they met brother Reformers and talked the matter over. A few days ago when the State and other newspapers published the facts in . regard to the division of forces In the Reform ranks, not even the men who gave the information bad an idea that the condition of affairs as there detailed would art oAAn ho an V?uta n t i a f ori he Hflnlfl ratinnu from Senator Irby himself. Every one talked about the Senator's card yesterday. Some of the State House officials were mad, and some of the leaders went so far as to express the belief that the Senator was "not quite himself" when he wrote the document. They Beemed to think that he allowed his personal animosity toward some of them lead him to make a blunder. But Senator Iiby qpay prove that he has not "put his foot in it," as they say. The Reformers have resolved to ask Capt. Shell and his committee to bo a campaign committee. The Reformers seem to think that Irby is sore because he recognizes that his power i? gone beyond recall. Mr. J. W. Bowden, editor of the Cotton Plant, which paper is the mouthpiece of the Alliance, talked for publication more freely than any one else. He is the man who wrote the editorial suggesting Capt, Shell for the leader of the majority faction, and calling for the holding of a March Convention. He said: "There isn't any ring about it. The only approach to a ring that I know of in tii. * .{.-rorm ranks was headed by Irby. i: vis just his kicking and interference w. matters that be bad no business with. I don't mind saying just here that It mk e* > : most of the men that Irby has been ( couuting on as being his most faithful < friends are deserting him. I don't know I where he eot his information, but there I was no set conference of Reformers here, i When the Reformers come to the capital I they usually get together and* there's always more or less talk and that's about i all there is to it." i "Do you wish to say anything in reply i to thi9 card ?" ' No, I prefer to let him kill himself, i If he makes a few more moves of that \ kind he will be the laughing Btock of the i entire State and effectually uitch himself forever. I think that his attack on the ; State officials is absurd. There's no ring there against him that I know of. The i trouble with Irby is that he is a big man standing still while the world moves < around him. He only sees what his narrov,* contracted view permits him to : see. I think his attack on Ellerbe very i unjust and wrong, without any foundation in fact. I do not see how he can help refrering to Governor Tillman as being in the ring too, for he speaks of the State House ring, and it is pretty safe to say that nothing goes on or about the State House that the Governor knows not of. I did not think tbatSenator Irby would cry out so soon in the campaign. In regard to his suggestion of honest I men, well, that is a suggestion that every J one naturally makes. All men are considered honest. It's acoording to bow yon look at it." "Well, what do you think of the artlole as a whole ?" "I don't know what to say. Evidently, the whole article shows he let bis temper get the best of him. It was uncalled for, judging from the published facta be reliea on for the best or it, I think it a very good confession of weakness. No, I tbiuk be has depended too much upon the floating rumors to make serious charges that he cannot sustain. Nobody evpr intended to ask him to resign the Stale fhairmansbip that I know of. It would likely have been done in September, however. No matter what comes, the bulk of the Reformers will more than likely go through the coming campaign under the leadership of Mr. Shall and his committee." Comptroller General Ellerbe was seen. He said that while the Senator bad made an indirect attack on bim in his card, the matter was not a personal one, but was, on the contrary, entirely impersonal, and he did not care to have anything more to say than that he was attemptiugto run the tax department of the government, aud was not, just at present, measing very deeply in political matters. Governor Tillman was asked by telephone what, as one of the "State House """ " haA In uv in rfitrnrd to the matter. His private secretary replied tbat the Governor was not and did not care to be mixed up in it, and preferred to leave the other members of tbe "ring" to do tbe talking. Superintendent of Education Mayfield said tbat be bad been absent from the city for quite a while and was not sufficiently posted to have anything to say beyond making tbe assertion tbat be himself had nothing whatever to do with any kind of a ring. Secretary of State Tindal said : "I have been absent from tbe city until a few days ago, and was at the bedside of a dying friend when this conference is said to have been held. I will say, however, tbat I have bad nothing to do with rings of any kind. I have no knowledge of: any ring of any kind at the State House. I have been present at no ring conferences that I know of. I always, as you know, keep clear of riugs." A good many others expressed themselves in pretty interesting terms, but what they bad to say will not reach tbe rmhlir> vfihnwhilft. fnr rnasons beat known r j to themselves.?Columbia State, Jan. 14. IS IRBY IRRITATED ? A Card Which Indicates that he la Flustered. Washington, D. C., Jan. 13. To the Editor of the Greenville News: As mufcb as I dislike to appear in print in South Carolina I feel constrained, at this time, in justice to myself and the Alliancemen of Laurens, to speak out. I have been hounded, persecuted and misrepresented by Kohu, a reporter of the News and Courier in Columbia, until patience has ceased to be a virtue. I have bad thrown into my teeth my posi tlon as chairman of the Democratic party by this man and my failure to harmonize the faction I represent until it is necessary that the people of the State shall know the truth. He, with a lot of socalled reformers in the State house, undertook to manufacture a sentiment acainst me in the camDaien of 1892 bv constantly publishing in bis correspondence the statement that reformers were 1 seeking an excuse to be rid of me as their leader until Judge Ernest Gary, a member of the committee, introduced resolutions endorsing me unanimously by the Executive Committee. He has started the same thing again, J knowingly and maliciously saying that I am to be opposed as chairman when he 1 knows that I was elected in September, 1 1892, to hold until September, 1894. I do < not propose to surrender the chairman- 1 ship of the Democratic party until my 1 term of oflice is out for reasons which 1 are to the interest of the Democratic 1 party; and I hope that this will be 1 thoroughly understood by all the parties 1 interested. ' In the second place I notice both anti reformers and reformers in Columbia 1 have boen misrepresenting the objects ' anil intentions or tne Alliance 01 Liaurens in its meeting on laBt Friday a week ago. To begin with, I endorse every word and sentiment of the resolution introduced by J. Andy Jones us to the line of policy to be pursued by the reform movement in South Carolina. The County Alliance is composed of the best men in our County. They represent the reform sentiment in our County. They do not intend (and it is very well for some gentlemen of theState house to take notice right now) to have a lot of men foisted upon them without their consent, reform movement or no reform movement. There can bo 110 objection except by men who propose to take advantage of the people of South Carolina to the postponement of the calling of the convention or to the other purposes of these resolutions. I know it did not suit the convenience of the clique of the reform movement that met on Friday night in Columbia to name a candidate, a farmer but not an Alliance man and opposed to the Ocala demands, who undertook to increase the taxes of the farmers and who is not in svmpnthv with the people, and they will not have him for governor with a fair and j square deal. The Alliance of Laurens j passed these resolutions vrithout intend- e ing to help or injure any one. They g thought it was for the best interest of the e reform movement and that the reform a faction should, at least, be allowed to j choose its nominees without interference 0 or dictation from any man, high or low. 8 I am sorry to see that these men of Laurens are to be misrepresented by insinuations from persons whose political conduct heretofore has been such as to make doubtful, at least, their loyalty to the reform movement. I want you and C others in South Caroiina to understand a buai ovoij cuwi b ui uiiiio uaa udou auu o will be in the interest and for the per- d petuation of this movement. I am going o to staud fearlessly by the principles of v the Alliance and eyery plan of the first n March Convention, and if corruption and t treachery shall dominate this movement ji then I suppose honest men will have to take a back seat. s What the people of South Carolina p want is honest men nominated in an 1 honest way by delegates selected In an e honest manner. n Very Respectfully, a J. L. M. Ibbt. p d Mr. Kuhu'? Kcply to Senator Irby. J Columbia, Jauuary 14.?Senator Irby in a card published to-day has seen lit to accuse me of being responsible to a very large degree for his political trials and p irouuies. lie uoos me 100 mucn uonor v when be says that I have "hounded, per- N 8eouted, misrepresented and manufactur- tl ecj sentiment" against tjiip, ?et we say u / I I II * LI I I HIWI I > hat I am simply a newspaper crrresponlent, not a politician. As a young man, [toping for success in my work, I realize hat my first duty is to give facts as they ire found. If in doing this Senator Irby lias not been pleased it can not be helped. Vl I have no affiliation with, or interest, hi in the Senator, or in his political friends e) nor any desire to be dragged into the P squabble between bimself and his for- ? mer political supporters and allies. It is a< nr. fault r?f minotbat his conduct has not pleased the masses of Reformers; I nm b not responsible that he has a "lot of ene- S mies," or that he could in a minute make tl a census of bis political friends in the 0 "State House." It was not at my call P that "the clique of the Reform movement v met at Columbia to name a candidate," S etc. I would, however, have been to C blame had the news not been published a as it came, and even then much that was 6 said has been reserved. a If Senator Irby has found objection to ?' my correspondence in the News and Cou- h rier, which has every indication of being g trustworthy and legitimate news, it will v occasion me no grief. My only purpose 6 is to assure those who do not know my & sentiments that I have no personal feel- g ing or motive in the matter?the honest a newspaper man cannot have?and that c in this case, as in all others, I have given n what I regard as plain, unvarnished facts. August Kohn. 0 m i s Tbo Trouble at Clamsoo. ' The annual meeting of the board of ? trustees of Clemson College, held this 0 week, was an eventful one. The board ^ was in-session one whole day and two ?, nichts. The resignation of Prof. Newman, v which was called for, was presented and f, accepted. The board had requested his 8 resignation upon the grounds, they say, c that there could be no harmony between q the professor and the board and presi- tj dent. The cause of this friction cannot ? be ascertained. The members of the D board will talk but very little about the {] matter. Prof. Newman presented an 0 explanation of his course since he has 0 been at the college. Prof. Newman is a ? Virginian. He was formerly connected r with the Department of Agriculture of v fjArtraia. before lie went to the college in _ Auburn, Ala., from which institution he a came to accept the position at Clemson. ^ His resignation will take effect on Feb- 8 ruary 1, and a committee of three was ^ appointed to look up and select a man to u succeed him. a Mr. R. W. Simpson was re-elected 8( president of the board of trustees, and t] Dr. -P. H. E. Sloan secretary. n An Executive Committee to serve the coming year was elected consisting of >a Messrs. Simpson, Norris, Bowen, Don- 8( aldson and Bradley. This committee v will also act as the finance committee. D The committee on the experimental p station consists of Messrs. Norris, Don- j, aldson and Bowen. The State fertilizer D department was left iu charge of Qover- v nor Tillman, Secretary of State Tindal a and Mr. Wannamaker. The members t] of the faculty all hold over. The board s authorized the iaoulty to elect two tutors, j( if they think their services necessary. An appropriation of 91,000 was made a for the establishment of a printing de- v partment at the college, the object being ^ to print the circulars of the fertilizer Q board, etc., while at the same time teach- 8 in? many students the art preservative. j( The engineering force of the college n Traa inafrnr?ffn malm a mnlota anr vev of the bottom lands around the t( college on Seneca river, with the object 0 of erecting dykes to protect them from j, overflow; also to survey and estimate for C( constructing a spur railroad track from y the main line of the Altlanta and Char- ~ lotte Air Line, so that supplies, etc., can ? be brougnt direct to the college. The y board intends to build this track. The completion of the dairy was order- c ed, as was also the enlargement of the j| mechanical hall. The president was also 0 ordered to purchase another electric ^ power dynamo. The erection of the new 0 wing will cost only about $3,500. v There are 626 applications on file for y admission to the college, exclusive of the c young men who attended the session just a closed. So far 260 of the 440 who attended D the college last session have signified ? their intention of returning. 0 The members of the board say that ? during the last three months of theses- jj sion they fed the students for $7 per month each and gave them good substau- n tial food, and had no complaint.?Colum- e bia State, Jan 13. j " 81 South Carolina Tea. ? a It has long been a theory that the soil n in this part of the State was peculiarly J? adapted to the production of teas, coffee 0 and spices, but until Prof. Shepard, the 01 pioneer of scientific tea farming in South ai Carolina, put the theory to the actual test a the matter had been purely a question of 0 speculations. w At the preseut moment, however, 0! there is no longer any room for doubt. P The attempt has been made to produce a (' saleable article of tea in the lower portion of South Carolina, and the effort has been " irowned with a success which reflects the ? greatest credit upon Prof. Shepard and the other prime movers in this new in- 81 dustry. There is at present for sale en s< the Charleston market a great quantity of ? neatly gotten up packages of green tea H from the tea farms in Summerville. It is n' said that in flavor the beverage made ? from it resembles the celebrated Oolong, E and is equally as fragrant and grateful to ? the taste. T The tea is thought to be an excellent " hr>th nn rftornrrln hnnnnnf. nnri St strength, and in price considerable cheap- 01 ar than the imported article. It should f* ilso be borne in mind that naturally the ;ea will improve as other seasons are ad- fo ied to the age of the plants.?News and n< Courier. h( m > ? le Leasing or Convicts. fs 01 Yesterday there was a regular meeting >f the board of directors of the State pententlary at the institution. The seslion was a long one. Most of the business was of a routine nature. All he contracts for the lease of convicts for he present year were approved. 8a The leasing of convicts has assumed to jreater proportions this year than has m >een known before perhaps. There are .. ,050 convicts now serving sentence. All 111 >f them have been leased oat with the ex- re teption of 350, who are kept within the is >nson walls. Many of these are employ- ? id in the hosiery mill under similar conracta. The number quoted as being eased out includes the squad which the Id! nstitution is required by law to keep at ^e *ock Hill for the purpose of working on 2.? be normal college. The others are leas- 1 d on farms in various sections of the de itate. Superintendent Neal requires an ach lessee to erect a comfortable stock- -u de. Each convict, before he leaves the nstitution, is supplied with several suits de I wool clothing and several pairs of So hoes.?Columbia State, Jan. 11. H, " 1 is Calls for Mob Law* taj The decision of Judge Slmontor. in the !n< 7antini case, in Charleston, which was Jai gainst the constables, has roused Gov- Su rnor Tillman, and when asked yester- cal lay what he intended to do about furlishing bonds for the constables, irhom the federal judge had decided oust give bonds, he said that he wl bought he would allow them to go to eg, ail. , "I will let Judge Simonton go on," he . aid, "until be becomes so odious to the tio people that they will want to mob him. no le is acting under a law that was repeal- Bjg d before the alleged crimes were com- . aitted and before he issued the order of iQ acif Uq iu frrrinrr i_r% Infi m trial o onH Ias A 1 VOW. aralyze the constables in what is their ]aL uty." The governor says that a time rill come when all this violation of laws b apposed to be sacred must stop.?Covmbia Register. " ? co i ? The distinction of being the oldest pn air of twins in the country belongs, det rithout doubt, to Richard and John fh, I'-GilF, the former now of Deerfield, ie latter of Geneva, Ind. They have an< early obtained their ninetieth birthday, bu - :>*&. \V; - . " Anderson Intelligencer. A Letter from Southwest Georgia. Editors Intelligence!* : Our obserntions since leaving South Carolina may jlave points of interest to the many read- Jl rs of the Intelligencer, and by your ' srmission we will jot down a few of " 10m, and allow the reader to take them v 4 bllGli YYUllUi We left Anderson on the 12th Decemer, and bad a pleasant ride over the a' . V. R. R. to Augusta. We arrived f, lere at 11 a. m., and found the city all L n the move in the direction of the Ex- R osition grounds. "Vice President Ste- ? enson, Secretary Herbert, Secretary K mitb, Tom Corbett, the pugilist, and raig, the largest man in the world, had * Iready gone out, and were attracting P verything after them. We got in line P d took the first car that came along, nd though we had barely enough stand3g room, we managed to reach the ? rounds in safety. Vice President Ste- ? enson was addressing a large crowd of nthusiastic admirers, and was about ? alf way through when we reached th? ? rounds. We heard the remainder of his c ddress, and while we are unable to re- ^ all much that be said, the impression he ^ iiade upon us was more lasting. He bad F tie look of an honest man and spoke like ne. Secretary Herbert followed in a ? hort address. Secretary Hoke Smith ? /as the next speaker, ana we would have \ ieen glad to have listened to him, but 5 ur children wore with us, and became 1 no patient to see what was going on in u ther quarters, so we started out on a Dur of sight-Beeing, and for about four lours we walked round and round, tak- o ng in everything as best we could until ^ ire were all well-nigh exhausted. We jund quite a number of side-shows in- S ide of the Exposition grounds, but the hief one was where the "big ma,n" 0 !raig, presided bb the centre of attracion. When we tirst saw him he was itting with a slouch bat ou and a news- . aper in his band reading. He reminded d is not of a man, but of something made ? n a larger scale in imitat'on of one. One f our children turned to us and said : Papa, that's not a man, is it?" She fa eally thought that the object she saw v /as an automatic machine,* or something o otten up to deceive; but when he laid side his paper and looked around, she f, ecame convinced that it was no delu- 8 ion, but a real live man of vast propor- ? ions that she was looking at. He was nable to either arise or sit down without _ ssistance, but when once on his feet he eemed to be at perfect ease. We noticed _ bat his face wore an expression of be- * evolence, and as we approached hiin we eld out our hand, he extended his with * Bmile, and we 'shook hands." He c aemed willing to talk, so we chatted r nth him for some time, asking a good fiany questions, which be answered h leasantly. He is thirty-seven years eld, b i six feet six Inches high, and weighs r Ine hundred and seven pounds. His rife is a real prettv brunette, weighing jj bout one hundred and ten pounds. In n bis same show was a Spanish sword n wallower, who gulped down a sword as '.j 3ng as bis body and about one and a all inches wide. We know nothing t bout the anatomy of the Spaniard, but * rould naturally suppose there is a pecu- " aritv about them not common to ordiary men. He certainly swallowed the word, ana no misiaKe i suppose mis i quite an ordinary feat, but we had 11 ever seen it done before. * a We bad gone out of the main building 8 3 take a look at the Ferris Wheel, when u ur attention watt attracted by cheering a the direction of the Grand Stand. We ? oncluded to walk down and ascertain d lie cau'e. It was a "sparring match" v oing on between Corbett and his trainer, U ut we arrived too late to see much of tig fun, as they were just starting on Q beir last round. There was such s c rowd around the arena that we saw but a ittle?quite enougb, however, to satisfy f( ur curiosity with this kind of business. u kfter the match was over Corbett passed ut near where we were standing, and to got a good look at the champion of ? tie world. What a pity that such mus- b ie and such energy should be expended " o uselessly and unworthily. We are op- * osed to tbiB kind of business first, last " nd all the time, but if the tight must ome off between Corbett and Mitchell, re would have Corbett to whip the Eng- d sbraan every time. I We left Augusta at twelve o'clock that r ight, tired and sleepy enougb, but rath- / r elated at our success in striking the ii ]xposition at a time so favorable to " ight-seeing. We reached Macon at 8 'clock the next morning, and Dawson o t 3 In the evening. Here our relatives ? let us with conveyances and brought us P within a mile or so of our present home, ti ?ur household goods that we bad jshipp- c i by railroad had reached Dawson In J dvance of us, and it was but a matter of n day or so before we wore domiciled in P ur now home. Dave and Harris?with I1 ragon, buggy, mules and dogs?were t; nly two days behind us in reaching this lace. Harris held on to his dog Tray, fi setter known as Pup,) and landed him tl ifely. "Pup" is nothing but a dog, but ? [arris loved him and he loved Harris, so o e could not think of losing or leaving f im behind. We are now pleasantly t< tuated six and a half miles from Daw- h )n, our County site, and one and a half tiles from Herod, our nearestpostofflce'. d [erod can boast of a store, postofflce, gin- F ery, doctor-shop, blacksmith shop, corn I till, church ana school-house. Messrs. n [ass, Harris, Brim and McLain are the v rm and magnates of this little village, b hey are real live men, and are doing a ci iriving business. They carry a ?10,000 J; ock of goods, and gin about 1500 bales r cotton every season. There are good it rms and good farming done in this sec- tl on, and but few desirable places offered w ' i _ iir - j i I 1 * i_ r salt*, yyo aru uurruuuuuu uy piotuMtui it sighbors and contented in our new u )me. We will ever cberiali fond recol- ei ctions of our native State as we pass ai >wn the corridors of time, and our wish e' that her people may be both prosper- g< is and happy. W. B. Quails. Herod, Oa , Jan. 10,1894. P m , di T The St. Louis Republic in an editorial fi; ider the caption "Is Cotton Still King ?" w ys Bradstreeta statistics, giving the j? tal number of unemployed working- jjen and those dependent u^on them, in at 0 different sections of the country, veal the interesting fact that the South suffering the least from the depression hard times. While New England and ^ e Middle States show a total of 450,000 tv le and nearly a million and a quarter fi< pendent, the Central Western States 7,000 unemployed and 443,000 depen- t0 nt, the Northwest 65,000 unemployed TJ d 175.000 deoendent. the entire South 00 ows but 43,000 unemployed and 123,000 01 pendent. On the population basis the 8A uth makes an equally good showing. K ?r percentage of the total of unemployed less than 6 per cent, while her percen- ^ ;e of the total population of the States in jluded in the comparison is much li_E ger. It is obvious that the Southern j?1 ates have escaped the worst of the jD lamity which has befallen the entire ca untry. This fact is as significant as i' 3 one that that section of the country in ^ lich the mass of wealth has been con- pe itrated under Republican legislation is mi inng tne Hardest effocts 01 tne prostra- ~ n. Is cotton still king? The fact is ??t; t clearly proved by the commercial tri tistics, bat it is evident that the land br which King Cotton reigns is suffering *8 s from its unchanging loyalty than are ha ids which have wauderod after other sis 3s. ola _ jui rhero was a heavier loss by firo in this " intry during 1893 tlian for many years sq jcedine. There were few fires that a \ jorved the name of conflagrations, but atV i total of destruction was very large, j?1 i the necessity of a better system of (j}r ilding was never more apparent, irni v -i i ii. r ' ii A Child's Terrible Deatb. A little four-year-old white boy died i Columbia last night with all the fmptoms of that terrible disease, hy- c ropnobia. Dr. Frank Green, was with le child when death came to end bis suf>rings, which, however were not of the rorst form. It will be remembered that something ver a month ago the State published an ccount of the attack on this little boy, a an of Mr. J. W. Roberts, who lives at ie fair grounds, by a mad dog, and told ow the little fellow was lacerated by be brute. The dog escaped, but was later illed. As time went on the little fellow's rounds healed up completely and his arents never thought of the matter any lore. Last week he had a slight cold ut recovered from that entirely. Two r three days ago be became affected in a aost peculiar manner and Dr. Green was ailed to attend him. The physician 3und he had no fever nor any other *rm nfnmo nf nrHinorr tPAllhl* of ontr 1 v. v.v.uw.j ..VMw.v w. i ;ind. He was delirious soou after be y tecame ill, aud bis ravings were heart- < ending during Wednesday and yester- ' ay. He frothed at the mouth and dis- J ilayed other symptoms of hydrophobia, ( bough they were not so pronounced, the , ttending physician says, as would have , teth:expected. Perhaps this was due to J he tenaer age of the child. When in i lelirlum he died. Dr. Green says it is \ be most peculiar c*3e that ever came , inder his notice.?Columbia State Jan. 12. . ? Hog and hominy threaten to knock 1 ut hard times forever among southern J armers.' < ? Over 3,000,000 women in the United : Hates earn independent incomes. -1 ? Dr. A. W. Reed, a Baptist preacher ] if Atlanta, committed suicide last week iy shooting. He was 74 years old. ? A Virginia man recently paid a $500 lebt with one dollar. It was a very rare 1 oin?in fact the dollar was as old as the ' lebt. i ? Whites are not as well gifted in tearing as the colorod races. Neither can j rhite animals bear so well as those of , tber hues. ? South Carolina raised 45,000 soldiers ar the Confederate army, and 20,000 re erve9, to ngnt at Dome?in au oo,wu < igbting men. < ? It is estimated that 3140,000,000 was pent in railway travel in this country , ast year. Who says that this is not a ' progressive country ? ? United States Senator-elect Thomas ( ). Martin, of "Virginia, never stuoked, 1 hewed or drank and doesn't swear. The ecord is Bilent on poker. j ? A "little "Old Hiokory" judiciously ] mt vigorously laid on is what is needed iy oertain men in Congress claiming to epresent the Demooratio party. ? Prof. Dolbear says a powerful search 1 ight could project a beam to Mars in four ' oinutes which could be seen and rescinded to if they have the apparatus that te have. - . "M. ? The...clv.il .war i? .progressing in irazil. They have bad several skiraishes lately. The government troops ! eem to be'getting the better of the in- ] urgents. " ~ .V i ? An old negro, Ralph Steele, who has \ ivAi) in mm famil v fnr ninAtv.Alirhl, vaurn. d bad helped nutse and bury full four ;enerations of that family, died Id Eu- < aw, Ala., last week. ? It la reported that five members of i he Cartledge family, of Edgefield, have lied from the grip during the past three reeks. This is certainly heart-rending . o those members left. ? Kentucky elected eight women as ounty school superintendents at the reent election. One of them is a widow. ,bout 45 years old, and the mother of ( Darteen children, seven of whom are inder 12 years of age. ? Rev. E. A. Bolles, the oldest Luthran minister in South Carolina, died in i Columbia on the 22d ultimo. He had < leen in the miuistry for fifty-three , ears. Many persons will remember him s the agent of the American Bible So iety. ^ < ? Thomas M. King, third vice-preui- * lent of the Baltimore and Ohio lines, ulnost invariably, when going over the j oad, rides on the front of the locomotive. Lfter seating himself comfortably he ights a cigar and tells the engineer to 1 let her out." 1 ? An odd little astronomical fact in ] onnection with the year that has just j losed, and one that has not been noticed ciuapo uj uuo pcAov/u 111 oauu urn bousaad of the entire population of the t ouu try, is this: Two months of the year. < anuary and April, eacb bad two full ( noons. July, 1890, was equally as well rovided for, but none of the months of , 891 or 1892 exhibits this lunar peculiari- ^ ? Ex-Senator Palmer, a very cloBe j riend of Ex-President Harrison, says ^ hat Mr. Harrison must not be considerd even by bis warmest friends as the andidate of his party for re-election as f 'resident. He says that Mr. Harrison < )ld him so last summer and that what ( e said then holds good to-day. ? In Crawford County, Ohio, have just ied, within a week of each other, Jacob 'ike, aged 93. and bis wife, aged 96 years, .ast March they celebrated their dialond, or seventy-fifth wedding anni- } ersary. Mr. Fike, who was a Bavarian y birth, hud voted for every Democratic indidate for President tiuce Andrew ( ackson's first candidacy. 1 ? "One deplorable result oi' excessive r leat eating," says Mrs. Ernest Hart, in v le London Hospital, "is the ill-temper bicb is said to be a chronic complaint ? i England. In leas meat eating France t rbanitv is the rule. In fish and rice- r iting Japan harsh words are unknown _ ad an exquisite politeness prevails pen among the children who play to- a Bther in the streets." e ? Sol Collins, living west Of White s lains, Mo., had a keg of blasting pow- v Br which he thought t:oo wet to burn. o test it he threw a handful into the j; replace. The explosion wbioh followed h as terrific, all the powder having ii ;nited. Too house was wrecked, and f; ght persons injured. The doctors n link the injuries received by Collins ! id his wife and four children will prove 1! tal. Two of the injured will get well, c ? Of the thirty-six women who, under e le leadership of Miss Annette Daisy, ade a run into the Cherokee Btrip when was opened last September, twentymo have proved undaunted by the dif;ulties of their undertaking and are busy ith no man to make or mar. They Cl ml their own lumber and are prepared do their own plowing and planting. Iiavt hawo f K coa taumo un/1 unnoor in fif i no ? uo* v wiuuo kwaiuo auu oppwax ?u uv |j mention to hold their own and carry it their plucky plan. ? A Chicago dispatch of Saturday w ys: David YV. Hart, of Dodge City, an., a railroad man, is busily encaged i collecting the insurance on a $50,000 ot that he lost under a Chicago street tl r wheel last summer. Mr. Hart had sured against the loss of a leg in a long tl it of companies and to the sum total of 1 0,000. lie is now reaping the benefit his foresighi, some of the money havg already been paid with the indi- w tions in favor of a speedy collection of 0i all. ? Governor Stone in his message to , e Mississippi Legislature last week apaled for such action as will assure lr orespeedy trial and punishment in cases murder. "Human life is far too w eap," he says, and he complains that he present miscarriage of justice in ^ als for homicide is the source of evil, eeding mob and lynch law and encouring crime." Governor Stone lias the ,> me complaints to make as to juries as 1(1 If the 6tates in the Union?the per- ch tent and successful attempt of a large . iss of Deonle who would make eood 1,1 rors to "avoid jury duty. " \y - In the northwestern part of Colora- j( there is a region several hundred uare miles in extent which is literally in 'ast deposit of petrified tish of all sizes t], d shapes. These fish beds?shale conning fish remains?are about 150 leet W; thickness and extend up and down the i.. een Itiver for a distance of 150 or 200 * lea, * of . - . Y: / . .. X Sontli Carolina Mormons* Greenwood, Jan. 8.?Elder J. H. a Ichvanaveldt, of the Mormon church, P >assed through here to-day on his way o his home at Gentle Valley, Idaho. n le stated that he had just received c lis "release" from Prophet Wilred Woodruff, after laborintr in South 6 Carolina for the past two years. y The Elder says that he is well a )leased with his work in South Caro- c ina. and that the cause of the "faith- jj ul' is progressing better than most J >eople suppose. It will be a surprise d ,o many to learn that Morman elders lave been at work in this State for he past ten years, and, - according to E Slder Schvanavelat, there arefourteen ? ilders now within our borders and ninistering to the wants of some three I lundred converts. Most of thfe concerts are in Horry, Clarendon and Sumter counties, with a few in Berke- 1 y, Charleston, Spartanburg and jreenville counties. He says the najority of the recruits to the Latter Day Saints came from the Baptist *nd Methodist churches, and of the three hundred converts in South Carolina only three are negroes. He repudiated the idea that Mormonism meant polygamy and asserted vehemently that that it was neither preached, practiced nor allowed by the Mormon church. He says that never more than two per centum of the Mormons practiced polygamy and that in 1888 the Mormon church called upon all its members who had more than one wife to choose one, and while it required them to continue to support .. all former wives, yet recognized con- i jugial relations only with one, and j since then has not allowed a member ] to marry more than one. He spoke , in the highest terms of J Prophet Wilfred Woodruff, and claim- i ed for him all the powers of the proph- j ats of old. He stated that Prophet i Woodruff had power to send him"or ' anv other elder to any part of the \ world to labor for the church, and an slder always remained in his field until released by the prophet. - J Elder Schvanaveldt says that an , immense amount of misrepresentation has been heaped upon them here, as 1 slsewhere, but that as soon as this 1 ;an be overcome the Latter Day j Saints will make great inroads in South ' Carolina. I Why Crime Increases. ? Judge Isaac Parker, of the United States district court for Western Arkansas, lately made some startling statements, and then followed them j with suggestive comments. In charging the grand jury at the ' opening of his court at Fort Smith, be said that whereas the ascertained number of murders in this country in 1889 was less than 3,600, and in 1890 but 4,300, and it was nearly 6,000 in 1891. It is startling to learn that there were twenty-vfie more supposed murderers lynched in 1889 than were executed according to law, and the excess of lynched over executed murderers was sixty-seven in 1890; but assuming that only one person was concerned in each murder, hardly one in twenty of those guilty of the crime in these two pears suffered the penalty of death, jither at the hands of the law or by ; ihe violence of a mob. Judge Parker gives several reasons 'or the shocking state of affairs thus revealed : The indifference and incompetence of courts ; the general prevalence of perjury; the use of corrupt iieans?money, and social and other ... Influences?to shield criminals ; the sickly sentimentality that turns an issassin into a hero as soon as he is in langer of his life ; and finally;' the in- . lifference of the people at large! This comment is substantially true. The remedy must come first" at the \ ountain head. The people are the iource of all power. If they so will ;he evil can be stopped. ( Society must protect itself, but the irst thing for society to do is to rejognize the danger it is in because it loes not protect itself. Progress In Surgery. The tremendous strides being made 0 )y modern surgery, its manifold tri- p imphs in the face of the great obsta- j> :les, are wonderful, well-nigh miracu- n ous. The science of tracheotomy, by F neans of which a person is enabled to ? )reathc artificially through a rubber or' j] iilver tube inserted in an aperature in he trachea, is already old and com- ? nonly practiced. Arms that can be nade to move at will, hands that clasp .lmost naturally, legs that walk so u asily as to deceive the most acute ob- a crver?all these no longer startle the rorld. More recently we have false ars, by the aid of which the deaf may icar. The very latest discovery, or nvention, in the field of surgery, is a ? alse jaw that masticates as easily and ^ aturally as the real article. There k. 3 one thing that will ever defy surgi- ? al science, however, and that is a false u ye that sees?Troy Press. J Figs and Thistles. 11 ? ** The man who agrees with us doesn't ij Dme around near often enough." e No matter where a good man lives, J is house is always built on a rock. No man can succeed in being happy " ithout asking God to tell him how. "! Sin got a foothold in this world " y making itself look harmless and litle. ^ ~ A prudent man doesn't tell every- ling he knows every time he opens ~ is mouth. 4 If the Lord could trust his people * ith money, every Christian would ^ [vn a bank. No field of wheat ever ripens that ? 3cs not have a good deal of straw and ... usk.in it. ;;; Seek happiness for yourself and you ... ill lose it, but seek it for others and 3U will find it. ? Baptism by immersion was pcr rmcd in a peculiar manner a few ? lys ago in Buffalo Township, Wash- ? igton County. Pa. Thomas Tolatid j as too ill to leave his room, and was | Wi isirous of baptism. A large box was j ade arid filled with water, and into : ?? lis Mr. Toland, suspended in a sheet, ! is lowered, The rite was performed ?h r the Rev. M. Justice, a clergyman i i the Christian Church, I A Prohibition Contention, ^ A leading prohibitionist wai yesterday sbed what bad become of the cause of - < U!Uii! :M ?UU 4La 1 ruuiuiuuu 1U LUIS OWIVC, auu tuc 4UOTon developed tbe announcement that lie prohibitionists are once more on the 10 ve and will make another fight In the om'ng campaign. The gentleman referred to eaid~:. "We \ xpect todoagreatdeai before the presnt year Is ont, and accomplish some- , , Iiing, too. During tbe summer, when 11 are getting ready for tbe political ampaign a big convention of the probi- 'i litionists will very likely be held In Co- ? Limbia." He says thai the future course f tbe prohibitionists will then bedeciled upon.?Columbia State. ? Last crop year Minneapolis flouring oills ground 9,347,615 barrels of flour >ort Royal &. Western Carolina Railway. J. B. CLEVELAND, . N EFFECT DEC. 31.1898. " n (Trains nin by 78th MmMm M?.> BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND ANDERSON. j No. 6 m?x5 Eastern Tlma. Sunday. ' j ' I onl^ Ex Sag _/T AndersO'*. .. 7 50 ami 9 30mm [?t Lownde?*IIl? .... 865ami 10 81am jr Calhoun Fallia 9 28 ami llBOun Ir McCormlclc.10 35 ami 160pm Lr Augusta- I 8 55 pml 8 Wpm . iNO. 8 |No.n 'jt August*. ??.?~ 9 00 apifi^ 00 am > McCormick... ..* 2 06 pm 818 pm [it Calhoun Falls.................... 310 pm ? 00 pa Liv LowndesTllle.......3 40 pm 5 57 pm Anderson 4<5phnl 7 80 pm 3ETWEEN AUGU8TA. GA. AND 8PABTAN' ' DtTDA O A ^ , ? V0V?U) Ot 'W. Eastern Time. . Dally Dally except 8an. ^ ' r < . L,v Auguita 9 00 am[~5 00 pm Lit Mccormick-. 10 45 am 7 57 pm Lv Greenwood?11 43 am 980 pm 0 40 am Lit Laurens 12 47 pm ;8 88 am Ar 8partanbarg_........ 2 40 pm 1125 am Greenville* ~....| I go pm [jY Greenville....'...*..... 10 00 am 4 00 pmT- :r:. [> Spartanburg Uu. 1015 am 6 25 pm Lv Laurens 1150 am 8 00 pm [jT Greenwood 12 52 pm 10 00 pm 7 00 am Liv McCormick............ 1 49 pm " - 8 87 am V ;. \r Augusta . 8 35 pm 11 80am It 8avannsh .... 16 00 am 5 20 pn? Passengers leaving Anderson at 9 20 a m read* Charleston at 8 85 p m. and 8*Tannab it 6 20. Close, connection made at Calhoan Falls with Seaboard Air Llue going north. Through Palace Sleeping Cars on trains Nos.8 iua * oetween Augusta ami Havinnab, G*. Close connections at Augusta for all Florida .7. >ointa. . "< Fur any other Information write o* call on ! -V; J.'CBAIO, Gen. Paw. Agt, AagaatC,2 fi B. L. Todd, PMC. Agt. r. B. FAKT, Agent. COLUMBIA L GREENVILLE ft. R. CO. lAUCit SBKKCKU, F W. HmDKXOPSS AMD B*V ^ BE* Footer, Bkckitiss. ... > Co*DKK8XD SCBKDtiLC I* Ettbct AT7G.-1S, 16& Tralna run by 7Ctb Meridian Tlme..,'^ ' JET WEEN CHARLESTON, COLMBLA, SENECA ' and walhalla. - Nofr STATIONS., 730 am Lr Charleston Ar $40 pm 1120 am" Columbia...... " 4?pm * 12 03 pm w ?Alston " 8 80 pa 112 18ptn " ._Pomar)a...~..^ 8 14 pm ' . v. 11? pm - ..?rroeperKy * 2 85 pm 1.50 pm *-....Newberry?289 pm 1 S54 pm "......-Helena. ... " 2 80 pm 1 80 pm " Chappells?... u 1 56 pm 218 pm " ...-Nlnety-fc'Ii " 182 pm . 2 37 pm " ..?Greenwood..? " 1255 pm too pm " ........Hodges.. " 12 85 pm .* <20 pm " Donald's.......12 16 pm i85 pin " ....Honea Path--" 1203 pm * r '.85 pm Ar Belton?.Lt 1145 am *00 pm Lt Bel ton ......Ar 11 46 am <24 pm " .... Anderson;....." 1118 am 4 58 pm ". Pendleton..? " 10 86 am 5 30 pm Ar .Seneca. Lt 10 00 am 5 35 pm Lt Seneca ?Ar 10 00 am 6 01 pm Ar WalbaUa Lti 9 80 a m . 1 5 15 pm'?>r...?.GreenTllle?LtUO 15 am! BETWEEN ANDEBW. BELTON AND ; GREEKNILLE. - - > > . Noyil STATIONS. ' 3 8pm Lt Anderson.....'Ar 12 07pm 8 40 pm Ar -Belton..??Lt 1145 pm 4 00 pm Lt.... Belton ?A' 1180pm 4 20 pm Ar...WIlllamston..~ " 1109 pm 4 20 pm " Pelzer......." 1103pm 4 40 pm " ?..Piedmont?.? - 10 48pm 5 15 pm Ar... -GreenTllle..?Lt|10 35 p m BETWEEN HODGES AND ABBETILL ""'i Ifffi. sr?i0H8. gSji.Vi'S Mixed. 2 40pm 8 05pm It...Hodges... ar 2 55pm 1225pm 1 00pm f3 25pm iTDarraugh'a ar f2 85pm 12 06pm 115pm 3 40pm ar-AbbeTilleJt 2 26pm 1150am ? * !ONNECTION8 VIA 80DTH BOUND RAIL .ROAD. "S&l CENTRAL TI1IE. I rsWpmlLT Cottombla- ArllO 2ttami I 8 00pm 1 Ar 8a tan pah- Lti 6 00am|" * Noa. 13 and 14 are solid trains between Charles* on and Asheville. Through coach between SaTannali aad Aaherflle n 14 ana 13. Trains Jeare 8partanbarg, 8. C. A. k C. Dtrlatos Torthbonnd, 1 43 a. m., 6.05 p. m? 6.12 p. m. (Veeuled Limited; 8outhbonnd, 12 25a. m_ 2.51 p. m, 1.87 a.m. (Vestibuled Limited): Weatboana; W. r. C. DiTislon, 6.20 p. m. and 3.20 p. m, for lendersonTille, Asheville and Hot 8prino. Trains leaTe Greenville, 8. C., A. A C. DiTlalen, [ortbbound 12.42 a. m. 4 00 p. m.,5.23 p. m. (Vea> buled Limited); Southbound, 1 2 J a. mn4.00p.m^ 100 . M T JJ, IAJ. \ T dliUUIDU ZJIUJibUU/. Trains leave Seoecs, 8. C., A. A C. Division. Northbound, 11.80 p. m., 2.37 p. m. and 4.10 p. m. outh bound, 2.32 a. m.: 3.33 p. m. sod 1.37 p. m. PULDMAN CAB SERVICE. Pullman Sleeper oa 18 sod 14 between Charier- . >ynd Asbevllle, TlsCoIumbU, sod 8partanbu& r Pullman PaUce Sleeping Csr on Trains 86. aA ' 5,-37 and 38 on A A C. Division. - > J. A. TURK, 8. H. HABDWICK, Gea'l Pass. Agt., Ass't. Gen'l. Pass. Agt., Wabhisgton, D. C. . Atlaita, Ga. E. McBEE, SOL. HAAS, lien'l 8upt., x Traffic Mtrr., Columbia, 8. C. Washihotov, D. 0. 7. H. GREEN, Gen'l Mg>r, Washikotom, D. C. SEABOARD AIR-LINE 8CHEDULB. J IN EFFECT AUG. 27, 1893. [gRTHBOPND. - SOUTHBOUND 0.38. No. 134. Eastern Time, No. 117. Nr 41. )sily. Dally. Except Atlanta. Dally. Dally. I 30am 6 05pm i It... Atlanta... ar 78 am! 8 43pm ) 03am 818pm lv...Athens....ar 6 18am | Hp 113am 9 11pm ar-Elbertoo-lv 5 22am 6 08pm ar.CalbounF.lv I 4 08pm !15pm 10 00pm ar..Abbevllle.lv 4 27am j t 09pm ! 46pm 10 23pra ar Greenwo'd lv 4 02am I 2 41pm j . 40pm 1112pm ar.^Cllnton ...lv 317am, 145pm . (VlrvmlO n.mi.. 1-1 1 AA._ O 05pm' J 50am |ar... Monroe... irjlii 50am| 6 15am ar... Raleigh... It 8 11pm 7 30am ar_Henders n.lT 6 53pm ...... 9 OOam ar... Weldon ...It 5 35pm 11 07am ar Petersburg It 3 43pm II 45am ar Richmona It 8 10pm ........... 3 40pm ar Wash'gton )t 10 57am ~;... ? 5 24pm ar Baltimore It 9 42am ............ ......... 7 49pm ar Pbll'delp'alt 7 20am ......... 10 35pm ar New York It 12 15am ( 5 OOam iar..rharlotte? It 110 00pm J I 9 fOaro'ar Wilmi'frt'n Iti 5 00pm| 30pm ;t...Clinton... ar 1 80pm 18pm ar Newberry It 12 43pm 34pm ar Prosperity It 12 29pm 5*pm ar Columbia It 1115tm . 25pm ar....Sumter....lT 9 60am 15pm ar Charleston It ... 715am ' 53pin- ar Darlington It -f7 OOam 9 05am It Weldon ar 5 35pm 11 15am arPortsra'th ar 3 20pm 1130am ar Norfolk It S 00pm f6 15pm It Norfolk (b)ar 8 00am 7 OOam ar Baltimore It 5 30pm '10 47nm[ar Pbiladel'ialt 4 41pm 1 20pmiar New York It f2 10pm | ; fi*>pm |1t Ptsni'th(n)ar) 9 10am | 5 lOatn ar Philadel'ia lv 11 16pra I 8 OOaniiar New York It, 8 00pm1 I 6 00pin|lv P'm'th(w)ar| ROOaml i 6 30amiar Washlng'n ItI 7 00pmi ^ Daily except Sunday. b) Via Bay Lire, (d) Via New York, Phlladella and Norfolk R. K. (w) Via Norfolk and ashlngion Steamboat Co. Trains Ncs. 134 and ' ruo xolid with Pullman Buffetsleepingcarsbeeen Atlanta and Washington. and Pullixan Bufparlor cars between Washington and New rk. Parlor car We'don and Portsmouth ; sleetr cnr Hamlet and Wilmington. Trains Noa. W 1 41 carry throueh coaches between Atlanta and arlentnn, 8. C. Tickets at P R. & W. C. depo V. Smith, John C. Windm, 'raffle Manager. General Manager. W. b. Gloves, Dir. Paaa. Agt, Atlanta, Qa, ! CkM'.J. Haard, 8. p. A., Augn*tlJG|, ji