The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, October 10, 1894, Image 2
MY SWEErHE&Kt.
"Twas a quaint line scrawled in a spelling
book,
And handed to me with a bashful look,
By my blue eyed sweetheart so fondly true,
In the dear old school days long years ago?
"It you love me as I love you
No knife can cut our love in two "
That "Sanders' Speller," so tattered and
torn.
Has always a halo of romance worn,
A narrar a nnot: wit.ll llOnfiVftd Den
AUU UO*VA W J^VVV e
Has written so precious a rhyme since then?
"If you love me as I love you."
Ab, dear, you know I did?1 do.
I've kept it safely for many a year?
This dog's-eared, shabby old spelling-book,
dear,
And now, as I hold it within my hand,
Again in the school room I seem to stand?
Keading once more with rapture new?
"If you love me as I love you."
How some foolish saying from out the past
Like a rose branch Is over the pathway cast
And the time of lowers we still remember,
Till winds blow cold in the bleak December.
God grant it always may be true?
"That you love me as I love you."
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
The FonUst Blake Large Gains All Over
the Sute.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 4.?The Constitution
publishes this morning returns
from ail of the 137 counties in Georgia,
made from unofficial estimates, compiled
by its correspondents in every county,
and most of them received after
midnight last night. The unofficial returns
Indicated that the State had
srone Democratic bv thirty thousand
majority, but the official county, consolidations
which took place at 12
o'clock to-day show that this figure has
been reduced. The official Democratic
majority will not vary much from
twenty thousand and this is the figure
which is now accepted by conservative
estimates on the Democratic side. The
Populists on the other hand claim that
the counties, the consolidations from,
which will be the last to be heard from
will reduce this majority to at least
ten thousand. Of the one hundred and
seventy-five members of the House
elected, about sixty are Populists and
of the forty-four members of Senate,
there are seven Populists and one Republican.
Several of the strongest Democratic
counties In the State have
been carried by the Populists and with
but few exceptions every county in the
State shows Populist g^ins. Speaker
Crip's district gives the largest Democratic
majority of any district In the
State. He figured conspicuously in
the campaign, strongly advocating
tariff reform and the free coinage of
silver. An organized movement against
a return to silver coinage without foreign
consent was started early in the
campaign, Secretary Smith, Congress
man Tamer and others vigorously defending
the policy of the administration
on the stamp. The debate on the
silver question grew so warm as to
frequently put Democratic speakers in
the attitude of making a joint discussion
against each other on this issue.
Speaker Crisp and Secretary Smith
spoke in Atlanta together a few weeks
ago, one defending free silver the other
antagonizing it. The Populi3ts took
full advantage of the division and the
resnlt has been a great slum in Democratic
majorities throughout the State.
atkinson badly scbatced.
Atlanta, C*a., Oct. 4.?Returns
come in slowly but enough official
and unofficial reports have been received
by the Journal up to 12 o'clock
to indicate an average Democratic majority
of twenty to twenty-live thousand.
Atkinson, the Democratic nominee
for Governor, has been scratched
in all the parts of the State and it is
not believed his majorty will exceed fifteen
thoushand. The Democrats will
?^ ci.
nave iniixy majority iu uie oiaw oouate
and 150 majority In the House.
Every Congressional district except
Black's went for the Democrats. The
ninth, represented by Tate, is carried
for the Democrats by seven majority,
and the fourth, represented by Moses,
by 900. This Is the first election since
the war when |Bepublicans and Populism
have made a complete fusion.
The negroes voted solidly with the Populists.
Great surprise has been occasioned
by the defeat of Warner Hill
a prominent candidate for Speaker of
the next Hou3e. This county went
with the Populists; this insures the
election of W. H. Flemming of Richmond
to be Speaker. South Georgia
counties which are solid for Representative
Turner for the Senate have given
the largest majorities in the State to
the Democrats.
Atlanta, Oct 3.?The State election
occurred in Georgia today, the State
voting for Governor and State officers
and a full Legislature, which is to
elect a Senator in November. Two
years ago the State went Democratic
for Governor By 7i,uuu majority ror w.
J. Northern over W. L. Peck, the Populist
nominee. W. Y. Atkinson is
the Democratic candidate for Governor
this year and J. K. Hinea the Populist
nominee. There are 137 counties in
Georgia and returns are coming: in
Blowly, but there seems to be no doubt
that Atkinson's majority for Governor
will be between 30,000 and 50,000. Later
reports from all over Georgia show
that the Populists have made gains in
almost every county in the State and
that the Democratic majority will probably
not be more than 30,000. Indications
are that tbe Populists will have
thirty or forty members in the next
Legislature. The Populists claim that
the official reports wiU reduce the Democratic
majority to 20,000, while Chairman
Clay, of the State Democratic executive
committee, claims that the Democratic
majority will reach 35,000.
a big falling off.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 4.?Returns in
frfcio rVtncrroainnnl THat.riflt. inrtipnffl fnnr
VUIO VVUKkVIMVMM >?v..vv?.w .VM.
thousand Democratic majority, a falllog
off of twelve hundred in two years.
Indications are that the Democratic
majority in Congressman Turner's district
will hold up well. Counties in
the .Tenth, Tom Wacson'a District,
show five hundred Fopullst majority.
If they repeat this next month he will
be elected. It was a notable fact that
the heaviest Democratic majorities are
returned from counties endorsing the
administration's financial views. Indications
are that the constitutional
amendments increasing the number of
the Supreme Court Judges to five and
increasing pensions to Confederate
soldiers have been lost.
P. W. Kline, a lottery and policy
shop man of KaLsas, has published a
letter in which he recites that Governor
Lewellyn, Attorney General Little
and other Populist State officers of
Kansas agreed to sell bim police protection
In that State and to permit him
to have the appointment of the police
in certain cities and that they failed to
stand by their bargains. He further
claims to have contracted with the
Louisana lottery to have all lotteries
run out of Kansas and to have paid the
attorney general $4,000 to begin the
prosecution of them. The publication
has of course caused a great deal of
scandal. It is said that the Republican
State committee secured the publication
of the letter.
I THE NEXT HOUSF.
HOW IT IS FIGURED OUT BY DEMOCRATS
AND REPUBLICANS.
Boih Sides Claim a Comfortable M*Jorliy?The
Democrats are a Little More
Modest la their Figures than the Republicans.
The Congressional Campaign Committees
of both the Democratic and
Republican parties are beginning to
consider seriously the complexion of
the next National House of Representatives.
The election id only a little
over four weeks off, and there Is a natural
Inclination to survey the Geld and
determine, if possible, the size of the
harvest that 1b to be gathered in. Very
natnrally the spectacles through which
the Democrats and the Republicans
gaze at the Congressional districts do
not produce the same results, but the
difference is not as marked as one
would suppose. Both sides are confident
of winning. The Democratic estimate
Is more conservative than the
Republican, and with its total of 190
is dangerously near the danger line.
The Democratic estimate gives three
of the South Carolina members to the
Populists, which Is a mistake. Our be
* -
iter ana nope ibuuiu evoiy uibluuu m
this State will be carried by the Democrats.
The Republicans in their estimate
claim 200 members, but we have
no idea that they will get them, if the
Democrats all over the country will lay
aside their factional difficulties and pull
together. This is all that is needed to
secure a grand Democratic victory next
month. The following table gives the
claims of each party, and it will be
worth while comparing these figures
with the returns on the morning after
election:
Republican Dem'cratic
State. estimate, estimate.
R. I). P. D. R. P.
Alabama 9 9 ?
Arkansas 6 ... 6
California 6 1 ... 4 3 ...
Colorado .. 2 2
Connecticut 3 1 ... 2 2 ...
Delaware 1 1
Florida .. 2 ... 2
Georgia 11 U
Idaho 1 1
Illinois 11 11 9 13 ...
Indiana 9 4 ... 7 6 ...
Iowa 10 1 ... 1 10 ...
Kansas 8 4 4
Kentucky 2 9 ... 10 1 ...
Loulslna 6 ... 5 1 ...
Maine 4 4 ...
Maryland 3 3 ... 5 1 ...
Massachusetts 12 1 ... 2 11 ...
Michigan, 11 1 ... 4 8 ...
Minnesota 7 2 5 ...
Mississippi 7 ... 7
Missouri 6 5 4 12 3 ...
Montana 1 1
Nebraska. 6 3 3 ...
Nevada 1 1
New Hampshire.... 2 2 ...
New Jersey 5 3 ... 4 4 ...
New York 19 15 ... 17 17 ...
North Carolina 1 8 ... 8 1 ...
North Dakota 1 1 Ohio
16 5 ... 6 15 ...
Oregon 2 1 1 ...
Pennsylvania 24 6 ... 6 24 ...
Rhode Island 2 1 1 ?
South Carolina 1 6 ... 4 ... 3
South Dakota 2 2 ...
Tennessee............ 4 6 ... 8 2 ...
Texas 9 4 13
Vermont 2 2 ...
Virginia 3 7 ... 9 1 ...
Washington 2 2 ...
West Virginia. 3 1 ... 4
Wisconsin 7 3 ... 5 5 ...
Wvomine 1 1
Totals 200 147 9 190 156 10
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans,
it will be seen by the above,
believe tbat the Populists will cut very
much of a figure in the outcome. The
Republican managers, for instance, do
not believe that a single Populist will
be elected north of Mason and Dixon's
line, and the Democrats account for
only a total of ten in the whole United
States. The truth is that the Populists
have made much exaggerated claims
in the past, have cried "wolf" so frequently
when there was no wolf, that
toe practical politicians pay little or no
heed to any prophecies which take the
Populists into consideration. The Pop
ulists, for their part, expect to hold the
balance of power. It will also be noticed
in the above table that in a large
number of instances there is absolutely
no difference of opinion between the
Democratic and Republican experts,
in nearly all the Southern States solid
Democratic delegations are conceded
to the Democrats. This is noticeably
the case with Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and, with
the exception of one district in North
riarollna. Texas, on the contrarv. is
regarded by Republicans as debatable
ground, their Information being that
the Populists in that State will make
serious inroads into the Democrats. In
Missouri, too, the Republicans expect,
with the aid of the Populists to unseat
at least four Democrats, in addition to
carrying six straight Republican Districts.
"These six districts comprise
the three In the city of St. Louis and
three in the State. The Democrats for
their part, concede to tbe Republicans
the entire delegation from Iowa, with
the exception of Judge Hayes'* district,
and some forty more Congressmen
In Maine, Oregon, Montana, Idaho.
New Hampshire, North and South
Dakota, Washington, Vermont and
Pennsylvania. The estimates regarding
the latter State tally to a nicety, although
even such a conservative Republican
as Chris Magee is said to
believe that the Democrats will carry
seven districts in the State, or one more
than is allowed by either of the committees.
Tbe Democrats expect to get
: nothing In Kansas, and they count upon
four Populists from that State, while
1 t-ho T?ai?nhllf?anH nlaim t.hft pnt.lrfl filurht.
Oat of the six New EaglaDd States
the Democrats anticipate at least live
members, two in Massachusetts, two 1q
Connecticut and one in Rhode Island.
The Republicans cut this estimate
down to two, one in Massachusetts and
one in Connecticut. In New 5Tork the
Democratic committee counts upon
sixteen certain for each party, with
two districts doubtful, and a possibility
that the delegation will be equally
divided. The Republicans loofc for
nineteen of their candidates to be elect
ad, giving to tae uemocracs me ais-1
tricts south of the Harlem. Under the
Republican redisricting of the State
the Republicans look for only three
Democrats to be returned from New
Jersey. The Democrats count on carrying
four districts in this State. A
Republican gerrymander also confronts
the Democrats in Ohio, but they count
upon at least six districts. The Republicans
concede five. In Illinois, on the
other hand, the redisricting is with
the Democrats. It is a fact which is
admitted at the Republican headquarters
that nothing less than a majority
of 60,000 in Illinois can change the political
complexion of the delegation
from the State, while the Democrats
can lose the State by 30,000 and still
hold the Legislature. Consequently
the Democrats will probably gee a majority
of the Congressmen and the Republican
managers will be satisfied if
they get one-half of the total of twenty
two. For this reason the Democratic
claim of nine is within the most conservative
bounds.
As to the outcome in Indiana opinions
differ. One district there, now
represented by Mr. Hammond, a Democrat,
Is certain to go Republican, and
the 1st and 11th districts, the homes of
Congressmen Taylor and Martin, are
thought to be doubtful. Out of the
nine remaining districts the Democrats
expect to carry six,but the Republicans
only allow them a total of four. Postmaster
Dalton, of the House of Representatives,
and an ex-member from
Indiana, has looked veary thoroughly
into the situation in the State, ana
gives it as his opinion that the Democrats
will elect eight, and he does not
even anticipate the defeat of Martin,
the chairman of the pension committee.
The pension question, however,
is causing the Democrats considerable
trouble in the State.
C!h airman "Ellvson. of the Vir
ginla Democratic State committee, believes
that the Republic ans will only
gain one Congressman in his State, and
be Is not at all certain that even this
slight change will occur. At Republican
headquarters, however, it is said
that Repulicahs will be elected in the
2d, 7th and 9th districts. West Virginia
also seems to be a very much disputed
battle ground. The advices at tbe
Democratic headquarters indicate the
election of Democratic Congressmen in
all of the four districts, but this claim
Is said by the opposing managers to be
absurd. Wilson's defeat is predicted by
a majority of 1,200. A communication
received at the Republican headquarters
recently, dated at Berkeley
Springs, in Wilson's district, says that
all tbe saw mills in that county have
been closed, and that at Davis City 300
lumbermen haye been thrown out of
employment. Howard, in the 1st, and
Alderson in the 3J, are also said to be
doomed to defeat.
.Wisconsin is another State where
fha r pan if. annAarn nnfwfcftln. (~5hair
man Wall, of the Democratic State
committee, predicts the election of Ave
Congressmen, but Representative Babcock,
of Wisconsin, who is the chairman
of the Republican Congressional
committee, thinks the Democrats will
be fortunate if they bring even three
of their candidates safely through. By
a fusion with the Populists the Democrats
expect to get three Congressmen
in Nebraska, who will co-operate with
the Democrats in organizing the House,
but the Republicans, claim the entire
State, being now conQndent that Mr.
McKeighan, against whom they had to
make their hardest fight, is as good as
beaten. In Kansas Jerry Simpson was
their most formidable opponent From
Michigan the Democrats expect Griffin,
Gorman, Whiting acd Weadock to be
returned, but the Republicans claim
eleven out of the twelve districts. In
Maryland, loo, the Republicans expect
to make gains, counting upon three of
the six districts, the 1st, 5th and 6th.
They do not pat Louisiana in their
column, believing that they have a clear
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Id the sugar State does not materialize.
The defeat of Enloe and Snodgrass
In Tennessee Is predicted, giving them
a total of four Republicans from that
State, while they do not concede a single
Democrat from Minnesota. The
Democrats expect to hold their own in
that State. They have now two member?.
A clean Republican sweep in
California, with the exception of one
district, Is also a part of the Republican
programme. They also expect to
wrest Colorado from the Populists,
Delaware and Wyoming from the Democrats,
and gain a district In Kentucky.
While we believe that the Democrats
will win, we confess that the light is
going to be a hard one.
A Sad, Sad Tragedy,
A very sad tragedy occurred at Gaston
on the South Bound Railroad last
Wednesday night; It was the tragic
death of a bright young lad, who had
run away from home, without even tellirg
his parents good bye. The sad event
occurred just about midnight, and tears
slole down the cheeks of many a stronsr
man, as he stood by the handsome lad
in the hours of the morning, as his life
slowly ebbed away from his mangled
p? ffor
iurui. 1UOOD ObL('U^) bouuoi-uvniuwu
men stood around the little fellow, although
he was a perfect stranger, doing
all in their power to save him, knowing
he wa& ra a dying condition all the time.
They Btood there and heard him tell his
story and plead for his life to be prolonged
till he could kiss his father goodbye,
a father whom he had left without
giving any intimation as to his intentions
?a father who was at his home in Philadelphia,
perhaps at that very moment
racking bis brain to deviBe soma plan of
securing intormatian as to bis missing
son. It was a scene to touch the heart
of any man. The story briefly told is as
follows: On Wednesday night this lad
got into Gaston in some way. At midnight
a fast freight train passed through,
but did not stop. Just as it rolled past
the station, a cry of pain was heard on
the track and several parties hastening to
invest'gate, feund the form of a youth
on the track terribly cut and mangled.
He was lifted up tenderly and taken into
the depot building. There was no physician
m the place, the town physician
being away in Columbia. The lad told
these around him that he had in a belt
around his waist $3.65 in cash. He
begged them to tear bis clothes open,
get it and get a pnysician for him. He
said that this was all the money be bad
and he had not cared to spsnd any of It
to ride on the railroad. He sa!d ho attempted
to jump on the train while it
was running; no one had pushed him ofT,
but he had simply missed hiR footing
and fallen under the wheels. No physician
could be secured before the arrival
of the 3 a. m. traiu from Columbia.
When the lad was told this he said he
had some time ago, without cause, and
without. pood-bve to his I
mother and father, run away from his
home in Philadelphia. He Bald be was
eighteen years of age and his name was
Samuel Wllliame; his parents lived at
No. 2 73G Germantown avenue, Philadelphia.
The boy was a handsome little
fellow, and Boemed to be of good
birth and well-to-do parentage. When
he realized that death was imminent, he
pleaded to be allowed time enougn to
kiss bis father good-bye; ana thus his
yoang life slowly ebbed away. Dr.
Brosker arrived about 3 a. m., but the
lad die -1 in fifteen minutes thereafter.
The good people of Gaston took charge
of the remains and as much concern was
displayed In the funeral as if some son
of a Gaston man had died. He was
given a neat burial and his grave was
marked, so that should his parents hear
of his tragic end and wish to see the
grave, they can find it. The above account
of this extreamlv sad tragedy is
taken from Momday's State.
Tiie Charleston Sun says it is to be
observed that the local nominating
conventions of the different political
parties this fall are a great deal mixed
in their statement of principles. One
county Democratic platform is in favor
of free silver and high tariff, while
another want3 free trade and restricted
silver coinage. Rocked ribbed Democrats
flop. Lifelong Republicans melt
softly into the arms of the Populists,
while some of the pillars of the Democracy
are accused of trying to betray
their party into advocating Republican
principles unbeknownst.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA.
The liOolsvllla and Haehvlile nod Govt
Une Buy It.
The Augusta Chronicle, of last Wednesday,
says the South Carolina and
Georgia Railway will soon change
hands again. Just as the Chronicle has
been telling you all along, the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Louisville and
Nashvii!e, jointly are going to buy it.
Augusta will be benefitted by the
change. The News and Courier yesterday
says:
The following paragraph, which has
recently been going the rounds of the
New York papers, will unquestionably
be of interest to the people just at this
time. With sligh t variations the paragraph
is as follows:
"Negotiations are said to be under
way between the Parsons Brothers, the
principal owners of the South Carolina
and Georgia,and the executive officials
of the Atlantic Coast Line and Louis*
ville and Nashville, whereby the first
named property is to pass into the joint
control of the latter companies. The
South Carolina was bought by the Parsons
some time ago, and the name was
changed. The road has a main line
from Charleston to Augusta, with
branches, and the Atlantic Coast Line
and Louisville and Nashville have had
their eyes on the property. During the
past week negotiations are said to have
been resumed between the Parsons
and the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Louisville and Nashville, and it is said
that the transfer of the desired line is
now pending. The South Carolina is
wanted by the Atlantic Coast Line, because
it will give it an entrance into
Augusta."
In substance this statement has been
made many times before,both here and
in New York, and the pertinacity
with which the rumcr keeps itself befnrfl
t.hfl nnhlifl is noaaiblv the Stronff
est argument which at this time can be
adduced in support of it.
The railroad men hereabouts are
pretty well divided in their opinions
on the question. Some very high officials
on che South Carolina and Georgia
Iioad, while they disclaim speaking
with authority oq the subject, are open
and above board in their expressions
of belief in the truth of the rumor. At
the same time there are other well informed
railroad men in the city who
think that the ultimate outcome is to
be tnat the Louisville and Nashville
and Atlantic Coast Line will control
the South Carolina and Georgia Road..
From time to time the Louisville
and Nashville people, as well as the
Messrs. Parsons, have denied that any
deal was in progress, and yet it continues
to be generaly accepted as a fact
that negotiations are now pending between
the two.
A gentleman was seen In the city
yesterday who mentioned the name of
a well known railroad man who told
him tnat ho had rece'.ved a telegram
from New York stating that the arrangements
had actually been made
looking to the transfer of the property.
At the same time it should not be forgotten
that the new officials of the road
in this city disclaim having any information
on the aubj 3Ct, and the business
of the company is being conducted
as though the management were a
permanent o:ae.
But information was received here
yesterday, which seems to Indicate beI
yond a doubt, that the "Old Reliable"
has already, or will positively, within
| the very near future, change hands
again. The statement was made on the
street last night that a well known gengleman
in this city had received a telegram
during the day in which it was
stated that the Louisville and Nashville
and the Atlantic Coast Line had
made definite arragements with the
Messrs. Paraons by which these systems
would I n the near future take
control of ihe feouth Carolina and
Georgia Railroad.
A *?nr>firmat.inn r?f t.hls rumor was
received la an unexpected way last
night. A gentleman In Charleston,
who does not wish his name given just
now, showed a reporter a letter from a
prominent New York man in which
the writer ssvs: Of ourse you know
that the Messrs. Parsons have disposed
of their Interest In the South
Carolina and Georgia Railroad."
This statement, coming as it does
from one ot the best koo^n financiers
in the country, seems to be a very
"straight tip." The writer of the letter
is in a position to have inside information
on the subject, and he is not a man
who would speak lightly of such an
important question. He says no more
in the letter than has been given,
evidently takiocr the sale of the road as
a matter of course, it is not said to
whom the Messrs. Parsons had disposed
of the property, but everyone takes
it for granted that; the purchasers are
the Louisville and Nashvib and Atlantic
Coast Line systems.
Some persons have supposed that the
Southern Railway Company might
wish to own the property, but there is
very little reason to believe that that
system would care greatly for the
South Carolina and Georgia L'.ne.
If it is true, as now rumored,that the
Southern has made arrangement* to
absorb the Central system, it is hardly
j probable that it would care to have an
additional South Atlantic port. Taking
everything into consideration, and remembering
everything received here
yesterday, there is little reason to doubt
that if the Messrs. Parsons have sold
the South Carolina and Georgia Road,
that the purchasers are the Louisville
and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line
systems.
In this connection It may be said
that one of the leading railroad men of
the South recently told a reporter of
The News and Courier that there was
little reasji. to doubt that the South
Carolina and Georgia Road would
change hands again within a very few
months. He said that be felt confident
that the Louisville aud Nashville and
the Atlantic Coast Line systems would
build a new line to Augusta IE they
couM no: control the South Carolina
and Georgia property, and as he considered
it would be ruinous to the old
if the new line was built, he did not
doubt that arrangements would be
maue by which the road would change
hand?.
Tfha Information H7hlf>h Is orirfln hfiTfl
has come so straight that there seems
to be do reason for doubting It. Tbe
authority Is about as good as could be
gotten, unless an ofliclai statement
bad bean made either by the Messrs.
Parsons, or by the Louisville and Nash*
ville, people themselves.
llaried In a Mine*
Sckanton, Perm., Sept. 28.?Two
lives ot four men, two mlner3 and two
laborers, without warning were crushed
out in Northwest colliery of Simpson
and Watkins, at Simpson, near
Carondale, late yesterday afternoon.
Their maaagled remains as near as can
be ascertained lie beneath a fall of rock
whicb is ten feet wide and six feet
high, and extends for at least sixty feet
in the gangway off from the third
slope of the mine.
CROPS AND WEATHER.
The Fast Werk and the K<cords nf the
Agricultural Bareau,
Columbia, 5$. C? Oct. 2?The following
Is tbe weekly weather crop report
of Weather Observer Bauer and It
is unusually full and interesting:
During the week ending October 1,
the temperature ranged between 88 and
48 degrees, the former was recorded on
sonrpmhflp SO and October 1. and the
latter at Looper's, Pickens county, and
at Held, Greenville county, oa the
25th and 2Gth respectively. The first
of tbe week was much cooler than
usual while the latter portion was very
warm.
The two last days were the only ones
comparatively clear. The sunshine
averaged about 30 per cent, of the
possible.
Rain began on the 25th in portions
of the State,and was general and heavy
on the 25th and 17th, ended gradually
on the 28th, and there were light scattering
sbowers, with generally clearing
weatber on tbe 29th.
The beginning and ending of the rainy
weather marked the duration of a
West Indian hurricane, whose centre
skirted the South Carolina Coast on
the 26th and 27th, with gales over the
entire State, but most severe along the
coast and second tier of counties,
where tbe rainfall was extraordinarily
heavy, ranging from eight inches at
Pinopolis to lesser amounts toward the
interior, and about an inch in the
Northwest counties. Very few streams
overflowed their banku, but heavy damage
resulted from the combined force
of the rain and high winds which
reached an extreme velocity. of Bixty
miles per hour at Charleston and prob?ul"
? ?nfn r?f ChnfooKnHrtf
i%Uiy a ^icaici laicau uuoivjuu&? wi.ton
and late corn, peas, rice and grasses
were beaten to the ground, and in
Richland and Orangeburg counties It
is reported that trees were uprooted Dy
the violence of the wind. Rice suffered
most severely, having been somewhat
damaged by high tides and by
fresh water. Much of it was in stacks
which were more or less scattered and
saturated, entailing a great deal of
labor to dry the grain to prevent
sprouting.
The aggregate damage from this
storm, is nowever, much less than that
caused by the historic storm of August,
1893. This year'd storm was less severe,
the tides were not as high, and, owlag
to having occurred later in the season,
a smaller percentage of the crops remained
in the fields unfathered. |
The following rainfall measurements,
made during the storm, will illustrate
the gradual decrease from the coast towards
the Northwestern counties, (in
inches and hundredths:) Pinopolls 8 00,
Charleston 7.45, Georgetown 6 55, Trial
5.47, Beaufort 6.15, Conway 5.08, Cheraw
4.98, Society Hill 4.93, Barnwell
county 4.62, Port Royal 4.27, Effingham
4.02, Trenton 3.49, Caesterfi-ild
4.00, Blackvllle 3.70, Tiller's Farry 3 02,
Stetesburg 2 85, Lexington 2 50, Aiken
county 2 20, Longshore 2.12, Looper's
1.85, Little Mountain 1:45, Santuc 1.33,
Laurens L22, McCormicfc 1.22, Winns
- - WA / *_! U. I- 1 lO
DOrO 1.<U, UU1ULUUIU 1.10, vxiocuyiuc
1.09, Watts 0.84, Ella 0.75.
The force ot the wind did not decrease
to the same extent as did the
rainfall from the coait towards the
North western counties and consequently
the damage to corn and peas,
out more particularly to cotton, waa
almost general over the entire State.
The percentage of damage to cotton in
the fields la variously estimated from 5
to 20 per cent., an average of all the
estimates making somewhat under 10
per cent.
Green bolls were broken oil very
freely. Many, if not the greater por?
tion, of the open bolls were more or less
stained and where the stalks remains
green the damp,cloudy weather caused
an Increase in rust and bell worms
which late In the week again appeared
in Injurious numbers in soma counties.
Picking was greatly hindered by the
unfavorable weather, but will be pushed
rapidly from now on, as the weather
permits, as the bolls are opening very
fast, some, it Is thought, prematurely.
Sea Island cotton sullered more from
the storm than the short staple varieties.
The rain was beneficial in the North
central and Western counties for late
root crops, such as turnips and late
sweet potatoes, and also for gardens,
and kept grass green and growing for
pasturage.
Some oats being sown, but oats seeding
has not become general yet; it is
generally too wet to prepare the
ground.
Truck farmers suffered severely from
the heavy rains along the coast as the
wet soil interferes with the cultivation
and marketing of fall crops.
To the request made for estimates of
the percentage of cotton ungathered
on October 1, replies were received
from all but six counties, some of
which raise but little cotton and therefore
would have but little effect on the
percentage for the State. A very trood
indication of the accuracy of the different
reports Is that la counties from
which two, or more reports were received
they aid not differ more than
in nav nont onH that-. r>An r?*riilv hfl as
*V put UUUVt) HUU vuv?w
cribed to varying conditions according
to locality.
Tne estimates by regions and expressed
in averages, are as follows:
Alpine region 85 per cant, ungathered,
Piedmont 01, Red Hill and Upper Pine
Bolt 42, Lower Pine and Coast regions
30. By assigning to each region a value
in proportion to its cotton acrerge the
average percentage of ungathered cotton
for the State, on O-JtoDer 1, is 51 per
cent.
Counties grouped according to per
centages, the results are as follows:
Abov6 80 per cent. Laurens, Ojonee,
Pickens; between 70 ,and 80 per cent.?
Anderson, Greonville, Spartanburg; between
60 and 70 per cent.?Fairiield.
Richland, York, Abbeville, Union; betwoen50anl
00 per cent.?Baaufort,
Berkeley, Florence, Williamsburg. Lancaster,
Sumter; between 40 and 50 per
cent.?Hampton, Aiken, Chester field,
Darlington, Kersnaw, Lexington,EdgeHeld;
between 30 and 40 per cent.?
Clarendon, barn well,Orangeburg,Newberry;
below 30 per cent.?Marlooro.
Iu the statement that 51 per cent, remained
ungathered, allowance was
also made for the probable damage
that rem It. Art from the storm. In other
words, the number of bales already
gathered will likely, be more than
doubled by the end of the season.
J. W. I3aueu, Director.
Imperial Upheaval.
New York, Oct. 2 ?a special cable
to the Herald from Shanghai says:
Emperor of China will very likely be
dethroned In favor of Prince Kung's
son, who will treat with the Japanese.
Li Hung Chang has been superseded
In supreme command by General Sang
Xsing, of the Province of Huhan, who
has received full power?, Li Hung
Chang retires disgusted to L'ao Ting
Foo, capital of the province of Chi Lt.
His alleged defection to the Japanese
is only canvassed consequent to the
recall or Prince Kung. twenty thousand
Hunan soldiers are gathered
around Shan-hal-kwan, the terminus
of the great wall where It forms a
boundary between the provinces of
Chi LI and Shing King. The Li Hung
[Shang army is distrusted.
WILL HOLD NO CONV?N HON.
Thla la the Dccltlin of the R- public ad
State Committee.
Columbia, 0c!\ 3.?The Republican
State Executive Committee wrangled
for five or six hours yefterday BtternooD
and decided not to call a State
convention, Many of the members
were in favor of calling a convention
and putting out a ticket, but they were
outvoted.
It was tbe largest meeting of the
committee in years. The committee is
composed of twenty-live members
three from each Congressional District*
two from the State-at-large and the
chairman and vice chairman.
Chaiflman Webster presided and
among the most prominent of the
goats on hand were the following: E.
M. Brayton, Bob Smalls, E. H. Deas,
T. B. Johnson, Fred Nix, Fordham, G.
W. Murrav, R. R. Talbert of Abberville,
W. E. Bov&ln of Camden, J. C.
Whltaker and Z. E. Walker of Sumter,
W. F. Meyers of Colleton, E. D Littlejohn
and B. F. Means of Spartanburg.
A total of twenty-two men were present,
Including several represented by
proxy.
The discussion on the calling of a
State convention lasted a long time
and was warm, as Republican debates
always are. The decision reached is
told of above.
The committee next turned its attention
to the Congressional fights and recommended
that nominees be put m
the field in every Congressional District.
The Fifth and Sixth Districts
are the only ones in which nothing has
been done about calling a convention
to nominate candidates. This will be
done and the Executive Committee
will see to it. The plan of the Republicans
in the Congressional fights is the
same as was sent out in a circular by
Chairman Webster a few weeks ago.
Nominees are to be put up in every
district and the name of every Republl
can wno oners to voce ana is not allowed
to do so becausa he does not have a
registration ticket will be taken down.
The expectation is that there will be a
Republican Congres3 next year. The
Republican nominees will use the registration
laws and failure of their men
to vote as a basis for contests in the
House.
The committee sat down on Brayton
in great shape, endorsing the candidacy
of T. B. Johnson in the Seventh District,
by the passage of the following
resolution:
"While regretting the condition that
confronts us in the Seventh Congressional
District in the candidacy of Col.
T. B. Johnson and Hon. E. M. Brayton,
It is the sense of this committee,
from the facts presented to them, that
Col. T. B. Johnson is entitled to the
support of the Republicans of
said District as there gular
nominee of the party and as
each we endorse and command him to
the loyal R3publicans of the district."
Brayton made a tight against the resolution
but he had only six men to
back him. In some manner Webster
and Johnson have the State Executive
Committee packed against Brayton.
Brayton, it will be remembered, carried
the contest before the Republican
National Congressional Commiccee and
they decided that Johnson was a bolter
and that Brayton was entitled to Republican
support. Johnson says be
made no effort to meec the contest before
that committee because Brayton is
a member of it and the committee was
packed again;it him (JohnsoD). It will
thus be seen that both Brayton aud
Johnson will be in the race to the end
in the Seventh one having the endorsement
of the National Committee and
the other that of the Slate Executive
Committee.
Tne row between Murray and Smalls,
In thft nnnr "Plrof. r>iatri/?t araa aiihmit?
ted to the national committed some
time ago and ID decided in favor of
Murray. Smalls thereupon withdrew
from the race and there is only one
Republican candidate in that district.
One of the last things done by the
committee was to decide to make a
strong fight at the ballot box in the
November election against the Constitutional
convention, and a resolution
was adopted calling on the white people
of the State who are opposed to the
convention to aid the Republicans in
tne fight.
ERAYTON CONDEMNS IT.
Brayton strongly condemns the action
of the Republican IState Executive
Committee in refusing to call a State
convention. The motive for this action
was a desire, he says, to prevent the
election of a new State Executive Committee
and of County Chairman as is
required by the rules of the party and
Its effect is to deprive the party of any
rightful and legal organization as the
tenue of these party officials expires by
limitation. He also considered ttie State
committee derelict In not outlining a
policy for the party in the approaching
campaign.
In regard to th9 endorsement cf
T. Ji. Johnson's candidacy for Congress
in me oevenin jjistncG osraycoa speass
with contempt of the conrse of
the committee and claims it was
brought about by the basest and
most corrupt methods aud to destroy
the chaoce of Republican success. The
following protest wa3 filed by tbos9 repudiating
the action of tne commttte?:
" We the undersigned memoers of the
Republican State Executive Committee
of South Carolina protest eg dnst
the right or authority of the committee
to consider or act on the question of
the Republican nominee in the Seventh
Congressional District in this
State, for the reason that the matter
has already been determined by the
National Congressional Committee
which has duly considered the case and
declared E. M. iirayton the legal and
regular nominee of the party, and because
the State Executive Committee
has no jurisdiction in tbe primaries.and
in addition the matter was brought up
without previous notice or intimation
that it would ba taken up and acted on
without proof being considered by the
committee.
"We therefore protest against the
interference and decision of the committee
as unauthorized, illegal and
void. "E. M. Urayton,
"G. vv. Murray,
" vv. l\ Myers,
"E. J. Diokerson,
"J. P. Love/.,
"J. J. Miller."
R. R. Tolbert, Jr., and ii. II. Means
also refused to vote witn me majority,
Republican Galax.
IIartforu, Conn., Ojt. 3.? Returns
from all except two oat of 1(34 towns
in this State tnat held local elections on
Monday show a Republican pain of
twenty-three towns. The majorities
are not complete yet, bus indicate a
Republican majority sufficient to elect
the Governor without the election being
thrown into the legislature at the
November election.
''A Strange Coincidence.''
Washington, O^t. 3? ttj a stangs
coincidence Charles II. Djlng, who w<?s
a jail guard thirteen years ago, and
who permitted Capt. W. II. Hovgate
lo essape, was reappointed to his old
position last Saturday, a few days after
llowgate's recapture in Nevv York-.
Today tbe judge of the District Cou rt
conferred with Warden Leonard of tho
jail, and as a result Daing was relieved
from duty.
A B?mnk>bl? Eloipi.
Chester, Pa., Oct. 2.?The passengers
on board of the New York and
Washington express train on the Peosylvania
Railroad, dne In this city at
10:22 this morning, had a remarkable
escape from serious injury and perhaps
death. Tbe train struck one of the Da
pont powder wagons, near Gordon
Heights, killed one of tbe horses, seriously
and perhaps fatally injured the
driver and scattered one pound cans of
powder in various directions without
an explosion. The wagon was on its
way to the powder company's wharf
and it seems miraculous that the powder
did not explode, in which event the
train would probably have been wrecked.
The driver was brought to this
city and placed in the hospital. He
was unable to give his name and could
not give any information about the
accident.
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of ;'ot"a, Arra Gb;lr, Rocklu* ChjJr, Diva?,
&n<l a ride ChuJ'-s -vorth $-V6. Will d(M<M
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1 ORGANS. I
(I MID-SUMMER BARGAINS. X
V Special Sale Summer 1894* Tha V
7 time to buy Cheap and Xa?y. Six V
' h ' Special Swnmer Offers that beat the '1
1 ii'record. I
Y $50 saved every Piano parchaaer. iji
s1 $10 to $20 on every Organ. j,1
i\ Six Special Offers on our Pojmlar KM-i\
w ? ?? i" an<*n?t. ftenteaher X
/s no miner rmu. *?u j ? -B? ?? w
/J aod October, and pay whan Oottoa eomaa 11
i!) Spot CMh Prteea. Ne Intereat Only a ' i1
() Small Cash Payment required, $25 on a ,
(; riano. $10 on Organ, balance next Koram- ,1
() ber 15th. Longer time If wanted. i,
0 Payments to suit all. Planoa $8 to $10,1 \
V monthly. Organs $9 to $5. (I
X Our Mid-Summer Oilers nn Mg BMiy '
i'i on all plans of payment. i i *
< ') N?w Fall Leaders ready. B?aatl- i( i
j ful and Cheap. Temptlaf Buftlil, < ,
; Write at onoe for Mld-Soaaaaar Of-1
O fero. Good only until XoT?aat>?r L ?,
() Don't wait. ( 1
?I UDDEN & BATES !
^SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,:
8 o SAVANNAH, OA.
"low IS THE TIME
TO PLACE YOUS ORDERS FOB
Tiirsstisrs!
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And I^Sell the Best In the'Market.^Wrlte
te me Before Buying.
Shingle Machines,
Stave Machines,
Brick Machines,
Planing Machines,
Swing Saws,
Band saws,
Gang Kip Saws,
and all kinds of
wood working machines
"Srlst Mills S115 to $250.
Saw Mills 3190 to 3400. M
Watertown Engines and Boilers. 9
Talbott Engines and Boilers. M
Ssed CDtton Elevators. BE
Cottoh Gins and Presses H
HIU1I an I LOW GRADE. B
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