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p |L INCIPIENT BOYCOTT. ~ Hf A WAGON FACTORY SHUTS DOWN ON S| THE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. |f Colonel D. P. Duucau, Maniijer of the I Exchange, Issues an Address to Alllaucc. A* men on the Subject?Will Fight Hack. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 22.?When the State Alliance Exchange comBBE^Lmenced its business of saving money the farmers by enabling them to direct from manufacturers and I^^^Biua avoid paying the charges of midm^Bllemo^fiere were mutterings of dis"" muLllnman onrl I lUUi vau m-%% [threat*: of a boycott. A small one is pn now, as will be seen by tbe following address to Alliancemen written by Col. D. P. Duncan for publication in the Cotton Plant, the Alliance organ: To the members of the Farmers Alliance in South Carolina: I regret that the force of the circumstances requires me to lay before you the following communication for your information, as well as for your action. k Owknsboro Wagon Co , [Manufacturers of the "Owensboro" Wagons, Drays and Dump Carts, I Owensboro, Ky., Aug. 11th, 189G. Mr. D. P. Duncan, Manager. Columbia, S. C. I Dear Sir: We regret excaedingly low to state that our business relationship with you will have to be severed. We have had a representative i m North and South Carolina for the bast month or six weeks and the deal- 1 Lrs there have entered into a boycott Inless we discontinued selling you. ! ^unrepresentative succeeded in getting luite a number of carload orders with 1 pe positive understanding that we 1 rould not sell the Farmers' Alliance. 1 IFe have entertained the hope that we light be able to serve you without beig known in the transaction but we ' ive concluded that it will be impos- ' ble and as much as we regret to dis- ' mtinue the business relationship ithyou, the necessities of the case deknds it and there is nothing else for to do. Trusting that you may sucked in connecting with another conen and thanking you for past favors, ; M-e, Yours truiy, 1 1A OWENSBORO WAGOX CO. I have been manager of your g|?B^xchange, I have been placing a part j b9B of your orders for wagons with the < WagST Owensboro Wagon Company, of Ken- i IgB tacky. I admit that I did not by any 1 KQk means deal with them exclusively. 1 B Always paid them cash for wagons. 1 His On several occasions the Owensboro ] 9k" Wagon Company have notified me 1 Ejj that the merchant dealers were complaining because they were selling us J their wagons direct from the factory. 1 | We have always replied that we have ' advertised the wagons in our current J price list, that is sent out weekly to L the members of the Alliance, and had < % no doubt done more to advertise their ] j wagons than all the dealers in the 1 State. For this reason, this company i H has continued to fill our orders for wagons, without however, putting 1 their name on the wagons. They < were made for us and branded the &V "State Exchange." We never made |H[' any objections to others handling the Tvormno nro olnrovo noi/1 ncioVt frtw \*rViof . n u^viua| nv (unnj0 vaou *v* " "* * 9^L the dealers get long time on, and now 1 we are served with the notice of this * KB boycott on the part of the South and J B Nortli Carolina merchants who deal : ran in Owensboro Wagons. 1 KflL I feel satisfied that your manhood ] ra^Rnd self respect will dictate such ac- ' tion as you should take without sug- 1 gestion from me. I wish you to send 1 me the name or names of all parties who handle the Owensboro Wagons i H% in your section of the State and I will | 9 publish a list of same in the Cotton ' H Plant that all may be informed just ! ^^^^who compose this boycotting party. I am sure you do not wish to force ' Boa vnn* Kncinoca ailhov unnn mdniifoc. ' Iturers or merchants who do not wish to sell "The Farmers' Alliance." I i desire to add that I do not think my 1 management of your Exchange war- J rants this action on the part of these ; merchants and this manufacturer. j YourExchangehasmadenowaronany : business interest. I have always held and advised that you purchase certain Irticles from the manufacturer belause they were such things that Ihould carry only one profit. I Your fertilizers, bagging and ties, Fmachinery and all vehicles should be bought direct through your own business agency and said agency keep you 1 Informed as to the market prices of all j p i asses of goods, making no light on 1 any business or class. The action of ! the Cotlon T^^Trust and the merchants' Wagon Boycott demonstrates the necessity and value of your maintaining a business agency. Continue to send your Exchange 1 jpour orders for wagons. You will get ! the Exchange Wagon guaranteed to be one of the very highest grades on ' the market and the freight will be ; only a fraction over half of that on the'Owensboro. D. P. Duncan, Manacftr State Allianoa F.voVinncrf* The Worst Political Mixture Yet. This is a year of strange political mixtures. The worst one we have yet heard of is the one proposed in Texas. BSjiffll We learn from the Atlanta Journal Hr^ lhat "plans are on foot for a combiW nation between the middle-of-theioad 9 Populists, the Republicans and the sound money Democrats in that State. It would, of course, be impossible to make a platform on which these three . elements could unite and there will be no attempt of that sort. The combination will be effected on a basis of Bfsgff division of the spoils which the allied forces expect to capture. The plan is R^Kforthe Republicans to support the BSsS^rBBDulist state ticket, the Podu lists to vote for the Bepublican electors. The GH sound money Democrats are to support the Populist state ticket and the |9H Republican electors and in return are BBB| to receive the votes of both the other factions lor their candidates for congress. It will be hard for either faction of this triple alliance to deliver its fSj^M full strength, Dut most of the Populist, 3^7 Bepublican and gold-bug Democratic leaders seem to be enthusiastic over it V and predict that their combination sF will sweep the state. The Texas Demv ocrats who refuse to support Bryan W and Sewall will discredit themselves by going into any such political trade ^ as is proposed. Thev have declared that they have taken their stand on principle and if they make a deal gMk with both Populists and Republicans Kj^they will be justly suspected of trying find the road that leads to the oiliW&BtttmS' Texas will stand steady in the aggffigMpemocratic column in spite of alliancand fusions of whatever character." OLIVER WIRECO. WRITES. Tells What it Thinks About the Cotton , Tie Fight. Columbia, S. C., Au?. 27.?Col. Duncan received a letter yesterday from the Oliver Wire company of Pittsburg. It is given in full to show what manufacturers think of this Qght. It reads: | Pittsburg, Aug. 24, 1S9GCol. D. P. Duncan, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir?We regret that you could not make it convenient to call at Pittsburg when you were north, and are sorry that our invitation did not 1 reach Columbia a few days earlier. Please accept our thanks for the many ' LinilnodiM ciinwn and c.r>urtesie<: ex tend to our Mr. McManus, who visited you recently. We sent hiin into Carolina to investigate the cottou tie situation, and he writes that he is indebted to you or a great deal of valuable information. From your letters and through the columns of The Cotton Plant of Spartanburg we are well informed as to the strong effort you are making to lind a good substitute for strap cotton ties, and we believe you will succeed with wire, but we are inclined to think that No. 0 will be found too heavy, for ; however thoroughly il may be annealed it will be iound too stiff to be bent, twisted or otherwise manipulated with the lingers. Our idea is that No. 8 or No. 9 will ultimately be used, but in this we might be mistaken ? as we must admit being ignorant of f what is required and essential in a { good cotton tie. Jt is very evident, however, that the strap tie manfactur- ( ers will not remain quiet and see , their business taken from them. The present agitation in favor of a wire tie may result in breaking the combina- * lion prices of the ordinary article, so * that it will hardly pay a manufacturar to incur any great expense at present, but we have an idea that should your practical experiment clearly demonstrate the utility of wire ties we can ^ compete against the llat article, even j should the price on the latter go back to somewhere about 80 to 90 cents a bundle. To do this, however, we j think that No. 8 or No. 9 gauge wire will have to be used. By concurrent post we are sending j you four sample pieces, two each No. 6. and No. 9, showing different lcops designated respectively "single twist" and ' double twist." We presume that either one of these loops would * answer the purpose, but would like to f know what you think of them. Should ? it be necessary to build machines to j. form these loops, it would, we think, j be to the advantage of all concerned ? to adopt the "single twist." We pro- c pose to send you also in a few days T three small bundles of these ties, 11 ? L-2 feet long, made each of Nos. 0, 8 j ind 9 wire. These we would like you j to test at your earlie*t convenience. N It occurs to us that wire ties, if ulti- j. mately adopted, could be used twice. a rhe ties coming from the country press ~ ;ould be taken off at the hydraulic press, straightened out, and cut down ? the length required by the hydraul- t ic press. Hoping to hear from you further on 1 his subject at your earliest convenisnc9, we are yours very truly Oliver Wire Company. . \J Wiped Out I?y Foreat Fires. I Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 2(J.?Onto c aagon, Mich., is entirely destroyed ex- 8 lepting 12 dwelling houses located in * - i- & ii in r me extreme eastern part 01 iuh vuiago, ~ rhere are innumerable persons miss- " ing and reperts are that several have a perished. These reports are not as yet 1 verified, however, and it is hoped that the missing ones are being cared for rod sheltered in farm houses. I. W. , Eight, president of the village, wired in appeal to Superintendent Minturn 3n the Chicago, Milwaukee and 3t. Paul county, for tents, provisions, stc., for 1,500 people this morning, n Mr. Minturn immediately repeated , the message to the mayors of all the < r?itiAo in this nftrt nf thfl State. A ear- * load of supplies was collected iu this : city in less than an hour from the time y the message was received by Mr. Minium and shipped to Rockland a small , place out of Ontonagon, where the sufferers are gathered. The main r street of Ontanogon had six blocks of business buildings. The village proper was between eight and nine blocks | long and from 14 to 15 blocks wide, j Fire has been burning in the woods to , /\ t 4K A 4 r\ m Y\ TIT/% TTTfiol/C bUO OUUlUCOdtUl bUO IUTTU1U1 U?v UWuu but no danger was anticipated until yesterday, when a high, wind blew the dames into the placa. At noon an at- 1 tempt was made to telegraph fo?- help r fromjad joining towns but the telegraph f building was on fire anu the opera- (] tor was driven from his instrument ] No further telegrahic communication I with Ontonagon until today. Help r was sent by rail but it was devoted to ^ the removing the people to places of \ safety. Insurance statistics which are ; probably complete, show that the t heaviest loser is the Diamond Match <; compan whos9 property was valued at l 11,000,000 and consisted of stores and j merchandise worth $75,000, a saw mill i and box factory, with machinery, i worth $300,000, and lumber worth ] $600,00. The insurance on the lum- e ber is $227,000; on all the other property $200,000. The business and residence property was well insured. The sole support of the town was the Dia- raoud Match company and its future 11 depends upon the course that the com- t pany will take. The consensus of 1 opinion is that the company will not < abandon the village. The village of s Trout Creek is not destroyed, but is i seriously threatened as the choppings < in the underbrush and woods are fier- I cely burning all around it. ] Fawion in Mlrlittrnn. 1 Bay City, Mich., Aug. 27.?It was ] after 2 o'clock this morning when the i fusion convention completed its la- , bors. The ticket was completed by i the selection of David K. llaskins | (Democrat) of Hillsdale for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Martin Loennecker (Populist) of Jackson for Commissioner of Land Oilice and s Franklin S. Dewy (Democrat) of Al- < pena for member of the State Board of 1 Education. The oflice of Secretary of State was left blank in hope that the J Prohibitionists would name a candi- < date for that office and withdraw the 1 balance of their ticket. Tbe Demo J crats have eleven and the Populists three electors. Murder at a Wedding. Pittsburg, Aug. 27.?During the festivities following a colored wedding early this morning. Bert Scott, a former lover, insulted the bride, and the groom, George Hall, at once shot him dead. A general fight was then precipitated in which the bride was dangerously stabbed twice and the groom i badly hurt. The latter was arrested < and is now in jail. A Convert's Bet. Noblesville, Aug. 25.?The Hon. James L. Evans of this city, for four , years a congressman anda'ifelong Republican. has come out for free silver. Mr. Erans has been engaged in the grain business in Noblesville for 40 years and has tlways voted the lie- " publican ticket, but he says he will ' give Bryan his cordial support in the < present campaign, lie has the fol- i lowing unique ofl'er posted in the i ollice of his great elevator: j "I will contract to buy allth^-'No. ] 2 wheat you have raised n^SSoat GO ] cents per bushel, provhjiug Bryan is j elected, and with hitjj<^free coinage j congress; or I ^ilfsell you all the No. )l wheat you-wliut at fiOcents per bushel, 1 providing-Molvinley is elected." ? Tn n?i i tifaMtri/iiir 4#"v<1ftrr \T u f^irnnn A11U.U IUUCI ViOT* lUUOrJ 1ULI. 1J v aua said: "I will mane money on either proposition. If Brvan and a free coinage congress is elected wheat will go above 70 cents. If McKinley is elected and the gold standard in con tinued I can buy it for less than 50 :en<s." Among other thing? he added: 'While in congress I served on the jommittee of coinage, weights and neasures, and 1 think I then learned just what free coinage of gold and silver means. The experience of years since then has only strengthened my jonvictions. Free cjinage i? the inly hope for our farmer friends. We cannot have prosperity on conitanly falling prices. There must be i restoration of the price of the jroducts of labor before we can hope 'nr a r?viVfll of business and a return < )f prosperity." t The long business experience of Mr. s Evans has taught him that labor is ,he basis of all prosperity, and whenever the prices of the products of labor ire low, business languishne3s all tlong the line in every avenue of our sommercial development. A Sensible Republican. While we are bidding farewell to veak-kneed Democrats like Brother Etemphill, of the News and Courier, md others like him, who have been leduced from party allegiance, we lave occasion to bid welcome to a jreat many men who are breaking he lines of the other parties and rushng to ihe Democratic army, which is iow in the field battling for the rights n tne people, j uage w. m. KQDins, lominee of the Republican party for j ustice of the Supreme Court of Flor- r da, is one of the latest accessions to 1 he army of the people. The Atlanta <j Constitution says Judge Rabins has a >een a life long Rspubiican, so prom- t nent in his party that he was nomi- t lated for one of the most prominent J >ffices of the State. In vibw of the s >roposed division of the anti-Rapubli- t an vote, which, if successful, would 1 nure to Republican success, Judge t fcobins had every reason to hope for i victory, but like the patriot that he is, e le could not accept the platform g idopted in St. Louis, and he denoun- t :es that new Republicanism which t nakes the gold standard its corner r tone and which "seeks to immolate ; he American people on the altar of organized greed." As a consequence, i fudge R)bins declines his nomination ^ ind declares himself in favor of the e ilection of Bryan and Sewall. All i ver the country there are patriotic 1 nen who recognize in Mr. Bryan the >nly nope of the American people, e md who refuse to tie themselves to j be gold standardism which Republi- e :an success woum oe sure 10 Dring. t Fhere is no doubt that the people will i irise as a man aud go ah sad la this s vork. a Five Young Toughs. ^ Roajjokk, Aug. 27.?The police au- J horities of this city have unearthed an , >rganized band of robbers, composed < if five maybe more, young toughs vhose purpose was to murder, if neces * ary, to accomplish their purpose. | ihe ringleader and two members of i he gang are in jail here and one of hem has made a confession, revealing he existence of the band and disclos- . ng the purposes for which they were , >anded together. The confession re- :ites that .the band perpetrated all of ho recent robberies and outrages vhich have been committeed in Roaloke and vicinity within the past two . nonths and also detailed several pro>osed robberies, which were nipped in he bud by the arrests made today. . klore arrests will follow in a day or q wo. ti Futtiou Nominations. ? Columbus, O., Aug. 27.?The State J ^opulists in convention at Spriuglield >roceeded this morning with the nomnation of a State ticket in accorlance with the fusion terms accepted ast night. The nomination by the democrats of C. A. White of Clernont county for secretary of State and *Vm. Beaumont of Licking for mem>er of the State board of public works vas endorsed. The resolutions enlorsed the St. Louis convention and leclare in favor of State control of the iquor traflic. A committee was ap >ointed to confer with the Democrats n relation to the details .of the fusion. Phis must be done within 15 days. d_ Stark of dlfivAlftnc] was nnminat- : id for supreme judge. Costly Conflagration. S Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Aug. 27. 1 ?This city to day experienced the t jvorst lire since August 9, 1880, when i he whole business portion of the f ,own was nearly burned out. To- i lay's lire started in North Water '< street and before it could be gotten i under subjection over $300,000 worth >f property was destroyed. Among ihe burned buildings are the Sioux ? National Bank block, which cost $100,- ] vaa. nu:nMAnrA i JU'Jy iuu J. rou&iaucr uiuuti, vyui^pcwa Elouse, Cleveland House, Metzger block, Perry Hotel, postofRce and J United States customs oflices, tele- 1 phone exchange and a number of ( wooden structures. The loss is about 1 Lialf covered by insurance. _ i Fusion Id California. | San Francisco, Aug. 2t5.?Thefu- i sion committee representiag the Dem- I Dcrats and Populists and Bimetallists < has met and appointed a committee of ] sixteen to be known as the joint Con- < ?ressional Committee, who were or- ] uered to select Congressional candidates. The candidates will be the nnminAfi r?f thp thrift rwrtipc Oi.hpi* 1 nominees must then withdraw or de pend for their support on their pgr- ' sonal followers. Ke;>ubllcHiiH Split. Boisk, Idaho, Aug. 2G.?The two wings of the Republicans met in separate conventions today and effected permanent organizations, after which they adjourned till morning. W. E. iJorrah is permanent chairman of the silver convention. In the McKinley convention J. E. Babb, was permanent chairman. \ \ A GOLD BOOMERANG. Bold Men Flud Dr. ^rendb a Free Silver Advocate. Washington, 4ug. 24.?Prof. Otto A-rendt's statement ia Saturday's Journal is more than -a blow between the 3yes to the gold/'monometallists who ire masquerading as international bitnetaliists. So fond have they been of quoting Dr. Arendt as a stanch upbolder of their views that they have lauded him to tbe skies, and have held him before the country as the oue !*roat authority on bimetallism before whom they bent in adoration and whose word was final oil the whole subject. Now, too late, they learn that he is i strong advocate of free coinage 011 :he part of the United States as the ine measure sure to fores the hands of Europe's money kings from the throat jf silver. What course they can purme to back water from the brink of ;ue logical Niagara before them canaot be imagined. The Democratic leiders are swift to see the advantage before them. Dr. kreudts masterly analysis of the situition will be sent to every part of ihe J ailed States &s a campaign document, o both English and German. The Washington Post,a stanch gold paper, jut one given to puncturing sham arguments and false logic, reprints Dr. irendt's article in full ths morning ?vith an editorial comment. "So much has been said about the >pinions and utterances of Dr. Arendt, he famous German writer on finance" il _ . J!i. 1 111! 1. *1 a. lays me euitonai, ~~iaai it occurs 10 us o reprint in the Post this morning the ull text of a letter he has just written o the New York Journal. His world vide reputation as a student of the question, his brilliant attainments, his irofound and varied information, all jonspire to lend peculiar interest to his product of his pen. Mr. Whitney las just quoted him in refutation of he free coinage heresy. The cold itandard newspapers delight in falling )ack upon him as the most potent desroyer of 'the silver fallacy.' Repubican and assistant Republican speaksrs use him as 'stock' for their more >r less inspired outburst. Now, it will >e as well to see what Dr. Arendt has o say for himself. "Of course, we are all bimetallists. tfr. Whitney, Mr. Belmont, Mr. Pier>ont Morgan?all the really important eaders of the anti-Bryan movement? leclare with tearful favor that bimet illism is the one dream of their lives, he dearest and the sweetest thought hey harbor. What they writhe under, lowever, what tortures their unselfish ouls, is the knowledge that the Unied States cannot undertake bimetalism alone without causing ruin to the 11 i . i if lODie worKingmen aau spreading pa lury among4he dearly beloved massis. Otherwise, the Belmonts, the Morgans, the Rothschilds,the Bleichrodes, he Lizards, the Ickelheimers, and all he rest of them would welcome binetallism with an ecstasy too deep for vords. "But it is not possible. 'Ask Dr. Arendt; don't balieve us, if you don't vant to?' they say, 'Go and ask sciintists like Dr. Arendt, who have nade the subject the study of their ives.' "And so, at last, somebody has askidDr. Arendt, and the professor's re>ly is given in full elsewhere in this idition of the Post. We have advocaed the gold standard, not besauss England or any other nation Has idopted it, but because we consider it is the best standard for ovrselves, and >ecause we fear the effect of frea aad mlimited silver coiaage upon our donestic welfare. Dr. Arendt's viewi, herefore, are of no great consequence o us, but are given 1o the public sim>ly in accordance with our settled >olicy of presenting facts to our readrs. antagonizing perversions and falacies and castigating humbugs and harpers wherever we may lind them. A wAn/lf oqtto flint fi?oo x/i* xii IUUU b oaja VUMV J?wv vvamm^v >y the United States will force bimet ism upon Europe. lie predicts an nternational agreement as the result ?f Bryan's election and haiJs that iOQsummation as the vanguard of iniversal prosperity and peace.?New fork Journal. Crawled Under the Train. The News and Courier, of last Moulay says: "A. Jones, colored, met his leath yesterday on the South Carolina ind Georgia Railroad tracks between Jummerville and this city. At 10:30 n the morning a telephone message vas received at the hospital calling 4 t. ~ l..1 ~ 1 a 4 xx ur me umuuiauco auu a uutiur iu ake Jones from the train at the South Carolina and Georgia depot. lie was >rought into the city in the baggage :ar of the train. His right leg below he knee and his left foot were crushed erribly, but he was able to tell how it lappened. He wanted to get on the ?tner side oT it, and instead of walkng around he crawled under. He vas beneath one of the coaches when he train started. Jones managed to jet his body over the tracks in time o save himself from being cut in wain, but could not manage to get lis limbs free. Jones was seemigly itrong enough to stand an operation, ilthough he had lost plenty of blood, lis right leg was amputated below he knee and his left foot just at the inkle. Jones died at five minutes to our. The unfortunate man leaves a ffidow and eight children. The fatal f nffict no 100/I Ktt fVio mQTi'a nwri ivuiu^uu new vauavu k/j uuv *umu m w km ecklessness. "I believe we cannot only elect our state ticket, but thatBi*yan and Sewall ffill carry the state of New York, I feel certain of this." Thus said Senator Edward Murphy, Jr., to Anthony N. Brady and a number of friends. These gentlemen went to Long Branch to secure the New York junior senator's jpinion on the situation. In the many years that Senator Murphy was chairman or the Democratic state committee lie proved himself uuequaled in %ta/wa m/l 1 vt /? fll f 11wa i^a] 1 . ma uuncutucoo icgaiuiug iubuiv tical results in this state. During his jhairmanshi{) he conducted only one losing campaign?and in that he pre jicted defeat. It was the Maynard campaign. The New York Journal says, in its report, that there was a feature oj Mr.Cockran's address which caused Iris admirers and supporters some ilarm, and that was wherein he began "?t-: it- - e ? TT? iiiacftuug' cue lurmors. uo ucuiaitw Lhat the silver agitation was but a 2onspiracy of the farmers. As he said this a hand reached out and pulled his uoat tail. Just whose hand it was could not be told from the press seats, but it looked strangely like that of Perry Belmont. Mr. Cockran paused, bent his head, listened to a few whispered words, and then begun a eulogy of the farmer as the creator of wealth. Slandering the South. In his gold standard speech in Nev York last week Bourke Cockran, wh< up to the time he made that speech claimed to be a Democrat, took occa sion to use the following language ic reference to the friends of silver in th< West and South: Men of New York, toilers of Ameri ca, guardians of your own homes, wil you allow your rate of wages to be af fected (Ories of "Nevir," "Never") bj any man who never has paid wa?es al all if he could get out of it? Will you submit to this conspiracy between th< professional farmers, the farmers wht cultivate the quarrels of their neigh bors, farmers who labor with their jaws, 1'opulist agitators of the West and the unreconciled slaveholders ol the South? This is a conspiracy be tween professional farmers who wan I to pay low wages and the unreconciled slaveholders who would Jike to pay no wages at all. (Applause.) Here is the real root of this conspiracy. In commenting on Cockran's tirade he Augusta Chronicle says it is an in^ suit to the men of the South and the West which they will not soon forget, and one which they will promptly and effectively resent. When Mr. (Jockran insults the majority of the Democratic party with the assertiou that they are made up of "farmers who labor with taeir jaws and the unreconciled slave holders of the South who would like to pay no wages at all," he allows prejudice to run riot with his reason. He demonstrates, too, that down in his heart he still holds his prejudice and hatred of the South, and that he only needed a congenial audience before which to speak his real sentiments. Cockran was speaking when he uttered the above slander, for the party in national politics this year that is supported in this State by such newspapers as the News and Courier and a few of its "metoos." In this day of peace and reunion it comes with poor grace from a boasted Democratic Reader to be insulting Democrats of the South, who, year after year, have loyally supported the candidates offered by Democrats of the North; and we much mistake the temper and self-respect of Democratic masses all over the country if they do not resent the persistent references to their Pres laenuai canaicme oy car, uocsran, as a "Populist." Mr. (Jockranis an orator, and he may have pleased his millionaire employers,-but he will find he has affronted the masses of the Demo cratic party, South and West, and cemented them together more strongly for Bryan and silver coinage. Those Patriotic Bankers. The "patriotic" banks not only took special precautions to be able to get back their paltry "loan" of $18,000,000 from the United States Treasury whenever they wanted it, but they have been and are adopting systematic means to place the Treasury and other sources of money supply entirely at their owa (the national banks'] tender mercies. The following extract from an article in the New York Journal will make clear how the banks do it* "The scarcity of greenbacks in the hands of the public was illustrated by an incident which occurred yes terday (Saturday) in an office at No 10 Wall street. There were present six persons, including E. K. Holden, a banker of Colorado, who said: 'Gentlemen, I will wager that there is n a m o rt J n fUio r?i >? tt ttt h r\ kao nf hn? uuta uiauiu tuiop^nj nuv uao ubucn money than silver or silver certificate! ia his possession.' There was a prompl turning out of the contents of wallefc and pockets. While at least three o! the party had in excess of $100 in bills tin their possession, every bil. was a silver certificate. Mr. Holden then.remarked: 'I have observed ioi several weeks that all my money was in silver certificates. Finding; thai several of my friends had noted th< same thing, I accompanied one o: them to a well known bank in Wali street, where he presented a check foi $2,000 to be cashed, The larger por tion of the money was paid in ne\* silver certificates and the balance in national bank notes. People are talk ing in such a narrow way about the dreadful result of Mr. Bryan's election and what infinite harm silver will do. They seem to forget that the only me dium now in circulation among the people is silver or silver certificates. If we depend for our currency on gold or its specific form of circulating note there would be hardly a dollar in the country except the holdings of the banks or the Treasury Department.'' Predicting Ten Cent Cottou. The Macon Telegraph says a gentleman from Selma, AJa., who was in that city recently was heard to make a sporting bet to the eirect that cotton wnulrl an nn tn ten r.enls before the first of next November. He could have found several takers, but one was enough to satisfy him. He gave as his reason for making the bet that he had seen the cotton all along the road between Selma and Macon, and that the hot weather was "giving it thunder." For a radius of seven miles from Macon, he said, the cotton had been burned up by the heat. At any rate it is a fact that the heat is unsettling the market and that there are fortunes to be made and lost in cotton just about this time. We do not know whether cotton will go to ten cents or not, but one thing is very certain and that is the crop is extremely short. Ten cent cotton would be a good thing for the farmers and we would hail it tttifh irttr TV AWU J V/J Woman Fouud Murdered. Sklma., Ala., Aug. 2G.?The body ol Emma Kent was found yesterday b\ a party of searchers in the swamp be yond Lake Lanier. It had been stuIf ed feet foremost into a hollow log. The tracks of th2 persons were seen leading to the spot Squire Thomas, who is under arrest charged with the murder, was seen near the place with the woman just before her disappcar ance. It is supposed she was en Licet into the swamp and murdered. The inquest will be begun this afternoon Lurideu & limed are Vour Men. If you want to buy a fine piano di rect from factory, and without paying middlemen's profits, write the welF known Southern Music House of Lud den & Bates, Savannah, Ga., about it. They are your men. They manufac ture the new Ludden & Bates piano. They own an interest in the great Mathushek Piano, sold by them foi twenty-five years past. They contro almost the entire output of the facto ry and have just opaned large whole sale wareroouis in New Yors City. They sell from factory direct to pur chasers and save purchasers all inter mediate profits. They are your men Read their latest advertisement in toil iconn onrl wrifA tham aU.Iiai* ?t Hovin. jnah, Ga.. or New York City. / The trustworthy Cure for the Whiskey, Opium, Morphine and Tobacco Habits. . For further Information address The 1 Keeley Institute, or Drawer 27, Columbia, - S. (J. r L I 3 ) ; a " r i DrTUIML^Q ; u u ui m LOO i ! OPPORTUNITY doeau't always mean a chance to get work. It's a business opportunity to liave a chance to save money on the necessities of life. You cau find a chance like that at our store. i We are now offering WELCH & EPSON'S PERFECTION FLO UK Superfine Quality at'. |4.50 barrel Best Patent Flour at 4.25 barrel unoice family Flour at.. 4.00 barrel BEST GRANULATED SUGAR la 100 pound sacks at -5c pound In smaller quaatltiei at ~5^c pound GOOD GRANULATED 8UGAR i In 224 pound sacks at pound In 100 sacks at 4#c pound In sma'.ller quantities at 5c pound ; R1UE At 40, 50, 64, 70 and 80 cents a peck. GOOD TOMATOES In 2 pound cans at ...5c a cin...tiOc a dozen In 3 pound cans at ...Gc a can...72c a dozen PURE LARD-UEST QUALITY. 50 pound cans per can ....?3,00 20 pound cans per can 1.25 10 pound cans per can - 75 5 pound cans Der can 401 3 pound cans per can 25 COMPOUND LAKD. 50 pound cans per can f 2.75 20 pound cans per can 1-15 10 pound cans per can 70 5 pound cans per can?... 35 | 3 pound cans per can 25 Good Klo Coffee 18c pound ; Best Klo Coffee 20c pound 1 Higher grade Coffees at very reasonable 1 price*. CANNED MKATd CHEAP. [ Corned Beet 1 pound cans 10c fWnoil Una# nnunji OA/? VSU&UUU liUCL M [A/UUU tAUS ; Roast Beef 1 pound cans 10c i Roast Beef 2 pound cans - 18c * Potted Ham, small cans, 5c can, 50c dozea 3 Potted Ham, lar ;e cans, 103 can, $1.00 doz. * Potted Tongue, small, 5c can, 50c dozen | Dried Beef, Armour's, 1 pound, 18c can, ' 12.00 dozen. j Dried Beef, Armour's, ]A pound, 10c can, ?1.20 dozen. * Teas at 25' CO, 75 and ?1.00 pound. ICv1 ery style and variety. > We make it to your advantigd to buy f your Groceries of us* Try u*. \ Uet a copy of our Prices LWt. It is a . handy and newsy little bjok.., [ WELCH & EASON, ,1 UNlVEUSAfj PK0V1UKKS 117 M?t'elSto i J CHAKLKSTQN, s. u. If THERE I - ? I I ^5 ? ! W I .. Preparation that can oompare BBut I withHilton'sLlfefortbelirer Bra I and Kidney*, In ths wilrtness Pfi? I of Its action and th* certainty KB of Its effects, 1* the relief nd Sra care of Dyspepsia and Indlges- H j tion, and all their attending In *?|| ills, such as sick headachs, Hp fi&i $omr atomacb, want of appetite, B !$? *tc., and as a regulator in Bff rv.nRtinatl0n. Ate I^SlteU-omethlng otn? irt^oneedofalong^l tinned eourse before its Den?- H ?ta beoomie apparent. TRY IT, AN1> B8 2?,% CONVWCB^J 5Wd -wholesale by The Murray Drug Co. COLUMBIA* S. C. AND Dr. H. Eaer, Charleston, S.O. BARGAIN^LIST I have In stockin thorough repair, rej . follow! ng second hand Engines and Boilen One 12 H 1' Portable Tozer Euglue and Bol One (J H P Portable To/. >r Eagiae and Bo , One 0 H P Portable T /. t Engine and Bo i One (i II P Portable To/; or Engine and Bo ' One 8 11 P Portable Oneida K ijiue and B: ()n? 1'J H P Portable Li A (J (J > i.tirA Co E Ona 8 H F Semi-l'ortable Amos K'igiae aa One 7 111' Semi-l'ortable Weod, Tiber & 1 These Engines and Boilers have bean Works, and are in as good condition as It is Ing to have yoiw order, 1 am, Yours Always iu stock, a full Hue ot TOZKR prices. KK^AIKINU OK AM, KINDS F HnWHOHHBHMBI A $25 Cooking Stove WITH A COMPLKTK OUITfl VM I 03>TX-.-Sr $U2.00, Delivered to your railroad *11 freight charges paid. Read tMi deecriptiuu carefully. This spleedid Cooking Stovo ia No. 8; has fear ft inch pot holes; 16x16 luck ovea; 1ft 8 iacli tire box. 24 inches hick: 81x91 inch top; nice smooth casting. X have had this tore mad* for wtf irade, after uiy own idea, coasbiariaf *11 the good points of all modlaa priced stoves, and leaving out the objectionable features. Beyond all doubt the beat No. Cooling .Stove made, for the yrteo. Fitted with 2 pota, 2 pot eevwa, t ,skelletA, 2 griddles, 3 baking mml i joints of pipe, 1 elbow, 1 cottar, 1 lifter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 Im tea kettle, 1 shovel. Wo waa* to make customers and frieads la rwy part of the South, for tho fmtftm of introducing oar business to bmt people, and to renew oar aofuM> ance with old frienda. We will ship this splendid Cooking Stove and the above described VMS to any depot, all freight cWhm | paid, tor only w vm ?M 1 cath cornea with the n4h. Ate 1 stove '.t a %ood om, wall mate, aai 8 will jgiv* entire latiafaettefc. Om I illustrated oatalojaa ol fooMaa 9 Storoi and Baby Carriafac mOn | / :e. Addreea r, "F* i^isa-asTT, / ' | ilfl UtCAn iucnti, ??????????????????$ W M you Wani a Fine Piano ? m From Factory direct and all # m Intermediate Profits saved A I j ' ? They have sold Piano* i- the Boatb MM ^ | ? lH7u and are atill at it. 4 ' ? They don't set old-fogytah ar tired, bat *) C | ^ ways keep at the head ot the proceaaioa, ' _ j * They have lost opened Wholesale Head- ~ \ % quarters ana Warerooma la New York City, W ' i They manufacture the Lndden <Jfe Bate* fl C Piano and alio own ac interest in the great ^ Dlnthusltek Piano Factonr.wftU coiUlxJ V ? of nearly iu entire output. ^ ft They Supply Purchaser direct from m > m factory at Wholesale Price** Uui ? saving large intermediate profits. ^ 0 They will gave yon $50 to $100 on ? Plan* ? ^ They are yonr men. Write them, either al m 5 Savannah, New York,or any of UwirSooibera Branch Houses. % I UDDEN & BATES, ? L4 9i & 93 Fifth Ave., N. Y. E* Main House, - Savannah, Ga? J Branches?Ma.con, Columbns, Waycroea,Ga. | ^ Jacksonville, Kla.; Mobile, AU>;NewOrleanst ' Columbia, 8. 0.; Charlotte, Raleigh, N.O. ^ Advic9 to mothers. We tafce pie ware iQ cilllai? your atten tion to a remoJy so long needed ia cirrylug children safely throng tin critical stage of teething. It Is an Incalculable blessing to mother and child. If you are disturbed at night with a sick, fretrul, teething child, use Pitts' Carminative, It Will glVd mSLttLH IOIlOl, auu IDguiara lug bowels, and make teething safe ani e uy. It will cure Dysentery and Diarrtue*, Pitts Carminative is an Instant relief for colic of infants. It will promote dlgejtion, give tone and energy to the stomach and bowels. The sick, puny, suffering chill will soon become the fat and froliokiiig joy of the household, it is very pleasant to the taste and only cost 25 cents per bottle. Sold by druggists and by THE MURRAY DRUG 00 . Columbia, 8. 0. COTTON GINS. Complete ginning systems contracted fot with Thomas Elevator, Lint Kiue, Battery' Condenser, Self-packing Revolving Cox Steam Cylinder Presses and all improve- , meats for an up to date 18% ginnery. Buy no other until you get primus ou the Thomas. ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILW, CANE MILLS, KICK MILL*, U It 1ST MILLS Write for Prices. ~i~r r* Hi v. u JDtiaiiaiLij COLUMBIA, S. C._ ^ JOHN A WILLIS, MANIIF aCTIIKK,: Olf Tozer Engine^ 9 )aiated same as ue^, and complete, the i: ltir Price $300 (JAsh Her , Pried ;wo C*sh iler Price 300 Caali iler Price CasU *ler I'rted 280 CtH li ngine ana lionet- > u.;.. v??,u cl JJjiler tVi.'j 54:?J (Jtsli Horse Engine A Bjiler Priw 'JJDC&ib tboiouflbly overhauled ainl tMtoJ at tny possible for second baaii jo'w to l?j. Uoprespectfully, JOHN A. WILMS, Columbia, 6. (J. . ENGINES A XL) HOlLEKl. Write Mr ROMPTLY KXKCUrBD. ?