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GOOD FOR A GOLPITE. EDWARD ATKINSON SPEAKS TO SOUTHERN EDITORS. The Ranking Laws?Admits tlielr Iniquity and Suggests their Reconstruction?Silverltew Present CJrici-anccH. Richmond, Nov. IS.?The Southern Associated Press met in annual session at the Jefforson hotel, this city, this morning, transacted considerable routine business and re elected the old offers Mr. M. Glennaan of the Nor folk Virginian was added to the executive committee. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, who was in the city, addressed the meeting at some length and among: other things said: "I need make no excuse for being here. I came here for rest, but when I find myself beforethe Southern Press association Ihere is a word wliich must be said. I have _ my "finger on the centre of the nerve of the southland whence the influence may come that may make or mar the mighty future of this nation. I know not what all your views may have ? *X"1- tt/VII T llQTTA Viplfl A oeen; wim sumo ui jwu * u?..v ? somewhat bitter contest in the late war; others have been with me?'let the dead past bury its dead.' At the beginning of the financial reconstruction of this nation on you falls a stern responsibility. "Several years since the president of the largest bank in came to my office. He put to me this question: 'What will be the end of the purchase of silver bullion under the Sherman act?'to which I replied: 'A financial panic such as this country has never seen and a paralysis of industry such as we have never witnessed.' 44 'When will that happen?' To which I replied: 'No man can fix the date; when the doubt passes through ^ the land of the ability of the treasury of the United States to maintain the payment of all its obligations of the lawful unit of value?a dollar made VI U1U. UO UVWU bUio {/ivpuvvT mmm went away preparing: like myself for the future. That crisis has come and from that paralysis we are now emerging?the verdict of Ihe nation has been rendered. I impute no wrongful motives to those of your section who hav3 sustained the acts which have brought on this contest. It is ended; 'let the dead past bury its dead.' May we not join together hand to band in the efforts to restore conditions under which all may make progress to prosperity alike? Years ago I thought that I had found in the re strictions upon banking the cause of the danger which -we have just sur mounted. In our section of the country we _ have more banking capital than we can use. In your sectien and in the far west it is lacking. Your people are distrustful of banks and bankers, not knowing or believing in the service which banks render to the community, yet subject yourselves to the worst and most costly system, because you have no other. Your people depend upon traders at the four corners, taking advances from them at excessive rates of interest, put yourself upon obligations to sell their producls to them at as much as they may fix and paying to them double price for all their supplies. People cannot prosper under these conditions and the restrictions of the present bank act, suitable for the period of war, and, perhaps, justifiable, preventing that mutual service which banks ana bankers might render to your community. "It has been difficult for the men of the north and east to comprehend the real grievance under which you have suffered while tfcey deplore yaur mis taken effort in tne recent election to < bring bad money not only upon yourselves?but upon us?money which required a force bill or act of legal tender to make it circulate at all. "We now ask you to formulate your J needs, to state your case and to join ! with us in such a reconstruction of the banking system of the country as shall make this nation a unit, knowing no ' sectional wrong to prejudice, each : serving the other according to its abil- J ity and its needs. There are many , methods by which this can be done. , The adjustment is a matter of detail. Are we such incapable people that, j possessing the greatest resources of the ( world, we are smothered in our own j grease because we cannot organize a | system by which we can serve each other? ( "The lawful unit of value, surviving centuries of struggle throughout the J world is now the unit of commerce, to which this and every other country , must adjust it own conditions, or else . suffer loss. Shall not our unit of value, the stand of our commerce, be the equal of any in the world? Then, as I said, *Iet the dead past bury its dead.' Let us join hands. The solid south is broken, even color line is broken. It is the most hopeful period that I have witnessed since the civil war. Iiight- \ minded men may now lay away their prejudice with the struggle that has just ended. Find out wherein we may reconstruct the financial system of the country and then join together, and by the force of the united public opinion bring about the removal of the artificial construction to our mutual benefit. Of all the issues which must come , to the front in the immediate future, I ! believe that the reconstruction of the banking system is the most important. Had that been undertaken when it became so manifest to the few as it did a j few years since, we should have had < no silver craze, or we might have been ; saved the disaster and panic of recent : years. "Upon you rests the great responsibility. As you may mould public opinion of your section through your press association, so may be the welfare or the ill fare of the nation in the immediate future. But let us remember we differ, and that, struck through the shoulder by the sparks that are elioited, the light of truth is extended. Whatever might have been our errors in tfie past we may now work heartily for the honor, the integrity and the welfare of our common country. I thank you for the opportunity which you have given me, and leaving you now I would again try to get a little rest when I betake myself to the sea p in going home from Norfolk." The members of the association 1 spent the afternoon visiting the points 1 or interest in tne city, and they were < entertained at the Westmoreland club. 1 Tomorrow they will take a trip to Old I Point and dine at the Chamberlin ho- I mjft tel. The local members are making it |?8| pleasant for the visitors. Used Poison. ] HHkk St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 19.?Rev. J. i C. Hull, the preacher on trial charged < with attempting to poison his wife, i NK this afternoon pleaded guilty and was i sentenced to the State prison for six ; |||K years. GOLD BUG PROSPERITY. A Sample of WlmtWo May Expect Under Its Rule. New York, Nov. 17.?It was announced in the tanestry mills of the Alexander Smith & Son Carpet Company in Yonkers tonight thas one-half of (he force employed in the mills would be laid oJF Friday and the remainder by "Wednesday of next week, and th it the concern would shut down until January or later. It was also nnnounced that probably the other mills of this company would do likewise within the next two weeks. If this occurs, about 7,000 hands will be thrown out of employment. The cause given is that there is no marketJSt&rcarpet and that the comaaa^Tad on hand manufactured stock far in advance of^arfty^robaKTe demand. The "nt~? i r, 1 in nammarifin(y ati i>v'f? iorii wuuiuai m tvuiMivu?iUri w? the above says: Hardly had the employes of the A. SmithSons1 Carpet Company, of Yonkers, N. Y., had a chance to rejoice over the restoration of the 30 per cent, reduction, which was made in their wages previous to election, than they are confronted by the statement that the mills would close down, to renew work possibly, but not positively, by January 1, This is a severe blow to theworlrin? people, who were given to understand that by the restoration of that reduction they were to taste the sweets of the so-called "good market," brought about by the election of McKinley and Hobart. The announcement was made in what is known as the "tapestry mills," situated on Palisade avenue, yesterday, and it was immediately circulated throughout the entire city, creating much gossip and condemnation. This mill employs about 2.500 hands, -who are naid on an aver age of $1.25 a day. A large number of these employes are men with families relying upon the mills as their only support. Beginning Friday evening, when the hands are paid off, one-half will be thrown out of em ployment, and by Wednesday night of next week the looms will have ceased to operate. Not only does this apply to the tapestry mills, but, it was learned, on good authority, that all the Smith factories in Yonkers will cease operations within two weeks, thus leaving no less than 7,000 people without any source of revenue. Harold Brown, treasurer of the company, refuses to be interviewed on the matter, but it is generally known that the company has kept its looms at work with practically no market for its goods. The Smith carpet is sold extensively in the West, where banks ? milra Inane pr?n in fhft mftst iOiUOt/ bU AJL1UUV AVHUU ?%/ VMV . reliable until business has revived in that section. The Smith Carpet Company is easily the largest carpet manufacturing concern in the world. It turns out between 40,000 and 50,000 yards of carpet a day and has a pay roll amounting to nearly $60,000 a week. The weavers receive between $1.20 and $1.40, which is the highest pav of any of the laboring class of employes. The company is at present carrying a tremendous stcck. The businessmen and merchants are much disturbed over the pending depression of business. Ilryan Will Lecture. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 17.?It has been definitely arranged that William J. Brvan is to take the lecture platform and his first address will be delivered at Atlanta, Ga., early in December. His route as far as it has been arranged will be, after leaving Atlanta, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Augusta, Birmingham and New Orleans. After leaving the latter city, Mr. Bryan will go through Texas, then on to California and Oreeon and will not reach the cities of the East before the latter part of February, 1S97. The man behind the enterprise isV-E. McBeeof Norfolk, Va., the superintendent of the Seaboard Air Line. On election night Mr. McBee, who had been a hard worker for the Bryan ticket, wired jo this city offering Mr. Bryan a very large amount for a series of lectures in case the election should turn against him. No attention was paid to the matter at the time by Mr. Bryan, but after the defeat of the Democratic ticket had been formally acknowledged by the Democratic leaders, Mr. McBee once more renewed his offers, negotiations were begun and the result has been that Mr. Bryan has signed contracts for a series 3f lectures under the management of Alexander Comstock, who is the representative and associate of Mr. McBee in the enterprise. The terms of the agreement from a financial standpoint have not been made public, but it is reliably understood that the remuneration which Mr. Bryan is to receive is to exceed the salary he would have received as President of the United States In the event of his election to that office. Arrangements are alreadv under wav to have the delivery of Mr. Bryan's first lecture in Atlanta made the occasion of a great demonstration, which will be in the nature of a monster reception. The lectures to be delivered by Mr. Bryan will be oon-partisan in their character and will for the most part be upon governmental and social. topics, as it is expressly stipulated in the contract that the tour shall have no political aspect or color. No XegtoeH Wanted There. Paducah, Ivy., Nov. 17.?Four negroes were seriously wounded and five others sprinkled with buck shot last night by a mob of white men at Altoo- j na, fifteen miles from here, on the Tennessee River, Fifteen negroes were engaged in cutting timber for the Standard Oil Company. They had been ordered to leave, being told that no negro was allowed to stop there. John Keeber, . the foreman, decided that there was no danger of violence, and the negroes were sitting around an old smoke house, when a mob of Sftv men swooped down upon them ind began firing. Some of the negroes ran into the woods and others sought refuge in the house with the foreman, rhe mob then started to burn the house, but the foreman sued for peace mdthe negroes were given twenty;ive minutes in which to leave. The seriously wounded are: Smith, forenan; Mitchell Clark, John Boyd and ?ena Jenkins. They were brought to ihis city. No effort has been made to ipprehend the mob. Not a negro can be found for miles around Altoona :o-day. Several men havejbeen killed by mobs in this neighborhood before^ Fatal Fire Damp. Berlin, Nov. 19.?An explosion of [ire-damp which has occurred in a colliery at Kecklingheusen, Westphalia, caused the death of a large number of miners. A score of bodies have been Lancu jiuui tut; muiu. r my miners are still missing ar.d arn thought to bave perished. ELECTING THE PRESIDENT. FORMALITIES TO BE OBSERVED IN CANVASSING THE VOTE. Meflftongora Got Good Pay?Three Sets of ltfHlirUH 1TIHUU?IT IIHl nuuiu ? McKJnley was to Die IloforeDecember 2. Washington, Nov. 18.?How many people are there in California and Oregon who would be willing to take atrip across the country for $800? That is what the electoral messengers from those States will receive for -bringing the votes for William McKinley to Washington. The electors chosen in the different States will meet on the first Wednesday in December, according to the law, in the place provided by the Legislature of each State. In every case this is the Stite Capitol. At this meeting the electors will give their votes for McKinlev or Bryan?no other of the candidates having received enough votes in any State to enti tie them to consideration. The result of the vote will then be made out in triplicate. One copy will be sent to the President of the Senate by mail; one copy will be sent to him by mes senger, and oce copy will be delivered to the judge of the district in which the electors assemble. To these copies will be annexed lists of the electors prepared by the Executive of each State, according to the official returns. The reason for taking three copies of the vote of the electors is the possibility that one or two may go astray, and the precaution has been found wise in more than one instance. At the time of Mr. Harrison's election it was necessary to send to the District Judge to obtain the vote of one of the States, the messenger having gone astray somewhere and the vote by mail having been lost in transit. The messengers have one month in which to reach the Capitol. If they have not arrived by the first Wendesam/1 i t f Ua n ncfnl >?o_ utijf ill uaiiuarj', auu 11 mo uotm aw turn has not been received by that time, the President of the Senate sends a special messenger to get the returns from the District Judge. For performing the service of carrying the returns safely to Washington the messengers are allowed by law 25 cents for each mile "of the estimated distance by the most usual road." The distance from Annapolis is short and the messenger of Maryland will not be overpaid for his labor, but the distance from San Francisco, by way of Omaha and Chicago, is 3,227 miles, and the California messenger therefore will receive more than $800 for his journey. The distance from Portland, Oregon, is 3,310 miles,and the messenger from Oregon will receive about $20 more than the messenger from California. The messenger from Minnesota will receive pay for only 1,254 miies,or about $300. He can perform the service in three or four days at the most; so you will see he is not ill-paid. The messenger from Illinois will receive more than $200. When these messengers reach Wash incton they will call on the President of the Senate and deliver the returns to him in person. If one of them arrives on a day when the Vice President is not at the Capitol he will have to wait. If the Vice President is presiding over the Senate when the messenger arrives he will be called out. The Vice President will receive each of the .returns sealed, and will give a receipt for it. Then he will placa the envelope, still sealed, in a little iron safe which stands in ono corner of the Vice President's room. It has stood there for a great many years and is not a very modern safe; but there is no inducement for anyone to break into it. If the original returns should be stolen it would be easy enough to obtain the duplicates. There is a reverse side to the joyful occupation of electoral messenger. The messenger who fails to perform the duty for which he lias been chosen and does not deliver the vote entrusted to him "shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars," according to the statute. He is not to pay a fine in a sum "not to exceed one thousand dol lars;" but it is imperative he be fined the whole amount. There is a provis'on to protect the messengers m case the Vice President should be absent from Washington. In that event the messeneer may deliver the vote to the Secretary of State who will give a receipt for it. A great many persons no doubt are puzzled to know what would happen if Major McKinley should die before the electoral vote was cast, on the first Wednesday in December. That Happened in the case of Horace Greeley in 1872. He died before the electors met and all of those who had been chosen on his ticket, with the exception of three from Georgia, voted for whomsoever they pleased. The three cast their votes for Mr. Greeley, but when the votes were canvassed by Congress it was determined not to count the three votes for Mr. Greeley. If Ma jor McKinley should die it is quite likely the votes of the electors would be cast for Mr. Hobart, but it is possible that they would be scattered, and in that way the election would be thrown into the House ef Representatives. In such a case there is no knowing who would be President. The House and Senate will canvass the votes of the electors on the first Wednesday in February. The Senate will go over to the House of Representatives in a body, headed by Vice Presdent Stevenson and Secretary Cox, followed by Chief Page Stewart, over whose shoulders will be hung by a strap two wooden boxes containing the precious votes. The members of the House will rise as the Senators enter two and two. The Vice President will mount the rostrum and take a seat at the right of Speaker Reed. The two tellers for the Senate, (Mr. Hale and Mr. Blackburn officiated four years ago,) will sit al the desk below, and below them will sit the two House tellers. The Vice President will then take the envelopes handed to him by Stewart in their alphabetical order. In the first count the States were taken according to geographical * * * Jii ir..? 1 a. location, oegmmng wnn maine, dui since 1376 they have been taken alphabetically. Each certificate as it is taken from the envelope he will hand to the tellers and they will read them in ! turn, the Senate tellers reading the i first two and the House tellers the : next two. The vote of Alabama will be read in full and then unanimous 1 consent will be asked and granted that . the remaining certificates be summa- ] rized. A double tally of the votes ! will be kept. That will be a compara- < tively simple matter this time, because ' it is known now what the vote of each < i H .< ' -j. 'deft JT-. State will be, and even if some consti tutional objection was raised to thi counting of the vote of one of th States, it would not involve enoug] votes to affect the result of the election When the votes have been couatei and the results have been announce! for each candidate the Vice Presiden will announce that William McKir ley, of Ohio, having received a majoi ity of all the votes cast for Presidenl has been elected President of the Unil ed States, and that Garret A. Hobari of New Jersey, naving received a ms jority of the votes cast for Vice Pres: dent, is elected Vice Piesident of th of the United States. He will thei adjourn the joint session of the Hous and Senate, and the Senators wil return to their own hall or Senat chamber. If, after the canvassing c the electoral vote, the President-elec should die before the day fixed for hi inauguration, the Vice-Presiden would become President. EASTERLIN ACQUITTED. The State Failed to Fstabllah the Corpn Delicti. CHARLESTON, b. U*, JNOV. IB.?Jttiiec trician Wm. H. Easterlin was ar raigned in the Court of Sessions Tues day morning for the murder of hi child on September 2ist. This sensa tional cause drew a large and interest ed throng to the court room, Jwhicl held their places throughout the day It will be remembered that on the 23r< of September Mr. Easterlin was ar rested on the charge of having mur dered the new-born infant which wa found dead with a stone tied aroun< her neck in Bennett's Mill Pond. Oi the night of the 21st of September Easterlies paramour, a young womai with respectable connections, gav< birth to an infant, which was believec to have disappeared. On the after noon of September 22, the day after a child was found dead in the mil pond. Easterlin was arrested on th< charge of murder and the three-folc problem which the state now has t< solve is to identify the body as that o Easterlies cmid; to prove mat it wai born alive and was done to death bj violence, and to show that Easterlii is the party that did the deed. It ma^ be said here that there seems to be lit tie doubt in the minds of many tha the body of the infant found In th< mill pond is identical with the illegiti mate offspring that was born to Eas terlin and his paramour oa the nighi of the 21st of September. The princi pal question remaining to be solvec tafpre the tribunal of public opinion all seems to have arrived at its verdic in advance, is as to whether the fathei was the murderer alone, or at all, anc as to whether the women in the case a mother and daughter, are not alsc principals. Several supposed strong circumstances are mentioned as point ing to their complicity, at least, m th< crime. The defense, too, seems to b< adopting this line in laying the foun dation of their case, of shifting th< motive ana metnoa 01 ine crime u. other than Easterlin's shoulders. The trial terminated this morning in the verdict "not guilty," which wai read on the opening of court at 1( o'clock, the jury having reached theii conclusion in the wee sma' hours o the morning and having transmitlec it written and sealed to the Judge The verdict was generally anticipated It was evident to the least expert tha the State had failed to make out it case. It was one purely of circum stantial evidence, and the one, impor tant and indispensable link in the cir cumstantial chain was not only want ing but was strangely, if not purpose ly, overloooked by both sides in th< case?that is to say, the corpus delicti the identification of the body of the in fant found with that of Easterlin'j child. While all the circumstance) seemed to point to the identity of th< two, no stress was laid upon this point and even when the grandmother ir her testimony stated that after deliv ering the child to Easterlin she die not see it any more until the occasioi upon which she saw it in the hospital it was noticeable that neither side un dertook to draw her out as to hov she identified the mutilated ant lish eaten cadaver with that of the in fant in question. The failure to establish the corpui delicti absolutely, in a case of pircum stantial evidence?where the accusec had not been actually seen to commi the deed?would alone seem to be i prima facie confession of weakness But the truth seems to be, that th< Coroner's inquest was perfunctorj merely, as these too often are, ant the proper legal precautions for iden tifymg the remains were not fully ob served. The swaddling clothes of th< child as found seem to have beer buried with it. In addition to the fact that then was no positive evidence to connec Easterlin with the destruction of thi infant that was found, there was n< testimony beyond that of the two wo men concerned to show that he hat been the instrument for carry ins away the infant that had disappeared and as all through their testimon} the women evidenced a stronger mo tive for keeping the matter secret ant of getting rid of the encumberanc< without exposure than Easterlincoulc reasonably have entertained, a fata suspicion was necessarily cast upoi their story. The circumstance which bore strong est against their testimony was thai they admitted not having made anf preparation for keeping the child ir the way of clothing. The prisoner who has grown much thinner since bis incarceration, and who has al. through the trial shown a degree o! nervousness natural to the occasion, and to the fact that there was muct prejudice against him, which was nol altogether owing to the belief in his homicidal guilt, heard his acquita] with composure and, together with his brother and son, who have stood I*-* /VM/Iaa] Knovrlo/l o uy mux uunug ljuc ui ugai, wu?iv?w? ? street car for the home to which ht has been a stranger since Septembei 23.?llegister. As Popular as Ever. Spkinqfikld, Mo., Nov. 17.?Hon. William J Bryan and his distinguished party of hunters from St. Louis arrived here this morning. The train was met by an enthusiastic crowd, including many railroad shop men, and before the party could make its way up town Mr. Bryan was compelled to make a ' 1 ?? 4/v 4Via /la. snort speeuu m reapuuso iu mo ?? mauds of the shop men. The party were finally escorted to the hotel by the crowd, which cheered the Nebraskan's name at every step. From the hotel balcony Mr.-Bryan made another short speech. The party left for OhadwicK, where they will be conveyed to the game preserves in Taney Oounty. ilHiS fiSSli WRECK AND RUIN, e g Terrible Hardships Caused by Floods and tl ~ Storms In Washington. i Seattle, Nov. 18.?Residents of 3 Seattle and vicinity, who by reason t of the flood?i and snow have been virl tually prisoners in the fastnesses of - the Cascade mountains since Friday ;f last, are coming in, some on gravel 1 rains, some afoot and others bv boat ;t Tbey tell harrowing tales of suffering, i- devastation and destruction. The i- situation as described iD these dise patches from day to day has not been a exagerated in the least, if indeed the e fierceness and fury of the storm has 1 been fully portrayed. There has been a human suffering and no iloubt vnany ,f miners and prospectors in the Casit cades have been either drowned or s have met death from snow slides, t Four prospectors, headed by Jos. Nicholson, operating a claim on the Snoqualime pass, arrived this afternoon. One of the men is a raving maniac by reason of the suffering and g hardships endured in their efforts to get out of the mountains. Saturday night to prevent being swept down . the mountains by snow sliaes they ' lashed themselves to trees, where they remained in the drenching rain for i- six or eight hours. Meanwhile great s boulders of earth and huge sections of snow kept sliding down into the can - yons and gulches below. Trees were i torn up by the roots and carried away by the avalanche and the noise was * indescribably horrifying. At day' break on Sunday the prospectors tore 1 iU? 1 l a.:. away iuo laouiu^a auu uct^au biicnr s perilous journey out of the moun1 tains. They followed Gold Creek to 1 Lake Keechsler, tramping through ? snow four and five feet deep, crossing 1 small streams on logs; finally finding ? their way to the point where the * Northern Pacific crosses the Cascades * and thence proceeded down the raili road track to this city. 1 Two Seattle business men were ? caught at Index Thursday. They were ' three days walking 35 miles to Snohoj mish, crossing small streams by means of driftwood and the larger ones in 3 row boats. They report that the 7 Great Northern westbound overland 1 passenger train with 41 passengers, r due here last Friday morning, is stalled between Wellington and Madison, t owing to great washout on both sides. * When last heard from 12 first class passengers on the train were supplied ; with half rations from the dining car, 1 while the day coach and second class : passengers, including 24 Chinese, ' managed to procure scant food sup ? plies from Wellington. The gentle 1 men giving this information say there [ are 10 washouts on the Great North' em between Index and Sultan, a dis? tance of four miles; that the upper ) falls of the Skihomish river two bridg' es are gone, together with 1,200 feet of " track. ; When the flood was at its height, i the Great Northern line between Mon' roe and Skihomish, a distance of sev i en miles, was inundated to a depth of > from 6 to 15 feet. Today's advices, however, are to the effect that the ' waters of all rivers have receeded ex => cept at Snohomish. in tne nats ana 3 bottoms, water covered thousands of r acres of rich farm land, leaving nothj ing but wreck and ruin behind. The ' Great Northern is making no attempt to run trains, save on the coast line north of Stanwood. Large forces of men are now at work on the coast 3 and main line, but there is little pros" pect of early resumption of trafic. On * Sunday three minutes after theNorth* ern PaciGc passenger train from Port' land had passed Ainslee half a mile ' of track and roadbed near that place 3 slid into the Cowlitz river. The east> ern mails due here Saturday and Sun day were received today, but there 5 has been none from San Francisco and 3 the south since Saturday night. The 3 Northern Pacific by transferring is > now running overland trains east from 1 Tacoma and is also making steamer : connections from this city to Port* land. i They Stick to Bryan. - New York, Nov. 20.?The O'Brien j Democracy has made public a series ] of resolutions it adopted, of which the - following are a Dart. Resolved, That the Young Democu racy of the city of NewYork reaffirm - their support of the national platform 1 of the Democratic party, and pledge t themselves anew to the support of i that party and to the principles on . which the Presidential campaign was 3 conducted. j Resolved, That we recognize in Wil1 liam J. Bryan a statesman worthy of . the best days of the Democratic party, - fitted to lead patriotic men in this cri3 sis, and we offer him our renewed and i continued support. Resolved, That the traitorous action 3 ~of men who have heretofore claimed t to be Democrats, and in the last cam3 paign were supporters of either Mcj Kinley or Palmer, was in violation of . every principle of honesty and Demo1 cratic loyalty. r Resolved, That the use of large sums 't of money by the trusts, syndicates, j corporations and individuals to cor rupt voters at the late election, and 1 the system of coercion employed to * intimidate emDloves in the exercise of I the right to vote" as their conscience 1 might dictate, was criminally base and i unworthy of American citizenship. Resolved, That in our opinion David - B. Hill, William F. Sheehan, Roswell t P. Flower, William C. Whitney, Perr ry Belmont, Thomas F. Gilroy, Hush l J. Grant, Jacob A. Cantor, John R. , Fellows, W. Bourke Cockran, Fredj eric R. Coudert and William R. I Grace have forfeited all claim to be f hereafter recognized as Democrats. , Resolved, That we congratulate the l Democratic party on the fact that the I official existence of Grover Cleavland i will terminate on the 4th of March [ next. | Asoaaalnatcd by Negroes. Wadlky, Nov. JG.?The particulars rxf n ViAwMiklo rvMir/lay of TTflfln rPflPllflH J KJL a JUlUllXUiV UtUiUWA MV MWMW . here yesterday. Joe Smith, a young white man in the employ of Captain T. J. James, on Saturday night, at about 8 o'clock, locked the commissary door and had just turned away [ from the door when the top part of [ his head was shot away. The report ; of the gun brought men, but they could do nothing for the dying mau. i He did not speak aftei* he was shot, and died in a few minutes. A posse with i boodhounds immediately began the search for the murderers. Finally the dogs came to a negro house and two negro men jumbed out of a win- i dow and lied, but were captured. They i were identified as Tony Spikes and his son Bill. It seems that young Smitli had a quarrel with one of the negroes Saturday morning, hence the OnrtiiVi TITOO cfoaHT7 on 1U1UIC. JLUUUg tJlUUIl TYaJ ing and popular. j wit.. X He Skipped. Winston, N. C.,Nov. 19?Mr. J. B. Buxton, a prominent lawyer of Wilkesboro, is missing. He disappeared from home a few days ago and some very unpleasant developments have since been made. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, charging him with forgery and embezzlement, signing the certificates of the county court clerk and register upon a mortgage deed by which he obtained money from A L. Richardson of New York. It la Said That of all the diseases that affect mankind, diseases of the kidneys are the most dangerous and fatal. If this be so, how important it is that the kidneys be kept in a healthy condi tion. The use of Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is the ''ounce of prevention" in these troubles. 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GOOD TOMATOES In 2 pound cans at ...8c a can...60c a dozen In 3 pound cans at ...6c a can...72c a dozen PURE LARD-BEST QUALITY. 50 pound cans per can 93,00 20 pound cans per can ? 1.25 10 pound cans per can 75 5 pound cans per can 40 3 pound cans per can 25 COMPOUND LARD. 50 pound cans per can f2.75 20 pound cans per can 1.15 ,10 pound cans per can 70 5 pound cans per can....* 36 1 3 pound cans per can 25 Good Rio Coffee 18c pound Best Rio Coffee 20c pound Higher grade Coffees at very reasonable prices. CANNED MEATS CHEAP. Corned Beef 1 pound cans 10c Corned Beef 2 pound cans 20c Roast Beef 1 pound cans lCc Roast Beef 2 pound cans ~ 18c [ Potted Ham, small cans, 5c can, 50c dozes Potted Ham, lar.?e cans, 103 can, f 1.00 doz. Potted Tongue, small, 5c can, 50c dozen Dried Beef, Armour's, 1 pound, 18c can, |2.00 dozen. Dried Beef, Armour's, X pound, 10c can, fl.20 dozen. Teas at 25' 50, 75 and 11.00 pound. Every style and variety. Wo make it to vour advantage to buy your Groceries of us* Try us. Get a copy of our Prices List. It is a handy and newsy little book,, WELCH & EASON, UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS, 185 and 187 Meeting and 117 Market Ste., CHARLESTON, S. C. Advice to Mothers. Wo take pleasure In calling you r atten Hon to a remedy so long needod In carrying children safely through the critical stage of teething. It is an Incalculable blessing to mother and c')l! I. If you are disturbed at night with a sick, fretful, teething child, use Pitts' Carminative, It will j^lve Instant relief, and regu! ite the bowels, and make teething safe an.- easy. It will cure Dysentery and Diarrtuea, Pitts Carminative is an Instant relief tor . colic of infants. It will promote <11* ?j.ti-->n, give tone and energy to tha stomach and i rm.Q ol/?lr nnnw Hnffflrini? child IA/WCUI iliO otvnj fwuj | ???? ? will soon become tbe fat and frolic king joy j of the household. It la very pleasant to the taste and only cost 25 centsiper bottle. 'Sold by druggists and 1 j* THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. O. Tfl Women an or IVi^n 1U lionuyu^/ui iiiuij? AN ALL-ROUND PRACTICAL PRINTER ami newspaper man desires change of residence, and wants steady situation at lair 1 wages. Refers to preseut employer. Address, J "COMPOSITOR," care Box 122, Orangeburg, S. C. WE " . WANT A PARTNER I IN . I EVERY I TOWN. -J Postmasters, Railroad Assents, Genera Store Keepers, Clerks, Ministers, or any other person, lady or gentleman, whQ can devote a little or all of their time to oar busl ess. We do not want any money in advance, and pxy large commission? to those who work for us. We have the bast Family Medicines on earth, and can pro* dace lots of testimonials from ok home people. Send for blank application and olcoalar. _v Address BRAZILIAN MEDICINE CO., . 844 Broa 1^17, Au*mU, Ua j | Down Go Prices j| ;; Clean to Bed Rock. ;( II . 4 ' ' i > A Revolution In the Piano and < ? Organ Trade. Old Prices bur- J | (>led.. New Fail Offers thatn < > Break the Record. o * 11 Elegant New Upright Piano, only $183 < > 11 Bost Pianos, Old Makers, only $237 . J | , Mirror Top Parlor Organ, 11 stops, $57 , , I > Superb Organ, Richest Case, only $63 i ? < > Sample bargains?Our Entire Line Reduced? < > ( Lowest Prices ever known ou Standard Instru- | > I > ments?Thousands of dollars saved Bayers. < i . I > Leaders ahvayp, wo s<,t the pace in Low Prices < i < > ?This Ad. means business, better answer it. < i ! I Send for New Special Offers, Fall 1896.!! a of UDDEN& BATES, I! \\ - Savannah, Off. 1 \ II All Sheet Music at Half Price. * 1 '1 Small Instruments at Wholesale Bates. ' I?\TaT TTT^T?Pri UiJLl U JU RICE .1 " ?:Vj3H r HULLER. ' Tbe only machine (hit In om lopentlon M . m win CLEAN, HULL AND POLISH rough rice, putting It in merchantable con* dltlon, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY to manage. Write for price* and terms. ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills, Planing Machines, and all binds of Wood-working Machinery. Talbott and Llddell Engines and Boilers jj on band at factory prices. ,V. O. Badham, General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. SEE . ;1 HERE. IS YOUR LIVER ALL RIG IT? Are your Kidneys in a healthy condition ? Kso, Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will keep tbeui so. If not, Hilton's Life for the L ver and Kidneys will make them so. A 25c bottle will convince you of this fact. Taken regularly after meals r 1i i~ tr> digestion, cures habitual constipation, and thus refreshes and clears both body and mind. J SOLD WHOLESAI. K BV " rh? Murray Drug Co nOT.TTMHTA. a. CI AND Dr. II. BAKU, Charleston, 8. O. ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, raprsT MILLS \J\ JLVJLKJ JL XTJLX.A-1 , AT ? FACTORY i PRICES. K, W. SCREVEN, ^COLUMBIA, S. C.