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rv^' r c The Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON\ aiiisicyii.i.i:. k. CAMPAIGN WARMTKG lTp7 IRBY CLAIMS TO H*VE DISCOVER*. D fcENVCR TILLMAN. Ethts Mat: 8 an On?lr;ntht IVTcLhurltsT?r!?f Dc ctrln?*- McLaarln Drfiiiitd Ull Tariff Pcattlon- CiitB )t Short. Between tbrco and 'cur hundred of the twenty seven lmrdred vo-ers in | Aiken Ccunty carre rut. today to; hear the St notorial candidates. The court he use was comfortably filled. The old timeeLthnsis^m wss missing. Messrs. Evar.s, Irby asd McLaurin u i_~ r? e&CLl ttpUKC iur au n?*ui it muir, o nw i when Mr. MavOeld's time came the! crowd was so weary ar d had scatterpd j so for dinner that be had the merry i ar.d good seiise to spe*k for or.Ij ten i minutes. ! F.X GOVERNOR EVANS Governor Evars said he re rit^edj that there was so small an audience. The issues that are now up have riot j been publicly discu?ced for years Mr. i McLauriD, he said, had by act repudi- j ated the true Democratic doctrine and j Elatform and was a Republican under j emccratic cloak. McLaurin's policy, he urged, would only eniicb the few and make the cost of things higher to the masses. McLaurin should j come out like others, he urged, as a ; protection Republican. Tor it was i wrong to serve as a Republican in Democratic liverv The Republicans, never gave the Democrats anything unless they sold out or gave ten for one. According to the papers. McLaurln is doing everything in Washington, and it would pay to ssk the > government to let the State have the' $30,000 and bring the others 1 ome. j He said he would sav nothing about j Governor Ellerbe's taking the endorsement of 40.000 voters over the few j weazly politicians. He never askfd j for the appointment. If S?cLaurin's policy is carried out it will erst the farmers 20 per cent, more on necessaries. He commented on a nfgro paper in Washington urging McLaurin's sp poiniment Decause 01 ins oeipng 10 defeat tbe "Jim crow'' bill. He then at length discussed the Pe- j ruvian aDd Egyptian cotton schedules j and urged that there could be no pes- j sible good in it to the farmers, except i to pay more for bis socks, and hnse j and clothes in which these cottons are used. Only 100.000 bales of long staple was raised in this country and three-fourths of that in Georgia, and the idea was to tax the masses to help a few sea island "negroes" and planters. To show that McLaurin was a protectionist he said McLaurin voted for a 300 percent, tax on wool against the 55 per cent, tax in the Wilson bill, as proposed in committee. As to Tillman's position, he did net think it the same as McLaurin's, but if it were Tillman was wrong and he would tell him so and vote sgainst bim. He spoke a long time on the cotton schedules and said it gave the North the very club it wanted with which to rob the South on the compensatory tax on baggiig and ties. It was like selling out for a mess of pottage, wiih the Southern masses eettine nothir.fr. The speech of Mr. Evans was full on the tariff issue. COLONEL IRBY. Colonel Irby said he first came to Aiken to see how the Reform move menl would take in this section and and after his visit told Tillman all was safe. He spoke of taking in new blood and that Mr. Henderson was the biggest catch since 1890. {Applause.) Said he wanted to talk as a Reformer, Democrat and farmer. Talking of his being the daddy of Evan3 he said when Tillman wanted Ellerbe for Governor, ha had told Evars he should be Governor, he made Tillman quitEllerbe and go in Evans and eltct him. He said he had always been opposed by "the clique" in Columbia. Majfield was tne child of Shell, and so an orphan; Duncan of thedtvil, and McLaurin of Gonzales. Jtie saia ine state misrepresented him and alleged that it was an injus tice and perversion to have said he favored factional siiife when he said he did not. (This is where the word not was printed to rerd now.) He said The State took advantage of him at times. As to his Dispensary views, he said he wanted the system given a fp.ir chance. It was far better than open barrooms. helped make the law and believed the system right yet. If there were &ny rottenness it should be remeditd and if any dishonesty il should be punished. He would not change either. He objected to features of the law, especially imprisonment in the Penitentiary for sale of liquor. The campaign had been forced on and a horrible schedule arran?ed by Col. Neal and others. Talking on, he said if Tillman had taken nis advice ne would nave nad a wooden man run against McLaurin He explained at length why he <^id dot mn last year and otber political acts, heretofore stated. He predicted that there would be a Republican and Democratic parly in ting State, and in time the suffrage plan would be cursed. Talking of tbe Reform movement, he said if it had not been for him Till man would still be selling butter in coperas brefches. The movement, he said, start* d in the defeat of Gen. Gary in 1850. If Gary had lived he would have been elected in 1882 and there would have been no occasion fur the movement that vindicated Gary's assassination. He found Tillman, proposed to him at Dan Tompkin's house to run for Governor aiid Tillman readily assented, and he was elected. He would only bare made the fight in the Democratic party. He said he would tell what kind cf a Democrat he was and that he was not the sort as the Governor of the State, who has sold cut the Reform party to the Gorzalt-s tariy. He theu went for the Governor's ecurse in reprimanding and dismissing priyatts and not reprimanding Gin. Watts. A reprimand was to abuse and cu-s out, Ellerbe's course was, he said, "harsh, undemocratic ard unwarraut ed." (Applause.) If the contract with Gonzales is carried out, he said, this great friend of the people is to run the State and in ten years every factory would have negro labor. Negro labor was already used in Charleston, and he understood was to be used in Colum j bin. He wss opposed to getliDp regrc I ta'-or i:? .-s this was gf itinfr tbf : ;:ir:s loo v cro Jabor, which was &V.U d to f:TT:l labor. VVhiio in ?he Se.'iafy he only Tisde : t'.vo spiMC^'-s as I"? saw no use for j He slwsys voted for bis peo ( :?'. jm d when Iim fought the suear u.ll'rTt:nlial he held the balance of I power ar.d could have gotten a fortiu.e for bis vote. When he voted for the people he fcot r.o creditor news-psper putts. H<* said he was sometimes afrai 1 to po about she bote's as som^ onemijjht ?et in trouble for suvinp things about ) is farmer-tike ap-jrwrnrci iUcLnui in ot't b- i<?bavc Ittec beaten wher. he wrote that eqwdunic Jef'er and he understood ihat McL-iurin a*id Gor zalfs thought of ruppin^ indepeni dent tickets agairstthe nominees for J the constitutional oonvenMi-n. Qeu. Builer had McLiunn's blacklist re ! movrd an^ he wanted to know what 1 Gen. Butler vks to ?et for this, and ' he wanted to know where McLaurin j then stood and who he now favors, [and if lie was for Til lie an Preelection, j as that was an issue and he wanted ; McLaurin isked how he stood as to i T.'lloiac. SENATOR MCLAURIN. ! Mr M"Laurin fisid if ho were such a ; remarkable mwr; ?s to Iv a Populist, Republican and Democrat, and could 1 arracoe so many deals ho would not think of running for Senator, but would aim higher This was the first j time lie had ever been sassed by a j corpse, he told in connection -withe I joke. I The talk about bisbeingina com! bir.ation was entirely 10 throw people iotf of the s>ceut of the combination | against bira. He conn pli men ted Trby's 1 political shrewdness. As to there being ! any combination against Uelver, be land Mr. W. I). Evans did as much as j anyone to elect Melver,- and as to : Irby's hurrahing about defeating i grand old men, he would remind him | that Irny defeated Wade Hampton, I who bad done much for the Slate. He j voted forlrby as a p^riy man, and his : only regret was that Irby did not use | his ability and brain to till the place ; as he bad hoped ha would. He said j Governor Evans had been unfair to him in attacking him in hisowu heme and trying to make capital out of his opposing the "jim crow" car bill. A majority of the Democrats defeated the bill, ar.d be opposed it because of certain features in it. His people knew how be stood and that there was nothing in this sort of talk. His people for generations were known in bis i section, and no one before ever tried [ to make bim appear as opposed to nnttT an/I wiiiic xt.it aiiu ?? vujv u. xa.v uwi? Mnvi j has always rented his laDds to white i tenants, although he cculd, no doubt, | get more from colored tenants, but he | was doing what he 1 bought light and what his prople before him had done. His every vote he contended was strictly on tne party platform, and he I has never been a protectionist. H.^ j thought it robbery to get more money j than the government wanted. He ! cited the following as an illustration of his position: Suppose the people [voted for a graded school system and i carried it, and he paid his taxes to support the system, would there be [ any sense in his keeping his children j away from the school because he did not believe in graded schools? So j with the tariff. There was a Republican House and Senate and President, ar.-d none of the Democrats made the bill cr bad much to say; but should they try to make it as much noa sec tional as possible, or not? Should they try to equalize the bill or not? The bill was goirg to pass; nothing could defeat it, and the question was whether to sit down and let it go as it was prepared and presented, or to try and get something out of it for his people by trying to get justice and equality. He wanted such things equalized. There was never proposed any increase in the price of eating rice, and the bill does not raise the price, but simply changed the clas?ifi cation so as to fax the rice the brewers have been using. As to the fallacy of the argument used against the cotton tax: Last year short .staple cotton vras brought to New Orlears from Mcxico, and more j will come udess there is a duty. Senator Bacon, aud not he, proposed this tax on cotton. He said he would keep up his fight for all time for free bagging and ties. As to his not sending out his first speech he sent out 30.000, as many as he could afford, and it wa* printed in nearly every p^per, and he stood by it. He was not a protectionist, as he s^id. but held that ihe people of South CaroUna had as many rights as any ron^orn :1 Utvri JL-A.U saying tbe people liBgered.ar.d loafed too long around Calhoun's grave, but it occurred to bin Evans likes to loaf around Ire grave he was put in last year. Ho said he and Tillman stood today were On) hour asdHayne stood. Hayne assisted ia fixing a duty on indigo, and held it was in strict conformity v-ith all of the principles of ihe bill. He and George D. Tillman also held very much the same ideas. As to voting for the high tariff on wool, that was in committee, and had nothing to do with the bill. It was a Gght between McMillan and Bailey, and he stood by Bailey, who, he said, some were trying to gee in a hole. The committee li*ei this, regardless of his vote, and it was a purely side fight. Evans did net srem to know how to get along without Tillmau's coat-tail. He thought hti ?vas on it, but now Tillman says nis views are identicul with bis own, and Evans is still hold irg on to the coat, but the man inside of it was gor e. The great objection to him has been mat ne wouJa not support everything seme people wanted. He would not have cared if some one had been put up against him aftt-r the "squedunk" letter. He wrote every void of it to Appelt apd had no rc-grets to (xpress for it. He said after the primary be would write Evans's epitaph, and it would read: Ilere lies a poor shole, Who grabbed at Beu's coat, To pull him in 1he boat, And missing bis ) old, Js left io the co'd. A le'.tfr of regret vas read from Mr. Dunca-J at his inability to be present at the meeting. BENAT. R MAT FIKLD. Mr. Mayfh Id said as everyone was tired he would speak foronh ten minutes. lie said most emphatically he was in no combination and was run ning on his own hook. He stood for true Democraticd< cttines at all times, and consequently did xiot believe Mr. McLaurin's position correct. Any plundering, no matter under what excuse, he held was wronj?. Any increase in prices was a species of rob i berv, and that was what Mr. McLaur! in's" views led to To leeisiate prices i was wroL?, and no or.e ttad a rifrbt to 'legislate favors. As to tho Mexiran s! roticu, it amounted to nothing. The i Liverpool ma;ket lixss tip prices. 1 As to 1ho Dispensary, it *vas a na j tional i^s'io As 10 the Latimer bill, j he opposed it. lie did not believe the i! State should go into the liquor busiijness There are many good features jabout the Dispensary law, but the | St.ite l>fcd no business in the business, i! He exolaincd his position as to giv|irjr tbc State prohibition -with lscal ..oihioi*, uiiuer proper rvsu juuui-'s ict i ifit: smle of lquor. , I Averged h Dreudfnl Crime. J Tlie Cincinnati Commercial Trijbune's specifl fton Florence, Ala., 'js;ijs: Near West Po;nt. Tenn , Tufsjdav afiernoon, Miss Rene Williams I was found brutally murdered in the ij woods near hcrho'me. Thursday af* Iternoon Antbouy Williams, her muririereraud ravish?r. was capi "ared near j Pruitton, a'd Thursday night exoiatf e i his crime in tths streets of West j Point iutLe presence of 500 people i! Williams was riddled with bullets and I his body burned t j athes. Before a shot wns fired the ne^ro was knocked down and slampcd to deaib. Then jtl.e crowd fell back, ar.d those who | had pistols fired volley after volley at [him. The crowd thengatherad wood, | and building a fire over bim, watched jthegbastly scene as the body of the j murderer was burned to ashes. For two days and nigh<s 500 men, armed and determined, had scoured the country for miles- Several times (posses were within shooting distance | of him, but he escaped. He was cap I turc-d within 16 miles of the sceue of ; his crime. A man named Clark, to I whom he applied for tobacco, held him | for the crowd. Williams was first itrr.cedto Iron City, where he traded :tbo young lady's belt to a negro wojmnn for a night's lodging. He was J later seen at Pruitton and several shots j wore fired All trace of him was loEt I until Thursday afternoon, when the j starcbers ciiine upon him three miles ifou;h of Pruition. He had been in | the wood* without food over two days Isrid running most of the time, so that J 1-? TUA nMAtnrl ftiiinlr. i IlC WKS t'AUUU&tCU* Il'O V/tUVTU \juiva ly took him back to the scene of his crime, tied him to the same tree to which he had tied his victim, and then pave him a torturing death. The mob was composed of most substantial men. The victim was shortly to have been married to a young man in Nashville. Her intended husband came down from Nashville Thursday, find was at West Point to meet the crowd of avengers and assist them. The young lady left her home early Tuesday morning to p:ck berries. When she did not return for dinner her frieuds went in search of her. She was found dead, and tied to a sapling with a strap around her neck. Oue of her eyes bad been gouged out, and in her tightiy clalcned hands were leaves and grass. All around the ground showed that a terrible struggle had taken place. When the negro was captured bis arms and face were terribly scratched and lorn. Society Shocked. Dr. C. E. Cadwalder, the bead of !OD.e ox irm.iaueipma s uiucai #uu luuoi exclusive families was married Thurs day afternoon in St. Paul's Episcopal Cnurck to Bridget Mary Ryan, his former house maid. The marriage caused quite o sensation in society circles in this city. The bride came to this country five years ago from Tipperary, Ireland, and three years later entered the doctor's employ as house maid. Tne doctor took more than an employer's interest in the fair Irish girl, and finally proposed marriige. Tae young lady accepted, and after vainly endeavoring to have the Roman Catho lie Church, of which she was a member, waive all restrictions, Miss Ryan gave up her religion and joined St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which the doctor is a vestryman. Dr. Cadwalder is a descendant of the famous John Cadwalder, the emi grant who arrived in America in 1695, a Cadwalder whose genealogy is replete with fame and ixslusiveness, whose treasured penealojjical sheepskiu, wblch contains the names of Lord and Lady E'skine, General John Cadwalder of Revolutionary fame, the Welsh Cadwalders, who fought against Salladin under Coeur D'Leon, Dr. Thomas Cadwalder, who with Fraoklin, founded libraries and was prominent in early Philadelphia. The old Cadwalder mansion at Fourth and Spruce streets is one of the most iuLertstinj.' houses in Philadelphia, from a social historic point of view. Oil paintings of the earlier Cadwalders, by Stuart end Pea.e, Dr. Thomas Cadwalder, in the revolutionary garb of apeneral, and lovely wo m^n of the family tree adorn the por?11~ "P.nyv f." UdU J. xuv v? bangs on the west wall. This o:cture, found in Madrid by Joseph Napleon shortly after he was proclaimed King of Spain by Bonapart has a worldwide reputation. Many other art pieces of bsser value adorn the walls. The bride comes of poor but respectable Irish parents. She is 21 years of age, while ber distinguished husband has passed 50. A Youthful Murderer. Ia Charlotte Wednesday afternoon John F. Austin, ten years old, stabbed George Kelly Caton, twelve years old, to the heart, killing him almost instantly. Monday ihere had been a lawn party, which the two boyf attended. A frerzer of ice cream disap peared, ?nd Austin was accused of ? - i TT- i n,;v. IHKllig I',. a.13 auiiujcu v/aiuu <ji informing on him, abd today, while hauling his small wagon, in v] kh was an ice pick, he called Caton across the street, and r.ccused him of telling on him. Caton said lhat Austin had confessed the theft to him. A brief quarrel ensued. Austin, with an oath, calling Caton a liar and plunging the ice pick into his heart. CaVon ran across the street to a friend, fell and expired. Youcg Austin was arrested and is in the Tombs. Killed In a Sham Kittle. A( o cIij.t, hiftlo nf flio rjnvprnnr's Guards at Raloijrh. N. C, Tuesday iiiyht, George N. Banks, a member of the Guards, who was taking part in the battle, was shot and almost instantly killed. It can not be ascertained who is responsible for the loaded cart; ridfce. It seems thai the cartridge* were examined very closely before bo ; given out by tbe captain and urstand second lieutenants, and owing to the difference in the weight of a loaded and blank cartridge it is hard to ?c , count for the accident. To lend ad ditional mjstery to the stray bullet, it is said no loadtd cartridges have been given out Dy the company for over two jears. CLEMSON COLLEGE. THE TRUSTEES MAKE ANSWER TO RECENT STRICTURES. Thn Cote'uslonn ot llm Ktato Hoard of tare and Causrs of Sickness. Concerning the report of the State Board of Health in rf-gard to the fever at C!emsf>n College, the Board of Trustees makis the following statement: ' The Board of Trustees of Clerrson College, mindful of the important trust in their charge, feel called on to make a statement for the information of the people of the State in regard to tli3 recent sickness at the coilege and iis causes. ' We have read the report of the State Board of Health, and have also had under considera i m the report of the college surgeon, Dr. Red/earn. In addition to the light thus thrown on the subject, we have made a personal examination of tbe college buildings and ihe surrounding grounds, atid we are n?t satisfied at all as to the nature of the fever which has prevailed or as to its cause. "We have great respect for the scientific ability and learning of the State Board of Health, but we are bound to question their conclusions, from tbe fact that eminent physicians in the neighboring counties have declared tbe fever at the college to be malarial and not typhoid in its na ture;and there is grave doubt whether mere than four cases of typhoid fever have been at the college this year. "Tbe cursory and imperfect examination made by the State Board of Health is shown by the fact that two palpable errors are made in their report. The dairy, waich they place under the ban as a probable cause of disease, was not built on a pond which Viq/1 Kcori filled in otirl iVipro i<? nr>t. n single privy on the "surrounding hills" above the dairv. The water from the only privy in th$ neighborhood reachcs the ravine btlow the dairy. Then the statement is made, three separate times, that the water closets should be outside the barracks snd not inside, and should be "de tached" from them. In fact, the wa terclosets were removed from the building more than two years ago,ana they are now detached, with an open current of air passing between, Tnev are reached by a latticed gallery fifteen feet long, and there is no possibility of sewer gas getting into the building. "But we are not disposed to crificise the State Board of Health, and will carry out all of their recommenda llUIi?> liiaii <trc pjaaiujc, auu nave xxkj stone unturned to al .ay all cauao of doubt as to the proper sanitation of the college buildings and grounds. "We have never had any trouble before, and we anticipate none in the future other than the usual climatic and unavoidable disease of the country. "The vacation will be changed, and instead of being in the winter will be in summer, the scholastic year begin ning hcreaftoronthe stcond Wednesday in September and dosing the second Thursday in June. "Every suggested oi* possible cause of fever will be removed and the building thoroughly disinfected and put in good order. "We do not hesitate to give assurances that the collego will be guarded against a rt'cuTence of the trouble, if it be possible." Chairman Tab-r KrpiKB. To the Editor of The Si.ate: In the latter part of Juue, the commixes of the State board of health vcere instructed to investigate the cause and type of fever at Cleruson, and to report the results to the gover nor. This was done and the report of the committee was published throughcut the State. The Register of the lOtn of July contains a statement by the trustees of ClermoD, in which tbey criticise the report of the committee, and while denying certain statements made by them, they atlirm additional ly, that the examination of (Jlemson by the committee bad been "very cursory and imperfect/' Against professional gentlemen, sent upon an imnnWont iniaoirkri hir hft liTO-nPst fillthnr ity of the Slate, these charges are grave, and cannot pass unchallenged. The committee wer? content to determine the type of the fever, and by request, to make whatever suggestions tney thought best. They blamed to one, even by insinuation, and were very glad to be tho means, if possible, of relieving the officials of Ulcmson of unpleasant embarrassment. It is to be greatly regretted therefore, that the trustees failed to appreciate the delicate position of the committee, and have forced them into print in selfdefence. Tha trustees claim that the "cursory and imperfccL examination made by the State board of health is shown by the fact that two palpable errors are made in their report. The U ? <-* V? nlonn j lift Kqn UO.ilJ VVJJ1UU hucj piav/u uuuva uuw as a probable cause of disease, was not built on a pond which had been filled in." In reply we beg to stute, upon authority, that the present site of the dairy had been a bathing pond made by the Calhouns and had been filled in with earth and then underdrained. Our informant even poiuted out where the dam stood. There could have been no motive for one deeply interested in the welfare of Clemson to have invented this statement, the truth of which we had neitheir incli-j nation, nor the right to question. In fact the statement is apparently confirmed by the character of the soil end its surroundings. funciiioo in fiivfhrr rlouol r>f fllir JLAl^ U U>31V.(.>3 I 1.1 lUlbUVl uvvijiw v i vv.. report, assert that there "is not a single privy on tli9 surroundirtf hills above the dairy." We were informed that the hills wrre often used for unsanitary purposes in placn of the water closets. This we found to be true. Oa the hill above, gnd to the north of the dairy, and at the foot of the hill within three or four feet of the spriog, we found abundant exorementitious matter. This condition of things was reallv worse than a privy on the hilltop. Oii the opposite hill, at the hotel, there w^re two privies?one c.', the stabU-, which was visited by my>.elf and Dr Reese, and the ott^r at the hotel, ex amined by Dr. Evans. Somewhat soulheas erly from the di.iry is a dwelliu?. whrre. we were informed, there was an additional privy. liut more than all these, a;:d however incredible, we lou-d a spring (orivy ?) located within tie dairy, 1U or 12 feet from Ibe milk and butter, and the room in which the privy was placed was filled with offensive gasses. Furthermore, from the ground without the building noxious gasses were escaping, cither from the pips of the Pr privy or from the sewer, which, strange to say, runs within two or 1 three feet of the dairy. pr We quote again from the trustee?, jy who claim that "the statement is made ' three separate times that the water Qf closets should be outside of the bar- ?e] racks, and not inside, and should be tb detached from them. In fact the wa- {,r ter closets were removed from the pa buildings more than two years ago." ^ By substituting "but" lor "and" as jg was intended, the sentence will be jg changed to a simple fclllrmatiDn thatjjg water closets should not be within the ig main buildings. The report of the i committee was hastily prepared and thi illegibly written, hence a number of jai typographical errors appear. The sec ond time the statement is made "that cu water closets should be detached from p0 dwellings," has reference plainly and pa unequivocally to private dwellings, eq and the third time the statement is cr) used to press the fact that water clos- cu ets should be detached from buildings. an There is, therefore, no ground for the 0j] trustees to assume that the committee failed to recognize that the water clos- ap ets were detached from the barracks by a latticed gallery 15 feet long. The m trustees might have visited Clemson pa for a game of "blind man's buff," but thi not so with the committee. th Hitherto the committee confined themselves to reporting the sanitary tw defects of Clemson. What shall they wj say of its management? Shall we nfl speak of the diet, pronounced inade ja] quale for students whose physical and mi mental powers are taxed by an ex- f0] hausiing curriculum and by the seve- scj rity of military discipline? That the ar( students are required, when the day's W( work is ended, to be shut up in their 1 rooms from an hour after sunset until re) bedtime, to swelter in a building little pa superior, in sanitary arrangements, to g0 the Libby prison in Richmond? Shall co we tell the public how the students th; have been crowded like criminals, p0 four in a room, barely large enough iQ] to afford breathing space for two? thi Sball we tell them that a deep ditch, c0 reeking with accumulated excreta, was nj( intentionally arrested in its flow and 1 subjected to the decomposing action aj( of intense solar heat, aud thai the stu- jQl dents were kept working in the low- f0 lands beside it, day by day, under the 1 beaming noonday sun?a menace to bo their lives? ge Shall we lell that the milch cows ie] were driven daily through this pois- pr oned water, of which they perhaps m] drank, and which must have splashed tic upon their udders?in either instance, sei enough to affect the miik injuriously. aii Shall we tell that the forest inter- 1 vening between this pestiferous ditch fe] and the barracks, the only protection ch for the students against the inrush of sc] poisonous tilluvia, was recklessly de- mi stroyed ? tn A n /I U n f am /\flR nirt 1 i fi nr? /\ f V? 1 d a 1 auu lut&b au v/muiai (.canucu, ui xiin uq own personal experience, that the bar racks 'ere invaded by a "horrible wj stench?" Su Just think of it 1 All this right un* Qf der our noses, at Clemson, which as- ch pires to be the brightest jewel in the pr educational crown of South Carolina, ha Speak not of typhoid fever at Clem- Juj son. It cannot and must not be! Bet 0f ter the horrible inscription over the im gates of hades than that of epidemic m. typhoid fever at Clemson 1 mi Guard the secret?and let fathers frj and mothers come, and after weary 1 days and nights of ceaseless vigils aDd b.?i with bleeding hearts, carry back to ha their homes their own dear dead. th; Slight we not write upon the walls pe of Clemson that the "Ossa" of igno- in rattcs is piled on the "Pelion" of im- or becility? Charles R. Tabar, M D., ab Chair. Com. State Board of Health, bu Fort Motte, July 13, 1897. ve TllJmtin a Bill Pm8?s, ^ The Tillman bill, "limiting the effect of regulations of commerce be- m, twe?n the States," passed the senate (je Thursday without opposition or 1 question. At' the first blush" it was stj thought the bill bad some remote con in nection with the dispensary law in ha S'>uth Carolina, but with this impres jDj sion removed there was no opposition vi< to the bill. Or.e senator, in explana- w tinn of the matter, said to The State: mi "The bill is meaningless, so far as it lo< applies to dispensary conditions in an South Carolina, and in its general ap- shi plication it is tantamount to a statu- ]U( t.ory declaration that the Bill of Rights Qc is a part of the Constitution of the \ United SLates. In the exercise of its ha police powers every S'a'e has the att power to control trie liquor traffic thj within the State, but there is nothing stt in the bill that remotely suggests that mj the existing dispensary law in South de Carolina is a police regulation. With ab the understanding that it has no pos- bu sible reference to local exigencies in c0 South Carolina, the bill was allowed to w? pass." ; Senator Tillman looks at it differently, and if private views bad been m< expressed in the senate the defeat of su the bill would have been certain, but pa apart from a marked personal triumph th< on the part of the senator, no impor tance whatever is attached to the passage of the bill. Immediately after the action of the senate Senator Till ha man saw Speaker Reed, and urged to1 the report of a rule that would bring ne the bill before the house. Mr. Reed 18 promised to look into the matter at vil once. wi In reply to Senator Irby's campaign da statement, that the passage of the Lati- be: mer bill wou d perpetuate the dispen- tm sary system in the State indefinitely, ipi Representative Latimer said: 4,The tifi bill simply leaves tbe deposition of all the liquor traflice question in the sai hands of the people, to revoke or perpeiunte it as they please by legislative in' action."?The 8tate. an lifi A Ort?t Flood. S?g The two larqe reservoirs in the Fish- sjg kill niouu'ains which supplied water Th to the towr.s of Malt>wan and Fish- C0) kill, N. Y., burjt their walls at 2 ho o'clock Wednesday morning, and the water lhat was released swept through the Duciiets valle", causing ruin and J deatb, Five bodies have been taken J*1 from Die wreckage left in the wake of the flood, and there are known to be ow two a.t?d probably three more lyincr r.9t b neuthtbe piled up debris, which is J ail that remaius of three houses. b<r' ot One Month to Live. 0 (>a the 15tb of March Tony Lylcs, an colored, committed ripe on the person up of a Miss Jai>o Willurd near Whit- eai mire's in Newberrj couaty. Lie was It captured, but subsequently escaped, vi\ but was recaptured aud has been con- blc fined at Newbery. Iii3 trial citne otT drt Thursday, the judgu apppointiae: R foi H. Welch to defei;d him, whicfi he pel did ably, but the verdict was guilty, rio Ly lea was sentenced to hang on the jut 2ULh of August. nei CLEMSON COLLEGE. iBid-nt Craighead'* Last Official Rtport. Tbe following is the final report of esident Craighead, whi has recent resigned the presidency of Clemson: To the Board of Trustee: Iq view my resignation which has been adered you, through the president of e board, I have thought it not amiss iefly to summarize the work of the st four vears. The enrollment has en as follows: 92-3 .749 94-5 563 95 6 414 96 7 .440 The enrollment of students duriug e first two years was abnormally rge by reason of the fact that many idents came here out of mere riosity and being without fixed purse soon left. Again, few of the dertments at that time were adequately uipped, the barracks at times overDwaed, four cadets frequently oc pying the same room, professors d students unacquainted with each tier and thus, it is probable, that idents seriously inclined left disjointed. At any rate the average iendance during the first tv70 years is scarcely greater than during the sttwo. During the year just closed, e average attendance has been about ree hundred, all the rooms of the rracks occupied most of the time, o boys to the room. The cadets io now come here have for the most rt serious purpose and the popurity of the institution rests upon a uch more solid basis than ever here. Clemson is still the largest tool of the kind in the South. We e far better prepared for thorough )rk than ever before, rhe mechanical department is alady as well equipped as similar dertments in the oldest and best uthern agricultural and mechanical lieges. There is reason to believe at the department may be made the lytechnic school of the South, givg not only practical instruction in e mechanic arts, but excellent urses in civil, electrical and mec'aacal engineering. The department of chemistry has all Dng been admirably conducted. Few stitutions offer belter opportunities r the study of chemistry. The departments of horticulture, tany, veterinary science, dairying, ology and mineralogy offer excelat oDnortunities for instruction both acticai and theoretic*1. The ac idoic department, including mathema :s, English and history offers ccur3 as extensive as can he in the time lowed. The agricultural department has sufred Irom frequent changes. The air of agriculture iu a Southern tiool is hard to fill. It calls for a an who possesses not only scientific lining, but practical knowledge o' e details of the farm, ability to ich, and the power to inspire others th a love of agricultural pursuits, ich a man was the late Prof. Mcje, but his untimely death left the air of agriculture vacant. The esent incumbent, Dr. W. J. Q lic'c, s suffered from serious illness durg the past session and thus the work the department has been greatly ipeded. Hence for reasons beyond y control this department has not st the reasonable expectations of its ends. The preparatory department has en and still is a necessity here, I ve all along been of the opinion at only the most successful and ex rienced teachers should be employed the training school. Bright young aduates may, as tutors, render valule assistance to college professors, t the fitting school demands the ry best teaching talent. Che library contains several volumes d is dally opened to cadets. I submit herewith the financial state?nts of the professors in the saveral partments. The work of holding farmers intutes has b?en constantly growing magnitude and interest. Institutes ve already Deen neiu hi vae ionuwv places: Greers, Gaffney, Fairaw, Johnston, McOoll, Seneca. and innsboro. Engagements have been ide for holding institutes in the folding counties at an early day: Orgeburg, Darlingfccn, Marion, Keraw, "iork, Chester, Barnwell, Sa3a, Newberry, Lexington, Union, lleton, Anderson, Abbeville. Tns work of the session just closed s been most successful. The average endanceof students has been better in ever before. Tne health of the idents until tbe recant outbreak of ilarial fever has been excellent. The portment of cadets has been admir le. None ha ye been expelled and t few dismissed. The faculty is mposed of able, energetic men and >rk harmoniously together, tn conclusion it affords me great jasure to thank most sincerely the ;mbers of the board who have pported me so loyally during the st four years and wish for Clemson 3 largest possible succtss. A White Fiend* A. most horrible and disgusting crime s come to light in Glassy Mountain unship, Greenville County. Wed8day Greel Chandler, a white mi>n, j ears old, was carried to Greenlle and lodged in j4.il. He is charged + 1-1 QCOQ1,ltinrr th? 1 VirAP-TPflr nlfi ughter of Petfr Sudduth, the crime ing committed within a short disice of where the father was plow*. A cumber of witnesses have tested, including two physicians, and agree that the child had been asalted, and the child's testimony pins 3 crime on Chandler. There was ense excitement in the mountains, d Mrs. Sudduth probably save! the e of the accused, as her husband >rted with his gun to kill him on ;ht, but was dissuaded ny his wife. 1 18 prisoner was brought through the f jntry to escape lvnc^ers, who were t on his trail ?Register^ ' Uroke ll?-r Pledge. Emma Simmonds, of Loncbn, tho feci an engine litter, cut the throat of r four youiijr children ai>d then her a Wednesday dhe. Sitntnonds urntd home about 1 o'clock Thursy niorniog, and as he entered his Jrcom hestumpltd over tha bod es two of his children. Turning in rror toward the bid he saw his wife I d two other children sitiiug bolt < right, their throats cut from ear to i though life wao njt then txtincu is not possible that eitu^r wiil sur- > re. The loom w<is besf altered with >od, and it was e vi ieni tiiat thechil i ;n, who wera lying on the Hour. ight desperately lor life, it up ira that Mrs. rfimmoad.?, after a pe d abstiiiauce, broke l.er plt-dge en )ilea day, and had been diiukii.g ivily ever since. il J ENFORCING THE LAW. 1 THE STATE'S POSITION RE3ARDINC THE LIQUOR TRAFEIC. Every Liwfal Mcar.s Will bo ItMOrted * to Suppress th?j Original Package Ejtab Uehments The Dispensary BaslneM. An original package store in Flor ence was raided and the contents con fiscated Tuesday by the constables This was the second closure of th< kind since Judea Sitnonton's decision and indicates a determination on th< part of the State to: close up thea places on the least violation of tne la* as laid down^by Judge Simonton. In tbis particular cise it appears that th< dealer was closed up on a mere tech niflality. He was regularly an agenl of a foreign firm, but it appears that his half piut measures were not halt Dints according to the dispensary mea' surement: and be was arrested. He was selling in what he called hall pints, but because they were not up to the usual dispensary measurement the dealer was arrested for violating: the law. From this it is seen that the State is going to take advantage of every possible loophole and makp it as troublesome as possible to every original package dealer. The Governor stated Tuesday that he would certainly order seized all liquors found in any place where the original package had been broken,and by original package he said he meant the box or other covering in which the bottles came. Ha said that he certainly aid not intend that liquor should be brought into the State and sold unless in original packages and by that term he means that a certain quantity in a bottle cannot be taken out of a pac*cage and sold. In other words the Governor holds that each Iiaham wnef Kq oliinnnH intA UvilliJr UL ll^UUl U1UOU vw uu&^/j/vu VMW the State separately in order to constitute an original package. He goes further than that and says that if bottles are shipped by the car load packed in saw dust or paper or any other packing that it must be sold that way else the original package is broken. If this idea is carried out then the original package people ara not going to have any picnic and the dispensary will have little serious opposition. Thus it will be seen that every possible technicality will be taken aavan* tajre of by the State in order to uphold the monopoly of the business. It is even held that the order of Judge Simonton in the case of Moore is only a temporary injunction, that being all that was askeu for in the complaint and that, therefore, the State has an other chance or having the wnoie thin? reopened before Judge Simonton with the consequent delay which alwajs attends the settlement of any. case. It is likely that such a point will be taken advantage of for it woula be a foolish waste of time anc money, but like a drowning man ev ery straw is being grabbed at by the State. While the original package establishments are sure to decrease the profits of the dispensary, yet the figures show that the decrease has not been so serious as yet, and taking them a* a criterion the dispensary officials are inclined to believe that the business is not to be seriously interfered with. For instanc3 it is pointed out that the business has not only not decreased since tne first decision of Judge Sim* onion, oui.nas auiuaiiy utcu grcawu. Taking the month of June the showing is that for the month in 1697, 7,1)34 crates of liquor were shipped out as against t>,685 ror the same month in 1896, being a difference in favor of the present month of 349 cases. In the matter of beer the shipments were 333 and 353, a difference in favor of the month for this year of 20 barrels. Taking the first eleven days oft He present month the showing is a shipment of 3 601 cases of liquor for 1896, as against 3,664 for the same period in 1897, being an increase of sixty three cases. For the eleven days of the month in 1896 the beer sales were 202 bariels as against 218 for the same time in 1897, an increase of sixteen vaiigio These figures are taken by the officials to be evidence of the fact that the original package business is not g'>ing to seriously hurt the dispensary. The comparison for the year 1897 is for a period when the constables were enjoined, and when in Charleston particularly, the original package stores were in active operation Taking this as a criterion the officials are of the opinion that tne dispensary will be able to hold its own. Upcn tue&e figures they base the opinion that the decision is not going to materially injure ttie dispensary. However the evident intention of the State to take advantage of every point, no matter how technical and far reaching it may ba, shows that the State does not welcome the competition and that it will do all it can to break it up. ?Kegister. Closed Up. After four days' business the original package bouse of James E. Payne, of Greenville, S. C., was closed Thursday by dispensary constables. Payne represents James M. Pfeiffer& Co, of Cincinnati. The constables have been working on this case since the opening of the store, trying to catch Payne on a technicality, going so far as to meas* ... /< i-ul? Ure ms DCIl.'VS. V^ULisiauic uuiuw registered from Newberry and took charge of the C3s^. Ia his effort to convict Payne he bought liquor and attempted to drink on tho premises, bui v/as noticed by tbe proprietor and ordered to leave the establishment. Tue specific charge against Payne is that iie violated tbe original package decision by selling liquor otherwise than in the cise in which it was shipped. Payne and his partner, Juuks Williams, were arrested and cave bonds in the sum of $200 each tor appearance at a preliminary exaniin*it;>u. The Pfeiffer tirm propose o fight the case in the United States Court. Pvtih had some intimation j '1 ?? Via kll 1 Ir j[ IUG riiu ii'JU I'CIUVVCU iuo uuia VA bis sleek before ihe raid of theconstaftles. A Accidenc. A spccialto ?ne Sute from Pied-, nont, 3. C., sajs thai B E BrookKtire, a rock m^yn it that place, was iilled Tuea ay ttuerno-jn. The deleased vva? at wene on the shoals below "h., di a a ad 111 running back to scape a sudden 11 > v of water he ran 1/ai st a ptta o< r.yjK, loasemug suuia ibdoii'- woi^a.Ui nearly a toa fell ju >>i hin.piuui.ig him to the ground. Sis <.o:o jJHOions wt-ut at ouce to hia e^cu- u::d iu a very short time he was rfie.Hscd aad carried to his home, ll'.'dioal assis'.a ice was at oncesum ioa^d bu", was 0/ no avail, as he ^.vMtiifid nis last in ltss than an hour,?, __^J