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The Press and Banner.
BY HUGH WILSON\
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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,?,
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