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' ' ? 1 -- - - ' v? . ^ iniillLOW 8. OABTEB, I A FajniJ Fctrepaper : For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural axd Commercial Interest*. J TEBMS: flJ>0 A Yca*. Karros Aifi> UiHAOU. > 9 ^ ji Pauhls m Abwwia. i ? ? ? - J , oh?,i WKhKLY. L a N C a ft I K K. S. c, J V I. Y ? 1 Mt);) KSTaHMS' hi) Ift-ri f.F.N RilTI.F.R SPF.AKS ONI sentiments were -not insnimrl k? I nun i n i i m m ? nnn I MCE PROBLEM. Negroes and Whites Cannot Dwell Together in Harmony. Favors Negro Colonization. Is an Fxpansionist to Extent of Holding on to What Was Acquired in .lust War. Special to The State. Gaffney, July (>.?A gentle ,rain Monday night prepared the way fur a day of enjoyment for the people of Cherokee. The absence of dust and u cool atmosphere added much to tho pleasure of the occasion. The presence of several distin finished visitors and the varied programme arranged by the Municipal League gave promise in anticipation of a treat. By 10 o'clock nearly 4,000 people had gathered on the beautiful grounds of Limestone park. Gen M C Butler, the warrior and statesman, was the last speaker. He prefaced his speech by alludiag to the fact that ho was * laboring under two unfortunate circumstances. Tho lirst was that it had l>een quite a while since he had indulged in oratory; tho second, that ho had to follow tho distinguished young orator who had just preceded him. He announced that his address might ho somewhat of a departure from tho usual order of stump speeches, and proclaimed that he was an expansionist. Ho said that tho people of In* country had confronted this question too ofton for it to have any terror for him. Ho explained that ho wan an ex pansionist in tho sense that our nation should hold every foot of land that had heon acquired in the prosecution of a just wur; that it was the destiny of our nation to go forward not lack ward; to advance and not to retreat. He declared that to relinquifdi what we had rightfully acquired would gain for us the Iohs of respect on the part of tho nations of the world. He then showed that greater dangers assailed us at our own doors?one of which was the race problem. This ho announced as his true subject, und with his characteristic force of stylb and energy of thought ho addressed himself to the discussion of the subject, and a practical solution of this vexing question. Ho showed th ?t the sin of slavery was a greater curse to the white people than to the negroes, and that he felt himself enfranchised when the negroes wore set free. Then by a comparison of the histories of other people and other races, he showed that it is impossible for tho two races to dwell together in peace and harmony in contact with each other and enjoying equal rights and privileges under one ffAvnrnn^nnt LI ^ * * 1 KV.V.UUIUUI,. I1U ItHVUIU'Od IIIO thoory that colonization, offected by firm and gradual moan a in the only practical solution of the question, and that we delude ourselves if we entertain any idea of harmonizing two race* no different in color, social standing, intelligence and moral characteristics. He qu< ted Abraham Lincoln, the negro's friend, to show that he, too, entertained the idea of purchasing some territory where the negroes might be sent to work out their own national destiny. He assured his audience that his 0<? - | 1 , r, , | % ^M*, ' . - - 4 ' ' I any animosity toward the negro race, lint by the conviction that it would he better for the negro and better for the white man for them ^ to dwell apart, and he gave further assurance that he would be delighted to see the negroes happily settled in a country that they ,\ might call their own. Gen llutler deeply convinced his hearers by the thoughtful and j masterful way in which he treated his subject. It is needless to say that the general may always feel at home among our people. e< Kx-Gov. Richardson Breathes 11 is <1 Last. t< The State, (>th inst. d Shortly before midnight last s< night a typical South Carolina I' gentleman of tho old school, a man of noble blood and loftiest u sentiment, a man who had served 11 his beloved State with rare devo- ; tion, a man who had been honored time and again by bis fellow citi-jv /.ens, u member of a family of|f< governors?John Peter Richard u son, e.\"Governor of tbe State ot t( Soutb Carolina, breatbed bis last, a< death coming quietly and almost '( without warning. Without otter 11 ing a word, Gov. Richardson c: passed away peacefully and to all d appearances painlessly. |u Ho died at bis suite of rooms at j the Hotel Jerome whore for sev v oral years he and his devoted wife ,\ hare been spending most of their j a time, so as to receive medical at-1 1 tention. u It was impossible this morning, r owing o the early hour, to ar- n range the details for tbe funeral, t. services. Tbis much has been ^ determined upon, however: that j f, the funeral services are to be held 0 in Trinity church in this city to- | p morrow at an hour yet to be fixed; v tbe remains will nt 4 p m be taken L| j to Camden if train tcbedulos per-ia mit; they will no interred in a family graveyard in that city nil- ,, mediately upon arrival, if possi- j, hie, no further services save those. c( ui the grave Ix'ing held. A Fatal Shooting on Excursion n Train. f< p ?l lccial to The State. nr Greenwood, July 5?The Char- 18 leston and Western Carolina rail way ran an excursion to Augusta I i , v . I* | yesicruay. un me return trip Dr. ?V D .Jennings of McCormick | * wus shot ami probably fatally H< 1 wounded by a negro. After be- I' ing wounded Dr Jennings drew vv his pistol and tired three shots at tl his assailant, killing bim almost <(, instantly. Dr Jennings is a young p j man and is a grand-son of Dr \V j D Jennings, a prominent citizen of Kdgetield county, who died * about two years ago. r< 311IJJDKS Ol-V K\ \ \V A V d It is certainly gratifyin to the | public to know of one concern in o: the land who are not afraid to be p generous to the needy and sutler- Vi j ing. The proprietors of Dr. |l King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ton million trial i bottles of this great medicine; and \\ i have the satisfaction of knowing n it has absolutely cured thousands I of hopeless eases. Asthma, Bron- j. chit is, Hoarseness and nil diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on ff Crawford Bros' Druggist, and get rr a free trial t>ottle, lingular size ^ 50c. and $1.00. Kvery bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. V!? .tCI tf!jfutii'c. j%, >i % HrAKALLLLEiU IrUSS BY FLOODS IN TEXAS, p 'he Suffering Area as Large1'" I tin as State of South Carolina, .<1,, i ha' lore Than a Hundred Lives Lost, lie Property Loss Estimated Any- he where Between $7,000,000 and $10,000,000. AWil- I M dorness of Water. Houston, Tex., duly r>. ? A ; On [irrospondent h:;s just returned rom 11 voyage through the llooct! istricts. The half has not been | >id of the havoc wrought. The j ? isaster is so appalling that <le- U? uiplion is not possible. After d'e: lis llood will come sickness un 1^' oubtedly, and what a week ago J An it* me lauosi part ot Texas, isjing o\v almost a (Sod forsaken wil- pan erness. Tko waters of the lira ! as have for six davs covered its Tlc alley a depth of from ! to MO!(le" jet; where a week ago there nea ere on every hand fields of cot- ,ml >n and corn and thousands of 80,1 cres of watermelons and cante- m,s >pcs, today there is slimy mud II over the vegetation and th?ib?l arcasses of cows, mules, pigs, | ogs and eats, mayhap human, for , lah lany are missing. j the Our party left Hryan at sunrise prn esterday morning, going to thejn,? iovelsoto bottoms and to a point I hout thicc miles from Millican. I n lere we encountered everywhere 'w< u overflow from the Navasoto Pr( iver, which spread out fully two ; liles ou either side of Ihc Hons-,nn< m and Texas Central track. everything is under water, mm two to IT feet. It looked M>1 n all sides like a great lake, and 'l :ie water was so high that for a I * 1 ast area it completely submerged le telegraph and telephone poles ISO long the liite. In truth, p<u- no^ ons of the Navasoto bottoms are ' ven now a perfect sea. extend-1 1,11 ig four or live miles wide at.0 ' srtain points. 1 I saw hundreds of houses there j tt8 itally submerged and as many 8 lore were swept from their I 101 tundation and destroyed. The lunters of the bottoms are btill IlM( loving their help and whatever j ? i left if their stock, to places p 10 here they can he cared for. J* 0 hev are all nohlv !? ? 1 ?i n ir nuoli ^ ^ ? J ?"l 't-, I ther and taking refuge wherever lev can, some of them seeking!1' 1 AI ifety on house tops. All the I ante is stated that the outside it . , , inti orl'l has no conception ot tho | ooiU or losses incurred by tho|SUS estruction of crops, stock and uildin<;s. Nearly every planter;(l" 1 IMH as I mi i 11 boats and sent them ;1 trough the Hooded districts lo jnder assistance to the people, nd if possible, save Koine of their rowuing stock. ... The flood district has a length N f over 500 miles, a breadth of \ rolmhly 50 miles, and in all this ust space damago incalculable! . . , ' ! nig us been done. . The loss of lifo will never be ... . . I W i illy known perhaps; the bottoms ere thickly settled, most I v with , ear egro tenant farmers; amoug ioso has been tlio greatest loss of , fo- j To show the damage done the ^ ^ illowing estimalos have been ia<lo by men who are in a posi* . 1 dec on to know: >. r Livea Lost from 100 to 300. inv Iioss to farmers, including ops as well hm live stock, from ha, 5,000,000 to |T5,000,000. < . t! % miniate to railroads and conn bridges, $2,000,O(j<> to ?4, 0. oiio. Tleuse estimates are taken i i whole area. !t is known tlui ire than t?o people have nit iir death; that many I iodic ire lieen recovered; it is not he ted that all of them will eve i ecovered. (HIT liLNDHLD L1YKS D SMKIors .1KOIWKDY. Ihsert Islands in the Inlam a, Without Food or Shelter. Hra/.os Shifts Channel. ^t. Louis, July 5. ? A specia The 1' ?st Dispatch from Dallas says; At 1:45 p m tochp puty Sheriff Swoarinjxen o stin county, made the follow statement otci the long dis ce telephone at Sealy: tkKe has not reached the flooi liins in this section. Thirteei id I todies have l>een recovers ir the town of lirookshire, 1 es from ...... ? - . . ... tivi v* A. \J I IJI - uvg |/UI is above Sealy are reportei *sing and given up for dead en were drowned today in it seven miles below Sealy. "About 400 persons arc iso cd oil a small piece of land i i Brazos bottoms, three mile in Brookshire, several hundre re uie surroundad at Sai illipe, three mills from Scaly iless relief can soon roach thes ;> places the 8b0 lives wi jbably be lost. Many will di it is, from hunger, exposur I exhaustion. "The water today is runnin ougli the town of Brookshire nothing never known before e (55 lives reported lost wer i radius of 20 miles north am ith of Sealy. We are complete^ lated at Sealy, but this town i in danger. We cannot esti te the situation beyond th its mentioned. The whole fuc the country here i-. a sea. Th' unci of the Brazos river hen shifted about three miles am water is 15 miles wide. Logs im.'*, lumber and railroad ma iul, merchandise, live steel I other floating objects make i rth the life of rescuers to go t< relief of th* endangered pco , most of whom are negroes o railroads aro destroyed foi es. An immense washout oc ed on the Santa Fe south u Z alv this morning. This cut our last strand of railroad com ideation. The Missouri, Kan and Texas, ttie Ciulf, Colora and S&nte Fe and the South Pacific are all completely stoy I. The weather is cloudy thi Br noon and more rain is feared UK FLOOD SPKKADING. iter Rising In Lower Brazos u 111 ber of Towns Threatened. Jalvoston, Tex., July 5.?To ;ht the flood condition in tli .cr Brazos valley at Brookshir* illis, Richmond, Rosenberg oinpson, Duke, Areola, Fulsl: , Cheango and Columbia, i y bad. Wallis reports that the Hraio 10 feet higher ftian in 188.i kwater within one and a quai miles of the town is 10 fee >p. The News will not attempt t o an estimate as to the cro nage, but believes the rain re <lone more good than harrr [>opB outside the flooded dii i Lui, turn .A j* > &o.i, u < J < m >' 'ft 1 ?y . ' ' ?- ? * I** i- ; triets are in fine condition. M"tio I j -waters recede rapidly and the 1 crops will not he i total loss in I n I the Hooded districts. Many local- 1 it itics will replant cotton and have j? t'tinio to make a crop. jt - moVKKNMKNT HELPING IN] r WORK OF R ESC UK. i Boats Patrolling Flooded Texas |( s I to Pick Up I>rowning People. Inhabited Houses Floating Away. (* 11 Galveston, Texas, duly 0.? i The flood reached the southern part of the State Sunday night and I j Monday. The planters had re-1. , ceived ample warning, hut many / i negroes remained in the Brazos ! . It fi valley, believing the water would i - not reach higher than in 18S5. j 1* roil) 1,.>00 to 2,000 colored | -1 people were caught in the yalley. 1' in Austin, Waller nnd Fort Bend ' l } n ! counties, and wore forced to take,* ilj to the trees and house tops. 1 Gov Savers, at the suggestion , 1 cP *; of Congressman Ilftwley, appealed | : to the war department to send : government life saving boats from . r? I I a. Galveston. Permission wasgrant* ( led, and a special train left this af- L ?- ternoon for the Hooded district I n carrying several government and J j s'a number of private boats. It isl d , believed that nearly all the people n lodged in trees and on house tops I . j have been rescued, but the boats o sent from Galveston today will III patrol the Hooded districts and el make a thorough search for stragel glers. The war department has authorglized Gov Suyers to distribute 10,i, 000 rations among the flooded i. sufferers, the rations to bo fure I nished the governor from San j _ :1 Antonio. 1 y At one point two houses were s seen coming down the stream. In -Jone of them was a man and twoj e women, and on another a woman,' e ; and live children were clinging I ' . . It e for life ami culling for help. One j 0 j of these was a line two story affair :' 1 and tfjo other was a smaller dwell, ing. They passed on with the,1 - foaming current and may have ' it c struck an obstruction and been j t smashed to pieces or found their j ' j way ii to the gulf. MOUK LIVES LOST. ! r . ? , .. i! - Negroes Drop t rom Free lops|l if I Where They Have Been llang* j( s ing. I - 5 I St. Louis, duly ?>.?A special; 1 to The Post-Dispatch from Dallas, ' - says: At 11 o'clock today a short ' i dispatch was received from a line* ' sj man at Dewey, just across the 1 . Brazos river from Sea'ey. It read: |' River falling slowly since 3 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Con- I ditions hero terrible. Kverything - I in country swept away. Largo! number lives lost in bottoms, i Looks like starvation for those - left. Situation not been exagcr-1 e1atcd. Several days !>eforo lino| I repairs be made with anything like system.'' i- Deputy Sheriff Swearingen at j is Sealy, telephoned at noon: ''There lis no improvement in this section h of the llood district. If anything, j ?, the situation is growing worse. No relief boats have yet reached it here from Houston or Galveston. Sealy and neighboring towns have o about exhausted their resources. p Another negro family was drownig ed near here today. Several other i. lives have been lost since last K night, especially among the refui * .Jt iocs on the mound near ol<l St. I'hillipe. A number of negroes lave fallen exhausted from tree :ops, after hanjjin*; there three laysand nights, an<I were drown;d" ^IFTH CHILD FOrNO IN THK kiv KK. Prunes Committed in (Charleston and No Clue Discovered. special to The State. (Charleston, July o. ? No arrests lave yet heen made in conneetion vith the finding of the white male >tT east Battery yesterday mortis n?r. The detectives arc it work on he case but it is announced at lolice headquarters that no clue o the parents or to the parties ivho drowned the child has been liscovered. As has been stated yesterday's find makes the tilth hild that has been found in the Jooper river and in no ease was lie mvstery cleared up. A singuar feature of the situation is that ill the babies were found in about he same place. In the lower part >f the city, near the Battery, Jharleston'* aristocracy reside, vhich makes the finding of the :>ahies all the more remarkable. Who l'a> s the Bill? Columbia correspondence of The News and Courier: There seems to be some hitch about the payment of the expenses of the Crawford trial in Kershaw county. After the trial the holders of certificates went to the treasurer r>f Kershaw and tried to get pay, but the money was not forthcoming, until some understanding rould be had with the Richland uithorities. The Richland board if commissioners have just gotten m opinion from their attorney, Mr Button, in which he states hat there is no law to compel the myinent of the claim, and that Itichland county cannot, nccordng to law, be forced to make the layineut. The equity and pineice has been for the county to my such expenses, but with that 10 had nothing to do and his view if this was not asked. This teems to tie a very curious condition of the laws of the state. In i recent case against Colleton ;ounty the supreme court ordered he ?ounty. which declined to pay ujch a hill, to meet the bill; hut die direct question as to the lia iliiy of the county was not dceid~ ad. In the Ike Kiuard case, in Iho Broxton Bridge cases and all recent cases, the hills have been * paid hy neighboring counties, no matter what the law might have been. ? A moonshiner was shot in the head and Constable Cox had his arm broken in endeavoring to capture a wagon and 80 gallons of whiskey near Pelzer Wednesday night. The liquor men got away with the wagon and whiskey. WOKKIXi NK.IIT AM) DA Y Tho busiest and mightest little thing ever was made is Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strongth, listlessnoss into energy, brain fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up tho healtl*. Only 25c. per box. Sold by Crawford Hro's. To Cnro Constipation Forever. Take Oaacareta Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25o. UC.C.C. tall t? aura, drugg lata refund ao??f. .'{M >**?.! I.; /? I v t jr?