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V VOL. XXIV. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 0, 1894. NO. 29. A BREEZY DAY. THE SENATE FRAUD COMMITTEE MAKES ITS REPORTHill Wag Anxious to Prevent Any Farther Inv<sllg&ttoxi cl the Sagar Trast Doings, but H:s Plans Miscarried. VP ?eTiTwflTnv \fav Hft?At OD6 TI AOiJLXl^VtX o'clock p. m.m the Sen ite yesterday, Gray rose and said that' he had been directed by the select committee appointed on the 17th of May, to make a partial report and he asked that it he read. Hill said that before makiDg any ob- j jection.be would like to know from the , Senator from Delaware what the pro gramme was. Gray replied that he had no programme other than indicated in the report. The committee had submitted a report which it considered as one of , the highest privileges, and he supposed , there was no question that the report , was in order at any time. It concerned the privileges of the Senate and he : asked that the report be read in order that the Senate might determine I whether it was a question of privilege , or not. Hill: In the light of the explanation of the Senator from Delaware, or j rather in the light of the explanation , whtah bo does not erive.I am compelled I at this time to object to the reception j of that report. . < Gray: I make the point of order that j a report concerning the privileges of , the Senate is one entitled to present j consideration and is not subject to cb- j jection. i Manderson coincided with the view expressed by Gray and argued that the , chair or the Senate could not determine whether it was a question of privilege ( unless the report was read. < The presiding officer (Faulkner) ex- , pressed the opinion that the Senator < from Nebraska was right. j The report was then read. It con- , sists of five printed pages, some of it , being quotations from that part of the < testimony where answers were refused, j A portion of the testimony was also j submitted to the Senate. It relates < that Elisha J. Edwards appeared before J the committee May 24th, and stated \ that he was a correspondent of the ( Philadelphia Press and wrote the letter signed "Holland,"relative to the doings ] ot the sugar trust and certain Senators. x It appears from this report that the specific questions Mr. Ed wards refused ( to answer were those asking him who s informed him of Mr. Carlisle's recent , visit to the committee on finance, when j he, as Mr. Edwards alleged, made ar appeal to the Democratic members in * February, that appeal being supposed j to have reference to a duty on sugar. { The committee states that it over- , ruled the objections of Judge Ditten- j hoeffer, Edward's counsel and insisted j upon an answer to the questions, j These questions sought to ascertain , the authority for the statement that , Carlisle slgnfied his willingness himaelt ( to prepare an amendment to the sugar < schedule, which he thought would be , fair to the government and yet just to f the sugar interests; who gave the in- j formation concerning the alleged in- j Ur views between ofiicers of the sugar . trust?Havemeyer, the Xew Torksur , *? ?- ^ ^ ? T) v-k/-? A gar rtiiiicr, ocuatui xjuw auu ccuaw Smith; who was his informant that on the day Voorhees denied any amendments were proposed to the bill as originally reported to the Senate, the list of 400 amendments as prepared by Senator Jones, was in the haucs of one of the members of the brokerage firm of Moore & Schley; that the draft of the sugar schedule as finally adopted was the result of a conference between Senator Caffery and representatives of the trust meetiDg in one room of the Capitol buildiDg, while the committee was in session in another. All of these .questions, the committee says, Edwards, acting upon the advice of his counsel, refused to answer. Referring to the testimony of John Sbriver. correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, the committee quote from Shriver's letter detailing what a prominent wire manufacturer was alleged to have ovtiheaid a: the Arlington Hotel in a talk between certain Senators and representatives of the sugar trust. Shriver said a member of CoDgress gave nim the information and the committee say that in response to the direct question, he deciined to ] give the came of either the Congress. , man or the wire manufacturer, to < whom he referred in his news dis- : patches. ] In conclusion the committee say: In i the opinion of the committee each I question put to these witnesses was a l proper question and pertinent to the question under inquiry before the com. ] mitiee ana was necessary to make the ( examination ordered by said resolution of the Senate, and that each of the said witnesses is in contempt of the Senate and merits to be dealt with for his mis- ' conduct, and that each of said witness- ' Ktt Viia Tjorinno rofnsals tfk anSffpr i 1 these questions as herein set forth has 1 violated the provisions of that eel-tain ] act of Congress in such cases made and 1 provided,beiDg chapter 7 of the revised ( statutes of the United States. The committee quotes in full sections 1 102.103 and 104 of the revised statutes, being the act of 1S57 as published in ; these dispatches of yesterday. The closing words of the report are 1 as follows: 1 "Wnerefore the committee request < that the president of the Senate certify J as to each witness his aforesaid failure ] to testify and his aforesaid refusals to ' - -- 11 * ^A/kf n KAKAI r~% f KQ J aDSWer ail lUC iauio uaciu, uuuci i.uc seal of the Senate to the United States District Attorney for the District olCo* ~ lumbia.to the end that each of said witnesses may be proceeded against in s mannea and form provided by law." There is no reference to the case of < Harry Walker, correspondent of the i iNew York Daily America. - s When the reading of the report was concluded, Hill took the floor and ar? 5 gued that the report did not present such a question of privilege as should , displace the pending bill. If the report had been on the part of the inquiry, 1 (the attempt to bribe the two Senators) it would have been a question of the ' highest privilege, but that report had ' been already made and disposed of. kA *-,or<* nf thn inquiry uo < _r> U L LUC UI vuw -Hu < to whether Senators had been specula* i ting in sugar stock?did not involve a i question or crime, although it might involve a question of impropriety. Harris interrupted Kill with a question of order and argued that the report presented no question for any ac- 1 tion by the Senate. There was no question for the Senate to vote upon,"and therefore no question for the senate to : debate. There was a statute which devolved a duty on the chair on the pre- 1 sentation of the report and the chair alone could act upon it. Hill?regardless of Harris's point of I order?went on with his own argument ; and was, after a while, again inter- i rupted by Harris, who asked the ruling of the chair on bis point of order. The Vice President, who had resumed < the chair, made the foliowm? ruliDg: ; "This is a privileged report, and it is not such a report as calls for any action on the part of the Senate. The only action called for by this report is - the action of the presiding officer. That is the decision of the chair. The question before the Senate is the amendment ?f the Senator of Kansas (Peffer) to the lumber schedule of the tariff bill." Hill appealed from the decision of the Vice President and argued that the Senate had a right to direct the presiding officer not to proceed further in the matter until after further action of the Senate. The statute in question was loosely and carelessly drawn. Hut the Senate had complete*]urisdiction of the latter until the last moment. The Seaate might see fit to direct that the certificate provided for in the statute should not be transmitted to the district attorney; and it had complete jurisdiction over the matter. He had no sort of interest, he said, personal or otherwise, in the investigation. It was proper enough that the Senate should investigate the charge of bribery; but the report on that question had been presented, and that portion of the work bad been substantially completed. He doubted the wisdom of the other proceeding. He doubted the propriety of endeavoring to hnd out whether newspaper men aiwa>s told the truth. If the Senate undertook that great work it would be kept busy until the end of time. Senators could speculate in su?ar stock or in silver or in any other kind of stock, and would violate no law in doing so. Why does the committee not call these Senators instead of persecuting these newspaper correspondents, wno do not pretend that they ; tiave any personal knowledge of the subject? Why seek out those correspondents and then invoke the power of this great government to make them tell the sources of their confidential information?when the very people about whom they speak are in the city of Washington and can be summoned and compelled to testify. The real question was not what these i correspondents said, but what were the exact facts. That was what the public wanted to know. And nobody objects . :o the committee finding it out, to its < oeart's content. If a newspaper man who had written something as to speculations in sugar was on the stand and - * * * -A- 3? 3 -T. ; 4 U A said mat ne wroie n iu guuu isuu &uu iad derived his information from conidential sources, why, Mr. Hill asked, should he be pressed on that point instead of* having the parties called I igainst whom the charge was present- : id ? "How are we to ascertain," asked Allen, "who they are, when the witaesses refuse to disclose their names or ffie sources.of their information ?" "Swear them all, if you have any < loubcabout it," Hill replied, with a i snap; and the galleries applauded, and t were rebuked by the presiding officer . ior such a breach of propriety. "So long as you have," Hill went on, 1 'entered upon this inquiry?foolishly, : n my judgment?it is your duty to ex- J iaust it and to go to the bottom. If . rou have seen fit to investigate mere < die newspaper charges, not founded on < iffidavits, not founded on personal knowledge, tnen carry it out, and do , lot simply take the newspaper men who strarted the inquiry. There i3 no j ibjection to sweariog every Senator 1 li-ftimrf the oirnle Tf anv ripw<?n?.nf?r 1 nan bad circulated a story which re- < lected on my honor and integrity as a i senator, and if the Senate had seen lit o enter on aD investigation of this sort < md if the newspaper man disclaimed i >a the stand, all personal knowledge of ( ;he matter, 1 should be the next wit ] less to be called. I do not think it was ] vise to have entered on to this branch i )f the inquiry, but the committee hav- ; ne entered upon it should follow it up i rwo of these "newspaper men are resiients of my State and represent news- < laptrs published in my State, and that j s one reason why I desire to present ; ;hese suggestions in their behalf. The < ither reason is, because I think that j :he Senate is treading on ground on which it ought not to tread. I think i hau no good will come of the investi- i ?ation in thus seeking to persecute i ;hese men. Thirdly, 1 deny the right if the presiding officer, without any ac- : don of this'body, to certify the facts i :o the district attorney of the District i md fourthly, I believe it i3 within the i control ui ius otuaits to say wiictuci Lhis prosecution or persecution shall go i *ny farther in that direction. I desire : Lo offer a resolution on this subject, < and I withdraw the appeal in regard to ; Dne part or the ruling of the chair." Harris objected to a part only of Hill's appeal being withdrawn and also < Lo the reception of Hill's resolution, ! but Hill continued to bold the floor and read the resolution which he desired to i offer: "That the questions asked and < refused to be answered are not pertioent fo the inquiry and that the presiding officer be requested not to certify Lhesame to the district attorney until further direction of the Senate." The resolution was not received, and Hill's apped from the decision of the jhair was laid on the table. Terrible Floods. / ! . - -?_? ? T i T V. ALLI i l A. 0 uue 1. 1U ClUUlLlUIi LU :he loss ot 200 lives by the bursting of i dam, formed by a landslip at Chaikiupri, Kulu, and the destruction of ife stock and dwellings which accompanied it, disastrous lbods have wrought much damage in North Cajhar. The Jetinga has overllowed its baDks and inundated an area of hundreds of miles. Whole villages have been destroyed in a number of sections of the fiood-visited country. The llood is pronounced to be the most severe in many years. Following the bursting of the dam atCharkkuprl the water swept onward like a forty-foot wall, sweeping israv apvpral -villages amonc them one tiaviDg eighty houses. The hooded district is in the PuDjuab, on the wes:ern >ide of the Himalayas. Mu-dercd by Brigands. Victoria, Mexico, June 1,?The authorities of this city have received word by courier of the murder by a baGd of brigands of Benito Hermandez and wife arid three children, Hermandez is * tailor, and lived for several years at Brownsville, Tex as. He and his family left Matamcros a few -ays ago to make in overland trip to Monterey on a yisit Lo relatives. They were crossing a low range of mountains the vicinity of the village of Colchast, when -the brigands surprised them, and afier killing all of ? i*???. IT ? U L ? J r f 4 V-t ?'* r\ fi*A/t r ft me iituuuy ruuucu iucui w iu?;i A few years ago a Mrs. Rita Meuehacoa and ber two daughters were murdered at the same spot. The bandits have their rendezvous in the mountains, but their capture is aimo&t certain. A Severe Storm. New Orleans, May 31.?A special to the Times-Democrat from Fort Worth Tex., says: A terriiic storm struck Hilisboro, Tex., at '1 o'clock this morniDg accompanied by torrents of rain and incessant lighting. The Episcopal Church was completely demolished, a? was also the house of John Morgan. The pump house at Lake Bark, was totally demolished and the grana stand at the fair grounds blown into the lake, thirty yards distant. Quite a number of dv;eliings were blown from their foundations and badly damaged. The destruction to the oats crop aud shade and fruit trees was very great. But very little damage was done-outside of the city. Mo fatalities have as yet been reported. Keports, however, are meagre as to the extent of the damage. 1 INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS. THE MEETING OF THESOUTHERN IMMIGRATION CONVENTION. Speeches of Welcome? Augusta as an Example?What Governor Tll'-man Hart to Say?latent on Baslcf s>8?The IJe'egate 8 all Hopefnl. Augusta, May 30.?The Southern Industrial Immigration Congress opened auspiciously in Augusta today. It was called to order at noon in the grand opera house by President Bryan of Nashville, who introduced Mayor J. II. Alexander of Augusta, who welcomed the coDgress on the part of the city. Mayor Alexander's speech wa3 full of interesting historical facts about Augusta. He said: "Augusta is the oldest inland city in the South Atlantic States, and was the second eatablished by Oglethorpe. This city, before the days of railroads, being the furtherest inland city with river navigation to the sea, south of Virginia, was the point of communication with the outer world of all that territory embraced in Northern Alabama, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, North Georgia and South Caro lina. Here all this vast section came in wagons to trade. "I have been told by old citizens, who saw with their own eyes, that in the fall and winter it was not uncommon to see our capacious Broad street so closely packed with wagons that one micrht step from one to another for a mile or moie. "This city is mentioned in contemporaneous history in 1740, five years after the settlement was planted, as already !in a state of great prosperity, well equipped for trade and conducting an extensive traffic throughout the vast and fruitful tributary country.' It was here that Eii Whitney conducted his experimental works and, in 1793, developed the cotton gin, one of the most famous industrial inventions of the world, wnich immediately revolutionized the agriculture of this section from tobacco and indigo to cotton as its staple crop. In 1791, the whole cotton crop of the South was tbirty-eight bales. In 1800,seven years after Whitney's gin apoeared,Georgia alone exported over 7,000 bales. "We have here the oldest public journal in the South, the Augusta Chronible, established in 1785 and published continuously since that time. We have the oldest incoporated educational instimtinn in tho Snnth t.nft "Riohmrrnd Academy, established by act of the Legislature of Georgia in 1783. We have the second oldest completed railroad in the country?the South Carolina road, running from Charleston to Augusta, and preceded only by the Uamden and Amboy railroad in New Jersey." Polio wing Mayor Alexander, Hon Joseph E. Lamar, president of the rouDg's Men's Business League of Augusta,which secured the convention for ibis city, welcomed the congress, and followed with more valuable facts concerning the Augusta of today. Taking nmplv the official census figures for 1890, he showed that Augusta had increased in the number of manufacturing establishments in the pa9t decade 333 per cent.; in capital employed 275 per cent., and in wages paid of 30 per per cent.; and that it had spent more money for public improvements than any other city in the South, and had toe lowest death rate in the South. Governor Northern welcomed the congress on the part of Georgia, and ?ave a glowing picture of her progress and thrift. He declared the readiness of Georgia to welcome industrious immigrants,who came to cast their lot here. Senator Patrick Walsh, whose home is here, welcomed the congress and extended them the privileges of the Commercial Club, of which he is president. He said the assembling of thirteen Southern States reminded him of that lirst convention of the thirteen original States to declare their independence. Tne present movement is to formulate plans by which this most favored section could enlarge Its citizenship and work out its material independence. He thought the occasion most auspicious and the outlook very bright for the success of the congress. Resnonses to the addresses of wel "" ? ? come were made by Governor MacCorkle of West Virginia, Governor Carrof North Carolina and Governor Tillman of South Carolina. Governor Till man declared it was well enough to invite people and capital from the outside, and" all that came would be welcome, but for every dollar of outside capital the Southern people must expend ten of their own, if they were in earnest about desiring to build up the South. The future of this section, he said, de pends on the eiforts of our own people, and what the Southern farmers need most is an immigration of ideas and intelligent agricultural methods Southern farmers would Dever prosper as long as they spent six months ia the year try iDg to kill the grass In their fields and the next six months in buying hay from Maine and Northern States. At. fhp mnplminn nf thft address nf welcome and the responses, President Bryan addressed the convention. He explained the need for immigration in the Southern States by contrasting the population per square mile of some of the States as follows: Massachusetts 287, Kentucky,which is the most densely populated of the Southern States,49; Rhode Island, 204; Texas, 8. He showed the material advance which has taken place in the South, and called attention to the fact that education al advantages were koepmg pace, the increase having been 100 per cent, in the past decade, in appropriations by Southern Slates for this purpose, last year being over 10,000. The total valno nf nroriprtu in thP SJinflh 810,000,000; number of teachers, 8-1000; white pupils, 2,250,000; negro pupils, 1.150 000; pupils in private schools, 300, 000; in parochial schools, 4?,000. He thought the time was ripe lor the immigration movement in the South aad believed that by patriotic and united efforts on the part of the intelligent men composing the congress some wise and practical piau would be adopted. At the afternoon session, permanent organization wa3 effected by the reelection of President M. T. Bryan, of Tennessee and Secret try B. T\ Elliott of Florida. It was decided that each State represented should vote according to its vote iQ the electoral college, and each territory have one vote. The credentials committee reported represented in the congress the following States aod Territories: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, lVDnessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Texas; together with the leading railroad systems or the .South. To a committee on resolutions will be referred, without debate, ali resolutions olfered. it is composed of four from the South at large and one from each State and territory. All details of organization and the order of business having been gotten through today, the congress will begin on its practical work tomorrow. Just what line of action will be taken no body seems yet to know. There appears yet to be no preconceived scheme to cerry out. Everybody seems to be at the point where he believes the time is ripe for a concerted movement in the interest of Southern immigration, and to believe that it is a good thing to undertake. But just how it is to'be done, is yet to be determined by the convention. Governor Tillman of South Carolina probably expressed the sentiments of the majority of the delegates present when he declared that he had no plan of his own, but had come to the convention to put his shoulder to any wheel that started in the right direction and to do all in his power to check any that he saw starting wrong. Ee has no pet scheme of his own, but is ready to cooperate earnestly in any that promises to accomplish the objects of the immigration movement. INJURED BY THE COLD. ?nv Ult'Kjy OUJIOIIII Ui bao ?? cqiuoi ?uu the Craps. Columbia, S. C., May 31 .?The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops about the State issued yesterday by Observer J. W. Bauer, of the State weather service. The weather was unusually cool during the past week, the variation below the normal temperature ranging from Ove degrees a day on the coast to seven in the interior and from eight to nine in the western part of the State. The nights were very cool. Light frosts were very general in central and western counties, on low lands, on the 20th and 21st and reported from one place on the 25:h. Ice formed in upper Greenville county, and Hog Back mountains were covered with snow on the morning of the 20th. The sunshine was also deficient, averaging -from 55 to 70 per cent, of the possible, for the whole State. The rainfall was also less than the usual amount and that that fell was very poorly distributed. No particular portion of the State was favored more than any other, but what heavy rain there was came in heavy showers that covered limited areas only, while adjacent townships had no rain or only sprinkles. In general the southeastern, extreme northeastern, the north central and extreme western counties had the greatpsi-. rainftiil Tn a. fpw nlar*es hail dam aged young crops seriously. High winds were prevalent and caused more or less damage in the early part of the week. The effect of those unfavorable weather conditions has been not only to check all apparent growth but in many instances to give crops a set back or to kill stands sufficiently to necessitate much replanting, especially of cotton. Before th6 cold weather set in cotton was looking far better than usual at this season of the year, but that condition has been materially changed for the worse, and at the end of the week there is a remarkable unanimity in the reports regarding the injury which was 1 caused by the cold weather. The plant is less injured in some localities than others, and less on upland soil than in ; bottom lands. It looks red aud sickly 1 everywhere. Ia places the fro3t killed 1 the tender plant outright; in other ' places the leaves only were touched. 6om? correspondents report that the plant is aued^ing its leaves leaving only the gree~ stalk standing. A few reports estimate the damage at 50 per cent, which is by tar too great for the whole State, and should their come a warm general rain within a few day3 much of the stand now thought to be 1 [destroyed would take on anew growth. 1 It is generally stated that the crcp was f Wrnrrrn V>o nlr frr\m fon t"A ftaCXT) H QX7Q AlVUl CV/U wv uiuvwu uw*js/> The week was favorable for plowing and chopping and the fields are report,- 1 ed quite clean. Much planting has already been done and much more will be done the coming week. Corn with- : stood the cool weather much better 1 than almost any other crop and is looking well, nut has made no apparent growth during the week. Bud worms continue to be destructive, also some ; cutworms. Melon, pea and sweet po- 1 tato vine3 suffered considerably from the frost and their condition deteria- 1 ted daring the week, except in favored localities. Gardens and truck farms : were also unfavorably affected. Oats harvest quite general and reports differ widely as to the condition of the crop, ranging from ver7 good to almost total failure. Tne former estimate of half a crop being a fair average of all 1 the statements. Wheat ripeninyrapidly and nearly every county reports varying conditions. The straw will be generally snort, neaas snort dui wen tilled and very plump. Grasses, ber ries and the little fruit left, show a slightly improved condition. Farmers will advance with their work. The need for rain is almost general over the State. The following places report one inch more of rainfall during the oast week: Looper, 1.26;Beaufort, 1.15; Port Royal, 2 51; Reid. 1.00; Heath Springs, 1.50; Greenwood, 1.22. John Morgan Hung. Greenville, S. C., June 1.?Many people came here to witness the hanging* of John P. Morgan today, but their morbid curiosity was not gratified. Sheriff Gilreath had arranged matters so that only the legal number of witnesses saw Morgan executed. Morgan murdered his father-in law, L. Washington Ilipp in Saluda Township, Greenville County, on June 18,1892. Morgan was accused or oemgtne ratner of a child born to a younger sister of his wife! lie shot Hipp in the back alter a violent quarrel on the subject. He was tried and convicted before Judge Aldrich in November, 1892. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court on the ground of after discovered evidence. That tribunal dismissed the appeal and Morgan was resentenced by Judge Witherspoon. All efforts to obtain a pardon or commutation from Governor Tillman were unavailing. Morgan was a staiwart, typical mountaineer. He met his death bravely. Life was extinct about ten minutes after Morgan dropped. He leaves a family of six children. His remains were taken to North Carolina.?Register. A Coopie'B Third Marriage. Columbus, May 28.?There was an unusual event in the study of Chaplin Winger, of the State prison, last eveninc. ft was a wpddini/ in whleh the groom was a convict with the greater part of a seven years' sentence yet to serve and the bride the daughter of one of Cincinnati's most prominent families. Twelve years ago B. F. Conrad came to Cincinnati from Minneapolis, where he had left a wife and two children. At Cincinnati he married Miss Emma Eberle. Ten years they lived together happily and three children were born to tnein. Theu the fact that he had another wife living befjino Irnnicn Tf uina ocrranri thnf linn. rad should get a divorce in Minnesota from his Orst wife, which he did, but on his way back fell in love with a Milwaukee giri and married her. He ugain married Miss Eberle but she learn ot ihe deception had him arrested for bigamy, for which ne is now serving his seutence. Last night she married Conrad for the third time, on the advice of her lawyer, in order to make her children legitimate. The Milwaukee wiie recently secured a divorce and therefore this marriage is legal. -w? OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. Unveiltngof the Monument la Memoiy ot their Valcr. Richmond. Va., May 30.?The exercises incident to the unveiliDer of the monument to Confederate soldiers and sailors began today with the cavalry reunion. Fitz Lwe, Wade Hampton, Governor OTerrell, the Rev. J. William Jones and Gen. Rosser made speeches. Gen. Rosser was bitter in his arraignment nf the ITnitpfl S'atps nerision system. The exercises of the day passed off without a hitch, notwithstanding the ] fact that quite a heavy rain feii during almost the whole time of the recditon of the programme at the monument. ] The jrarade of military commands and ] Confederate veterans was the Gnest , ever seen here, with the exception of that at the time of the unveiling of the 1 Lee monument. The column was an hour and a quarter passing a given < point. A noble feature of it wa3 a body of several hundred children dressed in , Confederate colors?red white and red. These headed the line. The number of veterans was as great : probably as at the Lee monumeDt un- \ veiling, and the presence in the ranks of Wade Hampton, Fltz Lee and other heroes of the "Lost Cause," was the ' occasion of enthusiastic cheering all al- ; ODg the line of march. The city was crowded with visitors from other : points in Virginia and Southern States, the number being conservatively estimated at 25,000. The Maryland delegation of veterans, headed by Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, was large and imposing. That from Washington citv was also consoicuous in the parade. A delegation from Charleston carried brancnes of palmetto in their haDds. North Carolina was represented by Adjutant General Came ron and several companies of State Guards, and South Carolina by several companies of State troops. The Virgina Volunteers made a remarkably fine showing. .Business was almost entirely suspended during the day, the banks, exchanges and State and municipal offices beiDg closed. Almost without exception, the houses on the line of march were profusely decorated with the Confederate and Virginia colors, so that the parade was through lanes of bunting. "Old Glorly" wa3 by no means absent, however, being often intertwined with other colors and ' flying from almost every flag staff. At the monument the progamme was carried out as arranged. Mr. D. C. Richardson, president of the Monumental Association, Oiled the pest of chairman with ability and modesty; there was a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hoge, Mr. A. C. Gordon read his poem, written for the occasion, and the Rev. ^ ? Ov T ? ,3 ^ liir. v^ave ui ou ij juis ujcu uiauc tuc address of the day. On the conclusion of the address, the veil was withdrawn by a little boy and a little girl, representing respectively the army and tbe navy and there was a salute by artillery and infantry, lasting some time and walking the echoes of the James as of yore. Toneight camp tires and secial reunions are the order, order, and the city is alive with the strains of music from military hands serenading here and there. Tried to Swindle. Charleston, S. C., May 30?An important and interesting case was tried in the United States circuit court at Charleston, S. C., Judge Brawley pre siding, on May iv, involving tne suppression, for the presen', at least, of a proposed forger, who also served a term in the penitentiary for forgery; and al so involving tne principle that the United States mails cannot be used for the purpos of fraud, evea If the prepetrator may not finally consummate his schemes and become the beneficiary of his fraud or proposed fraud. One F. A. Blackwood, writing over the ficticious signature of W. D. Morris, Sr., addressed the American Bank Note company, at New York, asking them to furnish him with a supply of Southern express money orders, lie alleged that hfs uncle was an agent of the Southern Express company, and had lost a lot of money orders, and they were ashamed to make loss known to Company and he wished to have prices quoted by the hundred, the object being to obtain a supply of olank money orders by this subterfuge. At the same time he was negotiating by mail with the Cole Printing company, ot Sanford, N. C., with a view to obtaining checks on sundry banks and letter heads with the name of C. L. Loop, general auditor, Sounthern Express company, printed thereon. The American Lank Note company promptly referred the correspondence received by them to General Auditor Loop, of the Southern Express company, who placed the matter in the hands of Route Agent A.M. Richardson, of the same company, at Columbia S. C., who succeded in locating the alleged W. D. Morris as one F. A. Blackwood. Blackwood was arrested upon a warrant sworn out by F. D. Peer, postoffice inspector, who rendered materal service in working up and prosecuting the case. Blackwood was taken before the United States commissioner in Charleston and committed for trial. The witnesses against Blakwood were T. H. Lee, of the American Bank Note company of New York; C. L. Looo, the A i <?f fhn vnrda J?CLlCitH (lUUil'-Zl \JL LUt company; the postmaster at Barnwell, S. C, ana others. The guilt of Blackwood was established so clearly that there could be no doubt whatever. Blackwood was prosecuted by Uaitei States Distric- Attorney Murphy and his able assistants, Messrs Wood and Hughes. A very forcible argument was made in the case by District Attorney Murphy. Blackwood was ably defended by 11. Withers Memtninger, of the Charleston bar. An able and elaborate charge was delived by Judge Brawley, in which the law of the case was carefully set forth, and the duty of the jury in the consideration of the evidence "and the applicability of the law carefully set forth. The jury, after retiring for a short time, returned a verdict of guilty. Blackwood was sentenced by Judge Brawley to imprisonment in the Columbu3, O., penitentiary Fony l'eopie Ir jured. Macon. Ga., May 30.?The rear coach oo the Albany and Columbus branch of the Southwestern Railroad, of Georgia, was overturned by a broken rail at Holts this morning and forty people were injured, two or three of whom will in all probability die. The train consisted of six coaches loaded with excursionists from Andersonville, to attend Decoration Day exercises at the National Cemetery. Those fatally injured are: John Smith of Biull'tou. Andy Johoes of K hsou, and Mrs. L'ttle of Hillton, Ga. None of the others are thought to be seriously injured. About 1,000 people were on trie tram, eacn coacn ot which was crowded almost to suffocation. The derailed coach rolled down a steep eaib*ukmcnt aud it is a miracle that many were not killed outright, as it contained over 100 people, many of whom were standing at the time ot the accident. Owing to the obscure locality of the wrrck. lull particulars cannot be gained until later. A. PROHIBITION APPEAL. MRS- CHAPIN WRITES TO GOVERNOR TILLMAN. Sayalhatthe B*r room Jftcmentls Again Tikloe Charge of Affilrs?The Law I Oaght to bs Eof jrc?d?Carolina's Men Alio Called On. 1 Columbia, S. C., May 30.?The Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1 has made an appeal to Governor Tillman 1 Lo do what he caD to aid in the enforce- i meot of the prohibition law and also ap- ( peals to the men of the Slate to do likewise. The appeal i3 as follows and ? 3peaks for itself: 1 Charleston, S. C., May 22. j "Governor TillmaD: , "The members of the Woman's Chris- < tian Temperance Union of Charleston , do mo3t earnestly entreat you not to re- ; iax vour efforts for the protection of our i homes and dear ones from the destruc- i Lion that now seems to threaten them in i the return to license and the restoration to power of the rum Sends. Newspa- j pers which a few months ago preached ' Prohibition so eloquently that many really believed they meant what they 1 preached are now advocating license, ( ''High license with restrictions" as 1 though the restrictions they propose have not been a dead letter on our statute books for years, scoffed at and defied by the lawless crowd which they propoee to restore to office. "South Carolina, the Palmetto Slate, in the liquor I traffic," has been a rallying cry for the anti-Dispensary ho3t, and and now, no sooner have the Dispensa- i rie3 been closed than these very people advocate forming a new p irtnership with 1 "The Palmetto State,' which they had taught us to believe they held so sacred, as chief partner in the firm of Van Pucket 3hop & Co. "When the Evans bill was passed in 1892 we wished it had been prohibition J rl^AA/^rnlln Anan if- Kttf niVl?n IE CX ULIU lClli ULtiiUJUliy U?CI ib, UUJ ,t uua nv read the bill and found it proposed to close every open barroom in the State and allow liauor sold only by responsi ble persons, whose characters had to be endorsed by a majority of persons in their ward or town, as the case might be, and who were pledged under oatn not to sell to minors, drunkards, or any one under the influeBce ofliqu >r and to keep a reccrd of all sales made, which would at all times be open to inspection; the liquor sold in the Dispensaries was to be analyzed by the State Chemist to insure its purity, and the places in which it was sold were to be closed at 6 o'clock and kept closed on the Sabbath; the New jfork Tribune pronounced it "Ironclad prohibition," and we felt that it was only one step from it. So we gave it cur encouragement and support and despite of threats fcom barkeepers, and only discouragement from those whom we had a right to expect would have stood by us, we have held the fort, workiog and praying for prohibition. Some are rejoicing that it has come, not in our cuy, however, where the dens of iniquity are all open, even on Scmdays. We are still hoping, praving, waiting. When the Supreme Court decided that the Dis^ "UC11 iirtAAnofihltiAnol m QnT7 {JCUSm j UIII TTOO UUV/U'JOUbuviVunii lumuj were iQcliaedto think as .Jacob did, "All these thiDgs are against me'; but we know better. The Dispenary had done the work God intended it to do. This tight is a battle between the Devil and bis allies and our great King and His followers, and unless we prove traitors we must win with the victory, for" 'Our God is within the shadows Keeping watch above His own.' Tne Dispensary proved that with a man of courage at the head of afiairs, l:qaor laws could be enforced, if not absolutely at fi-st, fully as well as laws against burglary, murder or any other crime. Public barrooms were most certaiolv closed and that in despite of the combined ellorts of all classes of people who gave encouragement and actually brought into prom neoce the lowest class ot people because they dared to defy the law. You have shown what an immense revenue accrues from the sale of whiskey but you have told us vour "object is not revenue,' and we believe you are too true a man to sell the right of way into our homes and barter our boys to the foreign rum seller for revenue. "When for our cause all hope was lost, And every heart was tempest tossed, When homes in ashes round us lay And o'er us beamed no cheering ray, When e'en our bravest were unmanned, And waves of woe waved o'er the land Your Southern women checked each tear And oflered nothing but words of cheer." "And now we come to the men of Carolina, particularly to those who make and enforce our laws, and entreat you to protect the bonus we took care of during the war. 'Home is our kingdom,* you say, but we are powerless to defend it. You put into the hands of the vilest cfl scouring of creation a weapon "Firmer set than bullets or than bayonet," With which to attack our homes and destroy cur dearestones. Your protection you say is all sufficient. God graDt it may be so in this case, for we are standins ballotless, utterly ucable to defend our homes and we appeal to the men of cur State for help in this time of threatpried destruction. It VOU do not help US now and the destroyer of our home3 get into pover again, the wives and mothers of our State will have again to 20, as they have gone in the past, Into the rum shops at night and on their knees plead with brutal barkeepers, who, with curses, baye thurst them into the street. ' We want prohibition, absolute prohibition, without auy 'clauses' exempting wme, beer or any liquor as a beverage. "Atlanta's experience is an object lesson to us. Men who solemnly swore not to sell spirituous liquors soon perjured themselves, and as an excuse for opening their bsrrooms on Sunday kept a menagerie and made the excuse 'They had to feed the animals.' I can never * T - n.oHr'o Innlr oa hp nronhp.35ftri nil ? vjiau j o ivvu t?v ? ? ? what exactiy came to pass. "Lit us bo warnd by Atlanta's experience to make no compromise with the horrid traffic, tor the divine condemnation rest3 upon any nation or government which legalizes evil, "frameth mischief by law and justifies the wicked for reward.' With great respect, Mrs. Sallie P. Ciiapin, State President otSr'Uth Carolina. Mrs.T. P. De^afferelly, Presideut of Charleston Woman's Christian Temperance Union. My?t?rlou8 Snlclde. Jacksonville, Fla, June 1?A special to the rimes-Union from Anthony, FJa., says: Mr. Dave Turner, a wealthy citizen of this place, committed suicide today by hanging himself to a girder iQ his bam. He left a note stating that he was too miserable to live. Why he was miserable no one knows, as he possossed a comfortable fortune and his domestic relations were pleasant. i the status at clemsonPltns of tho lJiaid of Trust-es for Rebuilding?No Interruption. Fort Hill, May 3.?The board of trustees met here on last Friday night, and was in session until 3 o'clock a. m , when it adjourned until 9 o'clock the ' same morning. During the night session. the question of giving vacation until February next was presented and discussed at length. The board was unanimous in deciding that it would not be for the good of the cadets, the college nor the State to suspend the ] exercises of the college and decided ] npon the following reasons to continue the college as heretofore: That it would ; cost not les3 than $4,000 to carry the cadets home and return them again < when the college would be ready to receive them; that the board was under : contract with the professors and their 1 salaries would still cootinue, even 1 fhrmtrh thfi f?YPTY>i<!Pq nf rnllpcrc . 3hould be suspended ; that to suspend the exercises of the college now would i demoralize everything, would deprive I a very large numder ot voubg men who 1 are now sacrificing a great deal to at- 1 tain an education, from so doing; that 1 the equipments dow ready for service 1 would have to lie idle until the reopen- 1 Ing of the. college in February, 1895; 1 that the large garden having cost very ' much to provide vegetables for the cadets, would go to waste and be a dead 1 loss; that, since this is an agricultual college and as this is the proper season for work upon the farm, to suspend | now would mean an irreparable loss to many and a serious loss to all, of the many untold benefits to be derived from | the careful and tedious preparations made for experimenting during this session of the college, upon tne farm; that there never was any necessity for ceasing, as the recitations and the work are goinsr on as heretofore, but, of course, not with the same convenience; that suspending the college would mean the allowiDgoi many, and probably all here now, to wilfully blast a happy and successful future in store for them, should they remain in Olemson College, and the allowing of all to lose one whole year of schooling, simply on account of a little wood, the crumbling of a few brick, and the loss of a few dollars; that as the magnificent building and its well equipped class rooms and physical laboratory were only conveniences anci by no means essentials for successful work therefore it was agreed that very sufficient work can be done in the temporary class rooms however imperfect and inconvenient they may be. an uiuci tv piuviuc tcuupjiAi.y uicvaa rooms and save tne expense and trouble of having to pull them down when the main, building has been rebuilt, the board decided to erect a hotel upon the land lately purchased from Mr. Lee, Hon. J. G-. Clemson's son-in-law, ana to use the building until they are ready in the new building, when the hotel will be vacated and leased to some one who will keep the hotel to entertain visitors. The new main building will be rebuilt just where the late one stood, using all the brick that will be of any s?rvice, and all the walis which still remain unin jured. Many conveniences and improvements will be made upon the new main building, which the late one was sadly in need of. The contract has not yet been awarded to any one and will not be until the board meets again in June. The board decided to let tne whole contract out, as it would cost them too much to undertake to rebuild the building, since they have disposed of all their m-icainery, tools and the convict labor, and i would not be at all advisable to pur chase new machinery, ecs. xnis ana other reasons make it advisable to let the contract out and take a bond upoD the contractors for its faithful execution. The board further decided to keep one of their number here all the time while the college is building. It will be the duty of the committee to receive or reject the work and have full control over everything while here. This committee will in turn be received by a similar committee and so on until the work has been completed. The library, readiog room, museum and society hall will be built separately from the main building. The board further agreed to carry the corps of cadets to Spartanburg on the encampment, which t?kes place there during the month of July. The cadets are now discussing the plan and advisability of getting up a company onH /Ti-OI fnr tho r?ri7a hnr nnt.h 1 n?T flf-ti ouu ? | ntte has yet been done. The question of giving Saturday as a holiday was brought bt-fore tbe board, I but as a full board was not present?; only cine out of thirtean?it was con- j sidered best to postpone action until all | are present. Messrs. Bruce, from Atlanta, and Thompson, from Rock Hill, now superintending the work upon the collegeat that place, came as soon as they could after the fire, and have inspected the walls and pronounced them dangerous, consequently a line has been put arou nd the wnole wreck and sentinels staad guard day and night, allowing no one to pass within the line, except by permission of the proper authority. Many cadets have left since the fire, but the vast majority have decided to stand by the faculty and board of trustees until this present embarrassment no ionger cofronts them?until the proud emblem which the lire has dared to haul down, again shall float in trl umph over trie new main Running. . R. H. Welch. A Most Fieadlah Plot. Columbia, S. C., May 31.?On Sanday the wifs ot R^v. S. P. Sehumpert, a well known minister cf Lexington County went to visit a relative some miles from her home, it was in the evening when she returned. Knowing that it would be late before she arrived at her home her uncle, who she had been visiting decided to accompany her. In so doing a henious crime was possibly prevented. Before the lady and her es cort reached her home they found that the road had been barricaded bv trees, stumps and other things. An investiga tion revealed thai a number ot barefooted men had built the barricade Further investigation led to some startling revelations. Tnese revelations exposed an alleged plot which had been formed to intercept the lady on her reiurn to her home and to criminally assalul her* Two negroes were arrested and are supDosed to be m Lexington jail. A negro named George Tavlcr was also suspected of being implicated m the plot. He left Lexington and came to this city. In the meantime the matter had been reported to Chief Ridchfle by the husband ox the lad\ aud tne Chief is-u-d orders for all of the officers to look om ior the negro. Yesterday morning Officer Bil ion saw Taylor in Main street and arrested him. Taylor was put io the station house and wi 1 be kf pt there until -? *- ' -? t ?.? , n: u/1,.,1 me arrival 01 ij5x.iusiu?u cwjtus. ??i will be done with the neognes or wha> has been done with them is not kn >?vu. If there has been auv talk ot lynching t1 has not reached this city. It is probable that if the negroes have not be*n lynched their lives have bunir on the failure tho?e rrekicg iovesiasations to set suflicient against them.?Register. DID NOT SATISFY THEM. TILLMAN AND BUTLER'S LETTERS COMMENTED UPONrh*y Do N ?t Sals "A^'aaceinen,'' who PiOcwd ti Show Wherein They are Miltaken in DiMentlog F/om Any ot the Alliance Demands Columbia, S. C.f May 31.?The Columbia Register of this morning publishes the following letter, wnich is the strongest kick yet made against Gov. Tillman's attitude towards the Alliance leraands: Eiitot Register: The answers of senator sutler ana (iovernor Tillman to the questions propounded to them by order of the State Alliance brings the Alliance face to fac9 with a crisis. They are the only avowed candidates for U. S. Senator. Both of them are practically in the same boat and neither is in full accord with the demands of the iUliance. Both of them gag at the same two or' our demands. Senator Butler thinks tne subtreasury is unconstitutional and of course it never occurred to the learned Senator that me "Constitution might be amended. He says the subtreasury has been abandoned, but fails to give the time and place when it was abandoned. He can see no way of the government owniug and operating railroads except by the government buying thosealready in existence. Of course it has never occurred to the versatile Senator that the government has the right to build and equip such roads as are needed: Millions of laborers would be glad of the job at very reasonable wages to be paid in legal tender greenbacks?building two, three or five thousand miles a year. Oa, no; the Senator is too good a railroad attorney to see any other way of having government railroads except by purchase of hts client's property at enormously irifllated valuation of wa tered stock. But the people have been thinking along this line a little in the interest of the people rather than of the railroad wreckers and mmanipulators, Governor TillmaD, on the other hand, objects to the ownership of railroads on the ground of wisdom and practicability, but he can advocate and light for this along with the other demands. To the subtreasury demand he is "unalterably opposed.'4 His reason seems to be that it 4s identical with the national banking principle. He says too that the Alliance is inconsistent in this demand. It would seem that the Governor has shifted his position somewhat on this poiat. In 1891 he objected to the subtreasury because it was "paternalism rua mad," now he objects to it because it is like the national banking system. It seems strange that a man of such splendid abilities should make so egregious a mistake. The only points of resemblance between the subtreasary and th9 national banking system are purely superficial. Under the natioaal banking system the government farms out to tne banks the function of issuing money, thus giviag to a thousaod or two individuals tne right to issue or withhold tne circulating medium at will. Under tne subtreasury idea the government itself issues the money?not to a few thouand plutocrats, not tnerelp to holders of cotton and wheat nor > et necessarily to farmers exclusively, but issues it direct to tne masses of the people upon such security as the people can give. He says ne is m favor of the government issuing money direct to the people. When He considers tlie proposition in all its bearings, he will see that there is no other way of getting it to the people. He says he did not oppose the incorporation Alliauoe demands in?-o our State Democratic platform ln'92. It was currently reported at the time that the Governor did oppose this in the Reform platform caucus as contrato ?is judgment, lut coupled his protest with the sound Democratic sentiment that if "my people won't go with me I will go with them." He accepted this platform and represented South Carolina Democracy on it a: Chicago. So much for the viewa of these candidates for U. S. Senator. The all important practical question is what are we going to do? These gentlemen claim to be honest, and we must conceed their claim. It would not be right to question their honesty or abuse them b-cause they honestly differ with us. We must grant them all the right to free thought and speecn that we demand for ourseives; but we have a right to protect our honest convictions from being shut in to choice between t wo men almost equally opposed tn na TJncc shall WA DfOtfeCfc OUrselVOS? UV / ( ?. w X" ~ ^ 1. By protestiug against a box for U. S. Seuator in the August primary, and if one is provided over our protest, then refrain from votiog in that box 2. We should see that in catechising candidates tor the Legislature no candidate is required to commit himself further than to vote for aU. 3. Senator who is in full accord with our demands 3. See to it when the State convenvention meets that the platform of 1892 is reaffirmed. What is here presented is not to be construed as in opposition to Governor Tillman. Every Xieformer in the State would bs proud to honor him, where it did not involve sacrifice of principle, We could even wish he might see thing a3we see them; we mu3t even commend his candor in declaring his opposition to our conviction. Bat being equally honest in our convictions, we are bound to follow them with the same fi lelity and candor that we concede to him. Alliancemen. May 30,1891. A Mad Cat. Galltpolis, 0, May 27.?Miss Ella Harris vVas attacked by a huge house cat, and her screams brought to her assistance Jake Copenhave, who gave the cat a vicious kick, when the iDfuriated animal attacked him fastening its teeth aud.claws in his leg, ternbiy lacerating it. Copenhave tried his best to shake it off, and then tinding he could not he then siezsJ it by the throat and tried to choke it to death. Fading In this he drew his pocketkaife and literally severed ics head from its body, and even then he had to take a spike and pry the car's teeth apart before he could release its hold. In slashing at rhecat Copenhave cut his right arm severely and a physician was sent for, who pronounced his wound very selous, as the cat was suffering from rabies. A T > 11-do. Bennettsville, May 31.?This section Wets visited by a very destructive storm yesterday afternoon. OaCapt. P. L. Breed- n's farm the gin house, engine house and two tenant houses were Mown down, while his barn was moved tour iuchss. f wo tenant houses on Mr jam-s. ^i:u.ioi9is 141m ana me gin bouse oa Mr. Birney Wallace's farm were also olowa down. Mr. W. P. Les? r's giu house a .d Missis T. H. Bethea's and R. J. Tat urn's oarn were hlo vn down. Messrs. J. F Bolton and 0. L\ Eis eriiDg's crops were ruined by 'he hail. A telegram from McColl states that the house of Mr. J. W. Stone, who lives Lear that town was uteralK torn to pieces, killing his wife and three children.