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\ ' t \ I Til I LEXINGTOK DISPATCH. I "*8$ VOL. XXIV. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1894. NO. 49. ESCAPED A LYNCHING. ; QUICK JUSTICE SAVES AN OHIO NE- j GRO'S NECK. i The [.Crowd W*m Determined, Ho*ew, and Took the Fiend fiom Two aftlllla ( Oomptoiw Who Captured Him agi]n ' After Killing Two of the Hob. I Washington. Ohio, Oct. 17.?In the criminal court tcday Jasper Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Bird of Parrott's Station a week ago, con fessed the crime and was sentenced to the peniteatiary for twenty years. There was every prospect of a bloody fight to-night as a great mob was in town bent on lynching Dolby and the Sheriff had two companies of State militia here to help him protect the prisoner. A special grand jury was called. Dolby was indicted today and his trial and sentence followed promptly. The county officers hoped by this means to qoiet the mob and avert a fight. The sheriff with three companies of militia started this evening to take Dolby, the negro rape fiend to the penitentiary, bnt at the depot the mot/got possession of the prisoner. The militia charged killiDg two of the mqb and recapturing the prisoner. He was then hurried back to jail. A call has been .'jade for the First and Fourteenth regiment. As darkness came on a crowd of 1,500 people surrounded the court house and jail whiQh are really one building, yelling lynch htm lynch him.' Finally some one threw a stone which struck a soldier on the breast. Th^n Colonel uoir, wnose anger wasasoueeu, auur?sed the people io language wnich was ( very plain and forciable. He told'them not to repeat the offence. 'If you want to iDjure any one,' said he, 'hit me, and not those young men,' and with hat uplifted he walked out into the crowd, and said 'here I am,' his face ashen with anger. TLelcrowd gathered around him but not a man lifted his hand to strike the Colonel. It was probably well that they did not for standing on the court house steps were the soldiers with goes loaded waiting an order to lire. The crowd surged closer and closer to the court house steps, becoming bolder as the darkness increased. Col. Coit addressed them again or rather attempted to do so, but they would not listen to him. He shouted that he would have to order the soldiers to fire If they did not rail back, but on they came and finally the order to fire was given. Many were seen to fall and the mob fled like a lot of frightened sheep. The dead are: Smith Welsh, 18 years of age, son of a grocerymao, shot in the head and abdomen; Jess July, 2b years old, shot in breast and abdomen. He was a laborer. Mack Johnson ot Williamsburg, Brown County, snot in bowel. The wounded are: William Sam, * S3 veitia rtlrl u lahnrar fw><n Adams J County, winking here. Theodore Am merman, shot In right thigh, serious; Frank Neiterhouse, an aged man, shot In left leg; George Keating, 14 years old, shot in groin end in both legs, will die; Frank Smith, flesh wonad in fool; Dial Farrott, 20 years old, shot in right foot; John MeCuae, flesh wound in foot; Ernest Ellis, snot m foot. Others were undoubtedly injured, but these were the most serious cases. The crowd secured a battering ram and began to beat down the door. Not a shot was flred by the soldiers until the door fell in, when the troops fired the volley which resulted so fatally: The remainder of the soldiers were stationed at the South entrance and unmindful that a portion of the crowd were making an attempt to batter down the door at the North entrance. The first fright following the volley having died away, the mob became more boisterous and bold again. They are gathering about the court house and though 4K Aw liAmnlnAyf ne ? ? /l?a4oM AA vucjr xcuuc^ucu a i re ptu ia.ua uibmuuc, uttered load imprecations against toe soldiers and fears were entertained for tbelr safety if reinforcements did not quickly come. The crowd made an attempt to secure dynamite and swore that they would blow up the court house. The wounded and dead were carried into the engine house and the stores near by. It looked very evident that the prisoner would be secured be fore morning. At 9 o'clock to night Adjutant General Howe ordered out as an additional force Battery B. of the First Artillery at Cincinnati. The first message was received from Col. A. B. Coit, in command of the State troops at Washington C. H. since the report of the assault at 10 o'clock tonight It was addressed to General J. C. Howe and was as follows: "Your telegrams just received. No reinforcements have yet arrived. We can hold the court house for hours. The doors were broken in and the guards fired. Reported to us that two were killed and three wounded. It is reported to the sheriff that the mob has broken into the powder house and taken the powder It is the most detei minded mob I ever saw. The troops used every precaution. The sheriff and Judge Maynard approved our action. I pleaded and begged of the men to peacably disperse. Our men are all right now." Adjutant General Howe has been unable to get any answer to Colonel Coit and Sheriff Cooke. He believes that the mob has thorn arrrrnnndftd and f.hAf", t.hav hav<* cut ofi communication. He Is also having trouble in securing the necessary communication to move the troops ordered to Colonel Colt's aid. At 10 o'clock the troops :from Marysville and those to go from here joined them on a special train over the Midland Railway. It is thirty seven miles from here to Washington. General Howe urged the railway company to send the train forward at the utmost speed. He has arranged that the train bearing tbe Cincinnati troops shall reach there about the same time so that there can be no question about having a sufficient force on the ground to control the mob when the first soldiers arrive. Tbe mob is so incensed against the soldiers now that a small force would be in dapger there. General Howe is afraid the mob in its freuzy over the shooting of the citizens may try to blow up the whole jail and court house. Tbe oommand of Colonel Coit is now In the jail and this would result in a terrible loss of life. "If they can hold the jail against the mob for a half hour longer" said General Howe st 10?0 tonight, "I think tbe danger will be over. 1 will have enough troops In Washington /?rtnrf. hnnae hv fhaf. t.lmfl f.n rtnnf.rnl all the people in Fayette County." The safety of the little command of Colonel Colt, consisting of seventy-five men and the Inmates of the jail and the jail officers as well as the wretched prisoner whose beastly crime has caused all the rioting aDd bloodshed, depends upon the events of the next half hour. Upon the firing the mob dispersed in all directions. Immediately all places of business in the city were shut up. Mayor Creamer pereaptonly closed all places where liquors were sold. Every street was filled with people. No t!n&? was lost m carryInsr a way the dead aud wounded. Business houses and the englDe house were converted Into hospitals. All the surgeons in the city were called into service. Mothers, sisters, wives, sweethearts, crowded around the dead and wounded and add-' ed pathos to the scene and fire to the rage of the mob by their lamentation*. Against the militia, the indignation was bitter, vicious and vehement. It pervaded all classes. As the time passed, the mob grew in size and fury. All aver the country by telephone, by courier and by electric wire, the news had spread. All the roads leading to the sity were filled with men on horseback, in wagons and on foot, pushing with all possible speed to the scene of bloodshed, breathing vengeance at every step. Meanwhile, in Washington court house a search was going on for arms and ammunition and for dynamite. Shouts were heard "down with the militia." "Blow up the dogs along with the black lend." These shouts but feebly ex pressed the pent-up passion of every body, for everybody was lo the street and in the street were members of the mob, as far at least as personal feelings were concerned. There was a certalaty of organization of the forces going on. for that amlnous stillness that forebodes supreme excitement and deadly resolution succeeded the ebulltion of feeling. Men moved about as if bent on business, but said nothing. There is no doubt of a purpose to blow up the coure house. Of this the militia are aware. A full moon lighted up evsry approach to the court house. If military reinforcements do not reach here before the moon goes down, there Is danger of further and greater bloodshed between an organized armed mob and militia, aDd in case the mob succeeds there Is danger that many of the militia will share the fate of the ha man brute Dolby. OUR COAT OF ARMS. Governor Tliluaan Hu a Large OH Paintlog of Is Made. Columbia, S. C.,Oct. 18.?Mrs, A. J. RnhPrtvann nf t,hl? ritv has nomDlatftd for Governor Tillman a large oil paintlug on canyass of the Coat of Arms of South Carolina and a small plaquer painting of the great seal of the State. The paintings will be hung in the executive office and will remain there. They are the first ever made and will ijc down to the generations as .he ofIcial pitcnres. The object in having [rhem painted vfas to perieet, as near as possible, the figures, emblems, etc., which have remained withouc perfection for so inaQy years. The history of the seal of the State Is known but nobody has any Knowledge of the history or exact meaning of the Coat of Arms. It will remain a mystery. The Secretary of State's office furnishes the folio wing history of the seal: "The Great Seal of tae State of Snuth Carolina, by order of the General Asjembiy, March, 1776, was designed oy William Heury Drayton, assisted by ?ome of the Privy Council, after the Fort on Sullivan's Islands had defeased toe British ftiet, waich event suggested jome of the devices. "The Palmetto tree represents the fort, which was constructed of the Palmetto trees that grew on tne island; meyotill grow there. There are two ihields pendant under the branches of ffie Palmetto. 'March 26,h,' the day the State Constitution was adopted, is inscribed on the one, on other. July 4, 1776, which refers to the Declaration of Independence. Tbe sun rising with peculiar jplendor refers to the 28;h of June,-as i fair day?also bespeaks good fortune lo the State; a torn up Oik, with its branches lopped off, lies prostrate at Lhe base of this erect Palmetto. The twelve spears, points raised, representing twelve colonies, are bound crosswise to the Palmetto?the thirteen colony?and upon the baod which unites them is inscribed 'Q lis Separable' Beneath the prostrate oak Is inscribed Meltorem Lapsa Locavit,' and in large figures underneath '1776.' At the top of ezerque are the words 'South Carolina,'?at the bottom, 'Aoimis Opibusque Parati.' Reverse?A woman walking on seashore, over swords and daggers; in right hand a laurel branch, in her left the folus of her robe; she looks with hope to the sun rising In great splendor over the sea. The azure sky is above, and at the top of exerque are the words, 'Dam Spiro Spero.' In the field below is the word 'Spes,' showing that the design above it represents hope. "The first use made of this seal was by President Rutledge, May 2, 1777, * - * ? J l ~ ? wno issued a paraon uoaer me seai 01 the state." If as much was known of the Goat of Arms Governor Tillman would be a happier man. He has ransacked every history to dnd oat something aboat it and has offered a reward ' of 825 to any person who would give him the information desired. He is no wiser than when he began. The Coat of Arms, as is known, is made up of the seal of the State as a centre. Supporting the seal on the right side is the figure of a revolutionary soldier; on the left a female figure; above the seal and between the other figures, the figure of an angel blowing a trumpet, supposed to be a herald angle communicating tidings of some kind to the world. The Coat of Arms is presumed to have been adopted after the seai, as the centre of it is the seal. According to instructions for Governor Tillman, Mrs. Robertson has painted, as near as she could do so from the facts known, the face of General Moultrie on the figure of the soldier, and the face of a liaeal descendant of T^pmUt. rvr-i fVio famoia Tri LJLU.HJ VJ VU WUO loumic U^UiO. J.1j the female picture the right leg is thrown forward and is exposed to the knee. This was painted this way because is some manner there has arisen a conflict as to whether the right leg or left leg should be thrown forward Some of the metal cuts used by the State in the past have been printed one way and some another. Owing to the positionof the female it is impossible that tne left leg could be advanced Consequently Governor Tillman hac the rignt leg put forward, and in the future no other position will bs official. ?Regi3ter: An 9acl*lmed Diary. Charleston, Oct. 19.?P^stmastei Mo wry has given to The .News anc Courier for publication the following letter which will be cf intereet to the family referred to: Postmaster of Charleston, S. C.?Dea; Sir: To-day I received a pocket memor anda, containing a short diary, thi property of the late Lieut F. J. Lesesne acting adjutant 25th S. C. T., who was killed in the short but sanguinary en gagement between G9n Hagood's com mand and the Red Star brigade, 2 c 1fi-k TT o A ? uiYisivu, louu aim/ t'ur^of u. O. a Arrow field Church, Va, on tie afternoon of May 9,1894. Adjc Lesesne's body with those oi his gallant comrade who fell that da: In defence of the cause they thought t< be right, was buried on the fleld o; battle. I will gladly mail it to the address o aDy of his family or relatives on receiv mg intimation of thtir desire to pos sea* it. Very respectfully your obedlen servant, C. A. Meckman, Late of the Red Star Bridge. Germontown, Philadelphia, Peon 'October 11,1894. C LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET. The Annual B?port ot Charter* Granted by the Secretary of State. Columbia, Oct, 18?The report of the Secretary of State has been finished up to date. The proposed capital stock of the companies that have been chartered during the fiscal year is $2,764,000, and of this amount one company intending to manufacture a car coupler is put down for a million dollars. There are a great many corporations that hare taken out commissions for charters which have not yet made the proper return to the Secretary of State for the charter. The summary of the returns for last year did not divide the commissions fiom the charters and the aggregate amount reported last year was $7,413,000. There were a number of companies that reported increases of capital stock during the year, but that statement has not yet been made up. The following is a copy of the summary of the charters granted by the Secretary of State up to this time: Cold Storage, Manufacturing and Transporting Co S 5,000 Cumberland Buff Stone Co... 30,000 Union Labor Co.,of Port Royal. 1,000 Consumers' Coal Co 50,000 nirtxann' Rnildincr And T.nan Association, of Sumter 250,000 Anderaon Telephone Exchange 5,000 Darlington Brick Co 25,000 J. R. Stokes Lumber Co 10,000 Oconee News... 2,000 Cannon Co 25,000 Thos. P. Smith, Mclvtr & Co.. 40,000 Blackshurg Phosphate Guano Co 100,000 Flerenee Cotton GO Mill Co... 20,000 South Carolina Detective Agency 3,000 Bryan Printing Co 6000 Planters' Grocery Co 2,500 Livingstone Printing and Publishing Co 3000 Ganson Dry Goods Co 20,000 Homestead Building and Loan Association, of Columbia 20.000 National Manufacturing and Supply Co 5,000 Charleston Lumber and Manufacturing Co 25,000 MUford Mill Co 140,000 Elliott Manufacturing Co 5,000 Home Savings Association 20,000 Harley Medical Manafactnrlng Co 2,000 Charleston Base Ball Association 2,000 Sumter Track and Park Association 500 Enterprise Banking and Trust Co 50,000 Carolina Pleasure Club 1.000 Exch ange Bank,of Batesburg.. 50,000 Pulton Industrial Aid Associa tiOU 1.UUU Charleston la vestment Co 2,500 Charleston Provision and Commission Co 2,500 Reform Pabltshins: Co., of Newberry county 1,000 Ellas Goodmaa Co 10,000 Reform Patriot Publishing Co. 1.000 Rock Hill Hardware Co 10.000 Savings, Loan and Investment Association ; 9,000 Charleston Hotel Co 25,000 Atlantic Beach Hotel Co....... 2,500 Charleston Cigar Co 1,000 Desporters <fc Edmunds Co 40,000 Okeetee Cluo 45,000 Boys'Clothing Oo 5.0Q0 Oheroaee Medicine Co 5,000 Marlboro Mill Co 25,000 Chase Land and Improvement Co 20,000 Southern Land Advertising Agency 1,000 Beneficial Life Insurance Co., of Charleston 10,000 Peeden-Anderson Banking Co. 20,000 South Bound Land and Improvement Co 50,000 Fairfield Granite Co 30,000 Harris Automatic Air Brake Co 1,000.000 Tucapau Mills 150,000 Union Times Co 1,500 Charleston Electro-Plating and Bicycle Cj 1,600 Caester Mills 100,000 Southern Investment and Home Building Co 10,000 Farmers'Basket and Package eo 25.000 Walterboro Dry Kiln and Planing Co 7.500 Home Land and In vestment ?o 60,000 ?xmer Limestone Institute C o. 40.000 Whitmtre-Good ?o..... 3,000 China Hall Importing Co 5,000 1 Total $2,764,100 Beialt of Hla Vlalc. Columbians. C.,Oct 17.?Governor Tillman returned yesterday from Washington where he went to see Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller on the suoject of taxes on whiskey seized from distillers and taking possession of it for the State. Wnen asked for an account of his trip the Governor Bald: "1 accomplished an 1 went for, and , that was to prevent any conflict of authority or friction between the Federal and State authorities. I found Commissioner Miller very desirous of co-operating with me in the matter. There is some doubt in Ms mind as to whether he has authority to allow the State to seize liquor in a distillery , warehouse and to pay the tax on it. The question has never been raised before and there is no jadicial decision along this line. There have been cases of sheriffs attempting to seizi liquors and imported goods in bonded warehouses under warrants for the collection of debts, and the court3 have held that this was Dot permissible. Until the passage of the last revenue law,the Wilson Act, as amended by the Senate, liquor in warehouses was held under certificates which were sold in the markets and anyone holding the certificates was considered the owner and could pay the fare and remove it. Congress for some reason changed the phraseology and the law now provides that the tax must be paid by the distiller, and under a strict construction no one else is allowed to do it, not even an administrator or executor. I contended that the government only held the ' liquor for the purpose of securing the tax; that the State's right to police liquor within its borders,whether manufactured or imported, was unquesr tioned. The Sapreme Court in any i number of decisions concedes this In : the most emphatic language, and the 5 Wilson Act of 1890, the la3t legislation by Congress on the subject, also conr cedes it. "The Commissioner wiil submit the ? matter to the Attorney General whose , opinion will govern our course until j the Legislature and Congress meet. - The whiskey in question will be pro ceeded against aud judgment obtained, i if the evidence will warrant, and it t will not be allowed to be removed from the warehouse until the matter is finally determined. I have no doubt that ! the police power of the State, which f differs from the attempt to seize for 3 the purpose of collecting a debt, will I receive reoogaltion at the"* hands of the Federal authoritles.and if the law is at f pretent defective, so as to prevent this, - it will oe amended whea Congress - meets. It may become necessary for the Legislature to pass an Act to pro t vide for the licensing of stills iq this State and tne control of the output by State officors. One thiag is very cer , tain, the Illicit sale of liquor at distilleries will be stopped." BONDED WHISKEY. THE QUESTION BETWEEN THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT? Commissioner Miller Thinks If Governor . Tillman's Ideas are Carried Oat the ( United States Will be^Deprlved of Some of Its Revenue. I Washington, Oct. 18.?Secretary Carlisle has forwarded to Attorney General Olney for his decision, the letter of Revenue Commissioner Miller, which presents in ditail the question raised between Governor Tillman of rtn ?>/vl4 n n r> n ^ f f T rtlf nrl Utcf Afl ouulu vaivuua auu iuc uuii/^u oiaiva authorities as to the jurisdiction of each in the enforcement of the South Carolina Dispensary law. The letter is as follows: Washington, Oct 16,1894. Hod. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of Treasury. Sir: I enclose herewith a letter from Governor Tillman of South Carolina and a printed copy forwarded by him of the "State Dispensary" law, and I have the honor to request that the same may be submitted to the Hon. Attorney General for his opinion as to the course which should be taken by this office in the event of seizures by State officers, for confiscation under the Dispensary law, of distilled spirits deposited in distillery bonded warehouses under the internal revenue laws. It is proper to stats that the natural effect of acquiescence by this office in the course proposed to be taken would be the probable complete destruction of the bonded warehouse system within the State; the consequent cessation of the business of manufacturing distilled spirits under the Internal revenue laws and the loss to the United States of farther income from that source. The Dispensary law.it appears, has been construed hy the State Supreme Court as not absolutely prohibiting tne manufacture and sale of distilled spirits. But it appears also that under the law a distiller ia the Sta-;e cannot sell his prodact to private persons within the State, nor If I rightlv apprehend the provisions of the third Section, to private persons to be shipped out of the State, but only to the State Commisssoner or to persons outside of the State and under regulations which would seriously inconvenience the shipper. UQder snch restrictions, there would hardly be any further lawful production of distilled spirits within the State. No distiller would be willing to produce an article to be sold only on compulsion to & single purchaser, and at the price fixed by him. The question is broadly presented whether a State can so legislate as incidentally to deprive the United States of one of its declared sources of revenue and it appears to me a proper matter for the consideration of the highest law officer of the government. ( Suprem9 Court in McCulloch vs. Maryland, 4, Wheat 310, declared that "the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or m any manner control the operations " ^ ? 1 oi me consciiuuouai iawo cu?juou u/ Congress to carry into effect the powers vested in the national government.'* And in Hannibal and St. J. R. R. Co. vs. Husen, 95 U. S., 465, It, was held that "neither the unlimitkl powers of a State to tax nor an7 of its large police powers can be exercised so as to work a practical assumption of the powers conferred by the Constitution upon Congress. And in numerous other cases it has been held to the same effect. On the other hand mch cases as Boston Beer Co. vs. Massachusetts, 97 U. S., 25, the right of the State to absolutely prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was upheld. Applying what appears to be the esj tabllshed law to the present case, it would seem that while the State of South Carolina has the right in the ex ercise of its police power to prohibit the manufacture of and traffic in distilled spirits within the State, it is doubtful If it has a right without prohibiting the manufacture or traffic to practically take possession of business I in all its details and carry it on, and i through its own agencies, for its own ! profits, thus perhaps forcing the Unit i ed states to surrender ttie income derived by this source. It follows, of j course, that if one State may do this, all may, and the police power of the States will have been "so exercised as to work a practical assumption of the powers of Congress," and to "impede, burden and control the operation of its laws," Tou will note that the Governor proposes to recognize the lien of the United States upon the spirits in the warei houses for the taxes due thereon, and to pay the same. The law (sections 48 and 10 ot the Act of Congress, Au! gust 28,1894,) limits the right of withdrawal of spirits from the warehouse to the distiller himself. The State now proposes to personate the distiller. Such authority has been denied by United States Courts to stay ofilcers. See McCulloch, Jr., vs. Henry Large, United States Circuit Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, at the May term, 1894, Justice Bradley of the Supreme Court concurring. It is to be observed also that it frequently happens that a distiller is indebted to the government in a sum greater than the tax upon the spirits themselves then in toe warehouse. Such indebtedness is by section 3,3?1, Revised Statutes, declared to be a lien upon the property and rights to property of the distiller. Tatting spirits by the State in the manner proposed might easily impair if not destroy the ability of the government to collect its debt. For my own guidance, I wish to be particularly advised whether or not 1 may lawfully consent to permit the withdrawal of spirits in bonded warehouses in the State of South Carolina upon seizure therein by the State and tender of tax to the Collector, or upon judgment of forfeiture by the State Court. Governor Tillman personally yesterday requested an early reply to his inquiry- He was told however- that fhu moftor ia nnHor nnri bUC LUdVUV>L AO UUUV.L VUU^UWiMUlVU MVJINA will be disposed of as soon as possible. Respectfully yours, (Signed) Jos. S. Miller, Commissioner. Cuba inundated, Havannaii, Oct. 17.?In this province a3 well as the Vuelta Abajo district much damage has been done by the overllowing of the rivers due to the recent heavy rains, destroying ail kinds of crops. The low lands on which tobacco plants, are sown to be afterward transplanted, were entirely washed away by the flood. Railroad as well as telegraphic communication with that section of the island is still partly interrupted. A number of bridges, such as the Santa C'oloma, Agiconal and i'aso Viejo, were carried away by the flood. J THE INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. Interesting Talk from a Blind Member of ' I the Commission. Columbia, S. Cm Oct. 19.-?Two years ago the Legislature authorized , the appointment of a commission to pass on the advisability of separating the blind department of the Cedar Springs Institute from the other departments sni of making a separate institute for the blind. The commission was duly appointed and recommended the separa* tion. The last Legislature provided for the appointment of a commission to select a site for an institute for the blind, to report on the probable cost of the building, to secure plans and specifications from architects and to put everything i n shape for the Legislature to take action. The following commisssion was appointed: Representatives W.H. Ysldell < of Edgefield and T. J. Kirkland of Ker- ] shaw from the 3onss; and Senators R. i R. Hempbiir of Abbeville and T. S. ' Brice of Fairfield from the Senate. 1 These veDtlemen selected Rev. P. P. I Blalock of Edgefield as the fifth member of the commission. < The commission held its first meeting ' in the Jerome Hotel last night. All it < did was to organize preparatory to a more extended meeting this morniDg. ' To-day it will receive plans and specifications and estimates of cost from ar- i chitects and builders, and will visit several places which might make suitable 1 sites. 1 A Register reporter had an interesting talk with Mr. Blalock on the objects of the commission. Mr. Bialock is blind , and is natarally interested in all that is to be done for the benefit of others sim- ' ilarly sSLcted. Mr. Blalock said that so far as he was concerned he wanted to see the institute bnilfc in Columbia. He said that ' the bill passed by the Legislature authorized the commission to accept offers from cities and towns in the shape of sites, money, etc. He would be glad to see Columbia make a bid, but if it 1 did not do so be was in favor of putting { the institute here anyway. Then he | gave splendid reasons why it should : come here. He said that the blind learn 1 much by absorption, and the place 1 where tbey are now taught affords no opportunity for this. He said that the J Cedar Spring Institute is far away from J any city or to* n and is not even on a dirt raod. The afflicted pupils have no chances theie to learn except what is ' taught them in the regular curriculum. ' Great progress is being made by the blind. They are learning to become 1 musicians and in Philadelphia there are 1 seventeen bliad organists in prominent j churches. In Columbia the blind musi- 1 cians would have chances to show their ; learning and their knowledge of such ! things. They would have a chance to practice. They would have opportunities 1 to visit concerts. By hearing is the only 1 way the blind learn music. At Cedar ' Springs there are no such chances as in Columbia. Mr. Blalock continued by saying that 1 the blind are taught to make brooms, chairs, etc. At Cedar Springs there is 1 no market for these thing. If the in- 1 at.itnl* were in Clnlnmhia there would be a good market. Oiher State instiutions could bay what was made if merchants did not want the articles. ' Mr. Blalock said he was in favor of asking the State to give a tract of land belonging to the South Carolina Col- 1 lege on which to erect the institute. The block nearly opposite the South Car- 1 olina College, bounded by Sumter, Main and Greene streets, he thought, would be a splendid site. This property is not 1 oeing used by the College. Mr. Blalock ( said that the advantages of this location 1 would be many. The institute would be near the college, which the blind students could attend to listen to lectures. They would also have access to the Ii- 1 brary of the college. I Mr, Blalock estimates that the building would cost about $15,000. He says that the accommodations for the blind 1 at Cedar Springs are so limited that the State will have to build an addition if it does not decide to make the institute separate, as is proposed. The commission will today visit the nil* nnkan nf hv Wp. Blalock and COU fer with President Woodrow as to whether the college caa spare that much ground. Stop Overproduction. Atlanta, Qa., Oct. 17.?A special meeting of the executive committee or the State Agricultural Society has been called to assemble In Macon on Wed nesday, the 24th lnst, to "consider the present ruinous price of cotton and to take some steps If possible to remedy and avert Impending disast-rs," The call Is Issued by Hon. John 0. Waddell, president of the State Agricultural Society. The Meeting will take place on the second aav of the State fair, which begins at Macon on the 13d lnst. President Waddell, in Issuing the call says he wishes "to be distinctly understood as opposing the selling of cotton to the injury of creditors, but It is believed that the best interests of debtor and creditor will be subserved if advances can be secured on cctton so as to allow It to be held over, thus stopping ' the large dally receipts and at the same time giving the farmers an opportunity of securing advances on their cotton by which they can meet their obligations and at the sam9 time hold their cotton for better pi ices." Part of the call reads as follows: A brief suggestion as to the plans indicated. Money la plentiful and at a low interest rate in the banks. The banks and commission merchants, who are onr friends can be induced to advance a reasonable amount on cotton and thns allow the farmer to hold his cotton another year, and at the same time, enable him to pay his obligations to nearly the full amount of his cotton. At present prices, it is impossible to more than pay the cost of cultivation, picking and ginning and guano bills, leaving the farmer nothing with which to meet other just obligations. If the plans ana suggestions wuiou yju may piumulgate, shall be adopted by the other cotton States, we believe good results wlllfollow. There can be no doubt that the cotton acreage will of necessity be greatly reduced next year, the crop re duced in consequence, 'and the cotton carried over must command better prices. Dr. J. Marlon Sims. New York, Oct. 16.?The statue in bronze of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the famous Southern physician, is to be unveiled in this city with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday, October 20. at 8 o'clock in the afternoon in Bryant Park '421 street and 6th avenue Addresses | will be made by Dr. George F. Shrady and Dr. Paul F. Mundi, after which the statue will be presented to the city and accepted by the Hon. Thomas F. Gilroy, mayor. This promises to be a memorable oecasioo, as it is the first instance of the erection of a heroic statue to the memory of a member of the medical profession in the United States. HE HAS GOT ENOUGH. -ARRY GANTT GOING TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF IN POLITICS. Be Sftja Henceforth the Peldmont Headlight will be Ban la the lotereit of the People and Not the Politician"! as Heretofore. Since the adoptioQ of a general primary by the Demorcratlc convention, it neani that hereafter politics in South Carolina will be ran on a higer plane. [I also means that coat-tail swinging ind man-worshlD will be pat a stop to, and the successful candidate must look solely to the people and.convince them that he is worthy of their support and confidence before he can set their votes. Henceforth and forever, no one man or clique of men will be bigger than the people. Every white voter, it matters uot how obscure and humble he may be, will be given an opportunity to record bis preference for every public o fleer, from the highest to the lowest, and his vote will be counted. You will hear no more about Antis and Reformers. Since the ballot has been placed In the hands of the voters, and he alone is delegated the power to dictate who shall rule over our State, factional lines, will disappear, for the great people are in the saddle and it is their wilt that must be obeyed. And there won't be any independent candidates, either, for it would mean an open appear to the negro, and a public repudiation of the white vote. Henceforth, yon are going to see politics in South Carolina conducted on a higher sphere. No office-seeker will dare attempt to arraign one class against another, for they will all hare an equal showing, and there are enough fairminded,-peace-loving men in South Carolina to defeat any candidate thai, appeals to passion and prejudice instead of to reason ard patriotism. And this is iust a3 it should be. The Headlight editor ha? long and earnestly battled tor a white primary, aad qow that we have secured our demand, we are willing to bury all past animosities and work only for the glory and upbuilding of our grand old State andtbe happiness and prosperity of its people. We nave supported our last candidate until the brand of the people has been placed upon him. We have been in politics for many years, and, with very few exceptions, have found it an unthankful business, and assuredly an unprofitable one. The very men tor whom we have worked hardest, a ere the Qrst to turn the back of their hands to U3 when their ends were gained and ambition satiated. It Is not what you have done for a politician that he appreciates, but what you can do for him iu the future. So we have firmly aad irrevocably made np our mind to hereafter cease to run a factional paper, but we shall run a newspaper In the fallest acceptation of the term, and battle in the fntnre, as we have in the past, for the relief and the rights of the farmers. All public issues will be discussed from a non-partisan standpoint, and we shall commend right and condemn wrong, it matters not where they appear. We shall always tell the people the truth, and lay berore them whatever information we can find oat. Strictly speaking, there is not a newspaper published in South Carolina. You either And them partisan Conservative or partisan Reiorm papers. Hence, the reading public can only see one side and that reviewed through prejudiced glasses. Politics are permitted to overshadow all else. Well, we have done our fall share of such work and now want a change and a rest. We believe that there is a broad held and a usefal held in South Carolina for such a paper as we propose to run. Others can keep up this factional fight if they want to but we are no glutton and know when we have enough. What influence the Headlight possesses will be used in bringing about a better and kindlier feeling among the white voters of our State, and seeing if we cannot by mutual concessions, come together again and work in peace and in concert for the general prosperity of our section and people. We propose to con tend for what we believe to be the beat for oar farmers, it matters not who it offends. We shall criticise public men and public measures whenever occasion requires. But we shall never again become the champion of any political office-seeker, except to contend for a just representation of our section and to reward real merit. We believe the time has come whea oar people are ripe for a change from political agitation, and they want to hear the truth from an unbiased and aon-partian standpoint. If so, subscribe for the Headlight and you will be given unvarnished and fair reports of all public matters. Bat if yoa want a partisan organ that will pander to the prejudice and passion of the masses and strive to keep up bad blood and animosity among neighbors and men who should live in peace and friendship, then this is not the paper you need. Now that every white voter will be given the opportunity to go to the polls and record his ballot for the candidates of his choice and there will be ho more conventions to force a slate ticket on the people, there Is neither need nor necessity for factional lines being drawn in our State. The people kaow a true mm aad a real friend when they see him, and will not make mistakes. Let us all now come together and work together for the upbuilding of our State and section.?Piedmont Headlight. The Proipect In New ?ork. New York, Oct. 17.?Gov. Flower arrived from Albanv yesterday afternoon and today at 12.30 called ;at Democratic headquarters in the Park Avenue Hotel. He was closeted with Maj. Hinckley and Hon. John Boyd Taacher for som9 time, but when he came out he stated that his visit was informal and merely friendly and that he came home to register. "If every Democrat will do the sanas thing, which they probably will," said the Governor; "we will win the fight tfciis fall without any trouble. The prospects are good all through the State," the Governor continued, "and tee loeraocrais win siaua in line anu be counted this fall," "Do yon think that Mr. Cleveland will write a letter or come to New York to take a hand in the election?" was asked. "I have heard nothing and know nothing about that," was the reply. "What about;Albany, locally speaking?" "I have been at Waterton all summer and don't know anything about Albany locally, but I do know fiat all throughout the country the Democratic feelings are strong and think we will win hands down." . Governor Flower is going to Bath, Stevben county, next Wednesday, to visit the Soldier's Home there and make a speech to them. He states that this is the last speech he wi'l mi ke in any institution during the campaign. SCHOOL STATISTICS. Some Figures Which Will Interest Evsryhody. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 18.?Something interesting regarding the public schools of the State Is always to be found in the annual reports of the Superintendent of Education. These reports reach few people and are made up because the law requires it and for the benefit of the Legislature. In the forthcoming annual report of Superintendent Mayfleld there are numerous facts and figures which the public should li> ?> am/9 mil I Ka a/1 f a Vr ?> a rr? Tf n jbluuyv auu tt 111 uo fciau lvj &uuw. uless the papers publish them they will never get to the people. The Register has already published some figures and will give more at times. Mr. Mayfleld's report has not been completed because some of the School Commissioners have been tardy in sending In their reports. The report will be completed, however, by the first of November. The reports so far received show that common school education is steadily gaining ground. Tear by year the number of children enrolled increases, the number of teachers employed increases and more money is being spent to build new school houses and Improve those already built. The following counties report new scheol houses built during the past year and the amount of money expended in building them: Anderson, 1, $100; Barnwell, 6, $1,157.58; Beaufort, 2, 8418.35; Charleston, 1, $1,500; Chester, 2, $1,250; Chesterfield, 1, $60; Clarendon, 4, $500; Coll6ton, 2,8115; Darlington, 3, $180; Bdgsfield, 4, $?; Fairfield, 6, $450; Florence, 6, $600; Hampton, 1, $35.23; Kershaw, 4, $10,200; Lancaster, 6, $318; LexingtOD,3, $307.35; Marion, 2. $680; Newberry, 4, $1,330; Oconee, 13, $6,600; Orangeburg, 10, $15,591; Pickens, 25, on 401 . i i j n . li k rt ?4,o?i; xuciiiaau, 2. 0100, cumber,?, $588.32; Union, 1, $75; York, 1, $60. The following is a table of the nam* ber of teachers employe! in each coanty of the State and the amoant paid to them: Namber of Paid to Teachers. Teachers. Abbeville 212 $<3,992.48 | fren Anderson 168 13*627.29 Barnwell 129 13,545.00 Beaufort 84 7,402.00 Berkeley Charleston 113 60,021.00 Chester 131 10,212.00 Chesterfield 49 3,926.32 Clarendon 104 6,224.60 Colleton 114 11,187.36 Darlington 83 8,220.71 Edgefield....i 250 14,136.03 Fairfield..... 102 10,914.95 Florence 71 9,598.04 Georgetown 85 2,584.13 Greenville 221 21,122.43 Hampton 94 6,493.88 Horry Kershaw.... 8L 8,446.17 Lancaster 92 6,950.51 Laarens 182 12,293.52 Lexington 94 7,516.24 Marion 155 10,101.08 Marlboro 81 6.516.92 Newberry 122 11,226.34 Oconee... 103 4,972.27 Orangeburg 195 22,726.98 Pickens...? 91 3,409.42 Richland 99 20,920.20 Spartanburg ........ Sumter 128 15,996.81 U nion .66 6,682.35 Williamsburg 110 York ? 179 21,837.51 There are more female than male teachers employed in the State. This is especially the * case in the counties where there are well regulated graded schools, like Charleston, Greenville and Richland. It is interesting to know the salaries paid to teachers throughout the State. The amounts vary in each county. The average amountpaid is about$20, male teachers getting a little mire than females. Charleston County pays her teachers two or three times as much as any other county in the State. There the male teachers get an average of 892.33 a month and the female teachers 841.90. Beaufort comes next. She pays her male and female teachers the same salaries, an average of 83(5 02 a month each. York county pays unusually small salaries, according to the report of the Commissioner of that county, and the curious part is that the female teachers get the largest salaries. The average amount paid females a month in York county is 818. M.ale teachers in that couacy get an average of 314.50 a month. Abbeville pavs her male and female teachers an average of only 815 a month each.?Register. Ead of the Ohio Blot, Columbus, Ohio, Get. 18.?A special train bearing Sheriff Cook and Deputy Sheriff Bostwick, of Fayette County, with the negro prisoner, Wm Dolby, alias Jasper, In custoday arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning. The train bore also six companies cf the 14th regiment, all local companies, the remainder of the troops being left at Washington Court House. The train was stopped near the State prison, and the sheriff and his deputy, with the prisoner in custody, walked hurriediv. unaruard ed, to the main entrance, and in a few moments Dolby was bshlnd the grea</ stone walls of the penitentiary, where he will spend the next twenty year3 of his life at hard labor. Quite a large crowd had colleeted at the Central, station to see the prisoner, and were disapointed to see only soldier* when the train drew in. The crowd was a carious one, however, and no violence to the prisoners would have been attempted If he had been brought to the union station on the train. The trip from Washington Court House was without incident. The mob wa3 easily controlled. When the reinforcements o? militia arrived at Washington Court House, at 3,30 A. M., they gathered in knots but offered no resistance. The prisoner was at once taken ;from the jail and placed upon the train and the journey here was begun. Col. Cois did not ordei the cartridges taken from the 'rifles until the coal chute two miles north of Washington Court House was passed, as there sheriti uook reared an attack oa the trala might he male, but the traia was not molested. Governor McKinley arrived from Cincinnati at 8 o'clock this morning and after consultation with Sheriff Cook, of Favette County, and receiving a number of telegrams from prominent citizens of Fayette County, ordered all troops remaining on duty at Washington Court House to their homes. He says that they are assured that there will be no further lawlessness there. Drifting Alone. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 13,?The bark Thomas S. Fiack was picked up in the gulf by the steamer Jari, which has just arrived here. The cargo and bark are estimated .to be worth $150,000. A queer feature is that there was no one aboard and the vessel was in fine condition. j x. ???* DR. POPE GETS PEPPERY. WANTS TO KNOW WHY GOV- TILLMAN IS SO ACTIVE. In Columbia for the Cimpiltn-Hti Something toSay About the Dispensary. A Series of Pertinent Questions. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 16.?Dr, Sampson Tope, who Is running as Dr. Pope's candidate for Governor, as a protest against "rings" and "ring" methods.Is in the city. He will b3 here until af- ' ter the election and has established headquarters at the Grand Central Hotel He say3 that he Is confident of success and thinks that he is continually gaining votes. , -K Yesterday upon his arrival in the city he was seen and asked if there was > anything new in his campaign, and he replied: "I have recently read the dispensary act of 1893 closely. Section 2 of the act reads as follows: 'The Governor, the Attorney General and the Comptroller uenerai, snail, ex offico, constitute a State board of control to carry out the provisions of this act.' Section 3 gives the Governor authority to appoint at the expiration of the term of the present commissioner (see the connection between the acts of 1892 and 1893) and every two years thereafter a commissioner, etc.; the appointment to be approved by the Senate. The same section gives to the commissioner the right to purchase all supplies, etc., subject to such rules and regulations as may bemade by the State board of control; makes him subject to removal by the State board of control, and makes him a State officer. All rules and regulations governing said commisslonsr in the performance of any of the duties of bis office shall be prescribed by the State board of control, etcs I fall to find in reading said act, ahy duty devolving specifically upon the Governor, more tnan any other law carries with it. The Governor is a member ex officio of several boards?the penitentiary, the asylum, etc. His duties as such are simply those of auy other member of them. The majority controls and what is done is executed by the proper officers and not by the Governor. The superintendent of the penitentiary carries them out for that institution, the suptssiawjuaeat ot me asyium ior tnat institution, and by parity of reasoning, Mr. Trailer should do so for tnedlspensary. ^ "It tbe law had intended that the J| Governor alone shonld manage the dls- JM pensary it would have said so, but it does not say so, for it pats two others on the board with him, all of them ex officio members. It means that a ma- ludAnHI jority of the board shall goyern; shall B say what Mr. Traxler shall do. The Governor has usurped power which does not belong to him. He admitted m daring the canvass that he did so when ffffl be said that he did not consult the oth* flQ er members about reopening the dls- 32JUU pensary. ; fl|H| "He has no more right to Issue orders UMI with regard to th8 dispensary than he WBSm has with regard to the penitentiary SMS and the asylnm; he is bnt a simple member of all of those boards, and has only the authority that any other member has. The board, I suspect, has not had a meeting until last week in many months. All that has been done of his own motion then is illegal, unlawful, aud is a usurpation of power that does not belong to him. South j Carolina has never had but one lawf al rtfp.ta^r .Tnhn Rn Marl era an/i t.ha wa3 given him daring the revolutionary war when the State wasoverrau by an enemy, and when it 'was impossible > from the very natare of things to call the Legislature together. Governor Tillman ha3 as much right, and it Is as much his duty, to issue a proclamation or an order, carrying out the provisions of any other law, as he has as - -"M to the dispensary. 1 "Has he done it? Then why does he 3 single out this law to be enforced at this time? Is it to destroy the peace and harmony of our people for political r-A sect? Is it an attempt to bring bach those Reformers who have left the fold because of rings? He has sworn to execute the laws iu mercy, hot in a terrorizing, vindictive mauuer, calculated to frenzy ths men and frighten the women and children. Let it be remembered that when the dispensary was \ closed many of the constabulary vent k home, under instructions, it was said, m to open illicit barrooms for the purpose of proving that prohibition did not prohibit. Waeu the Supreme Court decld-, M ed the act of 1892 unconstitutional, was 4 io not as mucn Gas uovernor s duty go issue a proclamation to prevent the ^ sale of whiskey, as it is now to carry out the dispensary? Then why is it -4 that he failed to do anything then, and now usurps authority that doe3 not belong to him?" Dr. Pope may have something mare to say on this line later on. ^ ;Ia Seatlmeat Changing ? > Columbia, S.C., Oct. 19.?There has been a decided change in the sentiments of the pedple of this city regarding the'Dispensary law since the decision of the Supreme Court declaring it constitutional. Ou every side now can b8 heard expressions to the effect that the law ought to be maintained. Men who have heretofore patronized "tigers" declare that they will spead their money with the Dispgndaries hereafter. In addition to this the taxpayers are get ting anxious to sse the law enforcels) that soma revenue will bs paid to the city. Bu3ines3 man who pay licansas to run their establishments are complaining that it is not fair for them to have to pay m oney to do business while the "tigers" flourish without paying licenses. A good many of them have been heard to say that as this is a discrimination and as it involves city affairs it ought to ba taken in hand by the police exclusively. If the police were to begin th9 invasion of illicit establishments it would not ba long until tney would have to stop business. At present the police do nothing bat follow constables around to see that there is no trouble when raids are made. There i3 little doubt now that public sentiment would back the city authorities in taking charge of the raiding and arrests in Columbia, and doing tha work without the assistance of the constables. A Register reporter, in conversation with a constable yesterday, was told >. that the raids on saloons would never amount to anything; that no "tiger* proprietor keeps anything more than a few drinks in his place of business and that these are carried in a bottle in the pockets of th9 bartender. The constable stated that after awhile the officers will begin to locate where all 'lie "booz9" is kept and that descents will be made on these places. He predicted that there will be some surprises in store when the officers sweep down on these depositories. He believes that the "blind tigers'' have hundreds of gallons of ? whiskey stored in various places throughout the city and that lots of it is kept in private houses.?Register.