Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TH ~QOi,b ENMUS INCREASING SUSPICION THAT ITt 8 FRAUDULENT. Extraordinary Inaccuracles in Aii iisarts or the C%utry-A Scandalons State of I Things in the Cqnsus Oice--Will it bo Investigrated.,. ,e-'aring inaccuracies in the Re publican census are attracting the at tt6tt6n of the entire country. It.there were a Democratic IIouse o Representatives now a searching in Y'estigation of the whole business would be certain as soon as Congress reassem bles. But if a gigantic fraud has been attempted, the whole power of the Ie itblican party will be exerted to cover it up. The population of 45 of the States and Territories has thus far been an nounced, and it is already apparent that the total population of the country will be given out from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 less than what it really is. There has been a failure in the ma jority of the States to ascertain the real number of people living there, and the failure is detected in Itepublican States as well as in Democratic States, but the net losses of the Domoeratic States as compared with Itepublican States are so much greater as to indi cate that there has been v plan on the parf of somebody to systematically un derstate the ninui' . iur rc ..in a3uch a way as to frauduleitly reditce thv number of Democratic Members of the House during the next decade by at least ten. We believe that when all the facts are known it will be found that there has been actual fraud in New Yorlk City, and we are sorry tt say that the character of the men at the head of the Census Bureau is such as to render it by no means impossible that they have consented to this fraud for the purpose of benefitting the Republican party. 1f any one wants to know the char aeter of some of the men who are con trolling the census work let him read the insolent letter of Mr. A. F. Childs, the chief clerk of the Census .hureau, to Mayor Grant, of New York. There is ample cvidenco that the population of New York city is atjleast, 200,(X more than reported by Porter's censts enumerators. The authorities of the city respectfilly ask for in ollicial I count and are insulted in the public prints by these census oflicials for pre ferring their re(Iuest. Now Philadelphia, ialtimore, Brook lyn and other cities are demanding a recount anI the Census .lireau evi dently believes that if the request is granted in one caso it will lead to a re count of the entire country. Tiat such a recount may yet be had is by io neans impossible. 11 the country shall become convinced that a partisan fraud has beenl attelpted even a Ituptubliean1 Congress will be forced to or(ler the work to be (one all over again, under i competent ion-partisan Iirection, ''he incidental result will be a trenen (1011s blow at Republican supreimeyI in the Nation. .Last February we pIblisheil a table showing the estimated populatioi of the several States and Territories ac cor'.ing to the method of estimating as employe(l by the actury of the 1'. s Treasury, Mr. .. S. McCoy. Below ve give the estimato and the results of Porter's count in 1. Democratic States (giving only thousands): Estiiated Porter's Alabama..........,674 C11L Arkansas.........1,217 1,12-> D)elawatre..........171 117 Weost Virginia...885 760 North Carolina....,7911 1 ,E17 biouthi Carolina....,352 1,1.17 Georgia . ... ... . . ..197 1,534 Alississippi. .. .. ....1,55 1.25-4 L4ouisianla........1,233 1,116t '. 'exas .. .. .. .. .. ...2,541 2,232 Kentucky........2.033 1,55 Tennessee .. .. .. .... 1,)53 I,753 Connecticut....... 717 7.15 New Jersey.......1,419 1,441 Total.... .....2,1 I 18,584 Ilere is a diiflerence of two millions, and the great States of New York, Vir ginia and Missouri are not included. Un the other hand in 21 Republican States there is a dlifference of only about one million as will be seen from the following: Estimated. Porter's count. Maine..................8 ....fit0 New IIampshire.385 375 Vermont.... .......3615 335 Massachusetts..2,130 2,233 Rlhode Island........358 345 Pennsylvania. . .5,200 5,2418 Ohio..............,9273,6 illinois .. . .... .. ...3,763 3,818 Michigan.... .. ...2,240 2,089) WVisconsin.........1,81 1,6181 Minnesota........1,287 1,3(00 .Kansas .. . .... .....1,710) 1,423 Nebraska.... .....1,135 1,0561 Colorado..........20 '110 Nevada.... .... .....45 44' California...... ..1,234 1,204 Oregon.... ....... 302 312 North Dakota .. .. ..30 182 Montana..........112 131 Washington .... ...278 349 Total.... .....29,792 28,7614 We believe there should be a thoroutgh investigation b y a ome competent authority at the earliest possible mo * rment of the manner in which this ceni sus has been conducted. .At present there is so muc~h reason to suspect the Integrity of the count that the qluestioni Is likely to grow into an important political issue, if the Republicans at ternpjtto prevent such an Investiga tion. * We alluded last week to some of the facts relative to the management of the Cens ilureau that are wvell knownt Nto a good many people in Washington. *We believe that in the expenditure of the mnoney appropriated by Congress there has been a vast amount of cor Srpiption, which will be discovered and epsdIn due season. Reports come tpus every day which conyince us that Pote' subordinates, if not Porter himself, are making a great deal of money out of their places. We know .that men who had buildings to rent, which were fitted for the occupation of 4he Census Bureau, were approachedl and asked how much they wvould pay to sepure a lease, and if a committee of Copgrede were to mnake the inquiry it would probably find that money was tIus pald by some of the owners of the itldings now rented for the Census Bureatu. " We bellved that money has been cor Juptly made by census officials out of the electrical machines of which so 0has)8 been written in the news We are informed that no less 0persons now employed in the t f - their saais every .'.mo~~ato a prson who has intimate with both Porter and Chief of he actthat Childs while - of te Goernment Printing a smed a fortune of over $20,000 seubst nently lost in a busi 1ro in etty there is noLh. ig surprising about this report. There s6d to be a splend id opportunity to inke money in the Government Print rg Office, and favored contractors paid irge sums to the men in that ollice vho favored thern. There are graver rumors of immor Ality on the part of certain persons in he Census Ilureau, which we prefer lot to repeat at this time. The cur *ent gossip of Washington if it were verified would certainly lead to the minediate retirement from any em ploynent under the government of Mr. Robert P. Poter, and a number f the men whom he has employed in responsible places in the Census Office. SWALLOWED BY THE WAVES. A Thrilling Story of . ShIwreck OY Itarnegat. N Yoit, Oct.31.-The Captain of the steamer Itumboldt from South American ports, which arrived here to-day, reports thit at 6 o'clock hiS morning six miles East of Barnegat he sighted a wreck and bore down to it. The vrecked vessel proved to be the steaner Vizeaya, which sailed from hence yesterday for Ilavana. lie saw several persons in the rigging and sent a I)oat to th-ir rescue. The chief ollicer, second olicer, surgeon, one engineer and eight of the crew were taken off and librought here. 'T'lie persons rescued state that on the evening of the 30th Inst., at 8 o'clock, the steamer was riun ito by a four-masted coal laden schooner supposed to be bound North ward. Iloth vessels sank within live minutes. Captain Cunill or the Vizcaya was drowned, as were also a part. of her crew, in all about eighty-six per sons, sixteen of whoin were passengers. The tug Hercules arrived this even ing report that the schooner Cornelius Ilargrave and the Spanish steamer Vizeaya collided at 7 o'clock on the evelling of the 30th, fifteen mile-; of Itinegat. loth vessels sank in Iifteei fatlmtis of water. 'I'en ien f11r1m the H1argrave and seven froin the Vizeava were picked up1) by the .choonler sarah L. I layis and were transk-rred to the Iercill's The latter proceeled For the wreck to render assistance, bit at nm id night meet the tug niatier, which had been to tihe scene and foind both ves sels sink and all hands gone. She pick ed up ithe body of a woiman. The sur vivors report that nearly a hundred peol)4. were clinging to the wreck at ine lime. The survivors have been landed at Lewes life station, also the corpse of the woman picked up1). She is repor-ted to have Ueen the stewardess of the steaimer. Dr. leo, the ship's doctor, tells this story : The weather was line. the moon shone bright and the sea was simoot.h. lhe ship was inl charge of the first u 0licer, who was on the bridge. I was in .le saloon talking with Mrs. Calvo, vhen suddenly I heard the stop signal. B3iore I coulid even wonder what, it vas for, there came an awfiul shock, a rashinig, scraping soind on the deck I >ver otr Ieads, and the steamer rolled I vell over on her port side. Every- I ioudN in the saloon was thrown d:v'n.( ll was excitenlent, Inenl, womenl and I hil(dren shrieking lor l'elp. I started ip to the ideck. A terrible scene of 0fu,sion met mv eye3. The bridge, t leek house and fore rigging were ;ll It orn awav. There was a great gash in he starboard side, jilst abaft the coal .utkes, and into this openig the water pouled. Cliwe by, on our starboard beam, was a big four-masted schooner with her bowsprit and forerigging gone an(d her boats stove in. She, too, was illing rapidly. Meni were r'unmninig here and there all over thei decks, shouting all kinds of' orders. Th'Ie steatmer' wa:s fast sinking. With ithle wildi idea of saving onrselves, severa~L of uts scr'ambled up) tihe port forerigginig. D)own went the steatmer ttnd upl we climbedl. We reached the foretop gallant and the hull r'eachecd ihe hot tom. This left usjust above tihe siutface otf the water, butt every' swell (dretnched our' lower limbs. There were twelv'e of' us in the r'igg ing. Some of our erewv had trie(i to reach the schooner, but she had gone to the blottomn almost ais quickly as the Vizcaya had. One of the men said a boat with seven men from the schooner wvas rowed away. All through the night we clung to that yard, growing colder andl stiffer as each hour' passed. T1oward dlay bireak a cold fog settled onl ums and made mnatters worse. When one of the p)arty said he thought he heard a psssing steamier', we all hallooed as loud as wve could. Then a boat madle its appear. anice, and we were takeni on board tile 11lumnbholdt. 'We could not have endur ed the ordleal longer. From the second oflicer' sonmc facts weire obtained. I Ie was stanlding oil the upper deck utndler the bridge when the collison occurred, lie said tIme steamer's lights were bur'ning all right and thle wvatch on deck were at thiir posts, iIe dlid nlot see thte schooiner until the first oflicer on the bridge ranng the bell to stop. At the time lie rang the 1hell to stop, sid second oilicer Covas, Capt. Cunill had j utst camne fromt supper, and was going up on the bridge. liefoire we had titme to miove the schooner struck us, anid as far as I could see, instantly killed Capt. Unnill. Our headway carried it alonlg and the bowspirit knocked down the bridge htouse aind rigging. I wafs coveredi by dlebris and was badly cut ini the head and side of the neck. I got out of the tangle about the time time wvater com menced to run over, and then I took to the rigging with the others. We stay ed there fiom 9i in the evening until E>next mornitng, and were compl)etely i'xhautsted when taken off by the crew f the IIumboldt. Wi Serve Nine Years for S12,000. XwA YORK, Oct. 30.--Cassin, the younmg bell boy who robbed the' Iotel Vendome safe of a tin box belonbing to Bookmakers Sanders and Cmarlin, con tainintg nearly $17,000, was sentenced to nine years at hiardl labor in tIme State prison b)y lRecorder Smyth yesterday ini the GIeneral Sessions. The Recorder asked him wihaut lie had (10n1 wVith the $12,000) that has not yet been recovered, and he replied rather flippantly that "the thief who stole it must have It." The itecorder sternlhy informedl him that he was the thief and said lie wvould tmmake an ex ample of him, lie then imposed sentence. When Cassina heard the senteince hue wvalked back to the "pen" wvith a self satlifed air, iIe got onme year lessi than teni years that lie told John O'Jhtlen, who refused to join him in the theft, that lie was "willing to serve" in order to have the stolen cash at the chose of his imprisonment. AcconID1NO to the New York Press, good republican authority, the wvork rngmen of this Country miust not e xpect to be benefited by tihe new tari law for a long time to come, and it ingeniously advises them to be patient uinder their increased living expenses. This advice might be more generally taken by thle workingmen if they did not fully realize that the same law-which Is making them poorer every day is piling up unearned wealth for the favored manufacturer. PORTER'S FIGURES. TI 'OPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES PLACED AT 62,480,540. en-- e ame Exctlne vily tile FigureK of tile h 'optihtlationi Arc Not aus Largo a4m A n at ticipated-Ille Clantia That the Cioss of 3 the South Was Very Defective. p WASHINOTON, Oct. 31.--The twelfth census bulletin issued to-day says: The population of the United States on June 1, 1890, as shown by the first couid, if I persons and famlilies,exclusive of white a persons in the Indian 'I'errit ory, Indians 1 on reservations and Alaskn, wa 62,480- 1. 510. These figures nity be slightly ti changed by later and more exact com- b pilations, but such clanges will not be r material. n In 1880 the population was 50.155,- b4 783. Tfhe absolute inrease of the popu- is lation in ten years was 12,324,757. and sl the percentago of increase 24.57. In 13 1870 the population was stated at 38,- LI 558,371. According to these figure th'e absolute increase in the decade between 1870 and 1880 was 1 1,597,412, and the percentage of increase was 30.08. Upon Li their face these figures show that the population has increased between 1880 N and 1890 only 727,315 more than bi- 1f tween 1870 and 1880, while the rate of 11 increase has apparently diminished n' from :30.08 to 24.57 per cent. IV If these figures were received from ai correct dala, they would be indeed dis- is appointing. Such rediuction in rate of a1 inerease in face of the enormous imml- tj gration during the past ten years would LI argue a great diminution in the fectun tity of the population or a eorrespond ing increase in its death rate. These figures are, however, easily explained t wheni the charater of the lata is under stood. It is a well known fact, having i iven demonstrated bY Ii extensive and b thorouigh investigation, that the census b: of 1870 was grossly deflcient in the U< Southern States, so much so as not only to give an exaggerated rate of inerease It of the p-pqulation betwe"n 187 and 1880 g In t liese St ates, hut to OiTect very Imateri- 11 ally the rate of inerense in the country at largie. t TIhese omlissions Awere not tile iailt nor were I hey within I he control of the Censuis olice. The census of 1870 was taken uider a law whiih Stiperinten- ti dent Walker characterized as "cluisy, tlI antiquated and barbarous." Tle Cen- is sus oflice had no power over its entimer- b: ators save a barren protest, and this it right was questioned in some <liarters. In In referring to these omissions the dt Supeiintendent of the tenth census said, in his report in relation to the taking of the census inl South Carolina: "It follows, on the conclusionl of the highest, aithority, either that the cen sits of 1870 was grossly defuetive in re ard to the whole State or some con 4iderahle parts thereof. or else that. the ensus of 1880 was fraltdui-lnt." Those, therefore, who believe in the ar lveurney and hionlenty of the tenth cen- tl ms--and that was thorougly estab- St ished mist. accept I h otier alterna- Cl ive offered by Generzil Walker, iamely, T( hat, the ninth eensis was "grossly de- ed etive." What was trite of Sou tlh an 'arolma was also truo. in a greater or %v ess degree, of all I hie Soti t hern States. .ll Thers is, of coIus18e, no%) Means of as. - ertaining aecuirately tle extent of - hI'se omissions, but in all probability hey amount tol not less than 1,5i(0)0O l'hire is hut little question that the c -opulatioi of the Iinitel St ates in 1870 W was at least 40,040)0,X iistead of 38, )58,37 1, as stated. I f this estimate ot tr the extent, of the omissions Ii I870 be all correct, the ahsoliute increase bei ween ne 1670 and 1ss80 w as only abou t 10I,00,00, to and thle rate of' increase was not far m. friom 25 peir cenit. Thei se figures coin- li pa re in ucli more reausotiabh.v with sii - dc lari deductions fromui the ptopulationi in 1880l andh 1890. it wvill be seeni that the abhsolutte in-b crease between 1880 andI 189i) excseeded ot that between 1870 and 1880 byv 1 I,6o03, e' and that the proportional incereaiso was i but 1.2 per cent. hess. 1 'h'he poplttion of the several StaLes vi as found by the centsus (numterationi of in the United States in 1890 is (12,248,5fu. to The following are thle piopulat ions of' fl all the States, as anounceh. Increase w Alabama..........1,518,073 245,5i18 In Arizona............ 59, 691 19,2.11 I Arkansas.........1.,125,385 32,286 California.........1,201,002 33',3.08 Connecticut.. .. .. . . 10,975 2IfiA,648 t. Colorado...........745,861 1231,161 CI D)elaware..........l17,871 21,263 si Dist. of Columbia. .. 2291,796 52,172 Florida.... .... ....390,135 I120,942 et Georgia .... ... .. ....1,8314,366 292,186; pl Idaho. .. .... .. .. . ... 81,229 51,619 de Illintois.... .... .... .3,818,536 7-10.669 A Indiana... .... ...2,189,03() 210,729 w lowa.... .... ... ....1,906,729 282,114 it Kansas..... ... .....1,423,183 427,389 L Kentucky .... .. .....1,8554361 206,746 Louisiana........ ...1,116,828 176,88" Alain.... .... ......660,211 1:125 b Maryland.........1,00,4131 105,448 s Al assachiuisett s...,233,107 -150,322 it Ailihigan .... ..... ..2.087,792 152,855 ii Alneo ......,300,017 519,214 1' A ississi p)i .. .. .. ....1,281,887 597,453 Alissiour . ... ... . .,77,08I) 512,021 Alontana...........131,769 93,610 ~, Nebhraska..........l,056,793 (6)4,391I Nevadat.............14,327 17,939 01 Nelw Jlampshire..375,837 28,836 " Newv Jersey .... .... .1,441,017 309,901 ct N 1e wMAlx ico). .. .. ......14,862 25,297 ii Neow York . 5 . ..,81.934 899,063 h North Carolina. ... .1,17,34() 217,590 w. Nort h l)akota.......182,425 145,514; Ohio........ ......3,066,719 4168,657 1 Oklahomta........... 56,34 56,861 0 Oregon........ .....312,490 137,768 l 'ennsy lvania...,2185741 891.1495 g Rlhoide Island...... .345,343 68,812 ' Sou th Carolina....146,161 151,584 South Dakota.....327, 8418 229,580 ' Tennessee.... .... ...1,7613,723 221,361 C Tlexas... .... .... ...2,232,220 440,471 ~ U tah .... ..... .. ...206,498 62,535 Vemn.. .. ..33.2,"03 81 9 Virginia. ... .. .. ....1,648,911 133,586 r WVashinigtoni........349,5161 274,400 h West Virginia......760.,448 14,:199 it Wisconsin..........1,682,097 3168,400K t Wyominig...........;o,579 39,800 ft Omittinig from the consideration b those States ini wvhich the census of 1870 hi is kntown or is presumed to have been 1 faulty, thte rate of increase between 1870 and 1880 in the remaining States a has been v'ery ntearly maintaiedh in the c decade bietwleenl 1880 andi 1890. Ileferrinig to the p)rincipal table of I theo bulletin, thes censums of 1870 is l known, or is p)resumtted to have beenI, dleilcient in nearly all the States of South Atlantic andl Southern central divisions, while in the NorthI Atlantic, ~ Nothern, Central and Western di v'isionis no( evidecnce of incoumpleteness has beCen discovered. T1he population of t.hese three last g namUed divisions ini 1870) ani 1890 nd 8 the absolute increase jfor the two do- V cades and the rate of increase is set P forth as folloWs: Population 1870, 26, 270,851; 1880, 8,639,2 15. Increase, 7, 368,864, or 28.1 per cent.; 1890, 42,693- 0 802; Increase of 9,054,467; per cent. '26.0. Time Socialist Congress, at Italle, has fl resolved that no one shall be reeivedl in n Its new party wvho may have beeni or 11 shall be guilty of aniy dishonorable prac- sl tices. TUhisa is extremely edifying, and fi will keep the members from being nin- Il comfortnhly nred.a t1 EXTRA SESSION ADVOCATE8. ley Mind a New Imesson for Caling (on areas to Sit Again. W A *81ING RON, Oct. 31.-The advo teS of an extra session of Congres Lve been keeping rather quiet lately it they have now brought out a neN gumeint. This is to the effect that ni ,tra session is necessary this year t event an extra session of the Fifty cond Congress next spring. 'Tioy assume, of course, that the rc )portioninent bill and the force bill ar be passed this winter at all hazard.9 id they argue that if' the Senate act pon those two measures in the regula tree nionths' session, it will not hav ine to pass some of the approptiatloi Ils. A fiulure to provide money fo inniug the government would inak icessary another meeting of Congres -fore the end of the fiscal year. So I urged that the Senate and Hous iould be convened by the President a 'on iafter the c!ection as posible,in orde at tile regular appropriation bill aIV be passed without interfering wit ic Republican force bill and reippot 'nimlent, programme. It is undoubtedly true that the Senat ill have to be a very industrious bod the work marked out for it is accon ished by the 4th of March. A goo any persons think, indeed that th ork cannot, be done unless the rule -e charged or the revolutionary polie, adopted of ignoring the )emocrat id forcing measures through withou i slightest attention to the protests C c minority. Whether the Senator cet in November or I)cceniber, thci ssions are likely to be of unusual in rest. The fight over the force bill wil in "dead earnest" on both sides, an the reapportionment bill is what ta expected of a partisan ineasur :sed o1n a fraudulent census, the con st over it will also be very bitter. The expectations of both parties as t, te course of' events inl Congress thi inter rest upon the belief that the nex ouse ofrlepresentatives Vill be )eio atic, for while the lepublican mana irs are sending out daly claims tha ey will win next week, they reall; iare the belief of' the 1)emocrats tha ic later will control the IIouse. I .ey are mistaken, and the next HIousi Republican, then the foree bill will pro tbly be laid aside until next year, whet can be put through in ample time t tye its intended effect upon the Presi ntial election. THE HANGING OF WOLFOLK. or-a'# IMuiltiple Murderer Expilatei is Crime. Piti, G A. October 29.-TIomi Wol. k was hanged at, 1.30 P.M. for thi( irder, oil August 6, 1887, ofCapt Rich. I F. Wolt'olk, his wife, Mattic Wolfolk. :ir children, Richard F., Jr.. aged 20 iin Pearl. 17, Annie, 10; Hoschud, 7 arlie, 5 ; Mattie, 18 nionths. and Mr-9 mple West, 84 years. All were kill by blows on tile head with the but of ixe, except the little boy. whose head s split open with the axe blade. Not low struck except on the head of the tims, and they were found in their ht garients where they were struck Wi. and the blood and brains fron the isied skulls had run out until the roomi s a sea of gore. T'lie doomed man slept well last night, iil 2 o'clock until 4t. lIe got up at.t d had a long interview with a party o wspaper men, with whoml he converse( halt'ant hiour, laughing and exchang jokes, and becing seenningly absoulut~e untdisturb'Ied by3 his appiroachtum a1th. After the dleparture of' his v'isitors. hi .thied and shiav'ed and lint, 0111a new sui dlothies. lie was thent visiteal by soy al oif his relatives, wh'lomu he bade fare all without betr'aying any emotion uter lhe was closeted wVithI spiritual ad sers, to whiom lie priofessed hais belie his salvationl and1 his perfect hlope: r' a future life, telling the minister: at 1he hoped( to meet them ini heaven. i''or several hours thereaftuer Woolfoll as left, alone, dlevotedl the time t< editationi and1 prayer. .Abouit 1 o'cloci i was convey'ed undler theO escort of cal ilitar'y company to the gallows hIchl had been butilt in a little v'alley i e0 outskirts of' the town. Seven c hut thousand 1)eopl1 swanrmedl the hill lIes around to watch the execuItion. On the gallows WVoolfolk was cool an mposed80(. After tile ministers ha anyed lie hlimIself prayed1 fervently claing is imnocence im his inivocation written staltIeent Signed( by WVoolfol ais r'ead, in which lie gave it as hlis d5 gdeclaration thlat lhe was innocentc to crime for which lhe was being hunt t 1.13 tihe drop0l fell. Theil fall failedt -eak his neck and (leathl resuilted fror rangulation, his pulse8 conltinuing t aat for eleven minuetes after the tra 11. Twenty live intutes later the bod1 as5 cut dIOwnI. The, Jieadly Electric WVire. P I'rTI'inIit(, Oct. 31.-A special Irot r'odyerC, Pa., says: A hiorrible acciden' cicrred in the Edgar Thiompsonl stet or'ks last night, wvhichi was (due to tht treless braivado of' tile vIctim, at colore an namedi lRobert Washington. II iils from Culpeper, Va., and has bee orking as5 a b)ricklayer's laborer. It was noticedl by Superintender iee. of' the Carnagie Electric Ligl omp)any. that Washington had ofte 'aspied tile electric light wire when thi irrent was turnedl oil' in order to shuo ie men lhe wa'is not aflraid, lie wr arnied by Piercc that lie would 1 tught, Pierce tellinig hlim several tim( init lie was dloing a very foolishl tiling. Last inighlt at 10 o'clock WVashintgt.o 'as seen to climb up several steps an mnch out his hndi( toward the electi hut lmp. Some one shioutedi a wart ito him, but too hate. is hail )uchied the wuire and in an instant hi amie stlilfened and1( he fell to the flo< clowv dhead. Not a muscle twitcedl ar is den1t.h must have been inistananou: [is right hand had1( touched the wii adI his left, clingmng to an iron rod, hai imletedl the cir'cuit. There was not ark on the man except on his rig] and, were a slight scar wans four 'here lie had grasped the wire A Shootng Editor. ffair occurred in (Clarksburg to-dt hiich may result in the death of two< 10 leading men01 ini the State. W.J 'ichlardls, editor of tile Clarksburg TJel ram, puiblished in his paper tis wet were reflections on the character < ue Hlon. John Basil, one of the mo10 rominent lawyers of the State, ci' mlnsel of the Baltimore and Ohi afiroad Company, and a leading Den aratic candidate. 'To-day Basil me Ichuards and shot him, serfious1 ounding him. Richards returned ti re, dangerously wvouinding Basil. Baa Lay (lie. Rtichlards is chlairman of tI epubhican county committee. Tl uooting is the result of an old person mud. TJlhs is the third time Edit< ichards 1has been shot on account< 10 too free nse of his pen. BlrIght's Disease. This insidious ailment, if too long - neglected, will underminethe Btrongest constitution and bring the victim to a premature grave. lieed the - timely warning, and regain health at once by at use of the proper restorative, that great strengthener of the urinary anl digestive organs, It. B. 13. (notunic B Blood Balm.) David RIunkel, Cullman, Ga., writes: - "I used ai hundred slollars worth of med icine for Bright's disease, but it did mo no good. I then took B. 13. B., which D relieved ie. My appetite is restored and I urinate without Pain." J. A. Maddox, Atlanta, Ga., waites: ' ik-'!dgreat trouble in passing urine U : -k'i v. as filled wit.h sedimnt-is. My t l loins gave a1e n itch p:i I anil I loist ily appetite, strength and l4esh. r I becam nt! II#-r.vojs aId ,tn.able to sleep 1 soindly. Two bottles of It. B. 11. gave S tne entire relief." t Thomas Williams, Soddy, Tenn., e writt a: "I was troubled with severe s kidney complaint and cotiilned to my r bed. Six hotles of B. it. 1B. made a 8 well 1.atn o1f me." il A Pimtol in the Legistature. G u'riitn, Oklahoma, Oct. 30.-In th lower house of the Legislature to-day a Mr. Terrill of Payne,not being sustalned v on a point. of order, drew a pistol and flourished it over his hlie. The Ser 3 geant-at-Arms relieved him of it. Ter 0 rill then ran toward the door, which had been locked to prevent ititerfer ence. from the lobby, an-i giving it y several hard hicks broke it open. Rush. S ing out into the street, barehmadod, he t procured another revolver and return If ed, this time keeping it concealed. So S fiercely (lid he oppose the capitol re r moval bill that all action is postponed - on it until November 10. PIMnoS atld Orgas 1 N. W. TiUmP, 134 Main Street, Co tnumbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No apunts' com - missions. The celebrated Chickering Piano. Mathusliek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of s touch and lasting qualities. Mason & t lamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Up . right Pianos, from $22 up. Arion Ilia . nos, from 82(0 tip. Mason & llalin Organs, surpassed by noiie. St.erling Organ, .%50 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satis. factory. Sold on Instalments. - All monthly disorders peculiar to i woman are corrected and mcli suffer ) ing avoided by use of Bradlield's . Female Regulator. Padiett Pays the Freiaht. 'A GREAT OEFER THAT MAY NOT A0AIN BE REPEATED, 80 DO NOT DELAY, "STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT." Write for Catalogue now, and say what, paper you saw this advertisement in. Remember that I sell everything that goes to furnishing a hoic-manufactur ing some things and buying others in the largest possible loti, which enables me to wipe out all competition. HERE ARE A FEW OF MY START LING BARGAINS. A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove. full size, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces f ware, delivered at your own depot, all freight charges paid by me, foi only Twelve Dollars. Again, I will sell you a 5 hole Cooking Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch tolp, fit ted with 21 pieces of ware, for T1i1R I'EEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to your depot. DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR YOUR GOODS. 1 will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame, either in combination or banded, the most stylish colors for 33.50, to your .xallroad station, freight paid. I will also sell you a nice Bledronmos uil consIsting of Bureau with glass, 1 hIgh head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, 1 Centre table, 4 cane scat chaIrs, 1 cane seat and Sback rocker all for 16.50, andl pay freight - tOrjI wi) sen you an elegant Bedroom - suit with large glass, full miarbie top, for .30, and pay freight. - Nice window shade on spring roller 3 40 { Eegant large wainut 8 day clock, 4.00 SWalnut lounge, 7,00 ace curtains per window, 1.00 I cannot describe everytingil in a small advertisement, but have ani imimense store C containing 22,600 feet of Iloor room, wvitli ware houses and factory buildings in other parts of Augusta, making in all the lar . gest business of this kind under one mani agemient in the Southern States. These storesand warehouses are crowd(ed with the choicest p)roductions of the best facto r ries. My catalogue containling illustrations -of good s will be mailed if you will kindly say wvhere you saw this advertisement. I Spay freight. Address, L.F. PADGETT, .Proprnetor l'adgett's Furniiture, Stove .andI Carpet Store, k 1110-1112 B road Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ORCORETN NAUSE A 0 fantum. A pleasant muedicine of incalcu ai able merit in the home circle for chIld or o adult. It is popular, pleasant and ellicient, p T1ruly a mother's friend. It soothes andi heals the mucous miembranes; andl checks the mucous discharge from hteadl, stomach and bowels. Tie mucous discharge from the head and lungs are as promplltly re a iievedl by it as the mucous dischiargo from the bowles. It is made to relieve the mucous system and cure nausea, and it ii does it. It makes the Critical period of C teething children safe and eae-y. It mnvigo d rates and builds up the system while it is e relieving and curinig the wasted tissue. It ais reconmmended and used largely by physi cians. For sale by Wannamaker& M[urray Co. Columbia, S. C., anad wholesale by I Howard & Willett, Augusta, Ga., t READ) TAKESE F1GEJE11EN. n Farm Wagons, complete with body etc. 0 2 3-4 in Thllmble Skin..............$95 V 3 in Thimble skin...................41.00 s 3%- In Thimble Skin.................42.00 e One 1Horse Wagons, 124.50, 126.50 and a $28.50. Warranted second to none. Write for Circulars. Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts, &c., at nI 10 per cent less than regular prices. Send d for Catalogue. This offer is for only 30 c days in order to reduce stock-so order at ~. once. IHOL LER & ANDERSON is BUGGY CO., ROCK l1IL~L, 8. C., >r_ In writing mentIon thIs aper. ;~ (IAKE A D IMINISHES D'4 T LIE ' >f BRADFIEL REU TA GA t -. DaPS5an DYAu rLa. I- MRS. E. E. IHASELL has reopened her house on tho N. E. Cor 0e nor of Wentworth and Globe Streets, and 11 is prepared to receive permanent, transient te and table boarders at reasonable rates. to Her house is centrally located, and directly il on the line of the City Railway. I Special rates made for Commercial tray alers. Oct 10-4,. y AN D WOMAN. -. P. fil pu'ify and vitalize your - d 'iate a good alipttoand givoyour hI.' y-:en ~ tono an! t.gt h. A t rnrailn-a-l ..- inti-k l ent a, - it.mth -itlelin:s% N- ,ng P. - nover felt so w.l! In his Iif, nd' 1-.-i 1i eoi l livo ft i.. or, if lio could S j;Ct 1'. 11. P." f pm Iwo (11-4ir-d out fr . a- .. .. and :h; confminIe)ent, take P P. Pi It yon ar-o feeling b -.1y In the spring A uut of sorts, tako mir dlgot ive orgEr ie ueed toning up, If yu sui-tfer with leadacho, indigestion, donflifty and weukiess, tak0 P. P. P. If you suiffer with rervous prostration, neorves unstrung and a general let down of tho system, tako P. P. P. For Blood Poison. Ithenatism Scrof ula, Old Sore,i Malia, Chronic 'emalo Conplaints, tako P. P. P. Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium. The best blood pmrifler In the world. rae.l'MAN. BROS., Wholesalo Druggista, Solo l'roprietor, LiPArrM's 1LC.oK, SavanUah, Ga. The Toze Efine Worts, (Successor to Dial Boiler Works.) JOHN A. WILLIS .PROPR. 117 vEST Er VATS STEET. -AR 41 ISC MNANUFI~ACTrURERtS OFj OE '!TEM.S E4NGI1NES uid all sizes (. both LovonIotive.s and re- S tir- Tablat Boilers. 2T'Foundry work in tron and Bras Re miring promisptly e xcecuted. T'ALBOTT SON'SE BNGIN iS BOILER~S, SAW MILLS AND GRISTV MILLS ',.re ackneowledged to be the be.4t ever sold in t.his State. When you buy one of themciyou areu satisfied c tl, you lhave made no mIceistaike. WVrite for our prICes,] Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses AT BOTTOM LVIGURxE.s I can save you nioney'. V. C. Badham, Gen. Agt.,i CEPLIJIIBIA, N. C. FjrIIomue olilce and Factory, ERICINIO.ID, VA. COMPLETE qINNERIE, (TI'ON THiE M. ST ALPRO)VED) Upans, with Suc tonl Fan or Speiked - Belt Seed Cotton Elevator furnIshed at COTTON GINS and PRESSES of best nakers. TPhomnas Hay Rakes, Deering Niowers, Corbin Harrows andi Planet, Jr., 'Jultivators. A large stock of Portable and Stationary ainniiin); and Sawv Miii Engi~nes on hand. State Agents for t C. & G. COOPER & CO'S Coriss En- . lines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Comn-. pany's conmplete line. WV. 11. GIBBES, ,Jn., & CO., Near Unione Depot, COLUMurA. S. C. USFEER LIPPMAN flROS., WVholesalo Druggista, Solo Proprietors, Lippmean'sBlock.avanh,Oa A - 4. - FINE SHOW OASES3~ *WAesk for catalogue. TRRYD M.FO CO. ASHVILLE. . TE-. MUSIRang Liniment for MAN and BEAST FOR Forty Years THE STANDARD. For Sale BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 0. BOWEN, -. AroRINEY AT LAW, PICKENS C. 11.. S. C. Money to loan on easy terms, on well cured paper. olice in Court House. July 26'88. rELLS& ORR, J. E. BOGGS Greenville, S. C. Pickens, S. C. IELLS, mlO . & 3OGGS, A'TroNEYs AT LAw, PICKENS, C. U., S. C. I. Fi. ANsEL, C. L. lloLLINowonR, L)Ieo sth CIrut Pickens, S.". Greenville, S. C. LNi & lIOLl lNGSWOnRIf, ATT'onNEvYs AND) CouNsELORis AT I AW, P'ICK(ENS, C. H., S. C. Practice ini all the courts or the State, nid attention given to all business entrust tI to then. nmrh 14-88tf. I LL &-'TE L D)ON I)ELNTIISTS, 122 Main Strel, Greenv Ille, S. C. (Gas giveni every 'I haursday and Friday, uid teeth extracted withiout pain. DENTIST. G RE EN V I L L~ E, S. C. Corner Main and Coffee Streets. DR). J. B, CARPENTER, D)ENTrIST, Will be found at L,iberty oni ld after the st October.' iI.e guarantees :~ i his work b e first class. - . feb 13'90 I)1 T. I) (AIRL 1 sL, D)ENT ISTL, (AIEtaE N V L LE, M. C. Office over Westmoreland Bros. & Duke's )rug Store. Jan 1 '898. )R. FRANK SMITH s now permanently located at V.asley, S. )., and respectfully offers his professional ervices to the public generally. Jan 2 90. J. C. Fitzgerald, PHOTOGRAPH ER, GREENVILLE, S. C, Over Westnmoiand Brothers Drug Store. UI work done by the instantaneous process. Use make enlargetwnts from old pictures o any eize In water e >lors, crayon, India nk, oil and plain photographs. oct 24 tf. iMANSON HOUSE, GREENVILL E S. C., IIE1 MANSION HOUSE HAS -.been newly refitted and excelleatly urnishied. It Is first class In its ap iointmients, and Is one of the best hotels In he South. Situated in the healthiest and ost delightful locality in the country, It ners superior attrations to visitors and noffeisine cannot be excellad In any city.