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RESUROENT. Only a bunch of withered flowers, Eaded and brown and old, But memory makes them gay once more With purple, white and gold. Tb. pInk spring beauty greets us first, Fed by the melting snow. And ground nut blossoms show the place Of hidden stores below. The pure wake-robin on the hill Greets the first bird again, The starry blood root in the doll still leaves its crimson stain, Jack-in the-pulpit preaches yet To little woodland folk, And liverworts and violets grow At the feet of the hollow oak. The dainty waxen Indian pipe Beneath the beach tree springs, And the golden bell of the adder tongue Still lightly sways and swings. It tolls the knell-that fairy bell Of childhood's hopes and fears And ushers in the toll and sin Of later, sadder years, And so I kept the faded flowers. My old time playmate gave, Witn grasses sweet that grow abovo A lonely Western grave. SONG OF THE SHIRT *ev, Dr. Talmage's Eloquent Bormion #.n Womals Work. BROOKLYN, June 3 --Itev. T. De Witt Talmage, who is now on his round the world journey, has chosen as the sub ject for today "Martyrs of the Needle," the text being Matthew xix, 24, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." Whether this "eye of the needle" be the small gate at the side of the big en trance of the wall of the ancient city, as is generally interpreted, or the eye of a I needle such as is now handled in sowing I a garment I do not say. In either case It would be a tight thing for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But there are whole caravans of fatiues and hardships going through the eye of the sewing woman's needle. Very long ago the needle was busy. I It was considered honorable for women i to toil In olden time. Alexander the Great stood in his palace showing ear- i ments made by his own mother. The t finest tapestries at Bayeux were made I by the queen of WIlliam the Conqueror. t Augustus, the emperor, would not, wear I any garment except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal : family. So let the toiler everywhere be , respected! The greatest blessing that could have I happened to our first parents was i being turned out of Eden after 1 they had done wrong. Adam and Eve, in their perfect state, might have got along withOut work, or only such slight employmbnt as a perfect garden, with no weede in it, demanded. But as soon as they had shinned the best thing for them was to be turned out where they would have to woik We know what t withering thme it is for a man to hav nothing to do. Good old Ashbal Green, at fourscore years, when asked why he kept on working, said, "I do so to keep out of mischief." We see that a man who has a largs amount of money to start with has no chance. Of the thousand prosperous and honorable men that you know, 999 had to woi k vigorously at the biginning. But I am now tell you that industry .is inst as important for a woman's sato ty and happiness. The most unhappy women in our communilies today are those who have no engagements to call| them up in the morning, who, once hav-. ing risen and breakfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, readmgni the last novel, and who, having drag.gedi through a wretch-'d forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep, and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick up their cardcase and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings wait-. lug for somebody to come in and break up the mono'.ony. Arabella Stuart nev er was lmprisaned in so dark a dung~eon as that. There is no happiness in an idle wo-6 man. It may be with hand, it may be with I brain, it may be with foot, but work she i must or be wretched forever. The little |} girls of our families must be started with I that idea. The curse of out American i mociety is that, our young women are r taught that the first, second, thir'i, fourth r -filth, sixth, -seventh, tenth, fIftieth, I thousandth thing in their life is to get I somebody to take care of theo. Instead of that, the first lesson should be how 'under God, they may take care of them- I selves. The simple fact is that a ma- I jority of them (d0 have to take care of h themselves, and that, too, after having, c through the false notions of their par-s ents, wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully ti to maintain themselves. We now and f1 here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and ii outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhcod. e having given them no facility for earning 8 their livelihood. Mine. do Stael said. v "It is not these writings that I am ploud g of', but the fact that I have facility in 10 i oscupations, in any one of which I couldi u mak aliveliood."a You say you have a fortune to leave t, them. 0 man and woman, have you not n learned that, like vultures, like hawks, o like eagles, riches have wings and ih fly away? Though you should be Buc. n cesil In leaving a competency behind ti you, the trickery of executors may w swamp it in a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get np a ir fictitious company and induce your or- ki phans to put their money into it and if it h no ot prove to them that it was eternal- h ly decreed that that was the way they n~ were to lojxe It, and that it went in the h moat orthodox and heavenly style.b Oh the damnable schemes that pro- 1i tesaChrIstians will engage in-until ci God puts his fingers into the collar of the hypocrites robe and rips it clear down si to the bottomi You have no right, be n cause you ate well oil, to conclude that i your children are going to be as well oft. o A mant died, leavmng a large fortune, h His on fel dead hra lhiladephia grog- r said as they bent over hIs corpse, "What f Is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The i surgeon, standing over him,said,'"Rush - up; he is dead!" "Ah, he is deadl" they fI satd. "Come, boys, let us go and take * a drink in memory of' poor Boggseyi" Rave you nothing better than money c to leave your childrep? If you have not but send yur daughters Into the world I. with empt brain and unskilled hand, c you are gulyof assassination, homicide rV o, nfaticide. There are women In our cities for $3 and *4 per jI wekwowere .the daughters of mer chant princee. These suffering ones now would beglad to have the crumbs that once toll fronm their farthers' table. That wornout, brmoken shoe that she wears Is 1 the lineal descendant of the *12 galters in which her mnother walked, and thatE torn anld faded calloe had ancestry of. magnificent brocade that swept Broad way clean without any expense to the itreet commissioners. Though you live n an elegant residence and fare eumptu Mly every day, let your daughters feel it is a disgrace to them not to know how to work. I denounce the idea prevalent in society that, though our young wo nen may embroider slippers and crochet knd make mats for lamp3 to stand on vithout dipgrace, the idea of doing any hing for a livelihood is dishonorable. * It a a shame for a young woman belong ng to a large family to be intflicient, yhen the father toils his life away for ier support. It is a shame for a daugh er to be Idle while her mother tolls at hbe washtub. It is as honorable to iweep house, make beds or trim hate as it is to twist a watch chain. As far as I can understand, the liae of respectability lies between that which is useful and and that which is usele:-s If women (o that which is of no valun, their work Is honoratle. If they do practical work, it Is dishonorable. That our young women may escape the cen - uro of doiog dishonorable wwtk I shall particularize. You may knit a tidy br tLe back of an armchair, but )y no means make the money, wherewith to I. ny the chair. You may, vith delicate irush, beautify a mantle >rnament, but (ie rather than earn nough to buy a marble mantle. You nay learn artistic music until you can quall Itahan, but never ciog * Orton rille" or "@ld Hundred." Do nothing )ractizal, if you would, in the eyes of re ined sociefy, preserve your respectabili ,y. I scout these linical notions. I tell ?ou no woman, any more than a man, ias a right to occupy a place in this rorld unless she pays a rent for it. In the course of a lifetime you con. ume whole harvests and droves of cat. le, and every day you liva breathe 40 ogsheads of good pure air. You must >y some kind of usefulness, pay for ill his. Our race was the last thing creat d-the birds and fishes on the fourth lay, the cattle and lizards on the fifth lay and man on the sixth (lay. If geol. igists are right, the earth was a million if years in the possession of the insects, >easts and birds, before our race came ipon it. In one sense, we were inno. 'ators. The cattle, the lizardA and the Lawks had preemption right. The ques ion is not what we are to do with the izards and summer insects, but what he l;zirds and summer insects are to lo with us. If we want a place in this world, we aust earn it, The patridgo makes its wn nest before It occupies it. The lark oy its morning song, earns its I.reakfast efore It eats it. The Bible gives an ntimation that the first duty of an idler 3 to starve when it says if lie "will not vork neither shall he eat." Idleness uina the healtki, and very soon nature iays: "This man has refused to pay his :ent. Out with himI" S'ielety is to be reconstructed on the subject of woman's toil. A vast m ity of those who would have womanI ii. dustrious shut her up to a few kinds 01 work. My judgment in this matter fi that a woman has a right to do any. thing she can do well. There should be no department of merehandise, me. chaniam, art or science barred againsl her. If Miss losmer has geniur foi sculpture, give her a chisel. If Ros3 Bonheur has a fondness for dehneating animals, let her make "The HIorst Fair." it Miss Mitchell will studly as tronomy let her mount the starry lad der. if Lydia will be a merchan L lel her sell purple. If Lucrecla Molt will preach the gospel let her thrill with hioi womanly eloquence the Quaker mecetimg It is said it woman is given such op portunitics she will occupy such phaces hat might be taken by men. I[ say, if he have more skill and adaptednees for may piosition than a man has, let her iave hI She has as much right to her >read, to her apparel and to her home its men have. lBnt it is said that her nature is so del1. cate that she is unfitted for exhaustinag oil. I1 ask in thes name of all past his ory what toil on earth is more severe, xhausting and tremendous than that 1 the needlle, to which for ages she has een subjected? The battering ram, hie sword, the carbine. the battleax, ave made no such havoc as the needle. would that these livimg sep~ulchere in rhich women have for ages been buried light be op~ened, andl that some resur ection trumpest might bring up these ving corpses to the fresh aIr and sun *ght. Go with mxe, and I will show you a oman who, by hardest toil, sup. orts her children, her dIrunken husband mer old father and mother, pays her ouse rent, always has wholesome food1 a the table, and when she can get ome neighbor on the Sabbath to coims and take care of her family appears church with hat andl cloak that are ir from indicating the toil to which abe subjected. Such a woman as that has body and >ul enough to it her for any position, be could stand beside tihe majority of our salesmen and dispose of more ods. She couldl go into your whieel right shops and best one half of your orkmen at making carriages. We talk bout woman as though we had r esiignedl her all tile light work, and ourssives id shouldered the heavier. u the dlay ~judgment, which will reveal the suf rings of the stake. and icquisition, will arshaf before the throne of God and~ e hierarchs of heaven the mart~rs of ashtub and needle. Now, i say, it there be any preference occupation, let woman have it. God lows her trials are the severest. By ir acuter sensitiveness to misfortune, f her hour of anguish, I demand that ) one hedge up her pathway to a Jiveli od. Oh, tihe meanness, the despica lity of men who begrudge a womnan the aiht to work any where in any honorable lingi I go still further and say that women iohld have equal compensation with en. By what principle of justice is it iat women in many of our cIties get 21y two thirds as much pay as men, and many cases only half? Here is the gi. minti inlustice-that for work equally ell if not better done woman receives r less than man. Start with the na onal government. For a long while omen clerks in Washington got $900 >r doing th it for which men reieived 1,800. To thousands of y.ung women io our ities today there is only tils alternative -starvatIon or dishonor. Many of the irgest mercantile establishments of our itles are accessory to those abomina Ions, and irom their large establish aents there are scores of souls being >itched ofr Into death, and their employ ra know It. Is there a God? Will there be a jadg sent? I tell you, If God rises up to re ress woman's wrongs, many of our arge establishments will be swallowed p quIcker . than a South American arthquake ever took down a city. Godi rill natnh t~hese oppressonr between the two millstones of is wrath and grit them to powde I! I bear from all this laud tho wail womanhood. Man has nothing to ai swer to that wall but flitteries. le say she Is an angel. She is not. She kno% Ohe 1 ilot. She is a hu'man being, wh getc hungry when she has no food, an cold when she has no fire. Give her u more flatteries; give her justice! There are about 50,000 sawing girls I Now York and Brooklyn. Across th darkness of this night I hear their deat groan. It ii not such a cry as come from those who are suddenly hurled ou of lifHe, but a slow, grinding, horribl wasting away. Gather them before yol and look into thcir faces, pinched, ghasl ly, hunger struck. Took at their inger needle pricked and blood tipped! Se that prematurc stool) in the shoulders H-ear that dey, hacking, morciless cough At a laro meeting of these womei held in a hall in Philadelphia, grati speeches were (elivered, but a needl woman took the stand, threw aside he fAded shawl, and withd her shriveled aro hurled a very thunderbolt of eloquence speaking out the horrors oi her own ex porience. Stand at t lie corner of a street in Ne% York in the very early morning as thi women go to their work. Many of ther had no 1brenaxfast except the crumbs tha were cfu over from the night before or crust they chew on their way througl the street. Hero they come the worklni girls of the cit)! These engaged ii beadwork, these in fliwer making, ii milnery, enmohng, cigar making, bool binding, labeling, leather picking, prin coloring, paper box making, but, mos overwoi ked of aIl and least com pensatei the sewing woman. Why do 'icy no take the city cars on their wa up? They cinnot, i'ord the liv cents. I I cticluding to d(n: hersell somethiiv else. she gets intl the car, give her a seat! You want t< see how Latimer and Ridley appeare< in the lire. Look at that woman an behold more horrible mnartydom, a hot ter tire, a more agonizing death! One Sabbath night, in the vestibuli of my church, after service, a womai fell in convulsions- The doctor sal she needed medicine not so much a something to eat. As she began to rc vivo, in her delirium she said gasping ly: "ltight cents! Eight cents! igh cents! I wish I could get it done! I au so tired! I wish I could get some sleel but I must get it done." We founi afteward that she was making gat ments at 8 cents apiece, and that sh could make but three of them in a da) Hear it! Three times eight are twen ty-four! Hear it, men and women wh have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villians of the cit are the employers of these womer They beat them down to the last pen ny and try to cheat them out of that The womau must deposit a dollar o two before she gets the garments t work on. When the work is done, 1 is sharply inspected, the most insli nificant [laws picked out, and ti wages refused, and sometime the do lar deposited not given back. Ti Women's Protective union reports case where one of thEse poor soul fInling a place where she could gi more wages, resolved to change eu ployers and went to get her pay f work done; The employer says, "I he: you are going to leave me ?" "YeE she said, "and I have come to get wl you owe me." Ile made no answt She said, "Are you not going to p, me?" "Yes," ho said, "I will pay yt anmd lie ktcked her (10wnl the stairs. 11ow are these evils to be eradicate< What have vou to answer, yo-.1 who sa coats and have shoes made and co tract for the southern and westei markets? What help is there, whi panacea, what redemption ? Some sa "Give women the ballot." Wnat effet such ballot might have on other que; tions I am not here to (discuss, bn what wvould be the effect of fema suffrage upon woman's wages? I c not believe that woman will ever gi justice by woman's ballot. Indeed, women oppress women mnuch as men do. Do not wvomen, much as3 men, beat down to the lowe figure the wonman who sews for them Are not women as sharp as men c washerwvomen and milliners and mai tua makers ? If a woman asks a dolha for her work, does not her female en plover ask her If she will not take cents'? Yen say, "Only 10 cents dif'e: once," but that is sometimes the di ference between heaven and hli Women have often less commiseraio for wvomen than men. If a woma steps aside from the path of virtu< man may forgive-woman, neven Woman will never get justice done he from woman's ballot. Nevr will she get it from man's bal lot. How, then ? Gdd will rise up fo her. God has more resources than w know of. 'l'he flaming swordI tha hung at Eden's gate when woman wa; driven out will cleave with its terribi edga her oppressors. .liut there is something for our womn en to dlo. Let our young people prepara to excel in spheres of work, and the;' will be able after awhile to get large wages. If It b)e shown that. a womat can in a store sell more goods in a yea than a man, she will soon be able no only to ask but to demand more wa ges, anid to dlemandi thorm successfully Unskilled andl incompetent labor innsl take what is given. Skilled and comn potent labor wvill eventually make itm own standardl. Admitting that th( law of supply anti demand regulatea these things, I contend1 that the do mand for skilled labar 13 very great and time supply very small. Start with the idea that work is hon. able, and that you can do some one thing better than anyone else. Rtesolye that, God helping,you wilt take care of yourself. If you are after awhile called into anotther relation, you will all the better be qualified for It by your spirit of self reliance, or if you are called tc stay as you are you can be happy and self supporting. Poets are fond of talking about miar: as an oak, and woman the vine thai climbs it, but I have seeon many a tret fall that not only wvent down Itself, but took all thme vines with it. I can tel: you of something stronger than an oai for an ivy to, climb on,, and that is tht throne of the groat Jchovah. Singlt or affianced, that woman is stronge1 who leans Oni God and does her best The needle may break,the factory ban( may slip, the wages may fall, but ovem every good woman's head there art spread the two great,gentle, stupendoni wings of the Almighty. Many of you will go single handet through life, and you will have tc choose between two characters. Youni momnan,1I am sure you will turn you1 back upon the useless, giggling, paint ed nonentity which society ignomnini ously acknowledges to be a woman anc ask God to make you an humble,active earnest Christian. What will become of that godles! disciple of fashion ? What an insult tc her sex! Her manners are an outragt upon decency. She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the car r et than how she will look in the judg mont; more worried about her frecklet than her sins; more interested in hem bonnet strings than in her redemptioni HeOr apparel is the poorest part of a (Chrintfan moan, howev. .man id cently dressed, and no one has so muoh right to dress well asa Christian. Nrot Df so with the godless disciple of fashion, 1- Take her robes, and you take every. 8 thing. i)eath will come down on her some day and rub the bistre off her 0 eyelids and the rogue off her cheeks, and with two roug, bony hands scat ter spangles and gl83 beads and rings 0 and ribbons and lace and brooches and buckles and sashes and frisettes and u golden clasps. 'khe dying actress whose life had Ii been vicious, said: "Whe scene closes. a Draw the curtain." Generally the L tragedy comes first and the farce after. D ward, but in her life it was first the a farce of a useless life and then the . tragedy of a wretched eternity. Compare the life and death of such a one with that of some Christain aunt that was once a blessing to your house hold. I do not know that shG was ever offerea a hand in marriage. She lived l single, that untrammeled she might be everybody's blessing. Whenever a the sick were to be visited or the poor r to be provided with bread, she went i with a blesslag. She could pray or sing Rock of Ages for any sick paupar who - asked her. As she got older there were days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sun. beam--just the one for Christmas eve. She knew better than any one else how to fix things. 11er every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest tbings in all the house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the I grandest notion she ever had was to I make you happy. She dressed well c aunties always dressed well-but her L highest adornment was that of a meek t and quiet spliit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price. When she died L you all gathered lovingly about her, and as you carried her out to rest the Sunday school class almost covered the coilin with japonica, and the poor peo ple stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bit terly, and the man ot the world said, 1 with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies," and Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judwa, commanded, "I say unto thee, arise." Whalemale Removal. WASHINGTON, June 8.-Not only of flee holders, but boardinghouse keepers and busin ss men are becoming stirred -tup over Othe recent and still contin t uing dismissals in the different depart 1 ments. About one tenth of the popula tion of the city is employed by the i government. That one-tenth represents at least 50,000 people, whose happiuess B in a large majority of cases depends upon the regular receipt of the envel opes at the end of the month. When 3 one-fifth of the population is thus in timately interested in office holding, it V is easy to imagine the widely divergent effects of such sweeping charges as - have taken place in the past month. - Between 700 and 800 have been dis r charged from the government printing 0 oillce, and though Public Printer Bene .t dict has said that no more wholesals I dismissals will be made, it is e likely the end is not yet in L- the bee hive on North Capitol t0 street. In the war department, since a April, nearly 350 clerks have been re. , moved, and others are expected to go at in the near future. These will be in 1- company with about 300 of the census )r bureau employes and those of other ,r departments when the Dockery bill , bcomes a law. It may, therefore, be At safely estimated that at least 2,000 per r. sons will have to look for other employ L, ment before the winter comes. Among ," there dismissed, particularly in the 1war department, are men who have SivdagnrtoinWashington, and 1have conmc to regard it as their home. ri- Some may have managed to buy comn n1 fortable homes, and the loss of their Lt regular monthly stipend causes them Y, to wonder how they may now continue it to occupy them. Others havie been so 3- long at one desk that by reason of their it age they are absolutely unlitted to en 1e gage in other occupations even were 0 there any opening f or them, in view It of this outlook a movement Is contemp lated to engraft on the Dockery bill a is provision that to those clerks who will 1s be removed under it a year's notice be it given. This, it is contended, will en i' able them to look around for other U employment, so that they may adjust 1- themselves more readily to circumstan ir ces when they cease to derive their I- moans ot support from the government, 0 Secretary Iloke Smith sent to congress, 7- in reply to a resolution, the number of 5- dismisals made by him in his depart I. went, and also some oth or particulars. LI Thle most striking fact in the reply is ri that 212 old veterans have been remov %, ed. It is stated that there were 60 re I instated whichl means men who were r removed before this administration came into oflce, or who lost their places -for other reasons. Between March 4, r 1893, and A pril 19, 1894, the list show~s B thlat there were 760 appointments, 170 t reinstatements, 883 dIsmissals, andl 89 Sresignations by request. A shocking Tragedy. - BENNET TBV LL E, June 6.-OGur usualy ,quiet and orderly towni has been r shocked by a tragedy unparalleled in sadness. Lamst night about 9:30 o'clock a horseman, with lightning speed, rushed up town to notify physicians and relatives that Mr. J. D~onglas Moore had been shot down with a1 double barreled shotgun at tile resi dlence of Mr. Ihenry T. JBreeden by Mr. Bireeden himself. They are both resi dents of this townl and are brothers-in law, Mr Broeden having married Mr. Moore's sister. They are young men, representatives of the very best and most pirom-inent familie, in Marlboro county, and hlad been fast friends. Your correspondent immediately se cured a buggy and drove to thle place of tile sad affair. I found three physi clans and about one dozen citizens present. Mr. Moore was stretched on a mattress on the floor of one of the porches near where he was shot and fell. Your correspondent obtained thle following facts: Both men were un der the influenae of liquor, they drank together in Breeden's hlouse; hot words passed in reference to family matters. Breeden got his gun, but Moore in duced him to put itup; they then drank t together. Moore started home, and was on the porch near the steps when shot. The load entered just below tile navel. Tile wound bled profusely.and the unfortunate man suffered much pain. Moore told your correspondent that ho was leaving for home andl was shot without provocation. Mrs. Adams proprietress of tile Adams Ihouse, is the mothler of Mr. Moore, and she, with her daughter, Miss Moore were* sent for. Whlen they arrived I witnessed the moat touching and heartrending scene of my life. Kmrly tis mornling the wounded man was removed to his mother'a. IHis two uncles and cousin arrived from the country. Iils ante I mortem statement was taken by Trial Julstice Easterling. The contents of the statement have not Ibeen made public. Dr. C. Kollock of Cheraw, assistedl by local physicians, by investigation discovered that the bladder h~ad been shot to pieces, and they at once pronounced his case hope less, ie can live but a few hours, Moore stated that he entertained no ill will toward Breeden apd that he freely for g ave him. Whiskey caused the trouble. No arrests have been made this even ing...-State. CROP CONDITIONS. The ntretin Weekly iulttei of t1h1 State We %I h or Service. COLUMBIA, June 7.-The following is the weekly bulletin of the coradition of the weather and the crops thiough out the State, Issued Yesterday by State Observer Bauer: The temporary condition varied greatly during the week, beitig favora ble and nearly normal for the last days of Miy, but on June 1st there came a cold wave that carried the mercury low enough for very light frosts in ex posed places in the Piedmont country. Damage done by the frost to the har dier plants was inconsiderable, scarcely worth noticing, but the low tempera. ture damaged cotton very much and checked the fine recovery it was mak ing from the previous cold weather. Saturday and Sunday wgro warm and seasonable. There was a plenty of sunshine, with a percentage of from 80 to 90 for the whole State. The rainfall was generally light or wanting, except in the range of the counties bordering on North Carolina, two tiers deep, ex tending also along the upper coast. There were showers in Beaufort coun ty. Florence county reports too much rain, and Williamsburg a plenty. The need for rain is widespread throughout the State and the drougut is becoming serious in localities with sandy soil. All crops would be much benefitted by a general, soaking rain, gardens stand ing in especial need of it. Of cotton it can be said that its con dition is not as good as it was two week's ago,taking the State as a whole, and during the past week the best that can be said of it is that it remained at a standstill as the direct effect of the few cold nights, but at the present time it is next to impossible, and the attempt will not be made in this bulle tin to make an estimate predictive of the crop a month or two ahead. While it is reported that the stand is dying, except in favored localities; and infest ed with lice; and developing "sore shank;" and the ground lacking mois ture for growth or germination of late planting; and the large leaves shrivel ing and dropping off and the stalk turn ing red; and fields being replowed and replanted; and the crop generally from two to three weeks late, yet with plen ty of rain and a continuation of the warm nights of the past two days, or in general terms,with favorable weath er the condition of this staple would improve rapidly for it is not yet in such a hopeless state but that a full crop may be made. Much depends upon the vleather of the next two weeks. Corn continues to keep a good heal thy color, but does not grow much. Warmer weather will, however, make a vast improvement in a short time. A A little damage by worms noted. Rice doiLg very well, although these cold nights were not favorable for its growth. Oats harvest continues or is linishng in different parts ot the State, and wheat harvest well begun with nn even yields of both crops. No change to be noted from previous reports. Irish potatoes being dug in eastern portions of the State. The yield Ma poor and the potatoes small, but they bring satisfactory prices. A large yield would have made this a very paying crop for truck farmers and planters near shipping points. Too cool for sweet potatoes. Tobacco doing fairly well. Mels not growing much, and in localities show a. touch of frost. They are In blossom in some places. Blackberries ripening with promise of large yield, and will be about the only fruit of any abundance. Second crop of figs promises an immenae yield along the coast. The few a pples lett in the western counties are dropping badly. All field crops are wvell worked and clean and could stand a great deal of rain. The following places report an inch or more of rain during the past week: Georgetown, 1.00; Beaufort 1.70; Eflingham 1.28. Ir Was Uncle Sam's Money. SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.--The claim of $15,000,000 filed against the Stanford estate by Attorney General Olney as a preliminary step to enforce the Gov ernment's claim against the original holders of the Central Pacific grant has awakened much interest here. It is now learned that the Government's claim was presented on May 26, but that an attempt was made to keep the proceeding quiet in order that the fi nancial operations of the estate need not be embarrassed. The late Senator Stanford's estate was recently apprais ed at $17,600,000. Since the appraise ment heavy obligatians have been met and it is stated now that the enforce ment of the Government claim would practically wipe out the estate,not only leaving the widowv penniless, but cut ting off all the beneficiaries under the late Senators will, including the en dlowmnent of 62.500.000 to the Stanford University. It is even said that th~e estate, after the liquIdation of its ac knowledged debts, may not equal the amount of the claim of the Govern ment. In this event Senator Stanford's deed of trust, under which Stanford University wvas founded, , would not stand in case the decision of the Courts should be its favor of the Government and the University would necessarily be sacrIflced to satisfy the judgment. Mrs. Stanford in an interview has sta ted that the Government's claim will be resisted to the fullest extent of her ability. Today Is the last under the law which Mrs. Stanford has to accept or reject the Government's claim. It is believed she illh simply ignore the claim, which in law amounts to rejec tion. It wIll then be in order for the Government to institute suit, 5ither in the United States Courts or the Su premne Court in San Francisco. At torney General Olney's claim was fIled in the Probate Court in San Francisco, before Judge Coffee, where the Stan ford estate is now undergoing Bttle moent. The Other side, COLUMuIA, S. C., Juno 7.- The press dispatches a few days ago gave the | impression that the Governor had talk ed to an unsympathetic and unappre ciative audience. Information has I reached hero frein private sources that the Governor madeo a fine impression 4 and that when he had finished he took I I hand primary of the convention. TIhis 1 resulted in an overwhelming majority In favo- of thre Dispensary law. The< majority was on thie strength of the I LGovernor's speech. The New York l'imos says: "Governor Tiliman's do elarations were constantly greeted ( with a storm of 'dissenting voices arid t ipplause. When he closed his speech t lie asked all who wanted pre hibition I er nohing to raise their hands, and a then he asked those to vote who would ,] l'avor a State Dispensary law if they t could not-havo prohibition. It was 3 'J to 1 for a Dispensary law, and with a arting 'Oh, Igot you!' the GIovernor e left the platform." "Governor Tillman l3 had several times when stopped by dis- o senting cries, declareJt thait he woeuld a win the audience for the Dispensary y Law, and when, at the close of his t speech, he polled the audionee, as al- p ready described, it was with him by an *i everwhelmingr majorty." - SENATOR BUTLER REPLIES To AiUce Ima'i OzritIciu t His Let'er i o Chairman Mitchel), Editor Registor: In your issue of May 31 a correspondent signing him self "Allianceman," referring to my letter in reply to Mr. Mitchel,says: "Sen. ator Butler thinks the subtreasury plan is unconstitutional, and, of course, i never occured to the learned Senatoi that the Constitution might be amended lie says the subtreaisury has beer abandoned, but fails to give the tim when it was abandoned." It seems to me "Allianceman" give his case away when he impliedly ad mits that the Constitution must b amended to make the subtreasury plai Constitutional, and confilrms my view It is gratifying to be reinforced in mn opinion by "Allianceman," who is evid ent)y a man of intelligence, and, I aE sumed, speaks by authority. In regard to the abandonment of th subtreasury, it is only necessary to stat what will not be disputed that tw, subtreasury bills were introduced in th House in the Fif ty-first Congress, whic1 were never reported from the commit tee, and therefore never acted on. L the last Congress there were a numbei of members belonging to the Alliance and in the present Congress there ari quite a number, four or five fron South Carolina. If any one of then has introduced a subtreasury bill I hav failed to hear of it. I think, therefore I was juStifned in saying it had beei abandoned. Further along "Alliancernan" says: "le can see no way of the govern ment owning and operating railroadi except by the government buyinj those already in existence. Of coursi it has never occurred to the versatili Senator that the government has thi right to build andt equip such roads ai are needed. Millions of laborers woul< be glad of the job at very reasonabb wages to be paid in legal tender green backs-building two, three or fiv thousand miles a year. Oh, no; tho Senator is toogood a railroad attornel to see any other way of having govern inent railroads except by purchase o his client's properity at enormousl] inflated valuation of watered stock But the people have been thinkinj along this line a little in the interesi of the people rather than of the rail. road wreckers and manipulators." Of course if the government is going into the business of buildsng railroads to. give empolyment to "millions ol laborers," a very different propositior is presented. My observations wer based upon the assumption that one o0 the Alliance demands was that the nat ional government should own and op erate all the railroads and telegrapi and telephone lines, now inexistence or hereafter to be built. Such, at least was my understanding of it. It seems however, "Allianceman" proposes t< change the issue add have the govern nfent "build and equip such roads al are needed." Has it occurred to "Al lianceman" that the Constitutior might have to be amended to enablb the Federal government to "build an( equipt" railroads through the States without the consent of the States, it time of peace? In time of war the gov ernment might build railroads, as i military necessity, lut I should doub whether it had this constitutiona power in time of peace. At least it I an open question, with the weight o the argument against it. 'Aliannceman" says, "Oh, no: th Senator is too good a railroad attornie to see any other way of having govern mnentrailroaids except by purchase o his client's property at enormously in ihted valuation of watered stock. Perhaps it will suplrise "Alliancemaln to be told what is a fart, that I neve' had a railroad for a client in my life except on two occassions, many yearl ago, and then for a very short time. It has usually been my fortune to be or the other side in railroad cases, so thal my clentage of railroad could not havy been very heavy, and 1 could not havi a very large Interest in the purchase 0; railroads by the govarnment. Let "Al lianceman" "pick his hlint and try 11 again." Very truly yours. M. C. BUTLER. Washington, June 2. .Civil Wvar in Illinois, 1.'EORIA, Ills.,. June 6.-One deat body, several men on the verge of thi gya number of others seriously in .uired, $30,000 worth of property abso lutely destroyed any many homes madl desolate, was the result of an attempl made to-day by the miners of the Peorf distfict to close the mine operated b3 Little Brothers in Taz~ewell County, a mile or more back of Wesley City. The dead man was Edward Blower, of Bar tonville, married, shot in the side of reck and kill instantly. The Injured are Jamnrs Little, sho*. twice in the body, thought to be fatally injured Peter Littie, secretary, shot in the left Bye andl in right arm, not, seriously in pured; Peter Little, ,Jr, shot in the left side; Wmn Diedon, colored, shot in right irm and through left shoulder, may die, Several minors were shot, Dut they were taken away and no one could so mre any Information from them about mythinug. Tile tragedy was the sequal >f the meeting held at Bratonville. the >ther day about which there was so nuch secrecy. No one could- get the 'aintest inkling of what was done at he meeting. Now .everybody knows. Et was decided at that time that the little Brothers minemust close. There :auld be no equivocation, no half-way neasure. It must close and remain :losed. Inconsequence of the conclus on arrived at the meeting abont four mund red miners started out of Barton ,ille at 1 o'clock this af ternooh. They :ame from nearly all the mines in the listrict. Without anything leing pro. riously said on the subject, except in he utmost secrecy, every man appar mntly came armed. They were desper ito and were ready to use dlesperate neans to accomplish desperate ends. sheriff Frederick, of Pekin, Taswrell Jounty, having D'een advised of the rouble went to the mines with a posse. ['he strikers crossed the Illinois on >oats and were met on the~ side by the heriff who commanded peace and rea. oned with them in vain. Led by a ~talwart miner with a revolver in eac h mand; crying, "Follow me," they barged on the mine. T1he two Littles d tneir sons and a colored man re reated into the tower over the shaft nd opened fire on the besaf Irers, some if whom fell. Thellire Wvm~ returned md thme men in the tower hoisted a vhitce ilag for surrender. Tihe firing vas hotly continued and the tower rid ied. Theim shaft was set on fire and the Id shaft closed. The crowds fled in ismay, as it was feared the powder ouso would be ignited. Later accounts how that of the party besieged John ackson, a negro, was kiiled. Ed Lit Ic was shot in the breast and may die 'here were eight or ten miners in the haft and it is feared all were ,suffocat d. Among these are Gus and Fred Iorltz and John Rockey. Ed Blour, no of the a'ttacking party, was killed ndl half douzen oilher strikers were 'ounded, It is believed two more of ie strikers will die. *The Sheriff and 0sse have returned to Pekin. They 'ore unable to -handle the mob. 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