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y %.v. . V^T***y^"*1*' ' "**""* " ** TIE WEEKLY dpi 01101 TIMES. 1 r. ???' I .*" *i>Sr*~T^^^^^BR'" 1 J <*> ' j'^ ' *> t ? =* (^ Devoted to Agrlouiture, Horticulture, DomesticEoon^p^^^Mjfe literature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. XXI.?NEW SERIES. linnmn r. H. Airnitwr * ism> NUMBER 31. - : -- .. . _ ?*J XJ?V L. J !>' * ' ' I II ? i"* v y.m 'iy I w ^jnciAfiy >.i " THE CHAIRMAN Or THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN DEFENCEI)r. Sumption JPopo's Charge Against Hh Action,?The Case Summed Up as it Stands and 1'resented to tlie l'ublic. The following correspondence between Col James A. Hoyt, chairman of the Democratic Skat? Executive Committee, and Dr. Sampson Pope, of Newberry, S. C., explains itself: Grkenville, S. C , July 7,1890. Dr. Sampson Pope, Newberry, S. C.: Dear Sir?In the proceedings of the Democratic County Convention of Newberry County, I find the following statement in the preamble and resolutions introduced by you: "Said Executive Committee did meet, and uy a vote 01 tnntoen to one oia refuse to (five us a State primary." As this refers directly to the meeting of the State Executive Committee, held May 9 th, 1890, I respectfully ask that you will furnish -me with your authority for making the state- ; ment. It is a matter of simple jus- 1 tice to the Executive Committee that ; un unqualified statement, purporting i ^ t* give its precise action at a definite < W time, shall rest upon good authority, 1 or else that that the statement be re- ] tracted, if unsupported by such au- < thority. Lot mo assure you that no 1 such action was taken, and that your ] in formation is entirely incorrect. The 1 Executive Committee has never vo- 1 ted upon the question of a State pri- 1 mary at all. I hopo you will recog- < nize the importance and propriety of ; correcting so gross an error, which ' docs a flagrant injustice to gentle- < men occupying a responsible posi- ] turn in the Democratic party of this i Stat#. On other points we may dif- i fer widely, but there can be no dif- 1 f. rence of opinion as to the obvious i course on your part to rectify this i A matter, which has obtained the sane- I tion of a County Convention through i your instrumentality. i Very truly yours. i James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Democratic Exe- i cutive Committee. i I Nkwbehry, S. C., July 8th, 1890. < Dear Sir?The resolution referred . to the refusal of the committeo in May (a day or two after the Ridge- 1 way speech) to call a convention 1 looking to the question of n primary < being submitted to it. My recollec- \ iiou when 1 drew it, was, uuu is now, j that N. G. G. in his letter published i t lie next morning in the News and i Courier,stated the Executive Com- < mitbee stood 18 to 1, and stated, I i think, "that it was no secret." If you ] have the paper you can, by examin- 1 ing it, see whethor or not I was i wrong. I have not a copy of it. < Very respectfully, i Sampson Pope. < 1 Greenvxi.t.e, S. C., July 14, 1890. 1 Dr. Sampson Pope, Newberry, S. C. i Dear Sir: Your favor of the 8th inst., has been received, and answer I delayed by my absence from home. < Ah I liave already assured you that 1 the State Executive Committee did ; not vote upon the question of a pri- i mary at the meeting held May 8th ] tho reply you make is quite unsatisfactory. You have based an attack upon the Executive Committee on information that is totally incorrect, and your statement in reference to what N. G. G. said the next morning in the News and Courier is equally wide of the mark. He referred to the Executive Committee as being 18 against and one for Tillman, but this is very different from refusing "to give us a State primary" as you allege was done. I will be very glad to know whether you propose to make the correction, and in case you decline to do so, I will print this correspondence in justice to the Executive Committee. Yours respectfully, James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Executive Committee. Newberry, S. C., July 16, 1890. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 14th was received, and in reply I have this to say: Mr. Gonzales obtained information from some member of your committee upon which he based his letters of the 9th and 10th of May to the News and Courier. I have been unable to get a copy of that of the l )th, the one of the 9th being short on accout of the lateness of the hour of adjournment of your committee. He stated, if I recollect correctly, mm me ([u?Htiun 01 u primary wan acted on, and further stated that the committee stood 13 against Tillman to 1 for him. If I recollect properly this last statement was italicized and in figures. Your committee met ^ again on the 25th of June. Our conB vention met on the 28th of June. During all of this time that elapsed between May 8th and June 25th no correction of Mr. G.'s statement was made by your committee, nor was auy action taken upon it at your meeting of June 25tn. You allowed it to stand that 18 of the 14 members present were against Mr. Tillman, and it was only after the publication of our proceedings had on the 28th of June that we near of any denial. We had a right to infer from that statement thai a vote on calling a convention for primary had been taken, and that it stood 18 against and 1 for. You say that no vote was taken; you say no action was taken on the primary. Is it not possible, then that an outside agreement was had on the question, and decided so as to avoid the question coming up in the meeting? If you will give me the names of one or more of the 13 who 'avored a convention for primary outside or inside of the meeting on the 8th of May, I will eheerfully correct to that extent. You go so far in your first letter to question of a primary at all," and that, too, after they had called a convention for that purpose to meet on August 13th. I am not a member of your committee, and do not of course know how you decide matters coming before you, but I do know you decided to call and did call a convention by some means known to yourselves to meet on August 18th to take into consideration a primary. These are not days for quibbling or hair splitting. I am willing that the public shall decide whether or not I have misrepresented your committee. You are at liberty to publish this correspondence from boginning to end and the letter of Mr. Gonzales, published in the News and Courier of May 10th with it, but it must be all published. Very respectfully, Sampson Pope. Greenville; S. C., July 17, 1890. Dr. Sampson Popo, Newberry, S. C. Dear Sir: I am just in receipt of your favor of the 16th inst. I regret that you did not see proper to inform yourself as to the facts before introducing the resolutions into the County Convention. You seem unfortunate also in not being able to procure a copy of the News and Uourior of May lOtb, as that seems to be your authority for making the positive statemeut to which your attention has been called, namely, that the State Executive Committee by a vote of thirteen to one refused to orier a State primary. In order that rou may learn, at this late day, what N. G. G. said in his correspondence an the 10th of May, I will quote the paragraph in full: "The members of the Democratic State Committee left for their homes today. While they iiavo taken no official action in the matter, and have endeavored to make no discrimination in favor of either tho Tillmanites or tho Anti Tillmanites, it is an open secret that the members of the committee regard the Tillman movement, as orgauized and pressed, a serious menace to the solidity of the Democratic party, and that none of the fourteen who gathered here last night are supports srs of Tillman, except Mr. Gary, of Abbeville." I do not know the source from which Mr. GitnzAlnu rppflivnil th? in formation, and which was evidently obtained after the members had left the city, hut I do not doubt the cor f 1 J I i XT i .. i, . i Lt'CtUtbD Ui lii? DUkbCUiOUt. iUt W lithu is the relevancy between his statement and tho declaration you made, deliberately and without qualification, that the State Executive Committee had refused by u vote of thirteen to one to order a State primary? You are obliged to admit that there is no connection whatever between the statement of Mr. Gonzales and the declaration contained in your resolutions. Because thirteen out of fourteen were opposed to Mr. Tillman, as a matter of fact, is no justification whatever for an absolute declaration that is utterly groundless and without the shadow of foundation. The thirteen members who are thus misrepresented by you have just as much right to oppose Mr. Tillman as you bavo to support him, and to distort their opposition to him as being against a primary is one of tho very queer features of this campaign. I repeat again that no such action waB taken on the question of a primary election on the 8th of May, or anything akin to it, and the statement COllUMJieU III JUUI 1UHUXUUUU0 1? outirely baseless and gratuitous. Therefore, you had no right to infer from the correspondence of N. G. G. "that a vote on calling a convention for primary had been taken, and that it stood 18 against and 1 for." It follows that there could be no denial of thing which never existed, and it is Slain enough that your authority isproves your own assertion. The only vote by yeas and nays on that occasion was upon the date for holding the nominating Convention. Some favored September 3rd and others September 10th, which was offered as a substitute, and the vote was upon a motion to lay on the table?ayes 5 and nays 8. The substitute (September 10th) was then adopted. I am not writing at random, but with an exacv ~opy of the minutes before me, nor am I taking so much pains to correct your egregious error on account of any personal reasons, but because you succeeded in getting the endorsement of the Newberry Democratic Convention, thereby giving the declaration an importance in did otherwise possess. I cannot close without giving a moment to the extraordinary query contained in your last favor, wherein you say: "Is it not possible, then, that an outside agreement was had on the question, and decided so as to avoid the question coming up in the meeting? The members of the State Executive Committee have always shown the courage andmanliness to act openly and in accordance with their convictions, and the insinua tier, you make is only another injustice added to the injury already done. There is not the slightest shadow 01 pretext for this violent supposition nn vnuv n?i4 vhinli ia in lradnina with the spirit of Your resolutions. I will farnish tnis correspondence to the newspapers, so that the pub lie may judge as to your course ir this matter. Respectfully, James A- Hoyt, CJhm'n State Dem. Ex. Com. ?While trying to stop a fight al Bakorsvillo, N. 0., on Friday, Stoket Burlinson, a prominent citizen, wai stabbed to death by Mitchell Qreen a notorious rough. Qreen is in jai and may be lynched. "FUHHHUIULUILU WA!T K TJCTRIR. ' "1 A Romantic and Thrilling Story of|the Civil War?How a Letter From Home Canae<l a Ileaertlon. (From the BMltlmore Suu.) New York, July 23.?Tliero was buried at Greenwood yesterday u man with a curious history. He had been a Confederate soldier, as brave as any of his comrades, but he de- i serted his army during the war and was tried by court-martial for doing ' so. Edward Cooper was his nuuie. 1 For tho past year he has been living at No. 355 Fourth avenue. One bleak Docember morning in ' 18G2 he was before a court-martial of i the Army of Northern Virginia. The < prisoner was told to introduce his ' witnesses. Ho replied, "I have no witnesses." Astonished at the calm- * ness with which he seemed to bo 1 submitting to his inevitable fate, Gen. Battlo said to him: "Have you no ; defense? Is it possible that you i abandoned your comrades and de- 1 serted your colors in the presence of | the enemy without reason?" ' "There was a reason," replied Cooper, "but it will not avail me be- 1 fore a military tribunal." < "Perhaps you are mistaken," said 1 the General; "you are charged with i the highest crime known to military < law, and it is your duty to make < known the cause that influenced your < actions." 1 Approaching the president of tho 1 court Cooper presented a letter, say- ? ing as he did so: "There General, is < what did it!" j The letter was offered as the pris- i oner's defence. It fvas in these 1 words: 1 "Dear Edward: Since yoia con- ? nection with the Confederate army ' 1 have been prouder of you than ever ] before. I would not have you do anything wrong for the world, but 1 before God, Edward, unless you come < home we must die! Last night I t was aroused by little Eddie crying, t I called to him and said: What is i the matter, Eddie? Ho replied: Oh, 1 mamma, I am so hungry. And Lucy ! your darling Lucy. She never com- 1 plains. But she grows thinner and 1 thinner every day. Before God, Ed- 1 ward unless you come home we must 1 die. Your Mary. i Turning to the prisoner, General < Battle asked: "What did you do 1 when you received that letter. i Cooper replied: "I made application for a fuilough. It was rejected. Again I made application and it was rejected. That night as I wondered 1 about our camp thinking of my home the wild eyes of Lucy looking up to me and the bnroing tx/hIb Mmj sinking in my brain, I was no lohger * the Confedeiate soldier, but I was the father of Lucy and the husband of Mary. "If every gun in the battery had been fired upon me I would have gassed those lines. When I reached ome Mary flung her arms around my neck and sobbed: "Oh, my Edward! I am so glad you got your furlough." She must have felt mc shudder, for she turned as pale as death, and catching her breath at evory word, she said. "Have you come without your furlough? Go back! Edward, go back! Let me and the children go down to the grave, but for Heaven's sake, save the honor of our name!" There was not an officer on that court-martial who did not feel the force of the prisoner's words, but each in turn pronounced the verdict guilty. The proceedings of the court were reviewed by General Lee, and upon the record was written: "Headquarters a. jn. v.?xne nnaing of the court is approved. The prisoner is pardoned and will report to his company. "R. E. Lee, General." Two Birds With One Gnn. Savannah, Ga., July 19.?A special to the Morning News says: "At Guyton to-day R. G. Norton, Jr., son of a physician of this place, shot and killed two brothers named Willie and John Bird. Yesterday young Norton and Willie Bird traded mules. Today Willie Bird, accompanied by his brother John, went to Norton's place to get him to trade back. Norton refused, and John Bird, drawing his pistol, told his brother to open the stable door and recover his mule. At this point young Norton shot the Birds dead. Norton fled." His Face Was Clean. A rather precocious infant had its christening unfortunately deferred until it was able to talk, and at the > mnn li/tcl tn itn av'o Ai>m a XWUl VT UO UitCU iii ito AODllCi D (UUIO for the ceremony. After the minister had dipped his fingers in the wa1 ter, and made the sign of the cross on her forehead, the unawed child 1 leaned down, and catching up tho 1 long sleeve of his white gown, wiped 1 the water away, calmyl remarking: "Baby' face tlcan. Don't want was1 sin; dot it wassed fore us tummed 1 out!" Killed by a Crow Bar. Union, S. 0., July 18.?A Mi'. Cox, , superintendent of Messrs. Jones A , Co s. works on the Georgia, Carolina & Northern railroad, was killed Wed> nesday evening, near Pish Dam in . mis county. lie was sitting aown , while some negroes were at work building an arch and while some vory heavy rooks were being moved a crow bar dipped and struck him on the head. He died almost instantly. He is said to have been very wealthy. I ?The Governor has offered a rei ward of one hundred dollars for the i apprehension and conviction of per. sons who attempted to assassinate 1 the Itown marshal of Jacksonboro, Colleton county, June 27th. WHITES AND BLACKS. ' Effect of the I*odl??BUL..Tli? Measure, If Enacted end Enforced, Will Cause Trouble In the South. New York, July 24.?When asked , for his views of the probable effect on tho industries of the South of the passage of tho Lodge bill, General Roger A. Pryor said: My opinion is that the enforcement of the bill, if enacted, will iuvitably provoke collisions of violence in the Southern States, and consequently capital will be withdrawn from the South, or at all events it will no louger be spnt thither. Relations between the races in the South are at present perfectly pacific and satisfactory to both, but any attempt Df tho federal government to influence the electoral franchise in the South and so to disturb the equilbrium of the races will provoke resentment No man, whatever his political opin- 1 ions, can travel in the South without being favorably impressed by the contentment and prosperity pervad- ? ng colored communities. "It is to the peaceful relations between the races and their cordial co- , operation in industrial development that the present extraordinary pro- e rrcss is attributable To set the two f classes in hostility, as this bill would lo, would infallibly arrest the course * pf Southern prosperity. It is a nota- i ble fact that collisions botwoen tho ? races in the South have invariably , ind exclusively be?n caused by political controversies. On every ether sublect tho harmony between the races s complete. At prosent there is nothing in the political contests of .he South to exasperate one race igainst the other. But this bill will , mdoubtedly array the factions in implacable antagonism. It may as well be understood, once [or all, that the whites of the South I lo not intend that the blacks shall icquiro the ascendency, and in so far is this bill tends to the accomplish- j; nent of that ascendency it will chal- ! engo resistance. If the races be left J free from Federal intervention, they 1 tvill work out their pacific and in ear- J nest co operation, not only to the * benefit of the South, but to the wel- J faro of the entire country. It is lamentable at this juncture, when everything is so quiet and prosperous in I the South, that a measure should be introduced which cannot but result * in discord and disaster." Hon. J. Siinms, president of the 1 Fourth National Bank, took a different view. Ho tliouerlit the South i would acquiesce in tho operation of J thoJbiU iHt was nut do a law. j will not occasion any serious disturb- * nncos. I don't believe in the bill I un not apprehensive of any violence V on the part of the South in case it should be enforced. Of course mil- . lions and millions of Northern money have gone South for in vestment in the last few years, and that very eonnec- 1 tion will be an influence tonding to 1 control any outbreak that would en- * danger tho enterprises that Northern capital has built up." A Meteor Dropped into His Wagon, j Versailles (Ky.) correspondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat: John Whittaker, of near Oregon Bend this ' county, was driving homo last night, when a meteor flashed across the , heavens, and the next instant a huge stone, measuring about eight feet in diameter, came through the air, and with terrific force crashed into the bed of the wagon directly behind him, grazing the seat he occupied as if /nil Tli n It Aveou ttrow/i ml1<1 AV a vii? xuu uvinto *TWU iivt nibil fright, but the heavy stone pinned the wagon to the earth, and as they could not break the noavy chain traces they were unable to run off. Mr. Wliittaker says he heard the meteor whizzing through the air, but had no idea what it was until he was jolted out of his seat by the crash. A number of sightseers visited the spot today and inspected the wonderful rock. Corpulency Cured by Fasting. P oughkekpsie, J illy 24.?Dr. Chas. K. Barlow, one of tho leading dentists of this city, has taken no food of any kind except a glass of milk or a cup of coffee each day for forty-five days. When ho began fasting he weighed 245 pounds and measured 40 inches around the body. He now weighs 201 pounds and measures 85 inches around tho body. When the forty-five days were up he was ready to eat something substantial, but his appetite failed him and has not yet returned. His board bill for fifty-three days has been less than $2. He says he feels good and has worked hard every day during his fast. His entire food today consisted of a glass of milk and a plate of ice cream. He is about forty years of age. His eyes are bright and his movoments sprightly. Attacked by White Roughs. Greenville, S. 0., July 24.?Jess Mackey, colored, was seriously cut and beaten on Sunday night last by three young white men, whose names are George Rotterse, Walter Beard ana jonn smiui. Mackey claimB that he was near the Columbia and Greenville railroad in the West End, when he was attacked by tho men mentioned above, and if he had not run away would have been seriously hurt. As it is he has a knife wound in the back which is considered dangerous. The young men are under arrest to await the result of the wound. m ' ?The State Farmers' Institute will be held at Ridge Spring, 28th and 29th inst. rilE STATE ALLIANCE. rHE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL SESSION AT GREENVILLE. I'he Annual Addrcm Shown tlie Order lo bo In a nourishing Condition?A Plan for a Mutual Fire and I.ifo InHuranco Company to be lUscuHsed?The. Election of Officers. Gkeenville, July 23.?The South 3arolina State Farmex's" Alliance mot xero to-day?most every county bong represented. The morning session was devoted chiefly to orgnnizaion. The annual address of President itackhouse showed the membership o have increased to 17,500 in the last -wo years. There are 1,052 sub-alliinces in the State. Colonel F. F. Polk, President of die National Fanners' Alliance, adlresstid the alliance in the morning, uxcfloniglit delivered a public addi'ess n the opera house to a lago audience. The most important action was tho appointment of a committee to conider plans for a mutual fire and life usurance company to be operated by he Alliance. Dr. J. William Stokes, of Oxangeiurg, editor of the Cotton Plant, was lected president by acclamation together with all the old officers. Spartanburg was selected as the text place of meeting and following lelegutes were elected to the National Alliance: J. William Stokes, AT t m-1l i. a n t -!- ? i ^ i?. <j. xtuucrt, a. ojuiiraer unci ur. Sugene Jarnigau. second day. Gueenville, July 24.?The Farmira" Alliance of South Carolina met u the Opera House at 9 o'clock this norning. The proceedings during he day were largely devoted to disussions on various topics. The comnitteo which was appointed to pre>are the reports to be given out to ho press gave out the following: The ommittec on legislative demands nade a number of recommendations 1 n line with the demands of the Naional Alliance. The importance of making these demands was set forth, ind it was urged that no candidate )c supported who is not in full sympathy with the demands mado. The Secretaries of the State and County Alliances were forbidden from hereLfter giving out a full directory of the bounty and sub Alliance officers ex:ept by permission of the president ind chairman of the executive comnittee. An appeal was mado to the Alliuico members in the North and Northwest to unite with the South Carolina A liance in condemning the [iodgo bill, t0 Y UCIIOIlt tkixy UJUBb Ul .ClLIiSfllb, uut vill serve to break the force of oui' mited brotherhood in our demand 'or financial refc m. Several amendi .ents to the constitution were adopted. The sub-treasury bill was endoi'sed, xnd it is the sense of the body that xo candidate for Congress should re jeivo our support unless lie favors that measure. The Alliance was positive in its opposition to national banks, and demanded the removal of all taxes on all State banks. Sub and County Alliances were enjoined to take more active interest in the schools of the country. The President urged upon the County and sub Alliances the importance of having their individual seal. The secretaiies of sub-Alliances are urged to press the claims of pa pers tJm^have pressed and will press the dflnands of our order. Tlio rro?ldent'? Addiorn*. Brethren of the State Alliance? In turning over to you the high trust which I have endoavored to execute for you during the two years since your organization, I congratulate you on the growth of the order within the State, on the good your organization han nlwAA/lif n ?-v1 n?\/l Ar\ ih a uno uucttuj a^uuuijmnuuu tuiu uu tuu open prospect for futuro accomplishment. The report of your State organizer shows that the organization has now been planted in every county in the State. Your secretary reports that we now have 1,052 sub-Alliances in the State, an increase of 298 since your last meeting, and an increase of 17,500 members during the year now closing. BENEFITS OF THE ORDER. The improved business methods introduced by the order have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars to the farmers of the State, but important as is this money saving to the farmers of the State, the gain in iu formation and manhood is vastly more important. The Alliance has not only demonstrated the practical benefits of unity, but that it has stimulated and has given direction to individual efforts, is the testimony of observers both in and out of the order. The farmers of the State are more choer ful and hopeful than they have beer fe>r many years, and it will not be de nied by thoso who havo observed and studied the fanner's condition, thai it is mainly due to the beneficienl teachings and operations of your no ble organization. GUIDED BY NOBLE PUBPOSE8. In looking to and arranging foi future operations, we must be guide* by the same declaration of noble pur poses that has enabled us to start s< well. They are founded on truth an* equity. Let us study them and lx guided by them. The safety an* success of our organization is depend leuton our fidoMy and devotion t these noble purposes. ECONOMICAL EDUCATION. The first declaration of purpose b our order shows that it looked to tho I education of the "Agricultural class" i ?that they might bo prepared to j grapple with organized and entrench- ' ed monopoly. I respectfully recom- \ mend a careful study of this entire i lirst dechi atiou of purpose to tho 1 brotherhood in South Carolina. i The education of the "Agcicultui al f class" is the most important work of t tho Alliance, not only in South Carolina, but in every State of this great nation. I recommend that you consider carefully the best methods for the accomplishment of this great educational work. Monopoly?intrenched monopoly, with its mighty influence and power ?must bo met and defeated. This is a task worthy ef the supremest , efforts of the toiling masses of the 1 people of the United States. It is no ? escape if we would pe -etuate free ( Institutions told Pnltghtened ClMstian government. The toiling masses of * tho people of this great nation are j girding themselves for the accom- ? plishment of this task. The agricultural Stutes of this Union are uniting * for the accomplishment of this grand L task. The great Northwest and the s Cotton States will stand together in ii the coming battle with the powers of c monopoly. Tho assaults of the first n skirmish will be recorded in tho elec- g tion results of the National elections n for 1890. But the monster?Monopoly s ?is too firmly established for to be k defeated in a skirmish. It will re- d quire the great battle of 1892 to de- c cido whether the people or whether 5" monopoly shall rule this great nation, t POLITICAL DANGER. The charge of our oponeuts that wo have abandoned agriculture and gone into politics is sufficiently answered by tjie statistical fact of increased area and superior condition of the growing crops. Whence this fear of the farmer in politics? But wo must ever remember that our politics are to be "strictly non partisan." Any departure from the rule will be ?to the extent of tho departure? fatal to the success of the reforms sought. The Alliance is in no sense a political party> nor does it look to the destruction of either of the great political parties, but it is a "strictly non partisan" organization for the defence and protection of the "agricultural classes" against legalized spoliation, and will wait for no change of administration to present its demands. Tho national demands formulated by theSuprcme Council at St. Louis have been considered and passed I upon by the Sub and County Alluuaces. < p[^ocominm^t^t these1 mands and that all matters in .refer- \ encedx^ legislation, State or national, be referred to this committee. Tlie j great consolidation efleeted at St. . Louis since your last meeting, and 1 the unprecedented growth of the Na- , tional Farmers' Alliance and Indus- ( trial Union inspires the hope that the demands of that grand organization, will?at no distant day?receive re- ^ spectful consideration by the Congress 1 of the United States. THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL i COLLEGE. ' < I congratulate the farming and iu- 1 dustrial classes of the State 011 the ] fact, that since your last meeting, the j State has made provision for the es- j tablishment of an Agricultural and Mechanical College at Fort Hill, and that the work of construction is now progressing. 1 The report of your Ex outive Committee shows good and safe linancial management. They have enabled your State organizer, State lecturer t and State president to meet, to the nvfnnf 4lmii? olxilil i' 1 r\ <l/\ nil /In VI IHVH C* Vlll LJ IV UV OWj Ull VIV1 mamls made for their services. I re' commend that tho committees continue the same equitable and wise ar1 rangement in reference to the work of the State lecturer, and that he be required to give his whole time to the work under their direction should it bo demanded. And I suggest further, now that* the work of organization is so nearly completed, that the committee imposo the work of State organizer on the State lecturer. 1 CONSTITUTION. The State Secretary, whe has made your State's constitution a special study, has, by request, prepared for submission to your body a new or a revised constitution, with the purpose to make it more systematic in arrangei ment, less doubtful of interpretation and easier of reference. I recom i mend tliat you take such action as will best secure a careful considera! tion of this new or revised constitur tion. ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. 1 The plan adopted at your last moot, ing for the establishment of "an A1 ) lianco Exchange" has been carried - into active and successful operation, i This report, submitted to this body - as information, will sufficiently explain 1 its operations. Its continued success t is directly dependent on tho patront age of the Alliance brotherhood of - the State. When the business world comes to understand that it has "come to stay," that the Alliance poo pie of the Mate will support it to tlie r extent of their abilitp, it will surely I prove a grand success and benefit the - Alliance membership beyond their ) most sanguine expectations. YOUR ORQAN8. 0 1 The Cotton Plant, your State or 1- gau, is worthy of and should receive o the support of the brotherhood throughout the State. It should make its weekly visits to every Alii- j ance home in the State. The fact | y that most of the State press is opposed bo the demands of the Alliance makes it imperative that our people should read our Stato and national organs, rho National Economist, your national organ, is combatting with chmnendablo fairness and great ability ,he evils and dangers of monopoly. I recommend that the brotherhood of South Carolina give it liberal patronige. SALARIES. I respectfully suggest the propriety ind justice of increasing the salaries >f j-our President and Secretary, as be salaries, as now fixed by your lonstitution, are not fair compensa,ion for the services renderod by ,hoso officers. I trust you will remain in session ong enough to give careful considerition to all matters of interest to the >rder in this State. In conclusion. I want to say that he effort to serve you has been, to ue, a labor of love. I have brought o the discharge of the duties imposed, ay best efforts for the well being of he order. I have been conscious of ay inability to measure up to the roponsibilities imposed upon me. I nvoke your indulgence to the defiiencies and errors in my official adlinistratioH. I want to record my rateful appreciation of the prompt ,nd generous aid given me in their everal departments, by those who lave been associated with me in the li8charge of my offioial duties, and I ongratulate the brotherhood in the >tate on the wisdom of their seleoion. ITEMS OF INTEREST. ? Henry M. Stanley's manuscript s very legible, and scarcely an altera ion is made in a folio. ?A woman buried at New Madrid. do., a few days ago, weighed 750 >oun<!s. There were 10 active pall>eare 8. ?Oiie of Califomia'H pretty heh'sse? is Miss Grace McDonough, who vill inherit a fortune of $3,000,000 rom her mother. ?Senator Wade Hampton lias at awt shaved oil' the side whiskers vhich he has so assiduously cultivated for lo! tliCBo many years. ?The estimated expenditure in tho British navy for the year will be, from all sources, ?19,203,033, while that of the army will lie ill'.),047,800. ?The Emperor of Russia, Alexander II. has just had 1,000 pheasants sent from England to his shooting place, on the Gulf of Bothnia, at an ^^^rejjwth^fo^ff^ached the ears strewn with flowers every day. ?Great fearB prevail all over England thii)b the harvest will bo a total failure, and the archbishop of Cantei bury lias ordered prayers for fine weather to be offered in all the churches. jjAin.-iiiui'mn piuvt* tuat tuc ailautic breakers have a force of three tons to the square foot; thus a surface of only two square yards sustain a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty-four tons. ?According to the statistics gathered by Mr. E. Pnyson Porter, statistical secretary of the international Sunday School convention, there are in the United States 109,252 Sunday Schools, with 8,643,255 scholars and 1,143,100 teachers and officers. ?In the course of his successful career, Capt. McMickan, at present the commander of the Cunarder Urnhria, has made 478 passages across the Atlantic, carrying 165,570 passengers, and sailing on all voyages over a distance of 2,120,800 miles. ?The Rev. John Prince, a Methodist clergyman, aged 80, and Mis. Cynthia Wood, aged 84, were married recently in Montreal. They were lovers in childhood and would have been married sixty years ago, but their parents prevented the match. ?o arnes ineivin, 01 uoncora, mass, has for 1*2 years lain upo* a bed without changing his position. The osseous portions of his body have united into one piece, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet there is not a joint responsive to his will. ?A German of Detroit tried to figure the height of 100,000,000 silver dollars if placed one on top of the other, and because he couldn't get it within a foot or two he jumped off a wharf with suicidal intent. Although he never had a pile a foot high he wanted to be exact about other people's money. ?John Merriman, of Rhode Island, called himself a humanitarian and brought up a lot of old horses anu turned them out to pasture to end their days in peace. He had got about thirty and the papers were eulogizing him, when his wife got a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. She proved that he almost starved her to death. ?In speaking of Sam Jones'c lotmon at Oxford, Justice Lamar said: "It was striking in many senses. Parts of it were like a Pullman palace sleeping car?capable of being hitched to any train, going in any diroe won, at any time?niung anywnoro. acting automatically, and capable of emanating from no brain other than that of the original Sam Jones." ?In an interview with the Rochester Union (Dem.) Bob Ingersoll says: "I believe in protecting what are called the infant industries, but after these 'infants1 get to be six feet high and wear No. 12 boots it is about time to stop rocking the cradle, especially when the 'infant1 tells you that if you stop rocking he will get ont of the cradle and kick your head off."