Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 04, 1886, Image 2

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Scraps and partis. '' ? The Mississippi legislature has passed an p amendment to the railroad supervision law. a Under the new law the supervisors will be 't elected by the people instead of appoint- t ment by the governor as at present. a ? Mexican and United States troops got 1 into a fight on the 16th instant while hunt- t ing Apaches, the Mexicans mistaking the f Americans for hostiles. Lieutenant Craw- t ford, U. S. A., and a Mexican captain and t four Mexican soldiers were killed. 1 ? The total subscriptions to the Grant rj monument fund in New York up to noon r on Tuesday amounted to $114,165 91. The i secretary, Mr. Greener, says: "No designs r frtp thp wnrlr hnvp vpt. hppn Hpppnt.pd : the t committee in that matter are moving very . cautiously." c ? The Louisiana sugar crop last year was { larger by 15 per cent, than the average for previous years, and was cultivated at a greatly decreased outlay, thus enabling planters to discharge some of their previously contracted obligations. They enter upon the business of 1886 with light hearts and the coming crop promises them heavy purses and a large snare of experience in economical methods. ? The committee on banking and currency has instructed Mr. Adams, of Illinois, to call up for action during the present week his bill to authorize national banks to increase their capital stock. The general bill applicable to the Fitz-John Porter case may also be called up, if opportunity offers. Private bills will monopolize the attention : of the House on Friday. Upon any day of the week a political discussion may be forced upon the House by the reply of the secretary of the navy to the Boutelle resolution. 1 ? The Florida Conference of the M. E. 1 Church North has divided on the color line, and now instead of one there are two conferences of the same Church, one white and one colored, and both occupying the same territory. Most of the white ministers took the ground that their cause was weakened by a mixed ministry and membership, and that it was apparent to all that there must be a separation of the two races or a continued hindrance to the progress and advancement of their Church in the North as in the South, and that a division had become a real necessity. ? Secretary Lamar's decision in the Bell telephone case was eagerly sought for, in advance, by speculators, who could have made fortunes if they had known of it in time to go short of the stock. A lady clerk in the interior department was offered $5,000, and then $10,000 by a representative of a New York firm for a copy of the decision, which she had transcribed. At the second offer she excused herself a moment and * stepped into the secretary's private office. 1 When she returned the secretary accompa- < nied her, gave the speculator a very plain ( talk, and informed him he would just give . him ten seconds to leave the room. ?Senator Butler spoke in the Senate on * Friday in opposition to the admission of 1 Dakota as a State. Mr. Kandall, in his correspondence of the Augusta Chronicle, says i of his speech: Senator Butler's Dakota 1 speech was a splendid effort, full of fire and i spirit. He made his points energetically, i and more than paid back Mr. Harrison for 1 crime oQvno-o thrusts. The Indiana Senator I was maliciously furnished with some comparative statistics of South Carolina, and threatens to take a sectional twist. He will be met with vigor, and may be sorry later on for a threatened waving of the bloody shirt. ? A dispatch from Chicago announces that there are 15,000 head of cattle dead on the plains a short distance from Fort Elliott,las a result of the recent cold snap. It is doubtless known that Fort Elliott is located in the Panhandle of Texas. The news might be correct. There is nothing extremely improbable about it, but there is a bare possibility that the bulls at the Chicago stockyards are endeavoring to get in their work. The death of 15,000 head of cattle in a beef country is a serious matter in the market, and the Chicago market bulls, at this season of the year, would not be averse to ' writing an obituary on 15,000 Texas beef steers. ? The coroner's jury which has been inquiring into the cause of the death of thirty-nine miners killed by an explosion of fire damp in the Orrel Coal Company's shaft at Jsewburg, W. Va., on January 21, finished taking testimony last Saturday night. The jury finds that the accident was caused by leaving an open door in an \ air passage in the mine, thereby impairing ! the ventilation and allowing gas to accu-, mulate. They report that the accident was due to the failure of the superintendent to obey the instructions of the State mine in- ' spector, and pronounce the penalty affixed j { by the Act of the Legislature of 1883 for ] such neglect inadequate. < ? In the case of the State of Kansas < against McCrystal to' suppress his saloon i under the nuisance clause of the Kansas prohibitory law, on trial at Leavenworth for two days last week, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The suit was brought by Attorney General Bradford at the last 1 term, and the State has made strenuous ef- i forts to convict. It was regarded as a test < case under that clause of the law, and if the ' State had won many saloon-keepers would , have closed their places. The evidence showed that McCrystal kept a saloon, but ' the jury refused to look at it in that way, < and the liquor men were jubilant. ? Col. Joseph Manley, of Augusta, Me., : and an intimate friend of Mr. James G. Blaine, is in Washington. He says that Mr. Blaine is opposed to the present Republican programme of placing obstacles in the way of confirming the President's appointments. Mr. Blaine is in splendid health and was never feeling better than now. He does not feel the need of any rest from his literary toils, and will take up the subject of h>? new literary venture with the pleasure which he now finds in constant occupation. The subject of his second task is the period of our history embraced in the time of the war of 1812. This history will be one volume. ? Milton Weston, a Chicago millionaire, has been tried, convicted and sentenced to the Riverside penitentiary in Pennsylvania as accessory to a murder committed in that State some time ago, and entered upon his sentence on the 27th ultimo. He is perhaps the most remarkable criminal of the day?a man worth over a million dollars, a luxurious home, and everything to live for, is made to change his station and pay the penalty of his crime just as other men do. It has been often said that money would acquit a man of any crime, but it has not been done in this instance. Hiscounsel . hope to secure a pardon for him at an early : day. J ?A Fort Smith, Arkansas, dispatch of the j 28th ultimo says : On January 8, two fam- j ilies of rovers, consisting of nine persons, |. were caught in the blizzard in the prairie, 1 about twenty miles from Sans Bois, Choc taw Nation, and all were frozen to death, 1 together with their team of four horses. ( They were traveling in the direction of Muscogee. Nothing was found in their ( effects to tell who they were or whence i they came. They were found on the Dth ; _ i a ?ii r ^ ii i Ultimo, ail iruzeusuu in intir waguns, ami ( their teams were frozen in the harness. } The locality being remote from the tele- f graph, news of their terrible fate seems j to have been confined to the immediate h neighborhood where they met their death, i f ? The House of Representatives is now ! ] engaged upon a pension bill increasing the i pensions of the widows and dependent rela- j < tivesof soldiers, from $8 to 812 per month. $ This bill is reported from the pensions com-1 j mittee. Mr. Browne, of Indiana, has offer-1 j ed an amendmentextending the limitation I i of the arrears of pensions act to January 1,! i 1880. The pension roll last year was oVer ! j 838,000,000. The arrears had cost to the 30th ; of last June 8170,000,000, and over a hun-' j dred thousand claims remain of which six-1 t ty per cent, yrill be granted, making $80,- r f>00,000 more. The bill now before the! i House will add 86,000,000 a year to the reg-! ( ular pension roll, and Browne's amendment | ( men twill add, if adopted, 8302,000,000 to the ] amount already paid in arrears. i ? The preliminary trial ox A. A. Stegal, i of Clay county, charged with living in 1 adultery with his daughter, came off at' i Henrietta, Texas, last Thursday. Bail was! > refused the prisoner on testimony showing | ( that he had administered all the medicine t taken by his daughter from which it was j inferred that he had poisoned her. Bur- i ing the trial a crowd brought a rope into s he court room for the purpose of lynching I itegal. The crowd was kept quiet until a ,fter the trial, when the officers started 1: vitli the prisoner for jail. Oneof thecrowd a arried the rope with a loop in one end, i nd as soon as the defendant stepped out of rJ he court house door an effort was made t o lynch him, but the rope man was caught c nd Stegal, seeing the intention, ran with ightning speed to the jail begging for en- c ranee, which was quickly given by an of- i icer who chanced to be there. The officers t urned on the crowd brandishing their pis- 1 ols in the faces of the men, threatening to t :ill the first one who pursued the prisoner, t rhe officers continued to back until they t eached the door of the jail and there stood s intil the crowd dispersed. Public feeling c uns high and it is thought another attempt i o lynch Stegal will soon be made. r - 1 art** m It** ^IU "^uvnvim ' ?- ?- ? VY' ? f YOKKVILLG, S. ('. : 1 THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 4, 1886. j AN OPEN LETTER. Capt. B. R. Tillman has addresed an open etterto the farmers of the State, which we publish to-day. Capt. Tillman calls upon , he farmers to organize and rid themselves r )f their oppressors, the State House Ring [ md their allies, in every county. We do J lot believe the affairs of our State are in al- k ogether as bad a condition as the writer ( lepicts and we are loth to attribute the ( iresent existence, be it bad as it may, to \ Ring Rule as we understand that term to i mply. Yet Captain Tillman's letter will j ie read with interest by the people of the j state, whether they rally under the stand- ! ird which as the "Agricultural Moses" he j proposes to waft, or whether they be con- \ :ent to remain under the rod of the ring, ' ;he alleged evils of which he so portentfous- , y portrays. THE PRESIDENT'S POSITION. The Attorney General has sent a letter to iheSenate in answer to the resolution calling br all the documents and papers in relation :o the management and conduct of the office )f District Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, in which, after acknowledging the receipt of the resolution in question he says: "In response to your resolution, the President of the United States directs me to say that the papers which were in the department relating to the fitness of J. I). Dennett, recently nominated to said office, having Deen already sent to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, and the papers and documents which are mentioned in said resolutions, and those still remaining in the custody of ihis department with exclusive reference to the suspension by the President Df George M. Dustin, the late incumbent of the office of District Attorney of the United states for the Southern District of Alabama, t is not considered that the public interests cvill be promoted by compliance with said resolution and the transmission of the papers and documents therein mentioned to the Senate in executive session. THF BIUYTON-BRADLEY CONTEST. Ex-Collector Brayton has recently issued i pamphlet, the object of which will be to icquaint the United States Senate with supjosed facts and thereby defeat the confirma:ion of Major Bradley as Collector of Interlal Revenue for South Carolina. He at:empts to show that the present collector is n sympathy with the illiqit distillers, and juotes from the Pickens Sentinel of some >rears back, while Major Bradley was its ^ )ditor, to sustain tne cnarge. vouecior ( Bradley, in Monday's issue of the News and \ Courier, shows up completely the willful I nisrepresentationsof which his predecessor '< s guilty, and shows that he by his own { words did not render a faithful service to the | Government while he filled the office. Itis } :he old story of political disappointment, ' ind Mr. Brayton is the unfortunate one. s Major Bradley is too well known in this ( state to be at all injured by any pamphlet * which may be issued by any of the Bepub- ( lican crew. TROlIBuTlN OHIO. I The trouble in the Ohio Legislature has 1 resulted in a rupture, the like of which has 1 tiot been seen in recent politics, and party 1 excitement in the State is most intense, fhe State has practically two Senates, and j the Government of the State and questions | if legislation are thrown in the utmost i confusion. * All this is a result of the attempt of the ! Bepublican Senators, headed by Lieuten- \ \nt-Governor Kennedy, who appears to . have acted as the tool of subsidy Xoyes, to < ride rough-shod oyer the decisionsof courts I \nd the rules of the Senate in their efforts 5 to re-elect Sherman Senator. Whatever the ( real facts of the Cincinnati election, the four J Senators from Hamilton county were, by ( the decision of the Supreme Court of the ( State, entitled to their seats until theques- " Lion was adjudicated in regular form by ( the Senate. The attempt of LieutenantGovernor Kennedy to decide the question ( if their rights for himself and in defiance ( if the highest court of the State, and to ? further override the rules in the endeavor to gain his point, has been revolutionary,; md has had the usual effect of glaring I ' usurpation. The Democratic members of * the Legislature are right in standing out , igainst such high-handed outrage. i On Friday a conference committee was ] ippointed to make a lull investigation of ' he difficulties, and especially of the con- j :ested election cases, which committee met, 1 md after appointing a sub-committee, ad- j ourned until last Tuesday morning. j . T1IE SILVER QUESTION. Under date of last Saturday the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Xt'tcs and Courier gives the following as the latest Congressional phases of the coinage juestion. Although the silver question has not occupied the attention of Congress to any extent during the past two weeks, the silveritesare cocked and primed ready to tire jfF another batch of speeches on the subject is soon as the cloud of routine legislation shall have passed by. The coinage committee of the House has held several meetings since its organization, but up to date, >0 I am informed by a member of the committee, nothing has occurred in the in can:ime by which the sense of the committee could be tested on the subject. After the second Wednesday in February the committee will decline to hear any further arguments for or against silver, and will take ip the question and consider it with a view :o preparing a report to be submitted to the House the latter part of February. During a recent visit to the White House i member of the coinage committee menioned the silver question to the President, fhe latter immediately lighted up and manifested intense interest in the subject convincing his visitor that the silver juestion is very clear to him. The ['resident said he had given this subject more consideration than any other public ssue, and i.f the people would only trust lim a little more, they would find he is ight in the position he has taken, which vill redound to the interest of the Demo'rrtic party in the end. He said further hat the political significance is one of the principal features to be considered in dealng with this question, and there is but a slight chance for the Democracy to carry s sew York under the silver flag, or the law s now administered. The extreme silver nen have misrepresented the true situation, ; ,nd have attempted to forestall public opin- i on by some of their recent utterances, j Phe next question is whether we shall con- ( inue to coin silver when the people of the j ountry refuse to take it on a par with gold. The silver men are indignant on account. >f a very sharp transaction, which isa straw ndicative of the feeling of the Senate on his question. Several days ago Senator Sustis, of Louisiana, introduced a resoluiqn calling for the payment of the next >ond-call in silver, instead of following up he old practice of gold payments. The ubject was sent to the finance committee >f the Senate, which meets every Tuesday. Vt the last meeting, by a preconcerted arangement,t Senators Frye and Hale apleared to make arguments against the oonirmation of two New England collectors, rhey submitted numerous documents the ending of which consumed the session, tnd the Eustis resolution was not even conidered. Consequently there is no chance or a report upon it prior to next Monday, vhcn the February bond call matures, and he owners of these bonds have no fear that hey will be compelled to accept silver in ieti of the customary gold. There is considerable talk on the subject, and the drift )f opinion is that the work of the Maine senators was merely the consummation of m onti.uiivor cfhpinp On nil sides there is I i disposition to talk freely but act cautiousy on the silver question, and the prospects ire unmistakable that no new silver legisation will be enacted during the Fortylinth Congress. THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH. The Baltimore ManufacturerRecord, ,vhich has just been issued, declares that lotwithstanding the dull times and linan ial depression, 1880 was a year of great ndustrial progress throughout the South, summing up the amount of capital and :apital stock represented by our list of new mterprises for 1885, we have: Mabama 8 7,841,000 Arkansas 1,220,000 Florida 2,010,000 Teorgia 2,500,000 \entucky 18,'103,200 Louisiana 2,118,500 Maryland 0,008,000 Mississippi 701,500 S'orth Carolina 3,230,000 South Carolina 856,000 rennessee 2,002,000 rexas 3,2.32,000 Virginia 3,314,000 A'est Virginia 12,050,0(Ml Total ? 00,812,000 Some of the most important enterprises irganized during 1885 in South Carolina ,vere as follows: In Columbia a 850,000 cotton press and an )il mill that cost about $75,000 have been juilt. In the same city a $20,000 fertilizer company has been organized, and a $35,000 ;ompany has built a large factory to manlfacture on an extensive scale Vienna bent,vood furniture, the only establishment of ;he kind, we believe, in the United States. \t the Haile gold mine $100,000 has been ixpended for new machinery; at Greenville a $100,000 company purchased, improved and put in operation, a cotton mill, and it the same place, a $100,000 wine manufac;uring company has been organized; Westninister has a $7,000 flour mill; Gaffney's i $0,000 lime works,and Chester a $5,000 flour nill; Beaufort a fine machine shop and oundry, while smaller enterprises have jeen started in other places. The Record, which has been accused at imes of giving too rose-tinted a view of iiaterial matters in the South, but whose nterest it hasalways been assuring, goes on ;o say: Since 1880 the South has added over 10,100 miles to her railroad mileage, the build ng 01 wnicn, auueu to me investments m )ld roads and their improvements, foots ;he railroads of the South and their equipment, according to statistics compiled from Poor's Railroad Manual, being over $1,240,)00,000, against $079,804,828 in 1880. The issessed value of property in the South notwithstanding the fact that the assessments ire much less than the actual cash value of ;he property, and that a large amount of manufacturing property that has been crea;ed since 1879 is not represented in the tax issessmept, owing to exemption laws, shows in increase of nearly $1,000,000,000. In manufacturing we have seen the number of cotton mills increase from 180 to 353, ind the number of spindles and looms from *13,989 and 15,222, respectively, to 1,460,G97 ind 27,004?a gain of about 100 per cent. Jotton seed oil mills that in 1880 numbered 10, with a capital of $2,504,500, now number 145, and their capital is $10,792,450. J n 1880 ;he South made 397,301 tons of pig iron ; in 1884 it made 657,599 tons?again of 260,298 tons. Three States?Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee?that in 1S80 produced 178,006 tons of pig iron, in 1884 produced 481,744 tons?an increase of 303,738 tons, or 9,500 tons more than, the net increase in the United States, the production in the whole country outside of these three States being ess in 1884 than in 1880. In 1880,0,048,571 tons of coal were mined in the South, and in 1884 the output was 10,845,051 tons. The imount of phosphate rock mined in South Carolina in 1880 was 190,000 tons, and capital invested in the business was $3,493,300; while now the capital is over $6,500,000 \nd the amount of rock mined largely over 100,000 tons. In agriculture great progress tias.been made, and especially in the diversification of farm products and in the increase in grain and live stock raising. The production of corn has increased from 334,>( 0,000 bushels in 1879 to 499,000,000 bushels in 1885?a gain of 165,000,000 bushels? ds?and of oats, from 12,000,000 bushels to '8,000,000 bushels?a gain of 36,000,000 bushds?while in tobacco fruits and vegetajles, the grasses, etc., the increase has been equally satisfactory. In 1880 the live stock c- I'M (win nnn . ?f *nt its value is $629,(50*0,0(10, or a gain of '150,000,000. PiMKiiiKss of thk Railroad.?'The.Shel)y Xric Km of January 27th says: The vent which has been looked for so long by he people of Cleveland county, the detcrninatio of the southern portion of the oute of the Atlantic and North Western Railroad, occurred during the week. Black's las been decided upon as the point at which he new railroad will cross the Charlotte itid Atlanta Air Line. The contract from Shelby to Black's has been let to Col. 1\ I\ Dickinson, the man who built the Charlotte \ir Line. Mr. W. II. Kirby, a brother-inaw of Col. Dickinson, has received a subcontract and will go to work immediately, jeginning at Black's. lie yesterday selected the location for his shanties and will >egin their erection at once. The field corps of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company is now very Jose to Rocky Mount with its work of runling a preliminary line to the south. Week lefore last Col. Coleman made a recogni:ance of the propose line from Marion icross the mountains into Tennessee and ound it perfectly practicable. The field corps of the Carolina Central Railroad Company last week began to run i preliminary from Piney Ridge to Sparanburg. The corps was yesterday about en miles below Piney Ridge. As has been he case heretofore, the officials of the com>any say that they do not yet know what hey mean to do. In reference to the contract for work on he Shelby and Black's Station line, the ,'harlote Observer of Saturday says: Mr. Win. II. Kirby, of New York, who j ins secured the contract for grading the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company's railroad from Black's Station j ?n the Air Line, to Shelby, arrived at the ! lelmont last night. Mr. Kirby had just eturned from a trip along the proposed ! ine, and stated to an Observer reporter that | le will begin work on next Wednesday, i February :)rd. lie will break ground at a j joint three miles from Black's, and will j vork both ways, lie has sublet portions of! he line and will prosecute the work to a ! apid completion. Mr. Kirby is a well mown railroad contractor, and has done ! ome excellent work, having fdled large ontractson both the Atlanta and Charlotte \ir Line, and the Carolina Central railways, lis employment gives confidence in the food faith of the Massachusetts and Southm Construction Company. HAMPTON ON HENDRICKS. In the United States Senate on the 20th ultimo, during the eulogies on the late Vice-President, Mr. Hampton arose and said: "When deatli laid its inexorable hand on Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States, we had a new and faithful illustration of the old adage that 'Death loves a shining mark.' "Mr. Hendricks was best loved wherever he was best known. Crowned with almost every civic honor which a grateful people could bestow, blessed by a domestic happiness as perfect as it was beautiful, he did indeed offer a shining mark to the insatiate arcner. "In the awful presence of death, friends and foes alike strove to do justice to him. Recognizing this fact, why could we not believe that men might be honest and conscientious in their belief, even when they differed with us. "The scenes around the death bed, proved the brotherhood of mankind and showed that one touch of nature made the whole world akin. This thought had madea deep impression on the speaker's mind. And that impression was indelibly fixed by the extraordinary spectacle beheld at the funeral of General Grant. "We all remember the imposing and touching ceremonies on that mournful oc? casion, and certainly no one who witnessed them could ever forget them. But the [ feature that struck me as the most significant, the most impressive, was the fact that among those who bore the body of the great captain of the Union armies to the grave were Confederate soldiers, who a few brief years ago were his. mortal enemies. Democrats and Republicans?men who wore blue and men wha wore gray?met at his tomb to pay the last tribute of respect to his memory. "Here to-day, while honoring ourselves by doing honor to the memory of our late Vice-President, we see exhibited the same kind and generous feeling which marked the obsequies of the dead ex-President. "If then, our political and personal animosities cease at the grave, should we not be tolerant and charitable in the judgments we pass on our contemporaries, even though they are our political opponents? "All of us sooner or later must claim from the living the tender recognition which we now bestow on the dead." Senator Hampton spoke warmly of the political and private virtues of the deceased Vice-President. 4. 4 MR. TILL WAN TO THE FARMERS. . [From the News and Courier.] I ask space in your paper which reaches every nook and corner of the State, to say a few words to my fellows who belong to the despised and oppressed class called farmers. I cannot take time to reply to all the letters of sympathy and approval I am receiving. I take this method of letting the writers know I appreciate their words of thanks and encouragement, and will continue to battle for our rights as occasion offers. Without anticipating anything of the kind, circumstances or fate has pushed me into an unexpected prominence as a leader in the movement which has, as an object the elevation, encouragement and protection of the farmers of the State. 1 have spoken nothing but the truth, as I saw it and have contended for simple justice. Justice is all we ask and nothing else should satisfy us. In making this demand I have touched a cord which vibrates from Georgetown to Oconee. The pent up indignation of the farmers has found a voice through me, and the masses of our people are ready to follow anyone, however insignificant, who has the boldness to lead. I do not commence this agitation with any such expectation, but I should be a coward to refuse to lead, at least, till we organize. The farmers can then choose their own "Moses." I feel it is my duty to dothis much and to try to direct the storm I have raised till such an organization is perfected. The way out of this wilderness is very plain. Even I can lead you out, but I cannot either drive or carry you out on my U.wil* u \\tUa ii?milr1 l\n ffon Kimonlf iniicf Mcll'ft, >> II\J UUU1U l/G JiCV) II1I1JOVI1 IIIU^V strike the blow." I have worked you up and have shown you some of the wrongs and impositions heaped upon you?not all by any means. But one sharpshooter however bold, can only annoy our masters. These men say: "Farmers won't stick together, they are such fools," and "this thing will soon blow over," "just keep quiet and these farmers will go to sleep again and we can continue our misrule and robbery." But, my brother farmers we must not go to sleep again. We cannot afford it. No skirmish line, however can take this fortress or obtain redress for our grievances. I have mortally offended many of the "leading and most progressive farmers of the State," as Col. Duncan calls them, and those who should be leaders in this movement are banded with our enemies. Cajolery, misrepresentation, ridicule, deception, and any and every artifice, will be used to separate and divide us. The ring which dominates our State has its allies and minions in every county, and, alas! that I must say it, many of them are farmers, We must pit organization against organization or we had as well not commence the fight. Twenty-five intelligent, earnest men who will work are enough in any county. They can leaven the whole mass and prove invincible in any just quarrel where farmers' rights are involved, provided they show their disinterestedness by not running for any office themselves. Let who will have the offices. All we ought to do is to demand guarantees on certain well-defined points and then vote for "Old Nick himself," if he gives the necessary pledges. But be sure that they be given publicly, repeatedly and in unmistakable language. "Measures and not men" must be our watchword, and remember "everything is possible to the man who works and waits," even the farmer. Victory is not doubtful in such a contest. And this is, perhaps, a fitting place for me to say to those who still doubt my motives, that if I shall indeed become an agricultural Moses and be the instrument to redeem and regenerate our languishing and retrograding farming interests, I shall be content, like Moses of old, to die before I reach the "promised land" of office. Make me a trustee of a genuine agricultural collegelike Gen. Stephen D. Lee's and I ask no more. J lad I sought an office I would have joined the State agricuitural society .and became an humble worshipper of luminaries whose orbit circles around the State Douse. I know how to get an office, l but (tod forbid I should so debase my man j hood. I tlmnk God I can make my living even as a farmer, without scrambling for a | place at the public crib, if I ever get an S office I will walk to it like a man, not crawl I like a spaniel, and it will seek me and not me it. However, I am a standing candidate for trustee of a "farmer's college." To obtain that and to have a board of agriculture "composed of farmers elected by farmers and devoted to the interest of farmers alone," without a lawyer and merchant | as overseers?to have ourselves protected j against fraudulent fertilizers and punish the | culprits?to reduce our taxes, or have them j spent for the benefit of the whole people and not for a class or a locality?these and : many other things can only be brought about by unity of purpose and concert of I action.' We are told we have not got sense I enough to do this. Perhaps not, but I am not willing to believe it. What is everybody's business is nobody's. Many of us are too busy, arc too stingy, to spend the time and money to bring this about. Most of us are too poor, but we will grow poorer if we fail to do it. I say to every man who reads this, if you area farmer this is your business as much as mine. See to it! If you feel incompetent to lead, be ready to follow, and if you can't exactly have your your own way don't sulk. Either quit grumbling or "fall in," and having chosen leaders, follow them and obey orders. All this may sound presumptious, but itiscommon sense. I am giving instructions like a general, but I am ready, willing and anxious to get into the ranks if others will take the lead. I am fighting for a purpose, and victory is what I want, not position. In order to bring about this unity of action we ought to hold at early day, a farmers' convention, to take into consideration the depressed condition of our agricultural interests and the causes therefor; and to consider what remedies are necessary to make our farming more remunerative,'increase in the value of our lands and stop the waste now going on, and to render onr far-^ mers more independent and enlightenedjrHt! The sixty thousand white voters who are i (>0 farming for a support, whose all is cooped j .)t up in land which is constantly growing j poorer, and who pay three-fourths of the j ~ taxes, have a right to demand such aid |u from the State as they may deem nec- r'r essary. And if we meet in convention so and formulate our demands, then make j | those demands issues in the Democrat- io ic nominations next summer, we will < so have our wishes respected as they should jit be. "NVe are not beggars asking alms, KS but men claiming our rights, and if we wish a college to educate our sons as farm- ( ers we want to see the candidate, from ! ()r governor down, who will dare to stand up / and tell us we shall not have it. Suppose it does cost money, from whose pocket does jr the most of the money in the treasury { 1 come? For whose benefit is so little of it . | spent? Oh! the insolence and effrontry of 1C ; snme men is unbearable. Hut forbear. * ~ [ I will not assume the responsibility of is! suing a call for such a convention, but if il those who have urged me to continue this j)! crusade with the assurance that the farm- 'H ers were "with me to a man if the thoughtful loyal, true men who want re- pi form and are willing to light for it will hi send me their names and make suggestions vi as to number and appointment of delegates, SI time and place of meeting, &c., we will call on such a convention soon, and the news after the next.election will be "the Dutch have tv taken Holland." The farmer will have a? come to his own again. This is a farmer's Ci State and farmers should govern it. of B. R. Tillman*. of IIamhurg, January 2o. REMOVING REPUBLICANS. 31 The contest between the President and Cil the Senate has not abated. The several ni committees of that body have addressed the executive with a view to committing. Al him upon his policy of removing llcpublicans from office. President Cleveland re-4 vi sponded that the power of removal, with fo the power of appointment is vested in the ni President, and lie did not feel called upon tf to submit his views in the cases mention- tc ed. The Senate committees then petition- pi ed the different departments for papers relating to the condition of the offices affected tl by removals, at the time of the new ap- fr pointments. The President directs his Cab- a< inet members to transmit to the commit- aj tees all papers relating to the qualifications ai of officers selected, but witholding, as not k promotive of public interest, documents ir bearing upon the parties suspended. st This is the status of the deadlock. The . President wishes to have the question dis- p cussed by the Senate, before he is convinced jr of their right to call for matter in reference aj to suspended officials. If he is satisfied that tl 1 tl?o ltiiu r>fintninnlnfp? n tender of evidence k, by the Exeecutive he will furnish such pa- j, pers as are asked. It is the evident desire 0j of the Senate to force the President into some declaration of civil service policy. If C( he is making removals for party purposes, (j they say, he has only to so declare and they will confirm hisappointments. If Republicans have been removed for cause the " Senate should be acquainted with the rea- tc sons. The President has made precious few re- ^ movals in the South. Those who have t been displaced were such open and flagrant cases that everybody knew the cause. It ^ will not be difficult for the President to ex- rp plain most satisfactorily every such removal, North and South. It is the question of j.!, precedent and principle that is involved in 1 the matter and which, with the light before him, the President has settled to his own satisfaction.?Augusta Chronicle. ~ - The President and the Senate.? ~ To the gratification of the newspaper cor- . respondents who would experience an ach- !r ing void and sense of disappointment if " the long prophesied contest between the President and the Senate should not, after a' all, come off, Senator Edmunds has secured P the adoption of a resolution calling on one of P the departments for all the papers bearing e( on a certain suspension and a subsequent u appointment. There is nothing either improper or alarming in this. There is no ne- , cessity of its being magnified with a trump- c( et blast. As the Senate has so far not re- " jected a solitary nomination and has con- C firmed a great many, and some in fact " which might well have been rejected, and C( has so far acted generally with moderation, u and as the President gives no indication of ^ being unreasonable, the country may possess its soul in patience and be thankful (/' that, although the executive and the Sen- ' ate are of different political complexion, ?matters run as smoothly as they do. The constitutional powers of the Presi- S1 dent to nominate or propose and of the Sen* '>? ? ~i rru? fr aie TO conn nil or reject art: cu-etjuin. me -former can do nothing in the way of filling offices without the consent of the Senate J1 while the latter is in session, and the latter 1 can only act on the President's selection. " There is no chance of a deadlock if both c< obey clearly expressed laws. There is a 51 moral obligation in the present situation, " however, since the President hasstated that he would make no removals without cause. 11 A removal therefore places some sort of a stigma on the individual removed, and under the circumstances the Senate may ask for information in the premises before seemingto sanction the President's condeinna- .. tion by the confirmation of a successor. 11 There is no law to compel the President to 0 tell his reasons. lie can do so or not,j"ust ' as he pleases. This is a very different thing e from furnishing papers from archives which are public property.?X. lr. World. ? ? ? Pkhris of the Confedekcv.?A corres- a] pondent of the Chicago Daily News says: ^ The sudden and unexpected failure of the Confederate Government left very large C( quantities of supplies which had been or- n nered and paid for in the manufacturers' Ir hands. They were usually of an imperish- j| able character, such as army cloth for uni- tl forms, gunpowder and percussion caps, gt shoes, &c. A graduate of one of the war C( schools, now a prominent railway super- y intendant, who inspected many thousand stands of muskets at a great armory factory S( in Belgium, says there could not have been less than $500,000 worth of arms ready for |;1 shipment on December 20th, 1SG4, at this j|( one place, and that they were paid for. rj This was not an isolated instance. One of the shrewdest and ablest of the Confederate jj, agents told the writer that there was near- tj ly $7,000,000 worth of good military stores belonging to the Confederate Government, j, which were on hand in four places in Eu- a, rope on March 1,1S(>">, and the same authorI ? it. i j lry oeneves m:n, jihiuuiu^ uph wh ??v-jjwo- ()j I it under various names, stores, credits and ej all, there is now not less than $-10,000,001) ^ belonging to somebody in the hands of va| rious English and continental manufacturers and bankers. It is thought that the j? i syndicate which has been advertising for y ! Confederate bonds through the London ! newspapers, has had a careful corpsof exper- j0 j ienced persons looking up the assets of the m Confederacy in Europe in order to apply ta | them toward the payment of the Confed- j(', j crate bonds. The best information avail a- ^ii j ble places the amount of Confederate se- se i curities of unquestioned validity as against! ur (such assets still extant at a full value of{ vt j $.'100,000,000. j ;1( j ? I tj( I lis Strong Point.?It is worthy of note; nt that all the eulogies of Vice-President Hen-j jR dricks delivered in the Senate Tuesday I (n turned on the point that the dead statesman 1 j,r was a partisan?"a partisan in the highest | [ and best sense of the term," as said 3lr. j w ; \Test, "because he believed that devotion to as his party was necessary to the best interests be of his country, lie had no respect for that or political esthetieism which could not distin- co fuish friend from foe. Asking and giving to noquaruer, he did not sprinkle rosewater oil! as theenemiesof h is party, or give sweetmeats ! ac to the wolves ready to spring at his throat." I As no man can serve (tod and mammon, so ! (;< in politics one cannot be both hot and cold. ! (jl The man with positive convictions must j da side with one party or another and the man ! so without such convictions is never worthy to I se be followed. Hendricks' guiding princi- th plo was that a party is greater than any one ! nc of its component parts, and it was a princi pie which it would do well for all politicians to adopt. While this is so, however, it is \y also the part of wisdom to draw to one's Fi support the strength of any faction that br may be had, whatever may be the shade of de its political opinion, provided there is tri brought along with it no element of dan- mi ger outweighing the value of its aid.?liaf- dii ciffh Observer. hi SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. c - a larmerTii Abbevi 1 le co urfty, who has 1 ^ tton in the field yet, is paying one dollar lJ r hundred pounds to have it picked. - In sections of Laurens county, the oats ( ive been destroyed by the cold weather, s id many of the* farmers have no seed to (j w again. fj -Anderson InfeUiijewer: Various opin- a ns are expressed in regard to the oat crop; o me think it is injured, while others think will come out all right. ^ ?"inttle M. ('. Taggart, eleven years old. Greenwood, a lew nays ago kiueci a wmi rkey with his sling shot, at the distance j ufifty-three yards. \'c ^NDuring the freeze some hunters in Colton county came upon a herd of deer on a I azen savanna and killed ten of them, they j dug unable to make their escape on the e. -Newberry Observer: "Inquiry among e farmers of Newberry county develops very discouraging outlook for small grain, ats have suffered most, but the wheat has en badly injured. -Newberry has seven bar rooms which ly ?400 a year license each, and Camden is six that pay ?000 each, while Varnlle, in Hampton county has one that pays ,000. Anderson has six which pay ?">00 ich for city license. -Columbia Jteyixter: There are about renty applicants for the professorship of ^ jriculture lately established in the South J. irolina College, many of them being men ,J established reputation in this department * 'science. ) -The special term of the Cnited States * ircuit Court opened at Greenville last c Monday, Judge Bryan presiding. New a ises are fewer than usual, but old cases are ' jmerous and there is plenty of business for s^c week's term. \ f There are over two hundred cases of n itVsles in the village of Piedmont, Green- ) ill^ county. In two weeks there were c urteen deaths. In some families one j lember is not able to help the other. Half j le machinery in the factory is idle owing j > the epidemic. Whooping cough is also f re vailing. _ ? Abbeville Medium: Old Harry Haw- 1 mrne, colored, of Due West, is back again r om Arkansas. He went out about a year J jo and was powerful glad to get home r jain. He worked twelve acres in cotton"V id made three bales. His son Calvin was '< ilied during the year by a body of men who 1 ladean attack on his cabin. Ilarry will ay near Due West the balance of his life. -Cien. Wilmot G. DeSaussure, of Charles>n, died at Orlando, Florida, last Monday, i the G4th year of his age. lie was an ale and distinguished lawyer, president of le Cincinnati Society, a prominent mason, aving been invested with the 33rd degree 11874, and a member of all local societies fa literary and charitable character. He as a member of the Legislature almost mtinuously from 1848 to 1804, and served uring the war as commander of the reserve oops in defense oT Charleston. ? Deputy Sheriff B. P. Covar, of Edgefield >unty, arrived in Columbia on Friday and , 10k four convicts, William Blocker, A. lover, Green Simpkinsand ThomasSmith, II colored from the Penitentiary and reirned with them to Edgefield, where they ill have a new trial, the Supreme Court aving reversed the decision in their case, hese men were sent to the Penitentiary in 584, having been convicted of burglary and rceny and sentenced to five years' imprisiment. The Supreme court decides that ley were guilty only of larceny. ? The Governor has pardoned William J. oins, white, convicted at the September :rm, 1884, for Lancaster, before Judge othran of breach of trust with fraudulent itent, and sentenced to be imprisoned i the Penitentiary for three years. The .Tense consisted in the defendant having ppropriated to his own use about ?28, the roceeds of collections of tax executions r laced in his hands for collection. He fail- ( .1 to turn in the amount thus collected and j ent to Florida, promising to send back the ( mount but failed to do so. Hewasbrought , ick upon a requisition, and his trial and f mviction followed. ( ? A Camden dispatch to the JYeics and j ourier says: "James Parker Thompson, J ie postmaster at Catarrh, Chesterfield ( Dunty, who was arrested on the 7th instant, j pon a warrant issued by Commissioner \ .dams charging him with robbing a regis- { ?red package was released from the Cam- f en jail last Friday, he having succeeded ^ i giving the required bond. On Friday , nited States Deputy Marshal Love.arnn^P" rith another warrant issued by Commis- { oner Adams on a similar charge, went ? ut to Catarrh to arrest Thompson, but be- t ire he could get to him Thompson dodged c ie deputy and succeeded in making good j. is escape. It is likely that he has skipped I is bond. It is also reported that a warrant ( as.been issued against him in Chesterfield s )unty for forgery. His conduct is quite r surprise to all who knew him, for he has t eretofore been regarded as an honest and ^ raightforward man, and withal is quite f itelligent." 1 Death of Mrs. Bayard.?Mrs. Bay- ^ rd, wife of the Secretary of State, died in j Washington city last Sunday morning. he immediate cause of death was conges- * on of the brain, brought on by the shock J f her daughter's sudden death two weeks 4 ?o. For the first week following that > vent she stood the strain and excitement j uite well, but a week ago last Friday she1* 'as compelled to take to her bed, and grad- 7 ally grew worse from day to day. On j hursday congestion of the brain made its c ppearance, and she was unconscious for j venty-four hours before her death. Al- j lough for years Mrs. Bayard had been a j mfirmed invalid, she had for the past six . lonths been in better health than for^J any years. Last summer she was very# 1 at her home in Wilmington, Del., with* complication of diseases of the liver and omach, and her recovery at that time was g insidered doubtful. She was about 51 ? ears of age. With the exception of her nughter, Mrs. Warren, of Boston, and her [ )n who is in Arizona, the family were ^ resent when she died. The body was ( iken to Wilmington, and the funeral was . eld there on Tuesday, according to the ' tes of the Episcopal church. Mrs. Bayard was born in Baltimore in 1 vk). IIer father, Joshua Lee, was one of i le leading business men of that city thirty- . ve years ago. She met the secretary while is father was a Senator from Delaware, n id they were married in 18GG. There ^ ere twelve children born to them, seven ? " whom are still alive. I'p to seven or j. ght years ago Mrs. Bayard was a leader /j i society at the National capital. Expkctaxt Cakolixians.?The Wash-; igton correspondent of the Charleston j* rics ami Courier telegraphs in reference j i .Messrs. Bradley and Youmans as fol- J ws: Senator Butler says that the call ade by the finance committee upon Seere- j v ry Manning for certain papers in the Brad- j * y case may delay the hitter's confirma- i a [in somewhat, but cannot possibly result * riously. According to Senator Butler's ! h lderstanding of the resolution introduced | sterday, the finance committee simply 1 ?sire to'ascertain Col. Bradley's qualifica- * ins for the position to which he has been i b iminated and who are his sponsors. This t: formation, Senator Butler says, is fre- h lently called for by the Senate, and in all 0 obability, will be cheerfully furnished. !0 It is stated that it was Senator Edmunds h ho objected to Mr. Youmans' nomination ^ ...l? :i district attorney wneu iuu suiya-i tnuic >fore the judiciary committee for consid- v ation. Other members of the judiciary c mmittee do not attach much importance Senator Edmunds'action in the matter, n it is the general impression that he is 11 touted by personal or partisan motives. n (.Jen. Kennedy's nomination as Consul J' moral for the United States at Shanghai, b lina, was not sent to the Senate on Thurs- k iy, although Senator Hampton, Reprentative Hemphill and the candidate him- 1 If have the assurance of the President at the appointment will be among the P .\t list of nominations sent to the Senate. - tl Hk Usi:o Hair Xo.sTur.Ms.?Says a ashington correspondent: Ex-Senator I trley who died in California last Friday, o oke his health, if he did not bring on his a ath, by the use of poisonous hair nos- 11 mis. lie was a tine-looking, large framed it iin only fifty seven years old when he b ed. When he entered the Senate in 1871). ai s hair was iron grey, and was very lie- t( oming to him. But lie did not think so, 'nd persisted in changing it to a raven like lackness with some sort of a medical pre aration. Its use was not felt to he injurius for several years, but just before his erin expired lie was prostrated with a trange alfection of the brain, said to have een caused by this dye. lie reappeared nally in the Senate, very gray, emaciated, nd looking ten years older. He was nevr the sanie man again. A i rorrospondenfe ?f the Yorkvillp Enquirer. S^LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. ^toclv Hill, S. C., February 1.?Col. ohnson, general manager of the Massahusetts and Southern Construction Compay, accompanied by Mr. Geo. II. O'Leary nd Major Jus. F. Hart, of Yorkville, paid hurried visit to this place on Friday afteroon. Several of the business men of our own, and other gentlemen interested in he proposed railroad in the construction of rhich Col. Johnson is engaged, called upon hem, and in an informal meeting discussed he railraad question, though nothing defilite was decided upon. (Trial Justice Fewell had a case before him me day last week that created considerable nterest. June Massey, colored, who has >een employed as a hand about the depot or a nunibt^*. of years, was charged with tealing oi gallons of whisky from a barrel n the depot belonging to 5lr. J. B. Johnon. The State was represented by Mr. W. i. Wilson, Jr., and the defendant by Mr. 1. J. Waters. A number of witnesses were (xamined, though the most of the testimony vas circumstantial. After able argument N >y the counsel on both sides, the jury took he case under consideration, and at ten 'clock in the night they sent for the Justice md informed him that they could not agree ipon a verdict. A mistrial was entered, md the case will come up again on next Wednesday. /.Mr. John T. Roddey, while showing his iorse to a friend on last Thursday, was kickid by the animal on the side of the head, lis ear was badly cut and he received inuries that confined him to his room. He s now improving and expects to up be in [ few days. /our obliging postmistress, Miss B. V. iYood, has been confined to the house for ver a week, threatened with pneumonia, trust that she may soon be well enough to eturn to her post. . vt'apt. Butler J'. Alston died at his resilence in this place on Wednesday night ast, at 0 o'clock of paralysis, in the 51st year f his age. Ashe was a native of Yorkville, le was well and intimately known by many f your citizens. For a number of years he vas the principal of Rock Hill Academy. -Jy his genial disposition and gentlemanly nanners he secured the respect of all who mew him. He leaves a wife and daughter vho have the sympathy of this entire comnunity in their sad affliction. C'apt. Alston vas a charter member of the Knights of donor and also of the Legion of Honor, lis life was insured for $10,000. Yesterday afternoon thirteen defendants md about twenty witnesses left this place or Greeville to attend the United States district Court, which convenes to-day. Phe following is a list of the defendants: rames Gooch, colored, charged with perury ; Simpson Cooper, Henry McCullough, \nderson Wallace, Abram Horn, George Coleman, Julius McC'onnell, Monroe Iloyle, fohn Barnett, Uawson Robertson, all color?d, and William Capps, George B.Stewart md Iliarm Turney, white, all charged with idling whisky without first paying the pecial tax. The receipts of commercial fertilizers at his place have fallen far short ofthe receipts o date last season, and there is very little lemand. I can only account for it by the o\v price ot cotton. Hal . - ^/orrespomlenre of the Yorkville Enquirer. /^LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, February 1.?The remains of r. L. Chambers, whose death was announc;d last week, arrived here from Florida on ast Wednesday. The funeral services were :onducted by the Society of Odd Fellows, of kvhich the deceased was a member. Some ippropriate remarks were made by Rev..L. j. Hinton at the cemetery. The deceased o|l a victim to consumption. vVIrs. E. J. Hinton of our town, depart)(I this life on last Thursday morning. For liany years she had been a great sufferer 'rom lung disease. She was the youngest laughter of the late Major John Kennedy, md the widow of I)r. Girard J. Hinton, ,vho died of consumption in Florida many ^earsagou/The funeral serviceswerg-helxL iTTTlTfTmptist church on Friday morning tnd were attended by a large number of ympathizing relatives and friends. The emarksof Itev. K. W. Sanders on the sad iccasion were most excellent. While he ;poke in fitting terms of the noble traits md virtues of the deceased, he did not ex:eed the truth in a single particular. He ipoke of her purity,, of her great attachnent to her church and to her pastor, and o the strong and unwavering support she cave him at all times. He referred to her 'ondness for religious literature, and to her ove for her church in all its varied inter>sts. He referred in tender and touching erms to her last moments and to her seeng, as she said at the time, little Girard VIcLure, to whom she had been devotedly ittached, and whose death occurred about bur years ago. At the close of the funeral services the remains were taken to Purity Jiurch graveyard and there buried. ^?he following was the result of a late neeting of our new town authorities: \Iajor J. lv. Marshall, chief of police; H. 5. Davis, policeman ; William Jeter, coined, policeman and lamplighter; J. W. barker, secretary and treasurer. Our newy elected intendant and wardens announce heir intention of running the town on a yflre economical schedule than heretofore. ^Our jail was the scene of a lamentable jvfcut last evening. When the prisoners vere being put in their cells for the night, \llen Good, colored, charged with forgery, eized Sheriff'Hood, took his pistol and then ittempted to shoot the sheriff. In accomomplishing this purpose he was prevented >y a colored prisoner, Henry McC'ollough, vho was serving a sentence for selling li[tior without license. Good made another issault on the Sheriff, who having got posession of his pistol, fired upon his assailmt causing a mortal wound. Good died in hree or four hours. The sheriff was entirey justifiable in shooting him. There is ng loubt that a conspiracy was formed by ome of the prisoners to make their escape, fhe friendly act of Henry McCullough prererJod the carrying out of the conspiracy. Sjtaior .J. K. Marshall gives up the Hotel /day, and .Mr. Abel Hardin, of LowrysMlie, takes possession. It is hoped he will (lease his-patrons as well as the Major did. Wheeler Meacham is quite ill with tydioid fever. m. MERE-MENTION. The sheriff of Buncombe county, X. C., v-as on trial last week, charged with negli;ence in regard to the escape of six prisoners, II of whom were charged with and some of hem convicted of murder. After a trial isting two days he was acquitted. It s said the next graduating class of West 'oint cadets, seventy-eight in number, is he largest and highest in efficacy which as ever been graduated from the instituion. Dorman B. Eaton has resigned is position as civil service commissionr. Business failures occurring throughut the country the past week, as reported :> K. G. Dun & Co., number for the United fates 202, Canada, 37; total, 28U, against 2!J last week atn| .'132 the week previous. The Democratic Senatorial cauus at Washington, on Saturday, resolved 3 sustain the President in his refusal to furish information to the Senate about remov Is from office. The shooting of several eg roes by detectives near Dallas, Texas, 'riday last, is now said to have been coldlooded murder. Alexander Hefnowsy, a young German painter, was burned to eath in Charlotte last Sunday morning. Ie went to bed Saturday night without iking off his clothes, and matches in his oeket igniting, he was suffocated and so adly burned that he died a few hours after ie occurrence. ? The German minister of war has given rders that a numberofdogs be trained with view of testing the value of services they light possibly render to sentinels engaged i keeping guard during the night. It ss elieved that by the help of these sagacious nimals the outposts would be far less liable ^ surprise.