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i'cvaps and .facts.
? Tho new consolidated engines on the
Richmond and Danville road each draw 50
loaded box cars, and on a tight pull they
can move along with GO loaded cars. The
new box pars, too it must be remembered,
are a great deal larger than the old ones.
? When Gen. Tombs died it was thought
his estate would be worth about one quarter
of a million. A recent appraisement shows
that it is only worth about $60,000, and that
the estate is liable for $287,000 of Kimball
House notes.
?Samuel Davidson, of Corydon, Iud.,
failed to supply his family with enough
wood to keep them warm. A lot of his
neighbors sezed him the other evening,
hitched him to a sled, and forced him to
haul wood all night. When he lagged he
was well whipped with limber switches.
? The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week, reported
to R. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 214, Canada 34?total 248?
against 286 last week, and 275 the week
previous. The South and West still continue
to furnish more than a half the weekly
business casualties of the country.
? At Brown wood, Texas, on Friday night,
three masked men entered Cameron & C'o.'s
office, made tne clerks noia up tneir nanas i
and then secured $1,500. The robbers left!
as suddenly as they had come. As they I
departed they were fired on by one of the
clerks, and one of the robbers was killed.
He proved to be a painter who was well
known about the town.
? William Gifford, aged twenty-six years,
committed suicide last Saturday morning,
in Charlotte, N. C., by shooting himself in
the head with a pistol. He left a note
thanking his employersfor their kind treatment,
and stating that if some mcney
which had been promised him had been
paid he would not nave committed the deed.
It is believed that he was suffering from
mental aberration, as there was nothing
wrong with his business affairs.
? During the present session of the Senate
1,871 bills and 57 joint resolutions have
been introduced, the great majority of only
local interest. The most prolific Senator is
Plumb, of Kansas, who has introduced 02
bills and 2 joint resolutions, Call being
next with 78 bills and 4 resolutions. Fair,
Jones, of Florida, and Miller, of California,
are the only Senators who have offered no
legislation. Senator Hampton introduced
1G bills and Senator Butler 13.
? Wilburn Waters, murderer, was hanged
at Rensselaer, Indiana, last Friday. There
was a large crowd gathered to witness the
execution, estimated at 3,000 people. Previous
to the execution a number of those
assembled were allowed to see the condemned,
who received them, lying on his bunk.
The murderer was escorted to the scaffold
at 11.40, and when on the top delivered a
wild harangue, partly' in broken English
and partly in Dutch. He declared his inwiocence.
j?"John Sterdevant, the boy preacher, near
jEtaleigh, N. C., who was recently stricken
blind for a few days, during which period
he preached with great eloquence, has again
come to the front. Accordng to his father
he has had another divine revelation. He
is to be stricken blind, deaf and dumb, and
his left arm is to be paralyzed. In fact, one
report states that the affliction actually took
place at the time appointed in the presence
of 150 persons. Two expert physicians have
examined the boy. They pronounce the
case a wonderful one.
? Senator Vest, of Missouri, is seriously ill
with neuralgia at the base of the brain, and
his physicians have insisted upon his leaving
Washington at once for a more temperate
climate. He will go to Georgia and
Florida, and has promised his friends that
he will not return until his health is fully
restored. He has been suffering for several
weeks, and left his bed to come to the Senate
when the Dakota bill was under debate
against the protests of his physicians. He
is now paying the penalty for disobeying
their injunctions.
? The Russian papers announce the emancipation
of the last Russian serfs. It appears
that the peasants on the estates of the
foreign convention Transcaucasia were until
quite recently the serfs of the dioceses of
Jerusalem and Constantinople. This abnormal
situation has attracted the attention
of the authorities, and since last summer
the enfranchisement of these serfs has
been in progress in the Governments of
Tiflis and Kutais. The Brotherhood of the
Holy Sepulchre possesses more than G,00(J
serfs, and the Patriarch of Constantinople,
as representing the convent of Iversky, on
Mount Athos, has about 500 more.
r?.At Winchester, Ky., the other day, an
explosion of gunpowder took place with disastrous
effect. The explosion occurred at
Mary Will's place, a grocery and restaurant
combined. While the clerk, Will
Murray, was weighing powder a drunken
man threw a lighted mateh into the scoop.
The powder ignited and blew out the front
and side of the house. About twenty
persons were in the building, all of whom
were injured, four of them fatally. James
Newkirk, James Hopper, Will Murray and
Bud White will die. Nine others were
very badly injured. The drunken man
escaped injury. The fire which followed
was soon extinguished.
? Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, spoke recently
in favor of the pension bill now before
Congress, taking occasion to abuse Southern
members on account of their failure to support
the bill. To this speech Congressman
Tillman of South Carolina replied, and in
his remarks he said : Considering that the
Confederate States pay about one-third of
the taxes to the Federal government for
pensions and do not get back three cents
of it; considering, also, that from the foundation
of the government to the present
time eight dollars a month was considered
a sufficient pension for widows, can the gentleman
complain that the Southern members
are trying to restrain necessarily the
large expenditure for pensions within the
rules that prevailed heretofore?
? Mr. Randall writes from Washington to
the Augusta Chronicle: The woman suffragist
are to invade the South. They are
mostly prohibitionists. At the meeting yesterday
Mrs. Martha A. Field, of the New
Orleans Picayune, said that in the South
women were allowed more privileges than
were extended to the women of the North.
In Mississippi, she said, women get almost
anything they want for?they had an industrial
college and other institutions under
their control. In her address, Mrs. Field
used the expression "niggers," and a colored
man and a woman sitting at the back
of the church rose immediately and left,
the man walking hurriedly and making
some noise in going out of the door. These |
women have determined to boycott all
preachers who deny the equality of the
sexes, and Miss Anthony, after kicking the
supreme court, declared' that she wanted a
Bible translated by women with all offensive
passages obliterated.
? The adoption by the State Temperance
Convention on Wednesday night of a resolution
declaring that the Prohibitionists
will vote for no legislative candidate who
does not unequivocally announce his willingness
to vote for the submission to the |
people of the pending prohibitory resolu- j
tion has created a sensation in political I
circles in Kentucky. This resolution pro- j
vides that "no person shall manufacture for j
sale, or sell, or keep, for sale as a beverage, I
any intoxicating liquors whatever, includ- j
ing ale, wine and beer," and that the Gen- j
eral Assembly shall by law "prescribe regu- j
Iations for the enforcement of the prohibi- j
tion herein contained, and shall provide the I
penalties for the violation of the provision J
thereof." Leading Prohibitions claim that, j
as they favor neither the Democratic nor
Republican party and oppose the forma- j
tion of a third or temperance party, they j
will retain the balance of power. As to
the question whether either party will fa-1
vor or oppose the submission of the amend- j
ment to the popular vote, some think that
both parties will favor its submission.
? As the time for the holding of the General
Conference of the Southern Methodist
Church approaches, the newspapers are beginning
to foreshadow the action of the Conference
in reference to the election of new
bishops. The general opinion seems to be
that the good of the Church requires the
election of four new bishops, who shall be
in the prime of life and in robust health.
Several Western newspapers have published
lists of prominent clergymen who are
spoken of in connection with the Episcopa
cy. The lists include the following distinguished
ministers : Dr. E. It. Hendrix, of
Missouri; Dr. O. P. Fitzgerald, of California;
Dr. R. A. Young, of Tennessee; Dr.
T. C. Carter, of Louisana; Dr. N. H. D.
Wilson, of North Carolina; Drs. J. S. Key
and W. H. Potter, of Georgia; Drs. W.
W. Bennett and P. A. Peterson, of Yirginnia.
While none of these ministers are
candidates in the political sense of the
word, it is said that many friendly letters
are being passed between delegates to the
Conference and the leading clergymen.
YORKVILLE, S. C. :
TUITDOmV MADYIVC Tlf A PTU 1 I8SK
1UUIV01//1I iu\riiniiu>l jua?< u I, iuv/?.
THE CLASH HAS COME.
In the U. S. Senate last Monday an exciting
debate occurred on the minority report
of the Judiciary Committee relative
to the right of the Senate to demand of the
Executive his reasons for making removals
from office. The minority report is adverse
to the Senate making such demand.
The majority report, taking the opposite
view, was adopted, and now the Senate
is openly arrayed against the President.
A message was also read from the President,
bearing upon the same subject. He
takes the grouud that the papers relating to
suspensions from office are not official papers
and consequently he does not feel justified
in sending copies of them to the Senate.
It is a vigorous document and a long
one.
THE KAILltOAl).
The preliminary survey of the Charleston,
Cincinnati aud Chicago Railroad from
Rock Hill to this place, completed on Wednesday
of last week, passes through Ebenezer,
thence to Tirzah Church, and thence
to Gabbie's Ford on Fishing Creek, crossing
the creek near the ford. The distance between
the towns by this line 14* miles.
On Monday last Messrs. Henry Massey,
John L. Watson and J. C. Wilborn, on behalf
of the freehold voters of Ebenezer township,
presented a petition to the County
Commissioners, requesting them to order
an election for the purpose of voting on the
question of the township making a subscription
of $18,000 to the proposed road. The
request was complied with, and the 3rd day
of April next appointed as the day for holding
the election.
Of the progress of the working force on
the road, the Shelby Aurora of the 2oth
ultimo says:
uThe Massachusetts and Southern Construction
Company are busy at work,
grading and trestle-building. There are
747 laborers at work between Black's and
Rutherfordton, and the first five-mile section
at Rutherfordtou has been graded, and
now ready for cross-ties. They are spending
over ?1,000 per day this month and have
already paid $40,000 at the Shelby bank, besides
drafts drawn through other banks.
This shows backbone and if the railway
mortgage of $15,000 per mile can be floated,
there will be a speedy and sure completion
of the route from Rutherfordton to Charleston."
The New Era also has the following:
"Work on the Charleston, Cincinnati &
Chicago Railroad is progressing now more
rapidly than at any time in the history of
the company. Between Rutherfordton and
Black's, over 1,000 men are at work upon
the grading and preparations are being
made for the trestles and stone culverts, upon
which a large force is now engaged.
Mr. Chas. O. Colton, of Kirby and Colton,
went over the line as far as Forest city last
weeK wun luajor jones 10 examine me
trestle locations and the timber prospects.
The contract for the first trestle this side of
Black's, has been given to Mr. Gaston, of
Blaek's that for the next three to Messrs.
Burwell Blanton and W. Harison Eskrige,
of Shelby, that for the trestles over Buffalo
Creek to Mintz Co., of Black's and that
for the trestle over Hickory Creek to Mr.
J: Hogue. Mr. C. P. Streeter the trestle
builder will go to work immediately."
AN APPEAL TO COTTON PLANTERS.
The Inter-State Agricultural Convention,
in session at Jackson, Tenn., last week, adjourned
on Friday evening. The following
resolution was adopted, with an amendment
to include breadstuffs and hog products
as well as cotton:
The manipulation by speculators of the
cotton crop of 18&V-SG, which so depressed
prices that they have fallen below the actual
cost of production, forces upon the
planters of the South the necessity of relieving
themselves, as far as in their power lies,
from the influence of so ruinous a system as
that which now controls the chief exportable
product of the country, and with this
end in view the reproentatives of the agricultural
interest of Tennessee, in conven-!
tion assembled, call upon our brother planters
of all the Southern States to protect
themselves by united action. Emboldened
by past successes, the speculator has fixed
the standard price for the cotton crop of
188G-87. This, he has done before the seed
has been put in the ground, or even the
ploughs have been started. Cotton futures
for the month of October, November and <
December, 188G, and January, 1887, ate to-i
day quoted in New York at from 8.7(1 to!
8.7o, according to months. This means not
exceeding 8:] cents for middling cotton in
New York, or 8] cents at the principal ship
ping ports of the South, including such i
cities as New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah,
Augusta, Mobile, Galveston and Memphis.
Middling cotton at these cities selling
for Si cents means not more than 7j
to the planter, who must pay freight, insurance
and regular commission charges,
which generally average from :{ to 1 cent
per pound. Now, in view of these conditions,
so ruinous to our interests, we appeal
to the intelligence of thecotton grower,
and ask him can he pay the expense of
farming and make even a bare living by
selling cotton atcents per pound? The
answer is already given in the negative.
The next question following upon this is:
What is the remedy? We answer: Diversified
crops; plant one-third less cotton
and more grain and grasses, raise hogs and
hominy, let cotton be the surplus crop, instead
of producing six and a half million
bales make only four and a half million
bales, liy this means we may realize a
large price for our labor, and at the same
time live independently of speculating
sharks who profit by our* losses. In addition
to this, the Legislatures of each of the
Southern States should be petitioned to
make dealings for future delivery, unless
cotton is actually on hand to sell and is actually
delivered to the contracting purchaser,
a felony punishable by fine and imprisonment,
not less than one thousand dollars
and two years in the penitentiary. The
time is now propitious for united action,
and we appeal to the press of the South to
aid us in our efforts by giving every publicity
to this protest, an appeal which we feel
cannot but result beneficially if prompt in
action and lived up to honestly.
? Lancaster Review: In response to an urgent
invitation extended to Col. B. It. Tillman,
of Edgefield, to come fo Lancaster
and address the farmers' meeting called for
the first Monday in March inst., Col. Tillman
writes that it will be impossible for
him to comply with the request, owing to
the fact that he has been drawn to serve as a
juror at the approaching term of the Edgefield
court. He, however, urges upon the
farmers of Lancaster county the importance
of effecting a thorough organization at an
early day, so as to be able to send delegates
to the planters' State convention soon to be
hold.
FARMER VERSUS FARMER.
The following correspondence was given
to the press last Friday. Secretary of State
Lipscomb, who, as Master of the State
Grange, claims to be as good a farmer as
Mr. Tillman, pays his respects to the "Agricultural
Moses" with vigorand vehemence:
February 12th, 188G.
Hon. ./. L. N. Lipscomb: Dear Sir?
Pardon the liberty I take in writing you on
a personal matter?yet when looked at from
all sides it is hardly personal. Your open,
manly, courageous advocacy of farmers'
rights has commanded theadmirationof our
farmers over here, and made us feel a public
interest in you, and we desire to see you
continued in high public place.
A good many over here have expressed
the hope that you would throw the weight
of your influence toward the farmers' convention,
though Tillman did scratch you a
little over here.
He wrote me he regretted having to do
it, hut could not help it; to keep from
being personal toward others. He said you
alone spoke for his resolutions. The wave
I believe will sweep the State, and we want
you to go with us, and unless you do I fear
you will net left. Please, now, don't think
me presumptious or inclined even to dictate
or advise, where you alone have aright
to choose. My simple interest in you as our
leader prompts we to write thus to you.
You may, for all I know, have crossed the
Rubicon, but have not seen it. I feared
the pressure around you among the otiice
holders might have kept you from acting
'till some said you were driven to it. Tho'
I know your independent spirit don't run
in that line. A good many prominent
grangers over here urged me to drop you a
line, so please don't misconstrue my motive
and take offence where we wish to'help you
and show our regard. Our county is going
xolid for farmers' convention. Yours very
truly,
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 18th, 1886.
Mr. , My dear AW?There was no
liberty taken in your writing to me, as you
did in yours of the 12th, and no apology
needed. I am glad to receive a letter expressing
such consideration for me and
recognizing my honest efforts in the past iu
behalf of the agriculture and farmers of the
State.
It was, and is a labor of love to me, and
after some thirty years spent in that way, I
feel no inclination or reason to change. I
am just as deeply interested in, and as
devoted to the agricultural interests and
classes of the State and county now as I ever
have been, and I am ready and anxious to
work zealously and independently in promoting
their welfare. Xone know better
than you and your fellow-farmers of how
for years I have urged the vital need of
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organization 01 me iarmers 01 me oiui-e tuiu
nation. This I still deem most essential to
any scheme, policy or plan that will successfully
advance their true interest, and consequently
the true and best interests of the
entire country and whole people.
To secure this, I should say that as an
important auxiliary co-operative machinery,
or strengthening adjunct, a convention
composed of farmers, representing farmers,
knowing farmers, knowing what is due to
farmers, and at the same time due to others;
ready to demad what is due themselves
and determined to accept no less; ready to
recognize and respect the rights of others;
ready to assume a policy true, honest, just
and fair; ready to reform and improve the
laws, customs and systems that govern and
affect agriculture and farmers, instead of
destroying them ; would be extremely desirable
and eminently beneficial. This I,
you and others for years have been trying
to do through the grange and other agricultural
organizations with, I contend, signal
though partial success. Such a convention
I shall hail with joy, and to such I will
give my most cordial support and zealous
aid.
But to a convention to be called and controlled,
appointed and organized by B.
j R. Tillman, who has outraged all the courI
fpcipc nnrl r?pppnpips nf lifp ? whn has shown
; an utter recklessness in his assertions and
insinuations as to men and things; who
' wants to do nothing good but what you and
! I and many other farmers have been for
j years working for, but, I fear desires to
j pull down, destroy and obliterate everything
and everybody, from Hampton and
I Democracy down to himself and chaos;
I who is an avowed destructionist, instead of
constructionist; who asserts that no man in
j the State, farmer or other, has ever been
put in office that did not at once and then,
I become disloyal, corrupt and venal; who
proposes to destroy all the institutions esi
tablished for the benefit of the farmers by
others and has nothing to replace them
with except a college with him as trustee;
which from self sufficiency cannot realize
; in any other purity of motive or honesty of
{purpose; to such a convention called and
j manipulated by such a man for such pur|
poses, I and you, and the farmers of the
State cannot look for help or good. You
say, "Mr. Tillman wrote he regretted having
to attack you but could not help it to
keep from being personal toward others.
He said you alone spoke for his resolutions."
Still he denies my honesty of purpose,
purity of motive, loyalty to my
class and insinuates that I am a corrupt
politician, working in the harness of a ring
and for it betraying the trusts placed in
my hands by both the farmers and the
; Democrats of South Carolina. Such a man
I can be no "Moses" for me, nor can he safely
be for any portion of the farmers of this
State. So a for real Simon pure farmer's
convention, just count me in for all I am or
ever expect to be, but for "Moses Tillman"
and what he bosses' count me out. I have
I written you plainly, for it is my way and
due under the circumstances. As soon as
the proceedings of the recent session of the
State grange are printed I will send you a
copy and ask you to read my address which
is part of my public official record. As to
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my ueiug couuiiueu in mine, it ia im unpeople
to say.
As incumbent I make no claim over any
other good Democrat. My only plea is
honesty, fidelity, loyalty and duty done.
Whenever dismissed, I am ready to retire
to the ranks of the farmers and Democrats
without question or murmur. But I have
too much faith in the people of South Carolina
to think I am to be punished for not
admitting or accepting Mr. B. R.Tillman
as the "Moses" and leader of the farmers
or people of this State.
The importance 1 attach to the interest
of our class is my only apology for the
length of this letter. As I feel bound to
freely and fully give my views on questions
of public policy when asked to do so, as in
this case, and have nothing to conceal, you
are at liberty to make this letter as public
as you choose.
With the kindest wishes and the highest
regards for yon and my friends in your
section.
I am very respectfully and fraternally,
J AS. X. LIPSCOMH.
AXOTIIKIt AGRICULTURAL OPINION.
Under the caption of "Watch the Lawyers,"
the following communication from
Simon-Pure Farmers recently appeared in
the Charleston News and Courier:
Mr. Tillman calls on the farmers to hold
a convention so as to adopt measures to
protect themselves against everybody, and
especially against their natural enemies, the
lawyers.
It is high time these gentlemen should
he curbed.^ They are appropriating nearly
all the fat offices in the .State. Nearly every
Congressman, all the Judges, a very
large proportion of the members of the
Legislature, and many other officials are
lawyers.
The subtle wiles of these gentlemen are
apparent in the fact that two prominent
members of the bar take the ground that
the University ought not to afford free education
if they have to pay for tuition. One
says: "Education not paid for is not appreciated."
We all know that, before the war, the beneficiaries
in college (the Hampton, Hutchi-1
son and Manning scholarships) made fine
students. These gentlemen say the poor
farmer ought not to be taxed to educate the
rich. Why, who pays the bulk of the taxes?
The amount appropriated to the South Carliua
College requires one who owns $1,000
to pay a tax of ten cents (or two cigars or
one drink) a year, and it takes $10,000 to
produce one dollar tax. And yet they say
this tax oppresses the poor farmer. They
don't object to free school tax, and yet the
College appropriation would not run the free
schools four days in the year. These gentlemen
cannot fool me; they know that
those of high education and trained minds
run the State; and hence don't want the
sons of poor farmers to have the only possible
chance of a high education.
All these things must be guarded against.
Let us hold a convention and admit none
except those who are fanners, and farmers
only. Most of the lawyers are also farmers,
but these must not be admitted. Also care
should be taken to exclude those merchants
who are also farmers; for the majority of'
these also own farms. Let the convention
be of Simon-Pure Farmers.
a repudiation op tillman.
At a meeting of the Orangeburg Agricultural
Society on Saturday, the views of Mr.
B. R. Tillman as expressed in his published
letters, were freely discussed by a number
of prominent farmers in the county.
After the discussion ceased motions to
test the sentiment of the society began to
be made. As an amendment to a motion
by Mr. J. M. Moss, Capt. J. L. Moorer offered
the following:
Resolved, That this Society favors holding a
County Convention in case a State Convention
be called.
The vote was taken and resulted in sixteen
for and twelve against the resolution.
The Soetety then fearing that this vote
might be taken as an endorsement of Mr.
Tillman's movement, Mr. A. M. Sally offered
the following:
Resolved, That this Society does not favor .or
sympathize with Mr. Tillman's proposed Farmer's
Convention.
The vote being taken resulted in seventeen
for mid three nwninst. the resolution.
THE I'OLITICAITHOROSCOPE.
The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle writes: The candidate for
political honors in the next campaign in
South Carolina who expects to have an easy
time before hisconstituents, will besadly disappointed.
If he desires congressional honors
he will be required to explain his views
on the tariff question ; if he is a candidate for
the legislature he will have more questions
to answer than any man less than a Solomon
can reply to intelligently in our generation.
He must have opinions and declare them,
on prohibition, school taxes, colleges, county
government, industrial schools.and various
other matters. Some candidates know
how to get all around these troublesome
matters, but if they succeed this year they
will be skilful straddlers.
There is a general feeling of expectancy
in this State relative to the political
changes that are likely to take place this
year. Governor Thompson's term of office
has long been regarded as a sort of interregnum,
as he was a compromise man representing
no particular element in the State,
and without much record of any marked
kind, except as the exponent of the educational
policy of the State, in so far as the
common school system was concerned.
That there is a general feeling of uneasiness?not
to say dissatisfaction?is perfectly
evident, and our present leaders, as well as
the old influences, are fast losing their hold
on the people. Our representatives in congress
and the senate are themselves divided
upon the most important national questions,
/. e. the tariff silver, or the national
financial policy, and the Blair educational
bill.
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.
[Spartanburg Herald.]
The Free Trade Utopians are at their
ephemeral foolishness again. It does seem
to us that when tariff reformers even
find it impossible to make headway, that
the hope of absolute free trade is an absolute
absurdity. It seems also the depth of
unwisdom for our Southern people to prejudice
reasonable people against the true
reform by holding up to their view the absurd
lengths to which this thing may be
carried.
[Barnwell Sentinel.]
The Executive Committee of the State's
handful of Free Traders held a meeting in
Columbia on Saturday the 20th instant, and
decided to issue a call for the Association
to meet on the 2nd of next June?they propose
to make a thorough canvass of the
State for the purpose of displacing those
Congressmen who do not hold corresponding
views on the tariff question. Free
trade would be a good thing for the South,
but it is not probable that a few Southern
States can accomplish what the Northern
and manufacturing States claim would be a
drawback to all their industries, even if
they were successful in an effort to supply
the places of all their Representatives with
the strictest free trade men. As for South
Carolina, to say nothing of her modesty, her
handful are too young to accomplish even
this much.
[Abbeville Medium.]
Some of our contemporaries are very indignant
at 13. R. Tillman because he wishes
the farmers to unite for self-protection.
They take it as a great outrage upon the
rest of the State. We do not look at it in
any such light. If the farmers do not take
care of themselves nobody else will think
about it, and our farmers will continue as
"hewers of wood and drawers of water" for
the balance of their days. Co-operation
among farmers is not objectionable. There
is no danger of such a class of men revolutionizing
the country. It is too soon to become
alarmed.
The commonwealth will suffer no injury
from such a conservative body. A few politicians
may be remanded to private life,
but the "ship of State" will weather the
political storms of the future without injury
to any of the rights of person or property.
Suppose we give the farmers a little chance.
[Keowec Courier.]
If, then, a convention of farmers should
propose measures promotive of the public
good, it will meet with united support,
and this they must do for they cannot under
the Constitution improve their own condition
without benefitting every class.
We therefore trust that the convention
will meet and give the State the benefit of
the sound conservative sense of the farmers.
Such a convention would result in one
of two things. The farmers, would, on
consultation, either be satisfied that there
had been a cry of wolf when there was no
wolf, and that they could not better their
condition or the government, or they would
propose and publish some plan of reform
which would be adopted by all classes, if,
after its thorough discussion, it was thought
feasible and beneficial. In either event
there would spring up a better feeling and
a better understanding among the various
callings in the State, which would operate
t to the oreneral srood.
? [Pickens Sentinel.] ,
We would like to see the representation
upon the State ticket-distributed more gen- (
orally over the State than it is at present,
and would be glad to see more diversity of i
interest placed upon it; but we are bound in i
candor to say that we do not believe there
is a single inefficient man on our present j
State ticket, or there is a man on it who has i
not fully, conscientiously and successfully ]
discharged his official duties. Therefore,
in making nominations this year we are <
not in favor of turning any man out simply 1
because he is in, and we trust and beleive
that the people of South Carolina are too (
conservative and too just to our public officers
to oust them simply for the amuse- ,<
ment of making a change. Our idea is,
that each man that is a candidate should
be considered on his merits, and the best 1
man in point of qualification, location and
representative character should be nominat- <
ed without reference as to whether he is <
now in office or out of it. <
[Laurensville Advertiser.] I
There may be some men in this State, i
but we are glad to know very few, who are I
so un-Democratie as to desire to cast the 1
whole machinery of government upon the <
rich and so disfranchise a man because of
his poverty. It seems hard to convince I
some people that a poor man can be either <
intelligent or honest, but when a leading '
Democratic newspaper gives utterance to.1
the idea that representation should be based i
upon property, well may we stop and reflect <
before we allow the opinions it expresses 1
to go out as the sentiment of the Souths^
Money can do many things, but bad indeed 1
will he the state of affairs when it alone can 1
gain an entrance into the sacred precincts of '
the ballot-box.
If it had been proposed that the Constitu- <
tion should be amended so as to require an 1
educational qualification, there might be <
some show of reason in it, but we cannot 1
allow that the poasession of this world's !
goods confers such extraordinary powers, as 1
that only those have been so fortunate as to .
accumulate a good portion are competent to
decide who shall rule the country. 1
W.v
LOCAL AFFAIHS. I
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Glenn it Darwin?Another Car Load of Young i
Mules.
W. 15. Williams, Auditor York County?Conn- j
tv Equalization Board.
H. F. Adiekes?Grand Central Fancy Dry Goods |
Establishment.
T. M. Dobson it Co.?School Books.
Latta Brothers?Fertilizers.
Dowry it Starr?Coughs, Colds, Pneumonia.
Withers Adiekes?Some New Arrivals?Hardware.
Frew Brothers, ltock Hill, S. C.?Seed Oats.
J. W. Dobson?Garden Seeds?Seed Oats?Dried
Fruit?Green Fruit.
George T. Schorl)?'"Down in Front."
J. E(l. Jetlerys?Coffins.
May it May?Diamond Dyes.
SALES-DAY.
There were no official sales of any kind last i
Monday, and as there was nothing to attract at- !
tendance there were few persons in town.
FINE STOCK.
The attention of those desiring to purchase j
fine stock is directed to the advertisement of |
Glenn <fc Darwin, offering a fine lot of mules for
sale. These young gentlemen are thoroughly
posted in their business and offer only such stock
as they can safely recommend.
OUR PREMIUM BUGGY.
Club makers for the Enquirkr, or others interested,
are informed that the splendid buggy,
which we offer as a lirst premium, can now be
seen in the buggy and carriage repository of
^Ir. F. E. Smith.
(SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION'.
The Governor has reappointed Col. Wm. II.
McCorklo Supervisor of Registration for York
county, the term under his first appointment
having expired last Monday. Col. McCorkle
has discharged the duties of the office satisfactorily
to all parties, and his reappointment is a
just compliment to an efficient officer.
yC WHITAKER AND GROVER.
'Dm town of Whitaker's, on the Air-Line Railroad,
is part in Cleveland county, X. C., and part
in York county, and since the establishment of
a post office there, the office has been located on
the South Carolinaside. Sometime ago theoffice
of Grover was established on the Xorth Carolina
side, and it is understood that Postofffce Inspector
ITerndon, who recently visited the town in
an official capacity, after consulting the various
business houses, has decided to recommend the
discontinuance of the Whitaker office,
v /
X SNOW IN FEBRUARY.
Tha^e was a fall of snow in various sections
of the State last Sunday morning; and in the
northern and Western States a storm of unusual
severity occurred, commencing on Friday.
The snow fall here continued two or three hours,
but the ground being wet from rain preceding
the snow, the snow did not attain much depth,
and before night it entirely disappeared. At
Orangeburg tiic snow was accompanied with
sleet; at Greenville, though much of the snow
melted as it fell, a depth of four inches was attained;
at Newberry it was the heaviest of the
season; at Walhalla it was four inches, and at
Darlington, Spartanburg, Lancaster and other
localities it was from one to throe inches deep.
CLUBBING FOR THE ENQUIRER.
The time for securing the Enquirer at club
rates, under the present offer, will expire on
Monday the 8th of March. For the information
of those who may wish to avail themselves of
club rates, we publish the list of club-makers,
either of whom will receive names: J. M. Adams,
Sam'l G. Brown, W. A. Baber, T. Gid. Culp, W.
II. Crook, It. L. Flannigan, John I). Faries, E.
M. Faries, Albert M. Grist, Joshua D. Gwin, W.
O. Glover, C. S. Holton, I). T. Lesslie, Mrs. D.
A. Lumpkin, E. P. Love, S. L. Milling, B. McLure,
W. II. Moore, W. J. Neely, II. K. Roberts,
J. N. Roberts, J. B. Ross, Maj. Mvles Smith, W.
F. Smith, R. K. Seaborn.
CHANGE OF PROFESSORS.
Lieut. S. B. Williamson, Professor of Languages
and Mathematics in King's Mountain
Millitary School at this place, having accepted
a position in Minneapolis, leaves for that city
to-morrow. Lieutenant Williamson was connected
with the school for more than a year,
and during his stay here favorably impressed all
with whom he became acquainted, and as an accomplished
and successful teacher was popular
with all with whom he was intimately associated.
He will be succeeded in the school by
\r- nftlm Virmnii \ti1ifn.
rv Institute?a gentleman who comes highly
recommended as a teacher.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A. M., and 7.30 P. M., next Stinday.
Sunday-school at 3 P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. \V. W. Daniel, Pastor.
Services every Sunday at 11 A. M., and 7
P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. every Sunday.
Prayer-meeting Wednesdays at 7 P. M.
King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson,
Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., next Sunday
at King's Mountain Chapel.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C.
Galloway, Pastor. Services at 7.30 P. M. next
Sunday. The pastor will preach at Bethany at
11 A. M.
Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Services
at Union next Sunday at 11, A. M. Preaching
in the church at this place at 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school
at 3 o'clock. P. M.
THE GEORGE BECKHAM CASE.
In the case of the State vs. George Beckham,
appealed from June term, 1885, of York Sessions
Court, the judgment of that Court has been confirmed
by the Supreme Court, Molver, A. J.,
rendering the opinion. On the 7th of last June,
a row occurred at Mt. Zion, a negro church near
McConnellsville, several negroes being in the
disturbance, and in the fight William Crawford
received a wound by a pistol shot from the effects
of which he died. It was alleged that George
Beckham, who was also badly wounded, fired
the fatal shot, and on this charge he was tried before
Judge Witherspoon at the ensuing term of
Court. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, and the Judge sentenced Beckham
to ten years in the penitentiary. Counsel
for the defendant excepted to the Judge's
charge, "that the defendant must show by the
testimony, and satisfy the jury that he was entirely
without fault in bringing about the difficulty"
before he could "claim the privilege allowed
by law of taking human life," and ap- j
pealed with the result above stated.
% yt'oriTsponilenee of the Ynrkville Enquirer.
X LETTER FROM ROCK IIILL.
'IIock Hill, March 1.?On last Tuesday
a wagon loaded with three bales of cotton
entered our town and attracted consid
erable attention from the rude manner in
which it was baled, hickory withes being
used instead of iron ties. This cotton was
raised by by Mr. J. Harvey Williamson, of
Bethesda township, in 1802, and perhaps is
the oldest cotton in the world. At one
time Mr. Williamson was offered 50cents
per pound for this cotton, which he refused.
Mr. Williamson having died a few months
iigo, the administrator of his estate brought
the cotton to this market to be sold, Messrs.
W. L. lioddey & Co. purchasing it at 8}
rents per pound.
On last Tuesday afternoon Air. J. It.
Smith, who lived near C'ureton's Ferry,
was buried in the cemetery at this place.
About a week before his death he took the j
train at Itock Hill to attend the U. S. Court >
it Greenville as a witness, and died in that |
rity on Monday last of meningitis. On j
Saturday before his death his condition was
such that his wife was telegraped for. She
received the message on Tuesday morning J
ind at once came to this place, expecting to 1
take the first train for Greenville; butwhen
the train arrived it brought the dead body I
if her husband.
Lou White the woman who was badly :
burned by the explosion of a kerosene oil!
. an, died on last Wednesday morning.
X^Ir. lteese W. Workman has been con-1
fined to his bed with sickness for the last
two weeks. I trust that he may soon rerover,
as we miss his friendly visits to our
town.
/Mr. Oscar P. Brittan, of Aiken, who is
tVell known in this place, died at Aiken i
last Friday. He was an uncle of Mrs. W.
B. Wilson, Jr.
Several of the ladies and gentlemen of r
aur town, assisted by some of the musical1
talent of Charlotte, are practicing for a ;
oncert to be given at this place in about
ten days for the benefit of the Rock Hill
Library. I trust they will succeed better in :
their undertaking than did the Dramatic
Association.
A meeting of the citizens of Ebenezer i
township was held on last Saturday. The I
committee appointed to secure signatures
of the freehold voters of the township to a
petition to the County Cummissioners, asking
that an election be ordered in that
township subscribing ?18,000 to the proposed
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad,
reported that they had secured the
signatures of a majority of the freeholders.
A committee consisting of Messrs. John L.
Watson, J. C. Wilborn and W. IT. Taylor
was appointed to present the petition to the
County Commissioners.
At J o'clock yesterday morning snow
commenced falling at this place and continued
until 11 o'clock, covering the ground
about three inches. The sun appearing at
that hour, the snow began to melt, and at
dark very little was to be seen. A farmer
informs me that the snow will be of great
benefit to the small grain crop, which was
badly injured during the recent cold weather.
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A Washington letter of Saturday, foreshadowing
the work of Congress the present
week, says:
Senator Pugh will present to the Senate
on Monday the minority report of the judiciary
committee on the question arising
from the refusal of the Attorney (ieneral
to furnish the papers in theDustin case, and
Senator Edmunds will seek to open the debate
on the subject as soon thereafter as
possible. But the education bill stands
on the calender as unfinished business, a
position it has occupied since the Oth ultimo.
Senator Edmunds has not intimated
a purpose to have it set aside. The
friends of the education bill hope it may be
disposed of within two or three days, and
Senator Blair will resist all attempts to
have it laid aside for any purpose. The
debate on the issues between the majority
jn the Senate and the Executive, to which
the minority report will give rise, is expected
to last several days and may cover
two or three weeks. Senator Hale will
probably move for an executive session tomorrow
to dispose of the Pillsbury and
Chase cases, but if the motion is made, as
is it is expected, early in the day, it will be
resisted by Senator Blair. Senators having
charge of the Bankruptcy bill, the bill for
the admission of Washington Territory,
the Inter-State Commerce bill, and the
Electoral Count bill are anxiously watching
an opportunity to get the measures before
the Senate, but there is little prospect of
success until the above mentioned debate
is concluded. Meanwhile, however, much
legislative business of a character not provocative
of long debates will be transacted,
as heretofore, during the hours each day devoted
to the Calendar.
The present week promises to be a busy
; one in the House of Representatives. After
the call of the States on Monday it will
be in order for the Speaker to recognize
members for the purpose of moving to put
any measure on its passage under suspension
of rules. It is understood that Mr.
James, of New York, will be recognized
for the purpose of asking the adoption of a
resolution fixing certain days for the consideration
of the adverse report on the bill
for the free coinage of silver. Under the
rules a half hour debate is permitted on
every motion to suspend the rules, but as
there is a general sentiment of the House
that the vexed silver question should be
speedily settled, there will probably be no
oppositon to the resolution and it may be
adopted without debate.
The call of committees this week during
the morning hour now rests with the committee
on mines and mining, which has but
one measure on the Calendar, namely for
the appointment of a commission of experts
to execute tests on iron and steel. If this
is called up its consideration will consume
but little time. The call will then rest with
the committee on public buildings and
grounds, and it is the intention of that
committee to call up in the order in which
they stand on the Calendar, the various
public building measures. There are seventeen
such bills to be disposed of, and it is
not likely that the two hours allowed to the
committee win oe suincient to permit action
on them.
Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, has been instructed
by the committee on Pacific railroads, which
stands next on the list, to call up the bill
requiring Pacific railroads to pay cost of
surveying their lands and to take out patents
and become subject to State taxation,
but it is doubtful whether this measure will
j receive final action during the week.
The unfinished business coming over from
previous morning hours consists of the "set
off claim" bill and the Hennepin canal bill,
but the indications are that neither of them
will receive further consideration this week.
There are now five general appropriation
bills in committee of the whole, which will
occupy the attention of the House after the
morning hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursday, and they may be allowed to
displace the private Calendar on Friday.
The committee on appropriations will try
to secure the passage of the urgent deficiency
bill on Tuesday. The pension and
Indian bills will follow in time. Saturday,
under a special order, will be devoted to
general debate on the state of the Union.
The Buried Men at Xanticoke.?The
work at Slope No. 1, Xanticoke, is nearing
the end, and there is little prospect that the
bodies of the twenty-six entombed men will
ever be recovered. The bore-hole is down
about 200 feet, and seventy feet further will
carry the drill into the workings. But there
is not a shadow of hope to be drawn from
this. The men at work clearing the blocked
gang-ways below have advanced to within
seventy feet of the fourth counter, a straight
passage leading up a steep slope directly to
the place where the cave-in took place.
W hen this point is reached it is about certain
that all further efforts must be abandoned.
To attempt to penetrate up this
fourth counter would be very dangerous,
and only result in the further loss of life.
Under the enormous pressure from the/
gigantic culm pile above, the culm anil
quick sand that blocks the passage would
run like water if an attempt to dig it out
was made, and another rush "would certainly
overwhelm every workman in the way.
The men have already expressed great
reluctance to continue the work, as at
present they are in no little danger. The
officials say themselves that they dare
not venture into the fourth counter, and
that they will ask no one to work where
they dare not lead. It is highly probable
that when the fourth counter is reached the
work will be abandoned. All the passages
leading up to the spot where the cave-in
took place and beyoud which the men are
will be walled in, and the twenty-six victims
allowed to remain in their dark tomb,
300 feet below the surface.
The fact that no trace of the men has been
found in the gang-way already cleared
shows beyond a doubt that they were not (
caught by the fiood and overwhelmed while ,
trying to make their escape, but must have
found their way to the higher workings
beyond the cave-in, where they met a lin- j
ge'ring and horrible death by starvation. j
Tiie War is Over at Last.?The Washi
gton correspondent of the St. Louis Republican
writes: Within a short time past j
several Federal soldiers who are on the pen- |
sion rolls have deliberalely arranged to
transfer the money they receive to indigent j
and disabled survivors of the Lost Cause. |
Gen. Stith Boiling, of Petersburg, Ya., a ]
prominent Ex-Confederate officer, gives the ,
following history ofthe matter: "Some time j
in December last it came to my knowledge ,
that a gallant and patriotic ex-Union officer, .
living at Watertown, X. Y., desired that j
the pension which had just been granted ,
him should be bestowed upon some ex- J
Confederate whose wounds made it impos- \
sible for him to undergo the hardships and ,
labor of a well man. I suggested G. W. ;
McLaughlin, of Lunenburg county, asa per
son who met the requirements, and the pen- |
sion of the Union veteran is now being paid \
to the shattered and bullet-rent ex-Confederate.
I wish I might give the name of the
gallant soldier and thoughtful and sympathetic
gentleman who has done this, for
publication, but with that true modesty 1
which would not be praised by the world ]
for so kindly an act to his fellow-man, he t
desires that it shall not be published. The <
matter did not stop here. Some of his :
comrades learned what had been done, t
Five of them drew pensions for wounds {
received in action. They are beyond the .<
need of personal aid, and have written Gen. J
Boiling requesting that he furnish five addi- f
tional names of wounded soldiers of the i
army of Northern Virginia, to whom they 1
wish to transfer their pensions. (
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Congressman Aiken is still confined to
his bed, at his home in Cokesbury; but
there are some symptoms in his case that
cause his friends to feel more hopeful about
him.
? Lancaster Review: It is rumored that
Mr. Jofies Crockett, one of the heaviest
losers by the recent fire in Lancaster will i
even lose the only insurance he had on
his property, $500, owing to the reputed
shaky condition of the company in which
he was insured.
?A German, named William Walter,
hanged himself at Prosperity, in Newberry
county, on Monday. He had broken a contract
as farm laborer with William Suber
and feared prosecution. Three medals given
him for bravery in the German army
were found on his body, one being the iron
cross. He had served in the Franco-German
and Austro-German wars.
? Early last Friday night a vacant dwell'
l-> /Mi.-in LaI am r?i r* r\ f li A AL'to tn /if* T ^T*
llJf; UUUoC) UCll/llgiu^ iw 11IVJ toiaiv WI Ayi
Bell, was accidentally burned by a drunken
man named Brown, occupying the house
for the night without permission. The
value of the building was about$800, which
amount may be charged to Walhalla whisky.
Brown has been arrested and lodged
in jail for entering the house without permission
and setting fire thereto. ,
? In the Sessions Court of Charleston, last
week, the trial of Dr. A.N. Bellinger for
the murder of Stephney Riley was continued
by the State because two Misses Egan,
Miss Mood and other witnesses for the State
whose evidence has been learned since the
last trial, had disappeared and could not be
found. The defence offered to accept a
statement or what the State expected to
prove with these witnesses and proceed but
the State declined. - y
? Seven miles above Woodruff, in Spar-'
tanburg county, a few days ago, Pomeroy
Newman, about 15 years old, son of Roland
Newman, while crossing the Enoree river in
a batteau managed in some way, todischarge
a gun which was lying in the bottom of
the boat, the load entering his throat just
under the chin and lodging in his neck.
He spoke only a few words and died about
S o'clock that night. A man on the bank
saw him fall and pulled the boat ashore,
but cannot tell the particular manner in
which the gun was fired.
? The Palmetto Post, of last week, says :
Charlotte Williams, a step-daughter of Congressman
Smalls, was found dead in her
bed on Monday morning, in Beaufort, under
circumstances of the greatest poverty "S
and neglect. When her two little children
woke up they found their mother stiff
and cold beside them. The damp, squalid
apartment in which she was found was in
the basement of an old neglected house,
with no window panes in the sashes, and
without a spark of fire or a cinder, and her
only covering was a thin quilt upon a rickety
bedstead, and some meagre furniture
and tinware about the dirt floor. A bottle
of gin with lightwood chips steeped in itwas
at the bedside. The spectacle of poverty
and squalor as presented to the jury of
inquest was sickening. She was a lewd
woman, to be sure, but no more than some
of the well-to-do of her race. The colored
men composing the jury were loud in their
condemnation of Smalls for his neglect of
her. A verdict was rendered that she came
to her death from want of attention.
Corn versus Cotton*.?The Edgefield
Monitor wisely remarks that the "Moses
who will do most to lead the farmers out of
the wilderness is he who will do most to
lead them from the cotton to the corn field."
The ruinous system of going in debt to plant
cotton and keeping one's corn crib and
smoke house in the West, has affected injuriously
the fortunes of the Southern farmer
more than any other known cause. No
farmer can lead a happy and contented lite
who fails to make the necessaries of life on
his own farm. Show us the farmer who
makes plenty of corn, bacon and other
necessary food products, and we will show
you a prosperous and contented man who is
at peace with the world and always has
money stored away for a rainy day. A
thousand agricultural Moses may arise,
but they will never reach the promised. ,
land until they commence the Work-nEf reform
on their own farms. All the agricultural
colleges in the world will never accomplish
anything until the Southern farmer
realizes the necessity of raising his
own food, and after that raising only so
much cotton as his resources will reasonably
warrant. We have never known a
prosperous man who bought food for his
family and animals in order to plant cotton.
Such a man is sure to come to grief, whatever
be his resources at the start, even if he
makes good crops.?Aiken Recorder.
A Lynching in Spartanburg.?Abe
Thomson, colored, who was committed to
jail in Spartanburg last Sunday for a felonious
assault on Mrs. Lancaster, near
Glenn Springs, on Friday, was taken from
prison on Monday afternoon by a crowd of
citizens without disguises, and carried to
a grove on Main street, about half a mile
from the Courthouse and hanged to the
limb of a tree. He was about twenty years
old and of brutal passions. He assaulted
a negro woman last,week, but she being
very strong resisted him. This was before
he came across his unfortunate victim.
Mrs. Lancaster is a highly esteemed woman,
the mother of two children, and >
about to become a mother again. While
in jail Thomson confessed to the crime, and
when they carried him out to the grove he
was asked if he had anything to say. He
said: "Yes, I did the deed. 1 do not know
what made me do it. I deserve to be
hanged. Give me a little time to pray."
After praying awhile he was swung up and
left hanging. Several persons in the crowd
were drunk, but the greater number were
sober.
^ Death of a Stranger.?J. R. Smith, of
York county, a witness in the United States
court in the case against Hosea Garrison,
died yesterday at Pitts' boarding house,
West 'Greenville, after a brief, but very
painful illness. He was discharged and paid
ofF on Saturday and started for his boarding
place, but fell on the Main street bridge.
He was put on a street car and carried over,
and soon went into convulsions, his disease
being cerebro spinal meningitis in a violent
form. He had one convulsion after another
until death ended his suffering. He
O 1 ^lrl nrtrl n llotit'G r\f (O C t r? n
? ?13 VI ^ CUI3 UlU auu a native vi viaoiun
county, N. C., but had been living in York,
about'fifteen miles from Rock Hill, ten
years. He leaves a wife and one child.
He was given every attention and all the
relief and comfort possible, and after his
death his body was cared for. As he had no
money it was intended to bury him here at
the cost of the city, but last night Police
Officer Steele and S. \Y. Scruggs started a
collection in West Greenville and soon got .,
money enough to ship the remains to Rock
Hill by express so that they may be buried
by the dead man's kin. They will be sent
this morning.?Greenville JYews, 23rd ultimo.
The Asheville and Spartanburg
Railroad.?The Augusta News is authority
for the statement that "there has been
but little work done on the road between
r r??,1 :1?^,1 AoUa.mIIa L.n,,n
ricliucinuiivinc atiu naiicvjiic i5iuvc uauuary
1st. The ground has been frozen so hard
that work was impossible. The heavy rains
have demonstrated that larger culverts are
needed in some places. The trestle at Saluda
has been completed and trains are
running through as usual. Hereafter when
in unsually hard rain occurs the conductors
have been ordered to stop trains at this
point and examine carefully the situation. *
Superintendent Anderson thinks it better
to have a passenger train delayed with
passengers alive and well than a wreck and
i pile of bodies at the bottom of the gorge.
The Superintendent's head isabout level on
this as well as on all other subjects pertaining
to railroad business."
MERE-MENTION.
Both Houses of the Virginia Legislature
have adopted a local option bill which applies
to all the cities and counties of the
State, except where a local option law now
?xists. Mr. Hamilton Disston, of Phi 1idelphia,
is said to be the most heavily insured
man in America, having policies aggregating
$475,000 on his life. Representative
Washburne has introduced in the
House an anti-polygamy bill much more
stringent in its provisions than the Kdnunds
bill. It prohibits any members of
:he Mormon Church from voting, holding
ifhce or obtainxg public lands.