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Jtajrs and .facts. ? The north bound mail train on the Orange Belt railroad, Florida, was wrecked last Friday morning near Mexico, and Engineer John Tomlinson was instantly killed. No one else was injured. While running almost at full speed, the locomotive 8trnck a cow and turned a complete somersault and now lies bottom up in a ditch. ?President Harrison, in a letter ol thanks for the address of the General Synod of the Reformed Church, says: "Patriotism has always been associated with piety In your communion, and it is gratifying to believe that in all oui churches the fear of God is allied with respect for human law and love for oui free Institutions." ^ ** a 1 ? .During me past six weess juugn jtjcifer, of the Kansas Farmer, has addressed twenty-two meetings of the Kansas Farmers' alliance, averaging an attendance ol nearly two thousand each. At Lyons he spoke to 8,000 people. He says that the farmers of the State are iu revolt against the McKinley bill, and awake to the fact that their ills will never end until tarifl taxes are reduced. ? In the United States circuit court at New Orleans, last Friday, Judge Billing!: has overruled the exceptions to the master's report in the famous Gaines case, and Has given judgment for over half a million dollars against the city of New Orleans. The case is the celebrated case of Myra Gaines against the city of New Orleans, which has been in the courts constantly for the last 40 years. ? Baltimore's first month under the high license law has been more than satisfactory. Over 1,000 saloons have been forced out of business, arrests have decreased and the annual revenue has increased from less that $150,000 under low license, to more than $400,000 under high license, of which the city gets $350,000 where it formerly received nothing. The license fee is $250. ? There is a bitter row on between Minneapolisand St. Paul over the census enumeration. St. Paul people have had several Minneapolis enumerators arrested charged with fraud. Excitement is high and several personal difficulties have oc curred between citizens of the two cities. Seven enumerators in Minneapolis have been arrested, charged with padding the census. ? Of seventy-six prominent Democrats San/MIMI CJtnirv aa n t?nn 11 An UllCUUlU^ til KJ lUlOOUUii UldlU Vl/UTVUMVU at St. Joseph last week, seventy-five were for Cleveland as the next Democratic presidential candidate. The lone vote for Hill was given by Jefferson C. Chandler. As the nominee for the second place, Gray, of Indiana, led with forty-nine votes, while General Palmer had thirteen, Governor Francis, of Missouri, five, Governor Campbell, of Ohio, two, and Governor Boies, of Iowa, one. ? Guy Turner, who last January attempted suicide by shooting, while insane regarding his accounts as city treasurer of Augusta, Maine, died last Saturday morning at 4 o'clock. His wound had healed, but he died from brain trouble and starvation. He had latterly refused to eat, and for the past two weeks took an occasional glass of water. Turner had an hallucination that he was a defaulter, though an examination showed his books to be honestly kept. ? A dispatch of the 18th from Houston, Texas, says: The Houston Light Guards are under arms by order of General King, being in readiness to respond to a call from Sheriff Hammond, of Polk county, where trouble is expected. The negro at Livingston, who cut the throat of a white man named Morris a few days ago, was lynched by a posse of armed men. In revenge, a band of negroes killed two of the men alleged to be implicated. A bloody race war is feared. ? A railroad disaster a few days ago on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, near Ashland. Va., in which a number of persons were killed, was the means of saving the life of Azero Polly. He was about to be tried on a charge of having brutally assaulted Miss Julia Hester, the penalty for which crime in that State is death. The only witnesses were herself, her sister and her mother. All these were killed in the disaster, and the case against Azero has been dismissed for want of testimony against him. ? Estimates of the population which this census will show for the United States are various, about the lowest being 63,000,000, and the highest 67,000,000. The general opinion is that the population is now about 65.000,000. In 1880 it was 50,155,783. No other country in the world has made such an increase in population since 1880, but the advance of the United States in manufactures and wealth has been still more remarkable than in population. This is especially true of the South. ? At Palatka, Florida, last Friday, Charles H. Pratt, editor of The Evening Herald, assaulted J. Russell Kennedy, edi tor of the Times, with a heavy cane, which 1 he broke into splinters over his victim's head. Kennedy closed on him, and while the pair was locked in a ferocious embrace, each trying to draw weapons from their pockets, the by-standers and police inter) ferred and separated them. The trouble grew out of an article in The Times. Kennedy's wounds are not dangerous. Law suits are likely to follow. ? Farmers ruled the Republican State convention at Montpelier last Thursday, and the Grand Army, Railroad, State House and Custom House rings were sat upon. Carroll S. Page, of Hyde Park, was nominated for governor on the first ballot by a majority of 43. Only one of the old State officers was re-nominated, the convention making a clean sweep of the rest. It was the most hotly contested and largely attended convention ever held in Vermont. The number of delegates elected at the primary from Vermont's 243 towns was 730, and of that number only one man failed to appear. ? Josia Potts and his wife, Eliza Potts, were hanged at Elko, Nevada, last Friday, for the murder of Miles Fawcett, in January, 1888. Fritz Dupois was hanged at Quebec, at 8 o'clock Friday morning. His crime was the murder, in February last, of his wife, two children and his mother-in-law, whom he hacked to pieces in the most brutal manner with an axe. At the same hour, on the same morning, Peter Edward Davis was hanged at Belleville, Ontario. On the 19th of September last, he murdered his paramour's husband, by shooting him through the heart. He declared his innocence to the last. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence. ?Judge Joseph Cox recently told a reporter for the Cincinnati Porcupine that Gen. Sherman told him a few years ago that a mule is the easiest animal in the world to ride, and that he, (Sherman) always preferred to ride one during the war. "In a picture representing the burning of Atlanta, the artist has me," said Gen. Sherman to Judge Cox, "seated on a fiery steed with fury in his eye, etc., while the houses are burning and the soldiers are tearing up the railroad iron. Well, I was there, but I was not on a prancing horse, but I was straddle of a plain, common, every-day mule." Gen. Sherman neglected to tell Judge Cox whose mule it was. ? A dispatch from Evansville, Indiana, says: The farmers and labor organizations in this portion of Indiana are connected for legislature and congress in order to influence legislation in their interests. There is considerable uneasiness among the lead ers of the parties. It is said there will be a great political sensation when the nominations are made. In a few localities the prohibitionists will make separate nominations. An Indianapolis dispatch of Friday says: "About 200 farmers, members of the alliance and other farmers' organizations, met yesterday and organized a State league for political purposes. An executive committee of one member from each county was chosen. ? Sheriff Cranmer, who was shot on the 14th instant, at Booneville, Mo., by Wm. West, a prisoner in the county jail, died on the following day. Just before his death a mob, composed of enraged farmers, from all over the county, gathered around the jail to take the prisoner and lynch him. The dying sheriff heard the threats of the crowd, and asked those around his bedsideto tell the mob that it was his dying request that they commit no overt act, but allow the law to take its course. When the sheriffs death was announced the mob became ugly, but when the sheriffs dying request was made known, better counsel prevailed, and the crowd quietly dispersed. The jail is kept strongly guarded, nevertheless. t ? A conference of colored men at Jackson, Miss., last Saturday, promulgated an address to their race in which they declare that the constitutional convention to assemble there August 12th is designed by the Democatic party to abridge if not to practically destroy their liberties. They declare that the negroes as a race should If.- be represented in the convention, and urge Bg^that negro organization be at once formed Lin every county where they are in the majority or have a chance of election, with a view to the election of negro delegates. Where negroes have no chance of election they are urged to vote for white men who they think will do justice to their race. They declare they are not responsible for the race issue, but charge it to the white line Democracy, and announce their pur pose to elect men of their own color or 1 show the world that they are denied a free ballot and a fair count. . ?It is believed that fully 5,000 veterans | will attend the first convention of the Uni ted Confederate Veterans, to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 3d, 4th and 5th i of July. Among the features of the meet1 ing will be a convention of the United Confederate Veterans, exercises by the Forrest Monumental Association, which has completed plans for the erection of an equestrial statue of Gen. N. B. Forrest, in Chattanooga, a grand celebration and parade on the Fourth of July, and a day spent on the battlefield of Chickamauga. Every ' arrangement will be made for the comfort i and entertainment of the veterans. Most of the distinguished Confederate generals ' will ue at me cnauanuugu reuuiuu. uc?; erals Johnston, Longstreet, Beauregard, ' Gordon, Kirby Smith, Wheeler, and others, have promised to be there. ?bc forhriHc (jrnquircr. . YOHK VILLE, X. ^ I WEDNESDAYTJUNE 25, 1890. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The State weather service bureau, in connection with the department of agriculture, furnishes the following tor the week ending June 21st: The rainfall for the week has been below , the average, but fairly well distributed, i the least fall reported at any station being fourteen hundredths of an inch during the i week, at Yorkville, and the greatest, one inch and forty-four hundredths, at St. Mati thew's. . The temperature has been greatly above tho average, and very favorable for the growth and cultivation of cotton. The sunshine has been slightly above the average, and very favorable for the destruction of weeds and grass. The weather during the week has been especially favorable for the cotton crop, since the high temperature and lack of continuous rains have enabled the farmers to keep in subjection the rank growth of grass and weeds, two enemies which usually threaten it at this period of the year. Late reports from Timmonsville, in the northeastern part of the State, and Hampton court house and Port Royal, in the extreme southern part of the State, indicate that all crops in those sections are suffering slightly from drought. EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS.. Dr. W. W. Anderson, Statesburg? "Weather for the past week has been as favorable as farmers could wish ; crops are progressing remarkably well." Mr. H. B. Buist, Greenville?"Weather very favorable for growth of cotton and harvesting; several thunder storms, and some loss of life." Mr. Colin Macrae, Camden?"Crops in better condition, and promise better than for same period in many years past." MERE-MENTION. The directors of the World's Fair, to be held at Chicago, have formally declared their preference for the lake front site in the suburbs of the city. Mayor McMcQuaid, of Jacksonville, Fla., was assaulted on Thursday with a club and beaten nearly to death by City Marshal Wiggins, against whom he had preferred charges. Henry M. Stanley has been appointed by King Leopold, governor of the Congo State, and will assume the duties of the office next year. The business failures occurring last week number for the United States 178 and Canada 21, a total of 199 as compared with 216 the preceeding week. The postal telegraph bill has been postponed until the next session of congress. Citizens of Knott county, Ky., have petitioned Gov. Buckner for aid in holding court. The petition states that lawless bands have control of the county. Says the Chronicle: A colored family of eight persons in Charlotte were seriously poisoned on Thursday evening by eating canned beef. One of the peaks of Mount Shaska, near Reading, rv?l hoo HioonrvcQroH Thotrtn nnnpflrQ tn Wllf IIMg UiUIA^I/VMIVUt a ?*v VVf have been sundered and to have fallen into the crater below. Archduchess Valerie has abdicated all her claims to the throne of Austria, in order that she may be enabled to marry whomsoever she pleases, free from all consideration of state policy. Twenty-five years ago the Sioux chieftain Bruginer married a white woman, a descendant of St. Louis pioneers. To-day he is the owner of a twenty-five acre farm near Muskegon, Mich., upon which he has built a neat and comfortable home. Heavy purchases of specie were made in New York last week for export tb Germany. Lizzie Ackerman was convicted in Memphis last Thursday of the murder of her husband and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The killing occurred in the court room on the 30th of last April during the trial of Akerman for assaulting his wife. The cost of contested election cases in the house of representatives amounts to over $100,000 for the present session, and there are several yet to be disposed of. A cotton factory, seven miles from Elberton, Ga., was burned by a stroke of lightning last Thursday afternoon.-; The New York Financial Chronicle makes an estimate of the acreage in cotton this year, based upon reports of its numerous correspondents. These indicate a net increase over 1889 of 2.67 per cent, banging up the total to 20,852,320 acres in 1890, against 20,309,480 in 1889. A watermelon trust has been formed in Georgia which controls the product of twenty thousand acres. They will ! also do a commission business and endeavor to handle the entire Southern melon ' crop. The Hon. F. W. Hill, of Exeter, Democratic candidate for governor of Maine, died very unexpectedly at his home on Thursday morning. Stanley says that the director of a Dutch house re1 cently told him that his firm now has 1 thirty steamers on the Upper Congo, and 1 that they had bought $1,500,000 worth of ivory in the last two years. Mr. Blair's f educational bill is to be reported favorably | to the house, notwithstanding its defeat in the senate. According to the latest re1 ports of the minister of education, there are > 40,000 primary schools in Russia. A 1 substantial brick school house on the old battle-ground at Franklin, Tennessee, marks the spot where the fight was the thickest, where Gen. Pat Cleburne died, and where so many Confederates lost their lives in assailing the breastworks of the Union forces. The school is appropriately called the Battle-Ground academy. The 1 Arkansas State Democratic convention, in 1 session at Little Rock on Wednesday, norn' inated the following ticket: Governor, 1 James P. Eagle; secretary of state, B. B. - riL: ~ ~ 1 TIT T? A ilrino . V>nisiiJ ; anuruey geucitu, ?v . jj. maiuo , 1 supreme judge, Mort Sandels. Grover ' Cleveland was endorsed as the next presi1 dential candidate. Bagging for the next Crop.?A i meeting of the directors of the State alii- J ance exchange was held in Greenville last - Wednesday. The purpose of the meeting was to make arrangements for supplying bagging for the present crop of cotton of the alliance members. The State business agent was authorized to contract with large anti-jute firms for the necessary amount, which is expected to be 2,000,000 1 yards. Any kind of substantial bagging, i so it is not jute, will be taken. The board ' recommends that neither new or second hand jute bagging be used by alliance 1 members under any consideration. ' The purchase of bagging is to be made on the same principle as other transaci tions of the State exchange. It is to be i delivered in installments from the loth of 1 August to the loth of November. The ' county business agent will receive orders from the sub-alliances for so many yards of bagging. These orders, accompanied by fifty per cent, in cash, will be sent to Mr. Donaldson, who will then send on the money and order the amount of bagging wanted in each county. The bagging will i be shipped by the county agent ordering it and by him will be distributed. By the time the last installment of bagging is ? received, the alliance members will have paid for their bagging. By purchasing in wholesale quantities it is expected that the bagging can be procured much cheaper than by the usual I methods of purchase.?[Greenville-News' PROGRESS OF THE STATE CANVASS. TIIE MEETINU AT AHHKVILLK. From the Greenville News. The State campaign meeting was opened at Abbeville on Tuesday, the 17th, by Acting Chairman J. R. Blake, who called the meeting to order and introduced the Rev. J. F. Beatty, who made a short but earnest prayer. Gen. John Brattou was then introduced as the first speaker. As he advanced to the front of the stand he was warmly greeted from the crowd, who also gave him a roaring cheer. He commenced by explaining his position as a candidate, and said be was here as a private citizen to point out to the people of the State the dangerous ground they werestandingon. Ho said that the main burden of taxation was with the Federal government, and not with the State. He spoke for half an hour and closed by advising the people to look after their political affairs with the same calm deliberation that they brought to bear upon their private affairs. Capt. B. R. Tillman followed Gen. Bratton, in a speech of about an hour and a quarter. He claimed that Col. Butler's reports showed that he Dan paid szi.wu lor lawyers iees 111 me puuapbate litigation. He also said that he believed the professors of the South Carolina University were receiving from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars more than they were entitled to, but he did not believe they stole it. He spoke at length upon the question of banks I and railroads not paying their full share of taxes, and charged that the railroad board of equalization had not done its duty. Col. Earle asked Tillman if he was not on the board of equalization in Edgefield, and asked him what real estate was assessed at in that county. Tillman said he did not have the official figures, and could not say. He claimed that the Citadel was unnecessary, but said that if he were elected he would not recommend the abolition of it. He said the money spent on the Citadel might be better expended in the education of our girls. He said that he would promise the people, if they elected him governor, to cutoff the official head of any sheriff who allowed a prisoner to be lynched. Gen. Earle followed Tillman in a speech of about the same length. At the conclusion of the meeting Ellis G. Graydon announced himself for attorney general on the anti-Tillman ticket. Good order prevailed as a general thing. The crowd was variously estimated from 1,000 to 1,200. A majority of them were apparently for Tillman. THE MEETING AT ANDERSON. From ilio Greenville News. The meeting at Anderson on Wednesday was enlivened by more episodes than that at Abbeville. The general line of argument, however, was about the same as at precedingdiscussions. Gen. Bratton was the first speaker, and he was attentively heard throughout. Concluding his speech, he spoke of the real oppression of the tariff tax levied for the benefit of monopolists and manufacturers at the North. He had heard nothing said during this campaign in censure of the national government, while he had heard nothing but abuse and charges of corruption for the purest and best Stato government the people had ever enjoyed. Col. Earle's introduction was hailed by a I hearty burst of applause from the mauy friends he has made. I am sure that the clear, forcible and logical argument of to-day increased them by no inconsiderable number. In fact it was conceded by many to be the finest speech delivered during the present campaign. Col. Earle said be had hoped at the outset of this campaign that certain principles would be enunciated and discussed so that each intelligent hearer might consider them for himself. He had followed Mr. Tillman, who was spoken of as the "great reformer," (voice: "He's a great one too,") and he would undertake to show that all his efforts had been only to array class against class by appealing to the prejudices of the people. He had sown the seeds of dissension, which, if he was successful, would ruin the State. It was his duty to discuss his political sayings and show, if he could, that they were wrong. Instead of this being a campaign of education, by the candidate for governor of a faction of our party, it had been a campaign in which had entered ouly appeals to the prejudices of the people. This government was in theory, and it should be in practice, "a government of the people, for the people, by the people." It was not for farmers, merchants or any other class. Every true Democrat has given up all his rights except that of self-defence, to carry into effect those rules conducive to the good of all men. When class prejudice was excited it broke down all the Anglo-Saxon race had fought for, or would fight for in the future. Capt. Tillman, Col. Earle said, had no higher opinion of the farmers than he had. A voice called out, "What have you done for them ?" Colonel Earle continued that not more than half of the farmers were for Tillman. Col. Earle then referred to the Gossett episode at the Anderson meeting. Captain Tillman told young Gossett, when ho was manly enough to disagree with him, "you are died in the wool and you will die so." Then some one had said, "He's a Radical." Before Col. Earle had closed his lips after this statement, "Citizen" Josh Ashley, who up to that time had seemingly taken little interest in the meeting, arose and said he had said what he did on that occasion in a "joking way". Col. Earle replied that he should never have said so, even in jest. Here Col. Earle opened a paper which he held in his hand and proceeded to ask the question of "Citizen" Ashley if he had not said in the presence of several gentlemen, that if Tillman was not elected he would go over to the Radicals and he would carry two hundred votes at Honea Path with him. The "citizen" arose, and with the utmost emphasis characterized the statement as a "G?d d?n lie." Suddenly the "citizen" was surrounded by a mob, and it was said that pistols and knives were ready to resist any efforts to suppress the noisy "citizen." Col. Earle, after waiting, advised the crowd to let Mr. Ashley make a statement. This, at first, he seemed determined to do, and came up on the stand, but he seemed to bo persuaded by his friends to say nothing, and Dr. Orr made a statement to that effect to the crowd. During the clamor, Capt. Tillman advanced to the front of the stand and said he was almost tempted to go home if the people could not treat each other respectably, and appealeo to them for their decency and self respect td keep better order. In a few minutes the uproar subsided and Col. Earle continued. He alluded to the perjury matter and to the platform of Capt. Tillman. He spoke of the perjury charge as being more bitter than anything which ever fell from the lips of Ingalls, of Kansas, in denunciation of the people of the South. He asked tho meeting n it was not a vne sianuor. ^ vuiuo responded, "yes it is." Col. Earle then took up the recent Shell circular and read a copy of it, which he said was not taken from the Greenville News, but had been handed to him at Laurens by a man unknown to him. He denounced it In forcible language. Col. Earle said a great many good Democrats in the State had been wounded by Capt. Tillman's remarks, and many others had been blinded by his assertions. The only ring in the State, he said, was tbo Tillman ring. One Tillmanite who seemed too anxious to hear his leader, took occasion about the close of Col. Earle's argument, to say he had spoken too long. Col. Earle replied that he had given him the arguments; he could not give him the brains to understand them. Col. Earlo quoted a statement made by a gentleman who had gone to New York to sell some State bonds. He had been told by the broker that he could not buy them for the reason that a change of party in the State had once caused a failure to redeem bonds, and as he had heard that one of the present candidates for governor had charged the present government with corruption, he feared that the present bonds would go without payment. How could the State debt be funded at a low interest, if this was the state of affairs ? Capt. Tillman was greeted with wild and prolonged cheers from the coterie at the front of the stand. He said his experience in the campaign had reminded him of the anecdote of a man who had gone to New York and had attended several churches at which he heard on each occasion the same minister and the same sermon from the text, "and Peter's wife's mother lay sick of a fever." On the ferry boat the following morning the stranger heard numerous bells ringing and great commotion. The same minister appealed to him to know what was the trouble. He replied that he had heard in three churches that Peter's wife's mother was very ill, and ho reckoned the old lady was dead. Capt. Tillman said Col. Earle had been preaching all along from "Peter's wife's mealier," and September would bury him. Captain Tillman said he was the representative of a ring to swallow the ring at Columbia. He said the tariff had nothing to do with this campaign although Gen. Bratton and Col. Earlo were continually harping on it. Col. Earle said that as there was a probability of Capt. Tillman's being United States senator if he were elected as governor, ho thought he ought to state his position. The following colloquy ensued: Earle: "Will you vote for protection ?" Tillman: "No, sir." Earle: "Will you vote for free trade?" Tillman : "iso, because free traue is impossible." When Capt. Tillman reached that point in his speech where allusion was made to the State debt, he demanded the name of the gentleman who olfered the bonds for sale. Earle: "Mr. Child, of Columbia." Tillman : "He's a ringster from Columbia ; that ought to be answer enough." Capt. Tillman, in alluding to Col. Earle's speech, said that ho did not want or expect to get into any personal dilliculty. Some peoplo would be too proud. "But when a man gets up and talks to mo as Gen. Earle has, I propose to discuss the matter in my own way." Col. Earle warned him that he would not brook anything of a personal nature. He had spoken only of Capt. Tillman's political charter and he did not intend that Captain Tillman should say anything of him except as rogarded his political character. About the close of the speech, Capt. Tillman said he had something to say which would doubtless surprise them. When he spoke here before he had said certain things in reference to the situation of Col. John J. Dargan. It had been said in the heat of debato, and he considered it his duty to retract it. He desired to withdraw his charges, and apologize to the people who heard him, and to Col. Dargan. He spoke of Mr. Latimer's letter to Col. Dargan, and said that that gentleman had withdrawn what he had said, and as Col. Dargan was present ho hoped tho people would hear him and let him explain his position. Col. Dargan was not on I ho stand, and said nothing during the meeting. All the candidates were heard with very good attention, and good order prevailed except when the Ashley incident claimed their attention. It was estimated that the audience numbered between 2,000 and 2,500 people. OCON'KK AND I'ICKKXS. The meeting at Walhalla on tho l'Jlh, and at Pickens on the 20th, were devoid of incident. The speeches of the candidates were of the usual tenor, and the people of Oconee and Pickons were more orderly than those of any county yet visited. THE MEETING AT UNION. From the Greenville News. The meeting at Union on Saturday was opened by County Chairman T. C. Duncan, and prayer was made by Rev. W. E. G. Humphreys. Chairman Duncan, before introducing the speakers, madea speech of some length, calling the attention of the audience to the issues of the hour. Ho said there were two factions of the party, one which had ruled the State for fifteen years, the other which had asserted itseit ana uemanueu lis riguis. no spone 01 tho bondage in which the farmers of the State had been held as similar to that of the Israelites in Egypt. Col. Earle was introduced first. He said he spoke second, he supposed, because the chairman had spoken first. It was the first time he bad heard a Democratic chairman refer to two factions in tho party ; the first time he had heard one indicate clearly that he belonged to one faction. If he considered that he should stand here representing the entire Democracy and indicate that he was opposed to some of the speakers, it was a matter for him to determine. lie (Col. Earle) had nothing to say about it. Col. Earle said he was sorry he had to follow the same argument every day. He referred to the different issues of the campaign, the methods of the farmers' movement, reapportionment, bamboozling and debauching, perjury of senators, etc. He was not in favor of the abolition of the lien law. It was the only means by which the poor farmer could realize on his crop before it was harvested. Tho cry of high taxes was an old tale. The State had lower taxes than any other, except four. He favored the Clemson College and the support of the other State institutions. Col. Earle spoke of the recent Shell circular and denounced it. Some one cried out, "that was stolen from Shell's office." Earle: "I don't know whether it was or not. I don't charge any one with stealing." Another voice asked who sent out tho circular. Earle: "Captain Shell did." A Voico: "Does Shell dictate to the State?" Earle: "He is captain of Captain Tillman's movement." Another voice: "Who's captaih of your's?" Earle: "Colonel Iloyt, chairman of the State executive committeo. IIo's the only leader I recognize." Coionol Earle pursued his speech uninterrupted until he was charging Capt. Tillman with undemocratic methods in the independent action of the March convention. He thought such action would lead to disagreement. If Captain Tillman were elected,-why should not another faction, dissatisfied with his administration, call a separate convention and the WKAIO vnon 1 t in riflftro vnln T "If Capt. Tillman is elected," bo said, "I believe it will be the death-knell of the Democratic party." He favored the primary for the election of delegates to the State convention and submitted a written agreement for the signatures of the candidates for State officers, agreeing to it. He asked if Capt. Tillman would sign it. Gen. Earle then read the following paper : "All the undersigned candidates for State officers do hereby agree: "1. That the State executive committee of the Democratic party of the State of South Carolina be requested to order a primary election for the election of delegates from each county on the same day to the State nominating convention of the Democratic party, if the same be within the power of the said committee, and if it bo not competent for the committee, in their judgment, so to do, in that case that a convention be called for the solo purpose of determinin^whether the said primary election shall be "2. That we furthor agree, in the event that the convention, when assembled, should undertake to make nominations, that we shall consider it our duty, and hereby pledge ourselves, not to accept any nominations that may be tendered." Will you agree to that ? Tillman said he would not. He had seen it before and there was a trick in it. He said he would explain when he spoke. Earle was frequently interrupted but calmly finished his masterly argument without great difficulty, although the responses were rather insulting at times. General Bratton was introduced amid general clamor for Tillman, and after the General arose, the outcry was so strong that Tillman advanced and asked that the audience hear general Bratton and listen respectfully. Gen. Bration said it was no circus occasion which brought the people together. It was no light condition of politics, and was no occasion for the howling 011 the part of many of the audience as if they had already decided what they were going to do, and had nothing to do but whoop it up. All who were present were there to discuss the issues and learn from them to decide what was best to do. God forbid that lie should complain ; he would not if he was sunk into the earth. It was not a personal matter, but one which concerned the whole State. Gen. Bratton made a strong speech, warning the Democracy of the danger which he believed was ahead. He was listened to attentively toward the end and was peculiarly earnest in all he said. Capt. Tillman was presented and was greeted with rousing cheers. Ho said the people were clamoring for self-government. They wanted the opportunity of choosing their otlieers themsolves. What made Tillmanism so dear to them was the desire to have the voice in the government tliey were entitled to. When the majority had spoken, let every man subside. The party machinery bad kept the people throttled, and bocauso he told the politicians so he had boon pointed out as committing a crime. The March convention had a right to do what it did and no man would be bamboozled by talk of that kind. It was impossible to overthrow the oligarchy without combination. Ho was sorry for the intolerance and 1 ttorness in the fight, but his opponen'. had boon the aggressors. The News and Courier had raked up what lm had written years ago. Why did it do so ? Be-' cause it was the mouth piece and boss of the ring. It was the advocate of capital against labor, of money against the masses, and felt that if the government got into his hands it would not bo administered iu the interest of those corporations. Some things in politics might be asserted without proving them to a legal certainty. "Bamboozling and debauchery" was one of these assertions. That portion of the Shell address was in reference to railroad commissioners. The law had been made and the coinmission was given authority to fix rates. When the legislature met again it ate its words and took its power away. If it was not bamboozled it must have been debauched, and the contrary held good. They said the rates operated to the disadvantage of some places. Again the legislature gave the commission power to regulate rates, and nothing was done. An election for commissioner was wanted last year, but the Senate sat down on it. Now the farmers demand that the commission should bo elected by the people. He denied any insinuation of dishonesty in any State office. The commission never had much power, but when it had, had done nothing. The expression "political leprosy" alluded to greed for office. Tillman said if he was not elected, Earle was not the man. Ho had turned his back on the farmers two years ago. Ho had been called, but would not accept. The charge of perjury was renewed. Tillman said he would not like to be tried by Judge Izlar. A man who swears to a lie is a perjurer. Izlar had sworn to defend the constitution and overrode it. He might do so again. Tillman attempted an explanation of the meaning of the secret Shell circular, making the terms bear a mild significance. lie would not accept tho proposition of Earle about the primary, for although he, Earle or Bratton, might not accept the nomination of the convention, somebody else might bo nominated. That was tho trick in it. Farley, Pope and Bonham followed Tillman, making short speeches. Tho crowd was generally orderly, but the same tcndoncy to boisterousness, exhibited at Laurens, was exhibited at Union. Tho canvuss for this week opened in Columbia yesterday. Anti-Tillmanites.?A public meet ing, composed of about one hundred and twenty-five anti-Tillman Democrats, was held in Laurens on Thursday last. The followino- resolutions wprp ftdonfpd : ?V?*VT>*Mb VWW-W. ? V--S. " I "1. That the administration of the government of South Carolina since 1S7<5 by the Democratic party, has been honest, wise and economical. "2. That if there be depression existing in any of the great industries in this State, the cause must be found in the Federal laws and not in the administration of the departments of the State government. "3. That the villification of the administration of the State government and its officials by public speakers, now seeking the honors and emoluments of office in that party, is unwarranted, and well-calculated to disintegrate and destroy the Democratic party in this State." Mr. Joseph T. Johnston, Dr.T. A. Barksdale, W. L. Gray, N. 13. Dial, the chairman, and others spoke in patriotic terms to the resolutions and they were passed by a rising vote. Each resolution met a round of applause as read. ? The State Democratic executive committee will hold a meeting in Columbia today and something important is thought likely to be evolved thereat. The Columbia correspondentof the News and Courier, referring to the meeting, says: Great complaint against the alleged lukewarmness or neglect of duty by the executive committee exists here. It is contended that it is the committee's duty to superintend the meetings called under its authority, and to see that they are properly conducted with courteous treatment and a fair hearing accorded all speakers. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. II. Riddle?Mr. and Mrs. John. .Sam M. Grist, Sole Agent?The Corbin Disk Harrow is the best Farming Implement in the World. Carolina Buggy Co.?We Will Not be Undersold. W. C. Latimer?Keep Cool. A. Y. Cartwright A Co.?White Goods and Embroidery are Down. F. Ilapperfield?Something New Under the Sun. D. E. Finley, Clerk of Board?Bridge Contract to Let. Dr. J. E. Massey?Candidate for the House of Representatives. Rev. E. A. Osborne, Charlotte, N. C.?Turnip Seed. M. A H. C. Strauss?We have not yet taken Stock. STORES TO CLOSE. The merchants of Yorkville have agreed to close their places of business on the Fourth of Julv. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. On the afternoon of the 17th instant, a valuable mule belonging to Mr. W. Lee Youngblood, who lives about four miles northeast of Yorkville, was struck and killed by lightning. John Davis, a colored man, was plowing with the mule at the time. The mule was killed instantly by the descending bolt, and the colored man was thrown about ten feet from the plow, but sustained no injury. SUPREME COURT DECISION. J. H. Neely, respondent, vs. the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad company, appellant. Judgment of the circuit court reversed. Opinion by Simpson, C. J. This was a suit brought in the circuit court of York to recover damage for the killing of cattle belonging to the plaintiff by a locomotive of the defendant railroad company. The verdict in the circuit court was in favor of the pliantiff, and the defendant appealed on a question of law. W. B. Wilson, Jr., for plaintiff; G. W. S. Hart for defendant. DEATH OF M. VTAITT.^^Mr. Merrit Whittdied at his residence in this place last Sunday afternoon. Although he has been in a low state of health for more than a year, his death occurred suddenly and quite unexpectedly, as but a few minutes preceding the summons he seemed to be in his usual condition and conversed with friends who were present, in his accustomed manner. Whlfl man ahnnf ui vfu.fi \rei vPflM AIA*. T? IIIW MWV/U W ,,,w J " old. He was a native of Madison county, N. C., and came to Yorkville in 1852, marrying here and making this his home ever since. He was a quiet, unostentatious man, industrious, and by his labor and frugality acquired a competency. His funeral took place from the Episcopal church on Monday, Rev. K. S. Nelson conducting the services. THE STATEJC ANDIDATES. The following is a list of the candidates now canvassing the State for nominations for State offices. Those whose names are printed in italic are candidates on the farmers' movement platform : For Governor?Capt. D. It. Tillman, of Edgefield ; Gen. John Bratton, of Fairfield; Hon. Jos. H. Earle, of Sumter. For Lieutenant Governor?Col. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville. For Secretary of State?J. E. Tindall, of Clarendon ; J. Q. Marshall, of Richland. For Comptroller-General?Edward Bacon, of Spartanburg; Hon. J.S. Yerner, of Oconee. For Attorney-General?Gen. Y. J. Pope, of Newberry; Ellis G. Graydon, of Abbeville; Andrew Crawford, of Richland. For Superintendent of Education?IF. D. Mayficld, of Greenville; James H. Rice, of Abbeville. For Adjutant and Inspector General--Capt. Hugh L. Farley, of Spartanburg ; M. L. Bonham, Jr., of Abbeville. church'notices. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services at Tirzah next Sunday at 11 a. m., and in Yorkville at 8.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 5 p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this . evening at 8.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 8.30 o'clock p. ra. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock p. m. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. At 4 o'clock p. m. the pastor will deliver an address before the Sunday-school. No evening services will be held. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector. Morning service next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock. Evening appointment will be announced at morning service. Sundayschool at 5.30 o'clock p. m. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 9.30 o'clock a. m. The pastor will be absent, attending the Sunday-school convention at Belmont, N. C., next Sunday, and no services may be expected in his churches. PERSONAL MENTION, n^/ Rev. J. C. Galloway, is visiting at Due West. ^ Mr. C. G. Parish is on a business trip to "lOlberton, Ga. X Mr. Wra. B. Allison, Jr., has gone to Richmond on business. Miss Lillie May is visiting Miss Alice Raysor at Richburg. Mr. Henry C. Strauss is visiting at Cokesbury, Abbeville county. Miss Mary Arledge, of Charlotte, is visiting relatives in this place. <fr~Mr. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, was in Yorkville, a few days of last week. Mrs. Sallie Townsend,of Union, is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. R. Smith, near Carp. ?>Mis3 Bessie Meacham, of Pineville, N. C., is in Yorkville visiting Mrs. M. C. Willis. Mr. B. B. Owen and family, of Orangeburg, are visiting the parents of Mr. Owen, in Yorkville. & Mrs. J. Wilson Marshall, of Fort Mill, is in Yorkville, the guest of Mrs. Thos. W. Clawson. Rev. T. M. Lowry, of Augusta, Ga., is in Yorkville spending a short recreation with his parents and friends. <irProf. J. T. Moore and Miss Belle Moore, of Union, are in Yorkville visiting the family of Mr. S. L. Davidson. &"Miss Mary Clark, Miss Belle Crepps, Miss Cora Clark, Mrs. Ernest Lowry, Jas. L. Clark and Jas. P. Culp are at Cleveland Mineral Springs. yMr. J. A. Tate, of Yorkville, graduated from Furman University last week with the degree of A. B. He is the first York county student to graduate from that institution. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Allison and Wm. M. Allison are in Atlanta, having been summoned there in connection with the damage suit of R. T. Allison against the Richmond and Danville Railroad company. Judge Witherspoon, who was to have opened court in Columbia last Monday morning, was taken seriously ill on sunday (after his arrival at Columbia) and on Monday was unable to attend to his judicial duties. An adjournment of the court of general sessions was accordingly made until next Monday. y LOCAL LACONICS. We learn that a neat iron fence has been ordered and will be placed in front of the Presbyterian church. 0 F. Barron Grier, of York, is a member, of the class that will graduate from the Citadel academy next week. The Ladies' Aid society will sell ice cream on the Presbyterian church yard lawn next Friday afternoon, beginning at 5 o'clock. > Mr. T. C. Dunlap, census enumerator for Yorkville, completed his work last Monday morning and has forwarded his papers to headquarters. The pulpit of Trinity M. E. church was occupied on Sunday last by ltev. R. P. Franks, formerly pastor of the Methodist church at this place. Ladies of Yorkville have contributed $15.75 to the fund being raised for placing suitable headstones to the graves of Confederate soldiers buried at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Mr. James L. Moss sent to this office on Thursday last a cotton bloom which he took from the field that day. John C. Moore, an industrious colored man of Bethesda township, has sent us a bloom which he took from his field on last Saturday af ternoon. The first bloom received at this office last year was from the farm of Mr. G. C. Ormand, seven miles north-east of Yorkville, and appeared on the 19th of June, the same date last year as that sent by Mr. Moss this season. THE COUNTY 3IEETING. The reminder is hereby given that Thursday of next week, July 3rd, is the day appointed by the State Democratic Executive committee for the State canvassers to address the people of York at Yorkville. We hope there will be a full turnout of the people on that day, and that they will quietly and decorously hear the discussion of the public questions as presented by the different aspirants for nomination. We have too much regard for the people of York than to believe that the disgraceful scenes of Laurens will be enacted here on the 3rd. However much our people may differ with the position of any of the candidates, the speakers are entitled at least to a respectful hearing. This, we feel assured, will be accorded them by the Democratic voters of York, who have never yet been discourteous to the stranger within their gates. The committee of arrangements having the matter in charge, will do all in their power for the convenience and comfort of speakers and hearers. The speakers' stand will be erected in the grove near Maj. Hart's residence. We are authorized by the county chairman to extend a cordial invitation to all the canvassers, and in the name of the York Democracy bid them welcome to Yorkviile on the 3rd. LETTER FROM BLACKSTOCK. Correspondence of the Yorkviile Enquirer. Blackstock, June 24.?The rains which fell in our section last week were very partial, some not being able to plow on accouut of too much moisture, while others were left suffering badly for lack of it. It is rumored that the Fairfield side of Blackstock is to have representation in the next legislature; that is, if the Tillmanites carry the county; but, as there is no public announcement of the gentleman's candidacy so far, the mention of his name here would be rather premature. The infant child of Air. and Mrs. J. E. Douglas, nearly a year old, died early yesterday morning of cholera infantum, having been ill but a few hour?. Sad news comes from the home of Cadet Tom Robinson, whoso death from typhoid fever was montioned a few weeks ago. Four of the younger members of the family are now sick of fever. Misses Marion and May Durham have both come home for the summer vacation, tho one from Beaufort county, where she had charge of a flourishing qchool, and the other from the fomale college in Greenville. LETTER FROM LOWRY8VILLE. Corrcvpnmlcnce of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Lowhysville, Juno 24.?Mr. James A. Sanders died here very suddenly last Sunday evening. He returned from Greenville Saturday, to all appearances in his usual health. He had been at Greenville the greater part of the week, attending the commencement exercises of the Greenville Female college. He was attacked Sunday-morning with cholera morbus, but thinking it was nothing serious, he did not call a physician until 3. p. in., when no relief could be given. He died about 9 o'clock. Mr. Sanders was a good citizen, a kind and indulgent father, and consistent member of the Baptist church. He left his daughter at Hendersonvilie, N. G'., to spend a week or two with a room mate. She was one of the graduating class at Greenvillo Female college. His remains were interred yesterday at Bullock's Creek. His daughter did not arrive in time for the funeral. Crops in this section are doing well. All other portions of the county are needing rain. A full meeting of the Democratic club is expected at this place next Saturday at four o'clock p. m. The roll of the club will be greatly enlarged, and other business of importance will be transacted. w. o. a. LETTER FROFUNION COUNTY. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Etta Jane, June 23.?The weather during the past week has been unusually warm with occasional showers. Crops in some neighborhoods are needing rain. Mr. Frank L. Townsend, one of our candidates for probate judge, came near being drowned in Pacolet river, at Skull Shoals, last Friday morning. The river was up, and he, with his horse, buggy and driver, attempted to cross. The current bore them off and carried them over the dam, when they cut the horse loose from the buggy and made their escape to land. Mr. Townwnd lost his vali?? and a suit of clothes, together with the top of his buggy, which was broken off and carried away by the current. A modest estimate of his loss might be placed at 850, for which he received only a first-class ducking. Mr. Thos. J. Estes i9 the first of my neighbors to present me with a cotton bloom this year. He found it in his field on the morning of the 18th inst. His cotton is of the improved Dixon variety. Mr. Andrew Tanner, one of the railroad contractors, was bitten by a dog one day last week. The wound, while not serious, is painful. Mr. C. W. Whisonant, whose illness I reported last week, is still unwell. Mr. William Strain has somewhat recovered from the attack of sickness I reported last week, yet he is still complaining. A rumor to the effect that the railroad company is broke has been circulated within the last few days among its creditors. While I neither countenance nor credit such reports, yet business seems to be at a standstill at present, with contractors and hands. sigma. The Deadly Cyclone.?Storms and cyclones have been of more frequent occurrence in the west and northwest the present year than ever before noted. The last two reported were of disastrous consequen as ---1 ~ MA/mi im/) nf o ces. i'Hruuuiaia uuvd uccu iclolytu V/Jl m storm in Potter county, South Dakota, which more than confirm the first reports. The loss of the Werger family of five persons and of Mrs. McElroy and her two daughters in the flood that swept down Little Cheyenne valley is confirmed, as is also the report of two deaths from the cyclone at Lebanon. Three other deaths are reported, but the report has not yet been confirmed. The storm came upon the settleis while they were asleep and was very sudde?. It seems a miracle that more fatalities did not occur. In less than an hour after the cloudburst, Little Cheyenne, which is unusually shallow and almost dry, was raised twenty-five feet and went rushing down the valley carrying everything before it. There is scarcely a house left in the path of either wind or flood. The loss in live stock is heavy, while the damage to crops is very great. A terrible cyclone passed through the southern part of Lee county, Illinois, last Friday afternoon. It passed through the village of Sublette, tearing down all of the prominent buildings, killing four persons and wounding several others. A strip of farm houses southeast of the village was also desolated and many persons were hurt. A school house containing twenty-four children was entirely wrecked and eighteen of the children injured. At Pawpaw, twenty miles east of Sublette, seventeen persons were killed and several houses demolished. There the storm was preceded by a deluge of rain lasting two hours, which does not seem to have been the case west of there. The cyclone struck the place so suddenly and unexpectedly that no time was left for preparation. The preceding rain and terrific electric storm had the effect of keeping every one within doors. At about 4.30 above the peals of thunder an uncertain rumbling was heard. Looking out, a dark cloud was seen approaching from the west and in less time than it takes to tell it the Southern part of the village lay in ruins, while the piteous cries of the dying and seriously injured were heard on every side. A strip about forty rods wide and one mile long was completely devasted. The first building that it struck was that of Journal Blues, where his house and large barns were demolished. The family sought refuge in the cellar and escaped without serious injuries. In its work of destruction the next object of attack was the Hunt school house. School was not in session at the time, having been dismissed owing to the fury of the storm, but it being so great Miss Maggie McBride and eight little pupils had been unable to lootra tha hniidinp. An observer states that when the wind struck this building it was carried up into the air a distance of 300 feet, where it was wrecked and lost sight of. Neither the teacher nor any of her pupils live to tell the story. Miss McBride was found in the road some distance away from where the building had stood, almost completely divested of her apparel. The pupils seem to have taken another cour iand all were thrown into a creek nea. by and several of the little bodies were carried down the stream but were all afterwards recovered. ? I). R. Lane, an ex-Union soldier now living in Lancaster county, and who was wounded at Reeme's station, Va., in July, 1803, has been granted a pension by the government from July, 1863, at the rate of $8 per month with interest on back dues. The total back dues amounts to more than $4,000, which Mr. Lane expects to receive in a few days. The pension will be continued during life at the same pay. THEY MEET IN COLUMBIA. Japtain Tillman Beards the Lion in His Uen. FRIENDS AT HAND SEE FAIR PLAY. It Still takes Wade Hampton to Keep a Crowd Quiet. A TILT BETWEEN TILLMAN AND HASKELL. The Result Cannot be Claimed as a Victory for either Side. ONLY ONE ACCIDENT MARS THE DAY. [hpecul dispatch to the voRKVir.r.e e.s(jltrp.r.j Columbia, June 24.?The political meeting here to-day was by far the largest that the speakers have appeared before during this campaign. The meeting was held at the fair grounds. The grand stand was full and over a thousand men stood around the speakers' stand, in the baking sun, for hours. There were about eight hundred ladies and two thousand men present. About a hundred and fifty supporters of Capt. Tillman came from Edgefield, Lexington, Orangeburg and Laurens. A hundred and fifty Earle men came from Sumter and thirty from Camden. Anti-Tillman men were also present from Orangeburg, Clarendon, Charleston and Fairfield. Both factions wore badges prominently displayed. Many men came in from the surrounding country. Columbia men did not turn out in force. In spite of everything that could be done by the managers and the twenty-five policemen on the grounds it was impossible to keep order, or get any of the speakers, with the exception of Senator Hampton, who received a quiet, uninterrupted hearing. Capt. Tillman was very frequently interrupted by his friends cheering Jum^pand his opponents asking questionsana talking to him in a very irritating manner. Gen. Earle pleaded for a respectful hearing for Capt. Tillman, but quiet was not restored until Gen. Hampton walked to the front and begged that those who still had a regard for him would maintain order. After that Capt. Tillman had an attentive audience. The speakers and guests, in a dozen carriages, headed by a band and accompanied by a company of cavalry proceeded to the grounds at ten o'clock. Senator Hampton was the first speaker. He was received with very little applause. His speech was brief, but he was very earnest. He reviewed the history of the State since the war, and dwelt upon the struggle for white supremacy in '76. The "sub-treasury" bill, and another bill recently introduced by Senator Stanford, of California, providing for the government's lending farmers money at 1 per cent., he declared unconstitutional and said he did not suppose the people of this State would ask their representatives to vote for an unconstitutional measure.' He dreaded divisions of anv kind in the ranks of the white people of the State, and he came down here from Washington lor the purpose of appealing to the men who once had confidence in him?the men of his old brigade?to stand as they stood in the war, shoulder to shoulder, and with a solid front. He had heard it said that the farmers were slaves, and ruled by a despotic ring. He was certain that no white man in the State was a slave, and there was no ring. It was said that the State was ruled by aristocrats. "God only knows who they are; I do not know them. They are not here." He asked, "Are there any men within the sound of my voice who were in my brigade?" [Cries of "Here I am!" "YesL Yes!" were heard mound.] "Did I treat any man in the ranks as if I were any better ? Did I show any more, if as much, favor to the soldier with a star on his coat as I did to the most ragged man in the ranks?" [Cries of "No! no!" responded on all sides, succeeded by deaf ening cheers "for Hampton."^ "There are no aristocrats in our South Carolina." Gen. Bratton succeeded Hampton. He likened the present movement for reform to the reconstruction movement in '68. The same charges and promises were made then by the carpet-baggers. The new party in the State had been formed upon the call of a manifesto, whose infamous charges had either fallen to thegrouncj for want of proof, or been withdrawn. Capt. Tillman followed Gen. Bratton. He was received with cheers and groans. It was the first time he had ever addressed the people of Richland county. He would show them that they had never heretofore had a voice in electing their governor. He had caused a flood to rise in the up-country and it would sweep everything before it. He drew a picture of a farmer representative coming to Columbia; being taken to the club, wined and dined, and finally made to forget his duties, and vote just as the politician wished. At this point a man in the crowd asked Capt. Tillman if he was in the war ? He said he was not, because he was too young. Judge A. C.Haskell then asked bow old he was when the war ended? Capt. Tillman answered "seventeen." Judge Haskell rose and coming to the front said, during the greatest confusion, "I had heard reports about Capt. Tillman not being in the war. I did not believe them and asked that question in order to give him an opportunity to set himself straight. He has told you that he was too young, but admits being seventeen years old. Now the law required that every one sixteen years old should enter the army, and thousands did so at that age." Col. Haskell was greatly excited and Capt. Tillman appeared to be terribly angry. He touched Haskell on the arm to attract his attention, but Haskell said, "Don't touch me, sir!" as if he had been a leper. Capt. Tillman called Haskell a demagogue and resumed his speech. There was intense excitement during the altercation. Capt. Tillman renewed the charges of political leprosy permeating the government. Gen. Earle was the next Bpeaker. He said that the Shell manifesto "began in a lie and ended in a lie." He declared the charges against the government false. Col. John C. Haskell in his capacity of chairman of the ways and means committee addressed the meeting. He showed that since 1876 the farmers had had a large majority in the legislature?that they had the machinery in their own hands. He was very severe in his language about Capt. Tillman, who he said was a traitor to the State, and in charging her with being corrupt was striking a dagger in his mother. E. B. Gary, candidate for lieutenantgovernor on the Farmers' ticket was the last speaker. He was in favor of the Univopaitv and thfi Hitfldfil and did not be lieve the charges that the State government was corrupt. Capt. Tillman was responsible for that. Speaking will continue to-night. a sad accident. During the morning a sad accident happened. A salute was being fired. There was a premature explosion of the cannon, and one young man had both eyes blown out and both arms torn off. Another will lose both arms, and a third was badly injured. w. e. g. Only a Substitute.?A Greenville dispatch to the Columbia Register of yesterday says: "It has come out on capital authority, that Col. Eugene B. Gary, a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Tillman ticket, is under pledge to retire if a farmer suited to the Tillman "bosses" should come out for that office. The night before the campaign opened here Col. Gary was undecided whether to run for attorney general or lieutenant governor. I A caucus of prominent Tillman followers was held in room No. CO at the Mansion house to discuss Gary's case and there it was decided he should run for the second place, and then the alleged pledge was obtained from him. The Tillmanites in the upper part of the State don't like the idea of so many lawyers on the ticket, and one of them being taunted about this gaye away Gary's position. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Capt. John M. Patrick publishes a card declining to become a candidate for adjutant and inspector general. ? Governor P.ickardson has appointed J. A. M. Gardner treasurer of Aiken county, vice J. E. Murray, suspended. ? The Tillmanites captured the Democratic convention of Hampton county on Tuesday of last week, and elected a Tillman delegation to the Democratic State Nominating convention, which is to meet September 10. ? Winnsboro Herald: A colored woman, named Christian Young, living about fnn r miloa fm rv-i fntirn /I ?*Ar\nn/l rlao/l Thlira. day while working in the tield. She gave no sign of failing health. This makes the fourth case of sudden death that has occurred within the last ten days in and about town. ? Stuart Franklin, colored, of Greenwood, wasshot and killed on an excursion train near McCormick, on the Augusta and Knoxville railroad last Friday night. The homicide was the result of one of the frequent quarrels among the colored excursionists who ride on the excursion trains on that road. ? Thomas Powell, aged 20, accidentally shot and killed Patrick Mackin, at Ridgeway, Fairfield county, last Saturday afternoon. They were cousins, and in handling a pistol, thought to be empty, it was discharged, the ball entering Mackin's heart, producing instant death. A verdict in accordance with the above facts was rendered. ? During a storm at Congaree, Richland county, last Thurday, a boy went to the pond on the place on Mr. James II. Adams, Jr., to bring home a cow that was tied to a tree there. While untying the cow a bolt of lightning struck the boy and the cow, killing both instantly. The boy's clothing was set on fire by the lightning and was burned off his body. ? The "Richland Campaign club" has been organized in Columbia, with Col. A. C. Haskell as president. It is intended as a "starter" of a series of such clubs to be organized in every county in the State. The avowed purpose is to enable those opposed to Tillman to combat him and his followers with the same advantage of organization, which his supporters already enjoy. ? On last Thursday night a shooting affray occurred on Main street^ close to the city hall, Columbia, between Trial Justice T7?- 1_ 1_T TA- \\T \\T Pa?? X' laua xx. u csiun auu xj i. it . it. x?ajr, both young men and cousins. The combatants emptied their pistols, firing five shots each. Dr. Ray was slightly wounded and Weston was seriously but not fatally hurt. He is confined to his room. He has resigned hiscommission as trial justice in consequence of his act. The difficulty grew out of a quarrel of a private nature, the cause of which could not be learped. ? Jim Harkins, colored, was killed at Greenville by lightning last Wednesday, at the works of the Greenville fertilizer company. He was a carpenter and was standing on the ground near where forty or fifty men were at work. Nearly every man within 150 yards of where the man was killed was injured by the same bolt, and some of them were rendered unconscious for some time. Three Jersey cows on the farm of Capt. O. P. Mills, near the city, were also killed. ? A fratricidal feud between Calvin and William Gray, two brothers, had a fatal termination at Bennettsville last Thursday. A woman was the cause. She was in the service of Calvin and abandoned him to take service with William, whose wife gave her employment. Calvin then got out a search warrant for some wearing apparel which he alleges to have been stolen from him, and went to his brother's house. A quarrel ensued, and Calvin was fatally shot. The brother and his son have been arrested, the latter as an accessory. The parties are of good standing, and the affair, as usual, is "greatly deplored." ? in ine Lancaster court or sessions^iast week, two white men were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary one year each. One by the name of Hand, convicted of forgery, and the other, Barrett, convicted of larceny. There were no others sentenced to the penitentiary. The case which elicited the most public interest was that of the State against Rochelle Cator, William Cliber, and Roxy Hennis. Tho turn first, named, colored men. were charged with the murder of Gustavus Hennis, and the last named, the wife of the murdered man, was charged as an accessory before the fact. The murder was a most atrocious and brutal one, and calculated to stir up public indignation to its highest pitch. This unfortunate man seems to have been killed by these two cruel negroes for no other purpose than to gain access to his wife; and one of them was with her after the killing, with her husband's blood still fresh on his clothing. The result of the trial was that the two negroes were convicted of murder and sentenced to death, to be inflicted on the first Friday in August next. But there was a mistrial as to the woman. From all the circumstances, both before and after the trial, the public mind is led to the conclusion that the woman is guilty, and public feeling is running pretty high. Serious Railroad Accidents.?A serious accident occurred on the Western N. C. railroad on the 14th instant, by which two lady passengers?Mrs. J. H. Scarborough, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Madame Von Buhlow, of Cincinnati, were killed. Madame Von Buhlow was engaged as a teacher in Claremont college, Hickory, and was on her way home to spend her vacation. Several other passengers were seriously hurt. The cause of the wreck is supposed to have been a defective truck on the tender, which broke, causing the derailment of the cars behind. On Tuesday night of last week, a terrible disaster occurred on the Asheville and Spartanburg railroad. The company k^ep an extra engine at Saluda to assist the freight trains on the heavy grade on Tryon and Saluda mountains, a distance of several miles. This engine aids the trains, both up and down the mountain, aiding in checking the speed of the east bound trains descending, and in pushing the west bound sections ascending. It was in charge of Engineer Lewis Tunstall, one of the most trusted men on the road, great skill being necessary to operate on so exceptional an incline. About eleven o'clock at night the section of through freight No. 11, east bound, came down the mountain, Tunstall's engine being attached, besides I th? pncrinp nf the freicht train. Tunstall should have stopped at Melrose, a station at the foot of the mouutain, but it was found that his engine was unmanageable, and it rushed on, carrying the other engine and train, until they left the track, and caused a general wreck. Both engines and ten freight cars were wrecked, and there was a massacre of men. Engineer Tunstall was found dead under his engine, and his fireman, Will Taylor, a white man, was also killed. John Smyer, engineer of the freight, was killed, and J. S. Beaucock, the flagman, a white man, had an arm and leg broken. Ed. Foster, the colored train hand, lost both eyes. Will Poe, white, fireman on the freight engine, hurt his shoulder and side by falling. Engineer Smyer was from Chester, S. C., and leaves a wife. Tunstall lived at Saluda, where he had a wife and several children. It is said that he also leaves his mother and three sisters, who were all dependent on him for support. The loss to the railroad in rolling stock will amount to $75,000. ? . Ten Year's Mortgages.?Mr. Fishbeck, who has charge of that part of the census which has reference to the indebtedness and mortgages of the State, expects to complete the work by the 20th of July. The abstractors have completed their work in all the counties. To-day the most tedious and difficult part of the work is to commence. The abstractors will begin their work in what are designated as the "inquiry counties." In these counties an effort is to be made to ascertain the causes which lead to the eiving of mortgages. The information received will, of course, be confidential, and only for the census. iur. r isnoeeK said that the records show that South Carolina has remarkably few mortgages. There are only two counties in the State in which 3,000 mortgages have been recorded in the past ten years. In all the other counties, the numbefs have been very much less. The enumeration made by the abstractors includes all mortgages made in ten years, including those cancelled.?[News and Courier. I ^