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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."
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? .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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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