Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 01, 1890, Image 2

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Jtapg and $act$. ? A Galveston report to the New York Cotton Exchange, says, under the most unfavorable circumstances the crop of cotton in Texas cannot be less than 1,750,000 bales, unless early killing frosts occur. Large portions of the crop, however, will be low grade, sandy and dusty, on account of too much rain. ? At an election held in Binghampton, N. Y., last Thursday, over 500 women cast their ballots, the largest yote of women ever polled In that town. Active electioneering was indulged in by many of the ladies and several leading society women voted. The good order which the attendanceof women at the polls produced, was generally commended. ? The senate has passed the house bill to discontinue the coiuage of the $1 and $3 gold pieces, and the 3 cent silver pieces. They will presen y drop into the cabinets of coin collectors or follow the trade dollar back to the mint. The twenty-cent piece, silver half-dime and two-cent copper piece, might follow them into retirement and not be greatly missed. ? Gen. N. P. Banks has been refused a lenomination by the Republicans of the Fifth congressional district of Massachusetts, the nominee being ex-Mayor Fox, of Cambridge. Of the 100 votes in the convention, Gen. Banks could command but 20. Banks was elected speaker of the house in 1854, when the repeal of the Missouri compromise sent a majority of freesoilers to the house. ? The San Francisco Argonaut places the race issue in a clear light when it says: "If we, as Californians, would not submit to a Chinese majority, we have no right to ask our Southern countrymen to submit to a negro majority." Yet congressmen that tumbled over each other to vote against the predominance of Chinese in California are now eager to vote for African predominance in the South. Prejudice has but one eye." ? A queer issue has been raised in the municipal campaign now in progress at Fort Dodge, Iowa. The mayor has issued an order prohibiting the use of baby carriages on the sidewalks. The women of the city have taken the matter in hand and have brought out a candidate who is in favor of giving the entire sidewalk to the babies if they want it. The campaign is now at fever heat. The offending mayor has expressed a willingness to compromise, but to no avail. ? The Hon. C. P. Breckinridge, who was recently ousted from congress by the unscrupulous Republican majority, is now r in Arkansas seeking a vindication at the hands of the people. He is opposed by the Rev. Isom P. Langley, formerly a Democrat, but now thecandidateforthe Union Labor party. A vigorous canvass is being made of the white district, and the Democrats are hopeful of carrying the election. Congressman Mills, of Texas, and Breckinridge, of Kentucky, will speak for the ousted Democrat. ? In*M Iff/totAf>n ? DO UJUCI1 UlUriKHgeu iniiu iu Iinkciu Kansas has come ioto the hands of the loan companies, through foreclosures and the exodus of farmers, that a syndicate of the mortgagees has been formed, known as the "Syndicate Lands company," to dispose of or cultivate the surrendered acres for the benefit of the combined owners. Their holdings are said to be very large. Probably no other case of landlordism quite so big has grown out of the Western mortgage business. ?On Sunday another attempt was made ? upon the life of the Czar. This time the conspirators planned to wreck a train by which it was believed the Czar intended to travel from St. Petersburg to Warsaw. An obstruction was placed upon the track in the shape of five sleepers, which were tightly wedged in between the rails. The train supposed to be carrying the Czar crashed into the barricade and sleepers, and was thrown from the track. No details of the outrage have been obtained. It is not known whether any arrests have been made in connection with the affair. ? The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance will establish a school of their own at Morehead City. The foundation of the first of the buildings was laid last week and it will speedily be completed. It will accommodate 300 pupils, and other buildings will be erected. The object is to furnish tuition and board at actual cost. The superintendent will buy food at wholesale, and each pupil will pay his exact proportion of the cost. It is calculated that this will not . exceed $5 per month. It proposes to divide the salaries of the teachers among the scholars in the same way. Agents are now at work among the Alliances in various sections of the State. ? The total estimated increase In the cost of elections in New York city under . the new law, shows a total of $177,000 above last year's figures. But, as The New York Commercial Advertiser(Dem.) explains: "It must be remembered that there is a necessary increase every year, owing to the growth of population; that many items of expense this year, as construction of booths, purchase of furniture and the like, are not for this year alone, but for future use, so that next year these items will be absent; and that a close and economical execution of the law was not to be expected from politicians known to be anxious to throw discredit upon it." ? The secretary of the interior has addressed a circular letter to the governors of States, asking to be informed about the institutions in their respective States which are entitled to receive the benefit of the recent act of congress appropriating money for the endowment of State agricultural colleges and industrial schools. By the provisions of the act only such institutions as make no distinction of race or color in the admission of students are entitled to a share of the appropriation, and in his letter the secretary directs each governor to state whether or not he is authorized to accept the gift, and answer for a compliance, by the institutions, with the provisions of the law. ? Rev. A. G. Dempsey, one of the Alliance candidates for the legislature in Cobb county, Ga., dropped dead while making a speech in a negro school house. There was a question as to whether Dempsey or Coh W. R. Powers received the nomination at the recent primary in that county, and the campaign between these two had been heated. Last Friday night Dempsey was speaking to an audience of negroes, when he fell over dead. Heart disease was the cause. Ever since the war Dempsey has been a standing candidate for the legislative nomination, but never until this year was he successful. Now death has robbed him of the long sought prize. ? Almost in the exact geographical centre of Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite iron ore, with 600 feet of it above ground, more than a mile wide and over two miles in length. Besides the iron, the mountain contains a bed of lignite coal large enough to warm the entire world for a century, a dozen of dried-up lakes of soda, where the soda is deposited to a depth of over 300 feet, some of the lakes being over 600 acres in extent. In a mountain adjoining there is a petroleum basin larger than those of Pennsylvania and West Virginia combined. Out of some of the springs pure rectified coal oil is trickling at the rate of twenty to thirty barrels per day. ?The anti-lottery law recently enacted by congress is being promptly put into practical operation. At Montgomery, Ala., Inst Thursdav. under intsructlons from Chief Inspector Sharp, Inspector Booth seized all the issue of The Birmingham Age-Herald of that date, and the weekly issue of The Atlanta Constitution of last week, and all other papers received at that place, which upon examination were found to contain lottery advertisements. The officers of The Montgomery Advertiser company were required to give bonds for their appearance at the November term of the United States court lor publishing lottery advertisements in their Sunday issue of September 21, although they announced in the next issue, that having learned that the law had become operative at once, lottery advertisements would not again be inserted in their columns. The editor of The Age-Herald was also arrested and put under a $5,000 bond. ? Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, issued last Saturday the official report' of the crop movement of the first twenty-six days of the cotton season. The report shows that a quarter of a million bales have come into sight during the past week, an increase of 36,563 bales over this week last year, and swelling the excess to date to 161,458. The movement since September 1 shows the receipts at all the United States ports to be 580,799 bales, against 439,110 up to this date last year. Since the close of the last commercial year stocks at American ports and twenty-nine leading Southern interior markets, have been increased 275,088, against 212,455 during the same time last U year, and are now 71,009 bales lower than they were at this date last season, inhL eluding stocks left over at the ports and interior towns from the last crop, and the number of bales brought into sight thus far of the new erop supply to date is 7G3,843, against 594,005 for the same period last year. ? A notable murder trial was ended at Woodstock, Ontario, on Monday last. Reginald Birchall, the accused, was charged with decoying from England two young men of ample means on the pretext of taking one or both as partners in an alleged extensive and highly improved farm in Ontario. With money and much luggage the young Englishmen accompanied Birchah from London to Ontario. But they were never taken to the fine farm, which of course had no existence. A few days after their arrival one of the young men, Benwell by name, was found dead in a secluded wood, the evidence of murder and robbery being apparent. Birchall was arrested on suspicion, and soon a chain of evidence was forged around him which resuiieu in nis uuuvicuuu, auu uv sentenced to be hanged on the 14th of November. lite fffltMlc (Stoquirer. YORKVILI.E, S. C. : ^ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1890. THE WORK OF CONGRESS. The long session of the Fifty-first congress will cotne to an end this week, probably to-day, its work being already practically finished. It has been almost the longest session ever held, and, In many respects, the most interesting session for many years. Although the first session of the 50th Congress lasted until October 20, the present session, by reason of its longer aaily sessions, has far exceeded it in working time, and the amount of legislative work actually accomplished has been extraordinary, viewed in the light of previous congresses and of the unusually important character of the measures considered. In figures, the business of the session is expressed as follows: Bills and joint resolutions introduced in the house, 12,402, in the senate 4,570, or a total of 16,972, against 15,598 in the first session of the last congress, which in this matter far excelled all previous records. Reports made in the house 3,215, in the senate 1,817, (no account being taken in the senate of other than written reports.) Bills passed by the house 1,292, of which the senate has passed 849. All except a few of these 849 bills have become laws, or are awaiting the ' ? 1 r>.. .i? , inn president s apruvtw. x>y we avimic of which 486 have been sent to the president, making a total numberof about 1,336 acts or laws, against 1,790 for the whole of the last congress. Of these acts 806 house and 275 senate bills, in all more than two thirds of the bills passed, were for pensions to individuals. Probably in the few remaining days of the session the list of senate bills enacted into law's will be considerably increased, as the house will have an opportunity to dispose of a number of others now on the calendars while awaitiDg the senate's passage of the tariff bill. In the completed work of the session, aside from the revision of the tariff and internal revenue laws by the McKinleyAldrich "tariff bill," the following measures enacted into law may be named as most important: The bill providing for the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of tilyer; the customs administrative bill; the dependent and disability pension bill; the anti-trust bill; the anti-lottery bill; the bill providing for the World's Fair in Chicago in 1892 to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America; admission of Wyoming and Idaho lo Statehood; the meat inspection bill; the land grant forfeiture bill; the original package bill; the bill recommended by the international maritime conference to prevent collisions at sea, and provisions in the naval appropriation bill to add to the new navy three line of battle ships, one protected cruisei, one torpedo cruiser and one torpedo boat. Among other public measures of importance pushed to enactment during the present session, in addition to the thirteen regular annual appropriation bills, are the following: Providing for the classification of worsted cloths as wollens. For the appointment of an additional secretary of war and an additional secretary of the navy. For the establishment of a national park on the battlefield of Cbicamaugua. For the relief of Mississippi River Valley flood sufferers. for me exportation 01 iermonteu liquors in bond without payment of internal revenue tax. Appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase of nickel for the navy. For the erection of a hotel on the government reservation at Fort Monroe. To prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State to another. Seven bills have been vetoed by the president. Among the bills which passed the house but have not yet passed the senate, are the following: The Federal election bill. The national bankruptcy bill. Bill to create a court of appeals for the relief of the supreme court. i Conger compound lard bill. Eight-hour back pay bill. To amend the contract labor law. To prevent the products of convict labor being furnished to or for use of any department or upon public buildings or other public works. Among the senate bills which have not yet received final action by the house, are the following: To enable the secretary of the interior to locate Indians in Florida upon lands in severalty. For the protection of settlers upon Florida phosphate landB. For the erection of public buildings or additions to existing public buildings at Tampa, Fla., Pensacola, Fla., Fayetteville, N. C., Roanoke, Va., Norfolk, Va., Lynchburg, Ya., Petersburg, Va., Newport News, Va., and Meridian, Miss. GOVERNOR GORDON'S LATEST. From The Augusta Chronicle of Thursday it is learned that Governor Gordon recently organized a $7,500,000 company to be known as the "Farmers' Co-operative Cotton Oil and Paper Stock" company, the prospectus of which contained the names of C. W. Macune, editor of The National Economist, as a vice president, and Col. L. L. Polk, as a director. Both these gentlemen deny that they authorized the use of their names. Col. Polk wired Gordon to know by what authority his name is used, and the latter replied "by authority inferred." Dr. Macunelpublisha card in Wednesday's Atlanta Constitution, in which is given.a letter to him from Gordon, in which Gordon offers as a gift $5,000 to $10,000 in stock to each director. , Macune says Gordon knew all the things he has been charging against him on the stump lately when he oiTered him the $10,000 stock, and that Gordon got mad because Macune refused to go into the scheme. As the affair now stands, the $7,500,000 "Farmers' Co-operative Cotton Oil and Paper Stock" company suggests the famous life insurance company and the book concern with which Gordon beguiled the South some years ago. Governor Gordon publishes a reply to Macune's card, in which he says: The letter abounds in perversions of facts. Dr. Macune did accept a directorship in the company, went on to attend the Arkansas State Alliance, where he had the matter favorably reported by a committee, and on his return through Atlanta he asked to have another name, which he suggested, put on the list instead of his own in order that he might not appear publicly, but that in his character as editor of The Economist he would boom the enterprise. The proposition to give blocks of stocks to the directors is simply another means of paying salaries to men whose time and talents are necessary to make a success of big enterprises. Commenting upon "Governor Gordon's Plight," The Charlotte Chronicle says: "Gen. John B. Gordon is unfortunate in many respects. His latest gigantic scheme, flushed with all the sunset glory that ever painted the most glorious picture in the mind of Col. Mulberry Sellers, was disclosed, not to say exposed, at the moment the press was flooding the country with Col. Norwood's letter charging the General with being a rainbow chaser of large dimensions, and small success. The General's friends were crying out that Norwood's vicious attack would only help Gordon, when quick as a clap of thunder from a clear sky, Norwood's charges are confirmed by the exposure of, perhaps, the largest soap bubble scheme that His Excellency, Governor John B. Gordon, had ever conceived. This little incident teaches that a great soldier is not necessarily a great financier." ANOTHER POLITICAL BOMBSHELL! JUDGE J/ASKELL EXPLODES A SHELL AT THE SHELL PAHTY. He Disdains his Brother's Statement of his Position anil Makes a Statement l'or Himself?He Explains Why he Cannot Vote for Tillman ami Why he Thinks the Straiffhtout Democrats Should Nominate a Ticket. From the News ami Courier of yesterday. To the Editor of The News and Courier: Since the nomination of Mr. B. R. Tillman by the political body which assembled on the 10th instant at the State House under the title of the State Democratic convention, my name has been somewhat freely, though generally with courtesy, handled by the press in connection with the ofllee of governor and in opposition to the Tillmnn party. I hnve received letters from men whose patriotic motives commanded my respect, and I luive had the assistance of nearly a column of deprecatory editorial novice Ity 1 HC Difficult us it bus been to refrain from answering the letters of my friends, I have kept silent for the reason that, having presented my views to the conferences held in July and September, and not having been sustained, I deemed it unfitting to continue to press them on the public, never mind how unchanged my judgment may remain. I disregard the implications and the advice and the comments of the press because they were without authority, but I am now forced to speak in answer to the following publication because it claims authority: " 'Washington, Septemlier 27.?Col. John C. Haskell, in an interview with a local paper here, in speaking about bis brother receiving the nomination for governor, saiil: " '1 am certain that this movement will receive no aid or encouragement from my brother and the other Democratic gentlemen on the ticket. Though they dislike Tillman, they are Democrats. I had a talk with Judge Haskell recently, and if he had entertained any idea of allowing himself to be nominated by the opposition he would have taken me into his confidence. " 'This scheme will not work. Of course the Republicans may go ahead and vote for this ticket but it will not avail them. As much as I dislike Tillman and his methods. I propose to vote for liim. So does Senator Hami>ton. I consider it the bounden duty of all true Democrats to cast their votes for Tillman. So far as my brother is concerned yon may state in the strongest terms that his nomination by the Republicans was unsought by him and that he is averse to any such eonlition.'" I am sure that Col. Haskell would not have used my name or claimed to speak, for me unless he was confident it was my desire, or at least that I had no objection, and unless he felt sure that he understood my views, but we arc all liable to mistake and misapprehension. While he has been entirely sincere and has not made a statement thnt he did not think exactly represented me, nevertheless the interview makes an entirely wrong impression on the public, so far as I am concerned ; and while I would remain silent if I were the only thing at stake, I have too muny friends who have stood by me to j>ermit me to let my position be for a moment misunderstood. It is this: I will not vote for Tillman, and I contend that no Democrat should vote for him. For the reasons : First. (A.) That his "manifesto" was false and hostile to our Democratic party; (B.) That his speeches throughout the canvass were slunderous and misrepresented the State and its people; (C.) That he charged our government since control was acquired in 1876 by the white people with dishonesty, corruption and perjury, nil of which he and his associates know to be untrue. Second. (A.) Thut the Democratic convention in August wilfully and wantonly violated the written constitution and the spirit of the party. That the majority of that body by bold and open violation of the constitution expelled, the duly elected delegates from Fairfield county, and finally forced the delegates from Charleston, Beaufort, Georgetown, Sumter and Richland to retire to to avoid participation in further illegal proceedings, whereby this convention was dissolved and had no further ]K)wer to represent the Democracy, certainly not the Democracy of the six counties that retired, for the Democratic conventions of the counties represented ratified their action, thereby repudiating the subsequent proeeedingsof the body. By the unlawful body remaining, and in direct violation of the written law, a new consmmiou was adopted and a new executive committee elected. (B) The convention for the 10th of September had been called by the lawful executive committee and could not under the the constitution be organized for business except by the chairman of that executive committee. The new executive committee asserted their jx>wer, ratified the call for the Scptemlier convention and claimed the right to orgunize the laxly. The legal executive committee, instead of asserting and maintaining its rights, made terms with the usurping committee, and it was agreed that the lawful chairman should first call the laxly to order, but that it should not be in order until the usurping chairman should also call it to order. The convention was thus surrendered to the illegal chairman, who practically did convene the body and control its organization. Protest was made, but without avail, but that protest spoke for a free people, who should not submit to partisan tyranny and gag law, whatever the struggle may cost. This body, thus called the Democratic convention, proceeded to business by thus expelling the duly elected Democratic delegates from Fairfield, and seating the Tillman faction, and then expelled the county of Sumter because the duly elected delegates were from the legal Democratic convention, and the Tillman delegates claiming the seats had not a shadow of title. The convention took up the question of nominations, and at that stage, already having appealed for our legal right, having presented a protest, but finding it void to call for truth and justice, myself, with some others, retired from the body and washed out* hands of its proceedings. Technically, therefore, as a true Democrat I cannot vote for Mr. Tillman. Legally I should not vote for Mr. Tillman. From self-respect I will not vote for him. Morally, I cannot vote for him. Not only not vote for him, but a ticket should be run against him. Minds that are entangled by political office are warped by the importance of success. It is to the people who disregard office and to the people who are broad enough and high enough in patriot: ism to work for the whole people and not for a class and section, that we should appeal in an issue like this that involves all that is deur and sacred to those who love truth and virtue and piety, without which no people can be noble or happy. A bold stand would at any time have checked this down grade party. The fight is harder than in 1876 hecause we have waited too long. But it is never to late to do what is right. There are many good men who hnve been for "the change," as it is called, who would have affiliated under very different leaders und on sound principles if the men whom we have honored and Mr. Tillman has maligned?the meu who have represented us andxfonducted the government since 1876, and the meipwho redeemed the State in 1876, could have thrown offThe "race" terror and disregarded the name and vindicated the principles of our true Democracy. Hut the same timidity, honest, but mistaken, which so nearly suppressed us in 1876. had too much power in the recent canvass, and though heroic efforts were made by a few, the many were silent and refused to gird on their armor because it seemed to be internecine war. Better that than to surrender principle and endorse by a vote the blackest and most unfounded charges that have ever been made against the State. This brings me to the last point: "So far as my brother is concerned you may state in the strongest terms that his nomination by the Republicans wus unsought by him, and that he is averse to any such coalition." No such nomination has been sought, nor has it been made. The sentence taken by itself may be entirely correct, but in conjunction with the proceeding produces a wrong impression. Of course, I cannot seek or accept a nomination by the Republican party, for I am not a Republican ; no more could I accept a nomination by the Tillman jsirty, because its platform is us AntiDemocratic us is the Republican plutform. But I will not avoid the issue, and will speak the truth as plainly as I can. No muu more tliuu myself deplores the exercise of suffrage, or I should say the right of suffrage, by the colored race. It puts the weaker in conflict with the stronger. The inevitable result where the Anglo-Saxon race meets u weaker is subjugution. From 1868 to 1876 the weaker led by white men, backed by armed force, oppressed the stronger. In 1876 the position was reversed, and this State assumed the attitude held by other Southern States?the white race dominant and the colored race with the suffrage majority passive. This condition is anomalous and can only be continued by the preservation of two factors which have prevailed, but have steadily diminished from year to year until now. The tirst is u government which commands the approval and consent of the whole white population. ' The other is such protection of person and property and all legal individual rights of the colored race as reasonably compensates their surrender of suffrage, and renders their condition better than one of antagonism. This was the npi>eal made by our noble leader in 1876, land this was our platform. The election was carried by the aid of from twelve to eighteen thousand colored votes, and our governor was trusted by all and beloved by most of both races. Eight years of trial had strengthened the patriotism of a devoted people and had purged their reason. The nature of the new government wus then understood und accepted by all. Concessions were made by representatives of all classes und all opinions were recognized and respected. In the State ticket of 1876 the leaders of the opposition were given positions of rank and honor. The State was a united body. We will not trace the history. Take the results. The press denounces and the representatives of the people resent what is called the urhitrary and oppressive rulings of the speaker of the house of representatives in congress, and perhaps properly. Take the conventions held in this State in August and September of this year and view the conduct of the president, sustained by his majority. Speaker Reed's rulings are but as child's play compared with the expulsion of delegations and the passing of resolutions by this Democratic president. The unity is destroyed, and a party divided against itself is worse than no party. Therefore, though the truth l>e bitter, it is safer to recognize it and net promptly. I will not make any personal comment on the Tillinnn leaders or their records, or the claims they may have upon the hearts or minds of the iieople who have adopted them as their guides. 1 simply say that their principles and their practices are alike inimical to the notions and actions of the ideal government of 1870. That ideal government was established, and its continuation has so far contributed to a period of unexampled prosjierity throughout the State. The jiarty now seeking power denounces it in epithets that it is needless to repcut, as they have been heard in every county and corner of the State for six weary months. The issue is plainly la-fore us. Sliull we try to preserve those principles which have been so dear to us and productive of good to all, or shall we abandon them for we know not wbat, with much to fear and little to hope ? We have a responsibility, not of our own making perhaps, but it is on us, and what an all-ruling Providence has placed man cannot remove. We have our own race to preserve and we have another race to protect. Our government is dual in its object, but single in its representation. The white man is to govern, but the black race is to be protected. This is not only our moral duty, but the violation of it is. and justly so, our temporal ruin. We feel no assurance that the Tillman government, an unrestrained, powerful minority, will be other than reckless and oppressive in its execution as it has been in its ineipieney. I therefore unequivocally advocate an opiKisition ticket, to organize a minority, if we can do no more, but to control the government if possible. With this Democratic ticket in the field we should ask the support ami maintain the rights of colored voters as we did in 1H70. I would not mistake the colored people. The white man controls the property and will control the government, but when the white race divides it is a question with the colored j race which party will best govern the State. On this j their vote must depend. The wretched spectacle of purchuso and bribery is almost sure to follow. Therefore I wish the race could Ik* disfranchised if we could nave u gimrunice 01 uieir prviraiou, jjiii uiui is impossible. Their right of suffrage is their nominal protection ; the class of white people they support is their real protection. Friends may raise a great outcry against any allusion to colored voters. 1 ask them is it without precedent? 1 ask them and some of the most virulent to name the municipal elections, outside, perhaps, of Charleston and Columbia, when this vote has not been called to the front. 1 ask for the returns on the elections held to impose the bonded debts for the construction of railroads and other purposes during the last twelve years. These returns will show that the Democrats whose interests were at stake did not hesitate to outvote the taxpayers bv the aid of colored voters. I would remind my friend from afar off, the editor of The Atlanta Constitution, who lias been a consistent Tillmanite, to look at the scenes in his own city, when the force of his jmper was divided and worked on both sides of the prohibition question. What use they then made of the colored vote at his very door! And he probably an actor in it. Facts are stronger than rhetoric. The denunciations may be bitter for political reasons, but the men who utter them have asked for the colored vote ere this for their IK-rhaps proper purposes. To end it in a word: It seems to my humble judgment more important at this day to oppose the election of Mr. Tillman than it was to oppose the election of Mr. D. II. Chamberlain in 1X76. Friends loved and esteemed charged me then with folly or madness. I will lie charged in like manner now. The result vindicated my judgment then. God only knows the future; but my conscience is my law. and no party will or race terror shall strip me of the right to say or do what my sense of duty dictates. A. C. Haskki.i,. ? > > - . Railroad News.?The Columbia Record of last Thursday says : The Three C's road, after its reported troubles and the reports as to its finances, is now to come all right, and the great coal hauling air liue is to be completed at a much earlier day than the most sanguine had hoped for. Thfs is good news to every one in this section of the country, and another winter will not pass before Columbia can receive coal direct from Tennessee. Here is how the great work is to be completed: Last night three of the principal stockholders of the road from Catlettsburg, Ohio, passed 'through the city on their way to Charleston. They have traveled over the entire completed portion of the road and examined the uncompleted portion, finding everything progressing to their great satisfaction. But they brought news of groat importance. They report that the same syndicate of English capitalists who furnished the original $<i,000,000 of capital with which the road has been built thus far, have made arrangements with Barkcley Brothers, the New York financiers, for the immediate placing of another SO,000,000, and the road is now to be rushed through with the greatest rapidity possible. Two and a half million of this money is to be received on the 5th of next month. With this money the grading and laying of rails through the'mountains is to be pushed with all energy, and then the line will bo rabidly run on through to the Northwest. Regarding the progress of work on the Augusta division, the Union correspondent of The Greenville News writes : The contractors on the Augusta Division of the Three C's railroad are pushing their work right ahead. J. B. Ross, who has a 13 mile contract from Tiger river, .down into Newberry county, has nearly finished up. The contractors are doing good work, and when the road is completed it will have oiie of the best beds of any road in the State. WILL THERE BE TWO TICKETS ? For several days rumors have been rife that the Republicans of South Carolina would vote a ticket iu opposition to Tillman and his fellow nominees, and that I the men they should support for the State [ offices are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. We attach little importance to these rumors, as it cannot for a moment be supposed that any of the gentlemen named as composing the alleged ticket would consent to such an arrangement having for its object the disintegration of the Democratic party. The latest on the subject is the following from the Columbia correspondence of The Augusta Chronicle of last Saturday, which foreshadows a Republican ticket : A ticket has been made up by the Reg publicans, and authoritati. 3 details in relation thereto have become known outside the inner circle of the party, for the first time to-day. Rev. Dr. R. W. Memminger, who has been an Independent Republican since Harrison's election, who, at the time of the Republican State convention, was printed as being^the choice of the Anti-Brayton Republican leaders for governor, was in Columbia to-day. With a frankness and openness most refreshing in these days of silent statesmen, he revealed to his interviewer much of interest concerning the purposes of the opposition to the Democratic party in South Carolina. His disclosures have the charms of novelty attached to matters hitherto purposely kept from the general knowledge, including the account of a secret State convention of the Independent Democrats of the Palmetto State, not a breath of which has previously reached the ears of the public. There will be a State ticket in the field against Tillman ; but it will be a Republican and not a Democratic ticket. The: administration party of the Republicans of the State, as the Antl-Braytonites pre-, fer to term themselves, who secured control of their party at the recent convention, have apparently sold oot, or more properly given themselves away to the McLane Independents, or "Conservative Republicans," as they wish to be styled. T * -" - /lAmhinntiAn nn/1 n 11 nnf 1 \7 lb 19 a 4UCCI vjuui ui uauuu auu i^ueuhj brought about. During the session of the recent regular Republican State convention, which was held very openly, wide open to speak broadly, at the State house, another State convention was held in secret at the postofflce building. This secret convention, it is said, composed fifty delegates representing sixteen counties, and J. Hendrix McLane, the "streaked and striped" Independent, who once wore the red shirt in Fairfield and who now boards on those for whom he has secured appointments apparently, was its presiding officer. These Independents, or "Conservative Republicans" decided upon a State ticket with Dr. Memminger for governor, and, it now develops, mapped out a plan of campaign and even adopted a platform. By the kindness of Dr. Memminger asynopsis of this platform can be given to the public in advance of its intended promulgation, with the nominees to run upon it or under it, the date for which has been fixed as the 6th of next month. The platform opens by asserting that the policy of the (conservatives) Republican party in South Carolina, is essentially conservative, and issquarely opposed to the radical and even revolutionary policy of their opponents (meaning tho Tillman Democrats.) Among other planks are the following: We insist that the election be honestly conducted and that we have a full free ballot and faircount. We are opposed to the callingofa constitutional convention. We are very gen? ? ? ''? !>A sirl 11/10H Anol or? ran. Ulitlljf oaWJSUCU V> ibn iuo uuuv,ouvuo& 14v* T u>. tagos we now eDjoy and are opposed to any curtailment thereof. In relation to capital we are in favor of its encouragement, and opposed to all discriminations for or against railroad and other corporations. We favor the maintenance of the credit of the State bank, and honestandjust settlementof the State debt. We favor the protective system as necessary to the life and well-being of infant Southern manufacturing industries. We are in favor of national aid for our morchant marine, at least until commercial reciprocity shall have rendered such aid unnecessary. There It is?the third political platform in South Carolina?not counting the Alliance yardstick for candidates, and the Prohibitionists have not met yet. The McLane men have so far prevailed upon the present leaders of the regular .Republican party that the ticket prepared by the former has been practically accepted by the State executive committee of the latter. Whether such action has been taken formally and officially or not, realizing, it is said, that it is Republican pure and simple, without the "conservative" gilding and the McLane attachment, and that they cannot hope for success with their black border of ignorance, the supplanters of Bray ton are said to have consented to the ticket of the white-man Republican party which McLane and his followers have proposed. Of course they reckon confidently on re ceiving great assistance from the divi9j<5n in the Democratic ranks, both by the. Apathy of some Straightouts and the yotes of others. In this your correspondent feels confident they will find themselves mistaken, and the Anti-Democratic ticket, under whatever name it is, will prove the one thing needed to transform the divided Democracy into a united phalanx in which there will be no "antis," but AntiRepublican and anti-negro ascendancy. CHURCH DEDICATION. From tin' Kock llill Herald. The new Presbyterian church at Ebenezer, of which Rev. J. II. Thornwell is pastor, will be formally dedicated Sunday morning, October 5th. Preparatory services will begin Friday before, when, in the morning, Rev. Rev. J. M. McLain, of Allison Creek church will preach, and Rev. B. P. Reid, of Betliesda, at night. Saturday morning Rev. C. Fraser, of McConnellsville, will conduct the services, and at night Rev. W. M. Anderson, of Rock Hill, will preach Sunday morning. Rev. Dr. T. It. Beattie, of the Columbia Theological seminary, will deliver a 9er mon, alter wnicn tne cnurcn win ue ueuicated by the pastor, Rev. J. H. Thormvell, and this will be followed by the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which will be admininistered by Rev. J. S. White, of/ Rock Hill. An intermission for dinner.' will then be announced, which will bel served from 1 to 2.30 P. M. Upon reconr vening, addresses will be delivered before the congregation by Rev. Dr. Beattie, Rev. Wm. Anderson and others. Special invitations have been extended to Allison Creek, Rock Ilill and Fort Mill churches? the first and second being daughters of Ebenezer and the latter in .the same pastoral charge. The congregation is taking great interest in the dedicatory services and intend to make it an occasion long to be remembered. At a recent meeting the following committees were appointed : On Speakers?Rev. J. H. Thornwell, Peter Garrison, Prof. J. II. Wilson, S. A. Fewell, J A. Shurley. On Entertainment?Peter Garrison, F. II. Brown, J. II. Barry, J. W. Steele, F. B. Carothers, R. T. Gillespie, J. B. Neely, .1. II. Wilson, T. M. Carotkers, S. L. Milling, S. A. Fewell, J. A. Shurley, A. P. Neely, II. Massey, E. L. Garrison. On Music?Miss Ella Avery, Mrs. A. B. Fewell, Miss Minnie Fewell, Mrs. .1. H. Wilson, Peter Garrison, W. A. Fewell, Prof. J. II. Wilson. Ushers?J. W. Steele, Jr., Eugene Garrison, T. A. Matthews, W. A. Watson, Julian Avery, Maxcy Fewell. The church has been completed and presents a very attractive appearance. It is of brick, 58 by 35 feet, has sloping floor, and is finished in oil and native hard woods. It will seat comfortably about 500 people. The committee that contracted for the work and supervised the construction of the building, is composed of A. F. Fewell, Peter Garrison, J. H. Barry, J. B. Neely and R. T. Fewell. Mr. A. 1). Holler was the contractor. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ; D. E. Finley, Clork of Hoard?Annual Meeting of County Commissioners. L. A. Johuson, County School Commissioner? Examination of Teachers. Withers Adickos?Don't Forget Our liobhery. Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Dobson's Racket. The Key-Note of Low Prices, etc. M. ifc II. C. Strauss?Use the Opportunity. Louis Roth?Fresh Oysters Next Saturday. W. C. Latimer?Mr. Upright Pays his Account and Talks about Prompt Payment and Other Business Habits. A. Y. Cartwright ifc Co.?An Interesting Price List. F. Happerfield?The "Bob White" Plow Stock. John Sol'tsnap is Written up by Mr. Harrass. Fourth page. EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. /Rev. L. A. Johnson, county school commissioner, gives notice in our advertising columns, that the examination of teachers - - r ?LI!. U ..In ...511 in 01 me JIX'O JJUUIJU BCUVUlo ?vui uc nciu 111 the court house on Friday next, commencing at 10 a. m. EQUINOCTIAL WEATHER. Since Saturday there has been a decided change in the weather. The month of September goes out rainy and cold. So chilly is the weather that fire and overcoats are in demand. The continued wet weather has been damaging to the cotton crop, causing the weed to rot, while picking is also delayed. PROTRACTED MEETING. JL An interesting protracted meeting is now being conducted in Trinity M. E. church at this place. Services are held in the forenoon and at night. The pastor, Rev. G. H. Waddell, is ably assisted by Rev. R. A. Child, of Rock Hill, and later in the week he expects the assistance of Rev. W. W. Daniel, of Chester, and perhaps others. KICKED BY A HOR?E[ 1 We regret; to learn that our ow friend, Mr. John L. Miller, of Western York, was kicked by a horse and seriously hurt on Friday last. It seems that about 11 o'clock on that day, while returning on the Pinckney road from the postofflce, when near Mr. J. L. Rainey'$ house, he met a tobacco peddler, who had a loose horse following his wagon. Mr. Miller turned from the road when opposite the horse, but the animal wheeled and kicked with both feet, striking Mr. Miller's leg with one foot and his horse with the other. We are not informed that the wagoner offered Mr. Miller any assistance, but when within half a mile of his home he met Mr. Rainey and told him of his trouble. Dr. Saye was immediately summoned and gave necessary medical attention, though Mr. Miller is yet quite lame. LOCAL LACONICS. The W. C. T. U. will meet in the Knights of Honor hall at 5 p. m. to-day. Hon. J. .T. HetnDhill has our thanks for public docu ments recently received through him. An important meeting of the York County Democratic Executive committee will be held in the court house at 11 a. m.f on Monday next, 6th iustant. Chief of Police Wilson has donned a new regulation suit for the winter service. Since the 15th of September three car loads of buggies have been shipped by the Carolina Buggy company of this place, and two cars aro now being packed for shipment. The regular quarterly meeting of the York County Alliance will be held i?i Yorkvillc on Friday next. The appeal bond of York township under the writ of supersedeas issued by Judge SimonUm in the township bond cases, has been duly executed and forwarded to the clerk of the United States court at Charleston. BULLOCK'S CREEK CENTENNIAL. The following is the programme of the centennial exercises to be observed at Bullock's Creek church, in this county, on the 16th instant, beginning at 11 o'clock a. m., in commemoration of Rev. Joseph Alexander, D. D., the first pastor of the church : Music. Prayer, by Rev. James H. Saye. Address?The life and labors of Rev. Joseph Alexander, D. D., the first pastor of Bullock's Creek church, by Rev. T. R. English, D. 1). Music. Address?Brief sketch of Nazareth church, (organized by Dr. Alexander) by Rev. R. H. Reid. Music. Unveiling the Alexander monument. Music. ' Decorating the Alexander graves. Music. Intermission of li hour for picnic dinner. Music. Address?The pastorates of Rev. Aaron Wil Jiatns ana Kev. win. u. navis, wim tjurjy reminiscences of Dr. Alexander, by Hon. Sam'l W. Williams, of Arkansas. Music. Address?Pastorate of Kev. R. Y. Russell, with sketch of Presbyterlanism in Western York during the last forty-five years, by Rev. R. A. Ross, D. D. Music. Benediction. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock p. m. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 3.30 o'clock p. m. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, 1). D., pastor. The monthly concert in prayer for missions will be held to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30o'clock a. m. and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 3.30 o'clock p. m. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services at Union next Sunday, at 11 o'clock a. m. and in Yorkvilleat 7.30 o'clocje-p. m. Sunday-school at 9.30 o'cj^juu ? / THE GRADED SCHOOLS. ~! At a meeting of the board of trustees, on Monday evening last, Mr. W. W. Lewis was unanimously elected superintendent of the Yorkville Graded schools for the current school year, which will terminate the latter part of June next. There were eighteen applicants for the position, several from other States than South Carolina. Mr. Lewis is a young man, active and persevering, a teacher by practice, and a son of Mr. J. Newton Lewis, of Chester. He spent six years (as pupil) in the graded schools of Baltimore, four years in the graded schools of Chester, and four years in the Citadel academy, from which institution he graduated with second honor and as senior captain of cadets. Last year he was second assistant principal in the Rock Hill Graded school, and at present he is teaching at Greenwood, in Abbeville county. As a teacher of ability and a gentleman of exemplary character, he is highly recommended by Rev. J. S. White, president of the board of trustees of the Rock Hill graded school, and by Prof. A. R. Banks, superintendent of the same institution. Mr. Lewis has signified by telegraph his nccentance of the nosition and will enter upon his duties next Monday. N f Mr. J. A. Darwin, late a member of the board of trustees, having permanently changed his residence from Yorkville to 1 Griffin, Ga., tendered his resignation, which was read and accepted at the meeting on Monday night, and Rev. It. G. Patrick was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. _ < PERSONAL MENTION. Cadets J. Frank McElwee and John Hart returned to the Citadel on yesterday. Miss Minnie Warren, of Richburg, is visiting her uncle, Mr. John Warren of this place. Miss Emma Lathan, daughter of Dr. Lathan, of Due West, is visiting relatives in Yorkville. Mr. W. W. ltigby has returned to May & May's pharmacy, after a pleasant visit to his home in Colleton county. Mrs. Henry Terrell and children, of Newton, N. C., spent several days in Yorkville last week visiting relatives. Mr. C. P. Henderson and family, of Mecklenburg county, N. C., are in Yorkville visiting the family of Mr. S. A. McElwee. Messrs. John and Paul McNeel have returned to Columbia for the purpose of continuing their studies in the State University. Mr. ltobt. M. Moore, ofMcConnellsville, and Mr. J. H. Ferguson, of Chester, have been engaged as salesmen at M. & II. C. St truss'S* Mr. W. R. Itainey, of Blairsville, left on Monday for Huntersville, N. C., for the purpose of attending the High School at that place. Mr. James P. Crawford, son of Sheriff Crawford, has gon9 to Baltimore to enter upon his second course of medicine in the Maryland University. Mr. John B. Glover, and family of Statesville, N. C., spent several days in Yorkville last week visiting the family of Mr. G. M. Lowrance. v Mr. T. C. Dunlap, for the past three years salesman and book keeper in A. Y. Cartwright & Go's dry goods store, has been employed as hook keeper for the Carolina Buggy company, and will enter upon his duties in that establishment today. Mr. James P. Gulp relinquishes that position in order to enter actively in the sales department. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Republican Congressional convention for this district met in Chester on Friday last under the call of C. C. Levy, of Camden, chairman of the executive committee. Levy was elected permanent chairman of the convention, and J. L. Young, of Spartanburg, secretary. Levy was nominated for Congress with but little opposition, only two votes being cast for W. C. Alexander, of Kershaw. It is charged that Alexander, who is postmaster at Camden, and at the time of renoiirint* tiio flnnnintirypnt frnm Prpaidpnt. Harrison, was State senator from Kershaw, hud a representative at the convention authorized to buy votes to secure his nomination, but the scheme did not work. Clark, of Lancaster, who has been prominently mentioned as the probable candidate, did not receive a vote. D. C. Baum, of Chester, was elected chairman of the Congressional P]xeeutive committee to succeed Levy. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Harrison's administration, and the convention adjourned. It was given out by some of the members that the Republicans will support somo white man to defeat Tillman for governor. A second session of the convention was held at 5 p. m. Levy made a speech accepting the nomination. He thanked the convention for the honor conferred on him, and touched conservatively on national affairs, declaring that if elected he would endeavor to do. his duty ; but should there be any doubt as to his election, he would never contest the Hon. John J. Hemphill's seat in congress. Levy was followed by the Rev. I. B. Smith, a member of the Republican State Executive committee, and pastor of the Yorkville Colored M. E. church. Of Smith and his speech in the convention, the Chester correspondent of The News and Courier says: He is quite a genteel looking and most intelligent negro. The writer is constrained to say it was the most sensible, intelligent and conservative speech he has ever heard fall from the lips of a negro. He urged on the convention the necessity of the nogro going to work for himself and looking to himsolf for his support, and until then he would not nor could not be a man. Ho asked them to close their lips against "Northern pap," that it had once been given in a charitable and sympathizing way, but that day was no more. It came now occasionally when thrice its value was received. Ho disapproved of the force bill, said it was a Northern ineasnro, and its friends were North, and could not and would not help the negro. That the Federal bayonet would have no effect in the South now, and should it come it would avail the nogro nothing, as hail been shown in 7(1. He said that he had always been a Republican and was one today, but the time had arrived when the negro must cast off his Northern bondage and be a freeman in the full sense, and think for himself and vote for the man who would give the best protection to his race. In alluding to the action of the State Republican Convention at Columbia, on the 17th inst., he stated that the advisability of putting a State ticket in the field had been discussed at some length, and then referred to the executive committee for final action. That he was here as a member of that committee, and while he could only speak for himself asyet, he felt con IlUCUt HUIl/ UO VlJItDU lllO ODIUJUIUIIV vi vuv vm tiro negro race of South Carolina when he said if the Straightout Democracy of the State would put up a ticket composed of such meu as Judge A. C. Haskell, Joseph H. Earle, John Bratton, Joseph W. Barnwell, M. L. Bonham and others, that his race would vote the ticket to a man. God forbid that he should stand by and sanction the charge that the State government of the day had been dishonest and corrupt, and its officers common liars. That he was fully aware that the leaders of the Straightout Democracy of South Carolina today were and are for the men who wrenched the reins of government from the hands of the Republicans in 1876, but he knew them to be honest and intelligent men, and unlike one B. R. Tillman, whose principal claims to the gubernatorial chair of South Carolina is his abuse of its good people and his boast of his butchery and oppression of the negro race. And while the negroes of the State did not mean to dictate or even to suggest a ticket, if the Straightouts would put up a ticket the negro vote could be had (not bought,) and they would gladly unfurl their banner and throw it to the breeze and inscribe thereon "Anything to beat Tillman." BETHEL PRESBYTERY. Reported for The Yorkville Enquirer. The regular Fall session of this body was held in Zion church, Lowrysville, beginning September 24th, at 8 p. m. The opening sermon was preached by the moderator, Rev. J. L. McLin, from Phil, ii, 16. There were present22 ministers and 34 ruling elders. Elder I. \. Withers, of Winnsboro, was elected moderator, and Rev. W. M. Anderson temporary clerk. The organization of a church at Heath Springs, Lancaster county, was reported by the commissioners appointed for that purpose last spring. Commissioners were appointed to visit Flint Hill, in Fairfield county, and Simpson's, on the C. C. and A. railroad, and organize UsNtia n/\?nfo if fhn WAV llA Ull U1 L'llCO ttv bUUOO J/V1I1WO MM. kUW IIMJ Concord church (Blackstock,) presented a call for the pastoral services of Rev. R. P. Smith, pastor of Bullock's Creek and Mount Pleasant, and all the parties interested were cited to appear at an adjourned meetiug to be held in Yorkville, October 21st, when the matter will be considered an issue. Rock Hill church asked leave to employ Rev. J. S. White for his whole time in the mission work in that town, and Hopewell church, of which he is now pastor, was cited to appear at the adiourned meeting and show cause, if any, why this request should not be granted. Permission was given to Woodlawn church to employ Rev. C. Fraser as supply until the next meeting of presbytery. Beth-Shiloh was likewise permitted to employ Rev. W. W. Ratchford. Rev. J. P. Marion having accepted a call to Morganton, N. C., he was granted a letter of dismission to Concord presbytery. W. A. Hafner, a member of Bullock's Creek church, and a student of Davidson college, was received under the care of presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. Licentiate W. B. White was examined for ordination, and a commission was appointed to ordain and install him as pastor of Union church, Fairfield county. The following were elected as oxecutlve committee for the next year, viz.: Revs. B. P. Reid, R. P. Smith, C. Frazer and T. R. English, with Elders A. H. White, I. N. Withers and O. H. O'Leary. An interesting meoting, in the interest of home missions, was held on Thursday night, at which addresses were made by Revs. R. P. Smith, B. P. Reid and others. Blacksburg was chosen as the next place of meeting, and Friday before the second Sabbath in April was filed as the time. Rev. (J. S. Robinson was nominated as the moderator of the next meeting, with Elder E. R. Mills as his alternate. After a pleasant meeting presbytery adiournod to meet at the call of the moderator during the session of synod. LETTER FRTMVLACKSBURU. Correspondence of The Yorkville Enquirer. Br.ACKsnuRO, September 30.?The equinoctial weather so far has not been very severe, but it is just uncomfortable enough to cause us to wish for a few days of sunshine. Bishop Howe made his annual visitation to this place Sunday and yesterday. He held services Sunday night and yesterday morning. He was accompanied by Rev. Mr. McCullough. 'Owing to the unfavorable weather, the congregations were small at both services, but those \yho were able to be present had a rare treat in the two most excellent sermons preacneu uy the bishop. ??apt. Waddell, an experienced and popular conductor of the Threo C'a railroad, sustained a very painful accident yesterday afternoon. Tho north-bound passenger train, of which ho was in charge, was slowing up a short distance from the depot, preparatory to stopping, and tho Captain, while placing himself in position on tho steps for getting off, lost his footing and hold on the hand rails and fell violently to the ground. Both bones of his left leg were fractured just above tho ankle, and he suffered a good deal from tho shock. He was carried immediately to his home, prompt surgical attention given him, aud at this writing ho is comparatively comfortable. Engineer Pierson, who was so badly burned in the recent wreck on the Three C's railroad, is improving rapidly, and is able to be around his room. Messrs. Black, Urquhart and Hardin retuned last Friday from their trip over the Augusta division of the Throe C's railroad. They report the work of grading as progressing finely. About two-thirds of it is finished, and it is thought that the whole line will be ready for the ties and rails by the 1st of July next. The town council of Union, last week, granted an extension of time to tho Construction company to the 1st of July, for completing their contract of grading. Mr. Edgar Thomasson, ofEarle's, N. C., has taken charge of the Three C's depot at this place, tho former agent, Mr. R. B. Clark, having gone to Rutherfordton, and is engaged in other business. Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Fewell left hero a few days ago for a month's visit to Mrs. Fewell's father in Louisville, K3'. They expect to occupy " 1 : mlinn thflV uieir new resiuence oa nuo owcoi, .. return. w. a. ? John Ford, colored, charged with murdering his wife in Fairfield county, was tried in the sessions court on an issue of sanity or insanity, and the jury decided that he is it ne. lie was sent to the 1 asylum. MERE-MENTION. So far only fourteen Alliance candidates have been nominated for congress in the South. It was supposed that there would be a much larger number. Four of these are from Georgia. Capt. Trirnbleton, commandant at Fort Sill, says the greatest Indian uprising of recent times, is certainly to come soon. The Indians, he says, have got an idea that the great medicine man is coming to wipe out the whites and restore to them the ownership of the country. According to a report published in Paris, last week, with regard to the working of the new military law, in November next, France will be able to place 1,500,000 men in the field, and, at the same time, have 2,500,000 reserves upon : which to draw. Col. E. U. Boudinot,; one of the most noted of the Cherokee Indians, died at Fort Smith, Ark., last Sat- I urday. Business failures last week number for the United States 192 against 1G5 for the same week last year. Edward Tryan, aged 18, and George Barnard, aged 20, were instantly killed at Winchenden, Mass., last Thursday night by an electric light guy wire coming in contact with an incandescent circuit on Pond street. The wire had been taken from the Boston and Albany depot to allow the building to be moved and was left hanging in a coil by the side of the pole. Senator Wade Hampton has been suffering intensely for some time from inflammation of an old wound in the side in which he has carried a heavy minnie ball since the war. Governor Fowle has issued an appeal to the people of North Carolina for funds to purchase headstones for the graves of 164 North Carolina soldiers buried in the Confederate cemetery at Fredericksburg, Va. The Democrats in Mr. Randall's old Philadelphia district did not renominate Richard Vaux lor congress. Mr. Vaux has made a splendid representative, but the politicians have bowled him out. State Senator McAleer gets the prize. A warehouse situated in Kentucky, opposite Madison, Ohio, and containing 10,000 barrels of tax-paid whisky, was destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. The loss is estimated at$1,000,000. The Mississippi Convention.?In the Mississippi Constitutional convention much opposition was manifested to that portion otthe franchise committee's report in reference to the terms of service of officials now in office. Section 7 of the report extends for two years the terms of all county officers whose official lives expire January 1, 1892. There are about 2,000 aspirants for office In the State whose hopes will be blighted by this provision, and they seem to have friends in the convention. The remainder of the franchise report was adopted. The conflicting factions of the committee on education have harmonized differences and agreed upon an unanimous comnrnmiua ror*nrf p I \J 111 The main points of controversy arising out of the education question involve considerations of taxation and revenue. Under the present law it has been the custom for cities and towns to establish school districts separate from the remaining portions of the counties, where the same are situated, and supported by local taxation. It is now sought to abolish these separate school districts and make one fund for each county, putting city and county schools on the same footing. After postponing the action on the educational question, the report of the execu-1 tive committee was taien up and considered. It changes the existing law by making the following|officers ineligible as their own successors: Governor, State treasurer, auditor of public accounts, sheriffs and county treasurers. The governor shall have power to convene the legislature in extra session, but the legislature shall have power to consider matters other than those designated in the case. The committee on temperance and the liquor traffic having the right to the floor on Friday, by virtue of an order made some days ago, the constitutional convention proceeded to the consideration of reports submitted by that committee. The majority report recommended nonaction, "deeming any agitation of the 1! n i\r\v n n oat i nn at (Viia (imo aa Infinnnr. I1\|UU1 \^UVOVIVU u V btuw %I?U*V MU u\/^/|/v <k I tune." The minority report urged the adoption of the following separate and independent section of the constitution: "All saloons and tippling houses where vinous and spirituous liquors, are kept for sale are j hereby declared to be public nuisances, and may be suppressed or abated by prosecution in the name ofthe State or upon the complaint of any citizen." Some of the ablest men on the floor urged the convention to star d by the majority report. They did not get into the merits of the recommendation of the minority. They all conceded that the influence of saloons was pernicious and corrupting, but they doubted the wisdom of any interference in the question by the convention. After debating the question all day the convention by a vote of 72 to 18, adopted* the majority report. Friends of the minority report said that their defeat was due to the all-powerful influence of the franchise committee who did not care to handicap their work by provoking the hostility of so powerful an element as the saloon keepers. Oa Saturday the proposition to require applicants for executive pardon to publish their petitions in a newspaper circulating in the county where the criminal was convicted, was the occasion of some discussion, but it finally prevailed by a vote of 43 to36. The office of lieutenant-governor was abolished, and a section adopted providing that in case of the death or disability of the governor, the president of the senate shall succeed him. Weather and Crop Reports.?The South Carolina weather service reports the following for the week ending last Saturday: The temperature and sunshine has been below the average. The rainfall for the past week has been below the average, and generally well distributed throughout the State, and while it has benefitted a few of the crops it has been disastrous to cotton, causing the bolls to rot and the seed to sprout, retarding the cotton pick-1 ing and thereby badly injuring the staple. The peavine hay has been materially injured from the same cause. The continued rains and want of sunshine have reduced the percentage of the cotton crop several points from the above causes, and the prospects for au ordinary average crop is now gloomy. The bulletin issued last Saturday by the National Agricultural department says: The daily average temperature for the week ending September 27 has been from 2? to 3? above the average in the South A HnnH/ioml tV,Q flu If foa a hnnf. 9? ahnvfi Xlliautiu UUU kUV VUJI uwvyvv . Www , v in the Dakotas and Nebraska, and from 5? to 8? above in the extreme northwest. There has been a deficiency of about 5? per day in the lower Lake region, and from 1? to 3? in the New England and Middle Atlantic States, and in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas. The rainfall for the week has been in excess in Tennessee and the South Atlantic and GulfStates, except Texas. There has been a deficiency in all the other districts except Maryland and Delaware. The rainfall in Florida, except the extreme northern portion, has exceeded three inches. In the southern portion of South Carolina and the northeastern portion of Georgia, it has been more than five inches. In the Western States crops have mostly matured, and are generally beyond the influence of weather. Deficient rainfall has made the ground too dry for fall ploughing. About the same conditions prevail in Illinois and Michigan, but in southern Indiana corn is reported as maturing very slowly, and is not safe from frost. Cotton picking has been generally retarded throughout the cotton region by heavy rains, with considerable damage, owing to the sprouting and rotting of bolls. Tit p. Unseating of Elliott.?In the house of representatives, on Tuesday of last week, the ceremony of unseating Mr. Elliott, ofSouth Carolina,and seating of his colored contestant, Tom Miller, was performed in the most unceremonious manner. When the case was called, Mr. O'Ferrall raised the question of consideration, aud on a viva voce vote, the speaker stated the house had determined to consider the election case. Mr. O'Ferrall made the point that there was no quorum present. The speaker declined to entertain the point, stating that the last vote had shown a quorum, and that since then several Democrats had entered the hall. The previous question was ordered, and despite a protest from Mr. Kerr, of Iowa, that some reason for its adoption should be given, the resolutions unseating Elliott and seating Miller were agreed to without discussion. Miller was sworn in, and immediately after taking the oath he applied to the sergeant at arms for his back pay, and was given a check on the United States for $8,000, which includes mileage and various perquisites. STATE POLITICAL NOTES. ? An attempt will be made at the next session of the legislature to repeal the lien law. ? Col. E. T. Stackhouse is the only supporter of the sub-treasury scheme of the five Democratic nominess for congress in this State. ? Spartanburg's county primary resulted in the nomination of Stanyarne Wilson and George Dean for the legislature; Thorn ason, probate judge (without opposition,) Floyd, treasurer, Chapman, school commissioner. There will be a second election for the other nominations. ? The Richland county primary resulted in the nomination of Col. John T. Sloan for senator, and for representatives John C. Haskell and L. D. Childs. No nominations were made for other representatives or for county commissioners, and a second primary will be held. ? Since his defeat as State chairman of th?? Ponnhlinan narftr M Ttrnvt-fin hflS addressed a letter to the National Republican Congressional committee,-denouncing the action of the late State Republican convention, and claims that he represents the true and real Republican party, while Miller and his adherents are the real bolt- ; ers. ? The congressional primary in the Fourth district resulted in a failure to make nominations. The vote was as follows : Shell, 5,242; Duncan, 4,917; Smith, 803; Mauldin, 80G; McKissick, 554. This vote renders necessary a second election between Shell and Duncan. Tuesday, October 7th, is the day appointed for the election. ? Says The Spartanburg Herald: A hu- , morous incident occurred at Laurens on election day. Mr. Hugh Gray, of Laurens, is a strong supporter of Dr. Mauldin. He worked for him and vows he voted for him. Capt. Shell stated during the day that he, too, had voted for Mauldin. But when the ballots were counted, Mauldin had but one vote. ? The Republican Congressional convention of the Sixth district met at Florence Jj on Thursday and nominated Edmund W. M Deas, colored, as the opponent of Col. H Stackhouse. S. W. Williams presided and the convention was in session for several hours. The meeting was at times quite ^ turbulent and smacked very strongly of the old Republican gatherings in the days of good stealing. ? The Democratic convention of the Seventh congressional district met at Summerville last Wednesday. All the counties were represented. Berkeley sent two delegations, but the convention, which was composed mostly of Straightouts, promptly seated the Tillman delegation. Hon. William Elliott was unanimously nominated for congress, and resolutions were adopted condemning the arbitrary and irregular manner by which he was deprived of his seat in the present congress. Qo (to TKn A n/viioto ITtTftnl n/v Nnwo Tf J a uoja xiio xiuguoia uvcuiug xiovto. jlvia said that the man who will succeed Senator Wade Hampton has not yet been named in the public prints. This piece of information is reserved for The Evening News, and comes pretty straight. The man whom the Tillmanites will probably honor with this high office is none other and no less a person than ex-Mayor Wm. A. Courtenay, of Charleston. He is called the chief adviser of the Tillmanites, and his recent return to Carolina from Alabama is regarded as giving some coloring to the A report. ? John It. Tolbert has received the Republican nomination for congress from the Third district. The convention met at Greenwood on Tuesday of last week. The organization was easy. H. H. Owens was elected chairman with no opposition, and R..R. Tolbert secretary. A committee on credentials was appointed and the contesting delegations from Oconee considered. The Bryce faction was seated, and Russell, at the head of the Thomas faction, left the hall. There was a grand kick by the faction rejected, and the meeting was characterized with much disorder during this part of the proceedings. When order was restored nominations were called for and Tolbert received the nomination without an opposing vote. Bryce publicly gave way to ToiDert, ana 11 .riniey receivea any votes, nobody knew it. When Russell saw his chances were slim he left the hall and said he would appeal to the people. The convention was composed of twenty-six members. Russell, with the Anderson, and two of the Pickens delegation, left the hall. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The president sent to the senate on Friday the nomination of Frances M. Sperry, colored, to be postmaster of Georgetown. ? The Intelligencer says that not a bale of cotton covered with cotton bagging is brought to the Anderson market. The farmers say there is more money in jute. ? A building in Seneca containing three stores was burned on Thursday night. Loss, on goods, $5,500; insurance, $3,300. ? Loss on building, $1,200 ; insurance $775. ? Henry Howren, the Charleston journalist, who recently left the newspaper business and entered the ministry, is lying at the point of death in Charleston. Since entering the ministry Mr. Howren's life has been one of active service. ? Willie B. Patterson shot and killed Frank Dillard, colored, near Landford station, Laurens county, on the 22d instant. Patterson was riding along the road and Dillard assaulted him with stones, whereupon he shot him. Patterson sur[ rendered to Sheriff Ballew. J ? On account of the continued sickness of Judge Kershaw, who is still absent from the State, and under medical treatment at a New York sanitarium, the jury com missioners of Richland county have decided not to draw any juries for the October term of court in Richland county. ? The postoffice department issued on Tuesday an order discontinuing the postoffice at Bishopville. The office pays a salary of $200 per year. The postmastergeneral says that if the people of Bishopville will not stand a negro postmaster, they will have to do without a postoffice. ? In Greenville, on Wednesday afternoon, Ike White, colored, stabbed to death Henry Allen, also colored. The two negroes had a difficulty, and White plunged his knife into the neck of Allen, piercing the jugular vein and producing death "5most instantly. White was arrested and claims self-defence. ? Judson Richbourg, a youn^ white man of Clarendon county, was arraigned before a trial justice last week for failure to pay poll tax, which, Including issuing and serving warrant, mileage and other costs, including the usual penalties, had amounted to $0.25. The tax originally was $1.00. He took two days in jail and then paid out. ? Orangeburg Alliance: Mr. Jerry Riley, of Orangeburg, killed a deer last week, hitting the animal with five buckshot and without puncturing even a piece of the hide. But it was done in this wise: The deer came swimming down the river, and had his mouth wide open. Mr. Riley was close by and had his gun with him. lie fired into the mouth of the deer with the above result. ? In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the trustee stockholders at a meeting held in Greenville on July 24, 1890, and of the board of directors of the Farmers' Alliance Exchange, a meeting of the trustee stockholders will be held in Columbia, on the fourth Tuesday In October, (28th), at 8 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of altering or modifying the plan of the State Exchange in such manner as they may think proper; and for the consideration of such other matters as may be brought before them. ? John Kirkdall, of Cook county, Tenn., was arrested near Walhalla, last Wednesday, charged with stealing a horse in Cook county, Tenn., which he rode to Franklin, N. C., and swapped to a man named Woods, ne tnen roue tne wooas nurse to Walhalla, arriving there Tuesday. He was pursued hotly all the way from Tennessee and overtaken by Clevinger and Woods, who identified the man and the horse, whereupon he was arrested and lodged in jail. He confessed the crime and told all the particulars of his theft. He is a young man of good address. ? In the sessions court of Pickens, last week, Dave Stephens, charged with the murder of Calhoun Griffin, both white, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter. Judge Norton sentenced him to five years at hard labor in the penitentiary. J. T. Anthony, a once prominent citizen of Pickens and a wealthy man, pleaded guilty to assault and battery with intent to kill on his wife, and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. He was sentenced in both indictments to three years at hard labor in the penitentiary and $330 fine. Advances on Cotton.?Geo. Gaither, of Montgomery, manager of the Alabama State Alliance, announced officially last Thursday that the arrangements have been perfected by the Alabama Alliance Exchange to advance $33 per bale on 500,000 bales of insured cotton in warehouses.