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Straps and |acte. ? It costs the people about as much to pay for the printing of the eulogies of a deceased congressmen as it does to pay the salary of t live one for a full term of two years. Lasi week eulogies were delivered on six dead members, and the cost of printing them ii: handsome gift books will be not far fron $50,000. ? Judge William Vincent Allen, of Nebras ka, has been elected to the United States senate by the Populists and Democrats The election took place on Tuesday of las week, after a deadlock of eighteen days Judge Allen has been a Democrat, later i Republican, and is now a Populist. He ii the first United States senator that his Stat< has ever chosen outside the Republican party He succeeds A. S. Paddock, the pure foot man. ? Toby Acker, a young man connected with the Rockaway life saving station, neai New York city, has entered into a wager ol $500 to go from New York to Richmond ir forty-five days in a row boat. The boat tc be used will only be seven feet in length, anc Acker will not be allowed to use a sail. He must row the boat the whole distance witl oars. Some time ago, he made a similar trip on a similar wager, from New York to Boston in forty days. He had a rough voyage aud his boat was more than once overturned He started out with a cat and dog. The cat was drowned and the dog managed tc swim ashore and make his way back to his master's home. ? A prominent Georgia planter said to the Atlanta Constitution last Saturday: "I air afraid that there will be a large increase ir the cotton acreage this year over last. A1 the indications point in that direction Cotton seed is now worth 32 cents a bushe and corn is less than GO cents. Thus, yoi see, less than two bushels of cotton seed wil buy one of corn. * This and the advance ir cotton this year over last, will have, in fact i>. already having, a bad effect, and it is mj opinion that the country will be flooded witl cotton in 1893. To bear this out you wil see guano houses being established where there were never any before, and if the sup ply from the factories hold out, there will be an immense fertilizer sale." ? The county insane asylum, four mile: from Dover, New Hampshire, was burnec last Thursday night, and forty-four livei were lost. When Watchman Chevy made his 10 o'clock trip into the insane asylum he found fire coming out of a cell occupiec by a woman named LaFamitain, and gave the alarm. Wm. Driscall, the keeper, witl his family, lived in the building, and he a once broke the locks off the fifty-four cells and tried to get the inmates out; then he got his wife and children, neither of whon were dressed. Of the forty-eight inmates only four escaped. They were Wm. Twom bly, Rose Sanderson, Wm. Davey and Fraul Donshon. The latter walked two miles ir a blinding snow storm, with only his shirl on, to Wm. Home's house, where he was taken care of. ? The influence of the Bible seems to be felt to such an extent in Turkey that-a mor< rigid censorship than ever has been exercised The minor Turkish officials are not content with wholesale confiscation, contrary tc treaty guarantees, but they have now undertaken to revise the sacred volume and elimi nate such portions as they see fit before its circulation is permitted. All references tc the kingdom of heaven are regarded witl suspicion, aud recast or omitted. The Olc Testament gives special offense. Its prom ises regarding the restoration of the Jews tc Palestine are considered rank treason to the Turk, who now holds the land. The revisec edition is to say nothing about Jew or He brew, or the law of the Jews, the iaw of the Islam having superseded it. Sir Clare Ford the British minister, has protested to the sultan against this course. 1 1 1 ? nine crackers uuvw ueuumu su cipci < nowadays, that the business firms of th< large cities no longer think of leaving anj considerable sums of money in th'eir safes As a rule, they use their safes only to protec their books against fire, and to protect the safe from being smashed by burglars, ofter paste the combination on the door and cal attention to it with a special poster. Ir Chicago, recently, a business man fount ~?himself in possession of a large amount o cash late in the evening, after the safe de posit vaults had been closed. He was afrait to leave the mouey in the safe, although i was of the very best make. Finally a brigh idea struck him. He wrapped the monej up in a piece of brown paper and depositee it under the safe. That night, sure enough the safe was blown open by burglars, bu they got nothing but a few dollars in change The money underneath remained untouched ? The newspaper makers of President-elec Cleveland's cabinet, have been unusually ac tive during the past week, and now havi but two or three vacant places left. Th< slate now reads this way: Secretary of state Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois; secretary o the treasury, John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky postmaster general, Wilson S. liissell, o New York ; secretary of war, Daniel Lamont of New York: secretary of the navy*, H. A Herbert, of Alabama ; secretary of agricul 4a*?./\ Cmifh af ^laArnrio cnomfarv A lUIl'j 1 lUIVU k'luivilj VI V?VVi^uv , gvvivvMij v the interior, W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia These appointments, the newspapers say, an certain, but some are undecided as to when to put Mr. Hoke Smith, and also have hin slated for the position of secretary of tin interior. It will be remembered, however that, so far, neither Mr. Cleveland nor nom of the gentlemen whose names are mentionet in connection with the respective positions have admitted that the newspapers an correct. ? General Jas. 13. Weaver, the presidentia candidate of the People's party, has conn from his enforced retirement to d? some mis sionary work in the East. While in Xev York on Tuesday of last week, he was askei what he thought of the Republican party His reply was: "It is dead. lake the Whij party it has gone out of existence, and then is no further use for it. The People's parC will take its place in national politics. I is bound to grow in the next four years ii all parts of the country, especially in tin West. We obtained a very llattering vot< in the South in the last election, considering the fact that it was the first time we ha< been before the people with a presidentia ticket, and I am not at all discouraged ove the result in that section of the country.' He still insists that the financial question i the great issue before the people. He say that the South and West are a unit for tin free coinage of silver, and that if it is no given them there will be a revolution sue! as this country has never seen. He say congress dare not repeal the Sherman silve purchase act unless it is to re-enact the 131an< act or to give the people free coinage. ? The executive committee of the Cottoi Growers' association of the cotton growinj States, met in Atlanta on last Wednesda; and passed a resolution that a meeting o the local organizations of the association b called for February ISth, for the purpose c electing delegates to attend a general meet ing of the association to be held in Meniphi on February 22nd. A general invitation i extended to all parties who are interested ii the growing of cotton, to be present or sem representation. The committee has statis tics showing that last year's meeting hor good fruit in many localities. The member say. with a full representation and local 01 ganization, there will be a decrease in th ucreage of cotton which of itself mean "more hog and hominy" for the farmers c the cotton growing States. The coinmitte reports much encouragement received froi; the officials of the railroad and steamboa lines entering Memphis, all readily agreein to give reduced rates to delegates to the con vention. The committee thinks the attend ance at this convention will be at least thre times larger than last year. ? A live electric light wire, away up on th roof of a four story building in Baltimore had a lot of fun last Saturday morning, am for a time blocked Charles street. Sno\ and slush covered the building and sidewalk? and the moisture proved an excellent eon duetor for the electricity. The wire ha fallen on the roof and rested on a crust c snow. In an instant three buildings wit iron fronts and iron awning frames, and th sidewalk in front of them, were charged Balls of fire leaped from one window sill t another. Streaks of sparks flashed from th awning frames, and the cornice of one hous was fairly ablaze. Several persons passei along uninjured, but they wore rubbers. . well-dressed man came hurrying along. II wore no rubbers, and the moment his foe touched the sidewalk he fell senseless. Bet sons who saw him fall were afraid to go nca him, hut finally an ingenious citizen too off his rubbers, and putting them on hi hands, dragged the man away from the cur-11 rent. It was several minutes before the! { shocked man revived. The next man to ( come along was William Davis, a colored |c ' porter. Davis wore no rubbers, and the mo-1' ' ment his foot touched the pavement he yell-! 1 ed and cleared about ten feet at a jump.!' f He was half stunned. A young saleswoman I < ^ going to work was the next victim. Several i 1 persons called to her not to cross the charged [, 1 sidewalk. She looked indignantly at them for their interference and kept right on. Before she had covered a dozen steps she 1 5 was screaming with fright and staggering J with pain. She managed to reach the curb- 1 t ing and got out into the street. She was j taken into a store near by and soon recover1 ed. Willie Fisher, an errand boy, did not j 5 heed the warning, and caught hold of the J awning pole. A streak of blue flame shot 1 out under his hand, and Willie began to ' 1 scream with pain. He was half dazed and i had his hand badly burned. While this ' I woe frmtitr nn linlieemen and citizen were , 1 r telephoning to the electric light company f for a lineman. In a short time several api peared and the current was cut off | ?lic ^JorhviUf (gtaquim. J YOKKVILLE, S. C. : j i WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1893. 1 ? Some of the newspapers have begun to 1 designate members of the^People's party as "Popocrats." { ? The card published by Rev. J. P. Attaj way, charging that his brother and sister-in law had been starved into insanity, has . J brought out a perfect storm of indignant de- nials on the part of members of the unfor- < 3 tunate man's former congregation. Some of ! * them assert that his mind has been more or ] 3 less unbalanced for years past, and that so ! far as wordly comforts were concerned, he ] j has all along been amply provided for. They i stick to it that the mental aberation of both ] i the preacher and his wife, is purely and } k simply the result of religious excitement. 5 t ^ t ] 3 ? The present high price of cotton seed is j 1 no doubt caused by the high price of hogs, ] ! and, consequently of lard. Under the stim- : : ulus of such prices, next year we may look i i for a surplus of both hogs and cotton seed. : t Southern farmers should remember that ; 3 while a surplus of Northwestern hogs means : a lower price for Southern cotton seed, a : 5 surplus of Southern cotton seed does not necessarily mean a lower price for North- < [ western hogs. Therefore, the best thing they , > can do is to raise more hogs and plant less i cotton seed. ; > ? Notwithstanding the experience of the } past year, from the best information that we J can get from all parts of the county, the ^ people seem determined to outdo themselves , again this year in planting another big crop i of cottou. This, of course, is the heighth of I folly, but those who have not realized the " fact by experience, can't be taught in any 5 other way. As things now look, the only ' hope of a continued reduction in the cotton [ crop lies in necessity. It may be that the , k high prices that are being offered for cotton ; } seed, will take so many of them out of the ] r country, that there won't be enough left with 1 . which to plant another big crop. 1 5 ? There no longer seems to be any doubt 1 j that the Hawaiian Islands will be annexed , j by the United States government, but , j whether a protectorate or territorial form of f government will be established, has not yet - developed. As yet none of the foreign pow- 1 1 ers have interposed any serious objection to ' ? the proposed action of the United States, j , and it seems that no serious trouble is likely , j to arrive. Queen Liliuokalani is not inclined ; f to make any trouble, but on the contrary 1 t has signified her willingness to peacefully abdicate her throne on the payment of a suf ficient sum of money by the United States. , k The United States government has not yet announced any definite policy with regard i ^ to the matter under consideration, but judging from its general action, there is little f doubt of its intention to quietly scoop the ; islands in under its protecting wing. > ? The announcement that President Har- ! rison had appointed Jackson, a Democrat, to j. be associate justice of the supreme court, ! caused a big sensation; but President-elect ! ?j Cleveland has caused a bigger one. It is 1 ; generally accepted as a fact, that he has ^ 1 asked Judge Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, J 2 to accept the portfolio of State in his cabinet. 1 Judge Gresham has always been a prominent i j Republican, and four years ago, while a res- 1 ( ident of Indiana, was a leading candidate 2 for the Republican presidential nomination. J The idea of his being asked to accept a ( 1 position in Cleveland's cabinet is looked | 2 upon by many prominent Democrats as a i ~ genuine scandal, and many Republicans 1! appear to be no better pleased. It goes without saying, however, that Judge Gresh5 am is one of the foremost and best equipped 2 statesmen of the day. He has been secreta,f ry of the treasury, postmaster general, and ^ district and circuit judge. But notwithstand- ; ing this, it seems to us that Mr. Cleveland, 2 elected as he was by the Democrats, might ? have found in his own party, or rather in I the party that elected him, a man capable of ' j filling the leading place in his cabinet. THE RAILROAD TAX WAR. S j s j The progress of the railroad tax war be^ ! tween the State nn nun side, and the rail 11 roads aud the Federal court on the other, I has been the all absorbing topic of the week. s; It will be remembered that within the 1* II time prescribed by law, the railroads of the State paid their taxes on the 4msis of the j I returns made by them to the various couuty [r | auditors. The county treasurers accepted y the sums tendered as part payment, refusing >f to give full receipts until the railroads paid e ! taxes in full, on the basis of the assessment if ' made by the State board of equalization for railroads. 3 At the expiration of the time in which II taxes could be paid without penalty, the :11 amounts in dispute had not been settled. >- The period during which the lo per cent. e j penalty attaches went by, and the disputed ? difference still remained unpaid on the books e of the various treasurers. s The recent decision of the United States if supreme court on the tax question had sete j tied nothing, save the fact that the Federal III courts had no jurisdiction in cases involving (i less than $2,000, and Governor Tillman instructed the sheriffs to collect the money in [. the usual way, by levying on the personal e property of the different roads. At the same time, however, he promised to protect e the sheriffs from Federal interference, h Acting upon this authority, Treasurer L* Mac Mitchell, of Aiken county, issued an ) execution against the South Carolina Kailj way company, and Sheriff M. V. Tyler seized ! it a number of freight ears on the sidetrack at j >f Aiken. Similar proceedings were instituted J h against the Richmond and Danville Kail road e j company, and an engine was seized at Gran- j ' | iteville. The treasurers of Abbeville, Ano 1 derson and Newberry took the same course, I e j and the sheriffs took possession of property ! [I belonging to the Richmond and Danville V J company. e ttoth roads being in the hands of receivers, j ' counsel appeared before Judge Simonton | rjand obtained orders requiring the sheriffs | k i and treasurers to show cause why they j js should not be committed for contempt for in-1 erfering with property iu the hands of the J c :ourt. The rules were made returnable at j < Charleston on February 20, and papers were j j served on the treasurers and sheriffs by j ^ L'nited States deputy marshals. Governor j rillman instructed the sheriffs to hold their \ ground and not give up the property on 1 tvhich they had levied, except iii submission 1 to force, but not to resist arrest. ; Upon this turn, for some reason, it does c lot appear exactly why', Judge Simonton ldvanced the day of hearing the cases to t last Saturday, and on request of the counsel t "or the State, postponed it until Monday. On Mondav. the various defendants prompt ly made their appearance in court, rep- , resented by Attorney General Townsend, ' Samuel Lord and Ira 15. Jones. The rail- j roads were represented by James S. Cothran, j Thomas P. Cothran, and Joseph W. Barn- { well. All of Monday was consumed in the hear- 1 ing of arguments by Mr. Lord in benalf of J Lhe State, and Ex-Judge Cothran and Mr. | J. W. Barnwell in behalf of the railroads, t When the hour for adjournment arrived, Mr. ( Barnwell had not concluded his argument, and court was adjourned until 10 o'clock ' yesterday morning. THE OFFICIAL VOTE. \ The senate and house of representatives, ( in joint session, on Tuesday of last week, } made an official count of the electoral votes , recently cast by the electoral colleges of the ] various States and announced the result. ? The figures are practically the same as those already printed, but as a matter of record , we give the summary as spread on the miu- ] utos of both houses: t rs | '3 o ( Is c K ? i [So Ml ? > "S rs ' STATES. 5 o - s g ' - y O ~ it 5 1 !r?! X J ? I ? "C > ? a > i .O M r* j Alabama ; 11 1 i Arkansas ' 8 ( California 8 1 Colorado j 4 Connecticut <1 ' J Delaware ! 3 1 Florida ] 4 j ] Georgia ' 13 ; , Idaho | 3 ' Illinois j 4 J ] Indiana ! 15 1 | Iowa 13 . Kansas 10 Kentucky ; 13 1 Louisiana ! 8 1 Maine ' 6 I Maryland 8 i Massachusetts | 15 1 Michigan 5 9 1 Minnesota j ! 9 Mississippi j 9 ^ Missouri I 17 1 Montana ! 3 * Nebraska 1 8 1 Nevada ! ' ' 3 j New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 New York 30 ' ] North Carolina 11 1 i North Dakota lj 1 1 , Dhio I 1 22 } Dregon j J 3 1 Pennsylvania 32 1 Rhode Island i 4 . south Carolina I 9 5 ^outh Dakota j.. j 4 Tennessee 12 Texas I 15 Vermont ' 4 Virginia 12 1 Washington 4 ' West Virginia 0 I Wisconsin j 12 I Wyoming 3 j Total 277 145 22 ] Grand Total, 444. j TESTING THE VESUVIUS. ] The experiments with the dynamite eruis- i er Vesuvius, at Port Royal, referred to last ] week, have not yet been completed. Up to Tuesday it was mougnc mat me ueuvy pro- ] jectiles, loaded with gun cotton, would be , fired off Wednesday, but owing to a num- , ber of delays from different causes, that stage of the experiments has not yet been . reached. It is now thought that this experi- ( ment will be made today or tomorrow. In making use of such a powerful explo- ( sive as gun cotton for offensive warfare, two < great difficulties are presented. The first is ; the problem of throwing the explosive against j the enemy. This would be impossible by j means of an ordinary cannon, for the reason that the shock of the discharge would ex- ( plode the gun cotton or dynamite, and would ? blow up everybody in the vicinity without doing any damage whatever to the enemy. ( It was this fact that led to the invention of the pneumatic tubes. The next difficulty , was to provide an absolutely accurate fuse, ^ or primer, with which to discharge the gun ; cotton after it had been thrown to a desired ] point. It is thought that the experiments ; now in progress will develop that both of ? these ends have been attained. ( Owing to the bad weather of last week, ( the experiments with the guns of the Vesuvius were somewhat delayed, but on Friday j and Saturday some very interesting work ( was accomplished. Afraid to risk the experiment with gun cotton until the detonating j fuses had been thoroughly tested, Friday , was devoted to this work. Gunpowder was ] substituted for gun cotton in a number of shells, and these were fired from the differ- | ent guns with satisfactory results. The pro- < jectiles fell more than a mile from the ship, J and on bursting, several of them threw up ( great columns of water. ( The next step now is the test with gun ] cotton. As it is to be conducted, it is an un- j tried experiment, and the result is in doubt. If the air-guns work as the inventor intends they shall, the gun cotton will be thrown to ( the required distance just the same as an or- J clinary dummy, but if the concussion shall , be sufficient to produce an explosion of j the gun cotton before it leaves the gun, none of the officers or men of the Vesuvius j will be left to tell anything of the final test. ( MERE MENTION. ! The Maine legislature has passed a reso- I lution expressing a wish that the remains of j James G. Blaine be allowed to rest in that I State. The naval committee of the house | has decided to build only one war vessel this ] year, and the cost of it is not to exceed j $400,000. Three deaths from typhus j occurred among the students of the St. ] Louis college of physicians and surgeons last ] week, as the result of which a panic ensued i and a dozen or more of the students left for < their homes. Judge W. V. Allen, Popu- ] list, has been elected United States senator i from Nebraska, through a combine of Feo- 1 pie's partyites and Democrats against the Republicans. The quarantine against the White House, on account of the case of i scarlatina that occurred there some time ago, has been removed, and the tri-weekly public receptions have been resumed. The Pennsylvania house of representatives has passed a bill, by a vote of 150 to IS, to pro- i liibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the State. Ruth Wade, a young A *1.1 )?no lwAinrlit cnif nnrnincf tlif* iVUiUIUl ^11 I, AldO Ul 0uiv v>*v | city for $10,000 for injuries sustained by her < slipping on a banana peeling on the street. The ladies of Mississippi have decided to build a cotton fort at the Chicago exposition. One hundred bales will be used < in its construction, and inside will be exhibited all the products of the great Southern staple. The Ohio State board of health has inaugurated a crusade against kissing, for the sanitary reasons involved. Heider's hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last Thursday and four persons were burned to death. South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Wyoming, are each i still trying to elect a United States senator. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,287,058 bales, of which 3,828,858 j bales are American. Last year at this time! the total supply was 4,715,030 bales, of which 4,261,008 were American. Seven men were crushed to death by the falling of a large block of marble in a quarry at Rutland, Yt., last Saturday. Since February 1, the custom receipts in New York have aggregated $4,525,301, against $4,321,445 for the same time last year. Another severe blizzard is prevailing in the Northwest. In j South Dakota, it is reported that cattle and ! wild game, such as hears and other animals, i have perished by hundreds. A dispatch ' from Memphis Tenn., says that more than ' 4,000 people in northern Louisiana are on 1 the verge of starvation on account of the | failure of their crops, which were ruined by | highwater last summer. The British ; steamer Triaeria, was lost in the Mediterranean last Wednesday, together with thirty-1 seven of her crew. It is said that Senator Calvin Price has leased the Mctroi?olitan hotel at Washington, with a view to en-j tertaining free, all Ohio visitors to the inauguration ceremonies. M. Ferdinand de j Lcsseps has been found guilty of the charges i of fraud preferred against him in the Panama | :anal matter, and sentenced to pay a fine 1,000 francs and go to prison for live yea lis son Charles gets the same sentence."" )r. Norvin Green, president of the Weste Juion telegraph company, died at Louisvil vy., last Friday. Cholera is epiden 11 Marseilles, France. The Lancashi England, cotton spinners' strike has not i ieen broken. Four fires occurred Nashville, Tenn., last Saturday night, occ; oiling an aggregate loss of $300,000. lyndieate, of which William C. Whitney a itlier particular friends of Mr. Clevela ire at the head, is being organized, it is sa o buy the New York Times newspap Hie purchase price is $1,000,000. The Child's manifesto.?Mr. jn. Brooker, member of the State Prohibiti :ommittee for Edgefield county, when ask or his opinion of the Childs manifesto ^articular, and the dispensary question general, replied : "Yes, I read Mr. Childs's paper, and h ink I understand him fully. If I thouj: lie plan he proposes would establish pro lition in the State, I might agree with him iut it will not. It antagonizes the legis ure, which is a prohibition body, and whi lid the best it could for a prohibition bill. "I have great respect for the body Christians and Prohibitionists who work n the legislature day and night for the go )f the cause, and finally agreed that't pill should pass. I think they ought to sustained in their efforts to sustain the cai >f prohibition. To antagonize them n< .vill result in the repeal of the law at t lext session, or force them to a position j nore undesirable for the cause of temp ince. "They will not be beaten back in th purposes, and will so amend the law at th lext sitting as to make it operative all 01 he State, if it is not so now, or repeal mlirely, re-establishing bar rooms. In eitl went the Prohibitionists, as Governor.T nan suggests, will have cause to regret The legislature could give the goverr power to appoint dispensers. "Again, Mr. Childs's position forces ab ution prohibition upon the people of t ;owns and cities, depriving them of t ight to get it even for medicines. This n< jr was designed by Prohibitionists, and su i state of things will not, cannot beenduri \s a medicine the stuff is a necessity. "The legislature did not design that P libitionists should take advantage of t atitude given them in the bill to defeat t purposes of it. It did design that Prohi .ionists should have the power to control 1 iispensaries by having such men as d pensers as would control the traffic in egitimate and proper sphere. They hn .lie power absolutely to take the business land in every town and city and I thi ;hey should do,it. "The county dispensers have large disc don, and if a Prohibitionist and teetotallei ippointcd, he will not allow the design of 1 aw to be abused. They will be appoinl f they be recommended. "I take it that a Christian can with p priety become a dispenser with this law much so as a Christian can become a dn ;ist and dispense liquor under any law. "Sustain this law, and we will have pro lition firmly established in the State ii fear or two; defeat the law, and the cai fails indefinitelv. Government Cotton Statistics.?F ruary returns to the department of agric ture, which relate to cotton, says a Washii ton dispatch of Friday, gives county ei nates of the crop compared with that last year, the proportion that has left I plantations, the average date at close of pi* ng, insect losses, etc. The consolidation the comparative returns of the crops sh the following State percentages: Virgil 55 per cent., North Carolina 73, South Ca Iina 75, Georgia 75, Florida 60, Alabama Mississippi 60, Louisiana 55, Texas 84, j kansas 58, Tennessee 64; general aven 39.2; no allowance for under-estimate crop or over-estimate of distribution. The proportion of the crop received ports to stock of interior towns in the hai cf merchants unreported, and en route'fr plantations, is thus stated as reported country correspondents : Virginia 86, No: Carolina 85, South Carolina 87, Georgia Florida 89, Alabama 89, Mississippi 88, L isana 89, Texas 87, Arkansas 87, Teune^ 36. General average S7.9. The quality is fairly good as a rule, though better on the Atlantic coast and Texas than in the interior areas. In the later picking cottou was much c colored by the frost in most of the States. The average yield of lint is reported at per cent. The average dates of the close picking areas follows: Virginia Novera' 30, North Carolina December 1, South Ca lina December 1, Georgia, November Florida November 15, Alabama Novem 28, Mississippi December 3, Louisiana 1 . ember 4, Texas December 15, Arkansas 1 member 16, Tennessee December 5. Losses from insect depredations are re tively small. No losses are reported no :>f Georgia and the Gulf States, except Arkansas. The boll worm did more dam: :han the caterpillar, mainly in Mississi md States west of the river. The cater] ar was especially iujurious in Alabama. A relatively large proportion of seed 1 ceen sold to oil mills on account of the sm size of the crop and high price of oil, in sy pathy with the advance of lard. The repc jd price varies, according to the accessibil )f the mills, from 15 to 25 cents per busl [n some sections planters have been indu< ,o sell by liberal payment in fertilizers. The Senate Pinkerton Inquiry Senator Gallenjer, from the select cornn tee appointed by the senate to investig md report to the senate the facts in lation to the employment, for private p poses, of armed bodies of men, or det lives in connection with differences tween workmen and employees, subn :ed the report of the committee I Thursday. The committee found that e\ the proprietors of detective agencies adn Led that the presence of the so-called Pink tons at a strike, served to unduly irritate i the passions of the strikers, and the empl ment of detectives in the guise of mechani Impressed the committee with the belief tl it is an utterly vicious system, responsible much of the ill-feeling and bad blood ( played by the working classes. The comu tee express the opinion that if the firms a corporations would discontinue the empl went of armed men on occasions of thrc sued or existing strikes, their interest wo' be better subserved. The committee reached this conclusion 1. The rights of employers and workn are equal. 2. Employers have an undoubted rip provided they fulfil their agreement to ( ploy and dismiss men at pleasure. 3. Workmen can legally organize for i: tual protection and improvement. 4. When dissatisfied with wages or hoi they should attempt to arbitrate. 5. Failing in this, they have the right discontinue work, either singly or in a bo (5. Having discontinued, they hay'e right, legal or moral, by force or intimi tion, to keep others from taking their pla or to attempt to occupy, injure or dest: the property of their employers. 7. In all controversies, arbitration hav failed, reliance should be placed upon power and adequacy of the law. 8. Whether assumely legal or not, the < ploymcnt of armed bodies of men for ] vate purposes, either by employers or ( ployees, should not be resorted to, r such use is an assumption of the State's thority by private citizens. !>. States have undoubted authority tol islate against the employment of arn bodies pf men for private purposes, but power of congress to so legislate is not clear, although it would seem that congi ought not to be powerless to prevent movement of such bodies from one Stati another. - ? ? A Charleston dispatch of Friday tells a brutal murder that occurred at the Mag lia phosphate works, about fifteen miles lithe city. Henry Horlbeek, a well-kno negro desperado, shot and killed Robert 1 zcll, a colored constable who attempted arrest him on a warrant charging him \v irpsnnss Horlbeek was armed with shot gun and blew out the brains of constable as lie entered the door of the sli ty in which lie was hiding. After kill Hazel I, llorlbeck armed himself with a \V Chester rifle and attempted to mur another constable. He also fired at white man who accompanied the oflici The latter lied for assistance, and in meantime llorlbeck robbed the lnurde man and went into the woods, making g< his escape. A posse from the mines is al him, hut with little hopes of catching him of XaOCS-AiXh JHLF'FAkXiRS. ,rS! IXDIiX TO XKW AI) VE RTISEMEXTS. ,rn W. M. Houston iV Co.?Having recently taken , stock, are offering a number of articles, 'f ? adapted to winter, at lowest prices. Four | lie papers of garden seed are ottered for five re cents. ,el Inman Brothers?Have placed all their overcoats I on their bargain counter, and you can get in your pick for ?10 without regard to the as- value of the coat selected. \ George T. Schorb?Announces that he will dis% continue his stove and tinware businessand 1 j will devote his whole time and attention to nd the sale of pianos and the Wilcox A White id, organ. er Howry A Starr?Advertise alabastinc, nlastieo, kalsomine ; clover seed at wholesale price; a lotion to cure itch in thirty minutes; Starr's Sarsaparilla, and Landreth's fresh iy garden seeds. ' W. B. Love, Chairman?Gives notice that a pub-j on lie meeting will be held at McConnellsville, ed on the 2.">th of February, 1893, to decide in upon the question of levying a tax of two mills for the support of the schools in the McConnellsville school district. Kennedy Brothers A Barron?Remind their I friends that they have a full stock ot rcliable garden seeds. Also plows and ' plowstocks, trace chains, backhands, hcellu" screws, collar pads, hardware, etc. Their i? place is also headquarters for school books, la- W. M. I louston A Co.?Wish to buy two pigs not . Inue til nil i.irrlif u'nnl-u r>lH J. F. Ashe, Administrator of the estate of Dr. W. G. Campbell, deceased, on the 18th of of March, 18!>3, will make a liual settlement e(| with the prol. ate judge and apply for a dis, charge. u George Kecnan, of Columbia, S. C., administrahe tor of the estate of Stephen Kearney, debe ceased?Gives notice to the debtors and creditors of said estate. J. II. H. Jackson, executor of the estate of J. lb Jackson, deceased?Gives notice that on ,hc the lllth day of March, 1893, he will make a final settlement with the probate judge and apply for a discharge. er" Prof. I). It. Mclver, Principal of the Clover High school?Advertises first class instruceir tion at from 81 to $2.50 per month, and ejr boarding at 88 per calendar month, and per school month for 85. Dr. J. C.Kuykeiulal, at the York Drug Store? . it Prints some testimonials with regard.to the value and good qualities of the Tenhessee ;ii_ "Gold Dust" cotton seed. !!" W. J. Roddev, Agent of the Equitable Life Asft. surancc* Society, Rock Hill, S. C.?Desires lor persons who want insurance for wife or children, to write to him for descriptive pamphlet, so" Hunter A Gates?Are still olfering bargains in he the goods that were removed from their ;he burning building, and the goods they have are being sold at and below what they cost. ~ Riddle A Carroll?Advertise a car load of Texas lctl rust-proof oats, various grades of New Ored. leans molasses, guano and acid, and bacon and lard. M. A H. C. Strauss?Say that they bought their goods right and can afford to sell them at a he fair profit, and offer their winter goods at ,he cost. i.: Glenn A Allison?Yet have on hand about twen, ty young Kentucky mules, which they de'Jie sire to sell either for cash or on credit, and lis- nrc prepared to guarantee them to be as its represented. Riddle A Carroll?Have a lot of mules which . they are offering for sale as cheap as tho in cheapest. Their mule department is mink dor the management of Dr. Cartwriglit, who may be consulted at his oflice over tho Loan and Savings bank, re- Win Johnson, at the residence of Mr. G. W. S. : is Hart?On and after the '27th instant, will be have 10,000 cabbage plants for sale. L j Finley A Brice, Attorneys?Notico to absent defendants in the case of Samuel M. McNcel, plaintiff, against "Withers Adickes ro- and otliers, defendants. as Louis Roth?Announces that he will have two more shipments of oysters this week?FriL1B" day and Saturday?also fish on Saturday, and advises patrons in the remote parts hi- of town and from the country to place Q a their orders at once. lse ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Mary Crawford, of McConnellsville, eb_ is visiting in Yorkville, the guest of Mrs. J. ul- C. Kuykendal. ag- oNIiss Irene Fant, of Sautuc, Union county, sti- is in Yorkville visiting friends, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert J. Herndon. Professor Roht. J. Herndon has returned 0f home from a month's engagement in Sparow tanburg. After a few days, with his family, nia he will leave for Abbeville. ro- Mr. John M. Garrison, of Charlotte, N. C., was summoned, on last Saturday, to the death bed of his mother, who died at her 0f home on Sunday. Mr. Garrison returned to Charlotte yesterday. at u]s FERTILIZERS ADVANCING. om Last year the quantity of fertilizers sold by in this section and throughout the South, rth was comparatively small. This year the sales are going to the other extreme. Alg(,e ready, Yorkville dealers have in some instances more than doubled their entire sales al- of last year, and advices from other sections in indicate the same state of affairs all through the cotton belt. As the result, there has ^s* been a rapid advance in price, so rapid as to 32 completely upset the market. On yester0f day one of the companies telegraphed its ber agents here as follows: "Fertilizers rapidly ro- advancing in price. Take no new orders 28) until you receive further instruction." This, of course, will apply to all the companies. 3e" COLLAR BONE BROKEN. ,]a. Mr. W. E. Ferguson, of Yorkville, was rth seriously, though not dangerously, hurt last in Monday by a fall from his horse. He had been up the King's Mountain road on busiPP1 ness, and on his return thought to take a short cut across the farms of Messrs. C. E. :ias Spencer aud B. N. Moore. While galloping iall along the road, the horse stepped into a hole m- and fell, throwing Mr. Ferguson violently >rt" forward to the ground. Though as yet un'Y aware of the full extent of his injuries, Mr. 'ed Ferguson managed to remount his horse and rode over to the residence of Mr. Sara M. Grist. Dr. W. G. White was sent for, and .? upon examination pronounced the collar lit- bone broken. Mr. Ferguson was shortly a'e afterward removed to his home, where he is ie" likely to be confined to his bed for ten days ec or two weeks. be lit_ SHOT IN THE EYE. ast Mr. J. B. Bratton, of the Bethesda neighrfn borhood, met with an accident last Wednesu'" day afternoon by which he may lose the pr- - - ? . . T tj)e | sight ol one ot his eyes. 111 company wiiu 0y. I Mr. Malley, a sportsman from Connecticut, ics, lie was out shooting partridges. In a dense liat thicket, the two gentlemen became separated \or and lost sight of each other's whereabouts. "J" A partridge got up and Mr. Malley fired ind ! at^r" ^nitton happened to be. directly 0y_ j in the line of lire and received several pel:at-! lets in his face, one entering dangerously uld near the left eyeball. After consulting his father and two brothers, all three skillful * surgeons, he decided to put himself under the treatment of Dr. Chisoim, the famous .]lt eye specialist of Baltimore, and is now in that city. Dr. Chisholm, we are informed, is of the opinion that while it is possible in* that the sight of the eye may be saved, such an event is by no means certain. It will be irs *' necessary for Mr. Bratton to remain in Baltimore for a week or more. Cl^ $330.00 SURE TO (JO. da- It is now less than one month until Thk ces Enquirer's offer to clubmakers will close r?y and the prizes will be awarded ; and when the time arrives, (March 13th, at 3 p. m.) we are the al)Solutely certa'n to give out premiums of the market value of $330, and probably a great ;m- deal more. Every premium we offer, from mi- the $1.75 nickel alarm clock for five subjm* scribers, to the $125.00 top buggy made by the Carolina Buggy company, is worth all the time and labor necessary to secure it. Cg_ While it is true that every clubniaker canied not win the buggy, the $100.00 organ, the the $75 gold watch, or the Corbin disk harrow, 80 it is equally true that with the large number the Prem'u,n8 we offer for clubs of a given . I number of subscribers, it is almost impossible i 10 I I for a person to work for Tine ENQUIRER j without receiving liberal pay for the labor of i expended. Almost anybody, in any section, no" I it seems to us, might, with very little effort, om secure all the way from five to thirty sub{?'-1 scr'^crsi even now, when the field is supposto : ed to be well worked; and there is also a 'ith I possibility that the clubmaker who has rea | turned the most names up to this time, will ^,c j be behind on the home stretch. Somebody j may do the work that will win the organ, in? possibly the buggy too, during the time ilcr that now remains, which are worth just tho $225.00; and even one of these premiums U's.! is not to be despised. Let those who have j not worked before, now go to work; and let | those who have already returned names, re-ter j double their efforts. The reward is sure, and the work is easy. Every clubmaker is authorized to say to those whose subscrip- >. tions he or she may solicit, that The En- ! quirer will, if possible, be a better family | newspaper in the future than ever before. 11 REV. HENRY It. COLEMAN. ( Rev. Henry R. Coleman, supreme chan-1 cellor of the Oriental Order of Pilgrim!, Knights, will be in Yorkville next Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday night, beginning at 7.30 o'clock, he will deliver before the j Masonic lodge at this place, his famous , lecture entitled "Freemasonry in the Holy , Land." On Sunday morning, he will preach in Trinity church ; and on Sunday night, at , a union meetimr to be held in the Presbvteri an church, he will deliver an interesting lecture on the Holy Land. ltev. Mr. Coleman is grand chaplain of the grand lodge of Kentucky, the author of several able Masonic works, and a most en- ; tertaining talker. He has spent years trav- ; eling and making explorations in the Holy Land and throughout the East, and those who go to hear him preach or lecture, will , be both pleasantly and profitably entertained. The lecture on Saturday night will be ex- , clusively for the Masons. To hear the Sunday morning sermon and the Sunday evening lecture, the public generally is invited. DEATH OF W. M. FREW. 1 Mr. W. M. Frew, of Rock Hill, died at 1 his home in that place on Monday night of last week, of consumption. He had been in very ill health for more than a year, and while sitting at the supper table ou Monday night, surrounded by his family, he was suddenly prostrated by a hemorrhage of the lungs. Death followed in a few minutes, before he could be removed from the diniug room. Mr. Frew was a native of Concord, N. C., and moved to Rock Hill in 18G5, when 10 years of age. In 1879, he, with his elder brother, Mr. C. W. Frew, engaged in the mercantile business under the firm name of Frew Brothers, and, by their own efforts, built up one of the most prosperous establishments of tlni town. While still possess ed of his health, (he deceased was one of Rock Hill's most prosperous and progressive citizens. In 1886 he was married to Miss Sallie, a daughter of Mr. J. A. Sturgis, of this county. He leaves a widow and three small children. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at 11 a. m., and Sunday-school immediately afterward. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D., pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m., and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 3 o'clock p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 4 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Yorkville? Prayer-meeting this evening at 7 o'clock. Services Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sundayschool at 3.30 o'clock p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. Weber, D. D., pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m., conducted by Rev. Henry R. Coleman. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor. Union?Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. Yorkville?Services Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 o'clock p. m. THE NEW TOWN COUNCIL. The municipal election held last Thursday for intendant and wardens for the town of Yorkville passed off quietly, and the ticket recently nominated by the citizens in public meeting, was elected without opposition, as follows: Intendant, W. B. Moore ; wardens, J. Ed Jeffreys, F. A. Gilbert, S. A. McElwee and W. W. Jenkins. The new council was sworn into office immediately after its election, and on Monday night held its first meeting for the transaction of business. Upon organization, a resolution was adopted to the effect that whoever should be elected treasurer of the town, should agree to receive and disburse such moneys as may be expended for fire protection purposes, for one commission?2$ per cent. It was also agreed that all the general and special funds of the town should be deposited in the bank, subject to checks, endorsed by a majority of the council. Mr. J. Ed Jefferys was re-elected treasurer and clerk of the council, and Mr. Ingralmm Wilson was elected chief of police. It was decided to dispense with the services of Ned Edwards as street overseer, and the horse and cart used on street work for sometime past, was ordered to be sold. The matter of fire protection was discuss 1 - 1 ? - 1 if wna rnonlttfl/l fn 6(1 ill SOIUC 16UJ." "I, UUU lb tTtiO IbUUiivu %v submit the question to the qualified voters of the town at the earliest practicable date. PROF. FIjYNX'S LECTURE. The weather last Friday night was anything but agreeable, and as a result, the attendance on the lecture delivered before the Chautauqua Circle, by Prof. J. W. Flynu, was not so large as it would otherwise have been. There was a large number of ladies and gentlemen present, however, aud every member of the audience felt more than repaid for having ventured out in spite of the rain and mud. The lecture was delivered in Miss Fannie Miller's school room, in the old Methodist church building, on East Liberty street. Besides providing comfortable seats for all their guests, and more, the members of the Chautauqua circle had the lecture-room handsomely decorated for the occasion. The blackboards on either side of the hall were tastefully margined with evergreens, and behind and over the platform arranged for the speaker, was a graceful arch of the same material. Just underneath the centre of the arch, was the motto of the circlo, which reads, "Study to be what you wish to seem and under that appeared the letters "C. L. S. C." in a golden monogram. Professor Flynn was introduced by Rev. T. R. English, I). P., president of the circle,! and without delay waded into his subject, which was "The Value of True Manhood." Basing his argument 011 the accepted proposition that pure Christian character was the most priceless gift of God, he showed conclusively that under the old civilization of the South, such character had been developed to greater perfection than had ever been known before or since. It was Southern people?the people of Mecklenburg, X. C.?who first conceived the idea of American liberty, and in their declaration of independence were in advance of the North by more than a year. It was a Southern man?Rutledge, of South Carolina?who wrote the constitution of the United States. It was a Southern man who moved for the admission of Florida into the Union, also of Louisiana and Texas, and even of Alaska. Every acquisition of new territory that has ever been made, was made on the motion of Southern men. It was a Southern man?Washington? who developed the courage and ability to 1 lead the Continental army to success, and I />....Irs...! li/Mir. tlmf m'or tripil mill's I j iu tiiu uutnvav iivui uiuv vt v* v..v? ? , souls, it was Southern men who fought and ! won King's Mountain, Cowpens and other J battles that showed Great Britain that they were born to be free. There were 150,000 men engaged on the American side in the war of 1812, and of these 1)0,000 were from the South. The United States sent 75,000 men to Mexico, and of these the South furnished 52,000. In the great civil war, with only 700,000 men, the South held out for four years in the most terrible struggle recorded in history, against 3,800,000 men. l'rofessor Flynn referred, half humorously and half seriously, to the civilization which, in a condition of slavery, fitted the negro for j the high and responsible duties of citizen-1 3hip, us accorded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. In conclusion, the professor pointed out A the persistent efforts on the part of the ^ Northern historians to misrepresent South- j ern achievements, and especially to belittle our superior ante-bellum civilization. He OI appealed for a Southern history by Southern 9, historians, but was doubtful if such a work of would ever be had. for the reason that Southern men and women have always been, sc m and arc now, so busy making history, that c( they have no time in which to write it. i The lecture, of which the above is but the | ai merest apology of an outline, required about! vi an hour in its delivery, and held the unflag-1 P1 ? ? _r 4i._ .i 1 ? ! ill ging IIILurusi ui iiic uuuicure iiiruuguuiii. j LOCAL LACONICS. si ? At the Fourteenth annual session of the Southern Carriage Builders' and Dealers' p( association, held in Atlanta, Ga., on Wed- C nesday and Thursday of last week, Mr. M. C. Willis, president of the Carolina Buggy rii company, was elected second vice-president. ? Small burglaries and petty stealings are ,/{] growing very common around Yorkville just cc now. Nearly every family has stories of this Si kind to tell every few days, and the matter ^ is growing really serious. It has been sug- P' gested that a strict enforcement of the va- C( grancy law, if such a thing is possible, might Vj prove an effective remedy. . ul ? An eleven months old child of Margaret hi Walker, colored, who lives on West Madison street, died last Thursday from the effects of an accidental scalding received on the Thursday previous. The child was just learning fc to walk, and while toddling about the room, ni unnoticed by its mother, managed in some in way to overturn on itself a kettle of boiling water. ^ ? Last Wednesday, the cotton seed buyers . were paying 30 cents a bushel, and today ai the price has advanced to 33 cents. It ti would seem from this, that it is the policy of the oil mills to continue to run up the price F until it reaches a figure that will bring the seed. If they have been pouring into other ' markets in the county as they poured into Yorkville last week, it will not take a great while longer to clean them all up. t< ? Rev. Prof. Flynu, in his address before c" the Chautauqua circle, last Friday night, P stated, incidentally, that revolving fire-arms tj were invented by a North Carolinian. We r( cannot, with any degree of assurance contradict the professor's statement, but it is a aj matter nf lnnal historv thai the first revolver n was made in the town of Yorkville, about CI the year 1840, by a man named John Feem- y ster. There are men still living in the town r, who saw the weapon in question, and it has r< always been their understanding that the it invention was stolen from Feemstd* by Colt. ^ ? Captain R. H. Glenn was in Thk En*quirer office on Monday, and talked interestingly about the price of cotton seed, the * scarcity of pigs, and other such matters, p Referring to the agricultural prospects for t< this year, among other things, he said : "I'll n just tell you what it is. If we had to de- ^ pend upon meat at present prices this year to raise a crop of cotton, we couldn't e do it. The average hand would come pretty \\ near eating up his crop before it was made, fi and he would never get out in the world. r< However, while meat is scarce, there is v plenty of molasses, and this can be made j to answer the purpose. Bread and meat are better; but bread and molasses will do, and t< with such a crop of molasses as was made tl last summer, (it was not any too much, peo- n pie are beginning to realize by this time) we ^ can still manage to make out pretty well." * 55=55 * DRIVEN INSANE BY POVERTY. n Sad Story of a Methodist Minister and His c Wife. i, Recently, Rev. A. M. Attaway, of the h Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife, located in Williamston circuit were commit- . ted to the insane asylum in Columbia. It was ^ said that their minds had become unbalanced by religious excitement. Rev. J. P. Attaway, t of Richland, however, gives a different ver- $ sion of the matter. In a communication to the Columbia State, of Friday, he tells a v story that has produced a sensation in the ? Methodist church, and which should be se- e riously reflected on by the members of all other denominations. It is as follows : n Columbia, S. C., Feb. 9. JTo the Editor of The State: I understand J' that it has been reported and published in f1 some of the daily papers that the insanity of , the Rev. A. M. Attaway and wife, who were * committed to the asylum on the 4th instant, c was caused by religion, aud especially by sanctification. For the sake of right, let me say that I believe the whole story to be false. { My reasons are below: . 1. The physician who gave this official explanation of it, is well known to be an enemy to religion, especially sanetitication. t< 2. The seeds of the disease were sown in Mrs. Attaway's constitution before she professed re- jj ligion at all, by a great fright she received; since which she has been constantly on the verge of c nervous prostration. c 3. That for some months before she professed gj sanctification, she was in an exceedingly low state of health, suffering terribly from nervousness and nervous headaches. a 4. That during the fall of 1892, the family c (there were five small children) was compelled to subsist almost entirely for some months on , corn bread, made from corn raised by their own n labor, and tbe proceeds or tneir cow; ana even a this nearly failed late in the fall. It was this, r; or more debt than they could pay, and to save t her husband's reputation, she accepted suffering. The fact that Mr. Attaway was appointed to this field of labor, and other fields like it, for the past six years, by church officials, without the right even to complain, and the t( fact that a large part of the missionary appro- f( prialiou previously made to this work was j, taken oft', fixes the blame for this state of 0 affairs not on him, but on the church officials, and largely explains the necessity of Mr. Attaway. That this had to do with Mrs. Attaway's ^ insanity, is shown by the fact that in Novera- ^ ber she said such things as these: "I will leave ^ my husband, for God does not require me to live with a man who will only give me corn bread to eat." On the Sunday of the session g( of the South Carolina conference, she was scarcely retained from walking eight miles to j take the train for Charleston, the seat of the conference, to declare God's anger against officials who placed her husband in such a con- ^ dition. These and other sayings were then 4( thought to be in jest, but are seen now to have been the thoughts of a miud driven ,1 mad. j v I roomed with Mr. Attaway at conference j n in Charleston. He was sad and unnaturally depressed, constantly speaking of his | ^ straightened financial condition and his! j, wife's ill health. I spent a week with him, and assisted him n with a meeting immediately afterward. t) During my stay, the kindness of his par- n ishioners overflowed, and they had abun- t] dance. I left them hopeful, cheerful and happy. What their circumstances have ^ been since, I do not kuow. Of their cir- j, nnmatnnwd bmt, full, their relatives knew I ? VUUiUWUMVVM "7 - I VI nothing. That he should engage in secular | pursuits is prohibited by church law. j S( I verily believe the solution of the whole i ,r affliction is, that in loyalty to the religion j of their God, and devotion to the church ofi^ their fathers, they undertook to carry, un-1 't) complainingly, a load too heavy for nerve j and brain, and broke down under it. | M That through it all they should maintain j their perfect trust in God and resignation to > His will (for this is sanctification,) and even ] n when bereft of reason should seem to be j ^ happy and think only of God and religion, 1t] should be made the ground of attack on our j s, holy religion, is an outrage on the common ! p seuse of all reasonable people. k J. P. Attaway. j jj ? Ex-Judge John J. Mahcr died at his i j< home in Barnwell last Friday. His health (t( had been very poor for some time past, and I a during the past month his eye-sight failed.! p Judge Maher presided on the circuit bench t( of the State from 1872 to 1876, and was one ! a of the few honest judges of the Radical re- ]j gime. During several years past, up to a ; ti few weeks before his death, he was engaged p in codifying the laws of the State. He had I tl completed parts 1, 2 and 3, and was working p on part four when his eye-sight failed. The J tl work is pronounced by members of the bar, n to be most complete and satisfactory. 0 GOVERNOR TILLMAN EXPLAINS. Plain and Concise Statement of the Kailroad Tax Muddle. on? the New York World, February 12. To the Editor of The World : There is so ueh of misinformation and injustice, based 1 falsehood, in your editorial of February that I ask space to give a plain statement ' facts. It is nothing new for me to be misreprented in "dispatches from South Carolina," id I have never thought it worth while to irrcet the erroneous statements sent abroad / my enemies in connection with local fairs and my acts as an officer or an indidual. I only make an exception in the resent instance because the matter is one xi_ _ ? ?1.4? ? l in thn ivoiving me rigms vi nion, and I do not care to have people outde of the State draw inferences that are 3t true. The facts in the railroad tax muddle, now mding in the United States court at harleston, are as follows : Under the statutes of South Carolina, lilroads return their property for assassent to the county auditors. These returns e passed upon by a State board of eqiraliition composed of the secretary of state, nnptroller general, attorney general and :ate treasurer, empowered to raise or lower le assessment to conform to the value laced upon other classes of property by the junty boards. In 1891 this State board iuereased the aluation of railroad property in the State i)out $8,000,000 above what the companies ad themselves returned their property. ?rheu time for taxpaying came some of the >ads refused to pay more than was due on leir own assessments, and the fight in the >urts, which began in February, 1892, is ?r the difference between the State assesslent and that made by the roads, the amount i dispute of State, county and school taxes sing about $80,000 on all the roads. Injunctions were granted by the judge of ic United States court, restraining the counr treasurers from collecting their taxes, and fter argument the court claimed jurisdicon. Appeal was taken by the State to the nited States supreme court on two cases, ivoiving less than $2,000, and that court ecided about three weeks ago that the cirjit court was in error in claiming jurisdicon where the amount was less than $2,000. In the meantime two railroads had failed ) pay or tender taxes for 1892 (the other ises are for 1891) and executions were laced in the hands of the sheriffs, one of horn, Nance, made a levy on the trains of le Port Royal and Western Carolina railsad. A rule was issued by Judge Siraonton gainst Nance fo show cause why he should ot be held for contempt, and, pending the eeision, the "secret circular" which so exites vnnr condemnation was issued by me. ^hen the time came for the hearing, the ale was discussed by request of the railjad's attorney, and that road has since paid 1 full, the explanation being given that it 'as a "bluff" to gain time. Other sheriffs began at once to levy for ic taxes of 1892 which had not been paid, nd which, not amouuting in any county to 2,000 had just been declared by the sureme court as not being under Judge Simonan's jurisdiction. The sheriffs have been uled again for contempt, aud the cases will e heard on the 13th instant. Now, please allow we to remind you that ur people have been so persecuted by Fedral judges in the Kuklux trials and the potical trials, growing out of the alleged in ingements of the election laws, that they egard a summons to the Federal courts dth terror. When the sheriffs were ordered by me bat the executions must be pressed, without egard to the United States court at Charles3ii or its orders, as in the Nance case, and lie property held at all hazards, there was 0 purpose to put the State against the 'nited States. I only intended to reassure lie sheriffs and remove the temporary paalvsis occasioned by the "bluff" in the Tance case. It was not "bluster," but a fixed determiation to stand by the State's rights as delared by the United States supreme court, 1 spite of Judge Simonton, who had lent imself to that disgraceful proceeding. ^ Again allow ?e to state: , First. That there has never been a decis3n as to the legality or illegality on the lerits in any of these railroad tax cases. Second. The cases now pending are for he taxes of 1892, and are for less than 2,000 each. Third. The purpose appears to be to preeut the collection of the taxes on the round that property in the hands of a reeiver cannot be levied on and sold for taxes veu though the amount is less than $2,000. As far as I have been able to discover, the. latter has never been determined by the Jnited States supreme court, and a Federal adge is interfering with the State's officers nd stopping the collection of taxes where e had no jurisdiction, unless by reason of lie property going into the hands of a reeiver. I am resolved that the State's rights and ignity shall be maintained as against this jcal judicial officer, and that if South Carona must pass her account for taxes against isolvent corporations to a Federal judge for pproval along with other creditors, hersiser States shall suffer a like degradation. The supreme court of the Uuited States as sustained my administration in every a an wHinh Vino Iippii trior! hv if arw! T will heerfully abide its decision. We will reist unlawful interference-with our affairs s a State, even by a United States judge, nd collect our taxes through our own offers in our own way. Our laws give every taxpayer who feels e is unjustly dealt with, a means of redress, nd if bankrupters can hide behind a Fedeal judge here, it must be so throughout the Inion. B. R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., February 11. The Next Governor.?The question as o who is to be the next Reform candidate jr governor, is being talked about in Cojmbia. The State and News and Courier f Monday both print lists of those who are romiuently mentioned. The News and 'ourier fixes it up as follows: Secretary of State Tindal, who is said to e a prime favorite with the administration, > looked upon as a good man, and one comiuing certain liberal ideas that would tend a conciliate certain factions. Senator John Gary Evans is wanted by . orne of the orthodox Tillmanites, who want i n aggressive fighter and a champion of the | ispensary bill. f Congressman George D. Tillman is said to " ave a great many friends who want to see im elected governor. They say that he's a sure winner." Senator W. I). Evans is reported to be in lie field, not as an active candidate, but one ;ho has no scruples against accepting the omination and making a tight. Chairman M. L. Donaldson is thought to e in the race, if he is not struck with a good 'ederal position. State Treasurer Bates's name has been ientinne<1 in ennneetinn with the frnherim. 0-WV...M 5rial office. His candidacy would be recogized and more generally acceptable than iiat of many others. Comptroller General Ellerbe's name has een presented by some Pee Dee enthusiasts, t is said that he is not in any race, on acount of his health. Adjutant General Farley is said to have Dme aspiration to succeed Governor Tillmn. Editor Gantt has found a candidate in partanburg, a Mr. L. P. Walker, who is invested in The Headlight. It will be seen that the Reform element rill lind plenty of material. Cooling Down.?There has not been lucli talk lately about that great fight that le liquor men were going to make against tie Evans dispensary law, and there will be till less from now on, for the liquor men are eginning to sec that there will be no use to ick against the pricks, that their case is opeless, and that they will simply waste loney in fighting the dispensary act. This i so true that the ways and means cominitje appointed by the barkeepers' convention t Charleston to raise funds to fight the law, un uiv.1, >viin vi-iy pour success ana is about 3 give up the attempt in disgust. There re over three hundred wholesale and retail quor dealers in Charleston, and the commitee, it is said, has been able to secure only iventy-one contributions of $10 each from hcse dealers. Some of the dealers are prearing to go to other States and engage in be same traffic, while others have deterlined to remain in this State and go into ther lines of business.?Columbia Register.