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$hc IJoffeviUc YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JULY 20,1893. ? In the year l(iOO, says an exchange, the world fcad in circulation $145,000,000 of gold and $510,000,000 of silver and no paper; in 1890 there were $4,200,000,000 of gold, $5,005,000,000 of silver, and $3,855,000,000 of paper money; a total of $13,000,000,000. This includes the money of Europe, the United States and the colonies of Great Brit ain, France and Spain. No account is taken of the worthless currency of the South American States. ? A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch reports that there is danger of a serious race conflict in the vicinity of Neelyville, Mo. Some days ago some negroes employed in mills and on farms, were notified by the whites that they must leave the country. They protested 1 against leaving their homes, and purchasing guns and ammunition, notified the whites that they intended to fight to the death before surrendering a single one of their rights. The affair is likely to result in bloodshed before it is settled. ? The boundary dispute between France and Siam h?s reached the point beyond which a peaceful settlement is improbable. ! On last Friday the French sent the Siamese an ultimatum. The reply of the Siamese was not satisfactory, and from the tone of | cablegrams published in the papers of yes- i terday, there is every reason to believe that 1 hostilities have already commenced. England is represented as looking upon the French operations with extreme jealousy, ( and it is believed she will take a hand in the < fray. Russia will assist France, and the pos- ' sibility of the long expected struggle in Eu rope breaking out within a few days, does '' not at this time seem improbable. ? Judge Gofl', of the United States dis- j trict court, reappointed F. H. Huidekoper, ] Reuben Foster, and added the name of Sam- i uel Spencer, as receivers of the Richmond < and Danville company and leased lines. ' The reappointment of the two first named j is simply a confirmation of the action of j Judge Bond under the original proceedings. ( The appointment of Spencer is a part of < flie Drexel, Morgan & Co. reorganization plan, i He represents the reorganizers. Walter (J. ] Oakman will be retaiued as receiver of the 1 Richmond and West Point Terminal, and Spencer will also be given a voice in the control of the East Tennessee, Virginia and | Georgia system. Although the proposed ] reorganization scheme is certainly progress- < ing slowly, there is little reason to believe I that it is not progressing satisfactorily. 1 ? There have been rumors of trouble at ] Clemson college, on accouut of complaints on the part of the boys against the sleeping ac- , commodations, table fare, work and military features, etc. The Greenville News made I inquiry of President Craighead as to the truth ' of the matter, and got a straightforward re- ' ply, setting forth that there was just a little . truth in the report. When the college was . first opened, its affairs, of a necessity, did not ; run as smoothly as was desirable. Through 1 the negligence of Negro waiters, spoiled ' iLtat was served on the table, and on account of an incompetent manager, the laundry . did not work properly. President Craighead ] suggested as one remedy for the waiter trou- j ble, that the boys wait on each other them- 1 selves. Nearly three hundred boys volun- < teered to take turns at the service, among * them B. R. Tillman, Jr. The matter was speedily settled. President Craighead goes ( . on to say that boys who are not willing to < work are not wanted. Clemson is no place 1 for milksops or spoiled children. He goes 1 on to say that a few boys came there with ' instructions from their mothers <;to come right home if they did not like it," and of course the boys went and were a good rid- , dance. There were a few other boys who ( were too ignorant to enter even the lowest classes, and these were also dissatisfied with j I rm 11 | j < everyming. mu cuucgu i? uu? m i working order and will give any boy wl'o j: wants it, the opportunity to get a thorough ' j education. No boy, however, who is not < willing to put up with such board as can be < had for $7 a month is wauted ; and further,; boys who are unable to raise at least fifty !1 dollars for medical fee, uniforms, washing, IJ and the first month's board, are advised not ( to try to enter until they get that much , money. i MERE MENTION. ji A great fire occurred in London one day last week and burned over an area of ">0o yards squnre, including thirty buildings val-' ued at about $1,000,000. Italian , towns, one of 10,000 inhabitants and the i other of 4,000, were destroyed by a cyclone one day last week. The number of killed j and injured is not known. Nearly all , the banks of Denver, Colo., were forced to j. close their doors last week on account of the financial stringency, and great distress has resulted. Although several of the banks have managed to resume business, the feeling is still panicky. About $100,000 worth of growing tobacco was destroyed near Hart-1 ford, Conn., last Wednesday by a cy- j clone. A Chicago drummer attempted a grave outrage in Wise county, Ya., last week and the family concerned got up a crowd and had him Hogged nearly to death. Colonel C. C. Jones, the historian of Georgia, died last Wednesday of llright's disease. Owing to the terrible j financial stringency, all the Fall River. Mass.,! cotton mills are confronted with the alternative of shutting down or running at a loss. | It is probable that some of the mills will fail. The commissioners of agriculture of the various Southern States, held a meeting in Atlanta, Oa., last week and adopted a resolution to the effect that all the States would be memorialized to pass uniform laws for the control of the sale of commercial fertilizers. General John (i. Walker, who was a distinguished officer in the Confederate armies, and did good service at Sharpsburg, Manassas and in all the fights around Richmond, died at his home in Washington last Thursday from the effects of sunstroke. He was aged 70 years. The total number of national bank failures since the first of January runs over two hundred against less than fifty last year. ^ A Rich Man's Panic.?A special to the' New York World from Raleigh, N. ('., says that Senator Zebulon lk Vance has made public an open letter which he has written to the , Farmers' Alliance. In his letter Vance says that he is pleased at the action of the Alliance in urging the senators and represent a-' tive to stand by the present silver purchasing law until some satisfactory substitute can be adopted. He says that years ago lie urged upon the farmers the importance of such organization as would enable them to make iheir vast, but disjointed, strength felt promptly and efficiently in legislation, and the preservation of silver in the currency is a vital issue. He declares that the use of silver and gold on equal terms as the basis of our currency is a necessity, and asserts his determination of yielding, nothing to the monopolists who have created the ;.w7i,cfrir>iiclv niK-prtUcd. and which W , v. J -. will hereafter he known as the rich man's panic. Vance says, in conclusion, that the hope of ingratiating himself with the president to secure patronage has not affected him, nor does he believe it will operate far. in the effort to secure the repeal of the! Khermun law. 1 CAIN'S Ml! firm E 1)1 . (.( Senator Butler and Congress- v man Strait Talk Finance. jsi THEY BOTH WANT FKEK HHNAOE. jj" Kucli lias a Hanking System Which He w Thinks is the Panacea I'm* Existing y< Kvils. . : T 1*1 There were between four ami live hundred | Mi people at the Cain's spring picnic last Satur-1 ,r ilay, and although lor the most part they were .rj called upon to listen to political speeches J ai rather than participate in social enjoyments, | they all seemed to pass the time quite pleasantly. Music for the occasion was i 'I furnished by the Allison Creek cornet hand. | The exercises of the day were opened J) with prayer by School Commissioner Ed-! wards. Mr. J. C. Chambers, of Hickory p: drove, acted as chairman of the meeting, and j m tiie first speaker introduced was 'v 1)R. T. ?. STRAIT. I)! I)r. Strait spoke about fifty minutes as J, follows: * al Ladies and fellow citizens of York county : cl It is needless for me to say that it gives me >' pleasure to appear before you today in this, ?' one of the finest sections of our country, where the tall oaks grow, and with not a h single blackjack in sight. It is needless for ti rae to say that I know you are going to give tl careful attention to everything that is said jt( here today. * O] WHAT OUR FORKFATHKRS DID. I. ' is We are going to think together and act | '] together for the great commonwealth ofh* South Carolina, of which you arc the greatest; Q| hope. When we go back 117 years and see the condition of things at that time, and re-1 j. member the roaring of cannon and the j ^ cracking of small arms, and see men almost | barefooted, surrounded by enemies, with j ^ little to eat and but little to warm themselves |.. with, passing over the country and leaving ! blood upon their tracks, we have but a faint j ^ idea of the great struggle that our forefathers | J, once waged in this country. And what was ! ^ this all for? Why did three millions of de- r* voted people, with no resources but those of! *!| nature, living in swamps, with nothing to i', cat but sweet potatoes, battle so long and I so desperately with so powerful a foe? It 1 was for that sacred word?that sacred prin- j ( ciple?independence. When we go back | and consider the material this country was I made of, we will find men and heroes driven [ C( Vi/Mvino on/1 n?r?f>r>lltr>rl nil ilN'OIIIlt tl IIUIII tugti uvuivo Uii%% |>viwv?.vv^ w.. af their religious and political views. We will' iu find men who, fleeing from persecution, took j pi refuge among wild animals in a dark wilder- ; ol [jess, and there developed one of the grand-! ni jst uations on the face of the globe. On the j Si last place on earth where men expected to tl see the tree of liberty flourish, the seeds of di independence were sown. It is wonderful j tl to think about it, and we find here today j hi descendants of men who settled on Rocky ! sn L""reek, men who plowed with double lines,' tl ind men whose influence for good will con- j T tinue to go out as long as time lasts. That j in is the source from which true America ai sprang. j el A STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. j Now the question is, what is best? We j 0 have been wandering up and down. We |. have passed through one of the most terrible j1S sivil wais in which civilization has ever en- i ^ ;aged, and now we arc here struggling for \ 1 that same principle of independence for j which our forefathers struggled when they ! J? 3ame to these shores. Although once we .. direw off the yoke of England with force of, 11 irms, she is trying to put the heel of tyranny ! an our necks again. Shall we submit ? Now, gentlemen, the great issue before uss :oday is, how are we going to get the finan-1 jial relief our country needs? I don't pro- i u pose to make a connected speech. I never : make a speech; but when we go back' twenty-seven years and inquire into the ori-: gin of some of these wrongdoings, I hope j of foil will catch everything I say in a discon-: w nected way, and see if you can't make some- j w thing out of it. I tl: We were fighting twenty-seven years ago w for what we knew to be right, and it was then j U] that the oppression of a great nation began. I la It was then that we were encircled with ai i network by those Northern schemers?fi- | \\ fanciers they are called. They slipped into hi 3ur midst and sowed the tares that are now pi giving us so much trouble. These money j tc sharks have always been with us. They J In :lid not go into the war of independence be- It :ause they were afraid they would lose! si some money by it, and they kept out of the ! gi last war in order to stay at home and make w money by taking advantage of their fellow- j si men, while they were risking their lives on in [he field of battle. J is NOKTHKRX MONFY SHARKS. j n< Those great money powers of the East i j? ire responsible for the situation in which lur great government has been placed. When Mr. Lincoln needed help, he applied ,u to them. They were divided and would not j agree upon terms. Mr. Lincoln departed from them and fell upon his own resources. He went to work and issued greenbacks, based upon nothing but the faith in the tl government, sufficient for the needs of the tl emergency. This money had no exceptions, at It was good for everything and would buy g? anything. When they found they could not Ik control Mr. Lincoln, and that he was going b< to conduct his financial affairs independent ai of them, the money sharks went to work tc and brought congress to make a law making st these greenbacks good for everything except si import duties and national debts. At that $ time the government was importing every- n thing, and nothing but gold being good for 1)( import duties, the greenback currency went g< down to almost nothing. Now these trait- al ors in the camp brought the government to tl say that these greenbacks were not good tl enough to go at par for duties ou imports, N but they let them go to pay the soldiers who in were risking their lives on the field of battle, w that these sharks might hoard up wealth. r>< The soldiers, in the meantime, were getting tl their pay at only about one-third the rate in d gold. IK HKUINMNi; OF TliK StjFFF/.F. < < Now what happened ? The money sharks >"' went to work and got the country filled with these depreciated greenbacks, and the next thing after the war was over, they (>( raised a great howl over the tremendous debt that the country could not pay, and w these goldbugs proposed that the govern- V( ment issue bonds payable in gold. This |.t proposition came from the rulers of the Jinan- ,.( cial world?a nationality that does not have '{l\ a nation. That is a fact. The financial j? world today is ruled by a nationality that u does not have a nation. 1 want you to jj think, about it. (Then these goldbugs go to work, and what is the cry ? We'll have to issue bonds. ^ gentlemen, to pay this debt. Now they took > the gold that had been locked up all the (>) while it was needed, and buy the greenbacks ,| 1 " - -- ?1.. - 1 -.1 1 'clw... ll,,.,. at aooiu -hi mils uu un- wuuui. i uvu mv,? ( demanded that the government issue bonds V( to secure tins debt, which" was doing no harm whatever, and with these greenbacks they buy the bonds at par, thus exchanging a debt upon which there was no interest, for one hearing interest. hi Til K NKXT STKC. u Now what do they do? They go to work sj and pass a law making the bonds payable .. in coin. Mind the difference. What was the next step? They got congress to pass j| what was known as the "Cremation Act,"' by a which the greenbacks used in the purchase j of the bonds were destroyed, and the bonds. j0 which were purchased at oil cents on the |(, dollar, were thus put on an equality with ' gold. In that transaction these fellows jj made live millions of clear money and sad- (.j died that much more debt upon the govern- ((| tliov ;irc mil satisfied with i. 1111:111. what they have already done. At lirst the bonds were payable in greenbacks". Ily . making them payable in eoin, they cleared jj millions; and now, not satisfied with that, (j they want to get rid of silver as a money ](| metal and make the bonds payable in gold. They now have two horses pulling the |)( wagon, and they want to break the legs of one horse and put the whole load on the other. There is searcely enough gold in ex- |j istenee to pay that debt, yet they want to make it payable in gold?they want to lix it so one horse cannot pull the load, and n when the debt has to be paid, they will be ^ in a condition to make their own terms again, j just as they did before. hKMoNKTIZATloN CltlMK. ' |\ In IS7d they demonetized silver. They (' broke the legs of one horse. What was the In result ? You were cultivating a crop of cot- st ton, and on the basis of the last crop, were i ec cpccting to got seventeen cents a pound >r it. but you did not. With the legs of one I* the horses hrokcti, you only got eight nts for your cotton. There must he a circulating medium, fell, how are you going to get it? I will low you how they managed it. They next >t up what is known as the national hank-' ig system. The government said to them,' won't issue any more money, hut I'll just; t you issue it. (Jive me your bonds, and I i ill pay you .1 per cent, on them, and allow on to issue !>() per cent, in bank notes, he government issues hack to the. hondhold-1 s ninety dollars in notes for every hundred ollars worth of bonds. It borrows the, loney from the national banks, and then 1 ives it back to them to do business with nd pays them interest 011 it to do it. NATIONAL HANK ISO S VST KM. Now, suppose I would lend you a hun-, ren dollars and then ask you to give me nek 00 per cent, of it in order that I might intinue to do business with it, and all the j me require you to pay me interest on the ' hole amount, less 1 per cent, that I would ! ay you for the money that you were giving ic "> per cent. for. would you not think 11 as a terrible fool ? Yet this is just what ic government is doing with the national j anks. This is the position of our people to- j ay. The government is giving the nation- i 1 banks (5 per cent, for money and not < aarging but 1 percent., and the banks lend 1 on money that costs them nothing, and : take you pay interest on it. Now the national banks of the country j ave full control of the currency, and con- j oiled as they are by the money sharks of: le East, it is an easy thing, at any time, I > bring 011 a financial stringency. The [inks have drained the (Jreat West of money | nd brought things to a crisis. The result' , bank failures everywhere. I am glad to iv that, so far, South Carolina has not bad single bank failure. One bank?tbe bank! f Florence?suspended for a while, but re- j lined business. It is worth something some-1 mes not to have too much credit. The ouble with us nowisan insufficiency of cir-1 dating medium per capita. The great State ! f Pennsylvania is the richest State in the' nion, but at the same time it has a mort-1 ige debt of $1.0.3 per capita?$1.03 for' rery man woman, child and nigger in the J late. And Kansas?poor, miserable Kan-1 is?has a mortgage indebtedness of $1.70 j ?r capita. The trouble, even with the rich tates, is that the wealth is with a certain j ass. The rich are very rich and t he poor ery poor. Hut the point I want to get at is j nning. 'I'llK FINANCIAL ISSFK. Now they have called an extra session of' ingress. Last summer, the great issue, I ley said, was the tariff question ; but fori lontlis Mr. Cleveland has been receiving ! lies of resolutions from little scabby boards j * trade, composed of four or live business j en, who want the Sherman law repealed. J :> it seems that they have begun to realize iat the financial question is the issue of the ay, and it is not to repeal the tariff laws mt they want an extra session of congress,' it to repeal the Sherman law. Now they ; ty they can reduce the tariff and make j mt all right by levying an income tax.1 hey don't say anything about a graduated j iconic tax, but think that if they had an ' 1 income tax, we won't want anything! se. You sec their Democratic congress last j ?ar did not do much better than the other ! le. The greatest issue before the people today finance. Here is that great big man the ! orld has gone crazy about, and why, I don't l now. He says the the people must come igether and that we must do something to lievc the situation, and why ? When did lev find out that the situation needed re-! ef? The struggle has been going 011 forj venty years now, and lie tells us that we j list not clip the wings of the soaring eagle , > the little bats and owls can fly. This is ic way General Gordon compared those j ho are trying to relieve the situation, to j 1 those who have done nothing. SI I Kit M A N's M A K ICS 111 FT. They were not satisfied with the demands j 'the Grange, and they are not satisfied j ith the demands of the Alliance. They 1 ere asked for free coinage of silver, but j icy would not grant it. After a while, hen they could stand it no longer, they got; f> this makeshift known as the Sherman j w, and calling for the purchase of four- j ld-a-hall'-million ounces of silver a month, j 'hat did they want it for? Mr. Sherman 1 unself says it was just a makeshift?a com-1 omise witli the West?and now they want | 1 repeal even this. When did you ever! jar of silver coming below gold until after! >73, when it was demonetized ? Well, now, ippose the whole world would demonetize )ld, you would see that gold would only be hat it is worth for rings and watches and icli as that, and we would find that the! trinsic value of gold would be whatever it j worth. Suppose we repeal the Sherman :t and have nothing in its place? The xmfrv now <rnttiiiir four-and-a-half mil w J !-> o ans of new circulation every montR. Shut j lis off, complete the demonetization of.silver, id we double the purchasing capacity of >ld, and the gold-bugs have just what they e working for. TilK TKl'K INWAUDXKSS. The money sharks are now trying to get ic world to adopt the gold standard. If ley should do it, the capitalists of England id America would have all the gold. To ,'t it, the government would have to issue aids, of course, payable in gold. Those mils would have to be put on the market, id those who have the gold, would be able ? fix the price. Now you begin to 'e into it. These fellows are very larp. Stop by step they go on. About 1,450,000,(1(10 worth of bonds arc to be 'deemed in l!)08. The law says these Dials arc payable in coin. It does not say jld. You see if they can knock out silver, | most half of the currency available to pay lesc bonds, will be out of the way, and icy will be sure to get their money in gold, ow, again, there is only about #")(>(>,000,-, )0 of gold in the I'nited States, and when e undertake to pay with it a debt of #1,>0.000,000, don't you see what premium le bondholders will be able to make out of icir money ? Then, instead of #1,500,000,>0 of debt, we will have about #8,000,01)0,>(>. It has been pointing that way for cars. So.MKTIIINC To THINK Altot'T. I am in earnest, on 4hat line. 1 don't 1 line, gentlemen, to make a llowery speech, id get you away up into the heavens,, here you will forget the issues with which on are confronted and cease looking for the 'inedy. That is not my object. I want on to see the danger. I want you to think unit it and act upon it. Every old soldier i the army knows what a man will do' lien be gets hungry. < 'an one say today lat this is an independent country, when >.O0(l,(Mi() of people are ruled by about l,ooo goldbugs? When the polities of ic country is dominated by money, and 1.000 ocoidc absolutely control the whole nintry? Why arc our all'airs subject to it' money king which has no conscience, id which will crush our people into the ny dust of the earth ? MAI5K Till: IMtKDICTlON. Kegardless of the constitution, regardless ranything else, shall our children have a crita.no. of eternal slavery and he hewers of ood and drawers of water for certain dass! of men ? It is slavery and nothing hut averv to which we are all -coming. What as it you heard last summer when I told mi that before .another twelve months, lis country would experience the greatest naneial panic it has ever known? They ihl you 1 was a fool and a crank. Now iok about you and see that what I told you as conic to pass. If you live twenty-live cars, and things continue in the direction I icy are now tending, you will see your! lildren slaves! Mark my words. It took, ne hundred years to make two millionaires, j 1 the last twenty-live years the prevailing mditions have made dl.OfMl, and in the cxt twenty-live years there will be sixty-' ve thousand millionaires and all the rest of ic people will he slaves. I tell you it he- j ooves every citizen here to consider seri-j isly the signs of the times, or he will leave hind him children to wait upon the few lillioiiuircs of t he land. Now I will say a lew words about the Al-1 ance. I tell you it is the worst treated or- ' inization on the face of the globe. It is the! t . ? 1 'orst treated organization that over urealnI tin- breath of life. I will tell you that Ir. Cleveland hates the Alliance, and it is iited by all the politicians of his stripe, and icy will be <;ettiti? down on their knees beire it, like Senator Cordon, of Ceorfjia. Icvcland will liiiii it and kiss it. and when e nets from it a little confidence, he will ab it, ami step on the "owls and bats" who! impose it. j a i.iviav eoitrsi-:. I will tell you, gentlemen, that tin re is no time lor anything now hut to think, think, think, and act, act, act. They tell you that the Alliance is dead already. That it does nothing but pass resolutions and make threats hut; I tell you that U is not dead. It is the livest corpse that I ever tried to handle in my life. They talk about the sub-treasury idea a great deal?a sub-treasury for agricultural products?but they don't say much about tbe sub-treasury for whisky. There they can put away their whisky, in which the government has an interest of DO cents a gallon. They can keep it there four years, and four years more, and if they don't want to sell it, they can keep the government out of its money for yeafs more, on and on. but when we ask for tbe same thing, they say paternalism ! paternalism !! Well, a father is a mighty good thing to have sometimes, but it isa mighty bad father that will look after the whisky of his children, and not do anything for their honest products. A NKW FINANCIAL SYSTKM. Well, now they come before you and they talk State banks. They want to sec the 10 per cent, tax on the issue of State banks repealed, and I want to see it repealed too; but T don't want to see forty-four different kinds of banks with a shaving machine. If we repeal the tax on the issue of State banks, and then go and establish State banks on the same principle that national banks arc now manipulated, I can't see that we have gained anything by getting rid of the national banks. We do not want to arrange so that the State will give money to the bankers and let them lend it to the individual, and receive interest and principal on that which costs them nothing. You will only get rid of one monopoly by supplying its place with another just as bad. Now, here is my plan : Suppose we repeal the tax on the issue of State banks. Let every State in the Union issue bonds, secured by all the property in the respective States. Let those bonds be deposited in the national treasury, aud let the government guarantee them and issue to the States notes to the full amount of the bonds, less one per cent. Let South Carolina issue say $40,000,000 worth of these bonds aud receive therefor currency. Now, let the individual go to the State with his cotton, his real estate, his railroad bonds, or other property, and get his loan the same as he would from a national bank. The interest of course would go to the State of South Carolina. We would thus have a uniform currency. Of course, they would cry paternalism! paternalism!! Well, we would have a uniform currency, redeemable through the treasury, just the same as is now done with the national bank notes, but instead of the profits going to the bankers, it would to go the State. Dr..Strait closed his speech with a few remarks in which he expressed the hope of having the pleasure of addressing his audiancc again, and took his seat. He was listened to quietly and respectfully throughout, and the audience failed to show by any demonstrations of applause, whether it was pleased or displeased with anything be had to say. The next speaker introduced was W. X. KI.DKH, a member of the house of representatives. Mr. Elder explained that he was here by invitation. Ife expected most of the time to be taken up by visitors from a distance, and bad only prepared a short address. He made a slight reference to his service in the legislature, his connection with the Alliance, and also made a few remarks on the financial question. As lie was about to take his seat. ex-Representative Wm. Walker, asked him for some information on the dispensary law. Mr. Elder explained the efforts of the legislature to enact a prohibition law, but finding this impossible, as the next best thing to it, told how it happened that the dispensary law was enacted. DINNER. At the conclusion of Mr. Elder's address, the chairman of the meeting announced a recess for dinner. A great many people had brought baskets and a great many had not. Some of those who brought baskets spread their contents on a common table, but most of them separated in parties of four, five and a half dozen, and enjoyed their good things alone. Mr. James 31. M. Cain, owner of the picnic grounds, treated as many of his friends as could stand around his tables, to a sumptuous spread in his dining room. A great many people, however, who failed to go provided against contingencies, returned home hungry. SENATOR BUTLER. The first speaker after dinner was Senator M. C. Butler, of Edgefield, who arrived 011 the grounds shortly before the conclusion of the address by Dr. Strait. After introduction by the chairman, Senator Butler began to address the people as follows : rlininmnn Lwliou frni > <11 >ni 011 !1 tl < 1 iUI, \ 1IU! i 111(111 , IUU4VUJ f^v v fellow citizens of York county : This is not the iirst time I have had the honor of looking the Democracy of York in the eye. I I want to say to you now, ladies, gentlemen, fel low conntryman''? A SUCIIT INTKHKITTIOX. Here there was a commotion in the crowd caused by a horse turning over a bee hive. There were quite a number of horses hitched near the spot, and their owners hurried to get them out of danger. Those in the immediate vicinity of the stand did not know the exact nature of the trouble, and neither did Senator Butler, but surmising it, he explained : "That horse has got into a yellow jacket's nest, where I will be before long maybe." Then, continuing where he left off? "And there has been nothing that I am aware of in my career to make me ashamed to look you in the eyes again. For the first time in thirty-two years, the Democratic party of this? Well I'll wait. Xo man can speak ngainst'a yellow jacket's nest or a circus." Here the crowd had become so scattered and demoralized, it was useless for the speaker to attempt to go on. At length the band struck up with some music, and after a while the crowd again collected around the stand, when Senator Butler continued his speech as follows: TAKKS A NKW STAItT. Ladies, gentlemen and fellow citizens: I dislike very much to tax your patience, and will not do so further than to make clear a few propositions which I will submit. For the first time in thirty-two years?for the first time since IStiO?the National Democratic parly to which you and I belong, has control of every department of the government. I know perfectly well, fellow citizens, how, under this condition of dissatisfaction and unrest, people look for something as a reason for the unrest and the hard times, hut I know, as you know, that the Democratic party is for the first time in a condition to be held responsible for the existing stale of affairs. We have had t lie house of representatives. the senate and the chief executive, but at no time before, have we had them all at once, and at no time have we been able to put into execution the policies of our party. i?i:.mo< i:ats auk now itKsi'oxsini.K. l?.o ? !?!, tin. olix'linn of Mr fleee land l?y the Democrats, the responsibility devolves upon the Democratic party to bring relief to the country, and I say to you here and now, that if it does not do something to bring about relief, it may very properly be held responsible for it. As, however, the Democratic party has not been in power, we must not yet charge it with unfaithfulness. It is the Republican party that is responsible for the present condition of affairs?the many failures in business, throughout the country, the financial depression?much less in the South than in other sections. Now. the Democratic party is called upon to enact such measures of reform as will bring relief to the people of the whole country. All this clamor we have heard among the good people of the country, is not from a desire for agitation. It linds its origin in a deep seated and fundamental cause, and while I have not been, and am not now, one of those who has fault to find with the Democratic party, I tell you now, that if it fails to carry out its principles and promises under present conditions, I will at once be found among its severest critics. (TKKKNCV TIIK TKolT.LK. It* I nel'oil u'luif ic flu* rutko 1 In. II I V?i;ii; UPUVU n ?n?v ?..w w. IIIV existing uneasiness and unrest, I wnuhl say that first, it is the unnatural capitalization of corporations or industrial enterprises, whieli are bonded and stocked for far more than their earning capacity justifies. The investors in stocks and bonds in these various enterprises have found it out. Liquidation has set in with them, and they are unahle to meet the demands that are being made upon them. This will create distrust for awhile, when values will settle down to their proper basis, and the result will be in a measure beneficial. I think the next main and contruling cause of our financial trouble and stringency, is the iniquitous tarilf bill passed during Han i- ! son's administration under the Torn Iteed I congress, and known as the McKinley law. The third cause has heeii attributed to what is known as the Sherman silver bill, j It is a mere makeshift, passed by Tom Reed's house to eoneiliate the Silver States. Kvery Democratic member there voted, or was i paired, against that bill. What is it? It is simply a bill instructing the secretary of the treasury to buy between four anil live million ounces of silver bullion per month, and issue i silver certificates on that bullion, and to the extent silver certificates were issued, it was a relief and no more. TIIK PKNSION Flt.U'D. Again, to the people of the South, 011c of the greatest burdens we have to bear is tbis : I Congress appropriates every year, or has I for tlie past two years, appropriated $ 1 >(),i 000,000 for pensions. Nine-tenths of that money goes to the North. When I entered the.senate, the pension appropriation amountJed to ?28,000,000. Since that time it has grown to SI">0,000,000, and it bids fair, within the next few years, to go up to ?200,000,000. Well, now suppose each of us old sol: dicrs had pensions and the money came down South, we would be pretty well oil', wouldn't we? Hut the money does not come down 1 this way. All the appropriations, or nearly j all, are spent in the North. The nrfval ap| propriation and army appropriation of ?28,000,000?everything except the river and harbor and postollice appropriations?are ! spent in the North. That is another thing ! that keeps us poor. | Now, I have often been asked why I did i not attempt to put a stop to this kind of thing. I feel like answering as did Sam : Rice out in Alabama. Just before the war | broke out, be said in a public speech, that I it would not amount to much. "Why," he told his hearers, "we can whip the Yankees with cornstalk guns." After the war, Sam hncnnin a candidate for congress. and bis opponent threw it up to him about his foolish remark. He replied, "Yes, I said it, hut they would not fight us that way." IT TAKKS VOTES To MAKE LAWS. So when 1 am asked why I don't put a stop to it, I reply, "Simply because we have not (got votes enough." F.very year since I have been in the senate, some Democratic mem-j ! her lias introduced some measure of reform, ; but they invariably fail. A bill was introduced by Senator Morgan, of Alabama, and others, to require pension money to be raised j by an income tax, but the bill would not go J I through. Why ? You may as well ask me ' why we did not whip the Yankees in the ! last war. It was simply because we did not !have troops enough. The complaints of our people are well j founded. We arc, as Dr. Strait has said, hewers of wood and drawers of water for! j the money kings of the North. When the I Democratic senators seceded from the Union ; and left a majority of radicals, they did 1 what they had been attempting to do since the foundation of the government. They ! united the swoiti) and rrnsK, and with the sword and the purse they put i down our war, and in the same way they ! have been putting us down ever since. WANTS KKKK C'OIN.UJK. I have voted for th6 free coinage of silver ! as a small measure of relief. What is free ' coinage ? It is nothing but this. This goveminent has about five mints. Now, suppose j an individual had $10,000 worth of silver bullion, or a hundred thousand, or a million I I dollars worth, well, he goes into one of the mints of the United States and says I want this coined into dollars. The government ! takes the bullion and gives the individual in ( I return silver dollars equal in amount to the | weight, and does not charge anything for conI verting it into money. That is all. Now, 1 how much relief will this give to our people ? About one dollar a head. There are five ' mints in the United States?one at l'hiladel! phia, one at New Orleans, one at Charlotte, | one at San Francisco, and the other, I don't J ; remember where. They can't coin but j j $00,0(10,000 a year, and this would only be about one dollar a head. While I have voted for it, I think the free coinago of ??! ., mn.wllm nf vplipf is VP TV mUcll I OIIVVl J ifc j - ' ~ ! overestimated, but at every opportunity II have voted in favor of the enlargement of j the currency of tho country. ! DISTRIlU'TIXti MONKY TO THK I'KOI'LK. | Some eight or ten years ago 1 was j i making a speech down in Edgefield. The proposition then was to issue $50 per capita j to every man, woman and child in the conn- j try and pay it out to them gratis.. My old J | friend West Crawley was sitting on a log out, 1 in the edge of the crowd, and pointing to j i him, I said: "Fellow citizens, suppose nj United States officers would come along and j I issue us out fifty dollars a piece, how long . i would it be before some fellow would come | along with a chuck-a-luck box, or a greasy : pack of cards, and win every cent West i had ?" "Well," said West, raising up, "we j would have a mighty heap of fun while he was a doiti' of it, general." Well, I would like to get fifty dollars that way ; but at the same time I know it would not be long until i I would need another fifty, and another, and I really don't believe the scheme would work, i The trouble is with the financial system of j ! the country. That is the reason why I op posed the sub-treasury plan. If money were issued in that way, it would be in the hands, of money sharks in less than six months. SCARCITY or ITKKKNCY. [ was talking with the president of a na| tional bank in New York not long ago and he was chiding me with the statement that we Southern people arc trying to impair the i credit of this government. I told him "That, ' is untrue: but you have had lis at your mercy so long, that we are just trying to get some kind of relief." Then he asked me I what my remedy was, and whether I would vote for*the repeal of the Sherman law. I, told him "No." The law was a miserable; makeshift by Mr. Sherman, but I don't in-1 tend to aotc for its repeal until I can get j 'some kind of concession from you people.. We have not currency enough in the South < to discharge the business transactions, and illustrated by giving him the experience of two young men in Edgefield?one of them my son. He had planted his crop and | worked it at an expense of *7o0. The crop was in good condition, but it would require Slot) more to bring it through. I nlcss that; amount could be raised, the crop would suiter great loss. I went to the bank to borrow the money for the young men myself, and offered good security. The president of the bank told me it was impossible: lie could, not let me have the money if I would depos- j it government bonds as collateral, lie sim-1 ply did not have it. The New York bank president said this was not so much the want of currency as capital. 1 told him, "Not so." The credit of the young men was capital, as was also their , crop, their horses and their lands. I here ; was plenty of capital there. I he trouble ! was altogether from a lack of currency. Then I told him: "I want to repeal that 10 per cent, tax on bank circulation, because it was passed by congress for the benefit of national banks', and for the purpose of driving State banks out of existence." WANTS STATK RANKS. Now, there is nothing new about the State bank idea. We used to have them and issue our own currency. Perhaps you remember that one time there was one at Yorkvillc.. If you had *101),DUO in coin, nobody would, ask whether it was gold or silver, and under the law you had the right to issue three dol-J lars in bills for one of coin. T take the ( ground that this tax is illegal, and that the | government has no right to levy a tax on j anything except for the purpose of raising revenue. "Now then, I said to the New York banker, "1 will be willing to vote for the repeal of the Sherman law. if you will remove the tax from State banks, for all the silver bullion will soon be absorbed as a basis for banking, and free coinage of silver will follow as.a natural result." Now, Dr. Strait makes the same remark that this banker in New York made to inc. t He said: 'You will have forty-four different kinds of currency in the United States, and you cannot use it as a circulating medium between the States.' "So much the better," said I, "If you had a State currency today, we would have all the money , here' that we want, and it would not go away just at the time we needed it most.''' Hut," ho replied, "with so many different kinds of money, how would you he able to tell what a bill was worth? It would be impossible to keep up with the lluetuations." To that I replied, "Let each State use its own money. Hut so far as that is concerned, the bills of any bank that is managed well will pass current anywhere in the Tailed States. Hut. sir, nobody proposes to destroy that $l,(5uiiT0ti0,()0() of national currency now in existence. We will allow that to remain as it is and use it for inter-state trade, and further, with this nrrangemc it, j j if a State does not see lit to permit the] establishment of banks under this system, i it may just let it alone." i Now, in addition to the repeal of the ten - l per rent, tax on the issue of State banks, I ( think the next congress should revise the tarill'. To make up the deficiency, I think that it should also levy an income tax so that these people of the North would have to pay their part of the expenses of the government. ; I'ltKDK'TS I'KACK AM) I'KOSI'KltlTV. I ain gratified that Mr. Cleveland knows of no reason why the ten per cent, tax on the;issue of State banks should not he repeal-; ed. I am also gratified to know that he favors the levy of a tax on incomes, and I will, say that if the next congress passes these three measures?revision of the tariff, repeal i of the ten per cent, tax on State banks' issue, and an income tax?the Third party of this country will pass out of existence as the snows of April. With the triumph of these measures, and a readjustment of taxes so as j to make the rich pay their portion, the Dem- j ocratic party will control the country in ; peace and prosperity for at least the next ! forty years. I intended to say something about myself, i but perhaps you do not want to hear it. A i woman can talk about herself for hours, and grow more interesting every minute, [Laughter.] but when a man goes to talk about himself, he grows tiresome. [Voice: (to ahead, general, we want to hear you.] It is not only your right to demand of me, I when you choose, an account of my steward-1 ship, but it is your duty to do so. I was i not sent to the senate by a clique, ring orj I fuction, and I have not been kept there by ! them. When it comes to my keeping my j position by bending the knee to any ring, j clique or faction, I will not do it. My j countrymen have honored me too long.' But as I said before, tlm sovereign people ! i of South Carolina have a right to call upon I me to give an account of my stewardship.1 ' I have alway done the best I could, but I | don't mean to say that I have always been I right. Show me a man who claims this for ! j himself, and I will show you a fool. I have \ j made mistakes, but they have been mistakes1 | of the head. I have always tried to repre-' sent the people of South Carolina as best I ! could. "What has Butler done since he went to the United States senate?'" What has he done? I say that if I had devoted the same amount of time and attention to my own private business as I have devoted to the business of the people, I would have been worth ten times as much money as I am : today. But I do not complain. I have discharged the duties that have devolved upon 1 me cheerfully and gladly, to the best of' my ability. Here Senator Butler reviewed the various! achievements of his official career. 1 Ic men- i tioned the diflerent appropriations he had ] secured for the rivers and harbors of the j State, and showed that he was largely re- j sponsible for nearly all the government appropriations that have ever come to the State, giving, however, his colleagues due credit for their assistance in the work. He j said he had never failed to answer a single i request made to him by a constituent, and I he had been present and participated in ; every debate in the senate in which the interest of South Carolina was concerned. He j intends, he said, to have a schedule of his various official acts published and distributed ' to the people, because an attempt has been ; made by his enemies to create me impression i that he has been doing nothing for his eon-. stituents. Continuing, he said: I have never committed an act, by word | or deed, which has stirred up strife among my fellow countrymen, turning brother[ against brother and father against son. My voice and my influence have been to restore among my countrymen feelings of confidence and self-reliance one upon the other. IN DKKKNSH OF CORDON. I want to say a word here in justice to Gen. Gordon. T heard every word of that speech, and I wish every man in this crowd hail heard it, for it was the manly talk of a soldier talking to soldiers. lie made a touching appeal to them to come back and get together, and drew a most striking picture of the difference between our race and the inferior races, and he asked: "Old soldiers, will you cut down the tall oaks that the blackjacks may spring up." The matter was called to my attention, and I asked him what he meant by it. He said nobody could take any exceptions to what he said but a Negro. Nobody could put the construction on it that he meant, "Will you cut down certain white men that other white men may spring up." I heard his whole speech and I am sure there was no such intention in it. AN OPINION OK CI.KVKLANI). Now I want to say another word. Some-; thing has been said about Mr. Cleveland. I j don't agree with him in some of his views, | but I will say this : Anybody who supposes i he is not one of the smartest politicans in ' this country is very badly mistaken. But that does not justify me in saying that he is a tool of Wall street, because I know lie is not the tool of anybody. The best proof of that! is that he is in favor of an income tax. Cleveland's sympathies are with the people, j and that is what gives him such great strength with the masses. Mr. Cleveland is; a great man, honest and pure, and although he does a great many things I do not like, 11 would not be willing to condemn him as a traitor, for I know that he is not. I want to say also, that the election for United States senator comes off next fall one Vnnt 1\i. iMiTirlid I ilnn'f L'limv flint I care much about going back, but I am not j going to be kicked out if I can help it. I. am coming buck home and I am going face to face with the people and give them an j account of myself. I am not going to make | any compact with rings and bosses to get | back to the senate or anywhere else. I did ! not ask where I was going, or what effect it j would have, when they sent me to the sen-1 ate, and when I was elected I was the most! surprised man in the State. But neither did I inquire what was going to be the result j when I went to the army in 1801. I went there as I went to the senate, to do the best I could, come what may. Senator Butler next spoke of his connec-1 tion with the Hamburg and Cainhoy riots,) and said that he would not again go through the odium and abuse he incurred throughout j the North on account of these things, to he j president of the United States; but, were it: necessary, under the same circumstances he I would do the same thing again. NO 1'KRSONAI.TIKS. I am not going to make any personal fight, and I am not going to allow anybody to make a personal light on me. My public career is! open to the public, and all my public acts , are subject to whatever criticism any one i chooses to make, but when it comes to per-1 sonalties, I am not going to put up with it, and |: I want to say this right now and here, if! there is anything of that kind, one of us will come off the stand feet foremost. Dr. Strait says everybody hates the Alliance. I do not hate the Alliance. Some-; body asked me not long ago what I thought about the Alliance. I have always sympa-1 ] thized with the purposes for which it was I, organized, but it reminds me of the fellow who applied for membership in the church ] and was refused admission, even on prolm- j tion, and then got abused for not being a j j member. Now, they want to say that I am ! j in favor of the free coinage of silver and an in-;, come tax, because the Alliance is in favor of ( it. I have voted for both of these measures , before the Alliance was horn. llfTI.Kit AND ST It A IT. ] Here, Dr. Strait, who was standing out in . the crowd, interrupted Senator Butler with , a request for permission to ask a question. Butler?Certainly, doctor. Strait?Were you in sympathy with Hemphill and Johnstone in their efforts to blacklist j Mr. Latimer and myself? !' Butler?I had nothing to do with tlue: blacklisting of you and Mr. Latimer. ' Strait?But did you not sympathize with Hemphill and Johnstone? Butler?I got letters from all over this dis- . trift to the cllect that you and Latimer were ( recommending Third party men for ofliee,; and 1 intended to prevent it if I could. j Strait?Why did you not inform me? , Butler?You never came near me. j > Strait?I did. I came to sec you twice. A Butler?You did not. But if you want to , know, I told Mr. Bissell that I did not think it was proper to put Third party men in j olllce, where there were Democrats to till them. 11 Strait?Why did you go to Mr. Bissell's t office? j j Butler?Mr. Bissell wrote me a notcaskiyg | me to be present. I said: "Mr. Postmaster t (ieneral, 1 don't know anything about this.'' i t lie asked me to come anyway, and I went. |! Strait?Why did you refuse to recognize! | - - ? 4..t;?r tin.. v i i me lis (lie iTjnra-muim; v/i n...-> , Jiutler?You did not come to me. Ki"ait?I did. liu tier--You did not come to me as the J' senior senator. Von came to me like you thought I was a public enemy. You hurt fixed up the slate among you, and then mine to me to agree to it. I would do notli- w ing of the kind. Strait?We did nothing of the kind. Butler?I got it from one of your friends. The colloquy continued in this strain for perhaps ten minutes, during which nothing ^ was developed that was either interesting or instructive. Senator Butler maintained all the while that he had nothing whatever to , ' do with the blacklisting. Finally, Dr. Strait asked : "Did you not recommend a Haskelite lor T ollice ?"' Butler?I don't know. All I asked of a man was he a Democrat. I did not ask him, p like you and Senator Irhy, was he a Reformer; hut so far as that is concerned, I can j,, prove that you recommended a Haskelite. Strait?Well, he lied to me then. Butler?l'erhaps lie lied to me, too. I Strait?If you did not ask him. how can you know? Butler?Vou said when I recommended a; Reformer to ollice that I was trying to hrihe ' ' him. Mrau?it did iook very inucn use 11. n Butler?Any one who suspicions another j of bribery, is not only a briber, but a bribe- j v taker. Strait?Do you mean to say I am a bribetaker ? ' Butler?That depends upon how you understand what I said. Dr. Strait made a reply, the purport of which the reporter did not catch. About i this time the chairman tapped Senator Butler on the shoulder, and requested him to discontinue the colloquy. The senator took his seat, and shortly afterward left the stand. Both men were evidently very much in earnest, but neither got excited or exhibited j e a great deal of feeling. 1 ' 'I'll K WIND IT. v The next speaker was .Mr. K. I). Thompson, county lecturer of the Alliance, llei was not feeling very well, and the crowd ^ being already tired out, he made only a J' short address. i Several others down on the programme c for short talks were present, but they decid- f cd not to attempt to make them, and the j J1 picnic soon afterward broke up, everybody ' going home pretty well satisfied with thejt( entertainment of the day. n ROCK HILL HAPPKNINUS. : |j Senator Under Milkcs a Speech?Convict* ut Work s oil the Industrial School?I'eople Who are : Coming anil <>oing?Give the Correspondent j the News. Correspondence of the Yorkvilte Kmiuirer. j Rock Mux. July 24.?On last Saturday night, Senator M. C. Butler was at the C'aro-' ] lina hotel, en route from the picnic at Cain's! i, Spring. At 11 o'clock the citizens gave him ' an ovation in the form of a string band con-! y cert, and made hearty calls for a speech. The i j, senator responded, speaking about the linan- ^ cial and political situation. Me said he hoped the present political dissensions would be ^ healed : that they are unnecessary, as well | ? as unwise. The present general situation he ; j, regarded as a great responsibly on the! j, Democratic party. The Republicans have j held us responsible in times past, when we ^ were not in power, but that was jjnjust. The balance of power at Washington j has never, before the present, been so well ? in the hands of the Democrats that they | j could justly be called to account for the! governmental stutus. But now they have i., full control for the first time, and good | J. things may be expected when they have I been in power long enough to make their influenc.i felt. As to the financial outlook of the South, I j, the senator held out a straw, very much of 11] the same hue as those at which South C'aro- j \ liniaus have been grabbing for some years, j v saying that he would make an effort to get! j, the government to spend more money in the South. That will be a worthy effort ci for the senator, but after all, does the finan- ^ cial depression of the country have a politi- j * cal solution? Good government is worth : a struggling for, but the government cannot | p make our country wealthy. Political i V changes can form a sort of safety valve for j, the temporary escape of unrest in society, > but the bright future of our home-country h must come from somewhere else. Will some Jj one venture to suggest from where ? h The thirty-four convicts and their seven a guards, who arrived a week ago, to work on the Woman's Industrial school building, are ! a duly installed in the new stockade near the J tl site of the proposed building. Of course the ? convicts are all Negroes, and a happy looking 1 set they are. Some one who likes to study > the Negro problem, will find nn interesting j field for speculation in the cheerfulness of I the Negro race under all conditions. Isju cheerfulness simply an accompaniment of ? shiftless improvidence? Or is it not a supe-1 c] rior virtue, possessed by an inferior race?|j Anyhow, these men laboring under the frown , of the ever present shot-gun and rifle, arc a] happy looking lot of fellows. The stockade . S is conveniently and very comfortably ar- ^ ranged. It and the force, which is to be joined by over sixty others soon, are in in charge of Mr. J. M. Knight, who is kind and courteous and an experienced oflieer in his i business. Religious services were held at the stockade on Sunday, and will probably " be repeated from time to time. * Mrs. Neil Pressly, of Tampico, Mexico, j and Miss Elliott, of Ilunlsville, Texas, are visiting Mrs. A. r. Ruff". Miss Caldwell, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting Mrs. A. K. Hutchison. i Miss Addic Drennan, of Richburg, is visit ing Mrs. Minnie Ratterrce. ! (i Miss Annie Watson, of Yorkville, is visit- t, ing Miss Ktta Steele. ^ Misses Leila Steele and Lula Blair, of Blackstoeks, and Aliss Fannie Moore, of ' Betlicsdn, arc visiting Miss C'aimnie Smith, in Kbene/.er. Miss Lettic Green has returned from a, visit to Monroe, X. C'. [ p J)r. Louis Friedheim has returned from a p trip to Louisville, Ky. j jr Messrs. Heath Blake and Ladson Mobley fi have returned from a visit to friends in jt Guthriesville. w Mrs. John A Byers, who has been visiting ; ^ her mother, Mrs. M. K. Adams, of this place, t< has returned to her home at Sharon. ,r Miss Irene Withers, who has been visiting ? Miss Mayinc Ivy, has returned to her home in Savannah, (in. I (] There was an election here yesterday for j e. warden of Ward Xo. 1. The election was to lill the vacancy made by the resignation v: of Mr. State Morgan, the former incumbent. |)' The friends of Mr. Win. Wliytc and Mr. A. I t< J. Thompson, foreman at the Standard Cot- ! u ton mills, had those gentlemen forward as, ' candidates for popular favor and public re- j j-j sponsibility. The number of ballots cast i b was 02. Mr. Thompson received ~>l, and; k Mr. Wliytc 41, making Mr. Thompson the j' successful candidate. u On Sunday the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sliurley, of Kbene/.er, died of 11 whooping-cough. The bereaved parents , {.* have the sympathy of many friends in their ti sad alllietion. il If any one in this section has some special- ^ ly interesting watermelons, early cotton, tine ,-r potatoes, large corn, or a new farming enter- [ ti l>rise, and will communicate or bring the ?i facts, potatoes, or melons to this correspond- j L'lit, he will be ambitious to give them as courteous attention as a bona tide editor an do. Let some one try it. The Rock Hill section had some rain on Z( last Wednesday?not a "season," however? 1| mil the development of the crops will de-1 maud a good rain at an early date. v. I. M. w - bl bHTTKK FROM FORT MILL. ; JJ L'rop* arc SulVering?No Kuln far Seven Weeks? 1 A Home Made Incubator. 'orrespoiuleiiee of the Yorkville Knquircr. ; R Four Mil,i., .Inly 21.?The fanners of this li; lection are in a bad way for want of rain. It has I jp jeen live weeks to ti day since we have had any,; md then only alight shower. In the upper end >f the township, they have not sutlered so badly a is around the town, but in the Fork neigbor- p] mod they have bad no rain for seven weeks. I C( an see no ehauee for this township to make .. nore than halfa crop this year. Cotton, though anall, is full, and may do better than is expect- \v d, but corn will not make morn than halfa crop. The Luna Mill is running day and night in ?, irder to supply the demand for its thread, I saw a cheap incubator this morning which, j t seems to me, is in tho reach of everybody. It tl telongs to Rev. Mr. Harley, and consists of an ! .. . ?I:........ 1..I.I ii,, uluiiil Iveii t'i?i*l with ' nil11iiii y JK'^xii-fivt iiuin* i?|/ uiM/ui -.wv iiue mortar. .1 door is left near the bottom, and , sl here is a tin partition with about six inches of in (and on top of it. The top is covered over with a 1 u, hick carpet, and the necessary heat is produced >y means of three lamps under the tin parition. Ninety eggs were put in the incubator Itree weeks ago. Thirty-live hatched out yester- t<. lay, and this morning there were several more, icsides a largo number "pipped." This lueu- . Mttor seems to be a good thin#, and there is M lot hint; to hinder anybody from having one. | Mr. A. H. Kiiubreli and family, of ltoek Hill, j ?,| ire visiting friends and relatives in Fort Mill. , ' Captain and Mrs. S. K. White left home last , I'liesday for a month's visit to the springs, c. j vi LOCAL AFFAIRS. to \i:\v \n\ i:ktisi:>ii:\ts. '. M. Houston .V <Are ottering all summer goods :it and below Now York cost. I. A' IF. (Strauss?Say tliov are careless as to the cost of their gotsis, hut wish to sell them iu order to get money with which to luty a fall and winter stock. .1. Roddey, Manager of the Ivpiitnblc Life Insurance company?Says that ten thousand dollars is a good estate, and tells you how to accumulate one. , It. Lindsay?Says that every man should carry a life insurance policy, and gives a reason w hy you shoiihl not delay in securing one. . M. I'olison, Manager.?Talks alioul the large stock of cheap shoes, which may lie found at "Ilohson's Racket." Also summer goods and susnenders. owry A* Starr?Tell youalimit fruit jars, Scott's fruit powder, cigars at different prices, and Mason's blacking?two boxes for cents. erguson brothers? 1 lave become poetical and make (fold Bust Washing mwuer im* simject. hinter AOates?Have a lot of I mailt i fill white goods which they wish to sell, and are willing to receive in payment dollars that are claimed to have hut *> "> cents worth of silver in them. . A. Barnes?"Still a Kicking." liddle A- Carroll?Call special attention to their 100 per cent. Hour. icth-Sliiloli Alliance?Will meet on next Saturday. i". If. McCorkle, Probate Judge?(fives notice that W. I), lileun has applied for letters of administration 011 the estate of It. II. (ilenn, deceased, os. P. Wallace?on the tilth of August, will make a linal settlement with the probate judge and apply for a discharge as administrator of the estate of M. Catharine (frier, deceased. . S. Price, Clerk of the Hoard of County Commissioners?(fives notice to road -overseers that the public roads must be worked by the 1st day of September. ALMOST KILLED BY BEES. A fine young horse belonging to Mr. Jospli llamell was almost killed by bees at 'ain's Spring last Saturday. The animal .'as hitched near a beehive, which through ome kind of accident was turned over, 'he bees attacked all the horses in the viinity and created a stampede. Mr. Hamcli's orse was unable to break loose, and in a uw moments the maddened insects literally overed it from head to foot, driving it franic. Some one rushed in and released the orse by cutting the bridle. By this time, owever, the poor animal was scarcely able 0 stand. Its body was well bathed with soda rater and other remedies used, but it was otuntMthe next day that it could be reloved from the grounds. News of yesteray is to the effect that the swelling is subiding, and the horse will get well. CHURCH NOTICES. Presbyterian?Sunday-school at 5 o'clock . m. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at 0.30 a. m., and Sunday-school immediatef afterward. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. Veber, pastor. Services next Sunday mornig at 10.30, and evening at 8.30 o'clock, unday-school at "? o'clock p. 111. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor. 'nion?Services next Sunday at 1L o'clock . m. Yorkvili.k?Services Sunday evenMr nt ? an r?vinpL- Scfviees tomorrow even lg at 8.30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. H. C. luckholtz, of Chester. Sunday-school at o'clock p. m. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. . C. Galloway, pastor. Tirzah?Services ext Sunday at 11 a. tn., conducted by Rev. 1. L. Grier. Yorkvji.i.r?Services at 8.30 'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock . in. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at .30 o'clock. RKV. W. <;. XKYIIiliK. The Frankfort, Ky., Journal of the 17th istant, publishes the following account of lie farewell services accorded to Rev. \V. G. Seville on his last Sunday in that city, preious to his departure for liis new field of lbor in Yorkville : The union services between the co-oporating liurclies of this city was held last night at the outhern Presbyterian churcli. Dr. Taylor, of le baptist church, delivered the discourse of the veiling to a large congregation. The speaker linden in beautiful and touching terms to the leasant and cordial relations that existed bevoen the retiring pastor and his brother pastors l this city, and Air. Henderson invoked the lessings of heaven upon the future labors of Ir. Neville and also upon the congregation he wives behind. Rev. Mr. Neville, in a few approbate words, expressed his gratitude for the exressionsof fraternal goodwill, and stated that e would long cherish the memory of the associtions of his pastorate in Frankfort. Mr. Nevle, in the three years of his ministry in this ity, has endeared himself to all our citizens by his bility as a preacher in the pulpit, and his genIciuanly bearing in all his relations to the conilunitv. He will carry with him to his new eld of labor in South Carolina the best wishes fa large number of friends. uot'k HIIjIj VS. YOKKVIIiLE. The "Polka Dots," of Rock Hill, and the Juveniles, ' of Yorkville, played their w rub" game of baseball at this place yesterry afternoon in the presence of about 300 eeply interested spectators. The two clubs were composed as follows : Hock Hi nr.?.1. Owens, J. Beckham, M. teele, W. C'reighton, W. White, N. Simpson, (,'. fitherspoon, <J. White, .I. Hardin. Battery? lardin, catcher; Simpson, pitcher. Yokkvim.k?B. Parish, V. McClain, J. Parill, J. Smith, of ('lover; \V. Moore, W. Harri?n, H. McClain, W. Parish, J. Allison. Battery? 1. McClain, pitcher; Walter Parish, catcher. In the first inning, the Polka Dots made jvcn runs and the Juveniles two. The ;cond inning resulted Polka Dots one, Jucniles nothing; and the third resulted Polka lots one, Juveniles two. From the third ining to the close of the game, the Polka Dots ere completely shut out and the Juveniles iccecded in piling up against tlieni a score f twenty-seven to nine. The game was umpired by Mr. P. T. Goron, of Yorkville, and Mr. Groone, of Rock [ill. There was a little kicking at one or vo decisions, but upon the whole everything assed otf as pleasantly as could be desired. PROFESSOR BANKS COMING. At a meeting held last Thursday, the ustees of the Yorkville graded school eomleted definite arrangements with Prof. A. R. anks, of Rock Hill, to take charge of that istitution. Prof. Banks will also conduct a rst-class high school for boys, which though i the same building with the graded school, ill be separate and distinct. Both schools ill be provided with a full corps of compe;ut teachers and professors, and will comlence work on August 28, to continue ten lonths. Speaking of his departure from that place, le Rock llill Herald of last week gives its itimate of Prof. Banks as follows; This is a ease in which we can truly say Yorkille's gain is Hock Hill's loss, for no man lias veil in the town who gave to it more of charac>r and importance. He was the lirst supcrin ndent of the.Hock Hill graded school, which nder his management ranked among the lirst istitutions of its kind in the State, and as headlaster of the Presbyterian High School, his lends confidently expected to see it become eforo manv vears the leading institution of its imi in theSoufli. Ho is known most favorably lroilghout North and South Carolina and will avo no dilliriilty in commanding patronage lierever ho may go in this section. As wo have said, we deeply regret his depart re from our midst on his own account, hut a 1st) ivauso this removal carries his excellent family out Hock Mill. It will he a long while before teir place will he tilled here. The town can 1 alford the loss of such desirable citizens. .'horover they may go they will always he ivingly remembered by a multitude of sincere lends here, whose prayers will be for their fuire happiness and prosperity. We lose a good k1 true friend in M r. Hanks, and feel a personal rievitnee in his departure. DKATH OK l>H. JOHN M.W.SK. Dr. John May, Sr., one of the oldest citi;ns of Vorkville, died at his home in litis lace at 2 o'clock last Saturday morning, a far as is known, he had no organic disease, c had been confined to his bed for several eeks and death resulted from a general reaking down and wearing out ol the mniinory, which had been in use longer than to allotted time. Dr. May was a native of Colleton county, id was born on the I'disto river, on October ), ISIS). His father gave him a good Kngdi education, and at the age of 21 turned iin loose to shift for himself. The doctor 'cured a situation as school teacher, and in year or two made enough money to comlete his education in the classics and attend* 1 a course of lectures at the South Carolina [edicnl college, from which institution lie as graduated in 1S4I1. I'pon the bombardment of Port lloyal, Dr. lay left a good practice and volunteered his * ir vices to the State, lie was assigned to ic Sixteenth regiment of South Carolina duntcers, and was soon afterward made irgcon of the regiment. Next, he was ade surgeon to the troops at Castle Pincki;y and on the gunboats in Hog Island chan.'1, and afterward he was made a member ' the medical examining hoard of Charles)ti, Heaufort, Colleton, liarnwell and Or- ? igeburg counties, in which lwwitimi h.. nued until the close the war. After the war, finding all lus personal ropcrty and plantation equipments destroy1, ami his family having refugeed to Yorklie, he rejoined his wife and children at