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J? trans ami facts. i ? An eight year old sou of Senator John W. , Daniel, of Virginia, was killed at Lynch- i burg last Saturday, by beiug thrown from a ; horse. j, ? Mr. M. F. Myers, a traveling salesman J] from New York, was shot, and perhaps fatally injured, in Charlotte last Monday by! j Mr. Fred Oliver, the prominent cotton oil i manufacturer. < ?The farmers of Indiana, for the first time i in the history of the State, are feeding their ' wheat to their hogs and selling their corn. 1 AVheat brings 43 cents per bushel when deliv- t ered at the country stations, and corn sells 1 readily at from 45 to 47 cents. The farmers say tnar one ousnei 01 wneai* wiuwuo much nutriment as two bushels of corn, and as hogs are bringing good prices and as corn is higher than wheat, it is economical to feed the latter and sell their corn. ? A little sensation was caused in Columbia on last Friday by the news that during the night, some miscreant had fired two shots at the governor's mansion. One of the shots struck the building near the window of a room in which Private Secretary Tompkins was sleeping, and fell on the roof of the piazza. The other shot, so far as is known, did not strike the building. As everybody in Columbia was aware that the governor was not in the city, there is reason to believe that the shooting was only the work of , some drunken rowdy, who was probably , not altogether responsible for his actions. ( The police have not been able to get any information about the matter. ? President Cleveland is opposed to unnecessary work on Sunday. Some time ago, 1 Private Cedarquist, of the United States ! army, refused obedience to an order to engage in target practice on Sunday. Cedarquist was courtmartialed, and sentenced to punishment. The case was appealed to the president as commander in chief of the array. After investigation of the facts, the president ordered that Cedarquist be re- 1 leased, and that the officer who issued the : order for Sunday target practice, be arrest- ( ed and tried on th6 charge of disobedience to orders issued against unnecessary Sunday , labor, by President Lincoln, in November, 1862. There will be no more Sunday target practice in the army, at least for the present. ? A correspondent of the Boston Transcript draws a gloomy picture of the farmers in i the hill country ofNew Hampshire. There ] ; ~ onvu-tiorp under cul- , is xi u iaigc uicit 1/1 muu iiiij tivation, and only small herds of cattle. The scattered houses are surrounded by a garden patch, a few acres of corn, a pasture, with dense woods encircling all. "There is no real farming," he says. "Each man has 1 his own mouth and a smaller or larger circle ; of dependent mouths to fill, and he goes at it in the way that lies nearest to his hand; in the f way that his father went at it before him, and his grandfather and his father. The commercial idea of accounting for outgoes and incomings is no part of their mental make-up; ' they live from hand to mouth, and their hori- s zon is bounded by the store which takes ] their butter and eggs in trade, and the town j houses where they exercise the rights and j functions of American citizens." . ? Columbia Register, Saturday: Attorney General Buchanan received a telegram yesterday morning announcing that twelve citi- ' zens of Darlington had been arrested charged with the murder of Constable Pepper and for firing into the train in which the constables < were. Those arrested for the murder of ] Pepper are L. A. Norment, K. D. Lucas, ( Charles McCullough and Henry Appelt. Those charged with firing into the train are: Dr. J. S. Wilcox, C. S. Nettles, W. C. Byrd, ' S. H. Wilds, C. S. McCullough, Mclver Wil- < liamson, L. M. Norment and J. H. Edmunds. ] These arrests were made by Detective New- i bold, who has been working up the case for ( some time. The preliminary hearings will be , had on August 14th and 15th. All of the accused have given bond for their appearance 1 at court. Few people were aware that the ' State was going to prosecute these cases, and I many thought that the last had been heard i of the Darlington riot. The State intends to 1 push the cases to the end. ? The feat of counting 2,000 silver dollars , a minute is now being performed at the mint i... ?. mar>Yiinp invented hv Sebastian UJ t? 1IVMV . Heines, the chief carpenter of the institution, and by its aid the work of counting the coin and weighing the silver bars, it is thought, will be completed by the middle of next month. The slow progress made in counting by hand led Mr. Heines to experiment with the result after the expenditure of much thought and time of turning out a very successful machine. Mr. Morgan, of Mint Director Preston's office, was greatly interested in the experiments, aud, upon witnessing the final successful test of the invention, he granted permission for its use in counting the great mass of silver dollars. The machine was put into regular operation yesterday, and when worked to its limit was easily able to dispose of two bags of coin, containing $2,000, in a minute. The machine consists of a hopper, into which the coins are dropped. A cog wheel, the teeth of which j resemble those of a circular saw, carries the I coins to tubes, and from there they are forced out upon a little table, containing twenty groves, each of which holds just 50 coins. A turn of the crank counts 1,000 coins, which . are immediately put into a bag, and a second j thousand follows before the expiration of the j minute. ? In spite of the veto of the Bland seigniorage bill, the seignorage in the treasury is j being coined says a Washington special to the Augusta Chronicle. The president said j at the time that a bill to that effect was not < necessary, but it was not thought then that j the coinage of the seigniorage would be con-! sidered obligatory. It has since been found ; that the seigniorage was needed, and the j treasurer has had to resort to its coinage. In j response to a resolution offered by Representative McCreary, of Arkansas, It. E. Preston, director of the mint, submitted a statement to congress of the amount of silver which had been coined during July. It amounted to $543,000. The gold coined during the same month was $892,500. Judge Maddox investi-1 gated this statement to find out if the silver i coined was taken from the seigniorage or from the purchased bullion, and the equivalent in treasury notes withdrawn from circulation. He found that no notes had been withdrawn and that the treasurer had begun the i coinage of the seigniorage. Mr. Preston says : that he expects ix million dollars in silver will be coined during'the month of August. The i oil trot, mon <iro over what tbpv reirard OA* TV* t**v.aa ?%? v v?mw.. w ? ?. ?. ?? j n , as a great victory, and that in spite of all, that has been said and done the coinage of the seignorage has been found to he necessary. ? The bank robber is still doing business in Oklahoma. Last Thursday, five men, dressed as cowboys, rode into the town of Chandler, j 40 miles from Guthrie. Arrived opposite the bank, the men dismounted. One man was left to hold the horses, and another was posted outside the door to act as guard, while the other three went in to attend toj business. The first robber shoved a Winchester into the face of the president, and | told him to shell out, while a second took charge of the cashier, and the third made the teller, who was lying in an adjoining, room, sick in bed, come forward to open the safe. The sick man tried to comply, but fell to the floor in a dead faint, and the robber snapped his Winchester at the poor man's head. The weapon, however, missed fire. About this time a barber gave the; t alarm on the outside. The guard at the j door shot the barber dead, and all five of the men mounted their horses and started to run away. The citizens turned out in large numbers and opened fire. One of the rob-1 bers was shot through the hips and captured. The others got away, after firing about oOO shots at the citizens. The wound-( ed robber, who was fatally hurt, gave the! names of his companions, but no more of [ them were captured. ? Speaking of the crusade of Ida Wells, the Negress, who has been lecturing in j England on the alleged outrages perpetrated against Negroes in the South, the Haiti more Sun says mat tne aosoiuie uuui auoui the matter is that it "was mainly, as Governor Northen, of Georgia, lias well said, a business enterprise, inspired by capitalists whose money is invested in the West, who view with well founded apprehension the' growing importance of the South and who fear that foreign emigrants and capital may be attracted to that section to the disadvau-1 tage of that in which they have placed their money. This is simply an old trick | played with the queen of spades instead of! the king?a trick which has been worn out j and is practically useless in the I'nited States, j but which, it was thought, might be made j to work among our unsophisticated English j friends. It is only just to the people of the West to say that they have no part in this I business crusade and have no sympathy J with it. They have a rich and wonderful territory, whose resources are still comparatively undeveloped, and they are too brave and honest to desire to have its attractiveness enhanced by deliberate falsehoods in regard to other sections. There are thousands of Southerners and descendants of" Southerners in the West, and they in common ' with all other Western people, will repudiate with contempt and disgust the attempt \ to besmirch the fair fame of one part of the j country in order to feather the nests of cap- > italists who are interested in Western in-1 vestments." ?he ?ovhviUc (Shujuim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1894. ? The house and Senate committee of conference on the tariff bill, has not yet been able to come to an agreement. There seems to be good reasons to believe, however, that before the close of the present week, the conferees will get together pretty nearly on the basis of the president's suggestions to Chairman Wilson. This will mean a slight duty on refined sugar, free iron, coal and wool. The income tax will be retained. ? Collis P. Huutiugton, the New York railroad millionaire, has just completed a $2,000,000 mansion, and now he is afraid to live in it. He commenced building his house about a dozen years ago. Since that time, he has taken up a notion that rich men only build new houses to die in, and lie believes that if he should move into his fine mansion, the first significant function within its walls would be his own funeral. Nothing can shake him from this superstition. He does not want to die yet, and is now offering his splendid structure at less than actual cost. ? On account of the press of local matters, we have been unable this week to devote much attention to the State campaign. The 1 principal incident of the Union meeting is j related elsewhere in this issue. The sensation at Spartanburg was a spat between Ellerbe and Gantt. Gantt has been abusing Ellerbe in The Headlight, and Ellerbe took him to tgsk. Gantt, who is an Evans-Wilson-Irby man, has a strong hold on the people of Spartanburg, and was sustained by the crowd. Ellerbe, however, is said to have made a good impression. There have heen no important developments at any of the other meetings. The campaign closes today at Abbeville. I ? ? ? On August 1st, Chairman Sligli issued a 3all for the Reform executive committee to meet in Columbia yesterday evening at S j'clock. - The object of the meeting, as j stated in the call, was to further consider the j question of changing the proposed Iteform j convention into a general primary, to be! participated in by all the people. As yet. ive have been unable to get any news from j the meeting; but, at the same time, we are j willing to risk as a prediction that the lie- j form convention has not been called off. Our principal reason for this prediction is the fact that while the voters nearly all over the State are in favor of a primary rather than a convention, the convention plan suits most of the leaders, including Governor Tillman, much better than the primary. ? In another column, Chairman Riggins, of the Reform Executive committee, publishes the number of delegates to which each voting precinct will be entitled in the county convention to be held next Monday, and extends an invitation to all Democrats to participate in the election on Saturday. The question of participation, whether by Reformer or Conservative, is altogether a matter of choice; but, under the circumstances, especially as they exist in this county, we fail to see auy reason why any Democrat should refuse to participate. To all intents and purposes, this Reform primary is just as open as will be the general primary, and 110 more binding. Then again, York's vote may possibly determine the question as to which of the four candidates will get the nomination. ? The tariff tax, under the McKinley law, j averages 49.IS per cent. To all intents and purposes, this means that with every purchase of $1 worth of goods, 50 cents is divided between the government and the pro lecieu lliamiiiuiui 1-1 . Hie mciu^ iu.i under the Wilson bill us it passed the house, was 3oA per cent; and under the Gorman bill as it passed the senate, a fraction over 38} per cent. If the Wilson bill should become a law, the taxpayers would be saved about 13} cents on each dollar hereafter expended ; and if the Gorman bill is passed, the saving will be 10} cents on the dollar. According to the present outlook, if any bill is passed at all, it will be a compromise between the senate and house bills, and tariff taxes will be reduced to the point where purchasers of protected goods will realize a saving of about 12 cents on each dollar expended. ? All the reports agree that Spartanburg county is overwhelmingly for Kvans. During the campaign meeting at Spartanburg last Wednesday, the crowd cheered Kvans with as much enthusiasm as they used to cheer Tillman. That is, they cheered him on every point but one : and that was when he told them to vote for the constitutional convention in November. It has been a noticeable fact that at no time since this question has been raised, has it been at all popular. Governor Tillman would not have touched the matter two years ago, had he not been forced to do so by Sheppard and (>rr. He had already sprung the issue squarely, however, and had to meet it. The people did not go back on him, because they no doubt considered that this was a matter that they could look after later. The issue is less popular now than it was two years ago, and, in our opinion, when the November election comes, it will be quietly buried to be heard of no more. And why not? Notwithstanding the disgust with which some of our politicians speak of one or two sections of the constitution, there is not a provision in that instrument which cannot be changed by amendment when desirable. Of course, many politicians are in favor of the proposed convention, because they see in it, if nothing else, a big political picnic. Thinking people, however, are apt to see in the proposition a rather expensive luxury, and many dangers which they arc right in thinking, had best be avoided. ? Commercial centers throughout the South, are just now bringing to bear all the pressure they can to induce congress to give aid in the completion of the Nicaraugua canal. The idea of the canal is to connect the Curribean sea with the Pacific ocean, and thus shorten the water route from New York and Liverpool to San Francisco and the east, by from 8,000 to 10,000 miles. The distance between New Orleans and San Francisco, by water would be shortened 0,392 miles. The cost of completing the canal is estimated at $80,000,000, and to raise this money, the promoters of the enterprise want congress to guarantee bonds to that amount. It is claimed that in round numbers not less than 8,000,000 tons of shipping would pass through the canal annually, and at per ton, the toll to be. charged, the annual revenues would he $ 1(5,000,000. Among the benefits expected, are a reduction of transportation charges on Western railroads, new markets for millions of dollars' worth of cotton, increase in the value of Southern lands, immense advantage to American shipowners and the ship owners of (treat Britain in nearness to the eastern markets, and a general trade revo1..1:? ii.? SU,,fr>? I II I IUII III WIU IllU'llVl III '.III. I III11M As yet. congress has been too busy with the tariir to pay much attention to the canal. The canal people, however, are still hopeful; but threaten that if the I'nited States does give the required assistance, they will at once try to secure the assistance of (treat Britain. The matter is well worth serious consideration, and the only two points to be carefully looked into are the practicality of the scheme, and the assurance that whatever money may be spent by this government will go toward building the canal rather than into the pocket of some big corporation. GOLD HILL PICNIC. Attendance Small, Speeches Short, Dinner l'lentifnl. The annual Cold Hill picnic, under the auspices of the Fort Mill Cornet band," came otriast Thursday as usual. This picnic is an established institution of many years standing, and is generally a neighborhood gathering of the first magnitude. For a number of years past it has been held in a grove near the residence of Mr. Sam, H. Epps ; but this year, for some reason, the location was chauged to a point opposite the residence of Mr. Sam Bailes, formerly the home of Major J. Wilson Marshall, about a mile up the road, and nearer the Catawba river. The attendance at the Gold Hill picnic, especially in campaign years, is often something like twelve or fifteen hundred people. This year, however, for some reason, the crowd was not so large. In the judgment of the representative of The Enquirer, the total number present, including possibly one hundred voters, scarcely aggregated four hundred. Hut in all other respects the occasion was fully up to specifications. The neighborhood has not lost one tithe of its reputation for wholesouled hospitality, its unusually large number of pretty girls, or its abundance of good things to eat. The special features of the occasion were music by the band and speeches by a number of candidates. The exercises commenced about 11 o'clock. Capt. C. T. Crook, of the Fort Mill band, acted as master of ceremonies, and the first speaker introduced was mr. t. u. c'uli', a candidate for the office of county supervisor. Mr. Culp was received with applnuse. He began by saying that he hardly knew what to talk about; but as there had been some talk lately about the public advertising, he would just talk a little about that. "While I was in office," Mr. Culp continued, "the legislature passed an act requiring the county commissioners to let out, to the lowest bidder, during the month of January, the public advertising of this county. It was provided that no paper could have the printing unless it had a bona fide circulation of not less than 400; and also provided that the county commissioners should have the right to reject any and all bids. "Well, now it has been charged that I violated this law and exercised partiality to another paper, because it had had the printing for 40 years. The first year The Enquirer and The Enterprise put in sealed bids. Thk Enquirer put in a bid to do it for one cent per square less than anybody else. That was the lowest bid, and we accepted it. The Enterprise took the matter to court; but the judge said it was a matter altogether for our discretion. The next year we tried to get rid of any more grumbling, and offered to let the printing to the lowest bidder at auction. Mr. W. I). Grist represented Thk Exquirkr, and Mr. J. It. Lindsay represented The Enterprise. Mr. Lindsay started the bidding at a big figure, and Mr. Grist bid lower. The bidding went on until 31 r. Lindsay offered $25 for the exclusive control of the advertising. 3Ir. Grist asked if we considered that a bid. We did not know what ho was going to do, nor we did not care. Under the law, in our opinion, we had no right to sell the exclusive control of the printing, and we decided that it was not a bid. Mr. Grist and Mr. Lindsay then left the room. I don't know what they said outside, or anything about that; but when they came back, Mr. Linsday offered to do the printing for $">25. Mr. Grist came down to $500, and Mr. Lindsay to $425, and Mr. Grist to $400. That was more than the printing was worth. Under the law, we had no right to pay it, and we rejected all bids. Afterward we tried it again. The Enquirer offered to do the jvork for lj cents a square, and The Enterprise offered something for exclusive control again. We awarded the printiug to The Enquirer, and that year it cost, as well as I remember, about $S. The next year, The Enquirer and The Enterprise hid the same thing; the rate prescribed by law. We rejected both bids, and I that year divided the advertising among the | different papers. We had a bridge to let out in Cherokee township, and advertised it in the paper at Hlacksburg. When the time came and we went to the appointed place, | there was nobody there. We came back to Yorkville and advertised the bridge in The Enquirer. The next time we got bidders. Thus was the county put to the expense of two trips and two advertisements, because, iu the first place, we failed to advertise in a paper that reached the people. | Now, the next year the printing was let ; out again the same way. The Enquirer and The Enterprise bid the same price?the rate prescribed by law?and there were no other bidders. There was nothing to be made by accepting either bid and we didn't do it. The advertising for that year cost about $S0Omaybe a little more and niaybo a little less, i There was some money paid out for job I work in the same bill.. Attempt has been i made to show up this expenditure in the j light of unnecessary extravagance. It has j also been said that Mr. Finley was responsible for it?that he influenced the board to spend this money unnecessarily; or still I worse, to give it away. Now it may have I been extravagance, and no doubt it was; j but Mr. Finley was not responsible, and neither was the hoard of county commissioners. Ordinarily the public advertising, as well as lean remember, cost from $250 to $300 a year. That year the legislature passed an act requiring the county auditor to j publish in the paper, for three weeks, the names 01 every pou tax payer iu uie couiuy. The price uf this publication was fixed by law at $1 per square for the first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. We had nothing whatever to do with the i matter except to pay the bill, which was about $.">00 ; or maybe a little over. The responsibility for this expenditure, whether j rij^ht or wrong, rests with the legislature. The bill requiring the poll list to be published was repealed at the next session of the legislature, and no such expenditure will : be necessary again. Now as to the charge that Mr. l'inley was responsible for anything the board did, either : as attorney or clerk, all 1 have to say is that it is not true. As is very clear, he is charged ! with things that did not happen ; and as for the things that did happen, we were responjsible for them ourselves. In conclusion, Mr. Culp said that he wanted to be supervisor for York county, lie thought he understood the duties of the office, and, if elected, he would attend to those duties. All he wanted in this primary was just half of the votes cast and one over. His talk throughout was listened to i with good humored interest, and when he , sat down there was some cheering. .lolIN I). I'OKNWKI.I. was introduced as the next speaker, lie was 1 received with applause, and commenced by | saying : "Mr. Culp is u nice, clever gentlc1 man. I supported him two years ago ; hut i this year I am going to boat him." [Laughter]. Mr. Corn well then went onto explain j the advertising question. Ho said that along in January, Mr. liriee had advertised tor bids in accordance with the law. The bidders were Till-: KxqriKKlt, The Yeoman, and his home paper, The Herald. The Yeoman and The Herald went into partnership. The bids were all the same, and some hn em her of* the hoard made a motion that they all be rejec ted. You see the bids were j the rates fixed by law. Any one of them j would he willing to do it for that, and so there was no use in awarding any contract. Now we can put the printing where we please at Yorkville, and in The Herald : and there used to he a little paper at lilacksI burg. What is it? | Voice: Just call them j astonishers. It don't make any difference], j .Mr. ('ornwell next called Mr. Culp on the stand, and wanted to know, "Say Mr. Culp, I i have voted for you live or six times. Now don't you think it is your time to vote fori me?" Continuing, Mr. Coruwell said liej was a Tillman man, and would he a regular j 1 Ben Tillman "if somebody would just punch j out one of my eyes, and put more brains in 1 my bead.'' Then turning to Mr. Culp again, j ' he asked : "How many votes are you going I to give me in this township ?" "1 have al-; ready told you : not many," replied Mr. Culp.' "Well now, I am going to have just 7.1 or] SO," said Mr. Corn well, as lie stepped down, and the crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy the good natured spat between himself and Mr. Culp. . SENATOR l'TNLKY. When Messrs. Culp and Cornwell vacated the stand, there were loud calls for Finley, land when that gentleman was introduced by i the chairman as a candidate for congress, he was received with enthusiastic applause, , which seemed to attest that lie still has I many friends in the neighborhood. After | referring to several former visits, Mr. Finley | paid a deserved compliment to Fort Mill j township as one of the most prosperous! j farming sections of the State, and then pro- j I eeeded to review his course in the legislature. Either in the house or senate, he had in- j troduced hills looking to the carrying out of j all his promises to the people. Most of these I promises had been enacted into law, and where they had not been enacted into law, he was not responsible.- lie had introduced a bill for the reorganization of the State University in acecordance with the platform of ! 185)0. This bill had become law. He had inj troduced a salary reduction bill and fought it through in the face of a great deal of oppoI sition. The bill docs not go into effect until j the end of this year; but that is through no fault of his, It effects a reduction of 20 per cent. Some bills had been passed which did not meet his approval. In the canvass of the county two years ago, he had promised the people to act according to their instruclirtiirtt* mirtufinn nonnlp. I liuno u.. !- 1? had voted for prohibition. The dispensary law was not prohibition, and he had opposed it as vigorously as he could. He had not only opposed the law because the people of the county, by their votes, had instructed him to do so; but, iu his judgment, it was unwise. He had also opposed the county government bill providing for the oflice of supervisor. He did not think the bill calculated to meet the necessary requirements. For one thing, it required men to serve without pay. There is an old saying that applies to this case : "Poor pay, poor preach ; and no pay, no preach at all." Mr. Fiuley then went on to discuss the many bad I and few good features of the bill, and J after giving in full his reasons for opposing it in the senate, took up the subject of national politics. He would much rather discuss this subject, he said, with Dr. Strait, his opponent. He was sorry that Dr. Strait, was absent; but did not consider that he had any apologies to make on that score. The doctor had spoken at Rock Hill when he, Fiuley, was away on urgent business; and, therefore, he did not consider that he was taking an unfair advantage. Senator Finley next proceeded to review the political history of the country, especially since the war, and showed clearly that the South and West had been drained in the interest of the Northeast, explained the pension steal, the demonetization of silver, the contraction of the currency, and the unjust discrmination in tariff taxation. The time is now near at hand, he thinks, when the people are ready to assert themselves against the abuses of years, and the voters of the South and West especially, need men who have the courage, the ability and the determination to make a long hard fight for justice. In conclusion, he showed that the Democratic tariff bill, though not what the | people want, is better than the McKinley I law, and especially defended the income tax i I feature of the new bill as in the right direc-1 j tion. Senator Fin ley was listened to tnrougnoui; his speech with careful attention. He made I a good impression, and when he sat down I was liberally applauded. DINNER. At the conclusion of Senator Finley's speech, a recess for dinner was announced, and collecting in groups of four or five, the ladies spread the contents of their baskets under the trees, while a committee of prominent gentlemen, previously appointed by the chairman, made it their business to see that all visitors had an invitation to the good things which seemed to be everywhere plentiful. A feature of the dinner was the famous (told Hill soup, as originally manufactured by Messrs. Bowman and Thomas Meritt, and now imitated with more or less perfection at almost every big picnic that takes place in the county. REPRESENTATIVE LOVE. After dinner, the band entertained the picnicers for about 15 minutes with some of its best selections, and then Chairman Crook j introduced Representative \V. M. Love. Mr. Love excused himself from making a speech. He said that he had beeu one of the county's representatives in the legislature for the past two years, and had attended to his duties the best he knew how. He would canvass the county soon with the other candidates, and would then gladly give an account of his stewardship. The people received him in a way to make him feel, so far j as they were concerned, perfectly at ease, s. H. EPP3 I was next introduced as a candidate for the 1 house of representatives. He said : "Ladies ! and gentlemen : "As I am right at home, I and you all know me, I do not consider it I worth while to take up any of your time |just now in making a speech. However, since I have become a candidate, I will say i to you that if you send me to represent you j in the legislature and I make any mistakes, | they will certainly be of the head and not of i the heart." The applause that Mr. Epps I received indicated that his home people bej lieved in him to a man. 4 A.owlwlntnu T^rncpllt 1 lit? UI11J I U UlilVl V/UIIUIUUH..J were Messrs. Sliurley and Cansler, both of whom are out for the office of school commissioner. Mr. Sliurley made only a few remarks, promising to appear before the voters at another time. Mr. Cansler spoke at j greater length, principally on the general I subject of education. Their speeches closed j the exercises. The remainder of the day was spent in pleasant, social intercourse, and ! the whole occasion, though not as important as many of its predecessors in point of attendance, in all other respects will be notched on j the record as well up to the high Cold Hill standard. w. l>. THEY WERE ROTH MAD. llutlcr anil Tillman Talk About Personal Satisfaction. Governor Tillman and Senator Butler came near having a personal row on Tuesday of last week. The lirst outbreak was at the campaign meeting in I'nion, and the trouble was renewed on a Pullman car between i I'nion and Spartanburg. The remote cause of the trouble was mutual ill feeling, and the immediate cause was a newspaper publication. It seems that on the day previous to the difficulty, The News and Courier contained j as a part of what purported to be Senator Butler's speech at Laurens, some insinuations which, in infect, charged Tillman with having failed to account for nearly $51,000, alleged to have been received by him as discounts and rebates from the whiskey trust. Tillman read the article to the crowd as a part of his speech, explained that Butler had not used any such language at Laurens, and, among other things, said that Butler was allowing his mouth to he used as a sewer J through which other people were squirting their tilth. Tillman went on to deny that there had been any fraud, and also said that Hit tier was a man who did not even pay his honest debts. When Butler's turn came, he commenced a heated reply. The crowd began howling, and Butler grew more angry. At length he said that he did not propose to wash any more linen in public, and notified Jtiovernor Tillman that if he wanted personal satisfaction he could get it any time, lie also said the same thing to the crowd indi' vidually and collectively. For a time, it looked as if there would be a riot; but, finally, the tumult subsided, only to be renewed between Butler and Tillman on the cars between Fnion and Spartanburg. Tillman was seated in a car talking to friends, (ieneral Butler, who had been lookJ ing for him since the train started, came up . and asked, in effect: "Did not Mr. Kohn explain to you that that statement was published in The News and Courier by mistake?" Coventor Tillman admitted that Mr. Kohn had explained something about the matter; but, at the samc'time, he was not sure whether Butler was responsible for the publication or not. With an oath. Butler called Tillman a liar, and said he was willing to give satis; faction in anyway that it might be desired. I "You are old and one-legged," said Tillman. "And you have only one eye," replied Butler. Tillman explained that his one eye did not impair his physical powers, and went on to tell Butler, "Blackguards have full sway in this State now. You are one of those who helped to enact the anti-duelling law in this; State 15 years ago, and a gentleman can no longer obtain satisfaction for an insult. You know I am not afraid." Butler insisted that Tillman could get satisfaction in anyway that might he mentioned, and continued with the statement, "You referred to my debts. I have heard that you have paid a $10,000 mortgage since you have been governor." I "And you know it is not so. It is a lie," re-1 plied Tillman. Then Butler said, "If you I want to fiirht sav so." "I don't want to J fight," replied Tillman. "Then refrain from i personal remarks about me," said Hutler.! Tillman replied that he was only defending ( himself. The quarrel continued for some little time, and was eventually stopped by 1 the intervention of the Pullman conductor,, who explained that he would loose his job if he allowed it to continue. During the quarreling Hutler is said to have been very much excited and used several oaths. Tillman was i perfectly cool, and did not do any swearing, i Ilutlcr left the car after the quarrel, and Tillman resumed his conversation with his friends. ? LKTTKR FROM GOLD HILL. Tlio Annual Picnic?(iooil Crops?Personal and Other Matters. Correspondence of the Yorkvlllc Knquirer. Gold Hill, August 0.?The annual (told Hill picnic came otl' last Thursday. It was a success, so far as good management and a pleasant time for those who attended is concerned. I will not go into details, as Thk Enquirer was represented. Not more than 400 people were present, and this was due to the fact that we failed to have "The York-: ville," as our people call The Enquirer, announce the picnic at the proper time. We j will try to let you know next year. Crops in this section tire looking fine, and | if nothing happens to them, we will have an | abundance of eatables for man and beast, i and also some cash ; as our crops, as a rule, have been made at less expense than ever before. The annual protracted meeting at Flint Hill church was commenced on Friday, and continued until yesterday, when services were, discontinued for the present, owing to the Fastor Hughes's physical inability to carry on the work or to secure expected help. The Gold Hill band will be on hand at the Alliance picnic at Tirzah, on the 8th and 9th, and it is quite likely that the "Cut Off" will 1 - 11 ne wen represemeu, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Blankenship and child, | of Atlanta, arc visiting relatives and friends! in this section. We are all pleased to see j them, as Mole and Mamie are especial favor- j ites with us. Miss Maggie Alexander is teaching school i at Gold Hill academy. She is getting along ! admirably considering the fact that there I are between HO and GO pupils. Rev. G. W. Gardner and family, of Jack-: son, Ga., are visiting relatives and friends in | this section, and are the guests of Mrs.! Gardner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Ken- j drick. Miss Ferrie Kendrick, who has been : visiting Mr. Gardner's family since last I spring, returned with them. Almost all the wheat aud oat stubble! land in this section has been sown in peas,; aud they are looking fine. Our people have j found out at last that peas pay as a land j improver, and as a cheap and valuable for- ! age. We cut the vines with a mower and j rake them with a horse-rake, thus reducing the expense to practically nothing, and next i year a goodly number of us expect to put in j the peas with the C'orbin disk harrow, thus making the whole process of sowing and j reaping a kind of recreation instead of hard I work, as it is by the old plan. We expect j to use the disk in sowing our wheat and j oats this fall. Mr. B. M. Faris has a fine vineyard, and j there is a fairly good crop of grapes on the i vines. He sold about 40 baskets in Char-1 lotte last week at 25 cents each. The baskets hold about four pounds.' I understand that the same grapes are retailed by the dealers at 20 cents a pound. HOCK HILL HAPPENINGS. The State Agricultural and Mechanical Society? Mexican Corn?Pcrxonul and Other Note*. Correspondence of the Yorkville Kiujuircr. Rock Hii.l, August g.?The meeting of the Stntn Afrrumltural and Mechanical society, which convened here Wednesday, though not so largely attended as it should have been, was interesting and instructive. The fanners of the neighborhood, I am sorry to say, did not attend as was expected. Dr. O. 1). Faust, of Bamberg, read a paper on pecan culture. Colonel Baxter Moore, of Charlotte, read a paper on the Mecklenburg I plan of working the roads ; and Dr. T. A. Crawford gave an account of the llock Hill method. Dr. Louis Freidheim read a paper on veterinary science. An important paper on the subject of experiment stations, written j by Mr. W. F. Massey, chief of the North j Carolina horticultural department, was read by Colonel W. It. Davie. The paper proI voked an interesting and profitable dicussion. Another interesting paper was that of Mr. ' J. (L Mohley, of Fairfield, on the subject of j stock-raising. After the reading and discusjsion of these papers, the association adi journed. I The corn known as the "Mexican," the seed of which was introduced into this section several years ago, is giving excellent satisfaction. We had a severe drougth in j this section during the most critical portion | of the growing season, and the corn stood it [ in a manner to justify all tlifc claims that j have been made for it. I The Normal school building has grown to I such a height that it can now be seen from j any portion of the town. I The Blackjack boys beat the Amateurs of ! this place in a match game of baseball last j Thursday. The score stood 21 to 13. Mr. A. F. Ruir and his daughter, Miss | Laura, returned home from their Northern ' trip last Friday. Miss Lindsay, of Chester, is visiting Mrs. | John McFhvee. Miss Mary Gardner and ' Miss Florence Wilson are the guests of Miss ! Arrah Belle Wilson. MERE MENTION. A mob broke into the convict stockade of i Mr. J. II. Jackson, of Davisboro, Ga., one day | last week, and released all of the convicts. J The mob is opposed to the leasing of convicts 1 to private parties. Kighteon United States i prisoners escaped from the Robeson county '* I .Iimlini-lrtii \" (' lilst. TlllllsdaV. 1)V IJilll C^.., ... v. , j crawling through a hole in a brick wall on ; the second lloor. It is thought that the ' prisoners lmd outside aid. Xone of them j have been recaptured. (I. W. White, a (Icorgia Populist, is trying to get the seat of Speaker Charles F. Crisp in congress. j Messrs. Kernan, Wright and Worthington, the commission appointed by the president j to investigate the Chicago strike, will meet tin Chicago next Wednesday, for the purpose oftaking testimony. Rev. John C. Kilgo, of Woflbrd college, has been elected president of Trinity college, near Durham, X. C. The Democrats of the Tenth j Georgia district have renominated Maj. J. j C. Black for congress. lie will probably be opposed by Thomas Watson. The I senate proposition to appropriate ?,100,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle in several of the Xorthwcstern States, has : been abandoned. General James l.ong; street now receives a pension of ?12 a month for services rendered in the .Mexican war, and Senator Walsh has introduced a bill providing for an increase of the pension to ?oO a month. FORT MIMTMATTKKS. 0 Flhli Fry at the WuiIihwh?Itace Between a Train and a Mule? Personal .Mention. ' Correspondence of the York vi lie Kiniuiror. Fokt Mil.i., August (!.?Dr. J. IT. Thornwell accompanied a party of young people on a pleasure excursion to the camping grounds at Dr. J. 10. Massey's, in the Waxhaws recently. The reports indicate an abundance of sport and a good time generally. The number of fish caught is fixed at 'about 700. There was, of course, a fish fry. An exciting race between a mule and | a train occurred last week. The mule ran i three miles and held his own beautifully nn till be fell into the bridge at Steel creek. Mr. T. <J. C'ulp lias been attending a reunion of his wife's people over in North Carolina. There were present .">'2 people. 1'rof. W. W. Dixon, of Vorkville, is in this neighborhood doing some good work for the i Baptist High school. ! KCV. -J. \\ . liuniiH'n is eanyinj; uu u i meeting at Philadelphia. The (iol.l Hill hand is to furnish the music? for the County Alliance campmcctin*; at Tirzah, Wednesday and Thursday. LOCAL AFFAIRS, H IXDPX TO XIOW A I) VKIITISKMKXTS. I. 1$. Paris, of Bethel?Is ready to attend to calls for land surveying. * 0 John J. Hunter? lias received another lot of first t quality goods which lie wants you to call and examine. ! I H. ('. Strauss?Has availed himself of the oiler ]( of a drummer to sell him goods at the cost of manufacture. He has the goods in his ; ' store and wants you to call and Imy them. 1 Dowry A Starr? Buggy and wagon paint, butter . coloring, physicians' appliances and pro-1 ' scription goods. ^ S. T. Frew iVr Co.,of Hock Hill?Are offering a . . complete set of new quarter-sawed antique ; ' oak furniture for $27.5(1, consisting of one | ? cheval dresser with Herman bevel glass! lSx.'WJ inches, one bedstead, one washstand, j one center table, one rocker, four chairs, y one towel rack and one spring bed ami i . mattress. Also a convenient towel rack for i * 25 cents. u T. M. Dobson A* Co.?Are receiving new prints,! new tickings, new jeans, shoes, tinware ami : r other goods every week. They are agents 1 s for the Hutterick patterns anil have a full stock on hand, and arc giving away fash- 8 ion sheets. Call or send and get one. c Ionian Hrothers?Are now exhibiting their first shipment of Derby and Alpine hats for the c fall trade. |] J. II. Hiildle?Tolls you of the advance in sugar, . and wants you to see him about shingles. 1 J. S. Rricc, Chairman?Hives notice that the r Democratic primary election will be held on Tuesday, August is, 1891. R. T. Riggins, Chairman?Publishes.the appor- h tionmcnt of delegates to the County Reform convention. r J. S. It rice, Chairman?Hives notice of the times t ami places at which the county candidates . will be afforded an opportunity of making 1 speeches. t RAILROAD FARM NHS FOR MAY. " (> The railroad commissioner has issued a Q statement showing the earnings of the various railroads in the State for the month of May, 1S94, as compared with the same month in 1893. The earnings of the various ^ roads in this section were as follows: Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line railway, <> 1803 418 a on 71 1.804 S47n.tr. 07 r lie. :l 1UWUI "VJ """ w > '1 "-'7 7 J crease, $10,954.68; per cent., 4(3.04. Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago, ISM, $10,524.21; 1894, $12,301.(30: increase, $1,507.45 ; per cent., 14.32. t Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, 1S93, r $48,491.93; 1894, $44,802.07; decrease, $3,- j 089.20 ; per cent., 7.01. j, Chester and Lenoir, 1S93, $2,040.75; 1894, $ 1,920.27 ; decrease, $ 120.48 ; per cent., e 5.9. Georgia, Carolina and Northern, 1893, ]' $34,208.34 ; 1894, $42,442.48; increase, $8,- Ji 174.14 ; per cent 23.85. " Cheraw and Chester, 1893, $1,101.03; 1894, $1,227.48; increase, $120.45; per c cent., 11.48. f| ? i . CHURCH NOTICES. j1 Union services at the Baptist church on Sunday evening at 8.30 o'clock. j1 Episcopal?Lay service on next Sunday at t 10.30 a. m. Sunday-school in the afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. c Presbyterian?Rev. W. G. Neville, pastor. { Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. Prayermeeting tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock. * Associate Reformed Presbyterian?York- t villk?Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. t Prayer-meeting this evening at 8.15. Tin- j zah?Installation services on next Friday at | 11 o'clock, a. m. Services on Saturday a morning at 11 o'clock, and communion ser- 1 vices on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. , Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor, t Yorkville?Sunday-school at 5 p. m. f Services next Sunday morning at 10.30, c and evening at 8.15. Union?Services each <! morning at 11 and evening at 8.15 during c the remainder of the week. t Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. t Weber, pastor. A protracted meeting will r be begun at this church this evening at .8.15 s o'clock, and will continue for an indefinite ^ period. The services are to be conducted by 6 the pastor and Rev. It. A. Childs, of Chester. H Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. s DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. \ The York Coutity Democratic convention a met in the court house last Monday morning, t J pursuant to the regularly advertised official e call, and at 11 o'clock, was duly called to J order by J. S. Price, chairman of the execuj s tive committee. Temporary organization ! was effected by the election of Major A. H. <: White, of Rock Hill, as chairman, and Mr. t J. F. Ashe, of McConnellsville, as secretary, t Upon motion, the chairman appointed a ' committee on credentials, consisting of one n member from each precinct, suggested by the j respective delegations as follows: W. II. t Moore, Antioch ; D. I). Gaston, Blacksburg; k J. II. Saye, Sharon ; J. T. Quinn, Bethany; < J. Lec Burnett, Bethel; R. E. Porter, Buffa- j lo; J. M. Sims, Bullock's Creek ; R. W. < Whitesides, Clark's Fork ; A.Stewart, Clay J Hill; (}. I). Corn well, Coates's Tavern; W. > J. Davis, Clover; Fred Niins, Fort Mill; J. j Ed. Leech, Hickory Grove; P. E. Moore, I McConnellsville; T. R. Carol hers, Newport ; j T. C'. Beckham, Rock Hill; D. C. Boyd, Thompson's Mill; J. W. Neil, Yorkville. j The committee retired, elected R. E. Por- t ter chairman, and T. R. Carothers secretary, ] j and after a canvass of the lists presented by < the chairmen of the respective delegations, j reported the representations of the various i precinct clubs as follows : j Antioch?S. E. McFadden, W. II. Moore, j T. W. Scoggins, I). L. Black, J. I). Percival. j Blacksburg?F. 11. Dover, W. II. Carroll, i I W. J. McOill, J. D. Kennedy, D. D. Gaston, | It. S. Maddox, IF. Martin, E. R. Sapoch, < I C. B. Byers, J. W. Thomson, R. J. Starnes, J ( R. G. Parker, Albert Whisonant. Blairsville?J. B. Ross, .1. W. H. Good, j j Lee Robinson, J. A. Moloney, Win. Lucas, ] ' Wm. Ross, J. H. Saye, S. A. Mitchell. Bethany?. I no. M. Thomusson, R. C. Cav| eny, J. T. Quinn, W. A. Bowen, S. L. Pursley, J j Felix Quinn. Bethel?J. Lee Burnett, Robert Burnett, J. J : W. Jackson. H. E. Johnson, R. J. Biggins, J. i W. Burnett. . Buffalo?R. E. Porter. '? Bullock's Creek?W. E. Good, J. 31. Sims, ] J. Ii. Feemster. Clark's Fork?R. M. W ullaee, R. b. | Whitesides. < Clay Hill?J. W. Simril, A. Stewart. Coates's Tavern?T. W.Boyd, J. D. Corn- j well. r l! Clover?J. Q. Howe, W. T. Jackson, \\. , J. Davis, J. T. Beamguurd, W.I. Prison, < I T A I' 1 m.n T V . Fort Mill?S. ][. Kpps, Fred Xims, J. I.. Kitnbrell, W. If. Crook, W. Mo. Culp, It. G. Graham, W. IF. Windle, W. T. Royd, S. L. Garrison, David Lindsay, j Hickory Grove?J. 31. Caldwell. J. E.! j Leech, John Ramsey, J. T. Summerford, W. j i M. Whitesides, R. H. Westmoreland, H. It.! j Xeal, J. M. Whitesides, J. 3Ieek Whitesides,' It. G. Whitesides. : McConnellsville?A. W. Gladden, I\ E. j | Moore, J. F. Ashe, G. L. Sanders, J. C. | Ashe, I'. 31. Rurris. : Newport?W. R. Allison, W. W. Miller, T. K. Carolhers. I I Rock Hill?A. H. White, A.J. Thompson, j i J. J. Waters, T. C. Reckham, Iredell Jones, ! John Gelzor, W. C. Wherry, W. 31. Thorn- j asson, V. R. MeFadden, A. R. Fewell, J. W. ' Marshal I, William Cowan, J. II. Steele, T. ; A. 3HUII1GWS, >\. i. fiiugis. j Thompson's Mill?I). Hoyd, A. L. j j Thompson. ! i ! Yorkville?I). M. Jfall, J. W. Neil, W. T. j McClain, J. If. Kiddle, S. M. MeXeel, J. H. . Smith, (J. If. O'Deary, C. M. Carroll, K. A.I J I Crawford, J. S. Krice, W. T. Harron, II. M.! i j Sherrer, M. S. Carroll, W.J. Jones, J. I**. IJ (iettys, C. If. Samlifer, f. If. Cordon, 1). C. j I | Clark, Win. Dixon, Jos. A. Smith. K. L. j j Wilkerson. |< The report of the committee on ereden- : J i tials was adopted without opposition, and , i on motion of Mr. Krice, the temporary or-1 ^ igani/.ation was made permanent, and Mr. I. n Ik Cordon was elected as treasurer. j ? Mr. Iredell Jones offered a resolution to > the elleet that the chair appoint a committee, consisting of one member from each e i precinct, to revise the constitution. He ex-1 j] j plained that the county constitution, as it | v I then stood, was not in accordance with the 11 itate constitution ; and, therefore, certain j bailees were necessary. The resolution was econded by Mr. J. S. Hrice, and upon a call f the roll oflhe precincts, the various delega- \ ions nominated their respective representaives on the committee on revision as (blows: II. 10. McFadden, J. W. Thomson, j Vin. ltoss, J. M. Thomasson, J. \V. Jackson, {. 10. Porter. J. M. Sims, R. \V. Whitesides, | nines Stewart, T. \V. lioyd, W. T. Jackson, V. U. Crook, J. 10(1. Leech, P. 10. Moore, V. ]>. Allison. Iredell Jones, I). T. Hoyd, J. 1. Price. Pending the report of the committee on evision of the constitution, the convention ook a recess until 1.150 o'clock p. in., and ipon reconvening, took up the matter of ecognizing the new precinct clubs ofTirzah, <haron and Forest Hill. Mr. W. T. Jack on explained that the last legislature Had rented these new precincts. The Dernoratic constitution provides that clubs shall uive representation in the county convenion on the basis of the vote cast in the irevious primary election. These new prcincts have never had a vote upon which to mse their representation, and can have 110 eprcscntation until they have a vote. Now, he only way to get them into the convenion is to allow them to hold a primary at j heir election precincts. This they could j iot do without the endorsement of the ounty convention, and he thought that the ounty convention should give them that ndorsement. The following resolution, based 011 Mr. ack son's explanation and ollered by Mr. J. . Waters, was adopted unanimously : lb-solved, That hereafter this convention ree- , gnize Tir/ali, Sharon and forest llill academy j s primary election precincts, and that exectiive committeemen be elected for these pre- i inets at this meeting. Till: KKVISK1) CONSTITUTION. The committee 011 revision o( the constiution. through its chairman, Iredell Jones, nade its report, which was read by Messrs. . S. lirice and Thompson Jackson, as folows: Article 1. There shall be one or more Demoratie clubs organized in each township election irecinet, each of which shall have a distinct title, The Democratic club," and shall electa resident, one or more vice presidents, a recordng and a corresponding secretary, and atreasurr, and shall have the following working comIouj tliim tlii-nn nioinliPiN each iz.: A committee on registration, an executive onnnittee, and such other committees jus to each lub may seem expedient. Art. 2. The meetings of the clubs shall lie fre[uent alter the opening of the canvass, and some ! Member of the club, or invited speaker, shalll ielivcr an address at each meeting, if praetica- | >le. Art. 3. The president shall have power to call n extra meeting of the club, and one-fourth of | he members shall constitute a quorum for the ransaction of business. Art. 4. The clubs of each township shall be! leld together and operate under the control of a ounty executive committee, which shall consist if one member from each club, to be nominated >y the respective clubs and elected by thgeounty (invention, and such other members as thecon cntion may add ; but these powers to the said ixecutive committee, do not carry with them he power to pass upon the election of metn>ers to the county conventiohs, or their qualtication to sit as members, for this power beongsto the members of the convention, through he apiiointmcnt and action of a committee on redcntials, whose report shall be acted upon ?s to the members ol a committee may seem >roper. Tho executive committee, when electid, shall appoint its own oUlcers, who shall not iccessarily bo members of said committee, ami ill all vacancies which may ariso when the con ontion is not in session. Provided, that any iflicer, so elected, who is not a member of said onnnittee, shall not bo entitled to vote on any [uestion, except the chairman, and then only in ase of a tie vote. The tenure of office of the ixecutive committee, shall be until the lirst donday in August of each election year, at which imc a county convention shall be called together o re-organize the party, unless sooner removed r suspended by the county convention. Every residential election year the county convention hall be called by the executive committee to neet in May, for the purposo of electing delerates to the State convention which elects delerates to the National Democratic convention. Art. 5. The county Democratic convention hall be composed of delegates elected by the everal local clubs; one delegate for every 2.1 nembers, and one delegate tor a majority fracion thereof, with the right to the county conrention to enlarge or diminish tho representation .ccording to circumstances. The county conveuion shall bo called together by the chairman of he executive committee, under such rules and onditions as the convention may adopt, and, vhon assembled, the convention snail be called o order by the said chairman, and the convention ball proceed to nominate and elect from among ts members, a president, one or more vice residents, and a secretary and treasurer. The lubs recognized by the county convention at its ast meeting, shall continue to be recognized as he clubs from which delegations to the next lounty convention shall be sent; and no others, mless by a majority vote of any convention to vhich application is made for the formation of in additional club, a new club is formed, and in rganizing said club, they may have representaion in the county convention as said convenion shall declare, in accordance with the provisions of this constitution. Art. (>. No member of the county executive onnnittee shall be eligible as a candidate for lomination to any county or legislative office by jriniarv election. A majority of the executive onnnittee proper, shall constitute a quorum for lie transaction of business. The chairman, or my live members of the executive committee, shall have power to call said committee together, md the chairman shall have power to call said oinmitteetogether; and the chairman shall also lave power to call a county convention, whenever a majority of said committee shall request he same. Art. 7. No delegate shall be entitled to a seat n any county convention until he shall have submitted credentials, signed by tho presiding jllicer and secretary of the club that he proposes to represent. A majority of the entire number of members authorized to constitute a convention, shall constitute a quorum. Art. S. Nominations for all county offices, and for representatives in the general assembly [senate and house) and for delegates to the State nominating convention, suuu ue u.> j-n. election, to be held oil the lust Tuesday in August of ejich election year; the delegates and all nther candidates elected to receive a majority of the votes cast. At this election only white Deni;>erats shall be allowed to vote, except that Negroes who voted for General Hampton in 187?>, and who have voted the Democratic ticket continuously since, may be allowed to vote. The club rolls ot the party shall constitute the registry list, and shall be open to inspection by any member of the party; and the election under this clause shall lie held and regulated under the net of the general assembly of this State, approved December ?1, 1888, and any subsequent ids of the legislature of this State. Second primaries, when necessary, shall be held two weeks later. The said primary elections shall lie regulated by rules prescribed by the executive committee. Art. H. before any person shall be declared elected by a count}* convention, as a delegate to nny other convention, it shall be necessary for said person to receive a majority of the cotes, by ballot, of all members present and constituting said convention; provided, that in all cases where there is only one nomination for i delegate, or set of delegates, said election may lie taken by acclamation. Art. 10. Delegates to the county convention from the various clubs shall be elected by ballot, it a primary election to lie held at each club poll in a da} fixed, and between hours prescribed by lie county executive committee. At this elecion, all persons known to be Democrats shall te entitled to vote, who will be entitled to vote h the next general State election. The requisite number nf persons voted for as delegates, receiving a plurality of the votes cast, shall be lectured the delegates, and the requisite nuiuier of .persons voted for as alternates, receiving he plurality of the votes cast, shall be declared ilternatos. The credentials of each club ilelegaion shall show who was elected principal and vho was elected alternate of each principal delegate, and on the meeting of the county eonveniou, each club delegation shall lie authorized to ill all vacancies in their delegation from any nullified Democratic votersofsuch club precinct, finch member of the executive committee, or in lis absence each president or vice-president of he respective clubs, shall appoint, in writing, j liree managers of election for his club poll, and he appointment, with a certificate of the manafersas to the persons elected, shall lie forwarded j 0 the secretary of the Democratic committee ifler the election. Art.il. It shall be the duty of the county executive committee to appoint meetings in the I espective precincts, to be addressed by candi-1 bites for the general assembly and the different ] ounty ollices. Art. 12. This constitution shall be binding on he Democracy of York county, and may be intended by any county convention by a vote of j 1 majority ol the delegates present and voting, j rpou motion, the report of the committee i >u revision of the constitution was adopted j inauimously. I'pon motion, the executive committee-j lien nominated by tlie respective precinct: lubs, were confirmed and elected as follows : NKW KXKCCTIVK COMMITTKK. Vntioeli, It. D. Sealey. ilucksburg, I. W. Thomson. I Slairsvillc 'I'. A. (Jwinii. | tethany I. JO. Whitesides. tethel,' I>. <?. Stanton, j tuHalo, W. 11. Camp. I hillock's ('reek, I. M. Sims. ' 'lark's Fork It. M. Wallace.! 'oates's Tavern, '1'. W. Itoyd.! 'lover W. T. Jackson, j 'orest llill Acndcinv, K. W. Lowtliian. j 'ort Mill .'. W. II. Crook, j lickory (irove I. '1'. Suintiiorford. JeConnellsville, P. M. Harris. | Newport, W. W. Miller. | ,'irzali I. I?. Itarrou. lock llill, I. J. Waters. Hiaron |>r. .J. II. Saye. j forkville, I. S. Hrice. The revision of the constitution and the lection of a new executive committee, as retorted above, concluded the business for rhich the convention was especially called, loth matters were settled without friction, but when Mr. Iredell Jones introduced a resolution aimed at the proposed KKF()RM CONVKXTIOX, there was a decided hitch. Mr. Jones's reso1 ution was as follows : Resolved, That public opinion in the county of York is opposed to the convention to be held on the Kith instant; that it threatens the disruption of the Democratic party, and ought to be "called oil'." Mr. Jones commenced speaking to the resolution, and the chair called attention to the fact that it had no second. Major T. ('. Beckham became its second, and Mr. Jones resumed his remarks. Mr. \\\ \V. Miller arose to a point of order. "This is a Democratic convention," he said, "and what the Reformers do, is none of its business. Let tbe convention leave this matter alone and the Reformers can settle it in their own way to suit themselves." Mr. Jones maintained that the matter was of vital interest to the Democratic party. The chair sustained him with the ruling that "anything that is of vital interest to the Democratic party is a proper subject for consideration by this convention." Mv. Jones went on with his remarks. Among other things he said : "My only motive in introducing this resolution is in order that we may have peace and to keep us together. We have before us in the very near future, some very grave questions. For one thing, we are confronted with tbe question of a constitutional convention ; and again there is the question as to what we are going to do with the liquor business. That is in a shape far from satisfactory, and in the settlement of both of these questions, our best interest requires that we work in tbe utmost harmony. There are four men running for the oflice of governor. They are all of the same faction. Xow would it not strengthen, rather than weaken, the Reform party, to allow all Democrats the choice between these men ? Take it t l ..1.rpi?... ... P.- AAA I UU lUhl I'ltTUUIl, X 11 CI 17 UCIU > UICO for Tillman, and 35,000 for Sheppard. There are four candidates. The one who gets the nomination will not receive more than 30,000 votes, or probably not nearly so many. Now how can you ask the other 50,000 who did not'Vote for this man, to sustain him in the general election. I recognize the advantages of the convention plan over the primary plan; but in the interest of continued harmony, I was one of those to work for the introduction of the primary in this county. It is provided for in this constitution that has just heen adopted, and if you will stand by that constitution and give us a primary, as for myself, I promise that whoever may be nominated I will stand by the Democracy of York. I think this is not only the best thing for the whole Democratic party ; hut | also for the Reform faction of it. I say this | in the kindliest spirit, and if there is any objection to this matter, I would like to hear it discussed in the same spirit. Whatever the convention does, I will be satisfied; and if the resolution is voted down, I will be myself the same as now. That is all." Mr. J. S. Brice heartily endorsed Mr. Jones's resolution, and also his patriotic sentiments. He thought the consideration of * the matter by the convention was perfectly proper, and he was satisfied that most of the candidates themselves, save possibly one, would prefer to have the convention called off. Mr. J. J. Waters was also in favor of the resolution. "The resolution," he said, "simply embodied an expression of opinion. If the convention did not approve of it, it could vote it down, and that would be the end of it. If the convention should be called ofT, i then all the candidates would simply go in| to the general primary, and be subject to the j choice of the whole Democratic party of the State. They were all good Reformers, and whichever one should happen to be the choice of the Democratic party in the State, should be governor." Mr. J. W. Neil: "It seems to me that all. of this is out of order. We met here in April and elected a committeeman to represent us in Columbia. The convention in Columbia has carried out our instructions and provided for a special Reform conven- tion. The matter is now out of our hands, | and is with the committee. That committee meets tomorrow night, to take some further action, and whatever action it takes, we should abide by. I move to lay the resolution on the table." Dr. T. R. Oarothers endorsed the sentiments of Mr. Neil and seconded the motion to table. The chair put the question to a I viva voce vote, ami ruled that the motion to ! table was carried. A division was called i for, and J be result showed 70 votes in. favor I of the motion to table, and 12 against, j There being no further business, the convention adjourned sine die. DECLINED TOTAKK ACTION. A special Reform massmectiug was held in j the court house last Monday afternoon, just after the adjournment of the regular Demoicratic convention, to consider action in regard to the proposed Reform primary and ] suggesting convention. Dr. T. R. C'arothers was called to the chair, Mr. W. II. Moore ! was elected secetary, afwl Mr. W. W. Miller ' explained the object of the meeting. In effect he said: "The matter of action in regard to the proposed Reform primary, came up in the reg| ular Democratic convention. The DemoI cratie convention has nothing to do with the matter. It is purely a question fur the Reformers to settle among themselves, and this mass meeting has been called to decide it." After this explanation, Mr. Miller introduced, without prejudice, the following preamble and resolution, which were seconded by Mr. John I). Corn well: Whereas none but Reformers have offered for I the various State offices; and whereas the Farmers' movement platform of 1S90 declares for the principle of a general primary; and whereas, under existing conditions, our selection of Reform candidates within our own faction, to the exclusion of other Democrats, is calculated to create still further dissension within the party, therefore, in the interest of Democratic harmony, be it * Resolved, That we, representative Reformers of York county, in nuissmecting assembled, I hereby express it as our opinion that the State : Reform executive committee should be request! ed to do away with the special Reform primary, I called for August 11, and leave the nomination of State ofliccrs to the regular Democratic priI luary, to bo held August 2S. | Capt. W. II. Edwards spoke in favor of ! the resolution. "Everybody knew where he ^ stood," he said. "He was a Reformer. He I did not care so much about dissatisfaction 'outside of the Reform party. Those who are dissatisfied had the opportunity to put up candidates if they desired. What troubled him was dissension in the Reform ranks. In this Reform convention the people have not gotten what they voted for, and any intelligent reader of the papers can see that the Reformers all over the State are dissatisfied. It did not matter to him which way the matter was settled ; but just now there is a very heavy responsibility on the Reform executive committee, and injustice to that committee, it was, in his opinion, the duty of the Reformers of this county to give t some expression as to their desires." Mr. J. W. Neil took the position that he was a Reformer ; that this proposed covention was the work of Reformers, and whatever the Reform committee did, the party should stand by it. So far as the Conservatives are concerned, he cared nothing about them. If they wanted to appeal to the Negro, let them do it; and if they could outvote the Reformers, why let them do that. Ho was for sticking square by the Reform party, mi* irmit ill*iv ?im1 wnc ttnf 'in mnb iiwv ">""v " ""v """ """" "" any concessions to anybody.'' His remarks provoked enthusiastic applause. Mr. \V. W. Miller observed that this He- * form convention would bind the candidates, " hut would not bind the people. The only way that the people could be bound, was to allow them to vote in the general primary. The discussion was ended with a motion by Mr. J. K. Witherspoon, to table the reso*