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s ■JF- .. -ZJy r <r j aikex s. c., Tuesday, jcne 15, isse.' ^7 ^ TT “ v ■ y #r J H . . vSfeM- r * "IrL 1 • VOLUME 5.—^NUMBER 35. - ■ . V : . S’ •• in XaTarleaton ar thia morning, and Ljnity shares fn the i afflicted families in >ur of their grief. Rix (uirled into eternity lent’s warning, and I, bruised and wound- lluto the sum of the m the Northeastern ly afternoon. Ibe accident will be future Inquiry. At sms to know dcilnite- his fearful calamity, left Charleston short- lied the usual uum- bound northward, We of the brightest bf the youug people Imp was readied on l* down train due in o’clock was met. It crossed the long Jon the south of the led over it without liniuutes later the its doomed freight, land in another in* >f death had b^en Ws of tm?"“f?arfiil accident was not received in 'the city until Shout 4 o’clock, when a relief train bearing Dr. J. L. Ancrum and Assis- sictant Superintendent Royal, of the Northeastern Railroad? was dispatch ed to the scene of the accident. Ten minutes after midnight the funeral train rolled Into the depot with its burden of dead and wounded, and ^vFng hand* tenderly lifted these mangled forms and bore them to their desolated and grief-strioken homes. The following is the list of casualties: KILLEIX John L. Cole, of Charleston, il n $ive of Virginia Dr. O. G. Klnloch, of Char*nn dest son of Dr. R. A. Kinlec Mias C. E. MeWhite, of Mari William H. Inglcsby, .fCharl<mou, widest son of Charles Miss ]"lora vt'i^.'ylmrleston. Miss WiIson r jf Cheraw. WOUNDED. ek, of Chuleston, con«. 1 S\ uslv. f r . Renneker, of Charleston, ;nt, seriously. I - Ilusland, of Charleston, n master, seriously Jtiirgess, colored, wood Passer, o . newa 4 g G11 t 0 f Jame“ Go{ tIy hfcairlcston.a^udigr^ p as8 enger, of tUiRn ;Jy. > MeWhite, passenger, LM *htJy. fies, passenger, of L,ynch- imfully but not danger- snry, colored, passenger, t, express^jweSS'enger, of Jsly. I express messenger, of fnortaRyr- )’o? id, porter of Pull- jusly. kt, colored, passenger, of seriously. ,:we OF THE ACCIDENT. ;?NS, June 7.—The North ,lger train No. 43 on the '» Jtailroad met w ith a ter- nt at 2.22 this evening crossing the Santee River oint two and a half miles lice. The trestle suddenly Hand the train, with the the engine and the last d. mged headlong into the The scene ^hat follow- leacription. Honrs were Extricating the dead and >unded from the wreck. The cause of the accident is partly scribed td the recent freshet, which ias materially injured the trestle, the ilgh water thus far having precluded a thorough examination of the same. THE NEWS IN THE CITY. Information of the disaster was Irst received lu tlie city about 4 •clock. The President of the North eastern Railroad, Mr. A. F. Ravenel, pas in his office receiving dispatches, rhich were read from time to time to ke rapidly im/casTn^eroTTOT^Rteps eretakemfo oi the' deceased as soon as £utheL t j c information was received, wbicl^ was no f until about 8 o’clock, w h«n| neWsJ caiue that the dead and wounh e( j lmt j i, eeu removed to the re- Kefr -(*(1 that that train was ullman car, the last the track. described as being molished, some of them iescoped. The accident abou\ three-quarters of a mile of the&mtee River, and there was from five to siVfcet of water un der the trestle. A WRECK ON THE CENTRAL. ROAD ready once t<, sued >vait f< The bodies tenderl ing as t vehicle to start. Order? were sent at start the train and then en- loug, dreary and mournful r its arrival. rain having arrived at Charles- umber of ladies and children raculously escaped uninjured ne out of the cars. Then the if the slain were carefully and y removed, the crowd uncover- hey M'ere borne to the waiting on the shoulders of friends, put and aft s ( and fin; ^jy WO unded were taken sent to their respective homes, Inch the crowd slowly and !orro' wt ' illy dispersed. THE WRECK. no one knows for a certainty e accident occurred, it posed that sqmething must lave -given way under the tender hr front car, causing it to fall pver on the side and carrying the trestle and train with it. The break is about|wo nvleV r * v ' m thc beginning and includes four cs, each ten feet in leghth. Tile .‘ell one on tup of*the other, the ,• going down first, then the mail illowed by the baggage car, the and first-class passengerconeh- The Horrible Work of an Unknown Fiend—A Terrible Story of Suffer ing and Death. A few hours after the accident on the Northeastern Railroad a fajal ac cident occurred at Rogers,a station on the GeorgiaCentral Railroad, 85 miles west of Savannah. The night express train was thrown from tbe track by obstructions placed upon it purposely, and the engineer badly injured and the fireman killed. The circumstances were horrible to relate. The engineer was thrown fn*m his cab, underneath the tender, where he was found buried in the sand and held down under an iron bar. The tender telescoped the cab, crushing the fireman against the boiler. The lever was thrown forward and penetrated his body, cutting him almost In two. Both the engineer and fireman were held fast under the wreck. The engineer lay under the tender. One leg was fast under an iron rod. The fireman was crushed against the boiler. ONE FOOT CUT OFF, One foot was cut ofT, and his body below bis chest was almost split in two by the iron lever. Neither of the two could be released until help ar* rived. It was two hours after the accident occurred before help arrived. Every thing was done to release the impris oned engineer, but uutil help came very little could be accomplished. As soon as the rescue train reached the wreck the work of cutting away the express car began. The engineer s lying on his side with one foot d against the^ot ,boiler. The cooked to the bene and al^- most ready to drop in pwces. A heavy iron rod lay across his right leg. Until this was cut away nothing could be done. Suffering wittfpairi, role engineer held the chisel against the rod until it was cut in two. BEGGING TO BE KILLED. The groans of the fireman were heard from the rear sleeper. As he lay pinioned against the hot boiler with the bar of iron crushed through his body, he begged to bo killed, “For God’s sake kill me. Kill me and put me out of this misery,” he cried. “I can’t live.” He uid not lose con sciousness for a moment. As soon as the doetdr arrived chloroform was ad ministered, but its effect was only temporary. As soon as he recovered from its influence he begged again to be killed. The men were at work all the time pulling away the wreck, A few minutes before lie was released Maddox turned to one whom he knew and said; “It can’t last much longer, old hoy. I’m-about done.” He was a^tin put under the influence of chloroform, but revived just before the heavy lever which held him was pulled away. FOUR HOURS OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING It was nearly four hours before he was released. When at last he could be got at and was lifted away from the boiler he fell back dead. The terrible agony he suffered during the time that he lay crushed under the heavy weight showed an iron nerve. It was a miracle the doctor said, how he lived so long. THE CAUSE OF THE WRECK. An examination of the track where the wreck occurred revealed one of the most carefully and successfully planned jobs of train wrecking that has ever been known, A block of hard wood was found wedged in the “frog” of the switch, between the rails and even with the top, so that it would not be seen. It \^is placed so that the flange of the engine wheels, when they struck it, could not drive it out but wmuld wedge it In tighter. The switch is just beyond the curve, and the track can be seen by the engineer but a short distance ahead. Glanders Among Horses and the Department Taking Action, Augusta Chronicle. Columbia, S. C., June9.—Informa tion having been received by the De partment of Agriculture that horses of Yprk county had been seriously effected by a disease known as glan ders, the Commissioner of Agrifcul-. tore to-day dispatcher Dr. Brigham Mclnnes, of Charleston, a veterinary surgeon, to the section where the dis ease is said to exist, with full instruc tions to examine all stock and tele graph a full report on the result of his investigations. The Rtate Board of Agriculture has authority, under the law, to kill all diseased stock, to pre vent (he spread of infectious diseases, and this action will be taken if it is necessary, in the opinion of the veterh narian. Richland. Home Rule Defeated. In the British house of commons on Monday in (he division on the second reading of the home rule bill the gov ernment was beaten by a majority of thirty. The vote w r as 311 for the measure, and 341 against it. Glad-? stone then moved the adjournment until Thursday and the motion was adopted. Excitement throughout England, and particularly in London is very great. The politicians of all parties are preparing for a general election with much more vigor than has heretofore been witnessed. A large number of tory aspirants foy. seats iu the houre of commons arc ! retiring in favor of the liberal uniou- ■ iet candidates iu districts whore the 'joint vote is that of the conservative] ' vote with that of anti-Gladstone. A VUEER PROPOSITION. A Farmer*’ Convention to Suixwcedc the State Legislature. Columbia Register. The Register has no sort of objection to allowing the agricultural societies in convention assembled to elect any board it may so please such societies to have. The “Agricultural and Me chanical Society of South Carolina,” a corporate body, has. for a long time had what is tantamount to such a board. Yet it has never occurred to anybody to put the executive com mittee of that body iu charge of the Agricultural Department of the State. Why? Because the Agricultural De partment is as much a part of the government of South Carolina as any otlier—the Tax Department, the Treasury Department, the Law De partment, or any other portion of the State government. As such, it is ut terly incompetent, as long as this de partment remains a part of the gov ernment, to place it under the control and management of a popular orgauiza tion having no legal relation to the State government. The Legislature must choose this board so long as it is in the conduct of a State function. The mere fact that the convention comes here by way of delegates from county clubs does not in any way change it from the character of a pop ular convention having no legal au thority, any more than a political convention coming here from political county clubs. Nobody would think of turning over the election appropria tion to the State Executive Commit tee of the Democratic party. And the fact that Mr. Tillman contends for such a board, elected outside of the authority of the State Legislature, as suming the control of the State’s own department of Agriculture, means nothing less than the State stepping down and out from a State Agricul tural Department and leaving the matter altogether in the hands of vol untary agricultural associations. Is this advisable? We think not. It is for the people to say. So long as the inspection of fertilizers is to be made nd a fUecKarged for it, like any other Inspection it is the proper function of the State government, injustice to all, that it should be made by the State’s own oflicers, for whose capability and character the government is respon sible to one and to all the parties at interest. Now, according to Mr. Till man’s plan, a convention pf County delegates meets and officers the De- partmon t, holds and distributes the whole fumV, and, to all intents and purposes, assumes the functions of the State government. Nobody is tr»i know how these clubs are formed or how conducted; how many or how few there may be in each County; how many may have little bettef than a mere name. The whole thing is loose, undeterminate and unbusiness like. And the Rtate is asked to put at the disposal of such a body, which may or may not have a continuance or proper representation, a fund of fifty thousand dollars annually, be sides appropriating nothing less than *200,000 to found an Agricultural College, to be also under the control and management of the voluntary assemblage of club delegates. Mr. Tillman, with the usual clap trap and the facts in his face, talks about the “farmers of South Carolina being out of doors so far as exerting any appreciable influence is con cerned.” Now, Mr. Tillman cannot deny that the farming class have had and now have a controlling majority in both houses of the Legislature. If these farmer members of tlje two houses have exerted no appreciable influence in the two houses, whose fault is it? They are there to control both houses, that is clear. Will Mr. Tillman send any better farmers to the Assembly than now compose that body? The farmers themselves sent their present representatives to the Legislature by their own votes. How else could they get there? The same class of farmers as represent the people here now were also in the big Farmers’ Convention. These same men will doubtless form clubs, and they or men just like them will come to the Legiflature, no bet ter and no worse than those who have been here all the time. Senator Tal bert of Edgefield occupied the chair of the recent Farmers’ Convention a great portion of the time. Will he come again? Now how did he yote on the lien law on which Mr. Tillman and his convention liy so much stress ? How did Senator Bell of Aiken vote on the same question ? Why it is k notorious fact that farmer Sena tors themselves defeated the repeal of the lien law. Now if Farmer Tillman cannot keep such men at home and send his own henchmen hither, what is he going to do about it? If these Senators and Representatives when they come here will depend on their own judgement and their own sense of what is best for the State and best for their constituents, who is there to put them in leading strings? To our mind, the same influence thesd far mers have exercised in legislation hitherto, they will exercise hereafter, no more and no less. We cannot agree with Mr. Tillman that these members have exercised no influence in the counsels of the State. On thecontra- ry, we believe that they have exer cised a powerful influence, and it is because, like other men, they have different views from each other on questions arising in Ihe affairs of the State that ^iey have not carried every question arising in the Assembly. Yet their influence is none the less controlling. No vote can be reached; no quorum can be had iu either house without theii support and presence. That is the way the matter actually stands. Who thvuks of keeping these independent farmers out 7 Very sure ly not the Register: it is Mr.Tillluan who expects to pack the legislature with Tillmanite’s. Otherwise how’ can he get his $200,000 college? How can he have the Agricultural Depart ment turned over to the farmers' clubs and their delegates? How can he expect to have the inspection fee increased to $50,000? He has got to bag the Legislature, and if there is any meaning in the big Tillman movement it must bag the Assembly, Senators and Representatives alike, before it can budge a foot with the new scheme of rubbing out aud be ginning anew. THE OPHEUS OF THE WOODS. Most and. the Socialists. Savannah News. It is claimed by some of the leading socialists of America that they have no sympathy with Herr Most and his companions, in fact they say the an archists are their worst enemies. It can hardly be denied, however, that the fundamental doctrines of the so cialists and anarchists are identical, and that they only differ as to the mearns to be adopted to attain their ends. In other words the anarchists are only the more extreme and vio lent of the socialists, and, doubtless, do the cause more harm than good. A prominent member of the social ist labor party in an interview in New York (he other day, while denounc ing the anarchists, admitted that many socialists were readers of Most’s paper, the Freheit, but claimed that they only regard it as a funny sheet, and that they loved to laugh over “the ravings of the infuriated fool.” Most is denominated the father of an archism inAmerica. Hehas only been iu this country about three years, and his incendiary teachings seem to have been received in soil well prepared for their reception. It.is hardly necessa ry to suggest that the socialists W’ere largely instrumental in preparing this soil, and that the anarchist groups of to-day are composed in the main of the members of the socialist <^lub8 of yesterday. # ■ Most first came into notoriety in the English speaking world about five years ago. In 1881 he was publishing a socialist paper in London which bore the name of his present journal, the Freheit. The agitator waftalgiost as outspoken in Loudon as no - has been in New York, and his extreme utterances caused him to be closely watched by the authorities. When the news of the assassination of the Czar of Russia reached London, Most published an editorial in the Freheit rejoicing and exulting over the event and intimating that other great heads would soon be brought low. He was indicted iu the Central Crimi nal Court for the publication of a “scandalous libel” and for a “deliber ate intent to incite to murder.” The sentence on which the latter charge was based: “From Constantinople to Washington they (meaning the rul ers) simply tremble for their long since forfeited beads.” He was con victed on both charges, but, strange to say, recommended to the mercy of the court. The ease was taken up to the Court of Appeals, but the verdict was sustaiued, it being held’that it was not necessary to show that any particular person had been incited to commit murder, but that the publica tion was an attempt to incite every reader of the paper, which had a cir culation of about 1,200 copies. The court sentenced Most to imprison ment at hard labor for sixteen months, and remarked that the penalty would have been transportation to a penal colony had it not been for the recom mendation of the jury. It was a somewhat remarkable coincidence—it might be called—that just three days after the sentence was passed on Most in the Central Criminal Court at London, for glorifying over the assas sination of the Russian ruler, and as serting that “From Constantinople to Washington they simply tremble for their long since forfeited heads,” the President of the United States (Gar field) was shot down in a railroad de pot in the latter named city by a man supposed to be a crank from Chicago, which is to-day the hotbed of anarch ism in America. When Most was iu London he could not speak theEnglish language, and an interpreter had to be employed in the trial. At the expiration of his sentence— the autumn of 1882—Most came to America, and his career here has been, if possible, more infamous, and it seems, more successful than his career in London. He believed that liberty meant license under our laws, that is so far as incendiary publications were concerned, and his paper has been tilled with Lbels against society and articles intended to incite to riot, murde*, robbery aud arson. He has been convicted of inciting the New York anarchists to riot, and doubtless he will receive the severest penalty authorized by law. His infamous career should be brought to a close in America as effectually if not as speedily as it was in Austria, Germany and England. A Tiling Much Better Left Un said. An Irish lawyer having addressed the Court as “Gentlemeu,” instead of “yer honors.” after he had concluded a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. He immediatelv arose and apologized thus: “May it plase tht Court, in the hate of the debate I call ed yer honors gentlemen. I made a mistake, yer honors.” The speaker then sat down. * Senator Ingalls says he wants to see Blaine inaugurated on the 100th anniversary of Washington’s in auguration. Ingalls is a bold, bad man No. doubt it would greatly delight ! him to have the centennial of the in- I auguration of the man who could not | tell a lie outraged by the inauguration *«jf a man who cannot tell the truth. The Southern Mocking’Bird—His Haunts, Song anti Wanton Destruc tion. From the Macon, (Oa.) Telegraph. Up to emancipation times, or rather the close of the war, mocking birds were plentiful everywhere in Georgia. During the years that followed free dom armeda race to whom guns had been forbidden. The negro became [ an enthusiastic hunter, but he was un skilled and could gratify his craze for destroying, only upon birds that were nearest at hand. MocSJng birds, car dinals, joreels, catbirds and thrushes went down as easy conquest before a class that had never been taught bet ter and had neither sentiment nor con science. The Negro hunters of to day, with possibly a few exceptions, are not wing shots, and they fill their bags with lords that can be killed in the trees. It goes without saying that these are the birds that should be spared to the fields and to society. My observation has been that few very f*w, negroes will pass, gun in hand, anything that has feathers and is large enough to cook; and this is borne out by the fact that the blue- jay, the woodpecker and the catbird are disappearing from the fields and woods almost as fast as the mocking bird proper. The destruction of the mocking bird has been more rapid because his nest has been systematically robbed by parties of both colors for private gain or gratification. Ayearor two since we noted one shipment of these birds from Savannah which contained 600 or 700. Upon the streets of this aud other ©'ties they are openly sold every summer. When it Is rem^ubered that every bug or worm thuir cut off may repre sent thousands, the value of the bifd’s services can be understood. True he takes figs and berries, but he earns them. Most Southern people are familiar with the habits of these birds, but it will be news to many to be told, as in the “Encycloptedia Britaniea,” that they go to New England in the sum mer to breed and retnrn in the fall. Audubon’s statement was that some of them “go North,” and this term applied to the migration of birds means with him northward. . In Ma ryland and Virginia the bird can be found in summer, blithe eonies south ward iu the autumn. I am inclined to think that some paae us and go to Florida in very cold weather. I have seen them late in the autumn flying southward high in the air and north ward early in the spring. Audubon says that the stay-at-home birds of the family tight,these migratory fellows up on their return. Mocking birds can be taught almost anything in the way of tunes. Macon used to boast of a bird that whistled “Dixie,” and years ago a Frenchman travelled about the country playing airs upon his piano which his bird would follow accurately. At the Pu laski House in Savannah, a negro used to keep a bird that would whis tle a good alto to tunes his master whistled. One of the most popular errors con cerning the mocking bird is the be lief that hehas no song of his own; that he adopts and blends only the notes of other birds into a song This is purely nonsense, The young mock ing birds reared in the garrets of great cities beyond the reach of the songs of others, sing as do the natives in their freedom though not as strongly, since they lack the inspiration of mates, the mellow sunlight and liber ty. Their song is, in fact, a number of sougs, but entirely original. No man ever heard the division of the mocking bird’s song in any forest. That he intersperses them with cat calls, the hawk’s screech, the whirr of the bull bat and the chicken’s melan choly “peep” and notes from other birds is true, but these are only char acters in his reoitative ballad, fea tures in the romance of his summers. That he sings his parts backward and forward and combines them anew is also true. The mocking bird’s song is to the ear what the kaleidoscope is to the eye, and the combinations of his songs are as endless as the glass forms In the toy; but the song notes are the same. This bird is probably the most con tinuous singer in tko world, but there are two weeks out of fifty-two when nothing ean tempt him to sing, and that is when he is molting. At that time he may be found moping in a secluded spot, lost iu rayless mel ancholy. Ho looks then hot and sick and the only note he utters is a low s.iort whistle, not unlike that which the fop makes as ho removes his hat and mops his brow. Perhaps during this season the birds lay aside mock ery, repents and makes good resolu tions. Georgia has no law to protect her wild singers, whose songs delight and astonish the world. Some of our S )uthern cities have laws to protect buzzards and enforce them rigidly. The negro, who by pulling a trigger may banish more melody from the world than human lips ean sound, may do it with impunity, but it costs him $5 to hit a buzzard with a clod of dirt. Cluverius the Richmond, Va., reser voir murderer, now in jail awaiting his death sentence, recently revealed and thwarted a plot of three prisoners to escape, by writing what he had over heard of their plans on a ten dol lar note which be handed out to the keeper to be changed. Bill Arp on Prohibition. Charlotte Observer 28th nit. Major Charlbs H. Smith, who is bet ter known as MBill Arp,” arrived in the city yesterday morning from East cm North Carol]ua. He has been de livering lectures in that section of our State, and left last evening for Cam den, S. C., where he^U«? an appoint ment to lecture to-night. Knowing that Major Smith was from the much talked of prohibition State of Georgia, and curious to get his views on the prohibition question, an Observer re porter met him at the Central Hotel. The reporter found that Major Smith is a prohibitionist from top to bottom, and the views given in the sub-joined interview, it must be remembered, come from the standpoint of an ar dent supporter of prohibition. These are “Bill Arp’s,” views, and can be accepted for what they are worth. The interview between Mr. Smith and the reporter was in substance as follows: “Well, Major, we are now in the midst of prohibition excitement. Our people are thoughtful and concerned You Georgians are in advance of us in this matter, and I wish you would tell us briefly how prohibition is working in your 115 counties.” “I cannot speak advisedly from any county but my own, but for that I can say our people are content. We lia\ r e lived under prohibition for six teen mouths. After an exciting elec tion, in which Sam Jones and Dr. Felton took an active part, wa carried it by only two votes, but I feel assured that if the vote was taken now we would carry it by 2,003 votes—perhaps more, perhaps all. It does prohibit in our county and our town. There may be a few who import and use, and per haps enjoy from long habit, but it is safe to say that nine-tenths of the drinking has been stopped. Even the men who still take their morning dram are pleased to see that those who abuse it cannot get it. Indeed, many of those who from a convivial nature patronized the saloons, are gratified at the reformation. They say it is right to quit, not only from a moral standpoint, but from a sanitary and business one. In fact the moral argq' nient is exhausted because there ift nothing more to say. Everything has been said that can be said, and it is enough in all conscience. I heard a good man.say to-day that he feared it would make hypocrites and sneaks of our young men, for they would still get it on the sly and feel degraded for having to do so. Well, they are getting it on the sly now. The bottle has long since been taken from the lop of the sideboard and pnt iir cupboard or somewhere out of sight. Every saloon has its screen at the front door and a back entrance somewhere. Public oponion has already condemn ed it and no young man can get a drum mer’s place who uses it habitually. Even the agitation begets a healthy moral sentiment. So if you do not win, you are making progress all the time, you are doing good. The fact is that whiskey is doomed. It is like the stock law—and “no fence” is spreading all over the Rtate. Mankind are making progress. No, sir; our Bartcw people are content. Talk about your sumptuary laws and the rights of a man. Why, sir, a woman has some rights, and the chief one is a protection for her husband and her- sons—the son^she bore and and nour ished, "and for whom she pleadingly tearfully asks for protection.” “Have any of your counties repeal ed the law?’ “No, sir; and I do not think they will. If any of them do, It will be because the law is not enforced, and the people become disgusted and say “it is all a humbug”—what kind of an agument is that? Alex Rtepheus said thejbest way to repeal a bad law was to Enforce it, and just so the best way to repeal a good law is not to en force it. We enforce it in our country —even our drug stores are for it, and no man can juggle with them.” “But what about losing trade and depressing business?” “Why that is all a canard. Our business men say they never had a better trade than last fail and they say more, ‘that if they had lost half their trade they w o u 1 d be well repaid in the morals of the communi ty—in the shortening of the courts, in the diminution of taxes, in the empty jail, in the happy hearthstones and in the bright prosperity of the fu- t ire of our young men.” “But I must go, I wish I had time to talk longer about the blessings of orohibition.” ttifs ■’detie Lobbying. Sumter Advance. The appointment of a Legislative lobbying Conninittee by the Farmer’s Convention in Columbia, wo consider a very unwise move. The Farmers have had for several years, and we suppose will continue to have a majority in the Legislature, and to ap point a committee of lobbyists to hang around that body, is a very severe re flection on the intelligance of the far mer members. If the farmers have a majority in the Legislature, of their best men, what earthly need can there bo of a lobby. This is one of the things done by the Convention that we think “other wise.” The Rev, A. Coke Smith, the popu lar and efficient Presiding Elder of the Columbia District, has beep nam- | ed as the probable successor of Bishop Dvincaa to I he vacanfe/inrotcBgorship Wofford College Of the 408 senators, members and tirritorial delegates who compose congress, 72 are Methodists, 03 Bap tists, 41 Episcopalians, 37 Presbyte rians, 36 Catholics, 12 Unitarians, 8 Lutherans 10 Christians (Catnpbel- ! Utes), and 2 Quakers, making a total | of 282 who are actively connected with t*>:no church organization. This ; leaves 12» who either have nev.r be longed to .any church or have drifted Kaiaing Hogs. Southern Cultivator. The peculiar character of the labor at the South will always demand an abundant supply of pork, and it behooves farmers to determine and adopt the cheapest and best methods of raising hogs. Whether or not it pays to keep hogs on the farm os a part of its product, rather than buy, is an open question in the minds of such farmers only as have not pursued the best methods in car ing for them. Inferior stock of any kind is always expensive. We must have then, the best breeds. Neglect of any department of the business soon makes it a ruinous policy. Our hogs, like everything else on a farm, must have constant attention. They must be kept in good condition, vigorous and healthy, that they may have the vitality to resist the peculiar diseases to which they are liable. Change of diet, regularity of fee*!, with such remedial aid as most farmers have learned to apply, will prevent much trouble if taken in time. The expense of raising hogs is nom inal if properly managed. They eat and thrive on many kinds of food that all other animals reject. They save all the surplus fruit and vegetables and turn them to good purpose in making flesh. Sour miik, good for no other purpose, and scraps from the table are converted into marketa ble products. They increase faster, and, therefore, yield a large per cent upon the investment than any other animal on the farm. If these things be true, why buy them from the West and pay the per cent, above cost to the Western farmer, then the charges of the packer the additional advance of the wholesale dealer, the per cent, necessary for the support of the retail merchant, and then the extravagant expense of transportation by rail and wagon road to the farm! The amount paid for pork by our farmers is simply euormous, aud probably no question of farm economy affects us mole se riously. Hogs are not necessarily filthy and the farmer makes a mistake who al lows them to be. The pens should be kept clean, beds often changed, no vermin should be allowed on their bodies or in places they frequent; clean running water should be givttc them, and every precaution used nec essary to the protection aud develop ment of animal life, as we find it in any other stock upon the farm. To the farmer interested in his business, all this will soon become a pleasure in stead of a burden, as he will soon learn to love to look at his little pigs All their stomachs witli the food his provi- e has prefiared, and then stack themselves in a pile aud take a shooze growing and grateful as they sleep. The bare feeling of success will bring pleasure that compensates tor the trouble. It is not best to give hogs heavy feeds of grain. In winter they will thrive and grow’ upon Burr clover, rye and barley, with small additional rations of grain. Bermuda grass and clover will take the place for grazing in early spring, to be followed by a lot sown to peas of some early variety; another in oats for a change. After these special lots have been gleaned the grain fields and the orchards will furnish abundant food from such pro ducts as would otherwise be wasted. After the corn fields have been finished, ground peas and pota toes vyill furnish excellent diet, and the porkers, thus managed, will reach the slaughter-pen ready for the knife after five to ten day’s feed upon corn. In sections where the stock law obtain a small boy. can manage hogs that have been trained, as w’ell or better than cattle, and under his control, they can be driven to and from the fields withot damage. We have had a boy manage our entire herd a whole season without a single instance of loss’ A little attention and oare in this direction will save us much money. Irish Riots. Belfast, June 10.—The people here'’ have been wrought to a Rtate of great excitement by the riotous demons trations of the Orangemen during ' past tw’o days. All work is stopped, stores are closed and many resident closely barricaded. Mobs are in evej street prepared for further deeds of vio lence. The Oraugemeu are greatly ^ incensed at the constabulary foi firing upou them and threaten to sack their barracks. Detachments of sol diers and police from Dublin and otlier cities arc being forwarded to Belfast to assist the authorities in restoring order. At midnight a mob of Orange men raided a public house kept by ^ Catholic named O’Hare, and afrer sacking it set It on fire. ’ The police charged the rioters a do*- en times with bayonets, but each time -were forced to fall back by volleys of ( stones. The police were finally forced to take refuge in the barracks, where they fired upon the mob from the eee- ondstory windows. The mob,however, held their ground twenty minutes longer, although the firing of the po lice was heavy and incessant. Scor of rioters were wounded, and ij known possitively that six m« two women were killed.' many wounded persons were away by their friends and their injuries are fatal is not! Twenty of the rioters who bullet wounds are lying in on< inary. A large numberofOrar who look park in the riot were' ed to-day. The inquest on th those killed will be.opened this noon. BELFAST SWARMING WITH PQI AND SOLDIERS. Belfast, June 10.—Four of the riotl era who were wounded by the police 1 iu yesterday’s rioting died to-day. Four others are dying. The Orange men are making large purchases of arms and are declaring that they will have revenge upon the police for fir ing into their ranks. At a meeting of Protestants living on Shank Hill Road resolutions were adopted de nouncing the action of the police from “outlying districts,” coining to_ fast and attacking peajy»**Tcitizens, ^ and demansUptr'rfwr withdrawal." The numfierof policemen on duty in - Bedfast this afternoon at 2 o’clock was 1,300. A number of troops from Yew- ry have also arrived to assist the po lice in maintaining order. The mag istrate has ordered all taverns in the city to be closed to-night. No crowds < are to be aj lowed to congregate on the streets. Someth ing About Candidates. Marion Star. We do not wish to be understood as being religious enthusiasts, but, we do say that the time has come,.when we should as sober and God-fearing citizens vote for men who are temper ate, 'Yes, the time has come when we should spurn these office seekers who go about with a jug of whiskey under the buggy seat and a handy flask in the side pockets of their coat, treating thgir way into office. You may, my fellow countrymen, talk of having good and econonical laws made, but you can never attain such felicity until you leave out of office, men who keep their minds dimmed and gloomed and darkened with hell’s best agent. We are tired, yes, so tired, of these strong smelling, whiskey barrels go ing about over the country every two years on two feet and legs stroking the little folks upon their heads, a means by which they may come into favor with the voter: and treating their way into office, where they are no more fit to be than “Our” big rod head fat turkey “gobbler” is fit to be among the tender plants of-“Old Mother Rtate’s Garden.” We ho|>e however, that by Christmas next, she will, as it is customary to dispose of such big fat fellows make the proper and well-timed disposition of him. >» out of such associations, j C. A. Price, one of the express mes sengers in the recent wreck at Bantee trestle, has died of his injuries. The fireman on the ill-fated train .says while the train was running on the trestle it l**gan to give away hud I broke flic centre plate ot the engine. . The weight of the tender did tho rest. 1 It is beyond question now that the j trestle was weakened by tho freshets! a id 'that this was lh4'c:iuse of the' " % - i * accident. i Conviction of Maxwell, the Mimtere* of flPrell^r. When the Maxwell jury went out at St. Louis on Friday it stood nine for eonviction and three undecided. After twelve hours of balloting the three dissenters went with the majori ty. The prisoner sat iu his accustom ed plade between his attorneys, and as the noon-hour approached, and no communication had been received from the jury, his hopefulness seemed to increase; for he‘knew -that the longer the jury should hang, se much greater were his chances for a new trial. When the announcement was made, however, that the jury wished to report, he ttirned nervously in his chair to scan their counten ances. He found no sign of encoq^age- ment there, and when tho yerdict was read his face blanched, aud hi* eyes sought the floor, where they remained fixed. The jury were polled aud each absented to the verdict, after which the judge dismissed them. The prison er was taken to his cell, where he will wait the result of a motion for a new trial, which will be made on the ground of incompetency of the prose cution’s witnesses and errors iu the judge’s instructions to the jury. Local Option in the Old North State. Raleigh. N. C., June 7.—Local op tion elections were held to-day at many points in the State. There was much excitement, but the election passed oft quietly. The Prohibition ists carried the day at Raleigh by 60 majority and also at tho following places: Oxford, Kinston, Henderson Warrenton., Louisburg, Winston, Sa lem, Apex. Concord. Beaufort To vn- sliip and Realiord. The Anti-Prohi- b tionists carried the election atChn — lotte, Statesville, Durham, Frankliu- t®n, Readville, Holley Springs, Morehead, City of Ashvillc, Golds boro’, and Littleton. The election was upon the question of license or no license for the sale of spir ituous liquors and goes into eftect at once where prohibibition was carried. “The Servant of All." New York Comcrcial Bulletin {Dem.) The Herald should be less unguard ed in its language. Speaking of the President, it says. “Mr. Cleve land is the chosen ruler of sixty mill ions of people.” Our cotempora- is all wrong here. “We, the people of the United States,” have no “ruler.” They alone are sovereign, aud the President is but their servant to ex ecute the laws which their representa tives may enact. He has no constitu- t’onal function or prerogative beyond that. “Ruler”- will do for a King, or Emperor, or a Czar, but the word is an execrable solecism. When applied to a republican gdverment. Capt. F. W. Dawson of the News and Courier has been appointed by the President a member of tlie Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. m A mad dog was Uiliijjl a i¥w day* ago in Manning after b^lng nfcn through the town, going Through peo ple’s houses, jumping froirrimuse tops aud generally. terrorizJhg the eom- .munity. ^