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\ I U iivenity of South Ou, MICROFn-MED THE AIKEN RECORDER BY FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1892. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. CAS Vi. -. - ■\'V\\' for Infants and Children. M CMt*rlaiaao veil adapted to children Uuit Iiaooramwid It—roperiortoanypreocriptioo known to mo." H. A. AKCHxm, K. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. “Th. no. of 'CMtorU'io oonniTenal and tta mvits w well known that it aeema a work of fluporeroration to endorae it Few are the taitelugent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." „ GiKLoe Hakttw, D.D., New York City. lata Pastor Bloom! ngdale Beformed Church. Castorla cures Colic, Ooomttpatioa, Bout Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- Witfowt?u}urious medication. •* For several yean I have recommended your * Castorla,' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.” Edwin F. Pardbx, M. D., ** The Wlnthrop,” 125th Street and 7th Are., New YorkCitjv Thx Ckwtack Coururr, 77 Muuaav Struct, Nkw Yobx. Will tbis bit tbe njirb? We are head< quarters for everything in the line of Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds and Ornamen tal wood work. Variety in our product is limited only by the wants of our customers. We aim for your orders. Let us send you prices. Ougusfo Lumber Co., AUGUSTA, GA. GIN EIBS! GIN RIBS! -:o.- I HAVE secured Patterns and propose to furnish RIBS for all makes of Qins at reasonable prices.- CASTINGS of all kinds in Iron and Brass at short notice. Special attention given to Repairs. Satisfaction guaranteed! THE PENDLETON FOUNDRY AND " WORKS. Nos. 615, 617 and 619, Koi.lock St., - - AUGUSTA, GA. CHAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor., M. W. PENDLETON, Sup’t. ROBERT POWELL. JAMES POWELL. POWELL BROS., Hardware Merchants. Store No. I—Hardware, Cutlery, Stoves, Tinware, House Furnishiug Goods, Nails, Iron, Glass, Builders’ Material, Painst and Oils, Agricultural Implements of all kinds, Garden Seeds, Guns and Ammunition. Carriage Department. Store No. 2, Sign of the Gray Horse, comprises a full line of Oneu and Top Buggies, Phsetons, Surries, Road Carts, Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, Whips, Robes, etc. THE "OLD HICKORY" 1, 2 AMD 3 HORSE WAGONS. SeiinE Machine & Organ Department in Store No. 2. We sell the DAVIS, STANDARD, DOMESTIC and WHITE. These are tbe best made. Also a large stock of second-hand machines at $5 to $20. Agents for the celebrated Farrand & Votey Organs. Machines and Organs sold at low prices and on easy terms. Our motto is to beep the best goods and meet any competition. Call and see our large stock. Two stores full from top to bottom on Laurens Street, Aiken, S. C. C\ B. DOSCHER. C. E. PETTY. R. A. FRAIN. DOSCHER & CO. FANCY FAMILY 6R0CERIES! PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS. GOV. RICHARDSON'S REPLY. •06 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA. He Says Gov. Tillman's Attack Upon Him Is Utterly Inexcusable. The Columbia Register of the 12th coulaiued a long statement from Gov. J. P. Richardson, completely refuting the slanders on him uttered by Gov. Tillman in reference to the expenses of the Executive Mansion during his term of office. Gov. Tillman had stated that there were no vouchers for sums aggregating ^ $2,070.25. Gov Richardson says: “All State vouchers are required by law to be filed in the office of the Comptroller Genetal, and the vouch ers for these items were filed there aud some weeks ago, when I went to the Comptroller General’s office to get these vouchers, I was amazed to fiud them missing. How, when, or by whom they were mislaid or ab stracted, I do not know. I do know that Comptroller General Ellerbe dk inform me that he had nothing what ever to do with the matter, and that the investigation of these vouchers bad been made solely by Governor Tillman’s private secretary, and wholly without his supervision. ‘‘The amount above stated was all expended, according to law, in fur nishing the Governor’s Mansion, and Governor Tillman knew this, or ought to have known it, when he made his mendacious insinuation against me, for all the articles purchased with this money were then in the Execu tive Mausion, aud in daily use by Governor Tillman and his family. A full and complete inventory was then, and is now, on file in the Secretary of State’s office, and for which I have a leceipt. I have been at much pains to supply the missing vouchers, and have delayed answering Governor Tillman’s slanders until I could pro cure them.” Here follows a statement of eight vouchers, and one that $147.53 were expended by J. Crawford Neilson, then the architect in charge of the State House work, in the purchase of sundry small articles, and for inciden tal expenses of packing, freight, &c., all sworn to before a notary. The re maining amount of $198.40 is vouch ed for by Mr. W. E. Gonzales as spent for articles for use in tbe Executive Mansion, which articles are still there in daily use by Gov. Tillman and his family. All the papers and documents re ^fejjred to above have been'placed in ^the office of The Clerk of the Court for Richland County for public in spection. Gov. Richardson calls attention to the couditiou of the Executive Man sion when he was inaugurated, and says “It had been rendered almost un inhabitable by the damages conse quent upon the earthquake of 1886, so much so that I had decided not to oc cupy it, as its condition would likely render it precarious to health. With out any solicitation or suggestion on my part, however, at the session of that year, the Committee on Public Buildings, whose chairman was Dr. George R. Dean, of Spartanburg, made an examination of the’Mausion, aud reported its condition to the House, with the recommendation that a sufficient appropriation be made for its thorough refitting, &c., which was promptly adopted by the Legislature; aud, contrary to my wish, the whole sum, and its expenditure, was placed under the sole control of the Gover nor, to whose order it was made pay able. The duty thus imposed by leg islative Act I had to discharge to the best of my ability. As I remember, withouttlie record being before me, the first appropriation was $2,700, the second $1,500, the third $750, and the fourth a similar amount, I think— thus distributing the whole amount for these varied and costly purposes through the four years of my admiu- istratiou. The result was, that in stead of finding a much dilapidated louse, almost bare of everything, Governor Tillman could, on the day of his inauguration, have dined at i,he Mansion in all the comfort afibrd- ed by a completely furnished estab- ishraeut, in excellent order, by sim ply taking his servants aud provi sions with him. ‘Governor Tillman’s attack upon me is characteristic of the man and his disreputable methods. It is ut terly inexcusable. It is not the result of an honest mistake into which he has fallen. He is a man in public life, familiar with the course of offi cial business, and presumably, to say the least, acquainted with those laws of the State regulating the conduct of the Executive Department of the State government. He knows that by section 578 of the General Statutes the Comptroller General is required to ‘examine aud annually report to the Geceral Assembly on the accounts of all persons having the distribution of public money.’ He knew, or with little efibrt he might have ascertained, that the four items to which he has called attention were examined and reported to the General Assembly, tbe first three by Comptroller General Stoney, and tbe last one by Comp troller General Verner. See Comp troller’s leport for 1887, at page 106, and for 1888 at pages 10 and 95. “In General Stoney’s report for 1SS7, the statement is distinctly made that the warrant for $1,000 was for the purchase of furniture, a fact de liberately suppressed by Governor Tillman, conduct that lawyers would characterize as suppreiaio veri or sug- gestio falsi. 11 . Falsehood Promptly Nailed. At Anderson Gov. Tdlman read an affidavit from W. L. Snipes, who Supon oath says that he was at tbe Cedar Grove meeting and upon his return he was sent for by Capt. E. A. Smythe, the president of the Pelzer Mills, and informed that he was dis charged on account of his presence at that meeting. Sworn and subscribed to before D. H. Russeh, trial justice, the 13th day of August, 1892.” Governor Tillman said that he un derstood that twenty-one other opera tives had been treated like Snipes He then worked himself up by pro claiming that the war was between capital and labor and that money had drawn the sword and.Jplunged it into the breasts of these factory ope ratives. Instantly a telegram was sent to the president of the Pelzer Mills in quiring as to the truth of the charge and the following reply was received: Greenville, August 13. J. Wilson Gibbes: Four men were discharged by our Euperintendent to day for absenting themselves from work on Monday without pi oviding ar rangements. I understand that two of them were Sheppard and Orr men and the other two Tillman. I don’t know which they were. No man has been discharged from the Pelzer Factory for refusing to vote for Shep pard and Orr, or for attending politi cal meetings. As many men were spared from the mill Monday as could possibly be arranged for and keep the mills running. Those who absented themselves without the consent of the superintendent were discharged with out investigation as to what faction they belonged to or where they went. Ellison a. Smythe. The Distribution of the Negro Popu lation. Cotton Prospects. Messrs. Riordan & Co., cotton bro kers, of New York, say in their cir cular of the 13 inst. The great improvement wrought throughout the cottofi belt by the first of August his ^ertaiuly offset whatever damage wa$ done iu July, and the telegraphic crep reports in the Financial Chronicle ahow that the prospect for a good yield is now more than satisfactory. U'he discouraging abkiaci, together nted fall in silver, ress cotton and the es weak at a de- ints as compared last Saturday. iow pretty well less to shut our bless the weath condition oi with the unprece have helped to de market to-day cl cline of about 26 with the prices The crop season i advanced and it is eyes to the fact that er conditions should grow very much more unfavorable, the chances are uery strong that we should have still lower prices. It was predicted last fall by those supposed to be best informed, that the cotton crop of 1891- 92 would not exceed seven and a half million bales, but, with three weeks of the cotton year yet to run, 9,050,000 bales have already been marketed. Although the acreage the for present year has been materially reduced iu many sections of the cotton belt, the yield must still be enormous, and, augmented by tbe surplus that will be carried over from the last crop, the supply will be too great to admit of any material advance iu price. Cotton Crop Report of Section Trib utary to Augusta. The committee which was appoint ed by the Augusta Exchange to get information and statistics on the cot ton crop in the section tributary to Augusta, baye completed their la bors and made their report to the members ot the Exchange. The re- iort covers twenty counties in Geor gia, and Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell, Hampton, Abbeville and Lexington Counties in South Carolina, and is as follows: First—The condition of the grow ing crop, generally, is unfavorable. The yield per acre will be below an average. The crop is very spotted; in some sections quite promising; in others almost a complete failure. Second—Practically all answers in dicate a decided falling off from the condition of July 1. Third—The cotton crop is about as far advanced toward maturity as last year at the same date. Fourth—In some sections the plant is well fruited, but iu a majority of cases the weed has developed at the expense of fruit. Fifth—Complaints of shedding are universal, amounting in many in stances to serious disaster. Sixth—The recent rains and hot weather have caused the plant to scald, turn yellow and lose its vitality. Seventh—Rjst, though not yet ex tensive, seems spreading rapidly. Eighth—Picking wfU become gen- eneral by the 10th to the 15th of Sep tember. The tenor of the reports would seem to indicate that under the most favor able conditions better than an aver age yield per acre canno- be expected; tbac unless those favorable condi tions should exist fro^ 1 now on > the yield, owing to low Jtate vitality of the plant and la<^ of fertilizers, will be very far beh*^ average. The New York Sun has been going over a bulletin recently issued by the Census Office concerning the negro population of the United States, and it has pointed out some very interest ing and remarkable facts disclosed by it, some of which we pick out and reproduce. It shows that the old slave States contain 15,549,357 whites and 6,889,262 negroes, while the other States con tain 39,434,538 whites and 580,888 ne groes—that is, the negroes are 37.7 of the whole population of the South, and only 1.44 per cent, of the whole population of the North. In South Carolina aud Mississippi the negroes largely outnumber the whites, and they are about equal in Louisiana, while in only two of the Northern States does thejr ratio rise above 3 per cent. These two are Kansas and New Jersey, where the ratio is re spectively 3.3 and 3.5. But the most interesting facts shown are that the whites are in creasing in the Southern States more rapidly than the negroes, aud that the negroes are leaving the border slave States for the border free States. During the decade from 1880 to 1890 the whites increased in the Northern States at the rate of 27.9 per cent, and in the Southern States at the rate of 63.6 per cent., while the colored population increased in the Northern States at the rate of 20.6 per cent., and in the Southern States at the rate of 13 per cent. The border free States show a note worthy fact. In the border slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Vir ginia, West Virginia ahd Kentucky and the District of Columbia, the ne gro population has remained almost stationary in the same decade, whilst in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas, the ne gro population increased in the same time at the rate of 48.4 per cent., which was almost equal to the rate, 21.6, at which the whites increased during the same time in those States. It is plain then that the negro prob lem is settling itself so far as the bor der slave States are concerned, and that the border free States will at no great distance of time receive an in fusion of negro population that will have a most material influence in de termining the policy that the United States Government is to pursue to ward the Southern States. If we can only hold our own against Weaver and fbree bills for a fevf^years tbe South will be left alone to manage her own domestic affairs and we shall then have peace and prosperity. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report B&Rii ABSOLUTELY PURE The Conservatives More Than Ever. HopetuJ The Melon Crop. Two weeks ago the News and Cou rier published upon the authority of a competent judge an estimate of the watermelon crop of the region lying along tbe line of the South Carolina and Carolina Midland railways. That estimate placed tbe crop of the season at 950 carloads. Now that the season is drawing to a close a closer guess at the extent of the crop can be made; and it is already settled beyond a doubt that the crop will be consider ably in excess of what was at first anticipated. Tbe South Carolina Railway basal- ready shipped over 1,000 carloads, and the season has not yet closed. How many more cars are yet to be shipped cannot be accurately estimated, but it is thought that tbis year’s crop will fall little short of that of last season. In 1891 the South Carolina road ship ped over 1,100 cars. It is even con sidered probable that this year’s crop may yet show an increase over last year’s figures. - — To Disfrancliise 14,000 White Men. The News and Courier shows that jy the census of 1880 there were some 14,000 white voters in South Carolina who could not write—16 per cent, of the entire number. The figures of the census of 1890 are not yet at hand, jut the proportion cannot have great- y changed. Governor Tillman’s pro posed educational qualification, then, means ‘that for the purpose of dis- franchisiug negroes who have not seriously attempted to vote for ten years past, he wishes to take the right of voting from 14,000 of the very men who made him Governor. And yet he declared in his last mes sage to the Leislature, that there was “no reason to dread a return of negro rule in South Carolina!” From The News and Courier. Upon his return to Columbia on Saturday from his home Chairman Dibble, the commander-in-chief of the Conservative forces, was seen. As usual he was very reticent, but did not hesitate to say that the reports from all over the State went to confirm and improve on all claims previously made by the committee. He says that the reports from the Piedmont sec tion show that after each meeting there has been remarkably good re sults. There are some eight or nine coun ties hanging on the edge, being just in a condition to turn to either side. He expects to carry each of these. The campaign meetings, he says, have from the very start resulted in the greatest good to the Conservatives. As soon as a meeting was held in any county the reports from that county began immediately to show a marked improvement in the condition of things. He is now thoroughly confident of carrying the day, but will not relax his efforts till the last vote has been cast and the returns all in. In every county in the State full tickets of electors to tbe State Con- yentidn in September have been put in the field, and only on these lines will the division of the vote be strict ly according to Party lines. Tbe vote for county officials will in many instances be divided, as Tliere are a great many men who have personal friends Avhom they will support for a county office even though he may be of the opposite party. But the vote for the electors to the September Con vention is to show strictly aud accu rately the relative strength of the op posing factions, and there will not be a man in the State who will cast his vote but for his faction’s ticket. The State Convention. The following is the number of del- gates each County is entitled to iu the State Democratic Convention: Abbeville 12lHorry 6 Anderson 12Kershaw 6 Aiken 8 Barnwell 12 Beaufort 10 Lexington Berkeley 14 Chester 8 Lancaster 6 Laurens 8 ... 6 Marion 8 Charleston 18 Marlboro 8 Newberry 7 o'Oconee..'. 6 Chesterfield Clarendon SlOraugeburg 12 Colleton 10 Darlington Pickens 6 8 Richland 10 Spartanburg .... 14 Sumter 12 Union 8 YVilliamburg 8 ” ' 10 Edgefield 12 Fairfield 8 Florence 8 Georgetown 6 Greenville 12iYork Hampton 6| Total 320 Have You Head How Mr. W. D Wentz of Geneva, N. Y., was cured of the severest form of dyspepsia? He says everything he ate seemed like pouring melted lead into his stomach. Hood’s Sarsapa rilla effected a perfect cure. Full per- ticulars will be sent if you write 0. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass. The highest praise has been won by Hood’s Pills for their easy, efficient action. “Taxtation without representation” caused South Carolina in 1776 to to throw off her allegiance to Great Britain. Yet, 116 years afterward, a Governor of South Carolina, pretend ing to be the special friend of the poor man, proposes to increase the tax of 14,000 poor men while taking from them their right to vote. Across the Continent on Byclcles. Messrs. Wm. H. Caldwell, of Col umbia, and Wm. A. Wynne, of Ral eigh, N. C., commenced a transconti nental tour on bycicles, on Thursday, from Charleslon. The route will be over the continent from ocean to ocean, and the route will be one that has uever been attempted before by wheelmen. The start was made from the battery, and tbe run will be a sol id long rush, day iu aud day out, until the finish at the Golden have been made at the North that the trip will be completed inside of three months, but the riders confidently ex pect. to finish in ten weeks. They carry no baggage save sweat ers and a few suits of un derclothes. Their baggage will be sent ahead of them all the time. The boys are to take a southern route to San Francisco, the first time that this has ever been attempted. This they will do to avoid the cold weather, inseparable from the north ern route via Oregon. The principal points on the route will be Columbia, Augusta, Atlanta, Ga , Decatur, Ala., Memphis, Term., through Arkansas, the Indian Terri tory, the Pan Handle of Texas, Ari zona, New Mexico, and up through lower California to San Francisco. Benton, Ark., May 20th, 1892. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga. Gentlemen: I have had Rheuma tism about two months during last winter, was confined to my room mast of the time; I saw an advertise ment in tbe Saline Courier recom mending PP_P- as a cure for Rheuma tism, I bought ti*rpe bottles, but be fore I got through witbH<he third bot tle I was cured and havdvnot felt the least effect of Rheumatism;since. It is undoubtedly the best remedy for Rheumatism I ever triedli I ca n ' cheerfully reccommcnd lb to lie. Yours truly, D. M. Cummingham. MeELREE’S WINE OF CARDUl for Weak Nerves The New England Magazine for Au gust contains three views of Walt Whitman. George D. Black writes of “Leaves of Grass” as a new force in literature; Sylvester Raster is interest ingly reminiscent of Whitman in Bos ton, and Walter Blackburn Harte deals with Whitman’s democracy. In addition there are three strong pa- tT, .” i pers of a sociological tendency. One Gate, nets | . lJust Taxation,” by J. Whidden Graham, a very forcible writer; anoth er is “Professions or Trades for Work ing men’s Boys,” by Forrest Morgan. Published by the New England Mag azine, 86 Federal St., Boston Mass. If dull, spiritless and stupid; if your blood is thick and sulggish; if your appetite is capricious and uncertain, you need a Sarsaparilla. For best re sults take Dewitt’s. W. J. Platt. The Passion Play. The two frame stores of Mr. J. B. Norris, in which he ran a general merchandise aud undertaking busi ness, together with three of the Rich mond and Danville Railroad ware houses, were completely destroyed by fire at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The telephone station that connects Trenton with Augusta, which was lo cated in the Noiris store, was also burned up. Mr. Norris had $5,000 in surance on his stock. The fruit and melon crop of Ridge Spring section is about done. It has been a great blessing to the people. Sixty-seven cars of fruit and 130 cars of melons have been shipped from there this season, and many a needed dollar has been put iu circulation thereby. In reference to the statement that has been generally published that the celebrated Passion Play will be pro duced in Chicago at the World’s Fair, Herr Johannes Lang, the may or of Oberammergau, has sent to the German press the following procla mation: “I hereby declare that the report published iu several papers, according to which the people of Ob erammergau, or part of them, have resolved to go to Chicago in order to produce the ‘Passion Play’ there, is entirely false. More than two hun dred and fifty years ago our ancestors solemnly pledged to produce the ‘Pas sion Play’ every ten years in grateful remembrance of their having been spared from the pest then raging, and this vow was always faithfully kept by us. Nothing is further from our thoughts than instituting productions of the ‘Passion Play’ besides those given every ten years; neither do we deem it proper to travel as actors or to make a profession of our sacred play. In the Interest of truth we beg you to give this, our disavowal, the largest possible circulation.” So un less the Chicagoans get up a spurious representation the public sense of de cency will not be scandalized by a show of the passion and the cruci fixion. A pretty opinion Tillman has of his once flattered “one gallus boys.” At Pickens he declared that* 4 most of the people” spent the extra $2 he wants to get out of them for the poll tax, “ for whiskey and tobacco, to gratify heir beastly, dirty appetites.” Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea lor Dyipejaia. Mr. Willie Zeigler, a young man about twenty-three years old, who re sides in the “Fork,” Orangeburg County, was struck and instantly killed by lightning Friday afternoon about 3 o’clock. He was the son of Mr. Joseph Zeigler, a worthy citizen of that county. Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, 111., writes: “From personal experience I can recommend Dewitt’s Sarsaparilla, a cure for impure blood and general debility.” W. J. Platt. ®e-WINE OF CARDUl. a Tonic for Women. Contrary to general impression it is now believed that Governor Tillman is giving his support to Benet instead of Townsend, in the race for the At torney Generalship. It is a fixed and immutable law that to have good, sound health one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor surer route than by a course of Dewitt’s Sarsaparilla. W. J. Platt McElree’c WINE OF CARDUl for female diseases. The August Wide Awake is a veri table vacation number, and indeed is so labeled upon its cover. It is full of tbe scent and spirit of tbe sea and the shore, of mountain and lake and forest. It is especially noticeable for short, practical papers on out-of-door doings. The many interesting stories it contains are of a high order, and handsomely illustrated. This is one of the best child’s magazine pub lished. Price $2.49 a year. Pub lished by D. Lothrop Company, Bos ton. Bright people are the quickest to recognize a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Lit tle Early Risers. If you are not bright these pills will make you so. W. J. Plate ■^BLACK-DRAUGHT tea curca Constipation. The Edgefield Baptist Association will meet at Bethany Church, Liberty Hill, in the first week of September. The Ridge Baptist Association will meet at Ridge Spring in the second week of September. “Late to bed and early to rise will shorten the road to your home in the skies,” But early to bed and a “Lit tle Early Riser,” the pill that makes life longer, and better aud wiser.