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VOL. II. IANNING-, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1886. NO. 24. THE SOUTHERN NEGRO. Noticeable Lack of Prorew in the Black Man Where Unenctutbered by the White-. The American negro is an anomaly, says a John's Island, South Carolina. correspondent of the Chicago Times. Thousands of volumes have been wiitten about him and many ten thousands of editorials and magazine articles, and the more we study him the more we don't know about some of his peculiari ties. And now, after seeing the free negro in the North, the slave negro in the South, and the freeman and treed man both North and South, and after coming to some conclusions in regard to them, I find on this coast and these islands an entirely new variety of the genus, necessitating a new theory. To the best. of my knowledge every prophecy ever made about the American negro has been completely falsified by facts. I do not, just now, remebller one guess, even by the wisest, that has proved correct, whether the guesser was a friend or foe. In the first place, there were those in England and the co-lonies who said the negro would wither away in bondage; but, unlike every other race on the globe, and unlike his own race in other countries, the negro in the United States flourished in slavery and multipli ed as no other race has. IDEAL NEURO SOCIETY. Here the colored people own the land and hold the elective offices. They have all the churches heart could wish, and at least three preachers to the sqnare mile. They have perfect social equality, if there be such a thing, for they have all the society there is. The whites are so isolated that they have none. In short, the negroes have the land, a climate to suit them, the offices, the stores, the schools, the churches, perfect immunity from white oppression, and free course to run and be glorified. And with all this, what progress? Well, you have to set stakes and take sight to see that they are moving at all. James Island presents them at their best on the coast; John's is noticeably worse than James; Wadmalaw is worse than John's, and each successive island from here to Savannah, so the whites tell me, is worse than the last, although I find this hard to believe. The exact progress since the 1 war I, of course, cannot measure, as I was not here then to take a point of de parture; but this I insist upon, that the - poorer class could not have lived worse than now and lived at all. The gain has t been by those who got land, and the poorest renter in Indiana lives far better i than the best of them on John's and a Wadmalaw. And now, with all this evidence, lots of people are prophesying s as confidently as ever all sorts of good f and evil for the negro's future. Instead c of following this rash example, will pre- r sent the facts of my trip to this point- r the reader may do his own proph:.,ying. 9 Yesterday morning I left the hospita ble home of the well-to-do black brother, a Georgo 'grown, and traveled straight i south w I 'gare point. All the fields f were dotted with black laborers, a few r plows were rnnning, but nearly all the r work was done with hoes as large as an average spade, in the hands of brawi v men and women. For many hundra is yards at a time the cabins lined the way- 1 side thick enough for an ordinary vil- h lage, but all were empty-the whole e family were. back in the fiels. The ( women handled these heavy hoes <quite e as deftly as the men, and ridging for e cotton was in rapid progress. In a last , year's cotton patch, where the ridges a were nearly two feet above the furrows, r the boys and girls went first with heavy a baskets of "swamp trash"-half rotted leaves and grass 14ked up at low tide- t and scattered it in tde furrows; the wo- t men came next with hoes and dug down y the grass and loose stuff from the ridges, a with earth enough to cover it and the e "trash," and then the men with plow 3 and hoe put enough fresh earth on it to f, make the middle ridge as high as the old e one. In this the cotton is planted, and v the first plowing throws what is left of n last year's ridge to the growing plants. "It takes THE NIGGcn AND THE HOE to make the Sea Island cotton," is the proverb of the whites. Many of them have tried machinery to do this work'. but have discarded it. .They say none is made suitable for it. Everythingisraised V in ridges on. the islands-even those 1 vegetables we plant on a flat in the North. In the abandoned cabin during work ing hours you will find no one, if theL weather is mild; if it is col you will see there from three to ten children, with. one girl big enough to be trusted with a 2 fire-if there is any. Very often there is none, and the little darkies crouch on the sunny side of the cabin, their blue gray-brown toes showing, like goose-'' feet, the effects of chilling winds. There h is generally a water-bucket with a gourd, a cooking pot or p~an, perhaps a dozen i dishes of various kinds, a rude table or 5 a box, and in perhaps half &e cabins a rude bedstead. Such luxuries as mir rors, window curtains, stoves or pictures you will find only among the well-to-do, n and acarpetlIhave yet to see in anegro t cabin. All their habits show that they ( expect to live and take their pleasure in the open air; the house is merely a place to retreat to in rainy or extremely cold weather. Southward the island gets lower till it terminates in a boggy flat:;5 but one ridge runs out to within a half mile of the Stono, and the black boy who cabins on the end of the ridge rows h the traveler out along a narrow creek. C This boy can talk English-that is, such 11 English as I can understand; but his father and mxothier might as well talk d1 Hebrew as far as my knowledge of their k speech goes. The Stono river (they call a11 thee passes rivers or creeks) is morel i than a mile wide and navigable for large vessels, and on the opposite shore is BUNCOMRR LANDING, and the headquarters of the great Sea brook plantation. The fine mansion was burned during the war, and near its ruins stands a small frame house, now occupied by the family. Sharks are beginning to come up the rivers, and a month from now alligators will appear along the creeks. There is also a troublesome plenty of foxes and wildcats on this island, for John's has three or four times as much timber as James; and much of the woodland is a dense jungle. In these woods one may walk or rest with impunity now; two months later the white man is always in langer there, and a night in theni is, to % stranger, almost equal to a sentence of acath. so deadly is the malaria. Mv host of the past night tells me he has known a man to die from the effects of one nignt's exposure: and even the resi :lents on the highest and dryest lands acar the swamps do not escape. Many f the oldest white natives habitually take a grain of quinine before each meal From May to November. The disease mused by these jungles is called "low !ountry fever," or "twenty-one days' ever," as many instances are known of !ontinuing twenty-one days without a .reak; at the end of that time comes yollapse, syncope and death. As one -oes toward the mainland the disease -hanges its name, but all along the road rom Charleston to Savannah the white nan is never safe except in a pine forest n one of those sandy ridges, which )ccasionally put out to the shore. Even lien he must have quite a stretch of ine to the windward, between him and he next swamp. John's Island is in shape much like horse-shoe, and Wadmalaw Island is he "frog" coming in from the west; be ween them is Church creek, so narrow hat it is bridged near the points of the iorse-shoe. Despite its large area, ohn's is nowhere more than seven miles vide from tide to tide; but it contains 10 white people and something over ,000 colored. errribh- Lom.' of LiCe Anon;: Sheep an I Cattle. Major D. M. Bash, paymaster in the .nited States Army, returned to depart uent headquarters last Wednesday from n extended trip throughout Southwest exas, as far west as Fort Davis, in residio county. He passed through he centre of the great sheep grazing ection of Texas, and reports that terri le drought prevails in Presidio, Pecos nd Crockett counties. These counties mbrace an area somewhat exceeding the creage of the State of Maine. Until a rtnight ago the larger part of this ountry had not been visited by a heavy ain for eighteen months, and the recent ain proves to have done very little good, s the earth was so parched that the ater, instead of filling the small streams nd reservoirs, was soaked up by the urning prairies. Major Bash says that >r many miles, as far as the eye can ach, the country is bare of vegetation, ot even weeds growing. Hundreds of a1all streams are entirely dried up, and -ater, even for living purposes, is spar igly dealt out at the ranches. He re tes sev-eral instances that camne under is observation, showing the terrible Eect of the drought on sheep and cattle. >n the Meyerhalff ranch, out of 6,000 attle, 3,000 have died within the past ionth, and the prairie is literally strewn ith gaunt carcasses, surrounded by iyriads of huge buzzards. .On another inch 3,000) sheep have died, while one f the largest flock masters was coin elled to kill 5,000 lambs, and a neigh oring herder killed 1,200 lambs because air mothers were too weak from star ation to afford them nourishment. Bash escribes the situation in this far West untry as +.'rible beyond description. 'he shepherds told him that unless rains 31 shortly every human being and do iestic animal would be compelled to acate that district and move to the orth of Texas. Geronimno T'hir-tv for Gore. TOMBSTONE, ARIZ., May IS.-A courier ist arrived at General Miles' leadquar rs brings information that six of Cap di Hartfield's men were killed in the unbuscade by the Indians. It is feared: iat a rald of the country is contemplated y Geronimo's band, and couriers are: ing sent out to warn the settlers. ] W~AsH1NGOoN, May 18.--A dispatch om General Miles, dated Nogales, Ariz., [ay 16, says: Captain Hartfield's Fourth Cavalry :ruck Geronimo's camp yesterday morn ig, and at first was quite successful. iptuing camp and horses and driving adians some distance in Conona Moun ins, Mexico. About noon, in moving ye miles from camp through a deep mon, he was attacked, fought two ours, lost two soliers killed, three -ounded, and many of his horses and ules. He reports the Indians seventy ong, and several were killed. Other *oops are in close proximity to the hos-1 les. It is impossib~le to give the exacti umber of hostiles with Geronimo. Our oops and the Mexicans have fought iem five tiimes within the last twelve sys, although at some disadvantage, at without loss to the Indians. It re-] ires nine-tenths of the command to old in check the large bodies of Indians1 a reservations and to protect exposed1 -The grand juy at Belleville, Illinois, .st week, returned their report to the ircuit Courts after having refused to ud true bills against the deputy sheriffs ho fired upon a mob in East St. Louis uring the recent railroad strike and led six of their number. Au order1 -as made for their release, and they de- ] TIHE AAR(1CHISTS IN 'IA'.iO. Charging the Grand Jurv n. to Their titv in Regard to the Recent Rliott. When the Chicago grand jury, whose duty it will lie to consider the Anarchist cases, was called together, the com-t room was crowded with people. Com ment was freely made~ on the appearance of the jurors who responded to the call of their names. The impression was that they were an intelligent body of niz1i. Judge Rodgers made his charge sub stani tiallv as follows: "We hear a good deal lately of what constitutes freedom of speech. There is no constitutional right for men to assem ble and engage in Wild harrangues and incendiary speech. These men nust be held responsible for what they incite others to do. That is the spirit of the law. it is only your province to deal with crimes-with acts that have been committed. Nevertheless, the history of the last few days will make it necessary for me to advert to other matters thain the actual commission of crime, as well as the commission of offences against the law. The bill of rights of the State of Illinois incorporates the general prinei ples of the Constituti'n of the United States. Men may assemble and discuss these matters, that is the constitutional right of-freedom of speech. but they are held responsible for what they say. If men are incited to riot, arson and other unlawful acts the men responsible for this may be held answerable for the re sults. Mere spectators, mere lookers-on are not the only ones, but the men who advised commission of crimes are gilty parties as well. The principles of law inculcate the doctrine that they whlto teach ri-ot, Ao incite uilawful gather ings to incendiary acts are responsible for the effects of these rantings. The red flag is a public menace. It is an em emblem that no quarter will be given. The police have a right to suppress 'ose people, to prevent .the commission of crime. They have the right to quell all such disturbances, and the police and chief magistrate of the city did their anty when the time came and acted like men, the noblest work of God." Before quoting the law on tle subject Judge Rodgers adverted to the-recent labor troubles. He said: "They have attracted the notice of the country at large, but I don't want to lay I the trouble to any one nationality. It is not nationalities, but individualities who are to blame. It is not the Irish or Ger mans or Bohemians. As nationalities all these love peace. Men have the right to strike. They have the right to quit Work if they please. But when they go one step further and say that others have not the right to work, they violate the law and can be punished. It is not only the principals that may be held respon sible, but the accesories as well. He or they who stand idle after having advised iolence being committed, may be held 1 equally to blame with the principals." t %en'aational War RIntiorm.. There is some excitement threughout 1 Prussia over the alleged immense milita- 0 ry preparations of France, and the inti- f mation that these are made with a view i o a war of revenge against Germany. 1 T'he present scare was begun by the p~ub ication in France of the sensational 1 >ook, "Avant la Battaille," which aimed 1 o show that France wa-s amply p rpared or another and successful war againsti lermany. Within the last few days,t iowever, the official papers, includingt Prince Bismarck's organ, the North Ger aan Gazette, have taken up the cry and re daily printing an assortment of small renomous extracts from 'Avant hi Bat-i aille." The fact is that this war scarea s5 simp3ly a little farce played annually >y Prince Bismarek, but forgotten whent he next year comes round. Its object s always to assist the military budget hrough the Diet. This year the gov rnment is not only asking for an un- r tsual amout for military purposes, but he Pension bill will also be a large ad-f litional burden upon thme War Office. Thme Epide'mic of strik.m'' "Beats all the way dese working peo >le is strikin'," said the porter; "'pears i if they was never satisfied. 'They aants all dey can see, an den go kickin' 1 o' mo'.'' t "That's all right," said a ruddy-faced e assenger, who another man said was a 1 abor agitator; "that's all right, porter. Every wotyservant is wrhof his hire, or hould be. A workingman is entitled to ~omething in this world besides a bit to ~at and a place to sleep. If lie doesn't tand up for his rights nobody will, and hie only thing he can do when lie wants n nimprovenment in his condition is to trike. Strikes are all right, I tell you. " "Guess that's so, boss; guess that's so. rush you off, sah? Is this your hat? Lll rigiht, sah; se ;'nty-five cents, please." "Seventy-fli ents?" "Yes, sali; we's on strike fo' higher iage's. Seet-iecents, or the leepin' cah 1po'tahis will blacklist an' oycott yo'; an'then yo' might 'as well ravel in a stock ear. Seventy-five cents srigi'ht, sah-thanks."-Chicago Herada. --The Senate committee on pensions uis voted to postp~one indefinitely the Eo'se Mexican pension bill and to rec ort as a substitute the first seven see ions of the bill introduced in December y Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania. j hese are substantially the Mexican peii ion bill passed byv the Senate last sesf ion. The committee is opposed to a t ervice pension and insists upon making lependence and inability necessary quali ications of a p~ensioner. -Jefferson Davis is recovering from I he nervous prostration which attacked z im after his return to his Beauvoir c AMIERICAN I~ INF-(;IOWE11- . The First .National Viientirn Conventiotn in the United Slates. The National Viticiltural Convention, the first the vi e-growers of the United States have ever held, met last week in the annex of the agricultural department building. Washington. Only about ten States were represented at the opening. Alex W. Parson. of New York, presided temporarily. The election of permanent officers of the National Titicultural As sociation of the Uinited States was held. Charles A. Wetmore, of California, was elected president, and B. F. Clayton, of Florida. secretary. J. J. Lucas, of Aiken, S. C., was elected a member of the National Viticultural Council. One of the prime objects of the Con vention is the suppression of the com pounding of so-called wines from chemi cals, which operates, it is claimed, to disgrace American products and to in jure the interests of American wine growers, who are leading the world in the production of the purest anid best wines. The Convention was addressed by the Hon. Norman J. Coleman, commissioner of agriculture, who, in a very full and fitting paper, detailed the direful effects of compounded bogus wines, both upon the health of consumers and upon honest American industry. He pointed specific ally to the dishonest methods practiced in this and foreign countries, and in a eai-fully prepared statement of facts and figures showed America to be in the lead and France to be falling behind in furn ishing the world's supply of wines, both in quality and quantity. The questions discussed by the Con vention are practical and throw much ight upon the gr-ape industry in all its branches. Great developments are be in- made in the utilization of grapes as rood, as medicine and as an article of yommerce. Everything shows that the ,rape-growing industry, while yet in its nfancy, is fast becoming one of enorm )us interest and results to the United ates. There are reasons that show :hat there is abundant opportunity for Douth Carolina to step forward in the iavance in viticulture. The show of pure American wines and >randies by the Convention is fine, there >eing over two hundred excellent sam >les on exhibition. South Carolina is ot as yet represented in the Conven ion. IR!LAM) THRFE ITENED WITH WAR. Nhe Oran cemni Armbi:: to Resist Holm- Rule rhree Thonsand I oltnteers in London. The Orangemen of Lurgan, County Urmagh, Ireland, are enrolling them elves in military associations organized or the purpose of resisting a home rule overnment. It is stated that in the vent of an Ulster rebellion a Loyalist xpedition will be ready to march on )ubhlin, leaving strong garrisons in 'ster, and an army of observation on he Slunnon. The Orangemen in England are also >ffering their aid. Three thousand men >elonging to the London Volunteers, .nd one hundred officers of the same orce, have offered to join any army put a the field by Ulster in rebellion against ome rule. The volunteers, it is stated, affer to eqluip themselves and to fight in ;ster's cause without pay or reward so Dng as their- services may be needed. 3ritish Orangemen arc called upon to told a mass meeting in London, uander le auspices of the Primrose Club, for le purpose of inaugurating a league for he protection ofthe "unity of the "cm The meeting will be devoted to effect rig a preliminary organization, a :opting ,title and agreeing upon the ob jects to hiech the mission of the organization is o be devoted. Catholic as well as 'rotestant Loyalists are invited to join. )ne of the p)uposes of the league will e, it is declared, to "secure the enroil aent of men accnstomed to service." lie Standard contains an advertisement vir an Adjutant to the league. Owing to this warlike appearance of hings, the Belfast, lIreland, News says: 'The time has arrived for the National ts to prepare to meet the enemy and isperse them. It is a fiction that the sationalists are in the minority in ;lster. Although well disposed toward heir Protestant brethren, the Catholics f Ulster will not submit to be massacred 'y men ar-med with Snyder rifles." The story Whtich MaxwellI Telhis The St. Louis Post-Dispatch prints a tatement by H. MI. Brooks alias 3Max tell, on trial for the murder of Arthur 'reller, which will constitute the defenceL f Brooks and which will be urged to he utmost by his attorneys in the trial. he substance of the statement is that rellcer needed medical treatment, which Iaxwell proposedm to give him and -hich involved the necessity of giving im chloroform. Preller consented and 1 >ok the chloroform willingly, but died omn its effets. Brooks, or MIaxwell, ecame Zrightened at the situation he -a in, disposed of Preller's body in the ianner so well known and next day leftt >r the West. A go'od many of his -tiens he explains is the result of hi. eing constantly drunk after the death of1 is friend until some time after he left t. Louis. -Bartley Campbell, the actor, has re ently lost his mind. He is in a most itiable condition as lhe is utterly help ~ss and totally destitute of funds. Hi:s dends arc endeavoring to raise money > have him properly taken care of at a rivate asvhun. - -Seven MIormon missonaries from tah began a series of mieetings inear 'ayette City last Sunday. They made. iany converts. They were finally driven if by a mob, and had to seek p~rotection C!IOOL* OF COOKERY. Differian: Theories ofr French and Englikh Cook.-Art nud Numre. Cooks are philosophers. A certain fat butcher in Jeterson Market knows a deal about French and English cooks, and he says they will each take a piece of beef and go to work upon it with the widest possible aims in view. "Batiste Dutoit, chief at a leading hotel, for instance," says lie, "would take that roast of beef, or in fact any solid meat, and subject it to a long though gradual, action of heat, so that all the fibrous parts would be thoroughly cooked. That would leave but little work for the digestive organs to perform. An English cook, on the other hind, would build a roaring fire, and would roast the beef only on the outside, leaving the inside rare. He allows only a little time for broiling or roasting, because his theory is that any other process destroys the genuine flavor of the meat. The )oiint of flavor is the one on which the two cooks split, and therefore their philosophies run widc amart. " 'No flavor can be mnvented,' says the Englishman, 'which can approach that of meat. The flavor of meat must not be meddled with. Whether the dish is to be of beef or lamb or mutton, that process is best which can keep the flavor of each meat distinguishable above any sauce or condiment that may accompany it.' "Nothing, in the Englishman's notion, can equal the flavor of the juice oozing from a nicely roasted joint or rib when sliced. The Frenchman-my friend Dutoit-can make an endless variety of flavors from the same meat, in neither of which will that of the original meat be recognized. That idea, enlarged upon, makes the difference between the two methods of cooking. For my part, I think the Englishman is nearest right. He likes nothing artificial. The only thing in favor of the French cook is his economy. He wastes nothing. His ingenuity and skill transforms what the Englishman would throw away into tasty ishes. A combination of both forms of ooking would make the best system." Here the fat butcher cut off a piece of moked ham and ate it raw, which natur illy interferred with any further discus Sion. A Brave Girl. About five o'clock on the afternoon of lhe 15th of last month, says the Wash ngton Critic, every one who passed the ,orner of Seventh street and New York ivenue noticed a man lying at the foot >f a lamp post on the corner of Mount Vernon square. The unfortunate slave >f the cul was a war department clerk. EIe had received his half month's pay md invested too much of it in rum. \Tore than usual notice was taken of him >y the passing throng on account of his andsome, manly appearance and ele ,ant dress. None stopped, however, to end him a helping hand, and he seemed loomed to the inevitable policeman's ough grasp and the shame of a station iouse cell. Help came at last and he vas spared the additional disgrace hrough the commiseration and courage >f a pretty young lady, who had a re narkable but none thle less creditable ~onception of her duty. She was also in employee of the government and em loyed in the governnment printing office, md never saw the prostrate form before. is she approached tihe hlpless man she1 vas greeted with a reproof from her enmale companion. In response to her juestions he said he could not walk 'ithout assistance, and that he lived dat I o. - New York avenue- Braing the mbllic gaze, and worse than this, the peculations and remarks of the crowd, he assisted him to his feet, and, taking1 is arm in hers, helped him to his home,1 hile her companion deserted her in dis ust. At the door he learned her name, md the following evening he and his vife called on her to express their grati ude and his strong determination never o make it necessary for any one to lift di from the gutter in the future. Ifia Majority for the Presuidentl. Up to the 18th inst., the President had n all sent about 2,100 nominations for ivil offices to the Senate. Of these 4 ,700 have b een confirmed and only 1 hirteen rejected. Thle remaining 400 1 vill be disposed of in a comparatively hort time, and it is not expected that ] he prop~ortion of rejections will be in- I reased. The Pennsylvania nominations, I thad b~een anticiplated, would meet with I auch objection; but of the entire 150 et in all have been confirmed but tw~o r three, and these arc still pending andJ ill go through. Nearly all of these ominations were made at the instance 1 f MIr. Rlandall, and Senator Don Came-f on has taken as mluch interest in havingi bem confirmed as if they were his own ersonal and political friends. A honeysuckle h all is to be oane of the ishonable frivolities of the coming sea on. Last year it was roses; now the assion for novelty drives us from the arenl to the hedgerows, and wvomen - nd walls alike will be decorated with . railing branches of the sweetest of our :nglish flowers. A primrose ball wa. lggestedl a short time ago, in aid of the ands of the League; but as it could nott ike place in Lent or during the Easter ecess, it has b~een abandoned, and some ine beCtweenl Ascot and G(odwvood the. oey'suckle ball will come off. I ho' pe at (on this occasion 1no pretty yonai~ idies will beI excluded, as the three we]ll noIwnI beauties were from the rose ball ist veal.-London World. --The Philadelphiia Times speaks ruthfully when it says, "If Gladstone is :1 idig for a falli, many a man will envyI THE RICHMOND CONFERENCE. Election of Four Bisiops--Brief bketches of these OIlicials--Other Matters of Interest. Conference adopted a resolution to reconsider the action of the committee on the board of missions, looking to an important change in its financial arrange ments. Action on the subject was post poned. The committee having consid eration of the subject concerning preach ers whose conduct in general is repre hensible and who don't pay their debts, reported against further legislation on the subject. The report of the committee on pub lishing interests affirmed the principle that the book agent should not decline any advertisement that may not be friendly to any patron of periodicals, but thought that no additional legislation was necessary. The following Bishops were elected: The Rev. Dr. Win. Wallace Duncan, of South Carolina; the Rev. Dr. Charles B. Galloway, of Mississippi; the Rev. Dr. Eugene Russell Hendrix and the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Stanton, of Kentucky. The Bishops elect were consecrated on Thursday evening. On Wednesday the Rev. W. 31. Prottsmeer, of the Southwest Missouri Conference, presented an elaborate paper as a substitute for the report of the com mittee. The substitute eliminated the word "South" from the name of the Church, and transposed the words "Methodist Episcopal" to "Episcopal Methodist." The substitute was rejected and the report of the committee against changing the name was adopted. Dr. J. E. Edw ards, of Virginia, offered a resolution that ministers be excused from reading the Discipline rules annually to congregations, and that the question whether they did or did not read them be not asked at the quadrennial confer enee. After a lengthy discussion, par ticipated in by prominent members of the Conference, the resolution was re jected. Dr. Kelly and Judge Tyler, of Tennessee, offered a resolution authoriz ing the establishment- of conferences in China and Brazil, and authority to legal ize ownership of property in those coun tries. Referred. The Conference consumed the greater portion of Thursday's session in dis ussing the report of the committee on missions. The board of missions was increased to twenty-five, and the Bishops were made ex-officio members. A paper was referred to the board of missious muggesting steps towards unifying Meth Ddism in foreign fields. Bishop Koner iddressed the Conference in opposition o the paper. Drs. J. F. Cox, of Texas, A. R. Winfield, of Arkansas, E. E. Wiley, of Virginia, and others also op posed the measure. Drs. M. B. Chap nan. of Missouri, Horace Bishop, of rexas, D. C. Kelly, of Tennessee, W. C. Black, of Mississippi, J. S. Gardner, of Virginia, and others favored the propo dton of unification and comity. The liscussion was the most earnest of the ?resent session. At the conclusion of the debate the ommittee's report, recommending no ange in the status of our foreign mis don work, was adopted by a vote of 106 :oS 7. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the con ecration of the four newly elected Bishops took place in the presence of an mimense congregation. The sermon vas delivered by Bishop McTyeire, and he consecration services were conduct x in accordance with the Book of Dis ~ipline. The following is a brief sketch of the ~ our Bishops elected by the Methodist Ieneral Conference in sessson in Rich-~ nond, Va.: The Rev. W. W. Duncan, D. D., was >orn December '27, 1839, in Mecklen )urg county, Va. graduated in Wofford iollege, S. C., in 18.58, and joined the : 'irginia Conference in 1859, where he r >reaehed very acceptably, and was much c >eloved as a pastor. In 1875 he was a lected p~rofessor of mental and moral j cience in Wofford College. This posi- t ion he has filled up to the present time. E In his capacity of "financial secretary" i: >f this institution he has traveled through v .nd preached in every part of South c >rolina. He developed considerable 'j >reaching power and gained great popui- t arity. His election by such a flattering , ote was a substantial proof that Dr. e )uncan's reputation had reached beyond t: he narrow confines of his own State. j lishop Duncan is in his best years, of r oust physique, and doubtless will do ii ood work for his church. Dr. Charles B. Gialloway was born in b Cosciusko, Miss., September 1, 1849. h nd was educated in the university of r tis State, entered the Mississippi Con- n erence in 1868, and was engaged in reg- v Jar pastoral work till 1882, when he was a ade editor of the New Orleans Christian is Lavocate. He is probably the youngest n siop the Methodist Church has had. o The Rev. Eugene Russell Hendrix, fi . D. was horn in "iyette, Missouri, d I 'y 17, 1847 graduated at the Wesleyain C niversity in 1867, and at Union Theo ie w'd Seminary. New York, in 186;9;d dud the Misson~i Conference in 1860, rve oni mHlission.s, stations, antd in the r-.idency of Central College, Missorn~i, r olding the Iitter p~osition since 1878. a: f e comipanied Bishop Marvin in his avels round the world in 1876 and 1877, d uid upon his return p~ub'lishied a volume n 'ivin an acco unt of his tour. Thc e . Joseph Stanton Key, D. D ., lk -a born1 Jiu l 1, 1829, graduated fromi 1i :ory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1! ~ utered the Gecorgia Conference in 1819, b uid as been i the regular work of the ti -todist itieracy ever since, filli:o4 Iisions, stations and serving as presid- ir gelder in districts. He is a memb er| fthe South Georgia Conference. He :il cal Conference in London, and the Cen tennial Conference in Baltimore, but was providentially hindered from attend ing either. The report of the special committee on the hymn book was recommitted, and the two papers on the same subject were ordered to be printed. Dr. J. B. Mc Ferren, of Tennessee was elected beok agent, receiving 107 out of 209 votes cast. I. G. Johns, of Texas, was elected Secretary of the Board of Missions, in place of R. A. Young, of Tennessee, the former Secretary. D. R. Martin, of Louisville, was re-elected Secretary of the Board of Church Extension. - A Vl1.IA TO\WN RUN MAD. A Bloody Fight Vith Shockin;: Results.-One Man Killed. SQesernl Dan:eroulv Wounded. MARTINSVILLE, VA., May 17.-No greater tragedy has occurred in Virginia in a decade than that which fills this town with gloom and excitement to-night. In a fight this evening on a ciowded street many shots were fired, and as a result Jacob Terry, a young farmer, lay cold in death, and the life blood of his two brothers is fast ebbing away. Co. P. D. Spencer, a prominent business man and manufacturer; Tarleton Brown, proprietor of Brown's tobacco ware house; B. L. Jones, a saloon keeper; a clerk in a hotel and a negro are all dan gerously wounded. All the parties are prominent in the business life of this place and well known in southern Vir inia. On Saturday night an anonym aus circular was issued and posted up all over town. It seriously reflected on W. K. Terry, a young business man and son of the late William Terry, a promi aent citizen. This morning Terry telegraphed for bis brothers, J. K. and Ben Terry, living it Aiken station, twenty miles away. rhey arrived at 1 p. m., and after a brief consultation went to the printing )ffice and demanded the author of the :rd. The proprietor told them it was. Dol. P. D. Spencer, a member of -the own board and one of the leading busi iess men of the town. This evening, ;oon after the tobacco factories had -losed for the day and when the streets vere filled with operatives returning rom their work, the Terry brothera tarted in the direction of Spencer's fac ory. When about half way they were net by Spencer with his brother and everal friends. W. K. Terry addressed few words to Spencer, who told him iot to shoot. Just then some one fired 6 pistol and the scene that followed beg rars description. Forty shots were fired, md the following is a list of the killed nd wounded: W. K. Terry was shot from the rear, he ball entering near the spine and odging in his right breast. Jake Terry vas shot through the abdomen and fell lead. Ben Terry, another of the broth rs, was shot through the neck and in he body. P. -D. Spencer was shot in he hip. Tarleton Brown, Spencer's >usiness partner, received two balls in he groin and is thought to be fatally rounded. R. L. Jones, a saloon keeper, eriously hurt. R. Gregory, clerk at the .ee Hotel, seriously hurt. Sandy Mar in, a colored mechanic, seriously hurt. 'he last two were hit by stray ballk 'he Ten-vs came from an old and well 2nown Virginia family, and occupy high ocial position. None of them are miar ie&. It is believed at midnight that irown and the two Terrys will not live ill morning. On Saturday afternoon V. K. Tcrry circulated a card ridiculing tax bill passed by the town board, of rhich Spencer was a member. It did ot justify, in popular opinion, the card rhich followed it at night and which 'rought on the tragedy. seventeen Offersi of Marriage. The seventeen oifers of marriage which irs. Adelaide Bartlett is said to have eceived during the last week, including ne from a clergyman, merely illustrate nd support the argument of Buckle that uman actions are as much subject to niform law as the courses of the stars. uch offers of marriage, always includ ig one from a clergyman, are the in ariable fortune of ladies who are accused f poisoning their husbands or lovers. 'he number of seventeen has probably een increased tenfold by this time, if -e are to judge by the recorded experi nece of Madelaine Smith, the heroine of ie great Scotch poisoning case of 1858. 'hat young lady accepted one of her umerous suitors (the clergyman, we be eve,) and lives to this day a prosperous entlewoman in the immediate neigh orhood of Bedford square. Let us ope that Mrs. Bartlett may be recgm ensed by a happy union for her past riseries. She has the matrimonial ad mntage of some thousands of pounds ad most bewitching pair of eyes. She also an attentive and experienced sick urse, whose experiences of the dangers using chloroform are sufficiently pain dl to deter her from practicing with that rug upon a second husband.-Pall Mall azette. --Ex-President Arthur is said to be 2cidedly convalescent. -The Chicago Arbeiter Zeitung has sumed publication. Its utterances are incendiary as ever. -A search for the Anarchist, Parsons, seloses the fact that he is not in Flo da. He has thus far eluded arrest. -The gra jury at Hillsboro, Mo., st week considered the cases of the te railroad strikers, flfty-nine of whom cre indicted. Many of these escaped ~fore warrants could be* served upon ema. Dr1). I Ma LokI. 1 .- noted anther and ronw-r. died :uENhome in Yonkers, .Y.. last Friday moring i; .after an xiess of two days. from~i erysielas. Eg~