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VOL, VI. E i.es VOL. VI. _ ANNING, S.C.,EDNESDAY, JULY3,80 _ O 3 THE STATE ALLIANAE. ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT E. T. STACKHOUSE. Rapid Growth of the Order in South Car olina-Non-Partisan but not Non-Politi cal-The Farmers Intend to Elect the Next President of the United States. GREENILLE, S. C., July 23.-The Alliance convened promptly at 10 o'clock. All of the orlicers were pres ent. Col. L. L. Polk made a short ad dress. A legislative committee, com posed of one from each district, was appointed. It was determined to ap point a committee to examine all the press reports from the Alliance. Dr. J. Win. Stokes was elected president for the ensuing term. The other old officers were re-elected and Drs. J. A. Jarnigan and J. Wm. Stokes, and Hons-W. J. Talbert and A. C. Latimer were elected delegates to the National Alliance, and Spartanburg was selected as the place of the next meeting. One or the most important actions taken by the Alliance to-day was the appointment of a special committee of five to investigate and report upon a plan for a mutual fire and life insurance concern to be operated by the Alliance for itself exclusively. The Alliances in the Northwest are operating con cernsof this kind. W. G. Hinson .was seated as delegate from Charleston. The following is President Stack house's annual address: Brethren of the State Alliance: In turning over to you the high trust which I have endeavored to execute for you during the two years since your or ganization, I congratulate you on the growth of the Order within the State, and on the good your organiza tion has already accomplished, and on the open position for future accom plishment. The report of your State organization shows that the organization has been planted in every county in the State. our secretary reports that we now have 1,052 Sub-Alliances in the State an increase of 298 since your last meeting, and an increase of 17,500 members during the year now closing. The improved business methods in troduced by the Order have saved hun dreds of thousands of dollars to the farmers of the State, but important as is the money saving to the farmers of the State, the gain in information and manhood is vastly more important. The Alliance has not only demonstrat ed the practical benefits of unity, but thatit has stimulated and has given direction to individual efforts is the testimony of observers both in and out of the Order. The farmers of the State are more cheerful and hopeful than they have been for many years, and it will not be denied by those who have observed and studied the farmers' conditionthatit is mainly due to~the beneficent teachings .nd operations of your noble organiza tion. In looking to and arranging for future operations we must be guided by the same declaration of noble pur poses that has enable: is to start so well. They are founded on truth and equity. Let us study them and be guided by them. The safety and suc cess of our organization is dependent on our fidelity and devotion to these noble purposes. The first declaration of purpose by our Order shows that it looked to the educa tion of the iultural class,' that they might epared to grapple with or enthooned monopoly. I respect ?ully recommend a careful study ot this entire first declaration and purpose to the brotherhoodin South Catolina. The education of the "agricultural class" is the most-important work of the Alli ance, not only in South Carolina but in every State of of this great nation. I recommend that you consider carefully the best methods for the accomplish ment of this geat educational work. Entrenche monopoly, with its in fluence and power, must be met and defeated. This is a task worthy of the supremest efforts of the toiling masses of the people of the United States. From it there is no eseape if we would preuate free institutions and en lhtened Christian government. The tolig masses of the people of this great nation are girding themselves for the accomplishment of this task. The agricultural States of this Union are uniting for the accomplishment of this grand task. The great Northwest and the Cotton States will stand to gether in the coming battle with the powers of monopoly. The assaults of the first skirmish will be recorded in the election results of the national elec tion of 1890. But the monster monopo ly is too firmly established to be defeat ed in a skirmish. It will require the great battle of 1892 to dec~de whether the people or wi ether mo'.iopoly shall rule this great nation. The charge of our opponents that we have abandoned agriculture and gone into politics is sufficiently answered by the statistical fact of the increased area and superior condition of the growing crops. Whence this fear of the farmer in politics? But we must ever remem ber that our politics are to be "strinctly non-partisan." Any departure from this rule will be, to the extent of the departure, fatal to the success of the reforias sought. The Alliance is in no sense a political party, nor does it look to the destruction of either of the great political parties, but it is a "strictly non-partisan" organization for the de fence and protection of the agricultural classes against legalized spoliation, and will wait for no change of Administra tion to present its demands. The na tional demands formulated by the Su preme Council at St. Louis have been considered and pissed upon by the Sub and Coanty Alliances. I recommend that the:.e demands, with the action taken thereon by Sub and County Al liances, be referred to a special com mittee on legislative demands and that all the matters in reference to legisla tion, State or National, be referred to this committee. The great consolida tion effected at St. Louis since your last meeting and the unprecedented growth of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union inspires the hope that the demands of the grand organization will at no very distant date receive respectful consideration by the Con gress of the United States. I congratulate the farming and in dustrial classes of the State on the fact that since your last meeting the State has made provision for the establish ment of an agricaltural and mechani cal college at Fort Hill, and that the work of construction is now progress ing. The report of your executive com mittee shows good and safe financial management. They have enabled your State organizer, state lecturer and State president to meet to tihe extent of their ability to do so all d emands made for their services. I recom mend that the committees continue? the same equmit ab'e and wise arrangement in deference to the work of the state lecturer, and that he be required to give his whole time to the work under their direction should it be demanried, and I suggest further, now that the work of org aniza tion is so nearly cemnpleted, that the -committee impose the work of State organization on the State lecturer. The State secretary, who has made your State constitution a special study, has by request prepared for submission +tnn youbdy a new or revised constitu tion, with the purpose to make it more svsteumtic in arrangement, less doubt ful of interpretation and easier of reference. I recommend that you take such action as will best secure a care ful consideration of this new or revised constitution. The plan adiopted at your last meet ing for the establishment of an "Al liance Exchange" has been carried into active and successful operation. This report submitted to this body as infor mation will sufficiently explain its operations. Its continued success is directly dependent on the patronage of the Alliance brotherhood of the State. When the business world comes to un derstand that it has come to stay, that the Alliance people of the State will support it to the extent of their ability, it will surely prove a grand success and benefit to the Alliance membership beyond their most sanguine expecta tions when you organized. Your State organ is worthy of and should receive the support of the brotherhood throughout the State. It shonld make its weekly visits to every Alliance in the State. The fact that most of the State press is opposed to the derands of the Alliance makes it dmperative that our people should read our State and national organ. The National Economist, your national organ, is combating with commenda ble fairness and great ability the evils and dangers of monopoly. I recom mend that the Brotherhood of South. Carolina give it liberal patronage. I respectfully suggest the propriety and justice of increasing the salaries of your president and secretary, as the salaries, as now fixed by your constitu tion, are not fair compersation for the services rendered by those officers. I trust you will remain in session long enough to give careful consideration to all matters of interest to the Order in this State. I want to say that the effort to serve you has been to me a labor of love. I have brought to the discharge of the duties imposed my best efforts for the well-being of the Order. I have been conscious of my inability to measure up to the responsibility imposed upon me. I invoke your indulgence to the deficiencies and errors in my official administration. I want to record my great and full appreciation of the prompt and generous aid given me in their several departments by those who have been associated with me in the discharge of niy official duties, and I congratulate the brotherhood in the State on the wisdom of their selection. The address was listened to most attentively during its delivery. In the Alliance Thursday President Polk installed the new officers as fol lows: President, J. W. Stokes. Vice president. D. P. Sojourner. Secretary, J. W. Reid. Treasurer, F. P. Taylor. Chaplain, the Rev. J. Douglas. Lecturer, W. J. Talbert. Steward, H. McRue. . Doorkeeper, J. W. Kennedy. Assistant doorLeeper, A. R. Waller. Executive Committee-Lucas Mc Intosh, S. T. D. Lancaster and T. D. Mithell. Dr. J. Win. Stokes made a brief in augural address, in which he thanked the Alliance for the honor conferred, and hoped that with their aid he could lead them on to victory. It was quite eloquent and interesting. Col. D. K. Norris, in a few minutes' speech, invited the Alliance "to visit Fort ill, the site of the Clemson Col lege. The invitation was accepted and quite a number will attend. The Arkansas Farmers' Alliance telegraphed fraternal greetings. They exhort the South Carolina brethren never to cease the fight for posterity until victory crowns our efforts. To this a suitable response was made. Fraternal greetings were sent by the Allianoe to the Kansas Alliance, and the Exchange presented a report as to its work, which was received as infor mation.. A meeting of the stockholders of the State Exchange was held yesterday afternoon, the stock .being well repre sented. The report of the board of directors of the Exchange was alto gether satisfactory and encouraging, and an itemized statement of the con dition of the Exchange was given. The old officers of the board of direc tors as follow~s were re-elected: Presi dent J. C. Coit; secretary, W. 0. Cain; treasurer, J. W. Ferguson. The following board was elected: From the State at large, J1. C. Coit and J. A. Sligh; 1st Congressional district, . 1I. Riley; 2d. district, W. A. Zimmer man; 3d. district, HI. W. Lawson; 4th.I district, John R. Harrison; 5th. district, A. H. White;60th. district, J. W. Fer guson; 7th. district, J. 0. Cain. The committee on legislative de mands made a number of recommendla tions in line with the demands of the s ational Alliance. The importance of pushing these demands was set forth and it was urged that no candidates be supported who is not in full sympathy with these demands. ?he secretary of the State and Coun ty Alliances were forbidden hereafter to give out a full directory of County an Sub-Alliance officers except by per mission of the president and chairman of the executive committee. An appeal was made to the brethren of the North and Northwest to unite with us in condemning the Lodge bill and requesting them to come to our aidin reentngthe passage of said bil h nent and effort of which we believe will not be to benefit any class of citizens, but only serve to break the force of our united brotherhood in our demands for financial refor m. Several amendments to the constitu tion wvere adopted. The sub-theasury bill was endorsed and "it is the sense of the body that no candidate for Con gress should receive c ur support unless he favors these measures." The Al liance was positive in its opposition to national banks and demands the removal of all tax upon State banks. County and Sub-Alliances were en joined to take more active interest in the schools of the country. The alliance met promtly to-night at 8.30 o'clock. The Teachers' Institute invited the body to visit their meeting. A resolution was adopted thanking them for this courtesy. Col. L. M. Donaldson made a verhal report about bagging and ties for the Alliance, and a resolution was adopted endorsing those papers that support the Alliance demands. The meeting has been very harmonious. At 10.50 the Alliance adjourned to meet at Spartanburg next year. Robbea by a Comnpaionx. Cn ArL':T, N. (3., July 24.-A. Hlier holzer, a Virginia commercial traveler who caine to Charlotte yesterday, was robbed at a hotel here last night. On 1the train he had formed the acquaint ance of a man giving the name of F". H. Thomas. who represented himself also as a drummer hailing from Colum bia, S. C. Mr. Ilierholzer became very intimate with his new friend and last night they roomed together. This morning upon awakening Mr. Hlier holzer found that he had been robbed. Among other things that were missing was a new thousand mileage book, $20 in mainey. Thomas left a note bidding his frien'd good-by and saying he hoped to see him again. Thomas was arrest ed at Chester this evening.-Columbia ABOUT TIE ALLIANCE. TALKS WITH DELEGATES BY A NEWS AND COURIER REPORTER. Col. Leonidas L. Polk, Personal Appear ance, and What he Says About the Na tional Alliance-What Some of the State Delegates Say. GREENVILLE, S. C., July 24.-Your correspondent interviewed Col. Leon idas L. Polk and a number of delegates as to Alliance matters. Col. Polk is a man of striking appearance, about medium height and size. His bright black eye reminds one of the earnest ness in his character. He wears a long beard, his hair is just turning gray and he appears to be about 50 years of age, in manner he is certainly most agree able-even quite jovial-and has a good word for all. He is not a graduate of any college, and only went to school ten months, but his language is clear and he is a good speaker. When asked about the Alliance he said it was in good condition; more flourishing than ever before in its his tory. At the St. Louis meeting last December the entire membership of the Order was about two millions. It has increased wonderfully since then. Twenty-seven of the largest and most prosperous States have been orgadized. He said: We are now organizing New York, New Jersey. Michigan, Wyoming, Ohio, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California. The business feature has already saved the members millions. and has been most satisfactory to all concerned. Where they are fully organized the Exchange system is work ing finely. The Alliance is purely non partisan, and as an organization can take no part in politics. It seeks to educate the masses on economic ques tions, and to elevate them to a higher conception of the duties of citizenship. And leaves the members free to adopt such course as they see fit. He had travelled throughout the Northwest, and found the Alliances there like here, all united. The sectional lines, he thought, would be erased in time by this. The legislative committee was doing good work. He would leave to night for Greensboro, N. C., his home, to address a meeting of 20,000 farmers. Thence he would go to Washington. Mr. Chas. Crossland, of Marlboro, said that the Alliance was in a flour ishing condition in his county. They would use hemp and flax bagging in stead of jute. He said : "We are not running politics in the Alliance. The Exchange with us has been a success. Of course we are committed to the sub treasury bill." Mr. C. A. Plyler, Jr., of Lancaster, said: "The Alliance is in good work ing order. Will use hemp and flax bag ging. There is nothing of politics in the Alliance except in national meas ures. We endorse the Exchange from beginning to end. We think Columbia would be a good location for the Ex change. We also favor and support the sub-treasury bill." W. McK Zimmerman, of Spartan burg, said : "We are running the Alli ance on the supply depot plan. Since last January our business has amount ed to about $50,000. We passed a reso lution in the last county meeting to incorporate the County Alliance for the purpose of supplying goods to our members at retail. We do not favor the Exchange. It is too big, so much so that it cannot do justice to the people. We think the sub-treasury a step in the right direction, think it will be perfected in time. We keep down local issues in the Alliance. Endorse measures, not men in ours. Some have acted hastily, but we can pay no atten tioni to that. Will use no jute bag ging." The Rev. James Douglas, of Fair field, chaplain of the -State Alliance, says : "In my county the Alliance is doing well. Will use a substitute for jute. Our county has no connection with the Exchange, but we are going in it." The Rev. M. H. Majors, of George town, says : "Our county is doing well for the Alliance. We will not use jute. Our Alliance is not in politics. We favor the Exchange." Mr. J. S. McKenzie, of Florence, thought the Alliance in his county in a lourishing condition. They will use any substitute for jute that can be had for covering their cotton. The Alli ance is a non-political body and takes no stock in politics as an organization. Mr. J. E. Pettigrewv, Exchange agent for the same county, thought the State Exchange all right, as far as his coun ty was concerned. Most of the Sub Alliances had subscribed stock. He thought to change its location to Char leston a good idea if the right man could be had to take charge of it. Dr. J. E. Jarnigan,of Marion, thought the Alliance in a healthy, strong condi tion, working in full harmony. His people will use hemp and lag bagging as a substitute for jute. In his opinion the Alliance should not go ijto politics at all, but of course as 0itizens the members had the right to/discuss poll tical matters that touched their inter est. His people believed in the Ex change. He thinks the Exchange would have more advantages if situated in Charleston, provided Col. Donaldson or some other good man had charge. lie thinks his people largely favor the sub treasury scheme. Capt. J. W. Wiley, of Colleton, thought the Alliance was moving on in his county. The people took a great deal of interest in it. They will use hemp and flax bagging for covering the cotton. The Alliance is taking no stand in politics. We do not look uponl the Alliance as a political body at all. Our people have not taken as much interest in the Exchange as they should. We favor Charleston as its location. Major H.A. Seibels, of Lexington, thought the Alliance strong and in creasing in membership. His 'people will use hemp and flax bagging instead of jute. There is no such thing as poli tics in the Alliance. We were not organized as a political party, but to ameliorate the farmers' condition. Hie favors the Exchange being moved to a more central point. Col. J. H. Kinsler, of Richland, said: "We have but a few Alliances in our county, but they are all in a flourishing condition. Had sent th eir order to Busi ness Manager Donaldson for ilax bag ging. Of course, we would like the Exchange at Columbia, but are willing for it to be moved to the most advan tageous point. We take no part in State politics as an Alliance at all, but we favor the sub-treasury bill as a na tional measure. Dr. John HI. Price, of Orangeburg, thought the Alliance in a very hopeful condition in his county. In fact, it wa outstripping expectations. The membership was increasing and many had received substantial benefits from a business standpoint. Our people favor a substitute for jute, and many Alli ances had placed their orders for hemp and Ilax bagging. Our body, of course, is non-political, except as to a few na tional questions, such as the sub-treas ury bill. We favor the removal of the Echange to Charleston on account of its superior freight and market report facilities. Mr. Onan I. Riley, of Orangeburg, who is the Exchange director for the firt district, thinks that a Cobumbia is a central point it would suit tbe Ex change much better as a locatio;n. ie says the volume of trade has been about $85,000 since established. less than a year ago. Dr. W. It. Timmerman, of Edgefield. also one of the Exchange dir-ectors, thought the removal of the Excnange to a central point, say Colmhia, would be df much bencit to the Exchange and the Alliances. lie did not think the freight facilities of Charleston would do any good, as the goods are not ordered in bulk. Col. L. P. Miller, of Newberry, thinks the Exchange should be mored to Col umbia, a central point. The Ne.bery farmers are going to use hemp and ilax bagging. Mr. Miller favors the sub treasury scheme. Col. Joseph L. Keitt, of Newberry, says : "Our Alliance is in good order. Our Alliances are becoming better ac quainted with the State Exchange and will patronize it more in the future than in the past. We favor moving the Exchange to Columbia. We will use no jute bagging. Our County Alli ance passed resolutions calling upon candidates for the Legislature to ex press their opinion as to the measure supported by the National Alliance and to support none but those wh:> would vote for a United States Senator who would support these demands. There is no such thing as the Alli ance going in to local issues. The bonds of the Alliance are very well de fined. A few Alliances may have acted hastily, but you will find no County Alliance endorsing local issues." The Rev. J. A. Sligh, of Newberry, says: "The Alliance is in splendid working order. The county is thorough ly organized. Our people are unani mous In their opposition to jute, and will use hemp and flax. The Alliance as a body will not go into politics, that is, the Alliance is not a political ma chine. But, of course, politics to a cer tain sense will go into the Order, es pecially national issues. We favor moving the Exchange to Columbia. The general condition of the State Ex change is good. We have operated only six months, and six of the worst months in the year. The tuture out look is very promising. The business has been good. and we have the utmost confidence in it." Col. R. M. Smith, of Spartanburg, says : "The Alliance is in a prosper ous condition, growing in numbers. We will use whatever substitute for jute we can get. The Alliance does not work as a political body, but you can not separate the Alliance from politics, as all of our people are members of the Alliance. But we will make no nomi nations. I am opposed to that. We prefer having the Exchange located in the up-country. aWe favor the sub treasury very strongly." THE COFFIN BLEW UP. Many Difficulties Attended the Barial of Mrs. Peterson. SEDALIA, Mo., July 24.-A most sin ular burial took place at Springfork, fteen miles distant from this city, re ently. Among the early settlers of this County were a young German named John N. Peterson and his wife. Last Thursday Mrs. Peterson died of :rcpsy. At the time of her death she was a remarkably heavy woman weigh ing nearly three hundred pounds. Im mediately-after Mrs. Peterson died ar rangements were made for the funeral. The largest casket to be procured in this city was the exact measurement required at the time of death, but as it was not delivered until Friday morn ing, the body had swollen so much that it was crowded into the casket with much difficulty. The lid was then screwed down and the body left in that condition for burial. Ice could not be procured. The funeral services were set for Saturday afternoon, and, as is custonary, a nt~mber of neighbors act ed as watchers Friday night. At mid night the watchers were startled by a loud report in the room where the cof n had been placed. it was found that the gases of the body had accumalatted within the casket until their force burst the glass over the face of Mrs. Peterson. So great was the force of the explosion that the body wvas shot forward and upward, the head protrud ing from the collin. A consultation was held, and it was decided that owing to the condition of the body the fu neral should take place at once. The grave having been prepared, the coflin was carried to the burial place and strong ropes were placed under the casket. Just as the coflin was being lowered, one of the assistants let go of his end of the rope. This threw the weight to the head of the collin and the ropes were .jerked from the hands of the men stationed there. The collin fell with great force, head down, and burst to pieces. Another consultation was held, and it was decided to fill up the grave at once, without waiting for another casket. Mr. Bogerts Rich Find. ELIZAXBETHI, N. J., July 23.-On .1utne 25th Martha Ann Bogert, aged seven ty, died at her home, 1,049 Magnolia avenue, this city. About a week ago her husband was surprised on looking over her personal effects to come across an old, dilapidated handbag in which, on being opened, was found stuffed a large niumber ot small tobacco pouches. On opening them they wvere found to be filled with rolls of bank bills of various denominations and silver coin. JDogert, who was the woman's second husband, was cute enough to only let a couple of persons into the secret, as Mrs. Bo gert had heirs at law, and having (lied without making a will, he was afraid they might claim the treasure. He quickly disposed of all the household effects and started a fewv days ago for Oregon, where he has a brother iivingr. Since his departure the story has leaked out and the heirs in consequence are in dignant to think that the treasure has slipped from their clutches. Those to whom Bogert confided his discovery and who had seen the money counted out by him say that there was over $7, 000 in the old satchel. Mrs. B3ogert dur ing her lifetinme waLs noted for her mis erly propensities. it is said of her that she even used to split lucifer matches in quarters to make them last longer. Heid for 3urder. GREENVILLE, S. C., July 22.-D~avid Stephen, the man who killed .J. C. Cal houn Gritlin, a prominent citi::en of Pickens, at Pickens, on May 3i, was arrested in Pickens county M:onday afternoon by .James Heard and brought here last night and put in Greenaville jail for safe keeping. Stephens hzas not been over ten miles away from Pickens and has been living and sleeping in the woods, never daring to enter a house for fear of arrest. lIn an interview with him to-clay lie plainly intimatedI that lhe killed Griffin for intimacy with his wife.__ __ A stroni: Argtwment. WasmIxoN, Juliy 22.-Gen. B. F. Butler, who was chairman of the House committee which reportedl the~ force bill of the Forty-third Congress, has written a letter to Mr. Wheeler, of Ala bama, complimenting Mr. Wheeler's speech in opposition to the pending Federal elections bill, as being 01ne of the ablest and best arguments he has seen in that very volma inous debate. But he does not wholly agree with Mr. Wheelr's argument. TH: FORCE tBILL DENOUNCED. iluine. Meni see Only Dis:aiter Follow in-- its l'assage. COLrnBUs, Oio, July 24.-The Fed eral elections bill is attracting more generai attention than any proposed legislation daring the last twenty-five years. Within the past week the foroe measure. despite the Republican State Convention, has formed the great topic in all t he political clubs, the hotels, and, in fact, among travellers. Busi ness men having a large Southern trade have become interested, and the belief is expressed that in the event of the bill becoming a law such cominer cial centres as Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. in Ohio, would suffer the loss of Southern trade. A repre sentative of a large manutacturing es tablishmnent in Cincinnati having a valuable trade South expressess the I most se:rious apprehensions, and says that fron what he can learn there will he an organized protest sent to the Senate against the passage of the bill by the business men of the country, a prom-st so strong and vigorous in tone that the Senate will not fail to heed the warning. It now transpires that it is not Dem ocrats alone that oppose the passage of the Lodge bill, but a large and influen tial body of Republicans who have grown weary over the constant agita tion of the Southern question and the rights of the negro. In conversation a well-known Republican, speaking of the force bill, remarked: "There is quite as much need for a peep into the election returns in the district repre sented by Speaker Reed as in any Con gressional district in South Carolina. There are districts in Pennsylvania also quite as bad, when it came to an honast count, as any in the Southern States. A great deal of money from Ohio has been placed in Southern en terprises, railroads, mines and manu facturina industries, and fears are ex pressed that the political agitation in cident to the passage of the force bill will seriously disturb all elements of society and retard the building up of that section of the country, if it does not permanently derange all of the more important industries that have been so prosperous and promising during the past few years. What the South needs, what the country needs, and will insist upon. is peace instead of agitation and strife. When there is principle at stake, when there is an issue, the people will not be slow to ex press themselves and enforce obedi ence, but when a measure so radical and so ill advised is presented by the party that for the time being is in full power and control of the Government for the sole and only purpose of in trenching itself to retain its position, it will not receive the endorsement of the great body of the American people. "The passageof the Lodge bill will create a reaction, and it would not be surprising if the voters of this State should pronounce their verdict by de feating the Republican State ticket by 30,000 majority. The Southern ques tion will work its own solution in good time if left to itself. Experiments and quack doctors will afford no relief, but on the contrary will only aggravate the disease, and in the end retire with less dignity than the carpet-baggers I some years ago." A NEW SCHEME. The Force bill May be Abandoned for a New Reapportionment. WASINGTON, July 23.-The outlook for the force bill in the Senate is not as hopeful as it was two weeks, or even one week ago. The estimates most favorable to the passage of the bill give it only thirty-live votes, leaving twelve Republicans who are absolutely op posed to it, or who feel indifferent as to its fate. The chief reason that leads to the conlusion that the bill will be aban doned is the wide difference of opinion as to whether it is better to pass a force measure or a reapportionment bill. Both cannot or will not be passed. There are some Republican leaders who insist that they can accomplish the same results under a reapportionment bill that can be had under this election scheme, and there will be no evil results to follow. In the State of Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota decided gains in the mnattcr of representation are assured, and these votes added to the Republican votes from the new States will increase their numerical strength in the IHouse above twenty. On the other hand it is claimed that Texas and Missouri only of the Southern States will gain in the matter of seats. So the control of the flext IHouse may be secured by adopting the more con servative plan. The next caucus of the Republican Senators will determine be tween these two propositions. The general opinion see~os to be that the South's best policy just now is to keep cool. She has strong allies, and her cause is not b~y any means lost. Sons of Ternperance. COLnUMI, S. C., July,23.-The Grand Division of the Soils of Temperance mtin annual session in this city to da ltO0A. M., Grand Worthy Patri arch Alexander presiding. The re ports of the grand worthy patriarch and grand scribe show a slight de crease in membership and in the num ber of divisions now actually at work in the State, the decrease being mainly due to the failure to get a permanent State organizer. The morning session was chielly taken lup in the reception of reports and committee work. At the aiternoon session the following grand officers were elected for the en suing year: G. W. P., John Alexander, Colum ida; G. W. A.. T. B. Fast, Santuc; G. S., F. S. Dibble. Orangeburg; grand treasurer, S. S. Slokes, Union: grand chaplain, F. F. Jecffecoat, Eutaw; grand conductor, L. Ri. Marshall, Columbia; granid sentinel, W. Chambers. Colum bia. All of the above officers were in stalled at the night session, after which plans for future work were discussed. Pendi.g the discussion the Grand Divis ion adjourne d until 10 A. M. to-morrow. The work of the session will then be cloeds h Grand Division will be adoune ine die. Gougedi Out Its Eyes. PESTHr, July 22.--A band of gypsies solicited alms to-day from a group of peasants, who were eating their din ners in a field, near Torak Bets. One of the peasant women spoke to tile ypsies, wvhereupon a little girl five years, blind and half starved, cried out: Mothe.r, oh, mother, come to mne!" The woman started, and screaming -My child! my child!" rushed to the little girl, tore her ragged dress open and showed a birthmark, which she0 recog nized :as having been on the~ breast of her baby daughter stolen from her a year ago. The gypsies had put out Ithe chald's eyes to prevent her recog niing her mother or friends. The peasants, enraged, wouldl hove lynched the gypsies but for the interference of the ge.2darms, who took the band to prison for examination. Nineteen Corpses Recoveren. ST. P~ETnSaBunG, July 22.-Part of the town of Slonim~ has been wrecked by a hurricane. Many persons were buried in thei ruins. Nineteen bodies have been recovered. DEATH AND DAMAGE. - A SAVANNAH BOARDING HOUSE MYS TERIOUSLY BLOWN UP. Thirteen of the Occupants Crushed and Mangle'd Amid the Debris of the Falling Building-Three Are Taken Out Dead, the Others Seriously Injured. SIvAsA1r, Ga., July 24.-W- J. Bul lard's boarding house, a three-story brick dwelling, No. 203 Congress street, was blown up at 1:20 o'clock this morn ing. Three persons were killed and six injured; two of them will probably die. There were thirteen persons in the house. The explosion shattered the walls, which collapsed and fell in a mass of ruins. Most of the occupants of the house were asleep and were hurled from their beds, and either buried under the falling debris or thrown on top of it. The killed are Mrs. W. J. Bullard, Lockley and Gus Robbies. The wound ed are John Roborts, right ankle frac tured and concussion of the brain from the shock; L. J. Tate, contusion of the face and chest; Melton Haywood, col ored, shoulder dislocated and bruised; Edward A. Remes, slightly bruised; Mrs. Edward S. Everitt, slightly bruised; Sam King, colored, badly in jured about the body. The first taken from the building was L. J. Tate, collector for the Citi zens' Bank, who was sleeping on the second floor and was pinned down by the fallen timbers. A few minutes later the mangled body of Mrs. Bul lard was found eight feet under a pile of bricks beneath the room where she was sleeping. Robbie's body was taken out at3 o'clock, and was laid in Franklin Square on a mattress. Robbies came here from New York about a month ago, and was engaged by McDonough & Co., as a scroll man. He slept In the front hall room, on the second floor, and was found under the sheet on the bed where he had evidently been kill ed as he slept. He has a wife in New York, from whom he received a letter a day or two ago. He was about 49 years old. The body of Lockley was found about 4 o'clock. It was the last taken out of the building. J. A. Remes, who was sleeping in the front room on third floor with Roberts, was hurled to the second floor and was pinned between the bed and the floor until he was pulled out by the firemen. He did not see Roberts after the explo sion occurred. The first he heard was a grinding noise, and then came the crash and then a blank. The next he knew he was being taken out from the debris. He was slightly bruised. Mr. and Mrs. Everitt, who were sleeping in the front room on the sec. ond floor, were pulled out from under the ceiling above which held them fast. Mrs. John Paige and baby, who were sleeping in the room back of- Mr. and Mrs. Everitt, escaped unhurt and were lifted out by the firemen. As fast as the injured people were. taken out they were carried into the rear' of Andrew Jackson's residence, just East of the fallen building. Jack Roberts, who slept with J. A. Remes on the third floor, sustained se vere injuries about the body and head. Mr. Bullard, who was sleeping with his wife, had a marvelous escape and received but few slight bruises. Mrs. Bullard was dead when taken out. She was fearfully crushed. The cause of the explosion is a mys tery. There are many rumors of an ugly nature, but nobody will take the responsibility of making a direct state ment. One man insinuated that there had been a row in the house toward the end of a jollification, in which the inmates had been indulging. Lamps were used instead of gas, and it is said that there was no meter In the house, though it was suppplled with gas pipes throughout. Most of the people, therefore, are unable to see how the ex plosion could have been caused by gas. The fallen building was a three-story tenement, built on the French flat style, and faces North and South, the t wo top floors being used as sleeping apartments. The explosion blew the entire building to the Northward, some of the furniture being blown across Julian street into splinters, while the flying bricks went as far as Blay street, the entire structure collapsing outward on Congress street. Farmers Protesting. BIin3INGHAM!, ALA., July 23.-The State Agricultural Society adjourned to-day after two days' session. Major H. Hawkins, of Barbour County, was elected president. Before adjourning the following resolutions were unani mously adopted: Resolved, That this society is unal terably opposed to the passage by Con gress of what is known as the force bill, because it would be a source of unending trouble to the people of the North and South. It would tend to in terrupt the cordial social relations and intimate business connections now so happily existing between the people of the two sections, to the untold injury of both. Resolved, That we call on people and rnerchants and business enterprises of the North, which deal so largely with th South and whose interest are identi cal with ours, to bring their influence to bear on the course of national legis lation and join us in stopping the pas sage of a bill that aims as directly at their prosperity as at ours. Resolved, That we are in sympathy with all measures legitimate and pro per that will prevent the passage of the force bill, whether taken at the South or North, believing that in this matter the commercial and industrial interests of the t wo sections are identical. A Bishop Killed. LONDON, July 22.-A dispatch from Tiflis to The Daily News says that the Armenian bishop of Erzeroum was among those killed in the riot of June 20, and that his death has roused the Armenians to the highest pitch of ex citement. The whole country is in a state of anarchy. Business is at a standstill and travelling is impractica ble. Half-starved Turkish soldiers and K~urds,mder the pretence of maintain ing order, patrol the country plunder ing wherever they go. The Persian consul at Erzeroumn offers persecuted Armenians an asylum in Persia. Part or His Brain Gone. FORT DODGE, JOwA, July 24--Wil lie Eberhart, a nine-year-old boy living here, is getting along with an ounce less brains than he had a week ago. Willie had his skull caved in by an ac cident at a mud crusher a week ago, the brain protruding in places. Al though it was thought the boy could not live an hour the wound was dress ed and a portion of the brain weighing an ounce was taken out. The bones were placed back in position and knit ted nicely. To-day the child is out of danger and the surgeons say he is sure to recover. An Alliance Candidate Beaten. CIARLOT TE, N. C., July 24.-Last Sat urday's primaries insure the nomination of Congressman Johm S. Henderson over peaker Leazer, the Alliance candidate, Henderson mearly doubled Leazer'i votie. HOME RULE FOR THE SOUTH. Northern rroducts to be Boycotted if the Force Bill Passes. ATLANTA, Ga., July 26.-The Consti tution in a leading editorial recently emphasizes its position on the force bill in a strong editorial favoring a systematic boycott of Northern indus tries in case the force bill goes through. It outlines a plan of operation in the organization of home rule leagues throughout the South. After quoting from the Herald and other papers which have taken the lead in the fight against the force bill the Constitution says: "Appeal to reason and conscience, indignant protests and shotgun methods will not meet the force bill, but the most tremendous boycott of all the ages will make it a dead letter. wipe it from the statute books and banlle and defeat its supporters. Sometimes there has been a little talk about the solid South. Our partisan enemies do not fully realize the meaning of the phrase and they may count themselves for tunate if we do not teach it to them in the bitter school of experience. With the promulgation of the force bill every white human being in the South be tween the cradle and the grave will unite with his fellow countrymen and stand with them to the end. There will be no more discord or factions in the Decmocracy, and around the standard will rally the last white Republican. A common danger will bring the whites of the South together, sinking all the differences of the past and sacrificing every personal ambition for the supreme interest of the hour. "The boycott, with every white man, woman and child in the South behind it, will be mightier than all the armies whose marching feet once shook this continent from sea to sea. With this peaceful weapon in our hands all the hosts that hate us cannot prevail against us. Home rule leagues will be organ ized everywhere in the South, and the members will pledge themselves to buy n2t a dollar's worth of anything that is produced or manufactured in the North. Commercially speaking an impassable wall will arise between the sections. All the benefit will be on one side and all the loss on the other. The necessity of the case-the home demand-will, as was the case in the blockade days dur ing the war, stimulate the growth of every Southern industry. Manufac tures will spring up everywhere. Our farmers pledge not to buy corn and meat from the West, will riase their supplies at home and our dream of self sustaining, diversified agriculture will become a fact. Our long delayed trade with Europe will come with a rush and the flags of all nations will flutter in Southern harbors. Paralysis will seize the congested capital, industries, com merce and the railway lines running from the North to the South and hun dreds of thousands of desperate and idle workingmen in the great cities in the North and West will fiercely turn upon society and raise the cry: 'Bread or blood.' If we have to try the boycott under the force bill we shall revive the old time enthusiasm and patriotism of the early sixties." Tlne Chamliers or Commerce of New Orleans, Birmingham, Lynchburg, Au gusta, Montgomery, Savannah and other Southern cities telegraph the Con stitution, favoring a convention of the commercial South to consider the course to be adopted in case the force bill passes. Richmond telegraphs that it does not deem anything like a boycott advisable, as does Charleston and Mobile, Baltimore and Chattanooga say their organizations are non-politcal, but they are strongly against the force bill. A Blob's Cowardly Deed. NEW ORLEANs, La., July 22.-The Times-Democrat's special from Paris, (Tex.) says: Parties who came in here to-day bring information of what will doubtless prove to be a most brutal and cowardly assassination which took place Saturday morning, about twelve miles Southeast of here, in the Re:1 river country. it seems that about 2 o'clock in the morning, a party of six or seven men went to the house of Andy Young, a hard working negro, living on the farm of Nathan Grant, and called him up. When he came to the door a volley from Winchester shot guns and pistols was fired into him. The Winchester balls went through his head in front of his ears, cutting his tongue in two. is body, legs and arms are filled with bul lets. Yet, strange to say, he was alive last and conscious, but it was not re garded as possible that he could live. It its thought that he knows who shot him, but on account of his tongue be ing cut out he cannot tell. There was a number of shells picked up in the yard and it is thought the officers have a clue. No reason is known for the shooting except that the negro had a difficulty with some white boys. Death in the Flames. CINoINNA'rr July 22.-At about 10:45 to-night a douhle alarm rang out from box 16. Engines dashed down to the public landing to lind house No. 44, Front street, all ablaze. It was a four story brick, known as the John Christie tenement house. The first story was occupiedby Solomon MIenski as a second hand store, All other nloors were occu pied as tenements, and while the nlames were eating their way to the roof there were thirty people in the building. The great crowd onthie outside shout ed to the police, who arrived first, and to the firemen, who arrived later, that the people inside were burning up.. With commendable bravery the police went groping into the deadly, suffocat ing darkness, and began the work of rescue. In the second story were two familiesof ten persons; in the third were two more, numbering ten persons; in the forth were two families also num bering ten persons. The MIenski family occupied the rooms in the rear of the store and here all the fatalities occurred. The dead are Menski, his wife and two children. The two persons injured are likely to die, and it is said some are mismg.________ A New Agricultural Paper. CoL1.2IIA, S. C., July 24.-A declara tion has been filed and a commission issued for the incorporation of the Far mers' Sun Publishing Company of Pen dienton, Anderson County. The corpo rators are: J. C.S~tribling, D. K. NOrris, John C. Watkins, J. B. Djouthit, J. P. Glenn and J. M1. Glenn. The company proposes to publish an agricultural newspaper and to do a general publish ing and printing business. The capital stock is to be $5,000, divided into 500 shares of $10 each. Mfarion Goes for Tiliman. I The 3Marion County clubs met on Tuesday to elect delegates to the County convention. Tillmani carried twelve of the thirteen. In the nine clubs report in their comparative votes the Tillman deYegate-s got 1,320 and the anti-Tillman 287, of which 139 were in the town of 3arion. Only Carmichael Township elected anti-Tillmani delegates. This virtually makes Tillman's strength in the State Convention 110 to 18 againt Neccessary to elect, 01. Sixteen Drownett. LONDON, July 23.-The America schooner William Rice has been lost a sea. The whole crew, consisting of sixteen persons, perished. The vessel was on a voyage from Cape Ann to Iceland. TIlE CAM1'AIGN NEETI1TS. THE SAME OLD SONGS SUNG BY THE CANDIDATES. A Quiet and Orderly Meeting at Conway Capt. Tillman and his Party Give th* Charleston Meeting the Go-By. CoswAY, S. C., July 22.-Hurrah for Horry! The Independent Republic has given the campaign speakers a cordial welcome. It was certainly one of the most dignified and respectable meetings >f the entire campaign. It is thought 'hat the meeting has done considerable .o enlighten the people of Horry upon the issues of the day. There were, be :ween fifteen and eighteen hundred epresentative farmers at the speaking. Quite a number of negroes were imong the audience. The meeting was in reality a battle between Senator Jeremiah Smith and rillman. The general verdict was ,hat Smith scored a signal victory. He s a good straightout talker, knows., his facts and has the utmost confidence of he people. The war of words between" Dapt. Tillman and Farmer Smith-was it times exciting, but never exceeded> he bounds of propriety. To Senator. Smith, Col. Earle in great measure gave ;he field, and the Horry Senator made hings lively for Capt. Tillman. The rillmanites, as usual, were out to' a man. That is a part of their pro-, ,ramme. The Straightouts were. pres ant in large numbers, and were con idered in a large majority at the meet og. As soon as Capt. Tillmanhad-finished bis reply to Senator Smith the band eaded a procession and led Tillman Erom the meeting. It being somewhat Late. the crowd, under the seduction of he music, naturally left the meeting. he band then came to the meetingand o the annoyance of Col. Earle, coh inued to interrupt him by playing vile music until it was routed. Another curious incident was the sudden and unexcused departure lof iliman from the stand. He.left as oon as Col. Earle rose to speak, not allowing him a chance for direct reply r cross-examination. The Straigt muts seem to have very little doubtAnow :hat the County will send six Regular Democratic delegates to Columbia. he speech of Senator Smith, with those f Earle and Bratton, did 'effective ork.-News and Courier. THE CHARLESTON MEETING. CHARLESTON, S. C., July. 24.-Theo Eour burly policemen and two cute de ectives, who have been acting as a body guard to Captain B. R. Tillman ,ver since his arrival in Charleston, were relieved from duty this afternoon it 5 o'clock, when the Captain and his icket took their departure for Sum merville, where they will speak to-. morrow. Captain Tillman and his party arrived here at noon on Wednes lay, and the head of the ticket has been faithfully guarded by the police ever since. The Chief of Police says that he made the detail at the request of John D. Murphy and T. B. Reeves. Captain Tillman's two lieutenants here,. who aid that they had received threatening letters during his entire stay. Captain Tilman was closeted in his room at the Charleston Hotel. On Wednesday afternoon he was given a carriage drive by ex-Mayor Courtenay, and this morning he took a flying trip to Sullivan's Island, leaving at 10 a. m. and returning at 1 p. m. Nd attempts were made to assassinate him. The traightouts indeed say that the protec tion called for was to protect Murphy and Reeves. They feared, it is claimed, that the "ringsters" might guy them while they were buzzing in and out the hotel. There are rumors here that a corres pondence is going on betwe Captain Tillman and J. W. Barnwell, in which the latter demands an explanation for the assertion made by Captain Tfl1man that he, Barnwell, had threatened him with assassination. The straightout Democratic' mass, meeing to-night can scarcely be called a howling success. Three causes are ascribed: First, it was a squally w'et night; second, a rumor got abroad dur ing the day to the effect that the Demo ratic Executive Committee had deter-c mined to abandon the meeting afters Tilman refused to speak. -- Despite these drawvbacks, however, the house was fairly crowded and the meeting was peaceably condifeted.' There was but one Tillmanite in the audience, which numbered about 1,000, and he became obstreperous and was put out by a policeman. This was about the only Tillman feature of the meeting. Speeches were made by Gen. Bratton and Attorney GeneralEarle, straightout candidates for Governor; Secretary of State Marshall, Judge Crawford and others, and the meetig became enthused to a high pitch. MEETING AT sUMMERVILLE.. SU3IERVILLE, S. C., July 25.-The meeting here to-day was not much of a success as to numbers. The meeting was held in a little pine grove at the southeast corner of'Main sfreet and Railroad avenue. . There were no deco rations to speak of, except two flags with Tillman mottoes, which were nailed to an oak tree in front of the stand, and there was also on the street a wagon loaded with upright green corn stalks. As to the crowd, it was not very large; but it was in no sense entirely repre sentative of Berkeley. The "Berkeley campaign meeting" was, in fact, a big misnomer. As Capt. Tillman remarked in his speech : "You are here not alone from Berkeley, but from Colleton and Orangeburg." The proceedings were not noisy or boisterous, except at one point towards the close of the meeting. There was to all appearances only one drunken man in the whole assembly. Two others got into a dispute, which ended in a fisticuff, but that was the sum total of the disturbance. Gen. Bratton was the first speaker. His speech was about the same in sub stance that he delivered at the other meetings. Cal. Earle was absent, and~ Gen. Bratton was followed by Capt. Tilman. The crowd cheered him lusti ly and it was quite evident then that mre of his friends had taken the trouble to attend the meeting than the friends of the other side. The Colleton and Orangeburg people were for him and about an even share of the Berke ley people. He began with the subject of free government, and mentioned the ab sence of Cal. Earle. A voice: *"He was afraid to come." Capt. Tillman : "No. sir, he was not afraid to come. Cal. Earle is not afraid o any man in Berkeley, or the whole of Berkeley County, or any set of men." A voice : "Well, why aint he here?" Tilman : "I don't know, but I know he has good reasons or he wouldn't be absent. Possibly his home news is not good. But whatever may be the cause, whatever keeps him, I can say that if you saw him you would see a good and high-toned gentleman, and one who would make a good Governor if he were on the side of the people." ["Hur rah for Earle !''] From this paint on he continued his speech without much interruption. Captain Tillman was followed by other spakers.