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B. R. TILLMAN. B. R. Tillnan the farmeri' pride, Is tall and somNewhat slii; And though he has but one gVoo me Spots terikstes with a viw. He blazes out the farers' rotei, And shows him how to win; By ousting those who holds the reins, And putting others in. The farmer has been wrnged and robbed, And kept quite in the dark; And now when Tillman says, "Awake, The wolves begin to bark. He pays all debts of civil strife. And makes the ocean white with sail; But when he asks to look within, It creates an awful wail. But the Tillmanites are in the tight, With a leader brave and bold; Who has sworn that those who follow him, Shall no more feel the cold. Then onward roll in Tillman:s wake, Let rings and devils hoot; But we will elect him Governor, With a solid house to boot. The tillers of the soil, The back bone of the nation; Will sustain their well tried friend, In spite of all creation. The ballot box in the farmers' hand, Makes tyrants dread the day; For them through the batlot, To give the farmers sway. Then let the Tillman voter, With the ballot in his hand; Sustain this fearless leader, Throughout Carolina's land. He is denounced as a demogogue, Who will split the party wide; But we intend to run him. From mountain top to tide. Tillman has the inside track, The farmers on his side; And into the gubernatorial chair, He's bound to take a slide. Then stand from under let her roll, The farmers rule the day; This party splitting demagogue, Is bound to have his sway. A. J. EvaxS, Late of the Pickens Rangers. Jessamine Valley, Orangeburg County July 10th, 1890. REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. Troops of the Garrison Open Fire-Fight ing in the Street. Brmos AYrEs, July 26.-A revolu tion broke out here this morning. The troops in the garrison rebelled anc firing is now going on. All the shops are closed and fighting is taking place in the streets. Senor Carcia, Mmistei of Finance, is held a prisoner by the revolutionists. A revolutionary government is an nounced with Senor Arem as Presiden and Senor Romero as. Minister of Fi nance. The authorities still hold out but the revolutionary movement is ex tendinghourly. Early on Saturday the artillery, join ed by some civilians. took the firs1 steps to overthrow the government The troops and police parleyed. The firing was opened at Parlerm< and soon extended to the Plaza Laval le. The infantry and artillery kept u] a heavy firing all the morning. The police fired at and dispersed a crow< around the Government house, but th( people kept firing from the houses. A determined group of forty met stood pluckily at their arms in front o - " vernment house, while the roa of art e and roll of musketry cam nearer and nearer. A policeman, i1 mere wantonness, split an English man's head open with his sabre and z bystander shot the policeman down. In the afternoon the revolutionar Government issued its first decree This ordered the mobilization of th national guard, and appointed Nicola Menaltez chief of police. At 5 o'cloc] on Saturday afternoon two attacks wer made by the Government troops oi the citizens' battalions. The troop! were repulsed both times. Policemej and artillerymen are lying dead ij -heaps. ______ Infamous Legislation. Idaho, with 16,013 voters, and a cot stitution that disfranchises all membex of the Mormon Church, whether Poll gamoists or not, has been admitted int the Union on the assurance that hE congressman and two senators will t republicans. On precisely the sam assurance Wyoming has been admnitte wvith 18,010 voters, male aud female, an a constitution which gives the ballot n< only to polygamous Mormons, butt -each one of their plural wives. At the same time New Mexico wit 100,000 and a school attendance of 43,0C pupils is kept out of the Union becaus shte can not be relied upon to elect repul lican senators, and for the same reaso Arizona is refused admission althoug the last census credited her wiith doubh thep opulation of Wyoming. We agree with the Ocala, Fla., Ne' Capital that this is legislating for pari rather than country, and no pretext ea disguise the intent and purpose of it.. is of a piece with the partisan actic which has disfranchised more than dozen districts in the present Hlous by unseating men elected by the peop: and seating men defeated at the ball< box. _____ The Agony Over in Aiken. *Aixmm, July 24.-Aiken County's pr mary came off Tuesday. The follov ing ticket was elected: Representi tives-John Gary Evans. Owen Alde man, F. P. Woodward, Mansel Gunte ScolCommissioner-Luther W. Wi liams. Probate Judge-John F. Gastoi Auditor-Dave H. Wise. County Con missioners-J. B. Kitchings, George 'T Sawyer, Charles J. Pardue. For Trea: urer, up to two weeks ago, there wei three candidates-W. A. West, J. A. 3 Gardner and Mack Mitchell. The Go' ernor appointed Mr. Gardner to sers for two years, the office being vacat by removal of J. E. Murray. On M Gardner's receiving the appointment h withdrew from the race. Mr. West ali withdrew. Mr. Mitchell continued t1 fight and received the majority of vote and says he is elected. Mr. Gardne says he will stay, as it is an appointiv office.-Columbia Register. Got Rtight at Last. Announcing his withdrawal from ti Republican party, Mr. Leonidas Moore, of North Carolina, says: "F< twenty years past in every election, bol national and State, I have cast my ba lots for the Republican party. 1 ha, continued in the same old course. TI time has come, however, in my jud: ment, when no man who lives in tI South can longer affiliate with the R publicanparty without an utter indiffe ence to the well-being of the whole pe ple of the Southern States. The legisi tion of the present Congress has het such as to convince any man of sen: that if the South does not to a man r sist the encroachment of' the Repub] can party upon its rights and interes very soon we will be but province so to speak, and the general legislatic of t'ie 1 epublic will not apply to us." Stumping Against is Father. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 28.-ThoD as Long, Esq., of Walker County, making a vigorous Democratic ca1 vass. He is a son of the Republici candidate for Governor. Both live Walker and both are popular, but tl young man cannot tolerate Republica ways and methods. The county is clos and may go for both the Longs. .2 any rate, young Long is making sple: did Democratic speeches and arousir his friends to the duty they owe tl party. ________ It Threatens Revolution. The attention of Speaker Reed is c rected to the fact that the keeper of t1 House restaurant is retailing his pies six parts. This is not only unpatriott but threatens revolution. It wa nev intended that the American pie shou produce more than five slices. Earthquake Shock in Charleston. CHTARLES'TON, S. C ., July 24.- Asho' of earthquake was felt in this city y< terday. The jar was only a slight or and beyond frightening a few nervo one did no damag whatever. THE ENEMY AT WORK. rHE ATTITUDE OF THE REPUBLICANS TOAR THE DEMOCRACY. Our Party--ount ing on Olicken<' thaat Will "Never be Hatched-A V ision of the Good Old Days. CiIAnLtar. S. C., Aug 1.- LDuring the past few days all of the big guns of the South Carolina Repuldican party have been in the city- %alls, Miller, llrayton, Whipper and others. As is well known there is a big fight going on in the 7th district, in which there is a very heavy Republican vote. The campaign in the district is getting very hot, and there is an evident determina tion to freeze Brayton out of the con test, and there is also good reason to believe that there is a desire to sup plant Brayton as chairman of the Re publican party of this State. It was found out yesterday that not only the Congressional light and the personal light against Bravton were in progress. but another matter is already well-nigh matured which will attract, or should attract, some attention from both wings of the Democratic party. The matter referred to may be best ex Plained in the language of the most in iluential colored pohtician in Charles ton. He said: "The Congressional fight is not all. We are going to make a fight of a dif ferent kind, as you will see, before the meeting of your September Conven tion. Circulars have been privately sent to all of the prominent Republi cans in every county in the State and they haven'i been sent by Chgirman Irayton either. The purpose of these circulars is to notify the Republicans that they are to respond. on short no tice, to a call for a Republican State Convention, which is to be held in Au gust. There is a division of opinion as to when that Convention should be held, and therefore no definite time is stated. I have no doubt, though, that we will meet a few days after the Democratic Convention in August. We believe that there is no possibility of bringing together the two wings of the Democratic party, and yet it has been positively determined not to run a Republican tieket. If the Democrats agree in August, and there is no divis ion, then we will appeal to the Septem ber Convention to give us a share of the minor officers in the county gov ernments in proportion to our register ed majorities. If this be refused we will wait for another two years. when, if the force bill be of force, we may try it single-handed against the whole Democratic party. As it is bound to come out I may as well state that we hope that the division in the Demo cratic ranks will be so wide in the Au gust Convention that two tickets will be put in the field. In that case we propose to make terms with one of the parties, but which party is not stated in that circular. What we want is a representation for our vote in the counties. and this is exactly the chance that the Straightouts had in 1876. If the Democratic p'artv divides, the Straightouts, whom Miller called the . Ring the other day. mentioning Col. Earle. Haskell and Judge Wallace, will be met with the same problem they had in 1868. But we will wait until after the adjournment of your Convention this month and see first where we stand and who will be the highest bidder for the vote. If there is no bid just take it for granted that overtures will be made to one party by our Convention, and that the party which accepts the offer will sweep the field by twenty thousand majority." There is no telling what the Republi can Convention will do, but there isn't a bit of doubt that the Republican masses are ieing organized in George town, Beaufort, Barniwell, Berkeley and Colleton for more than "ordinary pur poses."-News and Courier. STARTLING REVELATIONS. The way Votes are SuPpressed in the e Land of Wooden Nutmegs. SThe Baltimore Sun says the census returns in Connecticut are telling a tplain unvarnished tale with regard tc political inequalities in that State that would bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of the Republican leaders in Congress who are .continually preach ing about the South if they had not forgotton how to blush. In 1881 the iConnecticut Republicans reorganized 1the senatorial districts of their State ir their own interests, but with an uttel disregard of justice and popular repre 'sentation. By this gerrymander N1ew Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport were each constituted a district. New Haven :tat that time had a population of 62,882, iHartford 42,583 and Bridgeport 29,148. By the present census New Haven's population is about 83,000, Hartford's e51000 and Bridgeport 45,000? Yet the Twenty-third district, which in 1880 had a population of only 11,868, and which shows a very low per centage of increase under the recent enumeration, has the same vote in the -State Senate as New Haven with 83,000, Hartford with 51,000 and Bridgeport .with, 45,000. Similar inequialities in -popular representation exist in all the .senatorial districts of the State, but we Sdo not hear of any Republican orator r.in Congress denouncing this condition of affairs, or even suggesting that therE 'eis anything unfair about the present ;arrangement. A voter in the Twenty third district of Connecticut, allowing ethat the population of that district has Sincreased to 15,000, which is probably .beyond the mark. when he votes -foi eState Senator casts more than five bal olots to the single ballot cast by thE evoter in New Haven, nearly four votes to one cast by the Hartford voter, and rthree votes to the one cast by thE Bridgeport voter. In other words. 30,000 of the population in Bridgeport are practically disfranchised, 36,000 ii Hartford and 08,000 in Newv Haven .eThis is all right in Connecticut, o: r.course, where it keeps the Senate ander Republican control, but in the Soutli hthe mere unproved allegation that th( 1-negro vote is suppressed is suflicient tc Ijustify the passage by the House o. Rpeetatives of the most partisar ~-Iand extraordinary election bill thai w ~as ever suggested in a free country. Fecathering Their Nests. The Chicago Tribune, a Republicar Spaper, says that the course of Green 1B nRaum, the United States Commissionel Sof pensions, "is~ mortifying to ever' Illinoisan." It objects to "the unrebuk. Sed appearance of his son as a pensior Sagent at a time wheni the business Sowing to the passage of the Dependen1 SAct, is to be a most profitable one." Al luding to the Tribune's wail, the Cin cinnati Enquirer observes: "The ob jection seems to us unwisely taken -Wat earthly differene does it tr.akt 5 ~hether Raum, Tanner or Dudley get. i-the usufruct ? They have all been Re npublican commissioners of pensions ciand the two latter are now openly run Lening pension claim oflices, and are sait cito have made fortuncs out of it. it is egreat scheme." Cattle Drowned. C.soN CrrY, CoL., July 23.-Abou 4 o'cloch yesterday afternoon a clou Leburst in Grand Canon above the cit: and soon afterwards a great flood cami roaring down Kansas river with tei -- rifle force. The Rio Grande track wa iewashed out in several places and eon : siderable damage done to propert: ,, along the line. One hundred head o ~cattle were caught by the torrent i: Id the canyon, and were washed dow. the river and drowned. Lost with ani on Board. k LONDOx, July 23.-The America1 -s- chooner Wmn. Rice has been lost at see . The whole crew, consisting of sixteel 3s persons, perished, The vessel was on: 1- WAS A S43,000 JACKPOT. Ti~it' 31:n wi'W~ Von It Mt:d iTINerve and place here a few nights ago. TLe prin ipal players were NorLherners. who carne over here from Savannah for a dav. After an hour or so of play. with scarcely enough of difference in luck to warm up the players, a jackpot was made, which was not opened until four or live hands had swell-d it to handsome proportions. Young John Z. Merritt, finding three queens in his hatI. threw in a twenty dollar gold piece with great confidence. Jay hiugh Bolton examined his hand and found a pair of jacks and the ten, nine and seven of diamonds, one of the jacks being also of that suit. With the alternative of drawing to his four ilush Bolton remarked that it would cost 350 to play, and posted the cash. All the players threw up their hands except Merritt, who merely saw the rise. Mr. Merritt took one card and got his fourth queen. Mr. Bolton split his jacks, and drawing to his four ilush, took in the eight of diamonds, making his hand a straight ilush. Mr. Merritt easually remarked that his hand was worth 31,000 and put that amount in the pot. "My hand is worth $5(0)." said 'Mr. Dolton in a tone whose nervousness caused Mr. 'Merritt to think that per haps an attempt t) bluff was in pro gress. "Five thousand more," said Mr. Mer ritt. "Fifteen thousand more," Mr. Bolton retorted. Merritt's confidence in his queens was undi ainished, and he chucked to him self to think what a snap Bolton had got himself into. There might be some doubt about Mr. Bolton's ability to pay if he lost, but it was worth the risk. "Thirty thousand more." was the net result of Mr. Merritt's brief self-con sultation. Mr. Bolton paused, with his eyes over his hand to see whether it was all right, and apparently went into a mental computation of his bank account. "I dall," said he, throwing up an 1. O. U. to balance the pot. "Four queens," said _Mr. Merritt, spreading out his hand on the table, and making a move as if to draw in the stakes. "Not so fast, if you please-a straight 1lt;h!" said Mr. Bolton. Ir. Merritt's face fell, and Mr. Bol ton pocketed his winnings, something over $43,000 on that hand. THE REBELS SAID TO BE DOWNED. Reports of Peace and Compromise in the Argentine Republic. LONDON, July 29.-The following cable dispatch, dated Buenos Ayres, 28th, 2.20 p. m., addressed to the lega tion of the Argentine Republic, has been received: "Announce that the insurrection is completely subdued. The President of the republic and the national cabinet are giving orders from the national government house. The finance minister is at liberty. (Signed) JtAN GARCIA." Signor Garcia, the signer of the above, is Minister of Finance. He was taken prisoner by the revolutionists at the beginning of the outbreak. PARIS, July 29.-General Mitre, who was formerly president of the Ar gentine Republic, and who has been residing here for some time, has sud denly taken his departure from this city. LONDON, July 29.-A dispatch to the Times dated Buenos Ayres, July 28, i p. mn., says: "It is reasserted that the terms for settlement between the gov ernment and revolutionary forces have been agreed upon. Accordingly to these the civilians who have taken part in the insurrection will not be punished. Al: captains of the revolutionary forces and all officers above the grade of cap' tain will be deprived of their rank The artillery of the insurrectionists will be surrendered tomorrow." The above dispatch is President Cole man's version of affairs at Buenos Ayres. Private dispatches receivec here from that city dated July 28, 9 p in., state that there is no change in thE situation and no chance for fighting between the two factions. REFUSED TO SELL TO NEGROES. He was a Negro Himseif, but Discrimina ted Against his Itace. BALTI1ORE, MD., July 29.-Secretar) Windom has issued an order to Post master Johnson to remove GeorgE Hughes, a colored man who for twenta years has had a stand on the post oflict pavement, where he sold lemonade ani egg flip in summer and other seasonable articles in winter, if the charges madE agalnst him are true. A complaint war recently lodged against Hughes b3 colored men charging that in the con, duct of his business he discriminatet against them. Ihughes had a very larg! patronage, members of the corn anc four and the various other exchanges going there. When a colored mai asked for a "flip" or a "shake," Hughet generally happened to be out of sugal or lemon or milk. He wvas quite diplo mnatic and discrimination was no1 noticed until this week, when a larg< number of laborers were employed it the vicinity digging. Then the coloret men became indignant at the refusal t< serve them while the white laborern could get all the refreshments thel wanted. Negro Exodus to Mexico. ST. LOCIs, Mo., July 28.-'J. Miltor Turner, ex-Minister to Liberia and thl Moses of the Western negroes, has great scheme on hand, having secure< 150,000 from the government for fee in Indian land cases. Turifer sets abou devising plans for the elevatation of hi race. Hie has secured funds for the es tablishment of anegro manual trainn school at Kirkwood, a pretty suburb o St. Louis, and now propes a wholesal exodus of negroes froni the United Sta tes to Mexico, where he says lie and hi: associates have secured twenty-thiree million acres in fee simple. The law was purchased of the Mexican govern ment direct by syndicate whose repre setative Turner is, and it is propose< to settle the negroes o.n this tract an< sell them a farm at a reasonable advane( Turner is sangnine of the success of' th scheme. Dead For a Dollar. COLUCmr, , C., July 2i9.-Pleter Rui a sixty-year old negro, ~killed his son-it law, Issac Lowman, to-dlay, after a du pute about a dollar'. Rluir had hidden: dollar, and not flnding it at irst, accuse' his daughter and her husband of stea] . ing it. Lowman remonstrated with hin Ruff got is gun and shot Lowma: through the left lung without a word c warning. A aeighbor persuadett nim t give himself up and he is now in jai The killiing occurred live miles from th city. - Toe-Mark of the Family. CoLUMnUS, Ind., July 27-A famil named Moore, residing West of hcere i: Brown County, have a peculiar distin guishing mark as a freak of natur< The family and their immediate rel I tives comprise quite a number of pec ple, and at a reunion held a few diay Sago it was found that nineteen out c - twenty-seven persons bearing the fami s ly name had six toes on each foot, a] perfectly formed. -Bombarded the City. SBrENos AYRuES, July 31.-Durn the insurrection here, the iron clad 11ee which had .ioined the revolutionar movement, bombarded the city for tw days. Serious damage was done t i many buildings, especially those in th .viciity of the Plaza Victoria. On 1thousand persons were killed, an S5,000 were wounded. Shipping in poI THE TARIFF BILL. SENATOR PLUMB, REPUBLICAN, TURNS AGAINST THE BILL. tyhject ion to the Iniquity Shown by U',muoeratic 1;-nator-s an titey are Agrevaly Surprised oui Being Aided by Two t R epuit lean-si -. WASINTOx, Aug. 1.-After the transaction of routine business to-day the Senate took up the Tariff Bill, which was discussed by several Sena tors. In the course of the discussion Senitor \est ex pressed himself in favor oi' reducing all duties on lead and its v-arious products. although his own State was the greatest lead-producing State in the Union. A jocular allusion having been made by Senator Edmunds to the Farmers' Alliance Senator Morgan said he would be no proper representative of his State if he left the Alliance out of considera tion, inasmuch as 90 per cent. of the white farmers of Alabama were Alli ance men. They could not run him off from supporting their true and honest interest. They might not ever recog nize him as their friend, as the negroes of the South certainly did not; and yet there was not a man in the Senate who would fight harder for the Alliance men and for the negroes than he. If for a moment they did not feel that the ties of friendship hound him to them that was no reason why he should desert them, and he did not intend to do it. Senator McPherson spoke of the Lead Trust, which controlled the en tire lead trade of the country. He told of his having met not long ago in a New York bank parlor the owner of a lead mine, who told him that the Lead Trust had offered to purchase his inter est. "How much is your plant worth ?" McPherson asked. "I could duplicate it for two hundred thousand dollars," was the answer. "And how much does the trust offer you ?" "A million dol lars." "And how does the trust expect to be able to pay you one million dol lars for what is only worth two hun dred thousand dollars and pay divi dends?" "It proposes to increase the price of the product." The offer had been accepted, and, said Senrtor Mc Pherson, the price has increased to an extent to enable the trust to pay a divi dend on any amount of capital it sees lit to fix. After several amendments were offered by the Democrats and voted down by the Republicans, a colloquy en sued between Senators Plumb and His cock on certain sections of the bill, and when Senator McPherson's amend ment to reduce the duty on fire brick and some other articles came to a vote Senator Plumb was found voting with the Democrats-the first break in the solid party vote. Senator Plumb, having thus started in his assertion of independence of party allegiance so far as the tariff bill was concerned, began to take Senator McPherson's place in offering amend ments. His first and second amend ments were to reduce the rates of duty on enamelled tiles and on hydraulic ce ment. Atter discussion they were vot ed down by the Republican majority, the Democrats, of caurse, voting for them. On the hydraulic cement amend ment Senator Paddock joined Senator Plumb in voting with the Democrats, th3 result of the vote being, yeas 21, nays 27. Senator Colquitt moved to amend paragraph 96 (lime) by changing the rate from 6 cents per hundred to 10 per cent. ad valoreni. In speaking to his amendment lie quoted the saying imputed to Col. Bob Ingersoll that he was in favor of protecting infant in dustries, but that when the infant grew to be six feet high and wore num ber 12 boots it was time to stop rocking the cradle, especially when the infant threatened if you didn't do it he would get up and thrash you. The amendment was rejected, but Senator Paddock was again recorded as voting with the Democrats upon Senator Mel'hersonl's motion to reduce the duty on comon browvn earthen ware. The next question was on paragraph 100, relating to China, porcelain and crockeryware, the finance committee recommending a reduction of the rates in the House bill from 66 to 55 per cent. on decorated articles and from 55 to 50 per cent. on plain, white and undeco. rated ware. Two members of the finance com mittee, Senators Sherman and Hiscock, expressed their opposition to the Sen ate amendments. Senator Vance made a humorous speech on the peculiarities of the high protective system. He declared that the wvhole earthernware section was a disgrace to the people who claimed to be tinctured with a sense of humanity. It made discrimination in favor of the rich and against the poor. The same system of inequality ran through the whole tariff bill, from one end to the other. Nowhere wvas it provided in that bill that from him to whom little -is given shall little be required, but on the contrary. Then Senator Plumb took a pronmin ent and remarkable part in the discus sion, inveighing against the exorbitant demands of the high protectionists. He produced a letter from a merchant doing business in St. Joseph, Mo., and Atchison Kansas, stating that on an invoice of crockery he paid that day a customs duty of $16.40; that under the pending bill the duty on the same in voice would be $31.32, and under the MKinly bill $57.12. The whole tendency of civilization, Senator Plumb said, was towvard the reduction of the prices of all the pro ducts of human labor. To claim that the tariff had been the sole or main Ifactor in the reduction of prices of manufactured goods was to ignore all the forces of civilization. The Ameri Ican people were entitled to have chear goods, if competition could bring that about. When. he asked, was the time coming when the people of the United States would get some benefit from the establishment of home mndustries. Just as fast as the point was arrived at when lowver prices might be expected. manufacturers came to Congress and said that they wanted more duties whereby that downward progress of prices might be arrested. - The p~eople of the United States -ought to have their "inning" some time I andi he thought that time had came l he article of chinaware, he went or -to say. was to be fo'und on the tables of Sthe rich andI poor, so that the high tax on it had to be borne not in accordance with the ability of the taxpayer to pay, but as practically the rich man's ability to pay'. The man on his farm used as -much china as Vanderbilt in his pal -ace. The duty on chinaware was not a tax on a luxury, but on a necessity. 114 did not say this with the idea that it -was going to affect the vote. -lHe could conceive and he could see Sthat the cohorts of protection were sc Sorgaized that the bill was to go through substantially as it came from -the iinance committee. Its passagt was foretold in a Philadelphia news paper article headed. "No delay in th( Senate," and stating confidentially thai the Senate was going to put the bil: Sthrough as rapidly as the House did - rhe House. he believed, had considerec sixteen pages of the bill, one page fur .ther than the Senate had now got, and .it was expected that the Senate woukt 4 take it up and bolt it as the House did t These people, (the manufacturers - had had from Congress hitherto pre 1 ciely what they asked. They had tarif law now on the stature books put there by a Republican Congress or the report of a Repubilcani tariff corn mission, designed andl calculated to be 7helpful to them and which gave theil 7 substantially what they asked, and yet >so tar from their being satisfied, anoth Ser bill for their benefit was to be pui through without debate, if that could e be brought about on the theory that the .1 country was hungering and thirsting t for more tariff'legislation. ie beliv1 in so distributingr duties hat were necessary for the support of he Government in such way as to 'qualize conditions existing betweenji 'he manufacturers of this country and those abroad. If he were in doubt he would resolve that douibt in favor of Auieriean mianufacture-rs. But if lie knew what the exact condition were he would put home and foreign manufac Lurers on the same footing precisely. IHe.would be recreant to duty if he did not give his support to such a pro position as the chinaware schedule. Hle knew that the pottery manufactur ers of Ohio were rich, far richer than the people he represented, but if they could take half of the Auierican mar ket, why, he' asked, could they not take the whole? It was evident that they did not care to, but only that part which left them the greatest profit. They had more or less openly entered into an arrangement with importers, the importers taking one part of the market and the manufacturers the other. He knew that when the con tractor for the State House at Topeka, Kansas, wanted structural beams American manufacturers refused to supply them at a fair rate, and the con tractor was compelled to import them, although they were paying a duty of 103 per cent, and the same was true in regard to the Texas State House. The'Senate, he continued, owed some duty to the American people as well as to manufacturers. There was a point where political sympathies ended and where business interests began. The Democratic party had its full share of responsibility for the iniquities of the oresent tariff and of that which was proposed. The Denoerats in the House had opportunities of correcting the errors and wickedness of the Mckinley bill, but they had sought to evade the responsibility of their votes, when, by joining with the Republicans who were opposed to that bill, they might have eliminated many of its errors. HIe could see that the game of bat tiedore and shuttlecock between free trade and protection was constantly going on for political advantage on one side and for personal advantage on the other, and between the two extremes the great body of the people were being crushed and ground. He would apply the rule that whoever demanded a tax for his own benefit should be ready to show conclusively that his interest was also a public interest. The onus was upon him. Demonstration should be made that every single penny of tax proposed was absolutely necessary. He would cast no vote that did not represent an informed judgment in that direction. But there has been no attempt to justify the proposed increase of duty, which increase, he had been informed, was in some cases 300 per cent in the McKinley bill. Even if such an in crease were on some little items what a fact it disclosed. How such a fact opened up the whole question and showed how much knowledge Senators need on the subject. It showed that every item should be gone over care fully for the purpose of ascertaining what the precise rate of duty ought to be. No attempt of that kind had been made. The bill went over without a vote on any of the pending amendments and apparently without the discussion be ing brought to a close. IS THE CHARGE TRUE? The Republicans Trying to Dodge an Investigation. WASHINGTON, July 29.-In the House to-day Mr. Oates, of Alabama, offered for reference to the committee on rules the following preamble and resolution: Whereas, in the National Economist of July 26, 1890, a newspaper publica tion known as the official organ of the National Farmers' Alliance and In dustrial Union, and which has a wide circulation, the following editorial ap pears on page 305, to wit: "Bond owners are now happy; they have won the fight, and the bonds they now hold are payable, principal, inter est and premium, in gold only. It would be interesting to know how many millions it took to force this bill through Congress. Afen in these days of corruption and trickery do not change their avowed beliefs and betray their constituencies without considera tion. It will now be in order to pla cate those whom they have so wicked ly betrayed." And whereas, said editorial chargea that the measure has been passed through Congress by bribery and cor ruption of its members, the integrity of the House and the rights of the people alike demand that the truth or falsehood of the charge shall be made known and dealt with as it deserves : Therefore Resolved, That a committee com posed of seven members of this House be appointed to investigate said charge, and that said committee shall have power to send for persons and papers, administer oaths, may employ a clerk and stenographer if necessary, may sit during the sessions of the Hlouse, and report to the Ihouse by resolutions or otherwise. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, objected tc its reference or present consideration, and the Speaker suggested that it might be referred through the clerk's ofice under the rules. Mr. Qates declined to accede to this suggestion, stating he would call it ui at the earliest practicable moment as privileged matter. Where the Shoe Pinches. Very many farmers and Alliances ol South Carolina, conscious that somiebod) somehow has been picking their pockets and robbing them right and left, havt struck out wildly and are knocking doivr and dragging out every body, State anc county governments of South Carohnm are honestly taxing property and eo. noicaly conducting the government They gather in about fifty cents of eaci 100 of the people's wealth annually The exasperated farmers are wvarrmn; upon visible and tangible evils, anc these the least possible. State and coun ty taxation signifies nothing. It consti tutes no appreciable burden. It impov erishes nobody. What signifies the tax ation of 50 cents a year imposed upor each $100 of the wealth of the State when the unseen ravenous monster 01 tariff taxation compels every toiler 0: South Carolina who eat bread and wears clothes to pay to the trusts at least $5( annually? Every head of every house hold in South Caroliina, howvever pool and narrow his little farm and gardei aid howvever humble his cabin, whi4 paying $5 to $10 to the State, pays 515( to Quay's Trust and to Quay's pension ig, vote-buying code. From one-hal: to two-thirds of all sums expended b: farmers, go to Quay's blessed Trusts For every dollar paid for iron ties anu plows, anid hoes, and crockery, and tin ware, and hats, and shoes, and blankets or for sugar and flour, andi for women': and men's clothes, and for medicines two dollars go into the pockets of th Trusts as created and "protected by th4 McKinley bill, to every one which goe: into the T1reasury of the United States -Birmingham__News. A Beauty Wanted. ATLANTA, July 30.-J. M. Ihigh, a! Atlanta dry goods man, has offered $1, 000 for the most beautiful woman ii Georgia to parade through the street as Lalla Rookh on the top of the floa Mr. High proposes sending forth on th occassion of the promised mnidsumnme parale to be gotten up in honor of th lion and elephant expected here for th Gress Zoo. Beautiful women in thi State happen to be a trifle modest. Per haps Barnum's $10,000 beauty will hav to be imported to fill the bill. - Killed by a Tack. Reuben Ilarrington, a well known co] ored man of Newyberry, died on Wednes day, 10th instant, from a pocuhiar eir cumstance. lie had been wearing; bpair of shoes with brass tacks in th~ tsoles. One of the tacks made a sore o: his foot simular to a "stone bruise," bus which resulted in pya-mia and~ cause< his death in~ about three weeks.-New erry News nd IHerald, 31st. = HE CRAWFISHE. 10 stasippi an Spilled a Splendid A Anecdote. When five or six men get together i d begin to talk stories there is always 0 nore or less lying done, especially if o hey are only casual acquaintances. Go- I ng down on the boat from Na'chez t] ,here were three or four "rings" which imng together, and each of us told b ome pretty tall stories. There was a b nan from Syracuse who laid himself % >ut for a whopper and when the rest i >f us werje through he settled back and ;aid : "Gentlemnen, the ship which was car -ying me to India was burned off the ' Island of Borneo, and I got away in a I oat with a single sailor." e "When was this?" asked a native Mississippian, who was taking a lot of mules down the river. "In 1858." "Exactly-go ahead." "We had neither water nor provi sions in the boat," said the man, "and after drifting for three days I wanted to draw lots to see who should die. The t sailor refused." t "His name?" asked the Mississippian. "Foster, I believe." "You are right; go ahead." "I suffered one day more, and then, as he slept I killed him with my knife and drank his blood. It saved my life. .Next day I was picked up by a ship." "And you killed the man, did you? "I did." "And drank his blood?" "Yes." "Well, you are the man I've. been looking for these many years. That sailor was my brother-my big broth- I er-the only brother I ever had !" "No !" "Yes, he was. Some of those who got away in another boat saw-him go off with you and you told me of it. Stranger, the man who (lrinks my brother's blood has got to die !" "But you must be mistaken. I-I hardly think his name was Froster." "Oh, yes it was. Name was Foster ship got afire-off the island of Bor neo-drifted about in a boat. It's all straight and now I want satisfaction. Have you got a bowie knife about you?' "Look here, boys." said the Syraeuse man as he caught his breath. "I'm in a box and have. got to make a confes sion. I was lying about that adventure from start to finish." "Sure of it?" demanded the Mississip pian, while everybody else laughed. "I know I was." "Didn't kill my brother and drink his blood?" "Cert'iinly not." "Well, then, that's all right, and I'm glad to hear it. I'm as humble as a lamb on ordinary matters, but when it comes to killing my brother-the only brother I ever had-why, who wouldn't fiht ?" We asked the Syracuse man to give us something else, but he wouldn't do it. He went off to -his stateroom and tied his head up with a towel.-New York Sun. The Electoral Vote. It is a good ways off yet before the next Presidential election, but figures on the situation are always more or less interesting, and more so since the ad mission of Idaho and Wyoming into the sisterhood of States. At the next Presi dential electioh six new States will be represented in the electoral college cast ing a total vote of 19. The situation will be like this: At the last election the electoral vote was 401, of which 233 were cast for Harrison and 168 for Cleveland. The sure Republican vote was 182, and Harrison carried the two doubtful States of New York and Indiana with a com bined vote of 52. At the next election it is safe to say that five of the six new States will be Republican, and one, Mon tana, may be classed as dloubtful. The sure Republican vote will thus be increased to 198. But the total electoral vote will probably be 420, making 211 necessary to a choice, so that the Re publicans will be 13 short of victory. If they carry Indiana they will have four majority in the electoral college. Giving the Democrats all the States they carried in 1888 and New York and Montana, they will still lack four votes of victory. The conclusion is plain, therefore, that New York and Indiana will be pivotal States in 1892, as they we~e in 1888, with this difference, however, that the Republicans must carry one or the other to win, while the Democrats must carry both. The Republicans have thus been greatly strengtl-ened, not only iu.the Senate but in the elec toal college, by the admission of the new States. Prominent Democrats in Washington, howvever, are confide-it not only of being able to carry New Y ork but also Indiana, and are by no means wiling to admit that several of the old and new States classed as surely Repub lican are not within the po-sibilities of Democrtic control. We hope so. Nebraska is all Torn Up. A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch to the. Chi cago Times says that a political crisis is at hand in Nebraska. The Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor, goaded to desperation by the adverse conditions surrounding them, have determined to put an independent ticket in the field this fall. To this end they will hold an independent convention in Lincoln July 29, with 930 delegates and no proxies. The Republicans are very much alarmed over the outlook, and they have reason -to be, for a change of 15,000 votes wvill elect the people's ticket, and there are 70,000 members of tihe Alliance in Ne br'aska, the majority of whom are Re publicans. The present situation is the direct re sult of low prices in farm products, which have been brought about by over production, excessive protective duties high freight rates, and the various com bines that have beeni manipulating farm products and live stock. These ilu ences have bred discontant anr ong the farmers, stock raisers, and industrial classes. To the above influences may be added the discontent that grew out of the ac tion of the Republican State Conven tion of 1889. The people wvere thorough ly satisfied with Judge M. B. Reese as a memer of the supreme court and were clamorning for his nomination. The clique of Republicans who manipulated politis ini Nebraska were dissatisfied with Reese and determined to give him a set-back. They were rot particularly inte~ested iln who thesuccesor might be, but they had declared vengeance on Reese. They were successful, but .not until they had bought up by various means tile proxies of about 280 dele gates. Such action raised a howl all over the State, a.nd it has been growimg. An Order not to be Sneezed A t. WAsNIGTON, July 21.-Nelson A. Dunning, ini an intervie w relative to the Farmers' Alliance, says the order now has over 2,000,000 meenbers, and is fully organized in Alabaman, Arkansas, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Illinois. Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missou ri, Maryland. Mississippi, North Caro lIna, South Carolina, Ohio. Tennessee. Ie;:as, Virginia and Wisconsin and will be organized by fall in New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington and California. -Saved From tho Gallows. CoomBIA, 5. C., July 26.--The Gov ernor has commuted to life imprison ment in the penitenitary the death sen - tenice of Johni Green, colored, of Berke - ley County. Greeni was convicted of - urder at the last June term of court f or Berkeley County, and by Judge 1 James Aldrich was sentenced to be h anged August 8th. Tile commutation a was made on the recommendationi of 1 the Judge and Solicitor, the jury hayv - ing recommended the prisoner to mercy. -Reser. THE CAMPAIGN MEETING. Large Majority of the Crowd in Favor of Tillman. Orangeburg's campaign day has me and gone and of course all went ff quietly. All the speakers came [onday night and were quartered at 1e Orangehurg Iotel. Tuesday morning early large crowds egan to pour in from the country and y ten o'clock the town was all astir -ith farmers anxious to see Farmer Wen. A number collected in front of the otel where they could get an occasion I glimpse at the candidates. Gen. :arle's numerous friends had surround d him by this time. A good many ore red shirts with various devices on tem. Gen. Bratton's portly and handsome gure was seen in an interesting group hat was earnestly discussing politics. About half-past ten the crowd start d towards the stand. Numbers of en husiastic Democrats were huzzahing or their candidates and indeed it seem :d that this was to be a model cam aign meeting as it turned out after Yards. All the candidates were seated in :arriages with the reception commit ;ee. Immediately behind Capt. Till nan's carriage came a large number of nounted followers adorned with var tous agricultural products. They loud ty cheered their candidate on the route. After Gen. Earle's carriage were a iurber of horsemen, whose leader bore the striking device, "Earle and Brat ton" upon one side, upon the reverse was "Pure Democracy, Straighout." Crowds followed the carraiges and by the time all had reached the grounds the crowd numbered at least 3,000. The Orangebuirg Brass Band discours ed delightful music on the way and when the stand was reached Capt. Till man's men actually took him upon their shoulders and carried him up on it. Gen. Earle came a few minutes afterward in a quiet manner. Num bers crowded around the great Re former, shook hands and spoke cheer ing words to him; one old man was so enthusiastic that he hugged "Farmer Ben" and stuck a pretty boquet in his bosom. The Captain took this out and quaffed its perfumes while his fol lowers crowded around. Ion. T. M. Raysor came upon the stand with a perfect mountain of flow ers for Gen. Earle. The General receiv ed these with a smile. After a long time quiet was had and Dr. A. S. Hydrick, County Chairman for Orangeburg County, came forward and in a few words asked the audience to act as Orangeburg men and and he would have no fear that each speaker in his turn would have a respectful hearing. He named the order in which the speakers would come, and then call ed upon Rev.. Mr. Kistler to offer a prayer. Then Gen. Bratton, the old "war horse" was presented. Loud cheers greeted him. le spoke only a short time, dwelling upon the necessity of white supremacy and hoped that none would lose sight of this important mat ter. He deprecated an abuse of the present and past government that has been purely "Democratic." Chairmau Hydrick then introduced Capt. B. R. Tillman, of Edgefield, whom he supposed all had heard of. To say that Capt. Tillman was loud ly cheered would be like declaring there was smoke in the battle and nothing else. For ten minutes you could not hear his voice. After a while he start ed on one of his characteristic cam paign speeches, as one of the candidates upon his ticket remarked. He reitera ted his charges of ring rule and ma nipulation of offices. He was frequent ly interrupted by his followers, who loudly cheered him whenever he made them boil over with enthusiasm. He referred to the Dargan apology in a general manner and said he had made those charges against Col. Dar gan in the heat of debate. He frequent ly referred to his "Friend Earle" whom he said was a thoroughbred. lHe said he had started this fight four years ago, and had won the victory almost by him self. Hie favored the primary for his "Friend Earle" as he would beat him anyhow. After speaking for nearly two hours Tillman concluded by warning his men not to be deceived in doing their duty. As at the beginning he was loudly ap plauded. Gen. Earle. was then presented; he was met by loud cries of '-Tillman !' After, a moment however, he was able to commence. He spoke upon his line, denying that the State government had been corrupt. Ills manner was strik ing and his argument forcible. His friends declare it was one of his best efforts. At the conclusion he was ask ed a number of quostions, which he answered in a very clear manner. lHe w~as frequently and loudly ap plauded. Co.. Young .John Pope, or "Jolly Young John" as he is called, then ad dressed the audience in his humorous manner. Quiet prevailed and for the size of the crown Orangeburg is to be congratula ted for its good conduct. At one time a young man tried tc interrupt Gen. Earle (he also both ered Capt. Tillman some,) but he was soon quieted down. Earle asked some one to kill that "Grass-hopper," refering to him. One of Capt. Tillman's friends sen1 him a palmetto fan, with a beautifu: cotton leaf and two enormous bollb fastened upon with a pink ribbon. Th4 Captain evidently liked comfort more than looks; so he cut off the bolls. When Capt. Tillman put the guber natorial contest to vote, he was ap parently elected by quite a large me jority. Gen. Earle asked if any man in Or angeburg believed ,Judge Izlar hac perjured himself; only one hand wen1 The general said he thanked God foi that. It is generally supposed that thn "line man" came from another count3 and did not understand wvhat he was talking about; probably lhe thought it was the final vote for "Farmer Ben." A large number of the farmers were still in town at dark jubilant over Captail Tillman's presence. The speakers left last night foi St. Georges. where a special camupaigt meeting will be held to-day. WNr. C. WOL~E. Kiiled His Brother with a Fork. PH ILADELPHL\ I, Pa., .July 2.-Char les F. T1hompsoni, 17 years old, residi at No. 2420 Master street. died Saturday it is said, from injures inflicted on Jul: 16 by his fourteen-year-Old brother, D~an iel C. Thompson. On the day which Charles received hi wound that subsequently proved fatal the two brothers and anothier boy were at the supper table at their home. Char les began to tease his younger brothe about sonme trivial matter, and Damec grewv very angry. The angrier lie grev Ithe more Charles teased him, until final ly the younger boy threw his fork at hi brother. 'Thle fork wvas thrown with con~ si.erable force, and striking Charles il the thigh, penetrated the flesh dee] enough to remain sticking in the wounc. A physician was called in wvho pre nounced the wound a trival one. and thi iext day the boy wed: to wvork as usua Fr two days after receiving the injur; Charles complained that the wound wam sore. and on Saturday it became so pal fl that he was forced to go to bha From that time until the following Sal urdav thme boy continued to growv worst whenm on that day he died. It is allege< that his d.eath wvas due from blood poih oin, caused by the sth t'rom the forla [- WllAT HE WItt UU. ;APTAIN TILLMAN TALKS TO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER. Ic Thinks Ile Haw Won the Race. and Says There Will Be a Geueral Shaking LUp of Dry Boues When He Goes Into offce. CHARLELTON, S. C., July 30.-While n this city last week Captain Tillman vas interviewed by a representative of ,be Philadelphia Press, to whom he aid: "No, I don't believe they will assassi iate me, but I would like to know what hey mean when they say I shall never )e Governor of South Carolina. They ire desperate, and they want to scare ne out of the race for Governor. I ave smashed ring rule in South Caro lina, and I have already won the fight. rhere are only two courses open to the ld ring. They must either assassinate me or appeal to the negro vote. I don't think they will assassinate me, and God have mercy on them if they appeal to the negro to settle a family light be tween whites. We will not have any negro rule. Any man who comes ito Edgefield to appeal to the negro will do so at the peril of his life. They are sore now, but they will swallow Tillman before they go to the negro. "It will be a bitter pill, but they will take it. I am just as good as elected Governor, and when I am Governor I will shake up the dry bones in old South Carolina. My fight was for the common people of the State. They have never been allowed a voice in the government, and I have securedit now. Hereafter candidates will have to face the people, and not a small packed con vention of aristocrats, who pay no taxes and live in the past. "For the first time in her history South Carolina is about to get a repub lican form of Government. We are go ing to have a new constitution and a. new government in which mossbacks will be conspicuous for their absence. We will reduce taxation by cutting off useless officers and reducing salaries. Hereafter we will have no kid glove dudes around the State House at fancy salaries, but men who will do a full day's work at a reasonable salary. We will not have any official class." HOW TILLMAN LOST HIS EYE. A True Version of the Matter Given by Himself. YORKVILLE, S. C., July 24.-The En quirer says: Several stories, purporting to explain how Captain Tillman lost his eye, are going the rounds of the press. One is to the effect that he lost it study ing Greek by a lightwood fire, and an other that diving in a stream he struck his head on a rock at the bottom. Ac cording to Captain Tillman's own state ment neither version is correct. In. the summer of 1886, Captain Till man was invited to Tirzah, i this coun tly, to address a meeting of farmers at a picnic given there. As he stated in his speech At Yorkville on the 3rd inst., it was the first extemporaneous speech he ever made. It became the duty of the present writer to report Captain Tillman's speech on that occasion, and there he met for the first time and form ed the acquaintance of the embryonic "Moses," finding him to be socially a pleasant and afable gentleman. During a recess in the exercises, Cap tain Tillman and several other gentle men seated on the speaker's stand, a stranger, to all except Captain Tillman, approached, and ascending the stand, ad dressed Captain Tillman. His saluta tion was returned in a cheerful manner, and the meeting of the two men was most cordial. Captain Tillman intro duced him to the persons present, and after a conversation of several minutes, mainly between Captain Tillman and the visitor, the latter retired. He was a traveling salesman for a Greenville . house at that time. and came from Rock Hill via Tizrah to Yorkville on business. While transacting his business at Tizrah he inquired thf-natrir4f the meetin in the grove near Massey's s,'~ one being told that "Captain Ben. Tillman was making a speech," he hastened over to meet him as above related. After the salesman had taken his de parture from the stand, Captain Tillman, ointing to his blindeye, remarkedtothe ompany present: "lie is the man who did this," and went on to say that while boys at school in Edgefield County, and engaged one day in a game of ball, the man who had just called on him struck him accidentally on the eye with a bat, from the effects of which he was confin ed to his bed for several months, the ae cident terminating in the complete loss of his eye; "and" said Captain Tilman, "this happened during the war, and to day is the first time we have met since the occurrence." On the day after the meeting at Tizrah, the writer met the salesman in Yorkville, and renewing their acquaintance, the name of Captain Tillman naturally came up as a subject of the conversation. In the course of the conversation the sales man, of his own volition and without the incident having been previously referred to. remarked that it wvas he who, unfor tunately, by accident, caused Tillman the loss of his eye. He then detailedthe circumstance in about the same wordsas did Tillman on the previous day, and said: "This was during the war, and soon after the unfortunate occurrence I went to the army, and though I have been home several times since the war ended,yet yesterday was the first time we have nmet since the accident." He noted the fact thast Tillman made not the slightest allusion to the matter in his presence at Tizrah, and concluding, said: "It was the most regrtful act of my whole life, though purelvan accident; but Ben is a noble man, anal I have been told that through all his months of pain andl suffering, he never uttered a harsh word about me." This is the story of how Tillman lost his eye, as related by himself and the man who intlicted the wound, andshould be accepted as the true version. A Bluff Bored for Honey. A Louisville dispatch says: "A suc cessful borirrgTidr honey has been made in North Tennessee. For many years swarms of bees have been noticed by boatmen at Fox Bluff, on the Cumber lad river, near Franklin, Ky. The bluff is 170 feet high, and the river's channel runs directly under it. The bees have been observed about a big fissure near tle center of the blnff, and the opening could not be reached from above or be low without great danger of being stung to death. As the bees had never been robbed it was believed a large amount of honey is stored in the cliff. Recer.tly a welorer, named Starks visited the bluff and was at once impressed withthe idea that he could reach the wonderful honey storehouse with his drill. After some coaxing lhe plersuaded a number of far mers to undergo the expense, and a three ~inich hole was bored from the top of the blff. At a depth of eighty-five feet the d (rill struck the honey. Barrels and tubs ~y the score were tilled and carried off to neighboring farms, and the syndicate has sent to Louisville for more re ceptacles.'' rA Blunderer's Awful Work. 1 1A NCHIEsTEnl, Exa., J uly 28-A col lission occurred in the New Manches - ter ship canal cut between two trams5 a filled with workmen. Ten men were - instantly killed and sixty injured, of 1 whom probably thirty are fatally hurt. SThe blunder of a switchman caused -the calamity. Accordinir to later ad -vices three men were kdiled and nine Sseriously injured. Cholera in Japan. s S FRANCIsco, July 31.-Japans - advices state that on the 11th inst. the nubler of cholera cases was increased -to 239. with 114 deaths; forty-seven fresh clss and fifteen deaths were reported .1that day, and on the 12th, thirty fresh -cases and twenty-seven deaths were re nI orterd from Magasaki.