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v1 VOL. VI. MANN-INNG. S. C... WEDNESDAY, )L PEi\ IEI'0I190 N. 2 THE ALLIANCE POLICY AS OUTLINED AND EXPLAINED BY : PRESIDENT POLK. A Strong Paper of Great Interest to Aili ancemen and Farmers-The Action of the Order In Politics In Kansas and South Carolina Complimented. OcALA, FLA.. Dec. 2.--The Alliance met in tne opera house to-day Presi dent Polk in the chair. The only busi ness done was the appointment of a committee ox credentials. At 2.30 p. m., the Alliance met again, and Gover nor Fleminig and lion. J. F. Dunn made addresses of welcome. President Polk then read his annual message, which was well received. PRESIDENT POLK'S MESSAGE. To the Oficers and Members of the Supreme Council of the N. F. A. and I. U.: Congratulating you, and through you the great organization you represent on the hopeful and encouraging aus pices under which you have this day assembled, I beg to submit for your earnest consideration such thoughts and suggestions affecting the present and future of our great order as may conduce to the successful prosecution of its noble and patriotic purposes. Thepublic mind is naturally directed to thisineeting with anxious interest, if not solicitude, and you cannot be unmindful of the importance and re sponsibility that attaches to your ac tion as represetatives. Coming as you do from States and localities, remote from each other, and differing widely from each other in their material and physiological characteristics,and mark ed by these social and political differ ences which must necessarily arise under our form of government. It is your gracious privilege, as it shall be your crowning honor to prove to the world by your harmonious action and thoroughly fraternal co-operation that your supreme purpose is to meet the demands of patriotic duty in the spirit of equity and justice. The great and universal depression under which the agricultural interests of these United States are suffering, is in view of our surroundings and condi tions, an anomaly to the student of agricultural progress. No country or people in all history, have been so favored and blest with opportunity and favorable conditions for the successful and profitable prosecution of agricul tural industries. With soils, climate and seasons admirably adapted to the successful growth of all the greet staple crops demanded by commerce; with a people justly noted for their in dustry, frugality and progressive en terprise, and characterized by an ag gressiveness in material development, which has no parallel in history; with transportation facilities in land and upon the seas equal to the productive power of the country; with a develop ment in railroad and manufacturing enterprises, and in the growth of villages, towns and cities marvelous in its expansion; with the rapid collection of colossal fortunes in the hands of few, why, instead of the happy song of peace, content and plenTy, wi'cne should bless the hoe or the farmer and laborer ofthe country, should we hear the constant and unusual wail of "hard times?" To solve this significant and vital question in the light of equity, justice and truth is the underlying principle, the holy mission and inspiration of this, the greatest industrial revolution of the ages. To restore and maintain that equipoise between the great in dustriai interests of the country, which is absolutely essential to a healthful progress and to the development of our civilization, is a task which should en list the minds and energies of all pa triotic people-a task as stupendous as its accomplishment shall be grand and glorious. Retrogression in American agriculture means national decay and utter and inen1table ruin. Powerful and promising as is this young gaint republic, yet its power and glory can not survive the degredation of' the American. iaimer-. This great o~iganiza tion, whose jur'isdictioin now extends to thirty-five States of this Union, will, in the exercise of conservative political action, strive to secure "equal rights for all and special privileges to none," and secure indeed a government of the people, for the people and by the n ier the fostering care of our poli tico-economic systems to the centraliza tion of money power and the upbuild ing of monopolies, centralized capital allied to irresponsible corporate power. stands to-day as a formidable menace to individual rights and popular gov ernment. Since our last annual meeting in the city of St. Louis, the States of Illinois, Indiann, Michigan, North Dakota, Cali fornia, Colorado, West Virginia, Pen: sylvania and Oklahoma have been im'i ded to the roll-call of our supreme council. Orfanizers are at work in the States of Washington, Oregon, Ohio, New York, New Jersey andArizona, and in all these States the fields are ripe unto the harvest, but the laborers are few. If assaed what is the greatest and most essential neet,1 of our order, as contributing most to its ultimate and triumphant success,I should unhesitat ingly answer in one word-"Edcuation." Education, in the mutual relations and reciprocal duties betwecn each other, as brothers, as neighbors, as members of society. Education, in the respon sible duties of citizenship, education in the sciences of economical government, education for higher manhood among the masses, education in a broad patrio tism, which should bind the great con servative masses of the country in the strongest ties of fraternity and union. By far the most potent and influen Stial power underlying this great revo ltion of industrial and economic thoughts has been the reform press. At the earliest moment practicable the supreme council should digest and ir augurate a plan, which, ultimately, will give t-, every family in our order a thoroughly reliables paper, devoted to the princples of the order. We have a national organ of high order and sever al of the States have organs which are doing noble service in the cause, but as an order we cannot claim to be proper ly equipped, nor need we hope for that zeal, fraternity and unity so essential to success, until each State in our juris diction shall have at least one paper to represent us, whose dignity and char acter and power, shall command the support of our members, and the re spect of our enemies. It is the fixed purpose of this organi zation to secure, if possible, certain needed legislative reforms. However urgent and emphatic may be our de mands, experience teaches us that they are of no avail unless supported and enforced by such practical methods as will convince tne law-making power of our determination and ability to prose cute them to a successful issue. Let this supreme council, representing all parts of the country, and that great interest that pays over 80 per cent. of all taxes of the country, assert and maintain its dignity and its solemn pur pose to protect and advance the inter ests of its constituency by declaring hir legislative needs, and by showing to the Anierican Congress that when its demands on paper are ignored, it can and will vindicate and maintain its claims at the ballot-box. Our recent experience with that body, as well as with the leaders of the twc great political parties of the country, should admonish us that the time has arrived when the great organization should take bold and determined ac tion. -To this end, 1 respectfully recom mend that this council authorize the organization of a body to be known a, the National Legislative council of the Farmeas' Alliance and Industrial un ion, to whom shall be committed the charge of such legislative reforms as may be indicated by your body. I would respectfully suggect that the legislative council be composed o1 your national president, who shall bE ex-officio chairman, and the presidents of all the States represented in the supreme council, and that this body shall hold its annual meeting within sixty days after the adiournment ol the supreme council. Not only would its service be poten tial for good in securing harmony and unity of action among the people, and by crystalizing and concentrating ac tion upon any desired measure of re form, but the natural and harmonious blending of the moral force of such a body, with the influence of the reform Dress throughout the States, would es tablish and solidify a power which could not fail to exercise a most bene ficeent effect upon public affairs. I recommend, if iL be practicable and expedient, that the otlice and duty of treasurer be transferred and merged into that of the secretary. I respect fully suggest the expediency and ad visability of requiring any officer of your body who may be nominated oz appointed to any civil office, to tender his resignation promptly upon his ac ceptance of such nomination or ap pointment. An intflligent conseption and com prehension of the relations and recip rocal obligations between the citizen -nd the government is one of the high est attributes of American citizenship, and under our form of government, one of the most important duties and responsibilities devolving upon the cit izen. Hence the attainment of this knowledge is first and foremost in our declarations of principle. We an rounce that we are to labor for the edu cation of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government, in a strictly non-partisan spirit, and to bring : boa' a uro:e perfect union of said clas ses. Were it the design of the framers of our organic law to inpress our mem bership with the responsible and pa triotic duty of reaching the exalted standard in citizenship to which all American freemen should aspire, and to assert that our organzation was pol itical in the highest sense of that term, they were fortunate in adopting the language used in this declaration; but while our organization is political, it cannot be partisan or sectional in its action. In support of this declaration we proudly point to our whale past re cord and to the recent popular election, and particularly to the noble and pat riotic bearing of the brotherhood in the states of Kansas and South Carolina. it is naeaedless-a&it would be crim inal to attempt to disguise the fa:tthat as an erganization we have reached a critical period in our existence. Insid ious and powerful influences are seek ing to divert us from the high purpos es and grand objects for which we were organized. Flushed and elated with success marvelous in many of its as pects. the most remarkable in the poli tical history of this country, let us not impair its prestige and power by indif ference or inactivity on the one hand, and by grasping for the impracticable or unattainable on the other, strong as we are, and strong as we must become -strong enough, if united, to render our lines impregnable to any open or opposing force, yet we are not strong enough nor can we be to withstand the intrigue and treachery of foes within. Our principles must find their "city of refuge" and our cause its citadel of safety in the loyal hearts of a devoted membership. Let our primary bodies barricade their doors against unworthy and de sighing men, and, if such be found al ready within the gates, let them at once be furnished safe and speedy exit to the camp of the enemy. Let these primary bodies, standiug as a sentinel at the outer gates, be constantly on the alert, and watch with ceaseless vigil ance lest they admit dangerous emis saries from corporations or political or monopolistic combinations. Let us as an order adopt as our rule of action the inflexible test of loyalty to Alliance principles as the first and most essen tial prerequisite to membership, and to ur confidence. Apply this test to the selection of officers, from the steward f a primary body, to the president of your national body. Apply the test rigidly to all men who aspire to repre sent us in any capacity, and especially to those, whether of high or low degree, who are to be entrusted with the du ies and powers of legisltion, and, if in the faithful and impartial appliance of his test, any reasonable doubt should fise, do not hesitate to give our cause he full benfit of such doubt. Place no an on guard who is not a loyal and faithful friend to our cause Herein ies our strength and our safety. Let us stand unitedly and unflin hingly by the great principles enu erated at our St. Louis meeting. In he light of our recent experience the mportant work of discussing and elu idating these principles must devolve pon us in congress, on the hustings, n conventions and in the partisan press f the country. There was a signifi ant silence on these principles, except and only in cases wvhere we forced their iscussion. All propositions presented y us look to iinancial reform, and not bly the measure known as the sub reasury plan, was ignored by congress, and even the discussion on this plan was suppressed, notwithstanding the etitions of hundreds of thousands of ur members for financial relief. In this direction neither of the great olitical parties of the country, nor in eed did the leaders of these parties in icate a favorable inclination to heed he demands of these millions of op ressed and long suffering farmers. A cereful revien of financial legisla ion by congress for the p'ast quarter of century, together with the disregard anifested by that body to the just and rgent demands of the people for tin meial relief,.has fixed upon the public ind the alarming apprehension that he seductive hand of monopolistic and orporate power has lifted the Ameri an congress to the dangerous eminence rom which they can no longer hear he cry of the people. But the decree has gone forth that his dangerous and threatening state f things cannot much longer exist. ongress must come nearer to the' peo le, or the people will get nearer to con ress. Let us not be diverted through he machinations of political intrigue rom the great and paramount issue ow before the American people. -Financial Reform"-Let this be the slogan and the rallymng cry of the peo ple, until relief shall come. We can nt hope for relief if we accept the fin acial policy adopted and practiced for quarter of a century by the two great plitical parties of the onntry. Never in the history of the country was there such universal interest among the people and such urgent de mand on the political parties for tinan cial ref)rm as characterized the recent campaign, and yet the great effort of the leaders of each of the parties and of the partisan press was to give over shawoding prominence to questions and issues partaking largely of a partisan character to the exclusion of the one vital living issue-financiel reform. Indeed the evasion of this great issue has been prominently characteristic of the two great parties for the pat 25 years. The great absorbing question, let me repeat before the American people, is' not whether the Dem cratic or the Re publican party, with their evident sub serviency to the will of corporate and money power, shall be in the ascenden cy, but the question is whether under our Republican form of government the citizen or the dollar shall be sover eign. President Polk then reiterated the demands of the Alliance, arged the farmers to stand by them. They were mainly the free coinage of silver, the sub-treasury plan, and government control of railroads. He referred to the Alliance as the great engine that would allay sectionalism. North and South, had met on common ground and henceforth they would be as one In conclusion he said: "Let the dead past bury its dead, and as an organiza tion let us turn our faces toward the rising sun of our auspicious and invit ing future, where we shall all be on e people umited for one purrose." GORMAN AS A PROPHET. The Maryland Senator Says the Force Bill Will Pass. WAsHINGToN. INovember 27.-Sen ator Gorman's opinion that the Republi can Senators will try to push the force bill through as quickly as possible after the Senate meets is generally regarded here as well founded only to the extent that the bill will be taken up very prompt ly. Mr. Gorman ought to know, for he represented the minority in the dicker with Quay and the finance committee, which resulted in limiting debate on the tariff bill, the passage of that measure. and the postponement of the force bill. It was distinctly understood by the parties to that dicker that the force bill would be taken up in December, and it was in order to stave off until then the expected bitter fight over the bill that the agreement was made. The force bill was believed by a good many close observers to be a doomed measure before the elections. Mr. Gorman's implied fear that it will become a law is shared by very few persons now. That a force bill will pass the Senate this winter is not very im probable, but, while it will contain the essential features of the House bill, it will be greatly changed from the meas ure which was forced through under the Reed rules. It will, therefore, have to go back to the House for that body's action upon the amendments, and its opponents are confindent that it will hp impocoible to hol< a RognhlinAn quorum there long enough to accept the Senate amendments. They believe that the only way to get a force bill on the statute book this winter will be for the Senate to take the bill just as it same from the House, without the change of a word or letter. Nobody believes the Senate will do that. It can be done only by such re volutionary methods as have never yet been seen in the upper house of Con gress. There was some wild talk of absolutely ignoring the Democratic Senators and puttuig the force bill through last summer, but it amounted to nothing. Mr. Spooner was credited with a desire to see the bill railroaded through in some such way, but the Wisconsin Senator since then has re ceived a very emphatic idtimation thait his constituents do not fancy that sort of thing. Mr. Ingalls is the only Senator who is regarded as entirely capable of taking the lead in such a revolutionary proceed ing. He would have to act as presiding officer, and he would need all the 'nerve' he is supposed to have to absolutely re fuse to see or hear the protesting D)em ocrats. But Mr. Ingalls will be kept busy during the next six weeks in try ing to be returned to the Senate from a State which has repudiated him. After that he may have no incentive to act as leader of the Republican revolutionmsts, and if he had it would be too late in the session to carry out the scheme. Mr. Goaman's prediction that the Democrats will defeat the force bill un less the Vice President and the Repubii an majority adopt Reed's methods rests upon a very substanlial founda tion.-New York Times. The Indian Messiah. WVASHINGTON. Nov. 29.-John L. Mayhugh, until recently a special cen-s sus agent of the Indians for Nevada, has written to the Indian Bureau on the sbject of the coming of the Indian Mes siah. In the letter lie says: T~hie pro phet resides in Mason Valley. Esmer altia County, Nevada, close to the Wal er River reservation. His name is not Johnson Sides at Reno, but Cautain s ack Wilson, and is known among all he Indians by the Indian n-unes of We-vo-kar and Co-we-lo. He is an in elligent, fine looking Indian, about 35 ears of age. who goes into scemi ng trances-and seemingl so from twelve o fourteen hours-in the presence of',a arge number of Indians. "Upon the invitation of the prophet. pon his recovery lhe related to them he ad been to heaven and that the Mes siadl is cgming to the earth again and will put the Indians in possession of this ountry ; that lie has seen in heaven a eap of Indians, some of whom are dIres sed in white man's clothes. H~e coun sels the Indians not no disturb the white folks, saying that the blanket or rabbit kin that wvas put over the moon by the ndians long ago will soon fall off and he moon, which is nowv a-Lire, will des roy the whites. "The Messiah is to appear on Mount Grant, which is a very large mountamn eld by the Indians to be sacred and situated about sixteen miles South of he Walker River agency buildings aind on the West side of the Lake. Here is where the first Indians appeared, accord ng to Indian tradition. Mayhugh says e understands the various tribes expect to scud delegations to this mountain, ad lie reconmmends they be allowed to visit the mountain to see for themselves what truth there is in the prophiecy." A Yery Bold Robbery. MILWAUKE~E, Nov. 26.-Win. Clark, owiier of the electric light plant. caine to Milwaukee to-day and drew $25,000 rom the bank to pay bills. He paid out about six thousand dollars and was on his way to take the train home to ight with the rest of the money in a satchel. When near the depot he was knocked down by two men who had vidently followed him, and who got .s aw wiuth the money, abont $l14,000 . CLOSE IlFM CONFER~ENCE AN IMPORTANT DAY FOR.THE METH ODIST MINISTERS. nhe Asignmeit of Cirenit% Made for the Enung Yeatr--Ai the Comnmittee Re- pr I)orts Iaimied In-Darlinaton Chosen as the Next I'lace of 3Meeting. ANI-:nsoN, S. C., December 2.-The onference adjourned at 1 P. -.. having jeen in session seven lays. The re- a >orts of the committees on temperance, u Bible cause. periodicals, Conference, elations, Conference journals and min Ates were adopted with but little dis- sul ussion. Darlington was selected as the place for holding the next Conference. sul It 12 M. the Conference engaged in re tigious devotions, after which Bishop Duncan addressed the preachers and mnounced the appointments as follows: Avpointnents. CHARLESTON DISTRICT. R1 N Wells. presiding elder. Charleston-Trinity, W. A. Rogers; Bethel, R. D. Smart; Spring Street, J. 'homas Pate; Cumberland, W~. A. Betts. McClellanville-Supplicd by J. C. Welch. Berkeley-Hl. C. Mouzon, Sumnierville-J. E. Carlisle. Cyprcss-E. B. Loylecs. Ridgeville--J. C. Younge. Po S- Georce's-George T. Harmon. Reevesville-C. 11. Pritchard. Colleton-W. H, Ariail. R'ound 0-J, W. Elkins. Walterboro Sta;ion-J. W. Kilgo. . Walterboro Circuit-W. C. Gleaton, of IL'impton-S. S. Bla.tchard. M Allendale-J. L. Silley. Black Swamp-J. S. Porter. Hardeeville-Sapplied by W. R. Buch- fr anan. th Beaufort-J. B. Campbell. COXUMBIA DISTRICT. W. C. Power, presiding elder. t Columbia-Washington Street, H. F. Si Chrietzberg; Marion Street, S. P. H. El- be well. City Mission-S. D. Vaughn. cit New Brooklyn Mission-Geo. H. Pooser. gr Lexington Fork-R. L. Holroyd. pl1 Lexington-T. C. Ligon, one to be sup- au plied. th Batesburg-J. K. McCain. P Johnston-Thos. G. Herbert. cil Edgefield-A. B. Watson. hi Granitev;"e-J. W. Neeley. Aiken-S. A. Weoer. 1 Upper St. Matthew's-W. P. Meadors. in Fort Motte--M- L. Banks. Ridgeway-M. W. Hook. Pc WInnsboro-R. H. Jor es. N< Fairfied-J, W. Murray. th Monticello Staiion-J. H. Noland li Columbia Female Co'!cge-S. B Jones, Co resident and J. Mar~on Rogers. professor. Paine Institute--Geo. W. Walker, presi- se lent. Editor Southern Christian Advocate, W. Ce D. Kirkland. Chaplain to State prison. 0. A. Darby. CHESTFR DsTRICT. Sh A. 3. Chreitzberg, presiding elder. WI Ches;er-J. W. Daniel. Chester Circuit-N. B. Clarkson. re East Chester-J. L. Ray. - ha Richburg-T. Raysor. th Rock Hill Station-E. 0. Watson. Rock Hill Circuit-J. L. Harley. York Station-G. H. Waddell, L. A- rej Johnson, supernuI.erary. Blacksburg-J. W. Humbert. King's Mountain-Supplied by A. S. Les- shl ic. na ie. A Fort Mill-E. G. Price. Lancaster Station--P. F. Kilgo. in: Lancester Circuit-- A V Attaway. th Tradesville-J. Ware Bro\vi. ha Chesterfield-R. A. Young. ths Jefferson-J. R. Copeland. av Blackstock-C. E. Wiggins. th COKESBURY DISTRICT. thi A. J. Cauthen, presiding elder. Cokesbury- J. W. Ariail. Greenwood-R. E. Stackhouse. ne Ninety-Six- M. M. Brabham. thE Donald's-E. W. Mason, an Abbeville-Marion Dargan. 'as Abbeville Circuit-A. B. Berrsy, D. Hux. ha McCormick--J. M, Steadman.] Lowndesville-- J. E. Beard, fat Princeton-E. P. Taylor. thi Waterloo-George M. Boyd. e North Edgefield-A. McS. Attaway. e Newberry Statioo-W, W. Daniel. 'bri Newberry Circuit--C. D. Mann, Kinard's-'0. N. Rountree. f Saluda--H. W. Whitakeir. ex; Richardsonville -R. R. Dagnall e Parksville-M. H. Pooser. Poi Prosperity-J. B. Tray wick. SUMTER DISTRICT, ha. E T Hodges, presiding elder. poi Sumter Station, A J Stokes. Sumter Circuit, W H Wroton- the Lynchburg, C W Creighton. the Wedgefield, John Manning.ee Bishopville, \v HI Kirton. Santee, H M Mood. Foi eston, J C Bissell. sen Manning, WV S Stokes. Oakland, W E Barr, .seV New Zion, H C Bethea. 4amde'. M L Carlisle. ed flanging Rock, J C Davis. ' Richland, WV M Hardin- is r East Kershaw, Supplied by E B Hayne- ter West Wateree, D A Phillips. w Conference colporteur, J C Chandler. sch JB FLORENCE DIsTRICT,.a JBWilson, presiding elder. cae Florence, H B Browne, E Mars Bluff. A Li Best.of Darlington, J A Rice. o Chieraw, WV W Duncan. WO Cheraw Circuit. WV L Pegues. anc Soc-ety Hill, J D Frierson. 1 Clyde, Supplied by D Durant. of( Darlington Circuit, W L Wait; one to be lies Ipplied by J C Clyde. tho Lower Darlington, J E Rushton' bac Cartersville, A 11 Lester. Timmonsville, WV B Duncan. Erlinghan, Supplied by W J Durant. hot East Etlinghamn, Supplied by J F Stone. sup~ Scranton, .J S Abercromibie. Lake City. W B Baker. wo: Kingstree, W H Jiodges; A WV Jackson sev ipernumerary. ocr Salters', Supplied by R W Spigner. Georgetown Circuit, Supplied by S 31 ones. Georgetown Station, W T Capers, Cot Johinsonville, G R1 Whitaker. t T MARION DISTRICT, p TJClyde. presiding elder. . Marion, J S Beasley.. i Centenary, WV W Jones. rev Britton's Neck, B 0 Berry, ern Conway, A J Statford. fic Conway Circuit. W A Wright. ua Bucksville, J A Moore.u Waccamiaw, N K Melton. mg~ Dayboro, Supplied by A M1 Dusenbery. 301 Loris, M M Ferguson. esti Littie Pee-Dee, D A Calhoun. the Mullin's, Johni Owen. g>2 Latta, L F Beaty.~ Little Rock, P A Murray. nma Clio, Ri A Child. gov Blenheim, J A Porter. $45 Pee-Dee Mission, Supplied by W Qnick. 43(i Uennettsville, W S Wighitman. cla Beninettsville Circuit, W S Martin. Urighitsville, Rl. W Barber. North Marlboro, WX II Lawton. cur] ORANGEB3URG DIsTRICT,.h .1 W Dickson, p)residing elder. cxc Orangeburg Station, G. P Watson, T E neo 'annmaker, superinumuerary. 1 s9 Orangeburg Circuit, J W McRoy'. revi Lower St Matthews, W WV Williams. .io Providence, D)1D Dantzler.to Iranch~lville, P' F Kistler. sini Uamberg and Buford's Bridge, J L ciet ;okes. lea' Graham. J E Grier- sinl Edisto, B M1 Greir.In Upper Edisto, Supiplied by J C Abney.In Blackville, D 'Tiller. Boiling Sp~rings, J B Platt. I)00 Orange, D Z D)antzler. last Williston, P L Kirton. South Branchville, L S IDellinger. Elleniton, George WV Davis. GREENVILLE DIsTRICT. Sta J1 0 WIlson, presiding elder. def Greenville, J A Clifton. for Greenville Circuit, E A Wilkes. obt Reidsville, 'T P P'hillips. North Greenville, .J R lBetts. 1i Fork shuoals, N (O Ballanger; J A Wood, pea ipernumerary. ans ia ilm.a.stn ,a neton, J C Stnl cen inderson, C r Smith. tnderson Circuit, A IV Walker. Vest Ai'derson Circuit, E 31 Merritt. Lownville, supplied by J V Wright. H ?endleton. T C Odell. ?ickens, C G Harmon. ieneca City, A 13 Earle. Vestrinster, G R1 Shafer. Valhallu, A C Walk-r. Villianiston Feiale College, 'i Lander, sident. ?asley, .1 F Anderso:. liedniont, S 11 Zimmerman. SPAlRTANBURG DIsT1'1CT. M 3Boyd presiding elder. ipartanburg Central Chureh, W R Rich son. 3ethel 'Mission, S J Bethea, J F Smith, h >plied. 4. inion, W J llerber:. ,herakee, J P Attaway, E L Archer, fj )pliod. h; iouth Uniuu, John Attaway, J M Friday, plied. ronesville, D P Boyd, 31 B Kelly. iaffney, A b1Gilbert. el aurens, T E Morris. Sorth Laurens, W A Clarke. Enoree, J C Counts. linton, J E "Mahaffey. si 3elmont, I" RZ Browne- V Jampobello, S T Blackman. 'acolet, T 31 Dent. t 1ifton, J W Shell. iofford College, J C Kilgo. S1 Tanderbilt University, A Coke Smith. C -ti INVESTIGATE THIS FRAUD. rter's Mysterious Work Must be Ex 0: plained. WVAsmIxoTON, Nov. 29 .-Congress n It reassemble on Monday next. One the first duties of the Democratic n !mbers of the House will be to de- b: tnd a thorough investigation of the V V tuds which have been perpetrated in e census of Ne w York. N rhere must he no action concerning C e reapportionment o, the Congres- el >nal districts until those frauds have r( en sifted to the bottom. n rhe facts already kr.own are sufli nt to compel the Republicans to L ant the investigation. There will be t1 nty more of evidence when the u: thorities of New York City present a air statement of what was done by ti rter in the single district-of that ft ;y, of which he was willing to give le ; own detailed enumeration to Mayor - ant, is made public, which will be w a few days. C Iere is -one astounding discovery! ol rter has paid his enumerators in C w York city for 100,000 more names a, ia he has countedl in the Census Of- ti i here in Washington. Ie must be a( mpelled to explain at once: v< [. Whether the enumerators actually 11 it in that number of names in ex- el ;s of what he has declared to be the hc a population of the city ?- T !. If so, what has been done with the re ets which they forwarded, and el ich were not counted ? 01 1. If all the names on thesheets have q1 ly been counted, what authority he tt d to hay $10,000 more for the work tli mn the law authorized him to pay? pi L If the names were all counted how I it happen that Supervisor Murray in >orted to him, when the. enumeration w s finished in New York. that the m !ets contained over 100,000 more ar u~es than were actually on them? g X e have no doubt from our present ec 'ormation that the sheets showing hi 113,000 names more than Porter If s counted were actually turned in by p, enumerators, and that he could not St Aid paying for them. In that case th sheets have been destroyed or SE -own out in some way. ar ayor Grant will submit evidence It t week that in a single district of city where only poor people reside, fu I the populttion is as large in June se in D~ecember, hundreds of families uv ve been omitted from the final count. he n the whole city probably 20,000 th nilies have been omitted, and yet tc government has paid for their sil inieration. e in investigation by Congress will pr g out all the facts and when the ig; ud in the New York work has been R osed there will be plenty of evi- r ice of the arbitrary reduction of the fa >lation of other localities. he truth seems to be that Porter sc been a party to a conspiracy to re- of t the population of the United be tes nearly three millions less than de actual figures in order to cut do wn A Congressional representation and ca toral vote of Democratic States. w] f this can be proved he ought to be th t to the penitentiary. th f it can be proved a new census of g eral States must he taken. intil this matter is thoroughly sift- co there can be no reapportionfl ent- nc he unfortunate fact is that there ; othing in Porter's record or charac- on to render it improbable that he sa ild engage in a rascally partisan w] emefor the benefit of the Rtepubli- bu party, out of which he is making a sc at deal of money. c [e is an English adven::urer, a soldier of rtune, who wvould be as willing to an -k for one party in this country as or: ther-for pay. be us appointment as superintendent be ensus was an outrage and we be- ei, e that when the census scandal is be roughly exposed he will want to go co k to England to live. 92 hen another census is taken we ne it will be an American census : ervised by Americans. iss Te have had enough fine English ei -k in our census this year to last us in ral hurdred years.-National Dem- cli it. dc our necven~ues and( Expenses. P n's[INa;rox. Dec. 4.-James C. a trts and Thomias P. Cleaves, clerks by he Ihouse and Senate ::ommittees on mi roriations, have preiared a table wvi ng a comparative statement of the of uues andl expenditures of the gov- the nont for the curren'; and the next so< d year. 'The estimates for the reg- apJ -appropriations for the fiscal year end- pC .June 30, 1892, aggregate $358,545,- ed ,an ncreace of 354,572.l75 over the CU mates tor the current year, and for Jh permansnt annual approprIations, e 2,46.St'8, an increase of $20,858,358' liai :ing the total estimated needls of the na ernment for the next tiscal year to: 1032,169, a total increase of $7, foi .329. These estimates do' not in- ga: le any money for rivers and harb~ors. ser 'he total estimated revenues for the -nt year are .j446,955.031, making , excess of estimated appropriations, usive of deficiencies andl miscella- te: as, over the estimated revenuses for tr. 2.434.i77. 137. Excess of estimated ce ues over estimated alpropria s exclusive of 849 .224, 928 for the s :mg fund aLnd exclusive of the defi- pr< eies anid miscellaneous, $15, 147.790, an -in' tis amotnunt as a surplus if the foi :in" lund rejuiaements are not met. col Luded in the estimates are $7,(000.0300 ev muar bounties, 44.00,1 001 or $5,000,- bai foi pay~ment or drawb.acks under the h tarill legilation. b -. Yll Charged Withk Iribery. an AN FnIAN(isco, Cail., Nov. 26.-Ex- th< te Senator P. ,J. Murpny, who wvas an ated by the Democratic candidate in1 the state senate from this city, has 25 iined an order from Superior Judge an 1, citing Senator Stanford to ap- pu before the court commissioner and Ipa: wer to charges of bribery tin the re- jTlI - ltonsn. I of INGALL'S SC1EME. OW HE HOPES TO RETAIN HIS SENA TORSHIP. teliance Plated in a Contest of the Elec tion if Alliance 31en Ctnnqt be Crowdei Out-Resorting to the United States Sen ate. Tori-:i.t, Kan., Nov. 2.-The claim o anator Ingalls that he will be Unitei tates Senator from Kansas to succeei imself appears to have good founda on, if his plans or the plans of hi iends prevail. The preliminary step ave already been taken for a contes i the Senate, it being certain that th Aliance will command more tha) aough votes to elect. There are 106 Counties in the State ineteen of them having been organizei nee the last apportionment of memn ers of the Legislature. These Cour es are without representation in th )wer House, although the Constitutioi pecially provides that ever organizei ounty casting 250 votes shall be en tled to a representative, and in n ise shall the iumber of members eN ed 125. There havebeentwo session f the Legislature since these Countie -ere organized, but they were not prc ided for, the Eastern Counties havini iore than one member refusing t irrender thelr representative. Th ineteen Counties unrepresented hav( y courtesy, been allowed delegate. ho draw neither pay nor mileage, ani 'ho have no privileges on the floor o 1e House except to sit there ani 'atch matters pertaining to their ow: ounties. They have been regularl; ected at each general election as rep sentatives, but have not been recog ized as such. A few days ago a delegate namei obdell, from one of these Countiet irough his attorney made a demani pon the State Canvassing Board tha certificate of election as Representa ve be issued to him. The board re ised to do this, recognizing only th, gislative distiict as provided by lai -otice was given that an applicatioi ould be made to the Supreme Cour )r a mandamus compelling the issuinj such certificate, Lobdell, under th, onstitution, being entitled to a sea ; a member. Nothing was thought o is until to-day, when an attorney, wh ivised Lobdell to take this action, re aled the reasons to a supposed friend e acknowledged that the alliance woul ect a successor to Senator Ingalls ving 92 votes, 9 more than enough he Ingalls plan is to compel the See tary of State to issue certificates o: ection to the extra eighteen members ie of the Counties not having the re isite number of voters, in whica casq Lere would be 143 members, makinj e vote, under a decision of the Su eme Court, illegal. There are counted for Ingalls 24 votet the House and 34 in the Senate, t< hich the plotters add the eighteen extrt .embers, although but eleven of then -e Republicans. Thiswould give In. dLs 76 votes. Six Democrats are count as likely to vote for Ingalls, making s strength 82, or 1 less than enough the delegate members are seated it it oposed to go into the United State, nate with a contest upon the clai at the alliance has illegally elected itt nator by bringing in 18 votes. It i gued that upon this showing Senatoi galls will be seated. In case the Supreme Court should re tse to issue its writ of mandamus, thE hemers propose to make the contesi >on the showing that eighteen countiet tve been thrown out, although- undei .e Constitution they should be entitled vote for Senator. In the joint ses an, when the Senatorial vote is taken ch delegate will rise and demand the 'ivilege of voting. Some of the In. 11s workers profess to believe that the epublican President of the Senate will cognize these delegates, but he is a ir man and will hardly do so. Failing in both of these plans, the hemers propose to have the Secrerary State. in making up his list of mem rs of the House, include these eighteen :egates and drop the names of eighteen liance membei s, just elected, as he! ,n make up a roll of but 125 members len he organizes the House. They s'ay at if he does this they can organize e ouse and retain their seats, and the tining over of two or three Alliance embers formerly Republicans will be a mparatively easy matter. In that case >contest would be necessary. Secretary Higgins was questioned up this probable action in this case. He id: "I am. an Ingalls man and will do at 1 can do honorably for his election, tt I will not lend myself to any such leme. ~I have no power to disfran. ise any district provided by the laws the State, nor do I propose to attemp y such high-handen outrage. I shal~ ganize the House with the 125 meme rs elected under the law, even while lieve an injustice has been done thes hteen Counties. Senator Ingalls must re-elected fairly or not at all, and I nfess I do not see how he can be with votes against him, when only 83 are cessary." [n case the Supreme Court orders the ning of certificates of election to the ~hteen delegates-for Lobdell is mak the fight for all-Mr. Higgins de nes at this time to say what he would .He would, howvever, probably som , leaving the Ihouse to determine at it should do. The plan was enter ned of making the Ihouse vote illegal increase of numbers, and of then de ingne of Governor IHumphrey the thholding of the certificate of election the Alliance Senator. It was thought 3 Governor could then be forced, as m as thte Legislature adjourned, to point Senator Ingalls to till the sup sed vacancy. But it was soon learn that: Governor Humphrey would not tertain any such plan, nor would he ye anything to do with such proceed s. Ile would cause to be issued the -tificate of election to thte man the Al nee with its majority on joint ballot, me as the next United States Sena .Therefore, the plan now is to pro a contest in the United Senate. In Lllss friends believing that he will be tted by the the Republican members. A Story of a Nickel. 1'he Anniston Argus tells a very in esting story of a nickel. Ladies, 'the experiment and give the pro ?ds to the church. The Argus says: me time ago the Ladies' Aid Society this city agreed to invest a nickel in E kind of article and sell it at a 1it andl re-inv-est in somethting else d so on, to speculate on this capital t wo weeks and see how much each uld. mak-e. One lady on the same ning of the meeting bought a cab ge with her nickel. She carried it me and sold hal::- of it to her neigh r for a niekel. She invested that in 3egar and pickled the remaining half d sold the pickle for 25 cents. She n bought 20 cents worth of cloth d a spool of thread and made it up t three aprons, which she sold for cents each. and~ took the 75 cents bought molasses and gave a candy lng to the children, making them y 1 cents a plate for the candy .e molasses made t wenty-one plates A LESSON BY JUDGE LYNCH. Lone Women Must be as Safe as if a Iegi - ment Surrounded Them. GREENV1 LLE, Dec. 3.-Riddled with bullets and left in the woods to die a lingering death is the death Judge Lyiici decreed to Henry Johnson. alias 11enry I Wilsby, colored, four miles from Central, - in P.ickens County, this morning before daylight. On Monday the quiet little town of I Central was excited by a brutal outrage I perpetrated upon Mrs. Thos. Walters, wife of a white farmerliving four miles from Central. The outrage was one of - the most horrible ever known. While 5 busy at work in her home Mrs. Walters, 5 who is a handsome young woman, 20 years old, was frightened by a gun be ing placed at her head by an unknown 3 negro, and the command, "Don't move, or I'll kill you." Throwing a rope over her head the negro led her from the house like a cow into the woods some I distance away. She kept up a continual scream, but her husband was a mile a ~ way working in a saw mill, and the near est neighbor lived a long ways off. The a negro pulled the terrified woman over i bushes and through brambles until he I reached a secluded spot, where, after the - most cruel and outrageous treatment, he threatened to kill her, but she begged - piteously, and the villian went away and 1 5 left her., s As soon as she could she hurried to a - neighbor's house and told the terrible story. The entire section of country was aroused and parties searchedevery a where. Johnson was captured yester , day afternoon at the Richland trestle on , the Air Line Road, and last night was I I taken before Mrs. Walters, who at once E recognized him. I Fifty determined men had gathered i and notwithstanding Johnson's appeals, r he was silently marched away and four - minutes afterward fifty or a hundred - shots rang out on the early morning air. ] and testified that a horrible crime had I been avenged. , A reporter visited the scene of the I lynching. No one acknowledged know t ing anything of the disposition made of - Johnson, search revealed the spot where - he had been tied to a tree, and in the woods the brute was found dying a . brute's death. The mob had evidently i left him for dead, but he had recovered I b sufficiently to crawl further into the g woods. He lay in a pool of sweltering I blood, and occasionally an agonized t moan escaped his lips. The body was 1 E terribly mangled. The left eye was shot . out, and a load of shot had entered the 1 - left ear. All over his body bullet . wounds were visible. No one dared to . offer assistance, and the negro was dy ing when the reporter left. No sentimental placard was placed on the body, but it lay there an impressive lesson that the women of the country I ,will be protected. Mrs. Walters still shows signs of the terrible treatment she received. Her I eyes are red and swollen, and I blue mark shows on her neck. Public sentiment justifies the horrible death meted out. Johnson has proba bly been guilty of simular crimes, as he told Mrs. Walters that she was not the first white woman who had been his vic- I tim. le recently served two years in the E State Penitentiary for an attempted as- 1 sault on a colored girl.-News and Cou rier. Stirring Times. WAsnIoGToN, Dec. 3.-Republican senators have been in caucus for an t hour and a half, engaged in the consider ation of the order of business. The main topic of discussion was the national elec- -i tion bill. Friends of this measure re called to their fellow-senators the im plied pledge given at the caucus last ses- a sion, that the bill, if allowed to go over until the reassembling of congress, 3 would be taken up and passed without a the intervention of other business. They urged that the time had come to t redeem that pledge and that the senate d should at once proceed to the consider- e ation of the bill. Certain senators, who have in the past a been set down as opponents of the elec- a tion bill, or who, at least, were supposed b to be lukewarm in its support, objected 11 not to the general principle of the bill itself, but to the adoption of a policy 1, that in their judgment, would probably o result in blocking all other important r legislation during the remainder of this y, congress, without the guarantee of a suc cessful termination of the attempt to a pass the elfation bill. Several western senators, however, insisted that with a proper spirit of determination on the d part of the majority the the bill could be ( passed. The probabilities of the Republicans a having a quorum of their own members y entered largely into the discussion,. and the majority were sanguine that they 6 could secure a full attendance of the i members if necessary. Several of those a present, when asked if it had been de- a cided that an opporionment bill should is be passed, said that no decision was d reached, but each one personally insist- , ed that the bill would unquestionably is be passed._________ The Hellish Work of a Brute. c. GRtEENVILLE, S. C., Dec. 1.-The par ticulars of a horrible outrage perpe- ti trated -on a white woman named "M Waters reached here this afternoon. c~ The dastardly deed is one of the most d: atrocious ever known. This morning four miles from Central, in Pickens County, an unknown negro entered the house of Mrs. Waters, slipped a C noose over her head, choked her and dragged her into the woods some dis tance from the .house. There lie kept her from 8 o'clock until noon and left w her in a terrible condition-.r The entire country near Central is st in a state of frenzied excitement and g parties are scouring the country for the negro, who was armed with a shot- s gun. Information has been sent out t1 to all the neighboring towns asking tC that a lookout be kept for the negro 31 and he will probably be captured. th Judge Lynch will then unquestionably fe hold court.-ColumbiaRegister. Life and Property Lost by Fire. st DET noIr. Dec. 3.-Tile line-cut depart-. te ment of the Scotten tobacco works were of destroyed by fire early this morning. m1 The factory is valued at 810,000. The w stock is also a total loss, but the value fr is unknown. Two liremen were killed m and two injured. The snow rendered it w dillicult for the engines to reach the lire. lo The blaze spread rapidly and in threep quarters of an hour the whole side of the building on Campus street was in th inmes. At this time, while the firemen were at work on the Fort street side. 1) tile corner on the front side began fall-' tl ing and orders were given to fall back. ar It was too) late, however, and liremen in lobinson and Caughlin were killed by im the terrible rain of bricks. A bout 600) 0 girls will be thrown out of employment n<( by the tire.__________ Three Boys Buried Alive, at A TLNTIC. IowA, Nov. 27.--Willie aid Millard Fally, aged 9i andl 6 respec- w' tively, and Fred Ianley, aged 13, were ht killed to-day by the caving in of an ca abandoned sand bank in the western w< art of the city, where live or six small boys were digging a tunnel. The alarm was given by the boys who es- G; caped. and willing hands were soon at to work. The bodies of the three unfor- mn tunate boys were recovered in twenty ty minutes, ~but in each case life was ex- el inet ca FE LOAVES AND FISHES. 4EWS AND GOSSIP AS TO WHO WILL GET THEM. lampton Said to Have No Chauce of Re-election -Who the New Railroad Commissioners Will Be-A Sickening Rush for Office. COLTEBIA, S. C., Nov. 28.-The Co umbia Record publishes considerable iews and gossip in reference to the hanges likely to be made in the rarious offices by the Legislature now n session. The Senatorial race, tbe decision in - vhich is to be reached next Tuesday veek, is, of course, the matter that is tbsorbing the minds of the people of he State. From what is learned Gen. iVade Hampton. the hero of '76, will lot be returned to the Senate. It ap years that he is doomed along with nany others. The men who are aspirants for the osition. as learned last night, are Sen tor Wade Hampton, Col. J. L. M. Irhy, longressman J. J. Hemphill, Dr. ampson Pope, of Newberry, Solicitor fames Orr of Greenville, and Gen. Ellison S. keitt, of Newberry. It is tlso stated that ex-Gov. J. C. Sheppard s prominently mentioned as the dark iorse to be entered. Among the majority members the vind is blowing in the Irby quarter. Ile is their leader, he carried them to rictory, and it now seems that they are ,oing to return the compliment. Some )f the most prominent of them said ast night that Hampton stood no marthly chance and they could not see vhy his name was not withdrawn. Chey say that Irby is to be the man and iothing can beat him. The talk of a lark horse being run they regard as nere foolishness. A gentleman on the streets this morn ng offered to bet $150 that Hampton vould be elected. It is certainly to be ioped that such will be the case. There is a vast amount of specula. ion as to who is to be the coming uperintendent of the penitentiary. All he candates for the position are on the cene and working hard, button-holing nembers at every opportunity. CoL. C. J. Lipscomb, the present incumbent, rill remain in the race, it is said by his riends, but the masters of the sitna ion say he stands not the slightest hance. The race is between W. W. 3rooker and W. J. Talbert, df Edge ield, and John T. Gaston, of Aiken, nd many say that their chances are qual. Some of the knowing ones say, owever, that Brooker is in the lead nd will be the man. Heis at present hairman of the board of penitentiary irectors, and he has made a good ficer. He has been a supporter of illman all the wqiy through. In rambling about the lobbies of the Lotels last night a man who is in close onnection with the masters of the ituation was found, and from him it 7as learned that there was soie talk 'f ousting Chief Justice Simpson, ofA he Supreme Court, when-his term era ires. The rumor had it that Senator . A. Meetze, of Lexington, is to be lected to the Chief Justiceship. Jus ice Simpson's term will expire next vinter. A few days ago it was indicated that Irs. Caroline LeConte was to sup lant Major H. Clay Richardson as tate librairian. From the distributive gency it was learned last night that tis had been positively decided on and fajor Richardson would certainly ave to go. It is currently reported that, al dough Dr. Sampson Pope is a candi ate for Senatorial honors and may 1ake a good race, he has his eye on the aperintendency of the State lunatic sylum. Of course this is only rumor nd is not authoritive. There seems to e no excuse for removing the present-~ icumbent. The Record is enabled to give exact rthe state of things in regad to the ances of the various cand'dae for ilroad commissioners, and from what llows may be seen the names of the ien who will, no doubt, constitute the ew board of cdmmissioners. Rev. J. A. Sligh, of Newberry, is the rominent candidate from the First istrict. His opponents are Gower and leveland, of Greenville, and Meredith. f Union; but it is conceded by one and l that Mr. Sligh is in the lead and -ill be the lucky man. Mr. T. L.. Bulow, of Fairfield, will 1 the office held by the late ex-Gov. onham. He is a candidate from the iddle district, has taken a very promi ent stand during the whole campaign, eminently fitted to discharge the uties of this office, and will prove a orthy successor of Gen. Bonham. It probable that he will be without op osition before the race draws to a ose. Mr. T. W. Stanland, of Berkeley, con stant for a seat in the House, is ithout doubt the most prominent ididate from the lower or Third strict. Mind Beading as a "Trick." ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 27.-Prof. barles E. Gatchel of the Homeopathic epartment pronounces mind-reading a ake," and was in Chicago last Fall en P. Alexander Johnstone, the mind ader, did his feats. Prof. Gatchel udied the matter thoroughly, and ally concluded that he could do the me "tricks." as he calls them. He. eu posted $500 with a Chicago paper, be forfeited to charity if he failed if r. Johnstone would do the snme, but latter did not see fit to accept the of This afternoon Prof. Gatchel did John on's great feat of <driving a livery :am on a dead run through a number streets over which the committee had eviously driven. The first thing done is to decide on a word to be taken >m Webster's Dictionary, and the comn ttee decided on "mucilage." A team is driven over a route thirteen bloclgt ag, Thle committee then blindfolded -of. Gatchel, drawing a thick hood 'er his head and tying it close around e net. Everyting being ready, the ofessor and commitee jumped into e carriage. Gatchel took the lines d drove the horses on a run, first turn one way and then the other, follow the route taken by the committee. 2e the committee asked if he could t drive a little slower but he said: Ye mind readers all drive this way." d lashed the horses into a-faster run. On reaching the ollice selected he mt to the Dictionary, turned, after a~ te hesitation, to the right place and !ing for a paper and penedl wrote the >rd mucilage." IT is said the Repubicans of Darien, t., threaten to issue a search warrant discover the whereabouts of the oney that was sent to Mcintosh coun 1t be used in the ]ate congressional actoin in the interest of the Republi