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VOL. vii. ~MANNUNG, S. C., WEDNETSDAY, MAY1318.NO2. THE UNIVERSITY. QUICK REORGANIZATION WORK BY THE TRUSTEES. The New Chairs Filled-Drs. Woodrow, Alexander and Others Left Out--Sala ries Fixed--Details of the Entire .Pro ceedings. COLrUBIA, S. C., May 2.-The Board of Visitors of the South Carolina Uni-* versity met in the Library yesterday morning, with every member present, and proceeded to organize the institu tion in accordance with the recent act of the Legislature. The members favoring a broad plan took charge of the matter. and, without calling up to a vote either of the plans presented, moved at once to go into the election of the different chairs, fearing that the minority report would very likely be adopted otherwise. The mo tion was carried, and without the slight est opposition the selection of the chairs was begun. The following chairs were adopted: Chair of chemistry. Chair of geology, mineralogy and biology. An adjunct professor was al lowed this chair. Chair of ancient languages, also with adjunct professor. Chair of mathematics. Chair of physics and astronomy. Chair of modern languages. Chair of Englinh language, literature and rhetoric with adjunct professor. Chair of mental and moral philosophy with logic. Chair of history and political econ omy. Chair of law. As will be seen this provides for ten chairs and three adjunct professors, giving thirteen in all. The iesult is said to be far better than any of the friends of the University expected. The salaries of the professors were fixed as follows: All the profes-ors will get $2,000, the president $3,000 and he will be required to occupy one of the chairs of instruction. The adjuncts $1,200 each, the chaplain $300 extra, the secretary and librarian $900, the assistant to the secretary $200. The librarian is also to be required to act as secretary to the board of trustees. The office of marshal was abolished. One of the adjunct professors will be chosen and requested to act as secretary to the faculty. Governor Tillman favoring it, the board decided to give an annual ap propriation of $2,000 to the library. A resolution was adopted appointing a special committee tc investigate and report on a scheme for the physical cul ture of the students. This is to be made a rtion of a curriculum. frvisions were made to allow the students now in the mechanical and civil engineering courses who will grad uate next year to complete their courses and obtain diplomas. Dr. Alexander, who at the former meeting of the board refused to reply to a question of the Governor as to whether he believed in Christ or not, appeared before the board and read a statement he had prepared. Therein he declared his Unitarian views and clearly defined his position. As will be seen his chair is abolished and combined with another. The two chairs of geolo gy and mineralogy and biology are now consolidated also. The two chairs of English language and English litera ture are combined, too, and the trustees say they propose to place the English department of the institution squarely to the front and make it the principal feature of the courses. The status of the trustees on political lines was cur iously divided. &pon adjourning, at 4 o'clock, the tri stees indicated that the main fight was to come on the question of the standard of admission. It was stated that no professors would be elect ted until next June, but that the board would indicate to the incumbent p o fessors whether they were to remain or not. They were decided that those competent should remain and those that were not should go. The board met again at 6 o'clbck and mastead of taking up the reports at Once as expected, proceeded immediately to the election of the professors. The re sults are given below : Chair of mathematics-Prof. E. W. Davis. Chair of physics, mechanics and astronomy-Prof. Benjamin Sloan. Chair of biology, geology and mineral. ogy-Dr. J. M. McBryde. He was also elected president of the institution, and Professor E. A. Smythe, the former professor -of biology, was elected ad junct to the chair. Chair of chemistry-Professor W. B Burney. Chair of Englhsh language, liter ature and rhetoric-Protessor F. C. Woodward. Chair oi history and political econo my-Professor R. Means Davis. Chair of mental science, logic and evidences of Chiristianity-Dr. J. Wil liam Flinn. Chair of law-Professor Joseph Dan iel Pope. The Chair of ancient languages was not fiiled, and the filling was postponed until June. The aijunct in this depart ment was also not elected. The tight for the position is between Dr. Pattox and Prof. Murray, and the indications are that a new man will fill the positior and both be left out. The selection of the professor of mod ern langurages was also postponed un til June. Dr. Joynes is the only apphi cant before the board, and t!.e reasox he was not elected last night was that there was a considerable question as tc the amount of wor k. He will undoub tedly be elected to the chair next June For the chair of geology, niineralogy and biology, and consequently the presi dency of the institution, Drs. McBryd' and Woodrow, were before the board Several members raised the objectior to Dr. Woodrow that he could not givi his entrie time to the duties of the chair. The board commuicated wit] Dr. Wcodrow on this subject and hi sent a letter to the effect that he couhc not give his time to the duties. Con sequently Dr. McBryde was elected But for this the race might have beel a close one, as Dr. Woodrow had man: friends on the board. The members of the old faculty lef out are as follows: Professor E. .E Sheib, chair of pedagogics-chair abo] ished. Professor J. W. Alexander professor of logic--chair abolished Professor James Woodrow, professor o geology. These are out entirely. Prc fessor Joynes, Patton and Murray stil have a chance, but at least one, an< perhaps two of them, will be retired There are a number of tutors and assis tant professors who are also out. The two reports as to the plan wer never brought up and after the electioi the couses of study and the standard c admission was referred to the executiv committee composed of Dr. McBryd4 Superintendent of Education Maytielt W. A. Clark, Esq., and Justices Mcive and McGowan. This committee is t report to a meeting of the board to t held in June next. Last night The State office wa besieged with students and they wex universally delighted with the resul and especially jubilant over the choic of Dr. McBryde as president In fac1 The State telephone conveyed man congratulatory messages to Dr. M< lRyde at a late hour.--The State. RUDINI IN A RAGE. Italy's Premier Stops Correspondence With Blaine RomE, May 3.-The Green Book on the New Orleans lynching comprises twenty-four dispatchs, dated from March 14 to April 'S. It shows that the Italian Government from the com mencement perseversed in asking that criminal proceedings be taken against the lynchers and that indemnity be paid to the families of the victims. The ex pression "brought to justice" recurs in the officlal dispatches as well as Baron Fava's private letters. The principal commnnications have already been published. After Blaine's note of April 14 the volume concludes with a telegram from the Maquis di Rudni to the Marquis Im perali, the text of which is as follow: I have now before me a note address ed to you by Secretary Blaine of April 14. Its perusal produces a most pain ful impression upon me. I will not stop to lay stress upon the lack of con formity with diplomatic usages dis played in making public, as Blaine did not hesitate to do, of a portion of a tele gram of mine communicating to him in direct confidence in order to get rid of the question clearly defined in our offici al documents which alone possess diplo matic value. Nor will I stop to point out the reference in this telegram of mine of March 24, that the words "pun ishment of the guilty," in the brevity of telegraghic language, actually signi fled only that the prosecution ought to be commenced in order that individuals recognized as guilty should not escape punishment. Far above all astute ar guments remains the fact that hencefor ward the Federal Government declares itself conscious of what we have con stantly asked, and yet it does not grant our legitimate demands. Blame is right when he makes payment of indem nity to families of victims dependent upon proof of violation of the treaty; but we shrink from thinking that he considers that the fact of such violation still needs proof. Italian subjects ac quitted by American juries were massa cred in the prisons of the State without measures being taken to defend them. What other proof does the Federal Gov ernment expect of the violation of the treaty wherein constant protection and se,urity of the subjects of the contract ing parties is expressly stipulated. We have placed on evidence that we have never asked anythibg else but the open ing of regular preceedings. In regard to this, Baron Fava's first note, dated March 15, contained even the formula of a telegram addressed on the same day by Mr. Blaine under order of President Harrison to the Governor of Louisiana. Now, however, in the note of April 14 Mr. Blaine is silent on the subject, which is for us the 'main point of contro versy. We are under the sad necessity of concluding that what to every other Government would be the accomplish ment of a civil duty is impossible to the Federal Government. It is time to break off this bootless controversy. PNblic opinion, the sovereign judge, will know how to indicate an equitable solution of this grave problem. We have affirmed and we again affirm our right. Let the Federal Government re flect upon its side if it is expedient to leave to the mercy of each State of the Union, irresponsible to foreign coun tries, the efficiency of treaties pledging its faith and honor to entire nations. The present dispatch is .addressed to you exclusively, not the Federal Gov ernment. Your duties henceforward are solely resiricted to dealing with cur rent business. Devastationl by Forest Fires. NEw YORK, May 1.-The most de structive fire of many years is raging in South Jersey. The great pine region and cranberry bog district from Fleasant Point and Bay Head, on the north, down to Egg Harbor, sixty miles south, and from the Atlantic to points from thirty to forty miles inland, is being swept by fire. Thousands and thousands of acres of pine and cedar timber have been burned, many towns have been threat ened, dozens of houses have been de stroyed and fears are entertained for the safety of the people in the devastated country. So dense is the smoke that hangs over the burning forest that farmers going from town to town have to grope their way along the roads. Rain has not fallen in weeks, ann the inhabitants are unable to check the spread of the flames. At many places the residents have been forcec to flee to the open country to save their lives, leaving their householdij goodi behind to be burned. At one placea sick woman, covered by watersoaked blankets, was carried out of her burning home in her bed. At a rough estimate the lossswill be over $1,000,000, and many farmers will be impoverishied. Forest fires are also reported in the mountains about Reading Pa., and in the vicinity of Newburg, N. Y. Democratic Gains In Indiana. IsmiANArOLIs,Ind., May 6.-Returnt from the elections in the second and third class cities throughout the Stati show general Democratic gains, witi the exception of Ne w Albany and Jeffer sonville, where the Republicans mad( clean sweeps. At Fort Wayne Sallinger, Democrat was elected mayor by ninety-seven ma. jority, with nine Democratic council men out of ten. At Lafayette the entire Democratic ticket was elected-a Democratic gain At Ilammond the entire Democrati< ticket was elected-a Democratic gain At Jeffersonville T. F. Warder, D~em ocrat, for seven terms mayor, was de feated by B. F. Robinson, Republican The Republicans also gained a marsh] and clerk and two councilmen, althoug] the Democrats still retain the majority Te fight was strictly local. In N'ew Albany Morris McDoniald Repblican, was re-elected mayor by large majority. - A Fatal Dueli. RoANOKE, Va., April 2.-A terribih tragedy occured at Marshai's cafe it this city at 6 o'clock this afternoon Nick Flood, a son of Major John II Flood, a prominent tobacconist o: Lynchburg and Charles L. Rose wh< came here from Washington in Febru ary last, eagaged in a duel with pistols Rose fell pierced by several bullets an< died in a few minutes without speaking Floo~l was shot in the mouth and breas but will probably recover. Both mnel were gamblers and the shooting was tal result of a quarrel at a card table abou six weeks ago. Some days ago the: were prevented from shooting eacl other and placed under bonds to kee) ethe peace. Rose had $712 in his pocket Flood is a dangerous character. Tw months ago he stabbed Martin O'Mear4 ea Lynchburg tailor, nearly to death an subsequently aimost killed a man name SPayne of this city with a billiard cue. r Let Ua iave Peace. W AsniNGTON, May 6.--It is learne Shere that the government of the Unite States has instructed Minister Eagan t oter to mediate between the combat eants in Chile in the interests of peac tand good order, and that France an eBrazil. the other great republics of th , world, have joined in the proffer of thei y good offices in the interests of pel -petuity of republican principles of gos inent. ALLIANCE CAMPAIGN. PRESIDENT POLK MAPS IT OUT IN AN ADDRESS TO THE ORDER. Two Great Rallies In Each State this Fall and an Army of 35,000 Lecturers to Talk Until Next Year-The Order Must Expel Disloyal Members. President Polk, of the Farmers' Al liance has just issued a proclamation to the Order in which he sets forth the plan of campaign which the national executive board has adopted for the next year, and counsels the Sub-Alli ances to cease internal bickerings and to get rid of disloyal members. This is the document: To the Brotherhood of the N. F. A. and I. U : We are now approaching the most critical period in our existence as an Order. The demoralizing ele ments which always enter into a polit ical campaign are already being mar shalled by the enemies of our Order, with a determined purpose to divide and disrupt us. if possible. No device or scheme will be left untried. Every effort will be made to divert the minds of the people from the great issues which are essentially the very life of our great reform movement. It was this knowledge of the situa tion that prompte- the action of the National Legislative Council in ma turing a plan for a lecture system and for presenting it to the Order for adop tion. The ultimate, inevitable and tri umphant success of our principles is assured, if this system be actively and faithfully prosecuted for the American farmers and all other classes and inter ests which are so intimately related to them will not fail to stand together for right, justice and equity, if properly in formed. If prosecuted as designed, this system will engage the services during this year of not less than 35,000 lecturers in our cause. I earnestly in voke the aid and co-operation of the entire brotherhood in securing a faith ful lecturer for every subordinate and county Alliance and for every Con gressional district within the jurisdic tion of our Order throughout the whole country. Arrangements are also being made for the holding of two or more grand Alliance mass meetings in each of the Alliance States during the year, or as many more as the brotherhood may de sire. Let us have your active and earnest sympathy in making this the great educational campaign year in our history, and thus be prepared to meet any emergency that may arise. State and county officers especially are earnestly admonished to push this work in their respective jurisdictions zealously. The efiemy is actively on the alert. it is his purpose to buy or control our press as far as possible. Failing with money he will substitute office or its patronage. Failing in all this he will strive by every means, foul or fair, to create divisions and dissensions in our ranks. If a convention of the enemies of the National Farmers' Alliance and Indus trial Union was called to devise a plan for the overthrow and destruction of the Order it would doubtless adopt, as the most speedy and effectual, such methods as would create dissention and strife among the membership. How eagerly and how exultantly they hail the least indication of this! If an err ing brother so far forgets his obliga tions to the Order as to assail its pri ciples publicly he is heralded by the politicians and the partisan press as a hero. If a paper which has been desig nated a representative of the principles of our Order proves false to its most sacred compact and assaults our mem bers or our principles, it thereby gains speedy admittance to the respect and confidence of our enemies. if intluen tial or prominent members, disregard ing their obligations to each other and to the Order, engage in a public per sonal warfare through the press or otherwise, our enemies are abundantly satised. No member of our Order has the right to assail another member publicly, through the press or otherwise, so long as their names are on our roll of mem bership. Such an offence is a violation of his obligation, and should merit ex pulsion. 304 paper vested with author Iity to represent our Order officially has the right to assail our principles or any member of the Order while acting in Isuch a capacity. Such an offence should cause all true Alliance men to repudiate such paper promptly. No member, while his name remains on our rolls, has a right to assail the prin ciples of the Order publicly. He is not only permitted. but is encouraged by our law, to discuss any and all meas ures comning within our province with the utmost freedom and to any extent he may desire witnin the Order. But the will of the majority is the law of the Order, and if he cannot acquiesce in the decision of the majority, and feels that he is conscientiously impelled to go before the public and assail our principles, he should first divest himself of his Alliance uniform. With what consistency could a Baptist or Metho dist go before the world and publicly oppose and denoun-:e some of the most cherished tenets of his Church ? I1o0v long would his name remain on his church book? 1How long ought it to remain there? Why should he expect or desire to remain in the Church? Loyalty to Alliance principles is the only true Alliance test, not only as to membership, but it should faithfully be applied mn the selection of all officers, -from the steward in a subordinate Alli ance to the president of the National Alliance, and it must be applied in the selection of those who are to make and execute our Jaws, if we would reason ably hope for the reforms which we We want no foes within our camp We can live better without them than -with them. Let the membership be -watchful and faithful, and guard with Euntiring vigilance the principles of the )Order. Never was the outlook for our -cause so hopeful and encouraging. W e -have only to be true to our principles, Itrue to our obligations, and to our noble Order and all will be well. tFraternally, L. L. Polk, President N. F. A. and I. U. A Modern Abraham. BIGwATER, Conn., May f.--Oliver I. Jessuip. one of the most 'prominent Scitizens of the town has gone insane. le was taken violently ill a few days Sago, but refused to allow a doctor to come to the house, and he relied solely jon the faith cure advocates, who sur jrounded his bed day and niighit. IJessup at length conceived the idea Ithat he was a second Abraham and that the Lord required a human sacrifice. On IThursday, being lVft alone for a few 1minutes, he prepared for the horrible naffair by constructing an alter out of his bedroom furniture, around which he epiled a heap of combustibles. Then he Icaught his little grandcbild, a year old, eand placed her on the altar and prepared r to Ignite it. The child's cries attracted ja member of the family, and the old -man was nearly killed in the struggle o retrain him. BENNETTSVILLE IS BEWILDERED. Mysterious Occurrence Savoring of the Supernatural. j3lENNETTSVILLE,S. C., May 1.-There was a mysterious occurrence in Ben nettsville a few nights ago, which has puzzled the most philosophical minds. Many theories have been advanced, yet the mystery remains unsolved. Doors and windows are barred at night; noc turnal pedestrians ambulate the streets with lighted lanterns; the cracking of a twig or the rustle of the wind causes a sudden halt and rapid pulsations of the heart. The colored people are alarmed beyond description, and are daily expected to institute a general exodus from the town. For two months Mr. P. C. Emanuel has been living in Mr. St. P. Coving ton's house in East Bennettsville. This is comparatively a newly settled place, splendid building, surrounded with sweet and luxuriant flowers, situated in one of the most desirable neighbor hoods in town. On the night in question, Mr. Eman uel and wife had just retired, but had not gone to sleep. The moon was shining brightly, everything being quiet and serene. About 11 o'clock, the re port of what seemed a gun was heard at the bed chamber window. The shot was plainly heard falling in the room. Mr. Emanuel is not a timid man by any methods. He has plenty of nerve and scarcely can be frightened by or dinary means. lIe at once concluded that some one had accidentally shot in to his room, but directly a second re port, at the same place, was repeated. Mrs. Emanuel was terribly fright ened. Her husband lowered the lamp, rushed to the window, threw open the blinds, and discharged his pistol in the direction of the ground. For a minute or two all was quiet, when suddenly, in his room, near his trunk, in rapid succession, two reports of what seemed to be pistol shots, were heard. After a short interval there were two reports under the house, directly under the bed room, and just at that moment the house shook and crockeryware rattled, and a noise was heard as if glass were being ground in a mill, and simulta neously every rooster in the neighbor hood commenced crowing. Mr. Emanuel says he was sure that judgment day had arrived, and that he had no other thought but that in a short time he would be facing the Immacu late Judge. Mr. Emanuel vacated the house at once, and the place is now un occupied, where "gobblin damns" can hold high carnival. Mr. Emanuel is an honest, truthful and intelligent citizen, and the above facts were recited to The State correspondent by him in a special interview.-State. The War In Chile. WAsHINGTON, April 30.-Rear Ad miral McCan, in command of the South Atlantic Station, has sent the Navy De partment a long report, dated Caldira, March 24, In regard to Chilean affairs. The Congressional deputies (the insur rectionary chiefs,) he says, had their headquarters on board a transport in the harbor of Iquique. During the forenoon of the 17th, while the Pensacola (his fla'ship) was at Iquique, the insurgent man of-war Esmeralda, and the tr ins ports Aconcagua and Maipo put to sea to attack Autofagasta, with about 1,500 troops on board. The ironclad Blanco Encalada was blockading Autofagasta at the time. The Chilean officers sta ted that it was the intention to attack and capture Arica, then blockaded by the Huascar. The admiral, iL his account of the cap ture of Iquique by the insurgents, says that by the fire of ships five blocks of houses were destroyed, considerable coal burned and the office of the United States consul destroyed. The fighting back of the hills culminated in a battle with 1,600 men on each side. Before the fight 200 government troops deserted to tile insurgents. The fight was brief, but sanguinary, the insurgents acku owl edinng 200 killed and about the same number wounded, while the government had 400 killed and 200 rounded. Early in the fight the government cavalry fled, killing everyone that came in their way, whether friends or foes. Col. Robels, the government cammander, was wound ed and captured and afterwards assassi nated in his bed. The government force in the neighbor hood o1 Iquique seems to have entirely disappeared. A number of troops raised n the south and sent north to fight have gone ovei to the insurgents, and it would ee n as if President Balmaceda was to a small extent recruiting an army for the benefit of his enemies. The mnsurgent forces are a t present in possession of the entire northern coast from Arica to Tai talaner, 400 miles, as well as holding the extensive nitrate deposits on the pampas, which have been the great source of rev enue to Chile, and they are able to main tain their position so long as the govern ment is without a navy, as th a mountain coasts and the great desert are impracti cable for extensive military operations. Will Not Run. POUKEEPSIE, N. Y., April 30. Stephen B. Elkins is authority for the statement made to the effect that James G. Blaine would shortly announce his decision not under any circumstances to allow his name to be used at the next Republican convention as a candidate for president. It is said that Mr. Blane's letter or announcement will be so positive as to admit of but one con struction, and that is that he will never again be a candidate ior the presiden The News Press also quotes IHon. Smith M. Weed as saying that when the time came Mr. Blaine would be found positively declining a nomination. Also that W. J. Arkell says that Mr. Blane is about to come out with a most positive refusal to allow his name to be used again in connection with the pres idency.__________ Five of the Crew Drowned. SALLT iSTE M AIE, Mich., May 43 The schooner reported in distress by the barge Sitka is the Atlanta, Captain Knelton, which lef t here in tow of the barge Wilhelm Saturday night. A heavy Northwest gale struck the WVil helm with the Atlanta in tow Sunliay morning. When they were off Sable bank the tow line of the Atlanta parted twenty miles Northwest of No 10 life saving station. When she foundered the crew endeavored to reach the shore in yawls, live of them perishing in the attempt. The crew from the life sav ing station put out in the breakers and succeeded in saving two of the ill-fated schooner's men. The Atlanta was coal laden for Ashland. A Horrible Death. CHARLESTON, S. C., May 1.-George Carter, colored, lost his life in a horrible manner today, on Central wharf. Carter was the engineer of a hoisting machine which was unloading a cargo of coal from a vessel at the wharf. By some un explained accident, he was caught be tween the rope and drum, the fatal coil twisting about the body and gradJually crushing the life of out it. If he made any outcry the noise of the machinery drowned it. There were no eye-witness. When found the remains were horribly aerated. THE COLD SNAP NORTH AND WEST. Fruits and Early Vegetables Seriously Damaged. CINCINNATI, May .-The Signal Service department reports no frost 'n this vicinity last night. At Wooster C., the farmers report that all early fruit was destroyed by Monday night's frost. Some say that the wheat, which is now jointing, has been injured. The mer cury was down to the freezing point this morning. At Washington Court House 0., there was a black frost and the ice was more than one-eighth of an inch thick. Leading horticulturists say that all the early cherries are killed, and many peaches, pears, apples, grapes, etc. The full extent of the damage is tiot known, but it is thought to be very great. At Frankfort, Ky., a hght frost throughout the section last night did con siderable damage to the vegetables and berry crops, but fruit was too far ad vanced for much damage. There is a promise of the finest yield of fruit known for years. At Lima, 0., there was a light frost last night, extending all over this section and doing considerable damage to early fruits and vegetables. Wheat was scorched in some places very severely. At Mad!son, Ind., it is reported that the Kentucky and Indiana peach or chards are uninjured by last night's frost. BETHLEHEM, PA., May .-The cold wave reached here last night. Snow squalls are frequent and ice formed in exposed placed. Farmers report this morning that the strawberry crop is ser iously injured. Fruit is also frozen in some parts of the country. WILMINGTON, DEL., May G.-There was a heavy fall of snow in this city and throughout the northern part of the State early this morning, but it melted at once. The temperature at noon is 50, with a cold north wind. Fruit, it is feared, has been damaged. JOHNSTOWN, PA., May 6.-Snow fell in this city last night and this morning, covering the ground. In the northern part of Cambria and Somerset countries a fall of an inch of snow last night is reported POTTSVILLE, PA., May 6.-A snow storm set in early this morning and con tinued for several hours. During the past few days the whether has been ex ceptionally cold for this season of the year. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., May 6. There was a severe frost in this vicinity last night. All early vegetation was in jured on the low grounds, and grapes were badly bitten. The weather is cold er, and another fi-ct tonight is feared. DANVILLE, VA., May 6 -There was a heavy frost here last night, and vege tables were badly damaged. No dam age to wheat and fruit. A Delusion and a Snare JACKSON, Miss., May 7.-In reply to a request from the Weber County Alli ance asking for his views on the sub Treasury plan, Governor J. M. Stone, who has been frequently and favorably mentioned as the successor to ex-Sena tor Walthall, has submitted a letter, the following being an extract therefrom: The government should give equal rights and administer civil and exact justice tc all and imposing as few burdens as pos sible, should essentially be distributed, leaving every indiviual to his own ef. orts ror success and happiness. The government has no wealth to besto'w and when it undertakes to dispense favori it always has favorites and gives to then at the expense of those not favored. Il must be so from the very nature o: things, for it has to take from some t< give to others. We of the South, chiefly an agricul tural people, have felt this evil witl crushing force, for the high protectivi system of the Republican party for th4 benefit of manufacturing interests, main ly of the North, has operated in a two fold manner to injure us by depressing the price of our cotton and greatly in creasing the cost of many articles wi are compelled to buy with the proceeds The cause of our depression is the pro tective system, maintained for protec tion, and the enormous burdens of gov enent which fall heavily upon us while we get little to compensate us fo: these grievous impositions. So far as the sub-treasury is intende< to supply an increase of money, it prom ses nothine good to the farmers, who above all others, will be the victims o the evils of any inflation which will dis turb values. They need for their wel fare a currency as steady and stable a: themselves. Traders and speculators those looking out for corners, can rio amid the excitemnent of speculative val ues and fluctuations from the distur bance. the irritation leaving the farme and laborer no sort of even chance ii that condition of things. The promis< of an opportunity to obtain money at: lo y rate of interest by depositing cottoi and getting an advance of 80 per cent of its value is, I think, a delusion or: snare. The Strong Arm of the Law. UNIONTOWN, PENN., May 4.-An other collision has occurred between th coke strikers and deputy sheriffs, the re suit being that one striker is dead, an one seriously wounded. Last-night Su perintendent Gray and Pat Boss Calla ghan, of Leisenring No 3, went to hous No 17 to arrest two of the strikers, wh had seized two men who had been a work and held them at the house of th strikers. They were set upon and stone andl the deputies came to their aid. On of the strikers tried to take a gun fron one of the deputies, when a shot wa fired by the strikers. Superintenden Gray then ordered the deputies to fire and in the volley which followed Johi Mahan, a striker, fell (lead and another whose name is not known, received mortal wound. The strikers then scat tercd and the two men who were hell prisoners were rescued and taken t< Leisenring. The situation is now re ported quiet. Heavy Frost and Ice. ST. PA Lt, Min.. May 4.-Dispatche: from many Northern Minnesota point says that a heavy frost prevailed Satur day night in eight or ten counties. Il Kittson County ice was found, and Polk, Ihubbard and Marshall youn: wheat and oats were cut down. At Pari River it is saId that strawberries an< other small fruits were so tar advances in the bud that they are ruined. Youni leaves on trees were so badly frozen tha Ithey turned black. A Chiloan Rebel Ship seized. SAN DIEGO. Cal., May 6.-The steam ship .Etata, which put in tbis port a fev days ago, for the purpose of obtainini provisions for the war ships in posses sion of the Congressional p arty of Chilh has been seized by the United State mrhal. A SHOOTING SCRAPE. A SOUTH BOUND ROAD CONTRACTOR SHOOTS A MAN. A Squabble About Pay the Cause of the t Difficulty-The Wonnded Man Brought to Columbia-Particnlars of the Shoot inc. COLUMBrA, S. C., May 1.-News was received in the city yesterday that a difficulty had occurred at the construc- 1 tion camp of Messrs. Webb & Oates, on the South Bound Road, about ten miles from the city, in which a white man named John Hammet had been .shot and mortally wounded by T. J. Stack, a member of the firm of Stack & Roof, sub- contractors under Webb & Oates. The first news of the affair was brought to the city by Felix Sharp, who was the bearer of a letter to H. L. Wil liams. The letter is as follows: STACK & ROOF CAMP, April 30, '91. Mr. H. L. Williams. . DEAR FRIEAD: John Hammet got shot this morning. Seriously hurt. Don't think he can live. Please notify the Masons and X. of P.'s. He belongs to both orders. Bring a good doctor with you. He will be paid well for his work. Come rignt away. I am alone. Also I want you to send a telegram to B. J. Hammet, Blackville. le will come to your stables. Have him brought out here, and look on other side for tele gram. Your friend, BOB L. WILLIAMS. The telegram referred to is as follows: B. J. Hammet, Blackville: Johnnie is dangerously shot. Can't live without change. Come at once. R. L. WILLIAMS, At Hi. L. Williams's stables. In response to the request contained in the letter, Dr. Frank Green was asked to go out to the camp and attend to the wounded man, and he started with that intention, but when he reached New Brookland Trial Justice Green in formed him that news had reached him that the man was dead, and that it would therefore be no use to go. The party who gave this information to the Trial Justice stated that Hammett had been shot three times, viz.: through the wrist, the upper portion of the arm and through the abdomen. It soon ap peared, however, after Dr. Green's re turn to Columbia, that the report of the man's death was premature, and at the last accounts he was still living, but with no apparent chance of recovery, and a wagon and mattress had been sent to the camp to bring him into the city. He is under the medical attendance of Dr. Geiger, of Lexington, who was sent to the camp as soon as the news of the shooting was spread abroad. THE CAUSE OF THE D[FFICTLTY. There were many conf.icting reports on the streets as to the causes which led to the difficulty, but the following ac count of it from a gentleman who was at the camp yesterday after the occur rence, may be regarded as strictly relia ble: It seems that Hammet and his friend, R. L. Williams. two Barnwell men who were in the employ of Stack & Roof, decided some days ago to quit work and demanded their pay. With this demand Mr. Stack was unable to comply at once, as his firm only has monthly settle ments with the chief contractors, which are made on the 20th of each month. When informed that they could not get their pay at once, the report is that these men became very troublesome and riotous, and with pistols in band, prevented the other hands from work ing. Mr. Stack then saw the chief con tractors, and with the view of getting rid of these men arranged to have them paid off, and they were paid off by checks on the Loani and Exchange Bank, Hammet receiving the sum of $24, which it is said was the amount due him. The gentleman wbo gave the above information says that the story of the further trouble as given to him by the people at the camp, was to the effect that Hammet and Williams came over to Columbia after getting their checks, and then returned to the camp and still interferred with the hands and preven ted them from working, and that this state of affairs continued until yester day morning. At that time Mr. Stack being on horseback at the camp, was assaulted by Hammet, who came at him with a pine knot in his hand and threw it at him, and Stack then drew his pistol and shot Hammet through wrist. Hammet felt for his pistol, and, missing it, called to Williams to bring him his, which he did. Then Stack dred twice again, one shot striking Hammet in the upper part of the arm, Ithe other striking him in the middle of the abdomen, passing clear through the body. .It does not appear from the ac counts received that Williams took any part in the dlifficulty except to hand his friend the pistol. As soon as he had done the shooting, Mr. Stack rode off and came on to the city. He has employed Messrs. Melton & Melton as his counsel, and by their advice has re'mained quietly at the resi dence of his father, Captain W. H. Stack, to await the result of the wounds and submit to the process of the law. The statement of Williams. as made to his friends in this city, varies from the above in one or two importarit par ticulars, and it is to the effect that LStack and Ham met renewed their dis pute about the settlement yesterday morning, and that Hlammet told Stack that if he would get down off his horse he would whip him, whereupon Stack rode off a short distance and was fol 10owed by H ammet, who had no weapon of any kind, and that Stack then turned and tired live shots at H am met, three of -which took effect as above stated. The brothers of Hlammet came up to Colum bia last night and employe'd NMessrs. Skinner & Williams, and togsther with Mr. Skinner proceeded to the camp to get the wounded man and bring him to Ithe city, It was stated that Mr. Skin ner would endeavor to procure 11am met's ante-mortem statement if possi ble.-Register. A YournU Great-Grandmnother. PHIILADELPHIIA, May 7.-Mrs. H-enry K. Updegrave, wife of a hotel keeper at Tower City, Pa., is probably the youngesa great-grand mother in the United States. She was born August 111, 1843, near Gratztown, Dauphin County, and is not yet forty-eight years old. In 1856, jn her fourteenth year, she married Emanuel Shoffstall. Aggie her oldest daughter, married at fifteen, a Mr. Rumberger, and had one daugh ter, Maggie, so that Mrs. Shoffstaill was a grandmother at thirty. Maggie Rumberger married at the age of six teen Daniel Messner, and to this pair a son was born a couple of months ago. , Dmannel Shoffstall died in 1888, and his Ifwidow married Henry K. Updegrave of BTrned to Death. SRoCHrESTER, N. Y., May 4.-A limp texploded in a tenement house on Nassau street at 3 o'clock this morning and set the building on fire. Most 01 the in mates escaped, but after the tire was extinguished the bodies of Herman Stephanski and his wife were found in one of the rooms. Their usual habit was drunkeness and it is supposed they Swere too stupefied with liquor to un der..tand their anaer uniil too late. A DEAD ROGUE. Vhose Long-Continued Thievery Is Just Discovered NEW YORK,'April 30.-The Ninth Na ional bank is in trouble. There has >een a defalcation of nearly $500,000, was the startling mior that circulated ,bout the city. It proved only too true in investigation. The late president. John T. Hill, who lied at his home in New Brunswick, N. ., last month, was discovered to have >een a defaulter for over $400,000. The fact was not known or dreamed io until an exqmination of his own and he bank's affairs was made after his eath. He died honored and respected, vith a reputation untarnished. The evelations of the last few days have as onished and shocked his friends and )rought sorrow and disgrace to the amily. The actual condition of affairs was earned when PresiJent Hill's successor was elected, in the person of C. Henry larden, who had been the acting vice resident for many years, and upon go ng over Mr. Hill's private papers and ;he securities of the bank, which, dur ng his life, President Hill took almost iole charge of. President'Hill's methods were peculi ir andvery simple. He was theexecu or and trustee for several large estates .n New Jersey, were his reputation for ionesty and shrewdness as a financier was such that he was frequently select d for such offices of trust and responsi >ility. As executor he had the hand ing and control of a large number of securities of greater or less value, hich were held as investments. These 'or convenience and safety he kept at ,he bank. His plan in brief was this: When .oans were made to customers of the )ank they deposited collateral in the shape of bonds or stocks. These were placed in envelopes and put away in the strong box of the bank, which was kept in the vault, and was under immediate supervision of the president. Subse juently when the loans were paid, usu lly by certified checks, the collaterals weie returned to the borrower. President Hill, however, instead of narking the loan off on the books of the ank would substitute some of the se :uries he held as executor, replace the melope in the box, and pocket the :heck. So far as was shown by the ooks of the bank the loans to the cus ,omer was still outstanding. The-cus omer himself would know nothing of this, and so far as appears none of the people in the bank were any wiser. It was an easy matter to arrange for any interest payments that might become lue. In time it seems that Hill became bolder in his operations, or more desper ate, for it appears that he did not even go through the formality of substitut ing his trust securities in the envelopes when the other securities were received by the bank's customers, for many of the envelopes have been found to be en irely empty. Hill carried on this form of business for several years, for so far as can be learned his first act was com mitted some four or five years ago. His death on March 1 caused the most profound sorrow. and his widow and four children had the sympathy of all the people of the city in which they lived. The defaulting president had been connected with the bank ever since its oranization in February, 1864. He was first paying teller, then cashier, and fin ally became president in 1877. He was a man of unsullied reputation up to the time of his death and the discoveries following. As a business man he was considered careful, conservative and very shrewd. Rome in a State of Panic. LONDON, May 6.-A letter received here from R(ome describes a number of new facts in regard to the riots which took place there on May Day, and as to the general feeling of the people upon the same occasion. According to this letter publIc officials at Rome, as well as the people, have been in a state of panic for a week or two. This state of affairs Is due to several caues, the most prominent of whicn are the fall of the ministrv headed by Crispi, the accession of the Rudini ministry inte power, the strong public demand for an equalization to expenses and receipts without fresh taxatloo, diplomatic trou bles which hate arisen between Italy and the United States, and, fin illy, the explosion itt Pozzo Pantaleo, whici caused so much damage and alarm ii Rome and its vicinity. In spite of all denials and official state ments to the effect that the explosion al Pozzo Pantaleo was not the work of So cialist or Anarchists, the Romans are convinced to the contrary. This lettel was written previous to the fire whici destroyed the barracks and stables o: Carabineri yesterday, and which addei to the state of uneasiness, creating sucl alarm at the Vatican that the cntir< torce of Swiss Guards was kept on duty all night. The letter says further that all relig ius org'anizations and a majority of thi wealthy citizens prepared for a disturb ance by laying in stocks of provisions 'uel, etc, prepared for a state of siege ir fact. The air was full of alarming ru more, which gradually grew in impor tance until it was actually believed tha1 a revolution was impending. As In a Novel. POT Tv1LLE, Pa. April 30.-Miss An na L. Otto, daughter of D)aniel Otto o: Cressona, this county, was engaged t< be married to John A. Deiter over year ago, but a lingering illness fron which Miss Otto suffered preventet their marriage. A few we'eks ago shi recovered her health fully, as she be lieved, and with it her old-time spirits On Friday of last week, however, shi was again taken ill. She and her love: had agreed beforehand that they shouk4 be married at once, and Saturday wa: fixed as the wedding day. When Sat urday dawned Miss Otto's physician: declared that she had not long to live The lovers, nevertheless, decided tha the marriage should come off on tha day. The Rev. C. E. Bartholomew wa called in, and he performed the cere mony with the girl's parents and rela tives gathered about the girl's sick bed Two hours later the new made bridi was dead. Footsore, Weary. Destitute. CicAGo, April 30.-Martin Cupota his wife and three children, were ar rested yesterday, just as the rather an< mother were about to drown them selves in the lake. The whole famil: had walked from Harrisburg, Pa., an< the feet of the children were great mas ses of sores and blisters. None of thb members of the family had eaten fo some time. Cupota is a furnace mar and was obliged to quit work at Harris burg on occount or the strike in tb coke regions. The family arrived her yesterday morning, and, being utterl; weary and destitute, were on the poin of throwing themselves into the lak when accosted by the officers. The; were taken to a police station and fec and an effort will be made today to fint employment for the father. In the meantime, the mother and childrex wl be cmare for by the officers. GOV. TILLMAN'S VIEWS. AS EXPLAINED TO A REPORTER OF THE ATLANTA JOURNAL. He Favors Cheap Money, Free Silver and Tarift Reform, and Denounces the Sub-Treasury Scheme and Third Party Movement. COLUMBIA, S. C., April 30.-Governor Ben Tillman was looking spruce, cool and comfortable in a new light alpaca summer coat, when I found him in his office at the. capitol this morning. "Will South Carolina be represented at the coming third party convention in Cincinnati?" I asked. "There may be some volunteer dele gates from this State," answered the governor, but if there are, they will go there as individuals, and they will rep resent nobody but themselves. They certainly will not represent either the Alliance or the Alliance sentimentin the State. "I am convinced that the farmers of this State are unalterably opposed to any and all third party scheme. So long as they have negro rule and Federal inter ference staring them in the face, the in stinct of self preservation tells them to stick together and to work out their sal vation as Democrats and inside the ranks of the Democratic party. "Yes, sir," repeated the Governor, earnestly, "you may put me down as ab solutely and unequivocally opposed to this Cincinnati third party scheme and all similar schemes. I am and always have been a South Carolina, Edgedeld, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, and I ex pect to do my fighting, as I have done it in the past, strictly within the party ranks." "Instead of running off after this third party will-o'-the-wisp" said Governor Tillman, "what the farmers of South Carolina expect to do is to try to get a Democratic candidate for the next Pres sdential campaign who will represent. the reforms they advocate and who will be pledged to their support. In other words, while they don't want an Alli ance candidate for President, they want the Democratic candidate to be a man who is in accord with the ideas of the Allianee on the great issues of the day, such as the free coinage of silver and the reform of the tariff." "In the South we are practically united on the three issues of tariff reform, free silver and the retaining of State control of all elections, and those will be the is sues, inmy view, in the next presidential campaign." "But," continued he, "the free coinage of silver is only one phase of the finan cial question. We want not only more silver, but more greenbacks, and I favor the direct issue of greenbacks based on the government's credit. If the-govern ment can float 83-50,000,000 of green backs, why not $1,000,000,000? Or if.it is found impracticable to issue this money on the country's credit alone, a system of land banks might be estab lished by which the money could be is sued to the people, based on land as a security. It seems to me that the gov ernment, with its powers of taxation and its unlimited resources, could issue the money on its credit, but if not, then such a system as I suggest could be de vised which would give us a circulating medium as good as gold, and relieve the asphyxiation that has been produced in the agricultural States by the disastrous fnahcial policy of the past." "To sum up the matter,"saidGovern or Tillman, "we want more money, we want the tariff reform, and we are too afraid of the negro to run off into any third party." "Which of these questions do you con sider of the greatest importance? I asked. The reply was prompt: "The financial question, undoubtedly. It is of more pressing import to us than the tariff. We can stand the tariff a while longer, but more money we must have, and at once. It seems to me how ever, that we can afford to neglect neither the financial or the tariff issue. They are both of overwhelming import ance, and they will not down. Least of all, could we afford to relegate the free silver issue to the rear." Speaking of the snb-treasury bill, Governor Tillman said: "I am opposed to the measure. I want 'something better,' and that 'some thing better' I believe to be what I have already suggested-the free coinage of silver combined with the issuance of greenbacks either on the government's own credit or on land. The sub-treasury bill violates the Alliance doctrine of 'equal rights to all special privileges to none.' I don't believe that two wrongs can make a right, and because farmers have been systematically and outrage ously imposed on in the past is no rea son why they should demand class legis lation 1 or their own benefit now. "MIy opinion is that the majority of the farmers of the State are not in favor of the sub-treasury bill though in that opinion I differ from some of the .Ahi ance leaders. The reason no opposition has been developed to it inside the Alli ance in this State is that it has never been made a square issue. In any con test with an Alliance advocating the sub-treasury and a non-Allianceman op posing it, the sub-treasury would be pretty sure to win, but as between two Alliancemen, both loyal to the order, one opposing and the other supporting the sub-treasury, I believe the anti-sub treasury man would get as maay votes as the other. In other words, where Alli men have the subject presented to them clearly and are allowed to vote without the interference of prejudice, I believe the majority of them would go against the measure." "However," continued the Governor, "I don't believe the Alliance can afford to split on the sub-treasury. They will hunt something better rather than at tempt to force it down the throats of the very large section of the order op posed to it. They must agree to dis agree as to details in order to achieve the great reforms at which they are all aimimg."-T. E. Horton in Atlanta Jurnal. ,________ "A Snap Shot Picture." CINcINXrrT, May 6.--A Wooster, Ohio, dispatch says that on the night of August 20, 1890, the farm residence of Michael Shelby, near this city, was forcibly entered by four masked men, who bound and gagged Shelby and his aged wife, and stole cash amounting to I 12,000. Mrs. Shelby died from nervous prostration brought on by the excite ment of the robbery. IThe detective bureau has just caused the arrest of Henry H. Biuckley, his grandson. llarry Webb, and his son, rD1aniel B3inckley, who are neighbors of the Shielbys. Daniel Binckley was, un til a few weeks before the crime was committed. a member of the police force in Kansas City, Mo., where he was discharged. Am )ng the bills stolen was one of a thousaud dollar denomi nation. D~aniel Binckley's wife made a trip to Canada to get this biti changed. The Canadian bank officials, suspicious Iof her actions, took a snap shot picture of her as she was receiving the money. The men will also be prosecuted for mrder.