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THE CON7ICT QUESTION. rESTIMONY WHICH GOES TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE BADLY TREATED .. Wheeler. Who Had Charge of the Convicts, Gives Some Testimony Which Reflects Gravel; on the Penitentiary Authorities-Au Investigation in Order, COLUMBIA, S. C, June 13.-The State f this mornirg publishes the following etter: As the convict question is up, lease give space in your valuable olumus to a few words I have to say bout the treatment of convicts at my ifferent railroad camps under Super atendent Lipscomb and under Superin endent Talbert. I have had charge of onvicts camps under both of them. I hope The State's correspondent at ,umter will not implicate me with Su erintendent Talbert as denials of his port. They only point I corrected as that of the dead convict. and what had to say was to the Board of Direc ors. I never denied that the convicts rere barefooted. 1 never disputed the act that the convicts starved all day at lumter. After starving all day in Sum er,l was almost certain-.that they would e offered something to eat that night fter arriving at the penitentiary. But it as not so. They were locked up with ut a morsel of bread till the next morn ng. What hour they were fed the next worning, I can't say-about 6:30 o'clock, suppose. I have managed convict camps under ol. Lipscomb on the Georgia, Corolina nd Northern jRailroad, in Chester :ounty; on the Wilson short Cut, in Jaridn County; and on the Eutawville lairoad, in Clarendon County. I man god 215 convicts in the phosphate fields Uf Colleton County. On August 13. 1890, I left Columbia D charge of 103 convicts; got off the ars at Mayesville and marched out to be stockade on the Charleston, Sumter nd Northern Railroad. While my amp was located at Lamar, Col. Lips omb turned over the penitentiary to V. J. Talbert. Under Col. Lipscomb's management I sy, unhesitatingly, the convicts at my amps were always given just what each >f them could eat, and that they were Lever rationed, like under Superinten tent Talbert. Under Col. Lipscomb, my convicts in amp were fed on bacon, meal, grits, half-rice," Irish potatoes by the barrel, abbege and onions by the barrel and rates every two weeks. I also got abut 50 pounds of beef a week for convicts, nd several times I remember they got ork, while the guards got everything hey wanted to eat. Talbert gave me rders to stop the beef, Ifish potatoes, abbage, onions, pork and "half-rice." About two months Superintendent .albert had the rations sent from Col imbia. The small sack of small rice hat he would send for the guards was f the very same quality that I fed my nvicts with under Col. Lipscomb. and rould not last the guards more than Ighteen or twenty days, though it was ent as a months' ration. Sugar and offee were likewise. Under Superintendent Talbert my onvicts got no change of diet at all. he small amount of beef allowed by tim the guards would nearly consume. ol. Lipscomb wouldleave some money rith me in case- of any mishaps. I re member once 1 was moving with a de all ot convicts. My cooked ration gave it on account of not making connec ions as expected. I had money for in idental purposes from CoL Lipscomb, nd things moved on with the usual moothness. W. J. Talbert has never ornished a cent ahead for incidentals. Now, as to the dead convict. I pull dmy own money out of my pocket and dvanced it for Mr. Talbert. Suppose aa rtused to advance the $4 to have his offensive dead body buried. I could ot stop my convicts to do the work, ecause it would put us too long after ark going into Darlington, and con ots should be well secured before ark. Now, right here, will Superintendent 'albert answer what preparation, if ny did he make for anything of the ink I will suggest the only place iperintendent l'albert had for the oor dead convict was an open stump ole, to-be filled in with straw or other uff that would not cost anything. Economy!"~ If this is what Supt. Tal ert means for economy, I say, God ave mercy upon South Carolina con its as human beings. If Superintendent Talbert had sent a monsy, as Col. Lipscomb did, the xty-seven convicts I had at Sumter on une 2 would not have any occasion to ay anythng about something to eat. I wire Talbert twice relati've to thze con hioion of the detail at Sumter, and, he ing absent from his post of duty, 1 Id not get an answer. If he had been t his office he could have wired some tore in Sumter to furnish me with nog to feed the convicts. One of the guards, A. Ulman, called ae-to him while on duty, at Sumter, and aid that if he could not get something c eat he would starve. I have good eason to believe that the young man ras telling the truth. I remarked that was sorry for the condition of affairs, >ut that I had done all that I could do. Ilahowever, soon got hold of a ucket, onging to some lucky con ict who had happened up on it, and the st seen of the bucket of rice and bacon he guard was carefully putting it into tis mouth. During the month of May, 1891, there were lost in hospital 533 days. 1 fully elieve that the large number-being in he hospital is due to Talbert's taking way the changes of diet, as I have al eady stated. Physicians are powerless where changes of diet can't be had. y sick convicts in the hospital under 11. Lipscomb, were fed far better than he guards were under Superintendent 'albert. Mr Rowland Hill, my sergeant, spent 1 in Sumter for something for some of he gardsto eat. I was standing pres nt when Mr. Hill stepped in the super atendent's office and claimed that the ifice owed him the money, and fully plained the matter, I thought, to uperintendent Talbert, but he refused >pay it-a just claim. 1 give, as proof of all that I have said bout the detail of convicts taken away rom the penitentiary August 13. 1890, nd returned June 2,1891, the following ames, who have guarded and should now about the detail: E. L. Gandy, C. Andrews, H. R. Carter, R. E. ims, A. Cook, A. Ulman, Jarvas Scar cro, J. F. Barrier, Rowland Hill, B. B. ~ibson, H. C. Rowe, R. J. Beard. C. E. W HEELER. Indicted for Forgery. SUMTER, S. C.., June 10.-In the 'ourt of General Sessions tis morning idictments were issued against John R. eels for forgery in two cases. Bail 'as granted in the sum of $500 in each ise. In the Common Pleas this after oon W. F. B. Havnsworth, acting for e Bar of Sumter made a motion that a ile be issued against J. R. Keels to iow cause why he should not be disbar d from the practice of law in the Courts General Sessions, Common Pleas, and ' ~ourts of the State. Judge eoWedne ule, and made it return ouner. !.g~-News and The Georgia Ediitor A TLA NTA, Ga., June 17.-T ig Jourual has made a poll of thete~n ers of the Georgia Press Associatio, ow in session here, as to their choice >r the Democratic nominee for Presi nt and their opinion as to what should a the leading issue in the next cam algu, The results are as follows. Of ighteen editors interviewed, eleven were >r Cleveland, two ,or Hill, and five non mmital. Nine favored tanift reform s the issue, two preferred free silver, THE STAl E OF THE CROPS. Elrects of The Week'4 Weather on The Growirr g iats. WASHINGTON, June 13.-The sigual service weather crop bulletin for the week s tys: Temieratures have been below norm al in all districts, except in the lake region. New England and Gulf States, where it has been normal or sliglitlV above. The greatest departure from normal has been 6 degrees in Virginia, Iowa, Kansas and on the North Pacific coast. There have been no marked ex tremes of temperature during the week and the general temperature conditions have been favorable to plant life. As anticipated last week copious rains broke the drought in the East and Mid dle Gulf States. The maximum raintalls are reported as follows: Waynesboro, Ga, 5.1 inches; Gainesville and Toe:oa. Ga, 4.2 inches; Augusta, Ga, 3.83 inches. The only portions of the country where no rain has fallen are Middle New Eng land, the middle plateau region and in South California. Rainfall was one inch below normal in Wisconsin Iowa and two inches above normal in Tennessee and in northern portions of Alabama and Georgia. Arkansas: Crop prospects materially improved during the week. Corn delay ed by late planting. Cotton looks well. Oats and wheat now being harvested show better results than expected. Texas: Cotton and corn very promis ing. Wheat crop uest ever grown. Other crops good, except suflering from lack of rain on the Gulf coast. Louisiana: Drought broken. Cotton, corn and suzar cane backward, but now growing rapidly. Rains too late for gradens. Rice crop small on account of dry weather. Mississippi: As anticipated last week the drought has been broken by copious rains. All conditions are more favora ble than for a month. The crops are small and late, but takin rapid arowth. Alabama: The rains heve been berie ficial to corn, cotton and oats. Gardens are doing well. Tennessee: Crops are greatly improv ed. Wheat hurvesting is delayed by rain and wind. Cotton prospects im proved, but still are poor. Tobacco is promis ag. South Carolina: Plentiful rain well distributed has been beneficial to all crops. Lack of sunshine has been slightly mjurious to cotton. In some localities hail has damaged crops, com pelling replanting. Nrth Carolina-Weather decidedly cool and unfavorable to cotton, which is reported poor. An abundant wheat harvest has begun and many crops are overrun with weeds. Virginia-Crop conditions are good. Corn is in excellent condition. Rust is reported in some wheat fields. Fruit is in good condition. Throughout the win ter arain section and western corn belt conditions are reported variably. The weather is too dry in Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, New York, and New England for anything but winter grain, which promises well. Corn is also suf fering some, but the average is good. The Weather and the Crops. The weekly weather and crop bulletin of the Sorrth Carolina weather service, in co-operation with the Unitsd States Sig nal Service, for the week ending Satur day is as follows and is not very encour aging to farmers: The rainfall for the past week has been above the normal and generally benefi ial to all crops. The temperature has been about the average and has hastened the growth of all crops. whilst the sun shine has been below the average and has been injurious to most of the crops. Rain has fallen more or less every day for the past week, and little or no worn has been perfomed on most of the farms bet ween the constant showers. The rain that brought up the cotton brought up the grass and have continued, with but slight intermission, to the present time: so that the crops are being injured by grass, and if there be no cessation of rain for the next day or two the crops will be badly injured. The corn crop has greatly improved and an average yield may be looked for. Many sections of the State have been visited by the de structive hail storms, and great inju:y done to the growing crops. Some farmers have been compelled to plow up and replant their cotton. U.pon the whole the outlook for the cotton rop is very discouraging ar'd farmers are becoming despondent. Fufteen Eeads Chopped Ofr'. SAN FnANclsco, June 15.-The steamer which arrived from China last night brings details of the beheading (if 15 Chinese at Kowloon City, oppost e Hong Kong, among whom were the three leaders of the pirates who looted the steamer Naomi five months ago,. illed the captamn and mate and secured over $30,000 worth of corn and goods. A great crowd witnessed the barbaric spectacle, which was made more repul sive by the cynical jesting of the pirate chief. The pirates were among the first lot of prisoners who arrived, and a howl f execration from the crowd greeted their appearence. "We'll begin with you," said the chief executioner, laying is hand on the shoulder of a tail, thin man, with piercing eyes. "All right" responded the pirate leader, "I'm num ber one." Hie was placed at one end of the square, and all the othiers knelt in line with him, and the slaughter began. he chief continued to speak as if he wished the spectators to know he was not afraid. "You may .kill me now," esaid, "but Il revive again." As he ttered this sentence the sword fell. and he was no more. The others, mis erable looking wretches, shuddered, but they had not long to wait, for the brawny outcher finished his work with great celerity. The whole bloody wvork nly occupied a few minutes. 1D1sastrous Cloud-burst. CINcINNATrr, June 17.-A Knoxville, Tenn., special says: At New Manville, Green county, Saturday, a cloud-burst id great damage. The place is remote from railroad and telegraph communi ation, but information comes today of he calamity. The* fall of water was something terrific, and a small creek be ame a raging river, 100 yards wide. he storehouse, residence and outbuild ngs of T. N. King were swept away, he flood coming so quickly he did not ven have time to close his store doors. The postollice was kept in his store, ad everything was lost. An iron safe weighing 1500 pounds was carried one fourth of a mile by the force of the ater. A number of other houses were arried away, and all the crops along the reek bottom lands were diestroyed. The water came down so fast that the eople barely had time to dee to the idge, and if this had not been ne:ar. here would have been serious loss of ife. Ccnsiderable stock was drowned, ut no life was lost so far as reported. Lhe property dlamage will amount to a large sum. -Kiled While Out Driving. WASuINGTON, June 12.-Capt Robert . Widdecombes, formerly chie-f of the oreign mails division Postatlice De artment, and a prominent G. A. R.i an, was killed this evening while out 1 driving. Capt. Widdecombes' horse be ame frightened at the cable cars, wigthe Captain from his buggy, car, frl striking the step of the cable onipel'I~inghis skull and almost n to the hosping him. Hie was tak oursPlaer. 'where hedied several THlE Philadelphia Times s'' s that as the watermelon season adra ., the eightb commandment suifers. V~n t comes to au issue between Cuffy aut the commandment, the commandment A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. SHOT TO DEATH IN THE POSTOFFICE AT WARRENTON GA. Caut ain W ill iaI .J. MaiLrtI:. o f Charlestoi'. the Victim--He Wrote Love Letters to the Wi:e of the Man Who Kilt ed Him. AtoUsn. Ga, June ll.--A nother terrible traged v has been added to W ar renton's bloody record. Capt. W. J. Magrath, a prominent merchant there. was shot and instantly killed by Mr. A. V. Howell. who recently removed from Warrenton to Atlanuta. Howell fired ive shots at Magrath, four of wliich took effect in the latter's head and body. The two men were standing in the postollice at Warrenton, and when Howell fired the fatal shots were not more than four feet apart. Magrath fell to the floor and died in a few min utes in great pain. Ile spoke only a few words after being shot. One of these was an invocation to God to have mercy on his soul, and to a friend who cautioned him to keep still, he said: "I will be still in a fe v moments." t There was only one witness to the 1 shooting. That was Judge 11. 11. Fitz- r patrick, the pos'.master at Warrenton, who was illing out a money order b!ank for Magrath at the time. it is stated that ilowell went into the postoflice, and seeing Magrath. said: "Capt. Magrath, you have been writing letters to my wite." With this, Howell drew his pistol and began firing at Ma grath, who offered no resistance. There are sensational features con nected with the case, and place Magrath C in the attitude of writing love letters to Howell's wife. Magrath is a married man, with a family of four children, and came to Warrenton from Charleston, S. C. four years ago. Ho well's wife is the daughter of J. W. DeBeaugrine, an ex-Charlestonian, who has been residia in Warrenton several years. She and Iowell were married about two months ago. It is reported that 'Magrath wrote her several notes before ner marriage, making improper advances,. one of which fell into her father's hands. This led to an altercation, in which Ma- s grath's life was threatened. t The matter dropped, however, and i nothing more was heard until last Tues day, when Mr. Howell came to Warren ton. Then it was learned that he had taken a letter from the postotlice at At lanta addressed to his wife and contain ing eignt pages. The letter had no name signed to it, but was postmarked from Warrenton, and mentioned an ex- J press package which the writer had for- r warded to Mrs. Howell. It was claim- t ed to be Magrath's handwriting. C Howell demanded an explanation of t his wife, but she protested her innocence and gave her husband to understand that she had long- been the victim of such persecutions at the hands ot Ma grath. This is what brought about the shooting. Ihowell was brought to Augusta to night and committed to jail to await the action of the Warren County grand I jury. The coroner's jury which sat in in- 1 quest on Mairath's body, refused to say whether the killing wasj ustitiable hom- I icide or murder. Warrenton is greatly excited over the affair, as Capt. Magrath has many ( strong friends among the citizens. Howell is a carriage builder by trade, and his wife is nothing more than a hild. Magrath's relatives at Charleston ave been telegraphed tor, and will each Warrenmton tomorro .-The Stae. The Melon Growers. A called meeting of the Fruit anwl Melon Growers As:>oeiation was held in iken on Monday week. In the ab-i sence of the President J. B. Black, ands t the request of Vice-P'residenit J. D. opeland, Captain G. W. Groft presid-e d. Mr. i". M. Mixson, of Blackville,I he Secretary of the Associatifon, readi he call for the meeting, after which t he follo wing delegates were enrolled: T. S. Sease, Lexington; D). L. Copeland and E. R. H ayes, Bamnberg: J1. G. Bayn-i am, Trenton; J. U. Bonnett, Windsor; . Q. McCreary, Whits Pond; L. Brad-t well, W. M. Jordan, M. T.1Iolley,8Sr. r and A. S. Courtney, Aiken. The Chair stated that the object ofr he meeting was to get the Association 1i o co-operate with P'. II. Loud, .Jr., and is attorneys in the suit brought beforev he Inter-State Commerce Commission v gainst railroad lines running- east for i vercharging and discriminating t gainst melon shippers, and also to y ransact any other business that might s ome uip before the Association. r: Considerable dliscussion took place in S eference to the exorbitant rates e barged by the roads running east for e he transportation of melons, In the s< iscussion wve gleaned the following: t] East year the roads charged 8103.92 for 3 t car load of melons weighing 24,000 h ounds to New York, and additional s ~harges were made for every pound sl ver and above that number. These charges were considered ex- T ~essive, being within a fraction of 11 si nills per mile. short measurement. The h~ eorgia Association has secured a rate rt f 8 mills per mile on all roads running est, andi it was the opinion of the nelon men at this meeting that 8 mills ould be a fair charge for the roaus Iri unning East, end that the minimum 1C ~arload should be fixed at 32,000 pounds. 114 ixed at these figures, the cost of a car- Ic oad of melons to New York-a dis- ta ance of about 800 miles-would be n 76860. The following resolutions were t dopted. p Resoli'ed, That thc Secretary ask of b ~he initial, and if need be, connecting tJ ailway lines for tariff of rates for the b ~oming season on melons. V Resolved, That it is the sense of this I ~neeting that the present rates are ex- al ~essive and a reduction of them is re- w uesed. it Resolved. That the information die- hi ved as to rates be submitted to the ai lxecutive Committee, and they are re- o1 uested at their discretion to comumu m icate or have a conference with the. nr ~aiway authorities upon the matter. ai Resoived, That through bills of laden st e issued from starting points, and that e; o pre-paynment of freight be required 10 ~rom shipper at connections with other t' ines, as in case of the Blackville, Al ton & Newberry and Barnwvell roads is of last season. A resolution was also adopted pled e ng the moral support of the Associa b: ion to Mr. IP. I. Loud,-.Jr., in his fight ci or a reduction in the freight rate on C nelons and fruit. The meeting then b djourned. The above account of the 1I feeting we clip from the Aiken .Jour- I al and Review. h Pianos and Organs. .fC N. W. Txirr, 134 Main Street Co- o ambia, S. C., sells l'iaaios and Organs, n< irect from factory. No agents' com- he issions. The celebrated Chickering mx ~'iano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated te or its clearness of tone, lightness of ouch and lasting qualities. Mason & a Iamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Up- j85 ight Pianos, from m8225 up. Mason & I tlI Iamlin Organs surpassed by none. Ster- p: ing Organs, .550 up. Every Instrument Cl -uaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' . rial, expenses both ways, if not satis--a actorv. Sold on Itnstalments. A A Druuken Man's Folly. PITTSToN, Pa., -June 17.--Jennie ~nerr, aged 10, and Frank Hix bee, aged years, were drowned in the Schuyl- IG] il River, near Parker's Ford, last Ige tight. Miss Knerr and several corn-in anions were wading in the water near i e bank when Bix bee came along an d1|5 aid that he was going to teach them at Low to swim.0 ie carried Jennie into ;y he rie buvow tor depth and both Iaf JUDGE HUDSON'S REFORMS. tiow Justice may be More Ecouomiicaily and Effectively Obtained. LANC.\STER, S. C.. June 15.-The court of G eneral Sessions convened here i) o'clock this morning. with Judge EIudson presiding. The session will be short one. There is no homicide case or this term and the crimimal business vill be light. The Court will likely ad ourn early to morrow morning. The .udgc. after enlighteniag the .raud iury as t.o their oaths and the da -ies to be performed, iade an elaborate ;harc as to much needed reforms in the %raciice of the Courts, civil and criin nal. Ile recommends that the Circuit .ourt fbr the spring term, instead of >pening on the second Monday in Feb -uary as now, be commenced on the econd Monday in January. His reasons r this change were very strong, and ippeared to be convincing to his large tuditory. He recommends that the ummer term for the circuit commence >n the first or second Monday in May, nstead of June. And the fall term he -ecommends should commence on the irst Monday in September, instead of he time now fixed bflaw. le showed, n a most powerful and impressive argu nent. that this change would be most tdvantageous to the planting interest of he country and to the general welfare. A very important recommendation vhich would be conducive to economy, liciency, and the satisfactory adminis ration of the law, was that the Court or the transaction of civil business hould precece the Court of General essions. I wish I had the time and ould take of the space in your paper to ive his reasons for this last mentioned :hange. Suffice it to say that his rea ons ibr this change are unanswerable. Another important change that he re ommends is that the law should be hanged so as to authorize instead of a inanimous verdict three-fourths of the nembers of tie jury to find a verdict. le was elaborate and thorough on this )oint of his argument. Another change, on the line of econo ny. lie recommends that the Court of ?obate, which sits monthly given juris liction to hear and try small cases, civil Ls well as criminal- He 'contends that his would do away with the necessity of ncreasing the number of Judges in the state. It strikes your correspondent that the Uministration now in authority in this ;tate (were they to avail themselves of hese suggestions) might organize a nore eflicient system of administering ustice, and a system that would be auch more economic and better adapted o the public wants. These changes ertainly address themselves to the hougitful consideration of our law aakers. Judge Hudsou, like Judge O'Neall, ho was always ready to suggest im >rovements in the laws, is entitled to lie thanks of the people in his thought al efforts to improve the condition of lie whole people. No class of our peo le are so capable of making wise sugges ions in this line as our Judges. who ave learning and experience in these hings. When a Judge takes these )ains he is entitled to the favor of our >eople and his suggestions to the con ideration of our legislators.-News and ourier. A SUCIDE CLUB. L Queer and Morbid Organization in Connecticut. IiROtGEP'ORT, Conn., June 17.-Rob -rt Louis Stevenson, when be wrote his amous romance. entitled "The Suicide lub," and included in his series stories ntitled "Modern Arabian Nights," ever dreamed that any set of morbidly nelined misanthropes would put his chemes into operation, but, as is wvell nown, the famrous suicide club of this 'ity was the result, and self-murder of .F. Smith at Birmingham, by blow ng out his brains with a shotgun, maktes he list of ten victims to this horrible assion. The club was originally forme:1 rith six members six years ago, and was ntended to be limited as formed, but Lew members were added from time to ime despites the protest ot the origi ta members. No less than seven applications were eceived from abroari or membership .st year. The suicides so tar are: August Hleiserhagan, suicide in bed ith a revolver; J. Kaipp, shot himself hile in bed; George Leavenwoth, died. a Case's hotel. laudanum self-adminis ered; William Meckel cut his throat ith a razor in his room; John Kinzy hot himself through the heart with a ile in the cellar of his saloon; J. C. chneider threw himself in Iront of an xpress train at the depot before a dor n friends; John Hattern hanged him elf in his shop; Wendell Baur cut his broat with a jack-knife in an open lot, iew York city; W. Hi. Moby blew out is brains with a revolver! E. F. chmidt blew out his brains with a bot-gun. The president of the club now is Villiam Zeggs, a saloon keeper on Gold reet, and t he club meets in a room mn is house. Loester is financial and cor isponding secretary. Fatat Balloon Ascension. PAnIs, June 18.-A fatal baltoon trip, sulting almost to a certainty in the ss of three lives, occurred at Lavil tte yesterday afternoon. A balloon >ntaining a professional aeronaut and o other persons made an ascent about iidday from Lavillette, the aerial yen ire being watched by crowds of peo le. Vhen the balloon had reached a eight not more than sixty feet from ie ground the aeronaut, who had been asily engaged about outside the car, 'as seen to suddenly lose his balance. le made a desperate offort to regain it 'd then fell whirling to the earth. He 'as picked up so terribly injured that is said there is no prospect of saving s life, in the meantime the balloon d its two remaining occupants, both whom were utterly ignorant of the anner in which a balloon is handled, tounted up higher and higher into the r, growing to the sight smaller and naler until it was finally lost sight of itirely among the clouds. The bal on descended at V'ersaille, and the vo men were saved. She Refused to Receive Hirn. SIAMoKIN, Pa., June 17.-A strange ance has come to light in this town, the return of Charles Cameron, a usin of United States Senator Don1 ameron, who was supposed to have een murdered in a gambling den at ichiond, Ya , soon after the battle of ul Run. In 1800 Cameron left hIs me in P'ottsville, Schuylkill County, ii went to Richmond, wihere he in rmed his wife he had secured the ntract for building a church. He ever returned, and Mrs. Cameron, aring that he had been murdered, arried William Madden ten years af rward. Madden was killed on the railroad, id Mrs. Madden removed to this place. ,turday morning, while standing at e door of her home, a stranger ap. -oached and announced himself as ares Cameron, the long lost husband. ,rs. Madden refused to receive hint id orderedl him to leave, and he did so. t present he is stopping with his son, mon. biphtheria's D~eadiy Work R AL EI H, N. C., JTune 19.-Mrs. T. H tennan, wife of Past Assistant Sur on Glennan, United States Navy. ar red at Raleigh Thursday evening from 'ashington with four children. Rosa, 1 years old, had a case of diphtheria d died Monday evening. Pansy, 3 ars old, died of the same disease this ternoon. Kenneth is now at death's or and the remaining child has the] snse.1 TO THE ALLIANCE. THE TARIFF THE CAUSE OF ALL THESE WOES. Pratical Illustrations by an Experi enced Reformer Which Should be Eselly Understood by she Horny-Handied Sons u Toll. I am not egotistical enou fh to elieve that my name or signature is not entirely unknown to you. For more than twenty - lve years I have Iabored to iree the mil lions or con sumers of this great and free country from a most outrageous tex robbery that has no paralled either in the present or past history of a civilized people. Alas! my friends, I share the lot of many and greater reformers who lived before me. I have achieved little indeed. Of course, truth and reason will in the end prevail, but in the mean time the accumulation of immense wealth wrung from the hard working classes is the main force in riviting the chains ox dire taxation on the people. Now, my goood friends of the Alli ance, you have only one enemy in this country to deal withb. and that is ex cessive taxation. All the rest is sen timent and opinion. Your .rrievance is that you are in debt, and that your incessant hard labor is not sufficient to make two ends meet. The greatebt curse that economy has to encounter is the false belief of t h e multitude that high wages or high prices for what we produce is tbe sole remedy for all evil. Now, my good friends only consider it, if, under pres ent prices of your products, you could procure those artielles you do not pro duce and must have, say 40 per cent. cheaper than you are obliged to pay for them on account of the villainous tarift or protection swindle,woild such a policy not be the same as if the commodities you produce would be 40 per cent higher in price? Just let me give you a littlt illustra tion. You, my friends, are farmers. Well, you do not raise silver or paper dollars. Your money is wheat, corn, or any other product. You go through the ceremony o, converting these pro ducts into money, and you buy the necessaries that you do not produce and must have. Well, then, the price of your wheat, corn and other field products is made in the great markets of the world, and chiefly abroad. say in London, Liverpool, Paris. Hamburg, and even in Berlin. In other words, if the price of wheat goes up 2s or 3t a quarter, you will find the price in Chica go, Duluth, or any other great centre going up in the same proportion, and if the piices go down abroad, you feel it the same way. In fact, you are not in the least beholden to the policy of protec tion for the price of your breadstuffs. The syndicate of protection lions may assert the contrary until they are black in their faces, but they .cannot alter this pure and simple fact, which is enevitable a law of trade as graYitation is a law of nature. Well, then, do you not thnk that it is a hardship, in fact a swindle. if a bushel of American wheat should buy in New York from 40 to 50 per cent. less nec essary woolen mixed dress goods than in London, especially as the same price of wheat prevails in both places? Just let me show you. Suppose ten bushels of wheat at $1 per bushel in London will buy fifty yards of woolen mixed dress gods at 20 cents per yard. This same kind of dress goods that is chiefly used in every farmer's family. and is of as much a necessity as anything in the wear ing apparel can possible be, is subject under the McKinley bill to a tax of 110k per cent. in other words what costs in Lodon 20 cents a yard is enhanced to the following: Original cost, 20 cents a yard; 110k per cent. duty, 22* cents; to tal, 42.k cents. Now, suppose we leave out expenses ad profits and say that this cheap dress oods, costIng 20 cents in London, is en hanced here only by the tariff alone to forty-two cents a yard; your ten bushels f wheat would only buy less than twen ty-four yards, or twenty-six yards less than in London. Suppose you are not groaning under such an insane outrage ois tax, does it occur to you that, if your amily needed only fifty yards of such kind of goods, you would need exactly welve dollars less menev? And if you ultiply those articles that are subject o this tax swindle you will find that here are hundreds of <lollars every year ost shamefully taken out of your hard arnings for the benefit of some mill boss s, who are .anxious to uphold this tax obbery, ostensibly for the benefit of the dear laboring classes, which means sickly pestilential tenements for the iserable operatives, and palatial cas tles in Scotland or elsewhere and four-in hand for the bosses. If, my good friends, you really mean relief, and have the real welfare of the asses at heart. then break this infer nal power of the tax oppressors of the eople. Then will you really become wise, good and a blessing to mankind. But if you are on some utopian butter fly chase, then you will simply become some adjunct to political schemers and designing politicians. You seem to have the power; the future will reveal whether ou have the will and the ability to make good use ot it. In the meantime, I re joice to see that the spirit of true refor.u is bestirring itself'. For if even nothing does come of it, there is a chance that these old tax sinners may become more heedful and not go still further rough hod over the people. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that the new move ment of the Farmers' Alliance has wakened an interest in the minds of the people which is as gratifying as it is im portant. Personally I wish you God speed in your laudable undertaking of reform, and by genuine reform I mean the aine ioration of the present tax robbery un ler which the people are groaning. J. S. MOORE, New York, May 28th, 1891. South Carolina Tobacco. WASINTON, D. C., June 17.-The ~ensus office to-day made public the to acco statistic of South Carolina. The :otal number of planters in the State luring the census year was 585; the to. 1 area devoted to tobacco 394 acre; to product 222,898 pounds, and value of rop to producers, estimated on basis of ctuahlsales, $33,883. The following are ;he figures by counties, excluding those roducing less than 2,000 pounds each. he groups of figures represent acres, ounds and value respeftively: nderson........... 6 2,194 5 277 ~erk eley............ 27 14,800 1,480 .larendon.......... 30 12,000 1,500 )arlington..........53,842 ~lorence........... 144 1650 2,6 ~reenville.......... 18 9,1 140 lorry ............... 8 2,5 ,1 Iarion............. 15 900 161 )conee.............. 34 1,0 ,4 )rangebnrg....15.......15 ~l kens............ 9 442 68 p artanburg . 1............1 anion............. . 10 3,6 40 thr cuntes. 34,48 440 Tota...... 3i116, 33,883 Sam Smll Le 9e,4th Church. DENVER une 42.-Th Colorad he chuch......3 4 68 40 am. Smhoall, ied-last weerc at 1 DEgntoER, C Iunere2.-he Cosliving I onferene of he daughods psoa EVERY INCH A SOLDIER. The Brave Texan Who Died in Defence of Wona-A tILDors. NEwBERRY, S. C., June 12.-The mon ument to Calvin Crozier has been placed in iosemont Cemetary. Crozier was the brave young Texan who lost his life here in defence of a woman on the night of September 5. 1865 le w~as on his way home from Lee's surrender and had a young lady under his charge. A regiment of negro troops reached Ntwberry on that day and campi-d here for the ai rht. The train from Alston, i on which Crozier was travelling, was thrown off the track at the depot by obstructions placed thereon by the ne gro soldiers. One of the negroes went into the coach and insulted the young lady. Crozier promptly protected her and cut the negro with his knife. In the con fusion that ensued Mr. Jacob Bowers. the railroad supervisor, who was get ting the train back on the track, was accused of cutting the negro and being seized by the negro soldiers, Crozier came forward and said that he had cut the negro. The negro soldiers then took him to their camp, a short distance from the depot, and, without trial. con demned him to death. He was shot to death at daylight on the morning of September 8, 1865, as be knelt in a shal low grave they had dug for him. There they mutilated his body and left it, as the regiment immediately marched down the railroad and took the first train for Columbia. The body of Crozier was given decent burial in the village graveyard by the citizens of Newberry, where it has rest ed until to-day, when the remains were removed to the Rosemont Cemetery. The movement to erect a monument to his memory began one year ago and $278 was soon raised in the town, to gether with subscriptions from the county. The monument is of white marble, about ten feet high, and rests on a base of Newberry granite. The shaft is six feet high, and on its front face is the "Lone Star" of Texas. On the marble base resting on the granite block in raised letters is inscribed the word: CROZIER. On another side is the following verse from the celebrated elegy by Col Theo dore O'llara, C. S. A: "Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood you gave, No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps, Or honor guard the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps." On the die block is the inscription. CALvns CROZIER, Born At Brandon, Miss. August, 1840 Murdered at Newberry, S. C., September 8, 1865. Then on three seperate faces the fol lowing account of his death is inscrib ed: "After the surrender of the Confeder ate armies, while on the way to his home in Texas from a federal prison, he was called npon at the railroad station at Newberry, S. C., on the night of Sep tember 7,1865, to protect a young white woman, temporarilly under his charge, from gross insults, offered by a negro Federal soldier of the garrison station ed here. "A dificulty ensued; in which the ne gro was slightly cut. The- infuriated soldiers seized a citizen of Newberry, upon whom they were about to execute savage vengeance,'when Crozier came promptly forward and avowed himself the author of the deed,thus refusing to accept safety from allowing a stranger to receive the violence intended him self. "He was hurried in the night time to the lyivouac of the regiment to which the soldiers belonged, was kept under guarid all night, was not allowed com munication with any citizen and with out even the torm of a trial was con demned to die, and was shot to death about daylight the following morning and the body mutilated." rhe monument was erected by Lea vel & Speers, of Newberry. It stands in a conspicuous position near the en trance to Rosemont Cemetery. It is a fitting memorial to a noble life which perished in defence of woman.-News and Courier. A Private Sub- ireasury Plan-. TOPEKA, KAN., June 16-The alli ance executive committee of Kansas is considering a scheme which practically paces the sub-treisury plan of the na tIonal farmers alliance in the hands of private capitalists. J. C. Hopkins, who was a delegate from the New York Economic club at the Cincmnatti convention is the origina tor of the scheme. The plan is to estab lish a bank in each conty of the State under the direction of the local alliance exchange. The capital stock is to be furnished by pivate subscription. In connection with each bank an elevator or a store house is to be built. A farm er may then dump bis grain or cotton into the store houses, recesimg for it a check for 80 per cent, of the value of the grain deposited by paying a small per centae for storage and insurance. He will be allowed to keep his grain in the depository until such time as he may deem it best to place it upon the mark et. The amount of produce deposited in this way must not exceed the amount of stock subscribed for thc bank. The checks to be issued by these banks are peculiarly devised and are printed in colors. These checks are made payable in gold or silver at any of the banks run in this manner. It is intend ed that they shall be circulated as money._______ A Piea For The Home Papers. Did you ever figure out the circula- ~ ion of your little home paper that prints, say 500 copies a week ? The papers with a big circulation wvon't look at a town for less than $100 a look and shoot off a squib or a column or two at regular rates, but reduced to you. you know. That mighty puff appears but once, probably noticed by one in a thousand of its readers and may be read by one in a hundred of those who may have noticed it. Like a bubble on the cean, it is but momentary and is soon Lost to sight and memory deir. On the )ther hand, the little town paper is per petual; its every issue is full of home :avertsements-leastwise ought to be - -and must be a very poor paper indeed, iit doesn't contain something of inter ;ar to its readers at a distance concern-i tjw its town. It, in three months prints md distributes 6,500 papers, in six months, 13.000, and in a year 26,000. this is regular, amd although many go o the same address week after week, et many changes are made, and it is uite sate to say that nearly the half of ~ he total number of copies. issued find ~ :heir way into the hands of that many ifferent readers. Eaten by Sharks. NOFOLK, Va., June 12.-Informa ion was received here today of the - 'earful death of a colored cook of the chooner Silver Queen while In the bay. S rohn Howard, the victimi, while making net to capture a shark, accidentally ot tangled in the twine and fell over-h >oard. In a few seconds, and before me could be rescued, he was pulled un ler and was seen no more. A small chool of sharks has been reported in J :Iampton Roads by an incoming steam IN fve Maine counties, where the opulation is nearly all "native Ameri ans," the Maine Bible Society has co ound 10,413 families who confess that . hey never go to church and 982 fami ies who do not own a Bible. A sad tta of affairs indred. VETHERHORN & FISCHER, -MANUFACTURE] :s )Y SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC, 7, 9. 11, and 13 Smith Street. CHA RLESTON, S. C. Write for prices and estimates. CHARLESTON Mattress Mf'g Co., MANUFACTURERS OF High Grade Moss, Hair, & Wool Mattresses. Office & salesroom, 552 an d 554 King'st., CHARLESTON, S.C. Reduced price list, for fall trade, 1890. Mattresses, -assorted stripe ticking: No. 1, Straw and Cotton, S2; No. 2, $2.50; No. 3, $2.75. No. 1, Excelsior and Cotton, $3.50; No. 2, 3; No. 3, $3.50. No. 1, 11sk and Cotton, S3; No. 2, $3.50; No. 3, $4. No. 1, Cotton Mattress, 40 lbs., $5; No. 2, $7; No. 3, $3. Prices quoted on Wool Mattresses il desired. No. 1, Moss Mattresses, $5; No. 2, S6; No. 3, $7. No. 1, Hair Mattress, S10;No. 2, $15; No. 3, $20. Bed Spreads, $1.50 to $3. Comforts, 95c. to $4.50. Blankets, 90 cents to $5. Feathers in best ticking' at 75 cents per pound, plain or fancy stripe made up. Lounges in imitation walnut, oak, and ma hogany. In raw silk, $4; carpet, $5: noquett plush, $6.50. Upholstered cots, $2 to $3. Spring beds, $1.50 to $5. Buy direct from the factory. Send cash by express or postal note to T. H. McCALL, Gen'l Sup't. The Bailey-lebby QOMPANY. 213 Meeting St., Opposite Charleston Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. Manifacturers' Agents. Machinery, Supplies, Oils. Attention mill men! We are now offer ing the best and latest improved -AND CxrLBt M-1 - Iron, Steel, Pipe, Nails, Fitting, Belt Lacing, and a full line of Phosphate and Mill Supplies. State agents for THE SCIENTIFIC GRINDING ML.LS, pySend for our new illustrated catalogue md lowest prices. Agents wanted in every conty. FERTI LIZERS! 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Also on hand a magnificent line of Clocks, Watches, Chains, Rings, Pins, But tons, Studs, Bracelets, in solid gold, silver, and rolled plate. Repairing of all kinds will receive prompt and careful attention. L. E. LEiRAND, SUMTER, S. C. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF CLAR~ENDON. I N ACCOIRDANCE WITIH THE PROVIS ions of an act or the General Assembly, ratified on thc 9th (lay of Fe bruary, 1882, I will be in the court house in MIanning. in the office o' the clerk of the court, the first Monday o each mon:h, for the purpose of allowing persons coming of age since the last generat election to register, and to at tend to any other business pertaining tomy official duties. S. P?. HOLLIADAY, Supervisor Registration Clarendon Co -P. 0. Address: Panola, S. C. MWA L IAC COMANT, OF NEW YORK. R. A. McCURDY, Prest. Assets. $147,154,961.20. Surplus, 89,981,233.38. The oldest, strongest, largest, best company in the world. It "makes as surance doubly sure." E. N. 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