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* 3RM C;APAIGN (WPNED. [CONTINUED .SEOX PAGE ONE.] tends to destroy her cidzenis. The whiskey trafie has always been under the contr.l, not on!% cf the- ,,tate, but of the Unit. d 8ate i oernment. No man has been a'jwed to del. iri the stuff without c(.)mIr1lag wi. the stringent regulati'ons of our roveru ment. it is nbsur-i tben to ergule tbat we have deprived I idnco any dividual rignts. t am h St. the same, ruis apply as in dealing w ' an individual. n the Reformers came into p-wtE. --we found the old State dru n. The barkeeter ruled our largest eiries and evea delied and irnti mated on: high- :t onicias. E -ery bir room in Sot C.iroL.ua was a political club house and was r un in the interest of some politician. Oar -,oung men were a~lured tby beming tables aud fan cy drnks until their in was complete and t-bA State deprived -f hcr good citi zens. Do you te1I me this was not a proper subject. for lcz -!ation? We do . not pretend to legi.late for Ol old soaks whose babits are formed. You can no more legislate sobt iey into them than vou can hont sty inr.o thieves, but we can legislate tor our boys and young men; in two generatibus our State will beready for total -prohibitiqn' and we shall htive it. The young men now growing up-will nor, know the taste of whiskey. 'The social feat ure h v:ng been destroyed, there will no iotuger dweR acharm -witan the caip and our coutry will be blooming- prosperity. Ninety-seven per cent. ef the pwople of South Carolina are in favor or rhs law and )et our iaiv papers are bo.undirg it and trying-to prou!ce the impressiun in the outside world that toe Gover nor cannot enforce it and the people are against-it. T.-y ere a s "eet scent ed et, these anti dalits. They cuss and fume because the Dispensary made so. they . say, no money for the drst qaarter and they: cussed and - famed iouder because it did make a lite in the I second quart er. It.bas. paid expenses from the start and it is now paying the State a handsome income. We do Lot care, however,-for the money, it Is the nip. . clad prbtection of the people we are struggling for. Drunkaess in our State has been decreaseJ over seventv five per cent, and many a h~me no w radiates wih. the sunshine or sobriety and Christianity, which heretofore was dark with crime and poverty. We are being watched by the civilized world and in less than four year this law will be enacted by a mpjority of the States of our Union. Already Massachusetts is following us and our National Al liance has made it an issue for the Un -ion. Who are the men that are fight ing it? The saloon keepers and scum of the earth, who live on the baweries ofCharlesuni and Columbia, aided by such patriots as endeavor to bankrupt the State, advised-insurrectiomand con -nive atiraud- for the purpose'of mak 4ng a-little pohtici ;capital aganst -cur movement. I-re'ret-to say that a few extreme prohlbiLionists are with them bat I-do-nt -impugn their mo tives. IabaH throw the mantle of char ity around them and' ask to- forgive then for they know not what the. do." Prohibition is.as snre-to-cUe as we arehere, but we must first pre pare the way for it. When a man has delirium tremens,-we d6 not -take his whiskey abruptly away from him. We mix a littleln his medicine and finally get him in shape to take it from him entirely So we must treat- the:State, for a State -Is bat aollection of individuals and has-the same symptoms and desires-as -its component parts. We have been invited to make this * law-an issue in the campaign, and we have taken up the glove. Let the en emv meet usface to face and we shall askn quartez. Suffering hu manity, has already arissn to calus blessed and the true and good must be with us. Tbe attempt to place me before the people as the crndidate of any one man - or faction is simply an effort of the op poeaition to create the impression that a spilt exists in our ranks. I am the -candidate of no man or faction and Sthose who think that a spilt exists in the ranks of the Reformers will -be in the position of the- little animal who saw the king of nsasts asleep. Tiuok ingbhim dead, the little -stunk offered the lion an Insult, exuding his offen sive odor. Thelin-awakening crushed him with one slap and-all that remaned was a small grease'spot and.a little of-, fensive odor. So in-August next, when the Reforr. 'Jon awakens, all that will be left of tre opositioh will be a smail grease spot and a little ofensive odor ntlheQ~e6 o'f the ouinoisatate. WHAT BorE SAID. Dr. Pope was in the hands of his friends and perfectly at home. He is aiforceful speaker and to-day did so discredit to his reputation, but added to the high esteem in which he is held. After the usual introductory remarks Dr. Pope eot down to business. In substance he said:. I propose first to take up for discus son State- ssues anid will as auxilliary to that give, as I believe, the causes which led to the formiation of the Re form movement, which has swept this State. from the'mountains to ~the sea Icannotbdenied" that up to~1890 6Eb~tateffiees of this State were parcelled out as it were betad'e a few persons; that the masses voted, did the electing, but did not participate id'tno holding. The A&liance, the* great ed ucator of our people, was organized m -this State ini 1889, It gave new life to ttre'Faimez Movement, and conseq. * tently great and increasing strengh. It taught our people to think for them selves on dtate anid national issues, and once they comanenced to think for themselves at once they began to act for themselves andoast about for .lead ersto cary out'~ thelr ideas. In 1888, ,withodt any concert of action, enough dlgtswere elected ta the -August -convention (the number I believe was 1$ out of ~320) to 'give them increased confidence as to the future , success and when to this was added the Alliance education beglii~gin 1890, there was no trouble 1nar~ithe State in 1890 by an avefwhe majbrty. The March convention of 1890 had selected 'B. R. Tillman as the leader to carry this out in the canvas which followed he proved himsettca be more than the e qual of any of his opponents on'the stump and was triumphantly 'nommnated -by the September convention of that year and at the election in Novemxber was" elec teds Govenbr. Agaminl89244 met eli.Gb*irnori Sneppards o t ths stump and by a large mtjority of delegates was nominated and at the November election was a second time elected Governor of the State. The credit to these triumphs belongs to the Alliance and to the Farmers Movement both of which to about an equal extent in the numbet- of votes cast, con trbuted to it. In the present canvass which is'soon to be on us neither of these factors can or must be .ignored; to. ensure success1 i s necessary that both pull together as in the piast and that in selecting candidates tnat neither must be ignored. There must be the utmost harmony, for without it we c-annot succeed. The Reform movement, as I believe, first took definite, practical shape in 1884, t hough efforts wi thont organization - Jad1 been made several years before, liaving no organization before that time it was without effect, but in 1884 a caucus was formed by a number of ..4be.membsrs of the General Assembly which, if .itdidno other good at the .timescaused the Farmers Miovement mn the.Stat'e to organized itself irto a prac tical -bod. In allof 'the canvasses which we have Shad, the masses, as well as the leaders deserve the greatest credit, for without their earnest self-sacrificing support and vote niothing could have been ac complished. They have been as tru-e to the priniples of the movement through ll t~ e :e:rs as tbe needle to the c pole. Whilst unfortunately there has a been diierenc' . honest 'ifierence I ft hope, between some of the leaders, it tlere has b1e none among the masses. g, Let us hope that all differences among h; u!selves will be amicably adjusted o: ard that every leader will feel that the (s success of the movement is paramount c; to the success 6f any indiviaual, and g that we will move on to success as a a banDd of brothers putting behind us am- si bition, contention and fault finding. o And if there are any wno will not ao k this, let them be dropped from thae roll h .f nembership and fello-xsbip. t] Wtien Governor Tillman was induct- d ed into office he bad a right to expect a the support of every Democrat in the y Stare regardless of faction, but I am tl s-rry to say that the - bitterness of the h opposition was s, great, fed as it was u by a nostile press, tha' he was obposed iU almo.t at every step. It was known e: for years that the Coosaw Compan3's b leave would expire early in 1890 and that it woold became the duty of the V Executive. if the campany did not sur- b render, to bring suit to get possession t] ot the territorr When thetime arrived fi the company persisted in still ocoupy iog the territory and suit being ins'it- p uted it was along tifne in the courts fL bat the State succtded. This action on a the part of the compady cost us much I loss ot royalty and a considerable c, amout of mo-iey as fees to lawyers, all p of which would have been avoided had 0 the company surrendered at first. o The railroad Commision increased g to some extent the tax of the railroads. r, some of these c.rporations being in e te hands of Receivers sought the pro- c: tcLion of the United State: Coirt, t; which upheld them in tdeir effdrio tp defy the laws of the~State an hW1eo 9o a fir as to fne and imaprisoa iomOffur g sheriffs who had levid upon tie prop- f erty of the roads for taxes. It is hoped n and believed that Congres3 will take p some action looing to tne pissage of t' a law which will clip the wings ot this U judiciary and prevent interference on Y their part with the State in the t colleation of-its taxes. Although the Act accepting the be- t: quest of Mr. Clemsot was passed 'in p 1889, still it was left to Govornor rill man's administration to complete the I buildings of Clemson College, to elect d the president and professors and open I it to the people of the State. This is v to-day the grandest educational institu- f tion in the State, it is educating from e the masses, whilst heretofore the State I institutions for thie most pirt have c educated from the classes. With its v five or six hundred students and its v splendid-corps-of professors its inflen- b -cefor-godd *1il befelt for all time to t come. And the Lgis'itare has not 1 been unmindful of the white girles of r the State, for under the Act passed p creating the Normal and Ind ustrial, College a liberal appropriation supple- 0 mented by a large subscription from f the noble and progresfive citizens of, ( Rock Hill, the buildings are now going 0 up and within a year this college will: n be opened tothe girls, enabling them: c to be educated. My friends this is a. ! measure for which the Reform move-~ s, ment alona deserves the credit. It is 0 the first administration that has re- d cognized the education of woman. 0 During-the pst year the public debt ij fell, -ue, that 'is, the larger portion. d amounting to ovet fve millions of dol- il las; ttirough the energy, perseveranc8 a and management of Governcr Tillman p ably assisted by that prince of fiaan S ciers the State Treasurer, the Hon. W. s T. C.-Bates, the debt was funded in 4 f 1-2 per cent bonds, a saving to the State t) in-annual interest of over.eighty thous- fj and dollars' and when you remnember t) that fYwasifunded during a panio you ti will see that it. was a splendid pice ,j of financieringg worthiy ofyour pase f and admiiration. The Legislatr of it x@9Z0ase what is konas teDis- t pesrbil, which nobigaprfect t asred a new bill- was passedat the o Sof 1893. rheVlfirat billk went h ~I&fect 'onthe lst day of- .i~ 1893 tl c sethere-was grat nXp51~ ogsanievergreffrtthat c .ldb was a msde4diefeat its going intdeffect or C its success whilst in operation. The -r, greater part of this opposition came b from citzens of cities, towns and vil- I lieges. So far the lawbhas held its own I and the dispensary has more than made it expenses. The constitutionality of the f: first bill is no r before the Supreme li Court; it is hoped that the court will p sustain its constitutionality, but as there is a new bill under which we are d now working different in the main b from the old ,one a dedission affecting ai the first ouM niot-effe'tthe last. The p court iacalied upont therefore tro decide ei a mere fancy question withiout the de- a cisiont beingof any practicalbknefit to n the State~orthe'opposltion:~ In !other ta ,ordse decision that the old .law was e: uncnstitutional would nob affect the t< new. lain. The law has I believe been t4 og great benifit to the peoplea-there is h much less-liquor drunk, we- have got- si tein rid of-the barrooms, of night ..sales el and of selling tobhabitial drunkards or ti minors. I for one hope that the re- p: venue will never be more than to pay si altbfihe-expenses, whether or not it is h; to1,emod remains to be seen. The d: presentiLegislanture has been unable to a1 reducetaxation to any great extent be- o. cause tlhe-ailroads are withholding a largeamount of taxes due the State and a because ofithe storm on the phosphate vi indust.y thscutting down a..revenue ti of $300to an estimated revenue of ci $7,00,all of which will -go to the A Snking Fund under the terms of the ti Act funding the bonded debt. -Still the :ai *tax for ths yearlis -1-2 mill less than te lastyear. It has been charged that the expenses w otlitigation under Governor Tillman's ft admistration have been very heavy. Who caused it? Coosaw and the railroads caused the most of It by op enly defying the State. Should the ti State have quietly andtam submit- mr ted? Governor Tillman has sworn to a executeoihe laws, he could not under pa isoath have done less than be.4a done. ly -I you will refer to the back numbers cl o-tne (old) Board oftagriculture of this w Statething that youwlllfind that as di much or more mnoney was spent in b< prosecuting the case or cases against at the Pacific Guano Company for the if benifitof the Coosaw Company -by the gi Agricutural Departmnen; and not sat- st isiedla those days wtlpaying large he fees Tithnkthetatigave a fee of In $1,000 to one-of the Attorney Generals, m and-1 have no doubt he des'rved everys dollar givenbim. b 5h -ain co medthis much time on fc State . raraXnow propose to touch at upon nationa adrairs. di I favor all of etOcala demtands, I af believe-.them all oeDemocratic, any dr~ meaurelooking to the relief of the qi peopisnet antagonistic to the Consti- gi tution of the United States is Demo- ol crat1-i --believe- that all of these 01 measures are constitutional. The free pr and unlimited coinage ofailver is called ga for under the constitution of the Dem- w ocratic party, ft was expected that the. D present Congress would pass a bill to it that end, and if it had been put on -as uc an amendment to the repeal of the Sherman purchasing bill it might have gone through. the one pulling the oth er along as it wre, but in that event to the President would have vetoed it, for Ga he is, and has been for years opposed a.: to the free coinage of silver, and I pre- dai dict that If the bill which has just Sr passed the House for the coinage of the w; seigiorage passes the Senate that the CC~ President will veto it. I do not believe of however, that it will pass the Senate. to We want the free coinage of silver on*a w: ratio of 16 to 1. We carae nothing for W4 foreign countries, we are making mon- Cs ey for our own people. - w The national banking law is at the at bottom of all of this devilment in fi- w nances, opposition to free silver and to be he government issuing all of the mon- w ey and enough of it until we shall have ar a per capita circulation of at least $50- 8r Under that law national banks can th :ontract or expand the currency at will F; they can contract 75 per cent. of their in issue and some of them have done its sh al of them have contracted to a great- w' r oraa lessextnt. When the panic oc- hi TO THE COTTON GROWERS &Southerner on' Change Appzals t.o ihe South to Thlnk and Reason. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 9. -The State of this morning publishes the fil lowing letter to the citton growers of the South from Mr. John T. Roddy, who is engaged in the cotton business in_.4w York: The cotton situation should at pres ent cause more thought and agitation than anything else with tLe thinking people of the South, and it does seem that witfi so many shrewd and progren sve Southerners that thev could control the price of cotton, which can only b3 raised in ten Southern States of the Union. The Sauthern States should b6 able to dictate, instead of having the pr:ce dic'ated to them. Why will -the. Sou.h Dot organize, and study more closely the la. not. supply and-dimand? :They should command the situation and con trol their most profitable -staple, whic'i affects their welfare more than- all p:> litical questions, to the discussion of which so much time is given. Which is more profitable, to raise 6,000,000 bales at 12 cents, or 9,000,000 at 5 cents? Soime arde' that the p:ics of cottn must eqaal the cost of produc-' tion. Tais is a misleading argument, becaus3 evee some of the Southern Sates possess special advantages,- Bo that while at a cirtain Drice eome com munities would get a fair or small profit, the sams price- woud mean ruin tooth ers. Sima firmers will say: '-Well, 1-make txoug:ih of everything to do me and can afford to plant the nalance of my land in cottoa1" This extra plant-. i0 i' the c use of the lo: price. -The w rst trouble in some sections, it seems, (in my cpinion.) is the mer chan1 because if a-laborer canborrow, bu, beg or rent Ara6le, ;be: can easily rent the laud, and the merchant permits his hen to be in proportion-to the amount of iaod he.hasin e6tt6i6. Many farmers promise to pay big prices for.corn, provi sions and other necessities expecting vin enormous cropofc-dtoo.to pay for every thing. The, big crop cmes: and prices must necessarily be low. Then the debts cannot be paid, and of-course~, general demoralizition ii the regel,.-'" Why. cannot farmers oiganzi some plan which would perit only so many actes to be plantEd in cotton for each horse and then adhere to the rule. Di vers'fy the crop. -Let every family raise everything at home except what'it Wears. There is no sense in tae South buyin! everything it uses, when it can be raised in that ~section, which naturally sha!d b'ihoimiost prosperous pist of the Union; but it. seems to send No.rth or West for everything, because, In my opinion, it smiply desires to lant c-tton. Many farmers seem to know nothing else and care to learn nothing else. if a-i orga'rz tioi cou'd be farmed among S uthern farmers to control the plantin of cotton, -instead of discussingL the s0ver bll and other p->ltical quis tions, 12 to -15, cents psr pound could easily be obained for cotton. Cotton is very different from wheat, in that the latter can be grown all over the world. . Supply and .demand must control prices.:. When itis known how many acres the S uth has.planted in cot ton, spinners immediately. begia to figure how low.they can bay your cotton next ear. No doubt, Manchester spinners have represenlttves im the South now., fiuring on how many acres y->u will pant, a2Glfar how little they can buy your cotton. There is one pyint I wish especially to emphasize, and that is the tendency of the South to send out false reports in regard to the probable amount of cotton they will raise. Tnis works gieat imjury to prices: Why? Experts go South, lok up the~ crop, estimate the acreage and thelamount you will make. Themi farnes will: say five bales to the horse. The experts, having takren in the situa tion, know positively that.seven bales 01 cotton will be made to the horse, or at least a differeoce of eastly 20 per cent. The reports of the farmers, who estimate the crop at only five bales to the horse are given to the government and many large houses, who send them cut. Then, tbe ;South, with this fa' se idea, will imagine that the crop is exceedingly small, and will buy cotton. The experts give their opinion, wbich is asually correct, to many ipfluontial peo ple, who then sell you the cotton at high prices, based on the estimate -df five bales to the horse. When the time comes around for you to sell your coton tis apparent that the crop will be seven bales to the 'horse, and y on will get the low price cn this basis. S> you can readily see that hundreds of speculators, :otton traders and merchants live-and :omfortably too-on your false esti mates of the crops. I am a native Southerner, with South ea interests and Southern sympathies, md it is my dearest wish that the South may wake up, study closer and be the nce proud and'prosnerous section as in me-bellu~n days. But unless they pull together ~in' harmony, and all" work for the individual, as' well as tne general prosperity, such will not be the case. JNo. T.-RODDhEY. Atar the Eati. LONDON, March 8.-The Earl of Dudley, whose :ontractirig out amend ment to the Employei-s' Liability bill ac omplished the wreck of that measure, -ied this evening to address a meep~ng at Bermondsey, in the county of Sussex. he hall had been packed with. working nen, who received his lordship with cisses and groans, and cries of "Down ith the House of Lords." Lord Dad-t .ey was able to deliver only about one-i ,hird of his speech, and little of what< 1 said was audible, as he was constant. y interrupted. Eventually' a party cft workingmen made a dash for the plat orm, iipsetting the seats, and rolling ~hei occupants on the floor. They wereC riven back from the steps ci the- piat. ( orm 'by Early Dudley'stfriends after a * >risk fight, in which several persons vere knocked down, hats were smashe di md coats were torn. Two men were mocked senseless with chairs in a fight 1 n the hail, benches and chairs were >roken into weapons, and were useda ith such efrect that when the policec nterferred a drzen or so men werec ouad with their faces bleeding and their lothes torn fromn their backs. The Earl )f Dudley had left with his immediated riends, and the police cleareti the hall. Whiskey Captured. CHARLESTON, S. C., March 9.- t'be :onstbles made a~ number of' raids ini he city yesterday. Some of them werer pon private houses and oither upon usiness establishments. The music vas begun yesterday morning with a rsit to the-South' Carolina Ri vay sia. ion. There the constables captured a runk consignoed to Messrs. Kapel, R. lias, which contained three kcgs and ive bottles of wbiskey, in all abcut fif- s een gallons. O:,ber raids were made ate X H. Schmonses, corner Drake and e teid streets, G. Del Guidilce's, a private'i esidence in Archdale street, and Ate- r side Johnson's, at 48 Calhoun street. f; sate in the afternoon Chiet Constable t illard, accompanied by several consta- S yles raided the establishment oi Lewis lias in East Bayv. They capturead here nine narrels of whiskey put up in y goods boxes. Chief Constable Gill--~ .rd said that the liquor taken would easure about three hun.ered gallons. Er. Leuis Elias rents out the store roomt a which the liquor was found, and he a tad no knowledge of the articles which d m,.. stored thm.- -W and Courimr. ir irred they got3e-srred and.expaied little. Wall street started the pAnic r the purposa of ionluencing financial gislation in Congress, but the thing :t 'jut of their c'>ntrol and it took ard work on -heir part to stop it. In der to do so, the national banks ome of them) expanded their curren F; monty like any other commodity is )verned by the law of supply and de and. When plenty it is cheap, when !arce it is high. It is to the interest r every banker and money lender to eep the government from enacting a tv to issue and lend money direct to le plnter unon non perishable pro ucts, but last. summer tne national Dd ott er banks did worsp, they pooled our paper (notes) that you had given iem and issued as money, clearance ouse certificates on it which circulated ntil the hard times were over, bvt it all -;roag, so they say, for tee gov -nment to do the s -me tbing for the enefit of the farmer. I favor this issue by the government. 7e have been shown the practical and eneficial workings of such a system by ie banks themselves as I above set )rth. I am in favor of a protective tariff rimarily for revenue and secondarily )r the protection of America.n labor ad Americin manufactur'ers. The iemocratic (national) constitution ills for a tariff for -revenue and it ap ears that the present tariff lacks $65 )0,000 of being sufficient; now instead C reducing I favor the. addition ot su ar, the difference remaining to be iisd by a tax on incomes. The farm r buys his plows and agricultural ma 3inery cheap3r under the present high triff than he ever did under a lower triff. If the tariff remains the mills re coming to the cotton. You now et from M4 to Me. per ponnd more than )r your cotton by reason of these ills and in addti'on you sell your sur lus from your gardens and farms to ie operatives. The profit made from ianufacturing remains with you rhere the stock is owned or to the ex ?nt that it is owned by our own people. Ve are just now getting in a condi ion to reap sorne of the rewards of rotection' , It Mr. Calacan, the great apostle of Oemocracy, was alive today, with our ifferent surroundings and associations believe that he would be as he was rhen he first entered political life, in svor of protection. Time changes ev rything; the man who is wedded to an lea and will not succumb to changed ircumstances will not change nis iews to accord with those changes, Is ery hard-headed to say the least of im. I own no man on earth for mas sr. I have my own views and dare aintain them, if popular it is all ight with me and the same thing if un opular. We have all witnessed the prejudice f Mr. Olefeland to our faption --with eqp of astonishment and disgust. iur fantion gave him the electoral vote f theR State, without our vote he could ot have carried it, and our vote was, runted as a Democratic vote in the Iectoral College for him. He has - 3en fit, however, under the tutelage of thers to -refuse to recogniza us-in the istibutiot.of Federal patronage; all: f it has been given (I mean State at irge) to the minority. We offered to ivide, this was refused. We got noth-. ig, they got everything; if he and they. re satisfied, we are. Bat the strangest art of this patronage is that whilst hell, Talbert and McLaurin are in the kme boat with Latimer and Strait, the rst three are allowed the patronage of ieir districts whilst the same Is re ised to Latimer and Straic. None of ie five are"cuckoos." -None have done ie bidding of President Cleveland. 'hen why this difference?.-I must cort ss that it is a mystery to me unless be that the ex-Congressmen of those wo districts are given it to strengthen iemselves for another race; the only ther ex-Uongressman was too proud to ave interfered with his successor, and ie other two succeeded themselves. So be.it, tellow citizens; let us go to ~ort in this district and roll up for our ongressman a larger msjority than be re;-he deserves it at your hands, for e has been faithful in every trust, and for one think more of him today than ever did before for his manly behav mr in the matter.- I hope that our ,ends in Dr. Strait's.district will do kewise for he too has acted a manly art. And now in conclusion, I am a candi ate for the office of Governor. I am etween two fires, I have a part of the ti press damning me with faint raise, ridicule and irony. On the oth hand there are those of our side who hen they needed my services thought Le everything, some of whom now lnk me "a crank," "-eccentric" or "too treme." Well my friends, in reply this I can only say that I have tried >do my duty in my humble way and ave contributed all that I could to the icess of the movement. Ini reply to e extreme partI will say that I am te only man in any county who has resided over -a- County (honvention ne'1890, and am the only one who is presided over the State Convention Iring that time without friction. I xi in the race and will bow to the will Sthe people. My he-eIs, Lam free to say with the .ses. -4.11 tiht I' asktffi: Reform ,temlishat i secii degates to Lmnteun ~ 1Oigve every mdlddate a fair showing. I eiterate: 11 that I ask is a fair, square deal.. I iank you for your attention, and am ily sorry-that I could not be more in re~tingto you. - Sveral letters from other candidates ho were invited to be present will be und in another column. - About GIrism. An old astrological prediction gives te character of a girl according to the onth she was born in as follows: "If girl is born In January she will be a: udent housewife, given to melancho ,but good tempered and fond of fine othes; if In February an affectionate ife and tender mother and devoted to] ss; If in Marsh, a frivolous chatter1 x, somewhat given to quarrelling td connoisseur in gowns and bonnets; in April, inconstant, not very intelli tnt, but likely to be good looking and udious of fashion plates; if in May, dsome, amiable and given to style dress; if in June, impetuous, will arry early, be frivolous and like dres clothes; if in July, possIbly handsome it with a sulky temper and a penchant r gay attire; if in August, amiable id practical, likely to marry rich and 'ess strikingly; in September, discreet, fable, much liked and a fashionableI esser; if In OctobEr, pretty and co-1 Lettish, and devoted to attractivei irniture; if in November, liberal, kind a mild disposition, and an admirer stylish drEss; if in December, well oportoned, fond of novelty, extrava ma and a student of dress." A-s the fe of the editor of The Times and ~mocrat was born In March he wants distinctly understood that he does tendorse the above predictions. A Dastardly Deed. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 2.-A special The Morning News from Waycross, '., says: Section iMaster Flynn and 1r. Smith wereishot at Screven Tues-t y night by Calvan Carter, a negro.t ith was killed outright and-Flynn is eriously wounded. Smith lived at, ffee and went to Screven in search runaway turpentine hands. He was d that a number of turpentine hands( 1 said they runaway from Coffee ~re in hiding at the house of Calvin r rter a bad negro. Smith and Flynn I mt to the negro's house and inquired] out the runaway hands. Carter ( uld not answer their questions. He came angry and without a wor d of rig picked up his Winchester rifle d began firing at 'the white men. ath was hit first. He staggered from e door a few feet and fell dead. Then ~ ynn who was standing some distance >m the house was shot at; A second ot struck him, inflicting a terrible i: >und. Carter, when he had finished I i cime mae his eanne. At otber Ortrage Ia Rom'. Romn. Mire'i 8 -About 6 o'clozk this evening, a terrific explosion of a bomb occurred in iront of the Chamber rf Dputies. Two persons were dan Yerously and several less seriously in jured. The bomb must have been charged with material of very high ex plosive force, as every window for some distance around was shattered, railings were twisted, heavy stones moved from their places and many evidences of the tremendous power of its contents were apparent. Many of those injured were cut by fragments of broken glass, but others were tu:t, some of them bady, by being thrown violently to the grouuA or against buildings, stone work. etc. The excitement is very great. The p> lice are on the alert to catch the m'3 creant who threw Lhe bomb and his ac complices, if he had any, while the pop ulaco are fearful that other explosions will occur before the bomb-th.rowers are ,aught. The Chamber of Deputies had adjourned an hour before the explosion took place, othervise, it is likely that several persons would have been killed, as the number in the vicinity ot the zhamber was at least four times as great an hour earlier than it was at the time the bomb exploded. The police say this evening that eight persons were wounded sariously by the explosion. Two men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of having been implicated in the plot. Soon ahter the explosion, troops were stationed on the plazz i Di Citorlo, and in the streets leading to this open sp~ice before the parliamentary building. This evening all the streets in the neighbor hood are doubly patrolled. The bomb was concealed in an old silk hat. The trasmenfs indicate that the eXplo3ves sad been loaded into a tin box abcut long enough to fill the hat crown. A deep h>le was dug in the ground beneath the bomb and the pave meat for a hundred yards from the spot was strewn with glass. Oue of the - persons injured by the explosion is believed to be dyinz. Sev eral additional arrests were made late this evening. The Diritto says that the p3rson suspected oi having placed the homb is a stone mason named Poll dori. The parliamentary buildings will be Eu rded all night. Military and spe cal watebmsn have been etationed at the cilas ot the government depart ments. D- fnds the South. WASmNCTON , March 5.-Represent ative Talbert, of S:uth Carolina, has a "touch- and-go" style about him that often creates a breeze when the House is experien'ing a"dead calm." To-day during the consideration of the pension appropriation bill Represen'tative Heb burn, of Iowa, was arraigning the Southern States for opposing pensions to Ucion soldiers. Mr. Hepburn is a persisteat waver of the "bloody shirt," and he never loses an opportunity to say disagreable things about the South-. era people. He,it will be remembered once wade a vindictive attack upon the proposition to increase the appronria tion for the improvement of tbe Caar leston harbor pending the debate upon a river and harbor bill. However, to day he was denounceing the Secretary of the Interior and everybody in the South for opposing, and Mr. Talbert thought that as none of the older mem bers of the House would call the Iowa cyclone down he would undertake the task. Mr. Talbert is not sufficiently familiar with the rules of the House to ask permission of the Speaker to inter rupt a member who has the' floor, so he broke right in an proceeded to de nounce the statements of the gentle man from Iowa as unrounded and un just to tile people of the Southern States. Hr. 'Talbert has a voice like a fog horn, and he could be heard above the noise .and confession caused by the ponding of the Speaker's gavel and the shoats of ecouragement from his Democratic associates. He. declared - that the records sho wed tnat the pen sion rolls are honeycombed with fraud and corruption, and flatly contradicted the statements ot the gentleman from Iowa amid shouts of . approval on the Democratic side. It was, a lively scene and Mr. Talbert moire than held his own against the experienced member from Iowa, Finally Representative Latimer took a-seat beside-his colleague and persuaded him to let the Iowa yclone rave, he could do the southern people no barm. The House enjoyed the tilt between the iowa and South Carolina members, for it enlivened an otherwise dull afternoon.-News and iourler. Voorhcee Scored. * - INDIANAPoLIS, March 3.-There is] i surprise in local political circles overC ati open letter addressed to SenatorC Vorhees by -William L. Higgins.- cfC Elvator D, in this city, in response to an inuiry by the senator, addressed to - manu.facturers, for information relative to tariff revision. Altogether 35 ques'. ions are presented in the inquiry, but sir. Higgins makes anawer to but one, the sevesteenth, which he claims that . the main cause of the present cepres ion is an over production of senatorial :ourtesy, "which has become a byword t sn reproach in every corner of the landd mnd which has caused your once honor IbeS body, the senate, .to be regarded ast t s:umbliug block lin the way of advance-. nent and reform, and which has caused , widespread feeling, that it shculd be Ibolished, or in some way made respon able to the people for its acts. The dis- S egard which it has shown for the suf ering country, "continues Mr. Higgins,b -has its only bietoric parallel in Nero ad his fiddle." Mr. Higgins argues 1 bat the people have already returned c is verdict, and all the senate should do -s s to give ju)tment without stopping to all upon the beneficiaries of a vicious ax system for opinious. Mr. Higgins hen as?ails Mr. Voobees personally, t taing that he, lligg:ns-, is un ole to reconcile his present onduct with his speech at the otton exposItion at Atlanta, and hat the youns Democracy of Indiana, o which the wr-iter belongs, is demand ng that he show a reason for louser i ontinuance in office. "There are no I onger any Democrats in Pennsylvania," a avs Mr. HT~gms, "and if you and ycue e saociates persist in your present con- a uct there will not be enough -*Demo rats in our next legiature to cautus or your nomination." What MXr. Hlii ins evidently wants is for the senate to lo something and to do it quick. Death of Gen. Jubal Ea rly. a LyscrBURtG, Va., March 2.-United r tatelsmenator-John W. Daniel walked nto tne. ews otlice. at~ 11 o.clock to ighZ and ii - i~ sad voice announced hat his old congnrander, -Gen. .Jubal ii L E aly~ at h~ered-side he had been t, ,consatr&Watherfor some days, had b one to tils eternef reward. General c larly died atI2:3 lie pass;ed away t* uietly in the presence of his family !t ud phys~n bis lindred and several 1( timate friend's.'mhe ol.a general h< eemed aware of his- approaching end h arTyin tbleday -defore noon he call- V di Eoi the-nprning paner, as was his 03 avariables icu~tsn- Mnd attempted to b' ead, butifound. thatV his sight was h ailing. Soort. after he extended his ancto: Senator BDaiel- and calmly id: "I want t6 teRl you goodbye, fajor." "He then told his nephew, di abell Estrly, fare well, after which he C rpped into a- guiet slumher. Later li ithe day the dying veteran asked ni enator Daniel not to leave the room, ki s he wanted to talk with him about ill rtain arrangemferits; but from that -i me he suffered such intense pain that 1el e did not revive the suoject. Hie met Is eath unflinchingly with his hand rest- t mg qmie in Senator Daniel's. .t Bnamu in. Mch D mind, Rio DE TANETRO, March 8 -Oa the dicht of Tues 6av. Matrch G. a barge load d with bacov, ibut aad cylinder oil, lelonging to tie tirm of Leverieg & Co., f Batlrmrore and It ' ) Jneiro, was stol n from the side of the Hamburg steam r Calinia, to which she Kai moored. ['he theft was the w;.u of the inurgents vho are ever on the alert to obtain food md other suppLes. As there was no xermau warship in Rio harbor, the Ger nan -.essels, with others, having with lrawnu on-eccount of the prevalence of el'ow fzver, Lhe Lead oi the house of everin: & CO. lid to Admiral B"enham for rl.dress. Admiral Benham kceined to interfere, be :ause the stolen )arge, as weli as the steamer, from vhoe side ebe wae taken, was under the jermen fdag. Th- Germaa sovernment jas notitled the legation here that a ;errman warship may b2 t xpzcted in-Rio asrbar very soon, when it is prcbable .hat some notice will be taken of the )arge incident. The tbcits on the part .:'we insurgen. hav3 ,. en very com non since the btauaia4 &.rcub'e here md, in most cises the stealing has been 7ery adroitly done. : cme time ago, a )arge loaded with provisions was stolen )y the insurgents, under cover of dark 2ess, from the side of the British ship eierba and on another oxcasion sixi.y !'aes oa atton were stolen*from a light ,r attached by a hawser to another BriuLsh ship. In bnh cases anpeal was na..e to the British authorities, but bey not only refused to interfere, but roundly cursed the captain of one of the ships fo: being such- a d-d .1;o1 as to eep a barge alongside ci his vessel ov r night. Yesterday, as the tug Isabel, flying the British lag, was steaming out of the aarbt.r, she was tired upon oy the insur tent steamer Victoria, the shot passina throuzh the Isabel's 1lag. The Iaabel stopped irnmediateiv and the Victoria by signal compelled her to come alonz side, which she did. The Victoria took :flone of the crew of the Isabel, press ng hirw into the insurgent ser.vice, and yrdered the'tug away. The matter was it once reported to the British autho ri ies, but as yet they have taken no ac ion whatever. All of the naval commanders, except A.dmiral Benham, have left the port for places cf safety frcna yellow fever. The leatbs from Neilow fever now average 103 daily. Di6patches irom Bahia show hat the election was coaducted quietl and the election returns indicate the :omplete triumph of Moraes. The I via rance Uiaess. COLUMBIA S. C., March 3.-Col. R. U1 Sims, fox .he Comptroller General's lepartment, has been engaged for ;everal days in the preparation and of i statementshowing the collated figures >f the insurance basiness in the S.ate inring the past year. Tnere are on .he list for that year only 69 comnanies igainst 115 the preceding year. F orty >t these are fire insurance companies, ighteen life, eight accident and three :iscellaneous. 0t the fire insurance companies the Bartford hid a total loss for the year >r $31,879, the Iome of New York 861 )25; the Ae ua 821, 397; the American >f New York S2.5,814, the &merican of hiladeiphia $20,101, and the Liverpool [,ondon and Globe 661,724. Tne Palas ine Insurance Company of Manchester ettt(-d 8621308 in premiums the Home [nsurance Company of New York $41 103. These were the largest. The 1-artford wrote and renewed risks amounting to $3.352,460, the Home of New York $3,293,685, the Insurance D~ompany of North America (Pennsyl vania) $2.056.215, Liverpool, London sd Globe $4,884,612. There were aleven other fire companies who wrote and renewed risks amounting ,to over $1.000,000 each. Of the life companies the Equitanle wrote insurance to the amount of $1, 319 331. on which it rer'eived premiums ~mounting to $183,230. and suffered osses amounting to $73,290; the Mu ual Life of New York wrote insurance ~othe amount of $1,992,700, on which t received premiums amounting to $223,629.77, and suffered losses amount ng to $79,910.83; the New York Life >f New York wrote fnsurance to the imounmt of $1,496,000. which it received n premiums S180,240, and lost $89,485 )nly the dgures of the companies loing the largest business -are quoted bove. The returns from the accident :opanies are so incomplete as to nake a comparison practically impos ible and unlaterestiang.-State Shot a Fanatic. DALL AS, TEX., March 9.-The haran te of the fanatic Hiles last night and :ne firing of four shots at him from the tdence by an Irishman named Tom )uffy, has been the ti~lk of the town all lay. Hiles is here for the purpose of >rganizing what he terms the Ameri :an P'rotective Association that is pro esting ag i'nst Catholics, who he al eges intend at some future day to put ll Protestants to death. Beyond a norbid curiosity, he excited no atten ion, and is regarded as a knave, or a ol, or both combined. Tomn Duffy vas this afternoon arranged before udge Kilton or a charge of shooting rith intent to kill. Duffy was released n bond of $750, but as- soon as his ondsmnen found that he was under in ictment by the grand jury receving telen goods and. was then out on ball, ey surrendered him. - Rard en Irby. Coci stA, b. C. March 7.-The Cot on lIant, the organ or the State Far e* ould -av'e th~e& to exerc5se th 'in jacdgmentr : Sta-te poltics an M.- ia i ashington and help block~ the~ f >rts tI prevent tue passagem of in' :c.mn:e -ax c~ein made~ by sen:tor Hii rlihe ocrer piuto cratic Sena tors from bm East, an:A tan- euckoos from olar ecin. Saor vno ;s workinw rou his post of auty at rhis r.mte.' Monn.E, Ala. M rch 8.-Yserday Beroon six young m)mr were -93J.4 garide on a hand~ car o *the DY.vis I~ruri, uear her'-. ' -- . t .e dlit x). : I mein wiu on er. ' .-. Tr. arr *'ocbynd taepiry c jrtet.. r ig turS ofx ther.t jum6ea 11cr1Cu ~ullfracturedl, may die: Jamea Maple, g broken; West Ihogan, head crushe-1 ud leg broken, will probably die. The st stuck to the car and were not hurt. Both Par:shed. BUFFALO, N, Y., March 9.-.1. dis atch from Delaven, Cattaragus coun , says: Fire last night drstroyed the ome of Mr and Mrs. Synder, an aged auple of this place. Bo0th perished in 1e lames. Snyder was awakened by ie ire and rushed to the door calling udly for help, aroning the neigh bor ,od, Hie then rushed hack into the usi presumably to aid his wife, who as bed-ridden. That was the last seen him alive. TXhe charred remamns of ~th bodiem. were recovered after the ~use had been destrod. A Thourndarbolt. CIIERAw, March 9.-Duringathn r storm this morning about 8 o'clock, arity Goldplate, a colored womml~, ving on Dr. JT. W. McKay's planation ?r town, was strucli and instantiy lied by lightning~, while sitting by the o in her house. The Louse was con derably damagred anid Charity's othes caught on dire, b-.rning her iewhna:, Sue suffered no pain from . burning, because death was mnstan naneu from the lihti-ng.r WASHINGTON NEWS. Oar Memb ra W,11Vote for the Remod elied TarI@ F.11. WASIrNGTON, March 8.-All of tho members of the South Carolina delegs tion, except G. Washington Murray ap prove the remodelled tariff bill a framed by the Democratic members o the finacce committee. Why Senato Butler should have foiuaht for modifida tions to the bill in company with Brice Hill, Gorman, White, Cafirey, Smith ani Faulker it is difflcult to comprehend as the revised bill does not show an obangcs in the South Carolina items Rice, cotton, cotton ties and jute are th same as in the Wilson bilt. There is still some talk about certai Democratic Senators voting against th ill in its present shape. Senator Hi] may vote against it on account of th income tax. Several other Easteri Senators say they are not- fully satisfie wItl the bill, but they cannot he induce to state that they propose to vote agains the bill. As a matter of fact the sugai coal and iron men are secretly please with the concessions made to them i: the committee's bill. They will have t keep up their fight while the bill is pend ing in the Senate, otherwise they miah lose their advantage when the bill i thrown into a committee of conferencE There has been considerable "blui fina" on the part of the so called "con servative" Senators, and they hav gained numerous 'concessions that the hardly expected. As before stated i !hese dispatches the Democrats of th Senate are pledged to pass a tariff re form measure through the present Con gress and they propose to redeem ths pledge in spite of the contamina ting influence of the Sagar True and all other trasts. Some the Senators from semi protection tate have been obliged to make a fight fk dutiett on certain articles, but after a they will walk up and vote with tb majority of their party for tariff refora all predictions to the contrary notwith standing. Today the Senate struck an industri ous gait and rushed through a number c bills on the Calendar. Whiie Senatot Butler and Irby were absent from tb chamber the bill to transfer the Morri Island life saving station to Sullivan Island was taken up and passed withot objection. Senator Irby has requested Senatc Pagh to report favorably the nomina tion ot Mr. Hunter, who was recent appointed United States Marshal fc 'South Carolina Senator Pugh is chair man of the judiciary committee, t whi:!h Mr. Hunter's nomination wo referred. There will be no oppositio to Mr. Hunter from any source. Tbc President today nominated Mr A A. Gandy to be postmaster at Darling ton, S C. This lb supposed to end on of the hardest fights over a Federal al pointment that has ever occurred i South Carolina. The appointment ws made at the mstance of Representativ McLaurin as a compromise between N Waddill and those who cuccessfUlly op posed the latter7. unexpected appoin ment. Mr. McLanrin had a long cor sultation with Postmaster Gen. Bisse this morning in beh'f of Mr. Gandy an he was atterwards referred t the Presi dent. To the White House Mr. McLat rin went, and becore he left the Presider signed the appointment. It will be remembered that Mrs. Ls and Mr. J. P. Kirven were the the orii inal applicants. Mrs. Law's frient attacked .the character of Mr. Kirvei and Mrs. Law was about to receive i appointment when Mr. McLaurm witt drew Mr. Kirven's name and recomr m'ended Mr. J. M. Waddill. There wi a meeting called by Messrs Thompsor Wilcox, Woods and. those of the tow who hried a protest against the appoint ment of Mr. Waddill. The Law side< the controversy 'was -backed by e Governor Hngh S. Thompson and E Senator Hamp'on. Mr. -Waddill .b Senator Batler.and Mr. McLaurin. M Waddill's appointment was confirme by the Senate, but the commission we betd back by the Postmaster Genera Ch :res of all kinds were made pro an< coui, but it was plainly evident that 9 jer cent, of the people of the town or posed Waddill, at the Postmaster Gen eral's request finally Mr. McLauri recommended Gandy, and immediate] the same fight was begun against bir with Henry Thompson, the son of.E: Governor Thompson, as their candidat Senator Irby says there wmil be no op position to Gandy's confirmation. News and Courier. A Trickster' Trapped. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. March 6.-In ar s wer to an advertisement addressed ti "persons wishing to correspond eithe for pleasure or with a view to matr: mony" a large number of letters hay been received by the"Bridgeport Mat rimonial agency, P. 0. Box 165." Th agency ansivered inquiries by request ing $1 for correspondenes or $5 to "se cure thq ideal partner." Maiden ladie rejoiced anld remitted promptly. Eve: suspicious cid bachelors sent their V's After giving up their money the anx ions ones heard nothing more there from. Miss CoraCrawford, an attract ive young woman who had been thu victimized, set a trap for the rascal b: n:mars of a registered letter. This wa caleal for by J. Frank stamYoo. of Nc 415 Iramistiu avenli:. As soon as M~s Crawrord discover.d who nad receipst for her letter, steps were taken to bay, Stant .n arrested. lHe is a travellin: salesman for .> I Plumb ifardwar, compsnv. He has left town. Pos' mas' er ar art has the nam.es of man: dupt s wh' claim that no nonatide lha of names was sent them, as promised 0 ersons willing to correspond or ente into matrimony.'and that therefore' th Unrited States mails have been used trick them out of money. George Wil son sent three or four l-tters wittn re mttances, and is outsp*;ken over ta lms o.f his money, lima acd emo'in . wI r anid a:r B~ox 165 has boe' li11: among. would be lov',s is supp)md .1 Ibe very general. MONTGOMERY, AIa, March 2.-i! special to the Adve'rtis-r from Susp.en sion, Ala .says. Mr. A. D. Corey, thb railroad agent at tas place, was assult ed: wi! h a hatchet in the hands of som unknown fiend this morning about o'cck Hie was terrigly beaten about the head and face, and then to make sure of his work the brute pushed hi! face and arms into the fire, which wai in in his ollice, and he wasjbadly burnet ie has not been conscious since, anc the chances are against his recovery Mr. Corey is an old bachelor betweer ifty and sixty years of age, and of oni of the best families in the State. H' has always been an inoffensive mar and we are at a loss to account for thi! t.rrible assault upon .him.- A negri has been arrested under suspicion. The Wages of Sin. Mi 'i trs, Tenu., Miarch. 2.-J, W. Dnning, painter, shot last night by Mrs. Wrench, is fatally wounded. After receiving the bullet Denning drew his pisto2 and a duel ensued be t ween the woman and the man, both partes emptying their pistols. Mrs. Wrench was wounded twice, once in tie arm, once in the left leg. She was divorced from her husband some m -mthis ago, and Denning's name is coupled in the scandal. Since then she has been Denring mistress and it was because Denning's was going to leave hershe shot him. Denning is shot Ia Favor of An Iacome Tax. In the.March Forum, Hon. U. S. Hall member of Congress from Missouri, has an articles giving reasons in favor of an income tax. Ile begins by deny ing that the advocacy of this tax is based on sectionalism, and asks the ~ very pertinent q aestion, -Should we be denounced as demagogues, advocating socialistic tendencies, simply because we ask that the wealth of this govern ment should bear same of the burdens r of taxation ?" Mr. Hall takes the posi - tion that the friends of the income tax instead of being socialistic demagogues are the bulwark in the way of this ] very element, and that the Eastern rich men, if they consulted their own ' nteresl s, would readily unite in favor Sing this tax. He admits that there ate . more :ich men in the East, and that the a greater portion of this tax wculd there fure fall upon the East; he asks, "Is this unfair? Doea it justify raising the sectional question? Is it we of the South and West who raise it?" "All 1 the greatest authorities on taxation say a that the subjects of a nation should be 1 taxed to support that nation according 3 to their ability and not according - to I the section in which they live; recog t nizing that we should all be commmn bearers and common supporters -of a I common country, ignoring sectionalism. 2 In answer to the argument that a tax on consumption is as fair for the poor as the rien he quotes Senator Jolha t Sherman, who said, "It will not do to t say that each person consumes in pro s portion to his means. That is not true Every one must see that the consump tion of tLe rich dces not tear the same - relation to :th" consumption of the poor e as the income of the rich does to the 7 wages of the poor. As wealth accumu a lates, this injustice in the fundamental e basis of our sys':em will be felt and - forced upon the attention of Congress." - On the relation w tich each individual t citizen bears to th, Government and its - support he quotes Adam Smith as say t ing, 'ihe expenses of Government to the individuals of a great nation are like the expenses of management to the 8 joint tants of a great estate, who are r allobliged to contribate in proportion to their respective interests in the e estate. In the observance or the neglect L of this maxim consists what is called - the equality or the inequality of taxa tien. Thieis, the famous Frenchman, - is quoted as likening the tax to an in f surance policy, in which case a man a pays small or large premium in accord e ance with the amount of insurance he s gets, and the citizen should pay taxes in accordance with the amount of pro s perty he has insured, or'protected, and t defended by the Government. Professer Robert Ellis Thompson is quoted. as r follows on the equity and practicability - of an income tax: "Xihe most modern Y and theoretically the fairest form of r taxation, is the income tax. It seems - to make every one contribute to the o wants of the State in proportion to the a revenue he enjoys under its protection. a While falling equally on all, it occas ions no change in the distribution of capital orin the material direction of industry, and has no influence on priceps No other is so easily assessed or col e lected. No other brings home to the people so forcibly the fact that It is to ' their interest to insist upon a wise eco 3 aomy of the National revenue. Mr. e Hall closes by emphasizing the idea al r ready advanced that the wisest course - for the Eastern capitalist is to urwe his Senator fo vote for the income tax, for i If it is not passed the masses of ' the il people will become convinced that the d rich are not willing to bear a fair pro portion of the expenses of the Govern . ment, and the result will be a feeling of iwidespread indignation which will re tsuit in passing measures much more radical, and "involving far greater dan ~ger of injulstice toward wealth." Is All ionsense. iThe Manchester, N. H., Unlori igtry e ing to make farmers believe they are . making money. It cites the testimony -of an iowa farmer before a committee of the senate ot his state. ."Not les than 95 per cent of our farmera make a success of farming," said the Iowan. SIn the first place, it was probable that the Iowa farmer was shooting far over the mark. With cotton and wheat low Ser than it has been since the war, with K live stock at the lowest possible notch, y It cannot be true that ninety-five per : cent of the farmers of-America are d maaing money. If it were true, there a would not be so many abandoned farms L in the older states. If It is going to be itrue In the immediate future, there o will be a. rush to these abandoned farms -amounting to a boom. We hope it will be so. certainly. If it is a fact that ninety-five per cent of the farmers nof Iowa are making money Y - they are exceptional. 'The reason that 4 they are thriving is Dot found in the E fact that they are farming at all, but C in the fact that they are dairymen rath - er than farmers. It is the cow that has - brought Iowa agriculturalists out of the land of bondage. Iowa Is one of the three leadIng dairy states of the Union. Her cheese and creamery but ter are known the country over. Milk, bntter and cheese are about the only Sproducts that have not fallen in price r during the present depression. What -dairying has done for Iowa- farmers it a might do for farmeT in other states, - provided a market coula. be found for the increased amcount of cheese and - butter that would necessarily be put - upon the market by all the farmers go Sing Into the business. *Murder Will Out. . SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.-A har - rible murder was unearthed here to 3 day. A negro named Isaiah Earder, a , longshoeman, disappeared about Sept. 3. Investigation railed to determine -what had become of him until his clothes were found where they had been placed by the murderers. He was killed in a room, presumable by Mary Wash ington, Sam Edwards and Richard Washington. His body was cut in piecesand burled under the floor of the house. Suspicion led to the beginning tof an investigation last Monday. Sine Sthat time the body has been removed r from the room of the Washington wo Sman and its whereabouts is still the mystery of the case. Washington, his . wife and Edwards are under arrest. .The woman admits the killing and all the horrible details and says Edwards and her husband were botu accompliecs She refused; to tell what disiposition has been made of the body. Tue other prisoners deny all knowledge of the crime. The cause of the murder is supposed to have been jealousy, either on the part of Edwards, who was in timate with the woman, or on the part of her husband. Several brother long shoremen made feeble attemps to lynch the prisoners thits afternoon, in wbich they were uns uccessful. Turned Fiend. NASHvILLE, Tenn., March 9.-George A. Smith, a farmer, about 35 years o f age, in the edge of Pickett county, sev eral miles above Celina, went home drunk Wedniesday night, and brutally Imurdered his qoungest child, after which he beat his w ife in a horrible manner, cutting her thorat and then crushing her head. Leaving his bleed ing victims, he repaired to tue house of his sister-in-law, a short distance away, and finding her sick in bea, grasped her by the hair arnd dragged her on to the floor, stamping her. dShe managed to escape from him and alarmed the neighborhood, who soon discovered Smith's terrible crime. Smith has died the neighborhood and his whereabouts are not known. He will very likely be lynched if captured. Two Suicides. ATLANTA, Ga., March 9-Charles Wadsworth, a clerk in the Georgia rail road oflices, died this morning from a large dcse of morphine which he took yesterday. He had heen drinking hard. At noon today Nathaniel .J. Ilathorn, a druggist at 117 West Mitchell street, drank four ounces of laudanumn. He will probably die. Hie has been on a