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VOL. IX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894. CURSING THE RED CRUSs. AVERY BiTTER FEELNG AGAINST IT IN BAUFORT COUNl Y. A So-CitlI dPhilanihrcp'c 1 arcd Cbristlau Cit:z-n who Spe'ko eI Poor White Farm era as D--n Cracke-b"-Does Misas Br too KAt w of thesa Thingh ? BLUFFTON. S. C. May 24.-"The Red Cross Society is the greatest curse which could have been intlicted on this county," are the words which a promi nent white man uttered to me when I first got into Beaufort County. I came here to investigate the condition of the Bluff ton cyclone sufferers, but the Red Cross and its work have been brought up in every conversation I have had. I have heard and learned much about the order which will surprise the gen eral public. I have also heard much which it is hard to believe. I will say, however, that there are not a dozen white men in Beaufort county, upless it be in the towns of Beaufort and Fort Royal' who have a good word for the society. It is roundly cursed and abused and the charge is openly made here that the suffering and destitution of the white people in this. township are due to the discrimination of the Red Cross Society or some of its managers. The negro has been the pet of the so ciety since it took charge of the distri bution of charity after the fearfulstorm. He has been hugged closely and affec tionately and the white men, women and ehildren have had to beg to get any thing. I will not say that Miss Clara Barton is responsible for all that is charged to the society. She may be ignorant of some of it, but she is to blame for ap pointing managers of the society. The same man whose opening remarks I quote finished his statement by saying: 'The society has impaired and de stroyed the usefulness or the negro in this county and has been used or al lowed itself to be used for political purposes." I cannot speak of what has been done by the Red Cross in Beau fort and on the islands around there. I can only give what has been told me nd what I know to have taken place n this section, where nearly all the white people of the county live. It is undestood that Miss Barton and the Red Cross will depart from Beau fort the first of June. I do not know this to be a fact, but I predict that the society will leave many of the negroes of the county in a worse fix than when it found tbem. When the steamsbip "City of Savan nah" was wrecked off the coast of this State just after the August storm one of the passengers who was saved and who made his way to Beaufort was John McDonald, who care from some where in the North. It is said that he was on his way to Brunswick to nurse yellow fever patients there. He re mained around Beaufort until Miss g on took charge as the head of the Cross Society. McDonald soon came to be known as "Dr" McDonald. He became acquainted with Miss Bar ton in some manner and got into her good graces. She appointed him as the Red Cross agent or all the territory South of the B'osd River. This tern tory includes Bluffton Township and Hilton Head Island. McDonald as sumed charge with a great deal of die play. Shortly after he got to Beautort he was married and his wife joined him in his labors. McDonal lpersonal ly took charge of the Red Cross com missary on Hilton Head Island. wbich does not have as many people on it as the Bluifton peninsula. How much stuff be has gotten from the R-d Cross I do not know, hut even the honorable Pompey Riley. colored master or cere monies of the Blpffron commissary and* the bosom friend of McDonaid, thinks that McDonald has had mnuch more than his portion of goods for Hilton Head. McDonald is the esteemed citizen who speaks of the white farmers in Bluffton Township as "d-n crackers." He has taken care not to say this to any of the white people here. The aforesaid McDanald occasionally visits, Bluifron accompanied by his wife. They wear big red croas o: their sleeves and pass througn the town without speaking to a white person. They have spent nights here but no white person knows anything of their sleeping with white people. This is the man who appointed a committee of negroes to listen to the sorrowing sto ries of white people here and to dish out to them Red Jross charity. Early after he began his work McDonald became obnoxious to the white people. His appointment of a committee of colored politicians without previous knowledge of who they were excited suspicion and it was openly charged that Bob Smalls and McDonald had an understanding. Bob Smalls was sharp enough to seize the opportunity presented of making political capital out of suffering pec ple. The committee of negroes here In Bluffton have been Bob Small's lead ers for 'tears and it is singular th'at all of them should have been selected. At any rate Bob Smalls has risen largely in the estimation of the negroes of Beauf ort in the last few months. Two years ago he could not have polled one hundred votes. Today the ignorant negros of the county believe that Bob analis and the Reptiblicans of tne North sent them bread. How did they get such an impression? Miss Clara Barton had thousands of dollars in her nands contributel by Southern people for the aid of the sufferers. The negroes have gotten nearly all this and think tnat Northern Republicans and Bob Smalls have given it to them. Miss Barton may not have had any thing to do with the impression but it exists and Bob Smalls will try to go to Congress on it. When alithese things first began to develop Thomas Martin wrote a comn munidation to the News and Courier stating the facts. He was asked to withhold, the punlication of it until the paper could make an investigation of the charges. Whether the investiga tion was made Mr. Martin does not know. He told me, however, that the communication was never published. and that in some manner copies of what hehad written got to Miss Barton, McDonald and all her staff. The ef fect of the communication was that more leniency was shown to white suf ferers for awhile and some of those who applied direct to Mies Barton, at Beaufort, were given aid. It caused a bitter feeling,~howeve; . Mr Martin has many friends among the colored people. The colored men who heard of the communication anid endorsed it were after ward characteriz-d by the Red Cross agents as "Martin negroes" and got itin the neck when they applied for assistance. Mr. Martin does not understand Dow this communication shculd have been allo we d distribution among Red C-oss people and was never published. Daritng t be war a regiment of negroes was raIsed her- or. th-e c' ast. How no bly ttese col'red troops"fir," 1 am r or aware, but all of them drasc $12 a month for getting shoi' at. or rat be r r'or not gettirng shot at. Pompey Riiey, the chairman of the R-d Cross c'ommit tee here, is a pension agent. Miss Bar ton is said to have given instructions thatepnsion dtrawes shou~l not get relief from the Red Cross. Her int-en tions were good, t,ut it is said here that these negro heroes make a pull on R-d Cross grits whenever opportunity af fords Riley, as a pension agent would not het so horribly as to refuse a poor pensioner some grits. It would not be policy for Pompey to do so. Pompey is a negro too. He teld me of his patri otic work for nothing in distributing food from the Red Cross commissary and said he had never made five cents out ot it. Of course he didu't make anything, but he has recently improved his house here and has put a new fence around it. The venerable Christian McDonald has no doubt been working for philan thropical reasons, and because of his noble nature. Of course he hasn't made anything out of the Red Cross but he is building a splendid house on Hilton Head island and has bought land to start a truck farm. The"doctor" is the same man who wrote an article in the New York World saying that the physiciansin the.vicnity of HiltoniHead would not go to storm sufferers until he had been paid in advance. The man he is supposed to have alluded to is Dr. Mellichamp of this place, who never asked a person for a fee in his life and who has lived here forty years. I have an affidavit in my possession statihg that the Red Cross agents here had charged those who got goode from the commissary 10 cents for the writ ing of their names. Pompey Riley ex plained this by saying that this was a levy to pay the expenses of a trip to bring over some goods. I asked an old colored mauma how much she had gotten from the Red Cross. "Nutin, child, case I hadn't got 10 cents to pay , dem niggers. I'm too poor, sir." I saw a number of negroes who had paid 10 cents, and know of a white man who refused to pay anything. Negro laborers are demoralized by the assistance they are getting from the Red Cross. One gentleman told me that he has ridden for miles trying to get hands for his farm, but did not succed. I have been told that it is the worthless class of negroes, who rever had anything in their lives, who Li.d nothing to lose by the storm and who were as well off after the storm as be fore who are getting the chief benefit from the Red Cross. The poor negroes who are trying to raise a crop and are 1 working hard get little encouragement. simply because they are at work. Jus tice and right would demand that this class of negroes shoul get the assis tance and that the indolent and lazy should be allowed to look out for them selves as they have always had to do. I do know of industrious negroes who have never been able to get anything t from the Red Croso. To show how the Red Cross has also been impnsed on I am told on trust worthy authority thatSavannah negroes I quit their homes and went to Beaufort C and the islands to get some of the staff being dished out. In other instances a - negro would draw from the Red Cross t for his family and then send his wife unader a different name. She would also draw a share of the pie. All this is due to the failure to make a canvass on the islands. It would be interesting to know how many thousands of doliars have been received by the Rod Cross and how it nas zwen spent. Negroes nave gotton more than nine-tentos ol it. They will 10 a few weeks have to depend on them selves again. They mut. then go to work or perish. A gentleman told me that a Beaufort contractor wanted one hurdrea negro laborerson a certainday. C He spoke to Miss Barton about them, she having said that she nould supply s bundreds of labors. Miss Barton was fo have the hundred negroes on. band one Monday morning. The contractor nas never seen them. I have heard numerous things about the Red Cross which I will not give I have been told that white people who nave applied to Yankee mat~agers of the R-.d Cross have had it flo.uutedt in their faces that they boasted of being Carolitians and then begged for aid. I know that letters have oeen written to the R-d Cross society byt white rieople asking for help and that the letters were never answered and that the applicants never received help. I know that there is nothing but the most bitter feeling against the society and the way it has been managed and that I never heard a good word for it from a white man, It is to be regretted that the feeling exists. The society has probably done many noble and generous things and should be given credit instead of blame A big affair hike that which che seiety trackled could not be managed without complaint, but that there should De such wholesale complaint is at least strange.-Columbia Register. A Tawa for Said. MANCHESTER, N. J., May 24.-It is not often that a whole village, includ ing huge railroad shops, churches,r schools, stores and residernces, is sold at sheriffs sale, but that'is the condition of aff airs that confronts the citizens of Manchester. A mortgage given byt John Torrey, now aeceased, in January 1867. to the Mutual Benetit Life Insur ance company of Newmark, is the paper upon which foreclosure proceedings have been brought. Mr. Torrey was an influential New York financier, and carried on real estate speculations on a scale the magnitude of which would surprise the operators of today. He bought up many thousands of acres of pine lands in Manchester township, Ocean count~y, and laid out this to wn. He carried through successfully the project of building the old Raritan and Delaware Bay railroad, which broke up after years of fighting the monopoly that had been granted to the old Cam den and Amboy route. In fact, he was the only man who succeeded in coping with Commodore Stockton and John, Robert L. and Edwin A. Stevens, who so long dominated the Ne w Jersey leg-j islature, aud caused the state to be dubbed the "Camden and Amboy state." In building his railroad from the Raritan to Bayside, on the Dela ware bay, John Torrey negotiatrd a famous loan of 90,000 pounds with thet Bank of Eagland through Brown Bros. & Co., on his less than 10,003 acres oft pine land, the like of which then or now would hardly biring $5 an acre in the open market. The desciption of: the sale occupies two whole pages in one of the local newspapers in which it 1 is ad vertised, set in nonpareil type, and this great length of description only serves to entangle all the more the un sopnistxcated working folks, who feat their nomes are to be sold. Fitt.-en Years; FARTANBURG, S C., Mfay 26 -L~u Parris, who stabbed a young man to whom she had been angaged and killed r im at Saluaa in April, was arraigned for trial yesterday at Hendersonville. [Her at torney entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree aud asked for the leniency of the court in passing the sentenc~e. Judge Boykin sent her to the peuiteririary for fifteen vears. 1 She is about 17 years old now and she was sa'id to be a pretty tough case. The railro'ad and all the travel and tarflic that ton failed to soften her character.] When arrested and carried to jail the constabled suggested to the sheriff thats he' should search her person. A danger our knife was found concealed in hert hair.-Grenvnolles. i THE BRIBERY CASE. Aue Senator Offered Seventy-five Tbous and Do)Nrs. WASNIXOTON, May 24 -Tbe special ommitt ee appointed to investigate the harges of bribery alleged to have been Attempted by Maj. Buttz. and also the lOings of the sugar trust in connection vith legislation, held two sessions donday behind closed doors id with iewspaper men and the public exclud ,d. The first began a few minutes fter 10 o'clock and lasted until 1 o'clock, when a recess for an hour was aken. During the recess Senator Gray, peaking for the committee, said that is soon as this case was concluded the ommittee would print the testimony md lay it before the Senate. He said hat it would be pretty much on the ine of that which has heretofore ap >eared in the newspapers, but with nore details. The fact that a direct iffer of money was made has been >roven by one witness, at least, accord ng to the statement of the chairman if the committee. Senator Hunton knew nothing ex ept upon hearsay evidence, but told he committee what he had learned rom his son. Eppa Hunton, Jr, was ext put on the stand and told the ommittee how he had been approach d by Maj. Buttz and offered a sum of noney if he would induce his father to rote against the pending bill. Senator Kyle was on the stand long ir than any one else, for it was devel ped that the offer to bribe had been nade to him direct by the man who tands charged with the commission of he offense. At least this was the in erpretation put upon the testimony y the committee. Senator Kyle testi ed that Mr. Buttz had offered him noney for his vote, saying that he :ould have $75,000 and made an offer if $14,000 down. Immediately after the committee net, Buttz made a written request of he chairman of the committee to be resent with his attorney and cross ex mine witnesses. To this request no :.!ention was given and Buttz subse tuently gave his request to the press. Che committee investigating the harge of bribery in connection with Te tariff bill made but little progress wing to the failure of Maj. Buttz to eturn and conclude his testimony. 'he Sergeant-at-Arms was sent after he witness but did not ficd him. He earned, however, that he had gone to suburban town for a man with vhom he believed he should have a onference before he concluded his estimony, and that he would be before he committee the first thing in the aorning. This information was also onveyed to the chairman of the com ittee, by Mr. McGown, the attorney f Mr. Buttz, who called on Mr. Gray o explain the absence of his clieut. 'he committee believes it will be able o.conclude this branch of the case to aorrow. There are evidences of the fact that he committee intends to push ahead ith the investigation of ihe c'arges hat the Sugar Crust has been interter ag with legislation, for the Sergeant t-Arms was today ins'ructed to dire Ir. E. J. E I wards, the author of the lolland letter iu Pbiladelphia, Pa, mterein the Sugar Trust was arraign d, and asked him if he would accept ervice and appear before the commnt Pe Thursday next. This was done and fr. Edwards replied that he would ac ept the telegram as service aLd he in Vashington at the time named. It is Iso unterstood that a number of well :nown Washington newspaper men Lay been decided upon as the roper persons to summon be re the committee to tell what hey know regarding certain tories they have been 'publishing n connection with the sugar bched ule nd the means by which that schedule ras adopted. If the committee c~nnot to that it is said that it will at leas how that the newspaper men got ttieir aforrmation from woat they believed o be reliable sources (pre.sumably embers of the Senate) and will then iroceed to summon Senators and run he rumors to their foundation. The ommittee expects to complete the in estigation of this phase of the case rithin two weeks. W'U go to Na'hvi11e. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 23.-The State's ispatches of Sunday contained the in elligence that Rev. W. D. Kirkland, ). D, of this city had been elected ainday school editor by the Methodist ~eneral conference in Memphis, Tenn. ~hs was gratifying ne ws to Dr. Kirk and's hosts of friends in this State, but t could scarcely be called welcome tews, for his election necessitates his saving the State. He will move to fahville, the seat of the church's iublishing interests, Dr. Kirikland is a ative Carolinian; was born in Orange urg county the 17th of Augusr, 1849, ras educated at Wofford College, rhere he graduated in 18-70. He joined he conference the following December rd soon took position among the f-re nost preachers. While presiding- elder f the Coffesbury district in 1883, he ras elected editor of the Southern bristaln Advocate for four years and vas re-elected in 1889 and in 1893. in 891 he received the degree of doctor of ivinity from E mory College, Ga. Dr. ~irkland was a delegate to the general onferences of 1886 and 1890, and this ear he headed the delegation from outh Carolina. Dr. Kirkland holds everal other Important positions in the burh, among them trustee of his alma nater and a member of the mis ionary board of the Southern Metho ist Church. The doctor is a man of trong character, fine executive ability nd of decided convictions. which he xpresses forcibly and fearlessly on all >roper occasions. As a journalist his ccess has been very marked. He has nade the Advocate one of the best eligous papers in the South, and his >lae will be hard to fill. Dr. Kirkland's ccessor as editor of the Advocate will >e selected by the publiahing commit ee and the bishop will app~nnt in ac ordance with its recommendatimi he appointment to hold until the next ession of the annual conference in De ember. Dr.Kirkland is expected hiome oday, the general confereasie having djurned on Monday, after a session of ree weeks.-State. Etght Ki11ed. PRINCEToN, Ky., May 2.-A disas rois wreck occured at 10 o'clock this norniog OD the New Port News an, dississippi Valley R lliroad at Sa d og Rocks tunnel. An extra freight rain crashed into a pile driver train ith a boarding car at tached. The pile river train was backing with boarding ar in front when the two trains met in he middle of the tunnel. Conducor ~ick Hill of the pile driver train an o ix or seven occupants of the boardit.g ar were killed. It will be several lhou.rs efore the victimi can be taken out Shot ny -he sher iff LAFEYETTE, La , Miay 24 - blenff saac Brusrd snot au'd kilu-d 11etry ones, a negro ravisher, who has bein ane-d for a moriph. The fieed met a yearola girl and her little brother in he road way and stiz iig her carried lEACHERS OF THE SAWE ALL ABOUT THEIR ANNUAL GATHER ING THIS SUMMER. The Elaborate and Excellent Programme A-rang ed for the 2s ed Annual Meeting of the State Teachers Associatiou, COLU1BIA, May 24.-Elaborate ar rangements are being made for the 23d annual meeting of the State Teachers Association of South Carolina to be held at Converse College at Spartan nurg, July 1 to 5 next. Dr. J. Wm. Flinn, of this city, the president of the association, and Professor J. Flem ming Brown of bpartanburg, the chair man of the executive committee, to gether with the other officers of the as sociation are doing all in their power to make the sessions the most interest ing ever held in the State. The programme and other arrange ments have just been prepared and an nounced. The programme is as fol lows. Sunday, July 1st.-11 a. m.-Sermon by Rev. W. M. Grier, D. D., Due West, 8 30 p. m.-Programme arranged by city pastors. Monday, July 2d.-10 a. m.-Address of welcome by Mayor A. B. Calvert and President B. F. Wilson. Annual address by the president. 11 a. in. Report ot special committee appointed at the last meeting; Superintendent T. P. Bailey. Marion. Discussion-12 mI. Advantages of securing a permanent home'for the association; Superintend ent E. L. Hughes, Greenville. Discus sion. Afternoon-4 p. m.-Meeting of the primary department, Miss L. C. Hubbard, Anderson, Dresident. Attrac tive programme. 8.30 p. m.-Address by Superintendent N. F. Walker, Ce dar Springs: Subject: "The Education of the Bli.d and the Deaf." Tuesday, July 3d.-10 a. m.-History of education in South Carolina; Pro fessor W. S. Morrison,Clemson College, Discussion. 11 a. m.-Normal training for preparatory teachers and how to obtain it; Superintendent D, B. John son, Columbia. Discussion. 12 m. Comparison of systems of prepartory schools in the Carolinas and Georgia; Superintendent B.-F. Bailey, Abbeville. Discnssion. Afternoon.-4 p. m.-De partment of superintendents, F. L Hughes, President, Greenville. 4.30L 4.10.-Preliminary work 4.10-4.30 Pedagogical investigation; Superin. tendent T. P. Bailey, Jr., Marion. 4.30 4 40 - Discussion, 4.40-5.00 - Some drawbacks; Superintendent W. H. Hand, Chester. 5.00 5 30-Echoes from the national superintendent's meeting; Superintendpit P. T. Brodie, Spartan burg. 5.30-5 40-Discussion. 5 40 6.00 -General discussian; departmental teaching in grammar sehools. 8.30 p. m.-Address by Piesident J, H. Car lisle, Wofford College. Wednesday,July 4th.-10 a. m.-Pub lie school education in France; Rev. James Woodrow, D. D.. South Carolina College. Discussion 11 a. m.-What are the objects in view in teaching Ge ography ? Superintendent Frank Ev. ans, Newberry. Discussion. 12 in. Model lesson in teaching geography; Miss Ella Codfield Spartanburg. College Deprtment-Dr J. H. Car ls-e. President, Wofford College. 4 p. in -Paper by ..Bessor Snyder, of Wofford Coliege. 5 p. m.-Paper by Profssor H. T. Cook, of Furman Uni versty. Discussion. 8.30 p m-Ad dress by Geo. T. Winston, President University of North Carolina. Thursday,Juiv 5ch.-10 a. m.-Phyis cal cuitare; Miss Maud E. Masson, Convere Culledge. Discussion. 11 a. r.-The ed ucational vala'cor history as a school study: REv. TI S. Hartz g, Bamburg. Discussion. 11:30 a. m. Drawing In the schools; Professor Wiliam Welch, Clemson College. Dis cssion. 12 m.-Business. Atter oon-4 p. mn -Dapartmnent of School Cimmissioners 4:00 4:45-Call to order, organIz ition, etc. 4:45 4:55-The necess ity of teaching E glian proverly; F. Hor on C -Icock. 4:55 5:10-Discussion. 5:10 5:20-Q ialidecations and duties of a seb miol cowimissioner, WV. W. Bright. 5:20 5:35-Some suggestions in regard to~ our scho-ol system; Thomas W. Keitt,. 5.406:00-Discussion. 8:30 p. m.-A taik on music; Dr. R H. Peters, Con verse College; followed by concert and reading. The following information is given by the committee: Teachers who desire will be boarded in Converse College; gentlemen at $1 a day; ladies, who come by Sunday morning and bring sheets, pillow-cases towels, etc , and remain during the ses sion, at 75c. a day. No deduction will be made for absence from meals. Those expecting to board in Converse College will please notify Mrs. L. B. Thompson, Spartanburg, S. C., a fei days before the meeting. Parties preferring to board In the city will have reduced rates. It Is the hope ot the executive committee that all will reach there by Saturday night. The citizens of Spartanburg expect to give the teachers a free excursion to Ashville on Friday. The lowest possible railroad rates will be secured for all at teding the association. Parties wish ing information about board, accomn modations, rates, etc., will please write to President B. F. Wilson, or J1. F Brown, Spartanburg, S. C. Homicide at Langiev. AUGUSTA, May 24.--On Monday evening about 7 o'clock a shooting scrape occurred in L angley which has r sulted in the death of one of Langley citizens. The facts concerning this de. prable affair are hard to get at, but we will give them as they were given to us: 1t appears that old man Jlohn Augustine and his son Charlie are en gaged in merchandising, and on Mon day evening got mnto a dispute over ome affdirs which led to blows. Dr. Toland, who was either in the store oi passing at the time. hearing the dis turbance ran in between fattier and son to separate them. What occurred ther was not made clear to us, butl at this juncture John, another son of old man Augustine, ran in and drawing nis pistol shot Dr. To!and in the back, the ball penetrating ir tbe region of the heart. The Doctor lingered until about 11 o'clock on Tues day when he died. Young Augustine tried to escape but was caught twc miles out of Lang !-y and arrested. Hf was taken back to Langley and tuirned ovr to Sheriff Alderman yesterday who brought him to Aiken and lodged him in jail. The Augustines claim that Dr. Toland was 0ghting old man J1 hn ugustine. We tried to gat his vers ion ot the affair but he declined. We uderst and the feeling against the Au ustines5 is quite bitter iin Lang!ey.. Dr. Tolana has only been living in La-glev a short while. He is ' from Edgideld County, and has a faily w icn he expected shortly to bring tc Lagley to live. He was an old man. -hronicle. A Lova Tragedy. GREEN BAY, Ala., May 24.-Silal (liiian, a y oung tuerchant, blew his ramos o;ut on the step of ibe house ol James L'ewis testerday. He was engag ed o marry Miss Lewis, who Ia ill, and was reported cead. The girl was not dead. but. beard at :he suicide and is dy ng Irmm the. hah-r CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. The Weekly Bnletin of tho Cond!Uon of the Weather and Crops. The following is the weekly bulletin of the weather and the crops issued yesterday by Observer Bauer of the State Weather Bureau: The weather favorable for rapId growth during the greater part of the week, and the staple as well as the minor crops were as a consequense of theexcessive heat and copious showers very much improved. On Sunaay there came an unfavoble change which caused the temperature to fall from 30 to 20 degrees in twenty-four hours, and on Sunday (20th) morning minimum tem peratures of from 39 to 45 degrees oc curred over the entire State. Many of the reports had been mailed previous to the 20th and so the full iffect of the cold wave can be put partially reflected In this bulletin, altogether later re ports indicate the occurrence of light frosts in favorably situated localities as far as Orangeburg county. Thed am age, if any, resulting, appears as yet to have been but very slight and confined largely to sweet potatoes, and in a les ser degree to cotton. In next week's bulletin a bitter estimate can be made. Averse !ocal conditions injuring crops, were washing rains in portions of Spartangburg, Newberry and Greenville counties were creek bottoms overdow ed necessitating some replanting. Hail also did some-damage over small areas, and in Barnwell county a sand storm damaged cotton. The temperature was much abave the normal until Saturday after which it was far below, the dep arture on the 20th at Columbia being 23 degrees. The sunshine did not aver age normal for the State but was not so deficient as to be harmful. Rain in the form of showers were numerous and in some instances heavy and fairly well distributed, only a few localities being left dry. In places the ground was too wet to work and as a consequence grass and weeds are showing. Cotton ranges from fair to very good stand over the whole State. One field of about 800 acres reported "the best ever seen." The only report of a poor stand comes from Williamsburg and Sumter counties were the ground is too dry. Plowing and chopping is progressing nicely the latter being from one-third to two-thirds fluished. Grass showing in places. Some forms or squares have been seen. Corn is doing fairly well but bud worms continue to do much injury. Stand bealthy in color but very uneven.-Rice doing well; Irish pota toes being harvested along the coast with from poor to - fair yield. Doing better in interior. Sweet poLat> plant ing continues. Tobacco in very good condition. Sugar cane doing well. Watermelon and kindred vines growing rapidly. Wheat but-lightly if at all improved, and rast on th6 blades is be coming more general. H arves'ing will soon begin. Oats are ripening in the eastern portions of the State, and har vesting is aout to begin with I rospects of about half a crop. Gardens doing well. Some reports indicate a sliorrage of feed for farm stock which generally wintered poorly, although pasturage will soon be excellent. The following places report one inch or more of rainfall for the week: Saiut G.rr- 2 20, S-ciety Ril 1 45. B-aufort I ;. Divree 1 90, Lteio 105 CbarlestoL 1.60. Hunters 2 50. E 4-1-. 4.75, ?), (1en trai 100, Gr--euvilio- 244 Irial 1.68 Port Royal 2.12. Effingham 174, C- w av 125, L iop-rs 1.00, Saint Steo-.eus 2 43, Spar -anburg 125. Camien 103, Cn-ravs 118. Florence 205, Hardeev-De 134. Bate burg 1.12, Greenaw -d 3.37, Santue 1.26, Little Moustaio 103. Coar't.d lit- Own Witf-. LONDON, May 24 -A marvellously queer story of the reunion of a long separated husband and wife without themselves knowmng their former rela: tions comes fromn S?. Petersburg and eclipses in its strange circumstances the wildest invention of the novelist. More than twelve3 years ago Michael Yaltidze, then a school boy, f ell in love with a pretty girl of his own age in Hungary and they married after a sniort acquaintance. The parents of Yaitidze, when they learned of the match, sent him to America under an assumed name, He settled in Alaba ma, where the Iron discoveries of the past few years enabled him to make a fortune. He fell In love with an American girl and wished to marry her. He commissioned a lawyer to obtain the necessary documents and witnesses to issure a divorce from his boyhood wife and started for Russia to see the mat ter through. He stopped in London, Paris, and finally Wiesbaden, where he made the acquaintance of a charming Russian lady, who soon supplanted the American girl in his affections. He prolonged his visit for weeks and some scandal arose. He declared his passion and asked her to marry him as soon as he obtain ed a divoree from his American wife, which, he said, he was expecting by mail. He was incautious enough tO give the name and address of the American girl he called1 his wife. Fi nally he hurried on to see how the case against his real wife was progressing. The lawyer informed him that .the case was all right, and no peijury would be needed, as her misconduct was notorious. He~ said the wife bad been living some time under a stage name at Wiesbaden, and had recently been notoriously intimate with a wealthy American, giving his client his own American alias. The amazed Yalidze dlemanded that he stop his silly joking, but the lawyer cdeclared he was in earnest, and called in a detec tive to corroborate him. The latter entered. "What did you say was the natne of the gentleman who was intimate with Madame Y. in Wiesbaden, anid is cor espondent in a divorce case ?" "ils name Is I, but that's the gen gleman himself there." "What do you mean,you scoundrel?" shouted Yaltidze, and the-n lxing his eyes upon the witness: "Why, you are the blackguard 1 threatenedi to thrash In Wiesbaden if I1 found you hangmng about my lodgings an y more." "Yes, sir, I was engaged to watch Madame Y.'s movements in Wiesba den; that's why I dogged her steps and yours. The lady is stilling enough to get a divorce. She has a promise of mnarriage, she says, from an American millionaire." -When Mine. Yaltidza heard the story she wrote a swveet letter to her hus band's alleged wire in the United States, introducing herself as :hat lady's successor, and asking to tbe in formed of the result of the divorce case. Then she instructed her lawyer to sue her husband for alimony on a high scale and to assert that she kne w all along her paramour was lord and master. Yaltidz-- has disappeared. The brother of the American girl is prepared to shoot him on s'ght. Look. ,Brjght to Iieoe 'l. WVAsHiseToN, Niay 2.3.-L'ne frienids of the repeal or the state bank taX have been d >iog some actuv- w'rk dun lng the past few days. A canvas" made of the house nas convinced them, they say, that they will be able to pass the bill. It is underst ood that much of the opposi ion on the patrt of the D'em ocrats has be-nsileunced through the ef rts of Mn. Cl.veland GIVE AND GIVE QUICKLY. THE BEAUFORT SUFFERERS NEED .AID NOW. An Appeal leued by Gov. Tillman-White People on the Verge of Starvation White People Should Give Them Aid. COLUMBIA, S C., May 25.-When the letters concerning the destitution of white people living on the sea islands were published, The Register sent a representative to that section of the Scate to investigate the situation there. He went and tound it far worse than had been pictured. This representative retunred to the city yesterday. He bad a conversation with Governor Till man and stated to him what he had learned. Oa the strength of his conversa tion with The Register's representative, Governor Tillman yesterday issued the following appeal: To the people of the State: I desire to make an appeal on behalf of the white residents of Bluffton Town ship, Beaufort County. It has been only about two weeks since mnformation was received at this office claiming that great destitutioo existed among the peo ple of our own color in that locality. I was somewhat sceptical at first, eight months having elapsed since the storm which devastated the coast, but from entirely trustworthy sources and the per sonal nsp !ction of an agent I find that there is absolute want and need of prompt assistance. else there will be ex treme suffering and probable starvation. These people lost their entire crop by the storm and. were unabale to meet their obligations of last year. They have exhausted all means of credit in the eflort to support themselves and to plant anew. They cannot cultivate their crops with grass fed stock and al ready animals have died. I appeal to the charitable in their be half. Contributions in money sent to me will be promptly forwarded for re lief. Contributions of meat, flour, corn or meal can be shipped to Thomas Mar tin, chairman of the relief committee, Bluffton, care of the steamer Alpha at Beaufort or Savanah steamer Pilot Boy at Charleston. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. This appeal will doubtless meet with a prompt response. CLEMSON WILL RISE AGAIN. At a meeting the Board of Trastees Have so Decided CALUOUN, S. C, May 25.-The Board of Trustees of Clemson College met at Fort Hill this evening. Only nine members of the board were present. Architect Bruce of the firm of Bruce & Morgan of Atlanta, the architects of Clemson and Winthrop Colleges, met with the Board, and gave them the ben efit of his experience and skill. The Board decided to proceed at once with the rebuilding of the main struct ure, which was laid in rains by the die demon this week. The B vard has no mnds in its possession which have not alrearly neen appropriated for reeutlar. exp-Lse5, but it will receive $20,000 fr om the insurance upon tne destro) ea huilding, which cost 85,000 to erect, though zonvict laoor was used. Much of the brick in the strue';ure can be used again. The insurance money will carry on the rebuilding eperations un til atter the General assembly meets, when it Is more than probable the nec essary appropriation will be made to .ish the rebuilding. The Clemeen cadets have behaved andsomely; they have shown them selves to be men. They feel that they must prove themselves worthy of what has been done to give them edu cations whbich will thoroughly equip them for the battle of life. They have the most intense and lively pride in the institution they attend and will do everything in their power to maintain its high name. Not a half dozen of the studenats have left for home sine the burning of the main building. The arlets are determined to stand by Clem son as long as there is anything left to stand by. The boys of South Carolina are made of good stuff. There Is noth ing milk-soppish about them. Tney are neither sugar nor salt, though they are all "somebody's darling." As long as the men of South Carolina are as true to their State as the Clemson boys are to their college, the State will be safe from all danger. The work of Clemson College will go on just the same as If the fire had not occurred. There will have to be some double-teaming and that sort of thing, but it will be done. Various rooms in tne other buildings on the grounds will be used as lecture rooms until the main building has been re-erected. This will not be as pleasant as it would be to have the classes meet in the com fortable and airy rooms in which tney before the fire pursued their studies, but there are other considerations which are higher than mere personal comfort. The Clemson boys are after getting educated and will get what they desire, if the classes have to meet under trees on the campus. They are in earnest and so is the faculty. The health of the students at Clem son has never been better. The hospi tal is in no demand ait all, and Is not likely to be, judging by the good appe tites and high spirits of the cadets,who are as hardy a set of young fellows as ever delighted the eye of the patriot, who seas the future safety and welfare of -the State in the high character, good attainments and thorough develop ment of those who, as years roll by, must be leaders in the place of those who now lead but in the inevitable course of events must be garnered In by old Father Time. President Craighead, who has the love and emulation of the cadets, has received many letters of sympathy from all classes and couditions of peo pe, for to all alike is Clemson dear. All regret the burning of thie main building, but all fe-l certain that it ought to and will be rebuilt as beauti ful and grand as It was before the fiood of fire laid it Itn ruins.-R egister. A Dim- Noivel Tragedy. INDIANAPOLIS, May 23 -Wiley Ta'.lor and Cloud Sanders play ed Dead tvood Dick in J. L. Keach's coimois. sin hr use with serious results Sand ers said he was Deadwood Dick, and Talor challengred the roost and winked is e'.e. Sanders reached into a drawer ad got a revolver and warned Taylor ot to wink his eve again. The latter wa-. d-liant and repeated the offense, .'!d Sanders sh'ot him through the hea i. Taylor will die. Sanders insists he did not. know it w as loaded. Randiti an Texr. LoNGVIEW. Texas, May 24-at 3 P. M. fiat rw-ers entere-d the First Na r!ona.l Bank of Longview. Tne pre~sl dent and cashier were ordered to hola o o he.tr tiands and the robbers secured 25~00. Several officers and citizens uxL tae robbers and a constant tiring ws kept up, during wbich George Buckingham and J. W. Mt Queen were kiii-d and Marshal Muckeiroy b~dly ounded. One of the robbers was killd. GORMAN'S GREAT TALK. CrIcises the Wilton Bill and Says it Was an Imperfect Measure. WASHINGTON, May 24.-Seniator Gorm in addressed the Senate on the tariff bili yesterday mornig. He opened in a prophetic strain. saying: "We are nearing the end. After nearly twenty years of political progress, of positive growth, of constant developement, and universal enliahtement the Democratic party and American people are within sight of the promised land. Emancipation in at hand. Emancipa ion from partizan oporession irom greed of classes; from extortion; from willful extragavance; from financial fantasy; from spoils; trom restrictions upon indivi dual liberty; from jingoism; from all those evils, in brief, which the Demo cratic party inherit as a hateful legacy from three decades of Repubhcan malad ministration." He then touched upon the difficulties which contronted the Democratic party on its return to power after thirty years of opposition and the vehemence of de mands made upon them. He said: "We were not only. urged, but ordered perem ptorily to reform the tariff at once. Wh5 wait. He asserted that time and plenty of it had always been considered abselutely essential in reforming the tarifi. The Mills bill did not pass the House till mid. summer. The McKinley bill did not re ceive the signatured of the President till the last day of September. Speaking of the House bill he said: "The House in obedience to the obvious wishes of the country passed a tajiff bil early in the session. Comparatively lit tle time was given to the consideration of the various schedules and the result was necessarily an Imperfect measure, which not only failed to meet the re quirement of the treasury, but actually increased the deficit created by the Re publican prohibitive duties. There was no expectation that the biil would be come law without change. Then he added with signifizant em phasis: "Our friends on the other side seem very anxious to learn upon what theory this bill was constructed. I will tell them. It was constructed upon Democratic theroy of tarift for revenue, with such incidentalprotection as can be given consistently to industries of the country. It follows strictly the course marked out by President Cleveland in his letter of acceptance. It is not a free trade measure, but is a lareer step for free trade than either the Mills bill or the tariff o 1883. It is not a protection act for the sake of protection. but it does discriminate between raw materiale and manufactured articles to the full extent of the diference between European and American wages. Turning to the alleged iofluence of the sugar trust and other like organizations in shaping the Senate bill he said: The assertion that any trusts have dictated any part of any schedule of this bill I oronounce ur qualitiedly false. Tney have received some attention, althouAb nQtr as much consideration as indviduat engaged in the business of manufactur ing. N > more and no less Upon the sutj -et of an income tax, Gorman said be was in full accord with the sentiments expressed by the Senators from New York and New Jersey, and like thew considered that in served its pu-pose as a war tax and has no fittinu place in our fiscal system in time .f peace. He could not vote conscientiouly to make this method of taxation a part f our settled policy. but he could not ignore the fact that a large maj 'rity of his Demcratic colleagues honestly differ from him it this matter and he was willing to pui the subject to a test oi a few years. During the delivery of Gorman's speech the drop of a pin could almost cave been heard, so deep was the hush upon the chamber and at its close Bryce, hurried forward to congratulate the Maryland Senator. Aldrich replied to Gorman and was followed by Teller, who as a test ques tion, moved to lay the tarifi bill on the table. The vote resulted, years 28; nays 38. Hill, Irby, Kyle and Peffer voted agains the motion. A Regular Traffc. WAsHINGTON, May 25.-The ex-pri vate secretary of Congressman Lock wood, who sold a forged order fora job lot of the government "horse books" which belonged to his employ, er's quota, Is locked up. Mr. Lock wood says nie will let lhe law take its course. The case serves to call attention to a regular traffic and brokerage business which is going on continually in seeds and documents furnished free in great quantities by the government to mem bers of Congress. There was once a senator who fed to his horses the seed oats which the department of agricul ture furnished for distribution to farm ers. Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, says: "A person whom I did not knowi but evidently a rascal, came into my commi*.tee room a short time ago and offered to sell me a large quantity of seed. I asked him where he obtained It, and he said he had purchased It of members and of members' clerks. I listened to him a while and then told him that I was half inclined to have him arrested, but as I could not waste time to prosecute him I concluded to let the matter pass. I ordered him out of my room and told him if I ever heard again of his offering seed for sale I would swear out a warrant. I'um half sorry now I did not do it. I don't know just how far members are them selves responsible for these brokers. They have no right to sell government publications put to their credit as rep resentatives. If they have no use for them they can always give them to members who are short, and c in rec-ive others that are valuable to their con stituents In return; but I havc no vel y high opinion of a member whro will try to make money by selling his govern ment documents. I had bet ween 300 and 400 volames of government pubri cationsi stolen on a forged order," said Representative Mc Milli-j, of Tennesset "I never found out who did it, but~it is strange bow many queer tricks are practiced by outsiaers t~o BEcure seedu and government puolcations Somt one, whom nobody afterwards c-ould Identify, walked into this documeib' room, where t hey are kept to the cred:t of Representatives, and pres-med a order that bore a very tair imit~ation 01 my signature for 400 books." K -il. Five. LONDON. May 24--A Vienna dis patch to i'he Daily News reports: Dur ing a dance in the village~ of snu zeri, near Oddenburg, a glarrel arose ffr tween the young medn about some wo men. A gendiarm' mntervened to re store oraer, whereupon the young men surrounded him in a threateniug man ner Toe officer beli viog his lif.- was in danger, are w a revolver and fired into the crowd. ils bulli-ts struck ar d killed four young men and a girl. Tire Infuriated crowd then set upon the gendarme and pounded and kicke'd him util life was extinct. The whole vii lige Is terribly wrought up over the affar and furthe trnnuble is feared A BATTLE AT THE MINES, FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN MINERSAND DEPUTY S'HERIFFS. Five Mners Ktlled andjMany Wounded and Three Deputies Wounded-Conflict. Int S3,rles a to the Firat.Shot. UNIONTOWN, Pa., May 24.-This morning the Stickler Hollow mines of the Washington Coal and Coke Com pany, midway between Fayette City and Layton Station, was the scene of the bloodiest encounter sines the strike began. Both sides were in fighting shape, seventy-5ve armed deputies con tending with a mob of from 1,500 to 2,000 striksrs, about 200 of whom were armed with all kinds of guns. Five strikers are dead and eight or more wounded and three deputies were wounded. The trouble had been brew ing all the week. The mines were the only one in the fourth pool that were running and men were at work. Since Monday morning the strikors have been collecting at Stickle Hollow and the Monongahela and Youghio gheny river mines, and about 200 of them remained there all last night. Their threats of vielence and the sight of so many guns in their possession alarmed the company and the officials wired Sheriff Wilhelm at Uniontown, last night for aid and later sent a man on horseback with a report of the seri ous condition they were in. The sheriff could get no more aid to them at that time and believed that the seventy-five armed guards under Capt. John M. Richards would be able to hold posses sion of the property. The strizers marched- about the plant all night and occupied all the roads leading to the works. When the men began coming to work at daylight today, strikers stopped them and drove them home. One report says they also made a charge upon the deputies with the in tention of driving them off the works and that precipitated the conflict. Tae strikers were only about fifty yards from the deputies when the latter opened fire. The strikers returned the fire promptly and stood their ground, each firing as rapidly as possibleuntil the strikers' ammunition gave out and they were forced to retreat. As they fled, the deputies followed them and arrested a great many who had guns in their possession and now are prison ers.The deputies were forcedto fight for their lives and their shooting was most effective. Five strikers fell aead and eight were wounded, but it is thought that many more were wounded and got away with the fleeing mou unnoticed. Three of tne deputies were wounded. The plaut is now thickly guarded by deputies, but more trouble islooked for at Stieale Hollow. The striklirs ran for home aud in an hour not a striker was in sight. The mob was composed of foreigaers. It was not a one-sided battle, as at first reported, but was fought with as many guns on one side as on the other aud with as much firing by the strikers ase by the deputies. Among the wound ed are three deputies, while the killed art- all strikers. When the workmen came to the strik ers in th- public road, they were asked to go hom-9. Tne workmen were about to comply witn tne coammand when the deputies rushed into tne midst of the men, got possession of the workmen and escorted them to the pit. In this Parr or the pertormance, a deputy sher iff fired a snot, which opened up a bat tie in which volley atter volley was fired by each side at close range. The strikers stood their ground while their comrades were falling, but their am. munition gave out and they were forced to give up the fielid and flee to escape the rain of bullets from the Winchester rifles. It is said the strikers were advancing on the line of deputies when the latter fired the first shot. Many who had guns in their possession were arrested by the deputies and will be brought to jail here this afternoon. The latest news tram the scene of the trouble says that the strikers have all gone and that the situation now is more peaceable. Penny W.s.-, j'..aud FouI~ih. COLUMBI, May 23.-No positive in formation regarding the status at Clem son College has yet been received here. Everyone is very much interested in the condition and sincere in the hope that the damage is not as great as has been re ported. Governor Tillman returned from Rock Hill this morn ng, and says that he has gotten yery meagre reports about the disaster. He thinks that the main building cost tally 885,000, al though no positive figures as to the cost are to be had. Governor Tillman says that no time will be lost in the work and that all recitations will be carried right along. The class work, he said, will go on without interruption even if tents are found necessary-. There is, however, plentv of room for all classes. hpeaking i. an individual member of the board ol trustees he said tnat the work of repairing the building would be started at once. The insurance money would be sufficient with which to make the star!. The College had no available money as all of its income had already been appor tioned and could not be used for build ing. Governor Tillman relates that at a recent meeting of the 'board of trus tees a determined effort was made to increase tue insurauce on the main building from $20,000 to $40,003, but failed. Those wno oppOo~sd tne in crease in the insurancs took the position that there was a min imum risk, as there was no one in the building at nights; that it was lighted by electrncity, and that there were no chimueys or grates, as tue building was heated by ste zm. He says, however, that hs is quite willing to take his share of. the blame for the small amount of insurance on the building. He estimates that the State exhibit in the builleing was worth about $3,000. The board of trustees will meet on Friday and consider the entire matter.--Nees and Courier. WI11Run ag..an WAsIIt oTON. Ai ry 23.-R apresenta tiv- lzkr nas receiv-d aumerous~ -in quxiries recently from his p -litical friend as to his inlt.-ntlis iu tue approach ing C.ogressi ',! ue itest. Cu.re ap pe-ars to be som- quet mn as to wn-ther he- will mn-ke to'e rse for re elecition in rh- 1st or toe 7 n C ma.r-ssliaal district ils proposes to reta~n resideuce In Oraieg-ourg, .Mucai Is la tic uesly ar raog-d 7, t; d *o ri'r-t Po make the con re-st in tnhe l1r di-strict th- would have to remove to Crearlese on. He r.-lizes tbat ne- wou'dlhbor uneder a d.sasdvaritage'by changriug his place of r-aide'nce and prob)arbly excite antagmnisms that o in easily be avoided n~y remuing in Or engenrurg, Beside-s he d.-sires to me-as ure s words agaiu witri his former an tagozoi-tr, Dr. Stokr-s. There are a num oe-r of v luable D-mocrats in the City of Charle.s'on wno are desirous of re presenting thait gre it lomnmercial city in Congress, and therefore he will re main in the 7 h district. He will make the race as a Sraightout Democrat, ad vocating the principles as an-unciated in the Chicago platform of 1892. Judge Iziar reached thiis conclusioa afte-r due coosultation with his political friends arid advise-rs and he is confident of