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VOL. IX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE A BREEZY DAY THE SENATE FRAUD COMMIT TEE MAKES ITS REPORT. Hil Was Arx-:Us t, PrevCLt Any Far tber Invbti1ten U icu the Sugar 7rust Doingr. but His Plans Miscariiect. WASHINGTON, May O.-At one o'clock p. m. in the Sen ite yesterday, Gray rose and said that he had been directed by the select committee ap pointed on the 17th of May, to make a partial report and be asked that it be read. Hill said that before making any ob jection,he would like to know from the Senator from Delaware what the pro gramme was. Gray replied that he had no pro. gramme other than indicated in the report. The committee had submitted a report which it considered as one of the highest privileges, and he supposed there was no question that the report was in order at any time. It concerned the privileges of the Senate and he asked that the report be read in order that the Senate might determine whether it was a question of privilege or not. Hill: In the light of the explanation of the Senator from Delaware, or rather in the light of the explanation which be does not givel am compelled at this time to object to the reception of that report. Gray: I make the point of order that a report concerning the privileges of the Senate is one entitled to present consideration and is not subject to ob jection. Manderson coincided with the view expressed by Gray and argued that the chair or the Senate could not determine whether it was a question of privilege unless the report was read. The presiding officer (Faulkner) ex pressed the opinion that the Senator from Nebrask& was right. The report was then read. It con sists of five printed pages, some of it being quotations from that part of the testimony where answers were refused. A portion of the testimony was also submitted to the Senate. It relates that Elisha J. Edwards appeared before the committee May 24th, and stated that he was a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press and wrote the letter signed "Holland,"relative to the doings of the sugar trust and certain Senators. It appears from this report that the specific questions Mr. Edwards rerused to auswer were those asking him who informed him of Mr. Carlisle's recent visit to the committee on finance, when he, as Mr. Edwaras alleged, made an appeal to the Democratic members in February, that appeal being supposed to have reference to a duty on sugar. The committee states that it over ruled the objections of Judge Ditten hoeffer, Edward's counsel and insisted upon an answer to the questions. These questions sought to ascertain the authority for the statement that Carlisle signiied his willingness himself to prepare an amendment to the sugar schedule, which he thought would be fair to the government and yet just to the sugar interests; who gave the in formation concerning the alleged in tervhews- between officers of the sugar trust--Havemeyer, the New York sur gar refiner, Senator Brice and Senato Smith; who was his informant that on the day Voorhees denied any amend ments were proposed to the bill as origmally reported to the Senate, the list of 400 amendments as prepared by Senator Jones was ii the hands of one of themembers of the brokerage firm of Moore & Schley; that the dratt of the sugar schedule as finally adopted was the result of a conference between Senator Caffery and representatives of the trust meeting in one room of the Capitol building, while the committee was in session in another. All of these questions, the committee says, E: wards, acting upon the advice of his counsel, refused to answer. Beterring to the testimony of John Shriver, correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, the committee quote from Shriver's letter detailing what a prominent wire manufacturer was alleged to have overnLearld at h Arlington Hotel in a talk between cer tain Senators and representatives of thesugar trust. Shriver said a member of Congress gave nim the information and the committee say that in response to the direct question, he declined to give the name of either the Congress. man or the wire manufacturer, to whom he referred in his news dis patches. In conclusion the committee say: In the opinion of the committee each question put to these witnessea was a proper question and pertinent to the question under inquiry before the com mittee and was necessary to make the examination ordered by said resolution of the Senate, and that each of the said witnesses is in contempt of the Senate and merits to be dealt with for his mis conduct, and that each of said witness es by his various refusals to answer these questions as herein-set forth h as violated the provisions of that certain act of 3ongress In such cases made and provided,being chapter 7 of the revised statutes of the United States. The committee quotes in full sections 102, 103 and 104 at the revised statutes, being the act ot 1857 as published in these dispatches of yesterday. The closing words of the report are as follows: "Wherefore the committee request that the president of the Senate certify as to each witness his aforesaid failure to testify and-his aforesaid refusals to answer all the facts herein, under the seal of the Senate to the United States 'District Attorney for the District onCo Iumbia,to the end that each of said wit nesses may be proceeded against in mannea and form provided by law." There is no reference to the case of Harry Walker, correspondent of the NIew York Daily America. When th'e reading of the report was concluded, Hill took the floor and ar giied that the report did not present such a question of privilege as should displace the pending bill. If the report had been on the part of the inquiry, (the attempt to bribe the two Senators) it would have been a question of the highest privilege, but that report had been already made and disposed of. But the second part of the inqjuiry-as to whether Senators had been specula ting in sugar stock-did not involve a question of crime, although it might involve a question of impropriety. Harris interrupted Hill with a ques tion of order and argued that the re port presented no question for any ac tion by the Senate. There was no ques tion for the Senate to vote upon, and therefore no question for the henate to debate. There was a statute which de volved a duty on the chair on the pre sentation of the report and the cbair alone could act upon it. Hili-regardless of Harris's point of order-went on with his own argument and was, after a while, again inter rupted by Harris, who asked the ruling of the chair on his point of order. TheVice President, who had resudmed the chair, made the followmg~ ruling: "la1is is a privileged report, and it is not such a report as calls for any ac tion on the part of the Senate. The only action calle for by this report is the action of the presiding officer. That is the decision of the chair. The ques tion before the Senate is the amend meLt of the Senator of Kansas (1-ffer) to the lumber schedule of the tariff bill." Uill appealed from the decision of the Vice President and argued that the a Senate bad a right to direct the presid ing olicer not to proceed further in tle matter until after further action of the Senate. The statute in question was loosely and carelessly drawn. But the Senate bad complete jurisdiction of the latter until the last moment. The 4Sen- I ate might see fit to direct that the cer- e tificate provided for in the statute v should not be transmitted to the dis- g trict attorney; and it had complete ja- o risaiction over the matter. He had no I sort of interest, he said, personal or c otherwise, in the investigation. It was c proper enough that the Senate snould investigate the charge of bribery; but 1' the report on that question had been g presented, and that portion of the work had been substantially completed. He t doubted the wisdom of the other pro. s ceeding. He doubted the propriety of c endeavoring to iud out whether news- t paper men always told the truth. It n the Senate undertook that great work g it would be kept busy until the end of v time. Senators could speculate in su- r: gar stock or in silver or in any other I kind of stock, and would violate no law 1i in doing so. Why does the committee li not call these Senators instead of per- it secuting these newspaper correspond ents, wno do not pretend that they s have any personal knowledge of the f subject? Wby seek out those corres- t< pondents and then invoke the power of cl this great government to make them n tell the sources of their confidential in- n formation-when the very people about whom they speak are in the city of r, Washington and can be summoned and ti compelled to testify. 'i The real question xas not what these e correspondents said, but what were the e exact facts. That was what the public a wanted to know. And nobody objects h to the committee finding it out, to its e heart's content. If a newspaper man o who had written something as to spec- tC ulations in sugar was on the stand and N said that he wrote it in good faith and i2 had derived his information from con- fj fidential sources, why, Mr. Hill asked, it should he be pressed on that point In- t( stead of having the parties called b; against whom the charge was present- ni ed ? "How are we to ascertain," asked p Allen, "who they are, when the wit nesses refuse to disclose their names or n the sources of their information ?" b: "Swear them all, if you have any c doubt about It," Hill replied, with a t1 snap; and the galleries applauded, and st were rebuked by the presiding cfficer A for such a breach of propriety. L "So long as you have," Hill went on, h "entered upon this inquiry-foolishly, rc in my judgment-it is your duty to ex- i haust it and to go to the bottom. If A you have seen fit to investigate mere C idle newspaper charges, not founded on J affidavits, not founded on personal knowledge, then carry it out, and do J not simply take the newspaper men T who strarted the inquiry. There is nd g objection to swearing every Senator tt around the circle. If any newspaper fc man bad circulated a story which re- e flected on my honor and integ: ity as a si Senator, and if the Senate had seen dlt 11 to enter on an investigation ot this sort c and if the newspaper man disclaimed ri on the stand, all personal knowledge of 6K the matter, I should be the next wit I ness to be called. I do not think it was pi wise to have entered on to this branch a of the irquiry, but the committee hav- ai ing entered upon it should follow it up tt Two of these newspaper men are resi dents of my State and represent news- c, papers published in my State, and that gi is one reason why I desire to present at these suggestions in their behalf. The G other reason is, because I think that gi the Senate is treading on ground on which it ought not to tread. I think is that no good will come of the investi- te gation in thus seeking to pesecute a these men. Thirdly, 1 deny the right B of the presiding officer, without any ac- Si tion of this body, to certify the facts lii to the district attorney of the District ni and fourtaly, I believe it is within the el control'of the Senate to say whether n this prosecution or persecution shall go e< any farther in that direction. I1 desire al to effer a resolution on this sutoyer, e; and I withdraw the appeal in regard to al one part or the ruling of the chair." _f~ Harris objected, to a part only o1 Hill's appeal being withdrawn and also c: to the reception of Hi's resolution, k: but Hill continued to bold the floor and 3 read the resolution which he desired to o1 offer: "That the questions asked and di refused to be answered are not perti- pi nent fo the inquiry and that the presid- al ig officer be requested not to certify b the same to the district attorney until ti further direction of the Senate.' o The resolutton was not receive d, and al Hill's appesi from the decision of the TI chair was laid on the table. p p Terril Flods CALCLTTA. June 1.-In addition to a the loss of 200 lives by the bursting of s a dam, formed by a landslip at Chatk- a kupri, Kulu, and the destruction of tl life stock and dwellings which accom- fi panied it, disastrous flods have it wrought much damage in North Ca- s char. The Jetinga nias overflowed its banks and inundated an area of hun- a, dreds of miles. Whole villages have i been destroyed in a number of sections e: of the flood-visited country. The ilood t! is pronou?nced to be the most severe inp many years. Following the bursting of ti the dam at Charkkuprl the water swept 2 onward like a forty-foot wall, sweeping 13 away several villages, among them one j having eighty houses. The dlooded dis- si trict is in the Paunjanab, on the western a side of the Himalayas. e Mu dere a by Brlgands- i VICTORIA, MEXICo, June 1.-The tl authorities of this city have received S word by courier cf the murder by a band y of brinands of Benito Hermandez and t wife and three cbildren. Heimandt z is 8 a tailor, and lived for several years at ~ Brownsville, Tens. He and his family1 left Matamo'ros a iew -ays ago to make an overland trip to Monterey on a visit to relatives. They were crossm~g a low t range of mountains the vicinity of tbe vllae of Colchast, when the brigands r surprised them, and after killing all of a the family robbed them of their effects. A few years ago a Mrs. Rit a Menchacoa o and her two daughters were murdered at e the same s pot. The bandits have their 'I rendezvous in the mountains, but their C capture :s almost certain. A 8evere s!OrD1. e NEW GORLEANS, May 31.--A special to the Times-Democrat from Fort Worth r Tex., says: A terrific storm struck il Hilsboro, Trex., at 2 o'clock this morn ing accompanied tDy torrents of rain b and incessant lignting. T be EpiscoJpa! 1 Church was completely demoushed, as ( was also the house of Jann Morgau. 3 The pump house at Lake I'rk, was t totally demolished and the graua stand t, at the fair grounds blown into tne lake, thirty yards distant. Qiite a num- b ber of dwellings were blown from their ti foundations and badly damaged. Tne ?: Idestruction to the oats crop and shade e and truit trees was very great. But very little damage was clone outside of o the city. No fatalities have as yet It heen reported. Reports, however, are o INDUSTRIXL CONGRESS. ~ t( 'HE MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN IM- a is MIGRATION CONVENTION. iT g P:eches of Welcome--AnjhetAS as an Ex;,mpl -What Cverucr Til!lnan Had i to Say-lateut on Iugin s-The3 )ele Eatts all Hoperal. AEorSTA. May 30.-The Southern u ndustrial Immigration Congress open- o d auspiciously im iugusta today. It v, ,as called to order at noon in the s rand opera house by President Bryan ai f Nashville, who introduced Mayor J. I1 [. Alexander of Augusta, who wel-jn omed the congress on the part of the tc itv. p] Mayor Alexander's speech was full of ti iteresting historical facts about Au usta. He said: "Augusta is the oldest inland city in 2e South Atlantic States, and was the 7 ?cond eatablished by Oglethorpe. This ty. before the days ot railroads, being ie fartherest inland city with river 10 avigation to the sea. south of Vir- cc inia, was the point of communication .g ith the outer world of all that territo- 6 7 embraced in Northern Alabama, W ast Tennessee, Western North Caro na, North Georgia and South Caro in na. Here all this vast section came tt wagons to trade. "I have been told by old citizens, who in iw with their own eyes, that in the in ill and winter i; was not uncommon nj see our capacious Broad street so y osely packed with wagons that one er iight step from one to another for a at ile or moie. or "This city Is mentioned in contempo- G meous history in 1740, five years after I ie settlement was planted, as already tb a a state of great prosperity, well St iipped for trade and conducting an fr ctensive traffic throughout the vast fc ad fruitful tributary country.' It was a, are that Eli Whitney conducted his cperimental works and, in 1793, devel- te Ded the cotton gin, one of the most t imous industrial inventions of the 'orld, wniah immediately revolution- h( :ed the agriculture of this section at -om tobacco and Indigo to cotton as s staple crop. In 1791, the whole cot m crop of the South was thirty-eight %les. In 1800,soven years after Whit sy's gin apoeared,Georgia alone ex- es )rred over 7,000 bales. aj "We have here the oldest public jour- W al in the South, the Augusta Chroni- or e, estaolished in 1785 and published , )ntinuously since that time. We have w te oldest incoporated educational in- to itution in the South, tne Richmond .cademy, established by act (f the bE egislature of Georgia in 1783. We ive the second oldest completed rail- n iad in the country-the South Caro a road, running from Cnarleston to W .ugusta, and preceded only by the th mden and Amboy railroad in New ?rsey." th Following Mayor Alexander, Hon. th >seph R. L-imar, president of the re oung's Men's Business League of Au asta,which secured the convention for is city, welcomed the congress, and ot lowed with more valuable facts con- bc rning the Augusta of today. Taking ev rnply the cfliclal census ligures for th 90, he showed that Augusta had in eased in the number of manufactu ng establishments in the past decade p1 3 per cent.; in capital employei 275 wr cent., and in wages paid of 30 per re r cent.; and that it had spent more ce oney for public improvements than y other city in the South, and had te lowest death rate in the South. m Governor Northern welcomed the gress on the part of Georgia, and It ive a glowing picture of her progress th id thrift. He declared the readiness of T eorgia to welcome industrious immi- ar :ants,who came to cast their lot here. Senator Patrick Walsh, whose home re here, welcomed the congress and ex- . nded them the privileges of the Com'nst ercial Club, of which he is president. th e said the assembling of thirteen i rthern States reminded him of that gr1 est convention of the thirteen origi- co l States to declare their independ- ca ice. The present movement is to for- t ulate plans by which this most favor- tb section could enlarge its citizenship te y work out its material indlepend- l ice. Hie thought the ocsion most aspicious and tne outlook very bright -hE ir the success of the congress. Responses to the addresses of we'~-r me were made by Governor MacCor- ra t of Wes: Virginia, Governor Carr of 'orth Carolina and Governor Tillman n South Carolina. Governor Tiliman id clared it was well enough to invite v ople and capital from the outside, d all that came wvould be welcome, l ut for every dollar of outside capital r ie Southern people must expend ten sli Etheir own, if they were in earnest out desiring to build up the South. he future of this section, he said, de t vds on the efforts of our own peo- er e, and what the Southern farmers . ced most is an immigration of ideas d intelligent agricultural methods. g outhern farmers would never prosper long as they spernt six months in ie year trying to kill the grass in their elds and the next six months in buy. -p g hay from Maine and Northern in iate. t At the conclusion of the address of it ecome and the responses, President LU ran addressed the convention. He of plained the need for immigration in M le Southern States by contrasting the \y opulation per square mile of some ot G States as follows: Massachusetts Mi f, Kent ucky,which is the most dense- ol Spopulated of the Southern States,49; ,.i ~hode Island, 264; Texas, 8. Ile at aowed the material advance which H as taken place in the South, and cali- j3 attention to the fact that education a I advantages were kee;>ing pace, the or icrease having been 100 per cent. in de e past decade, in appropriations by pe outhern States for thIs purpose, last .j1 ear being over 16J,000. Tne total val e school property in the Sautli is (; 10,000,000; number of teachers, 84,000; yj rfite pupils, 2,2530,000; negro puoils, ,. ,1500000; pupils in prte t scoools, 300, L JU; im parochial schools, 40,000. IPe -e aought the time was ripe for the imU- in igration movenent in the South and 6 elieved that by patriotie and united fforts on the part ot the intelligent ien composing the congress some wise d practical plan would be adopted. ut At the afternoon session, permanent # rganization was effected Dy the re- in lection of President M. T. Bryan, of gi 'ennessee and Secret try B. F. E diott p, f Florida. it was decided that each se tate represented should vote accord.iug or aits vote in the electoral college, and fa ach territory have one vote. r The credentials conimittee reported p< epresented in the congress the follow- et >g States and Terri'ories: Alabama, \ rkansas, Arizona, District ot Colum-jn is, Florida, Georgia, Kentuc~ky, Mary- re md, Missouri, Mississippi, Nourtni tt arolina, South Caroliina, ?ennessee, es irginia, West Virginia, and Texra ether with the leadmng railroad sys- fr ms ot the South. o To a committee on resolutions will I ' e reerred, without debate, all resolu tons oiIered. it is compos-d of four o1 com tne South at large andi one froma bi ach State and territory. M All details of erg mization and the rder of busmness naving been gotten o arough today, the congress will negin e l n its practical work~ tomnorrow. Just w 1,n+- li e to,, mil be taken no-.I )dy seems yet to know. There a; ars yet to be no preconceived schem > cerry out. Ezerybody seems to b the point where he- believes the tim ripe for a concerted movement the interest of Southern immi ration, and to believe that it is a gooi ling to undertake. But just how i to b- done, is yet to be determineo V the convention. Governor Tillman of South Caroline robably expressed the sentiments c ie majority of the delegates presen hen he declared that he had no plai his own, but had come to the con ?ntion to put his shoulder to an; heel that started in the right directiol id to do ali in his power to check an: at he saw starting wrong. He ha pet scheme of his own, but is read: cooperate earnestly in any tha -omises to accomplish the objects o e immigration movement. INJURED BY THE COLD. ieWiekly Buletinofthe Weatheraw the Craps. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 31.-The fol wing is the weekly bulletin of th ndition of the weather and crop out the State issued yesterday b oierver J. W. Bauer, of the Stat -ather service. The weather was unusually cool dur g the past week, the variation belov e normal temperature ranging fron re degrees a day on the coast to seve the interior and from eight to nini the western part of the State. Thi ghts were very cool. Light frcst ere very general in central and west n counties, on low lands, on the 20t d 21st and reported from one plac i the 25th. Ice formed in uppe: eenville county, and Hog Bac ountains were covered with snow ot e morning of the 20th. The sun ine was also deficient, averaging om 55 to 70 per cent. of the possible r the whole State. The rainfall wa o less than the usual amount an( at that fell was very poorly distribu d. No particular portion of the Stat( is favored more than any other, bu bat heavy rain there was came it avy showers that covered limite< eas only, while adjacent townshipi d no rain or only sprinkles. Ii neral the southeastern, extremi irtheastern, the north central and ex me western counties had the great t rainfail. In a few places hail dam ed young crops seriously. HigI bds were prevalent and caused mor' less damage in the early part of thi sk. The effect of those unfavorabl ather conditions has been not onll check all apparent growth but it any instances to give crops a se eck or to kill stands sufficiently t cessitate much replanting, especialli cotton. Before the cold weather set in cottor is looking far better than usual al is season of the year, but that condi )n has been materially changed foi e worse, and at the end of the weel ere is a remarkable unanimity in thi ports regarding the injury which wa, uise: by the cold weather. The plan1 less injured in some localities that hers, and less on upland soil than it ttom lands. It looks red and sickli ery vhere. In places the frost killet e tender plant outright; in othei ices the leaves only were touched me correspondents report that th mnt is shedding its leaves leaving ly the green stalk standing. A fey ports estimate the damage at 50 pel nt., which is by tar too great for th( ole State, and should their come e irm general rain witbirr a few dayi Lich of the stand now thought to b stroyed would take on a new growth is generally stated that the crop was rown back from ten to fitteen days te week was favorable for plowing d chopping and the fields are report quit e clean. Much planting has al any been done and much more wil done the coming week. Corn with )o the cool weather much bette an almost any other crop and is look g well, nut has made no appareni owth during the week. Bud wormt tinue to be destructive, also some t worms. Melon, pea and sweet po to vines suffered considerably frori e frost and their condition deteria. I during the week, except in favoret slities. Gardens and truck farm: re also unfavorably affected. Oat: rvest quite general and reports diffe: dly as to the condition of the crop, noing from very good to almost to tfailure. The former estimate 01 i a crop being a fair average of al e statements. Wheat ripening rap y and nearly every county report: rying conditions. The straw will bi nerally short, heads short but wel .ed and very plump. Grasses, ber s and the little fruit left, show gltly improved condition. Farmer: 11 advance with their work. Tht ed for rain is almost general ovel s State. The follo wing places repor1 e inch more of rainfall during thi t week: Looper, 1.26;Bsiufort, 1.15 t Rhyal, 251; Reid, 1.00; Heatti rings, 1.50; Greenwood, 1.22. John Mo rean Hang. REENILLE, S. C., J une 1.-Man3 ople~ came herre to witness the hang Sof John P. Morgan today, bu eir morbid curiosity was not grati d. Sheriff Gilreath had arranget atters so that only the legal numnei witnesses saw Morgan executed organ murdered his father-in law, L ashington Hipp in Saluda Township :eeille County, on June 18, 1892 organ was accused of being the fathe) a child born to a younger sister o1 s wife. He shot Hipp in the bacd ter a violent quarrel on the subject e was tried and convicted netort idge Aldrich in November.,1892. At peal was taken to theSupreme Cour the ground of after discovered evi ec. That tribunal dismissed the ap aI andt Morgan was resentenced by dge Witherspoon. All efforts to ob in a pardon or commutation fron >vern or Till man were unavailing organ was a staiwart, typical mon ieer. He~ met his death bravely te was extinct about ten minutes af r Morgan dropped. Hie leaves a famn iof six children. His remains wer< ken to North Carolina.-Itegister. A Coupie's Third Marriage. COLUMn US, May 28.-There was at iusuai event in the study of Chaplib 'inget, of the State prison, last even g. It was a wedding in which thi oom was a convict with the greatel rt of a seven years' sentence yet t< rye and the bride the daughter 0: be o Cmncinti's most promineni mles. T welve years ago B. F. Con . came to Cincinnati from ZMinnea dis, where he had lefk a wife and tw< iidren. At Cincinnati he marriec iss Emma Eberle. Ten years the; ,en together happily and three child ai Were born to tnem. Then t'ae faci at he bad a'uotner wife living be met known. It was agreed that Con d sh~ould get a divorce in Ainnesota om his ficst wife, which he did, bal his way back tell in love with ilwauaee girt and married her. 11 m married Miss Eoerle but sne lear: the deception had him arrested fo: gamy, for which ne is no w serving s seuItence. Last nighit she marrie' mrad for the third time, on the advici her la wyer, in order to make he: idren legitimate. The Milwaukel te recently secured a divorce an' OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. e Unveilingor the Monument la Memo y of their Valor. - RicHMOND. Va., May 30.-Tbe exer I cises incident to the unveiling of the t monument to Confederate soldiers and I sailors began today with the cavalry reunion. Fitz Lee, Wade Hampton, 6 Governor O'Ferrell, the Rev. J. William f Jones and Gen. Rosser made speeches. t Gen. Rosser was bitter in his arraign I ment of the United S:ates pension system. 7 The exercises of the day passed off I without a hitch, notwithstanding the I p fact that quite a heavy rain fell during 5 almost the whole time of the renditon 7 of the programme at the monument. t The [arade of military commands and I f Confederate veterans was the finest ever seen here, with the exception of that at the time of the unveiling of the 8 Lee monument. The column was an hour and a quarter passing a given Spoint. A noole feature of it was a body of several hundred children dressed in . Confederate colors-red white and red. These headed the line. The number of veterans was as great probably as at the Lee monument un veiling, and the presence in the ranks of Wade Hampton, Fitz Lee and other t heroes of the "Lost Cause," was the t occasion of enthusiastic cheering all al- I ong the line of march. The city was I crowded with visitors from cther r points in Virginia and Southern Sta':es, the number being conservatively ectA mated at 25,000. The Maryland delegation of veterans, headed by Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, was large and imposing. That from r Washington city was also conspicuous in the parade. A delegation from Char leston carried branches of palmetto in . their hands. .North Carolina was re presented by Adjutant General Came -I ron and several companies of State Guards, and South Carolina by several r I companies of State troops. The Vir- 2 gina Volunteers made a remarkably fine showing. t Business was almost entirely sus- 2 pended during the day, the banks, ex- 8 I changes and State and municipal offices being closed. Almost without excep- 3 tion, the houses on the line of march. were profusely decorated with the Con federate and Virginia colors, so that the parade was through lanes of bunt ing. "Oid Glorly" was by no means ab sent, however, being often intertwined 1 with other colors and flying from almost every flag staff. t At the monument the progamme was t carried out as arranged. Mr. D. C. t Richardson, president of the Monu- t mental Association, filled the post of s chairman with ability and modesty; a there was a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hoge, Mr. A. C. Gordon read his poem, written for the occasion, and the Rev. Mr. Cave of St. Louis then made the address of the day. - On the conclusion of the address, the veil was withdrawn by a little boy and a little girl, repres- I enting respecively the army and the c navy and there was a salute by artil- c lery and infantry, lasting some time I and walking the echoes of the James c as of yore. Toneight camp fires and t secial reunions are the order, 1 order, and the city is alive with the strains of music from military hands serenading here and ther-e. Tried to Swindle. CHARLESTON, S. C., May 30.-An im portant and interesting case was tried I in the United Statea circuit court at I Charleston, 6 C., Judge Brawley pre- t siding, on May 17, involving the sup- I pression, for the present, at least, of a t proposed forger, who also served a term in the penitentiary for forgery; and al so involving tne principle that the United States mails cannot be used for, lthe purpos of fraud, even If the prepet rator may not finally consummate his -schemes and become the beneficiary of his fraud or proposed frand. Oae P. A. Blackwood, writing over the ficti- I tious signature of W. D. Morris, Sr., I addressed the American Bank Note company, at Ne w York, asking thema to furnish him with a supply of South-c ern express money ')rders. Hie allege dt that his uncle was an agent of the Southern Express company, and had lost a lot of money orders, and they were ashamed to make loss known to Company and he wished to nave prices quoted by the hundred, the object beingI to obtain a supply of blank money or. ders by this subterfuge. At the same time he was negotiating by mail wit h r the Cole Printing company, of Sanford, N. C., with a view to obtaining checksa on sundry banks and letter heads with 11 the name of C. L. L-eop, geaeral audi-, tar, Sounthern Expr--ss company, print ed thereon. The American Babk Note company promptly referred the corres pondence received by them to General Auditor Loop, of the Southern Express Scompany, who placed the matter in the - hands of Rute Agent A. M. Richard 'son, of the same company, at Columbia S. C., who succeded in locating the all-( eged WV. D. Morris as one F. A. Black-a wood. Blackwoo:1 was arrested upon a 1 rwarrant sworn out by F. D. Peer, post- i - ofice inspector, who rendered materal I service in working up and prosecuting - the case. Blackwood was taken before [ the United States commissioner in CCharleston and committed far trial. .The witnesses against Blakwood were . T. H. Lee, of the American Bank Note 1 ,company of New York; C. L. L->oo, the3 . general auditor of tne SoutherniE xpres Ecompany; the postmaster at B~arn well, 1 SS. C., and others. The guilt of Black-c Swood was established so clearly thatc .there could be no doubt whatever.e aBlackwood was prosecuted by Unite-1l iStates Distric Attorney Marphy and Shis able assistants, Messrs Wood and -Hughes. A very forcible argument -was made in the case by District At Storney Murphy. Black good was ably -defended by R. Withers Memminger, I of the Charleston bar. An able andc .elaborate charge was delived by Judge -Brawley, in which the law of the case 1 .was carefually set forth, and the duty -of the jury in the consideration of the -evidence and the applicabilirs of the 1 Slaw carefully set forth. The jury, afterr retiring for a short time, returned a verdict of guilty. Blackwood, was sen tenced by Judge Brawley to imprison Sment in the Columbus, O., penitentiary - For ylPeop 1 Ljaged. 1MACoN. Ga., May 30.-The rear coach on the Albany and Columbus branch of the S'~nth Western R tlroad, r of Georgia. was overturned by a broken rail at Holts this mornmug and torty peo- t pie were injured, two or three of whom r -will in all probability die. The traiu c consisted of s'x coaches loaded with ex r cursionists from Andersouville, to at tend .Decoration Day; oxrcises at. the~ National Ce'metery. Tuiose: fataliy in jured are: John S-ni~h of B utfam. Aady - Johnes of E ji-on, and Ms. Ltoe of( Hllton, Ga. None ot ine euers are thought to be seriously iujoc< d. About 1,000 people were ou ts raio, each cosca 01 which was crowded almost to suffocation. The detailed ejaeu rolled down a steep eamb tkment and it is a miracle that many wvere not ku1led out right, as it contamned over 100 pe3ple,s many cf whom were standang at the I time of the accident. 0 ding to the oh- I scure locality of the wrecek, Iuil particu-f lars cnnot he gained nil later, k PROHIBITION APPEAL. VIRS. CHAPIN WRITES TO GOVER NOR TILLMAN. ;ays that the Bir room Blement is again Taking Charge ol Affairo-The Law Oncht to b, Effarced-Carollua's Men A 13o Called On. CoLUMBIA, S. C., May 30.-The oman's Christian Temperance Union ias made an appeal to Governor Tillmanx o d, what he can to aid in the enforce nent of the prohibition law and also ap >eals to the men of the State to do like vise. The appeal is as follows and peaks for itself: CHARLESTON, S. C., May 22. 'Governor Tillman: "The members of the Woman's Chris ian Temperance Union o f Charleston lo most earnestly entreat you not to re ax your efforts for the protection of our tomes and dear ones from the destruc. Ion that no i seems to threaten them in he return to license and the restoration o power of the rum Bends. Newspa ers which a few months ago preached ?rohi:>ition so elcquently that many eally believed they meant what they >reached are now advocating license, 'High license with restrictions" as bough the restrictions they propose tave not been a dead letter on our stat ite books for years, scaffed at and defied y the lawless crowd which they propose o restore to office. "South Carolina, he Palmetto S'ate, in the liquor raffic," has been a rallying cry or the anti-Dspensary host, and nd now, no sooner have the Dispensa es been closed than these very people ,dvccate forming a new p irtnership with 'The Palmetto State,' which they had aught us to believe they held so sacred, s chief partner in the firm of Van Bucket hop & Co. "When the Evans bill was passed in .892 we wished it had been prohibition nd fell; dreadfully over it, but when we ead the bill and found it proposed to lose every open barroom in the State ud allow licuor sold only by responsi - le persons, whose characters had to be ndorsed by a majority of persons in heir rard or town, as the case might ie, and who were pledged under oatn not o sell to minors, drunkards, or any one tder the influnence ofliqu-r and fo keep recrd of all sales made, which would t all times be open to inspection; the li nor sold in the Dispensaries was to as anali zsd by the State Chemist to in ure its purity, and the places in which was sold were to be closed at 6 o'clock .nd kept closed on the S3bbatb; the New Cork Tribune pronounced it "Ironclad rohibition,"' and we felt that it was ly one step ftom it. So we gave it ur encouratement and.support and des >ite of threats fcom barkeepers, and only [iscouragemeut from those whom we ad a right to excect would have stood > us, we have held the fort, worzing d praying for prohibition. Some are ejoicing that It has come, not in oar Ay, however, where the dens of iniquitv re all open, even on S:ndays. We re still hoping, praving, waiting. When he Supreme Court decided that the Dis >ensary bill was unconstitutional, many vere inclined to think as Jacob did, "All ese things are aeainst me'; but we :now better. The D:spenary had done be work God intended it to do. This iht is a battle bet ween the Devil and us allies and our great King and His fol owers, and unless we prove traitors we ust win with the victory, for "'Our God is within the shadows Keeping watch above is own.' The Disp~ensary proved that with a oan of courage at the head of aflairs, qaar laws could be enforced, if not ab iutely at first, fully as well as laws gainst burglary, murder or any other rIm. Paolic barrooms were most cer aily closed and that in despite of the ombined efterts of all classes of people rho gave encouravement and actually rought into prommenoce the lowest class . peonle because they dared to defy the tw. You have shown what an immense evenue accrues from the sale of whiskey u' you have told us your "object is not evenue,' and we believe you are too rue a man to sell the right of way into ur homes and barter our boys to the ~reign rum seller for revenue. 'When for our cause all hope was lost, tndI very heart was tempest tossed, Then homes in ashes round us lay Lud o'er us beamed no cheering ray, hen e'en our bravest were unmanned, tnd waves of woe waved o'er the land Cour Southern women checked each tear tnd oflered nothing but words of cheer." "And now we come to the men of arolina, partic~llarly to those who make ,nd enforce our laws, and entreat you to urotect the homEs we took care of dur og the war. 'Home is our kingdom,' rou s'ay, but we are powerless to defend t. You put into the hands of the vilest~ f scouring cf creation a weapon "Fir er set than bullets or than bayonet," rth which to attack our homes and des roy our dearest ones. Your protection 'on say is all sufficient. God grant it nay be so in this case, for we are stand ar ballotless, utterly unable to defend ur hones and we appeal to the men of 'ur State for help in this time of threat 'ned destruction. It you do not help us LO and the destroyers ot our homes get ato po .eer again, the wives and moth rs 01 our State will have again to go, .s they have gone in the past, into the um shops at night and on their knees >lead with brutal barkeepers, who, with urses, haye thurst them into the street. "We want prohibition, absolute prohii ition, withcut any 'clauses' exempting vie, beer or any liquor as a beverage. "Atlanta's experience is an object esson to us. Men who solemnly swore >ot to sell spirituous 1:quors soon per urs] themselves, and as an excuse for penig their barrooms on Sunday kept a nenagerie and made the excuse 'They ad to feed the animals.' I can never oret Mr. Grady's look as he prophesied vat exactly came to pass. "Let us be warud by Atlanta's expe ince to make no comoromise with the :orrid traffi, for tibe divine -condemna ion rests upon any nation or govern nen t w bich legalizes evil, "frameth mis aiief by iav and jistifies the wicked for e ward.' Wir b great respect. MRs. SALLIE F. CHAPIN, State Presi'ueist otSnuth Crolina. MRs. T. P. DE GAFFERELLY, President of' Cnarle'son Woman's bristian Tempcrance Union. Myct-rious Suicide. JACSONYILLE. Fla, June 1.-A pecial to the ?imes-Uaion from An 'iony, .Fla., says: Mr. Dave Turner, a vealthy citizenu of toi-s place, comnmit ed suicide today by hanging himself o a girder in his barn. HeI left a note tating that he was too miserable to uve. Why he was miserable no one :nows, as he possussed a comfortable ortune and his domestic reiations w ere ilaant. THE STATUS AT CLEMSON. Plilns of the Baard of Trustes for building-No Interruption. FoRT HILL, May 3.-The boar trusttes met here on last Friday nii and was in session until 3 o'clock a. when it adjourned until 9 o'clock same morning. Darlg the night, sion, the question of giving vacat until February next was presented i discussed at length. The board 1 unanimous in deciding that it wo not be for the good of the cadets, college nor the State to suspend exercises of the college and decii upon the follo wing reasons to contij the college as heretofore: That it wo cost not less than $4,000 to carry cadets home and return them ag when the college would be ready to ceive them; that the board was un, contract with the professors and tt salaries would stil continue, e though the exercises of the coli should be suspended; that to susp! the exercises of the college now wo demoralize everything, would depr a very large numder of youhg men v are now sacrificing a great deal to tain an education, from so dolag; t the equipments now ready for serl would have to lie idle until the reoy ing of the college in February, 1 that the large garden having cost v much to provide vegetables for the dets, would go to waste and be a d loss; that, since this is an agricult college and as this is the proper sea for work upon the farm, to suspi now would mean an irreparable lo: many and a serious loss to all, of many untold benefits to be derived fr the careful and tedious preparati made for experimenting during this, sion of the college, apon the farm; t there never was any necessity for ci ing, as the recitations and the work goinsr on as heretofore, but, of cou not with the same convenience; t suspending the college would mean allowing ot many, and probably all b now, to wilfully blast a happy and s cessful future in store tor them, sho they remain in Clemson College,,, the allowing of all to lose one wi year of schooling, simply on accounl a little wood, the crumbling of a : brick, and the loss of a few dollars; t as the magnificent building and its v equipped class rooms and physical : oratory were only conveniences and no means essentials for succes work therefore it was agreed that v sufficient work can be done in the to porary class rooms however imper and inconvenient they may be. Jn order to provide temparary c rooms and save the expense and trou of baving to pull them down when main,. building has been rebuilt, board decided to erect a hotel upon lane, lately purchased from Mr. I Hon. J. G. Clemson's son-in-law, , to use the building until they are re in t:2e new butilding, when the i will be vacated and leased to some 1 who will keep the hotel to entert visitors. Tha new main building will be built just where the late one ste using all the brick that will be of E service, and all the walls which 2 remain uninjured. Many conveniea and improve:ments will be made ul the new main building, whicn the 1 one was saoly in need of. The contract has not yet b awarded to any one and will not be til the board meets again in June. board decided to let the whole contl out, as it would cost them too mued undertake to rebuild the building, si they have dispos-d of all their mich ery, tools and the convict labor, an would not be at all advisable to p chase new machinery, ect. This i other reasons make it advisable to the contract out and take a bond uj the centractors for its faithful exe tion. The board further decided to b one of their numnber here all the tj while the college is building. It be the duty of the committee to recs or rr-get the worli and have full coni over everything while here. This et mittee will in turn be receivedt similar committee and so on until worn has been completed. The libr reading room, museum and society wil be built separately from the n building. The board further agreed to c: the corps of cadets'to Spartanburi the encampment, which takes pl' there during the month of July. adets are now discussing the plan advisability of getting up a comp and drill for the prize, but nothingc nite has yet been done. The question of giving'Saturday a holiday was brought be.fore the bos but as a full board was not preser only nine out of thirtean-it was 4 sidered best to postpone action until are present. Messrs. Bruce, from Atlanta, Thompson, from Rock Hill, no w sa intending the worm upon the colleg that place, came as soon as they cc after the fire, and have inspected walls and pronounced them danger< consequently a line has been put arol the wnole wreck and sentinels st: guard day and night, allowing no to pass within the line, except byj mission of the proper authority. Many cadets have left since the bat the vast majority have decided stand by the faculty and board of t: tees until this present embarrassn no longer cofronts them-until proud emblem which the fice has da to haul down, again shall float in1 umph over the new main building. R. H. WELCI A stra Pleadteh Ploi. COLUMBIA. S. C., May 31.-02 8 day the wIfe et Rzv. S3. P. Sebump a well known minister cf Lexing County went to visit a rehative so miles from her home. It was in evening when she returned. K-aos that it would be late before she arr! at her home her uncle, Nho she! been visiting decided to accompany I In so doing a henious crime was possi prevented. Befare the lady and her cort reached her home they f5undt the road had been barricaded by tr< stumps and other things. An invest; ion revealed that a number o: bareloa men had built the -barricade Furt investigation led to some startliog re lations. Tnese revelations exp~os ed alleged plot which had been iorme< itercept the lady on her return to home and to criminally assalut Two negroes were autested and are osed to be m L:xmngton jail. A ne named George Taxle'r was alsa a pected ot being implicaced mu the p He left Lexinston and came to this c In the meantime the mauher had been ported to Chief Radchfie by he huse o the lady and the Chiet lau-d oc f:>r all of the oflicers to iac2 'not our negro. Yesteraay min'raX O12 I ton saw ?aylor in M.?:i stree-. anLd rested him. Tax or was put in the ton house and wi I be kep'. there LI the arrival or Leiau~on ..zlsers. W will be donie wab the neoernes or 'M has been done with them is not kna If there has been any talk o: lynetlns has not reached this city. It is proba that if toe negroes have not been lync: their lives have Lungr on the lalur' ~hoce making investarations to get, si cint naamnst them.-Regrster. DID NOT SATISFY THEM. Re - TILLMAN AND BUTLER'S LETTERS I of COMMENTED UPON rht, the Th-y Ito Nit Sot "Ailfancemen,' who es- Poceed t3 Sbow Wherein Theyer Mis ion md tqken in Dissenting From Any ot the vaS Alliance Dtmenda uld . the CoLmrIA, S. C., May 31-The Co the lumbia Regi3ter of this morning pab l lishnes the following letter, which Is the lud strongest kick yet made against Gov. the Tillman's attitude towards the Alliance ain demands: re- Elitot Register: The answers of der Senator Butler and Governor Tillman eir to the questions propounded to them by Fen order of the State Alliance brings the ege Alliance face to face with a crisis. nd They are the only avowed candidates uld for U. S. Senator. Both of them are Ive practically in the same boat and neith rho er is in full accord with the demands at- of tbe Alliance. Both of them gagat hat the same two of our demands. Sena rice tor Butler thinks tne subtreasury is un en- constitutional aud of course It never $95; occurred to the learned Senator that ery the Constitutton might be amended. ca. He says the subtreasury has been aban ead doned, but fails to give the time and ual place when it was abandoned. ' son He can see no way of tbe government ncl Owning ar'd operating railroads except to by the government buying thosealready the in existence. Of coarsa it has never om occurred to the versatile Senator that rs the government has the right to build 3es- a'-d equip such roads as are needed. hat L Idlions of laborers would be glad of as- the job at very reasonable wages to be are paid in legal tender greenbacks-build rse, ing two, three or five thousand miles a hat year. O, no; the Senator is too good a the railroad attorney to see any other way ere of having government railroads except uc. by purchase of his client's property at uld enornously indlated valuation of wa md tered stock. But the people have been ole thinking along this line a little in the of interest of the people rather than of ew the railroad wreckers and mmanipula hat tors. Gvernor Tillman, on the other ell hand, objects to the ownership of rail ab. roads on the ground of wisdom and by practicabiHty, but he can advocate and ful ight for this along with the other de ery mands. To the subtreasary demand he m. is "unalterably opposed.' His reason ect seems to be that it is identical with the national banting principle. He says ass too that the Alliance is Inconsistent In ble this demand. It wbuld seem that the the Governor has - shifted his Psiion the somewhat on this point. In 1891 he ob the jected to the subtreasury because it ee, was "paternalism run mad," nowhO mna objects to it because it is like the na idy tional banking system. It seems >tel strange that a man of such splendid )ne abilities should make so egregious a ain mistake. The only points of resem blance bet ween the subrreasary and the re- national banking system are parplysa od, perficiai. Under the natioaal banktng Ly system the government farms out to d3 tne banks the f anction of issing mon ces ey, thus giving to a thousand or two on individuals tne right to issue or with ate hold the circulating medium at will. Under the subtreasury idea the gov een vrnment itself issues the money-not un. to a few tthoaand platocrats, not mere Cite ip to holders of cotton and wheat nor act yet necessarily to farmers exclusively, to but issues It direct to the masses of the nce people upon such security as the people in- can give. He says he is in favor of the i i government issuing money direct to ur- the people. Wnen he considers the wd proposition in all its bearings, he will let see that there is no other way of get- . pon ting it to the people. He3 says he did cn- not oppose thle incorporation Alliance demands into our State Democratic esp platform li'92. ime It was currently reported at the time ill that the Governor did oppose this In iye the R',or m platform caucus as contra roi to his judgoent, but coupled his pro m. test wiith the sound Democratic senti y a ment that it "my people won't go with the me I will go with them." He accepted ythis platfor.n and represented South bali Caroina Democracy on It a; Chicago. amn So much for the viewa of these candf' dates for U. S. Senator. The all Impor ~rry tant practical question is what are we ~on going to do? Tnese gentlemen claim ac to be honest, and we must conceed Ehe their claim. It would not be right to -md question their honesty or abuse them any because they hones'.ly differ with us. efi. We must grant them all the right to free thought arnd speech that we de as mand for ourselves; but we have a ird right to protect our honest convic it tions from being shut in to choice be on- tween t wo mien almost equally opposed all to us. Ho w shall we protect ourselves? 1. By protesting against a box for 13. nd S. Senator in the August primary, and. er- if one is provided over our protest, e at then refrain from voting In that box uld 2. We should see that in catechtsing th" candidates for the Legislature no can' Sdidate is required to commit himself Sfurther than to vote for a U. 3. Senator ndwho is in full accord with our demands one 3. See to it whea the State conren per- ventlon meets that the platform of 1892 is reaffirmed. ire What is here presented is not to be t t construed as in oppositlou to Governor 'us. Tillman. Every Reformer in the State ent would be proud to honor him, where It the did not involve sarfco i red We could evan-wi~ie migt e thing r.as we see them; we must even coma mend his candor In declaring his oppo' sition to our conviction. Bat being 'equally honest in our convictions, wa are bound to follow them with the n- same filelity and candor that we con et, cede 'to him. ALLIANCOEE. ton May 30,18. rnA ad Cat. the GALLIPotIs, 0., lMay 27.-Miss Ella ing Harris was att.acked by sc huge house c" at, and her screams hronght to her as. aad since Jake Copenhave, who gave the er cat a vicious kick, waen the infuriated bly animal attacked him fastening Its teeth es and claws in his leg, terribly lacerating hat it. Copen have tried his best to shake erit off, and then finding he could not ahe then siezedJ it by the throat and trle ento choke it to death. Failing in this herte drew his pocketkaife and literally hrsevered its head from its body, and ve- even then h.e had to take a spike and anpry the car's te-th apart befora he I ocould releaie its hold. In slashing at her hhe cat Cjpennave cut his right arm ier- severely and a physician was sent for, Up- Iwho pronouneed his wouad very se aro ious, as the cat was suffering from a- rabits. ___________ l1. A I arn~do. t '- BENNETTsVILLE, May 31.-This sec re- :.icmn w s y alled by a very destructive m4 :irmay esterday afternooa. Oa Capt.EP. er L. Bre-dn's farm the gin honse, en c~ oine house and two tenant houses were ;, ulo Na down, waie barn was moved Stsur inchess. (Cwte-ant houses on Mr SJimi-s. M:Dan'i!'s farm and the gin Shouse on Mr. B irney Wallace's farm Lster"N gin nouse a ;d Nessze. T. HI. ~ Beth-a's aind Ri. J. Tacum's barn were ni 01 n flio WQ. MIessrs. J. F Boiton and f 0.p. E es erimg's crops were ruined byN~. 04 he hail. A telegram from Mic~olI au states that tne nouse of Mr. J. W. SStone, who Jives i...ar tnat town was tLII- laterally tora ti pieces, killing his wife