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T X AN1fG TBESS LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, March 6, 1895. Congress has adjourned. Thanks, and it is to be hoped that another and a similar exhibition of ignorance and bull-headedness will never again be witnessed by the American peo ple. Our editorial columns are not as fall this week as usual on account of being crowded out by other matters, in fact we are forced to leave out communications, but they will appear next week. Let there be a rousing mass meet ing of white citizens in the court house on the 23d inst. Every sec tion of the county should be repre sented. Other counties have already selected representatives to attend the conference under the auspices of the "Forty" and Clarendon should do so also. Every Democrat who favors a non-factional constitutional conven tion should attend the mass meeting on Saturday 23d inst. The Charleston Sun does not seem to be willing to render to Casar the things that are Casars. It repro duces an extract from one of our editorials of last week in which we said that the Irby letter confirms what McLaurin said sometime ago in warning the people against those seeking to control the constitutional convention to perpetuate themselves in power, and we father said that the action of Tillman and Evans was in effect, an acknowledgment of the cor rectness of McLaurin's asertions. Now comes the Sun with the query, "but how comes it that McLaurin is counted among those disaffected to the peace and harmony arrange ments?" We have no knowledge of any disaffection on the part of Me Laurin, but on the contrary we have knowledge of the fact that he saw in to the game certain politicians were wanting to play, and having the cause of the people at heart he felt that he would be betraying the people who hive honored him if he did not speak out and show to them the plot. Me Laurin is not disaffected to any ar rangement by which peace and bar mony can be secured, but to him de serves the credit of fathering the movement that is going to bring about such a happy condition. McLaurin has no quarrel with Sen tor Tillman or Governor Evans nor any one else that will aid in securing ro the people a non-factional conven tion. and since these distinguished entemen have jumped into his wag on they will all ride on together to their destination and drive over any obstructions, whether they be placed there by Senator Irby or any of his sollowers, Court. When we went to press last week the esse *gis Hattie White alias Hattie Hil ,n and Ned Blackwell charged with adul tywa's be'ng tiued. The jury took the cause to their room and after struggling -,ith it all night they could not agaee, and Thursday morning when coi'rt re-convened a~ mistrial was ordered. Jerry Thompson alias Henry Lowry who plead guilty to the charge of obtaining p-operty under false pretenses, was sen tenced to one year in the State penitentiary. T~he case against Willis Johnson charged 'with burnag an untenanted house result lii' a verdict of not guilty. Te case against James Brown and .ibram Brown, Jim Mack and Snow Green coarged with burglary and lareney was rzuxt tried.' Sword Green was not tried on account of hia attorney being sick and is still in jail. Jim Mack was non-est-np stump-umn and the sheriff with longing es i on the lookout for him. James and Brown were found guilty and sen te.nced to five years in the penitentiary. Pelma Ard alias Tom Johnson and Susan Hicks alias Sasan Johnson charged with adultry, on account of the absense of wit -nesses were allowed to go on their own reonizance at the court's direction. JoaW. Frierson charged with unlaw ful traffic in seed cotton was found not guilty. This concluded the court of ses sions. In the court of common pleas several orders were taken by the attorneya. Only ~~two cases was tried which were the case .of &. A. Bigby sgaiast Mrs. Francis A., Logan 10 forecooe a nr o.tgage. After hearmng the argnus 'the Judge took the papers and will give his decision later. The other ease was S. A. Bigby against James W. McCauley et al rule to show cause why said parties should not be put off the premises ofS. A.Rigby, aplace purchased by the plaintiff at public sale under forclosure proceedings. The Judge issued an order to the sheriff to put Mr. Bigby in posses sion of the property. * A similar rule was issued against Col. *H. Li. Benbow at the suit of Thomas Wit -son, but owing to the pendency of a parti tion suit the action thereon was suspepided until the futher order of the court. We are informed that judge Wither spoon will ask the Chief Justice to appoint a time for the holding ofa aspecial term of court in this county, on account of the accumu Waed mass of business on the dockets. Court adjourned Saturday morning. Annual Meeting. The annual election of the Man ning guards took place last Saturday and the following officers were .elected: W C Davis, capt. A C Davis 1st lieut. C A Ridgill, 2d lieut. 3 E Kelly, 2d Jr. lieut. W M Lewis,1ls sergt. W W Johnson, 2d sergt. W RDavis,Sd0 sergt. W D Young, 4th sergt C L Ridgill, color sergt.. E S Ervin, quarter master J HJune,l1st corpl. J NMcLeod, 2d corpL. J C Graham, 3d corpL J C Tisdale, 4th corpal. Rev. 30O Gough, chaplin. G L Dickson, surgeon. 3 H Windham, drummer. C L Emannel, sectry. and tress. W T Tobias, armorer. The company numbers about 50. The next prize drill will take place the latter part of this month at Sum mnerton or Packsville, the place is not yet decided upon. The order will th:issued next week. The company is booming and the members are taking great interest as in seen by the turn outs on drill days. Buchinghami's Dye for the whiskers is the best handiest, safest, surest, cleanest, most economical and satisfactory dye ever in vened ti. the gentlemen's favorite: Recollections of Potter's Rald. BY MEv. WM. W. MOOD. Potter's army was now in the town (Man ning) and were busy fixing their tents for a comfortable night with the many, very many, who had followed them. of men women and children. Mrs. 3. heard calls in the yard, and on going to the back piazza saw the yard with many men white, surrounding the well. They asked for a towel to gwipe their hands upon. She produced an old tablecloth. They used the water freely. On returning the cloth, she innocently said: "I did not ex pect you to return it." Then there was a roar of good-natured laughter, and they said: "So you thought we were a company of thieves?" "No; I meant the cloth was so old that it wasinot worth returning." We don't intend to take anything that don't belong to us, but, pointing over to where the black soldiers were in a multi tude, "you had better secure a guard or else you'll be robbed of every thing you have." "Where can a guard be had?" "Over in that large white house (Dr. H. H. Huggin's). The General is quartered there, and if you'll ask him he'll give you a guard to the tront gate." Our first yisitor from this army was a soldier, white. He must have came up the back steps very stealthily. We only knew he was in the next room from his heavy tread, and the rattle of his spurs and his heavy iron sword scabbard, which struck the floor. He was a busy man. We never could tell what he was doing so so long in the loom, though a minute to us then was a long time in our anxiety. Mrs. K. now showed alarm, and she took the babe in her arms and sat upon the side of the bed beside me. The servants were evidently frightened. And now this sol dier, with heavy steps, walked into our room. He was a pale looking man, wear ing a light-colored felt hat, rather slouched. His face was not forbiding. though very much soiled with dust; looking as if he had been tearing cartridges with his teeth. He bore upon his right shoulder a formidable looking gun; there was brass about it. The lock rested upon his shoulder. His sword was in its scabbard at his side. At the door he stood a moment looking in, and around upon us. We expected him to speak, of course, but he was silent. W e hoped he would, it would have been a re lief. My conclusion was, he was of the cavalry force. His silence was- not pleas ant. As soon as he took in the surround ing he walked toward my bed, and, forc ing himself between the wall and the bed leaned over and looked me full in the face. The thought came at once: "You'lleertain ly know me when you see me again." Af ter he had given me that searching look and my eyes met his intent gaze. I pre pared myself to hear him speak, but he did not. He then stood before the mirror, and shoved back his slouched hat from off his forehead, and with the cuff of his left hand wiped his begrimed and smutty face. He then placed in his right hand pocket (oreast) a box of matches. (It was a wooden box) from the mantlepiece. He then turned to look at me, and as he turned, his gun upon his shoulder, and the bayonent fixedI was sure it would shiver the mirror into frag ments, but it escaped. I watched him closely. And now sometimes when I look into the same mirror, I wish I could see once more this stranger's face so silent and yet so busy. He then walked into the par lor and. stood before Col. Jas. Davis's oil portrait, which was conspicously placed upon the melodeon. I thought now he'll speak, but he did not. He now turned and looked at the clock. It was a valuable Frence instrument of black marble. It interested him, and having stood before it long enough to excite covetousness in his heart-(Joshua, 7: 21st verse) he asked: "What o'clock is it?" I could see all of his movements from where I lay in bed in my room. I replied. "There's the clock." "It is not running." (It had not been wound up.) "Where'; your watch?" "The two watches belonging in this house have been hidden in a hollow tree in "Black River Swamp." If the ode who hid them never returns to us (E. R. P.) they'll never be found; he only knows where they are. "You'll never get our watches." He left the premises by the back door; the creak ing othe gate told ushe was gone. I re member so well that now Mrs. Caldwell paid us another visit; she was not less ex cited than before, and simply repeated what she had said before-of the rage of the soldiers, and of their settled purpose to burn the town, and that I was the one who had shot their companion and had run into my house and had gone to bed. She was urgent that I should make the effort and dress, myself. She seemed satisfied that harm was intend me. But somehow I could not feel alarmed; I was not frightened my conscious innocence kept me calm. But I was concerned about the brave little women who sat beside me on the bed holding the babe in her arms. She fully entered into Mrs. C's. entreaties. I simply slipped my pantaloons on, though I did it under difficulties, which difficulties if here recorded would likely amuse my readers. Mrs. C. had not been long gone when the house on the North side was suddently as asailed with billets of wood and brickbats. We were now alarmed, for it seemed as if the blinds and even the weatherboarding would be beaten down. Fearing this we all crouched in the middle of the floor, and tried to feel that we were in God's hands, and that He could alone protect us from the savage wrath. When it ceased w'e then fully expected them to intrude upon us, What might we now expect? We thought over and over of all that Mrs. C. had told us, that the surgeon had told them; for the had applied to the General and he had given the family a guard in the rsn of the Surgeon (Briggs of the 9th 'hgnRegiment.) She and her sister had had some conversation with him, and in reply to their inquiries he had replied: "We have burned all the cotton, destroyed all the corn, and laid waste the newly planted fields; and we have killed ever thing in our march from a cow to a cat." But what gave us more concern was that "I had slipped into bed after I had shot down their companion in the street." If they really believed this may they not pro. eed to extremities? The attack upon the house was ominous with the visit of the soldier, who had searched my face so close ly. There was a purpose in this scrutiny. But we awaited results as composedly as we ould. Sumter, S. C. To be continued1 Pinewood Sayings. Pinewood, Feb. 26.-I take the liberty of giving your valuable paper a few dots from Pinewood, as no one from this place seems so inclined. Pinewood is still on a boom. Goods can; be bought here now very low. The mer chants are not very busy selling goods now, but they are busy refusing to sell on time. The farmers of this section are behindt irth their farms this year, and .they are own in the mouth on the oat question. The oat crop I think is lost. Some arec planting but very lightly, and they will have their oat land to plant in something t else, but from what can be learned they are going to plant corn and peas. I hope z the loss of thc oat crop won't cause the a farmers to plant cotton. Hard times is the general talk now, but c the men that are doing the most of talking t are those that have plenty around them, a We don't see into this, unless it is they are afraid that they will have to divide with b the needy. Times are tight in some re -Il spects we all know, but the farmers around here have more corn in their barns than i ommon, meat and cane syrup more tl than any year since the war. I'hen t1 what's the use for that class to suffer so? ti Why not let the poor needy ones that arey really in need do the fretting, and let this a class remember who are their neighbors j when the time of suffering comes; but we b hope for the better.y The farmers are priding themselves on hog-raising. Some people think it take3 a 1< large pasture to raise hogs, but it's all a ta mistake. We have a farmer in our section t1 who has for some years been raising plenty ti of meat for his own use, and some lard to e sell, on a lot of about two acres, and in his d horse lot this year the same man has killed ec meat enough to almost run his entire farm. h It isn't large pastures that raises large hogs; vi it's plenty of corn, and we can make it as d heap as any people if we try. Some peo ie will say, it takes so much corn to raise ti hogs. If they buy the corn it will take a tI lot, because they know just how much they it had and just what they will have to do go to feed his hogs and carry a quart out and bring a pint back just because the scr of corn is nearly out, and he knows just how much he bought and how much he has and how long it has got to last. But a man with his own corn, it's in a pile, it looks large, he don't know just what he's got, so he will feed without looking back at the corn pile. Every r'uobing he lets fall among his pigs. Let as raise our corn and then we will not bare to give an account of why didn't it last 1tunger. We noticed a piece in The Manning Times that was -ery striking. It was headed: "Just a Few Humbugs." It, I be lieve, was from an old citizen of Spartan burg, S. C. le is on the right track. He mentions several things which was really hambugs: the clock, the stove, the hedge fence, and so on. One of our neighbors is so hostile with agents that he won't let one stop. I suppose he has been bit. Country folks catch it on every side. We are hum bugged on every hand. In a pound of to bacco we often pay for a lot of tin or greased paper. In shoes, paper and nearly every thing else. Then let a poor farmer carry something to market and it will be exam ined through and through and then bought for less than its value. For instance, butter: some of the buyers will tell you they prefer fresih butter in order to not pay for any salt. Then order meat and see the salt we have to pay for. Cairy chick ens or eggs to sell and see how they will almost pick them to pieces to see if they are all right. Well, maybe times will take a change when the women get charge of things. I think they would do a lot of good in this respeet, for they don't like these agents much no how. PNEwooD Fanzrn. TO REFORMERS, ALLIANCEMEN, AND ALL SOUTH CAROLINIANS! "Let the People Rule!" I speak to white men for white men ! They are the people, the rulers in South Carolina. It was by their patriotism and the shedding of their precious blood that the brightest pages of South Carolina his tory are illumined. I am an original Allianceman and Re former, and more an "old veteran," "native here and to the manor born." This is our country. When I speak of the people. I mean the white people of South Carolina. It is not only best for white men, it is best for colored men that the whole policy of the State should be left in the hands of the white people, just as in business and every day affairs it is best that white people should lead and direct. To appeal to the colored vote directly or indirectly to settle differences between white people is politically, and morally wrong. It looks bad, therefore it is bad. The colored vote will never be the throne, nor the power behind the throne again in South Carolina. Hence the white man's primary is the place to settle all our differ. ences. There is a sense of justice and right in the hearts of the great majority of the Re formers, and we have no reason to say there are not the sime feelings in the hearts of Conservatives. The trouble is we have been at war over political issues, and now that those issues have been practically settled, let us call a truce, and look forward not backwards on the irrevocable past, its mistakes and wrongs. The meetings and purposes of the colored ministers if carried out will bring only ruin on the masses of the colored people now quiet and contented. When over three millions of slaves were given the power to vote and rule over their former masters, Dr. Richard Fuler, of Beaufort, S. C., then of Baltimore, one of the grandest pulpit orators of America, was at Washington watching the final vote by which universal suffrage was proclaimed. This great and good man could find no words in his large vocabulary to express his grief. He telegraphed to "The Religious Herald," Richmond, Va.: "The die is cast," and in the language of heart-broken Byron, exclaimed: "My native lan d, good night." We passed through that dark night that seemed almost perpetual. We were plunged 20 millions in debt, and pillaged and robbed and burned. A northern man seeing the negroes, carpet-baggers and scallawags, black and ring-streaked led by others with whiter skins but blacker hearts, all feeding together on the vitals of South Carolina, who bound like "Poometeotis" could only endure: He to frighten the ill omened birds away lifted up his voice and the grangers of the West and the Demo crats of the North lifted up their voices in behalf of "The Prostrate State" until even our enemies relented, and public opinion that omnipotent law was so aroused in 1876, that when Gen'l Grant at the bidding of Chamberlain, lifted the military arm of the nation to strike us down, the public opin ion of the North responded: "Thou shalt not smite them," "They are our brethren, they are white men." When Gen'l Hampton and The Bald Eagle of Edgefield, Gen. Butler, ad the Haskells led forth the crimsoned soldiers, the beauty and chivalry of South Carolina, all plaided and plumed in their tartan trray" to canvass the State for white su premacy," at one of the campaign meetings in response to threats he bared his bosom to the federal soldiers and said, "fire!! but you are our soldiers, that is our flag ! !" in electric thrill shook every heart in :outh Carolina, and the national heart was Ered with admiration. It was this public ,pinion that finally removed the soldiers rom our State house and gave peace to our people. When the news was flashed over the wires, "Hampton is elected," there was re ,oicing all over South Carolina. The ne groes rejoiced, for they had had enough of aegro rule. Dr. Iteynolds, of the South Darolina College announced the news to ;he Baptist Association then being held in ;he historic Welch Neck church at Society Eill, in these sublime and beautiful words: "Gen. Hampton is elected governor of South Carolina ! Now is the winter of our liscontent made glorious summer by this run of York,and all the clouds that lowered ipon our house in the deep bosom of the >cean buried." Let us go slow, however, in the constitui ional business, and not build a "Hanman's ~allows upon which to hang 'ourselves. 'Heat aot a furnace for your foe so hot hat it do singe yourself." We owe a little respect to the constitu ion of the United States. Uncle Sam is rery quiet just now, possibly from inertia; >ut when he gets a move on him he ac juires momentum very rapidly. In the iext Congress with the new engineers and iremen, Messrs. Thos. Reid, McKinley, t al, any schedule we may make in the >recedents will certainly be improved upon o our disadvantage. We had better go low, have the air and hand brakes in or Ier and a steady hand at the throttle. We ,re rounding a curve, a precipice is ahead nd only a narrow margin between! Of all fallacies that of confusion is the oost common and misleading. So says he late Dr. AlcAsh, one of the most distin nished authorities on the "science and heory of thought": "We have truth when ur ideas are conformed to things." Let us ive attention to the realities, the facts, the hings. The passions and prejudices of the hu ian heart should have no place in the con ideration of great foundation truths and >rinciples such as underlie the structure f our government. We have at such times ie greatest need of our best thought and ad the truest feelings and most patriotic romptings of our hearts. The liberty, the appiness, the prosperity, and even the fe of our people demand it. Prejudice and appeals to passion throw against a constitution made by others ian white South Carolinians is so great, aat is likely to hurry the people to destroy iat which in times like these is their only rotection. "If you are sitting on a rock,'" iid Mr. Spurgeon in the parlance of John lowman, "and you can feed yourself, you ad better be sure you can do better before on get off." Let us not "give to party that which be ngs to our country." "When men are re Llieting upon others they are reckless of ie tuture, and do not hesitate to annul iose common laws of humanity to which - very tndividual trusts for his own hope of eliverance sbould he ever be overtrkeu byv diamity. They forget that in their own our of need they will look for them in a uin." Thus wrote Thacidides four hun- A red and seventy-one years before Cirist. t. The tie of the party was stronger than the a e of blood." What is it to-day after more fa tan eighteen hundred years of Christian- I yH EN C. Buns. h Society Hill. March 4, 1894. o [Ton be continned. . CONGRESS REVIEWED Work of the Three Sessions of the Memorable Body. SILVER, TARIFF, AND BOND MIATTERS Summary of the Work of Both Branches df That Honorable Body From the Extra Session to Present Time. What Has Been Done. WAS=IsGTOX, March 4.-Congress ad journs at noon today. Both branches have been in continuous session since Saturday, night and day. All the great appropriation bills were in the hands of the president at daylight this morn ing. The gre.nd total of appropria tions, subject to some few changes, is found to be $497,994,604. This is di vided among the bills as follows: Agricultural..........................8 3,303.750 Army.................................. 23252.638 Diplomatic........................... 1.575073 District of Columbia................. 5,916,533 Fortifications........................ 1.904,557 Indian................................ 8,976,948 Legislative.........a ............... 21.900.000 Military Academy.................... 464.281 Naval................................. 29.100.000 Pensions.............................. 141,381.570 Postoice............................. 89,545,997 Sundry civil.......................... 47,140,000 Urgent deficiency.................... 2,357.321 General deficiency................... 8,800000 Miscellaneous........................ 500.000 Permanent ........................... 113.073.96 Summary of Work Accomplished. WAsmNGrox, March 5.-The three sessions of the fifty-third congress, ex piring at noon today, were dominated by three controlling issues. The first by the silver question. The second by the tariff question. The third by the financial question. On the 7th of August, 1898, the con gress convened in extraordinary ses sion for the avowed purpose of repeal ing the compulsory silver purchase pro vision of the law of 1890. This was the silver session. Mr. William L. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee, pre pared a bill in conformity to the recom mer-dations of the president's message, and on the Zth of August, 1893, this measure passed the house. The senate in the meantime had been preparing, through the committee on finance, a substitute bill, and on the first of No vember this senate substitute received the approval of both houses and be came law by the approval of the presi dent. This measure, and the repeal of the remaining vestiges of the recon struction federal election laws, closed the important work of the extra ses sion. The Reversion of the TarifL Upon its meeting in regular session in December, 1893, congress entered upon the consideration of the reversion of the tariff. The Wilson tariff bill, passed by the house February 1st, 1894, was set aside for the Jones-Gorman compromise tariff bill, adopted by the senate on the third of July. 1894, after four months' debate, and the house was given the option of the "senate bill or nothing." It took the senate bill and sent it to the president on the 15th of August, 1894, President Cleve land permitted the bill to become a law without his approval, and in an infor mal manner communicated to individ ual members of congress his dissatis faction with the inadequacy of the changes made in the tariff system. Supplemental to the passage of this tariff law, the senate entered upon a profitless and Inconclusive investiga tion of rumors that senators had been improperly innluenced to vote for the senate sugar scedule and had speculat ed in stocks of the so-called "sugar trust company." Locir of Financial Legislation. The third and last, or "financial" ses sion of the fifty-third congress has been especially marked by the refusal of both houses to put into legislative shape the recommendations of the pres ident for the alleviation of the string ent financial situation. The president in his annual message called attention to the continual deple tion of the gold reserve and complained that though it was "perfectly and pal pably plain that the only way under present conditions by which this re serve, when dangerously depleted, can be replenished is through the issue and sale of bonds of the government for gold, congress has not only thus far dcllined to authorize the issue of bonds best suited to such a puirpose, but there seems a disposition in some quarters to deny both the necessity and the power for the issue of bonds at all." The Fate of a Banking Bill. The banking and currency committee of the house, with the approval of the administration, submitted a financial measure which among other provisions, materially modified the National bank ing laws and repealed the restrictions on state bank circulation. This bill was defeated by six majority. It was followed by a second message from the president, received by both houses of congress December 28th, in which the president said that whatever might have been the merits of the original plaal proposed by him, he was "now onvinced that its reception by the ongress in the advanced stage of the financial situation necessitated addi ional or different legislation." He once again recommended the passage of a law authorizing the issue of low nterest bearing bonds to maintain the gold reserve. The banking and cur :ency committee responded to this sug gestion by offering on the first of Feb ruary, 1895, a bill to "authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds to maintain a sufficient gold reserve and to redeem and retire United States :notes." What Led to the Bond Issue. After only two days' debate this bill was also defeatted by a majority of ;wenty-scven. On the next day the president informed congress that he sad negotiated a conditional sale of >ver sixty-two millions of dollars of our per cent coin bonds to a syndicate argely representing foreign capitalists, TATE OF OHro, C rrYO ToLEzDo, LucAis CoUNm. s. Faisx F. CNm.~r makes oath that he ie senior partner of thefirm of F. J. CNE s & Co.. doing business in the City of oledo, County and State aforesaid, and. at said firm will pay the sum of ONE [UNDRtED DOLL ARS for each and every se of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the se of HALL's CATARnK CmnE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my resence, this Gth day of December, A. D. 86. A. W.GLEASON, EAL) Notary Public. all's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and ts directly on the blood and mucous sur ces of the system. Send for testimonials, oe. F. J. CH ENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. W'Sold by Druggist. 75c-. aC The Y.JP. C. A. The exercises were opened last Sunday c ternoon withiprayer by Mr. Ned Harvin. c n interesting extract was read by Mr. F. .Richardson. The subject for discussion the next meeting was announced to be urm Romans on the subject of "Purity of' ife," and will be conducted by Capt. Brad am and Mr. Conyers Horton, in the Meth- a list church, at 4.30 o'clock, Sunday after- t >on. PAD GALEMPAR F-or a You Need - @ It. A Desk Calendar .s a necessity most convenient kir.d of storehouse for memoranda. The Columbia Desk Calendar is brightest and handsomest of all- full of dainty silhouettes and pea sketches and entcrtaining thoughts on outdoor exercise and sport. Occasionally remirds you of the superb quality of Columbia Bi cycles and of your need of one. You won't object to that, of course. The Calendar will be maikd for five 2-cent stamps. Address Cclendar Department, POPE MPG. CO., Mention this paper har'ford, Conn. MORGAN WAS FOUND GUILTY. Senteneed to Serve Eighteen Year In rthe Virginia Penitentiary. STAFFonD, C. H., Va., March 1.-At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the jury reached a verdict in the Acquia Creek train robbery case, after being out only ten minutes. The verdict -eads: "We, the jury of the indicted prisoner. Chas. Morgan alias Charles Augustes Morg.mfleld. find him guilty as charged in the indiztment and fix his term of oonfinement in the peniten tiary at eighteen years." The execution of the sentence will be suspended until the fifth day of April next to enable Morgan's counsel to ap ply for an appeal. The commonwealth announced that it was ready to try Charles J. Searcey, Morgan's accomplice in the robbery. Searcy was brought into court and through his counsel asked for a con tinuance. No objection being raised it was so ordered. There are four other indictments pending against Morgan. The verdict meets with general ap provaL THE FIGHT IN THE EAST. Story of the Defeat Given the Chinese Be cently Near Ta Ping Shan. Tonro, March 2.-Field Marshal Oyama reports that on the morning of February 24, the first division of the Japanese army about Kai ?ing defedted the enemy near Ta Ping Shan. In the afternoon of the same day a force of about 13,000 of the enemy with twenty guns began an attack from Peimaitaz, Tonchahotz, Faoyanaim. After a heavy cannonade we attacked their centre at three o'clock in the af ternoon and repulsed them driving them toward Kingeow. Our loss was 20 killed, 250 wounded including seven of ficers. The enemy lost 200 killed. Number of their wounded is unknown. Natives state that the Chinese came in full force 20,000 strong led by Gen erals Sung Ma, Shang and Chang Sung. TRAGEDY iN ALABAMA. Details of a Killing That Occurred Near . Warrior. W~naron, Ala., March 5.-At the "Gray Goose" saloon, fl'e miles from this place, yesterday, John Franklin, the proprietor, shot and killed William Howard. The place is in Blount coun ty and as a law of the state prevents selling whisky within five miles of Warrior, Franklin put up a bar at the point above referred to. Yesterday among others, Howard was at the "Gray Goose" and after taking several drinks reftised to- pay and after a few words, knocked Franklin down and ran. Franklin grabbed a pistol and followed shooting Howard through the back and stomach, killing him. Frank Lin is -under arrest. Howard leaves a wife and five children. TH E SOUTH ERN STILL SPREADS. Ashevlle and Spartanburg and Spartan burg, Union and Columbia Roads. A-rLimT, March 4.--The announce ment is made of the sale of the As'he ville and Spartanburg and also of the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia rail roads, to the Southern railway compa ny by Mr. John .E. Inman, of New York. Mr. Inman and his family have for a long time owned a controlling in terest in these roads. The contract price calls for the immediate payment of two milllon .dollars in securities of the Southern railway company and also a large cash payment. The South ern railway company took possession >f both of these properties yesterday. THE CONDITIONS IMPROVED. ?ll Departments of Commercial Business Looking Up In the South. Nxw YonK, March 2.-Bradstreets today says: While the course of general trade during the Lrst two months of the current year has beeni lisappointing, February ends and March be inas with tangible though not as yet satisfac tory signs of Improvement. It is encouraging to note that gains are reported in the volume if trade at almost every southern city, not ithstanding advioes from northern Cities, hose jobbers supply southern and south estern markets, that low prices for products tad curtailed purchasing ability at the south] ,nd southwest. At the west there is less en ,ouragement,lmprovement being reported only rom Louisville, Chicago. St. Louis and St. Paul. __________ TWENTY FOUR MEET DEATH. 1 rhe Exact Number Elled in the New Mex leo Mine Explosion. . Miarch 1-The ex- 1 - >m Wednesday's< - sion abated some - - exact number known. Twenty ~ --recovered which ' - en except one, a - ws~iwas so commence work ~Vednesday and who has not been i ound. Most of the victims were bur ed yesterday afternoon, making the argest funeral New Mexico has ever een in time of peace. A tI THE RENO HOTEL BURNED. r< 'hbe Celebrated Nebraska Inn Wrecked by a Fire and Water, Nonvoia Neb., March 2.-At 12:80 g esterday, fire broke out In the rear ofb he Reno hotel. The wind was blow-t ng a hurricane from the north and for tinxie it seemed as though the flames rould leap across Main street and de troy everythin~g in their path. The otel is complettely wrecked Inside by n. re and water. Loss heavy. New Orleans ilerewmen Change Front. tC NEw OuxnnArs, March 2.-The screw- t aen of the port have effected a change * I front, and from today will screw :>tton in steatmships for thirty-five ents per bale on steam and forty-five n. sailing vessels. Large Phosphate Purchase in Florida. JACxsocNILLE, Fla., March 1.- p ~astern capitalists have purchased 6,500 cres of phosphate lands in Levy coun r, Fla., paying therefor $85,000 cash. large mining plant will be establish WEEK'S NEWS CONDENS -ED. A heavy rain has broken the Crought in northern Texas. The Mississippi is now open to navi gation as far as Cario. The Chicago sailed from Gibralta for New York yesterday. The postoffice at Shiloh, N. J., was burglarized last night. The condition of Murderer Gentry at Philadelphia continues to improve. The drouth district of Nebraska was blessed yesterday with a heavy rain. The Norfolk, Conn., Iron works have closed, throwing 200 men out of work. Lord Losebery's condition i3 much improved despite the condition of his insomnia. The James river, at Richmond. after being frozen over for two weeks, has been opened for navigation. The weivers at the Lancaster Mills, Clinton, Mass., struck Monday morn ing against a reduction of wages. Mrs. Isaac Hope, of Blissfield, Mich., has fallen heir to nearly $1,000,000 by the death of an uncle in Africa. Much damage was done by the break ing ot a dam across the Nahoning river at Wdrren, 0., last night. Messrs F. and H. Fries, of Salem, N. C., are interested in a new cotton mill company now being organized. The accounts of missing Secretary Gruchy, of the Buckeye Building and Loan Association, are short $1,500. A movement is afoot at Denmark, S. C., for the organization of a *50,000 stock company to build a cofton mill. A company has been organized to build a cotton factory at Siler City, N. C., and work will commence at once. The body of a man supposed to be that of J. R. Seeley, of Springfield, Mass., was found in Chicago yesterday. Nine-tenths of district assembly No. 3 at Pittsburg will desert the old Knights of Labor for the new organiza tion. Actors McKee Rankin and Patrick O'Neill were arrested at Kansas City yesterday for obtaining board through deceit. The Holt county, Neb., relief com mittee denounce as frauds persons sa liciting aid in the east for the drought sufferers. Six robbers were frightened away from a Chicago hotel yesterday morn ing after having entered the room of three guests. The house of representatives of Mis souri defeated the bill against high hats in theatres and churches by a vote of 40 to 51. W. H. Hazel, wanted in New York for obtaining money under false pre tences, has left San Francisco in charge of an officer. The Fort Mill, S. C., Manufacturing Co., has decided to put in 5,200 addi tional spindles, and order for same has been placed. A movement has been started at La Fayette, Ala., for the erection of a cot ton mill, and subscription books are being circulated. Secret service detectives in Chicago yesterday arrested two men and a wo man who have been engaged in exten sive counterfeiting. C. Donnelly, an Omaha, Neb., gam bler, testified before the grand jury yesterday that he had paid to an offi cial $1,800 for protcction. Two skeletons, believed to be those of two young men who left Kansas City six years ago, have been found in a cave near Comstock, Tex. After an alleged humorous debate the New York legislature has killed Assemblyman Duncan's anti-theatre high hat bill by a vote of 18 to 42. Empress Eugenie l'eaves England for Corsica today to sojourn in A jaccio. The government is taking precautions to prevent royalist demonstrations. The contest over the will of Mary L. sbell at New Haven, Conn., was con tinued until next Monday because of the alleeged discovery of another will. The Galveston, Texas, bagging fac tory has been put in operation agatin with about 100 operatives. The plant has commenced work on a cargo of Jute from India. The Mammoth Spring, Arkr., cotton maills has secured contract to supply the Arkansas state penitentiary with :lothing, in competition wit eastern and other mills. Kaiser Wilhelm has nominated Bin ieror Francis Joseph, of Austria Field \larshal of Germany, to fill the vacanoy :aused by the death of Archduke . Albert of Austria. The Vienna "Fremnbenblatt" claims nformation from a trustworthy source har Prince Lobanoff-Rostovski, Rus ian Ambassador to Austria will be lussian foreign minister to succeed the ate M. de Giers. The Vienna corespondent of the .ondon Central News states that a muraber of persons, mostly students, iave been arrested in Keefr and Odessa ,n suspicion that they were engaged in -evolutionary plots. Ex-Premier Gilloitti has appeared >efore the examining magistrate of tome and denied the competence of an >rdinary judge to try him in connec ion with the documents which had >een published by the order of the hamber of deputies. The war department of France has ompleted experiments with a new gun rhich is guaranteed for a thousand ounds. After :;,000j rounds had been tred with the heaviest char;;es of mokeless powder, the gun was found a a fair condition. NERVOUS PEOPLE nd those who are all tired out andi have at tired fceling or sick~ headacho can be beved of all these symptomoa by taking ood's Sairsapa~rilln, which gives nerve, ental ana bodily strr' ngLth and tiicorough purifies thc blood. It also creates a >Ol appetite. curei indigestzon, heart ir a ana. dyspepsia. H~ood's P" .are eanc to takre, easy in ac mn and sure inL effect. 25c. - No 31ore Seed. 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BALTIMORE, M. &HILLRE 4~ TA5STELEs"5 T NI 5S JUST AS COOD FOR ADU LTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 ctsL GLATIA, ILLS, Nov. 16, 2=~3 Paris.1edicine Co., St..AuiA, oo. G tV' TeLE CHJ% C adhave bought thre grsl ea n hi er. Inalour rVi asyur Tonc Yors truly .&Aczr, CARn 400,. For sule by Ri. B. Loryea, the Druggist, Manning, S. C. gRunning ~ Cues $ Sores. the Serpent's ~CNTGIUSSting. ~BL00 POISON in.or.adie. ~It zemo ihpisonnb dse system :nailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Rising Breast "MOTHERS' SFRIEND" t eang wman.b g[aebeena mid-wife o Frien has'been used it has accmplse o wonders and r evducserng. Iti a. M. . Bausmn,Montgomery, Ala. n will use afew bottles o'Mote' Fried they will gotrugh the ordeal without any a Mas. MAY BRAOaAM, Argusville, N. D). -"Used' Mother's Friend' before birth of myeighth child. Willnverceatpralse. 1 prie $x Sope bttle. d al dru. So a to Mothers mnailed free cont'n' valuableaf alc BasnFIa~ELDRxUAroCo.tlnta,G. t< g -ti W. L DOUcLAs a $3 SHOEp ME?. *2.OR KI. - , EXTROw~A INE. SL2.!.BGYS'SaML -LADIESe Over One Mililon People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory' Tey give thebs valu for th eet Fo if o $ savedp oth ktiaga. Horton, Buro'ess & Co. S tt M.N. BAHR BO. DEALI.ES IN AND MANUFACTUREEs OF TI akes, Biscuits and Plain and Fancy Candies. nny Candies and Chewing Gums. Is French Mixtures and Chrystallized Fruits. [9 Kimg Street CHARETn, . C. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF CLARENDON. The Books of Registration will be opened in the Court House, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. as the law directs on the first Monday in each month, until the first Mon day in July, 1895, when the law re quires them closed. This is for the purpose of registering all persons who have become of age. or entitled to register since the last election; to transfer persons from this to another county, and from one township to another, or from one residence to another. All this must 4ge done be fore or on the first Monday in July, 1895. Lost certificates may be re newed to within 30 days of the elec tion, and those who become of age between 1st of July and the election, may register at any time before election. Those who refused or neglected to register before the last election, con not register until the law is changed. Also in accordance with an Act of the Legislature providing for a con stitutional convention the books for the registration of voters will be open on the first Monday in March and kept open for 10 consective days thereafter, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. Sections 4, 6 and 7 of said Act pro vides: Sec. 4. Every male citizen of the United States and of this State of the age of twenty-one years not la boring under the disabilities named in the Constitution of this State, and duly qualified to vote under the ex isting laws of the State, and duly registered as now - required by law, or who, having been entitled to re gister as a voter at the time of the general registration of electors in this State, which took place in the year of our Lord 1882 or at anytime subsequent thereto,failed to register at such time as required by law, or who has become a citizen of this State and who will register as here inafter provided in such cases, shall be entitled to vote for -delegates to said convention. Sec. 6. That on the first Monday of March, In the year of our Lord 1895, the Supervisor of Registration of each county.shall at thecounty seat thereof, open his books of registra tion, and shall hold the same open for ten consecutive calendar days thereafter, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon ndf4 :o'clock in the afternoon. * * * * * * * during which time any elector then. or heretofore at any time entitled to regis ter as a qualified voter, or who has become a citizen of this State, shall be, during the time here in fixed for such registration also on the days now fixed by law for registra tion, and entitled to register as such as hereinafter provided; and any elector having been heretofore duly registered, or having lost his certifi cate, shall be entitled to have the same tranferred or renewed as now provided by law. Sec. 7. Any elector who shall have been entitled to register at the gen eral registration in the year of our Lord 1892, or at any time subsequent thereto, and who failed to register at such time as required by law, and who shall make application under oath, in accordance with a printed form to be prepared by the Attorney General, setting forth in each case the fact, to-wit: The full name, age, occupation and residence of the ap plicant at the time of the said gen eral registration, or at any time thereafter when the said applicant became entitled to register, and the place or places of his residence since the time when he became entitled to register, which affidavit shall be sup ported by the affidavits of two repu table citizens, who, were each of wenty-one years on the 30th day of. rune, Anna Domini 1882, or at the :ime the said applicant became en- - ~itled thereafter to register, or any ~leetor who has become a citizen of his State by moving into the same, Lccording to the Constitution of the 3tate, and who shall make applica ;ion under oath, stating the time of iis moving into the State and his >lace of residence since living in the state, which application shall be upported by the affidavit of two rep itable citizens, who wore twenty-one r'ears of age at the time the appli :ant became a resident of this State;' uch applicant shall be allowed to 'egister as a voter, and have issued o him a certificate as a duly qali led elector in the manner and fr tow provided by law, and be entitled o vote at said election for delegates o said convention. G. T. WORSHAM, upervisor of Registration for Clar endon County. iTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON, ty Louis Appelt, Esq., Probate ,Tudge. W HERBAS, ROBER'I E. BURGESS made suit to me, to grant him Let ire of Administration of the estate of and ftects of Samuel A. Burgess. These are therefore to cite and admonish li and singular the kindre. and creditors the said Samuel A. Burgess, de eased, that they be and appear, before me, time Court 'f Probate, to be held at Man ing, S. C.. on ine sixteenth day of March, ext, after. publication hereof, at 11 clock ini the forenoon, to shew cause, if iy they 1.-ve, why the said administration iould not be granted. Given under my hand this twenty-. venth day of February, Anno Domini, ~95. ieal.] LOUIS APPELT, , Judge of Probate C. C. jAVING PURCH A RED THE PLANT of the Atlantic Phosphate Company. mgether with the entire stock, brands and ood-will, we take this method of thanking me friends and patrons of the Chicora Fer lizer Company for their cordial support id patronage in the past, and n.,w solicit Itronage of the Atlantic Phosphate Comn mny as well as the Chicora brands, gnar iteeing that, under the management of bicora, the reputation earned by the At ntic brands will be fully sustained. CHICOBA FERTILIZER COMPANY. CHARLESTON, S. C. GEO. A. WAGENER, General Manager. THE SUN. he first of American Newspa pers. CHARLES A. DANA, Editor. The American Constitution, the merican idea, the American pirit. These first, last, and all ie time, forever. illy, by mail, - - jO a year. iily and Sunday, by mail, $8 a year. ie Weekly, - - - - $1 a year. The Sunday Sun the Greatest Sunday Newspa per in the World, ice 5c acopy. By mail, $2ayear Adadress TIE SUT iw Yor..