The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 20, 1895, Image 2

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THE MAINGI TIES. wranan -1n, . CeP LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, marcb 18, 1895. The dispensary law is now fully headed for the United States supreme court. Judge Simonton in a decis sion yesterday declared the law to be unconstitutional. An appeal will be taken right away for a final settle ment of this vexed question. In the meantime the State constables will make good hauls from those who will order liquor from beyond the State. There are a few calamity howlers who have taken up an idea that to favor granting to Conservatives, rep resentation in the constitutional convention means a jeopardizing of all the Reformers have fought for. This is the idea Senator Irby would like to have us believe, but the Reform movement educated the masses and they can clearly see that we cannot continue in strife. The non-factional idea is fast gaining ground, because it is just, and ex pedient, and the only safe plan, when we consider the black cloud hovering over us and the number of white men ready to take any advantage of a schism in the Democratic ranks. We witness men to-day who were the foremost in their oppression of the negro and had to be held back 1876, now professing great friend ship for the negro, and swearing by all that is holy that they will see the negro has his rights at the ballot box. These things together with an over whelming Repulician Congress should open our eyes to reason. In response to our suggestion to tatives to Columbia to attend the con have a convention to send represen ference under the call of the "Forty" several gentlemen told us that they endorsed all we had to say on the subject and they expressed the hope that a mass meeting would be held on the 2sdinst., and that the same would be largely attended from every section of the county. In accordance with these expressions of approval we wrote out a call which will be read in another column. White men of Clarendon shall we stand apart through factional prejudices and let an enemy to our civilization get con trol of this government, or shall we come together and bury factional diferences bt least for a time, and with united efforts make the coming constitutional convention a body representing all of the white men of the State. We should remember, that in the preparation of our organ ic law Reformers and Conservatives alike are interested, and what will be disastrous to one will be disastrous .to all. Therefore, upon this all im portant matter let us lay aside politi cal factional differences and come *together for the purpose of selecting our brainiest and most patriotic men to make this new constitution, which --all of us and our children after us must live under. The convention to be held on the 23d, should be a rep resentative one, and should be largely attended; with such a body, Claren don will send to the Columbia con ference three men who will use every effort to devise a plan by which the white men of South Carolina can without the least sacrifice of principle come together, and work harmonious ly in the ranks of the Democratic party. In a recent published interview Governor Evans says: "Conventions and caucuses in Columbia of disgruntled politicians and would-be leaders, who are attempting to hoodwink the people under the gmise of patriotism and peace will be repudiated as presump tuous demagogues." What the governor means, we do mnot exactly understand. If he refers to the "Forty" he will find that they are in closer touch with the people than he supposes. Because the pres ent conditions require action on the part of the people and they see fit to act, nothing that Governor Evans or any one else might say will stop them. We have upon us a serious question to solve and it must be wisely solved, or ruin will be the result. The peo pie have chosen leaders and in them they confide, but when it comes to a question of changing the constitution, they propose taking a hand whether the chosen leaders are willing or not. The people will not "repudiate as presumptuous demagogues" the men who will meet in Columbia on the 27th inst., because the motive prompting them is of the purest patriotism. They were the first to say 'let the new constitution be made by the people and not by designing politicians" and it was only after they made this proposition that some of our chosen leaders jumped into the band wagon and are now trying to push the driver off the seat. No, Gov ernor, the people have the right to meet, and they will meet - regardless of any attempts to thwart their par If the governor is sincere in ' ageement made in the Tillman Hemphill-Evans-Barnwell-Conference and we believe he is, we think he should lend his aid in any effort that will aid him in carrying out his agree ment but from some of the expres sions he used in his interview it looks to us asifhe isnot willing for any one else to have a hand in this peace and unity business. The "Forty" are going to go right on in their purpose to bring the white people of this State together on the constitntional convention question and when they 'finish their work on the 27th inst., if their action is right the people will not "repudiate them as presumptuous demagogues," but will rise and call them blessed. As we understand it the "Forty" are to devise some plan by which the white people can get 6:>gether without the sacrifice of p rinciple. If Governor Evans and enator Tillman have the same pur pose in view, then we are all together and a non-factional convention made up of brain and patriotism is assured, and South Carolina will say by her vote, the supremacy of the white man shall be maintained. Recollections of Potter's Raid. BY BET. WM. W. MOOD. The second visitor from Potter's army to our parsonage in Manning was announced by a very quick knock at the front door. It seemed to be simply to let us know that some one wished admittance, but not to disturb us. It was between five and six o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th April, 65,-Saturday. The servant girl, about twelve years old, returned to us from answering the knock, saying, "The young gentleman says he has pitched his tent at the fence, and he won't hurt us." "Oh, he wears beautiful clothes.' 'I asked: "Where' is he?" "He is gone out of the gate.' "This is a streak of light; he won't hurt us -go quickly and ask him in. I must see him." He returned and we heard his steps with great interest. It was cheering to us to have some one to knock so gently and to retire saying: -He was near the fence and would not hurt us." As soon he stood be fore my room door and saw me in bed, he withdrew. I said: "Walk in, sir; my condition preventsme from meeting you; walk in." He then came to the door, and taking off his (light-colored felt) hat, he made a profound bow and put his hat un der his right arm. Said I: "Be seated, sir." The servant placed a chair for him, but he remarked: "Iihave but a moment to stay, I'll sit here,(on a trunk against the wall at the foot of my bed.) There he sat, somewhat out of sight. That bow! there was much in it to re assure us. He was a youth; beardless, with light-blue eyes. His quiet manner, his actual diffidence, drew me to him: He sat in silence, with his hat in his hands 'turning it round and round. He was evi dently embarrassed; though there was' a purpose in his visit. He was closely watched by me, and it was evident he was here to learn of me, by the glances he'd give me every now and then whiie playing with his hat. He was an object of interest to us all in the room. His first act was to take a small bit of paper from his vest, which was buttoned up to his throat with very small brass buttons, and reading from it to ask: "Is this your name?" reaching up so he could see me well. "Yes, sir, you have my name cor rectly." He lowered his bead, putting the paper back in his pocket and his eyes upon the carpet. "You are pas tor of this church?" "No, sir, of the church on the street paralle with this; this is the Presbyterian Church." "Yes, I have been to it. The doors have been left open and the soldiers and rabble have taken possession of it." "Where is the pastor of this (Presbyterian) church?" "He is Chap lain in the arqy." "You are sick?" "Yea, sir." "Who is your physician?" Drs. In gram and Huggins." "Where are they?" "I have not seen them since Thursday evening." "Where are the men of this place?" ,"I can't tell though I pre sume they have gone to Sum ter." "Do they propose to concentrate there and resist us?" " rhis is whit I have understood." "Why did you not leave the town when they left?" "ecause I was in bed, and was not able." "Would you have left if you had been able?" "I rather think not. I could not have felt willing to leave my family after we heard of this negro army coming. We are in great terror, and though we have had negroes around us all our lives, yet we have never been with these surroundings before. "Are you an organized army?" "Yes; our General is quartered across the street. His name is Potter. I have not been much with him, but he seems to be a kindly-disposed man. They say he is a Baptist preacher. Are there any intoxicating liquors that these people can get, for if there are, they'll get out of our control." "Are the officers negroes?" "All the commissioned officers are white but one; he is a mullatto. He is from Massachusetts." (South Carolina has cause to know him and to remember him.) Our conversation was here interrupted by one of the servants rushing in and tell ing him the soldiers were robbing her box. They swept it out, and all of our kitchen furniture before we knew it. I began to feel easy while he thus talked; but there was reserve in all these utter ances. And I could plainly see his glances at my face. He was watching me evident ly for a purpose, and I felt embarrassed. though I tried to be natural. He asked: "Why did your .people leave you here alone? for you are the only white person we find in the town. All the men have fled." I answered. "that I was urged to go. but was not able to leave." (Another fuss with the negro solders in the yard interrupted our talk.) I asked him his name and what were his duties. "Waterman. I enlisted in California, and belong to the Engineer Corps. I have put my tent at your fence and my duties are pressing, as I have to see to the repairing of the bridges over this long causewvay, which were fired last night by your people." "Can't you come in again?" "I'll try and do so." And now he broached the subject which I dreaded: "Do you know the man who shot one of the guard in your streets and then fied?" looking at me. "No sir." --The soldiers say he surrendered. and then turned and shot him down. Does he belong to this place?" "Really I don't know; I have not been out of my room in several days. It is actually unfortunate for us that he should have surrendered and then shot. But I know nothing of the particulars. I saw two strangers ride into the town this morning; one of them I saw with a gun; not long afterwards I saw him pursued by five of your men, and they all went down that road; our nurse told us he had killed in his saddle one of your men. .This is all I know about it.," "The army are all in great anger, and the General has caught the contagion (his words), and it is pretty - well determined to deal with the town. Your friends should not have left you here, you should have gone with them." "But I am to be held responsible for what soldiers under orders do?" "No, but it is believed you did the deed, then escaped and have gone to bed. I feel for you and your family. The darkies on the street all know you, and neak kindly of you; but - the entire army are in a rage and are deter mined to punish the town for it-' I asked who it was shot? "It was a private sol dier. Can't you even now, make some ar rangemeut by which you and your family can leave the town?" I told aim I was not able to sit up and travel. It was not pos sible to do this. "Are you dressed?" I told him I had been urged to put on my pants. "You must dress yourself, for you will cer tainly be made a prisoner and carried away." And he went on to say: "Dont resist; obey their orders quietly. Don't attempt to carry anything with you. Any valuable paper you might put into your boot. But you'll be carried with the army." I asked: "Will I be permitted to ride?" "No, sir; our wagons aro few and they are loaded." "I'll not walk far." "That will not distress them, for the army is in a rage." He got up to leave, but putting his haid into his pocket, looked at a paper, and then asked me concerning "Brewing ton?" "If it was a town, &c., &c." He then asked: "Were there five negroes hung here not long ago?" "Yes, sir." "Where were they hung?" I told him as well as I could. "I ask you, because it has been told us that they were hung for no cause, had no trial, and that you were there and witness ed it all." "I can soon tell you, Lieuten ant, all I know about tbis. They were found in the woods with guns, and when by the Sheriff they were called upon to de liver up their guns they fired upon him. They were caught and put in jail. I vis ited them before and after their trial, and when sentenced to be hung I sang and prayed with them often, and all their com panions and friends in this town know this?" "Did you see them hung?" "No, sir; but I accompanied them nearly to the place of execution, and then in the road we sng and prayed together. I shook hands with each of them. They thanked me in tears for all I had said to them. Their people should not have told you anything but the truth in all this. I have no com punctions of conscience in any part I took a this affair." "WVas there an old man uong them?" "Yes; I remember one was uch older than his companions, but the aws of the country had been violated and hey suffered the penalty." He retired sying he must look after the bridges. Sumter, S. C. To be continued It is not to be wondered at that Ayer'slPills re in such universal demand. For the cure f constipation, billiousness, or any other :ompint needing a laxative, these pills are insurpassed. They are sugar-coated, easy "Let the People Rule." The review of negro suffrage and negro rule down to 1876 clearly shows what 9n outrage, what an in famy, and crime was committed against Anglo-Saxon civilization when it was forced upon the South. It had to be thrown off by fair means or any means that were necessary, and the means used have been justified by all who have bcen elected to office in and since 1876, and by all who have voted and participated in and enjoyed the fruits of these elections. Where would South Carolina be to day ? where would white supremacy be ? where would the negro himself be ? if what some call fair elections were allowed. We come now.to te present consti tution. What is it? Who made it? The "fallacy of confusion" was used to perfection and one of the notable features of the last campaign was that while nearly every candidate de nounced the present constitution as a "Radical rag," not one of them dared discuss it on its merits, and no arti cle or section was shown to be in jurious to our interests, that could not be remedied by amendments, and without cost to our people. They knew the new one was not intended to be submitted to the white people. But when the political fortunes of some of them began to wane then they cried out for its submission to the people. "Radical Rag" was used as a political trump card to catch votes. Did the brains of radicals and scalawags formulate and enact the present constitution ? If so, they were wise and profound, experienced and learned men. But they were not wise and profound, experienced or learned in legal and constitutional question?. They could not and did not make the present constitution. Our white people from prejadice and passion refused to enter the con vention of 1868. This they after wards repented. At this crisis Gov ernor James L. Orr issued an address to the white people urging and en treating them to send delegates to this convention in order to save and secure their material interests, and he plead with the colored delegates beseeching them rot to abuse their freedom, not to endeavor to oppress their former masters. He plead as only James L. Oir could plead for his country and people. It was ow ing to his influence, and to that "Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will," that instead of a constitution "de novo" being made, the constitutions of Ohio and New York were adopted and followed. These constitutions were the result and evolution of J white civilization working out the! problems of government. White men with their wives and children around them working out the great i principles of taxation, free schools, and the great American principle of the homestead law under which to day three-fourths of the homes of the State are secured to the people, and food and shelter to the mothers and little children. The free public2 schools and the homestead law are the foundation stones, the bed rocks of the present constitution. Will you destroy them or will you take them without credit and rear upon them a new constitution? What then becomes of your prejudice against the "Radical rag ?" Do~you not convict yourselves of glaring in consistency in lashing yourselves to fury against a constitution that in these days of calainity is the only thing that gives the masses of the people education and a shelter for their heads. The homestead law, radical though it be called, says to the extortioners and to those who "devour widows' houses," and whot now but for it would be sweeping away the homes of the people like an inrushing sea, "thus far shalt thout come, but no further, and here shallt thy proud waves be stayed." The . free schools say "let there be light." Let the darkness of ignorance and , sin and iniquity be gone. Is it the, purpose (and it is so declared by many) to eclipse this light by taking away the two mill tax ? Such a pol-1 icy will consign the masses to igno-t rance and slavery. Is this your idea of "equal rights to all and special fa vors to none ?" While crying out for higher education, to let the strong and unscrupulous bloom and flourisht at the expense of the poor plow-boys whose votes took many of you from obscurity and placed you in office ?1 Tax them to support high schools I and colleges, and then place a three dollar poll tax on them whether their children go to school or not ? Keep them in ignorance and then disfran hise them for being poor and igno-1 rant? Pauperize them through ig norance and then disfranchize them for being poor? Is that reform? I Mr. George Pringle tells us substan tially that a white man who can't read and write is an ass and has no 1 right to vote, etc. How came it to pass that there are from ten to fifteen thousand illiterate white men in South Carolina to-day ? Who are and were they and theirt fathers, good enough to dare and die 1 for their country ? Tell us, you "guiding stars," who have traveled so far in every land and country, until you have gone be-t yond love or sympathy for the true, the brave and the modest, how comes it that they are so poor and illiterate?t Was it not your policy that madet them so ? your policy of educating | the few at the expense of the many ? t was your policy that caused the 1 blight and the ruin, and upou you should fall the punishment and not pon them. The tax laws made in accordance I with the present constitution have I et every requirment of taxation, S and the revised statutes have been in r imes of riot and bloodshed "a minet f wisdom and strength."' Under I he provisions of the present consti ution Clemson was won, Coosaw was a on, and the railroads and judges r struggled in vain, and weie held like ions entangled in a net, and com plled to pay equal and just tales. Now are you going to abolish these provisions? If so, what are you go- h ing to put in their place ? something f: etter, or something through which S hrewd lawyers "will drive a coach of S four."U' Constitutions are the reins, the b ridles, the bits which the people put ' pon their rulers to restrain them. [he people lay down the great or-, mnic law which rulers dare not vio- n ate. It is the people's work, an rulers must learn that they must sub. nit and obey, noi make "Magni harta." If they persist the people have thi ight and the power to besiege then is the great Barrons did King Johi n his castle, and forced him witl 3is prelates, bishops, and dignitariei :o come down to Running Mead, ani inder solemn oaths and bonds t< sign the great instrument that was t restrain his arbitrary power. But they tell us we shan't mak :he constitution, nor shall we ratifi t after it is made. Was there eve ;uch assumption, such despotic con. ,empt for the people. We wsnt th< ,onstitution from, for, and by the people. The office-holders seem t< hink it ought to be from office. aolders, for office-holders, and b3 >ffice-holders. No one but a fool signs a note be. ,ore he reads it. No county or Stat aficial lawfully pays out money be Lore he inspects the work. Public >fficials where there is great respon .ibility, are required to give boni md security, and even then they o? ,eu go through, as luted banks and lefaulting dispensers attest. A word in a will is worth a thou ;and out of it. It don't do for pa rents to trust their darling childrer ,vith all of their property. If the3 lid many would be penniless. The old lady's advice was, "alwayc ieep the loaf under your arm," ther -ou can get bread when you want it "Put not your trust in princes" ii true saying. Why then should we )lay the fool and throw aside the 3lainest dictates of business sensc md common prudence when wc -owe to consider the greatest and nost momentous question that cat >e presented to a people f3r tbei :alm and deliberate judgment. "Let the people rule." Let the lelegates pass through the primary, mnd the constitution when mad( :ome back to the primary for ratifi. ation. This will secure good gov. ,rnment, under which white peoph nd colored poople will be secure it ife, liberty, and the pursuit of hap >iness. HENRY C. Bun. Society Hill, March 11, 1895. 'he Proyocaliou Although Great, Bul Let the Law Reign Supreme by all Means. Editor The Manning Times:-As a gen. ral thing, we are a peacable and law-abid. ng people of the Fork, but at present we re very much aroused, and if the fiendE vho are now doing so much devilment are aught, we may call on Judge Lynch tc aold an extra session of court. I heard hat Mr. W. C. Reams lost bi.s barn and it ontents night before last, and a few min ites later I beard that my neighbor, Mr.-J. 3. Tindal, had his barn burned, which con ained everything he had in way of provis. ons and horse feed. As Mr. Tindal only ives a mile from me, I hurried over, and ound the report true. Mr. Tindal ha >een a neighbor of mine for about seven *ears,and I did not think he had an enemy. Lbout 8 o'clock last night, Mrs. Tindal, on waring a noise in the direction of the lot, pened a window. She saw that the barn, 'hich stands north of the house and oppo. ite the window, was in a light blaze, Ineat he door which entered the barn. By the ime Mr. Tindal and his son, wbo had just etired, reached the barn. the fire had ained such headway that it was with much lifficulty that he saved his stock. It seems bat Mr. Tindal's son and a negro boy did he feeding on that evening, and as Mr. Cindal had been to Manning and returned ,efore sundown, the stock were fed for the aight, consequently, there is no doubt but hat the barn was fired, and I must say hat it was the boldest piece of incen liarismi I ever knew. It was a bright noon-light night, and the house was set on he south side and in full view of the dwel ing, which was not far off. I wilL say in onnection with Mr. Reams's loss, that anve heard nothing definite. With the as istance of Mr. W. E. Daniels, I went to w~ork to assist him (Mr. Trindal) in replen shing his loss, and I take it upon myself in >ehalf of Mr. Tindal, to thank the generous itizen of the Fork and Manning for their ubstantial and generous response, among hew the ;editor ot The Manning Times, who contributed very liberally indeed. Ve are determined t'o stand by our neigh. ors in times of distress if we hare to share he last bushel of corn, and, if possible, see hat the guilty are punished. Changing the subject a little, we are muak ng every effort, what few fair days we have rad, to prepare our land for planting, as le have had to labor under many disad antages on account of the extreme cold, ain, etc., and as the earth turns around in wenty-four hours, I had come to the con. Iusion that we had turned as far as the orth andl stop~ped. At one time we bought the oat" crop was a total loss, and >eing a lairgc oat lianter nmyself, I felt very nuch concerned about them, and at one imo thought of planting corn where I had uts, but I believe there will be a plenty eft, andl my advice to the farmers is to let hem stand, even if they are thin, nd I think there will be a good emand for small grain this fall. Mr. Ed tor, I predict that the hard times that we ave had for the last few years, and the a' price of cotton, will prove a blessing in Lisguise, as I tirmly believe that we have assed through the worst, and from neces ity, have learned a lesson we will never orget, and had the Southern people known rhait was coming ten years ago, they would >e to-day the most prosperous people un ler the sun instead of the poverty-stricken >eople that we are. I notice that the farm rs have at last awaken to the necessity of Laing their corn-cribs and smoke-houses n their farms instead of in the West. I Lotice that they are planting some of al nost everything that can be grown on our muds, consequently will have very little to uy, as our lands can be made to produce loost anything that can be made any ebere. There is one thing in connection eith farming which is very important, and am sorry to say, seriously neglected, and hat is proper drainage. When crops are lanted on lands that are not drained, it is seless to cxpcct to succeed. The farmers ze also economizing in the way of labor, s I notice men who heretofore only over. eed the'ir farms in a general way, have hrown off their coats and taken a hand's lace, making their own individnal labor ount. Polities is not much talked of over in bese parts, notwithstanding the constitu ional convention so near at hand. In ref rence to said convention, I trust that every ian will be conservative in his utterances, s I think the white men of this State have ecn div'ided long enough, and I see no eason why they should not come together ow and forever afterwards remain as 'rothers. I trust that the convention will e non-partisan in the strictest sense, and verily believe it will, and as a Reformer, for one, am willing to acceed to the oppo ite faction all that is just. Mr. Editor, have you heard of any eformied chickens ? I think I have a hen aat certainly must be a lieformer, as she tole her rest and went to setting, and 'hen the eggs were taken away from her 1ere happencd to be a dispensary bottle ear by which she drew under her and is ow covering with as much complacency as it wvere a s'etting of eggs. Can you tell me what she will hatch ? English Spavin Liniment removes all ard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes om horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints, veeny, ring- bone, stifles, sprains, all v'ollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by se of one bottle. Warranted the most onderful blemish cure ever known. Sold y RI. B. Loryea, the druggist, Man ing S. C. Subscribe to The Times, $1.50 er are DIXIE'S STAPLE CROP Exaot Figures ofthe Cotton Move ment For the Season. THE BELT DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS. Enormous Increase Ia Production Shown In Every State Over the Figures of tho Preceding Year-The Move ment Given in Detail NEw OnLE.&NS, March 12.-New Or leans eotton exchange statement: The Texas cotton crop and movements from the Gulf and Atlantic states. Actual deliveries from the state of Texas for the first six months of this season to February 28th of 2,803,396 bales against 1,795,412 bales for the same time last season, making a not increase of 1,079,984 bales. The delive ries at the Texas seaboard show an in crease of 570,68 bales; shipments via Cairo and St. Louis, 133,909; to New Orleans 378,777, and rail shipments to Mexico of 27,928 bales. While ship ments across the Mississippi river, north of St. Louis, have decreased 13, 293 bales. Deliveries from the state of Texas from and after March ist last year were 263,648 bales, the commercial crop of Texas last year having been 2,059,000 bales. Cotton Belt In Sections. Secretary Hester has also issued a statement giving an analysis. of the movement of cotton into sight, divid ing the cotton belt into three groups, viz., 1st, Texas and Indian Territory; 2d, other gulf states, embracing Ar kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ten nessee; 3d, Atlantic states, embracing North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida and Alabama. This analy sis shows the crop brought into sight for the first six months of the season to February 28th, inclusive-Texas 2,931,920 bales, against 1,811,540 bales in 1894, and 1,693,962 in 1898. Other gulf states, 2,898,895 bales against 1, 939,359 in 1894, and 1,555,707 in 1896. Atlantic states 8,1386,900 bales against 2,8(5,709 in 1894, and 2,824,674 in 1893. The statement does not divide Texas and other Gulf states for 1892, the 9,035,000 crop year, as there were no separzte monthly figures made for Texas in that year, bul it gives the fol lowing comparisons between this year and 1892: Atlantle and Gulf States. Texas and other Gulf states together this year 5,330,715 bales against 4,874, 419 in 1892; Atlantic states this year 8,135,940 hales against 3,080535 in 1392. Excess compared with 1802 in Texas and other Gulf states, 456,295; excess compared with 1892 in the Atlantic states, 54,405. The difference In Texas crop as given above and Texas in sight consists of the fact that Texas crop embraces only cotton actually shipped out of the state to February 28, whereas the in sight includes also stocks at counter interior towns on February 28 in excess of September 1st. Deliveries from the different groups after Febru ary 28 in the past three years, were: From Texas 247,520 bales in 1894 and 214,561 in 1893; from other Gulf states 276,918 in 1694 and 308,859 in 1893; from Texas and other Gulf states together 560,581 in 1898; from Atlantic states 408,776 in 1894; 402,602 in 1893, and 517, 844 In 1802. WHY IN MAN FAVORS3 SILVER. Cotton is Selling In Mexico For 10 1-2 Cents -- Per Pound Ia White Metal NEW Yoix, March 7.-Coitton advanc ed 8 to 10 points and closed steady with sales of 161,200 bales. Liverpool advanced 23 to 2 points and closed steady. -Mr. Samuel M. Inman, of Atlanta, hias just returned from Mexico and favors silver, as cotton in Mexico is selling at 16% cents a pound in silver, or equal to about 8% cents in our mon ey. There is a duty of 4M cents a pound on cotton in Mex~ico, and this and other charges, according to calcu lations made here on a shipment from, say Galveston, would cause a loss of % to M cent, per pound on cotton ship ped to Mexico. THE SONS OF CONFEDERATES. Solieitor-General Conrad Oppose. the Or ganization of the Order. WAsINGOoN, March 11.-Holmes Con rad, the new Solicitor-general of the department of justice, has astonished the -confederate brigaders and other veterans by taking st:ong ground against the proposed organization of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Mr. Conrad was assistant adjutant-general in Rosser's cavalry. He says he does not care to see such an orgnnization formed, and above all he thinks it would not look well for holders of fed eral positions to engage in it. Wholesale Discharg, of Conductors. JAcxsoxVi.LE, Fla., March 9.-Pink erton's men are cutting a swath into the ranks of the conductors of the Flor ida railroads. Eight conductors have been discharged from the South Flor ida, five from the East Coast Line and yesterday five from the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railroad. No reason given. Benedict Dismisses One Hundred Men. WismxreroN, March 9.-Public Prin-| ter Benedict yesterday dismissed 100| employes of the government printing] office, the majority of them being compositors. The removals were caused by the adjournment of congress which made.a scarcity of work. Other dismissals will follow as the business of the bereau decreases As Yet No Senator Elected in Delaware. DOVER, Del., March 9.-Yesterday's meeting of the joint session of the leg islature to ballot for a senator was bet ter attended than usual, as there was a rumor that a third man might be de cided upon. Once more the crowd was disappointed. No election. Death of Bishop Thomas. S..uy, Kan., March 11.-- Rishop Thomas died at 9:35 o'clock last night. South Carolina. Samuel A. Rtigby, against Sparkman Thames. WARRANT TO SEIZE CROP UNDER LIEN. BY VIRTUtE OF AUTHORITY~VF~S. einme by James E. Davis, C. C. P. d- G. S., I have seized and will offer for sale on Monday, the 1st day or April A. D. 1895, being salesday, at the court hbnse in Manning, Clarendon County, State afore said for cash, the following property, to wit: About 75 bushels corn in shuck and about 500 lbs, fodder, to satisfy lien in above stated case. DANIEL J. BiRADHAM, Sheriff Clarendon County, S. C. Discharge Notice. O N THE 27TH DAY OF MARCH, 1895, I will apply to the Judge for Clarendon County for letters dismissory as administrator of the estate of Mrs. S. S. Harvin, deceased. T. H. HARVIN, Administrator. Sier, Feb. 27, 1895. SOUTH CAP1 L!U--A m- : ::--r. The state disper.;:ry has dizcard the red scaling waxs in hott; lim acrs and hereafter the bottI wcil b a a with tn foil. Mr. J. S. McLucas, of Marion. !..L; sustained the reputation he ima?de . the South Carolina college by lcading his class in Ilarvard univer.-ty. Between four and ive hundred dol lars have been raised at Fair Forest, in Spartanburg county, and a lot isd ted to build a Presbyterian chu Charleston is not nthu 1r - ball this year and it is d.btful if a Charleston team will be in the 'onth Atlantic league. if it is r The Pickens llies have r t, z under the new military ;--. Thirty four men ha:e tak.n theath, a-n(L they intend to make their conpany the be:;t in the state. Pelly Reynolds. of Spartanburg conu ty, is perhaps the oldest man in the state, beirg ii years of agfe. Hle is help!css and depend.at 'pon his neigh bors for assistane. The governor lia.: re-.ivd a tlegramn from Chief Constable jholy in Charles ton, saying he had seiz.l eight half barrels of whiskey and twenty-ri hundred pounds of b-acon. Nothing more could be learned. but it is sup posed the whiskey was shipped hidden under the bacon in some %av. WORTH BEGAN AS A PRINTER. He Died the Mlost Famous Dreszmaker in All the World. PARIS, March 12.--Charles Frederick Worth, the most celebrated of Parisian dressmakers, who died resterday, was singularly enough, a native of England, but the only queen in all Europe who never ordered a toilette from him is the one in whose dominions he was born. He began life as a printer, but a In stinctive dislike to soiling his hands as well as his inborn gifts, led him t) ex change his apprinticeship for a po-ition in the extensive dry goods house of Swan and Edgar in London. 'ihere he developed and perfected his apprecia tionof the productions of the French millionaires and dressmaker . superin tending the unpacking of every case of pattern garments that arrived and speedily became an authority in all matters connected with sty-lishness of cut and tastefulnes-; of trimming. But Paris alone afforded a fleld for the full exercise of his tale::tn to. he went. His fame belted tworld in all directions. WHAT CAN THE MALA'W BE. Story of the Drea .ne:a - * po session of a AsuLAND, 'X,, March ports fron Floyd cunty. ro0ght by local traveling s:lumen just reurned, are not at all encou:gin-for:::e ea-ry suppression of the strange m .th-at is raging in the Mud Rive e- ramutry. it has become so violent that eve the physicians of the surrounding coun ty refuse to visit the victims. In all the death roll has exceeded flftv already and the disease is on the incro-se. The disease, instead of being smal. pox. re sembles cholera except that i: chokes the victim to death, beginnin;g in the stomach and rising to the throat. In nearly every case it has been fatal. the victims seldom living three days after the attack. THE EXPOSITION'S THE THiNG. Arrangements for the Sower amd Wat,-r Made-other Progress. ATLANTA, March 9.-The executive committee of the Cotton States; and Jn ternational Exposition has accepted bids for transportation building, sewer pipe and water pipe for the exposition grounds and ordered emnploy-ment of landscape gardiner to seperintend the planting out of trees, shrubs. etc. Vice-President Baldwin. of the South era Railway, reports elaborate arrange ments for handling pe &ple betw-een~ the city and the exposition grounds over two tracks, with four tracks in the grounds and four tracks to unload at the city station, so that trains will leave every four minutes each day. ANOTHER HIGH LIFE DIVORCE. The Married Daughter of (hief Justce Fuller C'annot Live With Her Hiusbanid. CalcaOo, March 1u.-PIauline Cony Aubrey, daughter of Chief Justice Ful er, of the United States supreme court, has applied to the circuit court for a divorce from her husband, James Mathew Aubrey. The bill was filed in the circuit court yesterday. This is the otcome of a sensational runaway match which startled Chicago society in March, tS89. It will be remembered hat the couple were married in Mil waukee, March 19, 1880. Miss Fuller was eighteen years old at the time. Aubrey was inin years. A short time be fore Chief Justice Fuller had gone to take his seat on the supreme bench. CAPT. O'BRIEN BUYS AGAIN. At the Sccond Sale the Age-Herald -Brought Thirty-n-fv ilundred 31ere. BiaMisOAan. March i.. - The 1;ir mingham.Agre.-Herald wa-s re-sold at public auction yesterday by the trus tees of the bondholders. (apt. Fr:ak P. O'Brien becomning the. pur ha r at the sum of $23.5', cash which~- is $3,500 in excess of his bidof month ago. He wil' assume -"rol at 0 -nc. and re-organize th' foce Caa OBrien is one of the principaVl bn-i holders. and wa at- one 1 t 'n '-i enft of the Age-'Iral .-ma'm-. He h-is ordered lates :.y dmcheran will put they pr~ .. ir .-. trm h a cial basis-irov~.ing; it ain every - partment - - MAY SOON H AV PEEACE iN' OU-DA Public senien t inth l ) :.a:-h District Iavoc. -n-ur a ' c -- HAVAYA,Marc-h tM.--ThUh aao insurgents which wa~ a a~- e. -e ed and dispersed by, Genea Garrichx has been rednced to fort- menx' and negotiations are peninga for their su render. Public sent:e in the '-ev ince of S'antiago) de Cuba. ne: ihol really disturbed d.:,titi vr strongly in favor of poac. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON, BLouis Appelt, Esq., Probate Judge' W HEREAS P. B. HIODGE made suit to me, to gr-ant him Letters of Admlinistration, of the estate of and e-lfets of S. F. Hodge. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and sinigular the kindurd and cre-ditors of the sai d E:;t.S F H odge deeased, that they be and: :appear, before mie in the Court of Probate. to be held at Manning, S. C.. on the:t- (h day of March. next. .tfter pubbea-I tion hereof. at 11 o'clock in the fore noon. to shew cause, if any \ e have, why the said Admninigrthu should not be grante-d. Given under my hand this l:,t h diay of March, Anno Doiix 1 9. [Seal.] LOUIS APPEL1 IT. Judlge of Probate. C. C. Full concavecd razor-s exLImed1 for :my good brand of old heavy razors at A. B aowa' barber shop. TRONG REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. to tihze State Departmeat an the ,uinc.is of Flaxen Textiles. WASINOTON, March 11.- United -e, Consul Taney at Belfast, Ireland, :iade an interesting report on the -n ade in flaxen textiles. He a that 1894 was a very bad year for I ei fast on account of the com rcia depression in the United ate., w. here the greater part of Bel .st's flax goods are sold. Hut Mr. Taney said that after the t:zriff agitation had ended "orders be n increasing and business in the tex t Ic industrv revived until the demands are now equal to what it was at any tnime within the past five years." The revival is so pronounced that it 's brought the total exports of linen piece goods in 1894 up to 156,293,600 yards, as against 15',U*5.300 yards, valued at $17,537,216, in the preceding year, showing a diminution of barely 1- per cent in quantity and 4 per cent in value, whereas, for seven months cnding in July of 1894, as compared With the same months In the five pre-vious years, it has fallen off 20 per ient in quality and value. THE A. P. A.'S TO CONVENE. The Natlonal Convention of that Ordoy. to Meet at Saginaw. SAGINAW, Mich., Maich 11.-The nat ional convention of American Pro tective Association opens tomorrow for a threee days session. The prime object is the consideration of the proposition for the forma tion of what is to be known as the independent American party. State President Beatty says: We feel strong enough now to form a party We number over one hundred thousand in 'Michigan alone. We cannot tell what the platform of the party will be uutil it is framed. We know we would resrict immigration, but beyond that the political complexion of the eon vention will decide. It is said that the party will put a Presidential ticket in the field next year. THREE MONTHS ONLY TO LIVE. Sentence I'assed Upon the Young M neapolls Gambler and Murderer. MINNEAroLIS, Minn., March 12. Harry T. Hayward, convicted of the murder of Catharine Ging, has three months to live. Sentence was passed on him by Judge Seagrave Smith yes terday after a motion for an arrest of sentence by Mr. Erwin had been do r.icd. "The sentenoa of the eourt," said the judge "is that you be taken to the Hennepin county jail and there confined until, after a period of three months, a time be Eixed by the gov rnor of this state, you be taken to the riace of execution and be hanged by thc neck until you are dead, dead, RESOLUTIONS ON PARKHURST. V'inAlly Laid Upon the Table After a Long War of Words. Niw YoRK, March 12.-According to programme the resolutions reflecting upcn the conduct of Dr.. Charles H. Parlhurst in the matter of his criticism of the New York Presbytery's action with regard to the sale of the church of "Sea and Land," were of fvred yesterday afternoon- at the monthly meeting of that body in the lecture room of the First Presbyterian church. Dr. Parkhurst was absent, havirng left the city for a two weeks' rest, but his friends were there in force. A great deal of discussion ensued and the friends of Dr. Parkhurst -finally managed to have the resolutions laid on the table, vote 57 to 36. EROVES TA5TELEE IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WfARRANTED. PRICE 50cts. GAr.ATIA, IL.I-., Nov.16, 1523. Paris Medicino Co., st. Louis, Mo. Gentlencn:-we sold last year, 600 bottles of L rttregssardytsye.Inallouo1vES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have pMi~u: 14 hears. alrnd ths deru. Inall ae ci r 5):in siarticl~tht gave uc Euie satl suenrs your Tonic. Yourstu. For sale by R. B. 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T In Poor Health means so much more than you imagine-serious and atal diseases result from trifling ailments neglect. Don't play with ature's greatest gift-health. hav to aye and genaully ex austed, nervous, Bhoe apetit Ing thenestrlla bledstgteiag i Brown's Iron Bit. ters. A few hot. ties cure-benest rom170. the ry fiat doge-& 1itters tl I' WAt, a nd pleasant to ke. It Cures Dyspepsla, Kidney and iUver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nervous almnts Women's complaints. Get only the genuine-ithaseresdred stitutes. On receipt of two 2c. stamps we will send set of Too Beautil Woeli' Fair Views and book-free. BROWN CHEMICAL. CO. BALTIMORE, UL, NOTICE OF REGISTRATION. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF CLABENDON. 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 eleetion; to transfer persons from this to another county, and from one township to another, or from one residence to another. All this must be done be fore or on the first Monday in July, 1895. Lost certificates may be re newed to within 80 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 consestive 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 Un.ited 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 rote 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 tiL' State and who will register as here inafter provided in suck 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 the~county seat thereof, open his books of registra tion, ai~d shall hold the same open for ten consecutive calendar days thereafter, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon end!4 o'clock 'in the afternoon. * * * * * * * during which time any elector then or heretofore at any time entitled to register 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. Set'. 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 ~twenty-one years on the 30th day of June, Anno Domini 1882, or at the *time the said applicant became en titled thereafter to register, or any elector who has become a citizen of this State by moving into the same, according to the Constitution of the State, and who shall make applica tion under oath, stating the time of his moving into the State and his p lace of residence since living in the State, which application shall be supported by the affidavit of two rep utable citizens, who were twenty-one years of age at the time the appli cant became a resident of this State; such applicant shall be allowed to register as a voter, and have issued to him a certificate as a duly quali fied elector in the manner and form now provided by law, and be entitled to vote at said election for delegates to said convention. G. T. WORSHAM, Supervisor of Registration for' Clar endon County. WM.-N. BAHR & BRO., DEA.LRBs Di AND XLSUAcTURB Or Cakes, Biscuits and Plain and Fancy Candles. Penny Candies and Chewing Gumn. French Mixtures and Chrystallized Fruits. $19 King Street, CHARLESI ON, S. C. Subscribe to The Times, $1.60 penar.