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VOL. XII. -I IANN ING, S. C., WEDNESDAY., SEP1TEMBEI TILLMAN ON THE STUM. HE WAS NOT HOWLED DOWN AT READING, PENN. He Was Given an Enthusiastic Reception. A Series of QaiestionI4 Propounded to Him-Comins Home ou the 'LIth lustant. Senator Tillman. who has been con ducting a vigorous Bryan campaign in Pennsylvania, will return to S,atii Carolina on the 25:.h inst., to rest awhile. Oa the 1Sth inst. he spoke at Reading, Pa., and the papers opposin him have made much of an alleged howling down to which he was treated there. Concerning his treatment in Reading, the R'iading E igle says: A number of citizens said to the Eagle: "It is amistake to s Ay that the people on the fair grounds hollered and hooted at SenatorTillman because of his political ideas. They went there to see the races. It was a mistake for Mr. Tillman to have been direced to the grand stand at that time. The people there wanted the races to go on. When the crowd rushed on to the track the race had to stop, and that is why the crowd yelled. It was through ,o discourtesy to Senator Tillman. The people of Reading and Berks County are just as polite and courte ous to strangers as any other people. Had the Senator begun speaking else where on the fair grounds nothing would have been said. ThiA small tem porary stand erected near the grand stand was too shaky. Had a special hodr been set apart for the Senator to speak, which would not have inter fered with the races, no doubt the vis iting Senator from South Carolina wod have had as respectful a hear ing here as anywhere else in the The Eagle makes the following re port of Senator Tillman's visit to Read Nator Tillman's silver speech on the fair grounds Friday afternoon was listened to by 2,000 people. He arrived at the park, in company with Jesse G. Hawley and John W. Rauch,-at -2:45, and, after several in troductions, was conducted to the judge's stand on the race track. On the stand, besides the above mentioned were President McGowan. of the Agri cultural Society; Dr. E, M. Herbst and others. The race course was crowded and the grand stand packed. Five thousand were in the assemblage. The Senator was preented by Dr. Herbst. Before the multitude was one of the most talked of men in the in this coun try and he was given a cordial greet mug. Mr. Tflman rolled his one eye around for a moment and then began to speak. His voice was strong, nat ural and diitinct. He spoke a few words and then puckered up his mouth, which has been described as a scowl but more an indication of deter minitin and faith in what he e-. pounds. ' The Senator pitched right into his ibject.. Before. hhad spoken ten worda ee were many cheers and some jeers, for his audience was com posed of gold and silver disciples. He aid .that-McKinley said, Open the milgan not the mints. The Lemo cratic party say, Open the mints to silver and -factories will open. The audience rather liked the expression. The Senator sarcastically referred to the invective which he said the news iled on him and which having - people before seeing him to believe that he was a wild man from -Borneo. He was glad that "he nad no horns." This was a signal f oi laughter. -Many in the crowd were by this time trying to rattle the Sena tor by asking him questions and be -comin personal, but he replied readi He said, Look at the fertile farm era in Berks and Lancaster County. What has cansed the products to drop to one-half in pricer' Some one in the crowd shouted: "-The FLemocratic ad ministratinnL" He replied: "Ifth Democratic adminstratamI. cauwed it, why were the Republicans turned downe in 1892 by fourteen hundred thousand votest" The spectators cheerethis remark. "If the so-call ed Democratic party produced the de vastation -and fall in prices in this countr ".he said, "it will bring pros perity 'bak with silver." (Loud cheering and here and there hisses." Senator Tillman then arraigned Presi dent Cleveland in scorching terms. He said that the President was as good a goldu as McKinley dared to be and that herman was his most trusted adviser. He declared that the Demo cratic party in power no more repre sented the principles of Jetferson and Jackson than he possessed those o1 Mcainley. "The very name of Cleve landis despised by all true Democrats. He stands today before the American peeple as the only Democratic Presi *dent who was ever repudiated by his own party. He will go down into his e u~mental failure of this cetr." he'antimenlts were ap plauded and jeered. -At this point the Senator poured sgne hot shot on thE Republican party'-nd-a man in the audience shouted: "How about Abc Lincoln?" He replied: "Lincolt was too good a man for you to ta'uc his name in vain." The questionei grw excited and wanted to iaresh thie senator, but the latter was unshaken. Then several in the crowd saw thc horses and yeLed. "We've goi enough speech. We want races. This cry was taken up by others. The Senator started to speak. His voice was drowned by yells. He calmly gazed on the audience for a minute then said: "I don't know what al this noise is about." He was agait choked off. He waited another mm - -ute, then commenced: "I came here' --but he was interrupted. He turn ed around and said to those in th< judge's stand, "It's nobody but boys.' He made another attempt, and agant was stopped by cat-calls. "If you fair people want me to ge out," he said to the fair officials in tfl< stand, "I will; if not, I will stay hern until sundown to be heard." Dr. Herbst adtvanced and said "Senator Tillmnan requests mer to a-I - 'iou who want to heiar L im spe~k L< raise your hands." Fully 500 slaot ui their nands. "And you wno do no want to listen to him." Fifty hand were raised. Dr. Herbst continued "He will speak briefly,and I hope yoi will respect the man, even if ie doe talk contrary to your opinions." "Now, fellow eitizens," began th< South Carolinian, but it was t~o use The same interruption ensued. Tih< Senator was undaunted, but realize< that some in the audience would no cease the din. A consultation was hebi and it was announced that speech making would be resumed within th ..closure of the race track. A Droces sion of - ei0 folloawtkd the viior to a clumo of trees ahouta square from the judg-e's stand. l-re everything went on smnoothly and eth-iastically. Mr. Tillman mounted a deserted re fireshment stand, where he spoke and answered questions for one and a half hours. Hlis aud.Ieitn hciluded men of both parties. After clinium- on his perc'h he pro voked great cheering by saying: "This is as solid as the Bryan Demeeratic party." His reception here was ple~is ing to him and he sid ' : "I appreciate this mark of courtesy." He spoke of his tre'atment on the rate track as fol lows: "I have sp >kei to many large audiences in Penusy ivania. I have ad dressed in this State crowds that have packed hails to sutlocation and open air meetings numbering 10.0i0o and was the subject of no discourtesv until I reached R-ading. But I will - not judge the fairness of the city and county toward strangers by this un civil treatment. It was only a few boys. I am accustomed to hovling. Wny this was a mere zenhyr compared with the riots in Scuth Carolina that the newspapers lay at my door. But the newspapers have maligned me. I like quietness and am a peaceable citizen. But when I speak I talk straight out and I may sometimes tread on somebody's toes. I like to get up discassions when I speak, in or der to get at the bottom of the liuan cial issue." The Senator next des cribed the struggle for party suprema cy since ISS4 and referred t) the dis - gust of the people for Cleveland and his "rotten Democratic Congress." He said there was as great a ditference between the Democracy of Cleveland and that of Bryan as there was be tween the Republicanis-n of Lincoln and that of McKinley. Ie termand the Cleveland Democratic party "a R :pub lican annex." Senator Tillman then launched into a long argument on silv-r and gold. He spoke about m:)ney, its qualities and nature, what it is and how it is made. It is first a medium of ex change through which commerce and trade are carried on; second, legal ten der for debt and tax es; third and most important of all, it measures value and fixes prices. There can be no pri'es unless measured in monev. Money is subject to the law of supply and demand, and when the Gvera ment by its action makes money scarce it makes prices low, and when Congress makes money more plentiful it makes prices high. The power of the government to contract the cur rency and make money saarce is one of the issues of this campaign. Then he told how silver was demonetized. And with it all, he said, the last issue of bonds was made payable in either metal, showing the filacy of the sin gle gold standard. By the destruction of one-half of the money, the Senator continued, they doubled the value of the other half. Lie gave this illustration: "Sapp-se we here constituted the whole world. We come down to breakfa t. 0 a the taole is a great big biscuit or a large loaf of bread, large enoah to give each an equal share. Oa the table are two big piats of butter, one yell->w and the other white, and of equal size. But some one says to the w aiter, 'You smuggle that white bua-ter off the ta 'bie and I will mike yrou-a. illion aire.' Sh-e slides -Rp. sieakit under her dress and slips off and ath ro ws it in the slop barrei. The sane biscuit and bread are there, but only one p late of butter. Wnat is the resuilt f Either one half must go without but ter,or they all get j ist hal f the much." Tilman's point was that, by striking out silver it was contracting the cur rency one-half, that the rich man was the gainer and tne poor the loosers. The truth of the iratter is, he said, the poor were not getting either cake, bread or bu.tter, and that they were cursing the WVilson tarilt' bill and Cleveland for it, though the tariti question had no more to do with it tnan if it wouldn't exist. Mr. Tillman, after denying he was a Populist, followed this up by a little tarinf talk. He declared tue recent Democratic Congress pretended they wanted taritf reform, but that they lied when they said it He said the Republicans wanted high prctection and he was willing to giv'e them all the tariff they want and make it so prohibitory that there would be no evenue and that they would have to resort to tne income tax for revenue. 'The Republicans and certain Demo crats or rather assistant Republic ans, for God knows it sticks in my cra w to call them Democrats stand in a solid phalanx for gold and gold alone to enrich the millionaires and to give the banks a monopoly of the currency. "How much are you worth, S3ena tor?" shouted a man in the crowd. "I'm forty nine years old, and been farming ail my life. I have 2,ui00 acres of land worth $3 to is an acre, and have $7,000 worth of detts." He paid his respects in denunciatory terms toJ. Pierpont Morgan as the govern meat bond manipulator. The Senator declared that all the gold bug propa ganda, all the bribery which debauch ed Congress and the Presidency, all of these interests are concentrated in the East, and where hv'e the million ai es who have stolen their millions. "How soon will another bond issue be ordered?" interrogated Councilman W. A. Witman. "As soon as the election is over and McKmnley is eheted," was the answer. Tiliman then spoke of the bond transactions of the government, and inquired, "What do you t hink of that dnanciering~?" "That is rotten." replied one mau. "Are you going to vote for it? asked the Senator. The man did not r-eply. Tne speaker caused a laugh by saying: - I've trav eled extensively in my time, but you are the first man.I have ever saw wuc agreed to swallow rottenness." Before the Senator had concluded, Thomas D). Bausher. who was in the audience, reminded the speaker that he had haraded him a set of questions earlier in the afternoon,- and he would be pleased to have him answer them. "Come aloog this way and get on the platform," said he to M1r. Bausher. The latter hesitated wlt a nesr the staid. "Come up ihere" said tihe Sen ator. "I won't hurt y-ou. I haven' got my pitchfork here." "Tnose tn-at I can answer I will," lie went on. "If I do not know any thiing about it will say so. I am here now in the capacity of schoolmaster. The questious which had been sub mitted by M1r. IBausher on a piece of paper were read o:V vny Mm' r. Tn an Wuile Lie read thme~mx Mr. Baushei stood alougside of imt on the p!a: orim. -i~o you believe ini sacrile io-us talk:"' was thet iirst question. - No," was thme responise. "Y ou are church rmembter, are you not?" - - es. not. I am a sirner. Iat there are worse men in the chareh to day than I "2. In your opinion does it not seem as though the spirit and letter of Jef ferson and Jackson's birthright had been sold for a mess of pottage" "Yes, G rover Cleveland sold it, and McKinley and Hobart stand ready to ratif y it." :fd. In your opiaion does not the law of quality and i not quantity rule the market price in ali cominoditjes: "No." "Ith. In your opinion can you say aught against the fundamental prim ciples of the Constitution as signed and framed 1.4 years ago." "No. not since the negroes were cranied down our throats and held there at the point of the b.yonet." "5th. In your opinion is not repudi ation by this government of its honest obligations dishonorable to the whole world?' "Nobody repudiates, except the fellows who are trying to get $2 for "Gth. In your opinion, if we have an aoundance of silver dollars stamp ed for the owner of the bullion, how will the 53 cent silver dollars circulate among the wage earners &" "We now have 400,W00,000 coins stamped as dollars by the government that bougrht the bullion" Tiliman then exhibited a five franc piece of French money, and a Mxicin dollar. He compared them with an. American silver dollar. "T aere will be no 53 cent dollar," he said. "When the g )vernment passes an Act authorizing the free coinage of silver a silver dol lar will represent 100 cents worth, the same as the paper or gold dollar. The Mexican dollar contains more silver than the United States dollar, but it is only worth 43 cents. Bat why com pare a weak country like that to this great country with its 70,000,000 of people? We can establish a dollar and back it up. The ave-franc pieces of Franc.! is worth 95 cents because it has a strong government behind it! 'Siventh. In your opinion who will be benefited by the free coinage of silver, the wage earner or the owner of the silver bullion," "The wage earner. The mills will open up as well. "Eight. In your opinion is China, Japan, India, or Mexico preferable to America's present monetary system for the wage earner?" He did not think it fair to compare this country with such conutries. "Ninth. In your opinion, under the free cainage, will the silve certifi cates which are redeemable in silver dollars buy as much as they do now?" "Yes." "Tenth. In your opinion is it right under the Constitution and its funda mental princivles :to array the wage earners'mind against the honest man's wealth, or class against class:" He did not think so. But he referr ed to some persons who had not got ten their money honestly, but by rob bing the masses. "It is honest men againt thieves," he said. "They should rise up. throw their handcutfs oil and let Europe go to the devil." "Eleventh. In your opinion does not the wage earner need work. first and foremost at good wages with lion est money? Will not then the farmer be able to sell his product and live in prosperity witi the wage earner? Can it be done with the mills closed "That is putting the cart before the horse. The mills must have a market for their goods before they will run. When the farmers prosper it at'ects the different lines of trade, from one to the other until all are benetited. Prosper'ity will then come to thecoun try. "T welfth. Ini your opinion, if the yield of silver exceeds that of gold, in the proportion of 31 to 1, is it possi ble to raise the value of silver from 67 cents an ounce and maintain the two metals at a parity of 16; to 1? Does not the law of supply and demand rendei it impossiblei "\Tes, and the two metals ecin be maintained on a parity." "Thirteenth. In your opinion, can you refute the 5 points of Secretary Carlisle?:"; --Since Carlisle turned traitor I have not much regard for him and do not bother much about what he says. I don't remember his points. Ho wever, if you wilt tell them to me, I will try to answer them." Mr. Bausher did not remember them. Mr. Tillman denied the statement that he had said he was a secessionist in his speech at the Chicago conven tion, but said he was fr'om the seces sion State of South Carolina. "I am a farmer and 1 represent the wage earners. I was elected to the Senate, not by bribery and debauchery' or the backing of railroads, and while I am there 1 will do my best to worm in the interest of the m-tsses of the people." "How many of you," he asked, "have seen a gold dollar in the past year? Please hold up you'r hands. (Several hands were raised.) Now those of you who have not seen a gold dollar in the past year please hold up your hands. (With the exception of about a dozen all hands were raised.) He repeated the questions, but sub stituted silver and paper in the place of gold. The silver people were in the majority. "Now, then," said lie, "which is the money of the people?" There wvere loud cries for silver. On the money question he said, the fact that the goviament had placed its stamp on the gold, silver or greenback made them worth one dollar. Take a paper dolla-, a silver and a gold one. Put the paper one in the stove and it will go up in smoke. The gold and silver ones will melt. Send the gold one after it has been melted to the mint and you will receive in exchange for it a dollar. P'erl orm the same act with the silver dollar and you w ill only receive 53 cents. Why is this so? Be cause the mints at present are only open to the free coinage of gold. Give silver the same chance and the result will be entirely different. After the speech nearly all present shook hands with the Senator. Fri day evening lie was tendered an in formal reception at the Manson house, which was attended by nea-'ly 100 per sons. J udge Bland, ex-Senator . l~u pa r lavis. Fran k K. Flood, (ieorge smith, Jr.. and others acted :as a re ception committee. The visitors in cluded a delegation of G. A. lE ment, who, through E. '2. Eben, their spokes moan, made an apology f or the re'ep tion Senator Tillmnan had received at the fair grounds. Oine called and inststed that he re ceive $10t0 ats a private gift, but the frei- silver advocate declined the proft fered money with thank-s, stating that he wa-s not takinig a part in this campaign for caish, but for the love lhe TWO ESTIMATES. GRFOSVENOR AND THE COLUMBIA STATE FIGURE ON THE ELECTION. The Former Claims the Earth for Mtcriin ley. While the Latter Makes a Modest Claim f-or Iryan-Htere Are the Fig ATHF2,. Ohio, Sept. 2t.--General G rosvenor, who became famous as the McKinley mathematician in the cam - paign for the lRepublican nomination in St. Louis, to-night gave out a table of estimates of the probable result of the Presidential election. "I have been urged for several weeks," lie said, "to authorize the publioition of a table of estimates of the Presidential election, and I have hesitated to do so because there was more or less uncertainty in regard to the result. Not that there has ever been any uncertainty or doubt in the intelligent mind as to who would be elected, but following the St. Louis convention and the nomination of Bryan and Sewail by one faction of the Democratic party and the substan tial absorption of the Populist party which succeeded tat event, there was some uncertainty as to how several of the States would finally go, and this condition of uncertainty has not yet entirely disappeared, but the general drift of political events has reached a point where I think I need not hesi tate to point out substantiilly ho w the several States will go. "The six New England States with thirty-nine electoral votes, will go to McKinley, so I make my table as fol lows: New England.................... 39 New York................... . 36 New Jersey...................... 10 Maryland.......................S 8 Delaware..................... 3 Pennsylvania......... ........32 West Virginia....... ........ 6 Ohio.......... 23 Indiana...................... 5 Illinois...... ................24 Michigan........................ 14 Wisconsin...... .............. 12 Iowa.............. . ... 13 Minnesota........................ 9 South Dakota.................... 4 Kentucky....................... 13 Oregon.......................... 4 Washington...... .............4 California ....................... 9 Total..........................278 "Iere is a total of 278 votes, or fifty four more than sutlicient to elect, all of which are practically sure for Mc Kinley. "I now come to some States which are still in doubt but which under the high tide of Republican saccess now sweeping over the country will be al most sure to vote a large proportion of them: Kansas.......................... 10 Nebraska............. 8 North Carolina................ 1 North Dakota.................. Vyomning...................... 3 Total................... ....73 "Here are thirty-live elktoral votes, from which McKinley wilt surely re ceive enough to make good any acci dent that may befall the total of 278 There is a reasonable probability that McKinley wil carry one or more of these States: Louisiana..................... Tennessee..................... 12 Missouri...................... 1 Texas......................... 15 Virginia...................... 12 Total.......................t;4 '"I concede to Bryan and Watson or Bryan and Sewall or whoever it may be at the right time: Alabama.................... 11 Arkansas....................... 8 Colorado........................ 4 Florida......................... 4 Georgia.......................1:3 idaho.......................... 3 Mississippi.................... Mtontana................... 3 Nevada.......................3 South Caroliua........ ....... Utah......................... : Total........................ 70 "'These are practically sure for the opposition, although there may be a possible dispute even along that line. "I put my estimate upon the facts with my own personal knowledge of the rapid and mighty change in public sentiment that has been going on ever since ithe campaign of 189G began. I believe that the vote of Arkansas, to which our opponents are pointing with pride, is more significant of conming results in the Middle and Western States than is even the magniticent victory in Maine. The fact that a S-tate like Arkansas, with the charac ter of whose elections we have become so familiar, exhibited such a splendid increase of Democratic votes, is in the highest degree important, and a rela tive increase of Republican votes in the other States of the Middle and West would give us practically a solid vote. No sensible man can shut his eyes to the fact that the McKinley tide has been rising since a bout August 1, and that the ratio of its increasing power grows greater every day. The entire c ampaign is suggestive of 1872, when, in July and August, there was grave apprehension that Greeley might be elected. Yet in November he was overwhelmingly and disastrously de feated. THE OTHER SIDE. In commenting on the above figures The Columbia State says: Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, the Mc Kinley "figurer," disposes of the States with great ease. Nothing could be smoother and more sweeping than his method of making a majority for "the Major." He generously concedes to Bryan the States of Alabama. Ar kansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, Montana, South Carolina and Utah, with a total of 70 electoral votes. Then he claims as certain for Mc Kinley the six New England States, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsyl vania. 'West Vir ginia. Ohio, I udiana. illinois, Michi .an, Wisconsin, iowa, Minnesota, South D~akota, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington and California, with the modest aggregate of 275 votes, 22t, be ing n~cessar-y to elect. In the eciumn of probable McKin ley States hie puts Kausas, Nebraska, North Caroiina, North IDakota, and Wy oming, with :;5 votes. And Louisiana, Tennelssee, Missouri, Texas atnd \'irginia, with t1 votes lie thinks may possibly be cart-ted by Mc Kinl1ev. We have not time just now to go into details, but in a general way will should be made to this estimate. The so called "doubtful" groups, with :15 and 64 electoral votes respec tively, should be transferred bodily to the Bryan column, increasing it to 169 votes. Then we would take from the list of "certain" McKinley States New York. New -Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin and Washington. with 85 votes, and trans fer them to the "doubtful" column. Final'y, we would change from Mc Kinley to Bryan the States of Mary land, D.tlaware, West Virginia, In diana, Linois, Michigan, Iowa, Min nesota, South Dakota, Kentucky, Ore gon and California, with 112 votes. According to this emmputation Brv an would have 2S1 votes, McKinley 61 and 85 would be in doubt. This is a sincere estimate-quite as sincere as Gen. Grosvenor's. If there be a lar-ze variance between the two it is only because the area of possibilities extends over half the Union. YOUNG HARMON ON TRIAL. The Most Sensational Murder Ca-se in the State's History. LEXINGTON, C. I., Sapt. 23. -When court opened this morning there was a large crowd present to hear the IHarmon-Caugliman murder trial. Judge 0. W. Buchanan is presiding at this term. Upon the opening of the court the case was immediately entered upon and Lhe following jury, after various challenges, was empan elled: J. C. Glover, J. M. Malpaws, George Leis, H. FL Cnapman, F. W. Shealy. J. P. Kook, Jeff Price, Geo. T. Haltiwanger. J. T. Keiser, W. M. Wilson, Geo. H. Koon, Wi. D. Rser. The killing cf Cauzhman occurre: but a short time ago and is still fresh in the minds of the public. Young Harmon, who did the shooting has been in jail ever since the killing. He is about 21 years old. The defense is ably represented by Judge Andrew Crawford of Columbia, Col. Geo. Johnstone of Newberry, A. M. Booz er, of Columbia, and C. M. Efard and Frank E. Dreher. of Lexington. So licitor Nelson is conducting the pros ecution and is being assisted by Meetze & Muller and G. T. Graham of Lex ington. Much of the morning session was consumed in the empanelling of the jury and the first examined was Miss Flora Harman, sister of the young prisoner. The court adjourned for dinner at 2 o'clock, but reconvened at 3 o'clock. Miss Harman took the stand and Solicitor Nelson resumed the examination. Many letters from Miss Harmon to Caughman were in troduced. Many of the letters were identified by Miss Har-nan. The com munications all tend to show how the arrmngements for the meeting of the couple were made. The following is a specimen of one of the many letters introduced. It is to Caughman from Miss Harman: 'ity. -'.Iy (Only Precious- My derlin:z. I write every eve to you. It. is o imuch pleasure to rue, I hav nthing,-lse to care for aneI think alout bt you m?'dariing:ui poor me has not seen you in three days until t-PIay an-I it seens l like a year to Ine. Freliou tii iny precious, I've been awful .i14k and yota don't know how I dii wish muvself with you in your arni. Angel I knew it' I w:s I would he a well girl all the tinie, but I'm feeling allright now. I lon'L know how long it will last though, anl my precious. on top of be-ing sick. I had to go try and turn' tmy arm off. .\y darling. I think you are so sweet. And pre-cioul, y ou cant let nme come to o) on Saura ev: arling, I wish you would let me. I have something I want to ask you. .\y -'angel one"- won't you try now. Darling. I love you to death and you kissed youtr handl so sweet to me todlay. Precious, i'll close for this lttme and please darling, let me conme to you Saturilay. Well, goodbye. I am youtrs always. V. - . p. Wife. Mlany sweet kisses I sendl to yout and to get many soon, my preci.us Miss Har-man testitle d that she wrote the above and that the signature "Y. ). D Wife" meant "y-o'ur- own darl ing." The following note was also identi tied by Miss Hfarmnan to Cal C'augh man: "Datrling: I will meet you at 4 o'clock this evening au our o1.l piace if it don't rain. --\our. V. K. W. She testitlied that "Y. K. W.," meant "vou know who." Miss Hlarman's tes timony given during the morning hour of the court was to the etl'ect that the deceased, Caughman, had accom plished his purpose on her by force and he was in the act of accomplish ing his purpose on the day of the kill ing. -State. Buxggy Whipi Used On a Thief. Mam~svittE, S. '2.. Sept. 22.-There is an ordinance in this town taxing circuses and shows of any and every description. btit a free show was fur - nished the citizens of lower Main. street on Friday last and was sprung on the people so quickly Ihat our alert mayor and council did not have time to realize what had happened until the performance had ended. There were no show bills or programmes an nouncing the coming of any monste r aggregation or combination of world wonders, but if this free performance had been advertised, no doubt the town would have been crowded and the merchants would have reaped a harvest on the day and date in ques tion. It seems that a very black Johnnie, whose surname is Black, while working in the Dispensary-be came very thirsty and decided to ap propriate a quart of Old Velvet to his own use. Dispenser Wells caught him in the act, and started towards him when Johnnie became suspicious and made a break for the street door with the Dispenser in hot pursuit. The negro ran down Main street and turn ed the corner in front of the tobacco warehouse. Just at this juncture Dis penser Wells fired after his fleeing form and gave up the chase, but later, in the day the negro came back to town and called to compromise the matter with the Dispenser, who asked him how he proposed to settle. "Any way. boss. but dont lock me up," re plied the negro. And the way the Dispenser settled the matter was by leading the negro out to an oak tree on Main street and making him htug a tree while the Dispenser gave him twenty- live lashes with a whalebone buggy whip legister. Fusion Acc-(ompl Iished. R..lan, N. C., Sept. 21.-At 2 o'clock this morning the Democratic, lPopulist and silver patties agreed to fuse on ar Bryan electoral ticket m - North Caroliu:', the Democrats nam ing live electors, the lPopubsts live and thte silver patt one. This utnion of all the silver elements mn this State will, it is claimed, usur-e the State for the Denmccratie ticket by) a large ma A GRlEAT SENSATION. A CHARLESTON ClTY OFFIC!AL AR RESTED FOR INFAN rICIDE. C1131e90. Withi Mardering mai ilgitimaite Child-A Siekenlng T.ale of Depra itv ard Sin-The Accti-.l Formerly' Ai or angeburg Man. The News and 'urier. of last Wedl nesday, pulished the following: "A negro man walking over the tracks of the -ast Shore Terminal ( onpanv near Bennett's Mill, made a fearful discovery yesterday afternoon. At this point the tracks cross a muddy pond of water which rises and falls with the tide. The negro. as he crossed the trestle. looked down into the water beneath and the sight that met his eyes was a horrible one. A little pair of white feet protruded from the slime and mud. No other pa-t of the body was visible. Just the pair of baby feet abo re the water told the story of what may prove to be a cruel child murder. It was probably the sequel to the crime of some man and woman. which may be brought to light with the discovery of the little body. People in the ne'ghborhoed soon heard of the (is covery and before 3 o'clock a motley crowd had ga.thered around the trestle, gazing into tile pond and at the little pair of feet. The police station was noti ed and in turn the coroner was summoned. Then men were sent into the mud and slime to bring out the body. It w.s thought at first that tho baby had been alung into the water by some wretched, poverty-stricken moth er, but when the body was taken up the case looked different. Around the neci nf the child was tied a piece of fishing c:J, to which was attached a heavy stone'- These means of conceal ment looked like it had been a case of child murder. The inftat did not lo-) to be more than a few days oin. Th'i fish and crabs had eaten away a part of the face and the body had been in the water for two or three days." A special dispatch from Charlestoa tc the Greenville News. under date o. Sept. 23, says as a result of the finding of the body two white women and one white man hani been arrested, and are now held on the charge of murder. The man, who is named W. H. Eas terlin, is Electrician of the Metropoli tan Police Department of Cnarleston, and went from Orangeburg several years ago. The women are named Steinmeyer, and belong to an old and well-known family of the city. Eis terlin has been connected with the po lice department for some years. He is married and has two children and his wife is just now very ill. Tae Steinmeyer women are well connected in the city and State. They are moth er and daughter and the latter is ac cused of being the mother of the child. The case has created a profound sen sation in the city. THE CORONER'S INQUESt. At the Coroner'sinquest Mrs. Stein meyer, the mother of Easterlin's para mour, testilied that she lives on East Bay together with her two daughters. About three weeks ago her oldest daughter, Rose, had moved from the house, telling her mother that shp was going to the Island. She tad not believed that her daughteIiad gone to the Island, but for somte time she ha& not known her whereabouts. When she tnaly discovered her, she was living in the house on the corner of Vernon andi Concord streets, and she then made it a habit to go to her daughter at night to lend her assis tance, and tend her in her contline ment. She did not go to the house in the day time. On Monday morn ing about 2 o'clock the child was born. It was a hearty girl, strong and lusty and cried with such vigor that the neighbors might have heard it. She stayed until morning with her dauhter and then went home to attend to her own du ties, lirst locking the doors of the house where her daughter was and taking the keys with her. She went back once during the day andl then on Monday night went to spend the night. On that night, Monday, Easterlin came to the house and carried the child away. She was present when he took the child. It was wrapped in cloths and put into a small basket. The mother of the child gave her con sent to the taking away of the child, but only after Easterlin had given her his solemn promise that lie would have it properly cared for. Easterlin said he would send it up the road to a colored woman and that lhe would pay for its support and care. The mother's last wor-ds to Easterlin as lie carried the child away were "For G-ods sake don't hurt a hair of its head.'' That was the last she had seen of the child. Mrs. Steinmieyer stated that she had known Easte~lin for some time and had always regarded him as a friend of her family. She had never accused him of being responsible for- her daughter's condition because trhe mat ter was too delicate for her to speak of to him. but she knew he was the man. She did not know of her daughter's condition until the eighth or ninth month and she had then told her she must leave the house. By agreement of counsel the de fense was allowed to cross exommne the witness. Un cross examination Mrs. Steinmeyer stated that her daugh ter and Easterlin and herself were all fearful that the neighbors would hear the child's cries and they did not want it known that thechild had b:en born. To quiet the infant the mother had given it a few drops of paregoric. Easterhin wanted ten drops given, but she would not permit this. The pare goric she had had for some time along with other medicines. Shte stated that she had never befojre seen the stone there exhibited or the cloth with which it was tied, but that the baby was wrapped properly with cloths when it was taken from the house. She did not know if the net in her daughter's room was tied with :isning cord. She. didn't know where the bsket camue fromt in which the child was taken away. It had to be cut to accommodate the chmild as it was too short for the baby to lie in. Hecr daughter had cut away the sheets whre she had lain in the bed and had burned the stutr in the ro->m while she was away from the house. She had gone down to the door with Eas terlin and locked it after lie had gonie out. No clothies had been pr-eparedl for the baby before its birth. Witness had never seen the trestle where the child was found. On Tuesday nighitI she went to the ho'use where net r daughter was to stay with lier :as no al, but when she armriv-ed sh~e found her already dressed and desirous cf going out, Sihe haid then taken her hd never denied to the coroner that htr daughter had given birth to a TIF VEIIDICT. This .'osed the evidence and after delziberating the jury found the fol lowing verdict: "That the said white female infant camec to her death by strangulation by the hands of W. H1. Easterlin on the night of September 21st, all at Ben nett's mill pond, East Shore Terminal track, in the city of Charleston." Easterlin was then committed to jail without the privilege of bail to await trial at the November term of court. TIE CHLlis) 1!ITHE'. The mother of the dead infaut lies at the hiospital and is doing very well. She is a tall and quite line looking woman with rich brown hair and a white skin. It will probably be but a short time before she is recovered from he-r illness. A DaugerouA Diseae. Seeing in the papers a statement that North Carolina cattle are shipped into thisState, particularly this neigh borhood. causes ine to ask you to give publicity to the following: TO THE PCUit'. Sinc North Carolina cattle., acc3rd ing to the statements of the papers, are shipped into this State and since anthrax (a formidable, highly contag ious disease to man or beast) has made its appearance near Charlotte, N. C. I wish to draw the attention of our people to the visible symptoms and post mortem changes accampanying this disease If anybody kaows of a living or dead animal showing the following symptoms or changes on be ing opened after death, he will please at once communicate with the vetari nary division of Clemson College, S. C., sending also, if possible, an ear or foo of an animal recently dead, with supposed anthrax. Symptoms-General weakoess, the ani!al is stupid, rises with ditlicult r' eyes siarihd unrerv wabblinv gait, trembling of the skin an-idw-chin- of the superdicial muscles of the stea ders, neck, flank. Animals do not eat nor chew the cad. Cows stop giving milk, breathing hurried and often ac companied with a groan. Swelling on the skin of the inside of the thigh, belly, forearm, windpipe, lower jaw. These are at first rather small; enlarge rapidly, being fairly hard in afew days. Aaimals die either very quickly, at times they appear all right and are dead one half hour later, others live some fifty hours while those cases where the swellings Dredominate live occasionally for two five or days. Post mortem changes: Oa opening the body, which must be done with utmost care to avoid infection, the fol lowing is found: The body is bloated, decay setting in rapidly, blood is seen to ooze from the natural openings of the boiy. The blood in the veins is liquid and of tarry consistency. The spleen (mils) is four or five times as large as normally, blackish red in color, and if cut into a tar like material Ilows from the cut part. The uiucous membrane of the stomach and snall intestines is swollen and dark red. The heart is full of blood of a dark 4;nuid nature. The lungs are tiiled wI d blood, wind pine showing frothy W. E%*. A. W Vtxx, \. S. Two thildren Mu-rdetM'1. L. on~, Sept. 24 Albert Tho:na and wife, colored, M*-t their home two miles from Lamar, to attnd church near there last Sunday evening. Their two little children, coth~ girls, aged five and four respec~ively, were sent before the departure for church, to the children's grand parents, a quar ter of a mile away. On the parents' return home late in the evening, the children were not on the premises as expected. Some one was sent over across a narrow strip of woods to the grand parents for them, and they were not there, It was learned that the children had left the latter place for home sometime before sun down. Af ter asearch of an hour they were found beaten and bruised and both apparently dead in the woods about one hundred yards from the path. *The elder- died in six or seven hours, the younger regaine:i consciousness about that time and began exclaiming Ellie did it, Ellie beat us." E-llie Pompy is a young negro of 13 years cousin to the two children, and was living with his and the children's grand parents. lHe was arrested and con fessed the deed. He savs in an in terview that he met his cousins in the woods, " -began to play tag, he got mad, lost thought of himselif, and hit themi too hard with a stick." lHe en ticed them away into the woods, 100 yards or more from the path where the~mu rder was'cornmitted. lie was ask ed why (lid he take them there? He was confused here and uttered conflicting statements. Many think rape was at tempted upon the older girl. There were threats of lynching by some whites as well as blacks, and the sheriff fearing violence, did not go back to Darling ton, as he came by private convey ance, but returned by rail last night with the priscner. Tue younger child is not expected to live-State. Which story zs TrueT NE.w OnrmENs, September 21 Tuesday ni&ht last a negro named hwk-ins was boiling some pitch in Gretna and was annoyed by- a number of children. He told them to go away, and as they did not obey ouickly he slapped one of them. This child hap pened to be a nephew of one of the Gretna police force. This man on be ing informed of the occurrence raised a great hue and cry and went after Hawkins who made his escape. T wo innocent negroes in waaose house Haw kins took refufe were shot and badly wounded by the crowd in pursuit of H~awkins,who had left the house some time before. Last night Hawkins was caught in Algiers and carried to Gret na, wherec he was locked up in what is called the little jail, a small frame building in a neighborhood where there are but fewv houses. The door was secured by a padlock and no one was on guard. About I o'clock this morraing a mob broke open the house, took Hawk-ins out, carried himo about anmile away and hanged him. After life was extinct the body' was cut down and thrown into the river. Today the authorities of G retrna profess ignorance of the a:Vair and the chief of police of that vilari claims that Hawk ins broke jadl and ediibits the broken p)adioc'a as proof. No False Colors Allowed. D .Rr N, Sept. 21. -Col. W\iiam <>in, secretary of the State of Massa ehussetts, has just rendered a decision to tihe elfect that in' this State tile nmes of the electors of thle Palmer Buck-ner ticket cannot go on a title of W(OND LADORING M SANDS TO O at the Most sigi tion-4 of the4 'r.,eden Labor Men. NEW Yon, Sept. 23. perhaps never been such a demonstration for Wm. Bry East as that given to-night in lyn by the combined labor in It has been a mooted question whe the labor people of the East would spond to a call for a mass meeting in favor of Mr. Bryan, but there was no mistake about the demonstration at the Clermont Rink. The capacity of the building was estimated at 8,000 and every available corner was filled with good-natured humanity, while thousands besieged the doors and were refused admission. It was a typical labor gathering and even the women and children present were filled with the enthusiasm of the occasion. It was also a meeting for out of the ordinary in its method of procedure. Instead of the formal in troduction nominating a presiding of Fleer, a clean Cut man with gray hair stepped to the front of the platform shortly before 8 o'clock and said: "Will the audience please take from their seats the song that is there and join in singing it?"and they responded so hartily that the refrain "You shall not press the crown of thorns upon the toilers' brow," rang against the un painted rafters an'reechoed again, a::A when it was finished a mIghty cheer went up. Andso it was through out the meeting and while they were waiting for the arrivni of Mr. who Was speaking at ano they listened to se veral speake The meeting was presided o tlrely by labor organizations stage containel a repra-entative each locallab! r orzi-- tion. Wh tu mneetin was e to order eve aisle and each corridor was crowded, and when letters of regret were read from cagene V. Debs and John W. Hays, secretary of the Knignts of L bor, there were vociferous chee Debs said in his telegram: "The m lions are with Bryan and will p him in the chair Lincoln occupied in spite of British toryism and corpora tion cocercion." Resolations were ad opted commending the work of the Chicago convention and proclaiming: "We believe the present contest to be much more than a struggle between the Democratic and the so-called R publican parties, more than silver against gold, and is not a fight of the poor against the rich, nor of labor against capital, nor of the farmers against the artisan or mechanics, the creditor against the debtor; but when sifted and analyzed and stripped from all sophistry, is a battle of the people against the oligarchy of weelth, founded on special privileges, therefore be it Resolved, That we pledge our servi ces unreservedly to the earnest and ac tive support of the able young tribune of the people, Wm. J. Bryan, for Presi dent of these United States, and we ask the support and earnest co-opera tion of all the toilers. President John McKetchnie an nounced that it would be 9:30 o'clock bfore Mr. Bryan would arrive and the audience cheered lustily his declara l ion that "We will waitnttan ing i ocesa' T. time before the~ byief speeches. .Eohn Phillips, na tiontal secretary of the Hatters Union, beginniing thteaddresses. Others were John Brisbeni Walker of New York and Joseph B. Buenanan of New Jer sey. It was a few minutes after 10 o'clock when Mr. Bryan appeared and after the police had fought a way through the crowds at the door for him they had to repeat the operation inside, the vast assemblage in the meantime stand ing upon the seats and yelling them selves hoarse in their adulations of the leader. When Mr. Bryan had secured or der he made a speech covering the same ground of his previous speech in Brooklyn to-night at the Academy. Preparing Seed Corn. An experienced farmer, writing on this subject, says: "Some ten years ago I planted an ear of corn to test the difference between the product of the kernels of both ends and the mid dle of the same ear and will give you the result. The soil was just alike, the cultivation the same, and the crop very ditferent. I planted the first two rows from the tip or small end, and planted all the same morning. Tha large end produced fair sized ears. The middle kernels produced eais mostly straight and fair. The tips brought forth nubbins only. There was not a fair ear on the two rows of corn.- I have raised corn more or less, for 40 years, and now plant only two thirds of the kernels on each ear of corn, and generally raise good crops." If the crop can be got into the ground early, it is not advisable to soak the seed for the purpose of hastening its growth. If the weather comes unfav orable for planting while the corn is soaking, the sprouts are apt to get so long that they will be broken off while carried in the planting bag, and besides sprouted seed cannot be put into the hand planter, the use of which very much facilitates the labor, and if the ground is dry, makes the growth of the seed doubly certain. T wo or three weeks ago we com menced planting a field of corn with the hoe, the ground was dry, and the labor so great to obtain moist earth to cover the seed. that we gave up the task when the field was about half planted and took a hand planter to finish the work. The result was that the last half came up perfectly, and the first had to be more than two thirds replanted The grain covered with the loose dirt from the hoe ger mimated, but by the atmosphere dry ing up the loose soil, the sprouts with ered and died. More MIassacres. OCISmmIoPEm, Sept. 21.--Advices received here regarding massacres at E-gin, in the CJavillayaet of Kahrput, show that they occurred on the G:h and 16th of the present month. The K-urds attacked the Armenian quarter, killed large n umbers of its inhabitants and pillaged and burned their houses. Many Armenians escaped to the moun - tains. According to the accounts of the Turkish government, Goou Armen ians were killed at Egin, and these advices also state that the outrage was provoked by the Armenians firing into the Turkish quarter. No authentic details of the massacre have yet been