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VOL. xli. MANNING., S. C.. WEDNESi)AY MAY 5 189)7. NO. 41. WATTERSON IS SAVAGE. SAYS CLEVELAND IS SCHEMING FOR A THIRD TERM AS PRESIDENT. What One of Cleveland's AI)',s in the Late Presidential Election Thinks of Him Now-A Fair Estimate of the Man. Recently the Louisville Courier Journal published the following caus tic article from the pen of Henry Watterson on Cleveland's speech in New York before the Reform Club: "Forewarned is forearmed. "The first gun of the battle of 1900 is fired somewhat early, but it was fired by the Reform clubof New York last Saturday night. The reform club is made up exclusively of the Dersonal followers of Mr. Cleveland. It exists ia point of fact to exploit the fame and to advance the interest of the ex President. The names of Fair child and Hornblower and Peckham are a sufEeient guarantee that the association has no other source of in spiration, nor any further point of destination. "The dinner, an account of which appeared yesterday, was given to place Mr. Cleveland in the field as a candidate for President, and from this time forward all the appliances of a small but energetic and intelli gent machinery will be put forth to make a campaign of education and a canvass for Mr. Cleveland synony mous terms. "It is a grievous feature of public affairs that great issues are so often complicated by lesser issues, and that the virus of private aim not infre quentiy percclates the veins of the Jairest policies. CLEVELAND AND A THIRD TERM "By no possibility c&n Mr. Cleve land affect the cause of genuine re form except for ill. He has had his dav-a sad one for his party-and 'whatever cont.-ibutions he made to the cause of good government during that day are upon the record and go to his credit. But his name in con nection with the Presidency can be only a reproach, because, aside from the contaminations and frictions it in v'olves, it carries with it the odius idea of a third term, antagonznz a law unwritten, it is true, but deeply imbedded in the popular mind and heart. "Mr. Cleveland can never again be President of the United States. Under no circumistances ought he to be. That he should contemplate another candidacy affords strong eviderces of a lack in him of integrity and virtua. That a club of satellites should con spire to place him again in nomina tion is not merely proof of the treason of its members to their country and to the party to which they profess alle giance, but of a degradin: sacrifice of of patriotism and manhood. No par ty which is worthy the popular confi dence could or would put him in nom ination. Any party seriously con. templating it would be consigned to everlasting infamy. "It was said not along ago and very truly that Mr. Cleveland would be a candidate for President every iour years as long as he lived. The circumstances of his life, in the ab sence of any elevated principle of cal culation or unselfish rule of action, bear him out in the belief that he is a law unto himself, contradicting all prece dents He has impressed this be lief upon the group cf persons who immediately surround him. They ought to be good Christians, for they seem to have been created for no oth purpose than to serve their creator; and, if assidity and constancy be mer its, they are surely meritorious. But they are short-sighted. Their notion that Mr. Cleveland is within himself both a party and a platform and that he can command a following strong enough to win an election against the so called Democrats and the so called Republicans, is an illu sion. If it could be realized the event would then and there Mexicanize the public administration; for, once again in power, like Diaz, Mr. Cleveland 'would find the means to continue in power the residue of his natural life. 'Better the Mexicanization of the cur rency than the overthrow of liberty,' would be the well-nigh universal cry of the nation, so that the very best hope the free silv'erites can have is the candidacy of Mr. Cleveland, fatal ly dividing the elements of sound economics and making a sure high way for the forces of fiscal and other adventures. "But there can be no reason to doubt the fact that Mr. Cleveland is the one man to be reckoned 'wi. thosa who seek to attain good govern ment as distingushed from the opera tion of rampant nartyism, swinging the pendulum fromt one to the other dizzy height of political excess. From first to last this callous, self-seeking man has been the cause, the sole association of all cur undoing. - *-To go back no further than the last internal Democratic conflict. If six months before the nominating pe riod of 1896 Mr. Cleveland had firmly said: -I will not be a candidate under an circumstances, nor allow my name to be used by any body,' the elements of order in the party could gtt togeth er and uni.ed on some leader equal to the task of meeting and beating the extremists. But Mr. Cleveland could not be induced to make the slightest sign. He was as silent as an oracle, standing the while exactly where the lightning might be expected to strike. Except for tius paralyzing Carlisle Kentucky could not have held; Ken tucky gone, the rest followed like a landslide. Mr. Cleveland was knownz to be a covertly candidate, and. handicapped by tuiw, the friends of sound money snd revenue reform -were overwhelmed by the malcontents, raised up in tne first place, by Mr. Cleveland's exasperating temper and incompetency for leadership. "It is discouraging to the friends of reform in the south and west thsat thus prematurely the movement for honest and sound money should be freighted down by a name which is potent only for evil. But it is still more discouraging to reflect that the man behind this namie is as indefati gable as he is mischievous, that he is the author of the lax( party discipline of which he complairns; tnat he is the author of the protection gibberisn which the national convention in 1892 refused to adopt; that elected on a pledge of tariff reform. he sent the tariff to the rear, and, advancimg the money issue to the front, lost noth; that he is very much richer than ever he was and much more ambitious than ever he was; that his removal was the first adroit step in his nei' plan of campaign; that every day of his late in tuaLt ine effeminate Italian had he wilm write from two to fifty letters, addressed to persons in every part of the country: that posing as a retii ed statesman and philosopher, and playing upon the credulity of the sim pie minded and easily flattered, he will leave no string untouched for stimuiating the activity of the expect ant; and day ard nicht this Reform club, having in charge the circulation of Democratic Jiterature, will be si lently, surely working to the one end which he. and they, bave before them -bisnonination in 1900. "If Mr. Cleveland were possessed of the faculty for conceiving any public affair apart from his oxn interet even if he had any real sense of per sonal dignity-he would rid the great questions at issue from the embarrass ment of a presence which is not a help, but a hinderance. Instead of playing the part of a philosopher and statesman, while exhausting every artifice to regain the presidency. he would perceive the grandeur of being such in point of fact, and of enjoying like a statesman and philosopher, the repose of his old age and his honors, but he would not be himself if he con siaered anything else than his own desire and will. The executive office represents both. He liaes the power, the emoluments and the employment. He has a talent for industry. He is dominant and experienced. "To him the Presidency has become. what he indeed made it while he had it-a personal affair, held regardless of party obligations. Destitute of imagination and of sympathy, he subjected everything and every bcdy to his unbounded and iunquenchable egot- t ism. this egotism indeed,became so sin- I cere that he grew at last to believe that t he did actually know something of the i questions of his time and had some t policy other than the gratification of his love of power and display. It is just as wdl that Democrats who seek the rehabiliation of the prsrty on t sound political lines of action and i thought should know, to begin with, I what lies across their path, and that i they should begin to cast about them I how to shake from their shoulders i this veritable Old Man of the Moun tains. He is with us only for what it will bring him. Nothing could have i induced him to appear in public ex- I cpt to keep himself before the public, ] and there is not a word uttered by i him to depreciate the idea of another i candidacy. t "All his life an officeseeker and an'< officehoider, he differs 1rom the riff- i raff of hii class only by his high pre < tensions and profound duplicity. He hopes in the burly-burly of affairs to force himself upon the country as the ( representative of clean politics and the public order. He represents neither. t He represents only his own lust for t office. A great an noble principle I must not be thus desecrated. A pos- t ible party rehabilation of the greatest moment must not be obstructed by < such a dcath's head at the feast. t If Mr. Cleveland has not the wis- < dom to see his duty and the grace to step i down and out, he should be compelled by the opinion of decent people to step 4 down and out, for the elimination of ( his ambitions is indispensable to any i progress in the direction of reform, t which, while he stood as its official i chief, encounted nothing but obloquy t and defeat." Pleasure in Prospect. President E H. Avll and Secretary 4 C. C. Langston have announced the i arrangements that hav-e been made for a pleasant and profitable meeting of the State Press Association to meet in Newberry on May 25th next 1 and spend t wo days in discussing va-< rious topics of interest to the profes-t sion, and incident aly enjoy New berry's proverbial hospitality, after which a visit will be made to the Thornwellf Orphanage at Clinton, where lunch will be served by the ladies of the I town, and then to the celebrated Har- ti ris Lithia Springs, where an elegant< banquet will be tendered by the pro prietor. Leaving this place on Friday ti onL an excursion to the Tennessee Cen-] tennial Exposition at Nashville, stop- < ping en route at Chattanooga to visiL Lookout Mountain and other points of[1 interest. The whole scheme is cer tainly highly attractive, and there< will doubtless be a large turn out of the members to enj'.y the rare oppor-1 tunity afforded. Electric car Causaity. &.n electric street car filled with1 paisengers was run into Thurday after noon by a railroad train on the out skirts of Tampa, Fla., anid one passen ger was killed, two fatally and others slightly injared. The street car was without a conductor and the motor-] man was taking fares. One Cuban refused to pay and when seized to be, put off the car was rescued by three1 other Cubans, who assulted the mo torman, holding him down on thei rear platform wnile the car ran down grade to the crossing. The name ofI the man killed is Manul A-cano. The, injured are Antonio Sierra and Wii liam Forepaugh. The t wo first named are Spaniards. Forepaugh is nroprie-I tor of a circus. King Found at Last. John C. King, the long lcsi heir. of his brother, Louis King of New Orleans, that was supposed to be con cealed in Troy by persons who wished to gtet possession of the property, au peared before the district court in New' Orleans on Friday to prove his ideu-1 tity. Anr attempt to prove that hel was unfit to control the .large f ortune failed, and the court ordered King put in possession of the property. King acknowledged that he was a neavy drinker and that he was a tramp, sleeping in the police statioc at Troy when he heard of tne death of his brother and his accession to the property. A Confederar~e M1onument. The Confederate monument erected through the efforts of the Daughter of the Confederacy of Dallas, Texas, was unveiled Friday morning. TheI Hon. John H. R-agan delivered a eulogy on Mr. Davis. Other euloaiesj ,rere pronounced as follows: On~ Oen. R E. Lee, by the Hon. George N. Aldrige; on Gen. Stone wall Jac son, by Judge H., WV. Lightfoot; on Gin. Albert S. Johston, by the Hon. Norton G. Kttrell; on - The Private," by the Hon. A. T. Watts. Make Home Happy. This is an injunction that will be eeded by all wno look to the promo tion of the pleasures of others. A happy home is indeed the happiest of places. One source of happmness in tue nome circle is good music. A sure surce of gooc. music is a good piano-such as may be had from M.1 A. Malone, Columbia, S. C.- Read what he has to say in his new adv-er-I CLEVELAND'S SPEECH C T THE BANQUET OF THE NEW YORK I REFORM CLUB ,ommented on by W. Jennings Bryan. Late Democratic Candidate for the Pres idency-He is Courteous but Critical. Read What He Say: The Hon. W. J. Bryan writes as ollows to the New York Journal in :ommenting on the recent speech of r lx-Pressident Cleveland before the N .eform Club of New York: The presence of Mr. Cleveland, two L nembers of his cabinet and such emi ient gold Democrats as ex-Congress nan Turner, Bynum and Patterson nade the banquet an important Polit cal event, and the address delivered )y Mr. Cleveland may fairly be ac :epted as setting forth the present riews and future purposes of the bolt ny Democrats. Probably the most unexpected thing n the address was his reference to the .epublican administration. He bor ows emphasis from a scriptural text md accuses the Republicans of return ng in hot haste to their wallowing in he mire of extreme protection. This s an unfair criticism, because the Re- 9 ublicans have never shown any dis- r )osition to abandon extreme protec i ion. s ON M'NLEY DEMOCRATS I Mr. McKinley won political fame as t he apostle of a tariff, and during the ate campign reiterated his devotion o this policy. Those Democrats who oted for Mr. McKinley voted with heir eyes open to tariff possibilities. Neither have those Democrais rea on to complain of McKinley's attitude m the money question. To be sure, he President has sent an argosy 'broad in search, not of a golden leece, but of an object equally elusive iamely, an international agreement or the restoration of bimetallism, but s a so doing, he is only carrying out a s ledge contained in his platform. Unless the gold Democrats were in )ossession of aszurances not given to he public generally, or expected the President to abandon his platform, t hey ought to be satissed witn his fi- 5 iarcial policy. He promised to main ain the gold standard until relief omes from abroad, and he is doing it n spite of the continued distress c aused by such a policy. CAN CONDEMN POLICIES. The Democrats who supported the I "hicago platform can consistently :ondemn both the tariff policy andjl be financial policy of the administra ion, but those who supported Mr. dcKinley are only receiving what; hey had a right to expect. Mr. Cleveland accuses the Republi ans of a determination "to repay par- i s isan support from the proceeds of in-1 C reased burdens of taxation placed t ipon those already overladen." He knew that the Republicaas had! b :ollected a campaign fund larger than ver before known in Ameican poli ics. Did it ever occur to him that he contributors would expect repay ent through legislation friendly to heir interests. Has not the Diagiey a >ill been drawn exactly upon the 0 >lan cf the McKinley bill It may C liffer in its schedules, but it does not t iiffer in its general plan and prepara- 9 ion. But if those Democrats who t upported Mr. McKinley have no rea- t on to criticise his course, what shall ~ ye say of those Dcmccrats who sup >orted the Indianapolis ticket? Wnat ~ ~laims have they to consideration at he hands of the President? FROM BOLTING DEMOCRATS. Mr. Cleveland asserts that when the ate of the nation seemed in the bal me, deliverance came through the >olting Democrats. Does he mean brough those Democrats who voted irectly for Mr. McKinley. or through hiose who voted for the Indianapolis . icket. The leaders among the gold ~ )emocrats claim to have voted for I ?almer and Buckner. Certainly this ' lid not entitle them to pose as saviors >f their country. They knew that ' he contest would be close, even Mr. 1 3eveland refers to the campaign as I me of doubt and fear. Was it patriotic for gold Democrats : throw their votes away upon a tick-I at which had no chance when their ;pport might have decided the con-1 :esi There is a touch of humor in the yoisterous intentions of those who, uring the contest, watchied the strug-f te from afar and after the battle wasO >ver claimed all Credit for the victory. HIS WAR DECLARATION. The important part of Mr. Cleve .and's addfress, however, is found in 2is declaration of war against those I whto supp-rted the Chicago ticket. In ;his last address he has given more tid to his opponents than to his sup porters, just as he did by his official Ics. Iiis surrender of the executive >ranch of the government into the aands of the Wall street financiers luring his last administration did nore than any one thing to arousene' American people to a llnowledge of he gold standard. His thinly disguised support of the Republican ticket in the campaign did nuch to drive the silver Republicans yut of the Republican party, and their oyahiy to oimietallism has not been ~baken by defeat. In his address Sat irday night he aided the silver cause ~till further by removing whatever lager there might have been of con sesions from the regular Democrats o0 the bolters. If he had discussed the fundamentail rinciples of Democracy and then j, reed union of force upon a platform ~omposing differences on the money! estion he might have done us harm; a some section, but his dogmatic in- a isttnce upon a foreign financial poli- ~ y and his endorsement of the organ i ition of the g-old Democrats will Lave a wholesome influence in convincing .imid Democrats of the folly of any ttemp? to reunite tne Democr-ats who re wedded to gold monometallismn. CONTEST IN ITS INFANCY. Mr. Cleveland recognizes that the' :ontest over the money question, inI tead of being ended, is just beg inmng:1 ne recognizes it as an irrepressible con? lict, and in this he reasons rightly. The Democratic party will in 1900 reiterate its demand for free and un timited coinage at 16 to 1, and it wil be opposed by those who at that time Delieve in a gold standard. This being~ ts certain as any future event can be, why should those aililiate now who axpect to engage in combat so soon ereafter. We now have a harmonious Demo :ratic party, and we have a boluing I yrganization which cliams to represent t aother kind of Demccracy. Let Lhe m moth exist and time wih determinejc which is fittest to survive.r Tf any bimetallist is converted ino( he gold standard he can :join their ,rganization; if any gold Democrat enents he can return to the fold. iowever much we may differ from Ir. Cleveland ve must admit his :ou rage. A less resolute man would hesitate o assume the leadership of a little and of 130,000, many of whom voted he Indianapolis ticket b'v mistake, .nd then accused 6,500,000 voters of cing either designing agitators or the uecs of designing agitators. A man with lers self-reliance would e-examine his o-vn conduct t see ;hether it was his folly or iheirs Pbich separated them from 5,000,000 f Democrats who once idolized him, ut In the lexicon of Mr. Cleveland's aaturer years there is no such word s "mistake." POWERLESS TO RELIEVE The gold Demccracy is impotent to ring any real relief to the country, is long on platitudes and short on erformance, it reaches its maximum t a banquet and its minimum at the olls. It is the toy of those financiers rho prate about national honor wbile hey fatten on the nation's extremity, .nd is powerless to protect the pecple rom the extortion of trusts and the reed of unrestrained corporations. Those Democrats wbo believe in quality before the' law will naturally ravitate toward the regular Demcc acy and those Democrats who believe a a government by syndicates and for yndicates will naturally drift into the tepublican party, because it offers bem the besL prospects of saccess. The Rtoad Law. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the reneral Assembly cf the State of outh Carolina, That an act entitled An Act to prov'de a s stem of coun 7 governioen t for th1 counties of this tate, so far as it r,:a:es to the work og and maintaining the roads and ighwass in this State," approved larch 231, 1893, be. and the same is ereby, amecded by striking out Sec on 4 thereof and inserting in lieu of id Section the followiog: SECTIoN 4. That all able bodied iale persons and all male persons ble to perform or cause to be per armed the labor herein required, be ween the ages of eig teen and fifty ears, except in Horry and Spartan urg counties, where the ages sball be rom twenty-one to fifty, and also ex ept ministers of the Gospel in actual harge of a congregation, and persons rmanently disabled in t;e military rvice of this State, and persons who erved in the late war, shall be liable unually to do and perform four days ibor on the highways, under the di ection of the Overseer of the road dis riet in which he shall reside, except 3 the in the counties of Soartanburg, Lderson, Greenville and Darlington, therein tne number of working (lays hall be three, and the countips of )rangeburg, Pickens, Saluda, E Jge eld, Colleton, Chester, Barawell, ,ewberry and Williamsburg, where 2 tb number of working caeys shall e six, and the counties of Charleston, 'renown, Btaulort and Florence. ,hei ein the nu mber of working days ball be eight: Provided that the ounty Board of Commissioners of ny county may cause to be levied an dditional tax, not to exceed one mill. n all the taxable property of any >wnship in their county, when so re uired by a written petition signed by yvo thirds of the freeholders of such >wnship, such tax to be collected as bae other taxes, and to be expended on he roads and highways of each town ip. SECTION 2 That the said act be, an d be same is hereby, further amended *y striking out Section 27 thereof and Esrting in lieu of said Section the allo wing: SECTION 27. That the County Treas rers of the counties of this State are ereby authorized and empowered to eceive from any and all persons lia le to road duties as commutation tax; a the counties of Aobeville, -dol irs, to be fixed by the County Board 4 Commissioners; Aiken, one dollar; tnderson, one dollar; Barnwvell, one ollar; Beaufort, t wo 'dollars; Berke ey, one dollar; Chester, t vo dollars; Tnesterdid, one dollar; Charleston, wo dollars; Colieton, t'vo dollars: llarendon, one dollar; Darlington, mie dollar; Edgefield, two dollars; 'airfield, two dollars; Florence, two tollars; Georgetown, two dollars; heenville, one dollar; Hampton, one olar; Horry, two dollars; Kersbaw, ne dollar; Lancaster, one dollars; 2aurens, two dollars; Lexington, ne dollar; Newberry, one dollar; larlboro, one dollar; Marion, wo dollars; Pickens twvo dollars; ~ichland, t wo dollars; Spartanburg, ne dollar; Saluda. t wo dollars; Sum er, one dollar; Union, one dollar; )conee; one dollar; Orangeburg, two ollars; Willismsburg, twvo dollars; erk, two dollars; and all moneys io >aid shall be set apart and known as he county road fuud: Provided, 'hat such commniati.~n tax be paid for be deal year1l5tt oetween the first av of March aud tse iirst day of tpril, and 'ereaftersadcnmmutation ax shal 1be paid for the succeding ear when~ State and county taxes are aid, anid that the County tre-asurers -hall furnoish a r-ctlit t tth p.. -n so n'mts as to Pick.ens countv shall not .ppiy to the present fiscal year. Tr at he amendmenrts to this See:.ion shall tot go into e!TecL until the first day of Lly neCxt. six convx: ien4Ircioned. Thc Go~verno&r issued the following ardons Friday onr the recom-rnd i ion of Dr. Pope, surgeon of the Pen: eatiary: Joseph Bole:t. convicted in Beaufort, 96, of h au-e breakin~ -and iareeny. rd seemenctd by Jud e Ealto MonroveI Hela con ,ie-( ,d in Aien, o9->, o: r?ouse br -li ad!r' id sentenced by Judge Gar to u .e ears. Peter Geen, evi'-"d laBI ot St95, of burglary,.. an seteced bv udg-e Gary ta five years Wilia'c Lesoth, convicted of 'i.n ttempt to murder by poisen" in Or ngeourg, 18t6. and setenced or udge Town:>end to Live 'eurs. Dr. Pope saiys they are all well -ad anced in consumption arid caunot i-re many weeks longeor ii prison a Ie a constant source of danger to the ~her co)n'vi2s Hor~ Kon advic~es s::y latrs rom -zensa pro~viLces so.v 'l: 23 Juina21are assed inr o. arm it or food Two pitched batt~shv ake' plae between the~ mobs a'nd ovenmeInt troops in which 12 1l iers were killed and wounded. Two egiments of regular troops have lefL. "GIVEN TO GARRIS MR. GASTON'S OFFICIAL REPORT AS TO THAT TRUNK. Important Orders Have Been Issued by Gov. Etterbe-What He says-Questions for Mr. Gaston to Answer. The foliowing communication was published in the News and Courier Wednssdav: To the Editor of the News and Courier: Since the ju ry who sat on the case of Will iam Beckroce vs. The State of South Caro lina in the iUnited States Court has given a verdict of o darages to the plaintiff, it is reasonable t3 suppose that a return of the ciptured trunk and contents goes with the verdict. Dartnm the trial of the case the attorney for the plaintiff propoinded the qtestions to the Assistant Attorney General: "Where is the trunk*"' 'Where are the ci gars':'' To both of which, if I am correctly informed, he replied, -In Columbia, I sup pose. Now, I wish to ask. Did he suppose they were n Couihia: Had he not the infor nation to the contrary? Now I propose the following question. and call on the named gentlenien to give us all the knowledge they have in reference there to, and I ask each of them directly and seper ately for this information: Where is the trunk? We would like for Col. Wilie Jones.chairman of the State Board of Control, to say what he knows about this. Then we would be glad to have Mr. Seth Seruggs, the chief clerk of the State Board, to tell what he knows. Then Col. John T. Gaston. ex-Acting Commissioner, to say. and. lastly. we would be glad to have )Ir. C. W. Garris, a metmber of the legislative examin ining committee for the Dispensary, to say what he knows about the trunk. Next. where are the cigars? I think, per haps. all of tle niemhers. all five of them. can say sor'thin-g on this subject. Then let Colonel z'-G:ou,wlo was in charge of them, say where they are. Thea Mr. Scruggs can com'e up and have his little say, and finally. perhaps Mr. Charlie Lynch. who is an em ployee in the office, can enlighten the pub lie. Next, where are the wedding shoes? They must have been fine shoes to be in keeping with the balance of the contents of the trunk. Where are they? Colonel Gaston. tells us. and let all of the above named gentlemen give the people of South Carolina an accouut of their stewardship. The people should know just how things are being worked and managcd at the great moral institution, and. if honestly and correctly, then they will only have to say so and stop suspicion, and if not. and they fail to satisfy the public, then they must bear the stigma. Come up, gentlemen. an anxious public awaits replies from each and every one of you. and should there he anything out of place let it rest on the shoulders where it properly belongs. Tarra SEEKIa. The Columbia Register s-ys Colo nel Jones stated that he had never seen the trunk or any of its contents, and certainly had not smoked any of the cigars. The trunk bad been sold to Mr. 0. W. Garris. As to the ci gars, he knew nothing, but was having the matter investigated; The trunk was sold just as barrels or any other old thing is sold from the Dis pansary. The trunk had not been paid for so far as he knew. Mr. Scruggs said the whole thing simply amount cd to msking a big thing out of noth ing. Governor Ellerbe, in speaking of the matter, seemed to be considerably angered about it. He said Judge Townsend wantE d to see the marks on the trunL to use as an argument in the case, but reported that he could not find it. Gocernor Ellerbe, in investigating, called upon Colo nel Gaston, who replied by letter and sent a similar one to Chairman Jones. This no doubt has some information the public would like to get, but the IGovernor did not care to give it out, pnigthe investigation he is now making. He concluded by saying that as long as he is Governor he will not allow such things to go on if he can prevent thlem. IThis, then, is the status of the pres ent cas0. It must be confessed that it is but one of the others upon which complaints have been made, but none heretofore received such an investiga tion. Mr. J. P. K. Bryan made a for Imal demand for the trunk, and this br.,ught the matter to a crisis. In mary of the other cases there have been only mutterings an dnothing has come of them, but this one seems to I e loaded with a genuine sensation. The report of ex Comnmissioner John IT. Gaston of the State dispensary on the Beckroge trunk and its contents is as follows: Columbia, S. C., April 14. 18'.. lion. W. A. Barlier, Attorney General of Southt Carolina: Sir: Cornplying with your request con cerning a certain trutnk seized in Charleston by the State constabulary and sent to State .lispensary, I have this to say: A large drutnmner's trunk was received here by the authorities, containing (to the best of my re collections) three two-gallon jugs of whiskey, nine bottles of wine. 10 boxes ci gars, two cans peaches and I think one doz eni iems. rThe trunk was not to my recol 1lec ions, marked so that yotu would know it contained whiskey. A card marked glas was~ on the trunk in several r'aces. Mr: C W. (,-rris of Colletun toil me that Mr. - eru"s, the bookkeerner, told him that h couiuldethe trunk andI I' let hi haeit. The whis!:- - has teen dumped . th ine-s are uere in my pcosses:-ion: the e-'are . te p-ehe- and~ the le.:'s are pne That is -uu't the -tatus of tbe trunk h'u-iness as I recellect. Youurs rcspectfiully, .\cting Comuiseion.er. Governor Llerbe is gaite wiling to oerrmt the search light of public opmn ion to penetrate into the remotest co: ner of the dispenscary w-orkings. To a reporter of Th State ne said that he caly heard of the Beekroge : runk for the "rst ttime a feiv days eo It was when the above regcort f Mr. Gaston was referred to him - rom the aulOrnlPy g''eneal's clice. It wa a t boreonh surprise. The gover o - cn 'in", sj'd that he had had is aik w.ia Clerk Scru-m soon af ter thei reporit was refrred to hin. Clerk I rugs said that? he had sold the tratk t -Mr C W. Garris. Col. 'Wihie Jones was sent for by the gon rn and to him said that tha' was te fi-st timse he had heaird of the Th-ogh thre governor did not say so. froml his talk it was see that he s "srprised when he read in Tee &ate cr etra that Colonlel Jones realdtat the trunk had been put ntedispenusary and a report mae Gov'rno" Ellerbe did not nijace word in speaking~ of the trunk inci dent "Thy hd aswel take the dis t.-ar 1qutat is b&-ughlt by the friends." Contraband goods ate the I roperty of the State as mtuch as the liquor that is bouguit, he decared and there was no warrant or excuse for them to be considered in any other alight. The constables are paid by the State to seize contraband goods and the seizures should go as far as possi ble to pay for the maintenance of the constabulary. It is all right for the oilicials to use the samples of whiskey, he said. and he cnuld see no harm in an official even gi,-ing a bottle sometimes to a friend. "I would nothesitate," declared the governor, "to go in the sample room and get a bottle of whiskey if I felt the ued of it, but I would never think of taking any of the contraband li quor no matter how choice it might be." Conlinuing, Governor Ellerbe said he had advised the board to turn over the management of the details of the dispensary to Commissioner Vance. It would be well nigh impossible for a board meeting once a month to man age everything about the dispensary. The duties of the board, he thought, were like those of the board cf regents for the hospital for the irsane. It was to exercise a general sucervision over all the affairs and leave to the management to execute. On one point the governor was par ticularly emphatic. He did not think it wise to leave the purchasing of whiskey to one man. That the board ought not to do. Returning to the question of contra band goods he said that even if the Beckroge trunk was sold that it had not been sold in a businesslike and proper manner. It should have been sold to the highest bidder, he declared. "I have given Vance order:, howev er," he said, "not to let any contra band things go out of the dispensary." He went on to say that bereafter trunks, cigars and suin like tbir'gs se:zed with liquor would be advertised and sold to the highest bidder. The seized liquor could not be disposed of in this way. but after having analyzed it could be bottled and sent out if up to the required standard. He has al ready given orders that a list of every trunk, pair of shoes or anything of the sort must-be kept and that he was going to hold the persons in charge responsible far everything. Governor Ellerbe in conclusion said that he was going to try and carry oat his pledge of a clean and business ad ministration of the dispensary. Scrap Book and Diary. We wcu'd urge upon our young friends of both sexes to use an occa sional golden hou: and a few of the brilliant fragments of Time in devotion to the scrap book and diary. They will never regret it. Many moments fly away in dissipated thought never to return, in which incidents happen worthy cf record. The world is mak ing history very rapidly, and there are many things they may wish to re call in the future, should their lives be spared. And then their own thoughts, their best thoughts, come to them often, as the birds come, unbid den and unlooked for, yet ever wel come, to build their nests under the eaves, and, if not recorded. may never return in the sane connmction. "Peli on is piled upon Ossa" of incidents. happenings and data, daily, and will be buried in oblivion i" not noted. Tnese exercises will develop an order ly and disciplined mind, and be of great advantage. -Take this lesson with you, take it, hold it fast, The mill will never grind with the water that is past." Clemson's Income. The Columbia State says a compari son of the amounts received by the State treasurer from the privilege tax on fertilizers for this and last year shows that the dlifference is small, in spite of the alarming report sent out by correspondents that never before had such amounts of guano, been sold in thleir neighborhooas. For this year the privilege tax up to this time aggregates $55,975.93 while last year it was $54, 524 37; a difference of $1, 451.56 in favor of this year. The privilege tax is 25 cents a ton and four times $1,451.56 gives the number of tons more sold this than last year, Iwhich is 5.8u6 tons. Proportioned equally among the counties of the State the amount of fertilizers used in each this year is 145 tons in excess of that used last All of this tax goes to the support of Clemson. Though the amount is -$55,975.93, Clemson has to pay back to the State $10,000 which was overpaid one year by a clerical error. That is to be returned to the Slate this year, and will reduce the colleges's re'venue that amount. A Tale of Horror. The French fishing vessel Vaillant, Captain Pierre, boun d from St. Mig uel, struck an iceberg on the Grand Banks on the 16th instant and almost immediately foundered. She had seventy-three fishermen on board and all toofk to the boats; but only one of these boats has thus far been heard from. When she left the vessel her complement wss seven men. Three -of them perished from expisure and hunger. The bodies of the lirst t-wo Iwere thro'vn overboard. but toe survi vors, in the ir desperatioo, were driven to canuvjbalism and ate the tbird. TYe booat was ;cced us Tnurs&'.y by the schooner Vc o:r Eune which at cited at St. Pierre. Txe sar;'v:rs are in a sh.:ckloj- condition an.d are s.' badly froist bitten that tneir arms must 'be afnputated. - Monuznent to- Granut. Th obof General U. S Grant wvas d,:a!.ed in New York city, last been witnessed in this co untry It is nowv 12 ve rs since Grant died, and 'ever sinc'. thle movement to comaplet. the mo~numet to mis m 'ory- nas Dean 'pushed '.i.. -n ea-ue- pi'.s- tece. Tne& amountriedi but 000,000. The principal features~ o. th-e crm ni o w r grea mi' ry narade. par I icipat-d ira by- t re-gular armny, Grand -Army a d Confederate Ve r ans, antd a se--en by PresidJent Me E inley. Mrs. Grant was present aind r-eived a gr-at ovatiun. T'he viittrs frotm all parts of the couutry nium bared something like hal! a miiiion. Soot Watuer for Plants. ISoot weer, madie fr'om tie soot of wood tires, is saidi to be an excellent fertiliz-r of house or outtioor plants. Tne soot should be trashed do'on f rom the chimneys witu a lng~ h -ndled brush, gathe.red into e cart a-- and water, black as ink, wi' -rad o use the next mnor ing To useabu iiouse plan ts it simuld b- co"nsidera - diluted It has a tedec to banse th soli ar.: can easily be too stroog fr the little amount of earta inwnd box or pot. It is a pefect destroyer of insects and worms ib-at sometimes in1 fest house plants and may be usedi in such cases onc:: or twace a week until the diaenr. SPANIARDS DONE UP. 450 Troops Killed by Insurgents Under Garcia. I A dispatch from Havanna says Gen. Nicolas del Rey has been recalled to Habana from Santiago de Cuba by or- s der of Gen. Weyler. The cause of his recall is the great victory obtained over Gun. Rey by Gen. Calixto Garica near Guamo, a report of which was published last week. Further details concerning the bat tle received from Manzanillo under C date of April 19, have created a sensa tion in Havanna. They show that the Spanish column of 2,000 men was utterly put to rout by the dynarnita bombs that exploded, and instead of 10 soldiers being killed as the official report declared 200 were blown up by the bombs and 250 were slain by the insurgents during the confusion and excitement of the panic-stricken col- t um-n. The bombs were planted in the road on which the Spanish were a marching. Theydidnotexplodepre- E maturely as was declared last week. t The six bombs exploded simultaneous- t ly in the centre of Gen. Rey's column. A Spanish officer writes the follow ing description of the battle to his e family in Habana: 1 "Tne explosion was so terrible as to 1 curdle the blood of the bravest men. d From the centre of our column a sud den shock came which threw us to the ground. We remained deaf and E blind for a few seconds. The cries of our wounded soldiers were awful. c When I was able to stand, I saw t around me beads entirely cut off t from bodies, pieces of human limbs i scattercd here and there, and men 1 without arms or legs crying to heaven ; in the gasp of death. It was perfectly easy a lew seconds later for our suc- e cessful enemies to rout us and disperse a our column. in which nothing of mili tary order and discipline remained. a "As soon as the first shots of the in- a surgents were heard after the explo sion, our general, followed by his staff and some other officers and soldiers, fled to Guamo. Our panic-stricken c crowd followed the general's party, closely harrassed by the Cuban caval- e ry, which made havoc in our ranks." The writer of the letter adds that the Spaniards left on the field nearly I all their arms and ammunitions be- s sides a considerable convoy of provi- a sions they were carrying to Guamo. a From other letters itis learned that General Garcia in person led the Cu- z bans and that since the landing of General R:loff's expedition in Cuba, the use of dynamite by the Cubans is a incessant in Oriente. This has put E the Spanish soldiers into a state of ter- c ror. The Spaniards protest against s the use of dynamite in the war as t barbarous. notwithstahding the fact i that they have also tried to employ it, I but unsuccessfully, on account of r the swift military movements of the i insurgents. The Diarlo del Ejercito, which is I the newspaper organ of the Spanish army, publishes cfficial figures show ing that the number of armed men on I the Spanish side during the two years of war in Cuba has been 272,282. 1 Four Persons Burnt to Death. Four persons lost their lives in a < fire at 1278 Third avenue, Brooklyn. s Thursday. The dead are: Mrs. Jui < Newell and her two children, aged 8 and 5 years, and Mrs. Celia Barnett, aged 38 years. The flames began in I the lower hall, and spread with great rapidity through the building, com pletely cutting off the escape of the Ne well family, which occupied the top floor. When Mtrs. Newell found the stairway burning and the hall filled with smoke, she threw her chil dren, Louis aged 8, and John aged 5,( from a window to the street below,s where four men held a blanket to catch them. The children bounded from the blanket and were killed bya falling on the sidewalk. Mrs. Newell 1 was afraid to attempt the leap and was found suffocated later in heri apartments. Her husband escapedr with slight burns. On the floor below I live.d Mr. and Mrs. Barnett.- They reached the street in safety, but Mrs.c Barnett ran back into tbe burningr building to secure some jewelry sheI had left behind. She was subsequent- 1 ly founu in an alcove room dead andc slightly burned - The loss is estima- I ted at $25,000. The fire, it is said,was of incendiary origin. That many more 1 lives were not lost is only due to the< prompt action of police. Backing up McLaurin. Governor A tkinson of Georgia takes the same view of the tariff ques tion as does Congressman McLaurin of this State. He believes that if protec tion is to be the policy of this govern ment its alleged bene~ts should be, shared by all sections In the course of a speech delivered by him a few days ago Gov. Atkinson said: "The South should have her proportionate share of protection even though her statesmen would not inaugurate it as a policy of government, and it would be a ?ross wrong for Congress to dis. erimi3nate againg~t Southern manufac turers because our people believe the best general policy is a tariff as low as 1 t be needs of th~e sovernment will per mit. When the majority decid~es fi arotection, ther all should share alike. It is a olunder in our public men to permit one section to have protection and refuse it for the South. If protection is the banner heisted by the majority. it sbould float over all sections withoutdaiserim ination. We must meet conditions as we find them. We pay our share of the taxes; we are entitled to protection if it is given to other sections." A Police O!Hecer Kiled. Lieutenant of Pa:ice WV. E. Gruber aus found lying itn a patch of brush in the northe-rn part of Jaicksonville,C Fia,1 Friday morning foully murdered. de was on day duty yesterday and let the police station about 8:30 last night and that was the last heard o: him until nis bsdy was fo-und coid int death oy a negro about 10 o'clock this forenoon. Near by was a wcomans belt and a hands~erchief, ileading to the belief that Gruber was murdered eitr by a woman or by a jealous I iover or husband. Grube/s. kall was crushedt in, eiving evidence of havingi been hit by a clb KVuen found he was Iying on his face. His pistol was, gone,' but other wise nothing had been d=aturbed. An iur-estigation will be :*de cy the coroner's jury tomorrow mzorciog. Tortutred with Hot irons. Th re mnaked men entered the Hew it House, a small tavern near Sharon,t Pa., and ccmmnitted a brutal assaultr c. La~mbert Hewitt, the proprietor. lThey heated irons over a lampn and. appilying them to him, compelled him to tell where his money was hidden.( T hey stnle $300 and eaped.A WEATHER AND CROPS. )IRECTOR BAUER'S WEEKLY SUMMA RY OF CONDITIONS. ome Damage by Frost-Need of Rain Generally Reported-Weather Favorable for Farm Work, but too Cool and Dry for Growing Crops, The following is the weekly bulletin f the condition of the weather and rops in this State issued last week by )bserver Bauer of the State Bureau: TEMPERATURE. The temperature averaged 5 degrees er day below the normal. The days 7ere sufficiently warm, but the nights rere cool. The maximum tempera aire was 83 on the 24th at Gillison -ile, and the minimum 28 on the 21st t Saluda, and 32 at Florence and lantuc. The mean for the State being [e average of 53 stations, was 60 and he normal approximately 65. The north central and northeastern ortions of the State reported the low st average temperatures. Along the ower coast and over the southeastern ortions it was from 1 to 2 degrees per ,ay cooller than usual. RADNFALL. No rain fell in any portion of the tate during the entire week. All correspondents report the need f rain. In the western portions of be State. to sof ten the baked soil so hat plowing,preparation for planting 2ay be finished, this work being now argely suspended, and to aid recently lanted corn and cotton to germinate. In the eastern portions rain is need d for growing crops generally, but aore particularly for transplanting abacco; to bring up late planted corn nd cotton; for the trucking interests Pd gardens and for oats, which are eginning to head. Stands of late planted corn and cot on very irregular, owing to the lack f moisture. Normal rainfall for the week 0.80 f an inch. SUNSHMNE AND WINDS. It was practically a cloudless week. 'he estimated percentage of possible unshine ranged from 80 to 100 and veraged 94 per cent. The normal is bout 68 per cent. The winds of the week were high Lortheasterly-becoming variable. FROST. Frost was reported on the 18th, 20th nd 21st, quite general over the entire )tate on the last date, but injurious ver the northeastern counties only, 7here considerable corn, young cot on, tobacco in beds, peaches and gar lens were partially destroyed. Ice ormed in Chesterfield, Marlboro, Ma ion and Horry counties on the morn ng of the 21st. Over the western ,unties it is believed the high winds >revented a killing frost on that date. CROPS. The weather was extremely favora >le for farm work, but too cool and Iry for growing crops and for break ng up bottom lands or clay soils gen rally. Corn planting is about cbmpleted >ver the eastern and central Portions; bout half finished over the remainder >f the State. It is coming Ap very vell in places, in others very poorly. tands are consequently very irregu ar even in 'the same counties. Worms Lnd crows damaged stands seriously rom Hampton and Beaufort north yard, necessitating replanting in nsany places. Frost cut corn to the rxound in Horry and Marion, but re >orts state that it is coming up again. Chinch bugs have attacked corn in Thester and York. From York west yard, corn planted early in March vill have to be replanted. Cotton planting progressed rapidly .nd is now about half finished over he western and central counties. In nany places, in eastern sections,plant ng practically completed. Slow ger nination and growth owing to cool rights and want of moisture. Stands very uneven. Replanting necessary ver northeastern counties, where niany fields were destroyed by frost. lain and warm nights would prove eneficial. Sea island cotton practi ally all planted and good stands iave been secured. Some tobacco has been transplanted ut rain is needed to push this work ii a large scale. Uncovered beds in ured by frost; damage immaterial. Rice planting made rapid progress. nd stands generally satisfactory. Wheat continues to look promising. Thinch bugs have damaged it some in Thester and York counties. Rain vould benefit it. Oats stand in need of moisture gen rally, and -a '1-.-ginning to turn yel ow for th. want of it, in the more asterly counties where it is begin iing to head. In Chesterfield some ields apparently injured by frost. Peaches are not as much injured as arlier reports indicated. Some local Lies, in same section, reporting a fair 'set" and others that all are killed. k.pnles promise well, a few reports inly indicate any injury to them. >iums, cherries and apricots plentiful. )ewberries ripening in Barnwell. Mlackberries blossoming profusely ver the central and northeastern ounties. Canes, melons and pastures making low growth. Too cool and dry for the coast truck arms. P~otatoes, strawberries and eans at a standstill foi- want of rain. Sweet potatoes in beds not growing yell generally. Irish potatoes coming tp and doing well. The national bulletin of April 19 eports the condition of corn agd cot ou as f 'llo ws: "No corn has yet been planted north f tue Ohio river; practically none torth of Maryland; westward of the dIississippi, none north of Missouri. ai the southern states corn has been tnfavorably affected by low tempera are anad needs warmer weather." "Some cotton has been planted in )klahomna. southern Missouri and ennessee; ab:>ut half the crop plans. d in Arkansas. In northcrn Texas lanting and growth of cotton have een retarded by cool weather." A Slav Miner Kiled. The badly mutilated body of John kilko, a Slav miner, was found be. ide the Southern Railway tracks 'hursday morning between -'Cardiff nid Brockside, eighteen miles west of 3irmingham, Ala. T wo theories are dvanced as to how he came to his eath-one that he was murdered by Legroes last night for the purpose of obb::ry and then laid across the tracks .nd was run over by a train; the other hat while intoxicated he walked on he track and was killed by the train. Joroner Barkhalter held an inquest