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VOL. X . MANNING., S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1900. NO, 18 ON TilE ROAD ACA' I. The State Candidates Resume Their Speech Makir.g. THE ATTENDANCE SMALL. The Well Trodden Grourd Gone Over by the Vote Hunters. Not Much Interest Manifested. The State campaign metirngs were resumed last Tuesday week at George town. '1he attendar~ce was very small, and little interest was wauife'sted in what was said and done. A number of the candidates were abseot. IrlLIA1sBRG EETIN. There were about two hundred people in attendance on the meeting at Kings tree on Wednesday. CApt. Jennicgi. ea:didate for Saste Treasurer opened the speaking. Dr. Timmermiaa was absent. Brooker and D~erham warmned up a little. Brooker charged Derham with ailowing treasurers to make settlements wheaever the latter wart to. Derham, interrupting. taid this was untrue. Brooker said he could prove it in the record for 187 in Richland county. Derham said that he had a certificate from Sheriff Cathcart contradicting Brooker's statement. Capers made the crowd holler by as sailing MeMahan for naming a flag on Winthrop college for "a Yankee sol dier- who was teaching at the summer school. MeMahan was not here today. Col. Fioyd said Williamsburg had been one of his baaner counties. He wanted to keep its support. Dr. Rouse was absent. W. D. Mayfield. W. P. Evans, J. 11. Wharton, B. B. Evans, J. E Petti grew and Mr. Berry told why they ought to be railroad commissioner. B B. Evans prodded W. D. Evans. Bar ney denied that rate on cotton had been reduced. "and I defy him to deny it " W. D. Evans replied: "I do deny it." Barney asserted that one man's word is as good as anothcr's. le then read some figures that the local rate from Kingstree to Greenville was 39 cents and to Norfolk 24 cents. Barney continued to make his charges, "and I defy him to deny it." Col. W. D. Evans each time would say, "I do deny it." Barney stated that since the sale of the South Carolina and Georgia to the Southern the rates had increased. W. D. denied this. Barney said this denial was not the truth." W. D. ad vanced toward him and it looked squal ly, but the Marlboro gamecock kept ad mirable control of himself under the terrible excoriation of his Edgefield namesake. Barney, shaking his flnger excitedly at W. D., said that to prove his assertion the rates at Aiken had gone up since the sale of the South Carolina and Getrxia he could cite the tariffs. CANDIDATES FOR (OVERNOR. Gary was the first speaker for the of -fice of governor. He today for the first time referred to the fact that he has no papers backing him up. He reiterated his support of the dispensary, and jumped on prohibition, but advccated local option between the two, lie pro duced the record showing that he had voted for ti e Archer bill as amended by Winkler so as to allow each county the right to establish or to rem.ove cis pensaries. Col. Hoyt said he had not referred to the Archer bill, but to the bill prepared by Mr. Robinson of An derson, which provided for a vote be tween dispensary and prohibition. Gary charged coalition between blind igers and prohibition to squeeze the - ife out of the dispensary. Hie accord ed all honor to honest prohibitionists, but warned honest men not to be per y ~uaded to vote for prohibition. He again stated that facticaal lines had been drawn against him, as he was a Gary and a Tillmanite. He wants to be measured as an individual. Patterson began by saying that while --1r. Gary is discussing local option, he would discuss the dispensary. Patter sua attempted the role of humorist and told several jokes today. Gary is see ing ghosts. Nobody in the campaign has said anything about the G ary's hold ing ofiies until yesterday, when Walt Wnitman sa'id soothinmg about it. Nobody is attacking ( ary for support ing Tillman. He said that Gary didn t Shave the covrage to come out i' f-avor of the dispear arv at Charlestoo. (;ary-That is absolutely untrue. Patterson said that at Charleston he had asked Gary if the latter was in fay or of high licease for Charleston, ana the latter said that his ptsmton was un dlerstoad by the crowd. Gary-I asked the crowd if .they -wanted me to explain may position again, and. they said no. Patterson-But the people of South Carolina must have an explanation. Gary-The people know how I stand. You are the only 'one who does not, and it you haven't got the brains to take it in 1 can't give them to you. Patterson then paid his respgets to prohibition. Every body in South Car olina knows that if Gornzalez takes up a fellow it beats that tellow, and so (:o1. Hoyt says he did not seek the sup part of Gonzales. Patterson then began on 31eSweeney, making the same ald charges of non enforcement of the law. -hle made a .- new point,'' that 31. WXelch, of the firm of Welch & Eason, runs a blind tiger and has a Lnited States revenue license. Yet 31eSweeney has cemmis sioned him a member of the Charleston county board of control. Mc~weenley stated tha~t he had noth ing to do with it. The appointments were made by the legislative delegation from Charleston. Patterson said that 31eSweeney could at least kick him out. McSweeney replied that he could not kick out a man wnloa he had not ap P atterson said he could at least re port it to the grand jury. 31eSweeney wanted to know if Pat terson accused Welch of running a olind tiger. Patterson replied, "Yes; I have seen the barrels seized in his place by the constables." There was scant applause when Pat eson concluded. col. Hloyt said there were admirable featurei in the dispensary law as com parvd with the barrooms. But the people who are appointed to enforce the law do not do it. It is enforced in towns and cities with the aid of muni cipal authorities, but not in rural dis tricts-at least not in his part of the State. Dispeusaries sell to blind tigers. The colonel then paid his respects to Mr. Gary. The bill he had referred to was introduced by Robinson from Anderson, not Robinson from Pickens. It was introduced in 1899 and Gary voted against it. It was prohibition. The Archer bil. was dispensary. Per haps Gary had changed his mind with in that time and thinks that a little local option would help his candidacy. Gary, from the crowd, asked if Col. Hoyt had not last fall favored coalition, and if he had not since changed his mind. Col. Hoyt stated that he had taken that position for a purpose last winter, and that purpose was to kill the dis pensary first and to enact prohibition afterwards. The dispensary law is not a solution of the liquor question. Every legisla ture has changed the law. In reply to Patterson. he said there would be no corruption, or collusion or rascality in a "dispensary' in which whiskey and wine is kept for merely medicinal, sac ramental and mechanical uses. Prohi bition can be enforced by magistrates and their constables supported by pub lie sentiment. G. Wat said he would divide his speech into three tubjects. le would say sen:ething of himself, then discuss meatures. and thirdly do some skin ning. lie would settle the educational question two yeats hence, and the liquor question this campaign. As be tween prohibition and the dispensary he favored the latter properly enforced, but license is his latest fad. There is not a single prohibition injunction in the Bible, he says. He then proceed ed to the "skinning" addressing him self particularly to McSweeney. The candidates for lieutenant gover nor then fullowed. Col. Tillman opened. le accused Col. Livingston of dodging the liquor question, and said he was like the poem on the back of a Confederate bill, Representing nothing on God's earth now." Winkler speaks of abolishing profit feature of the dispensary, but voted against it. le was followed by Col. Livingston, who made a clear exposition of his po sition on the liquor question and said that he was on record as to his stand. A prohibitionist himself, he believed in treating the several factions fairly and not forcing them. Col. Winkler said that he had never favored the dispensary to make profits, but to promote temperance, and he didn't care if they took away every cent of the profits. He said that '4competency, honesty and sobriety" re requisites fo: the office of lieuten ant governor. Le had the qualifica tions. Col. Sloan congratulated the farmers on the rain which the candidates had brought. If their talk did no good, the rain might. The constitution'al convention thought it had settled the liquor question when it provided that he question may be left to each coun y. Each county manages its own eurts and other institutions, why not he liquor questions? L->cal option is he gun to till blind tigers. Ccl. Blease said that the reason he pposed Winkler's referendum was that t left the question of dispensary or no ispensary to the general election. he 12,000 negro voters, the balance f power, would settle the question for he white people. Does Gonzain? love rohibition? Does he love Col. Hoyt? No, but he hates the dispensary. The iquor people wani, to kill the dispen ary, make prohibition obnoxious and hen get high license. .Judge Moore was not here, and Gen. Bellinger had no opposition. Gen. Bellinger said that he had heard of obody but a trial justice down in harleston who had criticised his record nd he would not tax the patience of he people by making a speech. McSweeney looked bright and fresh oday, after his rest. lie stigmatized Patterson's charges as little, absurd ad flimsy. Did Patterson mean to harge that the editor of the county paper could be bought for a dollar and a half a year? As to granting United States licenses, how could any power stop the granting of them. The con stables get a liht of those holding li enses and trail them, but it is impos sible to absolutely enforce the law in a seaport town like Charleston. lie (1c Sweeney) could not go around like Patterson leoking for blind tigers. He could not force the grand jury in Char leston any more than Patterson when a prhibitionist could prevent the grand jury d~ Barnwell from throwing out the warrants which Patterson placed in their hands. 31cSweeney defended his record and said the dispensary law had been enforced better than ever before and without bloodshed. He had ap pointed newspaper men on his staff. However, he had a dozen who were not newspaper men. He replied in like manner to ali of Patterson's charges. He defended the dispensary law as the best solution of the liquor question. He was applauded when he concluded. THlE FLORENCE MEETING. The campaign meeting at Florence Thursday was attended by about 600) people. Brooker and Derham had their usual spat. 31e)ahan was not present. Capers attacked his record as that of an unpractical man. Capt. Rouse and Gen. Floyd threw bouquets at each other and declared an armistic~e until the meeting at Spartanburg. The candidates for this office made their regular speeches. W. ID. Evans replies to charges that rate on eotton is driving mills away by saying that $9,000,000 has been project ed in cotton mills in this State this year and Augusta mill men are estab lishing a bleachers here. Wharton had been here 30 years ago as a Confederate soldier and a few years ago voted for formation of Florence county. Why is it flour can be shipped to Lake City S cents cheaper than to Fiorenc'. He wants to stop demur race. Barney Evans sailed into W. D. again today. W. ID. had chaperoned the Jim Crow car amendments with uniform passenger rates in the last leg islature. W. ID. replied that he had not been before the legislative commit tee at all. He retorted Barney's own brthe voted for the bill. Barney disclaimed responsibility for his brother's voting wrong. Barney was generously applauded. T. M. Berry made a prohibition talk and said a practical prohibitionist is a safe business man. W. D. May geld contended that cot ton mills in upper Carolina are sending to Alabama for cotton on account of lo cal rates. M1r. J. E. Pettigrew was at home and courteously declined to speak, but welcomed the candidates to Florence. Patterson was the first speaker in the gubernatorial tourney. Hle discussed briefly the failure of the kcgislature to appropriate funds for the common schools after taking dispensary profits from them. He made his same dispen sary speech. He said that the prohibi tion proposed is but the dispensary law without the beverage feature. The rich will then send out of the State for liquor and the poor will patronize blind tigers. Maine sells more liquor unlaw fully than South Carolina does lawfully. Col. Hoyt charges all the crime in South Carolina to the dispeusary. The attorney general of Maine attributes rascality there to prohibition. Repeat ed his old charges of coalition. Said that McSweeucy is not a friend of the dispensary. A SNAR' SPAT Col. Hoyt took a hand primary, the first one siuce Patterson's dismal fail ure at Walterbero. Col. 1i)yt was re ceived with cheering. Ile was forced to omit discussion of other issues and contioe himself to the liquor question. as his opponents had devoted ,o much time to him. Patterson interrupted Col. Hoyt once and the crowd cheered the colonel. Patterson had claimed that nine-tenths of the people drink liquor. COl. lloyt disputcd it. Patterson -Take a hand primary. Hryt-Why didn't you do it? The colouel took a hand primary to see how many in the audience drank liquor. The number of fists poked up was absurdly small and the crowd howled for Hoyt. Hoyt then said that Patterson had said that the crowd was sober because the dispensary was losed. The colonel pronounced this a slander on the people of Florence and the crowd cheered again. If prohibi tion is a farce, why did Patteison advo cate it in 1S92? And does he support the dispensary now because, as he says, "the majority of the people favor it?" Col. Hoyt read a denunciation of the dispensary written by the Rev. W. R. Richardson of Columbia, and when he came to a paragraph where it was said that small politicians use it to ride into office, the crowd cheered again. Would Patterson refuse the support of papers if they came to his rescue for he needs rescue? Would Patterson accuse thein of being subsidized if they supported him? The News and Courier is too busy booming the exposition to notice the State campaign editorially. Perhaps if Editor Hemphill knew that Patterson is a candidate, he would sup ort him, Col. Hoyt remarked sarcasti cally. The course of Mr. N. G. Gon zalez is as truly independent in this campaign as it has been in everything. Was Gonzales' support of Elletbe in 1898 a failure? Gonzales supports him on other grounds. "Read his editorial and you will see something not very complimentary to you, sir," he said to Patterson. Patterson retorted that in the consti utional convention he had introduced a resolution charging N. G. Gonzales with falsehood against John Gary Evans and 123 delegates of all factions ad supported it. Col. Hoyt said he was not Mr. Gon ales' champion. but he was quite sure Patterson would not face him (Gon ales) and use the language he did here oday. Patterson said he had said the same hing in the constitutional convention, pointing his finger at Gonzales at the ime. Col. Hoyt retorted that if Patterson ad done so it had been under the pio etion of his privilege as a member of he convention. Patterson replied that Gonzales had portunity to see him afterwards. During the controversy there was heering at the conclusion of every trust made by Col. HIoyt, while Pat erson had no applause. As Col. Hoyt concluded. M1r. Petti rew presented him with a bouquet with the statement that the ladies of Florence looked for manliness in the rovernors office if he were elected. WHITMAN AND GARY. Walt Whitman exhibited a map of South Carolina and said that three of the candidates for governor come from a bunch of counties down on the Sa vannah. Walt said Gary had asked him where he was during the war. Walt replied that he was only 12 years old when the war broke out, but he plowed an old blind mule to make bread and meat for the soldiers, and two of his brothers shed their blood in the ause. What had Gary and Patterson and 31eSweeney done for the old sol diers whom they so profess to love? He put the laugh on Col. Hoyt The latter had admired Walt Whitman's ability to fashion a new platform every day. Walt sail Col, Hoyt had only one, anmiserable old thing. lie would not tackle Patterson as the latter was in such a miserable fix already. 31eSwee ney was not here and he could not hit him in the back as he is lame and sick ~unto death anyway. Hie helped out Brooker in his charges against the tax department of the State. Hie was tired of the liquor question. lie would rath er drink it than talk about it. (Laugh ter.) He to~o held a hand primary in opposition to Col. Hoyt's and the result was that there were but three in the audience who thus indicated that they do not take "boeze." The laugh was on the colonel. M1r. Gary was received with some de monstration. lie was gliad that Pee Dee and Piedmont are alike-progres sive and steadfast to the landmarks .of Democracy. He declared that it was false that he had tried to inject parti san politics into the campaign. He had too many friends in all former fac tions. A few days ago an editorial ap peared in a leading daily paper calling on the people to vote against him be cause he was a prominent Tillmanite. He deprecated this departure from the understanding among Democrats to ob literate party lines. He himself had kept the faith. In public life he had known no Tillmanite, no anti-Tillman ite. He argued against the practica bilit of enforcing prohibition and de clared in favor of the dispensary, with allowances to the counties wanting pro hibition. Col. Hoyt had said that the dispensary bad brought the State into degradation and dirt. Gary asked what is the state of degradation. God forbid the day when free liquor will come into South Carolina. Col. Hoyt might not be in the coalition, but the result of his election would mean a riot of blind tigers. Gary was applauded when he said that be was an original advocate of the dispensary, and although it has broken from its original moorings it is yet the best solution of the liquor ques tion. lie lavored the common schools and especially institutions for indus trial training. He was liberally ap plauded. p SWEENEY S MESSAGE. Gov. McSweeney was not present at the meeting. The following message from him will explain why he was ab sent: "A bouncing baby boy arrived at the mansion early this morning. Request county chairman to present my best wishes to the Democracy of Fiorence and my refrets at not being able to at tend meeting." The reading of the message was ap plauded. The candidates for lieutenant gover nor then spoke. Each improves daily in hii exhortation for votes. Col. Liv ingstou declared for prohibition: Col. Blease for dispensary; ditto Col. Till man and CA Sloan for local option be tween prohibition, high license and dis pens ry. and Col. Winkler for dispen sary with a prohibition local option rider. Col. Livingston had the largest share of applause. Dr. Timmerman, Capt. Jennings and Gen. Bellinger fol lowed. Banks. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. What the Young Crops Are Doing in this State. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the United States weather bureau's weather and crop service: The week ending S a. m., July 9th, was extremely hot, with the average temperature between five and six de rees higher than usual, and for the first time this season the maximum rose to 100 or above, while the lowest minimum was 67 degrees. The rainfall was largely local in char acter, with many localities that had no rain, while others had from a trace to nearly two inches. The hot sun dried uplands rapidly, and nearly all corres pondents report red lands and clayey lands baked and hard to cultivate, and that showers would prove beneficial on such lands, while bottom land gener ally are still wet, and more rain at this time would cause further injury. Farm work made rapid progreEs and was in the main devoted to cleaning staple crops of grass and weeds, some what to the neglect of the less imprt ant crops. Much grass was killed, but another full week of dry, hot weather is required to thoroughly rid the fields of weeds and to put crops into good condition. The general condition of corn is im proved, but it is scalding on wet bot tom lands and firing on sandy lands to a considerable extent. Old corn is be ing rapidly laid by, while young corn is very grassy. Some overflowed bot oms being replanted to corn. The ma turing portion of the crop needs rain. Cotton fields that have been cleaned f grass are doing wecll, but many re main grassy on which cotton is turn ing yellow. The hot, dry weather svas favorable to cotton, and in general this rop is decidedly better than it was last week. There is some complaint of ust and blight, the latter most se rere n sea island variety. The plants are growing too much to weeds in places, and in many instances are not fruit ing well. A few localities report cotton very promising. Wheat thrashing is now being hur ried with continued heavy yields, but some grain is slightly damaged by rain --usually only the top bundle of the shock. Early rice is doing well in all regions except in the upper Combahee where rice is about ten days late and is not doing well. Tobacco improved in most sections and is a fine crop, with cutting and cur ing under way, but the bulk of it will be cured during the coming week. Sweet potatoes, pastures, cane and gardens are promising. Melons are a partial failure. Many peaches, grapes and other fruits rot as the ripen. F igs and LeConte pears are ripening. Vege tables for local use are plentiful. Field laborers are scarce in many counties. Why He Succeeded 'The Abbeville Press and Banner says: "Governor McSwveeney, if measured by his early struggles, and his subsequent successes, is the equal of any man in the race, and there is no reason for maligning him, except because of his past saccesses, and his future good prospects. He was a poor orphan boy, with neither money nor education nor infuential friends to boost him. But he had character and an invincible de termination, and the people will neither allow an envious spirit to cast him down nor permit the friends of license to deprive him of the office to which he shuld be elected, simply because he enforces the liquor law." A Tribute to Tillman One of the delegates from Virginia to the late National Democratic Conven tion says "Senator Tillman in reading the plank on imperialism sent a thrill through the great convention hall which is seldom equalled in such an as semblage. The spectacle which greeted the South Carolina Senator's masterly reading of the plank, was one which may not be witnessed again for many years to come. A Queer Mixture. J. F. Pickelheimer was arrested at Middleboro, Tenn , on the charge of bigany. ItL is alleged he has seven wives, two of whom are in Mid dlesboro, and others will arrive shortly. In his grip were found a license to preach, a teacher's certificate from Franklin county, Ky., four marriage certificates, a deck of cards, bottle of whiskey and a itol._ NEWS FROM CHINA. The Situation Said to Bear a Most Ominous Aspect. ALLIED TROOPS DEFEATED. Stories of Wholesale Murder Continue to Come. Conflict ing Accounts of the State of Affairs. Affairs in China do not improve much. No authentic news has been received from Pekin, and the impres sion is that all foreigners in that city have been massacred. Over twenty days ago Sir Robert Hart dispatched his last message declaring that the sit uation was desperate and since then no word has come from the Europeans in Pekin. The London Daily Mail Tien Tsin correspondent says: "The situation is about as bad as it can well be. I only trust that we shall not soon want re lieving ourselves. A forward move ment is impossible. From 30,000 to 40,000 troops are wanted, and there are only 10,000 here. The foreign troops are working well together, but it is in convenient that there is no supreme commander. In some quarters the feel ing is, 'Let us rescue Pekin and then clear out in favor of Russia." All kinds of stories come from Shang hai, which it is impossible to verify. It is stated that the Boxers have mur dered the chancellor of the Pekin uni versity and 60 of the members of his family and retainers. A confidential officer of Gen. Yung Tu, disguised as a Boxer, is reported to have crept into Prince Tuan's tent while the Prince was sleeping with the intention of stab bing him. He was caught by the sen tries, so the story goes, decapitated on the spot. His head was sent, with Prince Tuan's compliments, to Yung Lu as a warning to him to beware. The French consul at Shanghai has news that the Chinese prefect at Moukden himself murdered the Catholic bishop, Guillon, in his yamen. Beside Bishop Guillon, Fathers Crunoet, Corbet, Bor guois and Veuillenot and two sisters of the French mission and numerous na tive Christians were massacred. ALLIES DEFEATED. A dispatch from Tien Tsin says: "Gen. Ma has defeated the allied troops and reoccupied the Chinese east ern arsenal, after inflicting great loss upon its defenders. The engagements lasted six hours, and was fought with great determination by both sides. The Chinese were eventually able to use the effective guns of the fort abat ting on the city walls near the Taotal's yamen,- the allied troops suffering se verely from lack of guns and cavalry. The Japanese commander sent an ur gent appeal to hurry reinforcements, as the allies were in imminent danger of a general defeat." The Shanghai correspondent of The Express gives the text of a long edict of Prince Tuan, dated June 29th, and addressed to the Chinese embassadors, which The Express declares is identical with the message from Emperor Kwang Su, mentioned by the Shanghai corres pondent of The Daily Mail, and what the Chinese edict public had done in Washington. The Express considers that the edict proves that Prince Than's army is making no attempt to disguise the fact that the worst that could be anticipated has happened. The edict contains the following paragraphs: "The anger of our people knew no bounds. They could not be restrained. The task of guarding the legations, which before was difficult, was made impossible." Elsewhere, referring to the desire to protect the legations still unharmed, it says: "If it is impossible for us to continue this protection, let it be rep resented to the powers that we must be held blameless, for the anger of the people grows with the rising of each sun that sees more and yet more for eigners and soldiers coming to overrun and lay waste our country and slay our people." The correspondent says the edict is intended to pave the way for a final lifting of the veil over the re cent history of Pekin. The German consul at Tien Tsin ca bles that the foreign settlements were continually bombarded by the Chinese from July 5 to July 8. G2 July 6th two thousand Boxers astacked the French settlement and were routed by the Russians. The British and Japanese forces July 7th bombarded the Chinese batteries. Toward even'ing Chinese shells penetrated the roof' of the Ger man consulate and caused an outbreak of fire, which was extinguished after slight damage had been done. On July 6th the Peiping sailed for Taku with the German wounded. River communication between Tien Tsin and Taku has been safe since the Chinese fort midway between the two towns was captured. FEARS TilE WORST. A terrible veil of silence enshrouds Pekin and there is nobody but believes the worst has happened. It is taken for granted that all the powers have ex hausted every means to get direct news from their legations, and the fact that their efforts have been vain leaves but one interpretation. Statements are in circulation in in Shanghai accusing the Rus sians of indiscriminate slaughter of friendly Chinese non-combatants, with out regard to age or sex. The mana ger of a chinese steamship company who has arrived in Shanghai, asserts that he only escaped from Tien Tsin by cutting off his queue and donning Eu ropean clothes. It is said that the Tao tai of Shanghai protested to the powers against these Russian slaughters. News is circulating throughout the Yang Tse valley that Gen. Ma has in flicted a crushing defeat upon the al lies at Tien Tsin and that the foreign army has been cut to pieces east of Pe kin. The actual impoteace for the moment of the allied forces naturally give color to these stories with the worst results. The Shanghai corres pondent of The Express gives Tien Tsin advices to July 8th, when the superior range of the Japanese artillery enabled them to relieve the Russians, who were hard pressed at the railway aion. FOREIGNERS KILLED. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail says the following story re garding the situation in Pekin emanates from Chinese official sources: "The two remaining legations, the British and Russian, were attacked in force on the evening of July 6th, Prince Tuan being in command. The attackers were divided. Prince Tuan commanded the centre, the right wing was led by Prince Tsai Yin and the left by Prince Yin Lin. The reserves were under Prince Tsin Yu. The attack commenced with artillery fighting which was severe and lasted until 7 o'clock in the morning by which time the legations were de stroyed and all the foreigners were dead, while the streets around the le gations were full of the dead bodies of both foreigners and Chinese. Upon hearing of the attack, Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shae went with troops to the assistance of the foreign ers, but they were outnumbered and defeated. Both Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shao were killed. Two foreigners are said to ha7e escaped through the gates, one with a heavy sword wound in his head. Prince Tnan, in celebration of the victory, distributed 100,000 taels and huge quantities of rice to the Boxers." A dispatch to the New York Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo says: A courier from Sir Robert Hart, in Pekin, has just arrived bringing this message, dated June 28: "Close to good bye. Near the end." A private letter from Pekin, dated June 24, and received at Tien Tain June 30, says: "We are in danger of death. Thirty thousand troops are attacking. Only three days' food is left. No news comes of troops. If no relief comes all seems hopeless. WHOLESALE MURDER. A dispatch from London says a news agency reports that an official message received in London states that all the foreigners in Pekin were murdered July 6. All the foreigners and missionaries have evacuated When Chau and have arrived at Ning Po. Large bodies of Boxers appeared at Wen Chau and threatened to exterminate the for eizners and Christians. They also dis tributed banners, badges and inflam matory anti- foreign appeals. The Tien Tsin correspondent of The Express, telegraphing under date of July 9, asserts that the Chinese are daily driving in the allies. They have mounted, says the correspondent, 12 fresh guns in advantageous positions, with which they are sweeping the streets of the foreign settlement, the incessant fire rendering position after position quite untenable. The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg cor respondent says that in the last six hours' battle outside of Tien Tsin, the Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The Chinese lost 3,000 killed, including Gen. Kek. A Train Robbed. The Illinois Central fast train from New Oileans to Chicago was held up and robbed Wednesday morning two miles sonth of Wickliffe, Ky. The train was flagged, and when it stopped the bandits entered the cab. The fire an was knocked in the head with the utt of a revolver and badly hurt. The obbers, six in number, cut off the egine and express car and ran a mile and a half to Fort Jefferson, near the hio river, and within sight of the Missouri shore. Here they blew open he express safe and secured all the aluables it contained. The robbers verpowered the express men and made them get off the train, but did not at er'pt to molest others on the train, which carried a 12rge load of passengers. his morning a special train with blood ounds and an armed posse left Jack son, Tenn., for the scene. It is under stood that Missouri officers are hot on he robbers' trail. About $10,000 were secured. A Big Job. Some of our rampant imperialists are reminded, by the Salt Lake Tribune, hat no foreign army can advance into entral China except perhaps by her great river. No army could exist in hat country. It would have to be in aily connection with its base, or starve ad then if a million Chinamen were to be killed, that would be nothing. It would be as when a ship goes down at sea and the waters close over it, giving up no sign that any ship ever sailed there. Every well-wisher of his race hopes that, notwithstanding the provo ation, some satisfactory adjustment can be made without a general war. A Cotton Pest. Mr. L. D. Landrum of Batesburg writes the governor as follows: Dear Sir: There is some kind of a pest that has attacked the cotton in this section and in a few days will destroy a large section of the cotton. In fact, it is spreading all over the country. The botanist at Clemson has seen such specimens of the infected cotton and he suggested the use of sulphur, but this does not kill or stop the progress of the scourge. So at the request of a number of prominent farmers, I request you to have the botanist of Clemson to visit this section and see if he cannot devise a means to help us. After Negro Labor. A dispatch from Honolulu says it is to the colored people of the southera States that the planters of Hawaiian [slands will turn for ielief in the mat ter of the vexed labor question. John Hind and J. B. Collins of Yohala plantation, leave today for the south ern States in quest of negro laborers. They have assurances that 300 or 400 can be recruited at New Orleans. The plantera will pay their expenses to the ountry and give them $30 a month. If enough negro labor can be secured the services of the Japenese will be dis pensed with altogether. Had to Pay for It. The Columbia State says: "Friday morning a white man giving his name s C. C. T. Enlow was before the mayor n the charge of attempting suicide. He claims to be a Baltimorean, and was arrested by Officer Bughson. His in fatuation for a woman of bad character here is said to have caused him to put a pistol to his breast and pull the trig ger. Only a flesh wound resulted. cting Mayor Stanley fined the man $20, whieh he paid. He was then re leased and nothing more has been heard OUTLOOK IN THE COTTON BELT. The Cotton Crops Have Suffered from the June Rains. Latterly the weather conditions have been more favorable to cotton, permit ting cultivation, and cleaning them of grass ani weeds, but the resulte have not been entirely satisfactory and have disclosed the serious injury that the crop suffered from the June rair, es pecially in Alabama, Mississippi and the lowlands of Tennessee where many fields are so hopelessly foul that they have been abandoned. Abandoned fields are also common in portions of South Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas. Throughout a large portion of the belt cotton is not fruiting satisfactorily, and there is considerable shedding in places. The conditions in Texas are not uniform, but on the whole are as promising as they usually are at this season, and the fact that the crop is late in the southern portions does not necessarily indicate a short yield, as the plants have still a long season be fore them in that region. The following are the summaries by States: In Alabama-Cotton has improved slightly. but has run too much to stalk, is fruiting very slowly and poorly, and continues to shed, though not so freely as at the close of last week; there are fewer complaints of lice; it is still very grassy, and the concensus of reports indicates that the prospective yield of this staple has been materially low ered. In Mississippi-As the grass and weeds are cleared away the extent of injury caused by the wet weather is made manifest, and the reports are not encouraging. It is apparent, however, that conditions are decidedly better and while many fields have been ruined by lack of cultivation, opportunity has been given to either clean them, or plow up and replant in corn, which is being done extensively in all but the southwhestern counties. Many low fields have been entirely abandoned; more have been plowed up and will be re seededin other crops. Cotton is small and stalky, and gives little indication of fruiting satisfactorily. In North Carolina-Cotton has been greatly benefited by warm days and nights, which have caused rapid growth, good color, and increasing abundance of bloom; fruiting is taking place. There was very little complaint of lice on cotton this week; some fields in the southwest are still very grassy. In South Carolina-Cotton fields that have been cleaned of grass are doing well, but many remain grassy on which cotton is turning yellow. The hot, dry weather was favorable to cotton, and in general this crop is decidedly better than it was last week. There is some complaint of rust and blight, the latter most severe on the sea-island variety. The plants are growing toe much to weed in places, and in many instances are not fruiting well. A few localities report cotton very promising. In Georgia-Cotton shows a slight improvement, and has received much needed working. It is, however, fruit ing slowly, and the forms are small. In Florida-Cotton has improved over a large section by reason of its freedom from grass. There are still complaints, however, that the frequent rains of June did very serious damage to cotton over limited sections. In Louisiana-The condition of cot ton has improved, but the outlook for a largh crop is not as favorable as is that for sugar and rice. On hill and up lands where the continued rains did not prevent cultivation the plant has grown too rapidly and fruited comparatively little, In the aggregate, a considerable areage of late planted cotton on low lands has been either drowned out or abandoned to the grass; the late planted upland cotton and that in the bottoms where the stand is good is now, being worked and cleaned, is improving in color and looks promising. In Texas-Cotton was improved some by the showers, but more rain would be beneficial in localities, especially in western Texas. Early cotton is bloom ing and fruiting well and is being laid by in some sections. The crop has all been chopped except some late plant ing. Some fields are grassy in east Texas. Cotton is not looking well in some localities, while in other sections where the weather has been more fa vorable the *rop is promising. The crop is very late and irregular, ranging from light to excellent. The Mexican weevil is doing damage in some locali ties over southern Texas. In Arkansas-Local showers occurred during the week and interfered with farm work in some lorilities, but as a rule great headway was made cleaning the crops. Corn and cotton, which have been properly oultivated, are growing nicely; many fields in the lewlands have been abandoned. The boll worm is doing some damage to cotton in a few localities. In Tennessee-Upland corn and cot ton where fairly worked are in fair con dition, and with favorable conditions, following, will make nearly average rops; but in lowlands many fields are absolutely lost; this is largely the case in the western division, where, in many sections, the prospect is indeed gloomy. In the middle and eastern divisions, on uplands, crops, as a rule, are rather promising. In Oklahoma- Cotton generally is doing well, and is blooming and frui ing, and being laid by. In Mississippi-Cotton in the south eastern counties has improved some what during the week, but is .generally in poor condition. Some is in bloom. The British Loses. A dispatch from London says the war office has issued another casualty list from South Africa, showing that dur ing the week ending July 7, there were killed, wounded or captured 13 officers and 80 men; accidental deaths, 2 men; ied of disease, 4 officers and 194 men; invalided home, 72 officers and 1,306 nen. The total casualties as a result f the war are 48.188 officers and men. Made Him Sick. The Chinese residents of Berlin have ept carefully under cover since the iews of Baron von Ketteler's murder was confirmed. They have adopted Eu ~opean attitre, even sacrificing their pigtails, and are procuring wigs. The hinese minister is said to be frightened worst of all. He is reported to be sick HOW IT WAS DONE. Inside History of Our Delegation's Choice for Vice- President. HOW EACH MAN VOTEO, Senator Tillman Tried Hard to Get Them to Vote for Towns, but Failed and Grace fully Yieleded. At the Kansas City convention the South Carolina delegation was of course unanimous in its choice for the presi dential candidate, but when it came to the vice-presidency the members were pretty badly split, and from all ac counts the members had quite a lively little verbal spat before the majority decided that South Carolina should support Stevenson. Senator Tillman was heartily and en thusiastically in favor of the delegation supporting Towne. When the delega tion met, the senator made a vigorous and characteristic speech in favor of his oandidate, but all his art of persua sion and his blunt and unconventional though strong and emphatic language was in vain. Governor McSweeney and John Gary Evans stoutly opposed Senator Till man's choice, holding that Towne was a Republican, even though he favored 16 to 1, and they declared that they would not support him when there were life long Democrats who were available. When the ballot was taken, Towne was snowed under and a majority of the delegation, eleven members, decided to support Stevenson. As the unit rule prevailed this gave Stevenson the whole eighteen votes from the state. It will be interesting under these cir cumstances to know how the delega tion did vote: For Towne-Tillman, Stokes, Garris, Traxler and Wilborn, 5. For Hill-Latimer and Williams, 2. For Stevenson-Governor McSwee ney, Wilson, Bouchier, Stribling, Mc Ghee, John Gary Evans, Polaty, Tal bert, Mooney, Gruber, 10. For Carr of North .Carolina-Wilie Jones, 1. Senator Tillman read the platform in the convention and he is said to have done so eloquently and was frequently interrupted by cheers. He took a very prominent part in the convention and in shaping the platform. The New York Sun correspondent, referring to the part he played at Kansas City, has the following: "From start to finish Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina has been about the most conspicuous man in the convention and in the conferences out side of it. He dominated the commit tee on resolutions and dominated every body on the presiding offier's stand during the convention sessions without regard to their official standing. Every body seemed to be afraid of him, and no matter how much he interfered in business that did not in any way con cern a delegate from South Carolina, nobody saw fit to object. Mr. Tillma ran amuck in the hotel lobbies and in the street crowds just as he did in the convention hall, and at all times wore a huge cork helmet, lined with green, and a black alpaca jacket. Those who did not know him thought he was a crank, and these who did know him were apparently not very proud of him. "It was Tillman who led the commit tee on resolutions to adopt the sugges tion that was in the minds of several delegates, but finally put into language by Barkworth, of Michigan, to attempt to nullify the free silver declaration in the platform by the insertion of the sentence about imperialism being the paramount issue of the campaign. Then when the campaign document was finally licked into shape it was Tili man who, without anybody's motion, grasped the first copy and read it to the committee with the same dramatic ef fect that he showed later when he read it to the convention at the request of Senator Jones, the chairman of the committee, who had been much im pressed with Tillman's powers of elo cntion. Veteran's Beuinion, Preparations are now being made by the camps of Confederate veterans all over the State for the coming annual State reunion to be held in Greenwood. Last year the State reunion was held at Chester and the veterans who attended had a delightful time. Greenwood does not propose to let Chester outdo her in the entertainment provided for the vis iting veterans. The time for the reunion is rapidly drawing near and the arrangements are being rushed as much as possible. The programme has not yet been issued, however. The following important notice pre liminary to the gathering has just been issued by the committee in charge at Greenwood: The executive committee of the Vet erans and Sons of Veterans of Green wood requests that the names of all delegates and sponsors appointed to at tend the State Confederate reunion at Greenwood and the names of all veter ans who will attend on Aug. 1 be for warded as soon as practicable to the undersigned, so that quarters may be assigned to such delegates, sponsors and veterans before the meeting. All newspapers in the State will fa vor us by copying this notice. . B. Clark, Secretary. (Greenwood, S. C. A Fatal Plague. A dispatch from New Orleans says President Souchan, of the Louisiana State board of health, last Wednesday received a telegram from the president of the parish board of health for Cald well parish, of which Columbia is the seat urging that an &xpert, a quantity of tents, disinfectants and sanitary in spectors be sent to that place at once as a mysterious plague had broken out there which was fatal in every instance. The telegram stated that fully forty people, mostly negroes, had,.already succumbed to the disease. President Souchon sent Dr. Beard, the state ex pert, to the scene. It is believed that the epidemic is a very malignant form of sall11nn.