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? ?? # \ r GOD AND OUR NATIVE LAND. 6 wojba r 1 1 SCHOOL. f W^NATONAL LESSON FOB ' may 8, 1892. .tii aoaiable are Thy tabernacle?, 0 JS* Hosts. ' See David's love for God's pla/>>, the tabernacle in which He 5d to dw..-!l arnorie the children of The instruction to iloses wa?. 'Let Me a sanctuary, that f may jfconjr them Ex. xxx . \ 22). ? i* toe :-arr>?* a.-. belove t or well be 30^ u so translated in F)eut. xxxiii. tit e "j.or'l of Hosts" is Jn i Sam i., 3, and is first heard 2. ' ' . ''. Hannah in the same >mn? 1 1 ir> .a tun? of great distress "O? full of <? jmfort t>? all who ar<? jpn alette, ?eeit four timas in the sou! lon*~ih. yea, even fainteth ' r,t ^r'ii m7 heart and fc 5EE??lth ? for the^Hhg Go J." It "' * lx'' ^ thought so muc!i H '' Vki? God who there dw<?it . ? 's people fsrael. The reason why ?*0estly de- i \>] this -one thing- - was ^ jQig.it ' i 0f Jehovah Hifflseif had a holy appetite /or ^es. the sparrow hath found an house, swallow ^ nest for herself, where jay her yoonj. even thine altars. Of Hosts, rny Ving and nay God.n ^ ^re tw- iitar-. one for sacrifice and Micen.v.-. signifying Chrises work of ?t whereby we ar? saved, and His . '?^rr"ession whereby we are kept, the bird*, worthless and restless , ?n ' 'Ive about the tabernacle Or >peaks of the negle<t of these af BKLiSuWhifi!,rh" birds now make their so'!> because of such sin # ?/'Blggfd nr, they that dwell in Thy wiM be nf?ll prying Thee, 'n Ps. Iiv ?!, he speaks of the . dwelling m God'* house anil sawsfied with Hi.s goodness. Only thos?r' re toe redeem-** of the Lord, and can as in fh i prevjoaa v^rse. ' ? >(y *nd my frod.' know anything of such ^V10'' orily sa<ri P*u truly praisu ? elab is found ^v-ufy. three times in rsahnsand tjree limes in Hab. iil., and a pause or rest and is sttggestive of lf?w>CD. Am I among these blessed ^ * Btesaed is the man whoae strength is in ufv? ? , h<Art ar* the hiS& ways' ^ A* i we "*n ba^e much joy in 1 ?u.rf we mu!,t i^arn that He alone is out MTT-rL? ^fh our ^g ]?*? iL' * ' ????.. '4; Isa. XII., 2>, and i??t fearn to -av, "Mv --ul wait thou only l^u , I, '3, 5, ?>, 7> Then shall I y?ltad Qh rirt and life the highway of holi Vji ?.t,w "H"*' *^sa- \ 10) '"^mg through- tbe vallev of weep . ^ they make it * p;ace of spring - yea. the "'1 r4 * r',VP"rPth ,r- w'th blessings" R ^SJftdrwiwt P*1* aQd dr^e8t places : become pla< >3 of spring* and bles - S. '5?t]Ie VP1T presence of thrjse who <-an ?ay to W)d "All mv springs are in Thefe,, " CZ ? V " 79 .Voe5 ^?erome indeed the _g aB '^ht oejbtt; world because of the - k-_ fhe Life tO'i tee I ..ght^^Ttev areas tr-',e!?,fcptilaa ?ater;-, tbey *not see waen h?at .-ometh, ~ ACT cease trq? yielding frnit <-Jer. xvij S* ?.; Pf. ?., 3.) p 1. "Thej^ from strength to strength ^r> 0ft??Tttem ,T> Xion appear eth before 3 i2*'rWPle of i?rae' journeying to ^nw^Worep time^ in the year to keep l|Bw?iP* feasts. a> f* >d ha/1 appointed 1 4- 1 T;? . and their joy on the way tV^iand fDeur. xri., 11, |4. 15, M- A,? trtfgaruK )US journeying through thij world to fnerf^W' Jerusalem should bric^ joy anfl gladness a? thev journey, be .cause rh"v are children of (iod and know tfcat they shall every one be at the marriage 3f th<> Lamb iJohn x., iT, >? Phil. j. ? is? xl. 3b. v- 1 "O Lord fi<>! of Hofcts,hear my prayer give ear. O UoJ of Jacob. Selah." If we xamnon gat h^r with the ?aints in their assem blies w* can always pray; and GoJ Himself [ will be our saiwxuary even in the midst of our enemies ;K3~1c. xv. I6t. K very name of f - God is tiilj_nr si^uiri'Tin x? Jehovah is our Eighter*.' ?; ? ?- - ???. xxiii., t;. I'j. xi.,7i. * Bohirn is our Faith' <il Tr->ator <1 Pet.iv. *18>. Locd'ioto! Host- re-ninds us of all the toC?ts <>f heaven who rej ?ice to do His bidding H 4? behalf ?>i His redeemed iHeb. i., >4). While God ot Ja?~j ? i- s-.jggestive of the full ness of His merry for *11 who com) to Him, fawerer cro<>k? i ta-?y may be. Paus? and Meditate on this. f; i*. "Behold. ( i ( Jod, mn- shield and look | t^on the face of Thine anointed." When i ^H>ram was tM.nptf 1 t . b? afraid of w mt 3igbf iDhip to bi n from the kings from ? trhos-! hands be nad r^-ueti Lot, Jehovah l> ?id to him. "* am thy -hield" srJeo. xv.. 1). He ?a wall of (ir ? around aoout all who *ust in Him V. n.. 5). .See also verse 11 af our lessen and P>*. xtxiv.^ 7. Israel is His anointed 'Ps. ev.. but" Israel's Mes _rtah is th? trti<> Anomted iPs. ii., 2, I Sam. S-. lf>. *5* f'^ whos?> .?v?kf < !od granrs deliv Gmc* to HK pe?)pl-. He can only look ?pdc ns with approval for His saKe. 10. "For a day ?n fhy courts is better L Aan a thcusan 1 ' 'na i ratber be a door I'Mprr in the hous ? .?: my Goitnan to dwell ^th ; tents ?>f w:rk-*ines?." Som*? one has j jiid th tt ?iod*>: wor-it i\ better than the dev f'ysbesr. Whar tbuuift we shou'd have all that th?* worl t tan ^ive? it soon j>asse3 .away. b<tt b?? that. dootj? the will of ii>j " iiafaidbeCh forever if J >ht *ii., IT). Better far, Moses, to ^MiF-'r stflfction with the peo of God than to enjoy |he f^ ^a-tires of sin _ a season iHr*b. xi.. t It. ''For the I/>rd God ir a sun an 1 shield. (Hie Lord will gjvA irra-% and gl ^ry. No jfood thin? will H-^ with ho W frorntaem t'saf. walk uprightly. " He is owSun, source of aQ light and lif??. Soon He sSa!l hhs - as the ; jjoaof Righteousness for all r%ew->rH. and titen shall th-? Ri^hte?^u> shin^forth as tho Hia iMal. iv.. J; Math. xii?.. 4^. While we .Wait for that glory whi<"h H? ha-, giv^n unto ' '..V0 (John xvii., '52>. we know r iat He is with US full of grac^ and truth a.i 1 wiil Mioptv all cur ne^d (John i., rxviii., 'JO; Botn. viii., XI: Pnil. iv., 19. Ps xxxiv., 10). * *" 12. "O Lord of HosCS b!-s^}l is th-? man tiiat trnsteth in Thee." H-> * s>ar^e of all g<?l, tbesuai of alt happiness, the de ft""* from all evil, wh > rten can estimate the bJease?iness of sac'i as al>id ? in Hi u. A< I fleis all Rights < isn->ss we cu> only enjoy r. Sim as we walk uprightly, but wilking with Him and staid on Him there i< perfect Ptpace an- i strength, continual fresheespaed Icrui r : : . ? ilhes <*( joy an! pieasurea tofevt rmore (Isa. xrvi., 5, 4: Jer, xvo.. 7. 8. xvi., 11*. Therefore keep y< ur~?Jf m the fcve^ God, ab:de in Him and thus antedate ^ ' die fovs of t ie kingdom. ? r>es5on 4elp?r. ; Larlj Honrs in Austrian Towns. ; : L There is a peculiarity which Vienna ? Vires ?n common with all A'lstrran I ^wn$. At 10 o'clock the streets are de grted. ^carcclj will you meet one aoli >y sou!. A'law authorize? the portiere / f concierge to levy a tax of tea kreutz called the Sper<*otd, on any person eaviug or entering the house after that jour. Thus this Spergold obliges jou, > rhen you arc invited to a party, to pay 'en kreutzers on leaving your own apart ment, ten more for yourself and your Vrrant on er.teri;j? your host's house, j be same ^hen you leave it, and the jflune on re entering your own. Thus ; the theatre ami opera begin ror!yr and the performance is timed *o end at ji ? nuarter before ten. If it lasts longer j pearly the whole audience rises and hastens away t Aye home :a time Jo iarc too Sper^old. Cafes are emptied at that j ?fi&nr. the trains are crowded as the last ; foment of grace arrives, and evea the -rubbers of whist at the clubs are inter- j iapJed. It grows into such a force of j habit, and is such an accepted fact, that uniess uo.ier exceptional circumstances, vou do not think of lccuiring the debt, ? -.New \ ork Qi&pa'rb. 0<Sdle?b?*.l?4, *7^ * , ordinance requiring all ! ? Ws under xhea^eot sixteen Tears, to I w? Z hJ ^7en o'ckJlk, p.m. : er pp ".'^est and imj>risoa?eiit! DEBATE AT EDGEFIELD. The Two Candidates for Governor Be . J fore the People . j Edoefielu. S. C. ? The second meet j in g of the campaign was held here in the presence of 2000 people, leavened with a j goodly number of the fair sex. Gov. Tillman spoke tint: I was bom in / Edcetield as you all know. I have been away for eighteen months. I have been at | j Columbia to j>erfom)the public duty, and ; I need not tell you that affords me ! pleasure the most exquisite to look myr friends and fellow citizen*. in the face. I am to defend myt&etf. I appreciate your applause and good will. I believe | and will prove tbht I have earned it. f Voices : ; ? You have.' ] I was reared j among you and I want to ask if there is a man who has ever known me to do an act of dishonor or dishonesty, to tell a falsehood f>r do anything little or mean [\oices: "No. We never have "] I have a rough outside. God didn't make me of | silken material to bamboozle men, to give j Up service, or pretend what I donot j mean, but my heart beats as warmly as ? any man's for the people of South Caro j lina, and these who know me best love , me mcst. I am tne best hated man in I South Carolina. I come here now as a i candidate. I ask you to re elect me Gov j ernor. [Voices? We'll do it. *J When I j w*, put forward by the March conven | tion two years ago I said : You ask me to ; lead a forlorn hope. It is aloag, stumpy ; and hard road between here and the Stai*e House, but if you give me that banner I Um going to light. I fought and won a i nctorr for-*kr people, not a victory of I Tillman over Earle. [Applause. | I said ! after I was nominated I will be watched ; closer than any Governor of South Caro j lina ever has beeu. Was 1 a prophet? I | foresaw the polity of the opposition. I ( said a bolt if there w^s any would come J from the other side and it did. The Haskellites went out aiad appealed to the negro. We used to have stagnation in politics. Along in 1882 and 1**4 the Democratic candidates couldn't get a re spectable crowd to hour them for they had the nomination already and you couldn't help it. You are here to swallow me if you like me. or Sheppard if you like him better, but the thing is not fixed. [Ap plause. | We have at last a genuine Dem ocrat icgovernment of the people. [Voices: i "Tillman, Tillman,"] ,1 have already ; told you what were the issues in 1 h??0. It was not whether Tillman or Earle should be Governor, but whether the people or the ring should rule. [Voice: "The ring's broken."] Yes, we broke a little ring but the pieces are wriggling together again The issue now means that if I am made | Governor the people will rule, but if Sheppard is made Governor, the banks t and corporation* will rule and yoii can't deny it. Sheppard appears as the nomi nee of another March convention. Last : year my enemies were saying, even ? through, the press, that Tillman had made j a good Governor. [Voices: "He has."| j W hen the Legislature adjourned and they | saw signs of disintegration among the politicians in the movement, and as soon | as the Legislature got home, charges of abuse Awd misrepresentation were herald- ! fed throughout South Carolina. Were j papers bought? A bank president of . Greenville was heard to say, "We'll raise j $100,000 but we'll heatthis man." [Voices, j "'He'll- never do it r| $100,000 can't buy I the farmers of South Carolina, but a very few thousand can buy a few penny a line j newspapers Which" was the lead dog which all these fellows followed ? [ Voices : Ben Tillman. '] No sir: you've "ot a bad case of Tillmania. I never opened i my mouth till last week. I took all their , abuse like a man from Edgefield. J The last March convention adopted the farmers' movement. They said put Till - j man out of the way and we'll take anv ; body. Put Tillman out: of the way and peace and unity will prevail. This move j men t is not aimed at Til man, but. at Till j maoism, These fellows do hate the one gallus crowd; they hate the two gallus crowd, t?x>. and even if a man wore three galluses and pulled the bell line over a j mu e they wouldn't want him to have a ! voice in the government. Who composed the March convention? Gonzales had grown desperate. He issued a call for a mee'ingof the Haskellite Com mittee. and the next day called on Luke to shoot or give up the gun. Luke was A. B. Williams. Well," Luke shot. ! A voice: "He didn't hit nothing." He shot a call signed by thirteen men. Who issued it. [A voice: "Haskell.") No, Haskell was too sharp for thJf. The speaker then briefly commented on the men who signed the call for the March Convention. The convention whs largely made up of men who appealed to th(fne gTotwo years ago. There were six or j eight Haske.l men on their nominating | committee. They are hand in glove with ?the Haskellites. Listen to this from their ulatform : "We are . a borrowing people and our interests demand that capital Ik; invited here lor investment, j that competition in lending mav be de veloped and money cheapened, bur one hope for looming an independent j>eo pe with surplus money is to encourage J the coating of new population and in ; vestment i in industries which will develop j our natural resources and give home | markets for the productions of our j farms. We want capital to come here : |?iit we want it to come on terms of e?jua! | ity and not as the master of the Democrats of Sauth Carol ma Like Grattan. rather 1 than have corporations remain vour hi** | and have privileges which vou do not j enjoy, the white men of South Carolina I | mav go in rags, hut they will never wear chains. W e don't want to borrow under j j conditions of lingering death ancl will ; cause you to lose your land. ; Listen again.. "We favor the speed v 1 adjustment of the matters now pending j in the courts between ihe Slate and va ' rlous corporations- on acwnnion ->gn>e j an<l busS*ess-Iike basis :?o that all mav - ; bear a just ^hare of taxation." Nobody | bothered the o*w-poration* till I got there". ! They had their o'wjy sweet -will. Recau.se 1 we have resisted *heir encroachments i they have assaulted us. JNoue of us want to oppress corporations. They go into the United States courts and get orders to tie up the taxes and throttle the gov ernment and say we ought to compromise. Look at Coosaw. Those who were op posed to me favored Coosa* and as soon as we commenced to_try ai d recover that ; property the cry went up you'll have to j pay thone taxes, compromise! adjust! I ? am not of the compromising sort. What j I am I am. [Voice: "Ancl you can't be j no aromer "] ? Listen to this platform: "We de- jj n ounce the proposition to increase the H poll tax to a year, because it would : unjustly put a burden on p?ople not able j! t<? bear it. We pledge ourselves, how- jj ever, to use every just me<ios to" further /! develop and improve our public school sv> tern, the deficiencies of which cannot be overlooked. '* That matter of a $3 poll tax is aimed at me. The other is taffr like they've been giving you since 1876'. The speaker here went on to defend his advocacy of the poll tax as a matter of justice and a~ benefit to the schools . Well, we found one officer who had stol n. We found three County Treas urers behind $1 0.000. and all over the >tatc the Comptroller General found Treasurers" and Auditors' offices out of -hape? mistakes, irregularities ? amount- ( ing to about $80,00o. At Greenville Sheppard made compari sons between ray government and his in Governor, do you stand by it? Sheppard? Yes. I hen, Governor, you said what was Dot true. Sheppard ? I took it from your printed Utters. f \ oil mu.sn't dodge behind Tillman's letters. Come up Uj -thr-rack. Here's the Comptroller General's report [Here he ci ed figures to show that expenses hao not been increased, as Sheppard de clined. and showed where this adminis tration had been compelled to pay $10, 000 for stenographers which had been paid by the Counties under the other Governors. J They- tell you that Tillman has broke n all hi* promises. Col.Orr says I never tried to keep any of them, f Col. Orr. interrupting: "No, Isaidyou hadn't carried them out."} If you recol lect. I never said on any stump or else where in South Carolina that I could do anything. [A voice: "Didn't you say the tail couldn't wag the dog!"] That was the administration I referred to, not the Legislature. You never saw the tail wag me. But if this thing should go by default, you'd see the tail wag hiin[ point ing to Sheppard. J He's hanging on to Orr's coat tails. When I made my first inaogiral I told the Legislature they were elected on a platform demanding rigid economy, the abolition of useless offices, reduction of office?, and payment of officers according to labor wid ability. I);d [ break my pledges? J A voice; "No. Didn't you huve the Legislature?") Yts; a Tilt- ^ aian Legislature, so called; but there was lots of rotten driftwood in it. When the Legislature came back a second time., 1 asked them in my message to carry out these pledges. They didn't, and these men say I broke my pledges. The speaker then took up the Coosaw ease and showed how unfounded are the charges that he acted in an unbusiness like way. Orr says I don't represent the true men and women of South Carolina. - If you are not the true men and women of South Carolina! don't know who are. He says I want a Legislature subservient to me. I said I wanted a .Legislatrire in sympathy with me and siibservirfif. to you. " I stood by the platform. The railroad bill which they passed was not in accord ; with that and I vetoed it, and then they said Till man wants to boss. The speaker then showed how the first Legislature wasted its time over trivial measures Orr says I didn't reduce taxes and couldn't reduce them. If I couldn't reduce them why in God's name docs he abuse me for not doing it? The Governor then went on to show how the Legislature had failed in carry ing out reforms and confessed its inabili ty to ileal with questions and explained his reasons for his treatment of the bill to extend the time for the payment of taxes; he explained the free pass matter, and re ferring to the charge that many outside lawyers have been employed by the State showed where in other administrations 5$21.O00 has I >een | aid in the ChisolnTs Island case. Now I make no pretensions to religion or to being a churcTi man But I am not a member of the Baptist church who drinks I quor and gambles. I humbly say I am only a poor sinner I am rough and uncouth, but before God I am honest. | Yes. and we'll go to hell with you. J Sheppard says we have sur vived Chamberlain, Scott and Moses and can survive Tillman. What right has this man t?> put roe on a plane with these men when he knows that in integri ty, truth and virtue he is not my equal? He i hen asteed all who intended to vote for him at the fall election to hold up their hands. Reports say fully nine tenths of the crowd responded. The Gov ernor then said: "Now I beg you as a special favor to roe, no matter what the other speakers say, to listen to them respect fully and show them fair play." KX GOVERNOR SI! EPF A KD SPEAKS. Mr. Gary introduced Governor Shep pard by saying that Fdgefield had two j candidate's. "Be true to yourselves and ; y??u will be true to Edgefield- You have i "honored him in the past and it is noth ing but county pride and in justice to this meeting that you accord to him a Rearing." This is not the first time 1 have had the pleasure of standing before an Edge field audience. Governor Sheppartl began. Ever since 1 I have fx etj the recip ient of numerous expressions of the un bounded confidence of thc_tf?ttfd people I of Edgefield. I have servecL-voa^in nu merous rapacities, both as piiblic officer and private citizen, and if the>e has ever | Wen a s 'litary spot on my record I have j never heard of it. (Hurrah 'for Shep j paid.) I am proof against any vile imputa tions th:?t can be cast u ?n my character j :in a South Carolinian. I am here in an I bumble way, engaged in ??. work as im i portant auy that ever inspired the I In ?rt and nerved the arm of the patriot. an?! I propose to conduct it on the high lit i 'ane. ? it ? ornor Sheppard spurned the impu tation that there was Haskellism in this movemcit :?> unworthy because Tillman ; knows that there lives no man in South ! Carolina who is truer than I am to the jnrople of the State. lie is hiding his failures as a Governor under tons of de | nunciation which he cannot sustain and ' justify. ! He went all over South Carolina de nouncing the public officials as being guilty of ail manner of crimes, and he went into office and committed the very same thing that has been the source of the "debauchery" of those who went l>e fore him. t Voices: Tell it on him ) Tillman s<?id the figures I quoted from ?were not accurate. They were -put in print by him and signed by him. Is it not fair that f should quote from his own words (Yes! Yes Tir and if what I said was not true, who is guilty, he or I? - * Tillman had said that the $115,900 spent by Richardson's Administration was extravagan\ yet his Administration went him 4*11.000 better. Is there i in&i^tu, .idgetield county wkose taxes hav? been reduced one dol lar? (No! Sopaet of them are higher.) qLet even* maor .here whose taxes have bee* lowered by Tillman's adminktogion raise his hand and testify. . (Not a hand w is raised. } As many whose taxes are j now higher raise their hands (A con- ? siderable number of bauds went up this time.) My friend po3es as the friend of. the firmer, yet his recommendation was} to increase the poll tax to f 8. (Voice : It : ain't right ) Tillman says there is danger of the j State being controlled by corporation?, j The legislature passed an act giving the J Railroad Commission power to control che roads, but Tillman vetoed it He ' knoxs I had no reference to him as an individual when I spoke of Chamberlaiu and Mosts and Scott. I said the people coiih; survive any Governor. Tillman said I* never did anything wh?l?? I was in office. When I "was Gov ernor I made more recommendations in hmy one message looking to the improve ment' of the condition of the farmers than the Governor has sioee he has been in office for the last two years. I met him after that message and he said to mc: Old v:ellow, I told you ? this was the op portunity of your life and nobly have you lone your duty., [Cheers for Shep pard, and laughter ] * I bad been put up as the exponent of the Farmers' Move ment and L took pleasure in bringing up all the measures I could for their benetit. Mr Tindal told me that most of the re form adopted were those advocated in my message, did you not. Mr. Tindal? (Mr. Tindal bowed his head in silent as sent.) T llman says you can tell a man by the company he keeps. I ask him if lie knows that two of the men in the con vention that nominated him were in the Re} jblican convention last week. (Vc ?c$: Tell it od him, Sheppard. 6i\ it to him. That's right.) He ae cus? .this gentleman when he himself was nominated by three or four men who were Kt-publicans, and let me tell toil further that the vote on "nominations or no nominations'' in the March convention of l!(90 was so close that had it uot been for tfte votes of these Kepublicans there | he would never have been nominated. ] (Voice: You hit him that time.) Of the men who nominated me a ma jority were farmers and taxpayers and there was not a Republican among them. I* there a man within the sound, of my voice who has ever heard me inquire of a man as to his politics when he came to me formoney? (No! No! No!) I want "to show this thing up squarely. If there is a single man among you that I ap proached, as between Tillman and me, or to whom I loaned money for his support, let him hold up his hand. (Not a hand was raised, but almost the entire crowd seemed to enjoy the exposure arid the applause for Sheppard was loud aift| long) I say, he continued, it was the slander of a viper, the slander of a liar. (1 hat's, so! Hurrah for Sheppard!) Whoever said I was ever thus influenced knew he told an untruth, and whoever repeats it from this day will know likewise. All I want, above everything on earth, is to see that the Democracy of South Carolina is solid and invincible as it was in '76. When death's sullen stream shall o'er me roll, my last aspiration shall be to have the Democratic party intact and J he supremacy of the ^nglo- Saxon race established in South Carolina. ATTORNEY GEN. MCLAt'RIN Spoke 20 minutes. He said the tight led by Governor Sheppard could positively result iu no good, and that the man on the ticket were being used as tools by the man who bolted and would again be swallowed by the "Blinker.'' COL. ORR. Senator Timmerman, who was at this time acting as chairman, introduced Col. <>rr as "a gentleman of large corporosity, large means and expansive intellect." Col. Orr made a hit before this Edge field audience. He told them the tfHjnty should be proud, as whichever way the tight resulted it would have the Governor, (Yoicc: And Greenville the Lieutenant Governor.) South Carolina from the mountain s to the seal>oard will have a Democratic Gov ernor, and by reason of the action of the Peace and Harmony convention, Inde pendentism lias been wiped out. Referring to Tillman's management of the State's finances he sud that when he went into office the State's bonds were quoted at 103 and now they are y:J. It's | the first time its occurred since the set Itlementof the debt of South C\rolin i 1 in reconstruction. Those bonds arc due in a year or two. If the State's credit were good people would lx* glad to take up those bonds at 4 per cent. Now they cant be fuuded-for less than 4^ or ."> per cent, which comes out of your pockets, i Every administration beginning with Hampton ^ declared against Coosaw and when its time was out Tillman had noth ing to do but to carry out those recom mendations. Tillman ? Why do you blame me for it. then? \ . Orr? For the foolish in which you did it. Tillman stoppeu* these people from digging phosphate and paying the royalty into the.State treasury, and there by lost the tr tate $135,000. Tillman tells you that he pigeon-holed the resolution extending the time for the payment of taxes. The newspapers pub j lished that he was going to veto it. Tillman ?That ain't the first lie the newspapers have told against me, and it won't be the last. | Orr ? Many of you. on account of his | action, had to scramble to get money j together to pay his taxes before the three day allowed by law had expired. Tillman claims to be the friend of the poor man and yet wants to increase your poll tax to :?}. Sonic of you can't stand ; that, and the law allows them to put vou j in jail if you don't pay your tax. Col. Orr asked the audience t > try j Tillman, not by his promises, but by his i tecord. He urged them to lay aside* bit I terness and ask their consciences who is i the better man for Governor. Col. Orr spoke fifty minutes All Became of Human Tanltr i There is a vast deul of smuggling done in precious- stones in the Port of New j York. Persons have been -.known to I thousands of dollars' worth ot diamonds, rubies, pearls and other ^ems / I ashore from steamers, having them hi/ j their mouths, in the lining of their hats," j or stowed away in the seams of thei r j clothes. A diamond dealer's traveling agent often has in the little b.">x whicl he carries suspended from his shoulden by a strap thirty thousand dollars' w^rtl of jewel*. Some of these jewel dealer! were murdered in silent places in the pest when making their semi-annual business trips, hut now they all go w?U, armed, and are more warv.? Oace-a- " Week. -ft J M ( Fire at Jonesbpro, Ga., la#t Friday night, destroyed, among ether things, 1.000 bales of cotto - ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. President Polk at the St Louis Convention. Plutocracy Is Arranged.- -Facts and Figures Showings Where the Money Is. (Stenographic report of President Polk s speech, in response to the address of welcome by Mr. C. P. W aldridge, President St. Louis City Council ) [Reproduced by request.] Mr. Presipknt:? Gathered here as the representatives of the the millions of wealth producers of this great country, it is gratifying to receivc your kindly and cordial words of welcome, aud on behalf of this great Conference, I beg to ? assure you of our warm appreciation of your proffered kindn ss and hospitality and of your brave words of good cheer and encouragement. With your sixty-one square miles of municipal juri dicti ?n, your two hun dred and fifteen square miles of street railwav, your two hun '.red and fifty mil lions of taxable propesty, your annu.il output of three hundred millions of dol lars of manufactured products, your hun dreds of trains daily, which pour into your gates, two hundred and fifty' mil lions of people annually, and locate l hi re on the bank of the "American Nile," what shall be the measure of your future possibilities and greatness. Within the radius of your influence ami legitimate trade, is embraced the richest a.-rieultu ral region on the face of the earth, capa ble of sustaining three hundred millions of people, and where shall be reared in immortal grandeur the magnificent seat of future political and iwkrstiial enapite of this continent. We shaca with you. sir, the just flnde and che ring hope which is inspired by your auspicious surr undings and assure you that we feel quite at home within your hospitable gates. ! All the States, all sections, and all the , great industries of the country are here represented. The men are here who feed the world; the men are here who clothe the world ; the men are here <vho house the world. They are here from the farm, the factory, the workshop and all j the departments "of indu^w throughout .; this broad land. It is that mighty ha*t^ whose blended blows of honest toil go to swell the chorus of the world's happy eong of industrial progress. Why are we hc?e? We are h re to voice the solemn protest of a nation's wealth producers against the ioequalit es and uujust condi I tions which seriously threaten to jwiral yze and .destroy ^hc industrial energies of the country. Owning less^.than 22 per cent, of the country and paying twuajBO per cettt* of its taxes, the out- aged a*d struggling victims of iniquitous and wickcd class legislation, we are here to redress these grievances and to right these great wrongs. In the Board of Exchange of New York, money is "quoted today at from 1J to 4 per cent. In Liverpool it is quoted at from U 2 J per cent. In Houston Texas, Vicksburg VI hs , and Shreveport. La., it is quoted today at 12 percent In Selma, Ala., Macon, Oa., llaleigh, N. C., Columbia, S. C., and Pine Bluff, Ark., it is quoted today from 10 to 12 per cent. If a broker on Wall street can borrow money at 2 to 4 per cent, interest on wheat, corn and cotton as collateral, why cannot the farmers of Michigan Kansas and Georgia do the same? One vear ago today, m (Idling colt n sold in New Orleans for line cents lur pound, or |45 per bale. Today it is quoted at 6 and 9-16 edits per pound, or $32.20 p r bale -a decline of over 28 | er cent to the farmer. Has there been a corres ponding decline in the price of the arti cles manufactured from this cotton? Ilave the cotton factories <>? New England shared this great loss! Have the stable manufactured goods, which the farmers are obliged to have, declined in a cor responding ratio? From a list of staple manufactured goods from the leading mills of New England. 1 find that the de lin; in these goods has been only about 2^ per cent. Has the difference of this de cline gone into the pockets of the manu facturers or did they p y it to the em ployees? 1' it be overproduction that drives the farmer to accept a price for his cotton absolutely below the cost of the product, wliy should it not afl ct the output and price of manufactured goods. Permit me to quote further from our official census returns which presents a very significant phase of the situation. I During the past ten years, from 1880 to 1890, the single State of New York, with a population of 5.082,871, g. lined in act ual wealth $6,000,00;) more than fifteen of the great producing States of this country, towit: Nebiaska. Kansas, , Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West ! Virginia, Virginia. North Carolina, Ten nessee, Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiaua and Florida, w.th a population of 19,996,827, a d with a territory e<jual to sixteen States the size of New York. The small non-prpducin? State of Massa chusetts, with 1.783, 080 people, gained in wealth about {$10,000,000, more than nine of the great producing States ?f Louisiana. Mississippi. Alabama. Geor gia. Noi th Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, whose population was 13.409.167, find with an area as large as fifty-eight States the size of Massachu setts. New England, New York and Philadeipha hold today 180.000 shares of the banking capital of the country, while only 44.000 snares are held by all the remaining State? of the Union. Must argument be added to those staitling fac s !o convince us of our di'ty? To me tin v proclaim in thunder tones that the time has arrived fur the great Htst. the i;i eat South and the Northwest to link their hands and heait* together aud march to the ball t box and take posses sion of the government. rc>tore it to the princifrf^sof our fathers, and run it in \}ync\ercst of the people. S Two yfars ago we presented these facts to the American Congress They were supported by the petitions of a half million freemen. One^ year a^o they were presented, and what, was the answer to these appeals? "Go home, work hamp er, live closer and- keep out of politics and all will be welV Over a month ago, we again knocked at the d'or cf the pres ent Congie^s, and what has been its an swer? A good friend, in the magnani mity of his heart and it may be for the purpose of perpetrating a joke on that august body, offered a resolution last ? week, generously extending to the dis tressed farmers throughout this broad | land expressions of 1 'si nccre^y m pathy. " F Sir-?, we arc mt apphiiSj^t* Congress or elsewhere for sympathy or charity, but in the digi'nty and power of American , manhood. w?r are demanding just ee. and under the favor of God, y?c intend to have it We want re'ief from these un just oppression', and as I have said from New York to California, in my speech**, we intend to have it if have} to wipe the two old parties from the faceiof the earth. Again, sir, iJsuring you on qphalf of the great working classes here Wseembled, of their earnest appreciation of thtir cordial and hospitable welcome of year progressive city, so kindly and eloquent ly tendered through youi I doubt not that each and all of us Vrill take with us I o our homes the warm and pleasant lememberantes of our visit to the great and enterprising city of St. Louis. nIgroes want protection. New Yorkers Complain to Harrison ' of Alleged Outrages in the Soutk. "Washington, D. C.? A delegation of New York, colored men arrived iu Wash ington for the purpose of making an ap ? i peal to President Harrison for protection of the colored race in the So^th against alleged outrages at the hands of the. | 8oui hern white meo. Ths delegation was wet at the depot by Frederick Doug lass and William E. Matthews, and en tertained at breakfast by thepa. At 10 o'clock the visitor! proceeded to the White House and were ushered into into the cabinet room. Th<} delegation c msiyfcd of Rev. Dr. William B Der rick, chairman; Rev. Dr. D.!W. Wisher, Rev. Dr. George W. Br taint, Rev. Dr. Alex W atters,~Dr. T. S. P.T Miller, Mr. Chaiks R. Dorsey, Prof. William John son, AU#x. Powe I, H. A.: Monroe and Isaac B. Johnson, of the Brooklyn Mea S !"P ' N' * viu * They were introduced to the President by Auditor Lynch, of the treasury De partment Uev. Dr. Derrick made the address to the President. He ?poke of the many alleged outrages which he said are perpetrated upon the colored race in the Sc\*th, and from which no redress and from which no protection 6eeml'ob tainable. As . a- last resort ; the colored people appeal to the Pjresidi?nt for such ac ion by the Executive as his judgement dictates. In his reply President Harjson explain ed just how far he could exercise his au thority under the Constitution, stating very clearly the difference between 8|.ate aud Federal autbotrity in regard to crimes committed in any particular State. The New Orleans lynching matter was taken as an example. The Federal Government, ho said, clearly had the right to provide for the protection of the Italian subjects as that was a matter of treaty rights, but it has not been done, no legislation has been enacted and neither the Federal courts nor the President could interfere even in that ease. Mr. Harrison advised the delegation to collect in detail the facts concerning the lynchiugs in the South for a year and present them to him and to the public press, and said that upon these facts he would assist ai far as be could in creating a public sentiment against lawless methods of punishing col ored men in the South. While willing to do everything he could in behalf of all of tho citizens of the country be explained clcarly how any attempted interference with State author ity by him woud do more harm than good . The delegation were very much pleased with the President's speech and attitude. SMACKS OF SLAVERY. Vagrant Negroes Sold oil the Block in Missouri. Fayette, Mo.? This town is again ou the of a racc war, because of a vagrant sale of negroes which took place her? yesterday. About a month ago a good deal of excitement was caused by the sale of three vagrant ucgtocs. Yes t'.rday the feeling was iuteusitied by the public sale on the block of three men and one woman, because they could oiler no visible means of support. Hen ry Thompson, Wrn. Miller and Johu Wilkins were the men. All are healthy negroes, who have never before been e nested on any charge The woman was a go d lookrng mullatto, Mary Whiteside. She was accused of va grancy. Thc colored people were brought into the public square at 1 1 o'clock and a great crowd of both colors gathered. The whites i made fun of the poor victims, and the ! blacks freely expressed their displeasure j at the scene, that so cruelly brought to 1 their in '? nds the days of actual slavery, j The woman was put up tirst. She ! brought $10 for the sixty days work that ! the county fined her. The mcu sold for #10, $12, and $13, respectively, being j taken l?v reliable farmers hereabouts. | The woman will work iu agood family in j town. The negroes declare that this must stop j or that the whites be sold with the negroes. { The sale took place on a block Sheriff ! Crvgier officiating. I - ? _ The Crops. I Washington, D. C.? The Department j of Agriculture has issued a report show : ingthe condition of the wheat crop on the tirst day of April. It is claimed in { this that the average condition of the ! crop in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri aud Kansas, the principle winter wheat States, is twenty points lower than on April 1st of last year, or 77 against 07.3. In New York it is 97, Pennsyl vania 84, and in the States from Delaware t .> North Carolina it varies from 70 to 06, 00 to 03 in the Southern belt, and high on the Pacific. Brother Editors Fight. Oxford, Ala.? A tight between two editors h?s created a sensation here. The participants were brothers. Ben and Tom Gwynn at the head) of the Voice and Nighthawk, respectively. The Nighthawk is for Cleveland for Presi dent, and Governor Jones for the head of the State ticket. The brothers en gaged in a rough and tumble fight,, but friends interfered before either could draw a weapon. , Isn't Thinking of a Watery Grave. ; Wheeling, W. Va.? .Jennie Sutton, j who jumped into the river about three 4 weeks ago, and who was supposed to have I been drowned, has, it is said, been seen bf a railroad man, who claims that i sbe is living as the wife of a leading citi ? z^n of Bellaire, Ohio, who left his wif* ijfour weeks ago, and went down the river, where is said to tare located with Hiss The Day of Rest. tiiCHMONb, Va. ? At a rccent mating ( of the Drug Clerks' Association of Kich j rnond, it was resolved to appeal to the : proprietors and people for a pr per.iec j nvjnitiou of the religious rights and priv j i!"ges of the drug ilerk as to Sunday duty. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. ? i I t ' t . 1 ' ! A Condensation of the Principal Happenings. The Newt Gleaned From All Source* and Prepared For Our Buiy People. VIRGINIA. The Buena Vista paper works will, as reorganized, be ?t large establishment. ^A passenger steamer will be put on the Bwuil between Columbia and Palmyra. right was struck by ?n engine near Burkcville, and died of his injuries. A lot sale was held at Clifton Force last Thursday, the process amounting to $128,000. Buena Vista chamber of commerce is collecting an exhibit of raw materials and manufactured products for the Chi cago Fair. N Y. parties are negotiating for the purchase of tbe Norfolk C ty railway, and if the purchase is made elec licity ? will he used. At the Ljnchburg primary Yancey re ceived the rcuofliination for >Iayor,*and the delpgatijan J^jithe Richmond Conven tion is divided, with a Hill majority, who are elected as unpledged! Edgar Allan h;? been designated to re organize the Republican city committee of Richmond. He succeeds Captain Henry Hudnall, who was compelled to retire on account of bad health. A meeting of the Cotton Exchange was held at Norfolk/ v?nd representatives of the Norfolk & 'Western and Seaboard & Boanokc and Norfolk Carolina rail roads appeared before the body aud sub mitted f)laos for the organization of a s'ock compauy to erect large piers, com presses and cotton sheds for the handling of the cotton trade of this port. The Noifolk & Western advocated locatin" the plant near Lambert's Point, the oth* er roads near Pinner's Point ou the Portsmouth si<le. The exchange select e J the Pinner's Point location, and ap pointed a committee to raise $100,000 for a stock compauy. $300,000 will be sub scribed by the railroad. This is a vie tory for the Portsmouth people and the Seaboard & Roanoke. ? HOBTH CAROLINA. _ There ate 70 students at the Keeley In stitute at Greensboro. A Richmond county farmer who culti vates but a medium sized farm, this seas on made aicleaj- profit cf $2,000. The Dukes have le' a contract for the building of a $500,000 cotton fact- 1 y at Durham. j [ I ; J Last Sunday evening between sunset and dark a masked man invaded the house of Samuol Barnes, of Tyro town ship, Davidson county, demanded his money and got:$l60. The Church of the Holy Innocents, at (lenders ujvil'e, was consecrated with impressive services Sunday, Bishop Ly man p< rforming the ceremony, assistul l?y many prominent Episcopal clergymen A Concord paper states that a Mrs. Hooks, of Stanly county, gave birth Inst 1 week to 0 well developed children? 4 boys and 2 girls* Four of the children have sinco died. This lady has in the I past given birth to twins and triplets. Gen. Glenn says that as soon as possi ble the regiments of the State Guard will be brought up to the standard. 12 companies. They will then be divided, as provided for iia the new regulation*., in to 3 battalions. The company at Ash. ville has received permission to enlist That will give the 4th regiment 11 com panics t ? The dead body of Charlie Adams, a lad fifteen years old, son of Joseph Adams, of Cedar Falls, was , found in the river near Raudleman. He went with his la ther into the woods where he hail been chopping, to assist him. After a little while his father missed him and went in search of him. The boy wa? subject to fits and fell in the rivet during an attack. No liquor is a' lowed to be sold iu Northampton county at present, but ap plication will be made to the board of commissioners at its May meeting for li cense to sell it by ons of the wealthiest merchants in the county. Captain. R. IJ. Peebles will appear for the applicant aud Senator Ransom and others in oppo sition. The case will excite considerable interest and will I* fought hard by both sfdes There is a stiong prohibition feeling in the county. SOUTH CAROLINA. \ The new Pre byterian High School building at Rock Hill is about finished and will open in the fall. A World's Fair club has been organ zca among the little girls of Columbia. : ana it is tjie nrsi girls' club in the 8tate. I The president has appointed Walker W. Jones of South Carolina to be a :jrd | Lieut, in the revenue cutter service. I The corner-stone of the new Converse I College was laid at Spartanburg last j Thursday with Masonic ceremonies Grand Master Branch presiding. The annua! meeting of the Pee Dee i Medical Association was held at Darling I ton. Tbe following officers were elec-trd* Dr. C. Kellock, president; Dr. E Miller' I v'cc president; Dr .John Lunney, secrc j tary and treasurer, . It is rumored that ifrangements were | made by a country cc^gregation, not ; many miles from Greenwood, to bovcot | their P' ft or tecanje he could not believe j Tillman s re-election would be beneticH j to the State, add conse<juently in the pri mary would cast his vote for Sheppard delegates. The bovcott failed to material ize. The Columbia ^tate estimates that at least one third of the delegates to Chica go from South Carolina will l>e for Cleve land, no matter what the action of the State administration will 1*, and it is not impossible thnt the delegation for the ! ex-President will "be solid. Still another hedge fence company hi the State was organized last week. Tht . Secretary of State issued a commission tc I the "Orangeburg County Hedge Fence J Company." Capital stock, $15,000. C, cn. W. Rums died suddenly at Beau fort of apoplexy. The bod v was embalm ed and will be tak?n to Washington for burial. Gen Burns was 00 ve.ir? of n<;e a graduate of West Point, and wn< retired from the Unit- d St.itc? arniv in ls!*0. j lie Was a Hn^matP of Gen. M'( > < 1 ?' ? 1 ? . ; and w.-i* ?| ii it ?? prominent, b'-th dm in:: ! and rifte> tit- <v?r. I??iog at onetime mili tary mayo: of (,b<tle?ton. 0THSR6TATB*. ' j A "wbuiey cwert doctor hesW i ta Wished his headquarters for t)U Sottih era States, ot ftmhville, Teaa. Be fit Dr. Frank Youog, of Kenton. Ohio, for merly a Confederate soldier from North* Carolina. He bus sanitariums. in Balti. " more, Ciocinuatj, Louisville attd Chica go. His method is different f roja the bi chloride of sold cure ; thctaerejvo hyperdermic infectious, but the medi cine is said to ue entirely of vegetable composition, and is administered, intera ally. * FALiER IN A PI0C% Four UTivee Confront Hia'%hileBe is Trying to Get e Fifth* Memphis, TEsix.? John Palmer once, a. well known ? Arkansas politician, who figured in a race war in Crittenden county some years ago, . and was muds to leave, , found himself confronted ^y tine wives this morning, and another TOmtn to!, whom he was engaged, with st ill' another wife cn route to this city from Mississip pi. Palmer came here tiome months sgo?r and met Hattie Palmer and married her. His Arkansas wile appeared on the a week ago and bad hiti arrested oa a 1 bigamy charge. Then a womaa from Greenville, Missi, appcarod.and said she and Palmer were married five years ego to day. It has also developed that ahjcmt four years ago j Palmer married Mollis 1 Whitlaw at Vicltsburg, snd when he wee ar.-ested he was ipayiog court- to Mollie Skates, a negro; belle; witfi a vietf to \ matrimony. . Hsjttie Palmer, Who married . him in Memphis, admitted that ahe led been marriea once before, tod that she married Palmer . without getting a ?dl* vorce from Palmer No. 1. She waa ar rested and the charge of bigamy tnide against her. j ? I ? ; : jL r THE PHOSPHATE TRUST. I ] ! ' 1 ? { i >, Tarinr?ea r reruuMf ; Ooxnbinatioa of Charleston Companies. Charleston, 8* 0.? Represent of the largest phosphate companl the city met Wednesday and formed a "trust," to control the output of opM*'; mercial fertilizers. They are very *et&? cent about giving information, but l|t Is understood that the combine wtllbe oper ated on the same plan a* othep such SSSO* !j ciations, and will have for its presiflenf F. 8. Rodger*, ?nd for^juperintendsat; A. M. Rhett. The trust will, it is stated/, issue and float #2, 000, 000 wort hof bonds. If the present fylans are carried out, cumber of employees and trsreling mea ; for the phosphate companies will be gresUj lj reduced, f j i * \ Republican Convention, - --Coitkmbia, S. C.? The South Republican State Convention in session during the entire night* u did not adjourn till 6^ in the*morning? i These delegates were elected to the Ilia*, nesota Convention :* E. M. Bffiyton, lumbio; E. A. Webster,. OrangeWlJf^ Dr. W.*D. Crum (colored), Charleston;,; E. H. Dcas (colored), Darlington. The plitform lauds the Adifiinistrftiioa of Harrison and commends the last Con gress for its tariff and pension legislation. It denounces the registration ana election ? laws" of South Carolina, by meant of which, it declares, "the Democratic party a has controlled the State Government -for the past ten years against- the will: of a large majority of its citizens. V The proceedings of the 'Convention were liotous at tjimcH. the contentions Be- . ing between thb office holdsss and the nonotftcc-hoUJiig element. When the { motion to ad jo-ojo was made the negro Chairman declined to entertela it) an nouncing that he would not doso untUr he could ascertain who hid stolen his" uew silk hat. ?'? J 1, A Dishonei^oatmnaUr.. {' Abbeville, J^jj^tBoqkner, bos?\ master of GrautviIie7"?fc|diaon county, was arrested Saturday evening for Itfltt* ? ing registered letters frpm the mails, and was brought here nod put in Jail. For*: sometime past registered money pasting through his office has been missing* ami suspicion pointed to hiifr as the thief, i An inspector has been looking up tht case for several weeks and 8aturaaj cy?? ing caught him. So far as learned, , not deny his guilt. ' ^ A Boy Suicides. Winston. N. C.?Ras Walker, Mxteet years old, a sod of John Walker, a prom*, ineot farmer near Smith Orovc, county, committed snicldc by shooting himself through the lie 1 with a shotgun. No cause is assigned for the <U.*ed. Ha tied the team, told his brothef .to wateh it until he retumed.N^hcn went to^&a house, got the gun, placed it under hit chin and discharged it witji a stick, taar ing his lisad nearly off. 1 \ ! 4 Foreign Notes of Real Intareat/ So far the Russian famine has coat the Imj>erial Treasury 300,000,000 rubles. It is a curious but certain fact that last winter's scourge of influenza in England was almost confined to well to-do people. The jockey who won in the largest field ever known to the English turf, Go&ter, has jast died. He rode Jot Miller in the Chester Cop in 1852, Whan forty- three horses faced the starters; Senator Vance Improving.; Washington, I). C ?The attack "M>. prralysis from which Senator Vaofii! fa now suffering is his second. Tblfiil! u.is io 1805. just before he was to . the "Old Capitol" prison at Washington H.is face is drawn considerably and ha speaks and writes with some effort. But he is daily improving and h^ virtt to Charlotte on 18th of May will be of bene fit, *no doubt. Bridegroom. 74: Bride, 78. ^ mm ' Washington, Pa ? Samuel Ross, aged 74, .and Mrs. Richardson, aged 73, were married secretly last vreek. Mrs. Rich ardson's first husband died a year ago, j leaving her < om-iderable propetty. Two weeks afterward >f rs. Ross died. Il is said that- -die present contracting parties j were lovers io theiryouth. A Savannah Failure. > Savannah, Ha ?The store of Jacol ? olien. dealer in notions, was closed on n III irtgace for *775. in favor of Mcinhnrd IJro?. A Co. The assets arc placed at *! 2,000 and liabilities it $18,000. To Grow Boots and Overshoe*. rv-rietHiy Rusk propose to h?ve a plan ration of rubber trees in the evcrglaufs of "" | Florida. ?Albany Journal.