The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 31, 1895, Image 1

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”—- PLAYTNd AT WAR. I ed, and 5,4*4 missing, making 2,725 killed BATTLES THAT AMOUNT JO NOTH ING MORE THAN SKIRMISHES. • ComimrUou of -GJt lueses. Japaneac \V»r With the Late War Ite- tween the Confederate States and the a total of 23,001; atSpottsylvania, 2, 13,416 wounded, and 2,258 missing; at the Wilderness, 2,246 killed, 12,037 wounded, and 3,383 missing; at Anti- etam, not including South Mountain, 2,108 killed, 0,519 wounded, and 753 missing; at- ClhancelloraviUe, 1,606 <J killed, 9,762 wounded, and 5,919 mis sing; Seven Days’ battle 1,734. killed, 8,062 wounded, and 6,053 missing; at hC)iickamanga,—4,656—killed,-4LT49- P0L1TICAL PARSONS. COLORED PREACHERS TO TAKE A HAND IN THE FIGHT Over the Cumtitutlonal Convention Del* eitatev—Another Move by the Hepnbllean —Call For a Second Convention—Their vention at Columbia, Thursday, Febru ary 14, 1895, at 11 ;30 a. m. in the Cal- very Baptist Church, that we may de liberately advise and wisely plan as to the means we shall employ to secure for our State an honest government, to the poorer whites and ignorant ne* | groes tue public schools more desirably [equipped and ,of longer terms, and to at least the intelligent citizen, regard less of the color of his skin, the un- Tho UcMonn Cllvrn for IU K*Wencn by • ** We are able by this time to study the lighting which has l>een going on between Japan and China, and to see how it compares with the bloody struggles known to us through the civil war. Japan has been celebrat ing her victories over China, and she celebrates well, since nearly all the laurels of the contest have fallen to her. Yet it has been a war singularly lackihg in battles , of the first class. The naval engagement off the Yalu was a rt'ally great' encounter; but most of the land fights would ha^ ranked as little .more than skirmishes in our war. We read sometime*- of desperate charge* and stubborn de fences that might seem to belong to an Antietam or a Gettysburg ;'but the story winds up with a tally of a dozen or a* hundred killed or woutided on each side. Take, for example, wounded, and 4,774 missing; at Cpld Harbot killed, 9,077 wotonded, and I,8i6 missing; at Fredericksburg, I, 284 killed, 9,600,.wourided, and V 769 missiilg: and the Second Manassas with other operations, 1,747 killed. 8,452 wounded, and 4,263 missing; at Shiloh, 1,754 killed, 8,408 wounded, and 2,885 ‘missing; at Mufreesboro, II, 730 killed, 7,802 wounded, and 3,717 missing; at the assults of June 15 to 19 on Petersburg, 1,688 killed, 8,513 wounded and 1,185 missmg. The tremendous aggregates in these actions must be increased by the Con federate losses, in order to show-the true desperation of the fighting. Here wo limiShiloh with 1,783 killedv8,Q12 wounded, and 959 missing; Second MahassCs, «&c., 1,481 Jelled, 7,627 wounded, and 89 missing; the Antie- tSm campaign, 1,886' Killed. 9.348 Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 22.—The fol lowing call w r as issued last Saturday: Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 18. 1895. To the Negro Ministry in South Caro lina : hampered rights of citizenship. Since ’ the conditions making one eligible L Dear Brethern in Christ: By fraud, greatly surpassing the glaring robber ies in accordance with which the elec- have been years ; by wounded, and 1.367 missing; Murfree- -ktfh ‘ — and 1,027 missing; the Seven Days Battles, 3,478 killed, 16,261 wounded, and 875 missing; Chancellorsville, 1,665 killed, 9,081 wounded, and 2,018 missing; Gettysburg, 2,592 killed, 12, 706 wounded, and 5,150 missing; Chickamauga, 2,812 killed, 14,674 wounded, and 1,468 missing; Peach Tree Cri'ek and Atlanta. 1,341 killed aud 7,500 wounded. In these Confed- inple, Count Oyama’s| sboro. 1,294 ktlledr 7JI45-wounded- campaign with the Japanese Second Army Corps. I-euving Hiroshima, he landed forty miles north of Port Ar thur, on the 24th of October, and pro ceeded toward the stronghold. His first battle was at Kinchow, fought by the First Brigade against perhaps 1,100 or 1,200 Chinese. The estimates of Ihe Chinese loss was 2(J , ftr 30; that‘of the Japanese still less. Then followerkthe battle^ of Talien Wan, ,,.The Chinese are sard to have been 3;i8fi strong in Six forts, mounting eighty guns, and the JajMinese had A wo divisions pres ent. An unofficial account gave the Japanese loss as two killed and ten wounded and the Chinese loss as fifty. -Oyama-s own report makes the Ju|>a nese loss ten, and the enemy’s ‘'incon siderable.” We do not understand battles were were most deadly in their swlv-.nino-o (rained at Tal-1 intensity. Such Are the comparisons with the half year of hostilities in Corea. tions in South Carolina conducted for so many methods that are a burning disgrace to a civilized people, much less a pro fessed democratic form of government —to say nothing of their tendency to prevent, vitiate aud surely destroy the public's moral sense of honesty right by machination so grossly rageous tliat the alleged end sought, viz: “To keep the negro eternally down.”* is inaaequate for .the high handed means employed, a Constitu tional convention was “countedin" in accordingly vote for electors to the ConstitutibihaT convention art' such that nearly every negro having become of age can coiut ply, it is desired that we shall take counsel of each other to the end that a vigorous campaign by the ministry may be arranged for the purpose of getting the negro registered to a man and standing ready to vote for any-set of men regardless of their party name, who are in favor of an honestly man aged. government and opposed to radi cal, class or impracticable measures be ing encouched in the new Constitu tion. _ • N Asking your earnest prayers for this •ighteous ‘ undertaking H»d begging you at a reasonable sacrilfce to meet I also the mortally wounded, making | the death roll still higher. From these battles we might go on | to others, only less tremendous; and indeed there were 112 battles in our j four years’ war, in which one side or the other lost over 500 in killed and wounded alone. Some of the minor the strategic advantage gu ien Wan, for it opened the way to the | great objective point of the campaign; but the fighting was trivial compared with what the <;ase called for. Fort Arthur being reached, we had striking accounts of the three days of] terrific fighting that caused it to suc cumb. The place had Ikh'u spoken of I as a sort of Gibraltar, defended by the ilower of tlie Chinese armv. On the first day came a bombardment with nearly 100 guns, and then alow range of hills was carried with a rush. On] November 21, according to Oyama's] official report, the right division stormed and captured a fort m its front and then carried by assault Fort Kokinsar. Meanwhile the left divis-i ion carried a fort southeast of Haeha- viso. On the third day. without spitp from ttw arduous work, divisions captured all tl»e other forte. The victor adds that “the enemy fought bravely throughout the at- tacks," and closes by observing that “the number of Japanese killed and wounded exceeds 200.” Admiral Car penter's dispatch puts the Japanese force at about 15,IKK) and the Chinese at about 13,000 in this afi'air. The Chinese loss is somewhat uncertain, the garrison escaping. It is true that the battles here cHod from our annals were fought with far greater forces on each side than those of the t 'orcan war; but in any case then* is no comparison for desperation and bloodinessin theaverage fighting. Col. Fox gives a list pf twelve Union regiments that in single liattle had from 50 to S(l|)ercent killed or wound ed, and of over sixty regiments that lost that percentage by adding the mis sing in cases where the latter \tere also “mostly if not killed or wounded.” The Fifteenth New Jersey took 432 ollicers and men into action at Spotts- ylvania <»f whom 116 were killed- or died of their wounds. The Twenty- fifth Massachuusetts lost j53 killed, 139 wounded and 28 missing at (’obi Har bor, out of 310 reported for duty that morning. OtlUx instances could be cited both on the Union and the Con federate side. v On the other hand, the latest state mentis that up to December 6, which includes Ping Yang, the Japanese array had in all only lost 350 &en killed in battle and 430 by disease, Mr. Kirkjey, the well-known statistician puts the Union deaths from battle dur the recent election and called by the last I-cgislaure to meet at Columbia, September, 1895. Though changing the very organic law of our State the work of this convention will- be amendable to no power other than the wishes of its members; for it has been decided that the doings of this l>ody shall not be submitted to the peo ple for their approval. Among othei; things of a partisan Tiatqw», provisionr are to be marie whereby the negro can be ett'ectivdly and perpetually robbed of his right of franchise and. at the same time and bv the operation of the very sante law. Oie white man, in a similar or more degraded condition, shall exper ience no political inconveniences. In act, the only argument offered in be- lalf of this convention has been along the line of more thoroughly intensify ing the already abnormal and by cir cumstances, iln warranted prejudice against the unoffending negro. As the embezzler begins his career by stealingemaller sums and using every precaution that skill can employ or in jeuuity invent to cover over what he ms done, grows more reckless as suc cess makes him the more involved and i le greater rogue, and finally, in om- Kildened despration takes everything in sight, leaving his suffering victims the consolation contained in the ques tion, it?” so has been tne history ot the pre your fellow-workers in the above men tioned convention, we are Yoi ir brethren in Christ Jesus, E. II. Wilson, —J^C.-Dauiels. . K. II. Coit, H. M. Raiford, It: K. Hart. .1. It. Wilson, W. D. Chappelle, State Hoard. Brooklyn, Jan. 24. So far sever al men have’been killed by the soldiers who were sent hero to put down the South (larolin*speaks for iteelf strike of the car conductors and mo- tonnen. Several soldiers have also been killed, and the end is not yet in sight, hut all are hoping that the worst is oyer. _ The State bo rad of mediation and arbitration met-recently and adopted a jh sjiwiai report on the.strike,which was submitted to the Legislature. They say, in part: “A strike of the em- plovecS on the fivjp electric service street railways of the Oitv of Brook lyn. who are members of District As sembly No. 75. Knights of Labor, em bracing nearly al,l the operating forces, took place an Monday morning. Jun- |4. Tm? Coney Island aud Bfook or South Carolina In th« Interact ofPaae# aad Unity. Y, Columbia, S. (\, Jan. 24 —The fol lowing address to the Democracy of| EX-GOVERNOR TILLMAN WANTS \NEW NATIONAL PASTY. Ha Write* a Letter Snggoeitag the Plat* To the Democrats uf South Carolina: As an executive committee author ized by those who put forth the recent address in which; they urged upon question ' convemt nary lyn'Railroad Company alone affected sup a settlement, whicn enabled it to con- tiffuo business .without interruption. This IxKirtl made every jnsisible effort to settle the differences between the ether companies and their employees, but was successful only in the case of Brooklyn City and Newton Railroad you to consider the mg a non-partisan again call your attention to that *ub- ject ami summon you to action. Dissention in your ranks threatens disaster. The purity of government, the very safety V»f tne State, depends ujion unity. To preserve these war rants your utmost endeavor, and the burial of prejudice. Tl^ose in both factions, who worild avert the catas trophe of an appeal to the negro for control-of the. convention, must come shoulder to shoulder at ouce. I>et wliitc men, from the mountains to the sea combine^to make our convention and new Constitution a bond and seel WMteya “N*w Krfona Party' Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 23.—It haa of secu r-1 been-quite a long time, ‘nearly a year in fact, since the statement was made that -Governor B. R. Tillman, the “Moeea” of South Carolina, was set ting his cap for something beyond the United States Senate; that he was looking to the possible organization of a new National third party in Ameri- ‘ can politics, and to being put up as One of its leaders. Nearly every one perhaps has forgotten the interview v the new Senator gave along this line about the middle of March laat, hut lus utterances at the time will be easily recalled when one reads a letter he penned a few days ago. ; Thomas F. Byron the For some time' —„ (truly all elements of onr l>emoeraey, Company^ with which and ite former .not tt faction mere! v. It will be a su-1 employees, an agreement was brought 1 pro melody limited bv aboutandcontract tagned, under which | <>n-lv and the Federal J. II. Jhonson, R. W. Baylor, C. F. Nelson, J. U. Tobin. THE MILLS ARE COMING. l*mvor :»n<! a VTltit<* U aiilt j. Marshal YatnagauV previous cam ing the four years of the cmT war at aign further south, with the First 67,058 in action and 43,012 from Boston, Jan. 22.—The Legislative coinmittee un mercantile atl'ans gave a hearing this forenoon at the State House on the petition of the Boot aud Merrimac Mills of Lowell' for permis sion to manufacture goods outside of the commonwealth, the latter corpara- tion also asking for authority to in crease its capital stock from $2,500,000 to *3,500,000. E. C- Clarke, treasurer of the Boot Mills, first addressed the committee and exhibited samples of the kind of goods manufactured by the mills. These consisted of coarse cotton goods, drillings, sheetings and shirtings, and a class of finer goods. What are you going to do about I Mr. -Clarke said the Boot Mu Is were the history of the pro | incorporated by special charter in 1835 for the manufacture of cotton goods in Lowell. For fifty years these.goods has been made for export and home consumption,the only competition for t he greater part (>f the time, coming from the Northern States and abroad. Within the last Jew years, however, competition has arisen in the Southern States where fuel and labor are much cheaper. The increase in the number of nulls in the South has been phe nomenal, the per cent, being in the past few years 50 per cent, to 12 per cent^ at the North. All the Southern Mills are making the same class of goods as are being made in the Boot Mills and they are making them much cTiett]>er and if tlie Root company is to . y < sent Democratic party in Soutlj Caro- ina. It began its career by breaking every sugar-coated promise made to the negro by Hampton and the repre sentatives of his government, mg in the meanwhile, however, to the outside world—both through leading men and powerful newspapers—that dishonesty was unknown in the State's xilitical realm; growing bolder, be- i ause of the success attending its met- lods of fraud, suppression and inti ni dation, and, as is natural, perhaps, ess sensitive of right and more defiant to sentiment. We have, as a climax, the assurance given by those empow- ered to speak, that our right of 1 trail Army (Jorpsoffer* similarsugge-'ftions. wounds, a total pf 1I0,t)70. It was thoroughly suceesitful. like To make closer parallels in the for- Oyama’s: but the only combats rating res engaged, we find the Second Corps above a skirmish were "at Fing Yang. I losing at Antietam 883 killed, 3,359 0 One of the first battles of the war was at Ka-san in August. The Japanese credit the Chinese with a loss of “200 killed and 200 wounded," evidently round numbers, out of 2,800 engaged; but their own loss they put at 75, or, according to one account, 32 killed and 50 wounded. When Count Yam- agata afterward arrived he fought a well-contrived pitched battle at Fiug Yang, his three columns combining against the Chinese army, on Septem ber 16, and completely defeating it. General Nodzu gave the Japanese loss as “11 ollicers and 154 men killed; 30 ollicers and 521 men wounded.” be sides 40 whose fate was unknown. At utmost the Japanese loss in this great est land battle of the war, or “series of desperate battles," as one account puts it, was therefore 755, although strong works had to be carried. The Chinese put their loss at 6 r (j00; but it seems that most of the army estimated at 3tM<O0, threw down their arms. It is said that 14,5(10 unwounded prison ers were captured. The- Japanese re ported that of the remainder 2,00b wounded, and 396 were killed, but another account gives Jai 2,000 killed and wounded. The Japa- missing, out of 15, 000 effectives; at Gettysburg, 796 killed, 3,816 wounded, and 368 missing, out of about 13,000 present for duty and 10,500 engaged. The Fifth Corps, with 25,695 present for duly, lost 487 killed. 2,817 wounded, and 1,828 miss ing at the Wilderness, and then, within a week, at Spottsylvania, 657 killed, 3,448 wounded, and 375 missing. The Sixth Corps lost, out of 24,163 presen', for duty and equipped, 719 killed, 3,660 bounded, and 656 missing at the Wil deruess, and 688 killed, 2,820 wound ed, and 534 missing at Spottsylvania. When we consider the populations of Japan and China especially the lat ter, the armies put into the held seen small, even allowing for tlie lacko: 1 railroads in China and for the trans portation by water needed by'Japan, The latter, however, must be creditec with furnishing all tlie troops she re quires for her purposes, and also with fighting ban! enough always to beat the Chinese; but if is seen hbw the re suiting baltjes iu severity of lighting fall far short of the great shocks o' arms in ourcivfl war.—Ne\y York Sun nese wete the more numerous, per haps 30,000 or 34,(fX) strong. About six weeks later, the First Army Corps undertook the crossing of the Yalu, timing itself admirably with the lauding of tlie Second A^ray jrps above Fort Arthur, the two mbvements thus co-operating. Gen eral Nodzn mefved his troops oyer Murderer* run t* Oroufad. COLUMBUS, Ga , January 24.—Tlie mystery surrounding the munder o ' Tom Jarrett on the streets of Colum bus on Monday evening last, is* abou being solved. Colonel Harris, a notec negro desperado was arrested in Opeli -ka yesterday by chief of police for an offence committed in that city am chise and all the accompanying privil eges will be taken away from us with out the question of how we like it be ing raised to-the dignity of considera- tion. The present is not the timeV nor does the (X'cnsion justify a mincing of words much less a lack of activity. A des peration bom of and fostered by a righteous cause and a deep sense of what we have to gain or lose should Ire us. Since our people as a race, lave but few leaders in whom they lave any confidence other than their preachers, aud sk^e-it is our God- given mission to cry aloud against wrong at all times and in all places, even in high places, we the negro min istry of South Carolina, regardless of denominations, must awaken to the re sponsibilities which our vocation, the demands of the hour and the otherwise helplessness of our people impose. Too long already have we been con tent to lift up a standard of right and honesty for the individual life of the governed, without even attempting to manifest our righteous indignation against the indisputable dishonesty on the part of those governing. We who reach with the ardor of our spiritual- y awakened sduls the doctrine of the oTtlrtpiTi tMilfl mand “thou Shalt not steal,” can do no wrong if acting on the principle that an ounce of prevention is worth a ound of cure,” we do all in our power ! !' - h continue to make the gcxxls they must make them where they’ Imve the same advantage as the Southern companies. At the present, the Southern compa nies are making a good profit at what would be sLirvation for the Bqot Com pany. He further,said that the principal desire of the company in its present move is to preserve its trade n^ark, which are very‘valuable, especially in the foreign markets, notably Chi ba. The company, if allowed to go South, will devote its Lowell plant entirely to making finer gcxxls on which living wages can lx: paid. The company in tends to keep the Southern .labor on cheaper goods, although Mr. Clarke admitted to a member of the commit tee, in time it is probable that the la bor in the South will become as skilled as that at the North. The capital of the company- is now permitted to be $1,500,000,. but only $1,200,000 has been issued, so that enough remains authorized to allow the company to build what it needs‘without ask in for an increase. Augustus. Ixjwellv-president of the company, said the company has not yet ofecided into wliat Southern SlJSte to go. and the idea of moving has not yet’been submitted to the sttx’kholders. No decided fftep has yet been taken; it is only seen that some move of this traffic was resumed Thursday morning and still continues "without interrup tion. "Investigation of the causes of the strike was made, and it was found Tfial it proceeded fronr failure on the part of the executive committee of District Assembly, No. 75, Knights of Labor, to effect a renewal of the com tract iff 1894 with the companies for 1895 with certain proposed- changes which involved principally an ad vance of wages from $2 to $2.25 per day to conductors and motormcn who form the bulk of the employees; an establishment of the" proprotion prominent regular unions for special trips made for con gested travel at - certain times of day, and an observance of the statute which prescribes ten hours’ labor per formed within twelve consecutive hours on street^ railways as a day's work. The demand for an increase of wages was finally withdrawn, and the other two |X)iuLs of difference, which the iften deemed vital, remained in tlie cases uf the Brooklyn Heights and Atlantic avenue companies, while the (Jueens I'ounty and Suburban Oom- panv was willing to yield them, but could not effect a settlement because of individual contracts made with new men. and to this the e*e2utive Ixiurd of District Assembly, No. 75, would not assent “However, the existing troubles on the Brooklyn Street Railroad may be settled, the statute with regard to Ihe hours of labor will, unless amended so as to explicitly state and settle what shall ctmtitute ten hours’ lalxtr, re main a constant irritant and source of jssatisfaction and contention on the iart of the employees. The companies construe and enforce the words “ten hours labor” to mean abor while the cars are moving upon the rail, without taking into account waiting time at either end of the routes. _bus, by the evidence taken, it was shown tliat upon one line where there were eight regular runs a day, there was w aiting timff of three ifiiuu' each end, making 48 minutes per day, during which the conductors and mo- termen were on duty and in change its own will (Constitution. Its comjxisition will he of the highest importance to the welfare of the State. Therefore, in behalf of the earnest men who have already spoken, we call upon any and all w hite Deriio- crats in accordance With those view* to meet at their several eoupty seats on Saturday , the second day of March next to select three representative men from each county who will-at- tond » general confcntncn which will assemble in Columbia at 5 party, to be known as the “National Reform Movement.” He has been pub lishing a series of letters from all the big Western and Southwestern leaders of the old Third f^uty and of the Democratic party. Many of the lead ers differ on certain particulars, but all agree that the time has come for a new national party to be founded—a party differing in its demands from tlie Third parti (Signed.) ig compensation. How this | “Kellytown” companions when the of their oars, but for reived no method of computation of time of abor came to be established, itisclear- not within the terms or intent of in law, and is not just, as the employ yees contend. With a view therefore, to removal of this cause of the present strike and prevention of its agency in working further trouble on lines of street railroad, it is suggested that chapter 529 of the laws of 1887 be amended so ms to prescribe that the ten bom's labor to be performed with in consecutive hours, with' reasonable time for meals,” provided for a day's abor, shall commence when the em ployee reports for service as required ay the rules of the employer, aud cease when the employee, upon tlnyr expira tion, is relieved from duty for the daj'. the employment of legitimate I kind must be made in the "near future without fought the at Fushaiyf. ported to be * mefved his . troops oyer , * vr , , . J. ifficulty, aud the advm.cfe K* T,ed . to Montgomery last a ternoon \ I wnAi»A ha was IruicYan in , Tail -Iniin iy, estimated at 3,500,.] Clinldb loss ^vAst'e- 200 killed,” and Jellied and 83 wounded. This provemto be the de cisive encounter, since on Hie march of the main army to Gin Tching, “an Important strong-h up: ide ‘an Important :kor the Chinese, reckoned at 16,000 yr 2 000 fell back withduf fighting. Coming at adater period we received about a fortnight ago tha ,details of a battle at Kung-Wa-Sai,( wdiich had been “fought with great obstinacy,” the Japanese charges upon the strong entrenchments being repulsed with great loss, until reserves came up and carried, all before them. The Japanese loss was reported to be 350 killed and wounded, while that of the Chinese | was supposed to be 300. Finally, the Japanese say that last Thursday they repulsed 15,000 Chinese, with a loss °f 900; their own being 1 killed and 40 wounded. Now if we turn to the records of our civil war we find the Union losses at Gettysburg, , accordiug to Gol. W. V. Fox, who has made a, special- iftudy of this sub ject, to ^ 3,070 killed, 14,497 wouhd- ■hm: he was lodged in jail. John |lol|, another negro, his companion, w&s arrested and brought to Columbus at noon. He answers the description of the negro who was seen running from the scene of the murder, Holt confesses that he and Har ris were in Columbus on Mon Jay and were the men who hat ifficulty with Jarrett. He says J tDrrtt attempted to arrest them, they resist^dand Jarrett fired in the air when Hards drew his pistol, and shoi. Jarrett, infftatiug tlie fatal wound They both escap^l by running; in dif ferent directions. >it is believed tha . Holt is the guilty party^atid has- only charged Harris in hope ot^benefittih j- himself and gaining time. ^ Killed tli* Leader. v,’ Nashville, Tenu., Jan. 24.—Tli a mutiny of the crew of the stea means to prevent our fellowman either ig or himself from being robbed. The fact that the coveted thing in question is a right which God has given and civillized and honestly managed governments unquestionably grant, in no way changes the matter, unless perchance, it is made thereby the more obligatory upon our profes sion to be other than placid spectators. Now- we do not forget that, in the midst of so much political dishonesty there have always been a large and constantfy increasing number of white men who are sufficiently conscientious and far seeing enough to understand that dishonest methods in affairs of government must, in the very nature of things, contain in themselves inai- pient germs of bickerings, discord and a retarding, if not a complete destruc tion of the common wealth’s prosperi ty. Among the Reformers these men are found. In the ranks of ther Con servatives they are not absent. Even 11300,.000 yai If the plant is established in the South it will likely g» to where • the white Element predominates, rather than where the negroes are. Nr. Lowel said that the Boot and Merrimac com panies are the Lowell concerns, that are likely to move, but that it is pipb able some of the Biddeford, Maine companies will soon have to do. Howard Stockton, the president o ' the Merrimac company, said that the reasons for his comprny asking to go out of the State to make goods are the same as in the case of the Boot company. The Merrimac company however," desires an increase of capita because its capacity for printing is so great that it will be necessary to erec, a large plant to supply coarse goods enough to meet the demands of the print works. At present the company makes each year 58,000,000 yards o ’ coarse cotton goods and prints'88,000, 000, making it necessary to buy 30, was mer Neubvilio on the Tennessee river yesterday. They were led by the fire man,. Joe Dunn “ whom Cant. Glover ordered to leave the boat. In the con flict that followed Ca»t. Glover shot and killed Dunn and the rest of the crew .were awed into submission. Glover gave himself up to the sherit ’ gav« of Marshall county, Alabama. ,in the Republican party there are some broad-minded, patriotic men. The emergency which confronts us, how ever, demands that we shall be tied to ,rty or party leaders—that we snail stand and contend on the broad planeNff eternal right rather than on the circuhujeribed pis lar party, our aim. Moved by these^sonsiderations and views, yfe hereby call upon our fellow- workers in the ministrymthe State of South Carolina to meet in ablate con- “It is a sad matter for Lowell, too,’ said Mr. Stockton, “that of the goods 1 buy about all are bought in the South, although they are made by a Lowell concern next door to me cannot buy in Lowell because they cost too much. At present it costs its ribed platform of a particu-1 $25,000*more a year for our Coal than Ken and measures must be it costs a mill at' the' seaboard, like New Bedford, and $50,000 a year more than if our mills were in Northwest ern Georgia.” No one appeared oppose the petitions and Jhe hearings were closed. m Columbia at ft p. m. on the following Wednesday, March 6th, 1895, to consult how best to affectuate the purposes herein expressed, subject to the regular Democratic organiza tion. In order that full notice may be given we also request citizens in each county, who agree with us,-to repeat the call for their respective county meeting to lie held on the secon^ of March. W. H. Timmerman, 1>. K. Norris, J. Tow new Robhrtson, •John R. Harrison, J. E. Fkttiurew. D. E. Finley, John W. Lyleh, — Thoh. J. Kirkland, Godfrey B. Fowler, J. E. Ellkrrk, W. Henry Thomas, , . D. McL. Therreli-, Josh \V. Ash lev. • JL X- Anotlier Cunulatble Shot. Darlington, Jan. 23.—News reached Darlington this morning of the shoot ing of one of the State constables at Hartsville, whereupon The State’s cor- respondent repaired totheseene of crime and obtained an interview Constable C. L Jenkins. Mr. Jen kins is in the service of the United States, is a member of the Finion De tective Agency, and is employed by the Governor of this State as a private detective to aid in breaking up the illi cit sale of liquor in a section of this m its party in the last national campaign. Byron, after gettlngthe views of all the Western and Sou in ern men on the ^matter, wrote to ex-Governor Tillman, whom he refers to as the “Cromwell of the South,” and asked the new United States Senator for a letter. This letter was written on the 8th ulti mo, and Byron considers the letter “a powerful oni. 4 ’ The following is a copy of tlie letter as sent on by fine ex- lil F county known as “Kellytown.” He lat so has been boarding in that section ever since the first of lust December, and Trenton, 8. C., Jan. 8, 1895. Thou. F. Byron, Esq; Dear Sir—Your valued favor of the 3rd, with marked copy of your paper, have been received and read with in terest. Thanks for your kind words atx >ut myself. I am called a “Popu* list” by the Republican papers and by the Cleveland Democrats—God save the mark! «- Both of theee names are beginning to stink in the nostrils of good men. l Beginning* Alas, they are a byword and a hissing to the Democrats who believe with Jefferson and Jackson, and the Republicans who followed Lin coln. I see no hope of relief or of sav ing our institutions unless the farmers of the South quit voting the Demo cratic ticket and the fanners of the Wart quit voting the Republican ticket We must cet together, and names should not divide us. But the Popu lists have too many cranks among them and want to do too much. We cannot enlist the conservative nMpwi unless we appeal to reason and com mon sense; and the more reforms we demand the fewer We will obtain. Plutocracy is drunk with power and the success it has had in araalgaaiai- Republicans and so-called Demo- i f 4 mg. crats under the lead of Sherman and evidently hadttte confidence of the j down Shier andafti ^ ^ parties guilty of violating the liquor I thing wul et loro tsvw I > xx lifwl vxrs-kiftlvxwt xav-v V rvlx 4 I x ■■ -* Z1 | •ariies gumy oi vioiaung uie liquor i tiling Wifi explode, law, for he had worked up forty-eight [ja ready with baggage ;y of ere some- cases agaiust different parties, and was which they re-'J fixing to leave Hartsville and his shooting took place in the Wylie Bell Hotel in Hartsville last evening at 9 o’clock. Constable Jenkins hadretired and Newitt Kelly came to his room and insisted on Jenkins getting out of bed. Jenkins sat up in bed, and by cliance was rubbing nis head when he was shot through the window by an unknown party, the ball striking the ter awi lode. South ™ _ packed, to join the new party or emancipation—the emancipation of the massess of white meri from the slavery to corporations, trusts and monopolies. • The name “Democrat” no longer conjures here. The name is dear for its memories, not its present associa tions. A new party name seems ne cessary, and all weask is an adherence to the principle* of old-time Democra cy: “Equal rights, equal oppqrtuni- 1 — ■ ties, equal burdens. America for the third and second tinkers of his right Americans, an asylum for the h™.*** hand, glancing and striking the mds- 1: — 1 —— ' «— J t -—* - *g toid bone on the right side of the head, The Crank Turn*. . Columbia, S. C., Jan. 23.—About a fortnight ago. Governor Evans re cefved a communication from Benju min E. Hunter, the New York luna tic, who claims to he the “Living God.” No attention,-was, as a matter of course,paid to it. Yesterday another came, winch reads as follows: To the.,Governor of South Carol inh , and the People of His State: Be it and it is hereby kpown to you aud all nations, languages and tongues noWliving in all States and Territory ies in the United States that I am now chief ruler of this generation of people for ever. Thus says the Ixjrd God. Your time is out. Come ddwn and He in the dust, for i ehastisc-ihe Jews with the rod, but I will chastise you with everlasting damnation. Amen! - Benjamin F. Hunter. Stamped in red ink on the envelope were the following, inscriptions: “Depart from me for I know you not. Amen!” “By the grace of the living God'. Benjamin FT Hunter, Waxhing- toiL D. C. Amen!” The judgment of the living God without doubts." “The axe is now- lying at the root of the tree." “Message from the living God. Delay not,” and then extending downward about an inch. The shooting was done with a 38-caliber pistol. Jenkins is a native of Ewart, N. C., is 83 years old and has been in the detective service sixteen years. The wound is not very danger ous, and Jenkins is feeling much bet ter than on last evening. He was only ibout two feet from the pistol, and had it not been for the window glass and his baud, the results would have been fatal. The neighboriiood in which Jenkins had been working up the illicit sale of liquor is thickly populated with Reformers,, and tlie principal parties are reputed to he strong TiUjnanites. Warrants have been issued, but arrests made so far.—State. ■ industrious homeaeeker. but a terror to anarchists and law-breakers—the rich as well as the poor. Free coinage of gold-and silver, ^nd no paper money except legal tender greenbacks. A tariff that will enable our manufaetnr- that will enable our manufactur ers to supply the borne market with out becoming millionaires at the ex pense of the farmers; a tariff that will give work to all who wish it A fi nancial system that will give a fair price to tne fanner for every bushel of graip and every pound of meet" This is platform enough, and any more will confuse and divide us on tnese essen tials. If the scoundrels and traitors who no A Fatal Accident. Chicago, III., Jan. 21.—A lage sec tion of enclosed scaffolding surround ing the top stories of the Fort Dear born building, a twelve-story structure in course of erection at the comer of Monroe and Clark streets, was blown across the street by a violent gust of wind this morning, smashing the plate glass windows of a number of stores and injuring eight pedestrains, one of them, Hr H. rEWnh, agent for the Bundby automatic time recorder, fat ally. Mr. Erwin’s skull was fractured, and he was also internally injured. He was taken to the county hospital. The injuries of the other seven men are riot serious. A R«pnkllriui Step* In. Washington, D. C.^ Jan. 24.—Mr. Hoar was present at the of today’s session of the senate, after a long absence from the city and signalized his presence by calling attention to the absence of a quorum. A call of the roll took place aud after some de lay the presence of a quroum was secured. Among Uie bills introduced and referred was one by Mr. Chandler (Rep.) of New Hamshire, to prevent the wrongful taking of new dispatches from telegraph and telephone wires. Another diplacement of a Senator occurred today, when Mr. Jarvis, of North Carolina, who had held an ap- ixiintment from the Gqvernor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Vance, introduced and made way for his successor. Mr. Pritchard, who has been recently elected by the legislature to fill Senator Vance’s un expired term. Mr. Pritchard is a Re publican and after being sworn in he t<x>k a-seat next to Mr. Chandler, who sulisequently offered a resolution to pay Mr. Jarvis $24,40 for his last two days service, which resolution now rule in Washington are to dictate the policy and name the ticket, our electoral vote will not go to a ‘‘Dem ocrat” in ’96. It cannot go to a Repub lican unde? any circumstances; and v Populism], as now organized and led, cannot get it. ° It is tne part of wisdom and patri otism for the Third party leaden to retrace their steps and be less radical in their platform. The conditions are similar to those existing in *26 and’58. Jackson and Lincoln were the outcome Let us hope the people will be again . victorious. not I have great faith' This country is itudeto money, relief. The et to sink into servituc ots or bullets will bring Chicago strike caused a demand for an increase in the army. In 1789 the national guard ot France fraternized with the starving masMS. People who have ballots should not re quire bullets. 'She people are now be wildered but angry. Let us pray that the mists will clear away by 1896, and that the lost sheep will have found a shepherd. Abe Lincoln said: “You can fool part of the people all tha tune; you can fool all of the people part of the time, but you can never fool all o* you can never . * 1 1* rru Q* the people all of the tuna.” It is a ^ v The 8**® °} grand truth, and while we believe it North Carolina has not been represent-1 we ^ Yours truly, • ed by a Republican in the ’ Senate since the reconstruction period—Sena tor John Fool's term having expired twenty-two years ago. On the fourth of March next, Mr.Fritchard will have B. R. Tillman. Populist for his collegne in the per- cteaat soiu>f Mr. Butter, who was elect the*same time as hinself, to succeed Senaton Ransom, Democrat Killed Um Alamos, Colo., Jan. Thompson shot and fatally , Marshal Charles H. while with of oats. The mi •ring stolen aearioed -a • .