Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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— . - Y?r- < TBK AVTRRULOW. i raaohM en.I »t laat: TMRMry U ~ Wt*t ^rtorD; Now nl^ht descend' ot«r n'l. while fliillTf 1 ^ednlnty flrr>fi»'a signals brightly barn, hhrlll pipe the cricket and the katydid. The swallows sweeps in du*ky circles slow, » . The wh'ppowlll nails. In the woodland hid; - Suddenly gleans the west la crimson— lot } * There cornea the afterglow, \ if,. Lore's weary day Is done, end fades In tS? lore has* fled, 'tls lietler lo forget, Letters and broken pledgee yet remain, Sonow, ramorse and erery late regret Darkness Is o’er my life; yet when at ere, As twilight gathers and the shadows . * row . Koud thoughts of her my lore of yore, 1 weave, ' . * ‘-V'-. My heart bens rtrnngely quick sgaln, for lo! H U love'e aflendo 1 NEIGHBORLY Ft UD. rot to the point wTiere something must t>edone,’ - said Mrs. Hurnett, and as she spoke she rapped at the small knuckles that were moving toward the sugar bowl. Horton, aged nine, ierked iiis hand out of the way and laughed at his mother, who pursed up her lips to conceal a smile. , - "Don’t do that, Morton," said Mr. Burnett. Then turning to his wife he asked: "What have they been do in’ now?” "That boy and some uiore of his crowd put tin cans along the top of the fence and then threw at them to knock them otf. About every other atone Wept over the top of the fence and went sailin' across our back yard. If one cf them had struck anybody he wouldn’t have known what hurt him.’’ "Wliat did you do?" "What did I do? I went out and told them if they didn’t stop I’d send for a policeman. I said to that Dea- kin boy: ‘It’s a shame your mother can't teach you to be a little better than a savage ’ ” “Maybe she didn't know they were doin’ it,” 7“ “I do believe she puts ’em up to it. That boy’s enough to try the patience of a saint. ’’ I number of pillow slips and tablecloths. When Mrs. Burnett came to thej door ami called out, ’’Come, 1 Alice, dear, and practice your music I | lesson,” it was equivalent to saying to Mrs. Deakin: ‘‘Aha, we bare a cot tage organ in our house, but you haven’t any in vours.” Mrs. Deakin nad frequently inform-1 d Tom (hat the Burnett organ was • :heap, second-hand thing. 0|ne day, When Mrs. Deakin came home from a funeral * n * covered car riage, there was consternation in the Burnett family, and accounts were not fairly balanced until the new coat of paint was put on the Burnett house. The Deakin children told the Bur nett children all their mother had said about the probable character of Mrs. Burnett. Likewise the Burnett] children repeated to the Deakin chil dren all that they heard at the supper tablp. Mrs. Burnett knew- that she was being reported lo Mrs] DeaSTn, and Mrs. Deakin felt it to be her duty to learn - what the viperish tiling had beeii saying, Frank Burnett and Tom ~ ‘ ‘ bHcniiie convinced each tTiaf prdbably more I clothes-line THE BAPTISTS ADJOURN CLOSE OF A MOST INTERESTING AND INDUSTRIOUS SESSION. i garbage box issues, tine Burnett started to run across the other’s family was p to blame over the fence, and the street one day in front of a deliv ery wagon. She fell, scrambled to her feet again and a horse’s knee struck her in the back again. She fell on the block pavement and lay iiuiet. Mrs. Deakin saw it all from her front window. She ran into the street and gathered the muddy child in her arms. The frightened uriver had left his wagon, and lie followed her timicF ly to the front door of the Burnett house. V . Mrs. Burnett screamed and then be gan to crv. "Bun for a doctor, you loony,” said Mrs. Deakin to the driver as she placed the limp little body on a bed and then ran for cold water andcloths. When the girl opened her eyes she found her mother on one side, Mrs. Deakin on the other, while iji reassur ing physician smiled at her over the J footboard. "She’s a little jolted up and bumped I her head when she fell, but it was The Convention bcelnree IU Poeitlon me to Mlseionnry Work Among the Negroes. Various Committees Blected-Soatb Car olina Wall Represented. Washington, May 14.—• s The firs , business of the . fourth and last days’ session of the Southern Baptist conven tibn, after devotional-exercise* was the report of the committee on time am place of next meeting. I recommend ed that the convention of 1896 be held in the First Church, Chattanooga beginning on Friday before the aecom Sunday in May; that Rev. C. A. Stakely, of Washington preach the annnar»eimHHf,withTter;C;"I>orham, of Raleigh, N. Cm alternate.- Rev F. S. Yeager, of Chattanooga, expla ined the terms of the invitation—only accredited delegates will be entertains! at the homes of the people. The re port was adopted. Recurring to the resolutions under ferred to in the historical sermon, de livered Saturday by President Whit sitt. Rev. L T., Ticnenor presented memorandum on the line of the state ment yesterday which will be printet in the proceedings of the Home Mis sionary board as related to work among the colored population, made by Rev. James Thomas, of South Caro lina. It stated Ihat apme wortr hw been done by the board among, the Ue- f roes in Kentucky, Georgia and in exasi, and in some respects, the work had been satisfactory. Thfijboanl is anxious to do more Tor the negroes, but there are sq njany^pe culiar embarrassing problems that the work has been necessarily slow, The committee emphasized these points: 1. The board will not undertake work among the negroes in any State unless the State boards of white Baptist are in sympathy and co operate with it. : 2. It will not undertake work in any State unless the members are agreed mostly shock," he said | "Inw .me!” gasped Mrs.; Deakin, . —7 .. , . I "when I saw that child fall my heart ? m< ? n K themselves upon ^ihe work to T tn !r com ™ 1 ? to T, j™ just went into my throat. Don’t cry-, , , , , ,,, . I / hr ° W ? ometh v , " g at Allie, you ain’t a bit hurt. The dbc- The colored people should be cn- »,« m—- -i*"" * J - 'couraged to pay a part of the salary of sas; W. F. Holtzman, District of Co lumbia; W. H. Young, Georgia;, W. H. Harris, Alabama; W. C. Grace, Tennessee; corresponding secretary and treasurer, T. P. Bell. Recording 'Ssecretary, S. W. Week. Auditor, R. Eastman. Other managers: G. B, Savage, G. O. Rust, E. E. Folk, J. E. Bailey, M. B. Pilcher, C. A. Lofton, A. J. Hams, William Woodcock. W. C. Golden, J. J. VanNess, C. T. Cheek, John D. Anderson,A. B. Hill A. J. Barton and A. J. French. * notices of members who uring the past year, pre- S President Whitsitt, were : H. Harris. The list inclu ded Ek-Governor Brown of Georgia, Revs. Alexander Pope Abell of vir ginia, John Stout or South Carolina, J. W. Bozeman of Mississippi, J. W. Montgomery Wilson of Maryland and Joseph Walker of Virginia, Motions were made and carried to add several other names to the list, which led to a slight controversy over the policy of confining ithe memorial mention to persons having official I put in Morton, whose chin was drip ping with a mild mixture of milk and colfe 1 tor says I can put some more poultice alone,” said the get into enough J V tee. "You leave him male parent. "You lights already.” "Well, Frank, those lays are for ever picking on to him," said Mrs. Burnett. "Boys are a good deal alike,” re sponded her husband. “I’ll bet when he gets out he's the same as the rest of them.’’ Morton grinned and said nothing; The only member of the Burnett family who had not joined in the ar raignment of the neighbors was Alice, six years of age. Slie knew all about the feud and phared in the suspicions of her mother, but at present she was too busy with supper. The Deakins lived next door, and although there was a dividing fence it had not kept the two families apart. In the year during wAirh iW-tw* households had dwelt side by side there had been, a growing enmity. Yet Mm. Burnett had Hover spoken a word to Mr*. Deakin, and ner husband knew nothing of Mr. Deakin except that he whrked with his hands for a living and spent a gce^t .jqapy.of 1m evenings at home. • v - It would have bpen rather difficult for either the Burnetts or the Deakins .to e 1cplain how the feud started, but ft was operated from the start through the cWldren, There were ttfu Deakin children, Lawreace, or Lorry, aged ten, and little Willie, who, at the tender age of three, had learned to regard the Burnett tribe with scorn and hatred and suiTer, to some degree, under the "indignities heaped upon his family by that arch fiend of juvetiility, Morton Burnett. For when the'Deakins sat around the supper table and cast up the ac counts of the day it was Larry who posed as the persecuted and abused child, while Morton Burnett was pic tured as an infant of dark intents, headed straight #0f the Bridewell. "H I was a man, Tom Deakin,” said the wife, ‘Til warrant you I’d go over to that house and give notice that things are simply going too far. Today that boy got up on the fence and called Lawrence all kinds of names,” "He said that his mother said that didn’t have clothes fit to wear,” lawrenee, who bail begun hard during the recital of his grievances. "Anyway, l don’t try to make my self look like A peacock every time I start to church,” said Mrs. Deakin. This comparison of Mrs tickled the children, and they laughed immoderately. Tom Deakin restrained them with a quiet "tut, tut,” said that the proper way to get aloflg was to pay ho attention to the neigh bors. "-‘‘I’d like to know how you can do it,” said his wife. "That boy is un to some mischief every hour of the day, and his mother seems to encourage him in everything he does. He throws things over into our yard, teases Wil lie and makes faces at me.” • "Next time I see him pick on Wnli# I’ll give him another licking.suggest ed I^arry. "You’ll do nothing of the kind,” exclaimed his mother. "Don't you remember the talki*g to -I gave you the other time you had that fight with him?” Ijiwrence remembered the mild re buke, and his inward resolution was not changed. Tom Deakin went for his pipe, opnressgd .with the - thought that he liaa oeen very unlucky in nis selection of neighbors. These complaints liad come to him day after day from the downtrodden members of liis family. The feud had grown from a thous and aggravating circumstances.* Suppose Morton Burnett to be on the fence. His mother would open the back door and say loud enough to make herself heard through the open windows of the Deakin house: "Morty, get down fronHhat fenoe! Haven't I told you about that?” Mrs. Deakin would hear and under stand. Then she would wait her op- on n pu i your bad old bump. ‘Tllgft it," said Mrs. Burnett. "No, you sit still. You are as pale | as a ghost.” That is how it happened that Frank Burnett, coming home from the works, by the back way, found in his kitchen the heated vixen, the trainer of crim inals, the woman without character— Mrs. Deakin. She told him what had happened and begged him not to frighten, his] wife, as there wasn't any real xlan- ger. Mr. Deakin was likewise surprised upon arriving home.^lsupper was not ready and his w,if« had gone over to the enemy. He went after and taken in. Mrs. Deakin told him she couldn't came home because Mrs. Burnett was nil upset, and some one would have to take care of the child. So Mr. Deakin and his two boys ate a cold lunch with "Mr. Burnett and his boy. •** Mr. Burnett sent Morton out to get two cigars, and while the women sat' by the b«>d in the front room the men sat in the back room and smoked, while the three boys, awed by the re volution,- kept very quiet. ?, „ "If Morton ever bothers you, Mr. Deakin,” said Mr. Burnett, "you just let me know, and I’ll tend to mm. "I was just grting to say to you that Larry's apt to be too gay now and then, amnf I ever hear of him pick ing on your children I'll make him re member it,”— In the front room Mr. Burnett was thanking Mrs. Deakin, who was hop ing that her children had never hot was lary of Labor- every teacher and missionary, ing anong them. The best thing thai can be done for them ia to encourage them to self support in their church building and mission work. An ex' tensive work cannot be done among them as long as Cuba, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, and perhaps other ( States so sorely need al 1 the. help we can give, 4. The best work that can be done among the negroes is educating their ministraties rather that evangelizing. 5. .The Southern Baptists are in sympathy with the efforts of generous hearted ixpple, North and South, who have given money to establish schools and colleges in the Southern States for the negroes. 6. We hopft that the agreement reached by the joint committee at For tress Monroe, will bring the colored Baptist schools, establish by our North- eFn nearer J brethern Id the hearts of Southern Baptist. We are ■assured , that tb are-, schools "have been / ,a^ great blessing iese :r. even, without our'active co-operation and that with our hearty sympath and co operation they wilt accomplis far gfeytei 1 4poddi . 1 •' ' 1 — 7. In view of the continued needs of the negroes and the pressing needs of our mission fields at home and abroad, and in view of the liberality of our - Northern brethern and the interest they have shown in the education of the negroes, we assure our brethern of the North that we shall be glad to see them contribute thousands for the edu- Mrs. Burnett very imj^sion little girl went to aleep and the Deak | the convention and was listensd to a in family went home. ma suggested ] to breathe will have the co-operation, sympathy and help of our best and wisest breth ren. For, While we are interested in this great wprk, and are fully persuad ed of its importance, we are unable at present to do for it as its needs de mand. . ^ \ The Rev. W. II. McAlpine, of Ala; bama, colored, an agent of the home kin children were at liberty I missi , on , b { >ard ’ woricing among the and Ahum p on the Burnet* P^P.* 0 of hls race - addressed the con- * 1 vention in connection with the con sideration of the report. , He was introduced by President Horalson as a man of integrity, intelligence and influence, a Chnstain and a Baptist who was doing good among his breth- eru, whom he had known for many years. I Rev. George A. Walker, president of Walker Institute, Augusta, Ga., also coloredj was introduced as a man who was doing good work amdng his brethern, anti the report was then That was the end of the feud. "In each household there was a general order that in case of neighlxirhood riot punishment should visited upon those nearest at hand. Those two houses, side by side, be came the peace centre of the west di vision. The Deakin to go over . cottage organ.,/- But who elided the feud—the men, the women or the six-year-old?—Chi cago liecord. N«w Moiwy Order Hlankit. The Postotfice authorities at Wash ington have for some time been dis satisfied with the form of money order now used, which was designed a year ago, and put in use with the begin ning of the present fiscal year. Jt is . criticised on account of the size, which. Sr** .. I adds a good deal of unnecessary bulk I ad pP^ ed _ , Burnett | to the mails ancl besides this objection , President Horalson announced that the design is not altogether pleasing. I the cpnimitteeauthorized by the terms For several weeks efforts have been the resolution proposed a few days made to fashion a blank that would a ? d by Rev. J. B. Gambrel!, of Geor- combine the requisite characteristics. | F ia > to act with the secretaries of-,the It is intended no secure a handsome form if possible. The present blank lias been severely criticised on this score. " ! The form to be next introduced will be unlike all its predecessors in shape, resembling a bank draft rather than a shqet of foolscap. The present scheme of tearing off the end so as to leave the amount of the order fixed in the fig ures torn off at the stub will be retain ed. While it is sometimes said that there is danger of these notched stubs being torn off' and the amount of the order changed or vitiated, this is something that has yet to occur for the first time to the knowledge of any one connected with the money order office. This feature will be retained for the security it affords against forg ery or altercation, and the new blank will l>e instead of an upright note form an'elongated slip like a bank draft, which by two folds can be nut in a letter just as a check or diwt would be, and add very little to its weight or bulk. The new form will doubtless be ready for use with the beginning of church hoards devising ways andmeans to bring the masses of the Southern Baptist Church into close co-operation with its work, would consist of J. B. Charles Manly of South Hyde of Missouri, Gambrell, Carolina. G. W. and B. II. Carroll of Texas. Rev. J. J. Vauness, of Nashville, Terrff., reported on the work of the Woman’s Missionary Union, com- u work and mending its spirit ana work and re commending it to the support and sym pathy of the pastors, and the report was adopted without discussion. • The committee on nominations ported the following of the several boards, elected: re fer membership and they were Foreign Mission Board, Headquart- uqua ers Richmond, Va.—President, H. H. Harris, Virginia ; vice presidents, Josh ua Levering, Maryland; J. M. Carrolk Texas; J. L. Gross, Georgia; S. Ml Provence, Florida; W. C. Taylor; Kentucky; J. H. Pace, Mississippi; C. W. Tompkins, Ixmisiana; A. E. Ow ens, Virginia; W. C. Bledsore, Alaba- Stake ley, District of Colum- the new postol year. ' The Men Were Drunk. Savannah, Ga., May 16.—During] the progress of an inspection of the Colquitt Blues, a colored military company, to-night by Acting Assis tant Adjutant General Satterlee, of the State, under orders of the Governor, portunity to appear on the back stoop the company was run into by two car- and retaliate. | riages driven by drunken whi In summer time, when both women j»were out of doors much of the time, &*hey by drunken white meinv Two of the officers were knocked dowii j and injured. A detail of soldiers bia; A. J. S. Thomas, District of Co lumbia; M., J.- Breaker, Missouri; R. Van Demiter, North Carolina; J. H. Snow/Tennessee; T. S. Potts, Arkan sas; corresponding secretary, R. J. Willoughby < treasurer, J. C. Wil liams; recording secretary, A. B, Clarke; auditor. H, C. Burnett; other managers, C. H. Winston, W. E. Hatcher, John Polliard, L. R Thorn hill. C. H. Ryland, J. B. Hutadn, W. D. Thomas, "W. W. Landrum, George Cooper, T. P. Matthews, R. H. Pitt, ' “ PoUara, Willliam aen Mrs. Burnett put out washing she knew that Mrs. Deakin was watching her- and counting the both sides were arrested by the police. The affair has created great excitement | [ among the colored people. headquarters Atlanta, Ga.—President, J. B. Haw thorne, Georgia; vice presidents, W. P. Harvey, of Kentucky ; B. H. Car- D. Jeffries, Te ers, soutn Carolina ; E. Y. Mu Maryland; O. B. Campbell, Georgia; D. 1. Purser, Louisiana; B. D. Gray, Alabama; R. T. Vaun, North Caro lina; S. Y. Yeatman. District of Co lumbia; A. G. McMennarrey, Arkan sas ;F. C. McConnell. Virginia; Mai colm McGregor, Florida; T. J, Bailey, Mississippi; corresponding secretary, I.. ,T. Tichenor; treasurer, Walker Dufison; recording secretary, A. C. Briscoe; auditor, B. F. Abbott; other managers, J. J. Moddox, A. J. Cobb, E. H. Thornton, George Hillyer, Heniy McDonald, G. C. Ray, John M. Green, E. K. Connally, S. Y Jameson, J. M. Brittain, N. F. Cool- idge, M. M. Welch,G. Westmoreland, A. D. Adair, Porter King. Sunday School Board, headquarters, Nashville, Tenn.—President, J. M. Frost, Tennessee. V ice presii M. Belcher, Virginia; E. J. Forrester, South Carolina; J; N. Prestidge, Ken tucky; H. A. Tapper, Jr., Maryland; LL Durham, North Carolina; L. Dr Geiger, Florida; J. T. Burke, Mississ- 1 i; J. T. M. Johnson, Marybmd; J. Barrett, Louisiana; W. C. Luther, Texas; W. P. Throckmorton, Arkaa The countries of the world where women already have some suffrage have an area of over 18.000,000 square miles and their population is over 350,- 000,000. In Great Britain women vote for all elective officers except members of parliament. In France the women teachers elect women members on all boards of edu cation. 1 a— In Sweden women vote for all elec five officers except representatives; also, indirectly for members of the house of lords. In Norway they have school suff rage. In Ireland the women vote for the A a ?£p r kofrd'L poor.-law., guardians, and m Belfast for municipal officers. msehold hayo di pared b; ares vote was finally recommitted, with in structions to the committee to'con fine the list to those last named. As amended it included the name’ of Rev. W, W. Gardner of Kentucky. Rev. Mr. Holt, from the commit tee on enrollment, reported that the membership of the convention consist ed of 813 delegates on the financial basis and 402 representatives from dis trict associations; total 1,215. There were present 762 delegates of the first class and 142 of the second class; total 904. A resolution submitted by Rev. J. J. Hall of Norfolk, Va., at the request of the International Peace Congress, recommending the establishment of a high court of arbitration among the nations, was adopted. The Rev. M. M. Vann, colored.pi ident of the American National Bap tist convention was introduced as the man who occupied the highest posi tion in his race, and that he would oc- eupy but a minute of the time of thg convention. When the minute was up Dr. Vann said he hated to let his audience go, for he seldom had such an opportunity, (Laughter.) He said lis people were intensely Christian and intensely Baptist, and that what they lacked in knowledge and s&ncfi- intelligence, they proposed to make up in zeal. The white Baptists, le believed, needed to exercise more zeal. Since Jthe emancipation procla- matiqp, out of 4,000,000 colored peo ple liberated then,a million and a naif lad been brought into the Baptist Church, while out of fifty | million white people, after 200 years of work, few more “have united with the church. Dr. Vann created )ut a same quarter of an hour. The following fraternal messengers were appointed to the Baptist mission aries in session at Saratoga in June: Messrs. Tupper.of Maryland; Thom as of South Carolina, Prestridge, of Kentucky; Whittle, of Alabama, and lawthorne, of Georgia. The National Baptist convention at Atlanta, Ga., in August—Messrs. Gar rett, of Alabama; Burrows and Mc- )onald, of Georgia; Thomas of South Carolina. The committee provided for by the resolution of W. A. Frentriss, of Vir ginia, upon denominational teaching, o report next year, was named as fol- ows: Messrs. Frentriss, Tupper, of Maryland; Spalding, of Georgia; jembeth, of North Carolina; and erry, of South Carolina. The convention then adjourned sine die with the singing of the hymn: Blest be the tie tnat binds” prayer by Rev. Mr. Water. and Wlntlirop Faculty. Columbia, ' S_ C., May 15.—The x>ard of trustees of the State Indus; trial and Winthrop Normal College, after remaining in session for file last two (jays, last evening practically com Dieted their work, anu now the acuity „of the institution has been selected as far as it is possible at the jresent time. There are seyefel other daces to be filled, but the board have taken no action as yet looking to the elections. It was deemed advisable to ill most of the positions at this time, and at some future date fill (the others. Among the places yet unfilled is that of Miss McCants of this city. Including previous) elections and ose held yesterday, the following is the list of the members of the faculty: President—D. B. Johnson, Colum bia. Professor of pedagogics, ethics and >sychology—E. P, Moses, Raleigh, !i, e. , Professor of English and history— ames P. Kinard, Newbeffy. 1 Professor of mathematics and physics -W. E. Breazeale, Anderson. Matron—Mrs. F. T. Simpson, Rop ers. Housekeeper—Mrs. Ada O’Brien, Allendale. Cooking department—Miss Sarah tf. Wilson, Yonkers, N. Y. Dressmaking department—Miss Lucy )alett, Philadelphia. Assistant in ’ f mathematics—Miss Mary J. Pope, Greenville. Instrumental music—Min Allie M. Yost, Staunton, Vai. Vocal music—Miss ,M. M. Souther, lassachbsetts. ‘ 'A.V . Stenography and typewriting—Min !. R. Hughe*, Charleston. Chemistry and biology—Min M. W. Woodrow, Columbia. Art—Min Ella McD. Alford, Marion. Assistant in English—Miss Lee JVicker, Abbeville. WHENE WOMEN VOTE. I of the Hava In Runia women householders vote for all elective officers and on all local matters. In Finland they vote for all elective officers. In Austria-Hungary they vote, by proxy, for all elective officers. In Croatia and Dalmatia they have the privilege of doing so in local elec tions in person. In Italy women vote for members of parliament. In the Madras presidency and the Bombay presidency (Hindostan) the women exercise the right of suffrage in all municipalities. In all countries of Russian Asia they can do whatever a Russian colony set tles. The Russians are colonizing the whole of their vast Asian possessions and carrying with them everywhere the ‘‘mir,’’ or self-governing village, wherein women who are neads of households are permitted to vote. Women have municipal suffrage in Cape Colony, which rules 1,000,000 square miles. Municipal woman suffrage rules in New Zeland, and, I think, at parlia mentary elections. . Iceland, in the North Atlantic, the Isle of Man (between England and Ireland.) and Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, have full woman suf. frage. yince and also in Northwest territo ries. In Ontario they vote for all elective officers, except in the election of members in the legislature and par liament. .— In the United States 28 -States and territories have given women some form of suffrage. School suffrage in various degrees is granted to women in Arizona, Colo rado, Connecticut. Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massa chusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Ne braska. New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Texas, Ver mont and Wisconsin. In Arkansas and Missouri women vote, by petition, on liquor license in many caa—i 1 — — In Delaware suffrage is exercised by women in several municipals. In Kansas they have equal suffrage with men at all municipal elections. About 50,000 women voted in 1890. In Montana they vote nu all local ed into the interior. The one sent ov erland was captured by the insurgents. It was valued at $7,000. The other ar rived at its destination. The Holguin and Gibara Railroad Company at first refused to give the $100,000 demanded by Maced, but has at last decided to give the same. Payment is to be made $3,000 monthly. People in the province of Pinar Del Rio are waiting orders from the insurgent chiefs to take up arms against tne government. This move is expected momentarily. A majority of the Spaniards on the is land remain neutral, they having been assured that the revolution is not against Spanish people but against Spanish rule. Ramon Esquinado Pe rez, captain in the Spanish army, but a Cuban by birth, when ordered to duty in Holguin, committed suicide rather than nght against his people. . r*— Murder in Sumter. Sumtbr, May 16.—Albert Deblain shot and killed Peter Blair this morn ing; both are colored. The murder was the most coldblooded and cruel ever committed in this vicinity. De ; blain is a mulatto painter of a bad re putation. Blair was a common Urborer of a good reputation, especially among the negroes. The cause which led up to the killing was brought about by the wives oi the men. The men had a row last Sunday, and Deblain procur ed a pistol, telling his wife he was going to kill BUur this moaning. As Blair was returning from up town to his home, which is adjoining that of Deblain, Deblain met him in the road caught him in the collar, and before he could make any resistance Deblain had shot him three times, killing him instantly. The coroner’s jury, after hearing the testimony, rendered a ver dict in accordance with the above facts. on re Pi T taxation In New York they can and do vote at school elections. The question ol the constitutionality of the law is still undecided. They vote also in mapy places in the State on local improve ment, such as gasj and electric street lighting, paving, sewerage and municipal bonds. In Utah women voted until disfran chised by the Edmunds law, when they promptly organized to demand its repeal. In Pennsylvania a law was passed in 1889, under which women vote local improvements by signing or fusing to sigii petitions therefor. In Wyoming women have voted on the same terms with men since 1870. The corrventioTlof 1389 tofOrmaRtate constitution unanimously inserted a revision securing them full suffrage, his constitution was ratified by the voters at a special election by about three-fourtlis maiority. Congress re fused to'require the disfranchisement of women and admitted the State July 10, 1890. And let it not be forgotten that in the senate of the United States, Febru ary 7, 1889, a select committee report ed in favor of amending the Feaeral constitution so as to, forbid States to make sex a cause of'disfranchisement. Congress adjourned, however, on March 4, following without reaching the subject. . Hanipton Speak*. I Charleston, 8. C., May ll—Gen eral Wade Hampton spoke at the Ac ademy of music here at the invitation of the Charleston Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy and Camp Moul trie Sons of Confeaerate Veterans. He was met on his arrival at Atlantic Coast Line depot by 14 companies of militia, including all the white troops in the city, the Citadel Cadets of tne Porter military academy, each 150 strong, Camp Sumter of Confederate Veterans, the two associations at whose invitation he came, and prominent of ficials and citizens in carriages. He was then escorted through the princi pal streets to the residence of Colonel Rawlins Lowndes, on East battery, where he was entertained. There the recession halted and was reviewed yGeneral Hampton. As the proces sion moved through the city General Hampton was given continuous ova- ion, - Thousands of people thronged the sidewalks and cheered him as he passed. The whole city was wild with enthusiasm, great numbers of ladies and children were out. shouting with tlto rest, confederate and [state flags were displayed everywhere, everybody wore ribbon badges with Hamption s picture, .bands played Dixie and in every way the demonstration showed the most ardent affection for the old general. The proceeds from the sale of tickets to the address will be devoted to the relief of confederate veterans and^their widows. The Dispensary Law. Columbia, S. C., May 16.—The dis pensary law is now on its way to the United States Supreme Court. A few days ago Constable Beach disobeyed United States Judge Simonton’s order of injunction in the case, he having held that no one could interfere with liquor shipped into' the State, that the law was unconstitutional insofar as it interfered with interstate commerce. He was arrested and put in jail for contempt Attorney General Barber left here today for Washington to make application before the United States Supreme court f6r a writ of habeas corpus. The State expects by this method to get the entire case heard by the United States Supreme Court iir.the next twenty days. Patriots 0«i O round. fbuT May jAcrsoirvtLLx, cablegram to the Times-Union fi Key West, Fla., says: Privateadvi to this city from Havana state tl fears sre entertained that the Repub lican party will cause trouble in Spain, and the belief is general that Martinez Campos will leave for Madrid in June. In the event of Cantos' returning to Spain, Gen. Polavieja will come to Havana as captain general. News from Camaguey is meagre. There is no doubt of great oppression in that district. Many young meh of the best families are leaving daily to join the insurgents. Col. Orisa, reported wounded in the battle at Camazan, was killed, according to reliable in formation. The insurgent leader in this battle was Angel Guerra. Baya- mo and Manzannulo are besieged by tMdnturgeuls. The Spanish troops are in a starved condition, and unless relieved soon will be compelled .to surrender. On the 1ft inst. twp.con- vnya of provisions, ate,, wepedigpatoh- CoinnilUed Suicide. Lexington, Mo., May 17.—Ex May or Ben Russell, of tnis city, commit ted suicide today by shooting himself through tlie head. Despondency over financial troubles jind failure to get business was the cause. He was the son of Wm. 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