The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 06, 1895, Image 1
VOL. XVlII.
BARNWELL, S. G., THURSDAY, JUNE 6,. 1895.
MOULDERS OF MINDS.
EDITORS OF THE STATE IN ANNUAL
SESSION AT SUMTER.
Timalj Add<-en of President Anil—Orntor
Howell Urcee Unity of the Whiten.
Papers Bend on Interesting Subjects.
South
Carolina State Presa. Association met
in Sumter, S. C., on iMsf Wednesday
evening and continued in convention
until Friday evening, when the edi
tors went on an excursion to Wash
ington. The following editors were in
attendance:
F. H. McMaster, Columbia State.
W. J, Elliot, Winnsboro News and
Herald.
Jas. T. Parks, Orangeburg Patriot.
G. P. Browne, Anderson People’s
Advocate.: .
xvC v • oicii xi. i3rownc. v/tinsuaii
'Neighbor.
M. B. McSweeny, Hampton Guardi-
an. v '
Jas. T. Bacon, Edgefield Chronicle.
A. G. Kollock, Chcraw Reporter.
A. J. Clark, Lancaster Enterprise.
J. J. Hull, Rock Hill Herald.
W. W. Ball, Charleston Evening
Post. “ ' •
J. R. Earle, Jr., Oconee News.
W. D. Woods, Carolina Planter.
J. J. Dargan, Sumter Freeman.*
W. Sr Bernif Southern Prtfcbyterian.
John P. Coffin, Florence Times.
C. W. Birchmore, Wateree Messen
ger.
T. C? Robinson, Pickens Journal.
M. Stackhouse, Marion Star.
. N. G. Osteen, Sumter Watchman
and Southron.
^Hubert G. Osteen, Sumter Daily
|wm.
- r Rev. John Kershaw, Sumter Diocese.
F. Melchers, Charleston Zeitung.
John A. Moroso, News and Courier.
T. 'M. Knight, Sumter Herald.
E. H. Auu, Newberry Herald and
News.
C. C. Langston,. Anderson Intelli
gencer.
C. H. Prince.
Wigfall Cheatham, Edgefield Chron
icle.
G. J. Luhn, Seaside Thoughts.
J. E.Britt, McCormick Times.
. Ixniis Appelt, ManningTime*.
Otis Brabham, Bamberg Herald.
L. C. Branyon, Honea Path Chron
icle.
President Aull delivered an excellent
address, but the feature of the meeting
was done in the defense of the homes
of your ancestbrs. against the com
bined forces of foreign aggeosors and
pative tories—did these heroes write
their names in letters of eternal life on
the pages of the history of. your state,
that in the turn of a century their
deeds might be forgotten and their ex
amples be lost to posterity ? Just across
the way—over in Georgia—six coun
ties bear the names of these six patriots
and there they will ever stand as
mg
was the address of Hon. Clark Howell,
of Atlanta. The following is his
speech in full: v
“I am not unmindful, Mr. chair
man, that I speak .tonight to the repre
sentatives of the press of a state which
i* divided aqaiBBt Itself probably to a
greater degree than any other state "of
the union, and from the bitterness of
which divison has developed a conten
tion which has permeated-every condi
tion of life, and created a false god of
discontent whose merciless . decrees
have levied tribute and commanded
obeisance from every phase of human
endeavor.
“The public official who has not be
come involved is an exception; the
merchant who has not been feed to
say or do that which does not comport
with the placid and charitable rule of
peace, is lonesome in his solitude; the
fanner who, in planting his cotton or
his corn, has not sown at the same
time the seeds of anger may congratu
late himself on the evenness of his
temper, which makes him a rarity of
mankind; and, if reports which have
reached Georgia are correct, the de
mon of Hate has even laid his unholy
hands on the pulpit, buried itself in
the ermine of the bench, and, not con
tented with its malevolent inroads
upon the sanctified field of brotherly
love, has aimed its blows at the ark
of the convenant which enshrines
the heart of woman. It would be
most unnatural if, in this carousal of
ill-temper and bad blood, growing
out of political issues, the press of the
state was not affected by the ruling
passion to blame somebody fora condi
tion which nobody approves. The
, ‘outs’ are condemning the ‘ins,’ and
the ‘ins' are retaliating in kind;
households are divided, communities
are asunder, and over and above it all
is the black cloud of strife and disor
der, which, catching the conflicting
* emotions of factions and feuds, echoes
them back in a din of turmoil and a
peal of lamentation.
“I claim the right to speak plainly
tonight because 1 speak as a native.
Midway between Allendale and the
* Savannah river, in old Barnwell, did
my eyes first greet the light of life’s
day, and though my lot has been cast
in the sister state, which stretches
. hands across the Savannah, I have
■» ever been proud of the state of my
birth—the state which, forgenerations,
k has kept. my maternal ancestors,
under whose sod their bones have
bleached, in whose name their blood
was spilled, and on whose sacred al
tars tne life of more than one was laid
at a time when the unity of herpeo
B le bespoke their loyalty to her flag.
ot on the ears of a stranger have the
grating soihids of discord emanating
from here fallen, but rather on those
of one who, being more than a sym-
- pathizer, hears with aching heart the
breaking of the cords of peace and the
dissonant n\urmurs of personal con
tention.
£ . “Fellow South Carolinans, look to
the glorious past Of your great state
and ask if it justifies the condition ex-
isting today! I shall be strictly imper
sonal and impartial in what I say, for
in a representative gathering of distin
guished journalists of the several sides
—for I believe there are about six ele-
-? ments in the field now—I would not
dp violence to the propriety of the oc
casion by making offensive alignment;
but appealing to all, let me carry you
back to Cowpens, and to Camden, and
to Hanging Rock, where, under the
inspiration of the intrepid boldness of
South Carolina chivalry, Andrew
Jackson first began his career as an
American soldier and patriot Did
Pickens and Sumter and Marion—all
noble sons ot your noble xta
Lee and Greene, whose most
service in the revolutionary J army
memorials to men whose heroism is
nspletffient in 'the shining pages of
Carolina’s glory, and whose virtues
should be ideal types of the chivalry,
the bravery and the patriotism of
Carolina manhood. Go back with
me beyond the period which molded
these men of iron and see, if from its
earliest days the history of South Car
olina was written to countenance civil
contention and breed the evil results
of fratricidal strife. It was Joseph
Blake, the brother of the great English
admiral, who brought thediasentera to ering erf
live among these people, that they
might worship as they please; it was
Cardross who brought the Scotch Pres
byterians to breathe the free air of this
clime,, a nd it was to South Carolina
that the French Huguenots turned,
when wearied and disheartened from
religious intolerance of a bigoted mon
arch, they answered the relocation of
the edict of Nantes bp planting their
feet on this soil to live in an atmos
phere of peace, and worship in the un
molested comfort of contentment and
serenity. It was on this Shore, at
Geoiyretown that the immortal La-
Favette first put his feet on American
soil, when he came to draw his sword
for American freedom, and, after the
laspe of a century, as if to signify to
the world that South Carolina was fist
in the new roll call of patriots, it was
her sons who received the first shot
at Sumter and her sons who first turn
ed from their fileds and their homes
to bare their bosoms to the conflict of
the war of the confederacy.
“If the past has its lessons for the
future, let us profit by it! As brave
as were our 1 ancestors, let us be! For
every shining star in the firmament of
the past glory of your state there are
conaitions today which wiltmake a
counterpart above the homon of
peace. People whose ancestors were
once led by the peaceful Archdale and
who went to war under the fearless
Craven, and again who plucked their
decorations for valor in the brightest
fields of our soldier glory covering
the period from Independence hall to
to Appomattox— sons of scions whoee
cautious, but no lees dangerous. If he
moves along different lines it is because
conditions are different, but opportuni-
y would clothe him with the same ha-
>iliments of his ancestors. He sneers
at the doctrines which, through the
usage of time and good service, have
become part of our fixed public policy,
and tells us that Jefferson was & dem
agogue and,that Monroe’s bdfld con
i ention that America belongs to Amer
icans is out of date, and that it must
theory of ‘international
4
sons
courtly politeness and high sense of
honor have been traditional for a cen-
turv—these people will not surrender
to tne despot of insternecine strife and
humble themselves and their past
greatness by the continuance of an
ugly and seemiiiglg» local agitation
which, whether justly so or not, is
making South Carolina the subject of
the jeers and ridicule of the continent
‘-‘To what agency, above all others,
should we turn invoking the restora
tion of harmony and in appealing for
such dispassionate consideration of
public issues as will enable men to
meet as brothers and bury their differ
ences in the arbitrament of the majori
ty, which is the true essence of demo
cracy and the corner stone of republi
can form of government ! Naturally
to the press, and it is to you, fellow
journalists—to you, fellow South Car
olinans, that I come in this spirit.
“To the man who holds faction
above state my words will fall upon
unwilling ears, but to the patriotic
press—that to which I am invited to
address my remarks, in response to tlie
sentiment given me by your chairman
—I apnroacli the subject with confi
dence that my words will nor be mis
understood, nor my motives miscon
strued.
“To the factionist I say—‘A plague
upon both your houses. Ypu have
more to live for than the mere triumph
of personal ends. You have a charge
to keep, and you must keep it in a
manner that will honor the past and
glorify the present. Let the press
start the strain and sing ihe antnem
of peace until the populace will take
up the chorus and echo the melody to
the farthest corners of the earth. If
you are as successful at peace- as y<
naVe been in strife, the world will:
sound with your good deeds, and in
stead of outsiders commenting upon
the stereotyped and misfit phrase that
that ‘hell’s broke loose in South Caro
lina,’ universal praise will be sung
that, here in this state, first in so man,'
things, the advance guard of the m:’
lenmum has come to keep company
with the historic tradition of the first
shot on Snmter.
“Glorify the state and make peace
with the union! The war has been
over thirty years, and the flag of the
union belongs as much to Sonth Caro
lina as it does to Massachusetts. In
stead of fighting among ourselves let
us devote the same energy and make
practical illustrations of the parable
to-
yield to the tneory c
commerce’—an insidious pretext which
is being used in many directions as a
Trojan horse to turn the Greeks into
he walls of our independence and to
surrender the control of our affairs to
oreign shylocks. He views with ap-
iroving equanimity the construction
of massive fortifications on the cordon
of English possessions commanding
the gateways of the oceans around us;
receives with stolid indifference or
positive approval the news of the low-
' the stars and stripes from the
flagstaff of the public building of Ha
waii, and when all America has cen-
tered its hope and its desire far the
construction of a waterway across Nic
aragua, to be under our control, he
salutes the raising of the union jack
at Corinto, apd sulks at the protest
that it must come down -or the United
States will know the reason why!
“If any people of this country
ought tp know the tory, it is those of
South Carolina, for here he flourished
and festered in the days of his early
glory. Do you recall Tarleton ? It
was he who, reinforced by the tories.
marched his cavalry over the Ameri
cans on the Waxhaw, and while ne
gotiations for surrender were pending
massacred the whole company; and in
the words of history, ‘for tnis atrocious
deed Cornwallis commended him to
the special iayor of the British parlia
ments There are Tarletons negotiat
ing for terms of surrender today, and
there are tories helping him, and woe
be to the hapless and helpless partici-
nts when the modern Tarleton and
is tory brigade, in possession of the
weapons of defense, charge upon our
national prosperity and lock again the
bonds which were stricken from our
limbs by the insane idea of our revo
lutionary ancestors that this country
could take care of itself without the
consent of England or any other na
tion on the face of the earth.
“It was Patrick Henry who said in
his inspired and impassioned plea for
independence: ‘We are three millions.
fth fighting men, who are bole
and vigorous, and we call
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meaning in the
term, ‘the other fellow,’ as here used.
He is a gaunt, deterinined, iconoclastic
enemy who cares not for the sacred
traditions of the republic, and whose
chief occupation is the destruction of
the ideals which prompted our fore
fathers to establish a government of
the people and for the people of this
country, and not for any other coun
try. This enemy walks like a stalkin
hone over the hallowed traditions oi
the past and makes merry music as he
shattem the inspired sentiments arounc
which our national glory was built
I refer to that weather-beaten relic o:'
the past who choked the atrugi
republic in its infancy, but who mm-
self was choked out of existence as soon
as the young nation was big enough
to stand alone—the tory. He departec
with the last century, and by some
strange mishap he has come to taunt
the dying yean of this one j but by the
grace of God and the patriotic resist
ance of the American people, we wil
do with him as our revolutionary an
ceston did at the close of the last cen
tury, and we will, like they did, enter
the new century with a clean hill of
health, as far as toryism is concerned.
“The modem tory is more insidious
than his prototype pf old. He is more
* "A..
sufficient interest to dtfmand your
united attention and to call you from
the field of civil strife. Conditions
are such as require harmonious action
among those Who believe in the tri
umph of American principles and who
are ready to defend the sentiment
which is the corner stone of the re-
jublic—that of the eouality of every
man before the law , the rights of the
masses and the principle that in this
country there shaU ae no clan dis
crimination. Upon this contention
the eyes of the whole country are now
centered, and on it you, as joumafT
ists and as patriots who love your
state and your country, should unite
in the common cause that calls you to
“ patriot's duty.
And now, in conclusion, fellow
; ournalistij, let me take leave of you
with the assurance that what 1 have
said comes froih the heart. If I have
offended by frankness, I throw myself
on your mercy. Measure your judg
ment by the golden rule, and ‘do unto
me as I would do unto you’ if you
come .to Georgia under the same cir
cumstances. But perhaps in your do-
one-
we call no man
master.' It is the modern tory who
says: ‘We are seventy millions, - with
inexhaustible resources, with the
greatest country on which God’s sun
ever shown, with mothers who have
taught us what it is to be loyal and
fathers what it is to be brave, and yet
British gold made cowards of us all.’
“We are of right, and we ought to
be independent. When the merciless
hand of war. had turned the plow
shares of the south into swords, laid
waste its fields and checked the annual
response of the soil to the touch of the
husbandman, the great wheels of Man
chester’s cotton mills ceased to turn,
the spindle and the lodm lay idle in
their frames and hunger and destitu-
tion seized a hundred thousand souls.'
The horn of plenty which the sguth
emptied annually into these eager
arms was exhausted, and with aching
hearts and fervid prayer these poor,
careworn working people looked anx
iously for the season that would brinj
them American cotton to put breat
into their hungry mouths and clothe
their half-exposed bodies. At last the
war ended and the first cargo of cot
ton from the south reached Liverpool
At Manchester a vast throng of idle
operatives met it, and what followed
is told by Scribner's in a most inter
esting article on the subject.
“ ‘One man,’ it says, ‘perhaps
father who had sat by a fireless hearth,
broken of spirit ana helpless, whilst
his young swarm cried for bread^-a
poor, gaunt fellow, whp, lifting
hat with tears running down
cheeks, raised his voice in the “Dox-
ology,”one after another joining in
unlil the whole mass sang in one
great, swelling chorus: ‘
‘ “Praise God, from whom all bless
ings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below.’’
“And yet they say we are depend
ent. God forbid!
“If dependent, to what country
greater than ours are we thus rated
To England? No. We were once, bu ,
we whipped her twice, and unless oiir
chivalry and our courage have de
creased iu proportion to the .increase
in our numbers we cajiiio.it again if
it becomes necessary—atrial, however,
from which I hope we will ever be
S red, for I am not one of those who
ire conflict between *this and any
other country—so long as* they let us
alone. Great Britain and its entire
possessions, reaching around the
world, might erect walls from now
until the end of mankind to shut it
self out of this country or to shut us
out from it, and it is problematical i ’
we would not be'infinitely bettered by
such action than without it. Are we
dependent upon France? No; for
there is is not a material nor a neces
sary staple that is sent us by that
country that cannot be duplicated b
our own. Upon Italy? No; for wit!
Florida and California combined we
can give Italy odds and discount it in
either raw material or finished pro
duct Upon Germany? No; because
we could a thousand times more read
ily do without Germany than Germany
without the United States. Then up
on whom are we dependent? Upon
no nation on the face of the earth am
upon no being but the Lord God A1
mighty, and we do not merit His di
vine protection nor His sacred blessing;
if we haven’t the manhood and the
courage to at least make the effort to
take care of ourselves. Away with
this talk about our being dependent on
anybody and the necessity of foreign
countries setting the commercial or
the financial pattern that we must fol
low! It is an ignominious admission
that our forefathers made a mistake
in declaring our independence, and as
for me I am not as yet prepared to ad
mitgthat, and I do not believe that you
are. But developments abroad area
1 Y c
mestic contention you are like the
lousewife who always complained
about her own coffee but who never
lermiited a guest to agree to her inva
riable statement that it was very bad,
and who said to one who had respond
ed. ‘Yes, madam, it is vile.’ ‘It’s as
good as you are accustomed to getting
Br 1 !’ * ./ •
‘We have our ups and downs in
Georgia—and what state has not?—
whatever may be our differences, let us
abide the action of the majority, and
like good citizens accept it in good
faith. If the majority should be
thought intolerant, so much the worse
for it, for time is the certain arbiter,
and it evens all things.
“It does not pay to be intolerant—it
will not pay to treat a minority as
aliens instead of citizens. The reaction
will come and the penalty will be met
ed. I do not say that this is being done
now or that it, has been done in the
>ast, but I do say that this charge is
»eing made now and that it was made
jy those who, now iu control, were
once in the minority and were bitter-
CHICAGO CAPTURED.
THE CITY WELCOMES DISTIN-,
GUISHED CONFEDERATES*.
v complaining ol
tne principle of
which they said tl
uy
of the intolerance of
vested supremacy,
which they said they were attacking,
in antagonizing the ideal, whether
for cause or not that the control of the
state belonging to those who had
>een in posession for a century. If
xilitical affairs in those days "were
conducted on that principle, it was in-
tolerance, and the people—ought to
xave rebuked it. If, on the other hand
the political administration of the af
fairs of ypur state is now to ostracise
a large and most respectable- element,
of citizenship and deny to it the priv
ilege of practical participation, that is.
^toenian, but as an earnest well
icr of your state, without regard
You will observe that I do not
speak as a partisan, but as one who
condemns factionalism, and more es
pecially the -personal factionalism
which has characterized political de
velopments in South Carolina for the
past few years In Georgia it is said
that there are two clases in South Car
olina—the South Carolians and the
South Caroleenians—the former repre
senting the new regime and the latter
The old. Personally, I do not believe
that any body in this state ever held,
even in purpose, to the ridiculous the
ory that control shuold pass by inher
itance, and if so I would think that
the revolutionary war had been fought
in vain; but I speak to you neither as
a South Carolinian nor as a South
Caro
wisher oty
to political or personal differences and
with a devotion to its future greatness
scarcely less hopeful than is felt by
even the most sanguine and loyal be
liever in its final triumph, over all the
preplexities involve >n a divided citi
zenship.
Let your active and your patriotic
press take up the cause of peace—in
still into the hearts of the people state
pride and loyalty, and love for the
union and the flag of o,ur common
country.
‘ 'The destiny of your state is written
in its fertile valleys, in the priceless
deposits of its soil, In its busy mills,
its great ocean front^and its kind!
citizenship. The division of a day wi
like the clouds at night and ‘’the
wn of the new day will unveil
vision of happiness and prosperity
which will crown Carolina’s brow
with- a diadem of matchless wealth
and wreath her with laurels of prepet-
ual contentment God speed 1 (he day!”
» .
Victim* of a Brute.
SAVANNAH,May31.-r-A special to the
Morning News from Brunswick, Ga.,
says: A daughter of George Morris, a
Spaniard, living on an island near
Brunswick, appeared before the grand
jury today and swore that her step
father had, by brute force, within the
past three years, made herself and her
sisters the victims of his desire, keep
ing them under threats of deatti from
communicatimr with any person, and
making thfem rear children born by
them of which he was the father. The
grand iUry were intensely whought
up}» and ordered Sheriff Berrie to cap
ture Morris at any cost. Information
of the investigation in some way rea
ched Morris and he packed his belong
and family in a house boat and is try
ing to escape. Deputy Sheriff I^am-
bnght and Constables Taylor and
Den by were detailed as a posse to catch
Moms, and are out on a steam launch
now searching for him. Mossis has
sent a definance to the offeers, am
trouble is expected.
An Old Man’* Crime.
Lake View. Mich., May 25 - George
Reed, aged sixty, last night committee
a criminal assault upon the eleven
year-old daughter of Rev. Clarence
Welch, paste-' of the Methodist Ep
copal Church. Reed was arrested. 1
asked Sheriff Ming of Staunton, the
privilege of getting a drink of water.
The sheriff granted the request and in
fifteen minutes after he was dead.
Five capsules of cyanide of potassium
were found in the vest pocket of the
dead man. Reed was a prominent
member of the church which Mr.
Welch is pastor. The child is in a pre
carious condition.
I.ieutnnt General* Hampton and Long-
street the Llone of the Ocroelon—Bntler
It; ' ;
and If nmpton Bespond to Tonata.
OhioA(30, MayMr-The Sqtuth sbh
its most distinguished living.frepresen-
tatives of the lost cause to Chicago to
day to witness the unveiling of the
monument in Oak woods Cemetery to
the Confederate dead—those who aied
while prisoners of war at Camp Doug
las, in this city.
Prominent Chicago civilians and
military men welcomed the guests and
saw that the first day of their visit
was pleasantly spent. Lieut. Geh.
James Longstreet, accompanied by his
daughters, Mrs. Sanders and Miss
Louisa Longstreet, preceded the main
party, arriving last night. Southern
ers and citizens of Chicago united to
do the venerable Georgia soldier all
honor. Later in the day he divided
the honors with Gen. Wade Hampton,
who formed one of the party of thirty-
five which arrived from Washington
at 11 a. m. .-4
A reception committee of prominent
citizens was on hand to give greeting
to the visitors when the train stopped
in the Grand Central depot. * The in
formal reception was enthusiastic and
was followed by the transfer of the
guests in carriages to the Palmer
House, which is the stopping place for
the Southerner who were invited to
larticiiiate inthfe dedication. The fol-
owing were in the Washington party :
Lieut Gen. Wade Hampton, Mai.
Gen. Frank V. Robinson, Hubbard T.
Smith, Maj. Gen. Harry Heth and
daughter. Maj. Gen. L. L. Lomax and
wife and Miss Armstrong, Brig. Gen.
Marcus J. Wright and wife, Maj.
Holmes-Conrad, Solicitor General of
he United States, all of Washington;
Col. Albert Akens and wife, Florida;
Maj. Gen. S. G. French and wife,
Winter Park, Fla.; Maj. Gen. M. C.
Butler. South Carolina: Miss Eliza
Washington. Charleston, W. Va.;
Col. James B. Washington, Pittsburg;
Brig. Gen. Eppallunton, Warrenton,
Va.; Maj. Gen. H. K. Douglas, Ha-
irstown, Md.; Maj. John W. Daniel,
ynchburg, Va.; Col. John B. Castle-
man, Louisville; Brig. Gen. William
H. Payne, Warrenton, Va.
In the parlors of the+*airner H6use
an informal levee was held as soon- as
the distinguished guests had made
themselves comfortable, and contin
ued until preparations had to be made
for the banquetjat Kinsleys. The heat
interfered somewhat with the enjoy-
the reception, Gen.
street, who is seventy years old, was
compelled to spend most of the time
in the room. From 5 to 7 o’clock the
reception was formal and a large num
ber of Chicago society folk attended
in evening drfess. Gen. Longstreet
and his charming daughters were the
objects of much attention. The gen
eral was compelled to remain seated.
Oyer 1,000 people were introduced to
and welcomed as the city’s guests.
Al" 5:30 Gen. Fitzhugn Lee and Gen.
John B. Gordon, who had been de
tained South, arrived. Gen. Lee join
ed the brilliant throng in the Palmer
House, but the gentleman from Geor
gia was too tired from travel. Gen.
Longstreet was forced to retire before
the end of the function.
Gen. Hampton was enthusiastic on
the subject of the monument, saying:
The dedication of Chicago's Confed
erate monument tomorrow is by far
the greatest event that has ever taken
S lace in this country to cement the
forth and the South. Chicago cannot
be too greatly praised for persistency
noble and generous deed in
spite of the sneers and scolding ad-
^unistered by Massachusetts.” «>
The banquet assembled at Kinsley’s
in the evening, marked an epoch in
the history of the united North and
South. Veterans who fought each
other, sat together and called one
another brother in all sincerity. Spon
taneous outbursts of loyalty on the
part of the ex-Confederate officers
marked the social occasion and good
fellowship prevailed with all. Before
the regular toast list was called, Gen.
Stephen D. I^ee of Mississippi, was
called upon and said: Chicago’s hos
pitality knows no sectionalism. No
American is' a stranger. This great
city, the future metropolis of this
country, is catholic. This event will
be historic. We make no war
dead, and we, the vanquished, come,
to the home of bravest victors. We
accept the friendship in the same spir
it it is offered. Come and conquer us
of the South again, but not with ba
yonets, but with your commercial
men.” * . .
Mayor Swift extended the freedom
of the city to the guests and told them
the hot spell was symbollic of the
warmth of Chicago’s welcome.
Gen. Wade Hampton presented a
rgtiolution in regard to the death of
Gen. Gresham and the
Gan. Fitzhugh Lee responded to
“Shall the South not grasp it?”
HtJiMvi t
“I am surrounded by the flag of the
United States. I had a similar expe
rience about thirty years ago at the
village .of Appomattox. I had not
slept so irell m a long time as I did
that flight after parole, although my
flanks were well covered. To tell the
truth, the country i* safe
ON TO RICHMOND.
[THE STATE'S ATTORNEYS DEPART
ON THEIR MISSION.
SlBionjton Decline* to Sit »t the
‘ Hearing—The Proceed lags Start at Noea
Today—The Compoaltlon of the Const.
Columbia, May 28.
Gen. Hampton when he rose to re
■pond to “Southern chivalry from
1776 to 1865.” He said:
“The people of Chicago have done
something that is the most honorable
act that was ever performed in the
history of this country. Bigots may
blame you or us, but this act of yotirs
is the grandest thing of the country.
It is magnificent cnivalry that you
should raise a monument to the Con
federate dead.”
Other speakers werasolicitor Gen.
Holmes Conrad, Senator John W.
Daniel and Maj. Gen. H. Kyd Doug-
was extended to I the matterof the appeal Tn
Novel Mouse Trap.
Mice are very knowing little animals,
and are often too shrewd to be caught
by even the best steel traps. To make
a very effective mouse trap take a large
jar—the kind used for jam and preser
ves—and tie over the top a piece of stiff
brown paper. In the center of this
cut a cross. Set the jar in a -closet,
and suspend by a string a piece of
toasted cheese or bacon rind over the
center. If the mice cannot easily reach
the top of the jar a runway my be con
structed by placing one end of a board
on the edge of the jar and allowing
the other end to rest on the floor. If
there are any mice about the bait will
attract them. Just as soon as the first
mouse has reaches the center of the
paper he will drop through into the
jar, and the paper will fly back for
the next comer. The same kind of
trap may-be used for catching rats,
only a barrel must be submitted for
the jar. A rat will soon gnaw out of
such a trap if not prevented. The
best,way to avoid this is to fill the
barrel partly with water. This trap is
a great favorite with country people.
They lay a good sized stone or brick
in the bottom of the barrel and pour
in just enough water to come level
with the top of this. The first rat
which tumbles in, of course climfai on
the brick to get out of the water. As
soon as another victim arrives there is
a fight for poseasion of the only dry
■pot. The noiae attracts other rodents,
so by morning a dozen or more may
be swimming and squealing and
fighting for dear life.
tion cases will take place in Richmond,
Va., to day, when the Circuit Court
of Appeals of the United Stales meets
at noon. The hearing is likely to be a
most interning one, and there seems
to be considerable doubt now on the
part of those who have been most
sanguine as to whether the court wi 11
hold that it can take juriadiction.
Yesterday there were lively times
about the office of the Attorney Gener
al. The counsel for the State were
getti ug their books and papen in readi
ness, preparatory to leaving for
Richmond. And ip the afternoon they
left; they will arrive there early this
morning. Attorney General Barber
returmd to the city yesterday morn
ing and found that it would be posable
for him to go, instead of Assistant
Attorney General Townsend.
By this afternoon, very likely, it
will be known'what the court will do
in the matter. It ia now thought that
tije court will demand a pretty full
presentation of the jurisdictional ques
tion involvedt, in which case there will
be considerable argument.
Judge Simonton, who ia a member
of tlie court, was in the city yesterday
and went on to Richmond last evening
He will not, however, sit at the hear
ing of (bis case. He takes the ground,
it is understood, that the people of the
State would be much better satisfied if
he remains entirely out of the caae. It
is known here that two members of the
court who will hear the caae will be
Chief Justice Fuller and Circuit Judge
Robert Hughes of Virginia, who is *
Republican. Who the third member
of the court will be is not known. It
A-
Th« Month of Jane.
The Columbia State lays the follow
meteorological data for the month of lrt . j n
June was made up from records kept|*f* # f !r ?j a
in South Carolina and surrouding
weather bureau stations, and may be
of inferest in anticipating the more
elements, ana
which variations
will no* uu J Jackson of West
Virginia, or J udge Dichof North Caro-
lin, liowever. It will very ukdy he
either Judge Morris, Judge Semour or
Judge Paiul. r
No matter what the composition of
the court is, the outcome of the pro
ceedings will tie awaited here with the
greatest degree of interest—State.
White Men Lynched.
Danville, 111., May 25.—Early this
morning a mob which has been ia pos
session of Vermillion county’s jail for
several hours, succeeded in locating
John Hall, Jr., and William Boyce
in their cells, look them outside and
hanged them, for assaulting Mias
Laura Barnatt. From midnight, when
important
thin
Wll
the range
may be ex
pected to keep for the present month.
The data coven a period from 16 to
24 years. The mean or normal month
ly temperature for June ia 77. The
warmest yean were 1871 and 1890,
moan r\( 051 • C^ldsiti JOSI -
was 1884, with 73. The highest record
ed temperture ia 102. and occurred on
the 20tn of tlie montn in the year 1887;
the lowest is 46, which occurred on
tlie 1st, in 1889. The average rainfall
for the month is 5.16 inches. During
June 1893, 16.92 inches fell in phar-
leston, which is Ihe greatest amount
ever recorded in the State during the
same month. The dry est June waa in
1890 when the average fall was but
little over an inch. There have been,
on an average, 10 days with rain. If
the present month is a normal one,
there way be expected 8 clear days, 14
partly cloudy, and 8 entirely cloudy
ones, or expressed in another way, it
would indicate that the sun will shine
during about 60 per cenL of the time
it is possible for it to do so. The pre
vailing direction of the wind lias here
tofore been southerly, varying between
.southwest and southeast.
A Winchester'* Work.
Waco, Tex.; May 26.—George Dal
las Griffice was seated in his door yes
terday in the business centre of Waco!
when George Washington Anderson,
his son-in-law, and Columbus Ander-1
son, drove up in a buggy. Griffice |
had been warned that his son-in-law
intended to kill him, and he fired two |
Winchester's bullets through Ander
son. Washington Anderson fell from
m win | Ihe buggy, a corpse, and Columbus I
on the Anderson fled, Gnffrice firing at him
come I as he ran. The, street was crowded and |
stray bullies killed Tom Lewis, a col
orea boy, and wounded Henry Hays,
colored. Another bullet killed a far
mers’ hone. George Dal la# Griffice is
the father of triplets, who were named
iet and Coral,
Ruby, Garnet
Cleveland, sister
George Waahint
by Rose
of the President,
tington Anderson, the
dead man, eloped with the fourteen-
years-old daughter of Griffice and
married her. He ran away
time ago with a pretty girl.
the jail doors, until the
reached, it was the determined,
the desperate struggle of a fren
zied mob to mete summary justice,
battling against heavy oaken doors
and iron bars and occasionally halted
by the grim stand of a little band of
defenders of law and order under the
command of Sheriff Thompson. After
repeated efforts to break down the
outer jail door with a telephone pole,
the crowd for a moment desisted in
their efforts to break into the jail. Ed
McCusker stood on the jail steps and
addressed the mob, begging them to
desist. They laughed him. down.
Sheriff Thompson, nis wife and Depu
ty Sheriff James Sloan also besought
tne mob to disperse. F. V. Barnett,
the father of the injured girl, aaid to
Mrs. Tompson: “Madame, you never
bad a daughter assaulted, and her
blood demands vengeance.” His reply
was widly applauded.
At 2 o’clock Sheriff Thompson sent
for Judge Bookwalter of the Circuit
court, who addressed the crowd from
the jail corridor. He made an earnest
plea to let the law take its course. He
assured the men that Hall and Boyce
would receive a severe punishment if
found guilty, that the trial jury would
do its duty. But the leaden, who
were among the most prominent men
in the county, replied: “Yes, we know
the jury will convict them and give
them a severe/sentence but Governor
Altgeld will pardon theni out He re
cently pardoned three brutes you sent
up from Champaign county for twen
ty years,and he will pardon these men.
If any other man than Algeld was
Governor we would not lynch these
men. But we are determined he will
never have a chance to turn them
loose.” The mob again commenced
work. Sheriff Thompson finding him
self powerless to control the mob, tele
graphed the Governor, askingthat the
militia be sent to his md. At 3:15 the
mob secured both of the prisoners and
started toward the bridge with ropes
about their necks. They were hanged
almost upon the scene of their crime.
, ^ , , * . . 200 Sr uC8ts ®* I Crlap’* Monetary View*.
lently drank to his memory Atlanta, May 28.-Ex-Speaker
r f ZV* t0a8t Ti 8t ^ r ’ 4W ’ fi H f^ I tJrisp has sent to the Constitution the
L. Turner commanding th^ firat m- f 0 ii 0W i,ng card restating his position
fantry of the Illinois National Guard, on the question: ,
welcomed the Southerners as “com- “Amencus, Ga., Mav 28.
rades and offered his tribute in the! j— ▼ 1 j-*.!
form of a poem.
A Terrible DUMter.
San Francisco, May 29.—The paci
fic mail steamship company received
, word this morning that the steamer
abort Colio* 1 had been wrecked off the Mix-
'ican coast. The Colina was command
ed by Capt J. P. Tayloy; she was an
iron vessel of. twenty-nine hundred
tons aqd was built by the Roaches erf
Philadelphia in 1873. The wreck oc-
cured between Manzanilla and Acap-
ulico. She had a heavy cargo between
fifty cabin passengers,
“The army of the Tennessee,” was
responded to*by 0«n. Longstreet, who
was greeted with an outburst of ap
plause. He said:
“You all seem to know I was there
with the Army of Northern Virginia.
It was there that 1 had the pleasure of
an introduction to the Army of the
Potomac.” The banquets applauded a
touching tribute to Grant.
In responding to “American soldier
in history,” Senator Butler, of South
Carolina placed him in the front rank
of the world’s soldiers. As an exam
ple, he protrayed Gresham, and con
cluded: “I do not think any other
city on the face of the earth would
have had the audacity to invite us
Rebels here tonight It is to your
everlasting honor and glory.”
Gen. Black, of Illinois, responded
tothe toastr‘Here's the hand of fel
lowship.”
i
I thirty-five and ppi
.1 “Ever since I gave consideration to I and a number of steerage passengers,
the question, I have been a believer in Only one boat containing five of the
een passengers nas been
heard from. The vessel carried 192
and an advocate of the free and unlim- crew and fourteen
ited coinage of silver. Ever si use I heard from. The
entered public life, I have spoken and people, 163 of whom are supposed to
when opportunity offered, voted for I nave bisen lost. The vessel sailed for
it I still favor the free and unlimited
i favor .
coinage of silver by the United States |
indepently at the ratio of 16 to If
How any one at all aoouainted with I
my public utterances ana acts can have
mistaken or been in doubts as to what |
my position was, is 'a mystery to me.
My excuse for thiscard is misrepreeen
tation: my hope is that this’will end it
(Signeo) “Charles F. Crisp.”
Fr«4 MU I* D«*d.
Blackville, May 30.—Fred Nix,
I Jr., who was shot by B. Riven
Panama May 18th. Most of the pas-
sengem were bound through to New
Yora, where they resided.
C—tly PartM*.
St. Louis, May 30.^Aii afternoon
per states that A. W. Wright, of
firm of Wright & Warner, manu-
facurers agents^ with offices in the
Wagon building, has been mi«sdng
□early one week. He is alleged to
have taken with him nearly $200,000
I in negotiable bonds end.
an
legotiable ■■■■
deeds to valuable lends.
ass . . «» aavs tv aao 01 r a. iuve__
roll on April 19th, died/at 1 o’clock heard from, he was on a trirn^
this morning from the effects of his to Indianapolis. His p 1
wouuds. He nas suffered a neat deal, Clarence D. Warner,
being paralyzed from the hipe down orant of hie whereabe
was shot
personal loss will i