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— V \ VOL. XVIII. BARNWELL, S THURSDAY, AUOUST 1, 1895. A NOTABLE MEETING. a party in which such debauchery and ' treachery exist. x “When you look back at the repeal WHICH TWO THOUSAND FIVE of the Sherman law you find that the HUNDRED PEOPLE ARE PRESENT- Republicans and Democrats of the Northern section voted without regard 1 to party lines They buy your Con j ,,f (pressmen up thereat Washington like Ktnntor Tillman AdvocateH the ITrion the South and w***t in (he inteixat of vou.Jauy aheep,. They also controlled I cannot stand many tilings iti the. Free siiver-s,,.echos Ai.n Made hy <;„ v ; i the nomination for President in both Kvana and Othem. parties. ” It did notjnatter whether Harrison or Cleveland was elected. The Repub- Rook Hill, July 25. -Nine ,x»r 3 , , . , • , ago lien jam in R. Tillman made bis V ca,,s b T rn lr y ,n - f , o r . to lirst appearance on the hustings before "emonetize sil ver and could not do it .the young men of York at Tirzah. a lhe duuige of the . government from little town located but a couple of ^^Pnrty to another enabted Cleve miles from the town that now bears , ’ byMhe use of the patronage, to fliat name, and the Reform movement 1 demon ^ ze f ilv : er ; , Th « ^, reed y D( ; ino - ’ ■ ' i crats who had pledged the people to -there had its origitir—Today the Bmno^^J^4‘ a man having met with success in all 11<rm lor Sllv ' his undertakings in the political arena, appeared before a crowd of 2,500 men and women at the new town and the c oak of‘national Democracy was, thrown aside, and the readiness of South and North Carolina to launch the long talked-of new national was announced. The hundi er, sold their votes for ers countrymen heard Tillman's an nouncement of his desertion of the ‘ Rotten old ship of Democracy.” The cheers after Marion Rutler, {he deli cate lookinr, peak headed Populist Senator of North Carolina, and ex president of the National Alliance, had named him as the Andrew Jack- son, the only capable one, “to lead the masses of the people of the South and West to victory” in the proposed par ty. Again, Governor Evans went into the details of a good many matters which it is proposed to insert in the new State constitution. This was one of the most notable political gather ings held in the State in a long time. There were present two United States Senators, Tillman and Butler, < iovernor Evans and other notables. The speaking was from a stand, in the centre of a lovely, though very mud dy grove of oak trees, with a band stand to the right. The stand was most elaborately decorated with all kinds of flowers. On each comer were sunflowers and cotton bushes. The whole was fringed with green pine needles, and there were numerous wreaths. To the right of the stand hung a white and red banner of large size, bearihg the inscription “Equal rights to all, special privileges to none. In hoc signo vinces. In the vicinity were no end of white covered w T agons, schooners, whicli liad l»een coming in. all. night. A heavy rain fell in the forenoon, but soon all was .clear. There were a large number of women and children in the crowd. MARK IN HUTLKK was the iirst speaker. He made an unusually long aud vigorous speech, 1 he outline of which Iwill give later rWCTT oflices for. their friends or for money. 1 don't know which, and the conspir acy was consummated. The Demo cratic platform was good enough tobe elected on, htrt not worth carrying out. The result has been that our yardstick nl nnrfv w hich measures .values has been cut ‘ Pf in half, with the effect of doubling the m ^representatives of the people ; that they had covered the financial qyes lion ; that the people had risen in re volt; that a big crop of millionaires had grown from the present financial system; that the currency question h:ul-become so serious that the time had come for the masses to form their new party and fight; that the present leaders were traitors; that the foreign 4maacial~policy w<w> revolting; that pure basing power of the gold dot- It takes now twice as much of labor, or the products of labor, to buy a dollar. Everything has shrunk in value except debts. To all intents and purpose they have doubled. I will il lustrate. If a man had ten biscuits and there were two plates of butter, one white and one yellow, and you throw away the white (silver), there is only half as much butter to the biscuit as there was before. The shrinkage in the amount of butter represents the shrinkage of the price of commodities, and until we make them bring back that other plate of butter all the pro ducers of this country will have to spread it very thin, and a great many will have neither bread nor butter. It is clear that both old parties are disintegrating and a new alignment is in process of formation. Party ties are weakened. Like drowning men who catch at straws, the people are casting about for means of relief. The issue has heretofore been obscured or sidetracked, hut iu the next Presiden tial campaign the only question will be the financial question. A new Ma son & Dixon's line is forming on the one side with the Northeastern sec tion, consisting of the creditor and manufacturing States. On tlie other side will be a Solid South allied with a practically Solid West. An exami nation of the census reports will indi cate the enormous increase in the Wealth of the New England and Mid die States, as compared with the rest of the country, and even a fool must •know that it is the result of legal rob bery and unjust discrimination by Congress. Democracy is a dear name to us. but we no longer have the substance—we have only the shadow. Aesop's fable meet half way? If your house is burn ing down, will you stay in it because it is labeled Democratic. We can't take the name of Populist because they hare too many ‘isms’and radical ideas, and they have pandered too much to socialism. They call me.an anarchist—a right bran new one hut Populist platform. Why. in God’s name, stay here and go down with the hull of the old rotteu Democratic ship? At Memphis I tread on some Democratic toes. But on the other hand you-should have heard the wild hurrahs of those who agreed with me. It was like a Tillnianile "campaign meeting in lSSHL Now they talk about a ring. Yes, its a hand's all-round ring of 00,000 Reform Democratic vot- [ ' t he time had come to choose between allegiance to party and allegiance to the Constitution; that Cleveland had acted as a faithlessoyerseer to the peo ple's farm ; that party labels should be wiped out; that he was a Populist because he was a Democrat. Then lie exclaimed dramatically. “Would to God we could call up Andrew Jaek- •son today from his grave to lead these >eople against the same enemies that le fought and thought he had crushed to hurl defiance at andcrush the gold bugs." He went on to say that we had to day the English on our shores as then and wejhad the Tories here fighting 'with them and individuals with Tories lighting the National banking system. Now that we have all these dangers here as in his time we need an An drew Jackson to lead the people against this tri-headed monster which will destroy American prosperity and American libertv. “I did not have the privilege of living in Jackson's time, but when I saw your distin guished Senator here (Tillman) stand up at Memphis, and noted the flash of bis eye, the set of his countenance and the ring of his voice as he declared for liberty, first, last and all the time. I said to myself: “Here we’ve got another Andrew Jackson who will stand against the Tories and drive them out.’” —\ * After dinner Senator Tillman made the closing speech of the day. After some preliminary remarks he spoke as follows: TILLMAN S SPEECH, V* “When I received the invitation to speak at Tireah my mind travelled back to 1886. Capt. Tillman, who had l»een raising some rumpus in the News and Courier with his pen, was invited to York.” The Senator then indulged in a little fun at his.own expense,,and referred tq the old Tirzah, where he made his first extemporaneous speech nine years ago. “I had been tongue- tied previous to that, but the people of York clipped if, and rny tongue has been wagging ever since.” He was glad to be on hand today. He thought they liked him, because he had always tried to tell them the truth. This was what he wanted to do now. This wfis an Alliance meeting. The Alliance was not so strong in numbers as here- tofore. but as an. educative force its principles were stijbnger than ever, lie felt proud thaf^the Alliance was the organization through which our .principles of reform had been advanc ed. Why are you so poor? He said Senator Butler told a truth when he said fifty v<5lers in one party are cut ting fifty others’ votes in a different party. “Looi k at your condition. Al- ol the dog and the shadow will illus- trate the situation and show the condi tion of those of us who cling to the name, Whilst we can’t get the sub stance. We had a very small bone under the Sherman act. We snapped at the shadow of a great relief prom ised in the Chicago platform and the restoration of the Democracy to pow er, and we have lost the little bone we had and got nothing.,‘At Memphis, I undertook to represent the people of South Carolina and told the friends of silver that if we could not get a man whom we could trust in the Demo cratic party on a platform that was unequivocal and explicit, we would cast our electoral vote for the candi date or some other party. , “Did I represent you(< >ne or two “Noes" and a chorus of “Yes" were heardA “Well, I'll take a hand primary on it I don't want yo\r to declare your selves Populists. I ask all of you who are willing to vote fora man for Pres ident, pledged to free silver, whether he l>o a Democrat or not, to hold up your hands." (There was a forest of open, palms in the air in a moment, only one man, Mr. Hull, voting in the negative amid, derisive cries.) “Now, gentlemen,Mie’s not to blame, he's only blind. I respect and admire men who disagree with me, but who have the manhood to stand by their convictions.* We are all white men, but for God s sake, for South Caroli na's sake, never let it be said that the white men appealed to the negro to arbitrate their differences. I am no Populist. The Democratic party in the Northwest has been practically dis banded in ten or twelve States. "What hope have we of electing a Democrat ic President? What sort of a hope hftve we for genuine Democracy to win in the next general election: The result of the last election indicates that the Itepublicans have strong hopes .of electing the next President aml-there are many men in the South who think it a. good time to join that party in the hope of getting otflee. I have been looking for some new con verts to that party in this State, but so /far none nave announced them selves. Can we stand four more years of this sort of thing, boys? Well, we have stood so much of it that I don't belieye you can starve us. Nothing can do that, but my God, it is so aw fully tiresome, While the South is practically solid for silver our condi tion of financial slavery is almost.in tolerable. We must endure our suf fering until the hand of American brotherhood is reached out to us by the Northwestern farmers, anchthey cry aloud in their distress, ‘Come, help us.’ The only hope is to ally the Southland West together against the North and East, but don’t let us im pose the condition on those seeking the Alliance that-we go as Democrats alone. Those 'people despis£ that name. That liatrea is an inheritance of the war—just as we hate-the name Republican. Those States contain a larger percentage of Union Soldiers than, any others, because they moved there just after the wgr to get sol- "I cannot see how any man can stand by the Democracy when it iscon- trolled by such traitors as Cleveland and Carlisle. I say to you now -when thp time comes we can deliver the electoral vote. I believe, I know we can dd it. fApplause.) The only test heretofore in this State,of Democracy, has been white supremacy. The billy obstacle to the union of the friends of silver is the loaves and fishes of the local oflices. The desire to control these has more to do with the contin .nation of the existing parties than the principles of those larties. The local machines in each otate are the great est barriers to the formation of a new national financial party. The Ameri- S n people should narrow down their cal politics and come together. For myself, I am so disgusted, that I am ready to throw up the name and give up the party. We must join the peo pie of the Northwest. The friends of silver are in the majority 45,000,000 out of the 70,000,(XXWn this republic but they are held down. All they want is the opportunity to get togeth er. Shall we let this matter of nairle keep us apart?" Senator Tillman then referred to the buying up of the metropolitan papers anu news agencies by the gold bugs. “Their cry, ” said Tillman, “is that the silver craze is dying out. There was never a more brazen false hood. There is no silver craze to be gin with. Our people are not fools, and they are only striving with the intensity qf despair to release our gov ernment from the grasp of the octopus to prevent th6 tones from selling us into bondage to the British goldbugs. Thej understand the issue perfectly, as will be proven when the time comes to vote. I think 1 can safely say the South is solid for financial re lief. When we meet the Northwestern people we must be ready to go ahead and organize the new party. Let the name be what it will. Let us deter mine here now that we will get to- ther, and that the goldbugs will see THE REGISTRATION LAW. IT 15 AGAIN ATTACKED IN THE UNITED STATES COURT. . ’ -V -^-. r v •lu.lgti (inlV Ciijniii* Supert l*<ir (1 r#pn, of ttlrhliiiwt flikolify, fn.in itrllverluK tlir Upgiittradon Hook* to die Manager* of Kle.-don ilPTiTlT* ■•II the cry that the silver craze is dying.” Senator Tillman spoke forty min utes and was frequently applauded. . EVANS ON THE CONVENTION. Governor Evans spoke on the Con stitutional Convention, and threw much light on schemes heretofore hid under a bushel. His speech I will give more fully lajer. He advocated the Mississippi plan, with modifications, for the regulation of the suffrage He discussed the ring scheme at length— the taking of the two mill -tax out of the Constitution and putting itinthe hands of the people, leaving in the Constitution a requirement that the legislature shall provide a system of free eommo^t schools, the taxpayer designating to which school his tax shall go; that the Constitution pro vide that the legislature have power to create corporations under general laws, relieving that body of sjieeial corjioration privilege^bills: that pro vision be made to allow the legisla ture to deal with the liquor question as it deems best; that the State be divi- ded into smaller counties for the con venience of the people and saving of expenses; that the judiciary be recon structed so as to secure the will of the people; that the trial justice system be abolished, and that the oflices of Ad jutant General and Superintendent of Education be abolished. Talbert, Strait and Irby are sched uled to speak tomorrow. - State. though the United State has produced dier's homesteads and they have been unexampled crops for many years, | accustomed to connect the word De- there are millions of our people starv- mocrat and Copperhead together just ng, and other millions naked. We as we ctonncct Republican 'and negro always be Democratic in prin- together. ’ Those people .are now oe- _ ;€!, because we sucked those pnnei-1 ing ground to powder between the up- ples wath our mother’s milk, but we! per and nether mill stones. Why not cannot continue to wear the livery of i * >th sides give up party names and A Polite Florida Mob. Live Oak, Fla., July 23.—At'2 o'clock this morning^iX) men yode in to this place and attempted to storm the jail, their object being to lynch George Mitchell and Mike Stevens, two negro murderers. Sheriff Haw kins lives at the jail with bis family and the mob made a demand Tm him for the keys. The sheriff refused, and the mob began to batter down the door with sledge hammers The sheriff pleaded with the mob to desist in vain. Finally he said: “Boys, my wife is sick up stairs and I am afraid this ex citement will Itill her. Go away for her sake. I wilUgo to Tallahasse and beg Governor Mitchell to let these ne groes hang.’’ The appeal was effect-, ive, and the mob dispersed, shouting. “We won’t endanger a lady’s life.’’ Mike Stevens and George Mitchell, the negroes wanted, and Henry Brown were convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Alfred Ry- berg, a white man. Brown was hanged last Wednesday, but at the last moment the other men were re spited. This caused great indignation and lynching was threatened, as the people believe Mitchell and Stevens as guilty as Brown, althoygh the lat ter swore on the scaffold that he alone murdered Ryberg. There is no doubt that the men will be lynched unless the Governor permits them to be hanged. _ Two Children Crem ated. Norwich, N. Y., Jujy24.—A disas trous fire which caused the loss o^ two lives broke out here this evening, the Congregationalist parsonage occupied by Rev. W. M. Scudder, and family, consisting of wife and seven children, being totally destroyed. Thecildren, who occupied a back room, were just retiring, when coal gas in a chimney exploded and instantly the house wds ablaze. All the children escaped with the exception of Clarise and Mary, both bodies being burned to crisp. Oharijckton, K C., July 25. - Judge Golf Iihs enjoined Supervisor Green of Richland, on complaint of J. II. Gowdy, coltm ih Gowdy claims the right to vote in a lengthy paper. He ^represented by Obear & I )onpW.<,f Negras, today sent a telegram Washington. The order follows: —“It is ordered that the defendant, W. Briggs Green, do show cause be fore me on Monday, August 5, 18'.(5, in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals room at Richmond. V»., at 3 o’clock iu the afternoon, or qs soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an order should not lie made in this cause enjoining and restraining him from further exercis'ng the pow ers and privileges claimed to be con- ferred by err Run alleged acts of. the State of Soutli Carolina upon him as the incumbent of an alleged office known and described in said alleged enactment as‘supervisor of registra tion,' artd also from furnishing and delivering to the several boards of managers for the, several precints in Richland county, South Carolina, up pointed to” hold the election of dele gates to a certain Constitutional con vention soon to be held in the said State, certain pajK’r writings purport ing to be the registration books for the said several products, and also from doing any and every other act complained of in the said bill. “It is further ordered tiiht until the hearing hereinbefore directed, the said defendant, his agents, servants and employes be enjoined and restrained trom. furnishing and delivering to the several boards of managers for the sev eral precincts in Richland county, aforesaid, any books or paper writings purporting to be said registration books. “Let a copy-of this order be forth with served u]Khi said defendant, this 22d day of July, 18115. (Signed) “Nathan Goff, “U. S. Circuit Judge, 4th Circuit." time it is expected that the arguments on thc^ case will lake place. It is not known as yet who will take part in the argument. Probably Mr. II. N. Obear will make the argument for the complainant. - State. , • NO FOQD, FRIENDS OR FUNDS, • Deplorable* Condition of N«»|jro ColonintM Who WaiiI to Mexico. It seems, from a perusal of the bill in this case, which was seen in the of ticc of < >bear Cc Douglass, here, that it differs in some essential particulars from the Mills case, recently decided in the Circuit Court of Appeals. The Mills ease was brought in behalf of himself and all others like situated against W. Briggs Green, in his olli- eial capacity as supervisor of registra against Mr. Grecii individually, and it seems that ho is not used as supervi sor. Upon the contrary, it is positive ly alleged in the bill that the sections of the registration law which create theollice are themselves, together with all the balance of the act, unconstitu tional, and that there exists in the State no suHi office as supervisor of registration. And it is claimed as a legal consequence that the acts and regulations under whtrtr'MTv 'Green, the supervisor, has been acting are His own individual acts. Another essential diilerence’ is that it is in so many words alleged that the complain ant was distinctly refused registration. Also, it is stated in tl>e bill, that he is a citizens of African descent. The peculiar hardships of the act of ts'.u requiring the supporting affidavits arc made clear by the facts surrounding the particular case of the party suing. And that act is specially attacked as in violation of the fourteenth amend ment as guaranteeing to evry citizen the equal protection of the law, it being claimed that under the act of ISfll impossible and impractical conditions to register are imposed upomthe voters unregistered at the time of the passage of that, act which are not required and imposed ui>on those electors now upon the registration books. The particulars in which the regis tration laws are in violation of the fif teenth amendment to the United States Constitution are set forth fully and in detail. It is also affirmatively stated in the bill that the complainant has under the facts of his case no rem edy at law at all. Among other things, Washinotqn, July 24. . A serious condition 6f affairs exists in the Am erican negro colony at TIahualalo, Mexico; so serious that Mr. Sparke, the United States consul at Piedras on the subject to tlieT^tateJVpartnient, Mr. Sparks su^s the negroes have left the colony in a bod}?, and that a number of them are located in a camp u the surveillance o£ Mexican soldiers. Some of them in the camp arenfllicted with contagiousliisease, and altogeth er their condition is deplorable. The colonists are all from Georgia and Alabama, whence they emigrated after being given glowing accounts of the fertility and fruitfulnesof conoess ion granted their organizer, a negro, by the Mexican government. TJie.State Department officials, after making every effort to devise ways and means to help the colonists, .look ing to every law that might be con strued to give them authority to use funds, found it utterly im possible to do so. A late telegram from Consul Sparks stated that the negroes were scatered for mi Ids ou the railroad without food frieudsor funds, and were living on mesquite beans and branch water. Mr. Sparks couid do nothin for want of money, and added that he feared trouble, as the colonists were starving. „ The orignal dispatch from Mr. Sparks informed the department that he had received a telegram from Dr. J. II. Barry, of Torreon, Mexico, dat ed July 23rd*. which said that 153 ne groes from the colony were destitute at that point with fifteen cases of contagious disease among them. The Mexico jioliee were preventing them from entering the towns. The State Department has also re ceived a letter from Congressman John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, ask ing if the government can assist in bring. Iiack to their homes the mem ber of the Tlahualilit colony, who left Alabama and other Southern States about u year ago and who are now, he says, dissatisfied, destitute and un able to return unaided. The department has tried every way to afford some relief to the colonists and has instructed the council at Peid- ras’Negras to render all assistantce that he could properly do and to report pro- urUly SMy serious developments." — e charge d'affairs of the United States in the City of Mexico has also been informed of the state of affairs reported by Mr. Sparks, aud has been instructed to inquire into the treat ment that thecolonists were receiving. No funds are available to the de partment which .can be applied to maintain destiftite American citizens, other that seamen in foreign countries or to provide for their transportation home, and Consut Sparks tiaSl)egn~so~ advised as also all those who made in quiries concerning negroes. the unifortunate A Train IIH<I I ji. <July 24.—Train No. 37, known.to the bandits that an unusual ly large sum was in the express safe last night. Tlie amounl reported to have been obtained hy them is said to lie $3,000, but it is believed that a much larger sum was taken. No attempt was made to molest the passengers, many whom knew nothing of the. occurrence. When the thieves had secured the contents of the safe they rode quietly away. >•—• Toledo the westbound Chicago express on the Lake Shore and Michigan South ern Railroad was held up by six masked men at 12:30 this morning at a lonely place in the woods known as Reece Siding, bet\^een Archibald and Striker, < )hio, about ten miles west of Wusee. The train stops there to let the eastern express pass. The latter train was approaching when the rob bery took place. The robbers were mounted and rode out of the woods, which are dense and close to the track. Conductor Darling, who was stand ing near one of the coaches, was or dered inside at the point of a revolver. Admission to the express car was ob tained by the same means, and the messenger was forced toopen the safe. The robbers were evidently entirely familiar with the train and it is thought that employes of the railroad company or theexpress company must euy at iaw ai an. /vuiongoiner mings, h® implicated, either as principals or that a judgment at law for damages- f 5 * con ^ de, 7 lte , 8 - ^ was undoubted! against the defendant could not be collected, and that even if collected would not be‘adequate relief to him for the deprivation of his right to vote The other legal remedies heretofore suggested in the Mills case are dis posed of under the facts of the new case, and it is clearly alleged that the compalinant can have no legal re course to any of the suggested reme dies. . •' The bill in addition to a number of other differences between it and the Mills bill seems to beytithout any of the technical objections raised bv the counsel for the State.in the former case^ The document in question is a _ *, Hy prepared and elaborate legal paper, but itsdength is such that it cannot here be given in full. Hence the above synopsis. It is inferred that the purpose of 'the council is to differentiate the new case from the old, so as tq obtain an injunc tion in the new case without conflict ing with the principles laid down by the Circuit Court of Appeals in the Mills case: What the result of this fight wilbbe of course no one can jell. This much, however, seems to be cer tain, namely: That it presents the issues upon the merits clearly and squarely and absolutely freed from any of the technical points upon which the counsel for the State sought to Side-track the former case and that when this case reaches the,,United States Supreme Court it will be diffi cult to dodge the momentous issues made. It seems that Mr. Obear, of the firm of Obear'& Douglass, appeared before Judge Goff a few days ago and ob tained the rule to show cause else where referred to. The hearing has been set for the 5th of August, 3p. m., in the court room of the Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, at which iJy bh 24.- ow up Arch Fiend*. North Scitlate, Mass., Jul An attempt was made to KqnohasseU Hall last night while a religious meeting was in progress. The hall has been used for some time for a scries of evangelical meetings. It has been the custom of some of the rough element to go to the meetings and there have been disturbances.-. At times the offenders have been arrest ed, taken before the court and fined. Last night, while the meeting was in progress, a loud explosion startled the worshippers and caused a panic. No one was seriously hurt, but all the glassrin the building was shattered. An examination showed that explo sives had been put under a corner of the building and nad shattered the woodwork in its immediate vicinity. It is thought dynamite was used and ignorance of how to place it, saved a worse wreck, and probably injury to many. AiMiu*lnated In the Wood*. Jacksonville, Fla., July 25.—A special to the Times-Union from Brooksville, Fla., says: D. J.’ Whid- den and Crockett Whidden were (ts- sassinated last night at their cedar camp in the woqos near here by a band of masked men. A dozen guns were fired at close range, and both men were riddled. What induced the killing is not known. THE PRlCEOF COTTON For O ne Hundred Year* (liven bjr the AgrlrtlinfFftt !><■ || | rt 111. nl. Wahkinoton, D. Cm July 21.-The bulletin on “the prices of cotton for H») years,” which the 1 Apartment of Agriculture has had in 'course of pre paration for some weeks was issued today. The period considered begins with two of Uie most important events in the history of cotton culture, the introduction of Whitneyw saw gin (1785) and the production of the larg est crojK the work! luts ever seen (1894-5). The highest and lowest aver- erage prices, the crops of the Uuited States, the export to foreign countries, the supply and consumption in the United Suites, Great Britain and Con- Kurope are given for each year, as well as the chief causes that have led to the rise and fall in prices from year to year. In addition to a series of tables in which these facts and figures are presented the bulletin contains numerous data relating to the progress made from time to timqin the production and consumption ofcot- toh iu this and foreign countries. These are $o arranged us to present a brief historical sketcl^of cotton pro duction and consumption in the Unit ed States during the past century. The table's show that prices of cotton have not been so low during the past sea son as they were during the decade from 1840 to 1850. The object of the department has l>eon to make this bul letin a valuable work of reference as to the production, consumption, and prices of cotton and other numerous facts relating to cotton, for all who are interested in either in cotton plant ing or in the cotton trade. Referring to the conditions of the markeT And prices iu the decade from 1840 toTHRO, the bulletin says: “In 1840 the largest crop ever made up to that time and the largest accumulation of stocks ever witnessed in Liverpool caused a decline to the lowest average for ten years. This was the lieginning of the heavy action of stocks in Eu rone during the next five years, which leu to an extraordinary decline in prices." The highest price per pound in New York that decade was 13 7-8 cents, in 1840, and the lowest 5 cent in 1842 and 1845. Hhepperson quoted middling in that year as low as 4 cents. “In 1842,” continues the bulletin, “middling to fair cotton reached as low as 4 1-2 cents in New < >rleans and there is on Hie in the De partment of Agriculture a letter showing that at Marengo county, Ala, a planter sold this year 17 bales of cot ton in Mobile at 3 1-4 cents. The price-currents of the day quote mid dling to fair cotton in New Orleans in 1845 as tow as 4 3-8 cents, and in Mo- -bile the same reayfi'l 4'cents p*r pound. —^ —:— With respect to the lustrum ended with 1875, it is shown that the highest price por -pound TivjS'ew Yorkwmtio 5 8 cents in 1891, and the lowest 5 9 16 cents, the present year. A table of the fluctuations in prices show’s that in 1825 it amounted to 18 cents per pound in 1837 to 12 12 cents ; in 1861 to 1.21; in 1865 1.47; in 1886 to only .86 of a cent, the Smallest on record. FIGHTING IMPORTATION. Tli® Mint® l>l«pen**ry’.a Cut Hat® Prim ‘ Lilt. Columbia, S. C m July 24.-At last the Htate board of control has an nounced its new cut price list. The new prices become effective on August 1. There have been very materia) re duction in the prices of whiskey, but wines, etc., are left as heretofore. The dispensary has found it necessary to make this cut no doubt bocauHe of the decision of Judge Bimonton, which has allowed an unexpected competi tion. But here is the list of new prices to speak for itself : Corn, 80 percent., $1.60, 40, 20 and 10, for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. Rye and Bourbon, 80 percent., $2, 50, 25 and 13, for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. X corn, $2, 50, 25 a’nd 13, for gal lons, quarts, pints and half pints. X rye, bourbon,rum and gin, $2.40, 60, 30 and 15, for gallons, quarts,pints and half pints. XX rye, bourbon r c©rn, rum and gin, $2.75, 70, 35 and 20, for gallons, quarts, pints and lialf pints. XXX rye or Old Velvet, $3.80, $1, 50, and 25 for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. - XXXX rye and Scotch, $10, $2.50, $1.25 and 65, for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. 1 Thompson Old Rye, $6.80, 85 and 45, for gallons, quarts, pints and half pints. . ■ Old Cabinet Rye, Pepper Rye and Old Elk Rye, $1.25 p<»r quart. Jamacia rum and imported gin, XXXX, 50c. per half pint. X Cognac brandy, $1 per pint and XX Cognac brandy, $1.50 per pint. -California brandy, XX, 5Uc. per pint, and California brandy, XXX, 60c. per pint. # Maderia wine, XX, 45c. and 25c, for quarts and pints, and Maderia wine, XXX, 50c. and 25c. for quarts and pints. Sherry wine, XX, 45c. and 25c. for quarts and pints, and Sherry wine, XXX, 50c. and 25c. for quarts and pints. Port wine, XX, 45c. and 25p. for quarts and jrints, and Port wine, XXX, 55c. ..and 30c. for quarts and piqJs. —• . Claret wine, XX, 15c. for pints. Blackberry wine and scuppernon wine. 45c. and 25c. per quart an pint. ' f Catawba wine, 50c. and 25c. per quart and pint. Catawba wine, XXX, 45c. and 25c. per quart »nd pint. Grape wine, 45c. and 25c. per quart and pint Tokay wine, XX, 45c. and 25c. per quart and pint. ^ Tokay wine, XXX, 50c. and 25c. perouartand pint. Alcohol, $3.50 per gallon, and 90q. per quart. Beer, 12ic. per pint. Ale, 25c. per pint Porter, 25c. per pint. NEGROES WERE NAUGHTY. \ ■ HENCE KNATIONAL GUARDCOMPANY IS SUSPENDED. It* Of1tr«r* Ar® IMubImcc! from tho S®r- vlr® by Ui« AdJnUMit <i®n®r*l—A Coart of ImiHlry Onlrroil-Why *nil WhAroCorO. Columbia, S. C.. Julv 24.—The State is having trouble with some of the colored militia just now. Yester day two officers were dismissed from the service of the tttate snd a whole company was “suspended" pending a court of inquiry, just as was done in the case of the white companies, which declined to obey Gov. Till man's orders during the Darlington C trouble. The Anjutant General acted upon the following letter which he received , a few days ago; * Charleston. S. Q., July 11, 1895. ToJ. (iiry Waits, Adjutant and In- Gnr General of South Carolina, tr: I have the honor W herewith forward you the statements of certain officers and non commissioned officers as to the unsoldierlike Conduct of the officers and members of the Gover nor's Rifle Guard, which constitute a part of the First Regiment of Nation al Guards, commanded by one K, W. Dess, while at a picnic at Mount Pleasant, in the county of Berkeley, S. C\, on June 17th, 1895, and their Conduct subsequent thereto. I have been completely ignored by said company in every order issued\ them since, aud said command is now in open conspiracy against me as their superior officer, and, in my opinion, they are aided and abetted by others whom I shall call to your attention later on. You will see that I have tried to discharge my duty in trying to maintain discipline bv ap pointing a court of inquiry,-and this you will see from the statement from Capt. J. A. Williams presiden(t) that a majority of said court absented themselves, whether from cowardice or otherwise I am unable to aay, hence i am-forced to this course. I would say that, if there is not some thing done, it would be utterly impos sible for me to maintain proper dis cipline. I would therefore recom mend that the said Capt. E. W. Deaa be removed from office, as also his first lieutenant, K. D. Jones, and I would respectfully recommend the appointment of K. J. Washington as captain of said company and X It. Lawrence as first lieutenant. I will stata^ that I was present at Mount Pleasant on the 17th day of June,and the conduct of the company was such that I was compelled to in terfere as colonel, but my orders were not obeyed. Lieut. Jones called the men to arms and started them off in double quick time. I commanded them to halt. Lieut. Jones refused to halt and rushed his men off in a dis organized stats upon a crowd of citi zens that had already been put under arrest by the marshal and his specials, anti was on the way to tha guard house, when there was no cause. The excitement was so grgat that the sher- itr wits compelled to come and make an arrest by complilhts,' and I aided him. I have been censured by the officers of said company to their men for so doing. This is not the first time that they have been turbulent and the chief of police of the city of Charleston is aware of the fact. And, therefore, for the good of the service, these officers should be removed so that the others be made to know that the civil officers shall be respected. Itespcctfully yours, W. H ‘Robkbthon. Col. Com. First liegt., N. G., b. C. Adjutant General Watts’ action is embraced in the following two orders issued yesterday: Special order No. 26. ‘ Capt. K. W. Deas and First Lieut. E. D. Jones, of the Governor's Rifle Guards, First Regiment, National Guard,are hereby discharged from the militia of South Carolina for conduct * unbecoming an officer and a soldier. By order of the commander-in-chief, John Gary Watts, I. Gen. Official. W. W. Bruce, Asst. A. & I. Gkn. Special Order No. 27. Pursuant to a communication re- eeived Irom Col. W. II. Robertson, commanding First Regiment, N. G., S. C., the Governor’s Rifle Guard, Lieut. David Grant, commanding, are hereby suspended until further orders. Col. W. II. Robertson is hereby or dered to investigate the conduct of the above named company on July 17th; 1895, and their conduct subsequent thereto, and report the same to these headquarters at his earliest conven ience. By order of the commander-in-chief. J. Gary Watts, —A. & L Gen. Official. W. W. Bruce, Asst. Aw & I. Gen. Shot With HU Owd Weapon. Brandenburg, Ky., July 25.—Gao. Robinson, the keeper of the work house in this place, was shot and killed this morhiug by Bland Shacklett, one of the commissioners of the institution. Shacklett and another gentleman were riding into town in a buggy, and when within three miles of town, Robinson rode out of a cross road and, it is said, began cursing Shacklett. Robinson soon began firing and one bullet hit Shacklett in the mouth, lodging just beyond the ear. Three others, missed him. Shacklett, although wounded, took Robinson's pistol away from him and fired one bullet in Robinson’s right breast. The man fell aqd died in a moment, Afraid to Stand Trial. - Winston, N. C., July 25.—Newa was received here today of the suicide yesterday in Nash county of Dr. W. T. Spruill, a prominent citisen and practicing physician of that county. He stood charged with attempting a criminal assault on a respectable mar ried lady of his neighboniood. When he saw the officers’comingto arrest him he drew his pistol and fired a ball in his head, which produced death almost instantly. ■ ' :rT 7' . -M V