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SfcNATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE. * » r . m SILVER MBETINftfe act TO TMaka It U- Tim* for tho Froe SUror i4o Bollj—HU Bpooch In rnll-Whot tho PfMM nnd Pnrpoooo Aro. CoscoRD, N. G., Aug. 14. wm a large meeting here yesterday o' free silTerites, the number present be ing over three thousand. The speak ers were Senators Tillman of South Carolina, and Butler, of North Caro lina, and things were said by them which show that the formation of the new national silver party hinted at up at Tinah. isa certainty, and that Mar ion Butler, the new North Carolina Populist Senator, is pushing the South Carolina Senator as U19 leader of the movement. Both Tillman and Butler were me at the depot at different hours, and dnveh over into the town in a drag pulled by four magnificent bays, being escorted by about MX) Populists on horseback. The speaking took pldce on a stand in front of the county cour, house. Tillman was several times loudly applauded. Butler spoke fo: nearly three hours, and was cheered to the echo. They stood on a platform covered with heavy paper, bearing the inscription: “Free silver, 16 Jo 1." On the square was a lemonade stam bearing tne inscription:. •‘The Till man Dispensary.” Senator Tillman began by saying he had .Just returned from the great Gotham with its millions people and billions of money, and in three speeches there “feel of ’em,” ■ cal questions. I am glad to get I feel at home and among friends. We are poor, but we are' honest. That country is reeking with corruption, and wallowing in wealth. We are locally free but nationally enslaved feel liltel am talking toTillmanites in one of our northern counties. We are the same people anyhow, the same in blood anoln tradition—the boundary line between the two Caoolinas is only ere had the opportunity to 1,” not, however, on politi- is. 1 am glad to get back. as a geographical division anyhow, lean therefore touch your sores and point out the places where they need a little ointment, for I have felt the shoe yineh myself. The Southern people are the poorest Anglo-Saxons on this continent; they are the most homoge ueous people in the world. At tn< North, the foreign element has come in, while we are native to the manor born. The entire South has been hek together since it was overpowered, by the paramount issue of wnite acy. This solid South is dissolving It is breaking up. We gave allegiance to the Democratic party of the North, because it was the only party tha , kept the heels of our former slaves off our necks. The Democracy in my State has never had any other significance than white supremacy. Party ties have loosened their grasp and other issues have come before us. Wehadnooth er party to affiliate with but the Na tional Democratic party. Within the 'last few years other issues than the race questions have become of absorb ing interest to the Southern people We have come to realize that tne pro ducers of the country were systematic ally robbed by a vicious financial sys tem and that, while we ehrned money, others enjoyed the fruit of our labors. How have our people been educates along these lines? Alliance has done it The Alliance sprung up in the West and spread lise a prairie fire eastward and southward. It taught a doctrine of placing partisan politics questions to one side. The Democracy has always been for free silver in its platform, b&t it has uever been able to bring any relief to the people because it never at any time controlled al' three branche^of the government. The Republican always represented the ckUKi and stood for gold mono metallism and their attitude on this subject, together with their mal&naut warfare on the Southern people, kept us loyal to the National Democracy till our producers had almost reaches the starvation point. In my State we had the ground cleared, broke am ready for the seed, and when the Alli ance came, we reaped a harvest. Voice—We did too. ■» Tillman—But you didn't get it soon as we did ; nor in the way we <! You sluifed off. We didn't. We took charge of the Democratic party am ran iL You went outside and got whipped. The machine was too strong and you got beat. At least 36,000 of the Reformers orTillmanites in South Oarolina were anxious to go out. said no; we’ve got the only origi seed corn of Democracy in South Car olina. The minority claim they are Democrats, and that Tillman and his party were populists. The name De mocracy means the rule of the majori ty and that's what we have. We suck ed the principles 0/ Democracy with our mother’s milk. We are Demo crats still in every fibre of our being. Senator Tillman then told of how he had fought Cleveland at the Chicago convention. Although we were indig nant at his nomination 1 told ouy peo ple that we could not- go out of the party; that we had gone into the pri mary and we had to stay. We kept the Democratic party to its moorings. Weaver received only 2,400 votes in the State. Cleveland then turned down our Alliance Congressmen in regard to the patronage, which was given to our opponents. Cleveland thought his mess of pottage would buy us. Poor old fool! (cheers.) We held to the party and you could have done it, and so could the Populists in Georgia and elsewhere. You retired and committed a great blunder. Otherwise you would con trol the machine now. But at the last election the Democratic party, while Ransom and Jarvis were disputing as to which should be Senator, and no one considered a Democratic defeat possible, broke un. The man here (pointing to Senator Butler) quietly cooned up the got the permission mid away he went.' (Cheers.) There is this advantage in the breaking op of the South polit ically. It has broken up the North As long as the South had solid, hooked together as f Aband of steel on the race issue, 1 North .under sectional appeals to 1 old voters to vote as they shot, re- mained solid also / v - The signs of the times point to a general breaking up, and a new al- Bgnment of parties. The masses have "by a vanal press. News- 1 bought up by the money power pHliag. with all manner of ao- falsehoods to befuddle 1 tho minds of the on tree, the people. HI stand by the par- 1 bat I will never follow anymore meals and thieves. (Cheers) Tne best definition of patri otism is enlightened self-interest When you let it go onlv. so far as not to impose fp your neighbor you are a patriot; if not you are a rascal. The whole situation is boiled down .into this question: Shall the govern this country for their own I’ve their diamonds and finer *T. Mk heart bleeds for the poor fools who are going to continue to let this go on. (Cheen.)' Those there arc? living like Roman fellows up [ving like Koman lords. No, that's not it; Roman lords ain’t in it with them? (Laughter.) Wasn’t that a fine penonnance of our Secretary of the Treasury and President last fall? Instead of re deeming the paper of the government in coin as the law provides, they paid it in gold. They created a panic by pretending that tne gold would all Dow out. Under the plea of maintaining parity, they drove silver down and E ld up, and they issued the bonds to yglod—what pretense! Taking in non-interest bearing paper in one win dow and issuing bonds out of another. Bak ’ r (Applause.) Such treachery lough to make a man hold his >le Puritans ran their government on thii proposition. The world was createt for the saints, and we are saints (Cheersand laughter). There is onlv one side to this question. I’ve read af the gold bug speeches, and they have neither facts nor argument to sustain their position. But some will say to me: “You ace a Puritan, when you deny that you can be wrong, while charging others with error.” I wish that there was some man here to get up and throw rocks at me —gold rocks. 1 wants to pitotT into somebody so bad that I am almost ready to pitch into Butler a little, for I am suen a rock thrower I hardly know how to make a speech along any other line. Money is the medium by which we rexchange »commodities. Bartering was a cumbersome scheme. Some thing of value was needed for a me dium; gold and silver coin fit the bill. For a long time these metals were ex changed by weight in all countries. But this too was cumbersome. The E vernments coined the two metals to silitate exchange. The world got along very well with this scheme. It’s only in the last twenty-five yegrs you hear them say we want only one of these metals for a standard of value and let that be fixed. These two metals have an intrinsic value- The only other money is paper money, and pro mised to pay the gold or silver. This is a provision of law. Carlisle says law cannot affect the value of these metals. This is false because gold is made tlie standard. You can carry it to the mint and get it coined. You can’t do it with silver, because it is contrary to law. Melt a silver dollar and a gold dollar. The silver in a dol lar will be worth only 60 cents, while the gold bullion is worth 1*00 cents. I .:nv makes it so- Go and get it recoinec and see. Gold is as much fiat money as silver The law says a silver dollar is a dollar and then that it cannot be recoined- And this is the wrong that is done you—silver is driven out and denied mintage- Political economists are al unamimous on the law of supply and demand governing price. If articles are plentiful, the prices go down, and vice versa. Bo it is with gold and silver. As long as the coin age of both metals , was the law the would prospered. Tfie description of silver as a iqpney metal and refusing it mintage destroy ed one-half of tlie money of the world and the consequence has been a'con tinued and prolonged fall in prolong ed fall in prices. The result of this conspiracy against the people has been ground betwen the upper and neither mill stones till they can’t get another drop of it, (Applause.) If you con tinue tosupport thisschemeof robliery by your votes, you should be put in a lunatic asylum- Why was silver de monetized, sneaked through Congress and signed by the President without anyofie knowing anything about it ex cept those who were in the conspiracy? In 1873, when this iniquity was per pelrated, the United States owed 42, 500,000,000. Sherman and his crowd decided that if they cut off half of the yard stick they could increas the value of tills debt to 11 ipse who held it The panic of’73 followed the demonstraion act, but it was several years before the people found out wliat wasthe matter. The agitation ior the remonetization of silver resulted in the passage of the AllisOn-Bland bill over the president's veto. This, however, only-provided for the purchase of $2,(XX),000 of silver a month for coinage, but not/or free coiqMb. It was a compromise, the best that could be obtained atHhe time. While there was a majority in favor of free coinage there was not •enough majority to override a veto. The gold bugs then made dire predictions of disaster, because of the declaration by Congress that all ot the obligations of tho government were payable in coin and the partial rehabilitation of silver. It was said by the gold bugs that the national creuit would be injured and that the debt could not be refunded, except at a very high rate of interest; but the prophets were liars then, as they are liars now, for the bonds we/e refunded at 3 and 31 per cent., and some wore even continued at 2 per cent rather that accept the money for them. Now, they tell you that a sillver dollar is worth only 50 cents. They tell you that we want to pay our debts in SOcents dollars. Lying thieves, they are, when they say this, for we paying them witn 2(X)-cent dollars. To; illustrate: India is on a silver )asis and the- Indian cotton farmer when he sells his cotton in Liverpool x>ys 42 worth of silver for every dol ar of gold he receive*, in effect receiv ing 10 cents a pound with which to jay debts, while the American fanrfer receives the gold and must pay his debt with it at the rate of 5 cents a pound for cotton. So it is with wheat. Carlisle says that if we restore sil ver to free coinage we will rob our dear English creditors and Northern creditors. I’ve no patience with the 'ellow who says stand still and letme jet that other dollar. (Cheers.) -This whole scheme, and all the plans and )redictions of disaster are simply to lighten the people into remaining quiet, while these robbers steal our earnings. They say that the govern- ment must go out ofbanking. What is it doing m banking? This means the retirement of over five hundred million of paper money and silver cer- •ate ami greenbacks, and the issu- ance of gold bonds. That will further contract the currency. They have not only robbed you; they now want o rob your children. The bond* of the United States are selling away up ronder above par, showing that the wople of other countries and our own want them. Why can’t some gold ■reenback paper be as good as >onds t All of this is i n tendeoto wring interest from the people, and give you paper currency, based on what? Is t the intention to have the National lanking system enlarged on a gold basis alone and make the government S arantee the notea? The bonds and i greenbacks rest on the same basis, 'he confidence of the people in the ’ovemment. If the bonds are good, why not thegreenbackst Fiat money ley cry! The bonds are fiat. If one , *per is good with interest, why isn’t par-1the other without it! They want the interest; that’s where the shoe pinches. is enoug head down in shame -especially a man who voted for them, as I did. Senator Tillman then read an extract from the Morgan-Belmont contract, He also quoted what President Cleve land said in his message in regard to the interest on the bonds.- Here wc have the President and Secretary con fessing that this great country with seventy millions of people and seventy billions of property is so poor that we must go out and pay teibute to Shy- lock. What would Aim re w Jackson have said to them: “By the eternal, you must take what the government promised, and git out or Pll kick you out.” (Cheers.) Jackson refused to black the Kn'glish officer’s boots; Cleve land and Carlisle arc today licking the shoes of John Bull’s Jews. (Loud cheering.) They ar jue that if we restore silver to the right our dollars will only be worth 50 cents. This they tell to the working men. They ap peal to the wage earners, factory operatives and clerks: “You want sound money and as good a dollar as anybody else’s dollar ; you want liar t do your to buy as much as possible.” This means that we farmers must pay the piper. One half of the people of this country is composed of fanners and we.voted it on ourselves. We are no longer consumers, however. We are too poor to buy. The army o; tramps is increasing. Prices for labor have been driven down. We rausl G t a reasonable price for our products fore wages ana prices will increase. We are the basis of all prosperity; we grow prosperous before the merchant can sell us any goods; or the manufac turer can increase the wages of his em ployes and give employment to the idle thousands. The wage-earner is working at starvation rates because these idle men staniL ready to take his place, and until there is work for all at fair wages, this must continue. This work wul never be furnished as long as the farmers are too poor to buy. The home market has been destroyec by the impoverishment of the agricul tural class and demonitization of sil ver has been the’prime fector in pro ducing their poverity. What are you going to do about it' The shoe pinches; the blood is even running out. There's not enough pa per money; there’s nuthing to base i; on, and until we get silver back, we are goin to suck the hind teat with no milk in it. (Cheers.) Those who tel" you that this is not making this coun try a nation of slaves are either liars, or they are deceived themselves. I told you that the old parties were breaking up. They have been telling you the tariff was the cause and means of your being robbed. When| Cleveland got in and the Democrats took charge of the govern ment for the first time in thirty yOars, did he call Congress to relieve us bylowerinj the tariff? No. When he got in he said to Congress, come hero,and repeal the Sherman law and stop this. Didn't ’ tliey keep their pledges?. Oh, my! (Cheers.) Cleveland used his high oillce and his patronage to debauch the people’s representatives. He was a Judas. repf Wh hat wjre they? Benedict Arnolds, and worse ! (Cheers.) The Democrats and Republicans voted together then for golubugism. Some of them not millionaires then, but I expect they are now. (Cheers.) Now, can't all these people who are opposed to such schemes—the Democrats and Populists and Republicans—come together and put out a ticket that will stand a rains Wall and Lombard streets? Can't they do this, under a new name if necessary, and go into the fight tp win. Voice—Yes. \ Tillman—Weil, that’s a mighty weak cry, but you people here are divided into bitter factions. All, I know what it is to have a bitter personal feeling of that kind, but friends the time has come to put ]>alriotism above all party feelings, drop factional feelings to the rear, put all our shoulders to the wheel and rescue the country. You have everything easy of attainment here in this matter. How will the Republicans of the West and the Democrats of the South get together? Voice—By going into the Populist parly. (Cheers.) Tillman—Ah, that's so simple that you ought to have a chromo for it. (Cheers.) But. my friends, this is all fun. This is a time to be serious. We have only twelve months in which to work. In that time, if we all haven’t come to gether, then our handcuffs are forged on us. We will have on the gold bug bonds, and we will be in abject finan cial slavery for a generation. I hope hat you have enough true men here o send to the electoral college a dele gation above suspicion; men who would be scared if they nominated a gold bug to go home for fear that the outraged people would hang them for it. This is the kind of a delegation we e going to send. The Republicans cannot take the name of Democrat. They hate name ;they have spoken of us as.J >er heads,” and all that. We can ake the Republican name.- for we lave been- taught from babyhood to late that name. - And we can't join he Populists and swallow all your be- iefs, for you have too many cranks at your bead and too many cranky notions. Voice—We can’t jo back to Cleve- and Democracy. ' Tillman (reaching down and grasp ing the hand of the owner of the voice)—Gimme your hand on it. (Cheers.) Now, my friends, we South Caroli nians are going to the National con vention to support only a strong free silver man. If we don't get a Demo crat, then as a last resort, we may lave to vote for a Populist But we will not under any circumstances vote ’or a Democrat who is not fiatfooted on the free silver platform. The leaders of tne Democratic party lave left us a shadow for the sub- are stance of a party; we have the name left; all the principles have gone! Therefore why should not you Demo crats go off and ray start up a new party for North Carolina and for the United States? Voice—The other fellows might fool us. Tillman—My friend, yop go ahead; leave that fooling business for Marion Butler and those fellows to take care of. It is the struggle over your local offices that is keeping you fellows apart in this State. If you keep on, cnasing after the false Gods; I hi our Axip- can't you kee ing after the false Gods; I hope the Populists will whip you out Let us do so now and start tne movement that will save the country from ruin. Follow our lead in SouthyCarolina, and I will guarantee that we will lead you down the straight road. Voice—And take fdary Ann Butler along in the procession- with you. (Cheers.) Tillman—Well, yes, I’ll take him along, He has said he was willing to put aside all factional and party feel- Mgs and notions and vote for any man standing on the free silver plat form; that he wanted to be in a party with no other platform but free silver. He is for his country and not for any creed. (Prolonged cheering.) Senator Tillman thanked the audi ence for its attention, and took his seat. While the audience, which was composed of more than four-fifths Populists, dian't relish tlie hot shot he S ave them about the cranks they had, e seemed to make Afasting impres sion upon them. “Mary Ann” Butler, as he is famil iarly called by the Tar Heels, was then vigorously called for. He was not on the stand, having gone up street a few moments before. Some old fellow re marked that he had gone to get a drink of Tillman's dispensary and Till man remarked that it would oe “migh ty good stuff.” After awhile Marion Butler came and started out on a speech nearly three hours in length. He seemed to have -the crowd at his beck and call. He twitted them about calling him,. “Mary Ann, - ’ saying Grover Cleve land had given his latest girl that name ana had a monopoly on it. (Cheers.) He came to hear Tillman; every time he heard him, he wanted to hear him again. Tillman was a Democratr and he was a Populist for-, ever and forever. But how many Democrats have you got in this coun try like Senator Tillman i I want you to show to the people of this State that you have learned that there is some thing in this country bigger than all labels. Show them that a Populist will take the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln under any kind of a label. That’s the politics of a Populist and that is the true patriot he that puts the welfare of his coun try above any party label. G id save any man who is a Democrat and is not the kind of a Democrat, Populist or whatever you may call him that Tillman is. Luther had to leave nis creed to preserve Its purity. When he had told the people of North Carolina long ago that tne financial question was the question of the hour they hat called him a country crank. He tolc them that this was the trouble, the thing that was making hard times, He repeated at great length his mil lionaire illustration reported in his speech made at Tirzah. He took a hand primary to see how many woult vote to perpetuate the present condi tion of things. A forest of hands went up in the negative. An honest financial system the country was com pelled to have at once. r If sheep were the medium of exchange in that State one man could secure a corner on al' the sheep and he would have ever body else at his mercy. So it wou be if a gold standard was adopted. He wanted a financial system in which every dollar had to stand on its own bottom. At this point it began to pour down rain and the crowd adjourned to'the courthouse where he concluded his •speech, which was a very long one. When Senator Butler completed his long speech, only portions of which I have given, the crowd pressed arounc him and shook his hands as they cheered him. I had a talk with him about the proposed hew party, andii, now seems certain that the plan of the free-silver-new-party men is to.go into the national convention of the Demo cratic iiarty in the hope of controlling it through hard work in each State prior to its assembling. Then, failing to control it, they will retire from the hall, issue their call to dissatisfied Re publicans who are for free silver, am the Populists, to come in with them and form a new party, with victory in Sight. —Columbia State. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Kule of the Mob, Ellenuuko, Wash., Aug 14.—At an early hour this morning Charles Vin cent, who "shot Mike KoJohopp hi a drunken brawl, Sunday, was lynched. A large mob gathered at midnight and attacked the jail about 1 o’clock.. The sheriff made resistance, but had small force of men and was overpow ered. Vincent was hanged to a rail road bridge and his body shot full of holes. Ilis hearing was to have tak en place today. Last night John Burglin, who was stabbed by Vincent’s father in the same row, died from his wounds. Young Vincent had seryed time in the Oregon penitentiary foj burglary. Within an hour after the younger Vincent was hanged his fath er was also taken from the jail and hanged beside him. Sheriff Stinson ;e a strong effort to save the men, but th«4 mob was too strong for him. The jail is a weak affair, and there was no trouble in gaining access to it, but the men were confined in steel cages, which gave the mob a good deal of trouble in opening. The Vincents made no fight, oeing apparently over come with fear. Some of the most prominent citizens in town participat- od in the lynching A few were What Dirac tor Bcur Haa to Say A boat mam. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 14.—There is considerable improvement to note in the Condition or crops in general and corn in particular over the west ern and northern counties ■ where the drought was partially relieved every where and in some places entirely so, except that in Abbeville and Ander son the showers were partial and at best insufficient ^ There were general showers on the 6th over the upper portion of the State, the rainfall amounting to from one to two inches. There Was rain in some portion of the State every day of the week. "The rainfall varied from 00 to 80 In Darlington; Colleton, Fairfield, Anderson, Greenville, Clarendon, Richland, Williamsburg, Charleston, Lexington and Spartammrg counties; from 50 to inches in Barnwell, Berke ley, Beaufort, Hampton, Laurens, Sumter, Kershaw, Chesterfield. Lan caster, Chester, Abbeville; over 2.00 inches in Aiken, Newberry, Union, Edgefield, Pickens, Orangeburg ana Florence; at Conway the week’s rain fall was 5.09 inches, and at McColl in Marlboro, 4.50 inches. The average of thirty-eight rainfall reporls was 1.30 inches, and the normal for the same period is approximately 1.47. The,- temperature was very even, having been slightly, but steadily above the usual, tne entire week, the excess averaging 2 degrees per day. The highest temperature reported Was 98 at Columbia on the 12th; the low est 63, at Santnc, on the 8th. The averavge temperature of the week for the State, deduced from thirtv-one stations evenly distributed througnout, was 81 degrees, and the normal for the same period is approximately 79 degrees. The Sunshine ranged from 57 to 92 imle, with an aver- A Tarribla Fall. Chicago, Atfg. 13.—At the mam moth coliseum show buUding, which is being erected opposite the World s Fair grounds on Sixty-third street, this afternoon, Samuel McCarney and R. McNeil were. instantly killed by the falling of a massive cross beam of iron. Five hundred men were at work in the open space bounded by . the four walls, placing and bolt ing’ iron girders which are to| span the width of the structure. Mc Carney and McNeil were perched on one of the girders, 150 feet in the air. They crept to the centre of the beam in order to put the bolts in position, when the two men fen it | shalce. The ends had not been fasten ed to the walls. Workmen shouted from below, but the warning came too | late; The great mass swayed for a moment, then overbalanced and top pled to the ground, carrying the occu pants to their death. Their bodies were shockingly mangled. The scores of workingmen barely had time to es cape being struck by the falling beams. MACHINERY AT FAG rO v R PRICES, i ran^ per cent, of the possF Ft masked, but the majority made no at tempt to disguise themselves. There has been a good deal of lawlessness in the neighborhood for the past year, and it was tlie general belief that a sharp lesson was needed by the evil- disposed characters who had taken up their quarters in town. The civil au thorities have not yet taken any ac tion with regard to the lynching. iphi- last Scared the Darkles. Beaufort, Aug. 12.—The Am trite reached Port Royal harbor night to be ready to make the test of he strength of the dry dock which is completed. Her arrival was heralded up to Beaufort, a distance of ten or twelve miles to where she is anchored bylT " ier not flashes of effulgence and thought that a volcano or some “debil of a ting” had broke loose down the bay. age of about 74 per cent, for the State, wnich is considerably in excess of the usual, and in places was damaging;' where there was also excessive rain, causing a steam-like vapor to raise, which was injurious to crops. There w.ere high local winds on the 6th ip Pickens and Union counties, and a severe cyclonic storm in the vicinity of Santuc, Union county, on tlie 10tn (Saturday), that broke down a great deal of corn, tore up some by the roots, unroofed houses, destroyed fruit, etc. The reports on cotton show that while in the main it has slightly im- roved during the week, yet in places Is condition has retrograded. Abbeville county reports rust, lice and shedding of forms and the plant turning yellow. Many other places also report shedding. Comparing it resent condition with the same dates t year, the plant is from ton days to three weeks later, lacks uniformity of condition and the acreage greatly re duced. A few sections only report as fine a crop as last year. The regular and some special reports on corn confirm the reports by coun ties of last week, except there is con siderable improvement in the northern and western counties, where the drought was greatly relieved, which S ut latest planting in promising con- ition. In Anderson and Abbeville, but little improvement noted; In Chesterfield, Cnerter, Lancaster and Laurens, the improvement is most marked on bottom lands of late plant ing. Corn in those counties that was planted late in May and early in June is a failure. 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The suite above described to a spe- , and does not appear in therefore it to useless lustrations of this suite, and while you are delaying writing someone else to getting the bargain. We assure you that we will not ship but one suite In your neighbor hood at this price. After one suite has been shipped In the neighbor hood the price will go to nt least 130.00. . 1- F. PADGETT, 848 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. Every Glnnefy should be equipped with the Thomas Elevating and Distributing Machinery for handling, oleaning, ginning and packing cotton. Ouesingleoonttnuons lint flue nod con denser tor n battery o( two or more gins. Revolving double box steam press, self- packing. No hands employed except to. put ties on bole. No belts. No paMes, No screws to give trouble. Saves, labon and insurance, Improves grade of cotton* and makes money. We offer atoe. an ex tensive line of cotton gins, presses, cane, mills rorh mills and saw mllto. ‘•Also Talbott, Llddel, and Watertomn engines. V ' ' ? £* Our Rice Huller, which prepares ribei randy for the'table or market should be at eterymUl; ” -a—.*.-- V. C. Badham, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, S. C. L" ' LAND. LAND LAND. Why not secure a good plantation? We - make you an offer more liberal than has - ever been offered in this country. We will > | sell you n plantation for one-sixth cash, . balance in five years on the Installment a, ' plan. Will further take cotton In payment . at 7 cento per pound. We have some four or five plantations of [400 to 600 acres, well improved and In « . fine state of cultivation. Also have quite au number of places of all shes from 50 up to> [ 400 acres. These lauds are in the heart of the ft*- [ moos Piedmont Belt, lying within 3 to 19 I miles of the prosperous city of Rook Hill. W. L. RODDEY & CO., BOCK HILL, 8. C. $50 OR $19 [strawberry Plants Read This! ecorn crop, mud: y made. Fodder will quite general this week; a great deal has already been gathered in fine cqn diton. Excessive rainfall is affecting corn injuriously in Horry county; too little rain m the Piedmont section general ly- Tobacco curing continues and the reports all a^cee as to the fine quality of this years crop, due to both the fitness o£ the soil for tobacco and skill used in curing. Peas are ripening and the crop is a line one in most sections, especially so where the rains have been abundant. Turnip sowing continues as the con dition of the ground permits, and there will be a large crop planted. Sugar cane .and sorphum are not doing very well. Molasses boiling has begun in the lower part of the State. The general condition of sweet po tatoes show gains, but the crop is late and, comparatively, a small one, ow ing to scarcity of seed at first and after wards poor condition of the ground for planting slips until quite recently. l-ate peaches and fruit generally of inferior quality, except apples in An derson county, which promise a full crop.; Garden truck along the coast in fine conditon; elsewhere about ruined. The conlition of rice is report*d'to be uniformly excellent. r - . . — - ■— A Poor MarkHiunn. North Yakima, Wash,, Au^. 13.— Without intending to shoot either of them, Charles McGonigle last night shot and killed his. father, a ranch owner, near this eity, and fatally wounded fin Antenum blacksmith named Evans. He surrendered and, was brought here, by the neighbors. The murderer had slandered Eyans’ daughter,and that caused the tragedy. Evans, his wife and daughter, drove to the McGonigle ranch to force him to retreat. Young McGonigle first shot at Evans, but killed nis own father, and he then fired at Evans’ daughter, wounding her father. , * 1 The Green Eyed Monster. Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 14- Sheriff Haynes has captured the wholesale poisoner who drugged a pail of water with st Horseford Park Monday night. Char les William’s wife is tlie guilty onew 3he did it to get Williams out of ths- way so she would get the heavy life- insurance he carried. She says she put the poison in the water because her husband was paying too much, at tention to several girls and wanted, to kill them all. The four victims are worse today, having a relapse this morning, and also convulsions, Mrs. Williams is in jail. 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Its complete and beautiful stand to a fitting casket for the treasure wUWp. aad your reasonable price makes a. first-1 class machine a possibility tu ttane by[ whom it to. most needed -1 murid Uke l see s new "Superior” In the home of every [ working woman in the land. Mrs. Ju S. Reynolds. Columbia, 8. C., July 11,1895. The Machine above mentioned, with a full set of attachments, will be shipped to any address on receipt of Nineteen Dol lars. Write for circular. Motion this paper. . ' BENJ. BEALE. 770 WARREN AVE., CHICAGO* ILL. And in fact Ml Mads of ytanfe SET OUTU by using the! be r McSHERRY £S, AUTOMATIC Sjvj TRANSPLANTERS &A good <Mwe» and two children are all the force, necessary to set from three to ll ve arena, of plants in a day, aad ICYERY PLANT WATERED at the time it to set oat, and some* dVy soil to drawn around the plants s* ths* tbegroundwill noibake. Nowaitiogfer rain. * Set oat your plants when ttosy are ready. ^ Get a machine and plant for year neighbors. 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Once since thsn there recurred symptoms of its return, when I again resorted to your Remedy and again the trouble disappeared. I believe 1 am Indebted to you fer relief from a very serious affliction.-—r^— Tours truly, Hamilton C. Jones. entery. Infantum, Cholera Cnoiert. IMldren. onatural Cholera Mortore C anatural Drains from the BOwat 9: Faina, Griping and all dlaeasr § of the Stomach and Bowels FITTS' CABMllf* TIV* Is the standard. It coni m children over the critical peettok of teething, and to reoomiaanM b| phystdaas as the friend of Mo4f Adults and Childrao. M to nto^ant to the toste, and nerer. fails to give satisfaction. A m dosss will demonstrate its sofsto ttivevlftaaA Price 35 Me. per hot* ». Ybr sale by druggists, and by .THE MURRAY SI Columbia &- iUG GO.,1 O.