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GOES FOR LYON Sector Tillman Demands Him ia te Columbia Speech. SOME nw HOT TALK. The Senator.Spcok* lo Thousands from thc Capital Steps. Vast Crowds Hear Him Discuss the Dispen sary and State Politics. Skins Lyon Alive. Senator Tillman spoko at Columbia on Monday night, and The State says he was very muoh pleased at his re ception. The hali of the house of rep resentatives being in ado ii unto to hold tho orowd, the meeting was adjourn ed to the por bl co of tho capitol. On the landing midway of the stairs, Sen ator Tillman took his stand and for more than an hour and a quarter ho spoko of State politics, at inc occlu sion saying that lie would go to Wash ington and ropresont tho people as faithfully as ho had dono for 12 years. When he had Ilrst walkod in the door of the hall some cf his friends announced his arrival with hand olap ping and this was taken up all over tho hall. 'Che gallarlos were Ulled with ladles. When ho had got ruom enough on the stops to speak a little Senator Tillman began to address the people by saying that his lirstlnaugu ral address had been delivered from near this very spot, but tho people of Columbia had not turned out to hear him then. He had never been a fav orite lu Columbia. They bad been beaten and were angry and took no part h? thc inauguration. Voice. It's obanged now." Tillman: "Well, lt's not because 1 have ohanged." And then he went on Into a state men that ho had never cherished any 111 feeling toward the people of Co lumbla. For four years he had been govern or, he continued, and then for one term senator and ho had been re-ele?t ed without opposition-except suchas he had la this race. (Laughter). Six years ago his opponent had made one speech and had quit, lu this cam paign he had not thc pleasure of even meeting his distinguished opponent, Col. Lumpkin. Ho believes that he will go back with tho undivided vote of the people. At least, ho hopes to do so. Hut he has mapped out a programme which oalls for 20 speeches in tho next few weeks and if any feel aggrieved be cause he will exercise tho right ol a free oitizen aud discuss issues, "they are at liberty to soratch my name oil the tioket again as 1?,000 of you dui six yoars ago." "Some people say I am trying Lo be your boss, to uictaie to you," ho con tinued, ' They know they are not telling the truth. 1 have been your leader. 1 have had the courage to come out on the line and leao the lighting whenever I saw my duty. "Why should .1 surrender my rights as a oitlzeur4 Why should 1 not give ex pression to these views?" (Applause) TUB maeno LAW, With these prefatory remarks, Senator Tillman declared that in the counties which had voted ont thc dis pensary there aie ??.uuo Democratic voters, hut the dispensary had been voted out In the general elections In which less than 20,000 voters pr.rtici pated. A great many had beet, denied the right to vote as they did not have their legistratlon ceri.Ii oates. Others had been too much befuddled hy the corruption and the talk of corruption, Then to thc audience, as a Rich land audience, he said: "if you don't want tho dispensary, vote In the primary where all tree Democrats oan participate and seno men to tho legislature who wilt take it out." Voice: "Take it away." Tillman: "If yen don't want lt, voto it out. Tue real meauing of TUlmanlsm ls to let one vote go as far as another. " He then went on to say that there is no need for factionalism. As an instance he cited that 'the once de spised Hen Tillman" could speak to so large an audience as this in Columbia, thus proving that factionalism h. dead. "I have not come here to 'meddle' with tho view of throwing my Influ ence lnany man's iavor or against any man. Au between most of the candi dates, 1 have no advice to ofter In your choice. But 1 have a grit vance that ls In a manner personal, 1 have something that must be said, ano this ls the only oppoitunity 1 shall have of saying it in tho gentleman's -1 mean thc man's presence, for be goes with the campaigners, and 1 have no intention of following that mena gerie on its oucus circuit. 1 have a little circuit ol my own. "Last spriog -jn Aprh lt was In pursuance of wnat 1 thought my duty, 1 wrote an address to the people, lt was sent down here and pm,ten In tin papers. I couldn't see Why this huh righteous ditpensarj Investigating committee couldn't get down tu v,oit. investigating wi ut. they were pleased to bty;o 'that rotten c< s? pool down on tho Conrane ' A aa. Lg other thing I took ILO lil cr t y in that a'J dress ti warn the committee about thosi $800,000 or more of et bis for liquor which they bau held up. "I contended then, and contend now, that not one dollar's worth ol all that liquor was ever legally bought, because the law requires competitive bidding, and I defy any oiti7.cn to show me any chai co of competition In thc advertlsemtnts er bios. I warned the oommltteo against hold lng up these billa, and get ting into contaot with liquor drummers and liquor lawyeri ; else thc drat tiling they knew there would lr: scandal af fecting their own characters. "1 won't discuss tho work of thai committee very fully. They seemed at Ilrst very aggressive; but as soon at. they began roally to get near to some thing, they began to peter backward. They brought a lot of witnesses down from Newberry. Threats wore made. The witnesses left. The oommlttei would not let them testify. Parker, o' Greenville, was asked to tell some thing that ho didn't know himself, but that a man In Baltlmoro had told hlml Very naturally he refused. At tho solicitation of the committee, the supremo court mado him talk. Ho bold of how he hao been assured in Baltimore by La?aban, that a high political ofilcla) lu South Carolina had been tho agent of thc Lauahaus, tak ing their money for his work, in con unction with whiskey orders. Then Mr. Parker balked again. He wouldn't toll i bo c ni dal's name. And this holy and righteous committee, that had ' uot soruplod to make him start tho relation of a privato conversation be yond Hid St&& al ov. s ^ matter of wbloh he personally know nothing, imtantly voting not to make him tell who this man was. Why not? Is there any fairness or honesty of In vestlgation there? Oh, thia great graft-killing I This humbug! "Witnesses from Newberry told about bats full of money, and how the man who bad tho money, and another man who was interested in or em ploy od by, or who was controlled by or who oontrolled, the Richland Dis tilling oompany, stood on a ohalr and peeked over a transom to watoh some whiskey drummers glvo money to i somebody else I "All this trlvaland lnoons(qumtlal talki This burrah about rottenness! And oorruptioul This marching un der banners blazoned, 'I am opposed to gratti' Who ls not opposed to graft? Some of you might ?teal; but you wouldn't voto to put In o 111 oe a man you thought would steal. 'Op posed to g raft P I tell you, this 'in vestlgation' ls as big a humbug as was eyer put before a decent people. "You beard our noble old Itoman, Goneral Youmans, say today why he bad not prosecuted tbeso alleged graft ors. Governor Hayward wrote an or der to the attorney goneral to begin prosecutions at once. General You mans told you why nobody had boon arrested-because he had no ullldavita on which to begin prosecution. 1 toll you there ls nob the veriest tyro at any bar-there is no school hoy-who docs uot know that a prosecuting oitlclal must have, before bo may begin tc prosecute, an ailldavlt in whioh some body swears that the accused bas brok in a ?li? lu le. "Tuen last April, after 1 had writ ten thlB address of warning, Lyon, ic his peaceful tilico lu Abbeville, wrote to an Lttomcy representing cerlalt whiskey claimants, and who had boer after him asking 'Why don't you paj our bills?' and explained that TlUmar was seeking to discredit ibo board uni ho ought to remember that ho wai himself under Investigation. He said too, that Tillman in his testimony before tho committee had claimed hi paid Hubbell rebates for crediting tin dispensary, and '1 went to Ginolnnat lo BCD if he has told tho truth and i Hubbell g.>t the money. I havi heard, too, that Tillman while gover nor received a piano as a gift from < whiskey house. ' "Woll, I have been charged oftci with stealing rebates, 1 was ohargei with that before 1 left the governor' mansion. But this piano bualnc was new to mo. 1 don't know wu started lt. When Lyon, if he ha boen enough of a gcntlemau to hav represented old Abbeville oredltaolj could easily have found out. wbei where, how, and fro n whom 1 go that plano-and what I paid for ll He instead went ab..ut to show thu your twice elected governor-yoi; senator, virtually thrice elected, ha sunk so low that-Oh, gentlemen, know no word for it but a cuss wor so Rtrong I can't say it hero, ai:d will have to ?topi "I had bought the plano when came hero; two years before the di pouhary was even thought of. No, tl easy way to lin I cub about that plat wouldn't suit the our dog pr open j ties of that man who so misrepresen Abbeville. Mlireprosonts? Why c 1 say it? Because with pride ar; pleasure 1 can 'ay that lu the th rt heated oampalgns beginning wit 181)0, Abbeville was the only eounl in whlon 1 wau never treated wit tho slightivit discourtesy. Always I the Others there were some di ri blackguards to hurl be utln al ruo c the sued. 1 found only tho cou'tot of the old South Oaroltmilri Abbevill And this man, oomiog from arno? BUOll a people, voled for by then dares to tell ever his dirty signal uri that Tillman took a measly plano fro; a liquor house 1 "1 have waited patiently for thc r port of that sub-committee, that wi goirg to Ch.oinnabl to lind out fro Hubbell whether ho gob bho rebates said 1 allowed him. I have re? Leon's report to thc governor, 1 which be state ? what he tried bo c and what he fall-.d to accomplish, knew the young mau ha'l lis!?ned I his code:Heg newspaper.-, and had gi r.he sv.oiled hoad. But 1 thougl lhat when be came to himself-wh<j .ie. had had time to cool elf and sett down, he would make sumo amend But. no. ll-; made tho mattel as d roctly porsoua! as he could. 1 had c pectod that after he had recovert somewhat ne would have the decent and manliness to say In his form.il r port, 'There is nothing in lt,' or I write me a private letier saying 1 had erred and was sorry, "Did he do lt? No'l He stood I it. And 1 here deny it as a moat 1 famous lie-1 I hope you uudorstat ihat BO far a-i the ri.e.; for attorm general ls concerned, . would ba' neon ul?(l to have kept my hands ( i but 1 felt that my solf-respeot d maud ed, and that 1 owed it as a dui 0 you, to denounce hbo hore ns slanderer. 1 have already cadud hi a liar. " Physical endurance has a limit, am almost done. I have worked hat er In tl io leadership of this rai i wu rate bill during the past Session than ever old In any six montllB of my Hf 1 came homo on a Saturday and sta lid ono night, Then ah obligation had mace tu spi-i, k In Illinois cadi mc away, nine hundred milo. 0 ii; h;g back, I spoke at Sandy Spring md got 1 ?roal 11 o'clock m the nigh to t: ave at 0 o'olbck In in-; morn lt for ni) h IU)C 1 ; Tri Mon. 1 spout Ol titbit at home. Now I am nero, diad make live more speeches tb week, six bexb week, and six cac luring the two following weeks, Tin I shall leave you io seule tho que don. And settle lt for yourftolvtbl "Weigh all inls hullabaloo abm Yoiican'ttl an lt,' and 'It's hop os.ily corrupt,' and vote. Vote f rourit Ive.-; but for G id's sake pi hese fenof>8braddlorn out of bini nea <i:i those howdedoolng, baby klssln miling politicians for all Maul ''I didn't expect this audience, lld nob know that there were son unbars Btlll smouldering. 1 was* n iure bul that you would feel, some ,oii, that lt was beneath yi u to con mt to hear your senator, as you felt leneath you to o imo to hour me win 1 w,s your governor, bub 1 mc icariliy appreciate your presence t tight. When I go imo; to imo semi L shall try to servo you, ns I ha ;erved you in the past six years; a promise you that, whatever m lomo, you shall never have cause ic ashamed of your senator." There are no orphanages In Ai raiia. Every child not supported ?urents becomes a ward of tba stai s plaoed In a private family and pi idod with board and olothea un ho fourteenth birthday. LYON'd ?EPLY CO 'HIM DION ll N CI ATION OP SKNA TOR B. It. TUBMAN. Se Admits that the Committee Found Nothing Against the Senator, To the Editor of The State: Noe having been present at the inseting at tho State house Monday night it was impossible for me to know Just what remarks had been made by Senator Tillman in regard to myself, but assuming the reports in tile morning papers to bo correot, I will Bay that ib is quito nattering to know that the senator has approved of every position I as ono of the minor ity members of the oommitteo have taken. I am glad to fool that al though denounolng me, Senator Till man praotioally approvod of all my work and i?Horts on the investigating committee-if not directly, thon in directly. He wanted to know why we did not examine witnosses brought herc from Newberry in February. The answer he should know. Had my vote been sutil aient, the committee would have insisted on the evidence from those witnesses being mado a part of our re cords. Ile wanted to know why tho com mittee did not ask Mr. L. W. Parkor who Lanahan'a polltloal agent was last year. Sonator Tillman should nave known by tho published voto of lille, commtttoo that I was not rcspon Hlble for bVils falluro. 1 did ask those questions. Tho majority of the com mittee voted that Mr. Parker should not answer. Senator Tillman sustains mo in my position in those contentions as well as in tho matter of the suspended pay ment of the $700,000 worth of claims. He asked why was not the managor of tho Rijhlaud distillery tub on the stand to oorrob ?rate the evidence of O.O, Divis that H. H. Evans had told of Wilson and himself climbing on a table to watch through a tran som to see rebutes paid to othors. Thc reason is that briggs Wilson, at tbat time mauager of tho distillery, has mov6d to Georgia and we have not bien able to get information from him. That, Senator Tillman 1B ono of tho reasons why be was novor put on the stand. About the plano incident. The committee employed a doteotlve to report on what he could hud relative to all dispensary allilrs. This doteo tlve formally and lu writing reported to the sub-oommil.tee that ho had heen told by Mr. Hayes, who was at boat time omneotcd i lllolally with the Mill Creek Distilling company bad given to Gav. Tillman a piano. Il was the duty of the committee, as 1 saw lt, to h.quire Into auch a report. Mr. Hayes was seen and failed tb cou li rm the report submitted to tho committee. After li q airy by the commltteo had failed io secure any creditable evidence, the plano Incident was dropped ai d forgotten, especially as Mr. M. A. Malone had previously fully explained the purchaso of the piano in 1801. It was never charged or stated by me that Gov. Tillman had received a piano from a whiskey bouse, bub there was a rumor to that eli jct, and that there was a rumor to that enY.ob the ofllolal records of tho suboommlttee will show. That was all that wah evor said about the piano. 10ven Senator Tillman Insisted upon full in voBtigation of bis every aot connected with the dispensary and yet fall to :*ee the harm of this h q dry, out Sen alor Tillman should rejoice at the f tllure to lind corroboration of the ru mor that a piano had been sent him by the Mill Greek Distilling company. lt would be humiliating to me to know that at a publie meeting I had been rightfully accused of stabing a falsehood; out knowing that I have always stated the truth and that the trabe Sonator cannot substantiate bib charlo in thlsrespocb-he nob even ab templing to do so-tho shafb which he had Intended to be deadly to me will fall harmlessly at my side. I cannot believe that tho j ?stlce loving people of South Caldina would ?lld Senator Tillman in thc accomp lishment-of his purpose to defeat me. To the p9'jplo ol South Carolina 1 will say that lt ls my purpose to continue m the course I have heretofore pur sued and will not be moved by person il utiaeks, nor will 1 handy abusive ?plthots with any one. 1 regret that Senator Tillman foels personally ag grieved on account of his being Inven iigMed but that has not been an un* JO m mon happening to us in our work. However, Senator Tillman ls thc only me known to me seeking revenge on iccount of lt. Senator Tillman might have in ?uired what the committee had found u tracking down this one of many ru mors and 1 gladly would have told dm the result of our Inquiry, bub be nay have proferred to fondle the im tginary grievance to have a hoak on vhlch to hang abuse instead of argu ment. Or ls be really mad because lt vas my duty to present to the people if tho State convincing evidence of .ne Inherent corruption of t'.io dlspen ary system which be ls working so ?ard to save. 1 wonder, had I agreed o whitewash tho dispensary system, vould such a tirade have been dlreec galnst me._J Kit A s nu LYON, (niven DAIUA^CB. Thc Columbia Record says for In mles causen by a pulllcy set screw, /hieb caught In ble sleeve and eausod he maiming of his hand, Melvin Villiams, colored, was given In com non ph.as Wednesday a verdict against be Southern Cotton O 1 company for amagas In tho sum of 851)0. ITor a ma while the jury was unablo to grce, desiring to be shown the bien nial pulley which was alleged to have auseI the damage. All the evidence ad closed and tho arguments had ?en made, however, and lt did not ?em c insistent with usual practice r exactly expedient to grant the lilli of the jury. They wore soon ack bo their room and kopi there foi ?veral hours. Thoy were permitted < bring tn a sealed verdict; which as opened and road in court Wd'b osclay morning._ r llttiiK<"i Companion. "Lat's play hangman?" said a ming^ter to Lewis Jordey, at Bark 's, N Y. "All right," replied ordoy and fievoral other boys who ero playing with the latter volun iorcd to assist. Jordey was then lioscn to be banged. A rope was laoed around bis nook whllo ho stood pon a box. lt was thou tied to the mb of a trco, and tho box waa klok 1 out from under him. His strug les frightened his playmates, and icy ran away In alarm. A oltl/.cn apponed upon tho scono, who qulok ' out tho ropo. Young Jordey fell ico downward on tho ground. He as unoonBOfous, and before medloal id oould be summoned he was dead, INSANE MAN KILLS/ __ i HIS WIFE ?Nl> OllUiDUISK wui413 Til IO V BLEIS I*. Informs Sis Noig?i???s oi Ute Sfoft Seed and Desoribos the Hor- \ rible Murder. A dlspatoh from Waltorboro to The Stato says Wednesday morning Just boforo daybroak J. W. Irnegan, h well-to-do farmer of Rutilus, Uolloto .1 county, took an axo and slow bis wlfa and three children, whtlo tboy were asleep. The dead aro Mrs. Olivia 1 megan, age 34; bis ohildron, Oarrio, ave B} Thomas, age 4, and Lillie May, age AB soon as bo had slain hil family, Irnegan wont to his nearost neighbor, Mr. Isaac Salsbury, and reported it *o him, Mr. Salsbury and uovoralof the neighbors took Irnegan into custody and carried him to Magistrate Ulraoi, who sont him to Jail here. Whoa soon by a representativo of Tho Stat?., said he had killed his wife and chil dren, but did not know why ho had done so, that ho loved thom dearly and that they had always gotten along well together. Ho said he did not know when lie killed thom, but that lt waa almost daylight, when ho had gotten through. He said he used an axe. Irnegan is a well-to-do farmer, and lives about one milo from Hulling. Ho ia Industrious and has a nice farm. He seems to be a man of about 45 year's age. He came to this country from Swecden, and kept books for J. M. Dannelly, a great mauy years. He marriod Miss Olivia Andrews of Wil liams, this county. There is no doubt about the man's being insano. Ho tried to bake lils own life about two years ago by cutting his throat with a razor. The neighbors say ho lias beeu aotlng strangely ot late. Ho was a Juror at tlio sessions court held hore last week. Later-George Irnegan, oldeBt son of J. W. Irnegan, who was thought to have been slain by his father, has Just been brought to Waltorboro on tihe train frond Rutilus. His head aud face aro both crushed lu but ho is -till alive. He was carried to the infirm ary, where he ls now being operated on by DIB. Ejdorn and Ackerman, and his condition ls said to be critical.. RBLI?I0U6 FANATIC. Ullin lier Brother In a Railroad .Sta tion at Soattlo. At Seattle, Wash., George Mitchell, a youth who rccontly shot and killed Franz Edmund Ure Nield, a ''Holy Roller" prophet, and was acquitted of thc charge of murder on a plea of insanity, Tnursday was shot and killed by his sister, Esther, in the union station. Esther Mitchell Joined the "Holy Rollers" sect at Corvallis, Oregon, and was one of tho most ardent of Urethceld's followers. When .her brother pursued the leader of the "Holy Rollern" to Seattle and shot him lu thc street, he ploadcd in jiisti ficatlen that GrcMeld had deluded and wronged his bister. George Mitchell was acquitted of tho charge of murder on Tuesday, and nearly all of tho following day 'yj spent in soarohing for 7/1 tpar. ' - attie lodging houses. Sho ref ut he comforted af uer the death of G hold. Eather Mitchell, when found, fini' agreed to seo her throe brothers ot their homo In Oregon. Tno Mitch I brothers, George, Perry and Fi od, were sitting with Wither on a boi ch in thc station waiting room talking, apparently on tho bost of terms. When the Oregon train was aunouor ed George Mltoholl roso and started for thc door. His sister stepped to his sido and pointing a revolver at bis head fired a fatal shot before any one else in tlio room rcaliz;d what was happening. Miss Mitchell was arrestad shortly after lier brother fell dead by her hands. She had refused until Wed nesday to h.uv. anything to do with uer brother ainoo bo shot Urellield to avenge Groiilold's treatment of Miss Mitchell. Wednesday night Charles Mitchell, the father, and his daughter Either reached a reconciliation, the girl for several days having refused to ace oven her father. After the shooting Terry and Fred Mltoholl wcro arrested as witnesses. They were found to gether on a hench In the station, sob hing on each 'thor's shoulders. Murder and Itobbery. Hibbory was tho motive for the murder of Millie Willson, who was found dying amid the Hames of blaz ing alcohol at the National hotel at Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Miss Ellison had lately sold out her mill nery business at Ellsworth, Wis., and had gone to thc Twin Cities with about $f>.f>00. No such sum was found In her room at thc hotel, investiga tion at Ellsworth show.? that Miss Ellison h Ad always horne a good repu tatton. Nathan Higgs was urresud at Elroy, Wis. Riggs ls a conductor of tho St. l'aul anfl Omaha road. He ls accused hy Miss Unison's family of trilling her and wiil bc brought back lo Minneapolis for examination. Riggs ls said to havo beon Miss Ellison's limitless adviser and there ls evidence tending to show that he accompanied her to the National Hank of Oom moree, when she had a draft for ?2, 711 cashjerh_ No Straddlers Wanted. The Newberry Otisorvor agr?as with Sonator Tillman that this Is no time for ftnco-sfcraddiers, and says: "We don't yjjuit men who are really in fav jr of the dispensary and pretend to be Against lt; nor do wc want mon who lay they are against lt and yet are do ing and saying every mean thing they san to depreciate thc mon who have lone most to uncover tho rottonoss jf tho Institution, fri a contest of Lhis sort tho water mau ls on tho right side; but ho ought not to try to carry water on both shoulders.' Ho s liable to spill somo of it." Fatal Motor little, ( ) ,vlng to the brnkes falling to aot, i motor omnibus running fiom Lun ion to ilrlghton, dashed down a stoop lill noar Oarwloy Friday morning, md v/as overturned. lC.ght pasnon jors woro klllod and a scoro badly ?urt, somo probably fatally. Lator letalis show that olght persons were tilled. Tuero wcro 34 passengers on ,ho omnibus, mainly merchants, all voro o:ther killed or injured. JitHtloo At l/ant. Tho Su promo Court of Franoe has iiinullod tho condemnation of Dreyfus vlthout a ro-trlal. The olfcot of tho ieolBlon is thc complete vlndioatlon f Dreyfus, entitling him to rostora lon to his rank In tho Fronoh army a though ho had never boon aeons d, TBS DRAKE CORN. How tho Corn Wa? Fertilized and Cultivated, Dr. W. L. Davenport, Washington County, Va., made tho following re quest of the Southern Cultivator; ' Please give the largest authentlo yield of oom for one aore of ground, tho kind of tull, its properties, fortillz lng, variety of oom planted, dlitanoe betweon rows, and plants in the rows, cu Ul vallon, etc., in faot all tho essen tial details of production." Tho fol lowing is tho answer of tho Cultiva tor: Tho largest corn yet rooorded was grown by Capt. Z. J. Drako of Marl boro county South Carolina. Not only is this tho largest grown In America, but in the world. In one season s nd on a single aero he prcduoed 255 bush els and thus secured the American Agriculturist's prize of f500, besides sevoral other awards olfcrod locally by fertilizer and other manufacturing campantes. The details as to how this remarkable crop was produoed were published lu Amcroan Agriculturalist in Maroh, 1880. The following faots rei/ar:itng lt will bo of Interest to others: The land on which tho crop war, grown was originally a sandy soil on which formerly grow oak, hiokory and long-leaf p.no. Titree years previous this particular aero was especially fer tilized and prepared by Capt. Drake and planted with Peterklu cotton, from which ho harvested 917 pouuds of lint cotton. The land wau especial ly prepare3 for tho corn contest. In February ho hauled upon it GO one horse wagon loads of stablo manuro, at the same time broadcasting 500 pounds each of guano, cotton seed meal and kalnit, all of which wore ploughed under. Following the plcugh 000 bushels of whole cotton seed were distributed In tho furrow after the plough. Immed iately following this a subioll plough turned this 12 inches doep. Tho Held was laid i If alternately six feet bo tween two rows, then three feet, then ?Ix roet, etc. Oae bushel of tho com mon gourd variety of tho southern white dent corn, of a strain improved by 20 yearb' selection, was planted March 2. Five or six kornels wore dropped In the row to each foot. The crop was still further fertilized during thc growing season as follews: April 20th 200 pounds eaoh of guano, cotton seed meal, k*lult, aoid phos phate and animal bono sown in the furrows; May 16th, 300 pounds nitrato soda in rows and worked in with the harrow; May 25th, 200 pounds guano were applied in the tbroo furrows run in the wldo rows; June 8th 500 pounds of an equ.l mixture of guano, cotton seed meal and kalnit was strewn in the wide rowp; and dually, on Juno lOiih, 100 pounds nitrate soda was broadcasted lu tho narrow rows and hoed In. Tho acre was surveyed June 20th by William H Alford. The harvest lng was done November 26*?h in tho presence of representative farmers, Including J. C. Campbell, and ciliolal representative of tho American Agrl culturlst. There was takou from the lield 17,107 pounds of corn in the ear. of whloh only 140 pounds ?vero soft and considered poor. By making sevoral selections tho avorago tost showed that 82 per oont of tho total orop was kernels, and equivalent of 14.273 pounds shelled oom, or 254 bushels and 40 pounds, estimated at J6 pJ unds por bushel. Th^s was an elah .?rato er peri meut to prove how much corn oould bo ac tuilly grown on an aore, the oost of production having been a scooudary mattor In this oase. Tho second prize In this contest was won by Alfred Rase, of Yates county, New York, wiio produoed 213 bushels of IO trly Mastodon corn He plautcd one kernel every foot In rows three feet apart and f?rtil'/, id with 800 pounds Mapos corn manure The soil was a sandy loam. Third prlM awarded to George Gartner o\ Pawnee comity, Nebraska, who raise d 171 bushels of E*rly Mastodon ?n a black, rloh loam, ferti lized with 00 loads of barnyard manure, p'auled In hills throe by three feet. The av irage waight of tin ontlre 46 crops raised aud entered In this contest was 104 bushels shelled orn per acre. In every oase tho crops wero well fertilized._ Altooiptod ti, KIMS.?.pu. Black Diamond Rigsby, a negro under sentence to bo hanged, made a desporate break for liberty Wednesday while hoing conveyed from New Or leans to Plaquomlne, La., to bo exe outed. Rigsby and Goorgo Poindex ter, another negro, both under tho death sentence for one of tho most sensational murdors in tho history of the States, woroon their way to Pla quemino under the guard of Sheri IT Petit of lbervlllo parish. Pctlt's prisoners had bean brought to Now Orleans from Plaqu?enme, tho scene Of the murder, to escapo threatonod lynching. About 70 milos from Now Orleans Rigsby suddenly produced a revolver and ?bot tho sheriff In the thigh. Tho Officer struggled with his prisoner until an armed passenger sent a bullet through R'gsby's head, kill lng him Instantly. Urtvxllllan Hov ult? The London Loaders' correspondent at Lisbon says according to intelli gence received there the Insurrection lu Mallo Grosso, Brazil, Is swelling to huge proportions. Tbc Insurgents, lt ls reported, have organized a large army and are marohing on R'o Janei ro and alroady have captured sovoral cities, dsn Blborfoe, with -lo.uoo federal troops, has been sent against the revolutionists. Fearful carnage hi reported and the thc killed aro said to be alroady moro than 4,000. Nearly Oui Hp Hl? Child. John Coulter, <? yoar-old son of Wil liam Coulter, of Brownsville, Md., made a very narrow esoapo Thursday from being out to pieces by a mo winy machine driven by his father. As lt was tho lad was seriously Injurod II playfully hld lu thc grass ahead of the mower and waa not soon by lils fa thor until tho slcklebar struck him. Ho was shockingly laceratod on both arms and legs and sevoral of his toes were split by tho rapidly moving knives. Dr. J. T. Yourteo attended him. Dooldml at i, The Nowborry Ooserversxys: "Tho uipremo court Indcoldiug dually that men cannot sell cigars and ohowhig {um on Sundays hy means of slot-ma shines whllo the rost of tho world is torblddon to sell by moans of dorks ?viii strlko tho averago citizen nf av ?rago Intelligence as tho only possible ?onoluslon to oomo to. Tho only won 1er to him ls that a court would havo io ponder over thc quostlon longer dian two minutes." ANOTHER KILLING. OltANQKBUna SHOCKED BY A FATA Ii PI?TOLi DUKli In Whioh J. I). Palmer is Killed by J. M.' Way in the Latters 8tore. Oraugoburg was sboeked on Mon day afternoon by another fatal pistol duel between Mr. J. M. Way and Mr. J. D. Palmer, in whioh the latter was Bhot through tho head and almost in stantly killed by tho former. The ball onterod tho oyo and passed into tho brain, oausing death in about ten minutes. Tho shooting ocourrod in the store of Mr. Way, Just aoross Market stroot from the postollleo. The report is that Palmor went to Way's store and had a talk. Later Palmer returned to ?he storo and the roport ls that he ipenod Ure on Way. The latter ran )Ohlnd his counter and grabbed his pistol, whioh he ls said to have always kept hung up thoro, and then ho opened Ure. Palmer's pistol ls said to have boen emptied when it was found lying beside his body on the store Hour. Way ls said to have shot four tlmoB. Way's hand was burt from splinters from one of Palmer's balls striking the store oounter. It is said that the ditilculty grew out of Way's objections to attentions that Palmer was paying to a grown daughter of the former. Palmer is Haid to bave boen drinking. Way lu a man over 50 years of age, while l v.lmer was about 30 years old. Sheriff Dukes arrestod Way a short time after tho shooting and ho ls now in custody. On Christmas of 1801 Way shot and killed Elliott W. Whetstone at Nor way, lu this county, both wero well to da men at this time. During the following spring torm of Court in this county Way wbs convicted of murder and sentenced to bo banged. An ap peal was taken to the Supreme Court MK! the judgment of the Circuit Court WHS allb med. Liter the Supreme Court granted leave for a motion for a new trial to oe heard on thc ground of after dis covered evidence, and the motion was granted by thc Circuit Ju lge. At the second trial, about two er three yearB after the first trial, Way was acquit tad. Ho spent nearly two years lu the Jail of this county under sentenoe ol death during the pendency of the le gal efforts that were being made In his behalf. Some time back Palmer and Way bad a disagreement, but they were brought together. Palmer had been working at Von Ohsen'8 buggy and repair shop. It is said that Mrs Way and a little negro boy were in the store during the shooting and we. o the only eye witnesses. HE LOVJSJ) WADIS HAMITJN. He nu toi Tillman Tolls Why tho Old Horo W?H Defeated. At the Bamberg meeting on Friday Seuator Tillman read an editorial from Tho News and Courier under the caption "Senator Tillman at Aiken." This editorial is oanoerning the dofeat of Hampton by Tillman. Tao senator commented on this by saying: ''Very flue writing. Why did I make allusion to this at Aiken? Because durlug the last 10 or 12 years these papers have said that I objected to Hampton taking the stump in SouthiiCarolina. I told at Allum what occurred; I told lt for the purpnso of stamping out the record of lying newspapers." He then proceeded to givo a narra tive of the events preceding the meot lng held in Aiken when Hampton re fused he said, to ride In a carriage highly decorated with emblemB of agriculture, on one sido of which was a placard beading "ltbform," and the t>ther side "Hampton " Ho Bald that this was done to show that the peo ple looked upon Hampton as the leader of '70, and upon himself as tho loader of "Beform." But lltmpton rode with Biri, he added, and when thcupcaking began Hampton gradual ly began to discuss "lndependontlsm" among widto people, and the danger of dividing the State as Mahone hid done lu Virginia. "Two thirds of tho people were backing me, and they were insulted by what Hampton said and they began to bowl, like they used to d ; you people don't know how to howl these dayB. They wouldn't let Hampton tlnlsh the speech. "So far as I'm oonosrned, we all loved Qen. Hampton, but he had no business there trying to stand up for one man against another. This ls what these mon havo seized upon. What I objaotcd to was Hampton's throwing bis L.tluenco for E?rl, Ile went away; lie ought nevor to have jomo." Senator Tillman said that bo and Jol. Haskell are personal friends now, ant be (Haskel!) ran In 1890 because lio had lost his head. There wore a lot of them Hut lost their beads. It was bitter mcdlolne; tho physic was aad. All you have to do ls to keep your eyes open, and th.re never will uo need for another 'DO reform Hampton In a letter to somebody In :lorsed Haskell as a gool Djmjorat ind worthy of honor. Hampton did not vote at the election because, as be ?aid, he had loft bis registration tic ket In Washington; but who would rave challenge 1 bia voto? The State jays that 1 ordered Hampton's dofeat, jut never says anything about the }lrcumstancos loading up to it. Let jhese swcet-Hoentod papers In Colum bia and Charleston stick to thc truth, md think as much of Hampton as I lo, and his fame will be scouro-hls arno lSBcouro without them. I want /hem to tell the truth, and thon I'll eav? Hampton dead, and we'll honor ind revere him. 1 will not be Hod ipon Uko these papers are doing with ?ut telling you the truth. No one an refuto or dispute my statoment." Unod for tho OrphniiB. A dispatch from Anderson to The itate sayB thc wi li of Mr. Isaao Calla iain, who died Thursday at his homo n the county, was probatod Friday norning bi tho Judgo of probate's ourt. He loft bis estate, aftor mak ng a number of small legacies, to the Jonnio Maxwell orphanago of ?Jroen voo?. The estato onslsts of several mildred aores of good farming lands nd under tho will thu exeoutors are uthorl/.cd to noll tho lands and glvo ho proceeds to the orphanage, lt ls stlmatcd that tho brq lost will mount to $10,000 or $15,300. Mr. 'allabam was an old man at the time f hisdoath. Ho bad novor married, lo was Bomowhat eccentric and lived qulot Bcoludcd lifo. Somo brands of ooitco aro now adul ated with sawdust. Lot us hope ie sawdust ls oloan. -ULI. -A-^ ? 1 'Itt 'IUiAP' =5 WILL BBBVK IF NEEDED. - WilllUgt?* fi?ii,?i iiO<> formMlRI . ?)O?irK for o? l'zrty. Forme? United Stales S??f.tor Jamel K Jone?, of Arkansas, former ly chairman of the National Demo oratio Committee when W. J Dryao osado the rac? for tbs Presidtinoy lu 1800 and 1900, received a letter from Biyan, in vrhloh the latter announce* that be will accept the nomir a.ior for President lor a third time if ten dered to bim. T e letter is date.' Stockholm, Juno 18, and ls as fo.low?,: "1 bave been watching the political developments and noted with urai.ll eatiOQ the vindication of D.niooratio prinolplei. I shall do nothing to se oure another nomination and do not wane one unless conditions seem to demand it. I may add* lo j y tho freedom of private life, and feel 1 can do somo good without holding any of fice. ' There are, howover, cort ai n re forms which I would like very much to see accota pished and to assist in the accomplishment of these reforms I ano willing to become the party's oandl date again, If, when the time for thc I nomination arrives and adveoatos oft reform aie in oontrol of the partjr tbluk my oandldaoy would givo thc brat assuranoo of victory. If pom' one cUe seems moro available .1 will be even better pleased. I need not assure you that I am more interested in seeing our prlnolples triumphant than in the personnel of the tiok*t Tho country needs to have Jeffersonian Damooracy applied to every depart mont of KO vern ment, Btate and na tional, and I am content to help make this appropriation. Ymrslrul?, " W. J. PUYAN. Tho Frying l'?v? A caustio observer says that the devil of indigestion hold? full sway lc some localities b cause the frying par has a firm grip on the ah* ?tions1 o' tho psiple. HA complains of seeing balli gxuut men, sallow faco-i like a corpse, having psrfeot satisfaction with the country, but a lack of high, strong ambition ; women, gaunt, hag gard, and hopeless looking, all traoes of womanly beauty long since gone, evory lino of their faoos speaking want, privation, neglect of all sani tary laws, and unvaried monotony of unwholesome foo''; little children, tlabby, yellow, pallid, with old facen; and you will be told that this is ma laria. But it is tho frying pan Givo them wholesome boilbd and roasbod foods, abolish grease and bolling in lard, and let them make their moals on fruits, clean vegetables and ooreals, and within a year's time you would not reoogn'z i themas the ?arne be ings. _ liryaui M ont? Morgun. Under date or London, July 5, the New York World prints the following oablegram: "Tho Daily Express gives tlie following description of tho meet ing of J. Pierpont Morgun and W. J. Bryan at Ambassador Raid's Fourth, of July reception, lt is bald they had never met oafore: 'Mr. Morgan was standing near tho doorway when a n utual friend advanocd with Mr. Bry an in tow, and, with a smile said: "Mr. Morgan, this is Mr. Bryan." Thc great maker of combines looked at the great advocate of no monopolies and, with a faint smile, said dryly: "Bry an? Bryan? The name sounds famil iar, but I have not had the pleasure of meeting you before." While theil frlonds all around laughed at the J ike, tho two men shook hands. They look cd at each oilier very narrowly at their hands met, and as soon as they had shaken they drifted apart and no conversation took place between them.' " Kl UH 111? Neighbor. A special from Rural Retreat, Va., says: "J. II. Smythe was fatally shot and J. S. Gormany badly wounded ar, the result of au altercation near there Thursday. There has been a grudge between the men for years. The im mediate provocation of Thursday's trouble was oaused by Gormany sett lng his dogs on Smythc's hogs. In e quarrel Smythe shot Gormany with a revolver. Germany's son, who was a witness, went to his homo, procuren a shotgun, returned to tho soene ot tho ditlloulby and emptied tho entire load into Smythe's body. Smythe lived a few hours. Smythe and Gor many were neighbors and substantial farmers. No arrests have been mado." Negro Muto Killed. Tom Baxter, colored, was killed by Southern freight train No, 71, two mites from Newborry at (J o'clook Wednesday afternoon. Baxter who was deaf and dumb, was walking in the middle of the track with an um brella up when he was killed. The engineer, as his train oamo around tho curve down grade, blew the whis tle and rang tho boll, but did nob slaokon speed, thinking tho negro would get off. Bailor had a big hole knooked in his head and his right log out off abovo the anklo. He died in 1? minute? after being struok. '"'hey Hwuiig Him. A Swainsboro speolal to the Augus ta Chronicle says: About 100 heavily armod mon took U.l Pearson, a negro, fron Deputy Sheriff Fields, about three miles from tills placo shortly after 2 o'clook Wodnosday morning, oarrled him to thc (Jonnaaohen swamp and i lynohod him. The night before Pearson was found by Misses Maud and Ida Durdan, hiding under their bed. Soreams attracted their father, an agod man, who onturod tho rvom with a gun, but was knocked sonsoloss by the negro, who esoaped. He was lator captured by tho deputy and identified. Klllod tho Hhorlfr. Sheriff Charles Wilson of Clay county, Fia., was shot and killed on a train near Green Cove Springs on Tuesday by a negro prisoner. Tho sheriff's deputy then shot and killed tho negro. Wilson was very popular and had rooently married. Insurance At A T. S. Soase, President. PALMBITO MUTUAL, P1RP, Bpartanbu A home fl re 11 usu rance company (hat Management Capable and Conservativo. Write for particulars. We Have Y )no 25 horso powor Talbott, second lia y boon overhauled. This Engine is i groat bargain for anyono who is in t Wo aro headquarters for anything ir >rompt attention will bo given to all ir jaro. Write na when you aro in tho t o got our pi\icoa before plaoing your ( Colambla.Sapply^Co., - ? \ 1 lie Alarlboro Democrat I IM M 'lill ?'DO THOV, OBBAT LlBl^TT, XttBPIB* 0t7B ?OWUJ A-WD MAKE! OUR I"N THY FOSSHBSION HAPPY OB O?B D?5ATH8 CrLOBlO?fl IN THY A?flH.' t BENNETTSVILLK, S. a, FRIDAY. JULY 20, 1000. NO