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V * voLryii. A RINGING LETTER- ] A True Allianceman Points the ' Farmers to Their Only HopeEditor Constitution For utility months I have been entirely out of ' polities ami have resolved to keep c out of political controversy and po- s litical strife, but there are some 5 -? t ti! ii rra .w?..r ...I. I-. 1. T O wi ?iiojjii nijj >* III^II i tail* | not allow to pass by unnoticed with- i out a senso of duty undischarged. I am an allianceman in the true sense ( of the word and believe more firmly ] than ever their doctrines of * equal ^ rights to all and special privileges to ] none."' This motto is a constitutional one, and when that sentence was written it was but an echo of the sentiment of our forefathers when they adopted that constitution, which < sruarantees to everv American citizen full protection in Mifc, liberty and property." What honest man can ask more? It is useless for me to say that the government has long ago departed ] from that promise. When the government levies a tax upon imports which is beyond the demands of an 1 economical administration and fat- 1 tens the already too fat manufacturer I on the one hand, while it oppresses ] the consumer on the other; when it farms out the issue of currency to the bondholders through the nation- ' al hanking system and places a tax 1 of 10 per cent on state banks of issue it places the fixed volume of money i in the hands of monopolists giving them the power of contraction and expansion at will. Thus has the pro ' tectum of lifof liberty and property guaranteed in the constitution boon 1 taken away from the masses and increased power and protection and privileges placed in the hands of the money classes. For the reformation of these wrongs I joined the Farmers' and endeavored with many of the best and truest men in our country to educate the people upon these subjects and to have them demand of their representatives a reformation of the laws touching these things and restore to the people the rights and , privileges of a constitutional govern 1110111. I believo these reforms will yet result from the education of the masses if the result of some of the great mistakes row being made can be averted. As the leading politicians of the country were more and more persistent in their war upon the alliance, the demand for a party bused upon alliance demands grew and strengthened. The sentiment grew stronger under the fostering care and influence of the politicians and demagogues until it culminated in the formation of a political party, the plat- ' form of which was made to fit the whim of every discontented element and in which a simple demand of "Equal rights to all and special prileges to none" would be as hard to locate as the tail end of an April rainbow. I am in the fullest sympathy with the men who compose the people's party, and know that they are suffering from oppression and frnrn rtiiornln liiil 1 am onun * v**1 I1HU4 V4 MUV X ? OU1V HIVJ ttlU in the wrong line to remedy these evils. Some months ago, I wrote you an article upon state banks and said in it that it was the quickest and most practical road to financial relief. I was severely criticised for my position on that matter and by the very men such a system would relieve, and they invariably demanded that the government issue money on land. The country is now suffering from a moneyed arristocracy, and God knows that is bad enough but may He deliver us from a landed arristocracy, But tew of the men whom we desire to help own any land at all. Most of them are renters and yet in the demand for government loans on lands they would build up a landed plutocracy which would forever prevent the poor man from owning land. With such a state of affairs as would be germinated here by the enslavement of farmers by landed plutocrats we would have anarchy so hot that one wonld be glad to go to hades to cool off. Tho real reforms for which the al liancc was organized have beon lost sight of and the effort is being made to right one error by the enactment of others. The result has been that tho alliance has abont died and the new party is its executor, while, bor- j m. ror ot horrors, the republican party stands ready to be its legatee. The deceased and the executor will not be profited, but the legatee will be greatly strengthened. Can Georgians longer afford to trifle with this matter? I oannot. I am not a politician, I am not an office seeker, but an allianccman, who loves that ordor and who loves reform, and who knows the sufferings of our oppressed people. Tne peop'ls party candidate for | president could not be elected if he were to carry every state in which ( that party is running an electoral ticket. With this fact staring us in ?? i C( -ho face, can we afford to give our itate to our enemies because we caniot get what we want? CJod forbitl! Are you opposed to the national making system? The republican >arty is the father of national banks. Aro you opposed to monopoly? Che republican party is the party of iontraction, monopoly and oppression. Are you opposed to a high tariff >vhich robs the poor to fatten the ich? The republican party is the advocator of high tariff. Are vou in favor of tho supremacy of tfie Anglo Saxon manhood and womanhood of Georgia? If so, he?vare of that party which would dis jrace our civilization by negro supremacy. H. C. Bkonvn. ALL FOR COLUMBUS DAY" Supt- Mayfieltl Issues An Address to the People. 'fire State. Yesterday the Superintendent of Education prepared for the press a J programtnc and address, both of which will be sent to the school eomtnissioners and the higher educational authorities in general throughout the State* The address is as follows: Congress has authorized and required the President of the United States to issue his proclamation, which ho has done, declaring Friday October 21, 1892, a general holiday in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. The Governor of South Carolina, in consonance therewith has likewise issued his proclamation (o the people of the State Stale. The day has been appropriately denominated Columbus Day. On that day the dedicatory ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition will take place in Chicago. May not our people Biisnend their labors on tlmf duv miuI i carve a niche in the record of time and there place some evidence of our appreciation of the great event by an appropriate observance of Columbus Day. Great have been the discover, ies and developments and wonderful the progress of these first 400 years of American life. The education and civilization of mankind have been marvelous. It is therefore pro per and desirable that the schools of the country participate in such exercises as will recall and impress the history of the event upon the youth of this land. To this end I would therefore in vite all school officers ami teachers public and private, the military and private citizen, and the city authorities, of this State to participate in the programme given below, some IWl'(>i nf wliinli liaoo li.mn tiiff.Miofr.il ?-%? w~? V a. IT VII V W l/\ VIA ",l,6nVO VW4 by the executive committee of Columbus celebration. Most respectfully, W. I). Mayfiei.O, State Supt. of Education. TIIE PHOOIIAMMK. 1. The assembling at 11:30 a. m. of the pupils at the various school houses. 2. At 12 in. raising and saluting the llag. 3. Song of Columbus Day. 4. The address 5. The ode. G. America (to be the closing soug.) The foregoing programme gives only the bare outline of the celebration. Mr. May field was asked* what he had in the way of suggestions as to the details of the celebration and he said: "Of course the success of the celebration will depend to a very large extent on the co-operation of the military, educational and civic authorities. 1 notico that it has been suggested in the ofTicial programme that the raising and saluting of the flag be performed under the- directl AM f\f flftllfn/lnrnln /-?? TIV/I/sh,. 1 > ?'? va. vyvilAWAVJI (VUl 1 UUl'Ifll VtJIUl * ans. In the largest cities of this State and towns it will be of course possible to make the military features of the day pre-eminent. I would suggest that the school j authorities invite the citizens generally to participate in the beremonics. This is to include, of course, a visit to the schools. It will be possible that all the details above given can be carried out at the country school houses, but it is desirable that they should adopt as many of them as will be convenient. York liallard, a white man who was sent to the penitentiary for writing insulting notes to a young lady, recently returned to his homo in Marign county, Florida, after having served his term. One his first acts after his return was to brutally murder the chief witness against him. "lie True to Youi INWAY, S. C., r The Tariff Opened His [yes. Sr. l\vn., Minn, September 28.? Thn Minnesota Republican committen was astounded to-ni^ht by the announcement that II. II. Odell, Unit u States commissioner, one of the appointees of the Harrison Administration a <1 for many years n Republican loader, had become a Democrat. Mr. Udell had written to the I em ociatic State committee, proffering his service >n the stump, declaring; "I have spent four months of the past twelve in Kurope,and have come to the conclusion that the Republican party is building up a greater aristocracy than the Southern slaveowner ever dreamed of, and it may take more than two billions of money and a greater number of lives than j the civil war to wipe it out. "If a share of the subsidy which tlie Government gives manufacturers only went to the laborer, then it would net he so glaring an outrage. "It is a lie to attribute the mater, ial prosperity, owing to the rapid growin oi a new country, to the! fraud of nil excessive tariff. 'IM ice 30,000,000 of people on a spot of ground tho size of Minnesota, and there would bo less doman 1 for labor an 1 it would be as correspondingly 1 v as is the case of Kngland. "1 Leliove tie poor man can get more favors and bettor wages under the I )em \'i a of (lovcrnniotit than any r, 1 t!?nt the ills mid wrongs of b x quicker adjusted by mo tic party.'" "Busings If Southern farm of the acumen sb e.\ men in mercantile man;: "act iring circles, they wil > this have discovered that a sii trop is not to be depended u) ? !y, and will havo attained t lines to their hows and ; . -ion to meet the rtquirenn ii tin home and farm, which do im! depend upon the results of a possil.dy disastrous Season in t.ho main crop. A gentleman was heard to say but a day or two since that he knew a large planter, the richest in the country in which lie lives, who is compelled to buy pork each season on which to feed his funn hands. This was attributed to his inability to forget the antebellum days when he always bought from the North, paying in cotton or the proceeds of the cotton field, and he oanr.ot bring himself to believe that he should devote any portion of his plauation or his time to raising his own pork. I'his would bo an astounding theory to .1 North orn dinner, who is accustomed to run ing all he cau possibly uso ami endeavoring too to have a goodly surplus for the market. There is nothing a farmer can put upon his place, excepting it might be sheep o; cattle, which will pay better returns for the time, labor and capital invested, than hogs, and it Rectus a wonderfully shortsighted policy which does not take them into consideration. This is particularly true of the central section where the forests afford ,1 i.i 1 . ? uwuaiuuruuto Huosisience, wnore the climate and the water are n'l that is desirable in bringing them to proper condition for the market at tho least possible cost. Sectional pride, which feeds upon the glories of the past, is all well enough when it is not au absorbing j passion which rules out all else, and blinds its possessor to tho requirements of a new age and a new generation, and much chagrin as it may cause to n-flcct that we areas a people far behind the customs and successes of t he Northern farmer, we should frankly and freely examine our ways and seek the remedy for the shamb i r free t he weak and weakly lo i^ngharm, and tho exceedingly p i;n c lu nies with which our fan. are marked, in strong and imp! at <-entrust to the farms r>f the >i o * alley and elsewhere, from u it v, cm i<*ai i needed lessons of f-ir.n ' i > thrift.?Chattanooga Tillman in N< ork. News and Com r. New York, Octo1 7. Governor Tillman, of Sou >i. a, and W. T. C. Bates, Trc. St a to of South Carolina, it understood, arc obtaining the views of New York capitalists upon tho question of refunding the State debt, which amounts to about 6,000,000. In connection with the visit of Governor Tillman and Treasurer Bates of this city a well-known authority on Southern States securities says: "It is true that the object of the Governor in coming North is to arrange for the refunding of $5,442,010 Brown consol 6's of 1874 and $118,800 Green consol, both due Julv 1, 1803. I think the bonds can be funded ut 41 percent for thirty years, provided the State would agree to apply the revenue of the phos I phate fields as a sinking fund for I their redemption. Of courgo the p Word, Your Work and Yo rilUliSDAY o< syndicate advancing the money would exact the usual commission. Tlio syndicate would probably demand that the State make some disposition of the $0,000,000 non fundable 6's. The sinking fund commission should t>c composed of the Govoruor, the Treasurer and proper State officials, i together with the presidents of lead-1 I'tUl \Jk v ilill ILMUll U1 V/UI (I III and the president of tho National Park hank, of this city." Money 111 UirctilnMoii. Washington, Oct. 3.?The circu. hit ion statement issued by the Treasury Department today shows a net increase of $3,205,001 during the mouth of September, leaving the aggregate on the Istinst, 1,590,049,983. A year ago tho circulation was $1,430,982,030. The circulation per capita is 24.23. The principal items showing a decrease were gold certificates, $7>170,930; silver certificates, $1,469 318; currency certificates, 4,920,009; while increases were shown in United States notes of $5,054,036 and in treasury notes of 2,887,704. 1 ho different amounts in circulation on the lstinst. were as follows* Gold coin, $441,524,329; standard silver dollars, $59,5G9,103; subsidiary | silver, $04,920,209; gold sertilicates, 121,210,399; silver oertifioates, $327,719,827: Treasury notes, ac- ; count duly 14, 1890, $100,001,850; I oiled States notes, notes, $322,003, 158; currency certificates, account dime 8, 1872, $17,290,000; National | | bank notes, $105,085,108. Totals, $1,590,019,083. ? *> Court of a Native African King. Stanley, in his dangerous, tedious, but romantic journey across the Continent, suivoyinglho lakes, and solving the mystery of the Congo, lias brought information of tho de acemlants of 11am and Ishmaol, who for centuries have maintained their villages, petty kingdoms, and oven empires in total ignorance of the outside word, and with noknowlj edge whatever of tho true (lod. These people are well developed physioally, hu<1 have intelligent faces; aiul there is also a natural grace in their attitude and in their manner of holding their rude musical instruments and weapons of defence. It is easy to imagine what a now light would be brought into theso faces, and what grand purpose to their lives, could the knowledge and love of our Saviour shine into their benighted hearts. Are not these people the lost sheep I of tho house of Israeal? Docs the Lord look down upon them with pity, and does he not regard us, his Ids people with wonder and surprise that we do not make more haste in seeking to save these ignorant fellowcreatures from the degradation and vice in which they are plunged? Is it not our duty to take up the work that the missionaries of the cross who havo been foremost among tho explorers to open up Africa, laid down with their lives. Let us not forget tho years of heroic sel-sacrifice of Mungo Purk, who perished with his few surviving companions, 011 tho Niger, and let us hear in mind that Stanley made his first journey into Africajn search of Livingstone. Who can read of the weary toil ami patient endui anco of this modest, courageous, heroic man, without tho deepest sympathy and the greatest admiration? And shall we not remember with gratitude that when his noble soul went from a lonely spot by a lakeside village to the land of rest, that native Africans, similar in appearance, it may be, to the ground in the cut, with living hands embalmed his body and carried it hack to Zanzibar? The Kansas FusionTopeka, Kan., Oct. G.?The fttatc convention of Straight Democrats meets In this city tomorrow mar ning. 11is expected that 800 delegates will be in attendance. It is not the in ton'ion to nominate a State t'cket hut to denounce the action of the Democratic State convention of .July : 6, in nominating the State ticket of the People's party, and practically abandoning the Democratict State organization. Resolutions will be adopted declaring for the National I platform and ticket. The Democratic State Committe met hero this afternoon. The First District Congressional Committee appeared, before it and urged that the State Committee demand that the people's party withdraw the name of Fred .1. Close, the Populist candidate for Congress, that K. Carroll, the Democratic nominee, may have a clear field against the Republican candidate. Delegates from the First District of the State Convention were induced to vote for the endorsement of the People's party State ticket with the understanding that Close would be withdrawn. The Straight Democrats claim that fusion in Kansas has been nullified by the action of the People's party, and that the Stato People's party ticket will certainly he defeated as the Democrats will vote the Republican ticket. m\l( ^rp>/^V ur Country" JTOBEli 1;}, E ALL DEPENDS ON NEW YORK' The Empire State Again The Battefield of the UnionThe New , i!ui Courier. New York, (>ototobor 8,?Special: New York lias been the pivotal State io every national election sinco 187G ami most assuredly holds that position in 1802. In 1881 Blaine lost it by the slender plurality of 1,()47. Narrow as was this margin it transferred the Knipire State's 80 votes to the Democratic column made Drover Cleveland President and set 125, 000 office-holders to wondering how long it would be possible for them to hold their offices. To show how potent a factor this State has been in previous election it is only necessary to say that if it had gone Democratic in 1888 the terrible struggle botweon the 4t?o great partiosjin 1870 must inevitably have been repeated. On election night. 1888, tliero was only one doubtful State in tho whole I tiion, and that was West Virginia. That a few mountain proemts would decide how West Virgbwu should cast her electoral vole was known while the ivsnlt, in thi: ate was trembling in tho balance. York city's Vote showed an increased plurality of 1 4,000 for Mr. Ch velan 1 over that of 1884. Could the rural Republican counties o"ercon <> I hi- ,J It. seemed doubtful. Nev Y >rk Democratic, Mr, Cleveland would hav" 108 1 !<ctoral vote 1 latrisiui 197, v it 1 votes to de< ! A FKATHKK". 11 is scareol) > con\ the average vot an earnest partita:), upon what a frail foundllth i ; !8 <>f the party whose cause ho espouses. The words of l\w.;on liurchnrd. 1 {11 in ' Hum, Romanism and Rebellion," decided the late <>1 llblaino. Quny at the last luomenl received the money that turned the State against Cleveland and in favor of Harrison. Now comes the election of 1892. The two parties are again confronting each other, and like gladiators are watching each other's every movement in the hope of obtaining an advantage when they come together on November H in a contest which will decide which will have control of the government of sixty live millions of people. Like athletes, both have boon training for tho light. The Democrats, who obtained con trol of tho State Government last fall, adopted a series of Acts, among them tho apportionmut hill, which have undoubtedly strenghthened their hold on the State. While I)emocrats have been doing all that a'party could do to make the State solidly Democratic the Republicans have not been idle. It ?i.~ i ! , a. __ n 11.1 Oll'tll ijr IIIU J II l-U II HI >11 Ul I/IIU Illltional managers of the party when they seemed complete control of the Government in*1889 to pass a number of Acts that would enable them to do without the electoral vote of Now York altogether, and to effect this they devised the forco bill, as well as a scheme which has since successful, viz: The admission of Territories, whose vote was almost certain to go in their favor. The dismal defeat of the first part of this conspiracy by the united and determined notion of the Democrats, aided by a few Republicans Senators, is so well known as to require no comment here. Hut the rest of the plan was successful, six new States having been admitted in the order name !: Sou'h and North Dakota, Washii.. on, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. The combined electoral vo of th? Statcs, which will this year make their first appearance in a national Contest, is twenty. With this accompli hed the lb publicans congr. u la ted themsolve that they had * lastdestrayed their New Yprl 1 .. f i l .. . i i uvm". i ii'-y ; . their filletts \ vote. 'I'll K DKMOCIt li J i' They reckoned i >tr their i. for in 1890 out of r total of ,T32 Congressmen elected only 87 wore Republicans. Sate.- that hid) never before faltered or v ivcred elected partial or entire Democratic govern ment8, among the latter being stanch old Michigan. The Democratic Legislature of that State in retalia tion for the Republican policy of admitting sparsely settled Teritories to the honors of Statehood decided to elect Presidential electors on the basis of the State's representation in Congress, twelve in the Congress, tonal districts and two in seoerate divisions of tho State* This unprecedented action so worried President Harrison, who could view with perfect equanimity tho admission of a Toritory like Wyoming with two Senators and one Congressman, and scarcely the population necessary to elect an Assemblyman in this State, that hejsent a specal messago to the 51st Con % $92. igress suggesting the passage of an j Act that would forever prevent j winked Democrats from tnking any i such mean advantages of innocent! Republicans. This was not the oatastronhos on-, I dorsed l>y the Republicans in 1HUO. The "Allianco," a party scarcely i heard of before that year, elected a I majority of Kansas Legislature and several Congressmen, including I "Sookless" Jerry Simpson, and left j J. .). Ingalls, President pro tem of , the Senate, out in tho cold, while an j Alliance man took his place. Then ! to cap the climax, after they had, as I they fondly thought, so fixed the ( electoral vote that they could win without New York, lo! the Democratic and Alliance parties of Kansas, whose combined votes in 1800 exceeded that the Republicans by 77, 000, have now united on an electoral ticket, whiteli while it adds notjiing to tho Democratic strength, bicK f.?ir to take the electoral vote of that Slate out of the Republican column. All of these things compel the Re publicans to come back to N ew York an< 1 make it tho battleground What their probable success may bo wi 1 !) r iwu by what they h vo done ii provi ou8 elections? A.N ANALYSIS OF SIX l'ltltSl DKNTI A I. ! HI.KC I ION8. There have been six Presidential ons since tho war. Three i 'lie result has been decided by of this State. The Domo* ;ve t arried it twice whon they in ill election and have ( when the national 'his was in 188-1. In i lls carried the State tional election. This ti when Horatio Seymour re v da pi irality <>f exactly 10,000 over *>>'11. varani, anu again in iiSYO when Samuel J. Til den had a plurality of 112,000 over It. 15. lluycs. This election should not fairly count for Tilden was unquestionably dected. The Republicans have also cairied tho State three times in Presidential years. In 1872 (ion. (Jrant had a largo plurality over Horace (ireelcy, but in that year there was practically tio Domocrat running. ; The light was between Horace Greeley, Liberal-Republican, ondorsod by the Democrats, and U. S. Grant, Stalwart Republican. A largo proportion of the Democrats declined to vote, claiming that it was only a light between two Republicans. This election, therefore, was absolutely without significance as regards t Ho political standining of this State In 1880 the Republicans ennied the State a second time for the naI tional ticket. James A. Garfield, i a trained political), was pitted against i Wind held Scott Hancock, who never ! hint nnv i?rrif<-uslir?n Ktil ? li.it <>f < ai.l- I -"-v J I-'? * ? j dier. The Democratic campaign, it was notorious, was so badly managed that the New York Sun, a leading} Democratic newspaper, said of Han cock that ho weighted 250 pounds and that was about all he amounted to. The third time that the Republicans carried the State, and the only timo when they won when there was a square stand-up light, was in 1888. The candidates wore the same then as now. The Hepubli-} lean campaign was managed by that j astute and wiley politician, Matt S. Quay. An analysis of tlie vote that year show that Mr. Quay must "Irave used much of the "fat fried out" by his party in the districts that havealways bad tlio reputation of being} corrupt. | A I'UKSr.NT DKMOCUA'l m: MA.IOUITY. j In the elections for Governor the i Republicans have been in a hopeless! minority since 1877. They did elect i A1 v. i B. Cornell in 1870, but it' was 1)-cause two Democrats, laieius] Robison and .John Kelly, ran agains' hi in. Had there been no split the' !) km ats would have won by 27, j 00' v< -s. The election of 1882 was me ,1c a. the one In which Gro vc. land b< at .Judge Folger bv I !y of 192,884. Ill 1885 : !l van 11,124 votes Davenport, in spite of ) <>j position. Again in . i ovrpamo Warner Miller, n o < (play's corruption fund, by a plurality of 19,171 votes. Flowers plurality over I'asset in the last election was 47,937. Perhaps a fair j indication of how things stand in the State to-day may bo had from the Congressional footings in 1890, when the Democrats hud a majority of 80,051. A Rat and a Snake FightA remarkable snake light occurred one day last week at Pendergrass X Itrtnfla h<>f ufAon 'i cniil/u oinl ? i-.ii ? '. A?vt? v? w w v ? ' V ? ? ??IIU (I t ?ll ) IVJ" suiting in the death of tho snake. Several gentlemen witnessed the fiRht. T he snake pursued the rat for ! some distance, intending, no doubt, to make a meal of him. But ho was whipped in ono round. Tho snake made a pass at tho rat, but missed, whereupon tho rat seized his snakeship by the back of tho neck and held him till kc expired. The snako was over thirty inches in length, and the rat was of medium size.?Press and Standard. i NOt 13 General News. Little Ruth Cleveland, Grover'a daughter, wa? one yoar old on Monday. There i.s n'Grreut imiirnvnmnnt in o 1 - the condition of Mrs. Harrison's health. By the caving in of a mine at Ishpomine Mich, on Thursday, ton miners were killed. An engine exploded near Dubois, Va , on Friday and t wo men were blown to pieces. Frank (i. Paulsen, an old oitizou of Now York t'ity, was murdered 01 Friday night by a lunatic. A crazy woman in Bordentown, N. .1. chocked to death last week hor own infant and two other babies. The question of a successor to the great Spurgeon at the London Tubornaclo has caused a serious split in the congregatio n. Two men, who wore roommates in Birmingham, Ala., became involved in a quarrel on Friday and they murdered each other. In a railroad wreck, near Opelika last week, two men woro killed and two wounded and ail engine and a number of cars worn hurnrd. Nancy Hanks, tho trotting champion of the world, lowered her own record at Torre Haute, Ind., on Wodnsdny of lust week. She trotted the mile in 2.01. The cholera scare in New York is now about, over. No now oases have been reported in sometime and the board of health has ceased to issue bulletins. T. If. Vincent, of Kansas City, Mo., was killed on Tuesday of last week by an electric shock. Two men, to phiv a joke on him, had put him in contact with an electric wire. The residence of Samuel Adkinson, near Telloup, Kane., was struck by lightning on Wednesday of last week. Adkinson his wife an 1 their two children wore killed, Children carelessly caused a fire last week at Howard, S. I)., and the result was that half of tho business portion of the town was burned down $100,000 worth of property being destroyed. J. F. Stallings was nominated for Congress last week by the Democratic convention of tho second Alabama distrct, after a long and tedious deadlock. The nomination was made on tho 1,001 ballot. J. F. Smith brutally murdered his wife and child while drunk, on Thursday at Dunsmeir, Cal. On Friday night ho was strung up, ho thanked tho mob, and said he was glad to ho hanged. W. P. Canady, a notorious Kepublican politician of North Carolina, who was formerly Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Committed suicide in Washington on Tuesday of last week. Financial reverses wore tho cause. State NewsCharleston's Gala Week will 'commence this vear on October fil and will closoou November 0. M. F. Tighc, private secretary to Senator Irby, is writing a history of the "Reform Movement in South Carolina/' The colored people of Sumter county is now holding their annual, fair- There are a number of exhibits from other counties. A negro wns run over and killed by a train on tno Char'.estoii, Sumter and Northern Railroad, near Elliott's, Sumter county, last week. The commencement day of this year's State Fair has boon postponed from November 7 to November 14, on account of the nvneral election occuring on November 8. Tho Sumter Advance has been sold to S. A. Nettles of the Manning Times. The paper will bo Tillman* ite in polities and its name will be changed to tho Sumter Herald. The notorious Paris Simpkins, of Kd go fie Id, has been nominated by the Republicans of tho Second district for Congress in opposition to \V. J. Talbort, the Democratic nominee. The handsome monument, erected to the memory of the Confederate dead of (Iroetiville, was unveiled in that city on Tuesday of last week. A very largo crowd witnessed the ceremony. Kx-Judge Cotbran was the orator of tho day. It Should be in Hvery House* ,J. li. Wilson, 3? 1 Clay St., Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be with* out Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, that it cured his wife who was threatened with Pneumonia after an attack of "La Grippe," when various other remedies and several physicians hud done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, I'a., claims Dr. King's Xew Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble Nothing like it. Try it. 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