The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 13, 1892, Image 1
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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. Free Trial Bottles at Dr. K.
Nortons Drugstore. Largo bottles,
[ .*>0e. and $1.00,