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.'-"J*" _ f ^OL. VII, WOMEN VOTERS IN KANSAS. A Liir^c Increase in tlio Registration of Females. New York Times. Topkka, April 3.?The action of the Legislature yi submitting to the rotors ati amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to -11 l-.i! L. 1 1 *1 e* vuw3 hi mi elections nas nau tne euect of sl; .jitly increasing the registration in cities where they have the right to vote in municipal elections. In tne several cities where registra tion is required tli6 poll books show the following numbers of women taking advantage of their limited righi??: Topeka, 4,000; Leavenworth, 2,354; Wichita, 2,464; Lawrence, 1,000; Fort Scott, 1,385; Kmporia, 883; Kansas City, 3,482. The proportion is continued about the &itne in the other cities. The registration this year is much larger than it was last year. While some of this increase was caused by a wish to prove that the women desired full franchise, much of it was occasioned by the activity of candidates in the cities, who personally solicited their friends of the gentler .sex to help them out. It is certain that the large majority of the women have expressed themselves against this innovation, and have declared that, given the right, they would never exercise it. While many of the good women of tne cities have voiced their senti. incuts at the polls, it is a recorded fact tlmt all the women of questionable character have never failed to vote where they had that privilege. This latter fact is well understood by those who have run hacks and carriages to wing out voters. They have not voted so muph for principle, as they have to help out some favorite man who might return the favor in an official way. Without exception the elections have been as free from rudeness as though they were on the street for other purposes. They are always men about who would not permit any incivility, oyen if it were offered. In this State the law forbidding any person to approach nearer the voting place than fifty feet has been generally observed, much to the comfort of the men as woll as the women. This of itself is a protection to those who feel that they need protection. Ticket peddlers seldom approach the women, who have a place set apart , for them in which they can prepare their ballots. In the Legislature lobby last winter, when the proposed amondment was under consideration- mi edit Imvn vr-*. ' ??& *" been observed the same women who have been engaged in that work for a dozen or more years. They were not strong in numbers, but it was prove^'1 that they were strong in influenc^ and power, for when the final vote was taken there were few who had the temerity to vote "No." Most of these women had made reputations on the platform aa lecturers, some of them even having national notoriety. Truth compels the admission that at their homes they were visitors, and in some instances strangers. They were all good women; of this there is no doubt. But they have had for years a mission, and at the same time a revenue from the various suffrage clubs which they formed in various counties of the Staf j Up to the present time they have not Romrht to nontrol the. militia, nor have any of them applied for appointments in that organization. None of thorn have sought for appointment on any of the State hoards except the Stuto board of charities at.d the Columbian board. They claim that they will bo content to regulate such boards as they cannot I consistently furnish members for. There might be named one exception to those who do not love strife. Or.^of the principal workers in this movement, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, possessed of tact as well as of ability was in the melee when the Iiepubli can members of the Legislature broke through the great door at the main entrance and captured the hall. * Theie were Winchester rifles and | revolvers in plenty there, in the ! hands of desperate, reckless men, who were prepared to fire upon the attacking body. Ins'eadof seeking a sheltered spot, as did some of the Mart prudent reporters present in ; >-g. ' iiA-i.k &. vV.-:;vr>-' lv L- L C tho hall. Mrs. Johns took her station in tho middle of the hall, near the door, and when the panels were broken throut*h by Speaker Donglas she shouted and cheered tho men who were making their way in the face of men armed with fire-arms. When the overpowdered Populists beat a hasty retreat, she was the first one to swing her handkerchief over her head and shout: "Victory!'' regardless of the scowling faces of the vanquished army. This woman has been the most earnestly and consistent advocate of woman suffrage, and has had the tact to do her work in the lobby only when the most could be accomplished. Before the close of the present registration she made earn est appeals for the women to register, and thus prove the falsity of the claims made by her opponents that the women did not want to vote. Her advice has been followed to a greater degree than was expected, though, as has been shown, much of the increase was caused by the activity of candidates who want votc3. Municipal elections in the past have been productive of curious re suits. Contrary to general expectation, in many of the cities the women have openly espoused the cause of those whom the business men could not support because of corrupt practices. In this citv a few years ago the issue was sharply drawn between a man who was iti favor of closing ;ii! "joints una msreputauie nouses ami a man who favored these places under proper regulations. The women of the city, including 0110 of the leading Christian associations, openly espoused the can o of the hitter, and by their votes gave him the victory over the man deemed hy the business men to he tho proper p'?r son to be placed tit tho head of the city government. The night nfier the election, at a jollification held hy tho adherents of the successful candidate, toasts were publicly drunk to "The ladies of the Woman's Christian Temperance Association, who so nobly came to our rescue." This has not always been the case, for in some of the smaller towns the women have wrested tho Govern ment from the hands of men unfitted to control, in one instance?that at Kiowa?a woman running against her husband for mayor and defeating him. There have been instances of women Police Judges, an ofiice that they have filled to the terror of tramps and vagabonds. In such cases the women filling that official position have secured full satisfaction for ihe years of terror yet upon them hy the tramp element. In one village where there was a female Po lice Judge there was a uniform sentence for all tramps and vagabonds. The victim was forced first to take a thorough hath, administered by a strong marshal, and then given ten days on a rock pile. Work could not he shirked, for the.order was to feed the victim according to the amount of work done, and the meals for a full day's work would never founder the man. In one instance a tramp was sentenced to two baths a day for ten days, and he received thorn without any rebate. He never visited that section of the State again, for fear he might unconsciously cross into the limits of that village. The women have so injudiciously antagonized men of all parties that it is believed tho amendment to tho Constitution will be voted down, especially now that the State has adopted a ballot system that insures absolute secrecy. There are men that will talk "suffrage'' and vote against it, feeling that they dare not try the experiment. They believe that with snob suffrage the evi's of the past will he repeated on a larger scale. There is no fear that those who vote can be purchased, hut the danger is apparent that prejudice will overcome reason. At least such are the reasons given by those who will oppose the new departure. Iti-ifrlif SttiMiiir Diivm The spring should bo pre eminently a season of contentment, happiness and hope. In those bright and pleasant months tho country should enjoy its highest degree of tranquility and prosperity. Hut spring it is well known, is often a period of discomfort and disturbance in the physical system. Important organs of the body become torpid or irregular in their action, and the fact is instantly reflected in the mental condition of the individual. A disordered liver means disordered n<n-V3a and a dull and unsteady brain. Anything which will bring the physical system into harmony with budding Nature confers an enormous benefit upon the nation, be sides the mere allaying of physical discomfort. Hood's Sarsaparilla does this, as thousands of grateful and happy men and women can testify, and increased use of this standard spring medicine is of more roal Eraotical importance in promoting ealth and quiet in the business world than reams of abstract theorizing. r I, i 1,1 in.? ''Be True to ^ ONWA Y, S. C .. OKN. FRANCIS MARION. The New Tomb to lie 1'nvaiiletl in Muy. News and ('curler. In 173^ two infants lirst saw the liglit of day?one in Virginia and one in South Carolina- who were destined to figure in their country's history, side l>v side, and through succeeding generations to have their names inscribed more universally on the soil of the Cnion than any other two citizens or soldiers of the conntry. \\ ashing'.on ami Marion are household words from the Atlantic to tho Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf, counties, cities, viluges hear their names everywhere over the breadth of a continent without regard to the paralles of latitude. Gen. Marion's part in the struggle for American independence was conspicuous from the first irritating cause, the Stamp Act of 1765, down to the evacuation of Charleston in December, 1782. When Charleston was surrendered in 1780 Gen. Marion, anticipating this result, left the city in a small boat and binding on the Wando Kiver took to the swamps, and for thirty mouths was or.e of the few recognized leaders who kept alive the spirit of liberty when South Carolina was overrun by British soldiers from Ninety Six to Charleston. He had an irrepressible conflict with King George 111 and never let up an hour iu his efforts. His name and fame are only second to Wash ington in the hearts of his countrymen even to this day; he died in 1795 and was buried at "Belle Isle" plantation, as was the habit in those days. What was then thought of him by his neighbors and friends is expressed in this eloquent epitaph: Sacred to the Memory of M nrinti who departed this life on tin* 27th February, in the (5!ld year of his age, Deeply regretted by all his fellow citizens. History will reconl his worth add rising generations embalm bis mem ory as one of the most distinguished Patriots and lleroesoftbe American Hevolut ion, which elevated his native Country to donor and Independence and secured to her the blessings of liberty and Peace, This tribute of veneration and gratitud is erected in commemoration of the noble and disinterested virtues of the citizen and the gallant exploits of the soldier, who lived without four and died without reproach. The original tomb was built of brick with a marble slab on top, on which the epitaph was inscribed. Some years ago a large treo was blown down, and falling across the tomb wrecked it- whether owing to climatic causes or inferior quality of the bricks used, a new structure would have been soon necessary without the fall of the tree, the old one being in a crumbling condition when examined a year ago; the in seription, too, had become illegibly from the action of the elements. The new memorial ordered by the General Assembly is in tho form of a sarcophagus, the base block is thirty inches wide and six and a half feet ton*?, fifteen inches hiarh: upon this rests the centre or die block, thirty inches high; a third piece surmounts the structure for ornament and finish. The material is Winnsboro granite, finished in rustic stylo, and when erected on its sub-base will have an elevation of six feet. The material of the old structure will be used up entirely in the concrete foundation, which is necessary to support tne new tomb, which will weigh about seven tons. This disposition identifies the old with the new monument and prevents these precious remnants from laying around as common material. The remnants of the old stone slab and inscription will be preserved and brought to the city for such action as the State authorities may deem best. It will be a source of pride and gratification to Americans throughout the Union to know that the original epitaph is to be preserved to the latest posterity in an elegant bronze panel sunk in one side of the three-ton die block, while the other side will have a second bronze panel displaying the full coat of arms of South Carolina and the following inscription; To preserve to posterity this burial place <?f an honored son The General Assembly of South Carolina Replaces the crumbling and broken tomb nearly a century old with this enduring memorial cut from her own granite hi Is Ksto perpetua, 1803. The whole structure is built as against Father Time, and it is hoped that trees near it will be cut down, but Mr. T. II. Reynolds, tho contractor thinks that if another tree should fall it will be a bad business for the trees! The plans and specifications for this memorial have been furnished to the Governor by Mr. L. J. Barbot, without charge. The HenriBouward Bronze Com puny of New York arc themselves so much pleased / Tour Word, Your Work, and THURSDAY , | with these handsome bronze panels j as works of high bronze art that they propose to place them on exhibition in New York before shipping them to Charleston. Mr. I ley- 1 nohls will also arrange to place them oil exhibition here when received but only for a short time. Tho State authorities are in charge of this good work, and it is presumed that some formal cernionies will he arranged for the day of nnveling, less than a month from today. On : this subject it may he mentioned,; that "Belle Isle" is twelve miles from St. Stephen's depot on the Northeastern Railroad, and tt is primarily a question of transports tion to reach this historic spot- Of course everyone who can mount a horse or move a vehicle, in a circle of twenty miles, will ho very apt to make the trip to the new tomb that day. Then there are several mounted com pair es who con hi arranged to ride there. As appropriate reading at this time The News and Courier republishes the "The Song of Marion's Men," written sixty two years ago by the late Win. Cullen Bryant, poet: Tlio Song of Marion's Men Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress trees; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. Woe to the I'lngUsh soldery That little dread us nearl On them sh dl light at midnight A strango and sudd -it fear; When, waking to their tents on tire, They grasp their arms in vain* And they who stand to face u.s Are beat to earth again; And they who fly in terror deem A mighty host behind. And hear the tramp of thousands Upon the hollow wind. Then sweet the horn that brings rvlief From danger and from toil; We talk the battle over, And share the battle spoils; The woodland rings with laugh and shout As if a hunt were up, And woodland Mowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry song we mock the wind That in the pine top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly ()n lu'il< ol itttl.'oii liiucnc ? 0 - --? *" '"VMV who don't. If you happen to bo 0110 of those who don't beliovo, there's a matter of $500 to help your faith* It's for you if the makers of Or* Sato's remedy can't cure you, no matter how bad or of how long standing your catarrh in the head may be. The makers are the World's I)is ponsary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y. They are known to every newspaper publisher and every druggi8 in tho land, and yon can I easily ascertain that their word's as gf>od as their bond. You wind your watchoncoa day. Your liver atid bowels should act us regularly. If they do not, use a key. The key is?Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One a dose. Woll knows the fair ami frionuly moon, Tho men that Marion loads, The flitter of their rifles, The scamper of their steeds, ,'l'is life to guido tho lirery barb Across the mooidight plain; "Tis life to feel the night wind That lifts the tossing inane, A moment in the British camp, A moment and away, Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day. Gravo men there are by broad Santco, Grave men with hoary hairs; There heorts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers, And lovely ladies greet our band, With kindest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, With tears like those of spring, For them we boar theso trusty arms, And lay them down no more, 'Till we have driven tho Briton Forever ft oin our shore. An F.ncouliter wltli a Coxv. Tho Laurens Advertiser. Dr. Brooks Connor of tiiis city had a narrow eseano from death at the hands, or rather at the horns of an infuriated cow last Thursday. He hud owned the cow for but a few days and she appeared to be a gentle and inoffensive beast. She had a calf only a few days old. The cow first attacked a little negro boy and having knocked him down was about to gore him when the Doctor ran to his U'Sastanco and began to frail the animal with a stick. In half a sec ond or thereabouts the Doctor found himself on the ground with the cow exerting herself frantically to dig her horns into him. The Doctor must have considered himself in a bad scrape but he fought for dear life ??d persisted iu beating the cow over tho head with the stick and finally she retreated. The Doctor had his trousers torn and received a slight cut on the thigh. He thinks that if the cow's horns had been straighber she would in all probability have gored him io death, lint for unusual pluck and presence of mind he must surely have lost Irs life any how. Those who believe that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure them are j more liable to fret well than thiup 1 Vour Country." 1PKIL 27, 1S1): REPUBLICAN POSTMASTERS. They'll be Permitted to Serve their Full TermsThe State. Washington, April 18.?All lie* , publican Postmasters will bo per- ! milted | i servo out their full terms of four yours. Postmaster (leneral Ibssell basso decided. Tho <juo8? | lion was brought to a head to-day by Congressman Springer, who put this question to Mr. ltissell: ' Suppose that a postmaster tip- ! pomi ,'ii oy .Mr. il imson three years ago had died, and a Hopublican successor was appointed, will this man he allowed to servo four years dating from the original commission, or will he be allowed four years dating from the issue of his own commission?" "lie will ho allowed," said Mr. Kissel I, "to serve out the four years of his own." "That is the ultimatum?" "It's the rule," said Kissell. "It's cheerful,*' said Mr. Sprir.ger. | "There are a number of such instances in South Carolina" said one of our Congressmen today, in discussing the point, "and, according to this l itest rule, each one ?>f those postmasters will serve out his term." .John Thompson, formerly of South Carolina, came over from New York, and has made application for the post of paymaster in tho army, the only one now vacant. He has Senators Butler, Bate, Harris, and Burton McNeill and tho Alabama and Arkansas Senators on his paper, lie did not make any olVicial calls, simply liling his application, with tho endorsements* . ILo loft uguin for New York today. ('aroll Brooks. Senator Butler's private secretary, left, for home tonight. I'liere were no appointments today, and it is scarcely possible that therowill he any tomorrow, as Mr. Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle spent today discussing the very low state of the free gold in tho Treasury A. W. B. -to Add res* of l lie Governors on t lie Subject ol Immigration. "Tho Governors of the State of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee Missouri, I.ouisamt, Arkansas and Mississippi, assembled in convention at tl)Q city of ltiohmond, Virginia, on \r>ril 12. 1803. for tho V* ' I " ' ' sole purpose of advancing by co oporation sum concert of action, tlio industrial interests and well being of their several States, do issue the following address to the people of the ffoiled States and those in Europe who may contemplate making investments in this country or immigrating hero in search of homos. The States represented at this con vention comprise substantially the sonthern half of the American republic. The territorial area of these States is 850,560 square miles. The population as shown by tho census of'!)() is a'4249,277. Its eastern and southern exterior limits are bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the gulf of Mexico. The interior is traversed by many of tho most important. rivers of the continent and by soius of the greatest in the world. The surface is diversified by mountain chains and beautiful valleys, by long stretches of fertile bottom lands and broad expanse of picturesque and productive prairies. The climate is temperate, changing more or less with the seasons and is pleasant, invigorating and healthful. The resources of this vast area, diatribu ted with wonderful hihI surprising equality and its adaptation to natural and to industrial productions is almost limitless. All or nearly all j these States have inexhaustible deposits of coal, mostly bituminous, which can bo mined less expensively, perhaps, than elsewhere in the world. In every section of tho area embraced by these States tire enormous and immeasurable supplies of iron, lead, zinc and other metals use| ful in. the industrial arts. Multiplied I thousands are already engaged in mining and reducing those inetals. | Tho value of these mines and mineral deposits has already long since passed the period of experimenta! tic*)i; and yet they aro in the very in1 1 fancy of their development. Scattered throughout these States are, also, great areas of forests lands, on which are growing in superabundance, ns Hue timber as can he found in the world, cypress, oak, walnut, ash, maple, pine and the like, (it in the highest degree for ship building, housebuilding and for all the uses of ?... f * _ nil 1 i i* uuumucturiug. i ne son una c 11 mute unite to give those States unsurpassed adaptation and capacity for productions of agriculture. Tobacco, cotton, sugar, Indian corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, and all the cereals, arc grown hero in profuso abundance. No where in the world does the earth yield more prompt, certain anil abundant returns to the vitalizing touch of the husbandmen than in these common wealths. As much may he said likewise of horticulture. Nowhere can richer or sweeter fruits, such as oranges, bananas, apples, peaches, plums, grapes, berries, bo grown in greater profusion. Already are to be found hero very many of the most extensive and profitable orchards, vineyards and gardens on the globe. Such, in brief, aro the climate and topographical conditions and such the natural and productive advantages of tho South and Southwest. "Hitherto immigration and capital have flowed inoro towards Western and Northwestern States. This was due, no doubt, largely to the fact that these were new States where immigrants could find free homes hy right of settlement on public lands of the United States, and duo partly, it may bo, to the fact that most of the States represented in this convention were the theatre of war during the struggle between the States, and were interrupted in their progress by somewhat turbulent conditions immediately following the cessation of hostilities, incident to tho so called period of reconciliation. lint happily, all these disadvantages are now at. an end, The desirable public lands of the northwest am practically absorbed: they have been takon tip. Long since the old disturbing forces that prevailed in tho South and menaced its well being have disappeared. It has begun a new era of progress and prosperity. The tide of immigration has been diverte I southward and is pouring in a steady augmenting stream. I'euce is smiling every where and is striving to win her victories no less renowned than those ol war. At this auspicious period in Southern history the Governors ol the States here represented have, bill to give the world assurance of theii profound gratification that this new and brighter day has dawned upor these States, and if possible to nc colerato tho movement which is now so soon Mini so sum to dovelon tin wonderful resources and wealth o! the Southern States. They are anx ions to have immigrants to setth among them; they are anxious t< have capital make investments ant develop enterprise. To the worth' immigrant they extend the hand o welcome, with the assurance that hi will find an educated, warm-hearted hospitable, progressive peoploamonj whom lie can live in amity and peac without regard to his religion, hi politics or his nativity. Churchc and School houses are everywhere Although these facilities for worshij and education are already establish ed upon a most liberal basis, they ar constantly and rapidly increasing The social, moral and religious lif< of tile people of these States is upoi a high plane. "To the Capitalist these States o( fer especial inducements for invest ment. The laws are favorable t the investor and public order ftiv private right are firmly upheld an .vw.0,1 AT.* ..ti 111(11 I I I <11 lll'll . . 1 IF " W I 1 ' I V/ 111 UIU i are there such* golden opportunitie for investment n mluin" and mami factoring enterprises. Fuel, wat^i metal, carte, cotton, tobacco, heinj llax, are all hero together, one wail ing io serve ti?? other almost withoi the cost of transportation. Th South is bounding forward now. 1 is the field in which the immediat future will unfold the most marvel ous developments of the centurj Here new homes are to grow lik spring flowers coming up out of th "Winter of our discontent," and moi to multiply with increasing rapidit - - \ # t NO. 41. as the year J go by. Here capital is to find its most tempting and profitable field for investment. Tho (Jovernors of the States named in behalf of their several constituencies extend a cordial and pressing invitation to tho home-seekers, farmer, mechanic, miner, workman, to come and cast their fortunes with the South, as they do also similar invi totions to tho capitalists, whether in the United States or elsewhere, to examine our resources, and to aid us in their development to tho end that they may participate in our prosperity." ^ Itiuiolph Vircliow, Prof. Rudolph Virchow, tho emi nent German scientist, who has just assumed the retorslu'p of Berlin university, evidently bolieves in scientific rather than classical stud ies for young men. "Granimntic schooling is no longer tho aid tj progressive development necessary to our youth or which generates the love of learning that is the lirst condition to independent development," said Prof. Virchow in a recent address. "There are now other fields of learning whose methods are so far carried out that they are perfectly ahlo to fulfill what is necessary, there are mathematics, philosophy and tie natural sciences; they afford the young mind such a secure foundation that it can easily make itself at home in any faculty. On the development of these three sciences rests the whole of our wes torn culture, a culture which ripen cu ii unristopncr Commons, to whose genius ami energy allow . e to pay a deserved tribute. The university is not merely an institution for acquiring knowledge, but also 0110 for examination and exploration." Prof. Virohow is among the anti Darwin inn scientists, lie says that in spite of statements to the contrary, no traces of tho "missing link" bo twoon man and the lower animals has been discoved either in the physical organization of modern savages or :n the most ancient of human . skulls. Immigration to this State, Columbia Journel. The immigration plank adopted by tho \Vage Workers' Ceaguo at the ' convention last night was introduced ' by Mr. 1C Kmmet Clrubbs, of Green^ vtlie. Mr. Grubbs is associated with Mr. ^ C. K. Camp, editor of the Western Advocate or Camp's Immigrant's I Guide. Thirty thousand copies of this paper are distributed monthly throughout the Northern and Western States, showing the advantages P South Carolina offers to home seekers. P This paper was started by Camp, L in 187G, and since that time he has located more than one hundred r f thousand families in the States of Kansas, Nebraska and South Dako ' | ta. His e.forts are now being used to turn the tido of emigration to the / ? South. He has held meetings at I Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, (.aureus and Greenwood, and has received great encouragement. At a meeting of the Greenvillo j County Alliance, recently held at Greenville, Mr. Camp and Itis mo P tives were endorsed ami a call signed by every member present to join hands with the business men of | Greenville to hold a mass meoting ^ in that city, on May 1st, to take such steps as may bo necessary to assist Mr. Camp in this work. Mr. Camp will visit all the towns and cities of South Carolina, and will be in Columbia (luring the first week in May to meet tho citizens, c # Advdertising will bring farmers to this State, and those who come will be prepared to pay cash for their 11 lands and have means to buy stock , and live until they can raise crops. lly this means largo tracts of land will be divided into small tracts, j merchants, manufacturers and wage j workers will all be benefited, taxes will soon be reduced and prosperity will abound, i. Hood's Cures. \\ In fiAvinv that. ITnn/l'a S^i r?i? ?>??? , - - p - w ?. ? !? >f ilia euros, its proprietors make 110 idle or extravagant claim. Statements from thousands of reliable lt people of what Hood's Sarsaparilla e lias done for them, conclusively It prove the fact?Hood's Sarsaparilla 0 Cures. '* Hall's Hair Renewer cures dand* f' ruff and scalp affections; also all e cases of baldness where the glands l0 which feed the roots of the hair ere not closed up. y For Partly*!* uh Dr. Mil**' Korvla*. I