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^ ^ ^ _ - , * VOL. VIII. > THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION. I SLUG F.ST IONS OF AVOItK IN THE FL'TUIIE. j l.oi'kl < >! >;;?ni/.ai Ions Arc Itecommondeil?Advertising tlm Ilesouroes ??r i lu? i. ? - -*.iM/[irnui( ii Willi ilio ltuilroailH. At tho Southern Immigration Cougross hold lust wook in Augusta, C*a., tho following resolutions wore reported by the committee 0:1 plans and resolutions submitted for consideration : 1. That wherever county and State organizations have not ulrcudy been formed, they he at once perfected, and that the olHcors of suoh county organizations constitute a State board of iniuibyution. That the ollicors duly authorized by each State convention shall report results of their elVorts at least twice each year to the secretary of the South- ] orn Immigration Congress. d. That tho Southern immigration Congress urge tho co-operation of ail rail lines, St ito ajid county ollicors and the citizens at large in tho furtherance of plan proposed. I. That this Southern immigration Congress earnestly recommend to the Congress of the United States the establishment of a permanent exposition at the National Capitol in which the products and resources of the several States of the Union may ho fitly and properly displayed, and we urge upon the Legislatures of tho various States an appropriation of money necoasury to establish and maintain this most practical method of bringing to public attion 11 n3 resources of the one common ) country. o. That the Congress of the United States is earnestly urged to make such appropriations as may bo needed to carry into olToet the rocouimcndatious of this congress. (J. That this congress appoint a committee of l?ve of its members, to devise some practical plan to lay before the better class of emigrants from Europe, the manifold advantages of the South, and to induce and encourage emigration to the Southern States, which committee shall report to the next meeting of this congress. Whereas, it is the sense of this congress that the exhibition of -the products of the farms, mines and forests of the Southern States in the Northern, New England and Northwestern States and foreign countries is an excellent mode of a Ivertising. Thoroforo bo it, Kcsolved, That wo endorse the work of the executive committee of this association and their cherts to make exhibitions in the Northern, New England and Northwestern States, and in the Dominion of Canada, and earnestly request Southern editors, landed cor porauous, imm igrauon associations, boards of trade, railway lines and progressive business men of tlio South to eo-operato with the executive committee in enlarging this mode of advertising by establishing a train of ears in which will bo exhibited the productsnf the South ?said train of cars to be carried to every section of the said Northern, Now Kngland and Northwestern States, and to the Dominion of Canada, and that similar advertising shall bo done in foreign countries as soon as practicable. The details of these exhibits to be left to the executive committee representing as it does the entire South, as it is composed of ope representative from each Southern State. Kesolvod, That a committee of live, Governor W. .1. Norlhen of Georgia as chairman, bo appointed to confer with otDcers of the Southern Railway and Steamship Assooiotion in regard to rates on Southern products. Resolved. That in the opinion of this convention one of the conditions which has greatly retarded the material development of the States hero represented, and which serves to discourage immigration is the depioruble condition of our public roads. Resolved, That this convention urges upon the Legislatures of the several States the great importance) of adopting better methods of building and maintaining our public roads under intelligent engineering supervision. lie it resolved, That this convention endorse most earnestly the movement towards direct trade, l>oth in the matter of exports and imports between the ports hn the South Atlantic and Kurope, which has already boon successfully inaugurated by loading large steamers with grain and Western products from the South Atlantic and (inIf ports. And, be it further Resolved, That this convention will do its utmost to encourage desirable immigration through steamers coming directly to Southern ports, and that all the States in the South will unite to encourage and assist in settling up their waste lands and setting forth the great advantages of climate and soil in the various localities. That the only hope for the futuro of our railroads and the permanent building up Uoni linen u/w?fi/m /if /mi* /*/mnt i?v Ill tlio II uvvw.x/.. w vvutivt j is by tho bringing in of now pcoplo to stimulate industry und i?y putting now lifo into enterprises and doing for tho South what immigration lias done for tho waste lands of tho great Wost. Kcftogrilzing the fact that tho people whom il is desired to bring with their labor and capital into tho States hero represented look to tho States themselves to publish accurate and impartial information concerning their resources. Kosolvod, That this convention earnestly recommends to the governments of these several States that they continue to collect, through their geological surveys and departments of agriculture and immigration, such information, and publish it on a larger scale in an attractive form, and that this published information ho widely distributed in accordance with intelli- j gent organized plans. Keeognizing the fact that capital without labor cannot develop tho resources of a country, noitlfer can labor without capital, and that they are equally dependent upon each other, and that they are equally entitled to tho fostering care and just treatment of tho courts and legislatures of the country ; and recognizing the further fact that neither can bo induced to coino into these Southern States without assurance that it or they will be justly and fairly dealt with without regard to tho faet us to whether it is organized or unorganized labor, or whether it ho tho capital of individuals or corporations. Therefore, Resolved, That it is the aonso of j,his convention that it is ths duty Qi 0 every good citizen to use his best endeavors and influence to seo that each roeoivo the same fair equal and impartial justice and condemn and discourage all prejudice and partially that may exist againstoither. Unsolved further. That the time has come when wo should regard railroads as allies, not enemies, for i placing business before politics and to encourage the enactment of laws to ineroase confidence both of the laborer j and capitalist in the exposition of the I people of the South to treat them fairly and justly. The first feature of tho report was the one which eleeited most debate. n wiii atuieKou oy u delegate icolli Virginia, Mr. Sharp, as a scheme of tlio Louisville ami Nashville railroad, and was warmly defended by Mr. Atwood of that road as a patriotic clTort to make the most of the facilities at hand. He said-the railroads were already co-operating in every way to facilitate the movement, and they could not do it all. It was best to have these county organizations and lot each county get up the literature and forward it to the railroads for distribution whore it would do the most good, and afterwards to run excursions to the advertised sections. The report of the committee was adopted. BOUTIIEKN I?KVKL< UWlKNT. i United State Senator.Iarvis of North Carolina road a paper on obstacles to Southern development, in which he advocated the establishment of such State, county and city governments throughout the South as would give the fullest assurance to the wuld-bo settler that his life, liberty and property would be as secure as in any other section of the country. Ho showed that the capital is the most timid thing in the world, that a man will risk himself where he will not risk his money, and that the money would not seek investment, where there is bud government. With reference to the presence of negroes in the South, he said the negroes are not responsible for being here, but are here to stay. All plans for their eolonizatfon elsewhere, or their exportation are wild and visionary. Tho negro could not go away if ho would ; and ho should not if ho could. Ilo must ho recognized as a fixture in tho South, and tho wisest plan to pursue is to educate 1 him and make tho host possible citizen out of him. Ho commended all that was being done in this direction, but regretted that it was not more. lie said tlie elevation of tho negro race must begin in their homes. They must he provided with butter accommodations with ample room to soparate tho sexos, and with good teachers in their schools. Their preachers must he instructed and aided by tho white preachers, and where one is unworthy, he must he exposed and displaced, as tho teacher and tho preacher oxcorciso tremendous influence among them, and when vicious do a vast deal of harm. Bettor homes, better schools, and churches, better teachers and preachers, and bettor laws would make the negro an intelligent and law abiding citizen, and then capital and labor would not hesitate to come among them. lie referred to the fact that strikes and strife among labor were unknown among Southern negroes, and the South does not desire indiscriminate immigration of those classes that, arc not law abiding. It, wants only such people as can conform to our eivmzai. on ana oecomo goou citizons. In tlio course of his remarks, ho also advocated the repeal by Congress of the 10 per cent, tax on State banks and the coinage of tilvor on tho same tonus with gold. There is some discontent oxprosod among representatives of distant States that so much time has been occupied in talking on matters extraneous to the purpose of the convention. There is 110 division of sentiment among tho delegates 011 the proposition that tho South is the best country in tho world, but what this congress wants to do, is to devise ways and moans for convincing tho outside world of this fact, and to persuade people from distant sections to come hero to live. This was tho object they had in coming hundreds of miles to tho congress, and they feel that valuable time is being wasted in discussing everything else but immigration. WHY WIO WANT IMMIGRANTS. Sensible Kouhohh for Inviting tho Itigiit Kind of People to South Carolina. The State. 31st int. The News and Courier inquires if citizens of Northern States are so convinced by experience that they could do bettor in a thinly settled State than where they are, why, in the name of senso, wo should want to dinport sovoral millions of them to put our States in the same condition as tho States they are leaving ?" If a denso population means prosperity and the development of a region, why, it asks, should those people want to oomo to our thinly settled States? Unfortunately, there is not yet evidence that Northorn farmers, 111 great numbers wish to come to tho South. Wo want to put them in that mind, and we know that it is to their interest to come; and that it is tho object of the immigration convention. Hut farmers in tho middle and central Western States do seek homes in moro thinly settled States for good reasons. The thickening of population around Lhom has increased the value of lands so much that to increase their farming area is becoming more and more costly. It does not pay to raise crops on $l')()-an-aere land when they can bo produced as woll on $5-an-acro land- the investment required is too largo, and the owner of cheap land has a great advmtago over them in competition. For this reason there has boon a constant movement westward. A farmer could once sell his land in Pennsylvania for enough to buy twice as much in the West and still have a comfortable capital in cash. The West has now tilled up to such a degree that cheap lands arc no longer plentiful, and the farmer is naturally looking to the South, attracted by our cheap and fertile soil and mild climate, and yet doubtful of the venture for other reasons. The time is opportune to remove his doubts and bring him hero. Why do we want him here? Hocause his coming will make our lands moro valuable, further diversify our Indus-! trios, awatcon our yot dormant rosour- j CONWAY, . cos, touch by oxutnplo hotter and more economic methods than the haphazard ones which are our inheritance from the slave system, ereato villages, enlarge tows and eitlos, multiply schools, increase the circulation of newspapers, add to the wealth of the State. Liepinun )ii? vvi hi Id liitlit fit iwilinvd nu of our political slavory to the ghost of black rule, create a fooling of political security which would enable us to vote as we believe and hold public servants to their proper accountability, and in other ways make us as free in political action as the people of the North. We want men of sotno little means, of course ; men who can build comfortablo homes and live creditably, and this sort, we assume, will bo the only kind specially invited, or who can come as independent land owners. T llltKATKNH TI1K MAYOK. ,\ State Detective (Jets Ugly and Tries to Slioot Mayor Sloan. COLUM1UA, S. C., May HO.?Today a sensational attack was made upon Mayor W. Melt. Sloan, of this city, which is curiously connected with the liquor riots. Lust night a young man named Power was arrested for disorderly conduct in a disreputable locality of the city. This morning the mayor imposed upon him a line of $~f>. Power, when arrested, had a Colt's pistol, which he said a man named Nowcomb hud loaned him. Nowcomb is a Texan, cluimiiig to be a I'inkorton dotectivo, and has papers which purport that he is in the sorvico of the State. This afternoon Nowcomb, armed to the teeth, called at Mayor Sloan's residence and presented a note from Attorney Gdneral Ituchunan, stating that the pis to. taken from l'ower belonged to the State and requesting its return to Nowcomb. Sloan promptly gave I.;,., ltM f li 'Ml . VT- ? ? nidi an wi ni'i km ii>. x nun i^iiwuonii) commenced to abuse the mayor in a foul manner and Bworothat if lie would come out into tho street he would show him what ho would do. Nowcomb proceeded to the oiliee of the city clerk, Walker, in the city hall building, and denounced that olllcial. Coining down the steps he saw Mayor Sloan at a distance, and, putting his hand to his pocket, declared that ho would shoot him. Two policemen promptly seized Nowi comb, handeutTcd him and hustled him olT to the guardhouse. Tonight Attorney General Buchanan called on Mayor Sloan and, explaining that N?Twcoml) was needed to testify before the Florence county grand jury which will he discharged tomorrow, asked his roleaso. Tho mayor refused 011 the ground that he had 110 right to do so, and Buchanan said that he would resort to legal process. Nowcomb claims himself that he had boon engaged by the government in ferreting out the looting of the Florence county dispensary, which occurred the night after the Darlington riot. It is said that his friend Bower had been working with him. Bower was tried today in his absence at Florence on the charge of making an aggravated assault upon a man named Fiadgor, his cousin. Bower is a man of good family connections. Newcoinb will doubtless bo lined in tho mayor's court tomorrow morning and immediately afterwards arrested on tho charge of assault with intent to kill and re manueu to h mgnor court. ? ???? ItI'SSl AN INTOLtillANCE. An Interesting Incident in Diplomatie Colors?Russia DcnicH AiIiiiIksion lo a Cit izen oi l lie 1'niird StatCH. Congressman Kayner, of Maryland, a member of the foreign alTairs eommitte, has introduced in tho House a I resolution which will probably lead to ; an interesting diplomatic controversy I with Russia. Rabbi Krauskopf, a well known Hebrew philanthropist of Philadelphia, has been denied the privilege of entering Russia, and the resolutions eulls upon Secretary Gresham to insist that Russia shall keep faith with the United States under the terms of the treaty of 18114, which says that ''the inhabitants of their respective states shall mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places and rivers of the territories of each party wherever foreign commerce is permitted," and that if tho Czar's government refuses to respect tho conditions that steps be taken to abrogate the treaty. It is qui to probable that the purpose of Rabbi Krauskopf's |visit had an, important bearing on Russiu's action in the case. Ho desiros to observe the condition of Ruselan Jews and to petition tho Czar to permit him to carry out plans to relievo the congested .Jewish settlement by colonizing tho excess of population iu tho sparsely settled interior parts of tho empire. Tho means for accomplishing this, ho believes, will be subscribed oy his coreligionists hero and abroad. Rabbi Krauskopf's application for safo conduct through tho umpire was laid boforo i'rinco Cantacauzono, the Russian minister, some weeks ago. j Tho prince listened in silence and then I announced his deep regret that ho must decline to take any official cognizance of tho matter. Then through his friends in congress Dr. Krauskopf brought his plan to the attention of Secretary Greshauj and President Cleveland, who went so far as to forward an official communication upon tho subject from the state department to Andrew I). White, United States minister to Russia. This communication was in the nature of a "feeler" put forth to ascertain, if possible, in what spirit I)r. Krauskopf's proposed visit to Russia would bo received on the part of that government. It was understood that ho was to go fully equipped with passports and with tho most Detent eredntials of his Amorinan zenship. it was also inuclo plain that tho rabbi's mission was purely poaooful and philanthropic. This reply of the Kussian government has been transmitted througa Minister White : " Russian government deeply regrets the impossibility of acceding to tho request of tho revorned Jewish divine.'' Uahbi Krauskopf has been barred solely onaceountof his religious faith, and Congressman Jtaynor will raise the point whether a citizen of this Country, no matter what his religion may be, con bo denied a safo conduct under tho terms of the troaty. This country imposos no such restrictions upon Russian visitor*. S. C., THURSDAY, THE GREAT TARIFF DEBATE. PFN IMOTUItlCS OF NOTFI) SFXATOIts. The Turin" liill Will Pan* Shortly? I ncitlcnlH anil < 'It uruet er iM lea oflho Prominent Men Fngugcd in tin* l)isctisHion. Special to Pe Augusta Chronicle: Washington, May 21). Tho tariff bill seems to be on the throo ouiirtnr stretch at lust. It has hud pretty hard running for the truck up to this point has been very muddy. The augur schedule will be finished by the middle of next week ut the furthest. Then paragraph ufter paragraph will he pussed with u rapidity which the Senute is noted for passing uppropriution bills. Senator Hill will speuk ubout free ruw muteriul, and the Kopublicuns will probubly vote with him ufter first voting for u bounty on augur. The schedule us it now stunds will puss the Senate, however, but it is exceedingly doubtful whether or no it will find safe anchor in the conference. The (lunation of the tariff is now losing part of its interest, but strange to say the interest which surrounds the lenders of this great movement is increasing. It shows that after all people ure more interesting than principles and quaint characters more attractive to many people than groat questions. For instance, if Senator Aldrich takes the floor to talk the galleries are easily emptied, yet Aldrich, on his side of the question, is a tariff export, the same is true of Frye of Maine, Allison of Iowa, and a number of others. Yet a wrangle between Hoar and Harris, between Chandler and Vest, between Teller and Voorhoes, Lindsay and Aldrich, or a speech from Senator Gorman, Hill or Vilas will crowd the galleries for a day. It. in l>ntjl?l> milMMIlQ till, ninnl.ni> ..f men who have come to the front (luring this debate. The most remarkable incident is that of Souator Jones of Arkansas. Ho has really supplanted Senator Voorhees in importance on the Finance Committee. It lias boon a voluntary retirement of the tall scyainoro of the Wabash, the remembrance of the trying experiment of the extra session was too fresh in his memory for him to enter upon another prolonged and arduous discussion upon the lloor. however, and his presence seems to add strength to the cause of tuuilT reform. lie is getting old and shows his advancing years, lie has reached the stage when he is willing to remain in the counsel tents and not go forth with the army to battle. The victory he won in the extra session would cover his closing years with glory from a parliamentary standpoint, even should ho not take any other prominent part in national legislation. He has certainly lowered his lance for this Congress at least and thrown his mantle upon Jones, of Arkansas. When sitting in his Senato seat, he has the appearance of a crouching lion and his tormentors have fuiled utterly so far to rouse him from the lethargy into which ho seems to have fallen. He sits quietly hour after hour, his head bowed upon his breast, his face impassive and absolutely without expression. Ho knows that ho must rest and rest fully if he intends to live. The Republicans have tried to gore him into the open, buthe glances at them in a half sleepy vacant manner and resumes his pose which is that of a complete divorcement from activity. The most interesting character in the light is Harris of Tennosseo. Ho is tiio ringmaster who uraoks tho whip, asks tho questions and shifts tho scene. All of his life has been spent in party warfare and he knows now to meet sUad with steel. lie is the acknowledged parliamentarian of the Senate and the combined forces of tho Republicans cannot shake him. There is not a Senator, Democratic or Republican, who does not love him personally. Nor is there any other Senator upon the lloor from whom they would receive the rebuffs, satire or lectures as they do from Harris. Hour loves dearly to make him mad and succeeds in doing it. Harris speaks with great directness and vigor of language, has a way of pointing his long forefinger at the face of the man to whom he is talking, and after scoring him soundly dismisses him with a gesture of disgust and then " moves to lay the amendment on the table." Harris in reality lays down tho law for the Senate. He is positive and dogmatic to the last degree, rides roughshod over everyone that comes in his way, whether friend or foe, and is especially equipped for his light in close quarters. When Harris rises the din of tho fray is heard, and tho audience look out for hlood spots on the turf, lie hasn't a particle of humor and fails to understand why either tho Senate or gal'eries should laugh when he courteously dismisses Senator Iloar as an antagonist not worthy of his stool. When he rises to make a motion his words seem to fall to the ground of their own weight. It is said that lone in Olympus could not pronounce tho fate of the world more impressively than Senator Harris mukos a motion in the tarilT light. These wrangles represent the daily show of the Senate, and it is for these that the galleries are crowded at II o'eloek every day. One of these sham battles was taking place on tho floor tho day that Senator .larvis was sworn into tho Senate. lie sat there eagerly drinking in every word. His expression had been noted by the press gallery especially as something unusual in the Sonato, but no one know how to I* ....*8 1 A _ -l vtumiu 11/ iiiiuii /lli^UB 1NUOWUUI), iiuiovcr Scotchman and correspondent of the Haitimore Sun, said : " Hoys, ho thinks it is all real." The gallery booamo upi oar ions and the long-suffering Palmer of Illinois shook his head that tho Vlco-Presidont did not rap for order. Senator Vest represents tho reserve corps on tho Democratic sido as Chandler does on the Republican. When tho opposition charges too heavily upon Jones and Harris, Vest throws himself into tho breach and helps to hold tho bridgo. He is a cunning partisan and yet one of tho readiest debaters on the floor. He is very plausiblo and though he snarls like a dog, whines like, a cat, ho is vithal one of the heavy guns of tho fight. When the noise is loudest there you will hear the screech of Vest above all his follows, roaching out for famo, calling loudly for applause. Jones doos the heavy thinking part, --JUNE 7, 1894. tho part assigned to him by Yoorhoes retired from tho dramatis pcrsonnau of this drama. It would sooni that Senator Mel'herson would have taken this role, hut from tho inception of tho I light it was clearly evident that no 1 Huh tern man could lead it. They wot'o not to bo rolled upon sutlieiontly for the work to be done, ho it fell to .(ones and the opposition thought it had a cinch. He is a lawyer, thoroughly i equipped for handling men and great innt.t.OI'd llllll l?iu lllllTulnllii io ........f ? I'll/.. I against fatiguo. It is impossible to entrap him, for when ho is unable to answer, ho says so with promptness, lie is good-natured ami oven Chandler cannot provoke him to wrath. .lust, now ho is the (lower from which all bees expect to sip their honey, lie has the say so whether an amendment shall be adopted or not and manages as exclusively this end of the line as Harris does the parliamentary strategic part of tho program. Chandler is his own element. He is now compeer and no oonfror. He is a free lance. He reminds one of tho bug who wanted to be a rhinocorous and wear an ivory tooth pick on bis nose but unable to gratify this ambition he is willing to remain a bumble bee or a June bug and buzz and but bis head against tho wall. He is a gad fly on the Democratic neck ami a wasp within his own party. He loves to tear Democratic shams to tatters and lling their unsightly rags to the breeze. He is quick to appreciate humor and if tho laugh is on the other sido lie brings both wit and satire to his aid. Ho has no respect for facts or figures, sarcasm and wit are bis handmaidens and bis humor is tho onlv thing which makes his speeches palatable. Senator Hoar is a cherubic old soul, yet hiding behind his smiling countenance is the gall and wormwood of a century. There is something like the Shylock about tho Massachusetts Senator. Ho is thoroughly implacable and will nevor withdraw his lance because ! his victor winced. His words arc rasp- | ing and oven his voice is irritating. ' He does not urgu,o half as much as he taunts the Democratic foes. Gorman, of course, is one of the picture cards of the Senate. Whatever he does is attractive, just as a juggler is attractive, lie remains silent anil quiet during the first part of any tight, yet^whon ho comes out of liis hole he foreshadows the end as clearly as the ground hog foreshadows summer, lie can scout the roundup of a battle farther than any man who is on the trail, and when once he joins the forces, it does not take him long to forgo to the front. Of course there are a number of others who speak in a desultory sort of a way, but these are the men who are really at the head of their forces. The present fight is a grout show if one only knows how to appreciate it and it makes no dilTorenee which ox is gored. The tariff bill is certain and the country may turn from anxiety of its fate to the amusing features of the light. A CONS 1*1 It AC V IN HliOKIDA. One Negro Already Gynclied lor a Plot to Commit t lie Usual Crime ami Others of the Conspirators May Share his Fate. Jacksonville, May Hi).?A special to tho Times-Union from I'alatka, Flu, says: Tho people of this section arc very much excited over tho discovery of a diabolical conspiracy among the negroes to commit a series of outrages upon white women. The particulars are that about a week ago a negro preacher by the name of I. T. Burgiss came to tho tur|M ntine stills in the neighborhood of ipitnam Hall and procured employment. After becoming acquainted with the colored employees he made damaging remarks about the daughter of a farmer living near by, and proposed to the negroes that they should seize this girl and several other white women and carry them into the swamp and make them submit to their embracer, it is understood that several negroes agreed to the plan and that preparations were being made to carry it into elTcct. Fortunately the white people got a I- t ? / f * v. * * ' iiinl oi mo conspiracy ana do gun to i make un investigation. Thoy secured evidence that such u conspiracy did exist and they took steps to guard their homes. In the meanwhile the negroes learned that their diabolical plan was known and secretly they began to leave the country. One of those to leave was Hurgiss, who had suggested the outrages upon the women. He Hod just in time to escape from a number of white men who had gone to secure him. It was learned that Hurgiss had gone to Georgia and the father of the young lady whom Hurgiss had so vilely slandered swore out a warrant against the negro. The Georgia authorities wero com- ] munieuted with and Hurgiss was arrested. A Florida ofllcer went for the negro and brought him back. Fearing a mob ho stopped at a little station called New burg, intending to secrete the prisoner at a friend's home nearby. The officer started to bis friend's house, but had not proceeded more than half a : i i. \ i i -i ? - * 1 mil] w iieu ue wivs sumiomy couironieu by betweon sovonty-flvo and one hundred mounted men. They covered him j with guns and rillos and demanded the prisoner, Doing overpowered there was no other alternative i>ut to give him up, and the next morning Hurgiss was seen hanging from a limb two miles from the place where lie was taken from Deputy Lane. Hurgiss is described as being about 4f> years of age, six feet and weighing about one hundred and eighty pounds. He confessed to Mr. Lane that the report he circulated about the farmer's daughter was untrue, but he made the remark about her to interest the negroes in his undertaking. The white people are wild with rage, and it is believed that more lynchings will speedily fol- j low. ?II. Deliver Thompson, the assistant Stato engineer of Louisiana, has brought suit against the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company for the sum of $10,250 for the loss of an eyo, cansod by being struck by tho bell rope which was running through tho car loosely and irregularly and was suddenly drawn by an employee of tho railroad company who was standing on the platform. ?" I)o great trouble 'Ismt conversation," remarked Uncle Kben, "am dut , hit's impossible tor show oz much 'rig'n^litv In talkln' 'bout do wcddah ez yoh km talkln"boutyou neighbors." APPEAL FROM THE WOMEN. WHY NOT UNTOUCH Til K LAW? Tin* Saloon t?*I?*ini I Taking Cliai'K" ol' All'aii*H?>1 i'H. Chajiin WiuiK Allan lino iTotnltll ion ami \n!m lor Help IVolll I lie >1 I'll. The Woman's Christian Temperance { Union has ma le an appeal to (Governor Tillman to do w hut ho canto uid in the enforcement of the prohibition law ami also appeals to the men of the State to *lo likewise. The appeal is as follows and speaks for itself: Chaulkston, s. C., May 22. Governor Tillman : The members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Charles ton do most earnestly entreat you not to relax your efforts for the protection of our homes and dear ones from the destruction that now seems to threaten them in the retain to license and the restoration to power of the rum (lends. Newspapers, which a few months ago preached prohibition so eloquently that many really believed they meant what they preached, are now accenting license?high license- with restictions, as though the restrictions they propose have not been a dead letter on our statute books for years, scoffed at and defied by the lawless crowd which they propose to restore to oM1<:m. "South Carolina, the Palmetto State, in the liquor tralllo," has been a rallying cry for the anti-dispensary host, and now, no sooner have the dispensaries been closed, than those very people advocate, forming a now partnership, with the "The Palmetto State," which they had taught us to believe they held so sacred as chief partner In the linn of Van Duckt, Shop iV Co. When the Kvans bill passed in 181(2 w? wished it hud been prohibition, and felt dreadfully over it, hut when we read the hill and found it proposed to c'oso every open harroom in the State and to allow liquor sold only by responsible persons whose ehuraetors hau to be endorsed by a majority of persons in their ward or town, as the easo might be, and who were pledged under oath not to sell to minors, drunkards, or any one under the intlueneo of liquor and to keep a record of all sales made, which would at all times be open to inspection, the liquor sold in the dispensaries was to he analyzed by the State chemist to insure its purity, and the places in which it was sold wore to he closed at <> o'clock and kept closed on tho Sabbath : the New York Tribune pronounced it "iron clad prohibition," and we felt that it was only one stop from it. bo wo nave it our encouragement and support and despite of threats from bar Keepers, and only discouragement from those whom we had a right to expect would have stood by us, we have held the fort, working and praying for prohiI bition. Some are rejoicing that it has come, not in our city, however, where the dens of iniquity are all open, even on Sundays. We are still hoping, praying, waiting. When the Supreme Court decided that the dispensary hill I U'liti liiwMinut i f ut 1 ......... I -- I , ..V, v.MVXMIUV?VI(VlVjlU?l, HHlll J ?urn in* | dined to think, as Jacob did, "All those things are against mo i)ut wo know better. Tho dispensary had done tho work God intended it to do. I Tins light is a battle between the devil and ids allies and our great King and Ids followers, and unless wo prove | traitors we must win tho victory, for i " Our God is within tho shadows, " Keeping watch u)>ovo His own." The dispensary proved that with a inun of courage at the head of ulTairs, liquor laws could be enforced, if not absolutely at lirst, fully as well as laws against burglary, murder of any other crime. Public barrooms were most certainly closed, and that in despite of tho combined efforts of all classes | of people who gave encouragement, and actually brought in to prominence I tho lowest class of people, because they dared to defy the law. You have shown what an immense revenue accrues from the sale of whiskey, but you have told us your " object is not revenue," and we believe you are too true a man to sell the right of way into our homes and barter our boys to tho foreign rum-seller for revenue. " When for our cause all hopu is lost, ' When every heart was tempest tossed ; " When homes in ashes round us lay ' And o'er us beamed no cheering ray ; 44 Who.n iV??n nil n lumiFnaf * " ' , , ,.W.? V v/*< Vl?l UMVTWni YT oi U UU' 1111111110(1 " And waved the woo wavo o'er tho land, " Your Southern women chocked each toar " And offered nothing but words of cheep." And now wo come to the men of Carolina, particularly to those who make and enforce our laws, and entreat you to protect tho homes wo took care of during the war. " Home is our kingdom," you say, but wo are powerless to defend it. You put into tho hands of the vilest of the scouring of creation a weapon " firmer set than bullets or than oayonets," with which to attack our homes and destroy our dearest ones. Your protection, you say, is all sufficient. God grant it may bo so, in this case, for we are standing ballotless, utterly unablo to defend our homes, and we appeal to the men of our State for help in this time of threatened destruction. If you do not help us now and the destroyers of our homes get into power again, the wives and mother* ?>f our State will havo again to go, a* they have gone in the past, into the rum a hop* at night, and, on their knees, plead with brutal barkoopors, who with curses have thrust them into the street. Wo want prohibition, absolute prohibition, without any "clauses exempting wlno, boor or any liquor as a beverage." Atlanta's oxporienco is an object losson to us. Men who swore solemnly not to sell spirituous liquors soon perjured themselves, and as an excuso for opening their bar rooms on Sunday, kept a menagerie and mado the excuse "they had to feed the animals." I can novor forget Mr. Grady's hx>k as ho prophesied what exactly camo to pass. Let us bo warned by Atlanta's exp^ionoe to make no compromise with the hurried tralllo, for the divine condemnation rests uoon any nation or government whicn legalizes ?yU, NO 47. 14 framoth minuhiof by law and justitle* tho wicked for reward." With uroat respect, Mks. Sai.i.if. F. Chapin, State I'roHldcntof South Carolina, Mks. T. l\ DicGafkkukm.y, President of Charleston W. C. T. U. ? statu m:\vs in diukf. I utercHtiiiK NoIch IVoiii Varloim Hourecu, ?Tho Sumter Freeman nominates Hon. W. I). KVitus for tho United States Senate. --Dr. L. C. Stephens, of Barnwell, has gone to San Francisco, Cal., as a delegate to the American Medical Ass? K'iation. ?The St. Matthews cotton soe<l oil mill, in its first year's operation has earned for the stockholders a dividend of .'Mi per cent. ?The people of Clarendon are anxious for Hon. .1. 10. Tindal to make tho race for Coventor, believing that he can do more towards solidifying the reform faction titan any other man mentioned for tin; place. ?An old weather observer calls attention to it as a remarkable fact that | nearly all hailstorms in this section go from west to east, and that a storm from north to south, though occurring occasionally, is something very unusual. ? l'rominont citizens of Lancaster have, through a published card in tho local nance <ri..n ...... i.?.? 1 ,...rw , f*?vri> ?f WW (III WIIU iany persist in hoIIiitliquor in tliut town tliut thoy will bo prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for every violation. ?Congressman Talbort has introduced a bill 41 to enjoin the further issue of bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury and to coin the seigniorage," which amounts to $f>5,000,000. This, Mr. Talbort thinks, will solve our financial troubles. ?The Oakland club of Fairfield County has passed a set of resolutions in which it recommends that " Democrats opposed to the Keform movement should carry the issue square into the November election without going i-.to the primaries. ?The Seerotary of the State has issued a commission to the Greenville County Hedge Fence Company, with the following corporators : K. Y. llellans, II. H. Huist and A. Hlytho. The capitdl stock is $12,000, divided into shares of $100 each. ?Brigadier General 1). W. Flagler, of the War Department, has issued a decision which holds that the arms of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston are the property of the State under the terms upon which tlinv wei'o iriu.?n (lin I... < ' ^ r. I>y V>imgross. Tho anus will accordingly be turned ovor to tho State. ?Tho Lover, of Chicago, tho loading prohibition organ of tho West, says editorially : "Tho mayor of Columbia, S. C., in made of tho right kind of stuil. Ho has issued a proclamation giving due notico that under tho recent decision of tho Supremo Court ho will onforeo tho laws of tho State and of tho city prohibiting tho sale of liquor. Such a mayor is an honor and a credit to his city." ?Tho Prosperity Canning Company is arranging to can this soason lifty acres of tomatoes, being 10,000 bushols, or about 110,000 three pound cans. This represents about ">00 cans of tomatoes alone per working day all tho year round and does not include tho output of other canned products. Tho Prosperity cannery was begun in a small, experimental way, but. for its eanaoitv. w - ' ( "J I has proved a paying, even a profitable, enterprise from the start. ?'Tlio Aiken Times notes the sale of tho " Sand Bar Ferry," whch boiongs to the estate of the late Miss Julia Whatloy, of Augusta, Gu. Tho Times says: " This lovely place on tho Savannah was the regular duelling place of tho country gentry before the war. More duels have probably been fought there than at any other place in the State. It has )>oon in tho possession of tho Whatley family for over sixty years." ?The safe used bv tho three C's Bail road Company in its office at Yorkvillo was blown open last week and a sum of money not exceeding $-1 was taken therefrom. Tho job was evidently the work of an experienced eraksman, as it was accomplished by bouring a hole in the door and forcing powder into tho safe. Tho whole thing seems to havo boon worked exactly in the way told about in the dime novels. There is noclue to tho identity of tho robber. This is Yorkvillo's first experience with this class of criminals. ?The Republicans are procuring to test the constitutionality of the regls' tration laws of South Curolinu, in accordance with the resolution rocontly adopted by tho State executive committee of tho Republican party. The committee apppointed by tho State W??>>v?vv v\r illivu DUO MJSl IlHl(lC Will raise funds thorofor has been hard at work and it proposes, if possible, to have the constitutionality of the law decided upon in very short rdo. The work lots been in the hands of State Chairman Webster and ex-State Chuirman Drayton. ?Geneva, Ala., close to tho Florida line, is agitated over a sociacial sensation. Ed Cowart, a prominent young | man, and Miss Lizzie Lunwood, a popular belle, were to have wedded. All arrangements were inade; tho preacher land tho guests had all arrived; the wedding supper was spread, but tho I bridegroom was missing. A dolegaI lion was sent after him, but ho declined | to ootne, saying ho had changed his i mind. The bridal party was notified I accordingly. The assembled gentlemen provided themselves with masks, again called upon tho bridegroom, carried him into tho woods, buckled him across a log and lashed him unmercifully, tho blopd being made to flow from his back. They threaten to serve the next flirt oven worso. ? During tho World's Fair the Ferris wheel went around 10.(KM) times and carried 2,000,IKK) passengers. Tho largest singlo load carried was Octol?er 19th, when at 12.20 o'clock 1.T0H people were on tho cars. The largest day's business was October 10th, when US,000 people were carried. October 9th, lOtn and Hth there were U1.000 passengers, the largest number for any thraa day*.