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THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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, ..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 ;
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" 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.
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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
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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*.