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VOL. XIV. * * what crowers. i * Will Meet Again Next Year at the Same Place. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. A Permanent Organization Effected. The Attendance Not Very Large. But There Was Much Interest. rfho Wheat Growers Convention mot * Greenwood on Tuesday ot' last week \ was called to order by Mr. S. II. McGce, editor of the Index. Congressman A. C. Latimer was made permanent chairman and the convention declared ready for business. All present were considered members of the convention. The feature of the convention was an address by Mr. C. II. Jourdain of Georgia, which is published elsewhere. It was resolved to make the organization a permanent one. It was resolved that the organization be named "The Wheat Growers' Association of South Carolina;" that the next meeting be held at Greenwood on August 15th, 1900 at 2:H0 o'clock p. m. That the otlicers of the association be a president, vice prcsideut, a score tury and an executive committee, consisting of the president of the association and one member from each congressional district, whose duty it shall be n*mc the places and times of meetings. That the discussions of the association be strictly confined to wheat growing and divcrsiiicd farming. That all persons interested in the success of the agricultural interests of tho State bo required to attend the meetings of the association and that each county be hereby requested to appoint double as mr.ny delegates as they arc entitled to representation in both houses of the general assembly. That a meeting at each county seat in the State is hereby called for the first Monday in August, 1900, for the purpose of electing delegates to the next | nnnnol mnnt inn nl' t Kn nopaaJ1 ^v>^v.ufe ?HV> nriiuviuiiuu ?uu that tho members of this cointnittcc arc authorized to arrange for same. That Messrs. A. C. Latimer and S. II. McCco bo appointed to arrange for the next meeting of the association as relates to discussion, etc. That the thanks of the association be extended to the press of the State for bringing the association to a successful organizat'on. The speaking Wednesday morning was held in the grove surrounding the court house. Senator Waller presided, and the first speaker was Congressman Latimer, who devoted the opening of his speech to a discussion of the necessity for the diversification of crops. He told of Secretary Wilson's interest in the growing of grasses and the practicability of tliis industry in connection with cattle growing in this State. Secretary Wilson had told the South Carolina farmers that ho would upon application send seed for grasses to be used in reclaiming worn out lands. Mr. Latimer then took up rural mail uciivcry ana the attendant bcjctits to the farmers. Ten deliveries had been established in this distriet. He ex plained fully the working ai d plan of the rural delivery system. Branching off to subjects political, Mr. Latimer discussed the monopoly question, paying particular attention to the proposed subsidy of ships which he opposed vehemently. His conclusion of the monopoly issue was that the far mors must also combine. The Philippine war was denounced as contrary to the principles of our government. Mr. Latimer raked the ad ministration's policy most vigorously, and his line of thought was well received by the crowd, who interjected occasional applause. S?*vitor Tillman was introduced as the head-centre" of the farmers' movemont. The senior senator was brought forward "unmuzzled to graze upon whatever topic he may choose." Senator Tillman started with a pleasant reference to Greenwood county, whose mother was Abbeville and father Edgefield. "No county," said lie, "has a better pedigree." lie told of tho fight for Greenwood county and referred pleasantly to the town of Greenwood and its growth. Ho paid a compliment to Greenwood's citizenship, but he took up the whitecapping which makes people afraid to sleep at night within five miles of tho court house. This he denounced bitterly. Ho told of the Phoenix riot and said he didn't blame tho white people then.in"If I had been here I would have gone with you. I havo never yet failed to uphold the banner of white supremacy aj^iiiiiHi me uuvu, me v/uriu and tho Radicals." Tho Tolbcrts ho denounced, but tho cloction riots arc over and inolfcnsivo negroes should bo let alone and be given protection. If you want to uproot tho snako and kill it, go and kill tho Tolberts (cheers). Hut don't bothor poor negroes who have nothing to do with tho Tolberts. Don't abuso the poor black devils. Tho race problem is, coming to the front in tho United States. This Jewcit woman has come to Charleston and taken the Hakcr family to Boston, tho centre of deviltry. By allowing tho thoughtless, lawless men to whip tho negroes, you givo ammunition to your enemies in tho North. This anarchy will spread to hdgefiold and Ablcvillo. You arc miners, and whilo wo must mako tho negroes let our politics and women alono, but they must not bo beaten and abused. If this thing continues, you will bo deprived of labor by an exodus of negroes and moreover capital will be ?hi driven oil. Vou must make the nogro respect you and keep his placo, but you cannot afford to whip and kill negroes in this cowardly way. At present the Yankees arc disposed to let us alone except to cut down our representation because we've disfranchised the negroes, but such affairs will give then, a chance to interpose federal authority. I beg you, 1 plead with you to rise as one man and put down this devilment, (Loud cheers.) Some one may say, "You'll loso votes." I don't care if I do. I don't want your votes if you aro 1 1 A 111.1*1 1 suen cowurus as 10 upnoiu tins lawlessness. Senator Tillman then took up the subject of farmers' institutes and the benefits to be derived if the farmers will take the proper interest in them. In the North the institutes have proved very successful by the cooperation of the farmers and tho farmers' wives. The senator said what the farmer needs is to raiso his living at home. Yesterday he had listeucd to the wheat growers, but fool as ho was he had a bitter remedy neainst woavils than any of them. It is to grind an soon as you gather it. lie gave tho farmers some advico as to cultivating their crops and told of the great things tobacco had done for Darlington and the other eastern counties. His own experience in tobacco raising and its failure was humorously told. He thought there was land around Greenwood that would grow tobacco and urged the farmers to try it. His experience, "that of a failure and fool," was that there is nothing for ? ir farmers in experiments with As. i grasses, because A via is an arid clim.ite. As Senator Tillan was about to sit down, a bystander a^ked him about his Sumter reference to the prohibitionists and the dispensary. In reply the senator said he went to Sumter nt the invitation of all factions and in his morning speech mentioned only national issues. After dinner i\Ir. K. [>. Smith made a speech it) which ho endeavored "to rub the butter otT my back." My friend N. G. says in pursuing a policy of conciliation my course is to give them soft talk and sugar. Well, I've given them enough vitriol in the past and ought to be allowed to say something nice now. Smith attacked Clomson, Winthrop, etc., and said that Tillman when governor laid great burdens on our people and I want him to come back here and remove thos3 burdens. It was the first time I've been asked in the open to acknowledge that I'm a damn rascal and , damn fool both. Smith rubbed off all the butter and 1 in reply discussed tho questions he raised. I did not say the prohibitionists arc cowards and hypocrites. I did say that prohibition would make cowards and hypocrites of our people. Some of the prohibitionists arc cowards and hypocrites. Fcathcrstone rushed into print and abused me, saying I was bom with abuse and couldn't do without it. I 'll leave him and Gonzales to settle it. I have no policy of either sort. i ne man wno comes at mo like a gentleman I'll meet him that way but if lie comes at me with abuso I've got as good a vocabulary of hard words as any one. lie said prohibition would make men get physicians' ccrtilicatcs, etc. Prohibition don't prohibit. You've got prohibition in Orconwood and I can buy liquor here today and you've got tho constables to help en force it. lie said there was no use to talk about the dispensary as it was here to stick. He was told there was not a tiger in Sumter, where the constables were once rotten egged. What he said at Sumter was that he did not believe prohibition could bo enforced and that he took the Athens plan and put it in the prohibition law. It has proven to be a better law than prohibition. He claimed no credit, except to enforce the law on the statute books. Tho dispensary law is better than prohibition, so far as results go. Too only fight in State politics in his opinion would bo on the liquor question. 1 le would light for the dispensary and go down with it if it must go down. Talking about Mr. Latimer's speech he said tho factory operatives were asgood people as any and although the factory officers tried to vote the operatives against him but they could not do so. Mr. Latimer said all he argued was that the operatives might be misled becauso of the lack of organization. Tillman said this was so as the fllWrat ivAd miolnrl ?O"""""' v| w...v. . wm ... >r,...nwv, iiiioivu k\j nu|>|/ui i the I lanna- I'ayno meaHurc and tlio like on the representation that it would do them good. The senator defended the d ispensary and said ho would fight for it and go down with it. Taking up the Philippine question, ho scored McKinloy and "bencvolont assimulation."* lie had not asked the president to give him any appointments in the army for he felt it was a villainous war and no decent man ought to engage in it. Senator Tillman said ho thr.nkcd the gentleman who asked him about the Sumter speech. Ho didn't mean to inject anything unpleasant but ho wished to deny a misstatement. My two good friends, J. (J. Hemphill aud N. G. Gonzales, have recently in their editorial columns entered into a compact. to ignore me. Tho State and "News and Courier have been my best friends. They have told what I said and tho peoplo took it for what it was worth and it did mo good. They gavo Feathcrstonc a column aud didn't give mo spaco to tell what I really did say. The News and Courier did give mo a lino or so, but Tho Stato didn't. Senator Tillman's speech closed the morning exercises and in tho afternoon the farmers' institute was held. Hanged by Alabama MobSolomon Jones, a negro, was hanged by a mob near Forrest, Ga.j for attempting to assault a young white woman. t ?to1 CONWAY. S. C GOOD ADVICE A Speech that Every Farmer Should Read and Study. THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY. Mr. C. H. Jordan, a Distinguished tr? .. r\~i: uouigiaraunci, uanvci9<wi Instructive and Interesting Address. The following is the speech of Mr. 0. II. .Jordan, of Georgia, before tho Wheat Growers' (Jonvontion: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: There is no occasion ,,'hioh is to mo more enjoyable and no compliiuout which I esteem more highly than the privilege of being with and talking to tho far? ers of my country. In the discussion of those problems, the solution of which is essential to prosperity in our future farm work, a subject is presented in which wo are now most vitally interested. Conditions which did not suggest themselves a decade ago are becoming serious and formidable at tho present time. While personally a stranger to the most, of you 1 feel that my own interests arc identical with yours and that we are all engaged in a common cause. In advocating a revolution in our fanning methods I shall not suggest the adoption of anything which has not heretofore been successfully undertaken, and will give no advice which is not capable of practical application. It isquito apparent to any casual observer A \ A _ ? P T * 1 * * uuu cur system 01 eoing business is ?Iocidcdly contrary to that which existed during the days of our greatest prosperity and consequent independence. There was a time, not so far hack in the past when the farmers of the South supplied the population of the towns and cities with the necessaries of life from tlie varied products of their farms. At the proscnttimc a large majority of our farming classes are helplessly dependent upon the merchants for supplies not only for themselves, hut for their stock as well. The heavy staple supplies which tho merchants handle arc grown in the far West and the proceeds of the cotton crop of the South, which should represent the surplus money crop of the farm, is paid out to tho farmers of the West. Wo are enriching not only these producers, hut tho railroads, wholesale and retail dealers through whoso hands these goods must pass before reaching us, and who charge a full commission all along the line. Tho crop out of which we arc expected i _ e ii S;. - - i? . ! iu pay ior luoso supplies is soiu ai auguro below the cost of production, and thcro can be but one reHult to us from the continuance of such a system of doing business. A GREAT AGRICULTURAL STATE. Tho great State of South (Carolina possesses as great a degree of diversified resources as any State in tho Union. There is not a farm in your State which cannot by a proper method of diversified planting, under an intensive system of culture, he made self-supporting. The farmers of your State must realize that every pound of supplies which they purchase in the open markets is produced by other farmers in distant sections of the country who labor under greater difficulties than those with which wo have to contend. When Southern farms wero self-sustaining open acccounts were tho only evidences of indebtedness, and a farmer's word was as good as gold, Sharp, shrewd business men of the world saw that there were fortunes to be made out of the cotton crop if the farmer could be induced to produce it in large quantities. The Western people saw an opportunity for building granaries and packing houses to supply the South with food if we could be induced to turn Dur attention entirely to growing cotton. The big railroad magnates saw a grand opportunity to incrcaso dividends, multiply their rolling stock and otherwise fatten on the freights to bo obtained by transporting heavy and costly supplies from the West for tho Southern cotton grower during the spring and summer. In the fall millions of cotton bales would be turned over to them for carriage to the seaports or Northern markets, and a second whack had at the great Southern industry. Tho stock raisers of Kentucky and Tennessee wero pleased at the bright prospect of supplying for the futuro that beatiful Southland, where all that was needed to make a man rich was a piece of land planted in cotton, with a Negro and a Kentucky mule to plough it. tluano manufacturers saw at onco that plant foods in enormous quantities would have to be supplied to keep up the fertility of the cleanly cultivated fields, and that tho investment would bo a good one. Cotton expositions wcro held all over tho country and tho whito staple crowned king. It has taken twenty years to whip the fight, but the intenso greed of tho world has done the work, and to-day tho old king lies half dead in the ditch, whilo broken and disappointed mourners gaze upon the long trail of a disappointed past. While tho farmer has lost in tho strugglo the country at largo has dovclopcd and increased its wealth steadily each year. I have no criticism to mako of tho farmer for so largely producing cotton, oven with tho costly use of commercial fertilizers, when tho business was a lucrative oiio. But we face conditions today which are scriom and which mako impossible the futuro wholosalo production of cotton as a moans of developing future prosperity. In tho rich, alluvial lands of tho Southwest, in which are embraced tho valloys of tho Mississippi, tho oxtensivo plains of i*v|? Mi ..THURSDAY. AUG US' Texas and Southern Oklahoma, ootton c is being grown on an average of ono c hale per acre, without the use of fertilizers. The farmers of your own Stato 1 after using annually hundreds of than- c sands of tons of fertilizers, can barely t avcrago half a halo per aero. With s these heavy odds against us and com- t petition annually increasing in tho Southwest, we will be forced to change our present system of farming. Tho solution of the problem by which wo " are to-day confronted must be largely t determined by the efforts of each indi- * vidual who is directly engaged in the c production of cottou?and who, by rca- o ! sou of a full appreciation of c his needs ami condition, real- V izes that ho is an important factor in i breaking the bondage undor which he s rests, that the freedom and indepen- 'I deuce of his business may bo once more a established, placing him on that high > plane of prosperity which was made so a conspicuous 111 the early days of our \ fathers. f Kill your granaries and smoke houses with the products of your farms, stock a I your pastures with eittlo, sheep and y hogs. Diversify your interest and pro- ? pare to go into the markets of your ^ country with ado/on staple products 1 whore you now only attempt one. Cut t down your cotton acreage and diversify 1 the crops planted. We can gradually t get into the supply business, and raise t enough cotton besides to meet the do- t mauds of the world, and the price for s which it is sold will be a profit in our i business, hvcry fanner who has hero- r toforo operated his affairs entirely on the credit system must make a strenuous effort to use more cash in his busiI ncss for what ho is forocd to buy and 3 raise everything at homo which his ' land will produce. I I. A 10 I Kit AC It KAO K IN WIIKAT THIS (. KALI,. 1 am satisfied that a larger acreage in c wheat will he planted in the South dur- t ing the coming fall than for many years ^ past. We need shrewd businoss men | on the farm as well as in other depart- ^ merits of life. Mroad, liberal thoughts t find birth in higher education. The t farmers will only combine their com- j nion interests when conlidence in the business ability of each has boon gained. Unity among the farmers is onoof the greatest needs of the present day. t : K P - l a i i j P t t " oaroiui, tnouguuui stuuy oi the resources of the country will open up a system of diversified farming, which will bring profit and ploasuro to tho agriculturist. Kvcry fanner should liavo a thorough knowledge of commercial paper and understand some system of keeping books. At the beginning of each year a detailed account of what he owns should be taken down, representing his capital invested. An itemized account of every dollar expended, whether cash or credit, should he eircfill 1 y entered. Tho cost of labor cmployed and the materials used in tho production of the various crips should he specially accounted. At the end of the year his books will show tho profits or loss of tho business. Wherever errors existed in the management, thedofects could be readily found and remedies applied. The boys growing up on the farms will catch the inspiration of y systematic methods and business train- < ing, which they will ho able to utilizo { with profit to their own advantage in ] future years. i FARMElts' INSTITUTES. ( I appreciate the fact that the day of ' schooling, as we ordinarily use tho term, * for the adult farmer has passed: that 1 tho only hope for tho present and fu- ' turc cultivation of his mental faculties 1 and tho betterment of his material ' prosperity must lie in the local organi- ( zation of farmers' institutes. The farm- ' ers' institute is without cost to its A membership. 1 want to givo ;ny aid N and encouragement to their establish* * meat in every county in the South as rapidly as possible. If you havo no institute in your State organizo and begin the battle for greater success and pros- ( pority in your farming methods. In * these institutes the interchange of ideas ' experience meetings, discussing and 1 adopting the most successful plans por- I tabling to our business would meet and overcome many serious obstacles, which retard as stumbling blocks, our futuro ^ pathway. What tho farmer neods most of all at this timo is cncouragemont and aid in tho solution of such problems as will help him in his life work and the building of a future filled with contentment, happiness and prosperity. Organize and attend your institutes, with a full appreciation of your needs and surroundings. 'I here are no peoplo who have hotter opportunities lor scii-cuucation than (. the farmer, and lio should ho quick to ) take advantage of tho circumstances which placo this highly desirablo feat- ( urc of his avocation within his reach, j That farmer whoso business is operated on a self-sustainingbasis, who exorcises f intelligence, forothought and correct f methods in the conduct of his affairs, fears no panic. The tightening of tho money market, the crash of falling bus- c incss housos in the great cities, roach v his ears only through tho medium of t the heavy headlines of his newspaper. He is happy, poacoful and contented, j and only responsible to his Maker. NOTTIIBRN LOAN COMPANIES. V Hut what of the farmer whoso home t is mortgaged in tho Northern loan com- I panies whoso stock and crop furnish c collateral for the purchaso of supplies? i When tho stringency comes tho crop f fails to scttlo the obligations; tho loans 1 fall duo, an cxtonsion is asked /.nd re- 1 fused. The iron grip of tho law is 1 evoked; tho property is advertised for '1 sale and knooked down to tho highest r bidder. Tho wife is torn from a home r which sho has long learned to lovo; tho v little children aro forced from tho chcr d ished playground and another hoartbro- S ken farmer is added to the long and n rapidly swolling lists of tonants, whilo f one more Sourthorn homo passes into o Northern oontrol. This pioturo is not ' drawn from fancy; its realism is too Ct il 111 I 24, 181)!). tften heralded as ono of tho misfortunes >f our present farming system. Tho solution of the raec problem is a natter in whien the farmers of our tountry are more largely interested han anyone clso. The liohl of most erious troubles is in tho rural disriets. WIIKAT ON EVKUV FARM. We have assembled hero for a high uul noble purpose, one worthy and liting tho honorablo avjontion in which ro are engaged. We aro here to dis111 Srt lllana I'lir lll<? liml/ll-inl V.ni i * [ * !?? ? v i viiu i i (I I I'Ul Vl'l 1111J 11 V if the farmers' condition in South Car* dina and to express our determination >eforo tho world that the futuro plant* ng and growing of wheat will bo eonpiouous on every farm in the State. 1"ho roform movement is taking posses ion of your people in earnest, and a evolution in our farming methods is lending tho pleasing sunlight of its ad* aneo into the mind and heart of every armor. For years thcro hasbcon great rivalry rnong the transportation lines from tho (Vest, soliciting heavy freight for ship nont into our Southern country. A'heat, or its manufactured products, lour and brand have largely figured in he heavy ton ago of freights daily doivcrcd to your wholesale merchants in ho last twenty or thirty years. The laily consumption of foreign flour on ho tables of our fanners has been lomcthing enormous, while our cities lover enjoy bread prepared from liomo aiscd wheat. t NlVKltSAIi KAIS1NUOK WIIKAT. Tltn nnitrAKj.il ?.A ? C ? ' - A ! . .<V> uuitbinai lainniK III WIIOHL 111 four Stato will ho no experiment and 10 new undertaking. Ii will simply jc gcttiug back :nto the footsteps of mr fathers, and forging a strong link 11 the desirable self-sustaining feature >f our farm work. There are thousands >f people in your State today who well ememhor when patent Hour sacked at lYcstorn mills, had no sale in your Merchants' stores. South Carolina vhcat has helped to furnish tho muscle ind hrain of many of tho most eminent iharacters who have conspicuous places n the history of our country. A STRIKING CONTRAST. In contrasting the agricultural eondiions of the South as they existed thirty-five years ago with those of the prosint it can he more forcibly presented dirough a short illustration from a part )f our history with which we are all faniliar, and of which many of you who ire present, here today have a feeling ccollection. During tho four years' lontinuation of the civil war the eutiro lopulation of the South was blockaded >n all sides. The continued call for roops to the front drained the country >f its best manhood, leaving agricul -ure largely in new hands and under .he restraint of perilous, wrought up imcs. The entire Confederacy sublisted upon home-raised supplies, and lie invading army of the North loaded ts commissary departments from the products of Southern farms. During die entire poriod of four years there vas no sufforing in any quarter of the South by man or beast for want of good, ivholcsomc food, particularly flour. Jur troops suffered for want of money ind transportation facilities, but not peeauso there was not an abundance of provisions of all kinds in every section >f tho South. (Jen. Sherman comnoticed his memorable march through Joorgia toward the close of 'til, with icarly one hundred and thirty-five diousand men and thousands of cavalry ind wagon horses. As he advanced on lis lino of march to the seaboard, and inward through your own State, his 'oraging parties daily replenished this fast army's commissary department vitli the finest bills of fare ever issued .o any soldiery in modern times. AN ASTOUND!N<I ASSERTION. The full granaries, smoke houses and ixtcnsive well stocked pastures of South Jarolina's farms supplied Cen. Shcrran with an abundance of provisions, vithout any great detriment to our people left in tho wake of his march. PRESENT STATE (IF AFFAIRS. 11 cannot be doubted that there is rastly more acreage in cultivation in four State today than at that timo. Should such an army with its necessary dock, equipments, start out through four State at this time without a wollillcd commissary, depending upon the csources of the country to sustain its liarcli to tho seaboard, how far would t proceed without halting or looking to ithor sources for supplies' Suppose or one short year the population of South Carolina was blockaded and iVcstcrn transportation facilities cut iliort off what would be the conscpience under our present system of arming? Famine would run riot in four towns and cities, and thousand^, if tho agricultural classes would suffer or bread and meat, booauso our farm irs generally do not produoo enough (revisions to take their families through ?r?e year. Of what a inagnilicout past vo can hoast and how glaringly it eon rasts with the present. In all departments of commercial and ndustrial life, except agriculture, tho nventivo genius of man is boing utilize vith every possible dogreo of profit to ho various avocations in which tho icoploof this country are engaged. Tho lonvcnicucc of all kinds that the world s daily manufacturing and placing bcorc the farmer are tending to ronder lim more helpless and dependent in a lusinoss which ?should bo pro-eminenty tho most indopondont on earth. Thirty years ago when tho old horso >owor threshing and hand power fanting machines were in use, more wheat ras annually raised in some militia listricts of the various counties of your Itato than is now threshed with all tho aodorn improvements at our command, rora the combined wheat aorcago of two >r thrco countios. [Continued on Fourth I'ago, | % I BEATEN BY NEOROES. Fiyo Whito Ladies Assaulted in tho F Streets of Littlo Rock. Five brutal assaults by a Negro man ou whito women have occurred in Lit ?l? ? i i - i. ? 11.. F viv i?vvn in w t ih.mii n. it in ^nigiiiii) bcliovcd that all the orimos wore committed by the same negro, but three -i suspects have been arrested, and if tho right man can be positively identified he may receive summary punishment. Tho victims of the assaults are all highly respected white women of Little Rook. All the assaults occurred in tho suburbs. The first was that of Mrs. Aiken, which eojurrcd Tuesday afternoon. As Mrs. Aiken was passing by Twenty-first and High streets the No- !' gro seized her and dragged her to tho woods. She rooi'ted and cried for help. v A passerby frightened tho Negro away f after he had severely beaten his victim. ! Ollicors at once began a search for tho ! assailant, but failed to find him. At!) o'clock Wednosdaay morning, a 1 few blocks from the scene of the first {, crime, Mrs. Young was assaulted in nlmost the same manner. Tho Negro ( knocked her down with such force that v a rib was b.'oken, causing internal in v juries of a serious naturo. lie choked 1 and beat her about the head and on the * side, inflicting very serious injuries. The Negro finally seized her purse and dis- 1 appeared in the woods. Mrs. Young, * who is a frail woman, is in a precarious ' condition from her wounds and the J shock. Nor clothing was torn almost 1 entirely off in (ho struggle. I An hour later Mrs. Kennedy was attacked at her home near West Mod ' park. She was knocked down, beaten ' and choked. I lor child ran for assis- ' tanoo, and the Negro lied. Mrs. Ken- ' nedy's injuries are very painful. About 11 o'clock Emma Longcoy, the 18 year old daughter of a grocer, ' was attacked beaten by a Negro half a 1 dozen block from West End park. She I escaped from her assailant. City and 1 county officers, together with a large. ' number of citizens were by this time ! scouring the vicinity for the Negro. 1 The greatest excitement prevails, and the anger of the citizens in the neigh- ) borhood was thoroughly aroused. The fifth assault occurred early ' Wednesday morning on a well known ' young woman, at Twentieth and Cross ' stroots. She was likewise knocked 1 down and badly beaten. Iler face was 1 swdlon and diseolorod from tho effect 1 of the blows. Thcso outrages wero brought to the attention of Gov. Jones, who ollercd a reward of $100 each for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties. Judging from tho temper of public sentiment, the officers will find it diilicult to protect their prisoner should the right man be captured. He Was Not Doad. A month ago a letter from Manila contained the news that Ellis Hhinohart of Maysville, Indiana, a soldier in tho regular army, had been captured and tortured to death by Eilipinos. 1 Thursday Khinohart appeared in that city alivo and well. He was just returning homo from the West, and bad not heard tho story of bis alleged death, lie had not been in the Philippines at all, having been discharged for disability before his regi mont sailed. His par- : cuts, who had not hoard from him for months, were mourning him as dead. j "DoWitt's Little Early Risers did mc more good than all blood medicines and nthnr nillsi ' vurif.iu (inn II I ? , , ... ?/.?- ( cobs, of Thompson, Conn. Prompt, , pleasant, never gripe,?they euro constipation, urouso the torpid liver to action and give you clean blood, steady i nerves, a clear brain and a healthy np ! petite. Dr. 10. Norton. Foolish Negroes. I The National Afro-American council of the United States met at licthcl ! church Chicago Wednesday in convcn- ( tion. One of the most important matters to he presented will he a proposition for a new federal statute to make the participation in any mob for the purpose of lynching a capital olfense and to give the United States authorities the right to interfere in any State or territory where a mob assembles for the purpose of lynching any person. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspop sia because its ingredients are such that it can't help doing so. "The public can rely upon it as a master remedy for all disorders arising from imperfect di- \ gestion." .James M. Thomas, M. D., in American .Journal of Health, N. V. Dr, 10. Norton. Ncill's Cotton YarnsTho purpose of Ncill's big cotton estimates is so plain that tho trade ought to discount his figures. It is shame i to allow exorbitant predictions that aro so manifestly exploited for the purpose 1 of breaking down the prico of cotton, i to meet with success. Hamilton Clark, of Chautscoy, <Ja. | says ho suffered with itching piles i twenty years beforo trying DeWitt's i Witch Hazel Salve, two boxes of which completely cured him. Hewaro of I worthless and dangerous counterfeits. Dr. K. Norton. Irova I ^ Makes the food more del} I. i trHffrrnn NO. li. -1 MANY WHIPPED. 'eacoablo Negroes Terrorized by Raruf<; r>f \AJ ?- W w. ? I II kwupd' IEETOSWAMP AND TOWNS ["he Governor Appealed to by Sheriff of Greonwood Who Can't Preserve Order in the County. A special to Columbia .Stato from iroenwood says: A portion of this ounty between Greenwood and I'hoolix has for more than a week past icon tcrrori/.cd by a gang of so-called vhitccaps engaged i 11 whipping No;roos. The whitccaps began Monday light a week ago and entered tho louses of several negroes who were ta;en out and whipped. Since then this icrformanco has becu several times relented and tho Negroes arc badly lightened. Tho object of tho white aps is to diivo off Negro tenants in ruler to secure control at low prices of ralunblo farm lands in that section nuoh of which is rented to Negroes by ho white landlords. There is no political foundation for he troubles and the offenders are said ,o belong to a low class of whites. Tho Negroes havo taken to the woods and iwnmps at night to avoid the visitation ?f the gang and many of tho colored >ooplo have ootno to (Jroenwood, lomo of them bringing all tlioir posseslions and refusing to go back home, [nollonsivo Negroos are said t? have jeon whipped and they havo told of ,heir troubles to white friends here but ire afraid to talk openly. So far as <nown none have left this county but *ow are anxious to remain in tho comnunity. Tho better class of pooplc dodoro the occurrences and until now dio matter has boon kept quiet, but tolay tho sherill wired tho governor for issistance, stating his inability to control tho situation. It does not socm to bo the object of ; he gang to seriously in jure tho Negroes. I'hoy simply want them to loavo tho ommunity in order that tho lands may t>o rented by white tenants. It is a line farming seetibn producing good jrops but is thickly settled by Negroes although tho colored population was jomcwhat thinned out immediately after the election riots last Novcinbor. I lie .Negroes are now very badly scared and the object of the whitecapa has been very nearly attained. This is the version of the story ar, gained from (iroenwood men. A largo land owner of that section told me today that ho had his Ncgroos sleep in his barn for protection and that tho colored population is terrorized. Two hundred Negroes from that yieinity spent .Saturday night in (Iroenwood to avoid the visitation of tho whitecapa. The same masterly inactivity which characterized tho sheriff s oilieo in tho November riots hangs over mat oflioo in this instaneoand nothing has yet been done. TII.f.MAN CONDEMNS IT. A special dispatch from Greenwood to The Greenvillo News says: In connection with the whitocapping situation in this county, ftolioitor Scaso is in town, and has wired the attorney general to cor.io up and investigate tho matter: ~ Senator Tillman is here. Alluding to tho subject, ho said that he did not consuro the people for tho l'hoenix riots, but that this was entirely past. ' I do not advisoyou to kill thfi Tolbers," he said; "but if you have to extirpate anybody, don't punish these poor devils of Negroes. "Tho time will soon bo when this race question will shako this country from centre to circumference. Anarchy, once begun, is liko fire in the woods. You are dominant; your own civilization, your sclf-rcspeet demands something to put down this trouble. Keep up this trouble, and you givo powder to your enemies in the north, you injuro your country, and if this troublo continues, you will drivo every laborer you havo out of this section. "I beg you, I entreat you, I plead with you, to rise as one man and put a stop to this trouble." Some one would say he would lose votes hy it. lie didn't earo if ho did. Ho didn't want tho votes of men who would do such a thing, and if he didn't speak out he would bo unworthy to represent anybody and the people ought to rotirc him. Uueer Georgia Story. Ilonry W. Hiors, a fanner who lives car Hucst, Colquitt county, On., went to Atlanta Wonncsday to consult Dr. Harris. Ho was in great agony with what he thought was a bug in his Bar. Investigation by tho doctor developed tho causo of the troublo to be lead which had been melted and poured into Mr. Hicr'scar while adocp. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure thoroughly digests food without aid fr?? the stomach, and at tho same time heals and restores the diseased digestiyo organs. It is tho only remedy that docs both of theso things and can bo relied upon to permanently euro dyspepsia. Dr. K. Norton. LBhuuw ftowoc* ekius and wMnane lea..***-. t ^