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V ^ J ?-' 'y' 1 VOL. XIV. mmmm The State Candidates Resume Their Speech Making. THE ATTENDANCE 8MALL. / The Well Trodden Ground Gone Over by the Vote Hunters. Not Much Interest Manifested. The State campaign mcotings woro resumed last Tuosday week at Gcorgo town. Iho attondanco wan very small, and littlo interest was manifested in what was said and done. A number of tho oandidatos wore absent. WILLIAMS It IT Il( 1 M E KTINO. Thero woro about two hundred pooplo in attendance on tho mooting at Kingstroo on Wodnesday. Capt. Jennings, eandidate for Stato Troasurer oponed tho speaking. Dr. Timmcrman was absent. Brookor and Derham waruiod up a littlo. Brookor charged Dorham with allowing troasurors to mako settlements whoaovor tho lattor want to. Dorham, interrupting, said this was untruo. Brookor said he oould provo it in tho record for 1H97 in Hiohland county. Dorham said that ho had a certificate from Sheriff Cathoart contradicting Brookcr's statement. Capers mado tho crowd hollor by assailing MoMahan for naming a flag on Winthrop college for "a Yankoo soldior" who was toaohing at tho summer sohool. MoMahan was not horo today. Col. Fioyd said Williamsburg had been ono of his bannor oountios. IIo wanted to kocp its support. Dr. llouso was absent. W. 1). Mayfiold, W. D. Kvans, J. II. Wharton, It. I?. Kvans, J. H. Pettigrew and Mr. Herry told why thoy ought to bo railroad commissioner. B. B. Evans prodded W. D. Evans. Barntay denied that rato on cotton had I*1"**' V?0 reduoed. "and I defy him to dony I il" W. D. Kvans replied: "I do dony ft il" Barney asserted that one man's L wtrd is as good as another's. He then rcid some figures that the local rate from Kingstreo to Oroonvillo was 30 cents and to Norfolk 24 oonts. Barney oontinued to mako his ohargos, "and I jL djjf^y him to dony it." Col. W. 1). Kvans' each time would say, rtI do deny it." Barnoy stated that sinoo the sale of the South Carolina and Georgia to the Southern the rates had inoroascd. W. 1).' denied this. Barnov said this denial was not tho truth." W. D. advanood toward hiui and it looked equal ly, out tiie Marlboro gameoock kept admirable coutrol of hitmolf undor the terriblo oxooriation of his Kdgofield namesake. Barnoy, shaking his finger cxoitedljlat W. IX, said that to provo his asscnion the rates at Aikon had gone up sinoo the sale of the South Carolina abdlGcorgia ho oould oitc the tariffs. ' CANIWDA.TK8 FOR GOVERNOR. Gary wa*\ the first speaker for the ofOooof govdijaor. lie today for the first time reforrpd to the fact that he has no papors backing him up. He roiteratod his support of the dispensary, and jumped on Wohibition, but advocated looal option i^uvecn the two. He produood the showing that he had voted for thif^L-oher bill as amended by Winkloriu? to allow caoh eounty the right to t ^Kish or to remove disponsaries. Ov?Rloyt said he had not referrod ^Jlohcr bill, but to tho bill proparetmy 'llr. liobinson of Anderson, whioh provided for a vote be iwcen aispenisary and prohibition. Gary charged coalition betwoon blind tigers and prohibition to squoezo tho life out of the dispensary. lie aocord) ed all honor to honest prohibitionists, but warned honest mon not to bo persuaded to vote for prohibition. Ho again stated that f^tional lines had boon drawn against him, as he was a Gary and a TillmanitA Ho wants to be measured as an inctvsdual. Patterson bogan h/> saying that while Mr. Gary is disouaing local option, he would discuss tho cLmiittary. Patterson attempted the Mlo of humorist and told several jokos tilay. Gary is seeing ghosts. Nobody in the oampaign has said anything ablut tho Gary's holding offices until yestlrday, when Walt Wnitman said something about it. Nobody is attaching! iary for supporting Tillman. Ho said that Gary didn't have the oourage to V>nio out in favor of the dispensary at ttftjaston. Gary?That is ?hsdT Mr untrue. Patterson said thaC* Miarlcstot he had asked Gary^jVr*'*']P g** m favor of high , ou*t0n> tho latter sr/?111*4, ll'8 was un>hi 'ood b< tho orowd. \ asked tho crowds^ v Tinted me to explain my ?^2 JT again, and they said no. \ % Patterson?Bat the people %outh I Carolina must have an explanafc | Gary?The people know how | You are tne oniy one wnouoea n? , 1 it you haven't got the brains to A*0.'} H in I oan't give them to you. ? lt g Patterson then paid his reaped. I prohibition. Everybody in South\to I olina knows that if Gonzakz tekelfi Igi a fellow it beats that fellow, an<f| gjj Ool. Uoy t says he did not soek the A Patterson then began on MeSweent making the same old ohargos of no? fig enforcement of the law. fie masM* I "nem point," that M. Welck-^fct B firm of Weloh & Eason. run? B tiger and has a United BtatoL fl lioenee. Yet Moowoou?y br >; vi) B sioned him a member of the'? B oounty board of oontrol. J, , a M B Mo8weeney stated that he la,"c ing to do with it. The *p>iion f . . wcro uiado by Ibo legislative delegation from Charlostou. I'attorMnn Haiti lliat. MnSanAnAU n^nl.l at least kiok him out. MoSweeuoy replied that he could not kiok out a man whom he had not appointed, Patterson said ho could at least report it to the grand jury. McSwocney wanted to know if Patterson aroused Weloh of running a blind tiger. Patterson replied, "Yes; I have seen tho barrels seized in his plaoo by the constables." Thore was soant applauso when Patterson oonoluded. Col. Hoyt said thero woro admirablo features in the disponsary law as compared with tho barrooms. But tho people who aro appointod to enforce tho law do not do it. It is enforoed in towns and cities with the aid of municipal authorities, but not in rural districts?at least not in his part of tho Stato. Dispensaries soil to blind tigers. Tho oolonol then paid his respoots to Mr. Gary. The bill ho had referrod to was introduced by Robinson from Anderson, not Robinson from Piokons. It was introduced in 1899 and Gary voted against it. It was prohibition. Thn A rnKnr V?iT nrau & aiv A&IVUVI IS ft A I Tf wn u ftO IIO?l / , X VI" haps Gary had changed his uiind within that timo and thinks that a little local option would holp his oandidaoy. Gary, from tho crowd, askod if Col. lloyt had not last fall favored coalition, and if ho had not since changed his mind. Col. Hoyt stated that ho had takon that position for a purpose last winter, and that purpose was to kill tho dispensary first and to onaot prohibition aftorwards. The dispensary law is not a solution of the liquor question. Kvery legislature has changed tho law. In reply to Pattorson, he said there would bo no corruption, or collusion or rascality in a "dispensary" in which whiskoy and wino is kept for merely medioinal, sacramental and mechanical uses. Prohibition oan bo onforoed by magistrates and their oonstablos supported by public sentiment. G. Walt said ho would divide his speech into threo tubjoots. lie would say something of himsolf, then discuss moasures, and thirdly do somo skinning. Ilo would settle tho educational quostion two yeais hence, and tho liquor question this oampaign. As botween prohibition and tho dispensary ho favored tho latter properly onforoed, but lioonso is his latost fad. Thoro is not a singlo prohibition injunction in tho Biblo, he says. Ho thon proceeded to the "skinning," addressing hiraoolf particularly to MoSweoncy. Tho candidates for lieutonant governor thon followod. Col. Tillman opened. Ho aoouscd Col. Livingston of dodging the liquor question, and said he was like tho poem on tho baok of a Confederate-bill, "Representing nothing on God's earth now." Winkler speaks of abolishing profit foaturo of the dispensary, but voted against it. He was followod by Col. Livingston, who mado a clear exposition of his position on tho liquor question and said that he was on record as to his stand. A prohibitionist himself, he bolioved in troating tho several factions fairly and not forcing them. Col. Winklor said that he had never favored the disponsary to make profits, but to promoto temperance, and he didn't card if they took away every oont of tho profits. Ho said that "competency, honosty and sobriety" are requisites for the office of lieutenant governor. He had the qualifications. Col. Sloan congratulated tho farmors on tho rain which the candidates had brought. If their talk did no good, the rain might. Tho constitutional oonvoution thought it had settled the liquor question when it provided that tho question may bo left to each oouni_ 1.1- -1 ly. naon county mauagos its own oourtB and other institutions, why not tho liquor questions? Looal option is tho gun to kill blind tigers. Col. Blease said that tho reason he opposed Winkler's referendum was thatlj it left tho question of dispensary or no dispensary to the general oleotion. The 12,000 negro voters, the balancen of power, would settle the question for the white people. Does Gonzales love Srohibition? Does he love Col. Hoyt? To, but lie hates the dispensary. The liquor people want to kill the dispensary, make prohibition obnoxious and then get high license. Judgo Moore was nob here, arid Gen. Bellinger had no opposition. Gen. Bollinger said that he had heard of nobody but * trial justice down in Charleston who had oritioised his reoord and ho would not tax the patience of the pooplo by making a speech. MoSweoney looked bright and fresh today, after his rest. He stigmatized Patterson's oharges as little, absurd and flimsy. Did Patterson mean to oharge that tho editor of tho oounty paper could be bought for a dollar and a half a year? As to granting United States licenses, how oould any power stop the granting of them. The constables get a list of those holding licenses and trail them, but it is irrmna. nible to absolutely enforce the law in a seaport town like Charleston. He (MoSweeney) oonld not so wound like PatttrSon looking for blind tigers. He oould not foroe the grand jury in Charleston any more than Patterson when a prohibitionist oonld prevent the grand jury of Barnwell from throwing out the warrants which Patterson placed in their hands. MeSweeney defended his record and said the dispensary law had been enforced better than ever before and without bloodshed. He had appointed newspaper men on his stall. However, be had a dotcen who were not newspaper men. He replied in like manner to all of Patterson's charges. Hie defended the dispensary law as the nlbest solution of the liquor question, jje was applauded when he concluded P. ?11 | || i mi ' 1 ' ' ^ ****' \ CONWAY. I i ~ " THR PLOKRNOR MKKTINO. The campaign mooting at Floronoo Thursday wan attendod by about GOO people. Broolcer and Dcrharn had their usual spat. MoMahan was not present. " Capers attaoked his record as that of an uopraotioal man. Capt. Rouse and Gen. Floyd throw bouquets at each other and deolarod an armistice until the meeting at Spartanburg. Tho candidates for this offioe made ~ their regular spceohos. W. D. Kvans replica to ohargos that * rate on ootton is driving mills away*by Baying that $9,000,000 has boon projootod in ootton mills in this State this yoar and Augusta mill men are establishing a bleaohery horo. Wharton had boon horo MO yoars ago as a Confederate soldier and a fow years ago votod for formation of Florenco oounty. Why is it flour oan bo Shipped to Lake City 8 oonts ohoapor than to Florenoe? llo wants to stop demurrage. Barnoy Evans sailed into W. 1). again today. W. 1). had ohaporoncd tho Jim Crow oar amendments with uniform passenger rates in tho last legislature. W. D. roplicd that ho had not boon boforo tho legislativo oommittoo at all. Ho rotortod Barney's own brothor voted for tho bill. Barnoy disclaimed responsibility for his brother's voting wrong. Barney was generously applauded. T. M. Berry made a prohibition talk and said a praotieal prohibitionist is a safe businoss man. W. D. Maj field contended that ootton mills in upper Carolina aro sending to Alabama for ootton on account of local rates. Mr. J. E. Pottigrew was at homo and courteously declined to speak, but woloomod tho candidates to Plorouoc. Pattorson was tho first spoakor in the gubernatorial tourney. He discussed briefly tho failure of tho legislature to appropriate funds for tho oommon schools aftor taking dispensary profits from thorn. Ho inado his same disnen sary npecoh. llo said that tho prohibi- ] tion proposed is but tho dispensary law 1 without tho bovorago feature. Tho rioh ] will then sond out of tho State for ( liquor and tho poor will patronize blind { tigors. Maine sells moro liquor unlaw- ] fully than South Carolina does lawfully. j Col. lloyt oharges all tho crime in ] South Carolina to the disponsary. Tho j attornoy gonoral of Maino attribute? } rasoality thoro to prohibition. Kopoat- ( ed his old oharges of coalition. Said ( that MoSweonoy is not a friond of tho < dispensary. t A SHARP SPAT. t Col. Iloyt took a hand primary, tho first ono sinoc Patterson's dismal failure at Waltorboro. Col. lloyt was re- ? ooived with ohoering. IIo was forcod to omit discussion of other issues and oonfioo himsolf to tho liquor question, as his opponents had devoted so much time to him. Patterson interrupted Col. Hoyt onco . and tho crowd cheered tho oolonol. Patterson had olaimod that nine-tenths of tho peoplo drink liquor. Col. Iloyt disputed it. Patterson?Tako a hand primary. Hoyt?Why didn't you do it? Tho oolonol took a hand primary to see how many in tho audienoo drank liquor. Tho numbor of fists poked up was absurdly small and the orowd howlod for Iloyt. Hoyt then said that Pattorson had said that the orowd was 9 OaV?A?? ItAAAIlOA A ' dvuui uovnuou iu? uinpuunttl y WUM ' closed. Tho colonel pronounced this J a slander on tho pcoplo of Ploronce and L tho crowd cheered again. If prohibit 1 tion is a faroo. why aid Pattoison advo- 1 oato it in 1892? And does ho support ^ the disponsary now booause, as ho says, 1 "tho majority of tho pcoplo favor it?" 8 Col. Iloyt road a donunoiation of tho 1 dispensary written by the ltov. W. It. 8 ltiohardson of Columbia, and whon he c oamo to a paragraph whoro it was said that small politicians uso it to ride into t offico, the orowd ohoored again. Would Patterson rofuso tho support ? of papers if they oame to his rosouc? 1 for he needs rescue? Would Pattorson aoouso them of boing subsidized if they 1 supported him? The News and Courior 8 is too busy booming the exposition to < notioo the State oampaign editorially. 1 Perhaps if Editor Hemphill knew that 1 Patterson is a oandidato, ho would sup- 1 port him, Ool. Hoyt remarked saroasti- 8 oally. The oourse of Mr. N. G. Gon- * zalez is as truly independent in this 1 oampaign as it has been in everything. I Was Gonzales' support of Ellerbo in < 1898 a failure? Gonzales supports him 8 on other grounds. c "Read his editorial and you will see . something not very complimentary to you, sir," he said to Patterson. Patterson retorted that in the eonsti- ! tutional convention he had introduced . a resolution oharging N. G. Gonzales ' with falsehood against John Gary J Evans and 123 delegates of all factions ! had supported it. Col. Hoyt said he was not Mr. Gon* * sales' champion, but he was quite sure Patterson would not face him (Gon- ( sales) and use the language he did here e today. * J'Atterflon said he had a&id the same ' tbiog in the constitutional convention, i pointing his Anger at Gonzales at the . time. Col. Hoyt retorted that if Patterson 1 had done so it had been under tho juoteotion of his privilege as a member of tho convention. J Patterson replied that Gonzales had t opportunity to see him afterwards. f Daring the controversy there was 1 cheering at the conclusion of every 1 thrust made by Col. Hoyt, while Pat- t tenon had no applause. < As Col. Hoyt concluded, Mr. Petti* grew presented him with a . bouquet i with the statement that the ladies of t Florence looked for manliness in the i governor's office if he were elected, < WHITMAN AND GARY, J Wait Whitman exhibited a map of ] South Carolina and said that three of ' M J ' 'A f { _J ?- - ^ ?mlW miBi /.. f UTtl ' ) * S. C.. THURSDAY, ,11 (JEWS FROM CHINA. rhe Situation Said to Boar a Moat Ominous Aspect. ALLIED TROOPS DEFEATED. Stories of Wholesale Murder Continue to Come. Conflicting Accounts of the State of Affairs. Affairs in China do not in>provo nuoh. No authontio news has boon eccived from Pekin, and tbo iuiproslion is that all foreigners in that oity iavo been massaorod. Over twenty lays ago Sir Robert Hart dispatohod lis last mossago declaring that the sitiation was deBperato and sinoo then no word has oomo from tho Europeans in I'ckin. Tho London Daily Mail Tiom Tsin iorrcspondont says: "Tho situation is ibout as bad as it oan woll bo.. I only rust that wo shall not soon want roioving ourselves. A forward inovoroont is impossible. From 110,000 to 10,000 troops aro wanted, and thoro tro only 10,000 horo. Tho foreign troops tro working woll togothor, but it'is insonvenicnt that there is. no supremo jouiuiandcr. In somo quarters tho fooling is, 'Let us rosouo Fokin and then jloar out iu favor of Russia." All kinds of stories oomo from Shanghai, which it in impossiblo to xorify. It is stated that tho RoxcrB have murlorod tho ohanoellor of tho l}cki& university and 60 of tho ,membors <tf his family and retainers. A confidential jftioor of Qon. Yung Tu, disguised as a Roxor, is roportod to havo crept into Frinoo Tuan's tont whilo tho Rriuoo vas sleeping with tho intontioi/ of stabling him. lie was oaught by tho senTies, so tho story goes, decapitated on ho spot. His head was sent, with Prinoo Tuan's compliments, to Yung Lu as a warning to him to bowaro. Tho Prcnoh consul at Shanghai has nows .hat tho Chinoso profoot at Moukdon limself murdorcd tho Catholic bishop, >uillon, in his yamon, Reside Rishop Juillon, Fathers Crunoot, Corbet, Ror;uois and Vouillonot and two sisters of die Fronoh mission and numorous naive Christians woro niassaorcd. A l.l.I KS DEFEATED. A dispatoh from Ticu Tsln nays: '(Jen. Ma has dofoatod tho allied roops and rooooupied tlio Chinoso easttrn arsonal, aftor inflicting groat loss ipon its dofondeis. Tho ongagoments astod six hours, and was fought with ;roat determination by both sidos. Lho UbinoBO wore ovcntually ablo to 180 tho effootivo guns of. tho fort abuting on the oity walls near the Taotal's ramon, tho allied troops sufforing sereroly from look of guns and oavalry. Che Japanese oommandcr sent an ur;ont appeal to hurry roinforooments, as he allies wero in imminent danger of b goncral dofoat." Tho Sha?>shai correspondent of Tho Express givos the toxt of a long odiot ?f Prince Tuan, dated June 29th, and bddressod to the Ohinose embassadors, rhioh The Express declares is identioal with the mossagefrom Emperor Kwang lu, mentioned by tho Shanghai oorres)ondont of Tho Daily Mail, and what ho Chineso ediot publio had dono in iVashington. Tho Expross considers hat the odiot provos that Prince Tuan's irmy is making no attompt to disguise ho fact that tho worst that could bo tntioipatod has happoned. Tho cdiot tontains tho following paragraphs: 4Tho angor of our peoplo know no >ounds. Thoy oould not be restrained. The tank of guarding tho legations, l-it# vnicn ooiorc was aittioult, wan made rapoaaiblo." Elsewhere, referring to the desiro to )rotoot tho logationa still Unharmod, it lays: "If it is impossible for us to >ontinue this protootion, lot it be repesentcd to the powers that wo must be leld blameless, for the anger of tho >eople grows with the rising of eaoh tun that sees more and yet more forsigners and soldiers eoming to overrun md lay waste our oountry and slay our >eople." The correspondent says the idiot is intended to pave the way for t final lifting of the veil over the resent history of Pekin. The German oonsul at Tion Tain cades that the foreign settlements were sontinually bombarded by the Ohinese rom July 5 to July 8. On July 8th >wo thousand Boxers aataoked the ?renoh settlement and were routed by he Russians. The British and Japanese oroes July 7th bombarded the Ohinese >atteries. Toward evening Ohinese ihells penetrated tho roof of the Gernan consulate and oaused an outbreak >f fire, whioh was extinguished after ilight damage had been done. On Tuly 6th the Peiping sailed for Taku ?rith the German wounded. Kiver lommunioation between Tien Tsin and Taku has-been safe since the Ohinese ort midway betweon the two towns vm oaptured. rBAKM TIIS WUKNT. A terrible voil of sileoee enshroud# *6 It in end there la nobody but believes he worat hea happened. It is taken or granted that all the powers have exhausted every means to get direct news rom their legations, end the faot that ,heir efforts have been vain leaves but >ne interpretation. Statements are in circulation in n Shanghai aoeuaiag the Hus dans ef indiscriminate slaughter of 'rieudly Chinese non-combatants, without regard to age or sex. The manager of a Chineso steamship oompany nho has arrived in Shanghai, asserts that he only escaped from Tien Tain by sutting off hia queue and donning European clothes. Ikh said that the Tao| ^ ^ ^ m " -r .. $Z# F *7 Mi ml JLY 19, 1900. Ui of Shanghai protested to the powers against theso Russian slaughters. Nows is oiroulating throughout the Yang Tso valley that Gon. Ma has intliotcd a orushing defeat upon tho allies *t. Tien Tsin tnd that (Kn tnr^i army has been out to piooes Oast of Pokin. The aotual impotoaoo for the moment of the allied foroos naturally givo oolor to theso stories with tho worst rosults. The Shanghai correspondent of Tho Express gives Tion Tain advioeB to .July 8th, when tho superior rango of the Japanese artillery enablod them to roliovo tho Russians, who woro hard pressod at tho railway station. EORKKINEIltt KILLED. The Shanghai oorrospondent of tho Daily Mail says tho following story regarding tho situation in Pokin omanatos from Chioose ofhoial souroes: "The two romaining legations, the British and Russian, woro attaokod in foroe on tho ovening of July (>th. Prince Tuan being in command. Tho attaokors were divided. Prince Tuan commanded tho oentro, tho right wing was led by Prince Tsai Yin and the loft by Prinoo Yin Lin. Tho rosorves wero under Prinoo Tain Yu. Tho attaok oommenood with artillery fighting whioh was sevore and lasted until 7 o'olook in tho morning bywbiohtimo tho logations woro destroyed and all the foreigners were dead, whilo tho stroots around tho legations wore full of tho doad bodios of both foreigners and Chinoso. Upon hoaring of tho attaok, Prinoo Ching and Gon. Wang Won Shao wont with troopH to tho assistance of tho foreigners, but thoy woro outnumbered and dofoatod. Both Prinoo Ching and Gon. Wang Won Shao woro killed. Two foreigners aro said to havo osoaped through tho gates, one with a heavy sword wound in his head. Prinoo Tuan, in oolobratiou of tho victory, distributed 100,000 taols and huge - ? A t ii ii <luniillllUM Ul rioo to mo 13OX0rB. A dispatch to tho Now York Journal and Advertiser from Cho Koo says: A courier from Sir Robert Hart, in Pole in, has jast arrivod bringing this mcssago, dated June 28: "Closo to good byo. Near tho ond." A privato lotter from Pckin, dated Juno 24, and received at Tien Tsin June HO, says: "We are in dangor of death. Thirty thousand troops aro attacking. Only threo days' food is loft. No nows comes of troops. If no relief oomes all sooms hopoless. WHOLESALE MURDER. A dispatch from London says a news agonoy reports that an official message received in London states that all tho foreigners in Pokin woro murdered July ti. All tho foreigners and missionaries have ovaouatod When Chau and havo arrivod at Ning Po. Largo bodies of Hoxors appeared at Wen Chau and throatoncd to oxtorminato tho foreigners and Christians. They also distributed banners, badges and infUmmatory anti- foreign appeals. Tho Tion Tsin correspondent of The Kxpress, telegraphing undor date of July 9, assorts that tho Chinese aro daily driving in the allios. They have mounted, says the correspondent, 12 fresh guns in advantageous positions, with which they are swooping tho streets of tho foroign settlement, tho inoessant fire rendering position after position quite untonable. The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent says that in the last six hours' battle outsido of Tien Tsin, tho Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The Chinese lost 3,000 killed, inoluding Qen. Kok. Jumped From the Train A negro was killed Thursday night on the Coast Lino railroad in the Southern portion of the oity. Coroner Green held an inquost this morning, but it was not definitely ascertained what the negro's name was. He was variously called Smith, Davis or some other name, so' he was denominated unknown. m ... ;J ? * Iiu ttma awmiug a nuu UU BU IDOOIUlDg freight train and jumped off just as the train got under the Seaboard trostle and was killed. His head was oruahed. It is skid that he oame from Wedge field. Tho verdiot was that he oame to his death by jumping off the train while stealing a ride. Tho railroad company buried the remains.?Columbia Reoord. A Biff Job. Some of our rampant imperialists are reminded, by the Halt Lake Tribune, that no foroign army oan advanoo into central China exoept perhaps by her groat river. No army coula exist in that oountry. It would havo to be in daily oonneotion with its base, or starve and then if a million Chinamen were to be killed, that jffoald be nothing. It would be as whtV a ship goes down at sea and the waters close over it, giving up no sign that any ship ever sailod there. Every well-wisher of his race hopes that, notwithstanding the provocation, some satisfactory adjustment oan be made without a general war. A Queer Mixture. J. F. Piokelheimer was arrested at Middleboro, Tenn., on the charge of bicamv. It is aliased ha has ????? wives, two of whom Are in Middlesboro, and others will arrive shortly. In his grip were found a license to preach, a teacher's certificate from Franklin county, Ky., four marriage certificates, a deok of cards, bottle of whiskey and a.pistol. Made Him SickThe Chinese residents of Berlin have kept carefully under cover since the news of Baron von Ketteler's murder was confirmed. They have adopted European attitre, even sacri pigtails, and are proon-* Chinese mlnia?^r 1* Worst , Jr . W w/jm V * III "v 4 THE SIN DANCE. A Religious Rite Among the Natives of the Philippines. Tho Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Keoord says tho almost naked body of a woman lying in a ditok I near San Lataro started an investigation by tho police reoently that led to startling disclosures as to the character of tho Filipinos. Their troaohery was common knowledgo. Their savagory was not so well recognized until discoveries in oonnootion with the finding of this quite dooomposod body gavo sufficient ovidonoo to dear up any impressions that tho Tagalo was eniighton< ed. t Tho woman had died during thn ponitout danoe on Good Friday, and in so doing had disgraoed herself to the extont that her relatives had rofused to havo anything to do with her after death. Tho native priests have onoouraged this relio of barbarity. Men, wo i ~u:iJ i ?i?i? ai? J U1UU >uu UIIIIU1UU lUUUIgO 1U I no usuoe with a view of obtaining expiation for tho sine of tho yoar. The plaoe ohoson for tho oeromony is always isolated. Tho more remote it is tho more pleased are those who partioipato, for thon thore oan bo that abandon thrown into it which would bo impossible near any town. The fanatics generally strip most of their olothing, and aro roady for the danoe. They fortn acirolo, giving thoir bodies a slightly swaying motion, and all the whilo out and lash oaoh other with tough switohos. It is considered a disgiaco for aay of the participants to givo way to fatiguo until tho danoe is over, the only way to find favor in tho eyes of the Supreme Being consisting of a fortitude that makes light of tho fearful switching. A dismal ohantis kept up during tho danoe, only ooasing [ whon the chosen leadorgivos the signal to stop. Tho doad woman had participated in ono of theso danoes, and had hold out for hours. Those who wero with hor in the danoo expressed surpriso that she hold out as alio did. Lato in tho afternoon, howover aho had auooumbod and fallon uttorly exhausted. Sho waa draggod out of tho oirolo and thrown into tho ditoh, whoro aho had remained until tho otlioera found hor. The Spanish government did what it oould to stop thoHo ritea, whioh oloaoly approach thoso of tho Amorioan Indiana in thoir modioino danoo, and now tho United Htatos will havo something moro to contend against in killing suoh I praotiooa. ; It has boon deiuonatrated by oxporionoo that oonsumption oan bo provont ed by tho oarly uso of One Minuto Cough Cure. This is tho favorito remedy for ooughs, oolds oroup, asthma, grippo and all throat and lung troublos. Cures quickly. Dr. E. Norton. A Fatal Plaque. A dispatch from New Orleans says I President Souohan, of tho Louisiana State board of health, last Wednesday reooivod a tologram from tho prosident of the parish board of health fer Caldwell parish, of whioh Columbia is tho seat urging that an export, a quantity of tents, disipfeotants and sanitary inspectors bo sent to that plaoe at onoe as a mysterious plague had broken out there whioh was fatal in evory instance. The telegram stated that fully forty people, mostly negrocB, had already suooumbod to tho diseaso. Prosident Souohon sent Dr. Board, tho stato export, to tho scono. It is believed that tho opidomio is a very malignant form of smallpox. For burns, injucies, pilos and skin disoasos use DeWitt's Witoh Ilatol Salve. It is tho original. Counterfeits may bo offered. Uso only DeWitt's. Dr. E. Nortoa. After Negro Labor. A dispatch from Honolulu says it is to the oolored people of tho southern States that the planters of Hawaiian Islands will turn for lelief in the matter of the vexed labor question. John Hind and J. B. Collins of Yohala plantation, leave today for the southern States in quest of negro laborers. They have assurances that 300 or 400 oan be recruited at Now Orleans. The planters will pay their expenses to the oonntry and give them *30 a month. If enough negro labor oan be scoured the *v_ t ?s?t l- n bvxiwh Ul wo MKyenORO will DO QIC* I pefisod with altogether. I 7p ffi" DH. MOFF ^TeetJ JL (Teething Po rtyfQu- Costs only 25 cents $&?&?? Or mil UteaU to C.J. | \ Write for our elegant HT cat?l< <) w# fan eeve you money in the pur< () ??* fa ? t? <! r v I HOW IT WAS DONE. Insida History of Our Dslsgation's Choice for Vice-President. HOW EACH MAN VOTEO. Senator Tillman Tried Hard to Get Them to Vote for Towne, but Failed and Gracefully Yieleded. At the Kansas City convention the South Caroline delegation was of oourae unanimous in its ohoioe for the presidential oandidato, but when It eame to the vioe-presidency the members were pretty badly split, and from ell accounts the members had quite a lively little verbal spat before the majority dooidod that South Carolina should support Stovonson. Senator Tillman was heartily and enthusiastically in favor of the delegation supporting Towne. When the delegation met, the senator made a vigorous and oharaoteristio speech in favor of his oandidate, but all his art of persuasion and his blunt and unconventional though strong and emphatic language was in vain. Govornor MoSweeney and John Gary Kvans stoutly opposod Senator Tillman's ohoioo, holding that Towne was a Republican, ovon though he favored 16 to 1, and they deolared that they would not support him when there were i:#_ ) n . l- ?? ? mo mug i/ouitraniiB who wero itiiiidic. When the ballot wu taken, Towne was snowed under and a majority of the delegation, eleven members, deoided to support Stevenson. As tho unit rule provailod this gave Stevenson tho whole eighteen votes from the state. It will bo interesting undor these oiroumstanoos to know how the delegation did vote: For Towne?Tillman, Stokos, Garris, Traxlor and Wilborn, 5. For Hill?Latimor and Williams, 'J. For Stovenson?Governor MoSweenoy, Wilson, Bouohier, Stribling, MoGhoe, John Gary F.vans, Polaty, Talbert, Moonoy, G rubor, 10. For Carr of North Carolina?Wilie Jones, 1. Senator Tillman read tho platform in tho oonvention and ho is said to have dono so eloquently and was frequently interrupted by ohoers. lie took a very prominent part in the convention and in shaping the platform. The New Vork Sun correspondent, referring to tho part ho played at Kansas City, has tho following: ? ^ ... _ j "From start to finish Senator Bon \ Tillman of South Carolina has been about tho most conspicuous man in the oonvention and in the conferences out* side of it. He dominated tho committee on resolutions and dominated everybody on the presiding officer's stand during the oonvention sessions without regard to their official standing. Everybody seemed to be afraid of him, and no matter how much ho interfered in business that did not in any way oonoern a delegate from South Carolina, nobody saw fit to objeot. Mr. Tillman ran amuck in the hotel lobbies and in the street orowds just as he did in the . oonvention hall, and at all times wore a huge oork helmet, lined with green, and a black alpaoa jackot. Those who \ did not know him thought he was a \ crank, and these who aid know him were apparently not very proud of him. t "It was Tillman who led the oommit- \ too on resolutions to adopt the suggestion that was in the minds of several delegates, but finally put into language by Barkworth, of Miohigan, to attempt to nullify the free silver declaration in \ the platform by the insertion of the sontenoo about imperialism being the paramount issue of the campaign. Then when the campaign dooument was finally lioked into shape it was Tillman who. without anybody's motion, grasped the first oopy and read it to the oommittce with the same dramatio effect that he showed later when he read it to the convention at the request of Senator Jones, the ohairman of the oommittee, who had been much impressed with Tillman's powers of elocution. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are* ~ ^ famous little pill for liver and bowel troubles. Never gripe. Dr. E. Norton. errs aMmirmitiN.MMpiaia nil A Regelates the Bowel* U fl Strengthens the ChiMb II f-1 Makes Teething Easy. wders) ^JLJLtBETHINA ReHeves the Bowel . n , , Troubles of Chfldm of at Druggists, any age. ? , WOWTT, H W MMBllW: il Change in Marketing Methods ], Applied to Sewing Machines. <? Mlplaa under which you can obtain < I ana better value in th? purchase of ( 1 ious "White1' Sewing Machine than r >We red. 1 ' >gue and detailed particular*. Row , i :hase of a high-grade sawing machine , '-?n c either direct front ( I This la an oppor- i 1 U/hlte," you knew ( 1 i iof^t*' ? Wnean4 ^ V JT % % % change oC*W, * II -ON, N. C. \%%3: