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" i .. . ' . ' 1'I'l'J"' l1."!. 1 v,. -- - "" I1"! "I1" ' l"l|ll!l!"^1' YOL. 3. ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1886. NO. 4 I Senator Hampton's Spcecta. r t Mr. Chairman and my Brother Demo- i crats: I had thought that my Jong ser- i vice in the cause l?f the Democracy r would hate exempted me in this can- I vass from any work. I thought so not i only, because I am myself now past the f age of conscription, but because I knew f that there was no need of help. I knew < that' the' nominees of our party could t plead eloquently, where it was neces- { sary, for the cause of the Democracy, t and I felt in my heart that it was not t necessary that one word should be said, i even by your standard-bearer who has t just addressed you, to tell the people of j South uaronna mat ineir oniy nope now and forever is to uphold the Democratic bantjsr In this old State of ours. [Applause.] But your committcc did me the honor to ask me to come to this district. My friend, who will be the next Governor of South Carolina, and who will illustrate its history as his distinguished father did in the same position, wrote and asked me to join him here, and I came down not only to try and say one word in the Seventh District for its nominee, but that I might be close to those stricken cities which have been Waited With such terrific calamities. I was away from my State, but I know that there was not one man, not one ^mant not on& child in~South.Carolin&, r. in. Charleston,-at lea&t, where 1 first the light, who did not know that thero waa not a man on this sail who [ mnra lioanlv. that (Milnmit V ttlflTi T did. [Applause.] I would h? the basest ingrato that ever disgraced humanity if I wv^d fprgeMho place of-my birth; if Leauld'forget those people who have been the friends of my youth and manhood} who'Wood . by us in 1876; who gave us material aid and, more Iban that, who to me personally, when I was hovering between life and death, sent daily messages of sympathy, and kindness, arid confidence, and love. [Applause.] May God forget me if ever 1 forget the place that gave me birth or the people amongst whom I first drew my breath. (Applause and cheering.] I feel for tlmt old Queen City?that discrowned queen, 1 feel towards her as the poet said: Ever in the extreme of ill I love thee still. God grant that the richest mercies that He can give to the city and to the people maybe poured out upon her and that, in time to come, every prosperity and every happiness may be given to them and to their posterity. [Applause]. I have come, my friends, as I said, not because 1 thought anything was necessary to incite you to your duly. As my firiond ha* just said, every Carolinian who knows what we have gone through, and who has experienced the * bitter humiliation of those years of Radical rule , knows that, if he is not true now to the State and to the cause which he upheld in 1876, we will be remanded _ to that condition, even to a worse condition. if possible. I knew it was unne cessary to appeal to the men of .1876 to tell them to stand fast, to stand or fall i> , with the party to the last. [Applause.] 1 knew that the men who carried }.hc flag to victory-la 1876 would not be.re errant now, ! knew that they.would uphold the honor and credit of the gov-r ;-?JWBient ef South Carolina, but 1 wanted to tell you somathing about thq Seventh District. It is of the last conucquenoe - thfct' we should carry that district sad I a tell you it can be done, and I will say, t as X once Mild, il mvsi he done. [Ap- < pfau^eVJ I am just from Washington, i and thoro J had quite a long interview t> f'i: with the President. I told hiui how j "the Stoventh District Lad been misrepre- i sented, and how it bad been disgraced 1 on the floor of the House of Represents t . tivfs by an o*-convict. I told him every- y thing good that I could wiy about my < friend, Col. Elliott, and if you all know. I hiftitas .weli 9* I do you would know i ^ v {thit: I Cofcildsay i oAMrf'Of. hbu but 1 w&ait ?vqr good. President Cleveland j 6 -" CTpfefc&fci the war (is?t ihtaregl in the 1 canvas*, and I am sure that bjr aU legiti- l mate means in his power he would be I ftU* to heip the nominee. Now, my ; . friends. If you will all puc your should- i : > on to tho wheel resolutely; if you will ? determine that there is no such word as ( , V fail; if you will ro and show to tho col- i ored people, as Col. Richardson has said, I that such men as Col. Elliott are their I beat friend*; if you will point to the. ] . j Ptttocntic Administration honored by i . Mr. Cleveland, you can aav that be has ind you can say to. them in all truth I < hat there has not been a eolored man cl< vho has not had bis rights protected At inder the Administration. But beyond yo til that you may say that wherever he th las found a competent colored man to fa1 vhom he could give a place he has done no jo. And I will venture to say that there do ire more colored men holding small ini >ffices in Washington at this moment an ban during the whole reign of the Re- B\ jublicans. [Applause.] I am in full nn iccord with his policy on that point. I di< bink that whore he can reward a colored tic nan, who has been a good Democrat, B* rvho is competent to fill an ofice, he nn should do so, and especially where the yo )ffices have been held by colored Re- yo )ublicans. I have urged him to do it, ha ind bo was kind enough to say to mo tri hat wherever I could recommend men eif >f that sort he would give them appoint- wi nents. m< My friends, I entreat you all to work to or the success of the nominee of this br listrict. It is of the greatest conse- th luence to us, because we shall have not foi is large a majority in the next Con- foi jress as we have had?and I say so .0 you in all frankness. Every vote th \ill therefore be of infinite consequence, sh ind think how proud you would feel, de tnd what source of gratification it should ho >e to you to know that you were repre- th sented by one who bears one of the no$t honored names of the State, and Dt )ne who is worthy to bear that name, ha Applause.J in < My friends, Col. llichardson has nl- pi uded to the discontent which has sprung D< lp in some quarters of the State. Lie in iaB given you the reasons for them, and po ic has given you a most conclusive an- vii ;wcr to show that there is no justice in to he complaints that have been made. If of rou believe me, aud I believe my friends as rill always trust what I say [applause]. ! tell you on my word and honor that 1 toi iave been familiar with all the officials? on he State House ring, as they call them? pl< roiu 1876 to the present time, and I wl >ledge you my honor thai there is not one en rord of truth in the assertion that there th ?i or ever has been a ring in Columbia, lii Applause.] What people in America no ire freer from ring-rule than the people tic >f South Carolina? If there is an officer hu ilaced in position in this State who is to ?ot competent or woitliy, who, I ask, is wi jo blame for it but the people them- vi< iclvoB? liare you not absolute power th >ver the officers and offices in the State, co lave those few appointed by the Gov- ho >rnor and approved by the Senate ? in Cannot the people instruct tbeir dole- loi jjatcs for whom to vote in the convcn- se ions? If they prefer to have primaries lir :an they not nominate their own men wi md instruct them how to act as their w< epresentatives? Is there an officer in th South Carolina who would not resign if th t could be shown to him only that w< ic was unworthy or unfaithful? I vp.n- th urc to say that there is not one. There m< lever has been a falser cry on the face G< >f the earth than that which is now dis- wi racting the people in South Carolina, th There is not a single fact on which to th jase these false allegations, and in my ? opinion they are made chiefly by men vhose sole object is to get into office. IL.A *1 !- 1 ?? * luiun. uisi luuru m wiiere mo sooe )iochc8. [Applause.] And I would in- ^ roko my fellow-citizens of South Caro- ^ ina not to be led off by any false lights rtr any new doctrines. I think that the oj6 idrainistration of the party for the last ^ en years has proven itself to be worthy q >f your confidence. If there has been Bp lominated a man not worthy of your ^ lupport I would be the last man to ask rou to vote for him, but I believe your ^ lorainees are all true Carolinians. I bt- ^ ievo every one of them to bo wqrjhy of le he position to which he is to #e elo- T. rated. I believe they will uphold the jause 01 gooa government ana secure ^ :h? success of the Democratic party. 1 ^ ippeal to you then to sustain them. I lav# Very little to expect from the Inde- ? >cn dents. I think the only difforcnco ^ between them and an open eneiny is ihat the open enemy may strike in the front and the Indepeodont would strike you from behind, [Applause.] I have Luude it a rule to stand by my party. Of course, I would not stand by it in anything wrong, but when you nominate te anon representing the true interests of bi hK A t\a?lv ?A11 A?% ?? * - ?- ??* l~i v !#? VJ aiau tmi VII >nu IU suppuri ni Lhom,. I would fool myself false to tho 2f party and false to the State if I refused gi to jive them my aid. hi I do not know, my friends, that I can o( Icsiro to say one word to you before 3se about the National Administration i my friend who has just addressee iu knows, having been a delegate t e Chicago Convention, I was not ii vot of Cleveland's nomination. I di ?t know him and I had very grav nbts about his election. He was nom ated, and I supported him as loyall d as cordially as any man in Amcricr it, to show you the character of th ?n, after his election I said to him: " i all I could to prevent your nomina >n. I did not know you; I did kno\ lyard and I wanted to sec him nomi ted; but I am a Democrat and who u were nominated I did all I could fo >u. I havo nothing to _ask at you nds, but I will sustain your Adminis ition, and whenever I can aid yoi :her in the Senate or in ray State, i 11 give me pleasure to do so." He me 3 with all the frankness and kindnes be expected from a man of such bi, ain and heart, and as I told yoa, ii at big heart of his, he feels as mucl r this people as any man at the No*"tli r he told me the other day that h ints to come down among vou and se e people of Charleston. He desires t ow by his personal presence there th ep S3'napathy he feels and to knov w he can be more efficient in aiding cm. 1 beg you, then, to stand by th ?inocratic President. We have neve d a better President," and in my judge 2nt he will be tho next one. [Ap auso.] I have very little faith in thos Mnocruts, who attack the administratis its most vital part. I should make it int, if I did not agree with all th ews of my owu administration, at leas keep quiet and lot it have the benefi the doubt, and to allow it to work oul best it can, its own policy. My friends of Sumrucrville, of Colic n and Berkeley. I come simply to sa; e word of greeting. It always gives in easurc to meet my old constituent aen I was Governor and my cou6titu ts now. I never can forget how nobl; e men and the women of South Caro ia rallied to our support in 1876. ver can forget the courage and devo m, self-sacrifice which prompted ever; inian being who loved South Carolin work then for her cause. I havo al lys given the credit of that marvellou story to the people of the State, for i ey had been of other mottle we neve uld have won. It was only my proui nor to bear the Aug, but you place* my hand the victory. I trust that a ng as I live that that liag which repre nts the best elements of South Caro la?the true Democracy?may eve ive, as it does now, in triumph. >uld rather be buried in her soi an to see South Carolina do one thin at would tarnish her fair fame, and iuld rather pass forever from earti an to live to see Radical rule one are triumphant in our belovod State >d grant it may never be, and if yoi ilt all in South Carolina be as true i: e future as you have been in the pas at day will never come. [Applausee. News and Courier. The State Campaign. The State canvassers will speak ii oderson on next Tuesday, the 26th da; October inst, and we hope there wil > a full attendance of the ladies am ntlemen of Anderson County to hca em. Col. Richardson, the nominee fo overnor, is an oloquent an interestin >eaker, wh<? will delight all who hea m. During the present canvass he i ving special attention to the discussio the State's financial condition, an iows tho people what revenues are col cted and for what they are expended will repay any person who will com hear his speech. In addition to Col ichardson. we expect Col. E&rle, Co tsitnor and other accomplished speaker be present, and we hope that the ill be greeted by an old fashione nderson Democratic meeting, Re men: ;r that npxt Tuesday is tho day, an ror^body is ipvited to attend. A t*rn^r From' Fdgefceld ' ' ' ?i h* A whito man his actually been ser nee F to be hanged .! Jasper Davis, th rute. who ro cruelly Bhot and kfllo is wife in Anderson County on th >th of ftcpteinber, has bftcn foun lilty of murder and sentenced to h tngea on ocn 01 novemoer. Are reign 1 insanity and hard money losing thei >wer over justice? God grant it!. I The A., ?. A W. II. U. w i. si [From the Augusta Chronicle.] a! 0 Ninety-Six, S. C., Octobcr 19.?Spe- 0 n cial.]?As various statements have been ^ j made in regard to the assets and liabili- a] c ties of the Atlantic, Greenville and f, . Western Railway Company, will you f, v ploa^fl publish the following statement fj t in reply to your special dispatch from c Greenville, S. C., dated October 15th, ^ r from tho stntornnnt of W. .7 Kirk- T0?n n who is Vice-President and Chief Engi? n, v neer. He says: "The condition of the ^ _ road has been misunderstood by the n n public, the assets available being amply 8j r sufficient to complete the grading and v r pay every dollar of the debt. I give ^ you the assets and liabilities in two sec- ^ u tions, for this reason?first: North of t the Saluda river there has has been no 0 t work done or bonds sold with the ex- 0 s eeption of one bond of five hundred 8] g dollars, which was sold at 90 cents on n tho dollar and used south of the Saluda k river: second, the bonds nt?rth of thn _ > - ' " Ui ! Saluda river cannot be used to pay the 0 debt of the road until the grading is e completed through the township that w 0 has voted the tax. Section 4th in the K( u- amended chartcr: "That a sufficient s] v smount realised from such bonds shall ^ be retained to complete the grading 0 through the county or township in which ,, it is subscribed." 0, r Liabilities of the Atlantic, Greenville sl and Western Railway Company South 'p of the Saluda river: w c Amount due the Chief Engineer p, (salary, $1,800 per annum), t<f ? Nov. 4, 1886 $1,335,00 ? K Amount due the Secretary and 4) Treasurer (salary $1)00 per an0 num), to Nov. 4, 1886 497 67 tl t Amount due the Auditor (salary ?r $200 per annum), to No**. 4,1886 . 87 75 t Amount dne the note on bank of tc t Greenville, due Oct. 27,1896 5,000 00 Amount due Alexander Stewart k Co., Cokesbury Division 662 32 tl . Amount due Alexander Stewart & ^ Co., Ninety-Six Division 631 50 Y Amount due W. E. Sullivan & Co. 1,285 59 le u Amount due Engineer Corps 682 10 (j( F/Htimatc Chief Eugiueer to finish R rr rrt Hinrr ' P, ?? u.rRtoxurj ?. Township 9,000 00 Estimate Chief Engineer to finish V grading from Juhutstcm to llaiu- ? burg 21,200 00 L Right of way, damage to crops and I attorney's fees 5,000 00 r< Assets South Saluda y river $ Amount bonds on hand Ninety-Six towuship.. 7,200 00 - Amount bonds on hand Cokesbury township.. 4,000 00 Amount notes on hand f Trenton township 1,700 00 O Amount notes on hand Q] Johnston township 3,180 00 il Amount noto* on hand S< j Q. \V.? Turner and n, others 2,000 00 8 P Lcbs 25 per cent, dis- j count on bonds and notes 4,670 00?14,010 00 S r $31,372 00 J There has been no sale of bonds for * cash for more than 70 cents on the 0 g dollar, excepting the one bond reported P I at 90 cents, and placing the bonds and s( h notes at 25 per cent, discount, which is ,r e good collection on subscription notes, t! leaves a debt south of Saluda river of w u thirty-one thousand threo hundred and r< n seventy-two dollars and ten cents ? t ($31,372.10) the debt of the road that n ] has been reported by your reporter ^ as coming from me. was made by Presi- s( dent Hammett on the 17th of Septoin- tl ber, at a meeting of the Directors, 1 n n furnished the President with $9,647 10 8' y of the liabilities and Chief Engineer a' it Kirk the balance, thev makine- the rl^ht al j $32,403. The estimate of the Chier P r Engineer for grading 30 miles, from 0 r Ninety-Si* to Johnston, is thirty thou- ? g sand dollars (f30,000), the bonds of the b r three townships of the thirty miles tl g amount to $30,600. n The assets of the road north of Salud da river : j. Sullivan TownBhip 112,600 00 ^ . Dunkirk Township.. 11,900 00 y 1 Oaklawn Township 8,600 00 e Piedmont Manufacturing Go....... 7,500 00 e1 ! Poller Manufacturing Co 7,500 00 h 1. , $48,300 00 ? DU|)|lli9U limb %T?7 tail IUMJ I IIO US" ^ '8 gets north of the Saluda river to _ Y pay the liabilities south of tho ' " Saluda river, at faco value, with- n u out taking off 30 per ceuti disj. count on the bonds as they haro 0 * been sold heretofore. d Net liabilities south of Saluda river 31,872 10 " 'p. <. ' -i ?16,927 90 This leaves $10,027.00 to grade 36 n miles north of the Saluda, and ' h if you take the Usual disconnt of I 80 tter cent, on the. $33,300 bonds * e i north of the. pajud&..v........... 9,090 Oft ^ , v ... d - . f6>037 fO a c It \eavea a balanco of $0,937.90 to complete ft d the grading from Saluda river to Piedmont o l0 or Greenville. F. M. Po*g, j, Secretary and Treasurer. ' ir another btathmbwt. n Ninbty-Bj*, S. G.t October 19.?[Bpe- c 1 vf^tt dfitl hit Iiaui uM . in/I 11 ritten lately in regard to the ftnanria Landing of the A., O. & W. railroad [so in regard to the proposed trnnsfe f it to tlio Tennessee company. Prcsi ent Hammett has written one or tw rticles, your railroad corrcsponden om huh town several, ana ono or tw ora Johnston. The last I saw \va oin 3'our Qreenvillo man, saying Cap lin Kirk was in Greenville, and sait ic matter was not correctly reported Vq were not in debt and had cnougl ssests to pay nil liabilities and finis! rading the road, i will make no com lent upon what the various men hav ?id, except to say some one has done ast amount of lying, and we propose t now on the 4th of November who ha ecn doing it. As the meeting on the 4th will bo on f the most important the company ha r ever will have, T hink each town iiip that is interested should send a elegates the very best men they havt ten of ability, integrity and good judg lent. These men are to elect a Presi ont, Board of Directors, &c. They are also to decide as to whothe e snail acccpt tho ottor ol the Tonnes 30 company or not. 1 think those tnei lould be men who aro open to convic on. They should take the propositioi f the Tennessee company and exatnin carefully. Then make a most thor ugh examination of the financia anding?our liabilities and ' assetf hen, as men of business, decid hether it is bettor to accept their pro osition or to continue on as we arc ut if those delegates come here on th ih with their minds 00 poisoned agains lis Tennessee company (as some ar ying to have done) that they are goiKj > refuse this oiler though it should b > our interest to accept, they may giv le road a blow that it will be a lonj mo, if ever, recovering from. So I sa; st wisdom be used in selecting you elegntes, ar?d everything will work fo to best. 1 bopo all papers interest i the road will give some notice of thi -the Monitor, at Johnstons, Abbeville aurons and Greenville papers, as th >ad runs throug these Counties. Dibectou. The Rained Towns. Galveston, Oct. 18.?The committe T citizens who left here Saturday nigh n the tug boat Estella, which had ihooner in tow, carrying $1,000 wort] f provisions for the sufferers at Sabin ass and Johnson's Bayou, returned at ite hour last night. They reachoi abine Pass early Sunday morning, am >und about one hundred persons stil ving there, reluctant to leavo the sit f their former homes. They are <5ccu ying the fow houses that withstood th torin. One-half of the food and cloth ig taken up by the committco was dis ibuted- among these sufferers, wh rerc in great need of everything. Th i:mainder was sent up to Johnson' ayou by the barge Topsy, as the chan el would not permit the Estella going ho committee are unanimous in thei iatements regarding the absolute desti ition of the survivors. They say the ever saw such sufFeriug for the uecos ties of life, as exists at Sabine Pas ad Johnson's Bayou. The committer jcertained that the total nnmher o arsons who lost their livos was 102 f these 64 wore colored and 38 white nly 61 bodies have been found an< uried. Scores of searching parties con nue the hunt for the bodies of missinj lends. wild with thiiist. Beaufort, Tkx?, Oct. 18.? A nei anger seems to have sprung up in th ioinity of Sabine that scared the soarch re for the unfortunates. Cattto hav ecome dangerous, the wild animals atering pools have boen filled with se rater and the cattle *ro wild with thirst aturday evening a steer chased tbrc ion who were walking along the edg f the bayou and would probably bar illed them if they had not succeeds i reaching their boat. When the atee aw he was foiled he seemed to becbife ioro furieai4plowing up the sand wit! is hofh?art<* bellowing totidty. Mpsdrt louhtz & Bfrotf:, bankers New YoVt rTio^aro' largely iTit6r6Btcd4lrl railroad nd reat 0atate ift this action, htfre t'dl graphed the relief committed to dri\ n (ham fnr fWk ? er$ that ??!<* swept over th ountry (fit ffuty, giU* north dt Be?u ?ont. and Orange, reaching Jasper, th odnty Mfct-of Jasper countj, apd 4*9 King rotten badly. Several hoiwa i ,1 that region worn demolished, but no I, loss of life occurred north of the South- .j r cm Pacific railroad. FUItTUEU DETAILS OF TIIB DISASTEn. 0 Beaumont, Tex., Oct. 18.?Refugees ^ from llooded. districts about. RaKin? ^ continue to arrive on every small craft R that cpme8 up the river. It is estimated by persons here, who have been over ' ^ the scene of dosolation at Sabine Pass, '* Johnson's Bayou and Taylor's Bayou, ^ that the death list will reach two hun- j^ dred and sixty souls. Eighty-five corpses - '.y-jjj have been recovered and buried aroynd . 0 Johnson's Bayou, and 54 bodies thug far . tt have been buried at Sabine Pass, while 0 6G white and colored persons are. still s missing at Sabine; they are, of course, drowned, as it would bo impossible fo$ .v 0 any human being to survive this long 8 swamps and latroons without IVwwi shelter. An examination of the country s back of Sabine and immediately in the J vicinity of Beaumont shows that salt - M water came back from the coast fully forty miles through the swamp, and hundreds of thousands of aores are still r submerged by the water that was forced back and has no outlot. This fact makes ' n the search for bodies very difficult. >yg9 Carcasses of thousands of drowned 3'^sH 11 cattle, hogs, horses and fowl are >jiss 0 strewn everywhere, and clouds of sea, gulls and buzzards hovor over the * desolate country for an area, of thirty l" square miles. Parties who returned to- . ;sM| e day from Johnson's Bayou district, say sixty persons are still missing there and :^B the search Dirties j 6 the conclusion that many of these miss1 ing were drowned, and their bodies care ried out to sea by the receding wavoa. .338 ASSISTING THE HOMELESS. ' ff':' ^^88 q Tho following special to the Associ- <j g ated Press, from, Orange, Texas, givea ' ' y the latest particulars regarding the dis- $ r aster at Johnson's Bayou and Sabine r Pass: The steamer Emily P. returned j this afternoon, bringing 1G0 additional s sufferers from Johnson's Bayou, wfco'^^^3 , are entirely destitute of everything nee cessary to sustain life. They were re- yfj^gg ceived on the wharf by tho relief com- vgjjx mittee, who are doing all in their power to make them comfortable in erery way, providing them with clothing, food fcnd beds. Most of them are women and c children. The Emily P. will return to t the bayou immediately to bring. b?k -m a one hundred and fifty more persons who, [i aro waiting there, and who are now JaH e homeless, penniless, and without cloth- ~ a ing, Wo now have to take care of twe* d hundred and ten persons from that seo- . i tion. One can only know the heart" i ruuuing conumon ot these people by seo- .;:W e ing and conversing with them. Tho - corrected list of drowned at Johnson's -'c&Bj e Bayou, as nenr as can be obtained this ^.?0 - evening, is as follows: Whites?T. Gallon, wife and grand- V o son, eight children of Sam Drown, e E. Fanchets and four children, Joseph s Kuke, wife and seven childron, four of - Frank Tamer's children, Mrs. S. Galler and fivo children, Mrs. Joe Luko, four r ftf Ctf>(\ XfronKonu^ w. ww. wv|ruvMa viiuuicil} ill IB Win. Ferguson and four childroo, lira. ;.'C?pl^ v Goorgo Smith and four ohildren, Mr#.' Alford Lambert and two children. e Base Ball. -.Jl f I IIodgeh, S. C., Oct 18th, 1886. ' Editors of the Messenger: On last Saturday, Oct 16, an -ja ing and somewhat exciting match game s of base ball was played in Laurons^^B M county on tho Brewerton diamond, tween tho Brewerton 9, of Laurona, and / %$] v the Mulberry 9, of Abbeville?the fall . R nine innings being played. Score, 16 to 8 in favor of Mulberry. The Brewer-JraE? e tons arc an old organisation, and welt ^ft^l >' trained. Tho Mulberrys are yet in their' a infancy, being only six weeks old, gome of its members nevor seeing a g?me 0 played before we organised. I am telcl'M';"^^^ e that the Brewortons havo played 3pjM c several match games, and Were never d defeated but onoe before; am also told:.^&M r that it is ihe second best nine in h same clubs ^eill ' play* a match game on >;J| I i. Our (Mulbe*?) diamond Thursday, Ocfr?gg 1 28th, which in all probability will be an^BH Ha ?ftn