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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. 0., JUNE 20, 1895.ETBISE"84 LEADERS' OPINIONS. TILLMAN'S SLOGAN SINCE THE 1eversal of Goff-An Interview That Makes "Mighty Interesting" Read ing. What Evans Says. Senator Tillman and Gov. Evans re turned on Saturday from Memphis, ,where they were attending the silver convention. Both were in a very communitive hnmor. Senator Tillman made public the following in terview through the News and Courier of Charleston, which will be read with the keenest interest by all who have been watching the course of political events in the State. - "What effect will the reversal of Judge Goff's decree have on State politics?" "It simplifies matters very much," said Senator Tillman in reply, "and relieves us of what was daily becom ing a more threatening situation. To illustrate : Those Conservatives who seem to have the greatest following, in stead of p'leUdiug as heretofore, for an equal division of the delegates, were -using a hectoring and threatening tone, while nearly all of the Conser vative papers were w ging their factions not to go into the- Democratic primary. Generals Hamnptoni and Butler had ad vised the Ea-ue thing, and while the News and Coarier did not conusel this course, the recent demionstratioin in Charlestou over General Hampton left little doubt asto nhose leadlership they would follow unale.s the leformers surrenderel the control of the conven tion to them. Al this is now changed, and ia any evenit, uo afount of per suasion from auy sourec can now in duce the Refornrs to trast the Con servatives with one-half the dlegates You will remember tbat in the inter view publi:hedl just after our confer ence with Mr. Barnwtll and others, I -id that it would depend upon the at e of the Conservative papers and rail agreement on both sides to their bitterness-, whether ihe e could be succeesfully carried When Judge Go!' was imported e, with his scandalous decree al ready written. had the Conservative editors ar.d leatiers acted as patriotic Carolinians, denounced his unwarrant ed interference, and offered to join bands with the Reformersin maintain ing white supremacy, it wol have at \pnoe obliterated all factional lines and .good feeling and confidence would have been restored. Th. Reformers cannot now forget, nor will they soon forgive those who so plainly shor-ed their purpose to overthrow the white majority by negro votes; least of all can they trust them, nor can I advise our people to trust them. "I went .into the agreement with Messrs. Barnwell and the -ther gentle men in perfect good faith and had that agreement been generally accepted - by the Conservatives and endorsed by their newspapers, it would inevitably have been carried out by almost every county. A golden opportunity was lost and thel Conservatives have 'again' -to use the words of the Newberry Herald and News- 'done the wrong thing at the right time' for the good of the Reformers. "Do I understand that'you now re pudiate the agreement?" was asked. "By no means, although by every rule of morals, I could claim to be ab solved from it. I would still like to see a nonpartisan convention composed of our beat men from both factions. and I taka this opportunity tourge our people, and by that I mean those who have supported me, to be generousand S not treasure up in their hearts with too much bitterness the recent taunts 'and threats made by the 'Antis.' We have to live here together; our in terests are identical; the future pros perity of the State depends largely on a better state of feeling; I can see no harm and much good that will follow if the Reformers voluntarily select men of the best brains and character among the Conservatives to come to the con vention. I would only give the cau tion that no man be allowed to come who during the dark days of Goifs tyrannical usurpation, showed any gratification or made any threats; such men cannot be trusted and had better be left at home. "There is one other point that I feel should be emphasized and that is this: There must be some hidlden or secret purpose in the almost insane desire, * which has shown itself among the 'Antis' to control the Constitutional convention. Having voted almost sol idly against it, I have never under stood why they have been so anxious to have equal representation in it,when by all rules of fairness and all the principles of Democracy they would not he entitled to any representation Sat all, except in the counties where they control. "When the Barnwell conference met, there appeared to be no prospect of an agreement being reached because of this demand for half, and it was only accepted by the Reformers present af ter imposing conditions, which are fa miliar to the public. These conditions are still vital, and no Conservative should be voted for at the primary who does not discuss those questions before the people and satisfy them as to his attitude on them. "There is one other vital feature w-hich our people must not overlook. If the constitutional provisions for the control of corporations and the ques tion of taxation. Corporation attor nevs, those known to be in the employ of corporations, had better be left at home, whether Reformers or Conser vatives, unless from their characters and general course of conduct as men it is believed they can be trusted. "I must believe that the strenuous efforts to obtain half the delegates were inspired by the desire to put into the new cntiftion something that would have eitherhampered the Legis lature or tied its hands in some way." "What about the action in Edge field?" was asked. "I saw by the papers that that ac tion was credited to my influence. I had nothing to do with it, and only happened to be at the court house that day on private business." "Do you think the plan of the Edge field committee will be carried out?" "I doubt it very mueb. Our people have always been strong advocates for the primary and this return to the convention system of nominations is not likely to give satisfaction. I think the county will send some Conserva tives provided they satisfy the people on the stump." "It seems that while claiming to stand by the agreement you are advis ing against its being carried out?" was suggested. "I am only standing by its spirit, not its letter. The Conservatives have stood by neither its spirit nor letter, it would be suicidal now for the Re formers to give one-half re'presentation t(, their opponents. We called the Constitutional convention, and we are responsible for it. We must control it, and I am verey sure that we cannot make a Constitution which will in any way do injury to the rights of either person or property of the other side, which will not equally bear on our selves. The Goff incident has raised theveil and shown too much of hatred and a fell purpose to rule or ruin, for me to ask the Reformers to du more than I have indicated, and if I were to ask it, and stump the State. county by county, "he people would go their own way." GOV. EVANS ON THE sILvER CONvENTION. When Gov. Evans was asked about the Memphis convention, he said: "The conventionat Memphis was one of the largest ever held in the South and most enthusiastic. It was not composed of milli.naires nor politi cians, but of men whose faces showed that they earned their bread by the sweat of their brow. The enthusiasm with which the speeches were received and esrecially that of Senator Tillman showed that the people of the West and South are bound to come together. Their interests are identical and they now realize the utter hopelessness of obtaining any relief from Congress, so long as it is controlled by the East and the money power. Populists, Repub licans and Democrats all joined in per feet harmony in the demand so forci bly put in the resolutions adopted by the convention. "How will the-y come together "iis is a matter of mere detail. They are already. together, but in my opinion the Democratic party will de clare for the free and unlimited coin age of silver in the ratio of 16 to I by an overwhelming majority, and the Northern and Eastern Democrats are sare to secede and bolt the convention as if it were already done. The Po. pulists, in my opinion, ought not to make any nomination for president, and the silvecRepullicans will support the Democratic nominee. These Re publicans are like our people in South Carolina prepared to go anywhere to obtain relief from the burdens that op - press our farmers. They are obliged to come to us for the reason that the Republican party will not declare for free silver and they know it." AS TO GOFF'S DECISION. "What about the reversal of Judge Goff's decree?" "It was veiny gratifying of course to know that the State had triumphed, and I congratulate the people of South Carolina, and our friends of the Nation of this victory for State's rights, and guarantee of white supremacy in the South. I was congratulated by every prominent member of the convention, among them Republicans. The peo pe of the South arid West seem to take as lively an interest in this fight for principle as our own people in South Carolina in this fight. "As to the result, there need be no fear of an appeal to the negro. The Reformers have a majority sufficient to overcome the Conservatives and ne groes combined, should the issue come to this But as I have always main tained, no considerable following, whether Conservative or Reformer, could ever be led in this direction." "Governor, what attitude will you assume as to the composition of the convention?'" "In this hour of triumph I would not have you think that I have receded or intend to recede from anything I have said or done heretofore looking to a harmonious settlement of our differences and securing for the State a Constitution based on the principles of our conference. The Democratic party is the only arbiter and any action from any source to forestall the nominees of the people would be p~resumptuous and result in failure." Supreme Court Adjom':-ns to June 2G. On Fridry afternoo'n the Supreme' Cort took a tecess ontil 26th June, 189">. for the purpose of hearg the oath admninistered to the graduates of the law department of the South Car olna College. The following is the order of the circuits at the ensuing November ternz nd the time allowed to each, begin ning on the Ioorth Tuesday in Novem be. Sive days; 6th eircuit begins 3d. December. four days; 7th vis cuit be gins 9th Deceiw ber. five days; 8th cir~ cuit bea'.ns 16th December, flye days; 1st circuit begims 2d -Jauary. 1896, seo days; 2d c- cuit begins 13th Jan ray. 189J6, tIm ee ays: 4th c:;rcuit be gims -23d Januciy, 1896, thr-ee days. Cases i,: the o-~ginal jurisdiction wil 'beve the imeftcenee on each Mon day o& the t-ru?. Application for ad mission to the B.tr ust be filed on or befer e Ube secon d Tuesday of the term, tl-e 3d of Dece nber no:t. The latest fish story is that the shape of a fishhook has not changed in twanty centuries. PALMETTO POINTERS L EVENTS ALL OVER THE STATE. The Weather and the Crops. An En- I couraging Report. Director Eauer has issued an en couraging crop report for thie past week. He gives an interesting sum mary of the crop situation up to this time. After reviewing the weather he says: The condition of cotton has greatly im proved within the last two weeks, and is particularly ilne in the western portions of the State, where stands are reported "as fine as ever seen." The p!ant is small and con tinues lousy in places. Fields that were not fertilized show marked inferiority. The cool nights latterly have checked its growth somewhat. but not materially. Fields are well worked and generally clean. About all chopped to a stand. There is no marked change In the condi tion of corn. which continues very satisfac torv. It shows some improvement in color and les.s in growth. A fairly good stand has been obtained except where damaged by cut worms. It is very small for the season, and its condition appears from the reports of correspondents to be quite uniform over the whole State. It is receiving its last plough ing in the more southern counties, where it 4 is beginning to tase!. Stubble lands being planted in corn and peas. Wheat will soon be ready to harvest. Some has already been cut. The stand is geneca! ly thin, but is heading very full. Oats are being harvested with a very fair yield. running from a full crop to about 50 per ernt of one. Spring oats have improved, but their condition is exceedingly variable, differing grcatly in the same portions of the State, and even in the same counties. The average of all reports would make it some what less than an average crop. Tobacco is doina well at places and reported fair at others. Worms have appeared un usually early, and are proving troublesome. The tobacco culture has infuced hopefullness into the farmers, whether the crop proves re munerativr or not. R ice about all planted and its condition gen erally very satisfactory. MeIons have been doing poorly, but lately have advanced rapidly and are blossoming. Sweet potato draws searcein the up-coun try. and the aceage will be greatly reduced on this acount. ELsewhere its codition is fair. and the c'rop is receiving about the same attention as in f'ormer years. Irish potatoes are yielding a full Crop from the coast truck farms westw:ard. Sugar,'ano au so'rghum are reported as having a poor -ua generaily. A l.rge aerean! of peas is being sown, both as a vet-arate erop and on the same land with corn. Early apples. peaclies. plums and cherries are ripening ai are beiu marketed. Fruit exhibited for sale now is oi inferior quality except cherries. being evilently marketed be 'ore it was rip.., a practice which cannot be ;oo greatly condemned. Blueberries and ulackberries continue very plentiful. Confederate Flags. Two interesting and valuable Con federate fiags have been polaced with the Secretary of State. One of the flags was used by the 3d battalior,S. C. V., and the other is a large battle flagrid dled with bullets, that was carried by the 15th S. C. V. The flag of the 15th regiment was larger than that of the battle flag of the 3d battalion. and on on*e side has the coat of arms of the S+t.e and (.; the othCr ihe words, "God and my country," together with the number of the regiment. Both of the flags were ' saved on tle night of the evacnation of Riibmond, Va., April 2, 1865, by Dr. T. A. LaFar." The flags will be kept with other; that have been turned over to the State for safe keeping. New Cotton 31 ills. Two charters for Cotton mills were granted at Columbia. One to the American Spinning Company, of Greenville. The direcctors and officers of the company are: Directors, 0. H. Sampson, J. H. Morgau, James L. Orr, Jacob W. Cagle; J. H. Morgan, president and treasarer; W. 0. Pat Lerson, secretary. A charter was also issued to the Colleton Cotton Mill. The return does not give the names of the offcers of the company.. To Erect a Dlg Cotton Mill. The Roanoke Rapids Power Com pany had an important meeting at their works near Weldon on Thursday. The directors expressed thems~elves as highly pleased with the progress made so far', and discussed matters looking to a still fuexther development. It is learned tbat they have about perfected plans for the largest cotton mill in the State. The work is cer tainly being pushed forward rapidly. Mlore Time to Sell Liquor. The county dispensers will have to. get up earlier, as the establishments are to open earlier and allow the early bird to get his flask as well as to let the State get in a little more money. The following order has been pro malgated: To Dispensers: The State board of control has consintcd to allow all dispensers through out the State, until otherwise ordered, to open for business at haif past 5 o'clock in the morning and remain open till and closing at 7 o'clock in the evening. You are hereby or dered to conform to theso bours until ycu are ordered otherwise. F. 31. Mixson, Commissioner. Dispensary Suits. Injnnctions brought about by the dispensary law have bcen served on Hrry Miller, James NM. Branhamn, Dunlap. There are several cases on the docket to be heard at the present term of the Court in relation to the dis pensary law. The City National Bank, of Green ville, capital $100.000', was authorized to begin business. No Free D~eliver3 -' Spartanburg. First Assistant Postmaster General Frank Jones decided that the business requirements of the postoffice at Spartanbu'g did not entitle it to a free deli cary servi ce. Visible Supply of Cotton. The total visihle supply of cotton for the world is 3,554,755 bales, of which 3,111,555 bales are American. against 3,114.999 bales and 2,512.990 bales respectively last year; receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 6.065; receipts from the platationls 5,261 as- cron in sight 9.587.132 bales. [HE REVERSAL OF JUDGE, UUFF'. [low the Two Factions of South Caro lina Conservatives' Regard the Present Situation. A special from Charleston totheNew Fork Evening Post say s: Politically ;peaking the South Carolina Conserva ives are divided into two factions, hose who are in favor of combining vith the State Administration party to ;eeure an equal division of delegates )etween the party in power and the op )osition or Conservatives, and those vho are in favor of declining any com )romise and refuse to go into the pri nary election for candidates of the Democratic party for delegates to the Donvention, but proposa to make the ight at the election fo: the delegates hemselves. In spite of the great unpopularityof senator Tillman and Governor Evans tmong the Conservatives, owing espe :ially to their course in last four years Lnd the persistent efforts of the St'ate dministration to enforce the dispen ary law, there is a very general senti nent which opposes a factional fight or the conirol of the Constitutional Jonvention ,d, therefore, does not bject to the overthrow of Judge Goff's eleiion. The other faction is rather lisposed to regret that an apparent rittory has been given theAdministra :ion party. These seems very little loubt that if the action of Edgedeld nd Aiken counties, the homes of Sen Ltor Tillman and Governor Evans re pectively, in dividing the delegates etween Reformers and Conservatives, >e generally carried out, it will be ac niesced in by a large majority of the jonservatives. So far as the negro is concerned he vas literally no one io guid2 him, and or the present at ler.st is filled with onsternatioa at the reversal of Judge 3ff's decision. But if ihose wbo un lertake to speak for him possess any )oiical sagacity they will have passed ith pleasure a constitutional provis on restricting negro suffrage to an ed entional qualiication accompanied vith guat'antees agoinsA the fraudulent ou ting of votes, and will readily see -ow much greater yrotection will be hus afforded to the colored citizens han is given by universal suffrage, )ermittiug the inielligent white and .olored vote to be overcome by that of >ersons unfit through iguorance end neornpetency to vote ::. all. SEVEN YEARS IN ALBANY. rhe Sentence of ex-Cashier Jas. R. Holland at Charlotte. James R. Holland. the defaulting cashier )f the Merchants and Farmers' National Bank, Charlotte, N. C., goes to the peniten iary at Albany for a term of seven years. snch was the sentence imposed upon him by udge It. P. Dick, in the United States Courtv )n Wednesday. STORY OF T=E CRIM. It was on Saturday night, April 20 that sir. TElkn ba(' d3rapin up z. pap er theaz wa5 to astonish the people. It was a deed of as signment, conveying his hou.-e and lot, his Gaston county farm and all bis real and per Eonal property of every description, to Dr. John If. MeAden trustee. The explanation for the assignment was that Holland owed the bank and othersdebts that he could not pay, and to secure these debts. he placed his property in the hands of a trustee. For a week previous to H.>lland's assign ment, a national bank examiner, had been going through the banks of Charlotte. He examined the Merchants & Farmers Bank on Friday, and found an error of $1 in the cash. Early next morning, he appeared at this bank, and caught the cashier napping. Instead of an error of $1, he found a short age of $16,000. Monday, it transpired that Holland was a defaulter. Then it was that the surprise over his assignment gave way to astonishment, lie had borrowed $16,000 to make his cash aceount tally when the bank examiner came along. He thought that the examiner had finished and gone, and not anticipating another visit next day, bad re turned the borrowed $16,000 and when the examiner stepped in the next day, Holland was caught in a trap). The $16,000 shortage thus being discovered, the examiner went to work in a methodical way, and item by item Holland's steali. were uncovered, until the sum ran from $40.000 to $60,000 and finally to $05,000. In the meantime. Holland had not been niaced under arrest. On Tuesday night, April 23, he disappeared from his hoine. The bank oilered a reward of $1000 for his capture, but no trace of him could he found. On Sunday night 28th,Holland surrendered himself. and it transpired that he had been in hiding under a friendly roof in Charlotte. He was jailed, waiving axamination.his bond was fixed at $15.000. Twenty-two citizens of the tuwn signed ils bond, aind justified, in the aggregate, in the sum of $91,000. Hoi land was released from jail and at once went o his home. One point still remains a mystery, and may remain so for all time. What id he do with all his money? Figure as he raa. his friends cannot account for it, and the , onviction is forced upon many of hem that Holland has a nest egg hidden iway somaewhere. Marshal Allison will leave with Holland for &lbany in a few d ays. Demanding Somiething to Eat. Twnty-four men, heads of families at Eubbard. Mich., marched into M~idland and esieged the court house, demanding some hing to eat from the county offieials. They 1aim thiat thirty families are destitute and :hat the women and children are crying for ~read. Hubbard was settled a'uout three years4 ago md the men claim that they were promised mill and steady work, which has failed to nateralize. They have plenty of tan-bark md wood piled up but say that they cannot let a train to run' to THubbard to haul it out. Killed by a Falling LImb. In Reeves Beat. Etowah county, Ala.. on saturday. Rev. T. J Holden. a Baptist reacher, was instantly killed by beingstruck n the headl. He was in the field with his Ittle son chopping cotton. There was no vind stirring, when. without warning, a arge limb, sixeteen feet long and six inches hiek. under which he was standing, fell a listance of sixty feet. It struck him on the yack of the neck and broke it. DivIding Delegates Equally. The Democratic executive comn nittee of Oconee county decided on aturdaty to divide delegates to the ionststtional convention equally b~e ;ween the reformers and the conser atives. The primary plan of selecting lelegates adopted and peace and har nony declared for. An advance of twenty-five per cent T 7ZECR APHIIC TICKS. Govmor Alic:d1 has sigpnd the bill ap propriating 415.000 fcr aa I!inois exhbit at the exnosition to be haeld ii Atlanta. In th town o.f Rvi~o, Italy. Fridia-. 100 persous at a f'rral were st:i:'.10a: na llat form. It a-,- ;ad .11 -ere killed and 20 injured. Nar Cha ooga, T-nn.. S. F. (:ristar ami G-.,:or ';.c nn Fa ga-ed in a quarrel or Friday eve4r the frmer-s hogs breaking intco Martin's cornfield, when Idartin shot Lis neighbor -ltaJ. lI's slayer escaped. At M Aili,-A., Phiip Goodwin as hanged for the mrurder, on Alugust 5. 18 3. of Johr. Poole. s.-tton boss of the Louisville and Nashvil!e railway at Venetin. 11bile county. The Enterprise Manufacturing Cornpany, Augusta. Ga.. one of the largest cotton milis in that s:qen, reenlved at a meeting of the stockholders on Saturday to increase i-s cap:ld sto.k, nct to exceed 1500.000 addi tir-,'. With this increase the enterprise will b v 75.000 ep:ndles. A C3ly ofMa-ico special says: "President Dix, has indicated his desire that this country shall be creditably represented at the Atlanta exposition. The government wviil pay the en:St o! ettig the exhibits to Atlan-ta and wl ec-operate in all ways with exhibitors. Many M-xicans who received premiums at Chi-:ago are going to send exhibits:o Atlanta." At Chattanooga. Tenn.. Camp Jacobs in a quarrei. shot his brother. ruifus Jacobs, in the abd..men. perhap.b tally. At Jacks.on, Mass.. the p-->pui:st executive committee in4 -alled a -tat" !onivention for July 3.. a week in -dvan-. --f tbo Democrats, in )rder to fo)reStal. i it pirr y ii I ho addoph-. ra of the frot- silver pntk. Frank Burkitt will bf- the uomin- for govrr. Ri-portsz re.--ivm! at Scdalia. Mo.. from the chairman of the Derrooratie *ntral :ora mittees -f 9S of thr- 114 :vucties Il Missouri, show 4 ti b6 in f:vor )f free- silvi-r at a rati. of 16 to 1. Of th" 94 *.o;inties M favor a State ecjnvention while 29 are opposed. The progress of the work at the Cotton States and International Exp..,sition, Atlanta, during the past month has been so rapid that the 189 acres of I'ledmont Park, with buildings, walks, drive- ways, terraces and landscape gardening, is begi!Ining to assume the general appearance of the completed work. Frank Williams, a farnier. living near St. Francis. Kas., on Stin'iay. -ittemptsid :o murder hLs wife. 3iss Ali:e Sirw.h and Wm. Smith. Fe then beat th- he-is of hns two children, a giri agefd !sed a r-.y ', with a atchet, after whilh be bl-w his braini out with a revi.1er. 'ite -hildr'sril; die. Famil trbW. wa the :ause. Wtliams' ife avas visit:ng at tlie Smith home at the time 3! the crime. REPORTS ARE FAVORABLM. The Cotton Acreage Sufficient to Raise a 9,000,000 Crop on--Compara. tive Increase in Prices. B. G. Dan & Co's. weekly review of trade for the past week says : It is no longer a question whether business Improves. Not for a long time have our reports from all parts of the country beenso uniformly favor able. The daily average of bank clearings in Tune is 24.8 per cent. larger than last year, though 11.4 per cent. less than in 1892. The most potent influence has been the receipt of most favorable advices regarding growing crops. Labor troubles are getting out of the way. and wages in many establishments are rising. Tne official statement of 14.8 peicent. de. crease in cotton acreage was quickly found, in view of the revised government est"01ate for last year, to mean more than 20,00 ,000 acres now growing cotton, which much ex ceeds the best unofficial estimates, and from sre-. :,o greater- over 9,000,000 -bales were produced in 1891, so that the report gave no aid to prophets of evil. That some reduction would be well for the South is clear, but the heavy present surplus will cover a larger loss than seems probable. The price has not changed, but transactions have become in significant, though rain-fall and temperature are closely watched. Manufacturers abroad according to Ellison, have stocks 289,000 bales greater than a year ago, and commercial stocks of American in sight are still 3,200,208 bales. Cotton mills are doing well for the season, and numerous advances of an eighth to a quarter in brown sheetings, drills, bleached muslins, denios and ticks are still reported. The wool manufacturer looke for speedy settlement of labor trouble and finds a moderate demand for low and medium heavy weight goods, while some of the cheaper lines of spring goods have been opened with flattering reports, but as to better grades, there is still great uncertainty about prices. There have been few changes in the trad~e ituation at the South, but there are direct indicatious of improved demand, principally in dry goods, shoes, ihats and other seasona ble goods. with the prbspect for a good fall trade shouild the crop pr/.spects remain as at the piresent. Gaius in the volume of business are reported from Charleston. Nashville, Taksoiiville and Galveston. Failures for- the past week hav- been 241 in the United States against 232 Inst year and 24 in Ciad.'. againg. 40% yeB? PROGRESS OF TilE SOVUI. New Iron Furnaces Soon To Be Star te d -Other Inidustz ies. Special reports to the Manufacturers: Record show that the advance of over one $1 a ton in pig iron during the last fe-, weeks will likely be followed by another advance as soon as southern furnaces are prepared to take new orders. most of the large furnaces already having orders for some months ahaead The Pennsylvania people who recently p .ir chased three furnaces at Sheflield. Aia.. rInd 70,000 acres of mineral lands have orgaizaed a company with $1.500.000 capital, the offieers of which will be men who have long been identitled with the Bethleham lIron Company, of Bethlehem, Pa. These furnaces will be put in blast immediately. Arrangements are being completed for starting up a furnace at Johnson City. Tenn., and negotiatiations are pending for blowing in one at Embreeville. Tena. The activity in Iron matters does not lessen the activity in cotton mill interests. During the week a cotton mill company has been organized at Rock Hill. S C., with a capital of $200.000; a $150.000 company has been or ganized at Goldnboro. N. C.; a $75.000 "om-i pany at Wagner. S. C.; an addition of 4,000 spindles to a Goldsboro mill and a new knit ting mill at Durham, N. C. Connected with cotten interests there have been organized a $200,000 cotton compress and $55,000 ginnery in Texas; a e400,000 cotton seed oil company in New Orleans and a twenty-ton oil mill in Alabama. Among other enterprises reported for the week w've 610.000 sertilizer works in Ala bama, electric ]ignt plant in Mississippi, $60.000 gold mining company and 100-bar rel flour mill In North Carolina. 620.000 ee- 1 tric company in Georgia. a $250.000 fertilizer I manufacturing company and electric light plant in South Carolina, a S250.000 beet sugar factory is reported as likely to be built in Texas. In the same state a $25,000 brick company has been organized. In Virginia a $100000 tobacco manufacturing company $30.000 oil well company and a thirty-barrel floir mill. In West Virginia a $50.000 lumber company, $1.000.000 oil and gas company and twenty-five-barrel flour mill. In Mary land 650,000 briek and tile works, electric light plant, contracts let for a 675.000 tinware factory and a titiety-barrel flour mill. In Tennessee $15.000 tinl pewter works, $50,000 tannery and coal mining operations. In Louisiana $250.000 machine works and ship building plant. $25.000 lumber manufacturing company; while in other states a numnber of miscellaneous enterprises, mcIluding lumber plants, ice factories, canneries, etc., have Ten organizd. NO AID FORI THEI aDA~R8 The President's Proclamation Gives Warning to American Filibusters, NEUTRALITY MUST BE PRESERVED P.copio, Wliltil ' Our 133orless XMst Not Help tneit-riot--Officand5the Urited States - ;Ai-ted to -Exeant- the Laws and Bri IM1iffenleva tOi-,al and Pun ishment-1-Suanlium2l1tirlda's Coast, President Cleveland issued a proclamation to the citizens of tho country. admonishing them to observe the neutrality laws between the United States and Spain. This action is based upon the urgent request of the Span- I ish Minister that some official steps be taken to prevent American citizens from assisting the belligerents in Cuba. The Spanish 21intter had a long conference with Secretary of State Olney on this subject. The object of the proclamation is to place the United States Government in a friendly attitude toward Spain. and guard against any claim for damages that may hereafter be instituted against the United States Govern ment for violatisn of the friendly relations clause of the treaty existing between the two Nations. It has been charged recently that a filibustering expeaitlon started for Cuba with arms and munitions for the in eurgents. The Spanish Minister noti fled the Secretary of State, and urged im mediate act ion to prevent aid and com fort being furnished to the belligerents. As a precautionary measure, the Secretary of the Navy ordered the Raleigh to proceed to Key West, Fla., with instructimns to patrol the coast and see that no filibustering expe ditions leave this country. The actionof the President is generally regarded as timely and proper. and it is a formal notice to the world that the United States is not in sympathy with any flibusterine movement that maybe contemplated by the friends of -the belliger ents who reside along the South Atlantic coast. It is evident from what has occurred in the past that there are manysympathizers with the belligerents in this country. The President's proclamation follows: "Whereas. The island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil disturbances, accom panied by armed resistance to the authority of the established GovErnment of Spain, a Power with which the United States are and desire to remain on terms of peace and amity; and 1 "Whereas, The laws of the United States prohibit their citizens as well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction, from taking part insuch disturbances adverso- t ly to such established Government, by accept ing or exer:ising commissions for warlike service again.=t it. by enlistment or procuring others to enlist for such service, by fitting out or arming, or procuring to be fitted out and arming ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of any ship of war en gaged in sueh service and arriving in a port - of the United States. and by setting on foot or providing or'preparing the means for 2 military enterprises to be carried on from the United States against the territory of such Government. "Now, therefore. in recognition of the laws aforesaid and in discharge of the ob ligations of the United States toward a friendly Power, and as a measure of precau-. tion, and to the end that citizens of the United States and all others within its juris diction may be deterred from subjecting themselvesto legal forfeitures and penalties. "I. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America. do hereby admon ish all citizens and other persons to abstain from every violation of the laws hereinbefore 1 referred to, and do hereby warn them that all violations of such laws will be rigorously prosecuted : and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of s:id laws the utmost dili gence in preventing violations thereof and in bringing to trial and punishment any of fenders against the same. "In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of J me, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth. "By the President: Gnovrn CLEVELAND. "RIcHARD OLNEY, Secretary of State." ] spain Wil1 Push the War. Preparations are under way in Spain to have 40,000 troops ready to sail for Cuba in August, besides the 10,000 men who will start for the island next month. There are now about 30,000 Spanish troops on the island.1 The Senate has passed a bill authorizing the Government to raise 600,000,000 pesetas (120,000.000), should that amount be neces sary to put down the insurrection. An of- I fical dispatch from Havana says that in surgentshave appeared in the Camat~uey dis trict of the cenmral province. This is regard ed as important. Embargo on Crops. The Cuban revolutionists are putting an embargo on the coffee, cacao and tobacco crops in the intfrior. They have forbidden planters to transport these products to market. Yellow fever Is increasing on the island. _____ ___ HELPED BY A CERMAN IRONCLAD. She Goes to the Assistance of a French Transport in Distress. The debates in the French Chamber of De puties upon the action of the Paris Govern ment in sending warships to Kiel have added interest to thecomnments of the German papers 1 upon a recent instance of German courtesy to a~rench ship in the Red Sea. On May 25,t the French transport ship Commorin was observed by the German Ironclad Kaiser. cruising In the Rod Sea, to signal that she was unable to proceed owing to a disarrange- I ment of her engines. The commander of the Eiser sent one of that vessel's enwineers on board the Commorin to render what assis tanc he could. .The German engineer helped to put the Comimorin's engines in or der and the Eaiser afterward towed the Commorin for a short time. Ohl of Princeton Dead. Frederick P.0Ohl, aged nineteen, one of the two students at Princeton (N. J.) College shot by the colored man Collins, died In the Isabella MicCosh Infirmary, where he was taken for treatment immediately after the shooting. His father and other relatives and several members of the faculty were at the. edside. Peritonitis caused by the wound and sub sequent operation was the immediate oause of death. His body was taken to his home in Sharon, Penn.. for burial. W1eekly Receipts of Cotton. The following arc the total net receipts of cotton at all ports siee September 1st, 1894: Galveston 1,tZ{0.881. New Orleans 2,564.460; Mobil.e 249,812. Sava:nr.ab 038.01. Charleston f 427.154, Winrgton 234.294. Norfolk 4G9,175, 327.746. Nn w i'ort New v~ 3.530, Ph iladelleia 18,720'. West P'at 2S5.7Z'8, flr:nuwick 103,- i 34. Veis'o 5112. PXat Rtoyal 15l,800. Total A committee of the British House of Corn- I mons reported against the right of Peers to , Bam's Horn Sounds a Warnny wk.;; 4 the Unredeemed. "NO HLARM" sinner Is about AYt h e hardest to reach. Bright things are not always good things. The first step - ~ toward the devil i s always very short. The pathway of the reformer Is generally all up hill When our friends leave us God can -ome very close. Anybody can make eegmles, but only he Christian can love them. When the devil Is nearest to us he imells the least of brimstone. Life can only be bitter to those who 10 not know that God Is love. No power but that of the Holy Spirit an produce holiness of heart and life. A man in earnest about his soul will e in earnest about everything he does. Pigs have been washed, but none ave ever been cured of their love for nud. The dove seller has no .nore right to )e in the temple than the dealer In attle. It Is better not to fast than to do It n a way that gives the devil all the >enefit The less blood there is in a sermon he more compliments the preacher ill get Have an eye single to the glory of ;od, if you have to give up a right eye :o doIt In proportion as a preacher fishes for ompliments he loses the ability. to fish 'or men. The religion that would kill a smile m the face of a child does not come rom God. Every Christian should live so that hose who follow him will travel to ward heaven. Believing the slander that the way D heaven Is all up hill has sent many L man to the pit. There are plenty of promises In the Bible for those in the dark, but none or those in doubt. As soon as we take a step with God e stop -being worthless and begin to tmount to something. Men are lost; not so much from doing he notoriously wrong, astromneglect ng to do the obviously right The harmless-looking Babylonishgar nent Is the coat the devil puts on when ie wants to get into the heart The devil has to work hard in the ieighborhood of the man who ng God seven days in the week. The devil can sleep In church, when he preaching is being done by a man vhose religion is all in his head. No religious act should ever be per 'ormed in a way to make the world hink that serving God is hard work. The devil can set down 'nd rest when e have so much missionary work on iand that we cannot take time to pray n secret . Realism of the Present Age. Whatever romance and poetry were olden times associated with pilgrim ges to places reputed sacred are rapid y being destroyed by the prosaic spirit f this very progressive and matter-of act age. Thus those who with piouis tentions now visit the Holy Land are ransported by rail from Jaffa to Jer:z. alem, where a funicular line conveys hem to the summit of the Mount of )lives, while comfortable hotels on the kmercan plan are to be found at Beth ehem and on the site of the Garden of ethsemane. And now a hydraulic ele ator has just been established at Mar eiles for the purpose of hoisting pil ~rims to the much-visited shrine of otre Dame de la Garde, perched on he summit of the highest rock over Doking the city and bay, and to which allors and travelers on starting out tpon or returning from sea voyages Lave from time immemorial been wont o ascend by the thousands of steep teps, usually on their knees.-New 'ork Tribune. nuiffing the Earthquake from Afar. It Is a well known fact that horses an hear sounds that are not percept!-' le to human ears. For days previous o the great earthquake in the Riviera he horses of that locality showed every, ymptom of fear, which continued with ut change of character, unless it was a the direction of greater frenzy, till he fury of the great convulsion broke orth. Not until a few seconds, how-. ver, before the earth began to tre'mble id human beings hear the subterraL tean rumblings. One writer from the cene says that In his opinion the horses, :new that the great quake was on the' ray from seventy-two to 100 hours be ore their masters heard or felt the .rst jar.-St. Louis Republic. A Painfully Neat Woman. There is a woman In Eastern Maine rho coudn't go to a picnic when in-' ited because she couldn't get time. "I ae so much work at home.".she said, I can't go anywhere." Yet this same roman afterwards sent a lot of old' igs to a junk dealer, where she realized .price of a cent a pound, perhaps, and: very piece of them had been newly rashed, and Ironed smooth, and was tetly folded up. The thing was so unny that the junk man put the rags n exhibition as the work of a woman. rho was short of time. She can now afely lay claim to the title of "chamn ion neat woman of America."-Lew ston Journal. The most general charge against heople is that they are hard to get nng with.