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itmtm VOL. VII. LAURENTS, S. C, TUESDAY, MAY 12,1891. NO. 41. THE UNIVERSITY. ^4U|CJjK REORGANIZATION WORK BY THE TRUSTEES. \- New Chain Fllled?Dra. Wood row, Alexander and Other* I?ef{ Out?Sala ries Fixed?Detail? of the Kntire Pro ceeding*. Columbia, S. C, May 2.?The Board of Visitors of the South Carolina Uni versity met in the Library yesterday morning, with every member present, and proceeded to organize the institu tion in accordance with the recent act of the Legislature. The members favoring a broad plan took charge of the matter, and, without calUng up to a vote either of the plans presented, moved at once to go into tbo election of the different chairs, fearing that the minority report would very likely be adopted otherwise. The mo tion was carried, and without the slight est opposition the selection of the chairs was begun. The following chairs were adopted: Chair of chemistry. Chair of geology, mineralogy and biology. An adjunct professor was al lowed this chair. 1 Chair of ancient languages, also with adjunct professor. Chair of mathematics. Chair of physics and astronomy. Chair of modern languages. Chair of English language, literature and rhetorio with adjunct professor. Chair of mental and moral philosophy with logic. , Chair of history and political econ omy. Chair of law. As will be seen this provides for ten chairs and three adjunct professors, giving thirteen in all. The lesult is said to be far better than any of the friends of the University expected. The salaries of the professors were fixed as follows: All the profesoorswill get 82,000, the president $3,000 and he j will be required to occupy one of the chuirs of instruction. The adjuncts 91.200 each, the chaplain $800 extra, the secretary and librarian $000, the assistant to the secretary $200. The librarian is also to be required to act as secretary to the board of trustees. The office of marshal was abolished. One of the adjunct professors will be chosen and requested to not as secretary to the faculty. Governor Tillman favoring it, the board decided to give an annual ap propriation of $2,000 to the library. A resolution was adopted appointing a special committee tc investigate and report on a scheme lor the physical cul ture of the students. This is to be made a portion of a curriculum. Provisions were made to allow the students now in the mechanical and civil engineering courses who will grad uate next year to complete their courses and obtain diplomas. . Dr. Alexander, who at the former meeting of the board refused to reply .to a question of the Governor as to whether he believed in Christ or not, appeared before the board and read a statement he had prepared. Therein he declared his Unitarian views and clearly defined his position. As will be seen his chair is abolished and combined With another. The two chairs of geolo gy and mineralogy and biology are now consolidated also. The two chairs of English language and English litera ture are combined, too, and the trustees say they propose to place the English department of the institution squarely to the front und make it the principal feature of the courses. The status of' the trustees on political lines was cur iously divided. Upon adjourning, at 4 o'clock, the tri stees indicated that the main fight was to come on the question of the standard of admission. It was stated that no professors would be elect ted until next June, but that the board would indicate to the incumbent pio fessors whether they were to remain or not. They wero decided that those competent should remain and those, that were not should go. The board met again at 6 o'clock and instead of taking up the reports at once as expected, proceeded immediately to the election of the professors. The re sults are given below: ('hair of mathematics? Prof. E. W. Davis. Chair of physics, mechanics and astronomy?Prof. Benjamin Sloan. I Chair of biology, geology and mineral ogy?Dr. J. M. McBryde. lie was also elected president of the institution, and Professor E. A. Sraythe, the former professor of biology, was elected ad junct to the chair. Chair of chemistry?Professor W. B. Burney. j Chair of English language, liter ature and rhetoric?Professor F. C. Woodward. Chair ol history and political econo my?Professor R. Means Davis. Chair of mental science, logic and evidences of Christianity?Dr. J. Wil iyim Flinn. Chair of law?Professor Joseph Dan iel Pope. The Chair of ancient languages was stot filled, and the filling was postponed until June. The adjunct in this depart ment was also not elected. The fight for the position is between Dr. Patton and Prof. Murray, and the indications are that a new man will fill the position and both be left out. . * Tho selection of the professor of mod ern lang u rages was also postponed un til June. Dr.' Joynes is the only appli cant before the board, and the reason he was not elected lost night was that there was a considerable question as to the amount of woik. He will undoub tedly be elected to the chair next June. For the chair of geology, mineralogy, and biology, and consequently the presi dency of the institution, Drs. McBryde and Woodrow, were before the board. Several members raised the objection to Dr. Woodrow that he could not give his entire time to the duties of the chair. The board cominulcated with Dr. Woodrow on this subject And he sent a letter to the effect that he could not give his time to the duties. Con sequently Dr. McBryde was elected. But for this the race might have been a close one, as Dr. Woodrow had many friends ou the board. The members of the old faculty left out are as follows: Professor E. E. Shell), chair of pedagogics?chair abol ished. Professor J. W. Alexander, firofessor ol logic?chair abolished, ?rofessor James Woodrow. professor of geology. Theso are out entirely. Pro fessor Joynes, Patton and Murray still have a chance, but at least one, and * perhaps two of them, will he retired. There are ? number of tutorlKnd assis tant professors who are also out. The two reports as to the plan were never brought up and after the election i theipouses of study and the standard of admission was referred to the executive committee composed of Dr. McBryde, Superintendent of Education Mayiield, W. A. Clark, Esq.. and Justices Mciver and Mctiowan. This committee Is to report to a meeting of the board to be held in June* next. LaatHnlghl The State"office was besieged with students and they were universally delighted with the result and especially jubilant over the choice of Dr, McBryde as president In fact, The State telephone conveyed many congratulatory messages to Dr. Mo JJrySto at a late hou r.?The State. RUDINI IN A RAGE. Italy's Premier Stop* Correspondence with Dlalne Rome, May 8.?The Green Book on the New Orleans lynching- comprises twenty-four dispatches, dated from March 14 to April 28. It shows that the Italian Government from the com mencement perseversed in asking that criminal proceedings be taken against the lynchers and that indemnity be paid' to the famiBes of tho victims. The ex pression "brought to justice" recurs in the ofllclal dispatches as well as Baron Fava's private letters. The principal communications have already been published. After Blalne's note of April 14 the volume concludes with a telegram from the Maquis di Rudni to the Marquis Im perali, the text of which Is as follow: I have now before me a note address ed to you by Secretary Blut no of April 11. Its perusal produces a most pain ful impression upon me. I will not stop to lay stress upon tho lack of con formity with diplomatic usages dis played in making public, as Blalnedid not hesitate to do, of a portion of a tele gram of miae communicating to him in direct confidence in order to get rid of the question clearly defined in our ofllcl al documents which alone possess diplo matic value. Nor wiU I stop to point out the reference in this telegram of mine, of March 24, that the words "pun ishment of the guilty," in the brevity of telegraghio language, actually signi fied only that the prosecution ought to be commenced in order that individuals recognized as guilty should not escape punishment. Far above all astute ar guments remains the faot that hencefor ward the Federal Government declares itself conscious of what we have con stantly asked, and yet it does not grant our legitimate demands. Blaine is right when he makes payment of Indem nity to families of victims dependent upon proof of violation of the treaty; but we shrink from thinking that he considers that the fact of such violation still needs proof. Italian subjects ac quitted by American juries were massa cred in the prisons of the State without measures being taken to defend them. What other proof does the Federal Gov ernment expect of the violation of the treaty wherein constant protection and security of the subjects of the contract ing parties is expressly stipulated. We have placed on evidence that we have never asked anythihg else but the open ing of regular proceedings. In regard to this, Baron Fava's first note, dated March 15, contained even the formula of a telegram addressed on the same day by Mr. Blaine under order of President Harrison to the Governor of Louisiana. Now, however, in the note of April 14 Mr. Blaine is silent on the subject, which is for us the main point of contro versy. We are under tho sad necessity of concluding that what to every other Government would be the accomplish ment of a civil duty is impossible to the Federal Government. It is time to break off this bootless controversy. Public opinion, the sovereign judge, will know how to indicate an equitable solution of this grave problem. We have affirmed and we again affirm our right. Let the Federal Government re lied upon its side if it is expedient to leave to the mercy of each State of the Union, irresponsible to foreign coun tries, the efficiency of treaties pledging it8 faith and honor to entire nations. The present dispatch is addressed to you exclusively, not the Federal Gov ernment. Your duties henceforward are solely restricted to dealing with cur rent business. I Devastation by Yorest Vires. New York, May 1.?The most de structive fire of many years is raging in South Jersey. The great pine region and cranberry bog district from Pleasant Point and Bay Head, on the north, down to Egg Harbor, sixty miles south, and from the Atlantic to points from thirty to forty miles Inland, is being swept by fire. Thousands and thousands of acres of pine and cedar timber have been burned, many towns have been threat ened, dozens of houses have been de stroyed and fears are entertained for the safety of the people in the devastated country.' So dense is the smoke that hangs over the burning forest that farmers going from town to town have to grope their way along the roads. Bain has not fallen in weeks, and the inhabitants are unable to check the spread of the flames. At many places the residents have been forced to flee to the open country to save their lives, leaving their householdj goods behind to be burned. At one place a sick woman, covered by watersoaked blankets, was carried, out of her burning home inner bed. At a rough estimate the loss will be over $1,000,000, and many farmers will be impoverished. Forest fires are also reported in the mountains about Beading Fa., and in the vicinity of Newburg, N. Y. Democratic Gains In Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., May 6.-?Returns from the elections in the second and third class cities throughout the State show general Democratic gains, with the exception of New Albany and Jeffer sonvllle, where the Republicans made clean sweeps. At Fort Wayne Sallinger, Democrat, was elected mayor by ninety-seven ma jority, with nine Democratic council men out of ten. At Lafayette the entire Democratic ticket was elected?a Democratic gain. At Hammond the entire Democratic ticket was elected?a Democratic gain. At Jcffersonville T. F. Warder, Dem ocrat, for seven terms mayor, was de feated by B. F. Robinson, l republican. The Republicans also gained a marshal and clerk and two council men, although the Democrats still retain the majority. The light was strictly IochI. In N?w Albany Morris McDonald, Republican, was re-elooted mayor by a largo majority. A VatalDnel. Koanoke, Va., April 28.?-A terrible tragedy occured at Marshall's oafe in this city at 6 o'clock this afternoon. Nick Flood, a son of Major John II. Flood,'a prominent tobacconist of l.ynebburg and Charles L. Rose who camo here from Washington in Febru ary last, engaged in a duel with pistols. Rose fell pierced by several bullets and died in a few minutes without speaking. Flood was shot in the mouth and breast but will probably recover. Both men were gamblers and tho shooting was the result of a quarrel at a card table about six weeks ago. Some'days ago they were prevented from shooting each other and placed under bonds to keep the peace. Rose had 8712 in his pockets Flood is a dangerous character. Two months ago he stabbed, Martin O'Meare. a Lynchburg tailor, nearly to death and subsequently almost killed a man named Payne of this oity with a billiard cue. Let Us Have Peaoe. WAsniNQTON, May 8.?It is learned here that the government of the United States has instructed Minister Eagan to offer to mediate between the combat ants in Chile iu the interests of peace and good order, and that France and Brazil, the other great republics of the world, have Joined in the proffer of their food offices in the Interests of per petuity of republican principles of ernruent. ALLIANCE CAMPAIGN. PRESIDENT POLK MAPS IT OUT IN AN ADDRESS TO THE ORDER. Two Great Rail lee In Bach state tins Kail and an Army of 35,000 Lecturers to Talk Until Next YearWThe Order Must Kxpel DUleral Member*. J'resident Polk, of the Farmers' Al liance has just issued a proclamation to the Order in which he sets forth the plan of campaign which the national executive board has adopted for the next year, and counsels the Sub-Alli ances to cease internal bickerings and to get rid of disloyal members. This is the document: To the Brotherhood of the N. P. A. and L U.: We are now approaching the most critical period in our existence as an Order. The demoralizing ele ments which always enter Into a polit ical campaign are already being mar shalled by the enemies of our Order, with a determined purpose to divide and disrupt us, if possible. No device or scheme will be left untried. Every effort will be made to divert the minds of the people from the great issues which are essentially the very life of our great reform movement. It was this knowledge of the situa tion that prompted the action of the National Legislative Council in ma turing a plan for a lecture system and for presenting it to the Order for adop tion. The ultimate. Inevitable and tri umphant success of our principles is assured, if this system be actively and faithfully prosecuted for the American farmers and all other classes and inter ests which are so Intimately related to them will not fall to stand together for right, justice and equity, if properly in formed. If prosecuted as designed, this system will engage the services during this year of not les3 than 85,000 lecturers in our cause. I earnestly in voke the aid and co-operation of the entire brotherhood in securing a faith ful lecturer for every subordinate and county Alliance and for every Con gressional district within the jurisdic tion of our Order throughout the whole country. ? Arrangements are also being made for the holding of two or more grand Alliance mass meetings in each of the Alliance States during the year, or as many more as the brotherhood may de sire. Let us have your active and earnest sympathy in making this the great educational campaign year in our history, and thus be prepared to meet any emergency that may arise. State and county officers especially are earnestly admonished to push this work in their respective jurisdictions zealously. The enemy is actively on the alert, it is his purpose to buy or control our press as far as possible. Palling with money he will substitute office or its patronage. Failing in all this he will strive by every means, foul or fair, to create divisions and dissensions in our ranks. It a convention of the enemies of the National Farmers' Alliance and Indus trial Union was culled to devise a plan for the overthrow and destruction of the Order it would doubtless adopt, as the most speedy and effectual, such methods as would create dlssontion and strife among the membership. How eagerly and how exultantly they hall the least Indication of this! If an err ing brother so far forgets his obliga tions to the Order as to assail its prin ciples publicly he is heralded by the politicians and the partisan press as a hero. If a paper which has been desig nated a representative of the principles of our Order proves false to its most sacred compact and assaults our mem bers or our principles, it thereby gains speedy admittance to the respect and confidence of our enemies. If influen tial or prominent members, disregard ing their obligations to each other and to the Order, engage In a public per sonal warfare through the press or otherwise, our enemies are abundantly satisfied. No memLer of our Order has the right to assail another member publicly, through the press or otherwise, so long as their hames are on our roll of mem bership. Such an offence is a violation of his obligation, and should merit ex pulsion. No paper vested with author ity to represent our Order officially has the right to assail our principles or any member of the Order while acting in such a capacity. Such an offence should cause all true Alliance men to repudiate such paper promptly. No member, while his name remains on our rolls, has a right to assail the prin ciples of the Order publicly. He is not only permitted, but is encouraged by our law, to discuss any and all meas ures coming within our province with the utmost freedom and to any extent he may desire within the Order. But the will of the majority is the law of the Order, and if he cannot acquiesce in the decision of the majority, and feels that he Is conscientiously impelled to go before the publio and assail our principles, he should first divest himself of his Alliance uniform. With what consistency could a Baptist or Metho dist go before the world and publicly oppose and denounce some of the most cherished tenets of his Church ? How long would his name remain on his church book? How long ought It to remain there? Why should he expect or desire to remain in the Church? Loyalty to Alliance principles is the only true Alliance test, not only as to membership, but it should faithfully be applied In the selection of all officers, from the steward In a subordinate Alli nnen to the president of the National Alliance, and It must be applied in the selection of those who are to make and oxweute our laws, if we would reason ably hope for the reforms which we seek. We want no foes within our camp We can live better without them than with them. Let the membership be watchful and faithful, and gun .1 with untiring vigilance the principles of the Order. Never was the outlook for our cause so hopeful and encouraging. We have only to be true to our principles, ' true to our obligations, and to our noble Order and all lyill be well. Fraternally, L. L. Polk, President N. F. A. and I. U. A K?dern Abraham, Bridoewater. Conn., May 6.?Oliver H. Jessup, one of the most prominent citizens of the town has gone insane. He was taken violently ill a few days ago, but refused to allow a doctor to come to the house, and he relied solely on the faith cure advocates, who sur rounded bis bed day and night. Jessup at length conceived the idea that he was a second Abraham and that the Lord required a human sacrifice. On Thursday, being left alone for a few minutes, be prepared for the horrible affair by constructing an alter out of his bedroom furniture, around which he piled a heap of combustibles. Then he caught his little grandchild, a year old. and placed her on the altar and prepared to ignite it. The child's cries attracted ii member of the family, and the old man was nearly killed in tho struggle to restrain him. BENNETTSVILLE IS BEWILDERED. Mysterious Occurrence' Savoring- of the Supernatural. i*EMKETTSviLLE(S.C.,May 1.?There was a mysterious occurrence in Bon nettsvllle a few nights ago, which has puzzled the most philosophical minds. Many theories have been advanced, yet the mystery remains unsolved. Doors and windows are barred at night; noc turnal pedestrians ambulate the streets with lighted lanterns; the oracklng of a twig or the rustle of tho wind causes a sudden halt and rapid pulsations of the heart. The colored people are alarmed beyond description, and are daily expected to Institute a general exodus from the town. For two months Mr. P. C. Emanuel has been living in Mr. St. P. Coving ton's house in East Bennettsville. This is comparatively a newly settled place, splendid building, surrounded with sweet and luxuriant flowers, situated in one of tho most desirable neighbor hoods' in town. On the night in question, Mr. Eman uel and wife had just retired, but had not gone to sleep. The -moon was. shining brightly, everything being quiet and serene. About 11 o'clock, the re port of what seemed a gun was heard at the bed chamber window. The shot was plainly heard falling in the room. Mr. Emanuel is not a timid man by any methods. He has plenty of nerve and scarcely can be frightened by or dinary means. He at once concluded that some one had accidentally shot in to his room, but directly a second re port, at tho same place, was repeated. Mrs. Emanuel was terribly fright ened. Her husband lowered the lamp, rushed to the window, threw open the blinds, and discharged his pistol in the direction of the ground. For a minute or two all was quiet, when suddenly, in his room, near his trunk, in rapid succession, two reports of what seemed to be pistol shots, were heard. After a short interval there were two reports under the house, directly under the bed room, and just at' that moment the house shook and crockery ware rattled, and a noise was heard as if glass were being ground in a mill, and simulta neously every rooster in the neighbor hood commenced crowing. Mr. Emanuel says he was sure that judgment day had arrived, and that he had no other thought but that in a short time he would be facing the Immacu late Judge. Mr. Emanuel vacated the house at once, and the place is now un occupied, where "gobblin damns" can hold high carnival. Mr. Emanuel is an honest, truthful and Intelligent citizen, and the above facts were recited to The State correspondent by him in a special interview.?State. The War In Ghlla. Washington, April 30.?Rear Ad mural McCan, In command of the South Atlantic Station, has sent the Navy De partment a long report, dated Caldira, March 24, In regard to Chilean affairs. The Congressional deputies (the insur rectionary chiefs,) he says, had their headquarters on hoard a transport In the harbor of Iquiquo. During tho foronoon of the 17th, while the Pensacola (his flagship) was at Iquiquo, tho insurgent man of-war Esmeralda, and the trans ports Aconcagua and Maipo put to sea to attack Autofagasta, with about 1,500 troops on board. The ironclad Blanco Encalada was blockading Autofagasta at tho timo. Tho Chilean officers sta ted that it was tho intention to attack and capture Aricn, then blockaded by tho Huaecar. Tho admiral, in his account of tho cap ture of Iquique by tho insurgents, says that by tho fire of ships five blocks of houses wero destroyed, considerable coal burned and the office of the United States consul destroyed. The fighting back of the hills culminated in a battle with 1,000 men on each side. Before the fight 200 government troops deserted to the insurgents. Tho fight was brief, but sanguinary, the insurgents ockc owl edging 200 killed and about the same number wounded, while the government had 400 killed and 200 wounded. Early in the fight tho government cavalry fled, killing everyone that came in their way, whether friends or foes. Col. R?bels, the government cammander, was wound ed and captured and afterwards assassi nated in his bed. Tho government forco in the neighbor hood of Iquique seems to have entirely disappeared. A number of troops raised in the south and sent north to fight have -;onc ovet to the insurgents, and it would fcee.n as if President Balmaceda was to a small extent recruiting an army for the benefit of his enemies. The insurgent forces aro at present iu possession oi tho entire northern coast from Arlca to Tal talouer, 400 miles, as well as holding tho extensive nitrate deposits on the pampas, which have been the great source of rev enue to Chile, and they are able to main tain their position so long as the govern ment is without a navy, as tin mountain coasts and the great desert aro impracti cable for extensive military operations. Will Not Run. PouoiiKEEPSiE, N. Y., April 30.? Stephen B. Elkins is authority for the statement made to the effect that James Q. Blaine would shortly announce his decision not under any circumstances to allow his name to be used at the next Republican convention as a candidate for president. It is said that Mr. I Maine's letter or announcement will be so positive as to admit of but one con struction, and that is that he will never again be a candidate for the presiden cy. The News Press also quotes Hon. Smith M. Weed as saying that when the time came Mr. Blaine would be found positively declining a nomination. Also that VV. J. Arkell says that Mr. J Maine is about to come out with a most positive refusal to allow his name to be used again in connection with the pres idency. _ Five of the Crew Drowned. Saui/t Ste MArie, Mich., May 6.? The schooner reported In distress by the bargo Sitka is . the Atlanta, Captain Knelton, which left here in tow of the barge Wilhelm Saturday night. A heavy Northwest gale struck the Wil helm with the Atlanta in tow Sunday morning. When they were off Sable bank tho tow line of the Atlanta parted twenty miles Northwest of No 10 life saving station. When she foundered the crew endeavored to reach the shore in yawls, five of them perishing in the attempt. The crew from the life sav ing station put out in the breakers and succeeded in saving two of the ill-fated schooner's men. The Atlanta was coal laden for Ashland. A Horrible Death. Charleston. S. C, May 1.?(Jeorgo Carter, colored, lost his life In a horrible manner today, on Central wharf. Carter was the engineer of a hoisting machine which was unloading a cargo of coal from a vessel at the wharf. By some un explained accident, he was caught be tween the rope and drum, the fatal cell twisting about the body and gradually crashing the life of out it. If he made any outory the noise of the machinery drowned It There were no eye-witness. When found the remains were horribly lacerated. >; i THE COLO SNAP NORTH AND WE8T. Fruit? and Karly Vegetublon Seriously Dam axed. Cincinnati, May 0.?The Signal Service department reports no frost In this vicinity last night . At Wooster O., the farmers report that all early fruit was destroyed by Monday night's frost. Some say that the wheat, which Is now Jointing, has been injured. The mer cury was down to the freezing point this morning. At Washington Court House O., there was a black frost and the ice was more than one-eighth of an inch thick. Leading horticulturists say that all the early cherries are killed, and many peaches, pears, apples, grapes, etc. The full extent of the damage is not known, hut it is thought to be very great. At Frankfort, Ky.. a light frost throughout the section last night did con siderable damage to the vegetables and berry crops, but fruit was too lar ad vanced lor much damage. There is a promise of the finest yield of fruit known for years. At Lima, O., there was a light frost last night, extending all over this section and doing considerable damage to eaily fruits and vegetables. Wheat was scorched iu somo places very severely. At Mad! a on, Ind., it is reported that tho Kentucky and Indiana peach or chards are uninjured by last night's frost. Bethlehem, Pa., May 6.?The cold wave reached hero last night. Snow squalls are frequent and ico formed in exposed placed. Farmers report this j morning that tho strawberry crop Is ser iously injured. Fruit is also frozen in some parts of tho country. Wilmington, Pel., May 0.?There was a heavy fall of snow in this city and throughout the northern part of the State j early this morning, but it melted at once. Tho temperature at noon is 50, with a cold north wind. Fruit, it is feared, has been damaged. Johnstown, Pa., May 0.?Snow fell iu this city last night and this morning, covering tho ground. In the northern part of Cambria and Somerset countries a fall of an inch of snow last night is reported * Pottsville, Pa., May G.?A snow storm set in early this morning and con tinued for several hours. During the past few days the whether has beeu ex ceptionally cold for thin season of the year. CiiAivIiC'^TESviLLE, Va., May G.? There was a severe flcfjet in this vicinity last night. All early vegetation was in jured on the low grounds, and grapes were badly bitten. The weather is cold er, and another frost tonight Is feared. Danville, Va., May G ?There was a heavy frost hero last night, and vege tables wore badly damaged. No dam age to wheat and fruit. A Delusion and a Snare Jackson, Miss., May 7.?In reply to a request from the Weber County Alli ance asking for his views on the sub Treasury plan, Governor J. M. Stone, who has been frequently and favorably mentioned as tho successor to ox-Sena tor Walthall, has submitted a letter, the following being an extract therefrom: Tho government should give equal rights and administer civil and exact justice to all and imposing as few burdens as pos sible, should essentially bo distributed, leaving every individual to his own ef forts ror success and happiness. The government has no wealth to bestow aud when it undertakes to dispense favors it always has favorites and gives to them at the expense of those not favored. It must, bo so from the very nature of things, for it has to take from somo to give to others. We of the South, chiefly an agricul tural people, havo felt this evil with crushing iorce, for the high protective systtin of the Republican party for the benefit of manufacturing interests, main ly of the North, has operated in a two fold manner to injure us by depressing tho price of our cotton and greatly in creasing tho cost of many articles we are compelled to buy with the proceeds. The cause of our depression is the pro tective system, maintained for protec tion, and tiie enormous burdens of gov ernment which fall heavily upon us, while wo get little to compensate us for these grievous impositions. So far us the sub-treasury is intended to supply an increase of monoy, It prom ises nothing good to the farmers, who, above all others, will bo the victims of tho evils of any inflation which will dis turb values. They need for their wel fare a currency as steady and stable as themselves. Traders and speculators, those looking out for corners, can riot amid the excitement of speculative val ues and fluctuations from tho distur bance, tbo irritation leaving the farmer and laborer no sort of even chance in that condition of things. Tho promise of an opportunity to obtain monoy at a lo v rate ot interest by depositing cotton and getting an advance of 80 per cent, of its value is, I think, a delusion or a snare. The strong Arm or the Latr. Uniontown, Penn., May 4.?An other collision has occurred between tho coke strikers and deputy sheriffs, the re sult being that ono strikei* is dead, and one seriously wounded. Bast-night Su perintendent Gray and Pit Boss Calla glum, of J .eisenring No 3, went to house No 17 to arrest two of the strikers, who had seized two men who had been at work and held them at the houso of tho strlkors. They were set upon and stoned and tho deputies camo to their aid. One of tho strikers tried to take a gun from one of tho deputies, when a shot was tired by the strikers. Superintendent Gray then ordered the deputies to Ore, and in tho volley which followed John Mahan, a strikor, fell dead and another, whose name Is not known, received a mortal wound. The strikers then scat tered and the two men who were held prisoners were rescued and taken to Leiaenring. Tho situation is now re ported quiet. Heavy Frost and Ioe. St. Paul, Minn., May 4.?Dispatches from many Northern Minnesota points says that a heavy frost prevailed Satur day night In eight or ten counties. In Kittson County ice was found, and in Polk, Hubbard and Marshall young wheat and oats were cut down. At Park River it is said that strawberries and other small fruits wore so far advanced in the bud that they are ruined. Young leaves on trees were so badly frozen that they turned black. A Chilean Hebel Snip Seised. San Diego, Oal., May 0.?The steam ship Etata, whioh put In this port a fow days ago, for tho purpose of obtaining provisions for the war ships In posses sion of the Congressional party of Chile, has been seized by the united States iman&hal. A SHOOTING SCRAPE. A SOUTH BOUND ROAD CONTRACTOR 8HOOT8 A MAN. A SqnabblO About P?y tho Came of tho Dlffloaltr?The Wonndsrt If an Brought to Columbia?Particular* of tho Shoot ing. Columbia, S. 0, May 1.?News was received in the city yesterday that a difficulty bad occurred at the construc tion camp of Messrs. Wobb & Ostes, on the South Bound Road, about ten miles from tho city. In which a white man named John Ham met had been shot and mortally wounded by T. J. Stack, a member of the firm of Stack & Roof, sub- contractors under Webb & Oates. The first news of the affair was brought to the city by Felix Sharp, who was the bearer of a letter to H. L. Wil liams. The letter is as follows: Stack & Roof Camp, April 80, *91. Mr. H. L. Williams. Dear Friend: John Hamraet got shot this morning. Seriously hurt. Don't think he can live. Please notify the Masons and K. of P.'s. He belongs to both orders. Bring a good doctor with you." He will be paid well for his work. Come rignt away. I am alone. Also I want you to send a telegram to B. J. Hammet, Blackville. lie will come to your staoles. Have him brought out here, and look on other side for tele Kram. Your friend, Bob L. Williams. The telegram referred to is as follows: JJ. J. Hammet, Blackville: Johnnie is dangerously shot. Can't live without change. Come at once. JR. L. Williams, At H. L. WiUiams's stables. In response to the request contained in the letter, Dr. Frank Green was asked to go out to the camp and attend to the wounded man, and he started with that intention, but when he reached New Brookland Trial Justice Green in formed him that news had reached him that the man wa: dead, and that it would therefore be no use to go. The party who gave this information to the Trial Justice stated that Hammett had been shot three times, viz.: through the wrist, the upper portion of the arm and through tho abdomen. It soon ap peared, however, after Dr. Green's re turn to Columbia, that the report of the man's death was premature, and at the last accounts he was still living, but with no apparent chance of recovery, and a wagon and mattress had been sent to the camp to bring him Into the city. He is under the medical attendance of Dr. Geiger, of Lexington, who was sent to the camp as soon as the news of the shooting was spread abroad. the cause Or the diffiotltt. There were many conflicting reports on the streets as to the causes which led to the difficulty, but the following ac count of it from a gentleman who was at the camp yesterday after the occur rence, may be regarded as strictly relia ble: It seems that Hammet and his friend, R. L. Williams, two Ram well men who were in the employ of Stack & Hoof, decided some days ago to quit work and demanded their pay. With this demand Mr. Stack was unable to comply at once, as his firm only has monthly settle ments with the chief contractors, which are made on the 20th of each month. When informed that they could not get t heir pay at once, the report is that these men became very troublesome and riotous, and with pistols in hand, firevented the other hands from work ng. Mr. Stack then saw the chief con tractors, and with the view of getting rid of these men arranged to have them paid off, and they were paid off by checks on the Loan and Exchange Bank, Hammet receiving the sum of 924, which it is said was the amount due him. The gentleman who gave the above information says that the story of the further trouble as given to him by the people at the camp, was to the effect that Hammet and Williams came over to Columbia after getting their checks, and then returned to the camp and still Intorferred with the hands and preven ted them from working, and that this state of affairs continued until yester day morning. At that time Mr. Stack being on horseback at the camp, was assaulted by Hammet, who came at him with a pine knot in his hand and threw it at him, and Stack then drew his pistol and shot Hammet through wrist. Hammet felt for his pistol, and, missing it, called to Williams to bring him his, which he did. Then Stack fired twice again, one shot striking Hammet in the upper part of the arm, the other striking him in the rolddlbof the abdomen, passing clear through tho body. It does not appear from the ac counts received that Williams took any part in the difficulty except to hand his friend the pistol. As soon as he had done the shooting, Mr. Stack rode off and came on to the city- He has employed Messrs. Melton & Melton as his counsel, and by their advice has remained quietly at the resi dence of his father, Captain W. IL Stack, to await the result of the wounds and submit to the process of the law. Tne statement of Williams, as made to his friends in this city, varies from the above in one or two important par ticulars, and it is to the effect that Stack and Hammet renewed their dis pute ubout the settlement yesterday morning, and th. Hammet told Stack that if he would get down off his horse he would whip him, whereupon Stack rode off a short distance and was fol lowed by Hammet, who had no weapon of any kind, and that Stack then turned and fired five shot sat Hammet, three of which took effect as above stated. The brothers of Hammet camo up to Colum bia last night and employed Messrs. Skinner & Williams, and together with Mr. Skinner proceeded to the camp to get the wounded man and bring him to the city. It was stated that Mr. Skin ner would endeavor to procure Ham met's ante-mortem statement if possi ble.? Register. A Yonng- Great-Grand mother. Philadelphia, May 7.- Mrs. Henry K. Updegrave, wife of a hotel keeper at Tower City, Pa., is probably the younges? great-grand mother in the United States. She was born August 11, 1843, near Crat/town, Dauphin County, and is not yet forty-eight years old. In 1856, pi her fourteenth year, she married Emanuel Shoffstall. Aggie her oldest daughter, murried at flfteeu, a Mr. Rumbergor, and had one daugh ter, Maggie, so that Mrs. ShoffstaU was a grandmother at thirty. Maggie Rumberger married at the age of six teen Daniel Messner, and to this pair a son was born a couple of months ago. Draanuel Shoffstall died in 1888, and his widow married Henry K. Updegrave of Tower City. Bnrned to Death. RocHESTEit, N. Y., May 4.?A limp exploded in a tenement house on Nassau street at 3 o'clock this morning and set the building on fire. Most ot the in mates escaped, but after the fire was extinguished the bodies of Herman SLophanski and his wife were found in oae of the rooms. Their usual habit was drunkeness and it is supposed they were too stupefied with liquor to un derstand their danger uniil too late. A DEAD ROGUE. Whois LoDf-t'outlnueil Thlexrcrt la Ju?t Discovered New YoitK.'Aprli 30.?The Ninth Na tiooal bank la In trouble. There has been a defalcation of nearly 9500,000, was the startling minor that circulated about the city. It proved only too true on investigation. The late president, John T. Hill, who died at his home In New Brunswick, N. J., last month, was discovered to have been a defaulter for over ?400,000. The fact was not known or dreamed of until an examination of his own and the bank's affairs was made after bis death. He died honored and respected, with a reputation untarnished. The revelations of the last few days have as tonished and shooked his friends and brought sorrow and disgrace to the family. The actual condition of affairs was learucd when President Hill's successor was elected, in the person of O. Henry Garden, who had been the acting vice f?resident for many years, and upon go ng over Mr. Hill s private papers and' the securities of the bank, which, dur ing his life, President Hill took almost sole charge of. President Hill's methods were peculi ar and very simple. He was the.execu tor and trustee for several large estates in New Jersey, were his reputation for honesty and shrewdness as a financier was such that he was frequently select ed for such offices of trust and responsi bility. As executor he had the band ling and control of a large number o f securities of greator or less value, which were held as investments. These for convenience and safety he kept at the bank. His plan in brief was this: When loans were made to customers of the bank they deposited collateral in the shape of bonds or stocks. Theso were, placed in envelopes and put away in the strong box of the bank, which was kept in the vault, and was under immediate supervision of the president. Subse quently when the loans were paid, usu ally by certified checks, the collaterals wete returned to the borrower. President Hill, however, instead of marking the loan off on the books of the bank would substitute some of the se curios he held as executor, replace the envelope in the box,'and pocket the check. So far as was shown by the books of the bank the loans to tho cus tomer was still outstanding. The cus tomer himself would know nothing of this, and so far as appears none of the people in the bank wore any wiser. It was an easy matter to arrange for any interest payments that might become due. In time it seems that Hill became bolder in his operations, or more desper ate, for it appears that he did not even go through the formality of substitut ing his trust securities in the envelopes when the other securities were received by the bank's customers, for many of the envelopes have been found to be en tirely empty. Hill carried on this form of business for several years, for so far as can be learned his first act was com mitted some four or five years ago. His death on March 1 caused the most profound sorrow, and his widow and four children had the sympathy of all the people of tho city in which they lived. The defaulting president had been connected with the bank ever since its organization in February, 1804. He was first paying teller, then cashier, and fin ally became president in 1877. He was a man of unsullied reputation up to the time of his death and the discoveries following. As a business man he was considered careful, conservative and very shrewd. Kome In a State of Panto. London, May G.?A letter received here from Homo describes a number of uew facts in regard to the riots which j took place there on May Day, and as to tho general feeling of tho people upon tho samo occasion. According to this letter public oflicials at Bomo, as well as the people, have beea in a state of! panic for a week or two. This state of afTairs Is duo to several caucs, the moat prominent of wlucn aro tho lall of tho ministry hoaded by Crlspi, tho accession oftholludini ministry into power, the strong public demand tor an equalization to expenses and receipts Without fresh taxation, diplomatic trou bles which have arisen between Italy and tho United States, and, fin illy, the explosion ?tt Pozzo Pantaleo, which caused so much damage and alarm in Borne and its vicinity. In spite of all denials and official state ments to the effect that the explosion at Pozzo Pantaleo was not the work of So cialist or Anarchists, tho Romans are conviuccd to the contrary. This letter was written previous to the fire which destroyed the barracks and stables of Carabinerl yesterday, and which added to the state of uneasiness, creating such alarm at the Vaticau that the entire force of Swiss Guards was kept on duty all night. Tho letter says further that all relig ious organizations aud a majority of the wealthy citizens prepared for a disturb ance by laying in stocks of provisions, fuel, etc, prepared for a state ofsioge in fact. The air was full of alarming ru mors, which gradually grew in impor tance until it was actually believed that a revolution was impending. As In a Novol. Pottsville, Pa. April 30.?Miss An na L. Otto, daughter of Daniel Otto of Cressona, this county, was engaged to be married to John A. Delter over a yoar ago, but a lingering illness from which Miss Otto suffered prevented their marriage. A few weeks ago she recovered her health fully, as she be-1 lieved, and with it her old-time spirits. On Friday of last week, however, she wns again taken ill. She and her lover had agreed beforehand that they should be married at once, and Saturday was fixed as the wedding day. When Sat urday dawned Miss Otto's physicians declared that she had not long to live. The lovers, nevertheless, decided that the marriage should come off on that day. The Rev. C. E. Bartholomew was called in, and he performed the cere mony with tho girl's parents and rela tives gathered about the girl's sick bed. Two hours later the new made bride was dead. Footsore, Weary, Destitute. CnioAQO, April 30.?Martin Cupota, his wife and three ohildren, were ar rested yesterday, just as the father and mother were about to drown them selves in the lake. The whole family had walked from Harrisburg, Pa., and the feet of the children were great mas ses of sores and blisters. None of the members of the family had eaten for some time. Cupota is a furnace man, and was obliged to quit work at Harris burg on occount ot the strike In the coke regions. The family arrived here yesterday morning, and, being utterly weary and destitute, were on the point of throwing themselves Into the lake when accosted by the officers. They were taken to a police station and fed, and an-effort will be made today to find employment for tho father. In the meantime, the mother and children will be cared for by the officers. _._ ? , ? ,. GOV. TILLMAN'S VIEWS. A3 EXPLAINED TO A REPORTER OF THE ATLANTA JOURNAL. Ho Favors Cheap Moiur, Frse Hll?? and Tarift Karonu, auil D?MIM tha Sub-Treasury Hohem? and Third Party Movement. Columbia, S. C, April 80.?Governor Ben Tillman was looking spruce, cool and comfortable in a new light alpaca summer coat, when I found him In hit office at the capitol this morning. "Will South Carolina be represented at the coming third party convention in Cincinnati?" I asked. "There may be some volunteer dele gates from this State," answered the governor, but if there nre, they will go there as individuals, and they will rep resent nobody but 'themselves. They certainly will not represent either the Alliance or the Alliance sentiment in the State. "I am convinced that the farmers of this State are unalterably opposed to any and all third party scheme. So long as they have negro rule and Federal inter ference staring them in the face, the in stinct of self preservation tell* them to stick together and to work out their sal vation as Democrats and inside-the ranks of the Democratic party. "Yes, sir," repeated the Governor, earnestly, "you may put me down as ab solutely and unequivocally opposed to this Cincinnati third party scheme and all similar schemes. Iam and always have been a South Carolina, Edgefield, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, anal ex pect to do my fighting, as I have done it in the past, strictly within the party ranks." "Instead of running off after this third ?arty wiU-o'-the-wisp" said Governor illman, "what the farmers of South Carolina expect to do is to try to. get a Democratic candidate for the next Pres sdential campaign who will represent the reforms they advocate and who will be pledged to their support. In other words, while they don t want an Alli ance, candidate for President, they want the Democratic candidate to be a man who is in accord with the ideas of the Alliance on the great issues of the day, such as the free coinage of silver and the reform of the tariff. "In the South we are practically united on the three issues of tariff reform, free silver and the retaining of State control of all elections, and those will be the is sues, in my view, in the next presidential campaign." "But/' continued he, "the free coinage of silver is only one phase of the finan cial question. We want not only more silver, but more greenbacks, and I favor the direct issue of greenbacks based on the government's credit. If the govern ment can final 8350,000,000 of green backs, why not ?1,000 000,000? Or if it is found impracticable to issue this money on the country's credit alone, a system of land banks might be estab lished by which the money could be is sued to the people, based on land as a security. It seems to me that the gov ernment, with its powers of taxation and its unlimited resources, coulu issue the money on Its credit, but if not. then such a system as I suggest could be do vised which would give us a circulating medium as good as gold, and relieve the asphyxiation that has been produced in the agricultural States by the disastrous financial policy of the past." "To sum up the matter," said Govern or Tillman, "we want more money, we want the tariff reform, and we are too afraid of the negro to run off into any third party." CJ "Which of these questions do you con sider of the greatest Importance? I asked. The reply was prompt: "The financial question, undoubtedly. It Is of more pressing import to us than the tariff. We can stand the tariff a while longer, but more money we must have, and at once. It seems to me how ever, that we can afford to neglect neither tho financial or the tariff issue. They are both of over whelming import ance, and they will not down. Least of all, could we afford to relegate the free silver Issue to the rear." Speaking of the sub-treasury bill, Governor Tillman said: '1 am opposed to the measure. I want 'something better,' and that 'some thing better' I believe to be what I have already suggested?the free coinage of silver combined with the issuance of greenbacks either on the government's own creditor on land. The sub-treasury bill violates tho Alliance doctrine of 'equal rights to all special privileges to none.' 1 don't believe that two wrongs can make a right, and because farmers have been systematically and outrage ously imposed on in the past is no rea son,why they should demand class legis lation lor their own benefit now. "My opinion is that the majority of the farmers of the State are not in favor of the sub-treasury bill though in that opinion I differ from some of the Alli ance leaders. The reason no opposition has been developed to it inside the Alli ance in this State is that it has never been made a square issue. In any con test with an Alliance advocating the snb-treasury and a non-AUlanceman op < posing it, the sub-treasury would be pretty sure to win, but as between two Alliancemen, both loyal to the order, one opposing and the other supporting the sub-treasury, I believe the anti sub treasury man would get as many votes as the other. In other words, where a fil men have the subject presented to them clearly and are allowed to vote without the interference of prejudice, I believe the majority of them would go against the measure." "However," continued the Governor. "I don't believe the Alliance can afford to split on the sub-treasury. They will hunt something better rather than at tempt to force It down the throats of the very large section of the order op posed to it. They must agree to dis agree as to details In order to achieve tho great reforms at which they are all aiming."?'!. E. Horton In Atlanta Journal. _____ "A Snap Shot Plotnr*." Cincinnati, May 6.?A Wooater. Ohio, dispatch says that on the night of August 20, 1890, the farm residence of Michael Shelby, near this city, was forcibly entered by four masked men,, who bound and gagged Shelby and his aged wife, and stole cosh amounting to ! 812,000. Mrs. Shelby died from nervous prostration brought on by the excite ment of the robbery. The detective bureau has just caused the arrest of Henry H. Bincklev, his grandson, Harry Webb, and his son. Daniel Binckley, who are neighbors of the Shelbys. Daniel Binckley was, un til a few weeks before the crime was committed, a member of the 'police force in Kansas City, Mo.,, where he was discharged. Among tho bills stolen was one of a thousand dollar denomi nation. Daniel Blrtcklof's wife made a trip to Canada to get this bill changed. The Canadian bank officials, suspicious, of her actions, took a snap shot picture of her as she was receiving the money. The men will also be prosecuted tyt; murder.