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THE ALLIANCE DEMANDS. WHAT^8ENAT0R_GE0RGEi of missis sippi, THINK8 of THEnT lie Accepts t liciu ?11 But Three?Why II? Cttut Accept The**?HIiI'Ud to Io?r?ui the Momt Circulation. The Associated Press dispatches an? nouoced sometime ago with a Moorish that Senator (jeonre, of Mississippi, who in nuking a light for re-election, had swallowed virtually all the de mands of the Ocala alliance platform except the sub-treasury bill. The Birm ingham Age-IIerald now prints the sen ators' letter In which the alleged swal lowing was done. The Ocaia derrJands are likely to be the centre of interest and political dis cussion during the next few months and all who wish to understand the dis cussiotiH and references and to be in formed in current politics should be thoroughly farailier with them. They have been published widely, but here they are again. Cut them out and paste them awuy ? "1. We demand the abolition of na tional banks; we demand that the gov ernment shall establish sub-treasuries or depositories in the several States, which shall loan inouey direct to the people at a lo? rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per cent, per annum on non perishable farm products, und also upon real estate, with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and amount ot money; wo demand that the amount of tho circulating medium bo speedily Increased to not less than 850 per capi ta. "2. Wo demand that congress shall paps such laws as shall effectually pre vent the dealing In futures iu all agri cultural and mechanical productions; preserving a stringent system of pro cedure in trials such as shall secure the prompt conviction and imposition of such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law. "3. We denounce the silver bill re cently passed by congress, and demand m lieu thereof tho freo and unlimited coimigo of silver. ?*4. Wo demand tho passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that congress take prompt action to ob tain all lauds now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates, and that all lands now held by rail roads and other cor porations in excess of such as is actual ly used and needed by them, be re claimed by the govermrvnt and held for actual settlers only. "5. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand that our national leg islation shall bo so framed In tho future as not to build up one Industry at the expense of another. We further de mand a removal of the existing heavy tarilT tax on Ilm necessaries of life that the poor of our land must have. We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes. Wo believe that the money of the coun try should be kept as much as possible in the hands of tho people, and hence we (Inland that all national and State revenue shall be limited to the neces sary expenses of tho government econ omically and honestly administered. "?. We demand tho most rigid, hon est and just Stale and national govern mental control and supervision of the methods of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision do not remove the abuses now existing; we demand the govern ment ownership of such means of com munication and transportation." Senator (Jeorgo favors the safe and gradual abolition of tho right of nation al banks to issue money to represent tho government bonds they hold. He points out that sudden and general re tirement of the bank notes would dan gerously decrease tho amount of money in circulation. He 1 avers increasing the amount of money in the country from $24 to 850 a head as soon as possi ble, lie outlines a general scheme lor the limited increase of the issue of treasury notes, to the amount of 810 a head for our population, this money to bo paid out by the government in meet ing its regulnr expenses. He thinks the duties and internal revenue taxes should be so regulated us to leave tho government income less than its cost, the deliciency to be met by issues of treasury notes so as to keep a small stream of new money continually flow* ^ ? vug jnto_c i r c u 1 a 11 o n. Selimtoi JUeorge favors thyreo coin age of silver, "ftXTv^av.rjjg opera tion by State and Federal legislatives and courts to proYent trading in fu-1 tares and to outlaw debts incurred In futures transactions.. Most of the States, he says, already have lawp to prevent alien ownership of lands. He evidently regards this matter as of lit tle importance. The ownership of lands by corporations can, he says, be regulated by the States, except in the territories and the District of Colum bia. He, does not believe any govern ment has the power to confiscate or take away property given to or bought by corporations unless the property was given on conditions which have not een complied with. In this case he favors forfeiture. He thinks there will be no danger of corporations holding idle lands If they are justly taxed. He is squarely against government owner ship of rail roads and telegraph lines. He believes tho Stato and federal gov ernments can by supervision and use of the power given them by t he constitu tion check or prevent the wrongs now done by such corporations. If the gov ernment can not do so now, however, it could not do so if it owned the roads and lint s. They can not be conllscated. To buy them would cost seven billions of dollars, the interest on which would be an enormous drain on the people; while a million and a half new govern ment employees would bring a Mood of corruption and add so enormously to the strength of the party in power that a change without revolution would be virtually impossible. Nearly half the letter is a strong ar gument against tho sub-treasury and loan schomes. Tho cotton grower, Sen ator (ieorgo Mays, would have far the worst of the sub-treasury schome. Peo ple- can make over and patch old clothes, and with tlie cotton crop locked up for h'.ghor prices tho demand would fall away. Consumers would cease from buying or wait until the timo when the borrowed money would be due aad the crop be forced on the market. Peo plo must eat, however, and the corn and win at growers might hold their products and let them out gradually at high prices, according to the demand. '1 he Southern farmer would pay more for his food and get less for his cotton. Furthermore, tho senntor argues, the sub-treasury scheme would not increase the volume of currency in any South ern Stnte. It would practically amount to the cotton grower selling his crop at current rates. Instead of getting his money from the buyer he would get It from tho government. No more money would be paid out as loans on cotton in ware houses than would be paid for it in outright purchase. The lind 1 m schemo the senator thinks worse hnn the sub-treasury. Only one-fourth cf the adults of the country own land. If there was any htneflt from the suggestion it would bo con lined to them. The currency, how ever, would be practically irredeemable and thoreforo depreciated in value. The tendency of such law would be to ^encourage the opposition to land owners already strong at the North and to de velop the spirit of communism. Senator (Ieorgo says the money in circulation In tho South in thogreater part of the year is not more than 04 or 85 whilo at the North there is from 870 tc 880 a head. The currency is not only insufficient but the Inequalities ot Ita distribution make the trouble more serious. This results, he says, from the fact that the South produces only raw material. Wo snatch our man and mule power against machinery at the North doing tho work every year of more than two hundred million men, eating and wearing nothing requiring no feeding but fuel. All tho profit of hauling manufacturing and selling onr raw material Is made and kept at the North. Our only profit is in the margin there is between the cost of production and the selling price. This evil, Senator George thinks, like the drain of money from the pockets of tho people into the treasury, can be relieved by free trade, or a tariff strictly for revenue, such as is virtually de manded by the Ocala Platform. So far from swallowing the Ocala flat form. Senator George accepts only boee parts of It which are sound demo cratic doctrine and are in accord with democratic principles and contentions. The sub-treasury scheme, the land loan scheme and the government ower ship of railways and telegraph lines are all founded on extreme developments of the republican principles of paternalism and contempt for the constitution, which Is the solemn compact by which ttie,stales are bound together. They were probably put In to catch the re publican vote, to fool the people with new and apparently hopeful offers re lief and to enable some politicians who had been left out by the old parties and failed on the old lines to get oQlces. No congress will ever pass the sub treasury bill or anything like it. No man who could be elected president would sign it. If it should become a Ip.w it would ruin the Southern farmer iirst and all other farmers later. The only people who would secure any ad vantage from it would be some specula tors, brokers and traders. They would suffer from it in the end, for anything which causes widespread disaster ana disturbance must Injure everybody.? Greenville News. Condition of Cotton. WASiiiNttTON, July 10.?July returns to tho Department ot Agriculture show sonio imnrovomeut in cotton condition during the month of June. The general average for tho whole breadth nas ad vanced three points, standing at 88.0. This is threo points below the July re* turn last year and one above that of 1880. In but four seasons since 1874 have July returns been so low. The Blight Improvement noted has been quite general throughout the whole belt, the result, of favorable weather during the month. Tho crop is universally late ranging locally from a tew days to two weeks or more. I n the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States especially the plant Is small and backward and lack of suit able weather fur chcpplng out has made fields very grassy. Germination was slow and Imperfect and replanting failed to secure perfect stands. Locally, eon siderabla areas have been plowed up and given to other crops or abandoned en tirely. Prom the Mississippi Westward the plant, while somewhat backward, is of good color making generally vigorous growth, while plantations running a suiiieien t number of plows are reasonably clean. There is some complaint of lack ot labor. Tho outlook iu Texas is es pecially good, plant vigorous, Heids well woiked and fruiting begun. Worms are reported from but two Counties, both in Texas, not even the invasion of the Iirst brood being noted anywero else. Tho returns of condition by States are as follows: Virginia. 82; North Carolina, 77; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 85; Florida, 94; Alabama, 87 Mississippi, 91; Louisiana, 90; Texrs, 95; Arkansas, 93: Tennessee, 82. Did Not S?y It. We are glad to know that Hon. Wm. C. Gates, of Alabama, denies the report that he said sometime ago that the Democratic party should declare war on the Alliance and heat it out of ex istence. In an interview recently he said that he ravors all the demands of the Alliance except the sub-treasury and land loan bills and government ownership of railroads, but conder^ns Alliance methods to control th* Den o cratic party in tho South and cor. .nit it to the support of these three objec tionable measures. He says that the complaints of the farmers aro just, but some of the remedies proposed by the Alliance are infinitely worse than the disease; that the Democratic party favors a reduction of taxes, more ex tended markets for agricultural pro ducts and a greater volume of sound money. He adds that if the Democrats get control of the government the farmers will find in these measures the relief they seek and are entitled to. lie strongly condemns all secret methods in politics, denounces the three meas ures named as the most radical, pater nal and centralizing of any ever advo 'cated by apypartyjn the United States'. He calls on the Alliance leaders to furn ish a bill of particulars as to their Democracy and favors making a test opinion in every convention by resolu tion against these three measures. He thinks with the Democracy united vic tory is sure in 1892. A ii k ii tiro I'mnlly.Mu' dered. Omaha, Neb., July 10.?A special from Ellis, Neb., says: Mrs. Drallen, of Biitice, Neb., went to Ellis, Neb., to visit her brother. John Peterbun, a farmer, living one and one-half miles from Ellis. Repeated knocks at tho door failing to obtain a response. Mrs. Allen entered, and a horrible sight met her eyes. On the floor lay her brother, with a bullet hole through his head, and an empty revolver lying beside his dead boy. Mrs. Allen called to her driver, and the two made further investigation. On a bed lay Mrs. Peterbua, dead. Be side the wife and mother lay the dead body of the two-year-old babe. On the loungo in another room lay the deud body of Petcrbua's ten-year-old son. Upstairs were found the dead bobies of Peterbua'8 two daughters, aged thirteen and fifteen years. Each one had been shot thrugh the head evidently while all but Peterbua were asleep. It is be lieved Peterbua himself committed the horrible deed, probably in a fit of insani ty. One son, aged seventeen years, was saved from the slaughter by being absent from home at the timo. (lovernor Tlllinan KndorMd. The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of Newberry county Alliance held July 4th: Whereas the Farmer's Alliance is a non-political organization; and whereas there is a disposition on the part of some of our leading Alliancemen to in troduce political measures into the Al liance that will bring about dl&cord und detriment to the Democratic party of South Carolina; and whereas there is an effort on the part of some Alliance men to create opposition to Governor B. R. Tlllman on account of bis views on the sub-treasury bill; therefore, be it Resolved, 1st. That we pledge our undivided support to the Democratic party of South Carolina. 2d. That we will oppose any effort or measure that tends to the destroying of the Democratic party. 3d. That we heartily endorse the views expressed by Governor B. R. Tlllman on the sub-treasury bill so far as Its merits have yet been discussed. Planoa and organ*. N. W. Trump, 134 Main Street Co lumbia, S. O. sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' com missions. The celebrated Checkering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlln Upright Piano. Sterling Up right Pianos, from $225 up. Mason & Hamlln Organs surpassed by none.Ster ling Organs, 050 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satis factory. Sold on Instalments. The importunes of purifying the blond cannot be over-estimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good healh. P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Pottassium) la a mirac ulous blood purifier, performing more cures in six months than all the sarsa parlllaa and so-called blood purifiers put together. THE GEORGIA CRUSADE. 8AM8MALL WEAVER, POLK AND SIMP SON 8PEAK8. Wearer Telia What they Propose to Do ?ad Jerrr Toll* How Ho Captured the other Fellow's Books and Shoes. Atlanta, Oa., July 16.?Atlanta was the- central point of the great Alliance rally to-day, thousands of people being present at Piedmont exposition grounds. The aufienee was noticeably an agri cultural one. hundreds of farmers com ing many miles and thousands from this and surrounding Counties to hear the distinguished speakers. Mayor Hemphill welcomed the multitude to Atlanta in an address which was en thusiastically received. Colonel L. P. Livingstone, President of the Georgia Alliance and Congressman fro in tins district, presided. The first speaker was General J. 13. Weaver, of Iowa. He declared iu the beginning that the Alliance movement was greater than the Republican party, the Democratic partyi or the People's party, because It was the people. He asserted that the pools and trusts of. America were skin - ning Itepublicans and Democrats alike. There was no politics in trusts; it was with them us it was with the Dutch man. He was asked what his politics were and his ieply was: "Fifty cents a bushel for corn and five cents a glass for lager beer. My politics is bust ness." He said it was high time for the farmers to make their politics busi ness. "I am a follower of Thomas Jef ferson" continued the speaker. "1 worship at Ins shrine politically. When he said eternal vigilance was the price of liberty, he did not mean the vigi lance of the politician but the vigi lance of the people." Weaver brought forth ihn wildest applause from bis hearers by declaring that there are now thirty-eight millions more people here than there were twenty-tlve years ago, but strauge to say theie is live hundred and two million dollars less of money. He laughed at the farmers for saying that times were dull and asking each other what made them dull. He told them to feel in their pockets and they could answer that question for them selves. "1 feel," said the General "that the time nas come when we do not care a bugbee nor a iig for any party. We know what we want and we are going to have it. If the old parties get in our way, why we'll run right over them. There won't be as much of them left as there was of the Republican party in Kausas last fall." Continuing, Weaver exclaimed: "1 tell you, my friends, the industrial people of this country cannot afford to loso another Presidential elec tion. We must meet the capitalists of this country iu open field and we must conquer them. If wo are kept for another live years under their laws now in operation we shall be the veriest slaves to a lot of plutocrats." He ad vocated the free coinage of silver, and concluded with a fraternal messuge from Northern Alliancemen to their Southern brethren. Colonel Livingstone then introddced L. L. Polk, President of tho Alliance. He begun by saying he believed and he knew before God that the frumers had cause for complaint. They had at last awakened to the fact that they had been for years systematically deceived by designing politicians and dema gogues. He declared that the day hud passed when the farmers could be de ceived, for they had gone deep down into the question and found that tho trouble wuh them was in the rotten, Wicked financial legislation of the country. Colonel Polk called forth en thusiasm applause by drawing a pic ture of the sufferings of this Southern land after Sherman had laid It waste with sword and torch. He elicited ad ditional applause by declaring that these sufferings were nothing as com pared to the sufferings caused by John Sherman whose blighting iniluence hud been hit in every hovel in America und in the homes of every honest, la boring mechanic. Georgia farmers had sent petition after petition to thu halls of the legislation, every one of Which was returned witit scorn and now they propose to make a change in the form ot petitions. They are going to send petitions therein the future about six feet long, petitions with brains at one end und boots at the other. Turn ing to Weaver, Polk exclaimed: "Now, General, go home and tell your boys that our bovs who wore the gruy and faced them midst the blaze of battle haver joint: I hands with them to help them strike the shackles from tho arms of fifty in ill Hons of industrial people" In the midst of tho enthusiam which followed Weaver advanced to Polk with outstretched palm, saying: "We aro with you, Colonel, heart and soul." At this the large audience literally went wild. "The ghost of a third purty haunts the pillows of many in our iund by night." continued Polk. "Let me say thut we have hud third parties sturted but the farmers did not start them." They were started by straightout Jeffersonian Democrats and not AUl ance Democrats. Yet these fellows are wondering if tho Alliance is going into the third party movement. Wo have a good example to go into a third party, although the results of these parties are not very encouraging to us. "If there is a third purty Inaugurated in the S uth," said the speaker, very de liberately, "it will be due to the domi nating, proscrlptive und intolerant spirit of so-culled Democratic leaders. I have been a consistent Democrat since the war and now I do not want to Interfere with party lines, but I have just this to say, we want justice and we aro going to have justice. If wo can not get it, as true Alliancemen we won't hesitate to wipe old parties out of existence no more than we will hesi tate to wavo our hands. If a third party is established, It will be nothing but tho blind work of the old parties. He bitterly attacked Cleveland for surrendering or trying to surrender the people to Wall street and the money power, and said that the Alliance would carry the standard of the people's rights to the front and meet and overwhelm Cleveland and Sherman and all othor forces that monopoly could muster. Jerry Simpson was Introduced next and whs cordially received. He referred to his warm reception here during the war, and said that Kansas was always sure of being well received in Georgia. A year ago, on the 5th of August, he made his llrst speech in Kansas. "Fame and notoriety have," said he, "been given me by other fellows, born of ridicule, the same spirit that has actuated the enemies of reform in every age." He said that in France, when the French revolution broke out, 12,000 people owned nearly all tho lands, and 25,000,000 people In Franco were slaves, sold with the land. "There came a time when there was a desire for a better system of government, and there came up a party of the people. They met with some opposition. Aris tocrats sneered at them and they were called the party without breeches. So when the movement sprang up in Kansas, there was the same sentiment from this same class, sneering at the farmers movement, and they said: Why there is Jerry Simpson, come up from the farmers; an Ignorant farmer, he don't even wear socks.' Some of ou r people came to me and said, That will never do, you have got to contradict that/ 'That Is all right,' said I, 'it oc curs to me that while I have got socks there are many of my constituents who, under this system of society, can't get socks. I don't believe I want to put on style over them, and though I might be sockless and even shirtless, the other fellow had them, and I was a'fter him.' I not only got his socks, but I got his shoes. "Humanity is the same In every ago. This movement has met with nothing but ridicule. You are very good people as long aa you stay In the old parties and vote politicians into power, but as soon as you see wealth begin to steal away from you, and you demand a new deal, the} begin to sneer at you and say you n ist leave this to tkeold party, we are b re to inquire what the old parties h ve done for us in the past and see If there is an excuse for this great upi dng of the people." Mr. Sum jeon then showed how, with division oi' labor, a new system of so ciety spm ig up in which the factory made the shoes man used to make and treat corporations controlled business, 'he laws of the country must be adjust ed to the new conditions ot society. The same is true of onr banking instl tutions. You surrender to them a ter rible power, the chance of gathering to themselves a large part of the countrys wealth. Under the necessity of adjust-, leg oursulves to the new system the farmers' moveu ent sprang up. The Kansas farmer thought these things could be got'en from the Republican party but wbeu we got outside of that party it hud a good effect. Tbe people now have control. We have about one hundred and ufty thousand miles of railroad, built at a cost of 93,000,000,000 and the railroad have added six hun dred million of dollars of watered stock on bonds. I'hey charge dividends on that and it comes out of tbe people. I say It ts a tribute on the whole people, simply because wo have passed over to them the privilege or regulating their o a n affairs, l'ustmaster General Wan a maker told me he had found nearly every Congressman in control of rail road corporations and there bad been no change in the mail contracts since 1873, when he wanted to establish a postal telegraph system.*' An unexpected feature of the day was thb presence of Rev.Sam "W. Small who followed Simpson and attacked both parties in the same general way as the other speakers. He announced that he was going to get on the third party train at the next stop. At night Thomas Watson, Congressman for this State, spoke in the hall of the House of Rep resentatives to a largo audience. Ills speech was In in the same line as those delivered during the day. Athens Is tho point of rally to-morrow. Tim WeHther und tu? Crop*. The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of the South Carolina weather ser vice, in co-operation with the United States Signal Service, for the weekend ing Saturday, is as follows, and is en couraging to farmers: The reports tor the week from the weather-crop correspondents show that the rainfall has been about normal, and fairly distributed; temperature about the average, with an average amount of sunshine- -all of which has greatly ben iltted crops. Tho cotton crop has undergone a great improvement over that of the previous week, and while it is growing very rapidly and much of it is relieved of the grass, still tho fact remains that the plant is smaller and later than the average for years, and must affect the yield materially. Rain has fallen in most sections of the State, but in some localities it Is much needed at this time. The bene ficial effects of the rains were some what neutralized by the succeeding cool weather. Hut it' the present seasons continue there is yet time for a favora ble change in crop conditions. The corn crop is a fair average and on upland is reported in good condition, tho recent ruins having been very bene ficial to this crop as it is now maturing, but corn on bottom lands is very young and small. The rice crop is a fair average and in line condition, and up to this time has sustained nolujury from either drought or freshet. The melon crop is now ready for mar keting and is being shipped to North ern cities, but the melons are not as large as when compared to other years. Cooked to Dentil ou the it nil. ASPEN, Col., July 12.?A horrible railroad accident occurred at Aspen Junction, eighteen miles west of As pen, ou the Midland Road, at 11 o'clock on Saturday night. A special train, consisting of a bag gage car and one passenger coaeb. was returning to Aspen from Glenwood Springs. The passenger coach con iaineo about thirty passengers, mostly Aspen people. The train was backing from a water tank to switch to the As pen track, when the road engine, was run out ot the railroad round house, and t tie rear en d of the passenger train hit the check valve on the side of the boiler, which exhausted the hot steam into the broken end cf the passenger car, scalding thirteen passengers?live men, seven women aud one child. The car was thrown from the track. The passengers arrived at Aspen iu a baggage car at 1.30 a. m. All that was possible was done to relieve the sufferings of the unfortunate passen gers. Those who have died at present writing are: Mr.and Mrs. A. B. Rogers, of Woodrie, Annie Phelan, of Cardiff, Col., aged 17 years, Mrs. W. J. Willoby, of Glenwood, Col., Mrs. John G. Raid win, of Glenwood, Col., Mrs. Frank El lis and baby, of Aspen. The wounded, who still live with hopes of recovery are: Frank Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leonard and sis ter, Mary Ann O'Donnell and Frank Leach. The coroner's inquest will be held this evening. Mrs. Willoby was the wife of tho assessor of Garlield County. Mrs. Haid win's husband is in Chicago. A Remarkable Occurrence. Hound Lakk, N. Y., July 15.?An extraordinary scene occurred at the Christian alliance meeting here this morning. Miss F. Louise Shepard. of 250 West Forty-fourth street, New York, a weaitl.y young lady, who joined the alliance six months ago, spoke from the platform and an nounced that she had given ail . her jewels to tho Lord and now proposed to give $250 to pay the expense of a missionary to the heathens. She asked if any one would help her along. A number of the congregation, men and women, arose and donated their jewels, rings, watches, watch chains, ear-rings, etc., and money to the same purpose, until the little altar looked like a jew el case. Miss Shepard was overcome by the scene and could not restrain her tears. Tho nrake* Failed to Work. Colorado City, Col., July 15.?A disastrous freight wreck occurred at an early hour this morning on the Colora do Midland at Ute Pass. Fireman Wilson and Engineer Moore were killed, and eleven cars loaded with ore and bullion were totally destroyed. The ac cident was caused by the failure of the brakos to work while descending a steep declivity, the train rushing down at a i right fill rate and jumping the track at the first curve. rolioned !>r Dad Milk. Louisvillk, Ky., July 15.?Near Russellvillo yesterday the family of J. H. Cornelius, a well-to-do farmer, was poisoned in the food at supper. Ber nard Cornelius a nephew, uled before the doctor could be reached. Five oth ers are dangerously ill. The symtoms aro of arsenic. The poison is supposed to have been In the milk. There is no cause known for anyone to have given the poison. Rheumatism Is cured by P. P. P. Pains and aches in the back, shoulders. 1<nees, ankles, hips, and wrists are all attacked and conquered by P. P. P. This groat medicine, by its blood cleansing properties, builds up and strengthens the whole body. The world breaks the hearts of its best benefactors, and then, after many days, builds them sepulchres. If you would raise the age in which you live, you must live above it, and to live above it is to bo misunderstood, perhaps persecuted. A complete Bedroom Suit for 910 50 freight paid t > your depot. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, Ga. W. H. G1BBES, Jr., & Co., COLUMBIA, S. C. SOLE AGENTS for UDDEL & CO. |Auo Di.uu In Engines of uesrlaJl make, Leomottre and Tubular Bnlers, Traction and oth er Mounted Engl?*)? of the bait and istest i in proved style, Saw Mills, Grist Mills* Gins, Bom Cotton Presses, shingle Machines, Plsluers and Wood Working Ma ohtnery, Brick Ma< hln?rv. Cotton Seed OH outfits, Ac. A large Stock of ENGINE Fittings, of all kinds and Rises, In Stosk for prompt doll very and at Rock Bottom Prices. BELTING snd PACKING at LOW Figures). A large stock cf Pumps, ofsll sixes and styles. BEARING Mowers, Reapers and Rakes always in stook. ur Mr. K. R. BAUGHAM, Lsorens, 8. C. who is fully competent, will be pleased to call to see you. or answer any communication directed to him, and will sell you as cheap as If you were here in Person. We buy for cash and pay our Traveling Men a Salary, thereby saving the Cea sumer Agent's Commission?Qulok Hales snd Sruall Profits Is oiir Fort. Write to Mr. Hhu?Ii?jii. or to us dlrcoi. ai.d get prices and discounts. Old Englues traded tor. W. H. GIBBES, Jr., * CO., COLUMBIA, 8. 0. KENNEDY BROS UNDERTAKRS NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE, - - - LAURENS, S. C Over KENNEDY DUOS., Store. Keepr constantly on hand a large assortment of Coffins and Caskets oth Wood andMetalic, which will be sold low down. Furnished at ny hour day or night. Hearse sent when desired, viyo KENNEDY BROS.. Successor to J. M Robertson. DID SHE POISON THEM ? Mr*. Hannah I>sr**jr Secessd wf Killing 81* PtrMiii. Indianapolis, Ind., July 16.?The case of Mrs. Hannah Dorsey, who has been suspected of poisoning six or eight persons, including four husbands, bus not been particularly noticed by the 1 n dianapolis papers, because the suspic ion was largely the outcome of the heed less gossip oi people who lived in the Doraey neighborhood. The examina tion ot the remains of Mrs. Taylor, the mother of Mrs. Doraey, has not been completed yet by the chemist. Shu was the last oue to dis in the same house with Mrs. Dorsey. The chemist found some arsenic but he says it may have been that used by the undertaker who embalmed the remains. lie is testing the smbalmiug fluid, and will report mere fully next week. Mrs. Dorsey, who has been referred to in many papers as "tho ludiauapolis Borgia/' is now in tailing health, and her physician fears a serious result un less a marked change occurs soon. She was seen at her home by Coroner Mau ke r today. She stated that she was a victim ot circumstances sufficient to have wrecked others completely, but her sense of innocense alone has sustained her during a trying ordeal. Public attention was attracted to this peculiar case when Coroner Manker be gan as investigation of the death of Mrs. Nancy Jane Wright several weeks ago. After a chemical analysis dlscL tc (evi dence* of prison in the stoma/m ' or oner Manker told Mrs. Dorsey that he was suspected of admiuistsring poson not only to Mrs. Wright, who is her sister, but to her mother, Mrs. Mary Taylor, who died a couple of weeks previous. Mrs. Dorsey strenuously denied auy knowledge of the poissne, and said she could throw no light upon the matter. Afterward Dr. Manker had Mrs. Tay lor's remains exhum-jd and arsenic was found in the stomach. This discovery occurred last week, but today was the first opportunity the coroner found to secure another statement .from Mrs. Dorsey. The coroner told her of the discovery of poison in Mrs. Taylor's stomach and asked for an explanation. "Aft God is my judge, and realizing that It Is probable that I have but a short time to live, I want to say, Doctor, that I am a Innocent of any act leading to tho death of either my sister or mother as you are. There is only one thing that I do know that night assist your investigation, and that is that my sister frequently threatened to kill herselfand my mother, too. 8he was an extremely high tempered woman, and on one occa sion when she and mother quarreled I hoard her say that she would killed her self and get mother out of the way too. Her little girl, Lizzie, heard her make the same threats, and so did my slster inlaw, Mrs. Taylor, though at different times." ?'Do you suppose," asked Coroner Manker, "that your dead sister then car ried out her threat by poisoning her mother?" "Yes that is ray opinion, sluce It is shown that their stomachs contained poison." Continuing Mrs. Dorsey told her mari tal history. Her first husband was Dan dan ley, who died of sunstroke two years after his marriage, she says. The sec ond was John Temple, who, after living six yearn with her, went from bronchitis to consumption and died. Her third, Albert Conklin, died in Illinois of con gestion of the brain, sho .my?. after liv ing three years with her.' Her fourth was Joseph Stenett, whdidied in the spring of 1890. Mrs. Dorsey was mar ried to her present husband last Febru ary. Coroner Manker says: "Clippings from papers at the time show that Conk lin worked where he was employed the day before his death, and, instead of dying irom congestion of the brain, died of a violent stomach trouble." WHY NOT USE OURS? Mill RAY'S IRON MIXTURE IS A GBNU1NK BLOOD TONIC 1 MURRAY'S ?ARSA.PAB1LLA Is a Blood Purller sad Spring Medlclnel W* are the Manufsetures and Sol* Pro prietors of both. This Is the tins of tus ysar th* system reeulr** a tenle and th* bleed a purifier. Our stock of Drugs. Meslclnea, Choail ?als aad DrufftUt* Sundries la oomylst*. Our facilities for filling: your orders osanst be sxeslled, W*ssllelt ysur pstroaage. The Murray Drug Co., COLUMBIA, 8, a A SICKENING SIGHT. Tho Hotting Metualna of an Unknown White Man Found. Augusta, Ga., July 14.?The do composed remains of an unknown white man wus the ghastly discovery which was made by ltufus Harris, colored, late Thursday evening over in Carolina, near the two-mile post of the South Car olina railroad. Kufus and a companion went out coon hunting Thursday afternoon. When at the edge of the swamp, and while- he was going towards his dog, which had treed a coon, he walked tuddeuly upou an object tho sight of which made his blood run cold and a shiver to pass over him. There, right in front of him, lying on the ground oh his back, with his arms stretched out. was a dead man, or rather what was <>nce a human being. It bad been there so long that the color of the man could hardly be recognized. Tho body of the unknown man was fast decomposing. Nothing remained of his head but the skull. Ills legs were disjointed from the trunk, and only the bones remained. The flesh was gone from the hands, and only the bones re mained. The vest and coat of tho man was still on, but were last falling to nieces. These garments wero of a brownish hue, and apparently made of goods of hue texture. About three yards from what--remain ed of the body was found.a pair ot pants, that, when .-touched, began to fall to E'icces. These goods also seemed to ave the appearance of having been of excellent material, when first purchased. The body was lying partly in the water, about 150 yards from the railroad track, and in the edge of tho low, marshy swamp which extends all along the rail road iu the vicinity of Horse creek. Tho news of tho ghastly find did not get out to any extent until yesterday morning, when it was the subject of much talk especially in Hamburg. A good many people, among whom was a Chronicle reporter, visited the place yesterday morning and went down in the swamp to look at the mysterious un known. The sight was so repulsive that a glance nt the object was as much as an ordiuary person could stomach. Tho picture is too nauseating for details. Although a great many said Unit he was a negro, there can be no doubt, from exposed portions of the body, that the remains are those of a white man. Mr. Getzm yesterday morning tele graphed to Alken for a coronor to hold an inquest, but m there is no evidence to give a clue as to who the man was, the investigation will hardly reveal any thing. Some ol those that saw the body think that the niau was killed, as the locality looks as it it would bo just the place to hide a crime. Others, however, think that he was drunk and wandered down there from the railroad track while in that condition and died. The remains have evidently been there for several weeks, possibly several months. During high water in the river all that section is inundated, and it is possible that tho body is that of some man drowned in the river many miles from hero and washed ashore there.?Chronicle Rheumatism.?James I'axton, of .Sa vannah, Ga., says he had Kheumatism so bad that he could not move from the bed or dress without help, and that he tried many remedies, but received no relief until he began the use of P. P. P. (Prlekly Ash. Poke Root, and Potas sium), aad two bottles restored him to healtk. * THE LAURENS BAR. II. Y. SIMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW? LA JKBNS. - -_-_ ft, Q, W. If. MARTIN, ATTORNEY AT I. A V/. hAUHHAo, ? A. C' I T. ?UNION. W. ?. 1UOHK JOHNSON A ltlCIIKY ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Orrioa?Fleming's Corner, Northwos side of Public Square. LAURKNS, H? - S.O. 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