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Tlitb W 11 son TARIFF
The Vlow? of a Mugwump Newspaper
on tho Free Admission of Haw Ma*
icrial.
IlaipOr'B Weekly.
The tariff bill reported by the Coni
mitten on Ways and Means is in one
sense a moderate measure ; in another
sense a radical measure. Compared
with the tariffs under which we lived
and prospered for many years before
the oivil war, it loaves us still with a
very high dogreo of protection. Com
lared with tho tariffs of countries like
ranee and Germany, in which there
a - boon of lato years so distinct a re*
ival of protection, it is also a strongly
?otoctloni8t measure. Compared with
e completely non-protoctivo tariff of
ngland, its duties aro immodoratoly
gh. But compared with tho McKin
ley tariff act, It Is in one respect, at
least, a radical measure It drops tho
policy of Indiacrimihato protection. It
rests on the prinoiplo that, after all,
there are some things which tho coun
try is capablo of producing, but which
t will nevertheless permit to bo frcoly
.inported. So for as tho groat mass of
cd commodities is concern
.langes iu duty are not in
,, 11 the free admission of some
,ior^.ht raw matorials marks a radi
.1 change in policy.
Far and away tho most important of
those ehangos is that by which raw
wool is to bo admitted froo of duty.
For thirty years wo have beon impos
ing hoavy duties on any and every
quality of wool, and wo havo been
promised by domestic wool-growors, or
at least by their spokesmen in politics,
that they would bo able to supply all
tho wool of evory quality that tho coun
try wanted. They havo novor done so;
in fact, conditions of soil and climato
biakc it impossiblo that thoy should do
Jo. They furnish us with an abundant
and sufficiently cheap supply of wools
of medium quality. But they aro not
ablo to produce fino wools in any quan
tity, and thoy do not find It worth
while to produco very coarse wool at
all. Under theso circumstances the
bill wisely puts wool on tho free list,
and gives tho Amorican people the
benolit of the lino quality of Australian
wool and of the extrome cheapness of
the coarse wool of Russia and East
India.
Tho free admission of wool is tho
most important political chango in tho
bill. For many years tho duty on wool
has boon made to do service in States
like Ohio and Michigan as bringing to
tho farmer his share of tho honeflta of
protection. It required the courago of
President Clovcland to face tho situa
tion boldly, and to declare for free
wool oven though Ohio was a doubtful
State. This ho did in his mcssago,
now passed into history, o( Decembor,
1887, whon ho took that unflinching at
titude on tho tar ill question which has
brought his party to tho position in
which it now is. If thoro Is any one
part of their programmo to which tho
Domociats aro committed it is tho free
admission of wool ; and this part of tho
hill may bo expected to reach tho atago
of ouactment if any of it does. Onco
made, the chango unquestionably will
bo found a beuofieial ono. Tho groat
mass of wool-growers will find them
selves injured to no appreciable de
gree: the manufacturers will havo
theki material cheaper; and the con
sumers will havo hotter and cheaper
cloKhos.
Next in political importance to tho
free admission of wool is tho froo ad
mission of iron oro and tho reduction
of duty on pig-iron. If anything is raw
material, Iron ore certainly is, and if a
beginning is to bo made anywhore in
tho direct inn of cheapening materials,
this is the most appropriate point that
could be found. Tho duty on pig iron
is reduced to 224 por cent.; tho exist
ing duty is equivalent to between (30
and 70 per cent. The reduction is thus
considerable. It must bo remembered,
however, that tho pig-iron duty has
for many years been virtually prohibi
tory, except for small lots of special
qualities of iron : and except along the
Eastern sea-coast it is doubtful If any
considerable greater uso of imported
iron will ensue. Along tho Eastern
sea-board tho change, if carried to tho
point of enactmont, will make iron
somewhat cheaper, and will aid all
iron-using establishments?and this
means all manufactures of ovory sort.
So far as tho manufactnrcs aro con
corned, most of the changes aro from
duties that wero prohibitory to duties
that will bo somewhat less prohibitory
Such is tho case with most silk goods,
cotton goods, glass-ware and china
ware. On woollens thoro is a moro
important chango. They arc admitted
at tho simple duty of 40 per cent.,
? '|ich is to bo reducod ono por cent.
? Jth year for five years, until finally
\ duty on them reaches tho definitive
I) of 35 per cent: This chango is tho
ntorpart of tho free admission of
?1, which yntalled a complete re
(val of tho presont high and compli
ed duties on woolon goods, and tho
f istitution of a simple and compara
i i/dy moderate ad valorom duty. In
*4 nost any other country duties of 35
Ji 40 por cent., coupled with froo raw
.orial, would bo thought to give
?e than adequate protection. We
confident that thoy wili bo found
givo all the protection that tho
?Ion industry of tho United States
9Jir needs, and that thoy will cheapen
Aods to tho mass of the consumors
^Jthout soriously endangoring tho
prosperity of the mnnufaoturors.
On tho whole, tho bill is carofally
ind conscientiously drafted. It faces
tho situation boldly, applies tho knife
sharply to sorao oxeresconcos of a pro
tective growth, and redeems in a sub
stantial way tho promises under which
tho Democratic party camo into power.
Yet it makes no such radical or far
reaching ehangos as will disturb the
great mass of tho manufacturing in
dustrias. Tho country can cosily ac
commodate itsolf to suoh changop, and
within a fow months aftor its onact
mont, fow will advocate a return to tho
existing order of things.
A Photographic Title.?Photo
graphy ployed an important part in a
suit at Cincinnati. The suit is ono of
local standing, involving the title of
1,500 acros of valunblo farm lands. It
is based on a dood mado nearly seven
ty-fivo years ago by tho owners of tho
land, and turns on tho point whother
tho deed had five signatures or only
four. In order to tost this quostion
It was docldod to havo tho deed
photographed, and tho clork of tho
court was ordorod to glvo tho mattor
jhi.jiorsonal supervision1 For that
purposo it was takon to Washington
and submitted to an export photograph
or of that* city. Tho original deed,
dlsoolorod aud yellow with ago, show
ed traces of four signatures and aspneo
where thcro might havo boon a fifth,
but no troco of it. Tho photograph*
ing was done in thev presence of the
olerk of tho court, who refused tolot tho
deod go out of his sight. The negative
rovMuod traces of tho missing signa
ture,;and when It was enlarged ton
entire name bocamo as plaliuas whon
Mmrii the flr*\t writton. Th" court pro
1 wide,ice ,lVOj anu
*t? for.
TIL.I.MAN TO TI.IAli JUSTICES.
Tho Officers Must Aid the Dispensary
Iirw?Decapitation W1U Take Pluce
Where Prejudice Overcomes Duty.
Columbia Register
Tlio onforcomont of tho new Dispen
sary law is to begin with a vigor which
will have wido effect and which will
result in violators feeling tho weight
of justice beforo a great whilo. Every
giece of legal machinery in South
arolina must work together. Thero
must be no lagging. No rust will be
allowed, and the pieces must movo
together for tho benefit of ono great
wholo. This is what tho State board
of control says, and tho members are
in dead earnest.
Since' tho new law was passed the
fertilo minds and vivid imgi nations of
its opponents have been at work to Und
means to ovorride its provisions; to
Und loop holes; to encourage violations
by picking it to piecos, but ovory new
8ehemo is mot with a counter move
which is not looked for. Ono bright hope
for violators was that when thoy aro
brought to trial they will tind trial
justices in sympathy with them, and
that In tho drawing of jurors it will bo
thoir friends who will sit in judgment
on thoir casos. Governor Tillman an
nounces that the trial justice who
shows projudico in any way will bo de
eapitatod without warning and that a
man will bo put in his placo who will
administer the law without fooling or
friondship.
The Govornor impressos this fact on
tho trial justices in tho following lm?
Eortant circular of Instructions which
o has mailed to ovory ono of thorn :
?'columbia, Docombor :10, 1893.
" Undor tho Act approved Decomber
2;id, a copy of which ib herewith sent
you, tho duty will largely dovolvo on
trial justices of enforcing tho law.
Tho statutes, as construed by the
Supremo Court, requlro that criminal
casos coming within tho jurisdsction of
trial justices 3hall bo tried by a jury
on tho demand of tho defendant, other
wise by tho trial justice himself.
Jurors aro to bo summoned by tho con
stable after six names have been drawn
from a hat in which eighteen names
have boon placed by the constrablo.
It will bo tho duty of trial justices to
see that uo names aro put in tho hat
excopt thoso of men who will find a
verdict according to the evidence nnd
not perjure themselves through pro
judico against the law. Trial justices
who do not act with promptness and
vigor lund ondoavor to enforce tho law
may as well Bend in thoir resignations,
as no nogligouco or favoritism will bo
tolerated.
"Enclosed will bo found a form of
soarch warrant, as well as a form for
beginning nuisance proceedings under
Section 22 of tho Act.
"As It is impossible for Stato con
stables to OOVer tho cut in- territory,
trial justices are expected to soo that
thoir constables soizo all contraband
liquor and make arrosts of parties
breaking tho law as provided oy the
Act. Every seizure thus made must
bo reported to the Stato Commissioner,
who will sond a certificate for tho ship
ment to him of tho contraband liquor.
For such work constables will bo paid
a reasonable feo upon reporting tho
facts to tho Govornor.
" Special attention is directed to
Section 29, giving the right to examine
suspicious packages.
"Trial justices will in every ca^o ar
rest and proceed against express agents
ami railroad agonts, or other railroad
employees, who lay themselves liable
under tho provisions of tho law. Tho
right to search without a-warrant ap
plies only to places of business or pub
lic places. In all cases where liquor is
believed to be in a private residence and
is being sold, search warrants must bo
issued. Persons aro not allowed to
buy in other States and bring into this
Stato any quantity greater than ono
gallon.
"Tho soachers must bo confined to
dopots, and no car will bo entered to
make search, unless by express orders
of tho Govornor.
"B. B. TILL<MAN, Governor."
THE SEARCH WARRANT.
The blank form for a search warrant,
enclosed with tho circular, will bo of
intorost inasmuch as it has been pre
pared by tho best legal talent of the
Stato. Evory constable or other officer
will arm hinisolf with ono of these war
rants beforo making seizuros. Tho
following is tho blank form :
south Carolina, .-County.
?Search warrant.
To tho sheriff of tho abovo county, or
any constable:
Whereas it appears to mo-a
trial justice in and for tho county and
Stato above named, by the information
of-that tho following contra
band intoxicating liquors are now un
lawfully In tho possession, storage, and
kooping of, and on tho premises oc
cupied by-in tho state and
county abovo named, tho said place
being (Here doscribo it) in or near the
town or city of-and that tho
said-hath probablo cause to
believe, that the said contraband
liquors so illegally kept aro in tho
houso (or other placo appurtenant
thoroto) of tho said-??.
Thoso aro, therefore, to authorize
nnd require you, with necessary and
proper assistants, to enter into said
houso (or other placo appurtonant
thoroto) of the Bald-aforesaid,
and thero diligently by day or by night
search for tho said contraband liquors,
and if tho snmo or any part thereof
shall bo found upon search, that you
bring tho said liquorBso found, and
also seize and bring all vessels, bar
fixtures, scroons, bottles, glasses, and
appurtenances, apparently used or suit
able for uso, in or about such liquors,
tako a complete inventory of tho same,
and doposit tho same with tho sheriff,
which said artlolosaro thero to remain,
to ho disposed of as required by the
provisions of tho dispensury laws.
Given undor my hand and seal, this
-day of-189 .
-(l. St)
Soutiikrn Farmers.?Tho Manu
facturers' Record could not present its
roadors a more attractive Now Year's
gift than tho following reports from
Southorn bankers showing that tho
wholo ecoroinio policy of Southorn
furm interests is undergoing a change
and tho crodit system Is being super
seded by a cash basis. The low price
of cotton for tho last fow years forced
upon farmors tho nocesslty of raising
thoir own foodstuffs, and added to this
was tho decision of bankers and factors
to advance much loss money on cotton
than formerly. Tho result has beet) a
change that for tho tlmo being, whilo
passing from tho creditsystom with Its
IIboral. buying to a cash systom requir
ing the closest economy, there has boon
loss trodo with farmers, and henco a
decrensod volumo of genoral business
in the South. But this has brought
about a more solid condition of the
business intorcste depondont upon farm
trade -throughout the South than wo
havo had for many years. Merchants
are carrying small stocks and buying
only as needed; farmors are paying off
thoir debts to such an oxtont that
without exception those letters from
baiikers say thut the f ' naors aro loss
?*\t. 'a*. ?ai>< The money
for provisions und grain has been re
tained ut homo, und the full result is
that this section is less in debt to the
North and West for supplies thun in
any yoar since tho war ended. Such
is the solid rock bottom basis for
future udvancemont, and it is needless
to say that, us no other section can
muko such a snowing-, so no other sec
tion will show such a rupid growth
during the next few years.?Manufac
turer's Record.
FIllE, WRECK AND FLOOD.
The Disastrous Record of* the Old
Year?A Fearful Lint of Casualties
on Land and Sea.
Tho year was remarkable for tho
frightful loss of life by Hood, fire,
earthquake, disease, cyclono and mine
and railroad accidents, both hero and
abi'oud. In January thirty miners
were drown in Pcnzanco, I,(KM) people
were burned in a temple near Canton,
China, 4!) soldiers wero burued in a
train in Russia und nine person's wore
killed and 112 injured in a railroad
collusion at Alton, III.
In February Brisbane was floodod so
that many of its streets were 80 foot
under water, and earthquakes In
Greece resulted in the loss of hnndreds
of lives. In March and April thoro
wore Hoods, eyelonos and tornadoes in
the Southern and Western States in
which 100 persons wero killed and
millions of dollars of damage done.
In May Queheo was inundated and a
cyclono in Hope, Ark, loft 4,(XX) per
sons homoless and destitute. In June
Hoods destroyed 50 villages in Austria,
tho cholera claimed hundreds of vic
tims daily in Mecca, a storm in Mexico
mado ii,ooo persons homeless and the
Ford Opera House in Washington
collapsed, killing 23 department clerks
and injuring 70.
In July 100 minors were killed in an
explosion in Yorkshire 12 Chicago
lirome n wero caught on a blazing tower
In tho World's Fair Grounds, .but ono
of whom oscaped. and a cloudburst in
Pueblo drowned nearly 50 persons.
In August there was a collision bo
tweon two Coney Island excursion
trains on tho Long Island Road, near
Blissville, in which 10 pleasure seekers
wore instantly killed and 50 severely
wounded, and a cyclone which swept
tho Gulf coast devastated Savannah,
Ga., and tho sea islands. The loss of
lifo was more than 1,500 and tho sur
vivors lost everything of which they
wero possessed. Thoir situation became
so serious that Tho World sent down a
relief train in November and saved
thorn from starvation.
In September a forest lire destroyed
200 square miles in Wisconsin and
cholera broke out in Hamburg. In
October yellow fever attacked Bruns
wick, Ga., and its victims were num
bered by hundreds. October also saw
tho worst wreck of tho many that hap
pened to World's Fair trains, in a
collision on the Gratfcd Trunk near
Battle Creek, Mich., 20 persons wore
burned or mangled to death and three
times that number were badly injured.
In November there was an explosion of
dynamite in a ship at dock at Santand
cr, Spain in, which 300 persons wero
instantly killed, thousands wounded
and millions of dollars worth of prop
erty destroyed, and 1,500 persons were
drowned by Hoods in Japan. In Do
cemhor a bridge In courso of erection
at Louisville, Ky., fell into the river
and a score of workmen were killed.
Tho amount of money lost in a dozen
big fires would pay the debt of some
of the smaller nations. Boston had a
$5,000,000 and a $1,000.000 blaze and also
lost its famous Treniont Temple. St.
Louis had a $1,500.001) lire. Coney Is
land lost its big West F.nd Hotel. Mil
waukee had a 1500,000 fire, tho largest
Hour mills in the world at Lltohfleld,
111., were destroyed. Fargo, N. Dak.,
ami Seattle were nearly wiped out by
flame. South Chicago had a fire which
destroyed 250 houses, and Now York
had a lire in West Forty-second street
which nooesslatod a ninth alarm and ,
did $2,000,000 damage. In Manilla, in
the Philippine Islands, 4,000 houses
were destroyed hi a two-day's Hro.
The maritime disasters of tho year
havo boon many. Since January 1st
thoro has been an unusal succession
of disastrous gales, on both our own
and foreign (toasts, and in this period
a largo' number of ships havo been lost
or badly damaged. The greatest of all
these disasters was the Victoria-Catnp
ordown affair in the Mediterranean,
when some 400 persons lost thoir lives.
Aside from this, the ones that were
of most interest at this port wero the
losses of tno White Star steamship,
Naronlo and the Atlas liner Alvo.
Both vessels mysteriously disappeared, i
and in each traco of- tho disaster was I
given by Lhe finding of tho lifo boats.
Tho loss of the Naronic is more in
explicable than that of tho Alvo, since
tho former was a brand new vessel, and
was supposed to be as seaworthy as the
arts of man could make her. Sho sail- |
cd from Liverpool, February 11th. and j
aftor passing out of the Mersey was i
never sighted again. Fully a hundred
went down with her. The accepted j
explanation is that sho turned turtle
during tho gale.
The Alvo sailed from this port Au
gust 10, and like tho Naronic was
never seen again. She was of much
smaller tonnage than tho White Star
boat, and is believed to have foundered
in tho hurricanes that wero attended
with frightful loss of life in tke sea is
lands and on tho Carolina and Gulf
coasts. Tho theory concerning her
lo?s isthat her hatches wore torn ofT by
heavy railroad trucks lashed to her
decks, admitting to her engine rooms
tho seas that must have poured across
her decks.
Two trans-Atlantic liners mot with
accidents in mid-ocean, causing anxiety
in every quarter of tho globe, and an
awful loss of life was averted in each
caso principally by tho ingenuity of
tho engineers. Tho Cundardor Um
brl& broke her thrust shaft in mid*
ocean, and drifted about helplessly un
til it was patched up temporarily. She
arrived January 1st more than a week
overdue. Tho Hekla, of tho Thing
valla line, met with a similar accident,
and after drifting about tho ocean
helpless as n derelict, was towed into
port with all well aboard. The break
in her machinery was discovered just
in time to prevent the fractured ends,
twirled by tho machinery, from separ
ating and knocking holes in tho ship's
hull.?Now Yoik World.
No Reduction in salaries.-?The
Columbia Register says that many peo
ple do not understand what became of
tho salary reduction bill which passed
at tho last session of the Legislature.
The facts arc those : Tho bill passed
both Houses. It was approved by Gov
ernor Tillman on tho 22d of December.
It was to go Into effect on tho 1st of
January, 1804. Tho next day tho
Legislature passed tho appropriation
bill. Thoso interostod in salaries re
maining ns thoy uro succoeded in gel
ing section LI added to this bill. It
firovldep that tho salaries as at presont
Ixed shall romaln as they aro for tho
yoar 1801. This bill was signod on tho
23d of Docembor. This will virtually
kill the nalary reduction bill, as whon
It goes Into effect a now Legislatin-o
will hav- ~" oleote^ and it may not
thin'- - - ttd.
l.NFOHCING THIS NEW LAW.
The Stato Boai'tl Anxious to Know the
Purpose of tho Municipalities?Co
lumbia is Promptly Knrolled uu the
Ulaek -1st.
The State board of control seems
anxious to 'know what tho towns and
eitles aro going to doing about assist
ing in tho enforcement of the dispens
ary law, and tho following circular
letter has been sent out by tho board :
To the Municipal Authorities of
Gontlomon: Your attention is di
rected to tho following extract from
Section 10 of the now dispensary law :
"All profit, after paying all exponsos
of the county dispensary, shall be paid
one-half to the county treasury and
one-half to tho municipal corporation
in which it may bo located, such set
tlements to be made quarterly : Pro
vided, that if tho authorities of any
town or city, which in the judgment of
tho State board of control do not en
force this law, tho State hoard may
wit hold the part going to the said
town or city and uso it to pay Stato
constables."
There aro amplo provisions in tho
said act giving policemen and mar
shals tho necessary power, without
regard to any restrictions which may
bo in your charter. We shall be glad to
have your co-operation and assistance
and will expect an answer indicative
of your purpose not later than the 16th
of January. Respectfully,
(Signed).? R. R. Tillman, Governor ;
W. H. Ellsrbe, Comptroller General;
O. W. Buchanan, Attorney General ;
State Hoard of Control.
After the foregoing letter had been
prepared, the following was sent to tho
county boards of control throughout
tho State :
To the County Hoard of Control :
Undor tho provisions of tho new dis
pensary law it is. the duty of tho inu-.i
oipal authorities of all towns where
dispensaries are located to enforce tho
said act by means of the police and
marshals. You will report to this of
fice not later than the 20th of January,
as to whether such action has been
taken in your County by said authori
ties and whether wo may expect their
eo-operution and assistance.
(Signedj.?B. R. Tillman, Governor:
W. EL Fdlorbo, Comptroller General :
O. W. Buchanan, Attorney General;
State Hoard of Control.
Tho non-action of the city council of
Columbia, after briefly considering tho
matter in regard to co-operating with
tho Stato constables in enforcing the
dispensary law, has aroused the ire of
the administration, and at a meeting
of the State board of control it was de
cided that Columbia should forfeit her
share of the profits. Tho following
letter was sent to tho municipal
authorities :
January 1, 1804.
To tho Mayor and Aldermen of the
Citry of Columbia:
Gentlemen : Notice is hereby given
that tho State board of control, in the
exercise of their judgment as required
by the dispensary act, recently passed,
have determined that the contingency
has arisen in your city for tho enforce
ment of tho proviso to Section 10 of
the dispensary act, which says, "That
if the authorities of any town or city, in
tho judgment of the Stato board of con
trol, do not enforce this law, the Stato
board may withhold the part going to
said town or city and uso it to pay
State constables."
After the 1st day of January, 1894.
and until further notice, such part of
the dispensary profit coming from
Columbia will be withhold by tlve
board and used to pay State constables
in the enforcement of tho law, made
necessary by tho attitndo of tho
authorities of your city, us shown by
tho notion of the city council Friday
night, in even refusing to consider the
matter. Yours respectfully.
(Signed).?B R. Tillman, Governor:
W. H. Ellerbo, Comptroller General;
O. W. Buchanan, Attorney General ;
State Hoard of Control.
mayor' fisher talks.
Mayor Fisher hail not seen the letter
when called on by a reporter, but when
he was informed of the action of tho
board he thought they had acted some
what hastily and said ho would liked
to have had an opportunity to appear
beforo the members. Ho said that the
city of Columbia could tako care of all
violations of the law.
AN APPEAI TO WOMEN.
Honoring the Memory of Washing,
ton's Mother.
The following appeal to the patriotic
Winnen of America bus been issued by
tho National Mary Washington Monu
ment Association, whose headquarters
are at Washington City ?
The National Mary Washington
Monument Association, tho working
foi'CO of which is composed entirely of
women, has just completed a too long
delayed work, that of oreeting a suit
able memorial to the mother of Wash
ington. 'I'his monument is the finest
of its kind in the whole country. It is
a single shaft fifty feet high, with ap
propriate and artistic embellishments
und Inscriptions, und stands upon a
rock near Mary Washington's home at
BYedericksburg, Vn., which during the
latter years of her life was her favorite
sent for reading and meditation, and
where she directed that her grave bo
made. There her remains nave re
posed for over a century, with only the
'ruins of an unfinished monument?-be
gun and abandoned fifty years ago?
to mark the spot
Tho Mary Washington Monument
Association* was organized in 1889 to
end this shameful neglect of tho mem
ory of one who is revered as the fore
most of American women. It has
worked hard, collected money and
secured the erection of the monument,
which is the first instance in tho history
of a monument erected by women to the
memory of a woman. The association
is in urgent need of more money to
properly complete the work. Though
tho shaft has boon erected, the last pay
ment has yet to be provided for, as it
win COmplOted before the time con
templated. Money is also needed to
fence, grade and otherwise put in pro
per order tho plot of ground upon
which the monument stands and as an
endowment fund for its future care.
Altogether fully ftl5.000 is needed at
once. There should be no difficulty in
raising this amount if every one of tho
millions of women who hold tho name,
of the mother of George Washington
in the highest honor should testify to
that feeling by the contribution of
a small sum. The object is so excep
tionally worthy that evory American
woman should feel it a privilege to ho
Identified with it, by a contribution
proportionate to her means. Will not
ovory ono at least give something in
loving admiration of one who is the
brightest star in the firmament of
American motherhood ? If ovory ono
bearing the name of "Mary" would
semi 2"> cents, how soon the money
could be raised.
Contributions may bo sent tothogon
eiul treasurer, E. F. Higgs, RlggB
Hank, or to the president of tho associ
ation, Mrs. M. R. Waite, Washington,
D. C. 1 _ A_r
A GANG OF NEGHO KODBERS.
The "Work of a Shrewd Detect Ivo?A
Guilly \< ".in M?he? Confession?
l'rospecis ol* a lynching 1h Kilp
Angus ii Chronicle, 4th inst.
The <U;ad bodies of four negroes are
likely to bo found this morning dang
ling from trocs or lying in tho high
ways, somewhere between Plum
Branch and Parksville, about thirty
five miles up tho Port Royal and
Western Carolina railroad. Thoy will
bo the bodies of the incendiaries who
robbed and sot firo to Mr. M. C. Hitts,
store and express olllce at Plum Branch
on tho 16th of last month.
Tho express office was in Mr. Hitts'
store, und ho was agent of tho com
pany. Tho building was burned to
the ground, Mr. Hitt lost everything,
but tho Express Company's property
was protected and only its books wore
destroyed.
It is said there is a gang of nogro
burglars up in that neighborhood who
go from stution to station robbing
stores und setting lire to buildings.
Tho express oflice at Bradley in that
vicinity has been burglarized three
times recently Too peoplo havi got
ten tired of suffering these depradations
and sevoro losses and thoy are deter
mined to break it up.
Ever since tho robbery and lire at
Mr. Ilitt's he has been constantly at
work trying to ferret out the perpetra
tors. Ho came to Augusta and en
gaged Josh Johnson, a shrewd negro
detective, to work up tho case, and
Josh proved himself equal to tho task.
He has found out tho guilty parties.
Josh wont up to Parksville well sup
plied wit h money and liquor, and he
got in with the negroes in the neghbor
hood. Ho made the acquaintance of
the principal negro who wus supposed
to bo tho leader of the gang that com
mitted tho double crime. Tuesday
night Josh got in a game of cards with
tho suspected purty and several other
negroes. The detective lost his money
freely and was liberal in dispensing
his whisky, which was accepted every
time drinks wero oll'ered. After the
game was over Josh went to show the
negroes how to toll their fortunes with
the pasteboards. After monkeying
with tho cards a while, Josh looked
astonished and turning to the negro,
ho was keeping his eye closely on,
said, "Those cards tell a horrible story
on you.''
The guilty nogro was shocked and
got excited and craved to know what
tho fortune-telling cards road. Josh
hesitated a second or two, but finally
leaned over so as not to let the other
negroes hear and he whispered into
the soured negro's ear, " The cards
say you hud a hand in tho robbing un.l
burning of Mr. Ilitt's store two weeks
ago."
Tho negro, who was slightly under
the inlluonco of liquor, broke down
completely and confessed his guilt,
and went further and told Josh the
names of his three accomplices.
Tho negro did not know that Josh
was ferreting out tho caso. The
detective made no arrest, but returned
to Plum Branch and reported to Mr.
Hitt his success in clearing all doubt
as to who tho robbers and incendiaries
wero.
Josh came back to Augusta last
afternoon as be said he expected there
would bo some killing up thoro last
night und ho wanted to got far out of
the. way of the shooting.
Tho detective says Mr. Hitt went to
Parksville yesterday morning to got
warrants for the arrest ol tho negroes,
ami ho says a largo posse ol men were
to leave last afternoon on horseback to
capture the negroes who live a few
miles out in the country.
FAVORING AN INCOME TAX.
The Democrats United in Support of
the Mcasure?(.'oitgrcss Proposes lo
Give Relief to the People,
spei'iai to Atlanta Constitution.
WASHINGTON, January 3.?Congress
is growing more devilish every day,
so to speak. It Is growing more inde
pendent. It is bog inn lug to think for
itself und if looks like the will of the
people is now going to rule. The
ag reement of the ways and means com
mittee to report an individual income
lax of - per cent on all incomes over
$4,000 is a victory for tho great mass
of people of tho country, and Judge
Turner, of Georgia, deserves credit for
casting the deeisivo vote of tho com
mittee on tho side of the people, lie
did this in face of the fact that the ad
ministration was tugging wildly at his
coat tail to pull him on the other side
of the fence. A largo majority of tho
Democrats of the House wolcomo en
thusiastically this report of the com
mittee. Western Democrats claim
that it makes SUCh Slates as Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan sure
ly Democratic vhile it will make the
party extremely popular in all the
Western States. Southern men be
lieve it will havo tho effect of knock
ing the remnants of the third party in
the, various Southern States to the
four winds. There are. of course, a
few Democrats kickiip'. but they, with
the exception of Representative Black,
of Illinois, are almost exclusively from
Rastern States. New York and New
England men who represent city dis
tricts uro opposed to an individual in
come tux, but it is not believed they
will cut a very largo figure in the.
House. Indeed it is not believed that
they have BUfllolont strength to defeat
this feature of tho revenue bill, al
though Mr. Bourko Cookran, of New
York, stilted some tinio ago that he
would bo forced to light an individual
l income tax on the Moor of tho House,
it is not probable that ho will do so.
Mr. Cookran is too good a Democrat to
desert a report from his own commit
tee though he may vote against it. It
is not probable that ho will make a
light against it. There is going to be
a hard fight in tin1 House to pass this
individual income tax.
The Republicans will vote nearly
solidly against it . and they will have a
small following of Democrats, but tho
Populists will probably vote solidly for
this Income tax. It is generally believ
ed that it will carry in the House by a
fair majority. The danger is in the
Senate. Tho Louisiana Senators may
vote against it in order to get a tax on
sugar, and Indeed, already there is a
SCnOmoon foot In tho Senate to place a
sufficiently large tax on sugar to raise
all the revenue required, and thus do
away with the necessity for an income
tex.
The bill, us it will bo reported from
the committee on ways and means, will
tax all incomes of corporations as well
as tho incomes of individuals. But
whore a man dorives part of his in
come from a corporation, nnd that in
come is taxed as tho ineomo of tho
corporation, it in not again taxed as
tho ineomo of the individual. Mem
bors of the ways and means oommittoo
say Unit the collection of this tax will
not require the army of collectors that
its opponents havo been claiming.
Tho tnx will lie collected by tho in
ternal revonuo department and it will
require very fow additional' dorks to
attend to tho businosss.
?Govornor Tlllman has approved
the act repealing the charter of the
/ ^usta and Port Royal Railroad.
CHIMJb. IN YOltK COUNTV.
Tlio Confession ol" u Cowardly Mm
derer and tho Record, of a*Youth
Ruined by Dime Novels.
A tinntu t onetl mica.
Yorkville, S. C, Jan. 2.?Tho Con
stitution's correspondent to-day visited
the jail to interview Monroe Watson,
a negro prisoner to whom Jeff Craw
ford, who killed Mr. D. P. Blackburn
recently, has been talking. Watson is
in jail on tho charge of stealing a quar
ter of beef from another negro, and, of
course, denies the charge. Ho is well
acquainted with Crawford and tho
sheriff has mado thorn coll-mates. It
socms that Crawford, who is wary of
outsiders, has grown con?dontial with
Watson: In answer to quostions, Wat
son told tho Constitution's correspon
dent the following story :
"Last night Crawford says to mo,
1 Monroe, if you won't toll, I'll toll you
something.' I says, 'won't toll,' and
Jon* he says: 'I never killed Mr.
Blackburn. Sam Pouzlor done it. Me
and Sam followed Mr. Bluckburn into
the woods and Sam shot him. Mr.
Blackburn started to run and I caught
him and held him until Sam shot him
again. Mr. Blackburn still wasn't
killod, and then Sam cut his throat
with my razor and got a stiek and beat
hlin on tho head with it. Wo got $73
out of his pocket. Wo took $1 I fapiece
and Sam kept tho other $45. He has
got it now. When wo got through
with Mr. Blackburn our clothes wcro
bloody, and we wont toward Rock Hill.
We buried our bloody clothes at the
corner of tho old saw-mill on the Char
lotte. Columbia and Augusta railroad,
threo miles below Rock Hill. When I
got back homo I hid my razor on the
.sill of my houso. I told the woman
what 1 went to see in Rock Hill, to tell
them that I camo to her house between
7 and 8 o'clock.' "
After hearing Watson's story. I bad
a talk with Crawford, but he was not
disposed to know anything. Upon ask
ing if he knew of a saw mill three
miles below Rock Hill, ho looked con
fused and said thero was no saw mill
thero. He was asked what he did with
his razor. IL replied, "I loft it at
In mo on tho e. air."
Parties have gouo to the saw mill to
look for the clothes and will also search
under Crawford's houso for tho razor.
They have not yet made their report.
The people of tho neighborhood in
which tho murder was committed are
still very much excited over the hor
rible affair. Although as yet there
has been no effort to got up a lynching
party, the probabilities that the negro
will live to bo tried aro not very great.
Augusta Chronicle.
YORKVILLE, S. C, January 2.?The
Chronicle correpondent to-day visited
the county jail to interview Chas. J.
Miller, the young white man who killed
a negro named Callio Douglass, in Rock
Hill last Wednesday night.
Miller is about 20 years of age and
has a face that would be strikingly
handsome, were it not for the frowning
and recklessness, which are beginning
to stamp on bis features the character
of a veritable Jesse James. When ask
ed about the killing be talked freely,
and referrod to it as though it were a
matter of small concern.
"I bad been quarreling with this
follow Douglass," be said, "nnd turned
oil' to leave him, telling him that he
must not follow mo. 1 walked perhaps
a hundred yards, and hearing some
body behind me, turned and saw it was
Douglass. Just as 1 turned he stooped
and picked up a rock. 1 asked him if
he was picking up that rock to hit me.
Hi; said - you, yes. 1 had my pistol in
my pocket and pulled it out and flrod
throe times. I don't think I hit him
but once, though. He walked back a
few steps and fell, and I turned in an
alloy and ran away. 1 did not run for
fear of being arrested, but there were
several other negroes there, anil 1
could not wait to kill any more of
of thom. 1 walked out of town about
throe nifles and laid down and went to
sleep. After a while 1 got cold and
woke up. and then I went back to Rock
Hill. .Next day I came back and gave
myself up. It was purely a ease of self
defense and 1 think 1 was fully justi
fied in killing the fellow."
Testimony developed at the jury of
inquest pretty nearly corroborates Mil
ler's story, it seems that Miller was
visiting Uouglass' sister at a houso of
ill repute, and Douglass went to the
house to got his sister away. The
quarrel und killing grew out of this
circumstance.
Miller is an orphan. His father
died about ten years ago and left him
in charge of his mother, who after
wards married a drunken follow, and
the boy from then until now has seen
hard times.
Hy the reading of dime novels and
other .such literature young Miller de
veloped strong propensities toward out
lawry. Some time ago bo opened a
barroom at bis home in the country,
and sold large quantities of liquor in
defianco of the law.
He has done time in the county jail.
After serving his term ho secured a
posit ion as guard over t he. convicts at
thd Hock 11 ill stockade, and has ever
since been adding to his reputation as
a rather desperate character.
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PREPARE FOR THE JUDGMENT.
Advent lots Give Not loo Thai tin* Mud
of tho World is Nigh.
Battle Crrek, Mich., Jan. 3.?El
Ion G. White, the mot her of Advent ism,
says the end of the world is fast ap
proaching. This was conveyed to her
in a vision. She cannot tell exact ly
when the day will come, but only that
it. will bo soon.
The elders here have enjoined all
who can to sell their personal effects
and go out into the world and preach
the Gospel. About twenty families,
in obedience to this injunction, have
sold their homes and gone within the
last month, and as many- more have
their places advertised for sale. They
sidl for any price the place will bring.
At a meeting hold in tie Tabern ;ele
last night the elders called upon all
thoso present, to donate what they
could of their personal effects tO edu
cate the heathen. They were told
that the end was near and reminded
they could not take their Worldly goods.
Over throe thousand persons attended
the meeting, and excitement ran high.
One old man said thai he would give
his house and lot, worth *3,00i>. This,
he said, was all that he hud to give.
This opened the hearts of the rest of the
congregation, and when the meeting
ended eighty gold watches, sixty geld
rings and other personal property '
the value of over *25,O0O had 1
donated. Tho money will bo u
send missionaries to foreign <
and to spread tho doctrl?
country.
Tho Adventists belie
end of the world tlv
time, and after *'
purged from all
buck and roi'
They ha1
building,
in ado i
for V
ners
an1"'
STATE NEWS IN BRIE
Interesting Notes from Vnrlo
cos.
?It is conceded that thore
opposition to Judgo Izlar t
consent to run for CougroBB.
?Major Sanders Glover has
pointed as ono of United Stt
trict Attorney Murphy's Assis.
?Mr. E. R. Le80sne, of Wi
burg county, has been appoint n>
! lie Siuking Fund Commission, .
the vacancy occasioned by the de?
tho lato S. C. Curtledgo.
?Hon. A. M. Youmnns, a promln
lawyer and member of tho House
Representatives, died at his homo
Luray, in Hampton County, on th
inst. * Ho was 47 years old.
?A suit for foroclosuro of mortgj
against the Hort Royal und Augu
railroad has beeu lilod in tho Unl
Staves Court in Charleston. The i
is brought by R. M. Ogdon of Misso
?Tho United States District C
will couvono in Creeuville on tho
Monday is February, instead of
third Monday in January as hereti
announced. Judgo Brawley will
ably preside.
?Hon. C. II. Simonton has been ;
in as United States Circuit .lud
place of tho liito *' L. Bqn?
Brawley will not q ' ?>??
yet, as ho wishes
until a voto is ta\
tariff bill.
?The two eandi
of Georgia aro outs
coinage of silver un
lions as gold, for 1
State banks, and ft
tlon of the Chicago
?Mr. Sam Froidl
says that a tenant
made twenty-six
averaging i:i4 pom
mule. Besides the
mode six*.v-flvo bust
?The Anderson
Company has reor
soon put their factoi
havo employed an
manufacturer as su^
the mill will resume ......
10th inst.
? ingrain WilsQAjj"'.the town 1
of Yorkville. who bO.mo time i* ?
and killed a man tnamed Glad?.
Yorkville. and was subsequently
to Riehland jail for safo-keoping,
been granted bail by Judge Gary in
sum of $5,000.
?Governor Tillman has sont ou'1
manuscript for an article on "
South Carolina Liquor Law," whit,
to appear in the February number
tho North American Review. T
od itor has been after Governor T
man for some time for his views on tl
dispensary.
?A terrible catastrophe in Uoi
County last week resulted In the
stantaneous death of three men a
wounding of five others on the p'ani
tion of Senator Glonn D. Peuko.
was caused by the bursting of an engii
builder at tho cotton gin. Thomas 1
Jeter and another white man nar
Crouch, with a negro whose nan
unknown, were killed outright,
another man was mortally woum
?Carpenter, the famous mr
who was recaptured not long r
carried back to Kdgellold,
that he will not die at the endo
Sheriff Ou/.ts has placed hin
top coll of tho jail and doublo
him to the iron ring in the c
the room, and will not ?1 lew any
see tho prisoner. The sheriff U
pared to moot and repel any ntU
at a rescue, and intends to give
man no earthly chance to oseapi
long as he is the custodian.
?The. Legislature passed an ac
abolish the office of Jury Commissi
er. The duties formerly imposed u,,
that ofllcor aro now put upon the Tree
uror and the Clerk of Court.* Tho.,
shall constitute a board of.lury Com
missioners, and will not be paid any
salary for their services. The Clerk is
to be the custodian of tho jury bp>:.
The bill goes into effect at once tic,
the officers named will have to fill it,.
jury boxes this month, as has beon
customary with tho Jury Commission
era.
?Mayor Chafe*;, of Aiken. has sein
the State board of control a scorchinp
reply to a letter inquiring whether h
would make dispensary spies out of t?
city police He says he knows hh
duties as Mayor and seeks no instruc
tions. His police force has had in
structions to report all violations of
the liquor law, and he stands ready to
punish all proper cases but says lit;:
"11" you oxpcot rflo to become an ally
of your dirty spies and act the snea..
upon my neighbors, 1 must respectfully
decline." He then goes on to say that
tho game is to rob municipalities of
thoir share of dispensary profits.
Knew Thky Were Right.? In
lllionis and some other States thore is
an old law on the statute hooks to the
effect that in criminal eases tho jury is
" judge of the lawns well as the facts."
Though not often quoted, once in a
while a lawyer with a desperate case
makes use of It. In onocaso the judge
Instructed the jury that it was tojudr
of the law as well as the facts, but adi
that il was not judge of the law Iffil
it was fully satisfied that it knew irtoi
law than the. judge.
An outrageous verdict was brought
in, contrary to all instructions of tho
court, who felt called upon to rebuke
the jury. At last one old farmer arose :
".ledge." said ho. " worn't we to
jedge the law as well as the facts ?"
'? Certainly," was tho response: " but
I told you not to judge tho law myself
you were clearly satisfied that you
knew the law better than I did."
" Well, jedge," answered the farmer,
OS he shifted his quid, " wo considered
that p'int."
?Dr. L. A. Bricklo, ono of the direc
tors of tho Piedmont Mineral Com
pany, of ICing's Mountain, says tho*
the company Is prospecting for '
about two and a half miles frOP
town. They have sunk a sha''
*u foot and will go down to '
of 100 feet. AbOUt $1.000 '
ready spent. In prospce'
is found in fissures. *
analgnm was exam'
Od ~~> per cent.
famous tin mir
?his one in '
is being
vein, fti
dopt?
am'