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VOL XVII. LAURENS, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1902. N0| 47 ~ BILL ARP IS CONVALESCING. HE 18 HEADING THE PAPERS Comments From II Ih Sick K00111 oil Cluuies FruuciH AduniH' Speech. Atlanta Constitution. Wo have at last had a glorious rain. After nine loug sweltering weeks with out a drop to lay tho dust or purify tho atmosphere it came with a downpour and everybody is happy. Tho gardens will revive and tho tlowers will bloom again and the farmers will rejoice for it has come in timo to savo their languishing crops. Tho dear iutie sick child whom we have been nursing so tenderly mid watching for many days will now get well. My wife or one of the girls is thero day and night, but the dust, and the hear had almost overcome him when tlio rain came. We are all air piauls and must havo it pure. Then ngain 1 tried to take comfort by reading the tribute that Charles Francis /Ydntns has rcceutly paid to General ltobort E. l.ee. It seems to bo getting quite fashionable to praise Lue up tlmre, but really 1 don't see why they should Binglo him out und damn Mr. Davis aud all tho rest of us and tho cause for which Loe fought. I don't like any wan who praises Lee aud stabs Mr. Davis. Loo and Davis wero like brothers all their mature lives. They were classmates at West I'oinl and during our civil war they were bosom companions and never dis agreed about any thing. It is a gross insult to tho momory of l.ee to slander his closest and dourest friend. No gentleman would do it. I have not heard of Charles Francis Adams slandering Mr. Davis, but we have good reasons to suspect thut he belongs to the Gold win Smith and lloosovolt crowd, for he voluntarily took command of a negro regiment during tho war, and that is a bad sign. No gentleman would havo done it. It was an evidence, thai he believed uig gors would make war hell to us and they would kill aud rob and rapo and burn out of rcvengo. No, 1 have no respect for this Adams nor Lew Wal lace nor any other man who command ed negroes during the war. It was not humane nor legitimate warfare. It showed venom and brutality and malignity. What did General Loe do before tho war or during the war or after the war that did not have tho hearty co-opera tion of Mr. Davis? What did Mr. Davis do that Goncial Lee did not ap prove? Both wore good soldiers and ; won their spurs. Both were devout Christian members of the Episcopal church and Senator Reagan said of Mr. Davis: "lie. was the most devout Christian I over knew and tho most, lovable man." He was a conscientious believer in tho doctrine of Stale's rights as expounded by Mr. Calhoun, and while a lieutenaut in tho United States army dcelare.il that he. would re sign his command before he woe 1 1 as sist in tho coercion of a sovereign State. The International Cyclopedia says of him: " Ho was a great states man and a true patriot, and his history will grow brighter as tho years roll on." But this Presidential accident says ho was an arch traitor and arch repudiutor, and he hasn't the manli ness to take it back and apologize. Hut here come some genial friends to call and see how I am getting on, for I am still suffering and need sym pathy. When they come thoy bring good cheer and wit and anecdote and that is better than ruminating about politics and the niggers. Wo were talking about dogs and one of these friends, who is a railroad man, told us about a woman trying to board a tiain down in Florida and she had a little poodle cog iu her arms and the con ductor'laid: ? "No, madam, you can't take that dog with you in the passen ger car. It is against the rules." She was a Northern woman with sharp featuroa. Our Southern women don't carry poodle dogs around with them; they prefer a baby. Well, she was very indignant and wanted to know what she must do with her dog. 44 Put him iu tho baggage car," said the con ductor. As she handed up the canine to the baggage man she said, " Well, I reckon 1 can ride where my dog rides." and she went into the baggage car. The man was disgusted. He tied the dog with a little cord and she squatted on a box near by. After they passed San ford she got tired, and untying the dog, took him in her arms and wcut back to the smoker. That car was full of jolly good fellows, but she demanded a seat and they gave her one. She took one half and laid her poodle on the other half. A Jolly Dutchman sat behind her and was smoking an old pipe that gave an unearthly odor aud as he talked and laughed with his compan . ion the tobacco smoke encircled her classic head until she couldn't stand it and she turned to him and said with a snap, " No gentleman would smoke in the presence of a lady." ? Well, madam," he said kindly, (<dis is de amokiu' car. It is not de ladies' car. I is very sorry to trouble you wid mine pipe aud tobacco, but you had better go back to de ladies' car." ** They won't let my dog go iu there," said she. " Dot is vory bad," he said and kept, on smokinsr. By aud by a voluminous cloud like that which came from the crater of Mont A'elee rolled over her and in her rage she seized his pipe, jerked it from his mouth and threw it out of the win dow. Everybody laughed and roared and he joiuod in the merriment. " Madam, dot is all de pipe I have got. It VttS give to ine lu Shartuany. but vun good turn deserves another," and he seized her little aleepiug dog and threw him out of the window. The woman screamed with anger; she mauled him over the head with her I umbrella. She screamed and yelled for the train to stop. He stood it all heroically. " Madam, I sent your dog to find mine pipe," he said. The alarm was so great that the conductor came running iu and some passengers filled the door, while the woman did the talking. " My husband will meet m" at Orlando," she said, "and he will maul the juice out of you, you bald? headed rascal." " Veel, I Will give him a chance," said he. The train soon rolled up to Orlando, and sure enough the woman's husband was there. She became violent and hysterical aa she told her wrongs aud pointed out the mau. " Let him come out here," suid the husband, " I dare him to come out hero." "Veel, I sup pose I must see about de light," said theDutchmau, "mid take de raediciue, but 1 shore dou't vant uo little guns iu it nor butcher knives. 1 can light some mid mine lists." He took oft his coat and handed it to a bystander. The crowd increased. The conductor said he would stop the train for ten minutes. A riug was made for the men to fight in aud evorybody was in a state of high expectation. Hero my friend stopped his narrative and lit a fresh cigar and commenced talking about something else. "Hut the flgl " said I, "what about the fight?" "Ohl there wasu't any fight,"he said. ??Just as thoy wore about to clutch soraebo 'v eried out. "Look yonder I look yon< look dowu the railroad track." Am. are ouough there came the littlo dog running with all his might and he had the Dutch man's pipe in his mouth. Of course there was uo light, for the Dutchman seized his pipe and the woman her dog aud that settled it. Now let tho p:'?achor toll oue." Aud ho did. There are uo bettor story tellers than our Carler8villo preaehors. They rovive mo whenever they eome, for I am sick at heart and cau't get breath euough. Good letters from friends and kindred coiue every day and my ever thought ful frieud Joe Brown sent me the most beautiful spoon I ever saw?Georgia silver and Georgia etohiugs and en gravings. Blessings on him and his house. Bill Am*. EARLY STRUGGLES OF AN DREW CARNEGIE. The Milllouulre Philanthropist TellH the Story of 111? Roy. hood. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given away more money than any other man in America, and he has declared it to be a disgrace to e with untold millions at his disposal, so that ho is disposing of his wealth very rapidly. Several years ago he wrote nu article for the Youth's Companion^ entitled 14 How 1 Served my Appionticeship as ' a Business Man," from which the fol lowin0 extracts are made : '? The eldest son of parents who were themselves poor, 1 had, fortu nately, to begin to perform some useful work in the wond while still vwiy young iu order to oarn an honest live lihood, aud was thus shown even iu early boyhood that my duty was to assist my parents, and like them be come, as 80ou as possible, also a 'bread, winner > in the family. What 1 could !-oi to do, not what I desired, was the question. ?* When t was born my father was a well-to-do master-wtavor in Duuferin line, Scotlaud. He owned no less than four dumask looms and employed np prcnlu os. This waa befoio the da)8 of stean factories for the manufacture of linen. A few large morchanls took orders and employed 'niaster-wo ivers,' auch as my father, to weave the cloth, the merchants supplying tho materials. ?? As the factory system de\olopo.l, handloom weaving naturally declined, and my father was one of tho sufferers by the change. The first serious lesson of my life came to me oue day wbon he had taken iu tho last of his woik to the merchaut and returned to our little homo greatly distressed because there was uo more work for him to do. 1 was then just about ten years of ago, but the lesson burnnd-into my heart, and I resolved then that ?the wolf of poverty' would be driven from our door some day if I could do it. "The question of selling the old looms and starling for the United States came up in the family council, aud I heard it discussed from day to day. It was finally resolved to tako the plunge and join relatives already in Piltsburg. I well remember that neither father nor mother thought the change would be otherwise than a great sacrifice for them, but that" it would be better for our two boys.' '?In after life, if you can look back as I do and wonder at the complete surrender of their own desires which parents make for the good of their childiou, you must reverence their memories with feelings akin to wor. ship. ?? Arriving in Allegheny City, four of us?father, mother, my younger brother and myself?fathor entered a cotton factory. I soon followed and seived as a ? bobbin boy,' and this is how I began my preparation for subse quent apprenticeship as a business man. I received one dollar and twenty cents a week, and was then just about twelve years old. ??1 cannot tell you how proud I was when I received my Ural week's earn ings. One dollar and twenty cents made by myself and given to me be* cause I had been of some use in the world t No longer entirely dependent upon my parents, but at last admitted to the family partnership as a contrib uting member and able to help them t 1 think this makes a man out of a hoy sooner than almost anything else, and a real man, too, if there be any germ of true manhood in him. It is every thing to (eel that you are useful. "fhave ha<l to deal with great sums. Many mill ions of dollars have passed through my hands. But the genuine satisfaction I had from lhat one dollar and twenty cents outweighs any subse quent pleasure in money-getting. It was the direct reward of honest manual labor ; it represented a week of very hard work, so hard lhat hut for the aim and end which sanctified it, slavery might not he too strong a term to describe it. ?? For a lad of twelve to rise and breakfast every morning, except the blessed Sunday morning, and go into the streets and And his way to tho fac tory and begin work while It was still dark outside, and not be released until after darkness came again In the even ing, forty minutes' Interval only being allowed at noon, was a terrible task. V But I was young and had my dreams, and something within always told me that this would not, could not. should not last?I should some day get a better position. Beside this, I felt myself no longer a mere hoy, but quite r J 'a little man/ aud (his made me happy. " A cbaugo soon came, for a kind old Scotchman, who kuew some of our relatives, made hobbius aud took me iu his factory before 1 waa thirteeu. But here for a lime it wa* eveu worse than iu the factory, because I was set to tiro a boiler iu tho cellar, and actual ly to run the small steam eugiue which drove the machinery. The firing of tho boiler was all right, for fortunately wo did not use coal, but the refuse wooden chips, aud 1 always liked to work in wood. But the responsibility of keop iug tho water right and of ruuning the engine, aud the danger of my making a mistake and blowing tho whole fac tory to pieces, caused too great a strain. and 1 ofton awoke and found myself sitting up in bed through the night trying the steam gauges. But 1 never told them at home that I was having a ' hard tussle.' No I no I everything must be bright to them. ?* This was a point of houor, for every momber of the family was work ing hard except, of course, my little brother, who was then a child, and we were telling each other only all the bright things Besides U\ia, no man would whine aud give up?ho would dio 11 rat. " There was no servant in our fam ily, and several dollars per week were earned by * the mother' by binding shoos after her daily work was done 1 Father was also bard at wotk in the factory. And could 1 complain ? " My kind employer, .lohn Hay, peaco to his ashes 1 soou relieved me of the unduo strain, for he needed Bome one to make out bills and keep his ac counts, and flndiug that I cedd write a plain school boy hand, . <1 could ' cipher,' I bocame his ouly clerk. But still I had to work hard up-stairsiu the factory, for the clerking took but little timo. " You know how people moau about poverty as being a great evil, and it seems to bo accepted that if people had only plenty of money aud were rich they would be happy aud more useful, and get more out of life. " As a rule, there is more genuine satisfaction, a truer life, and more ob tained from life iu the humble cottages of tho poor than in the palaces of the rich. 1 always pity the sous and daugh ters of rich men who uro attended by Servants, and have governesses at a ater age, but am glad to remember that they do not know what they have missed. " They have kind fathers aud moth ers, too, aud think that they enjoy tho sweetness of theso blessings to tho fullest, but this they cannot do ; for the poor boy who has in father a con stant companion, tutor and model, and in his mother?holy name?his nurse, teacher, guardiau angel, saint all in one, has a richer, more precious for tune in life than any rich man's son who is not so favored cau possibly know, and compared with which all other fortunes count for little. ** It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of hon est poverty is, how free from perplex ing care, from social unviee and emu lations, how loving and how united its members may be in the common inter est of supporting the famil>, that 1 sympathize with the rich man's boy and congratulate the poor man's boy; and it is for these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many strong, eminont, self-reliant meu have always sprung and always must spring. " If you will read the list of the 'Immortals who wore not born to die,' will And that most of them have been born to the precious heritage of pov erty. " It seems, nowadays, a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished. Wo should be quite willing to abolish luxury, but to abol ish honest, industrious, colf-denying poverty would be to destroy the soil upon which mankind produces the vir tues which enable our race to reach a still higher civilization than it now possesses." Thk Corpsk Kano for Ick Wa TEtt.-r-A correspondent of the Char lotte Observer tells this story of a negro named Butler, whom he describes as tho unique bell-boy of the Central Ho tel in that city: It was in the days of the. lato Eu gene Dawson that Butler fared worst. Mr. Dawson had a way of making life miserable lor hotel negroes and Kot ier was one of his pets. One night a decade or more ago a corpse was loft at the Central over night. It came from South Carolina and was depos ited iu room 70, where itromained, all alone, behind locked doors. Butler was night bell-boy as he is now. Mr. Dawson had a room iu the neighbor hood of tho dead body. He purloined a koy to the room and about 2 o'clock in the morning when all was still and at peace about the town and hotel Mr. Dawson slipped into the vroom of the corp."; and rang the bell twice?for I ice water. Butler left his easy chair in the back part of the ofilco and walked to the board to see what room wanted ice water. When his eyes dropped on " 70 " his courage left him and bis limbs quaked. His eyes spread and his mouth dropped open. He was paralyzed from head to foot but when he saw the shadow of a gown on the wall at the head of the stairs and heard a feeble voice sav: "Ain't ve goln' to fetch no water to seventy?" all his strength came back and carried him out the front door?half the door going with him?and to his home in Brooklyn. It was a week before he could be persuaded to return to the hotel. He argued that would starve before he would work where dead men rung for ice water. Baltimore is considering a plan of changing the name of its North avenue to Senley avenue, in honor of the rear admiral. The present naine is no longer appropriate, the northern boundary of the city having extended I far beyond the avenue. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. The Und You Have Always Bought cept in spot*, vine rann was needed, I H AT FLORENCE AND HAMPTON. THE SENATORAT FLORENCE A Small Crowd and the SpeecheH Devoid of Seusutionul Feu tu ich. The Sounlorial campaigu meetiug at Florenco was uueventrul in its features and not wore than two hundred hearers wero present, win I i the farmers were scarcely represented. The " farmer's movomout" iu tho Fee Dee section is said to he centred upon cultivatiug the best cro.^s grown in that region since 1882. Tho meeting was cullod to order by W. F. Clayton, Esq., acting county chairman, who introduced the speakers. Mr. Lutimer's speech had few if any variations. It was the same old story about what " we farmers" wanted done through the Alli&uce in 1888 and how ho was called from tho plow haudles in 1802 to light their battles and how well ho had fought them for ten years in Congress. He told of getting an appropriation of $15,000 f?r repairing Newberry College, and also securing $208,000 back taxes from the South Carolina railtoad. " John C. Calhouu could not defeat any Philip pine, legislatiou in the present Con gress, and tho only way to get auy thing out of the Republicans is not to antagonize tbem, but to be conciliatory and bring them down South and show them what we really are and not what thoy imagine us to be." He spoke against imperialism and the worthlessnoss of the Philippine islands. He closed by stating that ho still stauds ou tho samo platform that ho did in 1802. Mr. Henderson regretted that he had no Congressional record, but his homo people knew what sort of a man he was. He spoke of his work for the State. Ho does not believe iu Sena torial denunciation, but that a Demo crat should contend for principle. The Republicans want us to be conciliatory so that wo will forgot that there is such a thing as u Republican party. They took McLaurin up into a high mountain and pointed out to him all i he. kiugdoms of the world, aud told him that they would all be his if he would ouly embrace imperialism, and ho yielded to temptation. He spoke against this policy and declared iu con clusion that wo will never have any peace until we bury Republicanism in the North as deep as we have done iu the South. Col. Johnsloue did not speak of self, but of priuciples which actuate his every luotivo. He rejoices that the time has uot come when issues are de pendent upon the presence or absence of half a dozen men. Ho decried any oue who would obtain favors from Re publicans by making concessions to them. Principle is paramount to everything. The House has ceased to be a deliberative body aud the battles of the South henceforth must be fought iu the Senate. Ho made his usual ar raignment on the isthmian panel, con cluding by saying that when it is con structed every important railway in tho I haled States will have some ter minal in a Southern port. He spoke of the "farmer" politician who, after 10 years tenure in a fat ollice, again comes before the people crying "Save me! Save me I For God sake, save me nud don't sond me back to the farm 1" (Laughter.) The Democratic party is a missionary one, knowiug aud believiug in her princi ples and daring to execute them. At present she is helpless, but her day of triump his not far distant. Congressman Elliott followed aud he was pretty " warm in the collar." Ho understood Col. Jobnstone to moan that to obtain appropriations from a Republican Congress concessions must be made, while Col. Jobnstone said " favors " not "appropriations." Any how, it was the means of inciting him to make the best speech he has yet made on tho campaign. Ho had been faithful and an appre ciative constituency had kept him in Washington fourteen years and he had obtained millions in appropriations, and he defied any man to prove that he had made any concessions to get them. He told of an occasion when the river and harbor committee of the House would give him nothing; how he went to tho committee on com merce in tho Senate aud without mak ing any concessions he got' what he asked for. Ho spoke of Democratic obstruction to drastic Republican legis lation, such as the (hum pucker force bill and others equally obnoxious. He told of the cheerful outlook for Demo cratic success. Hon. J. J. Ueraphill said: "To day we have two sets of candidates; record breakers and record makers. I intend to be both." Mr. Henderson?" Mr. Hemphill, did you over hear the fate of the man who was badly thrown when be at tempted to ride two horses at the same time?" Mr. Hemphill?" Yes, aud his name is Henderson." The retort cnme as quick as light uiog and the audience howled. Mr. Hemphill thinks the duly of a1 Senator is something higher than get ting appropriations aud distributing garden seed. Wheu he was in Con gress ten years taxes were never in? creased one cent. Now they are ex actly doubled and they will remain so until the Republican party is burled face downward, for that Is the only way to bury a Republican so that when he begins to scratch he will travel on. ward to the country where he properly belougs. He spoke against expansion aud the ship subsidy measure. ExGov. Evans was the last to speak. He spoke at a disadvantage for the crowd was tired and many had gone to dinner. His speech was on the same lines of his former utter ances only with less personal allusions. Tariff reform was his principal aigu raent. Good stock better taken care of I should be the motto on every Southern I farm, and now Is the time to begin to , ut it into practice. ? tu i. GOVEKNOK I AT HAMPTON Ti in hui mini TucklcB TllllllUll Tenderly?A Uiu-stinn Not Au Hwered. Tho guberuatorial candidates had a pleasant day at Hampton, aud while there was no disagreement as to plat form, the love feast is not a conspicu ous feature of the day. Cbairmau W. S. Smith presided, aud wheu the meet ing began not more than a hundred votors were present. The court house was full when the gubernatorial candidates were an nounced. Sunn: ladies bad much im proved the appearauce of thiugs. The ilrst applause of the day greeted Oou? gressmau Talbert, the opening guber uatorial caudidate. Col. Talbert's speeches are made on popular lines, his views are well and eutertaiuingly put with jokes aud illustration, aud he is iuvariably listened to with attention. Col. Talbert was again heard moBt at tentively, aud was applauded while making his speech, this being loud and liperal when his position wnB stated on taxing white mon to support white schools. Lieut. Gov. Tillman spoke appreci atively of the support always giveu to his father here. He had uo time to dis cuss issues, but paid his respects brief ly to Mr. Heyward, Dr. Timmertnan and Mr. Ansel. He would like to know if Ansel supported dispensary candi dates at tho last election? " 1 was out of the State," replied Mr. Ausel. " What would you have done," said Col. Tillman, after remarking that he thought his friend had more manhood than to run away, " had you been here?" Mr. Ansel replied he would make his own speech at the proper time. Tillman then repeated in detail his severe arraigument of Talbert's long oilleo holding career. He spoke of tho momentous issues now pending at Washington and of Talbeit's empty chair. These bills included one for Sl?O.OOO for South Caroliua. Talbert is wasting time here, though his reo ord does not make his absence of any eon sequence.. Talbert, he said, wound up his career the day he quit Con gress. " He attacks trusts viciously here. 1 challenge him to show where he ever introduced a bill on this or on the labor question." " It would uot do to ruin a good farmer like Hey ward by making a poor politician of him." Dr. W. U. Timmel man was tho uext speaker. Dr. Timmerman made brief introductory remarks ami with pointed words replied to Tillmau. " My distinguished opponent tells you 1 have beeu in offico twelve years. I never held a salaried o?ico but four years. 1 can say to him here, as I have said elsewhere, that I have been presiding officer of the Senate for three years and have never been called upon to vindicate my record as he is trying to do." He was interrupted by Tillman, who asked Dr. Timmerman to read the resolution of thanks voted him by the Senate. Dr. Timmerman retorted that he had no time to read the resolutions, which he had been reliably informed were voted at the closing of the Senate, just before adjournment by Uve or six Senators. Continuing Dr. Timmer man said: "Public office I regard as a public trust; a sentiment borne out by an honest, faithful record." He wants the oil ice for only one term. Hon. M. F. Ansel was next intro duced and made a pleasant, interesting speech, delivering his message from the Piedmont. He paid a tribute to the ladies. All are running for office; most of us necessarily will be left. He was once a candidate for matrimony and was elected; is now a caudidate for office and will be elected if you heed the message from the mountains. Mr. Ansel addressed himself to the is sues, all of which received his atten tion as has been previously reported. He has never been defeated for office before the people. Mr. E. F. Warren then Blepped to the front and said: " Fellow citizens", the pleasant duty has been assigned me to introduce to you one of Caro lina's noblest sons. It has been said that an honest man is the noblest work of God, aud you will Und this man in D. C. Hey ward." As the last words of this brief and eloquent in. troduction were heard the house rang with cheers and hurrahs for Hey ward from numerous parts of the audience. I After acknowledging the reception I given him, paying a tribute to the la dies, to the county of Hampton, worthy of its name, ('apt. Heyward made his speech. He anuounccd his candidacy, ?* the tlrst office that I have asked of the people of South Car olina." He would make the race on his merits. If not elected he would support the nomiuee and return to the farm that Col. Tillman could not lind. He asked TMlman te visit this farm, but he was afraid of mosquitoes and malaria. "If afraid of these for one night does he blame me for not keep ing my family there every night?" The house was crowded, many standing in tho aisle, and Capt. Hey ward's fine speech was attentively heard. He closed amid the same sort of cheora that greeted his introduc tion, and was presented with a mag nificent bouquet of flowers. Sorghum grows slowly at flrst, but it gains rapidly on corn when once it gets firmly rooted, and has far greater ability to withstand drougth than has corn. Its roots strike down deeply and have much greater hardness of texture than corn roots. Corn stub ble, after a winter's exposure will be loosened in the soil, so that it will I break oh* or be turned up with the drag, while sorghum roots, under simi lar circumstances, will be Arm. in the ground and will take most of the next summer to break in pieces. Speaking of flourishing agriculture In parts of Alaska, let it be remember ed that the country about Sitka is wanner than New York State, because the equatorial current deflected from the shores of Japan influence that lati tude, and agriculture in all that region will some day be prosperous. O ?A. tS$ tV O SFB. X -A. ? WH KN UKKKK MKKTSGKKKK Kvuuh und Latimer Locked HoruH ut Mariou tu a War uf Word?. The Senatorial campaign meeting at Marion was marked by an iucident be tween Evans and Latimer that indi cates still warmer times hereafter. Chairmau C. A. Wouds introduced the speakors iu regular order, Evans and Latimer comiug last. The State cor responded says that the speeches were identically the samo as have often been ropoated within the past two weeks; even the " jokes " had become stale, with a two weeks growth of whiskers upon them. The crowd was patient and kuew iutuitively that imperialism would be followed by ship subsidy and next come the trusts and tariff reform, with the never failing, uever euding blowing of the personal horn until time was called by the chairman. While Mr. Evaus was spreading him self on his favorite theme, "tariff re form," a couutrymau who had come to town strolled down by the opera house and stood in the street watchiug what he took to bo a "protracted meeting," and passed on, thinking that if he came up it would be about time to pass around the hat. Mr. Evans repeated his story explaiuiug why he entered the last campaign against McLauriu aud also retold about goiug to Wash ington previous to the openiug meet ing at Sumtor to cousult with certain Congressmen as to who was best quaiitied to enter tho race and expose McLauriu's Republicanism. When Mr. Latimer's turn came, and he was the last speaker, ho first told of hin record aud said let any man put his finger on one single act of his that did uot reflect credit ou his State. (Mr. Evaus was seen to pull a long news paper clipping from his pocket.) Mr. Latimer said that Mr. Hemphill had claimed that he (Hemphill) had led the tight against the " force bill " when Hemphill was in Congress, but he (Latimer) had looked up the record and fouud that the tight was led by McMilliu, although Mr. Hemphill had made a speech against the passage of the measure. He repeated his goat story and applied it to Mr. Hemphill, illustrative of how he had left the State wheu defeated for Cougress. Mr. Hemphill wauted to reply, but as Mr. Evans was drawn prominently iuto the squabble soon afterward, Mr. Homphill let the matter drop for to day. Mr. Latimer went ou and said you may talk about the tariff until dooms day, but the Republicans made the law aud Democrats could not modify or repeal it so long as they were iu power. Wo need nam*tJ busiuess men iu Con gress?not theoretical, men who can do something else beside make llowery speeches. After speaking on this line for a few minutes he turned to Mr. Evans and said Mr. Kvai did come to Washington and suggested that he (Latimer) enter the race against Mc Lauriu. Mr. Evans?" You suggested it, but I did not want you," and then Evaus added: "You iuviled any oue to raise their linger aud point to auy public act or acts of yours that were uot a credit to your State. Here is something that Dr. .1. Win. Stokos, whom we all kuow to have been as honorable, brave and truthful a man as ever lived and was at that time a member of Congress from the Seventh district, wrote about you and bad pub lished in the Yorkville Enquirer Mr. Latimer?" I know every word in it and 1 will toll you, fellow-citizens, all about it." Mr. Evans?" Fellow:Citizous, here is the proof that Latimer peddled pictures in the House. Had his farm stocked with seed by the government and rode on, aud distributed freepassos over railroads to bis friends." The confusion by this time was so great that it was hard to understand distinctly what was said; the volcano which had been smouldering for weeks was now sending out red hot campaign rocks, gas and slimy black mud. Mr. Latinier turued to the crowd and said that Mr. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, had come down to Belton, wanting to mako experiments and that he had furnished the government the land, guauo and labor free of charge and never had been reimbursed by the government. When Bryan spoke at Duo West he had asked the railroads to furnish them a train and they did so aud came dowu and iuvited all who cared to come with them?Tillman and Norton being in the crowd. They went on to Cuba. On another occasion (last winter) he and a parly came down to Charles ton to the Exposition bringing with them Mr. Littleflold, who was so pleasod with what he saw in tIn-. South that he went back to Washington and made a speech against the Cruiupackor force bill after having previously ad vocated it. He had noted that Mr. Evans had often spoken about beiue " hounded down" iu the McLaurin campaign and he bad heard that Evans bad said that ho would put plastors all over him in this campaign, aud added significantly that there are other places besides the rostrum whore auch dif ferences can he settled. Dr. Stokes wanted to ruu in that campaign for the Senate and that was why he made that attack on him (Latimer.) Uy conseut Mr. Evans obtained the fioor aud said that if the matter was pushed to an ultimatum it would not occur on the stand. He read extracts from the newspapers and when he came to the charge that Latimer had offered and toudered Dr. Stokes au annual free pass over a Western trunk line and that he (Stokes) had declined it and returned it to him? Mr. Latimer?" I emphatically deny it." Mr. Evaus (turning to the crowd) ? "Wo all know what an honorable, high-toned, truthful gentleman was Dr. Stokes and now Mr. Latimer denies his statement as being emphatically untrue," and (turning to Mr. Latimer) added: " May (Jod have mercy on your soult" Mr. Latimer? "There is not a word of truth in it." The meeting adjourned uuder in tense excitement. If the matter comes up again the clipping will be published in full. BLOODY RIOT AT I,ANGLRY. Two Negroes Shot to Deuth und ? Nine White Men Hodly Hurt. A serious riot occurred Saturday night ou board au accommodation traiu of the Southern Railway that leavos AugUBta lato in tho afternoon, which was followed by the lynching of two negroes who had been wounded in the riot and placed in the. calaboose at Laugloy. A number of negroes wero on tho traiu, and by tho time the bub urbs of the city were reached they be came boisterous aud disorderly. A number were uuder tho influence of liquor, were armed and spoiling for a tight. Sevoral times they had difficul ties among themselves, but they were of a minor nature. The conductor aud traiu crew tried to keep them quiet, but did not succeed. Thero are two stories as to tho way the difficulty between the whites and blacks was precipitated, aud both are givou as follows : One is to tho effect that a row was in progress among the negroes, and Mr. John McDaniol interfered in the interest of peace. Aflor a Tow words with one negro, Mr. McDauiel was at rue k, and at once sailed in aud knock ed tho negro down. Several othor ne groes attacked Mr. McDaniel and a few white men ou the train went to Iiis assistance. A second statement is to the effect that Mr. McDauiel was passing through tho car and was insulted by a nogro, said to be Cjllier. lie resented tho insult, and the two were quickly ex changing blows. The tight spread, the negroes trying to double team on him, aud other white men going to tho rescue. The riot began just as the train was passing up to tho water tank, which is some distance from the Langley sta tion. The negroes were armed with pistols, while the white men were not. They had only pocket knives and such other weapous as they could hastily pick up. Pistols began to fire, windows in tho car were smashed, aud the racket soou had tho whole villago of Langloy in au intense state of excitement. Although outnumbered by a supo liorly armed forco, tho white mon on the train wero making a bravo stand. Tho train officers endeavored to quell tho riot, but without success. Finally the conductor signalled the eugiucer to pull tho train on dowu to the station, hoping that thero the officers would be able, assisted by the citizens of the village, to put au end to the tighliug aud arrest the riug-lenders. A large crowd was at the depot, many attracted by the report of the pistols and tho racket of the melee ou tho traiu. It did not take them a mo ment to recognize what was ike situa tion and many went to the rescue of the white men on the train. In the meantime the negroes wore endeavor ing to make their escape, recognizing that they were in a hornet's nest. They were mot by the white rescuers, aud fighting was resumed, cveu more liorcely than at first. For several minutes it was raging both inside and outside of the traiu at tho station. Moat of the white men were not lookiug for auy trouble and had no arms. They could only bricg into re quisition pocket knives and sticks. Several had basohall hats. The riot finally subsided, the nogroes having got off the train on the side away from the station and racing for the woods. In short order thoy were followed by searching parties, who were determined on revenge. When tho train pulled out of the station some of the combatants wero still on board, and it is reported some wore turned over to the ofllcors at Aiken and at Graniteville. Dr. W. C. Raker, of Langley, who with an assistant attended all the wounded men, reported one of tho ne groes named Collins as cut to pieces, with over a dozen serious knife wounds about tho head and neck, but still hav ing a living chance. The other negro, Wyatt Holmes, was cut in the neck, but not dangerously. His pistol had not boen lired and he claim? to have taken no part in tho riot. Tho wounded white meu wero Ony Carlor, shot in right side, bullet not fouud; dangorously. The others arc not seriously wound ed, and are as follows: William Cali cut, cut on shoulder ; Johu McDaniel, shot through left shoulder and bullet in right arm ; Alvin Corloy, bullet in right thigh ;^Fred Hurley, glancing shot on forehead and cut on loft shoul der ; Wyloy Lowe, bad gash ou left shoulder , Johu Anderson, buHot deah j wound bolow knee ; C. R. Williams, bullet in loft law ; Rerry Davis, boat ovor head with pistol. Tho people of tho town of Langloy and from the surrounding country were deeply oulraged as the news spread, and the indignation grew as the crowd increased. M titterings against tho two wounded negroes un der arrest were hoard, and as the night went on and the wounds of the white men were discussed, the convic tion grew that the two negroes iu the calaboose were in serious danger. Between 11 and 12 o'clock the crowds in the streets of Laugloy had been greatly augmented by men com ing in from all directions and tho mob moved on the jail. Entrance was forced and when the two wmmdod negroes wero discovered the crowd I began emptying their pistols into them and they weie soon shot to death. It is reported that hnlf a dozen ne groes were wounded in the original riot, but milv these two were caught at Langley. Whether others have been apprehended and dealt with elsewhere is not known. Virginia peoplo are hoping that John Skelton Williams, president of tho Sea board Air Line Railway, will be chosen as president of the Jamestown Exposition Company. He 1? a native of Richmond, and tho Newport News Times-Herald says that ho " has been the apostle of industrial revival in the South, and with a broad, comprehens ive view of the conditions, aided by in domitable energy that almost baffles human conception, he has accomplish ed within the past few years more than any one man living within the Mason and Dixlon line." The oldost inhabited house iu Eng land is on the River Vor, close to St. Albaus Cathedral. It is oclagoutil in shape, aud supposed to bo cloven con turieB old. Tho oldost steam engine uow at work is belioved to bo a Neweomcn winding engine at Farme colliery, .:car (Jlas gow. It was built iu 1809, and ha? worked continuously to tho presoi time. The Massachusetts Legislature hi udopled a bill to compel the manu facturiug companies iu the Stale toptij their employees iu cash instead of by checks. There was a hot aud stubborn light ovor it, particularly in the Senate, aud lhen; the measure was i,rally ap proved, after three days' discus lion, by only two majority, the vote standing 10 yeas and M nays. Tho descendants of Brighutu Young, the Mormou apostle, havo decided to hold annual family reunions. Althoug! he died in 1877 there uro ovor one thousand direct descendants, and thoro is not in Salt Lake City an availahle building large enough to hohl the " family." There are living six wid ows of the Mormon president. Some of these women havo positions of high honor iu tho Mormou Church. A committee of the leading members of Southern Nut Growers' Association will hold a meeting at the Brown House, Macon, Cia., on July 15, to con. sider matters of importance to the as sociation, and especially to appoint a time aud place and organize plans for holding a genoral convention of South ern nut growers, during tho fall of this year, for the promotion of the industry iu which they are concerned. John Hamiltou Lewis, of Seattle, who, while ho represented Washington iu Congress, was tho source of in exhaustible pleasantries, was hurt iu Chicago last week in attempting to res cue u teamster from a position of peril uuder a wrecked waeoo. Mr. Lewis (piite recently won ',000 law suit for John Heal' / of Fort Benton and now and tho latter presentee' i with $100,000 of tho amou The French consul u a lays stress on the importance oi ??uuboo as a material for constructing builders' scaffolding, aud he stales that in Java even a light house has been built witli its help. Tho power of resistance of i a bamboo cano measuring 8 inches to ] 10 inches in diameter, even with a length of G? feet, is enormoti . More-' over, bamboo is said not to rot either j when in the ground or in water, whilo j tho drier and older it grows the llrmor j it becomes. ?< Dr. Javal, of the French Academy ] of Medicine, who is sightless, denies : that naturo compensates blindness by' increased sensibility of touch and hear-, ing, but contends Ilia' when a person ! is blind an extra de\olopmenf takes place in a sixth sense, which is latent in all persons. This sense, which has been called the sense of obstacles, acts ] by the perccptiou of certain warm aud indefinite vibrations. The seat of the sense is believed to bo placed in the forohead. As a consequence of the absorption of the Plaut Railway system, now fully accomplished, the Atlantic Coast Lino will have a total authorized capitaliza tion in lirst mortgage bonds, certificates of indebtedness and capital stock <' $147,000,000. As now constituted th system will extend from Washingtor. D. C, to Tampa and Punta Gorda, Fla., with Norfolk, Wilmington, Char, leston, Savannah and Jacksonville as the seaport outlets and Atlanta ami j Montgomery as tho. gateways to tho i West. \ Twonty-llvc thousand Amciican far-] mers havo migrated to Manitoba this spring, and the Canadians arc getting a Utile uneasy lest these pioneers' may sometime start a movement for tho annexation of the province to the United States. The homestead law has resulted in the taking up of all the] available arable land iu the United; States and Manitoba is the " last chance." It is a great cattle country ; as well as a good place for raising spring wheat. 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