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ELERT Li. AULL. EDrron. TE.\M".-Onte year, $1.50; six iouths 75c; three months, .o cent-; two months, 35 cents; one month, 20 cent-; single copy, 5 eent.-, payable in advance. TERx3S O F ADVERTISING.-$1.00 per square the tirst insertion, and 50 ets. per square tvr each subsequet int-ertion. g' A quare is the space of nine lines of .-olidl brevier type. Azotices in local column e c. per line fo' each in-ertiont for one :month, longet at inch tales. w:th 25 per cent added. A reasouable redtnction made for adl verrientesl b -he three, six, or twelve :nothls. ELBERT H. AULL, Proprietors. WM. P. HOUSEAL, p NEWBERRY. S. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1888. Mr. John MeMaster has been ap pointed Trial Justice in the city of Co lunibia in place of Col. J. Q. Marshall, Secretary of State. There are suggestions in the address to the farmers published by the Executive Committee worthy of consideration. Read it and think over it. The farmers of Newberry, where an expression has been had, favor a pri mary for nominating officers from Gov ernor to Coroner. They realize that it is the cnly way they have of expressing a choice in the selection. The eneginecring corps of the Three C's are working between here and Edgetield. They have passed Edgefield Court House. We hope they will soon have the line permanently located be tween here and Augusta and will go to work putting down the track. The opinion seems to be almost uni versal among Denocrats that President Cleveland will be nominated at St. Louis for re-election by acclamation, and without opposition. Very little as vet has been conjectured as to who shall occupy the second place on the ticket. Rev. Sam Small is canvassing Geor gia in the effort to organize a third party,whichwill have for its main plank prohibition. The prohibition plank is going to be a big question in the polities of this country before long. It is hardly probable that Mr. Small's third party will do much in Georgia this year, but there can be no question that the pro hibition party is gaining ground in this country, and the members of the old parties had as well acknowledge the fact. What will be the end we cannot say. We publish this week the address of the Executive Committee of the Far mers' Association of South Carolina. The address is mild, and the main ob ject seems to be the establishment o1 an Agricultural College. A comparison sive basis. It may be proper to reduct the salaries of judges and State officers but we are not convinced that it would be good policy. A reduction of salary, however, will not reduce the numiber of office-seekers. We think now with the Clemson be .quest, that the Agricultural College will be established, if the acceptance of the bequest does not involve and im pose on the State too many conditions. We agree with the address in two things, that there is too much legisla tion, and The Herald and News has spoken of this before. And wey think we should have a canvass before the nomination of a State ticket, or let us have a primary election to nominate State othicers. PRtOPER. The delegates to the County Demo crat ie Con vent ion from Trownshnip No. 8 conme uninstructed. This we think is p)roper. The club after refusing to in struct the delegates proceeded to discuss the issues that are likely to come up in the Convention, and an expression of the sense of tihe club was thus had and the delegates come to the County.Con vention without having their hands tied by a set of instructions, yet know ing the sentiment of those they come to represent, and as true representatives will act in accordance with the wishes of their constituents. We think this at good and proper plan in the seleetion of delegates to a County or State Con vention. Let your delegates know what you prefer-what your wishes are-and elect men of good common sense, buL not bind them up by a set of instructions and make mere machines out of thenn. They may be unable to carry out the instructions of the clubs, andt then they should feel at liberty to (10 the next best thling their wisdom suggests, without fear of violating the instructions of tile club. The qJuestions thait will likely c.omfe up inl the County or State Convention for action should be (discussed by the Towvnship clubs so tihat the delegtates may knowv tile wishes of the mlemlbers, but we dlislike to see a Iree man bound by a set of rules, which mtay wear a different app)earance in the C'ounty or State Convention to what they had in the Townshlip club. Select the best men who can be trusted as del egates. AN IMPOXITANT sUBJECT. A writer in the Railway Gazette sas:"Our forests are rapidly disap pearinig, and but few people realize that it eary tkes500000acres of forests to Uited States. We have to-day ill the Unlitedl States over 150.0M miles of rail roads. 1886J sa nearly 8000 miles laid, and abeut 14,000 miles more were built in lSsi. The construction of 14,000~( miles of road at 27IN0to tile mile, mieans the cutting of 37,5400,000 nlew ties, while one-fifthi of thle 138,000) miles already con st ructed m iust be renewed, takin'gi at samne rmte 74.50,000P more, a total oft 11,;00,kMJ new ties drawn from our< staninig timiber in the past year for railroad tiles alone. F'or all purpoPses tile forest anrea of Atmerica is suject to an a:nnual decrease of over 50,750.000 acres, ( or at the rate of 139,000 for every day, 4 which, if concentrated, would lay bare 1 an1 area erlual to tile State of Rhode Is- t lanmd in five days, or of the common wealt i of Massachuset ts in thirty-seven dlays.'''" WVe clip the ali o.re fr-om the columns C of rlhe A ugusta Chronicle. Thlis subject r ready, an important sutbject, and yet in the face of this great demand yearly for this one object made upon our forests, so many of our people cut and destroy the best of timber with a wreck lessness that is almost ".tartling. There is too great destruction of our forests simply to get the timber off the land. Those who are thus destroying it may not feel the damage thus done in their day but the next generation will have to plant trees in order to get what in many cases is now being destroyed just to get it off the land. And our forests should not be thus destroyed simply because the timber will be needed by the next generation but for the influence it has upon our cli mate, the rains and so forth. There is plenty of land in cultivation for present demands if properly cultivated without clearing more "new grounds." This subject should demand the attention of those who own the lands upon which this timber is. THE CLEMSoN COLLEGE. Farmer Tiliman's Plan of Campaign-A Tail with One of the Conferees of the Committee. [4pecial News and Courier.] CoLMBIA, April 21.-It was very gratifying to the News and Courier Bu reau to ascertain to-day that its report of the proceedings of the executive corm niittee of the Farmers' Association, be tween 11 oclock last night and 2.30 this morning, was so accurate. The committee adjourned shortly after 3 a. in. No meeting was held to-day, the conferees dispersing to their homes. Late this afternoon a representative of the News and Courier interviewed Mr. B. 0. Duncan, one of the friends of the conmmittee, who had participated in its debates and action. Mr. Duncan was aifable and not uncommunicative. He said that against his wish the com mittee had designated him to draft the address, and that he had spent some time to-day in revising with Capt. Till man the paper discussed and acted on last night. The words he said were Capt. Tillnan's, which corroborates the supposition telegraphed last night. He hoped to have duplicates prepared by Mond.ty or Tuesday, and would send copies simultaneously from Newberry to the News and Courier and the Green ville News. This would be done by the direction of the committee, who, on ac count of the course of the Columbia Register, would not consent to supply that paper with the address. He es timated that the address would occupy a colui and a half of ordinary print. Some of the clauses of the document originally submitted had been stricken out. As to the purport of the address, Mr. Duncan spoke with equal freeness and it is interesting to note how distinctly it was foreshadowed in the News and Courier this morning. Its principal points are as follows: "The farmers are urged to organize in their interest and demand the Agricul tural College provided for by Mr. Clem son's Fort Mill bequest. The organiza tions in each of the Counties are recom mended to require pledges from all candidates to support retrenchment and reform and the Agricultural College according to the plans of the advanced Tillmanites. Nothing is said as to State officers, but the people are urged to eleet only such delegates to' the State Convention in May as will be in- favor of postponing the nomination of State officers until a later period. with the movement than the present State officers." iThe issue of retrenchment and reform ist emade prominent, and in the address "the deadly parallel" is to be dmawn in regard to the salaries of State officers in South Carolina, North Caro lina, and Georgia. This position is taken, so the explanation goes, not only because it is believed to be a popular one, but because a great point was made against the separte college scheme in the last Legislature by the argument that it meant additional taxation. The object of the movement is to ef feet retrenchment and reform in order to provide supp)ort for the Agricultural College. Nothing is said in-the address about 'the Citadel, proving that the ad vice of a member against antagonizing that institution until the Farmers' Col lege should be firmly established, was taken. Mr. Duncan went on to say, however, that it was with regret that sonme of the conferees consented to postpone the attack on the Citadel, and this bears out the report made to the News and Courier that the movement is unques tionably hostile to the Citadel. As to the university, the address will declare that it is the desire -' the farm ers' movement to maintain it on its present liberal appropriations, 'and to make it a high institution, after cutting off the agricultural college feature. Mr. Duncan said that in the Confer ence very little hostility was manifested toward the university as a classical in stitution. There will be no demand for the abolition of the experiment stations at Spartanb)urg and Darlington, the fear of opposition in those counties evidently deterring the committee fromattacking these establishments, but the Columbia station is expected to go with the agri cultural college branch of the university. The address will demand the endow ment of the Agricultural College at Fort Mill by the devotion to its sup port of the Hatch fund of $1.5,000, one -half of the interest on the Agricultural Col lege scrip and the whole of the privilege tax on fertilizers now used for the sup port of the agricultural department wit its departments of fish culture, weather service, veterinary surgery, &c. These three funds will provide, it is estimated fifty thousand dollars a year for the support of the Fort Mill College. The Clemson bequest, amounting to about a hundred thousand dollars, is considered sufficient for the equipment of the college without State aid. WVhen asked what fate was proposed for the department of agriculture when left withboat support Mr. Duncan said it was proposeu to turn its business over to the trustees of the Agricultural Col lege, a majority of whom, it will be re rembered, were appointed in advance by Mr. Clemson. The experimental stations are to receive the same disposi ion. All the analyses of fertilizers and rop experiments are to be made by the stat'of the college. According to the plan of campaign it will be. seen that the proposition soon to e p)lacedl before the people is, in brief, me to turn over the entire agricultural vork of the State, executive and educa. ional, to seven citizens selected by Mr .leson wvithout consultation with the State authorities or endorsement by the The Raleigh Rogues Released on Ikr.d. Ruswn1, N. C., April 22.-Cross I nd WVhite, the defaulting President nd ('ashier ofthie State National Bank t f this c'ity, confined in jail here two ~ ve' ks to await trial, gave bond and vere releasedl from jail last n=ght at niidinight. The bond was $1.5,000~ each. )ne ofWhite's bondsmen is U). H. f< irves, in whose name one of the for- -a eries, for which ('ross and White are a, be tried. was c'ommitted.d IISTRFESS A FTER E.'iTING.-When at v s season of the year you eat some 'n mt or vegetablks, y,.u feel a disturbed Itl mdition about the stomach or bowels, elieve it at once by using Dr. Biggers' sa AN ADDRESS TO THE FARMERS. A Separate Agricultural College and How to Get it.-Comparative Statements of State Expenses.-Too Much Legislation.-A Constitutional Convention Wanted. To the People of South Carolina: The Executive Committee of the Farm ers' Association, feeling that it is in cumbent upon them as the representa tives of the organized fariners of the State to outline a policy of retrench ment and reform in consonance with the aims and purposes of the Farmers' Movement; and to explain the grounds upon which we shall ask the support and aid of our Democratic fellow-citi zens in the coming election, would call the earnest attention of all persons in sympathy with our aspirations for agricultural education and amore econ omical and efficient government to the facts herein set forth. We claim only our just share of edu cational advantages for the agricultural and industrial classes; and that the same shall be placed within the reach of the average farmer's son and not, as is now the case, we be compelled to support only such institutions as are inaccessible to most farmers, and which do not furnish the cheap and practical education needed. We make. no war upon the South Carolina University as a place for obtaining a scientific and classical education, and reiterate our desire to see the South Carolina College liberally supported and to become areal university worthy of our State. But we assert without fear of successful contra diction that farmers cannot be educated ih a city and rcnaiu farmers; and that in all efforts to mix practical and liter ary training the first has been over shadowed; the agricultural students have been few and the attempt an utter failure. The demand for better facilities for cheap and practical education for farm ers has been heretofore refused on the plea of expense,. and the opposition has not hesitated to scare the taxpayers with largely exaggerated estimates of the probable cost of a separate agricultural college. With consummate cunning and unblushing inconsistency they have taken advantage of the agitation for a separate agricultural college to build up that wonderful ten-students "annex", and while crying out against duplication of plant and teaching force, have actually increased the taxes be yond what the Farmers' Association ever thought ofasking for. Not satisfied with robbing the "industrial classes" of the benefits of the "land scrip" fund, they have stretched forth their greedy hands and grabbed the Hatch fund also; and a State which two years age was too poor to support any experi mental station at all now supports three, with their duplicated attaches, thus frittering and wasting the funds appropriated for scientific investigation. In 1885 the University, including Claflin and the Citadel, had an income of about $50,000, and the Trustees claim ed that, as then constituted, it afforded all the practical training for farmers needed by the State. Its income is now approximately $97,000 per annum, but as an agricultural school it is only a bigger and more costly deception. But while our efforts to obtain a recognition of our rights and needs have hitherto failed to secure a college for educating farmers, fortune has unex pectedly smiled on us. The munificeni bqnest of Mr. Clemson, whose af'ectior for his adopted State and wise insighi has removed the great stumbling-block in the way of providing a suitable sit4 and farm for the college, gives us the coveted opportunity. By this, beques1 not only do the farmiers come into pos sessiou of property valued at well migt $100,000, but also of an estate emmnentll suited for the purposes for which it i.l p~lhs~nw~d bythe sacret $tephen .Lee or saymng tat y ,00 is ample for building and equipping school like the Mississippi college. Without counting anything donatec~ by Mr. Clemson except the Calhour homestead, we propos to shmow how thE needed money can beobtained withoul increasing the taxes one single dollar and while many have believed that thE building of a separate agricultural col lege was and.is -the only vital issue rep resented by the Farmers' Movement, we shall call attention to other reformis which we regard as of equal or greater Th uchsn power of money is much greater than it was ten years ago. The taxpaying power has not increased at all, while the price of our main money crop--cotton-has hovered very near the cost of p roduction. The reduc tion of expenditures when possible must then appeal to the common sense as well as.the pockets of our people, and no good reason can be given why sala ries in our State should remain fixed highet than in North Carolina and Georgia-both larger and wealthier States. We invite the careful attention of taxpayers to the following figures taken from the Comptrollers' reports of the three States: N.C. ;S. C. Executive Department..........' 5,200 $ 9,.'00 Compiroler-General'b Dep't....3,500| 5,800 Educational Bureau...........3,100 450 Judicial Department (counting. only8Sou tof12 Judges)... -...37,000. 56,750 Board of Health............... 2,000~ 9,100 State Department............. 400f 4,100 Tresur Deart ent............ 60001 7,100 Ad't& Inspr eeral's Dep't...~ 1,300; 4,400 State House Keeper.............. 750r 1,550 Total............................ 7,:00 $115,90 Difference for doing the same work. 45,600 Then here is another table of inistruct ive figures: n jS9Gogi' asesmnt:s in r unj u be s............. 2 500 ,0 n 1 8 8 7 ..... . ...... ...... .. .... . ..... ..... .... 4 , 0 , 0 Gani-elh nnn er..$0,0,0 Sot Caoia nte otay'a ained nothig, but los. Bt ugn >yte a o nyipadnslre, a (eduction of pay woulbri,ng nasto i'cheap" mer howoldbeineficen. (,at jding byalth ie scramble *IU0over Sikou Carolinas cn sfely nrrey has rting juthig bu lo. ofiials judthey )o gt o the sme money paid lais oth weare,ina lng Goddsgia. ices Withmost prospeou inof thegurewe tateit >re gantedy caithruat i asylum ffetrgn abe oannerals thn othri epa Nrtnthe onearoliavtin urgreata ucton tof hpayeulris,i ande orf ieldgingn incme thoug itram ight over a iae tou tpayes ca0,00 sael rery 1 dengens s goode ffiialent. he owvge if the same isone epadtr :y s in North Carolina i-. adopted. The I privilege tax on fertilizers amounts to over $30,000 yearly. The work done by it can and ought to be done by the Ag-, T ricultural College. Here then is $75,000 to build and equip the college, without. either touching Mr. Clemson's money [ or resorting to new taxation. If then we leave the University the $4,500 now appropriated and the tuition fees, and d relieve it of the expense of trying to t educate farmers and mechanics in an t uncongenial atmosphere, it can acconi- t plish its needed work in a more efficient a manner, and be better for getting rid of l1 these bones of contention; while after I the Clemson college is built, it would have the following income without 1: looking to the taxpayers at all-it and t the experimental stations: i: Land scrip fund.......................................$ 3,75) I Hatch fund................................................15,(M t Priv iege tax, say.........................................o 00 Total............................................... $ 750 1; With this sum we can keep up an ex- i cellent agricultural school at Fort Hill, l worthy of South Carolina, worthy of f Calhoun, and last, but not least, wor- f thv of Mr. Clemson. e but there are other reforms and I economies imperatively demanded be- b fore we can lift the burden of taxation to any marked degree. We have too s much and too hasty legislation, and we d believe it would be economy and wis- v dom to have the Legislature meet bien- I nially instead of annually as at present, a and to change the date of its session. 1 That the burdens of taxation are not equally borne is too evident, and those taxpayers who are honest in their re turns are grievously imposed on. Gov. Hagood long since pointed out that our county governments are both I inefficient and extravagant; nearly at much being spent on them now as in Radical days. We are handicapped and cut off from any improvement along that line by our Radical Constitution, while our very existence as a free peo ple is jeopardized by the ignorant horde of voters watching and praying for a split in our ranks. We earnestly urge the importance and necessity of a con stitutional convention to secure needed economy in county aflhirs, the abolition of useless offices, and to throw stronger safeguards around the citadel of white supremacy, before the seeds of discord shall sprout and grow. To accomplish all this our people must arouse themselves from their leth argy, and take a more intelligent and active interest in political affairs. And here we would warn them to see to it that a set of greedy politicians and office-seekers shall not again, as in past years, nominate a State ticket out-of hand, without havinga canvass or even an expression of sentiment on these and other important issues. Public dis cussion is not only the best means of educating the masses, but is also the chief safeguard of our liberties and the only guarantee of our rights. In be half, then, of the farmers whom we represent, and as one of the best means of bringing about these reforms, we in sist on a canvass by those who aspire to control the State government during the next two years, before they are nominated, so we can know just how they stand. Recognizing the ability of the present incumbents, and in no wise intending to cast any reflections upon them, we yet feel that if they seek re nomination they could spend some of their leisure during the summer most profitably in discussing before their constituents these and any other ques tions of public interest. Thus they can show wherein we are wrong if they dis agreetwith us, or give us the advantage of their approval if they approve? See to it then, fellow-citizens, those of you who sympathize with our objects and aims, that no tricks be played upon us in the May convention. Farmers are too busy to give much thought to their public duties. But they can and should at least demand, anid thus they will obtain, the right to select their officials knowingly, arz; both of establishing the Agricultural College and of making the much needed reforms and economies in the State Goverjnent rests with the com ing Legislature. Our experience with the one just adjourned teaches us to be ware of demagogues and fence-strad diers and weak-kneed individuals with out firmness of character or any con victions of their own. We would there fore advise and urge the absolute im portance of selecting candidates of nlrmness and cap)acity, and of requiring them to define and explain their posi tions. If a candidate is too good or too unfixed to pledge himself to ally line of policy demanded by the people, he can and should be left at hlome; and when a candidate, after having pledged him self and been elected breaks that pledge, as did a goodly number in the last Leg islature, hie is no longer worthy of the confidence and respect of any~ intelli gent. voter. Appealing, thenm, to the good sense and patriotism, not of farmers alone,. but of all classes of our people, to aid us in our efforts tose ure equal justice and equal advantages to all, and to purify and elevate our politics and to bring about a more economical and efficient government in State and County, We are resp)ectfully, D). I. NORRIS, B. R. TILLMAx, H. R. THOMAS, W. Q. M. BERLEY, E. P. MOORE, .Joux MORROH, J. H. MOnRIsox, t Ex. Comn. Farmiers' Association. Columbia, S. C., April 21, 1888. SALUDA DOTS. Farmers are hard at work. . Mr. E. S. Hendrix has about 10 acres of the finest corn we have seen this I year. j While two of our boss fishermen, a Messrs. J. B. and B3elton Stockman, ~ were fishing on the Saluda last Thurs- ~ day they caulght a sea turtle; it had a v soft shell andl was spotted like calico., a Burr said he had seen them while in. Florida, blit had never seen any of them. caught in any of the streams~ about here; it was our first. Fishing has been extensively carried on in this commu nity. A great miany of the fishermen S comes fromn Prosperity; sonie caught i C great many while others (caught almost nothing. . e Mr. H. P. Boland, of the Mt. Tabor 01 fc sectior , visited this community a por tion of last week.0 There will b,e p)reachiing at Zion A church thec fifth Sunday at half past 10 ' &'clock a. mn. F One of Prosperity's young men seems to like to visit this community very F. rnuch; he comes about every t wo weeks. We think erc long we can give his samne in ful!. ce We have been asked to ask some kind pt xditor if there is any road law, and if sc o, what it is. Sonme have paid their wo dlollars wvhile others have~ not paid, eii ecithier have they worked the roads, \X md we want to kniow where to take dIi iold to matke themi work the roads. ['hey arc very anxious to know, and1( of iope the kind editor will answer, or omne one else. DOUBLIN' Te To A PARENT.-Why is a riddle vhiich is very clearly discovered like a Jo etter wvritten by a child to its mother? Y( t is tooi apparent (to a parent.) It is dr pparent to every mother who has ty ured her child of eroup wvithi Taylor's ov ~herokee Remedy of sweet Gum and Ti: Julleini thait it should be~ kept l-y aill kil ABLAZE AT UNION. he Alarm Sounded at Midnight-A Block of Buildings Destroyed. :orrespondence of The Herald and News.] t UN IoN, April 2.-On yE"..rday (Sun- 1 ay) morning our town was aroused be- f veen the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock by ] ie dread alarm of lire. It was some 1 .me before the citizens were fully t roused to their danger, and the fire 1 ad gained pretiy good headway before t iany of the citizens arrived upon the < yenle. The fire originated in a woodens < uilding near the center of a block of j wo brick and several wooden build igs. The entire block was consumed. t was a remarkably ealin night. Had here been any wind, it would have cen almost impossible to save the tine lock of two-story brick buildings that ere separated from the destroyed i lock by a space of about thirty-live i ot. The nearest building was saved ] rom catching by the hard work of the itizens with the aid of wet blankets. I he last building burned was occupied v Reuben Gee and owned by Mrs. I. A. Briggs. It c:auld easily have been aved had there been an organized fire lepartnient, as Mr. Gee's entire stock as saved except what was in the cel ar. The remark was made here that "11 Gee's goods had been taken out and he store sprinkled and swept. The fire is supposed to have caught rom a stove. The total numberof buildings burned has seven, includiigsnie small wooden varehouses in rear of the stores. The )arties were insured, but the insurance vill not cover the loss.- M. A. Bri rgs' )ick building, occupied by I. T. 'ee, naured, for $1,200, about half value; lohn Rodgers, .ooden building, occu >ied by J. H. Rodgers, hardwa re-loss 52,000, insurance $1,000; J. H. Rodgers, dock of goods, loss $3,000;. insurance 1,500. H. M. Grimball's loss was three Xoodeii buildings valued at $2,000, in :u red for $700. The negroes worked like Trojans Iarr. ing water and working the hand ngil. and carrying out goods. 'Tlie town is sadly in need of a fire oinpany and a water supply. The rand engine could only be worked by water which was brought in buckets and emptied in the tank. It made me wish that our boys and "Young John" had been present with a water supply. How nicely and quickly we could have i enclied the flame. Notwithstanding tie late hour there were many ladies nresent to witness the conflagration. Union should have a good fire com pany. It would cost something it is true, but the buildings that would be saved, and the reduction in insurance would soon overbalance the cost of an engine and a water supply. J.R. M. QUITE AN OLD RASCAL. Kentucky's Defaulting Treasurer Began his Work in 1868. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 22.-The amount of ex-treasurer Tate's defalcar tion, with all credits made, is now placed at $150.000. It is learned that just before leaving Tate sent a negro porter to the bank for a large sum, saying he wanted it to pay a school claim. As no school claims were due, this is made evidence that he took with him $75,000 to $100,000. The commissioners found that the defaleation runs back many years, and one of his I. 0. U's is dated 1868, the year Tfate camne into offiee. In settling from year to year Tate balanced his books for December 31st, and presented his banik balances for the. end of the first week in .January. In the settle menits, twelve years ago, what appear to be forgeries have been found. SForgery is extraditable, and it is on amount to -$50,000. e - ~nmen hope to get off without paying. Several have their property in their wives' names. DETAILs OF THE CHINESE EARTH QUAKE. Many Vilnages Devastated anid Thousands of People Crushed to Death - A Partial List of the Towns Visited. SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-The steamer City of New York, which arriv ed yesterday from China, brings details f an earthquake in Yunnan. The Pre fet of Lini An, with Chi Hens of Ship Ping and Kien Shui under him, have jointly reported to) the Governor of Yun nan as follows: From the second day f the twelfth month of last year till he third day of this year there were >ver ten shocks of earthquake, accom panied by a noise like thiundler. Ya mend in the cities of Ship Ping and Kien Shui were either knocked down or iplit right down, and the temples like ise. In Ship Ping eight or nine-tenths f the houses in the South are falling lown, and half of those in the East; in he .Northwest thousands are being :racked or bent out of perpendicular. l'wo hundred people--men and women, >ld and young-were crushed to death, Lid over 300 were wounded and injur At Tung Hiang over 800 were crushed o death and about 700 or 800 wounded. At Nang Hang there are over 200 dead Ltd over 400 injured. At Si Hiang there are over 200 (lead nd over .500 injured. At Peh Hiang about 100 were killed nd the same nuniber injured. [The four places last named arc su urbs.] In the town andi suburbs over 4,0 eople were either killed or wounded; ight or nine-tenths of the houses had illen down and the rest were cracked nd leaning over. In Mien Shin, in the city, seven were illed and many wounded; in the ortwest suburb 300 to 400 houses -era overturned, 249 people were killed nd 1.50 or 1(10 woundedi. The World Takes Shape. [News aind"'Courier.] A charter has been issued by the] ecretary of Statr- to "The Word-Budget< ompany," of Charleston. The return -i the corporators, Octavus C. Cohen i A. M. Cochran, shows that the< itire capital stock of $2.5,000 in shares '100 each, has been subscribed by thei llowing parties.t sHAREFS. etavus C. Cohen....................100 t .M. Cochran (in trust).......... 2.5 m. A.Courtenay and E. L. Halsey.. 2.5 m. E. Huger........................ 10 -ancis J. Pelzer, .Jr................ .K. Peizer......................5 rthur Pelzer........................5 S. Rodgers......................... 5 Total............................... 250 The return lurther shows that 440 per tt. of the amount subscribed has been .id i; that on the 16th of April sub ribers representing all of the shares ken met and1 organized the company ad >ting by-laws and( electing Fran-i S.J odgers, W. A. Courtenay and m. E. H uger directors, and that these -eet rs, at a subs:quent meeting, elect- e Francis S. Rodgers president and m. K. Pelzer seret.ary and treasurer the corporation.f rrible Redsult ofa Foolhardy Exper:ment. C DETRoIT, April 2.---Ani Evening rnal special fronm Marquette says: t( sterlay afternoon a party of hog mi vers on a log drive in Ilaraga Coun- se attempted to thaw some dynamite m. er a cooking stove in their shanty. el: e result was a terrific explosionwhich led three men and severely injured A Father's Appeal. Samuel W. Brooks, father of Hugh 1. Brooks, alias W. H. L. Maxwell, onvicted of the murder of Preller, has vritten a long and touching appeal to he American people to help him save us boy from the gallows. The appeal ills nearly seven columns. The elder 3rooks gives his reasons for asking pub ic assistance: The injustice of his son's rial and the hardships of Missouri state aws, which operate entirely in favor of he lower courts to the exclusion of the iefendant's challenges; the conipetence )f the jurors; the errors in the criminal udge's instructions; the failure of the ,ourt to admit proof of the accused's rood character; the suppression of evi lence, and particularly the frequently lenounced Dingfelder plot, by which tn alleged confession was obtained from Brooks, ti rough a detective incaree ated in the St. Louis jail, are all urged ,n measured and respectful, but strong language. The tone of the appeal is well tempered, and its terms are calcu lated to touch the hearts and win the iympathy of the public. Brooks, se nior, asks sympathetic citizens to send letters to Governor Moorehouse asking him to interpose his mercy between the boy and the gallows, The United States Supreme Court has refused Brooks a re-hearing, and when the mandate epmes down at the end of the May term, probably he will be re-sentenced to death. A cotton factory is to be erected at Danville, Va., with a capacity of 32,00( yards of cloth per day. New Advertisements. NOTICE. I WILL sell on saleday, in May next a first-class McCormick Harveste and Binder, if not sold at private sal before that time. Apply to the under sigued. Terms cash. 0. L. SCHtUMPERT, Attorney. PUBLIC MARKET. CorNCIL CHAIAMIERS, 25 April, 1888. i IN accordance with an Ordinance the Town of Newherry, the stalls ii the Public Market will be rented to th highest bidders at 12 M., Monday, Ma; 7th, 1888. By order. J. S. FAIR, 2t C. & T. T. C. N. :=:1O' IS A GO' T'lE:: -TO PAINT YOUR HOUSES --OR Whitewash Your Fencing While the weather is pleasant and Painting Material Cheap. Try our "RED SEAL" White Leac at only $7.50 per hundred pounds, c our Ready Mixed Paint, in Pure Whit or 20 different colors, at only $1.30 pI ganon. O e Cr Load, 100 bls. pure fres Lime, received this day, at S. P. BOOZER'S Hardware and Paint Store. NOTIkE O)N the 10th of May next, at 11 ~ M., the Board of County Commi sioners will let out the contract fc building a bridge over Cannon's creel near Jno. J. Kinard's, on the roa leading from WValter Ruff's to Prospe ity. The Board will be present at tla ti'me and place named, with suitabl plans and specificaticn3. The Boar -reth ve rnht t reject any and a On t It oa aynext, at 1 . teBoard will meet at R.'T. C. Hum ter's to consider the opening of public highway "leadingr from the S Luke'sroad, near R. T.C. Hunter' to the Ridge road, near Geo. H. Mo r-is', jr., passing by Geo. H. Morris, sr Jacob B. Fellers, T. B. Morris an Andrew Nichols, by the most practiet ble route." On the 15th of May next, the Boar will meet at Dr. D. A. Cannon's to 14 out the contract for building a brid~ over Beaverdam creek, on the Boul night Ferry road. Plans andI specifies tions to be exhibited at the time an, placed named. The Board reserves th~ right to reject any and all bids. Border of the Board of Count Commissioners. GEO. B. CROMER, Clerk. COUNCIL ELECTION COUNCIL CHAMEERS, ) Newberry, S. C., April 17, 1888.j N OTICE is hereby given that on th 26th April, 1888, at 5~ p. in., th TIown Council will hold an election fo the following officials : Clerk and Treas urer ; Chief of Police and Policemen and Overseer of Streets. All applications for Police must be it the applicant's hand-writing. Appli cations to be filed with the under signed. JOHN S. FAIR, Clerk & Treas. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA NEWVBER RY COUNTY-IN PRO. BATE COURT. WV. A. Fallaw, as Adm'r , &c., and iri his own right, plaintiff, vs Aikeri Fallaw, et al., defendants. Complaint to sell land to aid in pav muent of debts, injunction, &c. BY VIRTUE of an order passed or L)28th March, 1888, in the above stated case, I will sell at public outcry in front of the Court House in said U'ouinty, on saleday (7th) in May, 1888, ull that lot of land situated in the vil lage of Helena, in said County and State, containing seven acres, more or ess, and bounded by the Laurens Rail moad, by lands of J. 0. Meredith,Mrs. J. 3.Wilson and others, it being a part of she real estate of which Mrs. Elizabeth Fallaw died seized and possessed. This and will be sold in several lots of one >r more acres each, plats of which will ~exhibited on day of sale, prior to rhich time they can be inspected in the >ffice of the Juage of Probate. Terms-One half cash, with the priv lege to pay all cash, and the balance in welve months from day of sale, with egal interest, and secured by a bond of he purchaser and a mortgage of the >remises sold. Purchaser to pay for >apers. J. B. FELLERS$, Judge of Probate, N. C. 28th March, 1888. iTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA NEWBER RY COUNTY-IN COM MON PL EAS. Cancy Warner et al., vs. Frank Kibler. Complaint for Partition. B3Y ordler of the Court herein, I will sell before the Court House at 'ewherry, in said State, on the First flonday in May, 1888, all that lot and arcel of land, situated in the Town of rosperity, County arid State afor-esaid, 'taining One-Half of an Acre, more r less, andl bounded by lands of J. A. [armon, J. C. Bloyd, and others, and onting 33 feet on the Holley Ferry .oadl, anid running back of same width feet. It being the land of which eily fAnn Kibler, died, seized and >sscssed arnd sold for partition. Ternms: One-half cash, with privilege 'pay all cash, and the balance in 12 onths, with interest from day of sale cured by a bond of purchaser and ortgage of premises sold. Pur raser to pay for papers. SIL AS JOHNSTONE, 18 April 1888 Master. Paine, elery For The NERVOUS The DEBILITATED The AGED. PIF 1)O.'r AR I.NE ROUJrE Richmond and Danville Railroad. Columbia and Greenvmsse Division. Condensed Schedule-In Etrect April 22. 188 (Trains run on 75th Meridian time.) To. tNo. tNo. tNo. N - NRTHBUN. 3.;53. 2153. 51.11 PJ' ........ A31j A31 PM Lv Charleston ............ -.-.---.- 6- --- Lv colu ubia............. 145 . 11 .. il 10 ArAis ton .............24 - . 00 Lv Alston ................... .-- - 2-4- 12-05 A Ar Union...............-.-- 4 -.... Ar Spartanbur.. .... . 6 4 ...... Tryon................ --.. .--- ---- -- Saluda ................... ... . - . Flat Rock............... .----- .----- .---' . Hendersonville.. ... ...... .. .. ...... 653 I A sheville ...............A........ -------- --- .--- - --- Hot Springs......... ...... - - 00 P M . P31 Pom aria ................. 2 58 .............- 12 -. . Prosperit y.............. 3 23 ...... ....... 123 I. N ewberry .............. 4 u0 --.. ------. ....--. r G old vil le ................ 5 111................... - Clinton .................. 5 35 ........ ....... .....- .---- - Laurens ................ 6 _0 .... ...... ... -inety-Six .......... - - 2,.' (ireen wood. ...........3..- ....---...... 3 02 Abbeville............. .... .... . ..5 Belton . .................... I.. . . - -- 4 -- -- A 11. - Lv Belton..................... ...... '10 ' --.----- 4 -. . Ar Williamuaton .............I10 44 . -:.... Pelzer ....................l........ 11 51 ....... 4 -5 --.. Piedm ont............. ..... 11 1 ........ 5 17.... Greenville ........... :.... M ........ 6, .. A nderson............ .... ........ ........5 . ceneca ........................... ... ......... 6 12 W alhalla ............... .........--------........ 6 5 . :1 A tlanta................... ... .............. 0 40 30UiTHO.i2.30. 22. 4. 52: A M Lv W alhalla............. 7 50 ----- . .--- . ------ Seneca.................. 8 30 ...... . ......- . Anderson............... 9 42 .... . . A shbev ille............... 11 101. .. ------- --. Greenville........... 9 -0 .... ---- - - 2 0 .Piedmont ............... 10 t ....._.---.- ---.... 318; Pelzer......................10 51......... "........-..---. 3 35 W illianston ..........10 58 ...................... Belton.....................II11 26; ........ .......-.... 4 t"5 P M1 Greenwood ...........12 57 ........ ..... . Belton . ......126 Ninety-Six .......... 1 44 --...- ----- A- . ------ Laurens.............. --...---.. --- -...... (.linton .... .... .... Goldville 6 .... Newberry.............. 3 a5'........ ....... 7 ------ Prosperity ............. 2 ' -- -------- 7 46 ...... Pomaria ................. 3 45......... 8 0 -..... 1, Ar Alston................... 40 .----- . r Lv Alston . .................. 4 05 3. ...... . -. -- Hot Springs......... . .50 ..... e Asheville .............. ..... 9 I..----- -- ------- r Hendersonville.... 11 07 ...---- -------. Flat Rock............. 1123;................. .aluda.................. ......:11 53 ........ ............ 'A M; --... Tryon .............. .......1234;A M:........-..... Lpartanburg.... .....I 2 12 6 00 ....... ...... nion..................... 3 521 8 50. - Ar Alston............. 5 40112 20 .......... PM PM'AM ..... Columbia............... 5 07 6 3u Y2 20 9 15 ....... Augusta.................. 9 10.10 30 .............. harleston- I --.. (viaS. RR) 9 45 1 i00'....... -----. Savann P .------------. 3 (via c &S)........:653..:.......-.. . Daily. tDaily except Sunday. d TIIROUTGH CAR SERVICE. r-On Trains Noa. 51 and 50 Pullman Sleepers be te tween Charleston and Hot Springs, N.C., via A. C. L. Columbia and Spart.anburg. Through ePassenger Coach between Charleston and Mor dristown, via S. C. Railway, Columbia and Spar 11 tanburg. .TiIkets _on sale at principal stations to all 1D. CARDW ELL, Asst Gen. Pass. Axt., a Columbia, 8. C. SOL. H AAS. Traffic Mauaager. t. r- X-.A. CARLISLE, IANES 3.LANE, Late lEeal Estate Agent, -a Attorney at Law. Philadelphia. ' IRLISLE & LINE. de Real Estate Agents. e vE have formed a partnership of vthe above style and firm name fo iheprps of buying and selling dReal Estate, renting lands and collect e ing rents, and hereby solicit the patron age of land owners. WE HAVE FOR SALE : 1. One house and lot in Helena, S. C. Price, $600. Possession given January 1, 18.89. ,4. One plantation of 60.5 acres,on Indian Creek,in farming condition. Price $6000. .5. $8.50 for six room cottage and lot in Newberry-one-third cash; balance in three anluual instalments. S6. $3,5.30 for 1 two story brick house e in Newberry town, Newberry, S. C. rFOR RENT: One six-room diwell - ing, in town of Newberry, owned by M. A. Carlisle. 'These lands will be sold oni favorable terms, and tihe house will be rented on - easy ternms to a good tenant. .CARLISLE & LANE. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLI NA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY IN PROBATE COURT. William A. Fallaw, as Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Fallaw, de eeased, plaintiff, against Aiken Fal law and Clinton Fallaw, Defendants. All creditors of the estate of Elizabeth Fallaw, deceased, are hereby required to render in and establish their denmands - before this Court onl or before the 30th day of A pril, 1888. J. B. FELLERS, GUANO! GUANO!! --- HJAVING just received a delayed c ILcargo of material, which we 'are a, now mlanufacturing, we are prepared to fill orders promptly for our Manipulated Guano a AND EXCELLENT Orders by telegraph will receive special attention,. TH E WILCOX & GIBBS'GUANO CO., si 1.38 EAST BAY STREET, Charleston, S. C. A 21 NEIBERRYHOTTON ILLS. Meeting of Stockholders. ~ NE w n EiRR, S. C., A pril 18th, 1888. TH E Annual Meeting of tile Stock- p1'i h.lolders of the Newberry Cotton dlt Mills will be held in Knights~of Honor mi Hall, at Newberry, S. C., on Wednes- "I day, the 2d day of May, 1888, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the election of Directors for the enisuing year, and for the transaction (of other business. is Please attend in person or by proxy. W GEO. S. MOWER, th Secretary. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT ! eo XTOTICE is hcrebv given that I will, ih on the 12th day of May, 1888, make a final settlement of tile estate of 89 Charles Gallmanl, deceased, before the I Probate Judge of Newberry County, pi and will on that day apply for a dis charge as administratrix of the said estate. CHANEY GLENN, A NERVE TONIC. Celery and Coca. the prominent in gredients, are the best and safest Nerve Tonics. It strengthens and ~uiets the nervous system. curing e frvous Caness, lysteria, IeeP lessness. &c. AN ALTERATIVE. It drives out the poisonous htmonrs of the blood purifying and enrichin; it. and so overcoming those dise=ses resulting from imnpure or impove, ished blood. A LAXATIVE. Actingmildlybutsurelyonthebowels it cures habitual constipation, and prootesaregular habit. Itstrength ens the stomach, and aids digeston. In its com-osition the best and most active diureticsof the MateriaMedica arecombinedscient ificallYwithother effective remedies for diseases of the kidneys. It can be relied on to give quick relief and speedy cure. gIIadredeof teeti=onflshsvebeen received Epo ns who have used this remedy rith r leeet. Sendfor circulars.givin ftnn particuls. price $1.00. Said br DrugsittS. VELLS, RICHARDSON &CO., Prop's BUBLINGTON(.VT. A GOOD MiLL. WE lave, perhapS, as fine set oI Mill Recks as ainy in the State Ve make meal equal to any Water ill. We grind any time we get 4 or 5 usheks of corn. When the Mill is not unning, we keel) Meal Chops and xrits of our grinding to exchange for ornl, or to sell. FREE DELINEJiY I -' . DOMINICK& LOVELACE. ly. With cor<ial thanks for the liberal pa ronage received in our opetitig, we vould respectfully inform our patrons, riends an<d the pbthiie generally that we ire constantly atling it - ms to our stock. Ve now keep our special line complete ttiti yot can alw:v fin<d whatt we adver se. Our Dress Goods t.on con-it of Can4 meres, Nis Veiling, H;"nrietta's Almos 3ea-topol, Flat nels, Tri"c, d an<l at ythler woolen gtu<ds i:ow f:t-hionable, silks. Vatervd Silks and S-<tins. Gintg ams and d.:,atslic Pl::ids anl Calico. Knit Goods for Ladies :and Mi-ses aid 'hildren Jersiy-. Lu''rvesT. P.tttta tt;d Skirt, ulso. G,"nt- Unidtrve-ts. We cat gie you a fttii "Btitlal Out i'i as eel; p a . oN ca:m t,nv and make hemi. Why ! hen, all th.n": rt uble amd rexativil of g:thvrirg up an<d nking. when we have them reatly ar your door? Fuli line of nicey tiniibe<d and embroid 'red Und rnear in full stni:s-at prices to stit :all. Corset- anl B:-tits o. all size- aid at IlI prices. Ladies, Misses :unl Childrens' Hose, and Gent- Half Hose. Ladies and Gents Handktrehief-. Linen, Lawnu,and Silk. Ladies I.itten Collars an<d Cuti. Full line .of Tri,ming Goods in all the latert an<d inost fashiotalale goods viz: Furs, Sat it, Silk.Velv. t.Velveteen, Gimp, Gallo:n, Ilereil<-s Brai.l, Coi's Briad, Beade*I S-i t-. (1am d m.de) Beaded Trimintittg in all colors. Domie-tic Home spn. Bleachel and Unhleached Tick it.g-, Flannels. etc'.. in fact evert..hing usually foun:! in a tit-tcla-s Dry Goods st ore. All Millinery Gootd- nwill now be sold at big <list cunt,, prt I a.atory to Sprit.g trade. Agenrc for "Brobai d's Window Holder," or Lock, t-efil and safe, t:o Burglar cau enter w hc"re this lock is ap plie-new on exlaibition in front of store. Call arnd e'xanuine.. TIhree nice roomos, imo,riediate'ly over store, fot' rent at reasoniable prices. Mi-s- L.'lie Ri'es. M:dn'e Metts anid Stes Ie Bowers are st ill w ith uis anid will take pl,-asuire in shiowirni <.ur new and select stock of ia.hiontable goods to their macny friends anrd eirstomrtrs genterailly. Again thankirrg .von for the~ liberal patronage extetnded andl solicitirng aeon tizuanfce of the same, we are -MuMst Resneactirnlly, illi, & iliS, T11O8, F, 'iIR AAT, Main street. New berryv, S. C. I. D. SHOCKLEY. J. D. SIIOCKLEY SHOCKLEY BROS., - Contractors - Builders. * ~ --GENT.S FOR WMBER, D00RS, SASH & BIINDS~ NEWBERRY, S. C. MANU'FACTU7RERS of Bracketse, Sawed .and Turned Balus'trades. Hand Rails. Mlantles, Columns, etc. Estin.at-S sade on buildings in town or country. PrIces reasou ble. Planing .Mils and Shops in Ironrt of ail. Call and see us. 49 lea4e0 .0 p m CdB~i.,i ?r~ ar s r C~re hi. dNT1's)e8a'~~freao att be Ckg, eger5oligF rtu , huaPaeBufe ' 14 and 23 bfet orept Ca eaton and glot S pro N ca s ha eas General Pas T ht. man ufa4. hae' eui ve contrscts of theni n a er in all sIzes, to fit tall men, short men. mni and leani men. Gents' Furnishing Goods e now In their place, and awaitinig your In ection. The tine of l'niderwear for. sring id summner consists of nit gratdesmof India suz,-. lnhriggatn. Lisle Thread and Merino Iso. half hose in the sanme ttate'ril, in plaina id fancy3. A Beautiful Line Gents' Neckwear. The larest assortment aave ever shown. The patterns and designs these novelties are entirely new this ason, and I am offering thetm at rickes that :11 nake thetm move. Gents' Fine Shoes r Sorng and Summer we-ar. have I ""n e'e-.tn stoc'k, arnd they eibrace all th.e Ierent shapes arnd styles of shoes trhat : u.ufact ured. Genits' slippers and danch. mse always in stock.* My Hat Stock complete in SprIng styles, in all the latest lor's in so)ft and stilf bats. The assortnr eut ready for your ltnspes'tion. You will be ae than sat istled if you will call and see It Is important -'all to know that in trading here you are yng from, a reliable house, aend that.the ads are sold as represented. I! they do not rte up to what they arc represented tobe aways ready to) make It satisfac'tory with purchaser. Cow, before nraking your purchases of. ring Clothin,' c'all and se'e what I have In 'refor you. Y wili be pleased to hav'e you .1 and inspect the stock, as it will u.fford ma asure In show<ng you tbrough. ktespectfully, M. L: KINARD, Columbia, S. C,