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ELBERT " . AUJLL, EDITOR. NEWBERRY, S. C, TiURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1888. THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER-SBALL HE BE APPOINTED OR ELECTED ? Most of our esteemed contemporaries look upon the proposed Constitutional Amendment, to make the office of County School Commissioner ap pointive instead of elective, as not only useless but positively objectionable. But there are two sides to this ques tion. Without insisting upon either we shall endeavor to point out some of the reasons which have led to the pro posed amendment. The view that the proposed amend ment implies that the people are not competent to. select a school conimis sioner is, we believe, altogether erro neous. We do not think that the proposed amendment implies, or is intended to imply, that the people are not compe tent to select their own officers. The Judges of the State are not elected cirectly by the people, and there was a time. when the Solicitors were not so elected. Is the fact that the Legislature elects the Judges con sidered a reflection upon, or an insult to the intelligence of the people? When the -Solicitors were so elected, was it because the people were less competent than now to choose good men? No. The object was to remove these officers, as much as possible, above and away from the chances and charges of politics, and to place them in a position where they could discharge their im portant duties without fear or favor. It is a fact in favor of the proposed amendment that every State Superin tendent of Education since 1S76 has repeatedly and earnestly urged this amendment. These were al! men whose judgment was worthy of respect, and in whom the people of the State had the greatest cr.nfidence. The main reason which they give for the recommendation is that the muta tions of politics rarely leave a good man in office long enough to become familiar with the duties of the office, and while he may be replaced by one equally good, still he is a new man, and has everything to learn. Thcy fur ther urge that a School Commissioner appointed by the Governor would be more independent and fearless in the discharge of duties which are for the good of the schools, but the faithful performance of which may sometimes endanger his popularity. Not once do they deny that the peo ple are able to select good men, but on the contrary admit that in many cases they do select good men. The proposed amendment is no new or strange measure. The fact is that in the majority of our States County and City Superintendents are appointive. We believe that either the term of of fice should be extended M four years, or the proposed amendment should be adopted. We believe that a term of four years would secure most of the ad vantages hoped to-be gained by mak ing the office appointive. The proposed amendment to make the tenure of office of the Probate Judge four years instead of two years is right and proper, and will no doubt be carried by a large majority. If there is -any county office of which the tenure should be four years it is that of Pro bate Judge.____ Thc Woodrow q"estion was again K discussed in the Pr. syterian Synod at Greenwood last Monday. This time it came up in a new form, with a victory for Dr. Woodrow. The question, in some shape, has been before the synod for four or five years. And the end is not yet. _____ THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. It is only a short time now before the national election, when the whole of the people shall select the next presi dent of the United States. The man who for the next four years shall be the head of one of the greatest nations on the earth. It is an important event in our history in many respects. The defeat of the Republ'can nominees means the death of the National Re publican party, and a desperate effort is being made by that party to regain control of ~the government. We be lieve the Republicans will be defeated. Cleveland has made a good president, * in fact one of the best in the long list of presidents. His administration has been acceptable to the business inter ests of the country.. The campaign is drawing to a close --and the people will soon decide at the ballot-box between Cleveland and Har rnson. The battle ground is New York and Indiana. Democratic chances in bo0th these states are good. The indications are that they will both give their elec toral votes to Cleveland and Thurman. Capt. F. W. Dawson who has just returned from New York, says that the signs are very encouraging for Cleve land. Mr. Dawson is a member of the Natapnal Committee and should be posted. But after all the forecasting the results of an election is very uncer tain and unreliable speculation even by the best informed. The South Carolina press is surpass ing itself. The Weekly News and Courier is now given at the metropoli tan price of one dollar a year--and the World prints a weekly edition at the same price-both brimful of news. The Greenville News is looking bright and reflects the polish of a new press which can be run at a rapid rate, and yet Brother Williams' pen can go as fast. * The Columbia Record is vigorous and enterprising-signs of improve ment on all sides. * The weeklies in the State are also making rapid strides. The Yorkville *Enquirer has p)ut in a fine new press, which leads the editor to give some interesting facts about the first country newspaper of the State, and the great progress of the art of printing inr his day? The Greenwood Tribune is con diucted with much ability under its new management. It issued several good extras during the Presbyterian aynod at Greenwood. A BOLT THREATENED. Legington Democrats Repudiate the Re sults of the Recent Primary. LEXINGTON C. H., S. C., Oct. 13th, 1888.- At a meeting of the Lexington Township Democratic Club the follow ing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: WAEREAS, at the Democratic pri mary election held in this County on the :9th of September last, for the pur pose of nominating candidates of the Democratic party of Lexington Countyt for Senator, Representatives, and the different County officers, in accordance with the rules and regulations hereto foreadopted and observed by the said party for conducting said election, such gross and flagrant violations of said rules and regulations were perpetrated and allowed at a number of the ballot boxes,notably at Peak Station, String Hill, New Brookland, Lewiedale, N aza reth Church, Martin's Mill and some other precints, by voting numbers of drunken Radical negroes, repeating,. stuffing the ballot-box, and many other fraudulent and illegal devices and irre glrte,both in voting and counting the votes, as to render null and void the result of said primary election; and whereas the Executive Committee of w'd Democratic party did meet at Lexington C. H. on Tuesday, the =d of October, following said election, and although these violations of their rules and all Democratic usages and prin ciples heretofore governing our primary elections in Lexington County, were patent to their observation during said election, and knowledge of the same was brought specially and forcibly to their attention by a formal and earnest protest presented to their body by Mr. S. P. Wingard, one of the candidates for Senator, through his counsel, Judge Crawford,of Columbia, yet said Execu tive Committee did tabulate the returns and declare the result of said primary election, as if no frauds and irregulari ties, calling for any action on their part, had been committed therein, be it therefore. Resolved, 1. That we, the Democrats of Lexington Township, in club meeting assembled, do denounce said election frauds and other illegalities and out rages as political offense of the blackest and most disgraceful character, and that we hereby enter our solemn indig nant protest against announcing the result of said election as the voice of the majority of the white and law-abid in Democracy of Lexington County. 7lesoved, 2. That being fully con vinced by many and incontestable proofs that said frauds and irregulari ties were committed and suffered to pass unrebuked by the managers and Executive Committee of said election, we, as Democrats, who desired and expected nothing but a fair and legal election, do not feel bound, either mor ally, politically or legally, to support the ticket thus nominated at the gener al election. Resolved, 3. That if the election had been conducted fairly and honorably, as it should have been and was intend ed to be conducted, we would have made no compliant and uttered n-o word of protest of any sort, whatever may have been the result of the same, and we would have cheerfully supported the successful ticket at the general election in November. Resolved, 4. That, as citizens of Lex ington County, valuing the character of her people, her integrity and fairness in public affairs, we deeply regret that the hitherto fair name and fame of our County shall be thus tarnished and disgraced, and published to the world, stigmatized by political fraud and cor ruption so disreputable and dishonor able. Resolt'ed 5. That we, the members "of the Lexington Township Democratic Club assembled, are in favor of putting before the people a straight Democratic ticket in opposition to the so-called "spotted" Democratic ticket. IResolved. 6. That a copy of these pro ecedings be sent to the Lexington Dis ptch, Lewiedale News, Peak News, Charleston News and Courier and the Columbia Register, with request to please publish. C. E. LEAPH ART, President Lexington Township Demo cratic Club. JOHN W~b. EAREHARDT, JR., Secretary pro. temn. Abboville's Clerk of Court. .rSpecial to the Register.] G'REENwoD, S. C., October 1..-The result of the second primary election to nominate a candidate for Clerk of Court of Abbeville County is learned to-day to be the nomination of Tfhomas L. Moore of Ninety-Six. who leads his competitor, L. D. Connor of Abbeville, the present incumbent, some .50 to 75 votes. The contest was a very close one, and the success of Moore is in a reat measure due to the faithful work f his friends and the turning to his in trest of the Abbev?ille supporters of (eneral Hemphill, who wvas a cantli date for the place in the first race. Moore had a majority of 7 in his com petitor's own home. WHO WOULDN'T EE AN EDITOR? Epecially of a Paper the "Hot Blast," Published in Anniston, Ala. [New York Herald.] ANNIsToX, Oct. S.-Editor W. H. Edmonds, of the Anniston Hot Blast, Iis a prohibitionist, and on that account has many enemies here. Last week four x-policemen who blamed Mr. Ed monds for their discharge assaulted and beat the editor, afterward causing a false account of the assault to be pub lished in the Montgomery Dispatch. Mr. Edmonds, in a polite note to the Dispatch. branded tile writer as a liar and a coward. Mr. J. S. Lawrence, an accomplished citizenl and a justice of the peace, who was the writer of the article in question, called on Editor Edmonds at the officee of the Hot Blast to expos tulate with him. He was accompained by an urbane and pleasant gentleman n'amed Lacy, his particular friend. After passing tfhe compliments of the day Mr. Lacy opened fire on Editor Edmonds, wounding him in the left arm. Trhen, by way of further amuse ment, Mr. Lae'y shot Mr. John Coppell, the mailing clerk, in the neck, and having another cartridge left, used it in shooting Mr. Tripney (who had just Idropped in to see the editor) in the head. Messrs. Lawrence and Lacy were captured and some of our citizens are thinking of lynching them. it is stur prisinlg how the amenities of journa lism are violated by our citizens when the question of prohibition is on the tapis. shooting at a Supervis.or. [Special to Greenville News.] CH ARLEsTON, S. C,, Oct. 15.-Some excitement is caused here by a supposed attempt to assassinate J.L. Stopplebein, supervisor of registration for this coun t. While he was dritaig in the su burbs yesterday evening some one;in the bushes nired at him. The load of shot entered his foot. His wounds arc not serious. The shooting took place near Holbeck's wood, a place in the suburbs which is the resort of negro desperadoes. Stopplebein had frequent lv received threatening letter& from negroes to whom he had refused to grant registration certificates, all of which breathed threats of vengeance. The Death Sentence Passed on a Girl of Fourteen. CHARLEsTON, ~ ctober 1&-In the Berkeley court to-day Anna Fraser, colored, was sentenced to be hung November 30th for the murder of Annie Lemons. The criminal is only fourteen years of age and her victim was fifteen. Anna stabbed her victim to the heart with aknife while engaged iziaquarrel Both wemoing-in the field. - .A..a i . w J a-' jf T I~. ADAM'S BODY. rhe Presbyterian Synod Condemns the F Recent) Action Recently Taken by Charleston Presbytery. [Special to the Register.] GREENWOOD, October 15.-The work ng of the wires Saturday night (and ome say Sunday) had evident effects o-day in the arrival of new delegates, t 'hile the little knots of fuglers outside j he church and the scoring for position nside on everything that came up, e ,ave evidence that to-day was to be the lay of trial. The first ripple was caused by a mo ion of Rev. J. R. Dow that all arriving 1lembers should be asked if they had :raveled by rail on the Sabbath to et here. This was supposed to be timed at a Woodrow delegate, but vhen Dr. Woods moved to amend by iso asking if they had been summoned ay the use of the telegraph Sunday, e something laid to the charge of the 1 inti-Voodrow party) a laugh was j raised, and the whoie matter was inally tabled. :oNTEsTING )ELEGATEs FROM NEw- t BEIRY. Next following the report of the con nittee appointed on the contested case t rom Mt. Bethel Church, New'erry, as :o the right of Mr. Boozer or Mr. Tur aipseed tb occupy a seat as delegate, md it was to the effect that there was nsufficient evidence that either was ; ntitled to a seat, and the report was t idopted. One contestant was Woodrow; f the other anti-Woodrow. THE EVENT OF THE DAY. md of the session, the debate of the report on the action of the Charleston Presbytery, was opened at 12 o'clock by a vigorous and able address in favor f its adoption by Rev. T. C. Whaling, who grew very warm at times. Not a 3oun< was heard but the speaker's voice for over an hour, while he ehan pioned the right of free speech and of privatejudgnent, and denounced the t iction of the General Assembly at Bal- N timore in the Woodrow case as errone- V >us and unjust. t Rev. J. B. Mack was the next speak er, and he claimed that the action of ( the Charleston Presbytery had been f riscoaceived and therefore misstated. Dr. D. C. Frierson, the only one of I the committee who disagreed from its I report, made brief remiarks, stating that he thought too much had been t made of the matter. The rights of Pres- r byterianism had not been invaded. I At this afternoon's session Bev. Dr. a Mack made an able and a direct de reuse of the Charleston Presbytery's I iction, claiming that it never intended s to forbid private discussion or criticisms t in a constitutional way, but disorderly, e 3ontumacious public contending. r Dr. J. L. Girardeau stated that he t had decided not to make extended re- s marks, and made a proposition for ,osing the debate and at once taking a f vote. He, however, though; the Pres- 1 bytery's action constitutional, as its ac- t tion was shown to be by the interpreta- t Lion prepared to-day. e Mr. Murray, one of the minority at Aiken, explained the real intention of t the paper passed there to be to bina the I aew preachers admitted from discuss- r ing the Woodrow matter,. and to pre vent all public criticism of the As- c 3embly's action. Rev. Dr. N. M. Woods then made a 1 iery speech, in which he did not spare the majority of the Charleston Presby tery, and alleged a strange change had I some over their spirit. Their action r there was meant to prevent all discus ion. He, for one, would never submit to such tyranny. CHARLESTON PRESB YTERY COND)EMN ED. After some dilatory motions the re port of the committee was taken up se riatia. The first resolution was adoptedt on the call of the ayes and nays by at vote of 96 to 53-five members refrain ing from voting on the question as a whole. The reasons for the resolutions ~ were adopted by a vote of 104 to 43. The next section, directing the Pres- ~ bytery to reconsider and to review ands :orrect its action, was adopted, but fter a long debate to-night that por- t tion styling as unconstitutional Dr-. Beattie being put on probation was voted down viva v'oce. Trhe paper was then adopted as a whole, with that part stuck out. The result of to-day's session is an >verwhelming victory for the Woodrow lement; but the end is not yet, as Dr. W. T. Thompson to-night presented a protest against the Synod's action, and n their speeches some members of the Charleston Presbytery almost the same is threatened they would rnot obey the Synod's command. To-morrow the report on the Thieo ogical Seminary mat ter comes up, and5 repetition of the thrilling scenes ofa w-day may be expected. 0. N. F. ANOTHER VICTORY.a The Register's headlines yesterday s may that the action of the seminaryf E'aulty and directors forbidding their studenits from attending Dr. Woodrow's cientific lectures at the university was 1 londemned by the Synod. The vote on this stood 73 to 45. Twot strong Woodrow men were elected toe fll vacancies on the Board of seminry lirectors. The C harles ton Presbytery aill observe tiie synod's5 command. SAM RANDALL'S ELOQUENCE. - Eils Rtemarks on Reing Iniformed of His Renomination-Cleveland Endorsed. PimLADELPH'i.i , Oet. 1?>.-Congress man Samuel J1. Randall was to-day atified of his ren!omination at his home at Rerwin. The ex-speaker res. poded in werds of glowing eloquence. He said it was a source of much gratifi ation to himi to see the warm and spontaneous spirit which the nonmina tion was tendered. While he lived lie would always be a Democrat, biecause he had come to be arn unshaken believer in the force and the truth of Democratic 1 principles. He said the administration :f President Cleveland was the best the t country had ever had, that it wvas in the interest of the whole people, and that therefore he should be re-electedi. 1 Mr. Randall said he endorsed Presi :lent Cleveland's tariff policy; that the tariffshould be revised in a measure that will reduce the revenue and the I surplus in the treasury. ongresmian Perry Weds a Congressman's 1 Daughter.1 [Greenville News, 1Gth.] Col. Wn:. H. Perry left yesterday I for Fayette, Alabama, where lie is to be married Wednesday evening to Miss Louise Bankhiead, daughter of Con rressman J. H. Bankheatd. Colonel Perry was accomnpanied by his sister, Mrs.~Wnm. Beattie, her daughter Miss Emily, Ben F. Perry and Dr. Hext M. Perry, and tihe par'ty expected to be oined at Seneca by B. F. Perry Beattle and Brooks Sligh, of Columb,ia. They will reach FayeZte Wednesday -t noon. The president of the Georgia Pacific . Railway has tendered the use of his legarnt private car to Congressman Perry and party, and the trip f .m Atlanta to Faett ain return will be made in it. Fate of a Flagman. G REENvILLE, S. C.. October 15.-In Formation was received here to-dlay of :he killing of Charles W. Jenkins. ldest son of A. H. Jenkins, of this ity, by an accident on the Spartan urg and Asheville road at Fletcher's staion, between Hendersonville anda sheville, on Saturday evening. Young s fenkins was flagman on a freight train. t md walking on the top of the .train, 8 hen he fell between the cars. He S was picked up horribly mangled, his y ffarm and leg requiring amputation. Ie did not survive the operation, and e ied a few hours after the accident. 3 iis ~bodywas brought here this after 300! and w~l be buri&I to-morrow. '~ KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY. eported Intention of Judge Aldrich of the J Second Circuit Not to Stand for Re Election-Hon. James Al drich ofAiken Wants to Succeed Him. [Special to the Register.] af ABBEVILLE, October 15.-It is au- at horitatively announced here that ea udge Aldrich of the Second Judicial u ircuit will not be a candidate for re- 1 lection at the close of his present term. in Upon the heels of this comes the pri- m ate announcement, to those whose aid i desired, that Hon. James Aldrich of o' Liken, a nephew of Judge Aldrich, w ill be a candidate for the position. th Adjutant General Milledge Bonham tt working the wires in this vicinity to lo id this candidacy, and your corre- ac pondent kngrs of at least one repre entative of this County who has re- in eived from the General a letter urging cl iim to support Mr. Aldrich for the udgeship. a It is said similar work is being done S< mong the nominess :or the Legisla- at ure all over the State. T. A rumor, the truth of which cannot 1% 'e substantiated, is current here that he whole is a deal by which the Hon. b: ames was promised the place by Judge fo kid rich in return for doing his best to tave Hon. Robert Aldrich nominated ki or Congress. Whether this be true or Lot, and it would seem very doubtful, vi he whole scheme has the look of a ti imily arrangement, and remains to e seen if South Carolina's legislators si ndorse the principle of heriditary ou uidgeships. ti al PArtTISAN SPEECHEs. nl 'he President and the Secretary of the Treasury Attacked by Blair and CA Allison. ti bi WasIxGoN, September 15.-In fc he Senate the veto of the pension bill, I Vhich was sent to the Senate Saturday' t as read. 31r. Blair took its presenta- t ion as a text for a speech on the _Mary f nn Dougherty veto, making a vigor- n us attack on the President, and de er-ding Mrs. Dougherty. A message was received from the 'resident vetoing the bills granting ensions to W. S. Bradshaw and Mary t< %. Richards. The latter was made a ext by Senator Blair for further re iarks, in which he intimated that the ' ension office and the President had a rranged a plan by which the claim of 11 Irs. Richards was allowed by the iension office at a higher rate of pen- b ion than that fixed by the bill after he passage of the bill by Congress, so iving the President an opportunity to I nake capital for himself by vetoing the t ill and allowing the other pension to t tand. Senator Brown submitted a petition a or the repeal of the internal revenue aws, and in a speech upon it called at- tc ention to the absence of a quorum in he House and Senate, and urged an any argument. Senator Allison replied that owing to d he delay by the House of the appro- ti riation bills, Congress had not been eady to adjourn at any time, and called , .ttention to the fact that the deficien ies bill had not yet been signed by the t 'resident. Referring to the tariff bill re said he would urge its consideration a >y paragraphs as soon as possible, and D vhile he agreed with the people on oth sides of the Senate that it would I ot be practicable to pass it before it hall become necessary to go home to t tend the election, whether a recess hould be taken or an adjournment be ad, he was willing to leave it to the a udgment of others. He hoped, ink ither case, to see the bill pass the Sen- ai .te before the Christmas holidays. G Senator Vest took the floor on theC ariff bill, replying to the charges by he Republicans, that the treasury de >artment has been operated for the >enefit of pet banks in the deposit of Lational funds and small purchases of ionds. He defended the course of the d reasury department, quoting from a peech of8Secretary Fairchild, and comn aring the course of the department in his administration with that of thea reasury in 1876. He produced tablesc o show that over $150,000,000, the pro eeds of the sale of bonds were allowed o be in the hands of one bank in New Cork by the Republican administration ~ Luring that year. Senator Allison replied that this was art of the operation of refunding the public debt at that time, which resuh d in a great reduction of interest to wi he Government, and was made neces- u: ay by the requirement fixed by Con- C ress governing the transaction. He ni enewed the criticism upon the present n< ecretary of the treasury for his course p) n depositing funds in national banks, fc nd by this process "bulling" the vi onds, which were made more valu- tr ble by this process, which makes them ir ecurity for this free loan of national fi: unds. lia Senator Blair spoke briefly in support si af Sherman's resolution, looking to the w inion of Canada and the United States. G I believes that time must bring the b; wo countries into one, and this will fc ome by peaceful methods. ti re THE STATE UNIVERlSITY. ti i Auspicious Opening of the Fall Ses- se sionl. a( _ _ ti Corur11mA, October 14.--The first se essionl of the South Carolina Univer ity has opened under the most gratify- G' ig circumstances. The examination ofC .pplicants for admission has been con luded, the students have gotten into iarness and the machinery of the great a nstitution is working smoothly. Ever ha ne in South Carolina feels, or shouldt eel a pride in the University of their tate; certainly hundreds of families re interested in the students attending a his institution. To gratify those perso- a ialy interested, and for the informna ion~ of the general public. The News nd Courier Bureau has obtained some nteresting facts about the University. p to this date 214 students have mat- a iculated, of these 120 are old students ud 94 new men. The per centage of old tuents is over 70 per cent, and the roportion is larger than in any previ Aus year. tt The present number of students at he University already exceeds the4 otal attendance of any yearsince the t copeing of the college. Three old tude:ts and several new ones are ex- v ceted to enter within the next week.v udging from the number who have d naticulated after this date in previous ears it may be considered certain that a4 ttendanee~for the year just opened will t xceed 22.5, and it is probable that it -ill reach 250 if not more. In the graduating department there rc 16 students; agricultural, and me hanical arts, 63; liberal arts and sci ne, 10]; pharmacy, 22; normal school, 9; law, 19. The analysis of the students accord ng to church affiliation or preference, esults as follows. Presbyterians...............72 T Episcopalians..............56 Baptist......................34 Lutheran................... -Jewish........................4 as Huguenot.................. e 214 di A bout 122 of these are active members t] sf the church. , l The counties most largely represented h< .re Orangeburg and Darlington, with it ixteen each. Next in order is Charles- se on, with 13, Fairfield 12, Chesterfield ti ,Abbeville 7, and Berkeley, York, -h uter, Spartanburg, and Greenville, rith six representatives each. 'i Louisiana sends two students, Massa- si husetts two, North Carolin& three,I -a ~*r -ia and New Jersey one-each. A ~ THE DEADLOCK DISSOLVED. hn S. Wilson Nominated For Solicitor of the Third Circuit-A Lengthy Set of Resolutions Does the Work. [Special to The World.] Su .NTER, October 13.-Late yesterday ternoon, just before the convention ljourned, a committee of two from .ch county were appointed to settle on some plan to solve the deadlock. he convention agreed before adjourn g to abide by the result of this coi ittee's action. The sub-committees met about. 7 clock and agreed befor- nropositions ere made to abide by lecision of te majority of the co..-mittee. In ts session of the committee the fol wing resolutions were proposed and oTal: 1. t'hat this convention resolve itself to a committee of the whole with sed doors. 11. That first, Mr. Gilland lie pitted ainst Mr. Dargan and voted for. acond, that Mr. Gilland be pitted ,aiust Mr. Wilson and voted for. hird, that Mr. Dargan be pitted against r. Wilson and voted for. 111. That the vote be taken by secret ilot, and that each couple ,e voted r in a separate box. . IV. That the result of each vote he pt secret until all the votes are taken. V. That each delegate be sworn to >te for one of the two candidates as if ie third were out of the field. VI. That each delegate be further vorn not to allow his vote to be seen known by any other delegate until ie entire vote is counted and the result anounced. VII. That each delegate endorse his ame on the back of his ballot. VIII. That the two candidates re Aiving the highest number of votes be ie ony two candidates to be voted for afore the convention. IX. That each delegate he sworn as Ilows: That I solemnly swear that will vote for my choice of one of the vo candidates pitted against each ther as if the third were out of the eld, and I further swear not to allow iy vote to be seen or known by any ,her delegate until the entire vote is )unted and the result announced. So elp me God. X. That a notary public be called in administer the oath. The committee from Sumter, and [r. Gordon, from Williamsburg, voted gainst these resolutions. The other tember of the committee, Mr. Wil ams, from Williamsburg, was strongly i favor of them. They were carried y a vote of 5 to 3. Mr. Williams is a ew member of the Williamsburg dele ation. When the chairman of this commit e reported on the reassembling of the )nvention, these resolutions were read Ad discussed considerably; and with a reat deal of opposition from Williams urg. Mr. Gordon who was opposed the resolutions in the committee m, now voted for them along with [r. Williams, when the motion was iade to adopt them. The Sumter elegates were opposed to these resolu ons at Georgetown and other places hen such resolutions were made, but hen the convention agreed to accept ny proposition that may be made by ie sub-committees, they voted -to lopt them. The ballots in the first box stood argan 14, Gilland 16, second box, Gil !nd 12, Wilson 18; third box, Dar in I, Wilson 19. Total result, Wil mn 37, Gilland 28, Dargan 2.5. In this ird box, between Wilson and Dar mn, it was evident that seven of the illand delegation voted for Wilson, ad one for Dargan. This result ocked Dargan out in the first race, ad it now lay between Wilson and -illand. It was well known that before this >nvention met at Sumter, Gilland as the second choice of enough Sum ~r's delegates to elect him. But the ~sult of the third box probably caused umter to see how the Williamsburg elegates had voted, and so when Wil n ran against Gilland, Sumter gave "ilson her solid support. When the result of the last race was anounced there were hurrahis and iering for Wilson, and he wa after ards escorted to the hall and respond in brief but happy terms. ow It Was at Last Broken-Wnlson, of Clarendon, the Winner. [Correspndent of Greenville News.] MANING, S. C. October 12.-The idely known and much commented pon dead-lock of the Third Judicial ircuit, was broken at one o'clock last ight in Sumter, and resulted in the omination of John S. Wilson of this lace. The dead-lock had lasted about sur weeks, during which time the con ention met at Pawley's Island, Kings ee, Georgetown and Sumter, and dur ug which time also the vote was as at rst: Sumter ten for Dargan, Wil a.msburg eight for Gilland, Clarendon x, and Georgetown six for Wilson. It 'ill be observed that Wilson carried eorgetown, the only county which ad not a candidate, and lacked only ur votes of being nominated during ie entire dead-lock. The crisis was ~ached by appointing a committee msisting of two from each delegation devise some means for a solution and iey decided to run each candidate ~parately against each of the others, d the votes of the two ballots and ien run the two highest. Wilson led :th ofthe others in th is with Gilland ~cond, and the final ballot resulted in venty-three for Wilson and seven for illand. Mr. Wilson is a sober, rising ung lawyer of sterling ability and itegrity. Each of t be other gentlemen as served this circuit ably in the offie Solicitor in the past, so it would ave lost nothing by taking any one of iem. Mr. Wilson and his delegates *ere met at the depot this morning by >me friends who congratulated him d gave three cheers for his success 2d for Georgetown County. YELLOW JACK. avages of the Plague at Jackso,nvinIe, Pail inetto and Decatur. WAsh INGToN, October 13.-Thbe Mar e Hospital Bureau has been informed iat during the week ended October h there were six new cases of yellow ver at Palmetto, making a total of irty-six cases and one death. The official bulletin of the Jackson ie Board of Health shows sixty-six ew cases of yeJlow fever and four atha for the twenty-four hours ending 6 p. m. Friday. Total cases 2,495; tal deaths, 308. DECATUR, Ala., October 13.-There as a light frost this morning. E. L. "ada, a foreigner, on the danger list r some days past,died last night. One ew case is reported to-day-A. 0. iye, secretary of the relief committee. RACE WAR IN KANSAS CITY. he Trouble Grew Out of a Murder, Miners' Strike, and the Substitution of Black Labor. KANSAS CITY Oct. 15.-This city has usumed a warlike aspect since the ding out of the Third Regiment, and e streets are filled with hurrying sol iers. The regiment is asseinbled at e armory, and the company on duty at night has been relieved for a few urs. The situation in Bever is grow ig in interest, and if the new men are t to work to-day blood will flow. In e meantime the soldiers can leave ere at a moment's notice. The trouble has irisen from the Lrder of Thomas Wardell, an exten ve mine. owner. The miners struck 3d were replaced by colored minerIs. race war resulted, making the nece eThes.e ter rifles. ~- -" A BIG BOOM FOIL BLACK'S' Ets Iron Mines Bought and to be Developed -What a Railroad has Done. [Special to Greenville News.] CotUrBrA, October 16.-The Mag aetic Iron Ore and Steel Company, oluposed of capitalists from Atlanta uid Birmingham, which was recently ehartercd in this State, has just pur chased for sixty thousand dollars the greater part of the Magnetic Iron Ore tract near the town of Black's in York county, this State. It was known that there was iron one in this section but it had no- railroad ronnection and nothing was done to wards utnizing it until the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago road was run through it. The property contains an inexhaustible supply of the finest quali ty of magnetic steel ore, free from phos phorous and titanic acid. The company will immediately com menee building a steel furnace and roll ing mills on the line of the Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago road. This road will bring coal to the furnace for $2.50 a ton. A small part of this property was bought a few years ago for one hun dred and fifty dollars, and it was sold to this company for twelve thousand five hundred dollars. BURYING THE LEHIGH VICTIMS. A Funeral- Procession Five Miles Long Two Towns in Mourning. PLEASANT HILL, PA., October 13. The funeral of thirty of the victims of the recent horrible accident on the Le high Valley road was held at-the Cath olic Church here to-day. The town was thronged with thousands of visi tors from the surroundingcountry, and forty special policemen were employed to maintain order among the crowds, drawn to church largely by morbid curiosity. The funeral took place at 10 a. ni. The bodies were placed on a phnfaormi in front of the altar. Father Crane celebrated requiem mass and Father Kiernan preached an affecting sermon. The funeral procession was five miles long. Each body was in terred in a separate grave, with priests officiating at each grave. The whole scene was extremely pitiful and impres sive. At Scranton this morning, where fifteen other victims of the accident were buried, the same scenes of sorrow were witnessed. ANOTHER IZOInIPE ACCIDExT ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. WJLKESIARRJi, Pa., October 16. News of another wreck on the Lehigh Valley road has just been received here. Lehigh Valley engine No. 391, with a construction train, was run into by a Penvsylvsnia Railroad engine No. 1218 with a fast freight, at Taman end siding. Six men were instantly killed and 26 men injured, most of them fatally. The construction train had gravel cars ahead of the engine, and the Pennsylvania Railroad train struck them. The killed and in jured men were all upon the gravel train except one, a Pennsylvania Rail road employee, who was killed on his train. The dead and injured are all Hungarians except one. So far as is known, the responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the flagman who ,ailed to flag the freight train in time to prevent the accident. SAD) OCCU'RENCE IN BISHfOPYILLE. Death of Two LitWc Children Under Pecu liarly Distressing Circumstances. [Special to the Register.]. SUMTER, S. C., Oct. 15.-At Bishop ville, in this County, yesterday, Mr. David E. Durant and his wife left home to spend tihe day out, leaving their two little children Eva and Co'ra, with Mr. R. E. Carnes, their brother-in law. In the evening, while the children were playing, Mr. Carnes was informed that Cora had fallen from the bed in the room in which they had been play ing and was dying. Mr. Carnes hur ried to wvhere she was and picked her up, but she died in a very few seconds, her neck having been broken by the fall. This inorning Eva died from the shock wich was caused from her little sister's death. Their ages were 7 and 13 respectively. The community was greatly shocked at the occurrence, and MIr. and Mrs Durant have tbe sympa thy of the entire community in their sadl bereavement. TROUBLE FOR THE GEORGIA CONS TRUCTION COMPANY. The Contractors on the Knoxville End Make an Assignmient. [Greenville News, 14th.] Somiething like an explosion of dyna mite took place in the aifairs of the Geor gia Construction Company yesterday, comp)ared to which the recent distur bances have been but the popping of bank cartridges. At about dark .list night Deputy SheiiU Giireath served an attachment on the representative of the Georgia Construction and Investment company for $l16, s2.8 7,the amount of a claim held by J. WV. Fletcher, of Knoxville, as trustee under the assignment of Brown & Fortune for the benefit of their credi tors. The attachment was made to in lude the railroad track of the Carolina, Knoxville & Western road, the steel rails, cross-ties, spikes, right of way, lots of land and all othier property connect ed therewith. The papers wvere drawn by Stokes & Rellinger, Attorneys for the plaintiffs, and were served on J. S. Burkhalter, who while not a member of the construction company, is under stood to be in charge of their prop)erty here. TIhe firm of Brown & Fortune have been doing grading oin the C.K. & W. line in TIennlessee. Their work has been cotfinied to t wo p>oints on the line, one a very heavy cut about nine miles this side of Knoxville, wvhere three miles have been cotmpleted and the other nearer Knoxville and including about One mile of completed grading. These four miles are all that have been graded in Tennessee. Up to last June, the con tractors had been paid up for their work, but since June payments have been in complete and a p)art of the present claims of over $lf6,000 has been due since then. Brown & Fortune, who were working about one hundred hands, withdrew their force some time ago, having obtained the contract for build ing the piers of the new bridge over the Iennessee river at Knoxville. Their work there has been interrupted by the toubles and misunderstandings about the governmnent appropriations for the bridge, but it is not known whether the firm's assignment was brought about by that or by the failure of the Cons truction Company to pay up the nmonthi ly estimates. It was impossible to see any member of the Cozistruction Company or aniy body who could speak for the concern last night, so that it could not be learn ed how the latest development is regard ed itn that quarter. The attachmle.nt of the National Bank for $1,950 has not been satisfied, so that the total of the attachmlents pending is $18,632.87. The "J. B. IIumbert" was making things hum yesterday afternoon, carry ing out on the line four car loads of steel rails for the tracklaying at the other end. The crowd who stood on the Main sreet bridge and watchled the big loco motive purrig and blowing up the river trestle grade noticed that there was an attachment in elfect-between the engine and the cars. Why suffer with that aching head when you may be cured with Ayer's Cathartic Pills? Send a 2 cent stamp to Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mas, for a set of +bir- attraoivea lbnm ardsi' New Advertisements. NOTICE. LL parties having demands A against the Estate of Henry Hart well Counts, deceased, are hereby noti fied to render the same to me or my attorneys, Moorman & Simkins, duly probated, on or before the 26th day of November, 1SSS, as that on that day I will make final settlements ou sa:d es tate, in the Probate Court for Newberry County and apply for final discharges as Administrator thereof. I)AVID HIPP, Admiuistrator of Henry H. Counts, deceased. Notice to Creditors and Appli cation for Final Discharge. ALTL p :rsons having claims against 'the estate of Caroline 31urtishaw., deceased, are hereby notited to render an account of their demands, duly at tested, to the undersigned on or before the 19th day of Novermber, 1888, as on that day, at 11 o'(lock in the forenoon, I will make a settlement on said estate in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., and immediately there after apply for a final discharge as ad ministrator thereof. JOHN M. KINARD, Administrator Caroline Murtishaw, deceased. .t STATE OF SOUTIl CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. J. N. Martin & Co. vs Gco. W. Whit man. B T virtue of an execution in the above stated case, I will sell on the premises of Washington Goree, near Kinard's 'urnout, in said County, on the First Monday in November next, (5th dlay) within the legal hours of sale, all the interest of and belonging to the defendant, (eo. W. Whitman, in one lot or parcel of Lumber, undi vided, on the premruises of the said Washington Goree. Levied upon and to be said as the property of Geo. W. Whitman to sat isfy the judgment in the above stated case, and also a judgment of Julia A. Whitman against Ueo. \V. Whitman. TERMs Cash. W. W. RISER. S. N. C. Sheriff's O1lice, October 16, 1888. STATE OF SOUTH C kROLINA, NEWBERRY COUNTY. By Jacob B.Fellers,Esq.,Probate Judge. WHEREAS, John '. Kinard, C. C. P., hath made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the derelict Estate and effects of Re becca S. Abrams, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and ad ruonish all and singular the kindred I and creditors of the said deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate,to be held at New berry Court House, on the 20th day of Noremnber next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause. if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 17th day of October, Anno Donimini 1888. J. B. FELLERS, J. P. N. C. Gt Notice of Federal Election. A N e'2ction for Nine Presidential Electors and a Member of Con gress from the Third Congressional Dis trict of South Carolina will be held on November 6i, 1888, and the following named persons have this day been ap pointed Managers of such Election for the respective precincts: Newberry-J n.o. P. Fant, R. H. Wearn, H.~H. Blease, Jr. Gibson's-S. S. Cunningham, Jos. Caldwell, Jr., Thos. XW. Keitt. Glymphrille-Walt. Glympli, Mon roe Wicker. -A. J. Willingham. Maybinton-W. B. Oxner, Lyles Irby, Reuben Lyles. Cromer's-L. D. Abrams, W. R. El more, Jno. Suber. Jalapa-Craig Gary, W. C. Sligh, W. Ernest Merchant. Longshore's-Jno. A. WVerts, WValter Spearman, H. T. Longsbore. Williams'-Jn~o. R. Scurry, C. A. Brooks, Jas. F. Wat kins. Dead Fall-G. M. B. Epting, T. S. Blair, Jno. C.: Goggans. Prosperity-J. Lawson WVise, Roley Bruce, R. I. Stoudemayer. Jolly Street-J. D. A. Kibler, Jos. Werts, Thos. J. Wilson. Walton-David F. Suber, Thomas ML Bentz, Daniel Crooks. Pomaria-Perry 1Halfaere, J. J. Hipp, D. J. Hentz. The~above named Managers of Elec tion are requested to qualify, call for boxes, poll lists, instructions, ete., in ample time. LAMBERT W. JONES, Chairman of Co'umIissioners of the Federal Elections. October 16, 1888. Notice of State Election. A N Election will lie held on Tues day, the fJth day of November, 1888, for the following officers: 1. Gov ernor and Lieutenant-Governor; 2. other State oflicers; 3. Solicitor of 7th Judicial Circuit; 3. Senator; 4. Repre sentatives; 5. Clerk of Court; 6. Pro hate Judge; 7. Sheriff; 8. Coroner; 9. School Commissioner; 10. County Cornmissioners; also Constitutional Amendnmnt as to Art. IV., Sec .20; Constitutional Amendment as to Art. 10, Sec. 2. The folltwing persons have been appointed managers to conduct said election: New berry-J. W. Gary, C. J. Purcell, A. J. Kilgore. Gibson's Store-J. C. S. Brown. WV. A. Chalmers, Win. H. Wendt. Glymphville-Jno. WV. Gilliami, Jas. F. Epting, Newton Hog. Maybinton-WVm. B. W\hitney,Rich-. ard C. Ra.y, Wmn. V. Lyles. Cronmer's Store-W. C. Cromer, J.C. Hargrove, Jas. S. McCarley. Jalapa-C.-WV. Buford, WV. C. Swit tnberg, J. XV. D. Johnson. Longshore's Store- Andrew J. Liv ingstone, M1. H. Gary, David Pitts. Williams' - Frank G. Spearman, Hayne H. Abranis. John Watkins. Dead Fall-Jas. R. Davidson, (G. B. Reagin, Jas. P. Blair. .Prosperity-D. M1. Langford, N. B. Wheeler, A. Hayne Hawkins. Jolly Street-M1. L:. Strauss, Michael M. .Long, Drayton T. Livingston. Pomnaria-Jno. A. Sunnuner, David Hipp, Leander Long. XWalton--Sam'l J. Wood, D). A . Dick ert, Dt.iel P. Werts. The above named Managers of Elec tion are requested to qualify, call for boxes, poll lista. instruc'tions, etc., in ample time. E. M. EVA NS, ('.A. BOWMAN, T. E. EPTING;, Coin. of State Elections. Opening of the Schools. SCHOOL COMM3ISSIONERs OFFICE,)1 October 10, 1888. ,j IT is here by ordered that the Public .Schools of Newberry County be opened on Monday, the .5th day of No vember, 1888. The Trustees of each School District will see to it that all schools are pro vided with teachers by the .5th of No vember. Any school not heretofore recognized as a pu.blic -school, and dlesiring to be recogni.zed, must make application to1 the Trustees of the School District. in which it is located before the said 5th day of November. G. G. SALE, Gi. B. CROMER, T. S. MOORMAN, Board Examiuners Newberry Co. at New Aa STATE -OF S . COUNTY OF COMMON PL Elizabeth Sheely a Foreelosurt. B Y order of the Court her 10th July, 1888, I will sell lie outcry before the Court at Newberry, on the first Monda in November, 1888, all that tract of land in the County and State aforesaid, containing One Hundred and Thirty eight Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of P. M. Derrick, David Weda man, J. A. Berley, and the Lutheran Parsonage. TERMS: The purchaser may pay the whole bid in cash; otherwise he will be required to pay one-third of the purchase money in cash and to secure the balance, payable in one and two years, with interest from the day of sale, by a bond and mortgage of the premises sold, and to pay for papers. SILAS JOHNSrONE, Master. Master's Office, 10th October, 1888. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. = COUNTY OF NEWBERRY-IN - COMMON PLEAS. B. H. Cline et al, Executors, vs James S. Sloan. Foreclosure. Y order of the Court herein, dated 11th July, 1888, I will sell at pub lie outcry before the Court House at Newberry, on the first Monday in No vember, 1888, all that tract of land, m the county and State aforesaid con tailing One Hundred arid even Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Alan Johnstone, H. P. Henry H. H. Folk'and others. TERns: The purchaser may pay the - whole bid in cash; otherwise he will be required to pay One-third of the pur chase money in cash, and to secure the balance, payable at one and two years, with interest from the day of sale, by a bond and mortgage of the propetrysold. SILAS SJOHNSTON E, Master. I faster's Office, 10th October, 1888. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY-Il - COMMON PLEAS. Lucy Prather et al, vs Bluford Robert son et al. Foreclosure. B Y order of the Court herein, dated 10th July, 1888, I will sell at pub lie outcry before the Court House at Newberry, on the first Monday in No vember, 1888, all that tract of land, in the county and State aforesaid, con taining Twenty-two Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of E. P. Lake, Jas. 0. Meredith, D. T. Dom nick, estate of Henderson Williams and Phoebe Cheshire. TERMS Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. SILAS JOHNSTONE, Master. Master's Office, 10th October, 1888. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.-IN' COMMON PLEAS. The National Bank of Newberry, S. C., vs. Andrew J. Kilgore. * Foreclosure. BY ORDER OF THE COURT herein, dated 16 March, 1888, I will sell at public -outcry before the Court House at Newberry, on the First Monday in November, 1888, certain lands of the defendant in the County of Newberry, some two or three miles from the town of Newberry, in the following parcels to wit: Tract No. 1-Being a part of the Sligh Place, containing Ninety Acres, and bounded by lands of David Teague, J. D. S. Livin ston, Tract No. 2 of the Sligh Place, IE rank Schumpert's land, and by the Bouknight Ferry Road, which separates it from the lands ot Lawson Paysinger. Tract No. 2-Being also a part of the Sligh Place, containing Seventy-two Acres and .a Third, and bounded by lands of J. 1). S. Livingston, Ebenezer church lot, the road to said church which separates it from the Late Place, and by Tract No. 1 of the Sligh Plice. Tract No. 3-Being a part of the Lake Place, containing Forty-eight Acres and Two-fifths, and bounded by the road to Ebenezer church, which sepa rates it from Tract No. 2 of the Shigh . Place, by lands of William S. Birge, and by Tract No. 4. Tract No. 4-The Lake Home Place, containing Ninety-eight Acres and a Fourth, and bounded by the road to E benezer church, by Tract No. 3, Win. S. Birge, Tractsho.6 and No. 5 and by lands of Frank Schumpert. Tract No. 5-Containing Sixty-three Acres and Four-fifths, and bounded by lands of Frank Sec..unpert, Tracts No. 4 and No. 6, by Mrs. Nobles' land and lands of Lawson Paysinger. Tract No. 6-Containing Ninety-four Acres, and bounded by Tract No. 4 by.2 Win. S. Birge's land, by Tract No. 7 by ' Win. A. Boozer's land and by lands of Mrs. Nobles. Tract No. 7-Containing Forty Acres and a Fifth, and bounded by lands of Win. S. Birge, J. A. Crotwell, Mrs. Mary J. Knighton, Wmn. A. Boozer and Tract No. 6. lt TERM!S: The purchaser has laet pay the whole bid in cash, otherwise. one-third of the purchase money will be required in cash, the balance pay able in one and two years, with inter est from the day of sale, by a bond and mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay for papers. Piats of the above lands are on exhib. tion at the Master's Office. SILAS' JOHNSTONE, Master. Master's Ofiice, 6 Oct., 1888. St. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NE WBERRY-IN THE PROBATE COURT. Reuben S. Maybin, as Administrator of Mary Kinard Maybin, and in his own right, Plaintiff, . against Thomas G. Maybin, Defendant. Complaint to sell land to pay debts and for Relief. DURSUANT to decretal order, made 1.in the above stated case on the 9 day of October, A. D. 1888, I will al at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the 5th day of November next, during; the legal hours of sale, thefoowg described real estate, lying and bein sit uated in the said County and &tt~ One Tract of Land containing Oe Hundred and Thirty-two and a H3 Acres, more or less, and bounded lands of W. T. Kelly, Mrs. Louisa Mayer and others. One Tract containing Two Hnde and Fifty-nine Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Mrs. Louisa C Mayer, Estate of Susan C. Lyle,W liam Bishop, W. T. Kelly andotes TERMs. One-half of the purh8~ money to be cash and the balanceo credit of twelve months, with intes from day of sale, secured by the ba of the purchaser and a mortgage premises, but with the leave for te purchaser to pay the entire bid incb J. B. FELLERS, J. P. N. C. October 10th, 1888. 4t House and Lot For SaIe B Y John P. Kinard, Auctioee ,will sell Saleday, first Monday. N ovember next,before the CourtH in the city of Newberry, all that of Land, containing Three-fourths an Acre, more or less, in the town Helena, adjoining lands of Jamner Kilgore, H. C. Summers, W. H. B and on public road. Good framed ling house with three rooms and -7 fire-laces on premises; out-houies gowell of water. Terms will be made known ond sale. Titles good.. St . SARAH HALL