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ESALSE I U iLl UIIU LU D 180O. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A Y _N THE SHELL PROCLAMATION. - A Pee-Dee Farmer Objects to Mr. Shell's Political Broadside. To the Editor of The News and Courier; In your issue of January !t we have an address signed by G. W. Shell, president of the Farmers' Asso elation of South Carolina. I am sur prised that Mr. Shell should allow his name to be signed to an article written by some one else. We have read such utterances before, and know the ear marks. The indictment is again drawn "and the floodgates of misrepresenta tion and slander are turned loose" not odly "to destroy influence," but to drag down to a level with themselves men who are disharging their duty as public officials with credit to them selves and honor to the State. I cannot believe that such a paper wonld have been sent out by a nieeting of the farmers at this time. We have an organization of farmers; not only in this State, but in nearly every State in the Union, that has already accom plished a great deal for the farmers, and has a great work still to do. It is separate and distinct from the Farm ers' Association, of which Mr. Tillman is the political head.. There is a grow ing tendency to drag the Alliance into politics. We must steer clear of de signing politicians if we expect to ac complish great good for ourselves as farmers. We can protect our rights by voting for the best men for each otlice, and voting intelligenly. We can work out wholesome reforms socially, indus trially, financially and politically in this way and wrong no one. We are not to say that no one is fit or shall hold office but a member of our order. Don't form a "trust" and ( say that men who are as good Demo crats as ourselves, and have done as much or more for Democratic success, must stand aside and allow men whose only recommendation is their greed for office and their ability to slander, by insinuations, those who are in their way., Cannot we stand on the broad platform, "Equal rights to all; special privileges to none. Are we, as farmers, to say that the whole political machinery must be turned over to the Farmers' Associa tion, and they shall dictate to the Dem ocratic clubs, the county conventions, the State Convention, the State chair man and executive committee what shall be done ? The Democratic party has a constitution which prescribes the manner and process of selecting its. candidates, and every true Democrat has a right to say who shall be laom inated for all and every office. How can this address be to the "Democracy of South Carolina," when so many are excluded? We can puri fy our politics with less harshness of warfare. Remember that "everything that glitters is not gold,'" especially in plitics. PEE DEE F.A RME R. Daringon,February 5. TILLMAN TO THE FRONT. The Edgefield Agitator Brought .Out for Governor-Is this What the March Convention Means? To the Editor of the News and Cou rier: Almost before the ink was dry upon the columns of the "Call of the Farmers' Convention,'' kind friends have come forward to fix the ticket for us. However, be it remembered, wve will officer this campaign to suit our ideas. To this end we ask your columns to place in nomination for Governor the name of Cept. B. R. Tillman. No eulogistic pen need trace his claims, or services rendered to our pro fession or State, for his record has won for him a gratitude in our hearts that we only wish an-opportuniity to requite by placing him in a position of honor and leadership for which his large and singular ability so eminently fits him. It ould be a tame to attempt to name his services to the State, and farmers in particular, and would be a reflection upon their intelligence. However, allow us to say that time and common sense of the people have endorsed all the fundamental reforms advocated by his acute foresight. Witness tihe re form in our General Assembly, sneered at by his enemies at first. Witness the eager scramble of the South Carolina College and its friends to embalm agri cultural and industrial education in r the hearts of the people, in the internal management of their college, vet all the wvhile branding its champion as a crank, dangerous leader, etc., and agri cultural education a humbug. Go, - farmers, through the annex depart ment of the South Carolina College, and see how the crowd have really endorsed the wisdom and genius of B. R. Till man. In bringing his name before the peo pIe we bring one that will rekindle the euthusiasm of 1876 in the Democratic party; one which will call the farmers to battle from mountain to seaboard: one which wvill be able to lead, anid answer the wily and oily toned poli tician. Farmers, demand your rights. call to the head of the State once again a real farmer. one who will dare do his duty and answer your requests. Be Fnot cajoled out of your birthright by the fiattery of those whbo would destroy you, nor by wvhimperings of the timid or the leadership of the wveak and jeal ous Brutuses in our ranks. Call your CincinnatuS to lead you, and let no0 temfporizing policy prev~ail. Remem-i ber howv Tillman has been vilitied, hooted, ridiculed, inmgned, all be cause he had the manliness to advocate Fyour rights. All these things has been done to you through him. Now yin d3cat yourses ad him from all such aspersions. Let not another rear' where you have bid Tillman sow. PE D:E FARMERS. Opposed to Negro Emigration. [A bbeville Medium.] A great deal of valuable time is wasted in the United States Senate in the discussion of the proposition to send the negroes out of this country. We are astonished that any man of Sen ator Butler's age, experience and op portunities of observation could be led into the advocacy of such a wild-cat scheme. It is not something new, but the question is an old one, the folly of which has been demonstrated more than once. This fact should be well known to any one who has read the history of our times. When the sub ject was revived lately we had no idea that any thoughtful person would look upon it otherwise than as the evolution of some indolescent statesman, anbi tions of making a sensation in the pub lic prints. The discussion could be overlooked in persons of immature minds and of a limited knowledge of our country's history. So we thought that the Greenville News, the News and Courier and the newspaper writers were seeking a little amusement dur ing the long and sultry days of last summer. We had not the remotest idea anybody would give the scheme a serious thought. The project is absurd on its very face and its discussion would be amusing if it might not prove hurtful. There is no demaiid for such a depopulation f our country. If so it is not among the honest farmers who have to dig a living out of the ground in the hot sun ;hine. They have been doing pretty well as matters stand and have not ried out to drive the negroes out of the country. We say "drive them out >f the country". because so far as we know none of them have ever asked .he government to pay their way to Vfrica, Mexico or any other place. l'hey have no desire to go. They are doing as well as they could do any where else and they never bother any self-respecting white man or woman. We don't mean to say that the country would not be better off it our popula tiou was all white, but we do say that this project is utterly without reason. When the editor of the Medium was a boy he had his thigh broken and was compelled to-stay about the house and make companions of the old people about Due West. This accounts for any of our old-fashioned ways. Mix ing with the world has knocked many :f the conceits that we then thought real out of our head if it has not made a better man of us. One of the schemes that was much discussed then was the colonization of Africa and we read the progress of the enterprise in the 'Afri an Repository, with unwavering faith in its accomplishment. We thought in a few years there wvould be the Chris tian republic of Liberia made up of nc groes sent out from this country by the American Colonization Society. The absurdity went to such length that in Kentucky several manumitted slaves were put in training for missionaries by our church. Harrison Pressley, a slave of the late lamented Dr. G. W. Pressley, of this county, was one of these negroes, but the nearer the time 'awe for him to go to Liberia the more precarious his health became and he returned to slavery. We saw him after the war. He had gone back on Rouse and John Calvin and had for gotten his classical studies. Pink MIur ph'was another negro set ap)art to be educated as a missionary to Lil eria. He wveakened too and was sent back from Kentucky. Pink told us that the water in Kentucky had a strange effect on his eyesight. He could see howv to bait a fish hook in the darkest night that ever was and yet couldn't see the eters in his spelling book in the day time. Here are two negroes that free dom and an education would not in duce to go to Africa. Another scheme much discussed was the purchase of Palastine and getting all the Jews to go there in adv-ance of the millenium. We honestly believed these things would have come to pass long before this time. In this year of grace, 1890, the world wags on as it did thirty years ago. There has been no hegira to Liberia and Palestine still "sits crownless and voiceless'' in her dlesolation. So it will be with Senator Butler's measure in less than ten years. It will be buried with his plan of working the roads. The negroes wvill still be work ing corn, cot ton and rice andl our great country wvill still move on in the way of peace, prosperity and freedom. We would have greater respect fo)r the views of these agitators if they would discharge all the negroes they nowv employ and( never accept the ser vice of another negro. A Precept of Jefferson Davis.s. [From the St. Louis Republic.] VIotA, Ark., Jan:'5.--I have in my autograph album this iniscription in Jeferson Davis's handwriting. It is a real gem, and should be engraved in the heart of every young person. Strive to leave. wvhen life oni earth is ended, that good name wh_ieh virtue only will connand. JEFFERsoN DAvIs BEAtr-voir, 3Miss., Dec. 10, 1887. Supecrvis~or or the Censgus. WAsmxoToN, Feb. 0.-The P~re dent to-day appointed several several suervisors ofecensus. imnon;g the nunm ber wvas the name of R. D. Gleorge, of Charleston. His appoint ment has al ready been foreshadowed in these dis AGAINST :NEGROES. A They Have no Civil Rights in Mlrsouri and Cannot Force Their Way in Upon Iotels or Theatres, Which are RIun a Private Speculations, KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 4.--Judge a: It. H. Field, of the Circuit Court, to-day declared in a decision that a colored man could be refused admittance not M ti onl y to a theatre, but to hoteis, public t, balls, etc. The suit was that of Simi:- t Son W. Younger against the Ninth b Street theatre, and was a test case. b Younger, who is a graduate of Ober- tL lin University, and popular with the colored population, appeared at the theatre November 27, 1SSS, with a colored female, and bought two or- cli ehestra seats. A new man was in the ec box olice, and by mistake the tickets were sold to him. The ushers refused to give him seats, and he demanded them, and was ejected innuediately. lie brought suit for $50,0U daiages, co in which he was supported by nearly 50,000 colored people in Eastern Kansas e and Missouri. The suit has been in the an courts for over a year. The colored peo ple are incensed with the court, and 1 much exeitement prevailed. Judge Field held that, as the civil rights bill do had been declared unconstitutional by re re. the Supreme Court of the Unitedc cu States, the rights of the colored people, th as well as others in this behalf, were to be determined by the connon laws that theatres and race courses were al private property, which the proprietors a could run to suit themselves, and that ticket thereto was a license revokable it any time, upon return or tender of o the costs of the ticket. The plaintiff contended that bieause re 'he owners of the railroads were bound F :o receive as passengers any person, that the same rule would apply to S ,heatres, but Judge Field held that rai'- hi roads were necessities of life, while thea Ires, like race courses, were luxuries ud amusements. In other words, the rights of the public against railroad Wv companies were a necessity, whereas to the privilege of going to a theatre or a di horse race was an amusenielt and a G pastime, and the damage resulting de from a failure to enjoy which would be g, merely speculative and sentinuental. at Therefore theatres who receive no con- U cessious from the public could make any ;rule or regulation fereging and F forbidding auy class of patrons which the proprietors deemed prejudicial to di the business or against their wish, e though they should act capriciously in so so doing. CO Judge Field, while delivering his opinion, said that he believed that th even if a person be refused admittanc fo to a hotel, his damages would be bl merely noninal, that is, not more than one cent or one dollar, unless that was lu the only hotel in the place, or the per- at on was deniid entrance at all the re hotels iln the p)lace- h< The It. & D). BLomad for Florida. * [Augusta News.] i With or without money the Rich mond and Danville railroad continues i its scoop with tunparallelled gall, of everything in sight. So far their suc cess in this work has beeni most ex e~ellent, and the fertile and bright a inds of the Calhoun Brothers are very important factors in this great work. ra Their last scoop, however, of the lit- 0 ble narrow gauge from A ugusta to i Sandersville, means a great deal, andy the best evidence of this is that the minute it was rejectedl by the parties ~ who pnrchased the same, it was ime iately grab)bedI at the same price as . the original sale. The qulestion arises, what (10 they ) want with the narrow gauge ?' The an- i swer is generally given, and all Florida travel wvil1 go through Augusta. The owners of the Richmnond andl Danville and the Coast Line, are not on tile most friendly terms and the reported appointment of Sol. H-aas in p)lace of st Peyton Rlandolphi as general manager. of the Richmo)nd and Di:nville means 0 a fight for the freight and passenger b busiesss to Florida with Augusta as the diverging point. The narrowv gauge is to be inunediately widend to a broad guage and the roadl coni tined to IIawkinsville, thence to Florida. In the mieantimec travel will be carried via M1acon and Albany, cut-b tng out of the way~ of the Florida travel. This mneanis great things for Augusta, as wve are sure to catch a large portion of Florida travel iln both directions, b and tIhe local business of thle narrow t gauge can never be taken fromm us. rThe t purchase of the road by Sir. Swann h and others s1ily mieaniS an R. & D).h deal.f Rect-iSmI in thme Montania Senate. 11m:u.:NA, MoNr.,, Feb. (.-A fter the d adjurmnmenit of thme Senate yesterday a aftern oon, th Di emnorrat ic' Senators, ti ineensed at the ruling of Lieuiteniant- u Governaor Richiards ini counting them ti present. took trainmS in difl-rent direc- a tions. They said they wvere going be- t< void the State line to get out of the u~ reachb of the Sergeant-at-A rms. Thleir a cont inuted ab sem-eC will bi'ek all legis lation. s Whlat is said to lbe the miost powerful e: electric tight in existence has recently een put~ into operat ion in a lighthouse n at Hnsthoim, on the dangerous coast 1 of utand. It is of t wo-muillioni-caddlet power, mounted on a tower about twoy hundred feet high, and can can be seen bi at a distance of thirty-live miles eveni 1 BRICE'S START TO WEALTH. Tel.egraph Operator's Blunder Made the Senator-Elect a Fortune. [Chicago Herald.] A year or so after Calvin S. Brice ad been made attorney of Fostet's ilroad, the Foster's concluded that, their road didn't pay, they vould :tend it down through Fostoria, their vn town, to a junctioni with somle unk line, and then try and sell It out. hey did this, but the construction of ie road nearly swamped them. They tilt it with bonds and stocks secured their own individual credit, and by e time they got to Fostoria, the aster ship was carrying a frightful ad. Both stocks and bonds were ;ted on the New York Stock Ex iange, and both were nearly worth ss. The stock sold as low .s i per are. Matters ran along a few months, lien all at once things began to boom nojrthwesteri Ohio. Oil was dis vered, the Hocking Valley coal fields mhe into prominence, new and great. sources began to reveal thenselves, d right at the same time ra:lway .lues all over the country took a arp rise in Wall Street. The Ohio ads were all very strong, and Foster's preciated securities went up with the it. The owners of the road made a iculation that if they could unload eir huge blocks of .tock at $19 they )uld get out whole. yhe stock had got up from $7 to $11, d though it seemed like a forlorn lpe, they sent Attorney Brice to New )rk with a trunkful of securities and Jers to watch the market and feed it t whenever the upset figures were iched. The boom lasted over a )nth and finally the stock in the ster road got up to $19 and $'O, with tiff demand. Brice then telegraphed: tock is up to $20, but I think going ,her. What shall I do?" "Now here is where the fun comes " continued the friend of Mr. Brice. ust about this time Charley Foster is setting up a deal in Starke County knock out the Democrats in that strict, and Foster had sent General bson up to Canton to arrange the tails. On the very day that Foster t Brice's telegram from New York out the stock he also got one from bson, which read: 'Can do nothing thout you. Better come up a day.' >ster who was then in Columbus, mnt into the Neil house to reply to spatches. To Trice he wrote: 'Sell ii all out quick as you can.' To Gib n he wrote: 'Do nothing more till I me.' "Now, the amiable lady operator at e Neil house, she is not here now, r she afterward got $5,000 for her under-got these messages mixed. :n. Gibson was flabbergasted to get a essage instructing him to sell out ybody or anything, and wonld not ply'to the message, but started for >me, muttering that if Charley Foster smted any dirty wvork (lone he could Sit himself.BPrice, in New York, who 't the message, "Do nothing more I I conic,' of course sat down and .itedl. Meanwhile the Wall Street ov.emnent increased in implortanice, I the whole market seemed on the mnpa ge. "The stock that Brice was watching 1(1 had a trunkful to throw on the arket kept on climbing. Brice heard >more of Foster, and the latter natu ly supplosed Brice was obeying ders and selling. He wvas doing noth g of the kind; he wa waiting for >ster to colme. "Mat ters ran along for a week or tell 3ys, and the Foster stocks were ioted at 37. Price then telegraphed: [liink it is time to let go. Arc you nming on'?' To say that Foster was izzled anid astonishied dloesnl't express Then followed a telegraphic corres od(enice which explained everything, id Price began to unload. The deal as so strong, though, and the boom ud been so admirably worked, that he 1(d nearly three-fourths of the capital seCk of the read at fromi $37 to $45. It as a great piece of fiancierinig. Not ily did tile Fosters clear themselves, it they netted something like $2,000, 4) besides. And that deal was worked Stheir young S1,000-a-year attorniey, ,1. Brice. "Andl what did they do for the ,ung financr?.' was asked. "That is anot her thing that has never en1 pubhlishedt, but it was v'ery hand mue. Chlarley Foster went and bought 00,000 in 43 per cent. bonds, had them gistered in the namie of Mrs. Calvin Brice and sent them to the lady, with 5 o CnplimeItnts. But Price was spo)ile(d en for the law. HeI liked finance, he ~ed railroading lie felt lie wa:s in ndedC( for great enterpises. But lie was unpeired; he had no money. His rtune. or rather his wife's, was of no ail to help him in his ambitious 'heme. "Onle day heL saidl to Mrs. Brice: 'My 'ar. $500 ,00 0 the wvay we have is ouit as gaodI as five cents. Let us sell lose bonds and( let me do something ith the money.' Mrs. IBrice made a emendous00 kick. Mr. Pric coaxed 1d teased, and finially Mrs. Brice wvent Charley Foster and biegged to know hat to do. Foster winked to himself, ad with a grave face told her it was a ife's duty to obey her husband. 'Be des,' said Mr. Foster 'there is a little -hemne on foot by which I think wve in make sonic money, and I don't -ant Cal to he left out for lack of eans. You had better let him have ie bonds. I don't think he will lose ]eml.' And so he got them, and the hole amount and half as much more orrowved money, went into the Nickel late deal, and out of that deal Cal AN EDITORIAL FRACAS. Serious Trouble Amos the Newspaper Men of Marion--Editor Hamer of the Inder .*Ltacked in His Office. [Special to the Reg.gter.] MARION, S. C., Feb. 5.-The Pee Dee Index, published this morning, con-t tains the following story of a sensa tional affair which occurred here last 1 night: Last night about 6 o'clock, everything I l'eing quiet and still upon the streets, as the editor of the Index, P. B. Ha iner, was sitting in his office alone, e some one rapped at the door. Mr. v Hamer went to the doorand opened it, O and as he did so he was attacked by P Junius H. Evans and W. J. MeKerall, c editors of the Marion Star. Evansand I( McKerall both caught hold of him and one of them struck him. Mr. Hamer at- a tempted to defend himself, but was l dragged from the office by the two P men. In the melee he was thrown P down on the floor. In his efforts to re gain his feet he was thrown down the v steps, his head striking either one of n the steps or some hard substance in the a yard. From the effects of this blow d Mr. Hamer was rendered unconscious, E and does not remember what subse- r rquently occurred. During the fight I Evans tried to force an apology from T Mr. Hamer for the article published in s( te Index last week concerning the I] tar, but this was steadily refused, and Evans said: "Let's beat him until he fi loes apologize or give up." No apolo- p Iy nor explanation of any kind was t made by Mr. Hamer, as he had made ip his mind that they might kill him A efore he would retract or apologize or anything that he had said. While )m the floor Evans and McKerall icked and choked him while vainly ti deavoring to make him either call for Si aelp or apologize for the objectionable w irticle. S1 It was impossible for Mr. Hamer to aefend himself successfully, as he was le wholly unaried and as either of his sl assailants is his equal in physical man- I: hood. n WHAT LED TO THE TROUBLE. d In the Star of the 22d ult. appeared r an article purporting to be a bit of c local history, wvhile in fact it was an attack upon the white citizens, the i Democrats of the town, on the subject P of the recent and last year's town elec- a tions, charging fraud and bribery to P rur best citizens and undue influence upon our colored voters. The Index replied to that article last week, the S 29th ult., in defense of the town, al leging that the Star had allied itself b with the negroes, and in abusing the whites of the town was in full accord t with the most radical of Radical papers. This, it is alleged, is borne out by the e Star, in each of the two last elections, t were very active in defeating the regu- a lar nomination of such men as G. A. P Norwood, president of the Bank of Marion; J. P. Davis, County Treasur- ~ er; R. J. Balckwell, merchant; P. A. r Wilcox, lawyer; C. A. Wilcox, mner-. e eant; E. T. Elliott, and other leading eitizens. The tickets elected were nom-t iated and elected by the solid colored vote, with only the few whites who favor liquor selling in our dry town. One of the editors of the Star hast been clerk, the only paying office, un-V der both councils. Of late the edito rials of that paper have been strongly ~ tinctured with flattery of the negro; c hence the attitude of the Index. d After wiiting until the last moment P of the week following the publication U of the article in the Index, Jumus H. Evans and WV. J. McKerall went to the office of the Index and committed the a assault as reported in the Index to-day by Mr. Hanmer himself. Mr. Hamer's office was the scene of a perfect ovation to-day, most of the a leading citizens calling and expressing the greatest indignation. . t A petition for the removal of Junius H. Evans from the office of Trial Jus- C tice has been circulated and signed by almost all of the white citizens. C A Big Job of Printing. [Inland Printer.] One of the largest jobs of printing ~ over undertaken in this country is now being executed by King, Towle & Co., ~ Milwaukee. It consists of 20,000,00)0 8 books, called "Secrets" issued by the ~ Pabst Brewing Company of that city. It is the intention of Captain Pabst to leave a book upon the doorstep of every house in all cities of the United States which have a population of 2,500. The ground has been gone over once, end it took 5,169,000 books to do it. ( The intention is to go over the country that way four times. The cost of the whole job is $80,000 ; and King, Towle & Co. are under contract to deliver 4.5,0040 books every twenty-four hours. It will take twenty-seven carloads of paper to make 20.000,000 books. An Unfortunate Mistake. ."I wish to say to the congregation" said the minister. "that the pulpit is not responsible for the error'of the printer on the tickets for the concert in the Sunday-school room. The con cert is for tihe benefit of the Arch Fund, not the Arch Fiend. We will now sing hymn six: 'To err is human, to forgive divine.' Can't Buck Against It. [Brunswick Times.] Georgia papers are still advertising the Louisiana State Lottery, the law passed by the late General Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding. Persons other than Georgia legislators have found that there is no use trying to bu,- against the T,onisinan lnoterv' CLEVELAND IN 1892. )epew Says He Wil Be Nominated With a Hurrah. [Interview in Washington Post.] "The Cleveland Bill controversy is ed hot there, and is growing more in ense every day. The Tammany and ounty Democracy trouble is also grow ng more bitter because of the absolute omination of Tammany in every de artment of the city government, and ecause Tammany will also be the ufferer through not having .places nough to take care of all the people vho think they ought to be taken care f, and who, when they are disap ointed, will join the County Demo racy. I don't see in sight any divis n in the Republican party for '92." Mr. Depew thought it was too far head to tell who would be the Repub can standard-bearer in the next cam aign, but he was willing to be a rophet for the Democrats. "Cleveland," he said, "will, I think, ithout any doubt whatever, be nomi ated by the Democrats with a rush rd a hurrah. There will be no caudi ate against him in the convention. [is election is another question. He presents, however, the only idea upon hich Democracy can make a fight. he Republican party solidly repre -ts the idea of protection. If the emocratic party claims to represent a iodified form of that idea, it is neither esh, fish, nor fowl, and the American iblic hates mixtures. Whatever it Lkes it takes straight." llance Men Beware of Party Independ entism. The Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite, one of e best and bravest papers in all the )uth, gives this solemn and timely arning to the Farmers' Alliance of Duth Carolina: "In Alabama and in South Carolina, ading members of the Alliance have iown a purpose to withdraw from the lemocratic party, and to carry the iembers of the order with them. In eed, in the latter State, a call has been iade by leading Alliancemen for a )nvention, to form a distinct party rganization for political purposes. It a move to set aside the Democratic arty as the party of the people and to atagonize it with the proposed new arty. It is a piece of unspeakable fol r, especially when viewed from the irmer's stand-point. This view of the iatter is more apparent in the case of outh Carolina than in that of Ala ama or Georgia,and it is true and forci le in its application alike to all of em. "South Carolina has hardly recov red as yet from the domination of )ieving carpet-baggers and scala-ags ting under Republican auspices. The oke of roguery was thrown off by lemocratic agencies. By the same ower the true people of the State were 3storedlto their rightful position at the ead of affairs, and through it every inort of ignorant and corrupt numbers > rule and ruin has been thwarted. ecure in person and in property under lemocratic rule, the waste places have egun to grow green again, and the en re State has waked up to renewed igor and hopefulness. -'But this suicidal movement.on the art of the Alliance of the State be luds the prospect. It purposes to ivide into two antagonistic hosts the olitical army in and through whose nited strength alone the State won ictory and maintained dominion. Vhat then ? The carpet-baggers and 3alawags will take courage and unite gain. The party of plunder and of ~norance will again take the field. ncou raged by Democratic division nd aided by shameless Federal inter ~rence, the enemies of white domina ion will again sit in the high places of be State, and the wreck and ruin of a ay, in famous beyond characterization, rill return to emphasize the folly of tiliance leadership in South Carolina. )nly through the party solidity of the white men of the South may our sec ion hope to beat back the corrupting, evastating invasion of the Republican osts, Should they conqluer through ny foolish divisioni among Democrats nd again take p)ose:on of the State overnments of the South, the last state of our sect ion will be worse than he first." Coincidents In the Governor's Otice. (From the Wateree Messenger.] A bout our present chief executive, lovernor John Peter Richardson, there re several coincidences wh ich are niot mly interesting, b,ut singular. His father, who was also named ohn Peter Richardson,was Governor of south Carolina from 1810 to l822. This s the only instance, I believe, ini the istory of our State where two( Gover ors have borne exactly the same same. The Governor who preceded the first John Peter Richardson was B. K. Henegan, who was niot elected to that office, but wvas only filling out an unexpired term- the Governor who preceded the second John Peter Rich rdson was John C. Sheppard, who, ike Henegan was not elected to the fice, but was also filling out an unex pired term. The Lieutenant Governor under the first John Peter Richardson was an upcountrymlan, Col. WV. K. Clowney, of Union, whose first name was William. The Lieutenant Gover nor under the second John Peter Rhih rdson, is an upcountrymnan; who"s first name is also William. We see then, that South C'arolina numbers among her chief executives, tw me father and son, whose names are exactly the same; the Governor who preceded both of them were no elected to the office, but were onl3 filling unexpired terms; the Lieuten ant Governors under both came fron the upcountry, and the first name o both the Lieutenant Governors wa, and is William. Probably we will no meet with so many coincidences about the Governor of any other Southern State. Do not these coincidences go t< prove the truth of the proverb, "His tory repeats itself?" McDoNa LD FURMAN. Ramsey, S. C., Jan. 6, 1890. The Winner of the Nellie Bly Trip Prize [New York Wiorld.1 F. W. Stevens, of No. 193 Second Avenue, New York city, is-the winnel of the free trip to Europe, his guess be. ing nearer the exact time consumed by Nellie Bly in her trip around the world than any of the other million competi. tors. The following certificate is the basis on which the award is made: . NEW YORK, January 25, 1890. We, the undersigned timekeepers, do hereby certify that we were present in the Pennsylvania railroad depot, Jersey City, the 25th day of January, 1S90, on the arrival of Miss Nellie Bly, and that she set foot to the ground at5l minutes and 44 seconds past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We hereby certify that the elapsed time from start to finish of Miss Nellie Bly's trip around the world is 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds. G. A. AVERY, Manhattan Athletic Club. ROBERT STOLL, New York Athletic Club. C. C. HUGHES, Manhattan Athletic Club. The winning coupon is given here with: THE SUCCESSFUL COUPON. To the European trip Editor: My guess as to the exact time of Nellie Bly's tour of the world is as follows: [December 23.] Days. Hours. Minutes. Seconds. 72 6 11 142-5 Name of guesser: F. WV. STEVENS. Residence of guesser: 193 Second Avenue. Date of guess: Jannary 23. Mr. Stevens was just two-fifths of one second out of the way. His guess was received in the World office the day before Miss Bly reached Chicago. The New York World gives a long sketch of Nellie Bly, saying among other things, that the World and Miss Bly have kept the secret well, and most 'f the printed matter about this young lady has come entirely from hearsay. In the first place she is not "Helen Finnegan." Nor is she a "widow." Nor-so far as the World knows-is she engaged to marry anybody. Nor is she "anywhere from thirty to forty five years old," as various journals have stated. Nor is she "a brazen faced, masculine wvoman, who forces her way in search of news." All of these things have been said of her and all of them are false. Nellie Bly is known in private life as Miss Elizabeth Cochrane. She is an umarried woman, twenty-three years of age. She lives quietly in an up town tiat with her wid owed mother. The kind of work she has done has made it necessary that she would know as few people as possible, and on that account her pri vate life has been a very quiet one. John C. Sheppard for Governor. .[Fromi the Cheraw Reporter.] As the political cauldron has begun to bubble and nominations or, more properly speaking, suggestions, foz Governor are in order, we would be pleased to mention the name of thE lHon. John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield, Mr Sheppard, it is true, is not a PeE Dee man, but lie is the very man foi the place. It is all well enough for s newspaper to bring forward for office the man of its own section provided circumstances favor, but to pursue suec: a course for merely sectional reasomn strikes us as not altogether advisable Mr. Sheppard has already served the State as Lieutenant Governor and filled the Governor's chair for a short time and every one knowvs with what abilit3 lhe filled both positions. He is a young man of high attainments and states man-like ideas, and such are the kind that we should all desire in office Theref"re we have come to the conclu sion that the State Convention coun< do no better thani nominate him fo Governor. Drought in Lower Georgia. SavaNNA r, Feb., 6.-The farmers o Emanuel County are despondent 01 account of the total absence of rain fo so long a period. The creeks and othe streams have dried up to such an ex tent that it is difficult to even wate the stock properly. Those who cu lumber in the winter months have ha< to stop work simply because they coul< not gyet their product to market. Vas piles of logs are waiting for rain tha fill up the river sufficiently to permi floating themi down to Darien. Th farmers are also unable to plough an get ready for the spring planting o account of the hardness of the ground Perish the Sarplus. [Philadelphia Record.] IIn the cheerful task of spending th surp)lus Congress will have able assis1 ance from many jovial statesmen wh have bills for p,ublic buildings of varj ing shadles of extravagance tucke away in their respective inside pocl: ets. Already there have been laid bE fore Congress bills providing for th erection of 230 public buildings, to cot altogether about $25,000,000, and th end is not yet. THEIR HO "xe~.~t~ -1TER OEYMOti:-IIODED. i" A Mysterious Beauty that is fouowinsth Prince Hatzfeldt and his Bride. [New York Society Review.] As a matter of foreign news, some strange information reaches us about the Prince and Princess Hatzfeldt, who are travelling about on a tour in Eu rope. The Princess, it is known, has some very dear friends in New York, with whom she has been in constant cor respondence since her marriage. She is very lavish with her gifts to those whom she calls her oldest friends, and a very handsome clock arrived here the other day from Rome, accompanied by a lPttor containing the extraordinary information that the Princess and her husband were being followed from city to city by a mysterious French beauty of the keen Parisian stamp. This woman has only presented her self once to the Princess in person; but both the Prince and Princess are in constant receipt of abusive letters and demands for money under threat of some unknown exposure. These threats are principally directed against the Prince, who as yet has taken no steps to prevent the annoyance. Although their movements are per sistently followed by this solitary Ne mesis, she is not usually seen by them, and their notification of her presence with them en voyage is always by the post. A Cloud-Burst in China. SA FEANcIsco, February 5.-The Shanghai Mecury of January 7, re ceived by the steamer Rio Janeiro yes terday, gives a brief account of a great cloud-burst near Nanking, of which a short announcement was received by cable at the time. It says: On the 7th of this moon, In Jangtze River, near Nanking, at about 10 a. in., when the weather was bright there was suddenly heard a rushing noise as of water pour ing. Two large black clouds appeared and soon enveloped everything like a fog. The waters were much disturbed and the river was full of large waves. The two clouds eventually reached a place called Tsi Li Chow, when they burst asunder, making a very loud re port. During the distrubance many boats were destroyed and over 100 peo ple were drowned. More than fifty were picked up in an exhausted condition by the Chinese life preserving associa tion. Those who lost their lives were buried by the authorities. Edgefield Law. [New York World.] The law in Edgefield County, South Carolina, prescribes that a man found guilty by any young woman of having trifled with her a4ections shall be pun ished at the discretion of the girl's big brother. We infer the term of the - statute on this subject from the events reported in the Sunday World by tele graph. in which the punishment in flicted was a fearful horsewhipping. The fact that there was no talk or thought of holding the man who ad ministered the castigation to any sort of - responsibility indicates that the com munity-which is the source of all law -approves this act, in other words that the law in Edgefield is as we have stated it. "Grady" and "Graves." [Tribune of Rome.] In East Bome on January the 31st was born to Mr. and Mrs. Watt Can field twin boys, weighing seven and a fourth, and seven and three-fourths pounds respectively. T~o Dr. 0. T. Dozier who had the pleasnre.of-present ing them to their parents , was' dele gated the honor of naming the bright little citizen, and after brief reflection Dr. Dozier decided "Henry W. Grady," and "John Temple Graves" to be the names they should henceforth bear; And at last accounts they were bearing these names quite lustily. Speaker Reed a Little "Raed." [Washington Dispach to the New York Times, February 1.] The Critic says to-night that Speaker Reed yesterday afternoon, when he reached his rooms at the Shorehamn, after a remarkable display of calmness throughout all the stormy scenes of the contest, broke into a rage and trembled with excitement as he re sented the Demoeratic ab\use, saying that no Speaker in American history had ever been compelled to bear such malicious denunciasion. WhoNBeIs. [New York World.] Congressman Crisp, of Georgia, who has been making himself prominent of late, is ason of an English actorof re pute. The elder.Crisp played at the Park Theatre in this city many years ago, and at one time supported Mrs. Mowatt when she first went on the 1stage. He afterwards settled in Geor gia and died there. A Quick Method of Counting. Little Bertrand had promised his mother always to count 100 before speaking after becoming angry. One day his sister snatched an orange form him and his angry retort came in a suspiciously short time. "Bertrand," said his mother, "did you count 100 ?" S"Yes'm." t"How did you count it ?" '"Ten, twenty, fifty, forty,, fiftf, six to, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundFed."