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ELBER~T H. AL LL, EDITOR. :ELBERT H. AULL, ) Proprietors. WM. P. HOUSEAL, NEWBERRY. S. C, THURSDAY APRIL 3, 1890. THE FAtMERS' CONVENTION. The Farmers' State Convention met, accomplished the work for which it was called and adjourned. Whethel the methods used in the accomplish ment of this purpose were right and proper, and whether when accom plished, the action was wise, there i diversity of opinion. One of the object, of the Convention was to make nomi nations. Nominations for Governol and Lieutenant-Governor were made. The call for the Convention was mad( to those who were in sympathy with the Farmers' Movement as expounded in the call of Capt. Shell, of Laurens In , majority of the counties in which con ventions were held for the purpos( of electing delegates to this State Con. vention, the farmers were opposed tc the Convention making nominations It seems that in the State Conventior when the vote was first taken on mak. ing nominations, that a majority of the delegates were opposed to nominations evea including Mr. Farley, a citizen of Laurens, as part of the Spartanburt delegation, the vote being 116 for nominat ions and 117 against, but b3 sharp tactics several votes were au nouneed as changed and the result wa: declared in favor of nominations. Ther four of the Pickens delegates voted for nominations when their County Con vention had in;tructed them againsi such action. Then there were several counties it the State that were not represented is this Convention at all. We do not believe that a majority o: the farmers of this State favored nomi nations by this Convention. But the nominations for Governoi and Lieutenant-Governor have beer made, and a platform adopted, and the question now arises will the farmer. endorse the action, and support the nommnees in the regular State Demo cratic Convention. If they do, then can be no doubt that they will be the norniuees of the regular Democrat< State Convention. The platform adopted by the Con vention is a moderate and rather con servati'-e document. We have nevei thought there was any special necessit3 for a constitutional convention, but i the people want it, and are willing t< go to the expense, we have no objee tion. TIhe agitators of this movement have been abusing ring rule and "cut anc dried" conventions, and caucus nomi nations. The proceedinigs of this Con vention impress us very much as i: everything was "cut and dried" for the purpose. Mr. Tillman says he wrote the platform and brought it to the Con vention in his pocket, and it was re. ported to the Convention even before a committee on platform was appointed Everything was rushed through t< carry out the purposes for which the Convention was calied. But the Convention is pledged tc abide the result of the action of thE regular Democratic State Conventiou. As to the nominees we have very little to say. We are frank to admit that Mr. Tillman is not our.choice foi Governor. Mr. Coit has not signined whether he would accept the nomina * tion tendered him or not. Many peo pIe are disappointed in Mr. Tiliman. He has time and again, when charged with having in view the Governorship * in his agitation said that he did not want any office, that he was working solely for the good of his brethren, the farmers; but now that he enters the race for Governor many of his friends are ,sadly disappointed. He has a right to run for this office, as any other man has. It is a laudable ambition in any man. But Mr. Tiliman has so often disclaimed any purpose of wanting office that his friends are disappointed. We have only this to say, we did not believe that the farmers of the State were in favor of making nominations at the March (Convention, and we do not believe that a majority of them ap prA'e such action now, but they are made. We did not believe that such action would be wise, and the work of the Convention has not changed our opinion. But if the regular Democratic Convention approves the action of the M1arch Convention, and puts forward Mr. Tillmnan as the nominee for Gover nor, we shall support himi, although he is not our choice. We have great con fidence in the patriotism and good c>mmnon sense of our people, and vi believe that if the people, when they come to consider the situation seriously, believe it best to sustain the action of the March Convenfion, they will do it, andI if it is thought best not to do it, they will as readily repudiate it. If they (do Mr. Tillnman and his followers miust make up their minds to bow gratcefully to t he action of the people in their regtular C'onvention assembled. It is a long time yet before the time for tli* meet in<r of the regular State Deor.i Cnenin There will be p'entl y f ii:e to consider the action o'ft be A!arb (Convention, and to dis euws~ the s.i' uation. We trust the dis eusions w! be~ free from personal abtumt:un! rih-ie. No good can come from, at bug nwn. Let us deal with The eed fthe st udents of the I~nin rei in ti a ir treatment of Mr. Tiln:mGul::gthe Convention in Columbi :st week is no credit to tbem t' :y tL*:cast. Eveni the apology or exp lnati'on of the News and tot: rier *r themx does not help the m:ainer !:uvlh. No good can come from .iuch con: ue:,:atl it neds to be con we:nneda. Why' sho'uld they hiss Mr Tilbnan, andi anznoy him with songs, nde' en :ol vli h to his hotel. It will not raise them in the estimiation of good~ non a nywhere. It w1iO not hel their cause nor will Fit inre thie cause of Mr. Tillman. The Kanoas farmers say they are go ing to b tycot t senator Inmgilis. They think i:n a failure, and it is said they nrns to put up the bars and kcep MQ\ICIPAL MATTERS. At the citizens meeting last Friday, it was decided to refer the matter of nominating a Mayor and Aldermen of the town for the ensuing year to a Democratic primary. The rules gov erning the primary are published else where. Three candidates for Mayor have signed the pledge and are in the race-J. K. P. Goggans, E. C. Jones and Jno. C. Wilson. The race promises to be a spirited one. So far the canvas has been active but all in good spirit. The candidates are all good men and any one will make a good Mayor. The election will be held to-day. There has been about 400 voters registered. Only Democrats will be allowed to vote in the election to-day. The regular election will be held next Tuesday. There will hardly be any Republi can ticket in the field, yet a good many negroes have registered. It has been difficult to get candidates for Aldermen to enter the race. but we believe all of the present Aldermen have consented to run, and they will have no opposition. They are, Ward 1, L. M. Speers ; Ward 2, Wm. John son ; Ward 3, T. E. Eptiug; Ward 4, G. A. Langford. We trust the fight will continue to be a friendly one. The majority plan is to rule in the primary to-day, and if a second elec tion is necessary it will be held on Saturday. WHAT REFORMS? A great deal has been said and writ ten lately about retrenchment and re form, and extravagance in the man agement of affairs in South Carolina has been repeatedly charged. Now it is a very easy matter to make whole sale charges of extravagance, and to cry reform, and to deal in generalities. Our people are in a state of unrest and seem to want something, and it is a popular thing to preach extravagance and to talk about the reforms that are needed in a general way, and many pretended friends of the farmers are riding this hobby because the mass of the people are pleased and tickled with such stump oratory. We want to see this matter brought down to facts and figures. What reforms are needed? Please specify. Let us know where there has been extravagance, and where there can be retrenchment and reform. The editor of The Herald and News claims to be a reasonably reasonable man, and he is sure that he favors the strictest economy in the management of the affairs of State, that will secure to the people an honest and efficient administration. Now if these so-called reformers will just specify and show us where there is extravagance and where there can be reform, we will give the influ ence of this paper to show up the ex travagance and bring about the re forms. But we want more than whole sale charges and generalities. The only thing that we have seen specified is salaries of State officers. If the State officers, as some one has said, would work for nothing there would be no appreciable difference in the rate of taxation. The question that should engage the attention of our people now is the fund ing of our State debt, a large portion of which falls due in 1892. Nearly all of the State tax that we pay goes to pay the interest on the State debt. We are now paying six per cent. interest on this debt of about six millions, which makes $360,000 annually. Now if this six millions of debt can be funded for four per cent. there will be a saving to the tax payers annually of $120,000. This is an item that would be an appre ciable saving to the tax payer, and in forty years would be a saving nearly equal to the whole debt. It is thought that the State debt can be funded for four per cent. if wise counsels prevails. But if we throw our State in confusion and shake the confidence of the financial world in the stability of our State government, it will be difficult to fund the debt at a low rate of interest. We need financial statesmanship now. This is a big question and one that should receive the attention of our statesmen. We shall expect Mr. Tillman in his canvass of the State to specify what re forms can be made and what he pro poses to make. GRADED SCHOOL BUiLDINGS.. We publish elsewhere a notice of an election to be held in Newberry on the 14th instant on the question of issu ing bonds to the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of erecting suitable build ings for the use of the Graded Schools in Newberry. We also publish in this connection section 7 of the Act estab lishing Graded Schools in Newberry which authorize the issuing of bonds. This is an important matter. If we are to have a system of Graded Schools in Newberry as we have determined to have, there can be no doubt there can be no- doubt that suitable buildings are needed. There is nothing that we can do as a town that will help more to build us up in material advancement than a first-class system of schools, and no one will question the need of suita ble buildings. Then let us go to work and have the buildings and start the schools off right in the beginning. We trust there will be little or no op position to this measure. "sc. 7. In the event the Board of Trustees hereIn provided for shall deem it necessary to erect school buildings for the use of schools therein, or to purchase property for a like purpose, it may be lawful for them to submit to the qualified voters resident in said schiool district, at an election to be held for that pur pose, after ten days' public notice, the ques t,ion of authorizing the Issue of bonds not exceeding the amount of ten thousand dol lars. bearing six per cent. interest and pay able in twenty years (the proceeds of which bonds shall be used by said Trustees in pur ba.sing or erecting suitable school buildings, in repairing or improving school buildings, nd in providing suitable furniture and ap parat us for same), and t he levy of an an nual tx of six-tenths of a mill to pay the Interest on said bonds. The Board of Trustees Is I ere by empowered to appoint three managers to onduct any such election, to declare the result of the same. and is authorized to exe cute and deliver the bonds so aut horized to be voted, in the event that the majority of persons voting at said election shall be in favor of the same. and the interest annually aerung on the said bonds shall be paid by the County Treasurer out of the proceeds oif aid special tax-anysurplus remaining after te pyment of the annual interest to be applied to the redemption of thie bonds i'ud uder direet:on of thesaid Trustees." The big pension bill amendment has been killled. It was too big a grab even for the Republicans. Under its pro visions it would have taken about 300,000,000 to pay the arrears of pen-1 sons. It provided that pensions on acount of wounds or injuries or dis ease, conmmence from the dleathl or dis charge of the soldier. Mr. B. R. Tillman was quoted in th News and Courier as saying in hi speech before the Convention in C' lumbia last week: "If you ask ne t lead this fight you call on me to lead forlorn hope; but you will have your head the only man who has th brain, the nerve, and the ability to of ganize the common people against th aristocracy." Some of the delegatt have told us that Mr. Tillman did n use the language attributed to him. i are glad that Mr. Tillman has settle the question and tells us what he di say. He says the acoustic propertit of the ball are bad, and probably th reporter did not catch his words full\ He says that he used this languag( "and if I am the only man who ha the brain" &c. He qualitied his e) pression with an "if." This "if" dot not help the matter much. It seen to us now that he first assumes that h is the only man who has the brain, &c and then says if he is the only man, & It reads to us even with the "if' as there was still a good deal of egotist about the matter. Possibly he is t1 only man to lead this fight. AN IDOL SHATTELL. An Esteemed CoteIporary' Velrctior on the Faruerz' }ovenient-"sold Again." Ready for a Dish of ('row. [From the Greenville News.] Confession and penitence pronol tranquility of mind, and, therefore, i desire to own up frankly and freely o the Tillman question. We hoped against hope until thela: minute that our first opinion of Cap Tillman was right. We thought hir a somewhat extreme and violent mar but believed that he was entirely cot scientious, and was induced to mak rash statements and take positions h could not hold by honest zeal for tb good of his State and the righting < wrongs. When he declared at the b< ginning of his career that he was a car didate for no office, but trustee of a agricultural college and desired n other, we swallowed it whole and hi lieved it im'licity. We have resente and repelled the charges of oppositio newspapers that Tillman was workin chiefly for Tillman's advancemel We I elieved that we had at last foun a patriot who was giving his tino breath and labor for pure love of h State and his (lass. The dream is over; the idol issha tered. Capt Tillman stands forth as candidate for Governor at the head < the movement he has done so muc during the last five vears to give sha r to. The Farmers' Movement, for t1 farmers, of the farmers and by the fa mers, has been twisted into a Tilllma movement for Tillman, of Tillman an by Tillman. What we thought wf patriotism we find to be politics. V can only ask the Columbia Regist( and other esteemed contemporara who have all along treated Capt Til man as a candidate in training for race for the Governorship to pass alon our dish of crow as gently as possib] in the circumstances, and will the unite with it vast number of hone! an< confiding people in the doleft chorus, "sold again!" We are sorry to lose the disintereste and sturdy patriot in whom we hav believed all these years, but we are n< sorry for our part in it. We woul rather think too well of ninety-nit men than to fail to give one credit the e deserves. We prefer to err on thi sideof charity and confidence in huma nature. We are glad that to the ver last we demande.l fair play for Cal Tilman, and that he should not I judged in advance of his acts. No' that he has by his own act con firme the charges his enemies have mad against him the responsibility is o him. Nor do we charge him with an crime. If he wanted to be Governc he had the right to work for that enc and to secure all the backing he counc It is now for the Democrats of th State t~o say whether they approve hi methods and his candidacy. He ha put himself before thenm for judgmnent The outlook for him is not ver good. He has resigned his claim to b2 a disinterested patriot, working solel; for the good of his fellow-farmers, ani he has not established a standing as brilliant or successful politician. H was practically beaten in hisown gamn with all the cards in his hand. The Convention of the 27th wa called by Capt Shell, who is Capt Till man's warm friend and devoted advc cate. It was called as a Convention c all who were in sympathy with _th Farmers' Movement to make nomina tions. The farmers and those who wer in sympathy with them met at thei county seats, and by their action proved that they opposed the makin, of nominations. The first vote on the question in th Convention was a defeat for thbe nom inatiou plan. Thbere w"as a majority c one against nominations, including th' vote of Mr. Farley, of Laurenis, as par of the Spartanburg delegation, whici was withdrawn when a protest wa made against it. Excluding that vote the motions for nominations was de feated by a majority of two. Among the votes for nomination. were those of the four delegates fron Pickens, who were elected by a farm ers' mass meeting, which adopted res olutions against nominations. Th< four men wvho went to Columbia vote( for nominations, but their votes dit not rub out the fact that the farmer of their county opposed such action. To make the majority of one ther< was also included nine votes fromi th< city of Charleston. Those votes wert cast by delegates elected two nights be fore the Con vention by a meeting calle< at a day's notice. How the farmiers of Spartanbur; County feel cannot be known becausi all who o1pposed inminiations wer< ruled out of the county meeting by Senator R. M1. Smith, a ruling whici wvas reversed by the Convention wher it admitted the Barnwell and Sumtel delegations intrueted against nonmia Any fair-minded man considerint these facts must conclude that the farmers andi their sympathizers vir. tually declared against nominations ii: If the Convention had beeni the reg u lar Democratic State Convetiion and te result had been secured by the votes f delegates in opposition to the ex pressed wishes of those who sent thiem and of other delegates hastily chosen in Charleston at short notice there would ha-e been a howvl and a kick fronm one end of the State to the other. If wvhen the farmers come to consider the mat ter and investigate the facts they (1o not kick energetically against the ac tion of this convention and the at ttmpt to commit them wvith or wvith :ut their consent to Capt. Tillmian's candidacy wec will be much surprised. RE-BUILDING sHEL.TON URIDGE. Cl. McBee was to Iiurn the Deblria Last Night, and will Erect a New striuc rure at Once. Sp'cial to the News and Cou rier.] UNIo, March :l.-Col. V. E. Mc Bee, president of the South Carolina diision of the Richmiond and Danville Ralroad, passedi here to-day on the ,vy to Shelton to take mieasures about the wreck of the bridge over Broad River. It is very likely that the debris .f the old oridge wvill be burnt to-night. oolMBee is determined to build a new bridge as soon as possible. The transfere of passepgers, baggage, an express and miail are now made dy, and through travel has been romnlence(l again - e A CYCLONE IN A CITY. Louisvile. Kentucky, Devastated by tI Wind.-The Total Loss of Life may Reach Thousands. a .t WASHINGTON, March 26.-All tel, e graphic communication with Loui: ville, Ky, ceased to-night shortly aftt - 7 o'clock, and has not since been rt e sumed. A report conies by way< 1s Jeffersonville, 1nd, that a cyclone ht done great damage to Louisville, pa tieularly in the western portion of tt e city where many buildings are in ruir tl and there has been great loss of life. d These reports came from people wh crossed the river to Jeflersonville tt night, but, as telegraphic communic e tion with Jettersonville is contined t the railroad company's wires used i moving trains, particulars cannot far be had. s CI NiA Tr, March 2s.-2 A. M. Inforiation just received here is thi s the cyclone struck Louisville in tL s southwestern portion and took a norti e easterly direction. Ai eye-witnes narrates: "1 only saw the course of it froi . 14th and Walnut to 11th avenue al if Market street. From this latter poii it followed its course to 7th and tl river, where it left the city, strikin e across the river, and reached Jeffersoi ville at the foot of Spring street "Little damiage was done in Jeffe so ville, however. I it Louisville tL devastation is terrible, aad the loss 1 life will certainly reach hundreds not thousands. In one building at 12t and Market two lodges and a dancin school were in session, there being i the building perhaps one huindred pet pie, not eune of whui is thought t e have escaped. I stood and watche e theni working in ruins anid saw six < n eight corpses taken out in fifteen mii utes. t "There is searcely anything left the would indicate this heap of rubbish ha n ever been buildings, and if any of il ,t inmates escaped it was by nothing le. than a miracle. The path oft he cyelon e was about a s(u:tre and a half i e width." e iw Yoit, March 27.-A repoi if just received here says that ('lii Operator Breed of the Western Unior I- at Louisville, had arrived at Jef'ersol ) ville, Ind acros- the river from Loui: Sville. He reports terrible lestructio there, almost the entire western portio d of Louisville being i.n ruins,'and 1,1 to 1,50i supposed to be killed. ' LoVISVILLE, KY, March 27.-S:ot t after 9 o'clock a tornado swept ovi t this city, wrecking two or three hur , dred houses and killing two hundre s people. The wind came froi the sout I west. t- The Union depot at the foot of 7t a street was lifted from its foundatio )f and turned over into the raging torrer b of the Ohio lRiver. A train of cai e making up for the Louisville Souther e Road went over with the building. - The city hall, on West Market stree n was wrecked. In the hall were or d hundred people and but few of thei S escaped alive. Many buildings aftl e falling caught lire and the innat r were burned. All the streets wei S blockaded with debris cf fallen bul I- ings or telegraph and electric wires. a This dispatch is carried around tL g city to the bridge and sent by railroa e wires. A PATH OF DEST ti ItoN IN ILLIXOIL , ST. Louis, March 17.-A special I the Republic from!Nashville, I11., say d the eyelone struck that place wit e terrific force and that not a pane < > glass is left in a windowv with a wester d exp)osure. The city hall, a large fram e structure, was demolished. Marti t Porter's livery stable is a wreck. Sav e yer & McCracken's cooper shop, brick building, is demolished. At Little Prairie, a few miles distar from] here, the storm destroyed the res e deuce of Win. Rhine, and Mr. Rhin was internally injured and is not e2 d pected to live. Two of his childre ewere carried a quarter of a mile to tb nhome of David Smith. They were ut injured. Smith's house was destroyet Hie rushed out with his little girl and tree fell on them. Neither is expecte to live. Fritz Krum's house was blown awa; and he and his wife are probably fa tally injured. Henry Taylor and fan ily had a like fate ; two were youn sladies Miss Morris and M[iss Maggi Simmands. both of whom will die frot their injuries. A special to the Republic from Cal bondale, Ill., says the disastrous c' clone passed through Jackson Count this evening. At Grand Towera coac e railroad was blown from the tracle Anumber of houses were levelledt the grourgd, and three lives are repor te lost. 'Near Murphysboro Mr. Linde ley's dwelling was literally blownt pieces, his child killed and his wif dangerously injured. e NOT AS BAD AS WAS PICTURED). r LouISVILLE, March 29.-It is no' 5 pretty near a certainty that the entir loss of life from the tornado in this cit; will not go much above one hundred e if that number is reached. Up to thi - writing the total number killed at al f places whose bodies have been recov ered, and of the missing who it is rei t sonably certain are dead, is eighty eight. ~In addition to these, there ar s about a dozen who are so badly injure< ,that death may ensue. Anywhere fron 150 to 200) persons are injured to an es tent worth noticin]g, and prohably 50 S to 1,000 have very slight bruises o scratches that do not inconveniene -them. HAVOC AT GRAND RAPID)S, KY. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 20.--.inme Norfieet, a director of the Gran< Rapids Company, brings details of th< avoc played there by the storm. Thi city is located about eighteen mile southi of Paducah and midway betweer the C1umberland and Tennessee Rivers It is a smiall)place, the headquarters o a compllany organized to develop th< iron industry. The principal office was completely destroyed, the hote prtially so, arid eight other houses were blown down and completely des troed. Richard Beck, Abe Murry nam a little boy were killed and seventeer oters seriously injured. There wvas to have been a land sal' theie April 2nd, at which a large atten dnce was expected from all parts o the country. A large p)arty of Easterr caitalhits expected to leave Bos' on to nmorrow~ to te p)resenit. Thue new iron bridge just constructc( over the C'umberlanid river by the New port News and M1ississippi Valley Rail: road was wvrenched from the piers anc throwvn into the river.. The track of the storm was also through Eddvville, where it struck negro settlemen t and killed two persons and wvounded imneteeni others. svECRE sTORMt IN TENNESSEE. ME.:tr'mS, March 29.-The severe wind storm wvhich started at 10) o'clock Thursday morning continued utl late last night. with a maximun veloc ity of forty-eigh t miiles an hour. Sligh t Iamrage was done to property all over the city. It mainly damaged roofs and broken windows. Telegraph wires are genEaily down, although commu ietion was mzainitainied with Nash vule, Little Rock and New Orleans. Speciais from Nashville report i terriic storm North of there. At G4allatin, Tenn., several houses were demolished. .Johin H. Tfibbitt, his two children and a young girl were killed by falling walls. Several others were severely injured. An iron bridge over D)eshior's Creek, on the Chattanooga road, was thrown~ down and all trains abandoned. The towvn of Raigin is said to be a corn plete wreck. Every house except one was demolished. A child of the postmaster was killed and anotber seriovsly injured. Seven buildings were blown down, a negro woman killed, and a nuimber of nersons injured at Belleview. Two men were burned to death in building. ie The tow boat Nail City, with h tow, was caught by the cyclone Thui day night at Goyoso, 13.5 miles abo here. The entir4 tow was lost, i eluding coal, ore, fuel and two pr duce barges. Six of the crew we r lost. The Nail City was not injure MISERIES OF TIE SITUATION. )f LouISv.LLE, March 31.-It has be< LS snowing here since early last evenin r- and this, it is feared, has greatly dar e aged goods in the tobacco distri( is much of which could not be protect against inclement weather. The hea 0 snow has also interrupted the work - repairing, which was actively push all day yesterday, and has otherwi 0 inflicted hardships on the homeless. n The relief committees are doing all 0 their power to render aid. The river i ready is at such a height that the i - jury to the pumping station at t1 t water-works could not be repaired, ai e so long as the flood continues nothii 1 can be done. Presideut Long has issul s another warning to consumers, ai estimates that the reservoi-s now bare n hold three days' supply for the city. d The last of the dead were laid aw< t today. The largest subscription for t] e relief fund was made by the Louisvi: g and Nashville Railroad this mnornin - Ten thousand dollars is the amount. LIVING UNDER SHEiDS AND CAN VA e The worst result of the wet weath )f is not so much an additional injury if property and goods as in the sutlerh h to ill protected people. Scores of fan g lies are sheltered only by hastily p u up boards or canvas and they are w . and cold. Thanks to generous and i: .o telligently conducted relief there d plenty of food, and hunger is not no >r among the miseries. Much has be( . doneduring the day far relief and mu( more is being done to-night. Lt The relief committees' agents are a d tively supplying as much protectic .s from the weather as is possible. Tl s most needy are first supplied. On Ma e street signs have been put up in mat n partly wrecked stores that orders w: be filled as usual, and business has be( 't resumed. if THE DEATHS WILL NOT EXCEED 15 I, In an interview with an Associat4 '- Press reporter to-day Mayor Jacol - said: n "We have now recovered about 2 n the bodies of those who were destroy( 0 by the recent tornado, and I a thoroughly satisfied that the tot y number of those who were killed ou r right and those who will die fro 1- wounds will not reach 150." d 1- Father Boyle Acquitted. n RALEIGH, N. C., March 29th.-Tl it second trial of Father Boyle, the Cath -s lic Priest, ended to-night in his acqu n tal. Judge Macrae instructed the ju that they could bring in a verdict t, guilty of rape; but a verdict of n e guilty was reached at 11.45 to-nigt n Boyle was at once discharged. He h !r been in jail here for ten months. s" Rumble of the Earthquake. i CoNToCooK, N. H., March 29. e shock of earthquake was distinctly ff d last night shortly after 10 o'clock. Mc of the people here were in bed and ve: 5. sensibly noticed the positive thou o brief rumble and motion. It was al .s noticeable in several surroundii h towns. n TRIBUTE TO CHRISTIAN H. SUBE] e SAt a meeting of the Board of Diren ators of the National Bank of Newbern aS. C., held this day, the following p: t amble and resolutions were unanimous i.. adopted: e WHER.EAs, An all-wise Providence h seen fit to remove from earth Christie n H. Suber, a director of the National Bar e of Newberry, S. C.; and whereas, it .- becoming that his surviving associat should express their appreciation of the 'departed friend and colleague: d Therefore, be it resolved by the Boa1 Directors of the National Bank of Ne, Sberry, S. C.: .- 1st. That in the death of Christian ] . Suber the Board of Directors and gpersons concerned in the National Bai e of Newbe:-ry, S. C.. have lest the courns Sand co-operation of a wise lawyer, a ski ful financier and a faithful officer. .2nd. That in the death of Christian]I . Suber the close and affectionate intima< of many years has been severed. S3d. That the Board of Directors tend c to the immediate relatives of the deceast their most earnest sympathy in this the Smelancholy bereavement. S4th. That a blank page of our recol .book be inscribed to the memory of oi o deceased associate. e 5th. That this preamble and these res lutions be published in the newspapers Newberry, S. C. e New Advertisemnente SNOTICE OF ELECTION. 1 ~OTICE IS HEREBY GIVE: - that n pursuance of the authorit conferred by the Act of the General A -sembly of the State of South Carolir e entitled "An Act to establish the New I berry School District, to authorize tU I establishment of Free Graded School Stherein, and to provide the means f< 0 the effcient management of the same, r approved 23d December, 1889, an ele e tion by ballot will be held at the Cou House, in the Town of Newberry, : Monday, the fourteenth day of Apri S1890, at which will he submitted to tl Squalified voters resident in the town Newvberry the question of authorizin the issue of bonds for the sum of te thousand dollars, and the levy' of a annual tax of six-tenths of a mill upo every dollar of the value of all propert taxable in said town, to pay the annu: interest on said bonids as it accrues,i accordance wvith the provisionIs of sai Act. The ballots cast at said election sha be ini one or the other of the followvin forms-either "For Bonds and Interes Tax," or "Against Bonds," and n other form of ballot will be countedl. The polls will be opened at 9 o'cloe in the forenoon, and closed at 5 o'cloc in the afternoon. The following manaagers will conduc the said election: Thomas Cook, J1. VM Gary and W. J1. Lake. By ordler of the Board of Trustees c Newberry School D)istrict. .J. F. .TCA LIDWE LL, Chiairman. WV. II LWA L LAUE. Secretary. NOTICE. OFFicE oF COrNTY CoMMIssIONERS, A pril end, 189( Tf HE OVERSEERS OF HIGh m.ways will report to the Board c Counmy Commissioners at once th nanmesof all land-owners andi tenant wvho have encroached upon the publi roadls by plowing in them, or othier wise. By order of the Board of Count; Commissioners. GE(IO. B. (CROME R, Clerk. GEO. S. MOWER ATFORNEY AT LAW, WILL PRACTI:E IN ALL THE COtIRTS. NEWBERRY, S. C. eABOffice in P. 0. Building...t F,IRE, CYCLONESiANt TORNA.DOES. E OULD RESPECTFULL3m oV~iformx the public that we are pire pared to insure property against loss b; Fire, Cyclones and Trornlad1oes. Your patronage is solicited. BURTON & WILSON, Agents. Nwhverrv. S. C. a New Advertisements. fflnua! Filancial llelpoit n- OF o re J. S. FAIR, CLERK AND TREASURER OF THE 0 Town of Newberry, S. C., Is a2 t, For the Fiscal Year Ending March 31st, tb d IS90. of RECEIPTS. To cash on hand April 1st, se 189..............................$ 1,179 73 - Discounts Nat. Bank......1,187 08 I- Sundry sources................. 37 65 - Estreated Bonds............... 12 50 ne Opera House.................... 423 20 id Store and room rents........ 214 15 Market rents................... 412 90 General licenses............... 252 50 - Fines ............................... 685 40 Street commutation......... 877 00 l Saloon licenses................. 2,800 00 General tax........... 2,689 55f Total................$10,771 66 le . EXI'ENDITr'RES. By General Expenses as per .s- vouchers....................$ 258 13 er Loans Nat. Bank.......... 1,215 60 A tt, Printing and advertising.. 175 50 fr, ig Rebate Cotton Mill tax..... 354 00 ti- State and County taxes..... 112 50 at Insurance ........................ 291 81 et Council Chambers, coal, a- etc......... ... ............ 130 21 N is Fire alarm bell...... ....236 59 y w PaintingOpera House roof 100 00 u Mayor's salary................. 300 00 D $3,204 34 n Street Department. le By Material, &c.................$ 697 87 n Mules (3) feed.................. 254 65 Y Salary Overseer............... 540 00 11 Wages laborers................. 1,095 05 Mi Total.........................$ 2,587 57 By Lamp Department. )s By Lamps, oil, repairs, &c...$ 424 67 Lamp Lighter's salary...... 274 60 11 d Total.........................$ 699 27 aj Police Department t- By Police salary..................$ 1,823 90 Fire Department. By Salary of Engineer and 2 Firemen......................$ 132 00 Rent of Engine House...... 33 00 ie Repairs and material........ 211 78 Total........................$ 376 78 Opera House: ot Hall Expenses....................... $ 243 00 L. Clerk and Treasurer's Com as missions.......................... 684 19 Balance on hand................. 1,152 95 Special Fire Tax. To Balance 6th Annual Tax.. 502 13 A 7th Annual Tax................. 1,071 88 ;It st Total..................... $1,574 01 ry EXPENDITURES. so By Rebate Cotton Mill Tax... $ 192 00 Cash to Excelsior Fire Co. Uniforms........................ 100 00 - Balance on hand......$1,282 01 Special Opera House Bond Tax. c- To 4th Annual Tax.........$1,338 19 EXPENDITURES. ly Annual interest on Bonds..... 1,200 00 Rebate Cotton Mill Tax.... 192 00 as --- Ln $1,392 00 (kCORRECT. is L. M. SPEERS, = - es G. A. LANGFORD, ~.Corn. ir THOMAs E. EPTINo, .g A pril 1st, 1890. .v- SOUTH CAROLINA, 1 1- Personally came before me, John S. 1l Fair, as Clerk and Treasurer of the ik Tow'n Council of New berry, S. C., who, el on being duly sworn, deposes and ll- swears, that the above report is true L edge and crebelief.teJONo C. &T. T.C. N. Sworn to before me this 1st day of .April, 1890. r LA31BERT WV. JONES, [L. S.] -d N.P. of S.C. " TO TII IIA1O1 AND ALDORH N of TOWN OF NEWBERRY, S. C. - XOUR Committee beg leave to re-w --. port, tbat it has carefully examined ~the books and vouchers of the Clerk -and Treasurer, and find them neatly and systematically arranged and cor rectly kept. Respectfully submitted, L M. SPEERS, G. A. LANGFORD, a April THOS. E. EPTING. se A rl1st, 1890. t e STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Rt r COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.-IN "COURT OF PROBATE. 3- John M. Kinard, as Administrator, rt &-c., of Benjamin H. Maybin, de S ceased, vs. Elsie M. Maybin et al. F LLCREDITORS OF THE SAID B Aenjamiin H. May bin, deceased, are hereby required to render and estab Slish their demands against the estate of re~ said deceased in this Court, on or be n fore the first day of May, 1890. J. B. FELLERS, J. P. N. C. IApril 2lnd, 1890. . n -T saa rnby an old reliable d ti5WRNiEUan;irepronits. qiksaes. sample free. A rare oppor Itun iity. Geo.. A. scott,.842 B'way, N. Y. g A getst waled N It is a perfect Clothe' Lines: EUpie line sent by 0 no more clIothes Vmati for 50c., also pins needeel. It 50ft.line by mafi kholds the heav- U $i.25 preaa est and finest F.1 or circulars. Ma k fabrics wit hout price list. terms, E' pins. Clothes do I E addressthe FIN t~ not freeze to it tad LESS CLOTH ES - enuno1t blow orr LINo E Co-s CO f THE STATE OF SOUTH CARO- BR LINA-COUNTY OF NEWBERRY PL -IN PROBATE COURT. By J. B. Fellers, Esq., Probate Judge. v _ WHERE AS, John 1). M. Shaw ha?th ing made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administ,ationl of the estate and V. efiects of James Albert Mars, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and ad. -n;ouish all and singular the kindred - and creditors of the said .Jamies Albert f Mars, deceased, that they be an dap- N & pear before mie, in the Court of Probate, st ir a to lbe held at New berry Court Hous-., 2.5et eon the 11th day of April next, after rh publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the yia forenoon, to show cause, if any they 25iet have, why the said administration didr shudnot be granted. 'r -Given under my hand this:27th day .ow Iof March, A. D. 1890. I J. B. FELLFRS, .r. P. N. C. __ Notice of Town Election. ICOUNCIL CHAMBERS, L SE W BE RRY, S. C., March 25, 1893.m TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 1 .i. that on Tuesd .y, the 8th day of esse A pril, 1890, an election for a Mayor leas and Aldermen for the said town for mil: the ensuing year, will be held in the turi Council Chambers, from eight o'clock pan in the morning until six o'clock in the den -afternoon, with C. B. Buist, WV. A. rati -Kinard and S. S. Langford as managers. miu By order of the Town Council. IOthi GEO. B. CROMER, Mayor. 'hav Attest: Ideal T. . FA,R C*1e-1. Iar (EW SPRING Our NEW and ELEGANT STI GLOTllING SHOE arriving daily, We have tak is Stock MADE UP SP -TO S[IT THE IVINTS OF' FIRST CLA AT SMODERATE Our stock of Cutaway and S .5.00 are perfect models of beaul Zer grades from $18.00 to $ [ERCHANT TAILOR SU We call the attention of the La --BOYS' AND CHILDREI stock which has no superior in )m $1.50 to $8.00. OUR SHOE DEF eeds very little advertising, as it a carry the best stock of ME] REN'S SHOES of ALL GRAD Call and examine our stock v t. Polite attention to all. SMITH & The "2BT"E3wJR R' IN STREET, NEWBERRY, S. C. 'he DYER& HUG -ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE BEST JRGANS -LN THE WORLD. 'articularly Low Are Offered thi Every Orga SOLD EXCL1 IN SOUTH CAR 0. KLET [URY UP R YWl The cold wave has come and il 3LAL.OCK J ve a heavy stock of OVERCOATS tb; at a sacrifil A $20.00 OVERCoA AN $18.00 OVERCO.i e will give you a Good Overcoat for The price of cotton goes up bu e bought our sto:k cheap and must to make roor: SPRING a Now is your chance to buy clothing ci zed, will lead you on to fortune. A si ing ofbeauty and a joy forever. A d member this when you want OLOTIH OOTS, SHOES, H AT AND GIVE US WVe mean business. Our Winter Stc ardless of cost. BLA&.IOC] Vright & J. W. Coppock's Old Stand. 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Interest and rents e, during 4.5 years, exceeded the ;h loss by nearly 3 milions of do' CLOTHING. )CK of ANDHIATS__ en particular pains to have ECIALLY FHiE PRESENT Y-~ ;S GOODS PRICES! ick Suits from $10.00 to :y and durability, and the !5.00 compare with any ITS at $35.00 and $40.00. dies especially to our TS CLOTHING! the State. Beautiful Suits 'ARTMENT is generally conceded that c'S, LADIES' and CHIL ES in the County. rhether you wish to buy or CST.t. S. " HES ORGANS ~Y..y Prices s Month. 1 Guaranteed. OLINA B3Y s no use to shiver for t utbe sold, and:will be sol N :e. [' FOR $14.50 ET FOR $12.00 $2.00 or $1 50 if you nefer. t clothing goes down. sell it befo--e the winter is ever a for GIOODS. leap, and if the opportunity'be lt bought from us will be a ollar saved* is a dollar made. S, CAPS, &C.,&C., ~CALL. uk of Clothing must be sold .L DOUCLAS > SHOE CENTLENIEN. al, Ha7 Laced Grain and Creed. 0GENIE HND-SEWED SHOE. 0 HAND-SE WED) WELT SHOE. 0 POLICE AND FARMERS' SHOE. 5.& O'2^WORKINE' SHBOES. 0 nd$. BOn S n uSCHOOL SHOES. & $2 SHOES deite 1. SHOE FOR MISES Douglas. Brockton, Mass. Sold by lINTER & JAMIESON,9 NEWBERRY, S. C.