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rT' 4IA4tt rIh i ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE ANTI-TILLMAN CONFERENCE. An Address to the Democratic Voters of th* State Drafted by a Committee and Unanimonuly Adopted by the Conference. [Columbia Register, April :4.] City of conventions and meetings a: Columbia is, the gathering here yester day of representative farmers of the State to hold a conference on the polit ical situation was in many respects an extraordinary event. Though comprising but twenty-on persons, from that number of the coun ties of the State, and though they came not by election by any meeting of vot ers, but by selection an unotlicial corn niittee of private citizens, the gather ing included so many gentlemen whc have been prominently identified with South Carolina affairs, and entitled tc be considered as representative of the best and most conservative elements o: their respective sections, that the views expressed and the action takei at tlii5 conference must necessaril; hav weight and a distinct effect with the people of South Carolina. TIE INITIA L PROCE EI INGS of the conference, which assembled in the old Senate Chamber of the agricul tural building, were not marked by any special feature beyond the defeat, or abandonment, of the idea first sug gested of holding the meeting with closed doors. Besides the members of the confer ence and a half-dozen newspaper men, there were present a small number of Columbia's citizens, who were in at tendance as spectators. On motion of Senator Woodward, Capt. Iredell Jones of York was called to the chair, and Col. J. J. Dargan of SL%iter was elected as secretary. Senator Woodward stated that from the views he had heard expressed at the preliminary caucus he judged it was the sense of the most of those pres ent that the meeting be held with closed doors; he would therefore make a motion to that effect. An interruption here occurred and Mr. Woodward's motion was not put. Later, Mr. Smilie Gregg, of Florence, stating that the conference had nothing to conceal from the public, moved that the meeting be held with open doors. Senator Woodward promptly seconded this motic,n and it prevailed. A CALL OF THE ROLL from a list of those invited to attend, showed the following present, twenty one in all: Anderson, L. E. Campbell. Barnwell, L. W. Youmans. Beaufo-t, T. R. Heyward. Charierton, W. G. Hinson. Chesterfield, A. McQueen. Clarendon, C. S. Land. Colleton, D. L. Redish. Darlington, E. W. Cannon. Fairfield, T. W. Woodward3. Florence, Smilie A. Gregg. Laurens, S. P. Garlington. Lexington, '1. F. Holtzhauser. MIarion, D. WV. Bethea. Newberry, J. R. Davidson. Orangeburg, J. A. Peterkin. Richland, J. C. F. Sims. Sumter, J. J. Dargan. Williamsburg, Edwin H arper. York, Iredell Jones. REPRESENTED BY LET LER. All the other counties but two, A bbe ville- and Marlboro, were reported as represented by letter, in that those in vited from those counties had written approving the object of the conference and expressing regret at inability to attend, which in some cases, Chairman Jones stated, was due to sickness or imperative business engagements. A COMMITrEE ON ADD RESS. On motion ef Col. L. WV.You mans of Barnweil, a committee of five was pro vidled for to draft a suitable address to the Democratic voters of the State,ex pressing the views of the conference. Messrs. J. J. Dargan, L. WV. Youmans, Iredell Jones, T. WV. Woodward and C. 8. Land wvere nominated from the floor and appointed on the committee. On motion of Senator Woodward it wvas voted that the con ference take a recess until $ o'clock p. in., when it -was expected that the report of the committee on the address would be ready. Colonel Dargan invited all the memII hers to come before the commit tee and submit their views to assist in the d raft ing of the address. So, after barely twenty miinutes in session, the conference temporarily ad journed. It will th us be seen that the opening of the doors did not let the general public ver deeply into the in. n ter workings of the conference. AFTER THlE RECEss. WVhen the hour for reassembling ar rived, the Senate (Chamiber was well. tilled with an audienice of spectators several times as large as the con feretn itself, and the members of which, in (Iced, were a little slowv in puttling in an appearance, by reason of the comn mittee stifl having to put the last lin ishing touches ont the address pre piaredi. At -:21 ('hairmant .Jones ag~ainI call the conference to order, and Colonel Youmians read the report of the comn muittee, which comprised the follow ing ADDRESS To DiEMot RATWCV vcTERs. The situation of political atffairs in South Carolina demiands the immei (iate and earnest consideration of every wvood citizen. SAs Democrats and farmers seeking no0 personal gain, but influenced by strong con victions ais to the good of our State, we desire to present our views to - the Democratic voters of the State,andi aisk for these viecws a fair and thought ful consideration. The Democratic party is indicted by somi ofrit own members for favoritism: for relingluis,inm its functions to an oli_archy of aristocrats; for betraying the colbilience 11aced in it by the peo ple: for wasteful extravagance -even f.or corr tti0n. Our natural foes have not alleged so Ilucl. Men w"ithiu the party, c ainling to repre".ent eighty per cent. of the Demo cratic Voters a:nI having aspirants for ofiiee, have not subnlitted their claims aecordiung to the usual ietheds ulpol their :l,erits a:nd the judgment of a Delnoerati- Convention, but upon fie titious pretexts have formed a party within the party, held a convention, adopted a platfori, practically noti nated a aindidate for G overnor and, by ineals of an orranized campaign coml Illittee, propose to force their candidate upon the State Democratic Convention ill the natne of the faruers of South Carolina. In this departure from usual meth ods in our judgment there is an inno vatioll preg.;nant with great danger to the unity and hrtnony of the I)emo cratic party. C'olscious of the fact that the purity and integrity of our institutions is ie peindelet ulpon1 the solidarity of the par ty, we view with the greatest appre ihlension the deliberate decliration of the candidate, which, in our opinion, arrays (iste against easte, and, divid in, the white people, endangers Anglo SaxOn supre!macy. B'eli.ving that upon the perpetuity 1f the Dernoeratic party in South Car olina, as at present constituted, depend the peace and prosperity of the State and the General welfare of the people; helieving that the methods of nomi natilg State otficers by that party in the past have been fair, honorable and just to all classes of our citizens, re g;ar.iless of occupation or calling; be lieving that the adtninistration of the State governmuent has been in the past and is at present able, pure, honest and free fromn corruption; believing that an attack upon the party, under these circumstances, is a reflection Upon the intelligence and integrity of the people; believing that the party's motto in the future should be as it has been in the past--"equal rights to aH, special privileges to none"-we, the undersigned, farmers and Democrats, desire to enter our solemn protest against the unusual, unprecedented and revoilationarv action of the Shell Convention. As Dernocrats, we can not witness without protest the control of our party by a fraction. As agri culturists, we will not per Yit our hon orable occupation to be degraded into a spoilsrnan's inachine. As citizens, we will not be silent under misrepre I sentation. We believe that in these declara tions we vice the sober oninions of a majority of our Democratic farmers. The success of the "Tillnan Move nent," under the "Shell call,'" would Inean the discredit of the Democratic party by itself. It would embroil the party, iake local quiet impossible, and cheek the industrial development of the State. Iln the eyes of the country, it would he a verdict against the Democracy of South Carolina. We confidently ap peal to that Democracy to arouse it self, and to support our protest against the aggrandizenent of one man at such a cost to the State' The address is signed by the follow ing members of the conference: Ire dell Jones. President; John J. Dargan, Secretary; L. E. Campbell, Anderson; L. XV. Youmnans, Barnwell; Thoias I. Heyward, Beautort; W. G. Hinson, Charleston; A. MIcQueen, Chesterfield; C. S. L:and, (larendon; D. L. Redish, F (ol leton: IE. W. Cannon, Darlington; Tr. W. WVoodward, Fairlield; Sinilie A. Gregg, Florence; Rh. T. Causey, Hamp tonl: A. H. Boykin, Kershawv; S. D. Gali.ngtonl, Laurens; Theo. E. P. Hoitzhauser, Lexington; D. WV. Beth es', 3Iiarionl; J. C. F. Sims, Richland; EdwIVini Harper, Willianisburg; .J. R. D)avidson, Newberry. A liliTIN TIllE ADDI REsS. Sir Heycward of Beaufort moved that the report of t he conlnittee be adopted, Col. Youmianls said lie wVanted first to say somieth ingl about the charges mIadle aainst thle Demlocracy of Southi (Caro lina. The charges that the State was rulcd by ani oligarchly; thait Hiniptoni aund thle other leaders of '56 did not replresenlt thle true sentinments of the Stat e: thlat there had been corruptionl all were false anId could not be sus tained. Th State govrnmlent sinIce 1h-0 had been as pure and patriotic as ever pbresided over any organized body of hiuman beinlgs. H-e challenged the malkers o,f techairges t the proof. Tihe address was thlen adopted by a unanlimoi'u5 vote. L 0TT 1S f SYM PATIHIY. .secretary D)arganl theni readl the ex tracts presented below: 1 .iBerkeley-C. St. (. Sinkler, EuI tawv ille "Cout, tupon ie as beinlg en tirely w'ith you in thlis vitally ilmIpor tat matter.' IrI w ill work vigorously to deeat tile mIan.i (Prevenited from at :. prtnbrg-. W X. Strilling, 111)bing: "I sinI. crel hope your Con fece may ( 11 reich at satisfactory conl e'lusion, and( tlhat we miay be able to avoid any~ dl.Iiion iln our Dem,ocrac." : Ina ble to it t'li lndlpersonally. F :. Union-.J. T. D)ouglass, Union: II m sorr i 'annhot meet with you, but cIi'unistanics over whvichl I have no contrdl preventl . You r letter came1 itIlhand while I was away 0on myI fairml, coni=,equet.ly did not receive my aLttenl 4. ' t P i-n ). F. BIraley, P'ickenls: IThe objtst oh your11 mieetinlg mleet liy hl'lrty appro>val. Zilid von uliav rest as sur'edi tt whelthler I attenld the mieet mantI and promiote the beist inlterests ot thle State wvill ha:ve myi heiarty. approvaul and1 co-operationF. S. eo'nce --Job WhIIX. Shlelor, lTuglaoo: I fully . 1t endrse thei Conference yo u -u''es, anid it is w.ith great reluctance I write vou thle above excuse. I have looke un t he Shell-TiIlman' move menClt froll its orig1in anid conception as senlional1 antd calcullated. to do muItch har andi111 little goodI, except to adver t -e th oi. riginiat rs of thle nmovernenlt andt bin11 thlem to the fronlt, and when von analyze the whole matter youI 11ind 'e'rind.iiz.ementi at the bottoml w.ithi n oimeit at all to4 sustain it.'" i.-eter-R. A. Love. (Chester: "W iin y'' out abunditanIt succes"s. I . llrr'--.leremiah Smith. Stoastet: "I wil v further that I think Till ma 11w illno 114e~t a res?5pectableC follow in' inI HIrrv. . . T'he Alliance is don wellV i here. AjZricultulral business i" we! advan:iced. Pol)ities5 has not dis tu'e us uchd-1 Ae."Sa.Iabr "If nothing prevent I will fill your ap poi:itment on the 23d." +. Lancaster-John B. Erwin, Lan- c caster: "Lancaster sent delegates (my self among them) to the Shell Conven tion to oppose nominations as danger ous to the integrity of the Democratic party in South Carolina. . . . I do not regard the Shell Convention as as farmers' convention. The majority of the farmers present voted against nom- t inations. The measure was carried 8 only by the assistance of the men from i, Charleston. This destroyed the farm- s ers' strength. The aspect at present is a dissatisfied wing of the party against the regular Democratic organization a and, I may add, the civilization of the t State, the supremacy of the whites. 5 That you, gentlemen, may succeed in devising some plan whereby to defeat the scheme of this arrant demagogue t is most desirable, but how to act for f the best under the circumstances, I C think, will require much thought and prudence., ' t COLONEL DARGAN SPEAKS. Colonel .J. J. Dargan, of Sumter. the f Secretary of the meeting,then addressed the convention in the stirring style pe- a culiar to himself. t The Colonel is a natural orator and 1 is blessed with a fluency which many s a public speaker might envy, a voice powerful yet pleasant-at least to all s ears but those of his opponents-and he t possesses that quality, alas, too rare, of o saying something when he talks. r Colonel Dargan said they had been a told on the floor of the Shell Conven tion that the people needed to be po- n litically educated, and that a fu:l and a free discussion of the issues of this cam- n paign would be demanded. He be lieved it to be the wish of the confer ence he addressed that the people of South Carolina should have that po litical education, and that everywhere a that free and full discussion referred to should be had. Whenever the speak ers representing the Shell Convention r should be heard they should be met by N speakers representing the views of this d conference and let the people have the light of argument and discussion h throwt on the issues. Give the peo- b ple that education, he said; they need I it, and when they get it and under- a stand the truth, the destruction of Till- c< manism in South Carolina will follow. tl It the advocates of that doctrine are w true Democrats, as they say; if they w comprise the large majority of the t< party, as they claim; if their views are a, correct, as they urge; then they should have the control of affairs. But he be lieved that the principles advocated by sT this conference, when properly under- st stood, would attract the numbers, as they had right on their side, and vic- tl tory would be theirs. He said the people of South Carolina p were reauy anu =bgr for this discus- i sion of issues. Let, then, all personal fc abuse, vituperations and offensive y flings be put aside and not indulged in, e but go on enlightening minds that have never been enlightened. The newspapers could accomplish much in the way of enlightenment, but there ~ were many that could not be reached t through the newspapers. r There should be speakers to meet thea man they believe to be wrong and be- c lieved if elected would do detriment tor this State, and show the baselessness of his charges and the fallacy of his axgu- b ments. Colonel Dargan said he was there to say there wvere men in his County who d had done all for the Democratic party , any one could, and who believed Till- t man right. He, the speaker, believed they were in the minority though, and ci that if the members of this conference, e and those who thought with therm' i did their duty, at the end of the cam paign such would be found in a pitiful h minority. Let all do their whole duty c< and the result would be the triumph d of the true D)emocracy of South Caro- d lina. [Applause.] -t After it was voted that all members h of the con ference sign the address, Mr. Alexander McQueen of Chesterfield moved to ad journ, and at 6:05 the conl Iference adjourned sine die, having t been actually in session in all but six tv-four minutes since the time of its e first assembling. p - y Contrast Bietween state and Federal Pen- fg alon System. [ -ci [State Chronicle.) h Tfhe New York Commercial Adver- i tiser of Monday has a very instructive f article on the "State Pension System c at the South", and it is the first sys- r tematic account of this interesting fea ture of American legislation. Some c: time ago it sent out inquiries to the tl Auditor of each Southern State regard- ti ing the number of disabled Confederate q soldiers pensioned by their respective a States and the amounts paid them. u he following table exhibits in com- 1h pact form wvhat is being done: si NU3rBER OF A3IOUNT ,M S-rrrE'. PENSIONERs. PAID.U I Virginia (about) 2,200 $ 65,000 s: North (Carolina 4,123 S,A) EKN South Carolina 1,934 50,00 d (;eorgia 2, 75f' 162,000 tI Florida 325 35,000 si Alabama .50,000 Mississippi tabout i 0 20,000 Louisiana (;72 253,500) g Texas none nothing n Arkansas inone nothing st %Tessee' 25 7, 5s Total 12,885 $483,000 b The Commercial Advertiser notes as a remarkable fact the smallness of the P Inumber of pensioners and the amount t paid them, and adds that this is more b striking when we bear in mind that d Ithe pensioners granted by the South h ein States for wounds are almost as liberal as those of the Federal system. aj A Suspicion. 11 "Do)' vou think Harrison will get at second term?"s "On the contrary I think the peoplet LOOK FOR A COOL SU-MMER. ergeant Dunn Says We Will Have Litt:e or No Hot Weather. rNew York Sun.] It is safe to say that more plans for ummer outings have been hatched in be last ten days than in the whole pring and winter preceding. There no advertisement for summer re >rts, transportation agents say, like a w delicious days just when the trees re budding. New York, and, in fact, lie whole eastern part of the country, now enjoying such a bit of balmy eatlier. There's a storm brewing in be far West which will be along be >re many days, but excepting this, ergeant Dunn thinks, we are in for ontinuous pleasant weather for some me. It is a good deal warmer than usual for this time of year-at least ve degrees warmer than the average. tut then it's a queer season, any way, nd if the summer is cool, as promises > be, not so bad a season after all. teople who like sleigh riding and ating did a lot of heavy-weight icking in the months seasonable to ich enjoyments, but it is noticeable 2at the same people are now getting ut their fishing traps and tennis tcquets a good deal earlier than usual, ad are wearing large-sized and corn >rtable smiles. Perhaps if the ther lometer is content to stay in the 80's 11 the summer, even the devotees of loonlight sleigh rides will oe content -ith the year, altogether. But will the summer be cool? Ser .ant Dunn thinks it will, and cites te warm weather of the past winter 2d present time as his reason. The eather is dreadfully erratic in Amer a, but it is consistent in one single spect. It keeps its average for the hole year within a limit of only five ?grees of variation. The year 187.5 as the coldest, on the whole, that we .ve had since we've had the weather ireau. The average was 48.6 degrees. ast year was the other extreme, with i average of 53.5 degrees. We can >unt on the weather keeping within iese bounds, and so it follows that hen we have an unusully cold winter e have an unusully warm summer >counterbalance it and keep up the rerage. As we've had extremely mperate weather all winter, and .uch warmer weather than usual this ring, we will probably have a cool Lmmer to balance the account. While everyboby has been enjoying me salubrious temperature of the esent month, and particularly of the dered how unusually favored we are r this time of year. Here in New ork Sergeant Dunn makes up an av age temperature for each day in the mar, based on the temperature taken i that day for every year since 1871. :e finds that from April 18th to April inclusive, this year, the temlpera re has gained just 45 degrees on this cord-that is, that these days have ~eraged 5 degrees warmer than the >rresponding days in the past. That sut includes the 19th of the month, hen the temperature fell 8 degrees elow the average. But this is only of a part with all our ether since January 1. Since that te, up to and including last Monday, e have gained 713 degrees of tempera ire over the average for the year for a riod of equal length. Last year the rresponding period showed the high t temperature to date, and then the icrease was 42.5 degrees. So this year e have gained 288 degrees more than st year, which means that for the 111 nsecutive days from January 1, the 2iily temperature has been nearly 2i egrees higher than it was last year for le same period, and nearly 7 degrees igher than the average for the whole Now, says Sergeant Dunn, such be. ig the case, if the weather is propo~r onately warmer in the summler, or :en if the usually high summer tem3 eratures prevail, the average for this ear will be astonishingly high-in it, will knock that respectable thing, le yearly mean temperature, into a cked hat. But such an occurrence as never been noted, and we may rest the belief that the weather will so iodify its fervor in the sumlmer as to >me ithin the limits of the usual ave Sergeant Dunn was asked whlat the tuse was of the unusual warmth of us spring. He answered technically ut it was due to the unusu al'y fre ent high pressures in the South ong the Gulf coast, and a similar un ual number of low pressures in the e region. These were much the me conditions as occasioned the arm weather of the winter. In the nguage of every day, Sergeant Dunn id that it was his belief that the con tions to make tIle weather warmer in 1e winter and spring and cooler in the immer were occasioned by the tre endous amount of irrigation in the eat plains of Nebraska, Kansas and eighboring regions. The irrigation mt the storms across our country in ead of up into British America, as fore, and disturbed the rainfall more idely and tended to equalize the temn erature. The irrigated land attracted lese storms, and started them East in. ed of driving them off, as happened efore when these regions were almost esert wastes. Perhaps, therefore, we are always ereafter to have warm and salubrious >ring like this one. Perhaps we will Iways have cool summers, like the ne Sergeant Dunn thinks is approach g. He who lives will see. Meantime everybody is rejoicing in e present warm spell, and will rejoice uore when he has read here that pring has come in dead earnest, and at the summer isn't going to be hlot CLEMSON COLLEGE. Preparations Made for neginning the Ac. tual Work of Estabishingthe Institu tion-Bids for Brick and Lumber. GREENVILLE, April 1..-A full meet ing of the Board of Trutees of tihe Clemson Agricultural ('ollege was held at Pendileton yesterday, all the menb ers being present except ('ol. B. W. Edwards and J. E. Bradley, who were too sick to attend. The board met to prepare for beginning the ac tral work of establishing the college, and was kept busy all day yesterday and part of to-day. It was decided to begin the first work on the buildings of I the experiment station and laboratory, the intention being to have the station in operation before the other buildings are completed. The e.:eeu tive committee was instructed to make requisitie on the Superintendent of the Penitentiary for a number of con victs to break ground for the buildingz, cut wood for buri!ing brick, grade the necessary roads, and clear the ground for the buildings. This work will be be gun as soon as possible. The executive committee was in structed to advertise for bids for one million brick to be made on thegrounds and sawing the lumber needed for the buildings on the place. The committee will also investigate the cost of doing this work under its own direction. Plans for the buildings were taken under consideration, but not finally acted on, and the adoption of by-laws I and a curriculum was postponed to the next meeting. A committee was appointed to se cure information to guide the board in the selection of a president for the col lege and a director for the experiment station. Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, of Pendleton, was elected secretary and treasurer of the boai'dx The meeting was earnest and thor oughly harmonious and transacted a large amount of busines. It will meet again on the 20th of May at Pendle ton. Congressman Cothran Makes a Speech in the House. [Special to News and Courier.] W ASHINGTON, April 23.-Persons who heard Judge Cothran in debate to-day are wondering why be does not participate in the discussions more fre quently. It was during the considera tion of the legislative appropriation bill, au jZi:Cia Ucva'LC 11 aa iulVW. LLCN-I resentative Kelly, an almost unknown member from Kansas, undertook to "wave the bloody shirt," and among other things he referred to the alleged outrage upon Postmaster W. A. Finley at Abbeville, S. C., and to the partici pation of Ward S. Cothran in the aflair. When Mr. Kelly had finished a speech of more than one hour, during which he was roughly handled by various Democrats, Judge Cothran was recog nized to reply to the attack upon his son and the other young men of Abbe ville who are charged with comp)licity in the alleged outrage. In eloquent man ner Judge Cothrarn related the true story of the occurrence and convinced all reasonable men that Mr. Kelly's version of the transaction was untrue in every particular. He denied that the young men had beaten Finley with barbed wire arnd broken his leg with clubs, etc., but showed that Finley fell over art embankment arid injured himuself. The Judge then delivered to tihe Re publican party a scathing rebuke for continually dragging the Southern out rages in to politics. He said the Repub lican p)arty had more important qjues tions to dispose of than alleged out rages in the Southern States, and pro voked a burst of applause on both sides of the chamber, when, with ringing voice, lie declared that the strongest evidence that the South is a peaceful section is the fact that so much capital is now being invested tl ere by the shrewdest financiers in this country. "Capital," said lie, "does not trust itself in the face of danger, and if the conditions in the Southern States are such as they have been described here to-day, the capitalists would iiot be so ready to invest their mroney there. Men many sometimes go thremselves to face such dangers as are alleged to ex st in the Southern States, but they invest capital where law and order p)re vail." Judge Cothiran was ini excellent voice and his remiarks were frequently inter rup)ted by applause on the D)emocratic Grover Clevea,ngs Thianks [Fromt tire Heral.] The birthday of ex-P'reident Grover Cleveland wvas recently celebrated by the girls of the first class in G3rammnar School No. 77, at Eighyifhtre and i-s aveue.During the exercises an original address wvas read b)y Miss Hermina Strapp. A copy of the address was forwarded to Mr. Cleveland, arid he acknowledged it by the following letter: $16 Madison Avenue, A pril 14, 1890n. DEAR LIrrLE: FRI EN n:-It was kind in you to send nie the newspaper clip ping containing the flattering things votn said about mec on mvy birthday. I am not sure that I deserve them all, but it is pleasant to know that any eff'orts I have made to be of service to th1e p)eople are fully appreciated by you. Yours truly, GRovER CLEVELANJI. CLEVELAND DIIVN'T DENOUNCE DANA. The New York World Invented Most of an Alleged Interview. The New York World of Sunday imakes the follow ing editorial state Ilent: The interview with Ex-President (rover ('leveland, published in The 'orld of Thursdav last, has excited considerable connnent in the press throughout the country. Newspapers friendly to Mr. Cleveland have gene rally regarded it as a natural and justifi able outbreak of indignation after six or seven years of gross personal abuse by a malignant enemy. Others who are political opponents of the ex-Presi dent, have spoken of it as undignified and unbecoining a man in his position. Many have remarked the vehemence of some of the expressions and have dolubted the correct,ess of the report. -'ter a thorough in vestigation we are satisfied that all Mr. Cleveland said for publication of a personal character was contained in the first fourteen lines of the remarks attributed to him, and that he did not use the coarse and intemperate pc'-sonal expressions ac credited to him in a subsequent portion of the interview. The friends of Mr. Cleveland will scarcely need this assurance, as they well know that such language is foreign to his temperament and his custom. and all will readily credit this explana tion in view of the dignified yet modest manner in which he has borne himself on all occasions since his retirement from the Presidency has won public admiration and is the best guarantee that he is incapable of putting himself on a level with his assailant. The "fourteen lines" referred to as being Ir. Cleveland's real utterances are as follows: "I have not seen the article you refer to and if it appears nowhere else but in The Sun, there is not the least chance :f my seeing it. Of course the entire thing is a lie without the least pretext to excuse it. I judge from what you ay that the venerable editor of The Sun supposes that he has at last hit upon a subject which cen be used to annoy ne. In this he is mistaken. He must be his own judge o: social decen yies and proprieties. I an not sure that he should, at his time >f life and his ipparently peculiar mental condition, e molested in his amusement." The Full For Governor, [Pickens Sentinel.] There has been a great (eal said aiout who shall be Governor of South Caro [ina; and this will be nine-tenths of the political talk until the August conven tion stills the tempest. The newspapers and their correspondents write about the Gov.ernor, as if he was omnipotent ; as if that officer were in himself judge, jury and sheriff, to enforce every right :md redress every wrong. They should pause for a noment and learn the first principles of State government. The constitution confers the only functions the Governor can exercise, and those are few. He cannot pass any new, or change any old law, nor can he prevent the passage of any measures unless more than one-third of each branch of the Genaeral Assembly agree with him. His duties as well as the duties of all State officers, are executive, and pre scribed by the constitution and the acts of the Legislature. Hence all that is said against any of these officials who have not laid themselves liable to an action on their official bonds, is sheer nonsense. These officers have not collected more taxes than the Legisla ture levied, nor have they spent more money for any one thing than the Legislature appropriated. These are facts and they cannot be denied. .Vith an honest, fair-minded membership in the Legislature, the Governor and all his retinue are not three feet high. B. R. Tillman, or any other white man witha brains and force of character can bell) or hurt the State forty times as much by being on the tail end of the Ways and M1eans Committee, as he could possibly do by being at the head of the Executive. Then why such a fuss about who shall be Governor? Is it not a mere matter of taste? Mfany want a fine shapely fellowv who is an elegant speaker, to show off well at the big dinners and sociables given by cities, towns and other States. But there are scores of homespun men in Pickens coumn ty who would discharge all the real duties of the Governor as well as any man tbat has ever held the office. The only way to wvork a reform in the State is to begin in the counties wvhich have been senidinig the wvrong men to the Legislature. Reform this almighty nmiachine, and, our word for it, it will put everything else in ship shape inside of sixty days. But the way thec people have been stirred up, there is but but one way to quiet thenm, no matter who is the G overnor, or who goes to the Legislature. D)ouble the assessed value of the property, redluce the tax levy one-half and knock off one mill from the constitutional two mill tax. Ofeourse this cannot be done, hence we sympathize with the miem bers of the next General Assembly. Mother K(nows. M1rs. Fangle-Lizzie. what time was it when that young man left last night? Lizzie-A bout eleven. manimna. Mirs. Fangle-Now, Lizzie, it was two hours later than that, for I dis tinctly h:eard him say, as you both went to the door, ".Just one, Lizzie.'' vo n't fool your mother. A HARD-HEADED NEGRO. he Butts an Ox to Death on a Wager of Five Dollars. A Birmirigham, Ala., dispatch says: "1Bi Six," a negro pugilist;)f consider a)le local reputation, to win a wager of jive dollars is said to have a few days ago, butted aln ox to death. The ox was 8 years old and well grown. When their lieuis came together the noise could be heard a block an:ay. Four times in rapid succession the colored giant's head struck the ox squarely in the forehead with terrific force. Then the animal began to reel and stagger, and. gathering himself for a final plunge, "Big Six', drew back a full arm's length and ran his head against that of the ox with the force ofa battering ranm. The animal fell to the ground, and in five minutes was dead. There was a snt : 1 lump on "Big Six's" head, but he said that he felt no pain whatever. "Big Six" is about five feet ten inches high, and weighs two hundred and forty pounds. On his arms, shoulders and chest the muscies stand out in great black knots. He is a giant in strength. but knows nothing 1 of the science of pugilism. His strong point in a fight is his toughness. It seems almost impossible to hurt him. For a glass of beer he will break a piece of scantling over his head, and for half a dollar will butt the head out of an empty beer keg. For five years "Big Six" has met and defeated all pugilists who came here and cared to try their powers on I him. No negro can be found in this I section who will face him. Probably the best fight of his life was when he i knocked out Mervine Thompson, of c Cleveland, Ohio, in three rounds in a a glove contest at the Casino Theatre I last December. Thompson struck him t some terrible blows on the neck, face < and body, but none of them staggered I the giant, while a right-hand swing caught Thompson in the ribs, lifted him off his feet and Jaid him senseless t on the stage. "Big Sit" was recently offered two i hundred dollars to go to Louisville and face Peter Jackson for fourrounds, but I he refused. He works as a common k laborer at the brewery. He was for a 3 time employed as a driver, but was t too brutal. If a mule or a horse an- ] gered him he would knock the animal I down with one blow. t A Pretty Stiff Dose For Candidates. The Oconee County Alliance met at Seneca on last Friday. A large num ber of the officers, committees, dele gates and other brethren was present. The meeting was harmonious, instruc tive and interesting. The committee for the good of the order made some timely suggestions. They recommend that specimens of limestone in this county be obtained and sent to the State chemist to analyze and determine its value. That this Alliance go about forming a joint stock company to mine this limestone and furnish the farmers lime at the least possible cost, and that they endeavor to get, if thought best, a portion of the c,onvict labor to open and operate the mines. The committee recommend that this I Alliance do all they can to have all of< this county organized into Sub-Alli ances, as several portions of the county, have no Alliance organization. The following resolution was adopted: Res5olredl, That candidates for Con gress from the 3d Congressional Dis trict are invited to expre-s, in writing, their position on the following propo sitions: Will you commit yourself to support the following propositions uninflu enced by party caucus, if elected to represent the 3d Congressional District in Congress? 1. The abolition of national banks and the substitution of legal tender < treasury notes in lieu of national bank: notes issued in sufficient volume to< do the business of the country on a cash 1 system, regulating the amount neededi on a per capita basis as the business in terest of the country expands, and thati all money issued by the government shall be legal tender in paymwent of all debts, public and private. 2. The enactment of such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in fu tures of all agricultural. and mechani cal productions, preserving a stringent system of procedure in trials as shall secure the p)rompt conviction and im position of such penalties as shall se cure the most perfect compliance with the law. :1. Free and unlimited coinage of sil ver. 4. The enactment of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land. 5. That all national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered. f;. That Congress issue a sufficient amount of fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the United States mail. 7. That means of communication and transportation shall be owned by and op)eratedl in the interest of the peo le a.' in the I'nited States postal sys temi. s no vou approve and will you give full support to enact into law the proposedl change of our financial systenm known as the sub-Treasury Plan, adopted by the National Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union at St. Loui on the 7th (ay of I)eember. JOHN BROWN-s CLOTHES. They Have Been in Brooklyn for Thirty Year?. [Brooklyn Eagic.] TIhe clothes in which John Brown, of Ossawatoumie, was hanged are in the possession of a Brooklyn undertaker, Jacob M. Eooper, and his coffin was also here until twelve months ago, when it was chopned up by mistake. The story that connects the rugged fighter, freesoiler and abolitionist with this city is part of the secret history of the North during the anti-slavery agitation which preceded the civil war. John Brown, who was born with the entury, at Torrington, in Connecticut, ?arly devoted himself to a systematic ;tudy of the slave question and the ,onsideration of plans to alleviate its niseries and finally abolish it. He was t prominent figure in that movement, manating from the North, which was et on foot to bring the territory of Kiansas into the roll of free States and ay a barrier across the westward and iorth ward path of the slave power. He vas in constant communication with riends of the cause in New England vhile living in Ohio and Pennsylvania. rohn Brown and several of his sons vent to Kansas in 1855 and settled near )ssawatomie, whence the name he Lfterwards bore. The family plunged at >nce into the political turmoil which vas incident to the evolution of the Cerritory into a State. John Brown arried on the contest for free soil, as is opponents were for slavery, by iloodshed and deliberate assassination. ohn Brown, led by hisown hopes and neited by the expectations of North rn dreamers, went to Virginia and ttempted to establish a systematic iberation of the slave. It was, perhaps, he idea of making an armed center of ffense in the enemy's country which ed him to the act that caused his death. )n June 3rd, 1858, John Brown left 3oston, where he had been in consulta ion with the Northern leaders, with .500 in gold and in possession of 200 ifles,'bought with Northern money. 3ess than a year latter he settled near 3arper's Ferry, in Virginia, and on unday evening, October 16th, 1859, rith eighteen men, John Brown cap ured the United States arsenal at iarper's Ferry and seized several lanters in the vicinity and liberated heir slaves. The news of the outbreak reached Vashington on the day following, and ol. Robert E. Lee, afterward com nander-in-chief of the Confederate fonday evening with a company~ of nited States marines. After a siege in vhich two of John Brown's sons were :illed and his forces reduced to a half lozen followers and himself supposed o be dying, he was captured, "cut, hrust and bleeding," as Governor Vise of Virginia, who arrived a few iours later with a body of several iundred Virginia militis, describes uim. John Brown was tried before a 7irginia court. The influence.of North rn friends followed him here, and he vas defended by counsel from Massa husetts He was executed in Charles own, Va., on December 2, 18539. How ohn Brown's body was conveyed f'orth and reached its final resting >lace at North Elba, N. Y., was not mnown at the time. The project was mne which might have exposed those ngaged in it to assault, and the dead [ohn Brown to vandalism. After hanging, the body, in thesame agged ,shot-riddled clothes in which [ohn Brown had made his last fight, vas placed in a walnut coffin and given n charge of a Charlestown undertaker. l'hrough the influence of the agents of S'orthern friends the coffin was secretly hipped on board a northern-bound teamer, and in due time arrived in Sew York. There Jacob Hooper was rn hand to receive it and removed the ~offin to his New York room, 163 Bow ~ry. John Brown's body was promptly eclothed by the undertaker and a new ~asket made for it and shipped to North Iba where it was buried. The old ~offin and the tattered clothes were rought from New York 'and secreted n the cellar of Undertaker Hopper's oom in Brooklyn. There they re nained for nearly thirty years, until, n a cleaning up which was instituted n the cellar during Mr. Hopper's ab ence, the coffin was broken to pieccs md carried away. The ele thes are still n the undertaker's possession. "I will swear to the part I had in the lisposal of John Brownke body," sald M[r. Hooper yesterday. "Ijt is a fact. [Is body was not mutilated, but his ~lothes were torn as if they had been ut with bayonets." How to Tell a Counterfeit Bill. Take a United States bill of any de 20mination and hold it to the light, and ou will see two lines running entirely icross it lengthwise. Upon exanmina ion you will find these to consist of ilk threads, a red one and a blue one. ~very genuine bill has this mark of ~enuiness. Without these marks a dill may be put down as counterfeit, io matter how good the engraving on t is. No paper mill will dare make this ort of paper and this is the Govern nent's only protection on its currency. Social Economy. [London Punch.] Mrs. Scrooge-I'm writing to ask the Browns to meet the Jonesses here at linnern, and to the Jonesses to meet the Browns. We owe thenm both you k now. Mr. Scrooge-I know. They'll refuse, mud we needn't give a dinner party at all.