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ELRT H. AULL, ELITOR. ELBEI' H. AULL. I Proprietors. WM.. 11. IIOUSEAL. S NEWBERRY. S. C. THIURSI)AY MAY 15, 1s90. TIlE STATE CAMPAIGN. We publish on the first page of this paper the proceedings of the State I)tuoeratic Executive Committee at their meeting held in l'olumbia last week. Mass meetings are appointed to be held in every county in the State. The camupaigl opens at Greenville on Tuesday, .June loth, and closes at Walterboro on Tuesday, August 5th. The mass meeting for Newberry will be held here on Friday, June 13th. l'nder the constitution of the Demo eratic party of the State the Executive (omnittee of each county is requested to invite all candidates for State offices t > attend these meetings. This of course does not prevent theni from inviting others who are not candidates to attend I hese meetings. This will give every man who wants to ruu for a State office a chance to go before the people of the State and pre sent his case to the consideration of the voters. We presume that Mr. Tillman's campaign committee will not map out a. separate compaign for him, but that he will appear at the mass-meetings as a)pointed by the State Committee. No delegates are to be elected to the State Convention, which is to meet in Columbia on the 10th of September, until after the close of the State can vas. This is proper, for it will give all the candidates an opportunity to be heard before delegates are elected. No delegates to county conventions ought to be elected until the close of this pre liminary canvas. We will surely have plenty of time now for every voter to hear all sides and make up his mind as to his choice for the various oftices to be filled. It is meant, we presume, as a cam paign of education. If the candidates will discuss live issues, and let alone personalities, vilification and viturpera tion, it will result in good. But nogood can come from a campaign of abuse and appeals to prejudice and passion. Let there be fair play all around, and we shall see the Democracy present a solid front in support of the choice of the majority. COTTON SEED OIL MILL. Last year several co nferences were held in New berry, and several articles were written on the subject of building a ('otton Seed Oil Mill and Fertilizer Comnpany for Newberry, and after all that. it was finally dlecided that it was too late for last season andl the whole matter was post ponied for anotber yea r. The question is being agitated again this year, and two meetings have been held recently, looking to the formation of a company. These mieetings how ever have been poorly attended. This is a time for action, and we believe there are plenty of men in the town and county who have the money and who are willing to put it into such an enterprise. Committees to raise tbe necessary stock have been appointed. It is necessary that a good business man be put at the head of it, but such a man can be found and because you dlon't just know who is to be president or secretary or treasurer of the com pany when organized, don't let that keep any man from subscribing stock and helping to plant a good industry in our town. When the company is or ganized, after you have subscribed your money, at tend the meetings and vote for the officers you prefer, and if your choice is not the choice of the majority why work together anyhow for the good of the company, and if the man agement proves inefficient why the nwjority will soon wvant a change. What we want is concert of action and unanimity of sentiment, a pulling all together for the upbuilding of our towni and eounty, and unless we do p)ull together we can never make progress. Let our moneyed men put up their money and build this mill and fertilizer comnpanly, and work should be com mnenced without much more delay if it is expected to b)e ready for the next erop. T HE ANDERSON MEETING. We have not the space to publish the speeches of (Capt. Tillman and Gen. Jos. H. Earle last Saturday at Ander soni, and an attempt to abbreviate miigiht do both injustice. The reports of this meeting would fill more than one fourth of The Herald and News. (Capt. Tillmnan's speech was much the same as his s'peech~ the week before at Rlid gewa y. (Capt. Tillhuan admitted to Attorney G;eneral Earle that the only charge he h ad agrai nst the presen t ad mi nistration was in the legislature refusing to make the reapportionment in 1884, and he did not think that attorneys forcorpor ations ought to be members of the Leg.islat ure. The reapp)ortionlmienit of the members in the Legislature ought to have been imade as the constitution directs, but that is not an issue now. The Legisla tuire sinice that time has decided to adlopt theL l~nited States census which will be taken this year, and the reap port ion mnent Can be made by the next Legtislatuzre. Mr. 1lglman claims to be an expo nent of a p)rinlciple,. a candidate on what lie terms a reform~ platform, and it see:ms to us that the thing to (10 is to show the farmers where and how their taxes canl be reduced, and how his election can bring about such results. There are reported to have been atbout 10(00 people at the Anderson meeting. and all accounts agree that Mr. Tilhnani had a decided majority of those present. E*very- thing passed off leas.antly. We> publdish elsewhere the imnpres sions of thle Anderson meeting by A. B. Williams. editor of the Greenville News.. IRead the article. He is one of the best newspaper e-litors in the State. Fair and honest in the expres sin of hi is senltimients and( opin ions, his review of the situlation is worthy of at Another meeting of the Woodward ones-Sinms conference is to be held in .olumbia next Tuesday. The Charles on World is authority for the state usent that Senator Hampton will be Present at this conference. Ender the present plan of our State !xecutive Committee the field is open ud an opportunity given every one to o before the people and present his laims for whatever office he may de ire. Now let there be a free fair and pen fight, and let the people say who hey want. Congress has been engaged in the liscussion rf the tariff for the past veek. Mr. J. F. J. Caldwell nominates Gen. 3ratton, of Fairfield, for Governor. ;en. Bratton would make a good Gov rnor. He is a farmer, was a brave oldier, is true and tried, but it i iardly likely he could be induced tc nake the race. Hon. J. G. Carlisle is not going tc iave a walkover in securing the Sena :orship as successor of the late Senator Beck. There are some eight or nine candidates to oppose him. Mr. Car. Esle should be elected. Our correspondent, "76," has some criticisms of the action of the Demo cratic Executive Committee. In order that appointments in dif ferent counties might not be made or the same dates we think it a very gooc thing for the Committee to have sug gested the appointments for the vari ous counties. It will avoid confusion and we have no doubt these appoint ments will be acceptable to the various counties and to the candidates. It i: well to have things done decent and it order. As to the other criticism that the: "suggest" that other than candidate may be invited, we confess that we di< not see that reported as the action o the committee. The correspondent it reporting this meeting says: "It i understood, of course, that the count; committee can invite whom the; please to these meetings, whether the; be candidates or not." This, as w read it, is not a suggestion of the Exe cutive Committee, but the interprets tion placed upon the 14th article by th reporter himself. And certainly ther is nothing in this particular articl which forbids others than candidate to speak at these meetings. The artiel says that "all candidates for State of fices shall be invited," but does not sa; that those who are not candidate shall not be invited. At least that i the way we see it. We agree with "76 that the offices belong to the people and they can elect whomsoever the, please, and so far as we are concerne we shall accept the verdict the major ty shall render in this matter as cheel fully as "76," or any other true citizer But let us have fair play all around and not be too ready to find fault c question the motives of our fellow cit zens, who possibly do not think just a we do. They may be just as honet and conscientious as we are. It is Only a "Suggestion." To the Editor of The Herald an News : The State Executive Con mittee of the Democratic part met last week in Columbia, tb greater part of the members fror the up country were not present. The called the State Convention to meet r Columbia, September 10 at 12 m. Tinm of meeting from some cause is muc later than usual. Had they stoppe here their action might have escape criticism, but in a manner peculiar t themselves they took from the Count Executive Committees the fixing of tb time and place when under article 1 of the constitution of the party the car didates for State offices might addret the people of the respective countie! It is true that the fixing of the tim and place is only a suggestion to th committees, yet it is virtually takin from them that which is given ther (the County Committees) under artiel 14 above referred to. But they do nc stop here they suggest (it is always suggestion) that other persons than car didates for State offices may be invitec Now we come to the milk in th cocoanut. We may expect Mr. Til man to be confronted by others tha those who are eandidates for Stat offices-why is this ? Is it thougL: that no man of ability sufficient t cope with him can be induced to stan for Governor and therefore that to L: successful outsiders must be called in But as it is only a suggestion on tb part of the State Committee we ma be mistaken. There is nothing, hov ever, like keeping on the alert an seeing to it that what is authorized b, the constitution shall alone be don i. e., that only candidates for Stat officers shall be invited to speak a these meetings-to invite any other would be to set the constitution of tb party at defiance. The ball rolls on and Mr. Tillmani gaining friends for the movement eac: day. Let every farmer and every ma of whatever avocation who desire eonomy and reform in the State Got ernent add his name and influence t the movement so that wvhen the Stat Convention meets in September it ma; say in tones of thunder-the offices ls long to the people, and not to any ma or set of men. m Be not Cruel to Cait,. D)ANvILLEi, V, May 9.-In Roel ingham County, N. C., David Stoke: colored, struck a cat, when the enrage annual flew at huim and fastened il teeth in his wrist. The cat held on t tenaciously that its head had to t severed before itsgrip could be relaxe. Stokes wvas taken sick at once and soo died. Hanging In Union. [Special to the News and ('ourier.] UNrOs, May 9.-William Davis, whu was convicted of the murder of Susi Fernandez at the last term of Courti Union, was hanged to-day at 11.43 a. n He had his confession written, cor fes'ing that he was the only one wh killed Susie Fernandezj~or knew anm thing of it. He was married on the same day< the month on which he was senterice to be hanged, and hanged on the sam day of the month on which he con mnitted the murder. IVMPRtEsSION FlIOM AtNDE.RS(N. A Candi ei lew of the 'ituation bry an Eyewitusess. Editor A. B. Williams in (.;reenvtrille News.' The meeting at A uder-on on at nr day was interesting and in sev r: r-ta spec ts iip)4)rta tt. It w as The oa ttn:ta 4 as a candidate in this Piedni tnt cMtti try, where lie mnu-t tind i is t .etith when the coitest b4c4mn es cliise aind hot and the titine ft,r voting is near. This section is the hmlte of the id:as Captain Tillnan clainis to represelit. He brings no new doctrine here. The farmers of Anderson. Abbeville, (reei ville, Spartanburg and Laurens were fighting for ecoionmy, lower Taxes, fewer ollice holders, no public luxuries and fair apportionment and had found strong allies in the Pee Dee country before Captain Tillmaii appeared as a portentous figure in the political sky. For four or live years they have been harpening the faith and concentrating their strength for reform with Tilluan as an incident. On the answer to the question whether they will exchange that for Tillan with incidental reform Captain Tillnan's political fortunes de pend. For theseare the peopli who stiek quiet' people, slow to think :nd at sometiies, cautious and shai wd, biut once enlisted in a cause sure to be found in the last rally for it, to be trusted to hold an unbroken front at the centre when the lines in advance of them have been broken down, the flanks are wavering and the enemy is coining on headlong and apparently irresistible. If Captain Tillman can capture and hold the Piedmont belt lie will have a force telling in aggression and a citadel for defence. The Anderson meeting gave the first opportunity for study from direct, immediate and colketed observation of the question whether this important advantage will be his. I always try to be entirely frank in dealing with the public. I earnestly and strongly hope to see Captain Tillman beaten and 1 intend to do all I can do to beat himi. Admiring him as I do for sonie of his qualities, respecting his rights and liking him personally, I regard the methods used by his friends and him selfas unwise, unfair and undemocratic. During the ten years I have controlled f The Greenville Daily News the paper has steadily and consistently favored and fought for the ideas represented by what is called the Farmer's Movement. I love those ideas and believe in them with my whole heart and soul and value the Farmers' Movement as the means for giving them effect. I believe if Captain Tillma! and the horde of lesser mien clinging to his coat tails and - clustering on his shoulders to get into power with hin are allowed to ride this Movement they will break it down and destroy it. This statement is made that these who read what I have to say s of the meeting at Anderson may allow for possible bias and understand that the wish may be father to the thought. I made, however, a strong and ear nest effort to obserse the proceedings s with even judgment and impartial eyes. a My opinion is that the newspaper mtan in his professional conduct ought to be without sentiments, enotions or preju , dices-a machine for recording facts as they occur and for studying causes and following themt logically to efiects; and -I try to live up to it. After study and observation mnade with this effort to be impartial, I camne from Anderson with the (distinict im pression that Captain Tillmtan had lost ground there during the (lay. There raopeared to mec to be a cooling of the -ardorand the lesseninogof the confidence sof his friends in the crowd and miore tdisposition than there was at the first to accept the fact of there being two sides to his candidacy and occasion for sonmc sober thought. In the first place, there are :350 white voters in Anderson (Cotunty at a rough estimate. A bout 3,3O(0 votes were cast there in the p)riniary of two year~s ago. TIaking~ out women, boys and the scattering visitors from other counties, it is safe to say that there were nott mobre thn1,011 A nderson voters at th is rueet ing~. That is not such an otutpourinig as ~Anderson would show in bright wea ther andl with the roads good if her people were as inltensely initerested in Captain Trillmian's cause as they are supposeil by some to be. IThere is no doubt that the crowvd was largely in favor of T1illmian. The only means we on the stage had of judging was by the cheering and the volume of that for Tillman wvas froml twice to three times as loud as that for Colonel Earle. Yet it must be remeinberett that it was a Tillman meeting, called by Captain Tillmian's friends to hear hiim. SThe significant factor of the nmeeting, to my mind, was the large inmber of emen who said nothing. Th'ley sat in rowv after row--solid, ruddy, sturdy, comi fortable looking farmers; the kind of men whose influence in local elections is eagerly sought by po(liticians, whose quiet weight tells heavily on public sentimnent in their neigh borhood. Thley~ were interested listeniers; they heard all that was said, caught every point that was made, laughed at everything funny-and give no token, by word or act, so far as could be seen, of how they thought or who they favored. Five or six men in a erowd can nmake a good deal of noise. One or t wo hun dred can do a power of cheering and emit a great volume of sound. T1he impression miade oni me was that Cap tain Tillman had in the crowd from one to two hundred dletermlined, active and eager partisanls wvho will supp)ort his claims on every occasion and make a great show (of strength and force; that there were thirty (or forty or may -be fifty as dleterminiied and active against him-most of thiem p)robably young men from the townis-a1d that the bulk of the solid farmitzg vote while favorably disposed toward im is in a condition to be controlled one way or the other by events b4etwveen this time and election tieand considera sColonel Earle spoke under muany dis advantages. He began with the knowl edge that the croIwd was against him and( he was enmbarrassed by the open hostility of sonic of Captain Till man's 'more ent husiastic partisans who appeared to be willing to shout him down altogether but for the con servative influence of those around( them and the demands of (Captainl Tilr man and (Chairmian Latinmer for free speech and fair play. Yet there wvas an appearance of being impilressedl by him in the crowd-not deliniable ini words or figures but nevertheless dis ritinct. The shouters seemed to mec to be somiewhat stubdued toward the close and there was a noticeable absence of anything like the exultation or satis factiod that cornies to a body (If men21 along with the ruoral conisciousnless oIf success or triumph. I left Anderson implressedl withi the belief that Captain Tilbujan's lirst ~effort in the tup counlltry was at failurie: that he had certainly gained no( groundt and probably lost somle : stronger I han ever ini the hope that his boom is now near its strength anid that as the peop)lle have time anid opplortun ity to analyze his methods and posit ion and reason out the tendencies anid cequ152(henl-s (of both they will reject b leadershiip which to ime appears boss-shtip. I have written this in the tirst per son and used instead of thle editorial "we"' the individuall' I-withI a dis tict repulsion to the letter and an effort to get arotund it every tieit has Sbeen written here-because I wanted te matter to appear impIly as theimi pressions mlade on one man who tries to be honest, impartial and out-spoken by an event wvhich has importance andt signifcance in our political history. The strongest impression of all was the danger there is in pat (If the country wvhere pleoplhe are less orderly and la'w abiding anid more excitable than our Ipeople (If ~eriomls trouble re ilting fron hot words on the stand tiring these neetings. The most miportant lesson to be taught just now the need of peace, forbearance and ood humor in all circumstances and tlicient policing at such gatherings. Vithont theni one or two drunken ne or fools on either side might start riot which would bring unending isaster to the State. Nothing worse .uld Comlie to us than a blood feud be won e"lasses. i*en 'ieture or Vienjamin R. Tillman. A. i. \Villiam1-, in Greenville News.] AN!,nif.N, May 10.-The first time saw Ben Tiihnant was on that mo nentous day in the fall of 1676 when he dgetieid and Laurens delegations o the house of Representatives were topped at the door of the State House ,v Federal troops. It was just after the uust serious crisis this country has ;newn since Fort Sumter was fired t-that tremendous fifteen minutes luring which a mass of infuriated 'utli Carolinians were wavering be ween obedience to the desperate imi >ulse that moved them to advance hirty paces and storm the door of the tatc House over the sniall group of lue clad men representing the Federal o>vernment, and the pleadings of rea ;on and patriotism expressed by Wade lampton standing upon the steps half Nay between the opposing parties. l'hie danger was over for a time; that shot that would have snapped the trained bonds that held the people of :he two parties throughout the country tad not been fired. Ben Tillnan was ust inside the door of the State House eauiig against one of the big fluted pillars there. His breeches were in his boots and his dress in no way differed fron that of hundreds of men who were there that day from the farms of every part of the State. He was noticeable because he was apparently lost in thought of something far off while verybody else was watching with painful eagerness the events imniedi ately passing and because there was about his mouth a cynical and half mocking expression as if he disap proved all that was being said and done. Somebody said it was Ben 1ill man. I do not remember seeing him again until yesterday and did not hear of him again in eight years. Yet there was something in his personality that impressed me without the speaking of a word or the movement of a liib. On all the many occasions in recent times when I have heard or read of Ben Tillman he has come to my menm ory as he was then. Close and curious study of his form and face since we met on the train bound here yesterday does not enligh ten me as to why this man has remained in my memory while thousands of others whom I have seen and talked with and been in many places and ways thrown with since then have faded from it. He is not a large man-just a little above medium height. He is slenderly but compactly built-not a model n build or carriage or mould of limb, and not noticeably awkward. He dresses neatly, wearing apparently for this campaign a black diagonal suit. Probably the noticeable feature of his face is his mouth. He has, as Carlyle said of Daniel Webster, an "angry" shut mouth. It is inclined to droop just at the corners after runningstraight across his face. It is shaded by a rather short and scanty moustache of reddish shade. The nose is well cut, prominent an d shapely. Mr. TIillman's one remain ing eye IS (lark hazel, full, clear and briglit-decidedly a tine eye and im pressinig one with the idea that he lost his best featture when the other was unfortnately destroyed. His hair is lark andt withiotut gray, his forehead is semed with somec linies of thought or care, lie is forty-four years old and doesn't quite look it. That is the man as nearlyas words can photograph him as he app)ears ini repose. - Hie is rathier demonstrative-a little boisterous perhaps-in u nrestrai ned asso ciation withi his friernds. He has a curi ous habit wvhen amused of doubling up sudenly at the waist and enjoymng his laugah, to which he seems easily moved, almost ini silence. He talks easilyI and( clearly eniding a sen tence now and then with a some what that d1rawvl and' pulling those leressedl corners of his mouth down a trick oif vi ce and feature shared by his elder brot her, "Uncle George." H e is not a hanLidsomie man and not an tgly one; his face is a strong one and there is something in it that impresses itself on the memory. He is not an illiterate mian and only occasionally dIrops inito the misuse of bad grammar, which is a habit nmany Southern public men have in speaking to a mixed audi ene. He doesn't use tobacco, doesn't dik and says lie has nearly broken himself of swearing and has a good leading voice which he likes to use in singing old fashion hymn tunes. The southern Baptists. FonT WonTH, TExAs, May 9.-The Southerni Baptist Convention met in its forty-sixth annual session here this morning. President Jonathan Haral so, of Selma, Ala., in thechbair. Seven hundred delegates were present from Alabama, Arkansas, Indian Territory, D)istrict of Columbia, Maryland, Mis sissippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vi rginiia. The following offcers were elected: President, the Hon. Jonathan Haral son, of Selnma. Ala.; vice presidents, Dr. .J. B. Hawthorne, of Georgia, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia, Dr. F. H. Ker foot, of Kentucky, and the Rev. L. B. El, of Missouri; secretaries, the Rev. ansing Burrows, D). D)., of Augusta, (a., ani the Rev. Mr. Fuller, D. D., of Baltimore; treasurer. Geo. WN. Morton, of Louisville, Ky. The home missionary board reported for the past year 270 missionaries among the native wvhite p)op)ulation, 30 missio naries amonig the foreign population an 4,447 hapltismis; organized during the year 267 churches, Sunday-schools instituted 336, churches built 83; total re(eits $171,000, expenditures $1 70, The foreign mission board reported for the past year :37 stations occupied, wvith 1 10 ou t stations; 78 missionaries, 409 baptisms, 29 schools with 675 scho lars; receipts $486,800, all debts paid. EMIIRATION TO LIBERIA. The lieginn ing of an Organized Movement o Secure (Governmnent Aid for Export ing Negroes. W\asimNuToN, May 9.-Senator But ler to-ay presented the petitions of the heads of nine families, aggregating seveit-two, persons, that Congress applroriate $10(0 per capita to enable thiemi to emiugrate to Liberia and main in themnselves there for a period of ix moiths. The petition has printed heading, ind(icating an organized m iovemntto support aschemeof whole sale deportation of the colored people of the South to thant country. An acol)mni ng paper gives the testi ny of t he neigh bors of the petitioners to their worth and respectability. MIcrON, F-LA. This to certify that I have beeni icted with Serofula. or Blood poison, for a nummber of years. The best phy 0icis of Mobile and this city said notimmi could be done for me. I also to,k a large quantity of-; but found ou relief in anything that I took. My imbs were a mass of ulcers, and wvhen I was sent to a physician in Mobile my entire body was a mass of sores. I haul gven uIp all hope, and as a last re sort tried P'. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke oot amid Potassium 1, and after using four bott les ismall size) the sores have entirely disappeared, and my general health was never better than at the reset time, and people that know me think it a wonderful cure. eptfully FTIZA TODD). THE NEW TRUNK LINES. Progresa of the Work on the Three C and the G. C. & N. K. R. [Yorkville Enquirer.] BLACKSIWRG, May ti.-Col. P. P. Dickenson, of New York, has been tppointed chief engineer and super- 1 ntendent of construction of the Massa -husetts and Southeran Constiruction 'omtp.mny. ie has control of the build ng u thte line, which inludIites the Augu-ta division. He will arrive here .o-day and go by private conveyance >l a tour of inspection over the line roma Blacksburg to Newberry. The )osition he tills is separate and distinct ron that held by ('ol. Molesworth. vho is chief engineer of the Three ('s Railroad comxpany. General MIanager Johnson has ordered work oi the Augusta division pushed as rapidly as possible. The resident engineer, Mr >oble, has reached Broad river, and is low engaged in sounding the river fo r ridge piers. The bridge will be five ;pans of 150 feet, the centre pier resting on Eagle island. 'Th'e line from Broad river to Blacksburg will he carefully revised and relocated before work is :oinienced on it. The building of this line will add eight and a half miles more to the mileage of railroad in (herokee township, that being the dis tance from the Broad river crossing to Blacksburg. 'trSIIING THE WoRK IN VIRGINIA. [Southwest Virginian.] The Three C's railroad is certainly on a boom, if one is to judge from the loud reperts of blasting, which come front it all along the line. The work seems to be pushed as fast as human skill and labor can push it. Work is being done all along the line and the grade is finished at many places. Track-laying has commenced on it this side ofJohn son City and the day is not far distant when the train will pull into St. Paul. LOOKING TOWARDS PORT ROYAL. [Augusta Chronicle.] A prominent railroad official says that the Three C's is working in reality towards Port Royal via Augusta; that the engineering hand and fertile brain of Col Frank Coxe is beneath and be hind the plan and that in close synI pathy with his work are the Apple tons, his fellow-tow nsmen, of Philadel phia. There is now after all that has been published of the route and ad vantages of the road a clear under standing of its aim and scope. Modern rail-roading is tending every day to wards a minimum of time required in transfer and short direct cuts to destina tions. This line, it is proposed, will make the artery fromt the Ohio Valley to the finest port on the Atlantic coast that will (when largely owned by those in terested in the road) be developed to its fullest possibilities. THE G. C. & N. i . R. MOvING BRISKLY ALONG. [Abbeville Press and Banner, 1st.] The cars now run to the Tiger river, six miles west of Fish Dam, or about twenty-four miles this side of Chester. The track was finished to Fish Dam last Monday week. There will, of course, be some delay in putting up the bridge across the Tiger. We believe the grading is nearly finished from the Tiger to the Saluda. Coming this way from the Saluda, all the work has been finished, except immiediately under the tracks of the C. & G. and the A. & K. roads. The piers are now going up, and it is though t that work will be finished by this day week. The frog for the joining of the A. & K. with the G. C. & N. was put in last Friday evening, some three or four mliles this side of Greenwvood. Trhe constructionl force arrived on the same evening and pitchedI tents. About twenty miles of iron is now at Port Royal waiting shlipmnent, and a train load of it was ex pected to arrive at the frog Friday night, when the construction force would imnmediately comnmence the work of laying the track. The track runs parallel with tIle A. & K. road about four mtiles, this side of Greenwoodl. Thle cross ties are already on a por tiont of the track. Iron will be laid from tihe junctionl or frog toward Greenwood, the track layers expecting to reach Greenwood by tile time the track is readly, whlen the iron-laying force wvill proceed to the Saluda, without interruptioni, and in time to have the bridge placed in position by the time the track-laying force from Chester reaches that point. While the bridge buildeFs are puttirag the bridge acros the Saluda, the track layers will returnl and lay track this way, making ready for the putting in of the bridges at Cull Tail anid Long Cane creeks. The supposition is, thlat the track will be conmpleted to Abbeville by the time the track is finished from Chester to Saluda, so that when the train on the eastern end of the line is ready t.o cross the Saluda the track will be in readiness for it to proceed right along to Abbeville, when it will be hurried westward to Little River. Another company of track-layers w ill soon begin work from the Savannah Valley road, some fourteen or fifteen miles west of Abbeville. The graders have been ordered to make preparation for connecting the two roads. This connectioni is made for the purpose of expediting the track laying and bridge building. Coming this way from the Savannah Valley road a few miles Little River is reached, where the stone piers are going up, and( by the time the track-laying fronm the east side of the Savannah Valley road reaches the river, the rock masons wvill be ready for the bridge. In the meantime the track-laying on this side of that river will be pushed westward. With two track-laying forces now on the line, and with another soon to go to work the public may expect rapid work in A bbeville and Laurens co'un .ies. Many hands make light work. The grading force about A bbeville is making reasonable progress, and it is thought that all will be finished be f. .- the first of August. With track I -ers coming -from both ends of the line they wvould nleed to hasten. The grading east fromi the Fair Grounds to Long Cane, four miles, is light, and the hands are already at work. OPENElD To FISHI DAM. [Special to Charleston World.] CH ESTER, May 7.-The railroad coml missioners have to-day made an inspec tion of the section of the Georgia, Caro lina and Northern railroad fromi West Chester to Fish Dam. Inl this section is includea the eleganlt iron bridge over Broad river. Trhe road is now declared open for iraffic to Fish Dam. A pas senger anid freight schedule to that point will go into effect on Monday. The track hlas been laid to Tyger river six miles beyond Fi'h Dam, giving tile road nesv sevenity miles of track. Terrible blood poison, body covered wrth sores, andt twvo bottles of P. P'. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas sium) cured the disease, making tile patientt lively as a ten-year-old. For a safe and certain remedly for fever aind ague, use Dr. J1. H. McLean's Chills and Fever Cure; it is warranted to cure. Pnimples, blotches, scaly skin, ugly spots, sores and ulcers, abscesses and tumors, unihealthiy dischiarges, such as catrr,.ezema, ringworml, and other forms of skin diseases, are symptoms of blood impurity. Take D)r. .J. H. Zlc Lean's Sarsaparilla. S35,000 worth of Schiool attd MIiscel laneous Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods to be closed out at New York cost. Address J. D). Pickard, Colum bia r.. ' tf ni .vi-: (l .JO1UN I:ItTTU\. A Citizen of Newberry Nominates Him for Governor. [From the News and Courier.] No patrictic citizen can contemplate vitbout mortitication and apprehension he discord ny existing in the Demo :ratie party in Sonth Carolina. It dbnes iot iruplv such a divi=ion of our people is to proii lst" any' uC"css to a Riepubli an iovemieli: ()Ilr white voters know heir duty bt-ttor tihian that. But it loes threatenl to involve us in bitter liseus. on and in such ill feeling as ,vill inerfere with future legislation md the future administration of the state Government. We know, or ought o know, that we cannot afford to run uich risk if it can be avoided. We are :oo weak, too straitened in our afl'airs, ind our enemies all too powerful and too united against us to permit of dis ensions in oui own Lody. In the long run it is only the common eneyiv who cali derive profit from such a state of things. It becomes us to look our situation quarely in the face, to consider the eauises ofcomplaint alleged by a good many of our people to exist a;;ainst the present management of public aflairs: to remedy any evil which may be shown to exist; to guard as far as possi ble against future abuses, and to pre sent for office those men whose past records a fiord sotme,gularant y of honest, ecouoniical and fair government. These are things which the people have the right to demand, and which it is their duty to demand. and any clamor made for the accomplishment of these pur poses deserves to be regarded. Mr. B. R. Tillman has been put into nomination for Governor of the State by a portion of the Democrats of the State, as the peculiar representative of the ideas of econ'ny, popular govern ment and reforn . I confess that I have been unable to discover in the admin istration of the S ate Government any extravagance or dishonesty. or any infringement u'ion or denial of the rights and privi'eges of the people at large, and I ar.i therefore at a loss to couceive what room there is for reform. Yet Mr. Tillman is urged upon the people as one so identified with agri cultural interests, so zealous-and jeal ous-as to the people's rights, so hostile to a government by sections, cliques or classes, as to insure, so far as lies in the power of any one officer, popular gov ernment, equal representation, econo mical management and the advance ment of the people's interests generally, and agricultural interest in particular. And when the nomination is opposed by those of us who do not consider Mr Tillman fitted for the place-of whom I do not conceal that I am one-we are asked to name a man wh"llo can be ex pected to do as well or better. And this demand is made not only by those who contributed to the nomination in March, but by many who took no part in the movement which resulted in that nomination, and who are not now committed to the support of the nomii nee. They say: "Here is ofl'ered for office a man who maintains the doc trines we contend for, and is, wethink, quite sure to he true to his professions. Show us a better one before you ask us to ignore him." I think that the March nomination was unwise; I think that it was contrary to the principles of Democratic party government; I think it expressed the sentiuments of but a very smali minority of the Demorrats of the State, and of a very smiall miino rity of the farmers of the State; yet, having been made, the nomination may well be adopted by the whole Demio cracy of the State if we fail to suggest:a better. That letter nomiination I feel that I make in proposing for Giovernier of South Carolina .John Bratton, of Fair field, a life-long farmer. whm"e occupa~ tion and interest are inisep.a~ible from the agricultural interests of the State, a soldier of distinguishied skill and valor, a citizen dlevotedl to the rights andl welfare of the whole people, a man tried in war and( in peace, and found equal to every duty and faithful to every trust. J1. F. J1. CAu>wsLjLr. New berry C. H1., Mfay 10, 1S!l0. Caution to MIothers. Fveryv mother is cautioned against giving her child laudanuni or paregorie; it creates an uniinatural craving for stimulants which kills the mind or the child. Acker's Baby Soother is specially prepared to benefit child ren and cure their pains. It is harmless and containis no Opium or Miorphine. Sold by Belcher, H-ouseal & Kibler. Yew Advertisements. To the People of Newberry and Surrounding Counties: I HAVE RESUMID THlE PRAC .tiee of Mfedicine in all of it: branches, and will attend calls at all hotirs of the day or night in town or ini the country. Special attention given to the treatment of Diseases of Fe males, and to Chronic diseases of all kinds, including Port Nasal Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Skini diseases, heumnatism, Piles, etc.. etc., etc. Office for the present at miy resi dence. S.uwsoN Poiri, M. D. May 15, 1890. . PROCL AMA TION. STATrE oi" SotrTH, ('AnoriA, FxE(TTrivE DEP'ARTMENTr. T H E R E A S INFORMIATION 'T has been receivedl at this D)epart ment that an atrocious murder was comlmitted in the (County of Newherry on or about the 17th dlay of February A. D)., 1890), upon the body of .Jac'k Davis by Dock Sligh, amnd that the said Dock Sligh has flhd froma justice: Now, therefore, I, .J. P. Richardson, Governor of the State of South (Caro lina, in order that justice may be done ad( the majesty of the law vindiented, (do hereby off'er a reward of Seventy five dollars for the applrehmension and( delivery to the Sherifl' of Newherry County of the said Dock Sligh, said Dock Sligh is a negro of full blood, but brownt color. Promiinent cheek bones. Walks with unusually erect carriage, and appears to lift his shoulders. Age 24 years. Mlediumi size and height. Weght 14' r10 ons Ini test imlony whereof, I ha:ve here unt') set myi hand and ca:usedl lie G;reat Seal of the State to [sm.A ..] I e aflixed, at ('olumbuia, this, 12th day of Mfav A. D)., l1u0 and in tIhe one'hundred and fourteenth y'aar of the Inde peiidenmce ot the Unlited States of Amiirica. By thle ('rovernior: '.J. Q. M1ARSHA LL, '-ecrtatry of Stat e. CONTRACT TO LET. x TTICE IS HERERl~;Y GIVEN 1. th a t onI Sat urday, Ma3y 24th, at in o'clock, thet Boardro of ( ounmtyv Comi missione'rs will let to the lowest re sponsible bidder, at their oflice at New berry Court House, the contraict for building a Poor House: the riaht hbeing reserved to reject any or all bids. Plans andl spedcitient ions caii be seen at umy office. By~order of the board oftCunty (Com missioners. (.EOR:(: nB CROmER, ('lerk_ NEW SPRING (-utr 11E\' and ELD:(.'NTF SI {LOTHIN SHOE [s arriving daily. We have tal :his 'tock: MADE UP SF TO SlT TIHE WATS OF FIRST CLK dMODERATE Our stock of Cutaway and :,15.00 are perfect models of beat finer grades from $18.00 to E MERCHANT TAILOR Si We call the attention of the L --BOYS' AND CHILDRE A stock which has no superior ii from $1.50 to $8.00. --OUR SHOE DE Needs very little advertising, as i we carry the best stock of Mi I)REN' SHOES of ALL GRA Call and examine our stock not. Polite attention to all. SMITH & T .e "2NEWBERl MAIN STREET. NEWBERRY, S. C. IT IS A Q With every one where they SPIN li UMP You are certainly not a good j The best judges do not )reteni arises. Where are you to get money. Everybody in Newber LARGEST, FINEST ar CHEA I]ST TI-IE OMR PRICES ARE BOUND If You Value Your Mone3 WE HAVE EVER3 0LOTll\I FOR MEN 'We can give vou the Best Money. We are selling GENTS' FURNIE HATS, BOOTS at low figures. BLALOCK The DYE R& HU -Ae(kOW'~I.E0 TO( HE T IifE - ORGANS WORLD. Particularly Los Are Offered t] Every OrgE SOLD EXII IN SOUTH CA I0. HLE'I NO RENT TO PAY, 1" St rch forAht-: one lh. Knittin:: U'otton for .o downiippes l for cash. (spol dSh.4) ~ erif' a le. Saue. Fn. RichrdS.ELL . inSheribovese ae n.te IN ilOMMOatNewer PL utEAu,. Snthe. nirt 31.ndayard day (i of.. . ne, l oP, at public outcry, to the hi;;hest bidder, all the right, title, in trest and estate the said1 Richard V. ~it has, owns, or possesses in and to that trac t or plantationi or land, situate ling and beinzg in thle (County oft New brry, and( Sinte afor4esaid, .on)taUining1 i Hndred and Seventy-Five '175, acre-, more or less. about nine rnilese from New berry U. Hf., and' bounded by)V lands of .J. L. Keitt, TI. WV. Keitt, .Jamties B3rown, Adlela Mie(anits ande others. Leviedl upon and to) be sold as the p)roperty of the diefe!ndant, Richard V. Gi.t, to satisfy sahid execultionl. Ternms Cash. Pur--aser to pay for papers. WV. WV. R ISE:R, It SherifT Newberry County. .Sherifi's Ofilee, Mlay (;, 1@0(. CLOTHING! ()i 'Js o1 SAND 11ATS ;en particular pains to have ECIALLY THE PRESENT DIAY. : BS GOODS PRICES! aek Suits from S10.00 to ttv and durability, and the 25.00 compare with any JITS at $35.00 and $40.00. ,dies especially to our NS CLOTHING ! the State. Beautiful Suits PARTMENT t is generally conceded that 3'6. LADIES' and CHIL DES in the County. whether you wish to buy or WEARN, JESTION hall buy their idge of clothing.-nobody is. : to be. Then the question :he best value for the least rv knows that we have the Ld PEST STOCK IwCITY. TO BIllNG YOU TO liS r and Want to Save lt. VARlIETY OF Goods for the Least HING GOODS AND SHOES & GREEN. MHES ORGANS v Prices ais Month. Lf Guaranteed. JUSIVELY R~OLINA i3Y TN\EPE. ALBOTT & SONS, RICHMOND, VA., MIANUF')ACTUJRERS, ILL FURNISH LOWEST ESTrIMATES onall kinds of Iachinery INGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, OTTON GINS AND) ELEVATORS, COTITON PRESSES, RICK{ AND) TILING MACHINES, r L AN E RS AN) D WOOWORKINGl MACHINERY. Write to me for prices before buy C. BAD H AM, Gen'I Agt., COLUMBIA, S. C. 'I R E, CY CLON ES AND TORNADOES. WIE\OULD) RE-SPECTFULLY inform the public that we are pre 'ared to insure property against loss by 'rn, Cyclones and Tornadoes. Your p)atrona~ge is solicited.a BUPTON & WILsON, Agenit.~ Newberry, S. C. J Thtice of Final Settlement. [ wIL L MA KE A FINA L SETTLE ment on the estate of .1 no. M. Neel, eCcas(ed, in the Probate Courrt at New erry, S. C., on Saturday, May 17th, 890, at I10 o'clock a ml., andl will'imme iately thereafter mrove saidl Court fo .final discharge as admiinistrator. All >ersons having demands against thek state are called upon to presgot the ame properly attested on or before I hat day. ~L. w. rHEREDGE,