The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, May 15, 1890, Image 2
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,