The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, February 26, 1891, Image 1

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ESTBLISHEDURDAYFEBRARY 26, 1891. FRICE 1.50 A YAR GENERAL GORDON INUTIATED. Be Was Shown the Mysteries of the Order The Order Through Which He Passed. (Athens Banner.] General Gordcn is now a full fledged Allianceman, and will hereafter be made to toe the mark, and address Liv ingston, Macune and Harry Brown as 'brother.' The initiation of this dis tinguished gentleman went through without a jostle, and was witnessed by a large and enthusiastic audience of Alliancemen. At the risk of being shot for exposing the secrets of our order, I will give the Banner a full report of the impressive ceremony that snatched General Gor don from the clutches of the politicians, and made him an humble disciple of the plow. The candidate was escorted into the ante room of the Alliancemen by a body -guard of farmers. He manifested some nervousness when his conductors de manded that he partially disrobe and submit to the ordeal of being curried off with a corn cob and rubbed down with a bundle of todder; the reason for this phantom agricultural bath being that it was necessary to cleanse his person from the contaminating effects of too close a contact with Atlanta poli ticians, Jeffersorian Democrats, Inde pendents and other unclean elements, and that he might enter the realms of agricultural bliss. He was then arrayed in a pair of copperas pants, upheld by one suspender, and a hickory shirt, wool hat and brogan shoes. The Alli ance (his guide explained) was no re specter 6f persons and every member must be on an equal footing. Three raps were given on the lodge room door, and i sepulchral voice with in demanded: "Who comes there?" "A poor penitent who is groveling in darkness, and asks that the light of the Alliance be turned upon him," was the reply. "Is the candidate a tiller of the soil?" was the next query from within. "He says he has always been the best frend the farmers of Georgia ever had," was the evasiye response. "See if there are any corns in his hands, or cockle burns in his hair" was the command. "The seeker of light says he is only a farmer by proxy, and the corns are in the hands of those who work his land," was the response. "Does the candidate ask admittance into our order in his own volition, and is he prepared to pass through the or deal of initiation?" "He does and he is," was the reply fron without. "Let the candidate then remain in darkness until his eyes are prepared to receive the great light that the Alliance will turn upon him and he can enter into our sacred precincts," was the next order. The eyes of the applicant for Alliance knowledge were bandaged with a sec ond hand guano sack, the door of the lodge-room thrown open, and Georgia's ex-Governor and United States Sena tor, for the first time in his life, found ~ himself in the inner sanctuary of the ~ farmers' lair. He was marched three ~ times around the room, while the mem bers welcome him with "While the lamp holds out to burn ~ The vilest sinner may return.' With a "gee" and "haw" the candi nate was escorted to the Grand Tycoon, who used as a chair of state the small end of a bale of cotton. "Our would-be brother, your humnili ating entry into this room teaches you a useful lesson. A few minutes ago you came to us reeking with the odor of the politician, and arrayed in thet paraphernalia of a great man. You c were stripped of your fine apparel, which means that you must also leave behind you in your future communica-t tions with farmers your worldly dig nity, or the Alliance will strip you oft ~ your honors as easily as it did of your tailor-made garments. All men (ex cetthe nigger) are free and equal. b ~'"The odious bandage that obscured ( your vision is a necessary attachment to the farm; and while it teaches an '~~iinceman that he must not expect ay through life to be sprin- t p %P he ottar of roses, will be a of n e to you of the offensive n 1spoke of our leaders at l~le ofg your recent cam- W ad y ar~Ltor will now con- gt ain -~ inye '~ the high and it vey the caxxQo the p instructions, Fr mighty histel - se sing while the bretL ' Tstand."~ "On Jordan's ste il' .. ittingh The H. and M. his', hi s bet ;eet the handles of2 plow - Without further ado the candidatel. y an iron hook fastened in the seat of-his pants, to which a rope was attached and thrown.over a beam above. Wif. a steady pull by two) sinewy Allianoes men, the distinguished gentleman was soon dangling in the air, with hands and feet vainly clutching at the floor. "Now hold the candidate in that po sition, where be can better appreciate the beautiful lessons inculcat"d by the Alliance," remarked th'JG. and M. H. "It is needless for the practically initi -ated. brother to longer clutch at the floor. He has already had some expe rience at resigning and the wisest thing he can do is to put into practice that virtue and be resigned to the po sition we have placed him in, and not postpone this matter until he gets to Washington again." "The hook," the High Hister ex p lained, "illustrates the firm hold the Farmers' Alliance has on mankind. Your struggles in the air shows the -folly of a candidate trying to gain hm equilibrium while in the mighty grass - o our order. It also illustrates our po litical power to elevate or lower a man at will. Your futile clutches in the air is to show the folly of a candidate try ing to reach for office through politi cians. The candidate can now be re leased and carried before the Supreme Spanker for further enlightenment; and while he is making the circuit of the room the brothers will sing, 'On Green- i land's Icy Mountains,' as I notice that I the candidate is beginning to shivir in the cold air of the room." The Supreme Spanker sat upon a bale of hay. He ordered the bandage re- E moved from the candidate's eyes, re- i marking that he had perhaps pro- < gressed far enough to stand the light of I the Alliance; and, besides, he was to i go through another ordeal that required all of a man's faculties to endure. The seeker of light was then led up to a barrel, and in a twinkling stretched t over it. "Bring forth the sub-treasury plank," I commanded the Supreme Spanker, I "and convince the new brother that it e is not a rotten one, but made of good, t sound timber. Let the high Examiner 3 do his duty like a good and true Alli- s ance man, while we will all sing: "Once I was blind, but now I see." C Forty times that plank rose in the v air aiid came down with a mighty s thump, before the writhing victim was f released and carried before the Supreme t Spanker again, to have the lesson he t had just received explained. i "You have passed through one, of t the most beautiful and edifying chap- i. ters in the Alliance mode of initiation. c You have publicly asserted that we t had only one plank in our platform, g and that a rotten one._ I feel assured f that you are now prepared to correct L this statement, and ascert that our sub- C treasury plank is one of the soundest f thatyou have ever felt. We have sev- v eral other planks, as we can prove to f your entire satisfaction, if so desired. v Oh! you say you are satisfied! Well, a be careful in the future how you speak u slurringly of something you know i; riothing about. Now carry the candi- o late, brother conductor, for other use- p ful lessons, and while he is on the novo let the members sing": t 'This is the way I long have sought." fj The Great Drencher had on a table ii before him three black feathers and a 'I ,oblet half filled with what appeared f< 'o be old Bourbon. n "After his long fatiguing pilgrimage il >ur brother is doubtless in need of rest s md refreshments. Place a chair that a 2e may be seated." C This was done, but by some sleight-of- oi iand the candidate made a miss, and ti anded on the floor. p . "My unfortunate brother, you have iow learned the uncertainty of political anipaigns. Just as a wan thinks he t< ias found a nice, comfortable seat, the a Uliance s.ips it from beneath him, and tI ainfully indeed is his disappointment. a! . spoke just now of refreshments, and I iad prepared a nice mess of corn for di 'ou; but I now discover in your recent li ,xiety to explain that famous speech si -ou made before the Alliance conven- p< ion, that you have already eaten all of v: he sub-treasury crow except a few tail h: eathers. But here is a glass of Jeffer- n: onian Democracy, according to the rr lpistle of the Rtomans, that you were fe o partial to a short time since. This is te be last of the cask and please swallow w be same. Well, if you hesitate, I have om > order the grand executioner to show it ou another one of the planks in our ti latformn. Ah, you find the liquid is v: ncased in glass, so that it will not wet ir our parched lips. That, my brother, gi modern Jeffersonian Democracy. It p1 very nice to look upon, but like Dead w. ea fruit, is tasteless. This shows you mn aat to depend on other classes than de Alliance and the organized Demo- b.' racy for office and. honor is to partake sy f a phantom political lunch. . w "This, my newly-made brother ends'u 2e first degree in the Farmers' Alli- to nee. I trust the great and beautiful in -uths you have seen illustrated to-day ci -ill make a lasting impression on your fh, ind. The brethren will now join th ands, and while they marched around ista ie newv member sing: is )nce I was lost, but now I am found.' " Thus ended one of the most enter- j sining ceremonies ever performed in m ir State. j It is to be regretted that every Alli- ,f iceman in Georgia could not have s itnessed the snatching of this distin-G iished brand from the lire built around by the politicians. f ______cri -ank Leslie's Popular MIonthly for March, mi 1891. p ~~~- do Richard B. Kimball's interesting se' storical paper on "The Early Days of gr< e Republic," whih eads the March mm uber of Franik Leslie's Popular in 'y, is illd'strated with a series of thi ergraved portraits, including cul beantkz,d of Washington, fromin thisenew-et celebrated etching. com Lefi hor of that success- oun Coyn-Niefeh,atvMe and Chum-ot ful NewTSoNE t o tive article d my," contributs a deser -rolina," are on "The Lowlands.of Siith ':inta with sketches of many h~ tions of the Palmetto State. "Ameri can Ivory-carving," by Wilf. Pond, gives an elaborate illustrated account c of an ancient and exquisite art, which is as yet newv in this country. A.L.s Rawson writes personal reminiscene0 of "The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusa-a lem"; Gordon Cumming on "Wolves and Were-wolves"; Mildred Lovejoy on "The Dead-letter Office"; Edward Spring on "A Sea Voyage from New SYork to San Francisco"; David Ker on "A Cossack Giantess"; and elly Hart I Woodworth gossips about her charni- -. ing "Winter Neighbors," the birds of 'Vermont. There are also good short 'stories of Lucy Hooper. Virna Woods, 1 THlE FREE COINAGE CRAZE. -armers the Last Men in the World to Want Cheap Money-An Examination of the Probable Reults ot Reducing the Value of the American Dollar to Eighty Cents. No. I. To the Editor of The News and Cou ier: The bill which hasjust passed the nited States Senate for the free coin ge of silver, at present rates of silver >ullion, will have the effect of cutting lown the dollar as a standard or mea ure of value about one-fifth, for silver s now worth about eighty cents on the lollar. This is exactly the same in rinciple as cutting down the bushel easure one-fifth, or the yardstick ne-fifth, or the pound weight one-fifth. Ve are told that this is in the interest f the masses of the people, especially h poor laboring classes. Not to speak of the inherent dis tonesty of .uch a measure, there isjust s much sense in this pretence as to ontend that it is to the interest of hese laboring classes to get a short ard of cloth instead of a full yard, a bort bushel of corn instead of a full ,usbel, or a short pound of meat instead f a full pound. The fact is they ill be paid for their labor in these bort measure dollars while the prices >r what they have to buy wAm1 go up correspond with the depreciation oi e currency, so that these very labor g classes will be the chief sufferers by e change. No class of people stands a greater need of a fixed and stable urrency as a standard of value than be toiling masses, and none suffer so rievously from an unstable and rapidly uctuating currency, such as silver has een for years past. This is a lesson learly taught by the history of all nancial crises, and of all countries rhere such a currency exists, and our trmers and laboring classes would do ell to heed the lesson if they would void a like experience. They should ot lend a too willing ear, either to oramuses and blatherskites on the ne side, or to shrewd, self-seeking oliticians on the other. I may here mention another class at would suffer very great hardship -om this change, that is the depositors the savings banks of the country. bese we may take it for granted are r the most part persons of limited ieans, who have put their little sav igs in these banks to serve them in ckness and old age. These savings mount, according to the report of the omptroller of the Currency to $1,438, )0,000. The change would depreciate ie value of these deposits at least 20 r cent or .287,000,000. WHO WILL BE BENEFITED. And who, pray, would be the parties profit by such a change? First. we tay count the silver millionaires of ie Rocky Mountains, the Stewarts id Jones of that rottenborough, evada; Wolcott and Teller, of Colora ; Stanford, of California, and others ke them. They expect by this nmea re to get a premium or bounty of 20 er cenlt and upwards on the market lue of their silver. Their demand is just about as much reason or comn on sense in it as wvould be the de ad of our Southern cotton planters r the Government to guarantee them n cents a pound for their cotton, hen the market price is eight cents, for the Western grain growers to sist on the Government guaranteeing em 20 per cent more than the market cue of their grain. And it would be ore reasonable for the Government to 'ant such a demand of the cotton anters and grain growers, because it ould benefit a so much larger and ore deserving class of people. Next to these silver barons to profit such a change would come the eculators and gamblers in WVall street, bose chief business is to watch the. >s and downs in the money market, bull it or hear it, according to their terest, and to take advantage of every ange. Give them an unstable and ectuating currency and they are in eir glory. But with a sound and ble currency their fld of operation at least greatly curtailed. A third class to profit by this change 1 >uld bs those in control of powerful nopolies, such as Jay Gould and the nuderilts. It seems a well-established t that "The little Wizard of Wall eet," as the Herald always calls Jay >ud, made millions out of the recentI ancial stringency, himself doing his 1 share to bring it on. He foresaw the* sis approaching from afar, and by sans of his enormous railroad mono ly, was able to hoard millions of llars-0700,000 a month, it is said, for eral months. This in itself added atly to the stringency. But what is ich worse, it enabled Gould to step at the opportune moment wit se millions and extend his tle fish tenaeles over thou imy les more of our railroad s >ands of itrolof suchien as J- stein. The -railroads can h 'y Gould over erwise than o .. Ily be regarded >gers in t .4? o) our most serious hu - immediate future. They enabled to tax the entire pto On$y extent they may desire to the money niecessary to bribe -and judges, to produce finaa and to accomplish whatever ber nefarious purposes they may de re. Thus, too, our railroads, instead F being managed for the public welfare, 3 they should be, are too often m:n ged rather for public oppression. To these three classes to profit by uch a measure I might add a fourth, bat is those corrupt Congressmen who .re found to have been speculating If iver and, of course, casting their votes a old Oakes A mes, of Credit Mobilier iotoriety, would have expressed it, on hesienht iwol do (them) most "&We see, then, that this free sil coinage measure is simply one m scheme to make the .ich richer and poor poorer. It is itself one of the mi gigantic monopolies in the country.i is entirely in the interest of monopc What possible interest our farmers a laboring classes can have in sue corrupt and corrupting scheme i impossible to conceive. ANALOGY OF SJLVER AND THE TARE The only way I can explain th advocacy of it is their utter inco prehension of what will almost certa ly be its effect. They are deceived it, like the laborers in our factories w as to what would be the effect of p tection. These were taught to beli( that protection would enable then get higher wages, whereas, it has si ply given bigger profits to their e ployers, while increasing to them t cost of all the necessaries of life. Tli find when it is too late, that instead being protection in any proper sense the term, a high tariff' is simply ta: tion of the masses in the interest certain classes. So, our farmers a laborers will find, should the silver t unfortunately become a law, that it only a plan to tax the country-t masses-in order to pay these sih barons a bounty of 20 per cent on t market value of their product. Add this the revolution it must necessar create in our currency and in all co mercial transactions, and we can fo some faint idea of the injustice, wro and danger of such a measure. C farmers are as a rule a conservative a honest class of people, and if they cot be brought to see the inju-tice, d honesty and danger of this silver t they would be the very last class our people to advocate it. But wl shall we think of able party leade who, while knowing full well its i justice and dishonesty, and its dang to the best interests of the counti will still support it, because they thii it to be the winning card? Can su men be regarded as patriots in ai true sense of the term? Are they i rather simply time-serving, selfi politicians, incapable of any higiL onception of patriotism and true stat manship? Our farmers and laboring clas have unquestionably much ground I omplaint, and there is no wond they are organized to redress th grievances. ROBBED OF BILLIONS BY THE TARI And it is eminently right and prop that they should do so. They have bei Kimuch imposed upo because of th4 want of organization. Ever since t! war the very life-blood has been tax, >ut of them to the extent of hundre >f millions annually in the interest a comparatively few favored monoi: ies. This system had its origin duri Lhe war as a war nreasure and ought dave been abandoned at its close. B mufortunately the monopolies had i ready grown too powerful, and ha een able to control legislation ev ne. The amount annually paid in ur overflowing government treasu: un account of our high tariff, wrong ;his is, has been but a small proporti< )f the actual cost of the tariff to tl e"ple. A very much larger amnoul ns gone into the coffers of these favc d monopolies. It is not possible now with any degree of exactne erhaps how much the tariff costs ti eople at large in this respect. But ,areful estimate made by a promine. riff reform Republican Congressm: few years ago was that the "increas4 osts of home products by reason of tI ati" amounted in a single year-18; -to $56,938,637. Supposing this to be a fair average p nnum since the war-twenty-fil ears-we would have the almost i ~onceivable sum of well on to $14,000 00, as the amount paid by the peop t large during this period into the cc rs, not of the Government, but of tI avored monopolies. If we add to th he revenue of the Government froi he tariff of say $:..00,000,000 annuall; ye get somewhat approximately tl ,nnual tax on our people by means he tariff'alone, that is over $750,000,0( nnally. Note, too, that much le: han one-third of this goes into ti overn ment treasury, and the remaii Ler to the favored few. No wvonder tI ich grow richer, and the poor poore o wonder our farmers have the ands mortgaged, and our laborir lasses find it more and more difficu o live on their incomes. No wonder ur elections in many e ome synonyms ..u andl corru ion, and that an of our legisl >rs havea,epurchasable. BHYWt NOT THE FARMERS sE Buehe wonder is that our farmer fligent as they are, should not pe eive the prime cause of their grie un,ad wage a war of estermlinati( igist it, instead of being mislead L iornt 'or designing parties to was itter watrfaAe against honest mone, d aainst institutions, like our n inlbanks, that have had nothir hhatever to do with producing th~ rievance. If our farmers would su eed in permauently improving t.h onditionI they must give up the id f revolutioizing our monetary syste ud1( of substituting in its sted a d nd and i-luctuating currency. ) aation or people has ever yet been pro urous with such a currency, and aybe safely said none ever will b If e are so in love with silver that v mst have free coinage, let us at lea have the common honesty to put a fu dollar's worth of silver in a dollar, we do of gol'd, so ther will be no fau n hei wansc o ar against the actu assof their grievances thetr causes la islaion, the "spol monspomlan other actual, not imnagi sytevils in such a warfare they wou hve teconfidence and support of t] goova tue of both political parti gofdh cndtre Their organiizati< wouldthenountryoked upon asan agent wood, ahnd beo't of evil, of improv - et and not of dange. C- I 67er CLEVELAND IS OUT OF THE RACE. r He Will Not Allow His Name to Go Before :he the Democratic National Convention of ost 1892--Hs Decision Irrevocable. lid [Special to The State.] nd WASINGTON, February 19.-The a Post in the morning, speculating on the is next Democratic candidate for the Presidency, will say: Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate for renomination for eir the Presidency, and will not allow his m- name to be presented to the Democratic in- National Convention of 1892. The Post in makes this statement on high author ,re ity, and its truthfulness will, in due r(,- time, be well established. His decision ve in the matter was made known to close to political friends some days ago, and the m- formal announcement of his intentions m- wili reach the country over his own he name in proper season. ey Although the use of Mr. Cleveland's of name in connection with the next of Presidential nomination has been gene :.. ral, and may have predicted that he of would be the unaninious choice of his nd party, he had, until less than thirty ill days ago, maintained a silence on the is subject, believing that the exigencies he of the political situation were such as rer not to call for an expression from him. lie When he made known to his intimate to friends in New York his determination [y in the matter, they used every argu a ment to induce him to change his -m mind, but found his decision irrevoca ng ble. His determination was fixed and ur unalterable, and while he assured his ad friends that he felt as keen an interest Id in the success of the Democratic party is- as ever before, and would respond to ill any reasonable call upon him in the of future, he emphasized the fact that it at must be as a private in the ranks, and rs, not as a candidate. n- So resolute was Mr. Cleveland in this ,er interview with his friends that they -y, abandoned all hope of inducing him to k again become a candidate, and have ch since had conference with prominent 2y party men with a view to uniting upon ot some other Democrat in 1892. Whether sh that man will be Hill, or Gorman, or er Abbot, or Whitney, or whether it will es- be a Democrat from a Western State, is, of course, problematic. es - br How Suicides are Made. er !ir [Hospital.] It is commonly believed that the '. tendency to suicide, like the tendency er to maddess, runs in families, and that is no doubt true. But the strongest ir minded and clearest-headed man in :e the world has the possibility of suicide d in him. On the other hand, the dis ds position to madness and suicide, which of is so decided a characteristic of some o- families, is, in many cases, easily to be g kept at bay by resolution and intelli to gence on the part of particular indi ut viduals. So that, in most cases, if the il- story of a suicide be read from the e very beginning, the full responsibility er must be placed upon the victim him to self. In our own time the pressure of ry highly civilized environment urges a men in the ,direction of brain wearn m n ess and so of disgust with life. But it ie is to be borne in mind that no man is at compelled to enter into the keenest er- competitions of his age. The brain is to fairly mature before the age of twenty s five ; and before that age few educated. le men are married, and fewer still are1 a irrevocably committed to a particular t calling or way of life. A young man n of average intelligence is then quite d able to judge his own intellectual forcei e and staying power, anmd he is also able 4 to take into consideration the history of his family and his own inheritedi r tendencies. It is incumbent upon him< re at that stage to take stock of his mental 1- and physical resources exactly as he ,- takes stock of his capital. If his availa le money amount to no more than one or< f- two thousand pounds, he would con e sider himself a madman were he to is embark in a business requiring a cap n ital of half a million. But is he not , just as much a madman if, with a ie mind of merely average powers, he en >f ters upon a line of life requiring an in 0 tellect of the strongest and clearest e order and mental endurance of the most persistent kind ? A young man] eacting thus invites brain worry, in - vites chronic dyspe'psia, invites sleep e lessness; throws the door wide open, .for the entrance of all the physiological 'foes that destroy health and drive san ir ity out of the home.1 t Cease Flr'ng!....--~ ~- ~LFromtheChcago Globe.] This country has had no wvar for a quarter of a century, anmd yet The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $310 a minute. The people of the Uanited States pay a war pension ta-, 7$18,501 an hour. -The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $446,420 a (day. The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $3,12->,000 a wcek. The people of the United States pay a war p)ension tax of $12,500,000 a r month. iThe people of the United States pay a a war pension tax of $150O,000),000 a year. 1Cease firing! Let quality, not quantity, be the test :of a medicine. .Ayer's Sarsaparilla is .the concentrated extract of the best and purest ingredients. Medical men every-I where recommend it as tIhe surest and Imost economOiical blood medicine in the I is market. n If you suiTer from any afTection il caused by imlpure blood, .such as scrof 1, ula, salt rheum, sores, boils, pimples, t Is tetter, ringworml, tak~e Dr. J. H. Mc a- Lean's Sarsaparilla. e You cannot acompls any work.or nbusiness unesyou fei well. If you n fel ued u--tredout-akeDr.J. Hi. McLean's Sarsaparilla. It will give you e- halth. strength and vitality. THE PENITENTIARY SHORTAGE. It. E. Hi Completes the Examination of Bateman's Books-His Report-The Matter to be Submitted to the Penitentiary Board. [Special to Charleston World.] COLUMBIA, February 19.-Mr. R. E. Hill of Abbeville, who was appointed by the board of directors of the peni tentiary to examine the books of book keeper Bateman and ascertain the mis takes that caused the shortage of some $1,504, has submitted his report to Gov. Tillman, as follows: CAMNEN, S. C., February IS.-To His Excellency, B. B. Tillman, Gov ernor of South Carolina: Sir-Having been appointed by your excellency to inve,tigate the books and accounls of the state penitentiary, and having performed that work to the best of my ability, I beg to make the following report: I began the work of the investiga tion thinking that it would not be a very difficult undertaking, being undEr the impression that the chief work l.id consist in an examination of the cash account of the bookkeeper; but I found upon examination that this ac count had not been kept up-at least the credit side of it-and that there had been no balance struck since the beginning of 185. I had, therefore, to take the several annual reports of receipts and expend itures and verify them, which requirel an immense amount of labor and the utmost care and scrutiny, having to go over and examine almost every entry made in the books within the last twelve years. Is the result of the examination, I find that Mr. Bateman, the bookkeeper and treasurer, omitted to charge him self with Amount received from A. C. Dibert for hire of convicts for 1886, $4,388.07. As against this, I find that he is en titled to the following credits: By paid Central National Bank............5(0 0 Paid interest to "1 .. 9 50 Paid Sherifr Rowan costs in Chap pell suit.......................... 10 75 Paid Recording contracts............... 6 0 Paid interest on note for iertiliz ers.................. ...................... 12 00 Paid Colunbia Retining conpany 10 20 Paid Freight on brick to ElkIn .... 00 Paid D. Jones' acLts. 1867 and 14.S omitted.................. -9 98 Paid W. J. Ta!bert (included in ani't turned over)............... 1,563 87 Paid Dirlerence in errors discover ed (pro and con)................. 5 92 Balance to be accoun ted for, $9.30.80 From the foregoing statement it would seem that he still owes the sum of $930.80. This, however, he coutends is not the case, as he claims tc have paid Messrs. Lorick & Lowrance *36.72, for which, in the above statement, I have not given him credit. As to this, I would say that it ap pears from the account of Messrs. Lorick & Lowrance, as the same stands )n the books of the penitentiary, that said firm has been paid the sum of 5936.72 .n excess of the amount of zoods furnished the penitentiary, either is appears from their bills con file, or from the entries made in the books of Lhan institution. Mr. Bateman insists that while he bas failed to enter the bills for this imount, and while he is unable to pro iluce them, he is.satisfied that the goods were furnished; that the State has re ~eived the benefit of them, and that ~herefore he is entitled to a credit for ~hat amount. This may all be true, and I am satis ied that Mr. Bateman verily believes uch to be the case; but, so far as the ooks and accounts go, there is nothing ~o show it. In conclusion, I am pleased to be able o say that while I found a good many ~rrors and omissions in the entries in he books, the same, in my opinion, vas rather the result of that careless less which generally comes of a long ~ontinuance in the same position, than rom any disposition or intent:on to do vrong, as I believe that Mr. Bateman ias been actuated by the purest mo ives and utmost integrity of purpose. Respectfully submitted, R. E. hILt. WHAT THE GOvFRNOR THXNKS. The Governor was seen by the World Budget representative, aud, in speak ng of the report, he said: "When the eport was handed to nmy yestrday, I Lsked Mr. Hill to go to Lorick & Low ance and ask permission to examine heir books, or get from them a state iient that would straighten out the rouble; and they declined to give it at his time, stating they were afraid it vould be impossible to get from their ooks the desired information; but as ooni as the present rush of business was over they would endeavor to get ip the statement." THIS ENDS IT. Mr. Hill left for his home in Abbe -ille~ to-day. The Governor states that iothing further will be (lone in the natter at present. The report will be ubamitted to the board at its next nleeting. The Two sides to the Alliance. [Anderson People's Advocate] The truth is the Alliance has a bu si mess and a p)olitical side to it for the inmple reason that the evils of which it omnplains had their origin in unjust .nd inequitabie business methods and: n ring politics. It is in no sense a po itical and in a very much iess sense a >artisan organization), but to correct he evil complained of it is compelled romf the very nature of the case to en er into business in some shape and in onme form to give a color to politics, avorable to its just demands, not as a! lass in a hostile array against all other lasses, but as a class, who when pros erous wiil necessarily make all others o,or in other words for the general MARRIED WOMEN CAN DO BUSINESS. DeciAion of Judge Simouton in the Dick son Case, from Greenville. [Greenville News.] Judge Simonton has filLd his decision in the case argued in the United States circuit court here on Tuesday, the ques tion being whethe.r a rarried woman has the right in this StaLe to engage in trade. The case was that of Keuster & Co. against E. B. and M. R. Dickson, and the piaintiffs attempted to show that a married woman has no right to engage in trade, and that a receivtr should be appointed for the business of the Dickson Shoe and Hat Company, of this city; that after the payment of creditors the balance should go to the judgment which Keuster & Co. had obtained several years ago against E. B. and M. R. Dickson, who did business in Augusta. Judge Simonton dismisses the rule to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed and says: "Can a married woman in South Carolina engage in trade? The q1iestion has never been made in this State. The learned and able, as well as exhaustive, arguments of counsel deserves careful consideration. Until the adoption of the constitution of 1868 the relations of husband and wife were governed in I this State by the common law. Articie 14, Section S, of the constitution de clares: "The real and personal property of a married woman held at the time of her marriage, or that which she may hereafter acq uire, either by gift, grant, I etc., shall not be subject to levy and sale for her husband's deots, but shall t be held as her separate property and I may be bequeathed, devised or alien ated by her the same as if she were unmarried: Provided, that no gift or grant from the husband to the wife shall be detrimental to the just claims of his creditors.' "In 1887 the legislature of SouthCaro- t lina dech& red that all.the earnings and I income of a married woman shall be ' the own separate estate and shall be t governed by the same provisions of law F as apply to her separate estate. "In 87) the legislature gave to mar ried women unlimited power to con- c tract, but in 1882 this was amended so as to read: 'A married woman shall 1 have the right to purchase any species s of property in her own name and to take proper legal conveyances therefor and to contract and be contracted with as to her separate property; provided, that the husband shall not be liable for the debts of the wife co.tracted prior to or after their marriage except U for their necessary support." Judge Simonton says that if a mar ried woman has power to buy she has r power to sell, and she can buy and sell in such quantity as she chooses. She cannot directly or indirectly make her self or her separate estate liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of her husband or auy one else. She may p constitute her husband or any one else her agent in the transaction of busi- c ess. Decisions are quoted from in which , married woman is given the right to buy, sell, mortgage and bind herself e legally, and her contracts can be en- b Eorced against her. If she does not de sire to engage directly in trade she can ct through an agent, and in this case E. B. Dickson is the agent of his wife.4 A married woman, however, can not t ecome a member of a firm. s Royalty on Phosphates to be Increased. k [Record, 18th.) The Phosphante Commission met to ay with all the members piesent ex ~ept Mr. Walter, who was detained by ickness.e The commission dlecided to consider he rules and regulations for the gov rnment of mining at a meeting next Ionday evening, and the Attorney- v 3eneral was requested to prepare a cir ular letter for the companies, calling ~ ~heir attention to the provisions of law overninug these matters. ' The board also decided to open Coo ~aw river to general rights to minet ~herein on and after March 1, 1891, and tmeeting will be held next Tucsday t norning to formulate rules governing he same, at wvhich time persons desir ng licenses will be heard.e The commission gave notice that at he end of six months from this date he royality on phosphate will be in reased above $1 per ton. The Jaflra and Jerusalem Railroad. O tortuous. double iron track; a station here, I a station there;A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with c stifrreelining chair; ~ome postal cars, and baggage, too; a vesti- 3 bute of patent make; !th butters. duirers, switches, and the d sough ing automatic brake; h is is t he 'Jrient's novel pride, and syria's gandiest modern gem; I rail road scheme that is to ply 'twixt .J lra and' .Jerusalem!i eware. O sacred muley cow !tne engine when you hear its bell!i eware. (1 camel,when resounids the whistie's shril!. unoyawl nd, nat ive of that gu ileless land, unused to modern tr:. rel's snare, eware the tiend that peddles books, the aw ful peanut boy beware! St lse, trustil g in their specious arts, you may have reason to condemn the trailic which the knavish ply 'twixt JTa lira and Jerusalem! adr' when. ahl when t he bonds fall due. how pasgng wroth will wax the StaLte, t prom Neb.is mount to Nazareth will spread the cry "Rcpudiate~ 'romi Hebron to Tiberias, from .Jordanl's banks unto the sea. \ill rise profane anathema~s against "that dlamn,ed monopoly."1c ~nd F. M. B. A. shepherd fol:;, with sockless d Jerry leading them,A vtii swamp that corporation line 'twixt ~ Jaira. and Jerusalem! ~C'xicago Daily News. !si 4,t CONVICTS IN PENITENTIARIES. [he Native White Population Furnishes Less than One-third. WASHI VGTON, February 16.-Super ntendent Porter of the Census Pureau :o-day issued a bulletin upon the sub ect of convicts in penitentiaries. Ig ihows the number of convicts in State risons and penitentiaries in the nited States on June 1, 1890, to have 5,233. The number reported in 1880, vas 30,659, an increase in ten years of ,695, or 27.28 per cent. The increl sa n the total populatlon was 24.86 per ,ent. It thus appears that the peni-' entiary population is growing some vhat more rapidly than the population t large, but the difference is not very ppreciable. The number of leased )risoneis in the South has almost [oubled in ten years. In respect to olor, the bulletin shows 30,546 white ud 14,687 colored; of the latter, 14,267 vere negroes. 237 Chinese, 3 Japanese, ,nd 180 Indians. In respect of nativity not including he colored convietp. who may ali be upposed to be natives except the Chi iese and Japanese, of the 30,548 white onvicts, 23,094 are native born 7,287 oreign born, and the place of birth 85 is unknown; 12,842 had both pa ents native ; 1,747 had one parent na ive and one parent foreign born ,584 '.ad both parents foreign born .nd in 1,921 cases the birthplace of one., f both narents is unknown. If to the" 2,842 native convicts born of native-: arenas is added one-half of the numn er with one parent foreign born, the be sum is 13,7i5.6. If to the 6,584 ative convicts born of foreign parents 5 added an equal amount the sum is ,457.5. But to this latter figure must Iso be added 7,267 foreign-born con -icts, which gives a result 14,724.5. n other words, of 43,127 penitentiary onvicts whose birth-place and paren age are known, the foreign-born ele. ient of the population furnished 14, 25, the colored population 14,687, and be native white population, which robably out numbers them both, only 3,715. In respect of sex, 43,442 penitentiary Dnvicts are men and 1,791 are women. 'he percentage of women is somewhat ss than it was ten years ago. It then lightly exceeded 4.5 per cent. of the Aal number, but now it falis a trifle.. elow 4 per cent. Mhere the Watch Face 'Got Its Four Is. -Yrom the St. Louis Republie;Y;' Do. you know why four "I's" are sed to mark the hours on clocks and ratches instead of the usual combina.. on of Roman numerals, which, if ghtly arranged, would be IV, instead f IIII? There is a tradition among -atch and clock ;aakers to the effect mat prior to the year 1370 all el ad watches were made with IV ,the roper characters to mark tie hour of - >ur. In the above-named year aclock 'as made on an elaborate plan for harles V of France, surnamed The< wise, who had the reputation of being at only a crank, but of being the great it faultfinder in the world. The clock 'as a beauty and a fine timekeeper, at Charles had to find fault in order >keep up his reputation. 'He exam ied it critically and finally broke out~" ia storm of rage because the hour ofA had been marked "IV" insisting i ist four IIII's should be put on in .cad. This was done, and, in order to erpetuate a king's mnistake~, has been ept up through all succeeding years. The Right WVayto Succeed. [From the Darlington. Herald.] Mr. C. S. Nettles, the energetic gen ral manager of the Champion Car. ing Factory, has made arr.angements >plant one hundred acres in vege Lbles for the use of the factory. 'he mere working and gatherin f such quantities of vegetables willi :st a good deal of money, and, esides this, about forty hands will e employed in the factory during die canning season. A great 'many aousand dollars are sent North every ear to pay for canned goods, and if ae business is done in our midst there ijust that much more money to cir ulate at home. Mr. G. W. Lucas, an sperienced farmer, will manage the trm for Mr. Nettles. The Death of Lancaster's Bigg~est Man. [From the Lancaster Ledger.) Mr. Barnes Plyler died on Tuesday last week after a short illness of grip. [e was the oldest son of the Rev. C. .Plyler, and leaves a wife and se-en iildren. Mr. Plyler was about 42 ears of age, and was the largest mi n Sthe conunty. A few days prior to hi. lath he visited Monroe, N. C.,:nd bile there was weighed. He tipgd te beam at 440 pounds. Not Too Late Yet. [F"romz the Post-Express.1 It is said that Jerry Simpson, when boy, had the ambition to become a rate when he grew to manhood. las ! how far short of our ideals do we rike. The Gay Season in Florida. [Jacksonville Timies-Union.] A chewing gum party is to be given le last of this week by a prominent ciety belle. Quite an activ'e time is :pected. The great majority of so-called con ires do little more than impair gestive functions and create b yer's Cherry Pectoral, on the cont bile it cures the cough, does not . rfere with the functions of elh omach or liver. -.