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-_TABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JU 30, 1891. 1 ARAMBLE AMONG SURNAMES. Annual Address Delivered by Rev. J. Wal ter Daniel Before the Alumni Asso elation of Newberry College, June 16, 1891. 2. "There is no excellency without labor," and indeed, it appears that there would have been few surnames without it. Like the aoves of which Israel's sweetest singer speaks of hover ing among the pots upon the flat house tops of the Jews, there seeking a rest ing place for the night, but soaring away in the early dawn with their wings "covered with silver" and their "feathers with yellow gold," untar nished by the sooty cooking utensils, so the Cooks and Cooksons made them selves a name in the crude kitchens of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. We have alsoBrewersand Brewsters, showing that the brewer's art was also in the hands of women. Over the pro ducts of their art many a brave knight uttered the common Saxon toast waes hael (be well) to his drinking compan ion, and drank to the king, queen, or his lady love. But many of the descen dants of the Brewers and Brewsters are to-day heart and hand against the traffic of their progenitors. Macaulay speaks of the gay appear ance of London in, the olden times, caused by the painted signs of the store andshop-keepers. All sorts of animals, frightful dragons and monsters were painted to attract the -attention of the passer-by and invite his custom. The shop-keepers of feudal times were am bitious to excel each other, as they are to-day, in the novelty of their signs; and this, together with the ignorance of the times, gave rise to many amus ing scenes. "The story is told of a cer tain shoe-maker, who hearing or seeing the Latin expression-Mens conscia recti, though knowing nothing of its meaning, thought it would be an addi tional attraction to his sign, and had it inscribed beneath his pictorial shoe. A rival son of Crispin, not to be outdone . in business enterprise, at once offered an amendment, and placed upon his sign the words Men's and women's con acia recti. These signs gave rise to per sonal names, thus John doing a smith's business at the "Arm and Hammer" might after awhile become known as John Hammersmith. Or an other John-a rival blacksmith-zeal ous to portray the muscular capacity of his arm, had the sign painter to deal somewhat in pictorial hyperbole, and may have thus secured for himself the title John Armstrong. In this manner, many of the names of the animals of the forest were fastened- as surname upon men. A number of rival butchers doing busi ness in the same town or city took their names from the painted images of certain animals over their places of business-thus we have from the mam mals Buck, Bulock, Lamb, Roe and many others. The Fishers made their name with hook and line, but the com peting fishmongers took their names doubtless from the pictorial representa tion of their craft painted in gaudy colors over their fish stalls, hence we have Bodfish, Bass, Pike, Roach and Fish. The birds of the forest wvere not Ignored in the day of surname-making for we have the names-Wren, Dove, Sparrow, Swann, Nightingale, Finch, Bullfinch, Jay; Hawkes, Crane; Dlrake, Partridge, Wookcock, Henshaw, which Is properly speaking He'rnshaw, an other name for heron: and this brings to mind the'saying-"He doesn't know a hs.wk from a hand-saw," wherein the last word is a corruption of hern shaw. By substituting this word the drift of the proverb is apparent, in timating that one does not know the difference between the hawk, or falcon, or the heron or hernshaw wbich the hawk pursuer. The major pai of these names, per haps, came fron.- the painted signs of hucksters, though some of them may e originated from trivial character and incidents. Carlyle informs t Harald, the first Christian king y, as early as A. ID. 561, "got e of Greyfell frozn his people trivial account, but seeming t good-humour on their i56 mont d traders had brought Trondhjemr (Lade) ,1891. .slacker than the -~ - schosen rehe passions gust w. -hatever e he would fall in it with wit her hands cov~ b1dly geyes,.and moving helynenti ~ s dto side, as she crrai aken t hnguage Am.: the suru.>tbj himself." The surname of the first com~ ts of the mimerous jarls of Noi 'ed' t itarald, Fairhair, and that of the ra thor of the Norman conquest of En gland, Rolf the Ganger (Walker) came from incidents equally as trivial as that which gave Harald Greyfell his appellation. Rolf Ganger was so weighty a man no horse could carry him, says Carlyle, and he walked, "having a mighty stride withal, and great velocity on foot,"kuence his name. Rarald aspired to marry the beautiful Gyda-the proud beauty ansv-ered him __"Her it would not beseem to wed any jarl or poor creature of that kind, let him do as Gorm of Denmark, Eric of Sweden, and Egbert of England subdue into peace and regulation the cornfused, contentious bits of jarls around him, and become a king; then perhaps, she might think of his pro posal; till then, not." The proud an swer pleased the young suitor, and "he vowed to let his hair grow, never to out or even to comb it till this feat were done, and the peerless Gyda his own." It took him twelve years to ac .ompnish the work, but it was done and he won a wife and a surname. There fore, it is clearly seen that our progeni tors were quick to percieve and apply any peculiar trait, sign or acquirement. The people of South Carolina are in debted for some of their most euphoni ous names of streams and places, not to the symbolic representations of crafts and trades, but to the superb expres sion, as read even by savages in her flora and fauna of the inherent quali ties of her soil and climate. Anglo American progress has almost com pletely effaced all traces of the aborigi nal art and life of the red man; but as long as her rivers murmur a sympho nius requiem to the:ashes of the quietly sleeping and almost prehistoric past, so long will they also continue to proclaim in accents as soft as the murmur of their waters, and as enduring as their granite falls the poor Indians's appre ciation of Nature's unstinted bounty. While the buffalo and stately stag. the skulking black bear and prowling wolf, the acreaming panther and timid beaver made the virgin forests of South Carolina hideous with their screams, as well as a happy hunting ground for the red man, that which particularly E.ttracted his attention was the bountiful prevalence of the cun ning little grey fox,hence he christened the old Palmetto State, Chicola-or the place of foxes. As he climbed the high hills, and rambled through the beauti ful valleys of the Keowee, and feasted upon 'he wild berries indigenous to that section of the land of foxes, he named the clear, waters that sparkled like a molten stream of pure silver around the hills and through the vales, "The river of mulberries." As he sought his game on the undulatory prarries of the Catawba,and marked its muddy waters, he called it Eswa Tavora-muddy river. Or as he climbed the hills adjacent to the Enoree and from their sublime heights beheld the vine-covered valleys of that tortuous stream he called it, as the name implies "The river of muskadines," or as he wandered through the cane-brakes of what is now Abbeville County, and came to refresh himself under the shade of the tall oaks that grew in the alluvial bot toms of the Coronaca, he named the stream Quoo-ran-he-au-"the place of very big white oaks," or as he planted his corn within the rich botton lands f the SaLida and harvested a large yield he christened the stream "corn river"; or as he followed the Santee in its meandering course through the iwampsbe called it"The snake's trail." A nd when he would forever chronicle the bloody battle fought between the Catawbas-a wandering and warlike Danadian tribe that dared to invade hicola-and the Cherokees on the banks of Broad River, he named that stream Es-waw-pud-de-nah-or line river, ever after the decisive battle the line between the two tribes-a name that should have been left inviolaAe by the white men, if for no other reason because of its inherent deauty. But pardon me for this digression. The place of habitation frequently afforded names by which the people were distirguished. Ford and ton are frequentiy met with as elements of which English surnames are com pounded-as Norton (Northtown), Sut ton (Joutb town), Weston (Westown), Bston and Easton (Eastown). Dray ton, literally waggon town. Beresford, explains its derivation when we re emnber that the spelling of the first syllable is preaisely the way that the Anglo-Saxons spelled bear, the wild aimal. These two last names are in dissolubly connected with the history of education in South Carolina. Gov rnor Drayton may be justly regarded as the founder of the South Carolina College, and Richard Beresford left at bis death in 1722 the sum of six thous and and five hundred pounds for the maintenance and education of the poor hildren in the Parish of St. Thomas ard St. Denis near Charleston. Jour alism in South Carolina was first in troduced by a man whose forefathers received their surname by living in elose proximity to some bog or swamp, the peculiarity of which was its white mud, or soil. Thomas Whitmarsh issued "The South Carolina Gazette" :m Saturday, .lanuary the 8th, 1731. His successors, though not swamp bred, have done much for the State and for humanity, in dissipating the moral miasmas of the swamp-State. Long live every true knight of the quill. Croft in the Saxon tongue meant a wood. It is also frequently used also as an element in other surnames. Therefore those names compounded of that term give us, at least, the place of' the habitation of their ancestors. The ld English name Ravenscroft was lrst given to some man who lived near i forest noted, as a haunt of that mis O n and noisy bird. Ban meant proclam. .t i of Sanskrit origin, Lud is closely afi' to bane destruction; 3ence we have eve1 from other tongues 'andit, abandon, &ec)itherefore meant i proclamation of outlawry. A wood nfested with outlaws would very naturally be spoken of as Bancroft and George or Henry who lived near that wood was so called. Lea, Legqh or eigh se,Xued a partially wooded field -a pasture-and this word served as an ending of mkny surnames, such as Horseley, Cowley, Ashley, Oakley, Berkley or Birchley and Tindley. WVes ley and Westfield are almost the same name. flay or flaw means a hedge; therefore, we have t,he name Haynes, Haley, Hawler or Hedgefield; Harley, Hay wood, Hagood, Hawes, Haw worth, Haw thorn and Haughton or Houghton. I have no apology to offer for leading you into the swamps, along the hedges, through the towns and cities, over the fields and through the woods and pas tures, but if these rambles make you tired, let us refersh ourselves by taking shelter under the thratched roof of our ancestors wher- we may look upon the flaxen-haired urchins of our old Saxon progenitors. If our resting place be under the humble roof of John we can certainly find no difficulty in account ing for the~existence of theJohnsons: if we stop with William we may account for many surnames, and an English wri'er has framed a list of thirty from th. single appellative, as Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Fitz Williams, etc. The Johnsons and Jacksons have one common origsn, they are all sons of John. The Richardsons and Dick sons are limbs from the same genealogi cal trunk. The Jameson, Clarksons, and Thompsons, or Thomasons all bear the name of their progenitors. The Norman prefix Fity (from filius a son) is frequently met with, The Russians offix wity and the Polanders sky to signify the same thing. The Welch prefix ap which signifies son. It is said of a Welshman, who was very zealous that no one should surpass him in the length of his pedigree, when making out his genea' -ical tree, wrote near the middle of his long array of aps-"about this time Adam was born." Frequently the a in ap was dropped and thus John ap Richard became John Prichard-ap Howel, Powel-ap Rice, Price and so on. We are all familiar with the Macs and O's. The Irish and Highland Scotch prefix Mac to indicate sonship, while the Irish use 0 to signifying a grandson. Some ludicrous things occur some times in bestowing Christian names, when some little Jenkins or Jones is handicapped for life with some such historic cognomen as Julius Cresar, or George Washington. I knew one little Smith, not above five years old, bear ing the ponderous appellation Napoleon Bonaparte. But things still more amusing occur in surnames, when, for instance some sweet little maid bears the name Minnie Clarkson, or Nellie O'Brian, or Julia McElhany, which in piain English means "Minnie the son of Clark," or "Nelly the grandson of Brian," or Julia the son of Elhany." The Mac's and O's when bestowed as component elements in Christian names give rise to very amusing con tradictions-"John Belton O'Neall Smith" means that John Belton is the grandson of Neal Smith, which ma: be anything else but true, for the grandfather in all probabilty was really the ubiquitous John Smith. But an unrelenting fate has fixed these names upon us and we claim them with all of their contradictions. But it does seem a little strange that the daughters of the Rices, Richards, Thomas, Brians and Neals did not re ceive any such lasting cognomenic dis tinction. But, perhaps, names were not plentiful, and evidently they were not, for our progenitors utilized every eath, Wood, Glen, Meadow-pasture arsh, hedge, and Christian name in aking surnames, therefore they must ave thought that it would be but a waste of time and name material to onfer such appellations on the sex ever ready to change them when a proper pportunity presented itself. Towns and streams, hills and wells, nd the trees of the forest were also a 'uitful source from which family ames were culled. While Richard who lived at or near the wood, natural ly inherited the title Richard Atwood, John from Cornwall became John ornwall or Cornish. While William who lived on a hill, under a hill. or near a hill, well won for himself the surname William Hill, or Underhill or Atwell. Thomas who lived near a small stream (Anglo-Saxon a becket) was Thomas at the becket, and thus was named the martyr Thomas a Becket. John who lived near a clump of oaks was John atten oaks,abbreviated into Noaks. William who had pitched is tent or cabin near a notable ash tree was known as Willian atten ash, hich easily drifted into Nash. Surnames were also derived from re ligious offices which men held as Priest, Abbot, Prior, Dean, Parson, Sexton nd Clark: and from civil offices as King, Queen, Knight, Squire, Squires or Squiers; Earl, Baron, Lord, Cham berlain, Marshal and Page. But, to conclude this ramble, may we not aspire to become leaders in our several vocations. The Duke (from dux-a leader) were leaders, and it is a duty we owe to ourselves, to yonder temple of learning, our country and to God not only to become stewards of the talents that God has given us, but to aspire to be dukes among men. Bam in the Saxon tongue meant home. Cun ningham therefore means "the home of the knowing man." The knowing man was truly the leader of the men of his community, the name signifies pri mirily the home of the king. God "hath made no kings and priests." The great Carlyle derives the term king from konning-kanning, the man who knows or cans. Kings among the original Scandinavian tribes were the strongest and most potent men physi cally and mentally. Their attain ments fitted them for the posi tion of leaders and governors. The darkest ages of the world have 'recognized true worth, and have honored and rewarded the acquirements and accomplishments of their sons. The man who knows or cans has ever been the true king of his commu nity. There is something superbly grand in that measure of honest and sincere mental culture, which enables a man to rise superior to his environ ments, and to overcome the opposing circumstances of his life. Assiduous attention and research, under the great laws of stewardship,or sincere thought, will raise any man of moderate ability give him a name among men, an< c:l:,te him with royal robes. When once the honest and sincer, student begins to pull at the latcl strings of hidden truth, and to ride it the garnished chariots of thought t< the uttermost ends of the earth, and t< walk with uncovered head amid thi supernal glories of God's magnificen handiwork, and to link to the pantin engine of sanctified ambition by the iror couples of consecrated will,the richly la den coaches of the best thought of anti. quity, viewing them under the foot, side and headlights of history, then the kingdoms of darkness will tremble under the thunders of his progress, and the devotees of ignorance and inertness will be ponderous weight of his ever revolving chariot wheels, and .he will reign as a king in the realm of thought. Let us eagerly then press toward the throne designed for all true men, for greater names are yet to be made than have been made. Did I say eagerly? What volumes of force and energy are pent op in that term? There is a kind of back water or eddying swirl that frequently occurs in the waters of the river Trent, very dan gerous to bargemen. At Nottingham, when these destructive swirls begin to trouble the waters one may hear the bagemen cry out-"Have a care, there is the eager coming!" "Curious," says Carlyle, "that word surviving like the peak of a submerged world!" In an cient Norse mythology Aegir was a sea god. These Nottingham bargeman are the descendants of the Northmen, hence their ancestors believed in Aegir, theretore the survival of the term as applied to the angry boiling waters. Aegir spoke to the hardy Norsemen through the troubled, stormlashed bil lows of the restless North seas. These old Danes and Norwegians listened to his angry howls, felt his spray-bur dened breath, looked upon the foam and froth spit from his devouring mouth, read his ambition and uncon trolable spirit in the waves that thun dered against their rock-bound coast and leaped heavenward when their course was thus impeded: and they saw bis resistless power in the merci less way in which he toyed with their boats-grasping them in their frothy lips they creaked and groaned, raising them skywark on tongue's end, they tottered and trembled, spitting them, insphered in a volume of frothy spray, against the jutting rocks they were crushed, or opening his cavern-like mouth, he swallowed them without mastication! Aegir! Who can compute is power, or stay his stormy tread! Victory is written on every fold of his ensign, and the earth trembles when e walks! Eagerly then let us press toward the throne of power, eagerly search for the pure gold of thought, eagerly urge forward the steeds of pro ;ress, and garnish daily the royal char riot of wisdom! Let us ride with kings md wala with princes., Talk with the hiosophers of the past, and sit at the eet of Him who "spake as never man pake!" Sing with poets and speak ith orators! Listen to the messages f prophets and heed admonitions of postles! Reason with logicans, and eep company with his historians and hus make for ourselves kingly names, r die tr.ying. THE THIRD PARTY APPEAL. It Looks Very Xuch Like the Production of a Spiritualistic Crank. CIsciNNArI, July 23.-Robert Schil .ig has made pnblic the address of the ational executive committee of the People's Party to the citizens of the [nited States. It occupies four closely printed small octavo pages, and sets ut with a general statement of griev nces, which occupies about one-fourtlh f the document. In this statement are such phrases as the following : "The Declaration of Independence from the arrogance of British politicians ust be supplemented by the declara tion of independence from the fright ful power of concentrated wealth. "We consider violence in settling isputes as unworthy of a civilized ation, and for this reason we have rganized the Party of the People to verthrow tyrants who have robbed and are continuing to rob of that to which they have no moral right." The document then goes on with a pecification of evils in matters of land, labor and money and in conclusion uggests a remedy. The concluding paragraph appeals in the name of the iberty, for which the fathers of the Republic pledged their lives, for the aid of every honest man in this strug gle by joining the Party of the People. Here Lies ! Epitaphy is a demoralizing kind of taffy. It appears on the tombstone, nd eulogizes the dead almost to the very stars. The usual method of begin ning is: "Here lies." Very suggestive, for the lies are frequently quite aston ishing-almost enough so to both muse and amaze the dead of whom they are written. A truthful epitaph in many instances, would be: "Here lies one who omitted to take Dr-. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery." If sick and suffering, and dreading pre mature death, test the potent remedy. It cures all chronic, liver, blood, and lung diseases, as billiousness, skin and scalp diseases, scrofulous sores and swellings, salt-rheum, tetter, erysipelas, and even scrofula of the lungs (or Con sumption), if taken in time. KiHled by a Circular Saw. [Special to the State.1 EDGEFIELD, S. C., July 18.-Evereti Hook, a young man about nineteex years ofage, a son of Mr. J. Hook, fel on a circular saw this morning at hi father's sawmill, two miles from town and was literally cut in two--one por tion of the body falling on one side o the saw and the other part on the oppo ite side. THE WILLIAMS MURDER TRIAL. The Testimony In the Greenville Court was Very Strong Against the Slayer of Major W. A. Willains. [Special to News and Courier.] GREENVILLE, July 21.-James B. Williams, the slayer of Major W. A. Williams, is on trial in the Court of General Sessions for murder, and the trial is attracting widespread interest. The Court House has been thronged all day. The State is represented by Soli citor Ansel and Ex-Congressman Coth ran, and the defendant by Gen. Leroy F. Youmans and Perry & Heyward and Alvin H. Dean, of this city. The defendant's plea is self-defence. Last February the prisoner shot Major Williams through the heart in this city over a game of cards. Major Williams, or "Dixie" Williams, as he was known, was a prominent member of the Green ville Bar, and was a brave and gener ous man. The only eyewitness was a William Mott, a negro porter, and he swore to day that the prisoner shot Major Williams after having caused the latter to throw down his knife by say ing he was unarmed. Mott's testimony could not be shaken. A sensation was caused by the testi mony of T. M. Simmons, the man who helped Williams to escape from here the night of the shooting. He told what the defendant said to him, and the story corroborates Mott's. Williams said to Simmons: "I have had many a game cock to die in the pit that I hated to see die worse than Dixie Williams." The case will take up to-morrow and maybe longer. NO COUNTING ON A JURY. [Special to News and Courier.] GREENVILLE, July 23.-To-day was the third and last day of the trial of J. B. Williams for the killing of Major W. A. Williams. The evidence was all 'concluded yesterday and three speeches were made. Three more speeches were made to-day. Col. W. H. Perry and Col. Leroy F. Youmans made speeches for the defence and Ex-Congressman Cothran closed for the State. The arguments of Col. Youmans for the de fence and Col. Cothran for the State were grand efforts. The case was given to the jury at 5 o'clock this afternoon and tb jury is still out. The. court room has been crowded almost to suffocation all day and the interest in the case is intense. A VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL. LATER.-The jury, at 10.30 o'clock to-night, came out of their room with verdict of not guilty. There was no de monstration of approval or disapproval, as Judge Witherspoon had given notice he would severely punish any disturb ance. PROPRIETY IN BATHING SUITS. It is Enforced with an Iron Hand by Policemen at Ocean Grove. LNew York Sun.] ASBU'RY PARK, July 21.-A police man stood at Lilligore's pavillion in Ocean Grove this afternoon and re fused to allow persons who had nothing over their bathing suits to approach the water. "Go home and get a coat or shawl on," he said, "or PIl arrest you and lock you up." Not only women in perfectly proper bathing suits, but little boys and girls were sent back to their homes for wraps. Some of the women asked to be allowed to take their baths, saying that they would bring wraps next time. In every instance the officer refused their requests. During the day men posted signs which said : "All the police have rigid orders to enforce the following :Be it enacted by the board of trustees of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association that bathing in a nude state or in improper or indecent bathing apparel, or passmng through the streets or avenues to or from the bathing grounds without suit able covering, is hereby prohibited at all times within the limit of the associ ation grounds; and any person offend ing agai' -t this provision will be fined $5 or imprisoned five days in the coun ty jail, according to the discretion of the police justice." Ayer's Cathartic Pills are recom mended by the best physicians, because they are free from calomel and other injurious drugs, being composed of purely vegetable ingredients. While thorough in their action, they stimu late and strengthen the bowels and secretary organs.. ATLANTA'S NUDE GHOST. He Has Again Made His Appearance But Not in West End. [Special to Augusta Chronicle.1 A TLA NTA, Ga., July 18.-West End's famous ghost seems to have transferred his headquarters to the southern portion of the city. At mid-day to-day the residents of Crew street were startled by the appearance on the pourch of a vacant house of a man entirely nude. He made his appearance three times. Then men quickly surrounded the house and sent for the police. When the police arrived a search was made and no trace of the supposed ghost could be found. West End, it will be remembered, had a mystery of this kind. The only difference being that he appeared at night. $11,134,209 BOUNTY. That Is What the Sugar Provision of the McKinley Bill Calls For. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.-The following is the estimate prepared by the commissioner of internal revenue of the annual cost of the sugar bounty provision of the McKinley tariff bill Cane sugar, $10,3.50,000; beat sugar, $584,200; sorghum s.ugar, $.50.000; maple isugar, $150,000. Total, $11,134,200. Did you notice that fine head of hair at church last Sunday ? That was Mrs. - B-. She never prmits herself to be out of Hallm Hair Rnewer. Liberty Hall's Liberty. [The State, 39th.1 1 In the light which The State's New- 1 berry le.ter sheds upon the shadowy i proceedifigs of the Alliance of that county on Friday, does not the mem ory that the people from whom we sprung fought battles for liberty of t thought and of speech, and that our own people followed Washington and Lee in contests for political freedom, i impress as as a dream would do ? t Have we won by devotion of blood t and bra:n, by emigration to a new i country, by the right of making our own constitution and laws, by the priv ilege of forming our own society, no r greater liberty to think and act acc'rd ing to our consciences than the mem bers of Liberty Hall Alliance of New- s berry County are allowed ? Have we thrown off the tyr nny of s kings aid inquisitors, of Federal bayo- s nets anc. Union Leagues, only to yield t ourselves to the tyranny of the oath- c bound ctusus of a class? r Have even the members of that class ii so far divested themselves of the attri- h butes of freemen as to mould their con- ii sciences and attune their voices to the it fiat of a majority of themselves? - Libery Hall Alliance, of Newberry 'I County. we judge to be an aggregation e of farmers who last year followed to 'I victory )ne who was then the idol of the t Alliance in this State, and who are fol- t) lowing him still. In that they show I consistency. But they' also show con- tl sistency in adhering to the pledge of n the Farmers' Alliance that it was to be t< non-political in character. They know p that the pressure for the but-treasury scheme is dividing the Democratic f< party. With these convictions they a: held a meeting and "pledged their un- ti divided support. to the Democratic party," promised to "oppose any meas- tl ure tending to its destruction," and z' "heartily endored Governor Tillman's p views en the sub-treasury bill, so far as r! its merits have yet been discussed." o1 Thes~s were expressions innocent a enoug. in a land accustomed to free h though;t and free speech, but fraught o with danger to the men who were b cracking the overseer's lash of "au- si thority" .and force over the backs of a: their serfs. Their authority was men- S aced, their dictum repudiated, and a: the rebellion must be suppressed. ft So we find State Lecturer Talbert in b the Newberry County Alliance meet- 'I ing lecturing the insubordinate Al- tl ance. He is backed by the. re- q tiring county -president, -and-the body ii adopt; a resolution "requesting"-with ii a distinct flavor of menace-the Liber- fE ty H.ll Alliance to rescind its resolu tions "as opposed to the demands of tl the Supreme Council at Ocala and in ri controvention of the right of the ma- tE jority to rule." ri Thi: is Democracy with a vengeance! sf Imag.ne a D-.ocratic State conven- n ion directing a county convention to is rescin d its resolutions because the State n onvention did not approve them ! Im- ti agine a church convention, even, coin- ti pelling a congregation to eat its own word ! Imagine such a system of :iscipline applied to any organization f mmn who own themselves and who ~ value their liberty ! In nearly every order or party or government the broadest powers are vestedI in the body nearest to the indi- fa vidul-the basis of all power-and the st primary organzation acts upon the sec- rf ndary and influences it. But in the Alliance the plan is reversed. The tc pyramid is invertid, and the width and ti weig ht of Macune, sitting on the broad d: top, oveshadows and crushes the puny idividual at the inverted apex who ti as made him what he is-a master. of From the punishment of individuals of the managers of the Alliance political la machine have progressed to the dis- pl ipl ining of Alliances. We shall watch of the experiment with interest. It is no ti igt t of ours, except to the extent that fe The State stands for the rights of all h; freemer . But we ladve admired the pluck of Liberty Hall Alliance, and se ore that in dealing with the question of f eating its own words it will prove al worthy of its name. b LIUERTY HALL SHOULD HOLD ITS . GROUND.0 [News ed Courier.] T'he action of the Newberry Cv.ginty Aliance, on Friday, in formallye,pking !he Liberty Hall Sub-Allianc*'to re sci nd the resolutions it adol.ed re- o eutly opposing the introduc on of licordant political measures is to the 'f O der, pledging its support to tbf Dem- -0 ocatic partys and disapprov.bg the e sub-treasury scheme, was certdilnly not ti wll considered.a The members of the Lit':rty Hall Sub-Alliance expressed theft opinions r arid sentiments in the resoyt?ions they b adopted ; and this they b74 a right toi d, unless they are forbit n to exer cise the privilege of free>;ought and free speech in the Ordi This, we think. the officers of thi" rder will be slow to claim, for it is !~,possible for any organization that isgbject to such a rule to command tte;rupport of the farmers of South Caro4~se If the members of tk,OjLiberty Hall' I Eub-Alliance, howev,.,are entitled to exercise the comro. j privilege of American citizens 'Jtlmaking known] their views on quv ~ ns~ of public po1 icy, it is surely an giefensible act on the part of the NeiIperry Alliance to :require them to recad' the opinion they ave expressed ann,sgt to wear a muzzle henceforth,>fno case iirme other members of the Large siz .o ern opinions. The~ Alliance ir not prosper, or.et0N BIT TERS long, if it istob10eps ia, In committed to ar&Debility pression within its organization. The Liberty Hall members believed what they said in their resolutions. To shut their mouths will not change their minds. If they are the kind of men we take them to be; if they are jealous )f their liberty and rights as citizens, i.s they ought to be, and as most of the armers of South Carolina have always 3hown thew3elves to be, they will re ign from the Alliance rather than re nain in it on such terms. Nothing he Order can do for them, or give to ;hem, can be worth the loss of their ndependence and manhood. It was unwise on the part of the eaders of the Newberry Alliance to nake this issae, moreover, on other rounds. There is considerable differ nee of opinion on the sub-treasury cheme, it is stated, among the Alliance ncn, even in Newberry County. The cheme is plainly and rapidly losing upporters elsewhere, as it comes to be etter understood. There is no reason vhatever to believe that it can be car ied into effect. Many of the farmers a Texas, where the scheme originated, ave declared against it. The Alliance a Mississippi has practically discarded t. The farmers. of the Northern and astern States are either opposed to it. 'he Liberty Hall Allianco men are ither opposed to it or indifferent to it. 'he Liberty Hall Alliance men are >acked by a majority of the farmers of e country on this question, and they Lave simply taken the position which be whole Alliance will take a few ionths or weeks later. To ask them a y retreat in these circumstances, on the lea that they need "education" and enlightenment," speaks very badly >r the enlightenment of their leaders ad worse for their capacity to act as -ue leaders. The Liberty Hall men should hold eir ground and refuse to be "muz led." The welfare of the Alliance de ends on the thinking men in its s tnks, not on the politicians who have btained control and direction of its e fairs, and some of whom appear to ave lost all discretion in the exercise f the powers with which- they have een invested, or which they have as med. The farmers of South Carolina t - t ad Georgia and other Southern tates cannot afford to be driven hither s ad thither bliudfold at the will of a w men, whoever they may be, or owever well meaning they may be. 'he sober and reflecting men among eir own number must decide the uestions which are before them and i which their interests aresonir ivolved. Mistakes at this time will be lt foryears and years to come. It is better to "go slow" and go sure ian to go wrong in haste and have to trace to-morrow the steps taken yes rday. The Liberty Hall farmers are ght and wise in thinking for them- I >lves and acting for the.nselves like .1 en, and the sooner their example I followed by all the other Allia-ce U ten in the State and in the country ~ ie better it will be for them and for ~ e Order to which they belong. A sTRANGE PHENOMENrA. C Cany Rabid Foxes Are Running in the tl Woods at Tea Mile Hin---The Nregro I Population Is in a State of Panic. CHARLESTON, S. C., July 21.-Last dl, the country around Pineoppolis, a C iburb of this city, was demoralized by ' ports of ravages of mad foxes. Startling news was received to-day >the effect that the disease had spread irough the country, and it has become C ngerous to travel thr-ugh the woods. A planter from Ten Mile Hilireports t iat the woods in that section are full ~ mad foxes, and that a serious state things exis.ts there. The negro popu tion, which is very dense around the hosphate mines, is in an utter state panic. Many persons have been at eked by mad foxes within the past w days, and thus far thirteen persons ave been seriously bitten.t To-day, a negro named William Fra- s r had a desperate encounter with one the animals. The fox rushxed at him, ~ ad a lively fight ensued, the man ing unarmed.. The man's clothes weres >rn into shreds, but he finally sac- - eded in beating the beast off without a iff ering any serious damage.t Two of the mad foxes have been ~ ius far killed, but the entire popula on is now up in arms, and an effort ( -ill be made to clear the animals None of the persons bitten by the >xes have as yet showed any symptoms hydrophobia. The theory is ad vanced that the dis ase is caused by the drouth. That sec .on of the country was formerly low nd swampy, but it is said that since ae earthquake of 1886 the water basins the forests have become dry, the sn water seeming to pass into the owels of the earth almost as soon as falls. Two Souls With But a Single Thought." As they sat side by side, they sighed. Oh, my idol !" he said, and then idled. Dear Luke," said she, as she looked, I will wed thee if thou wilt," and he rilted. The honeymoon passed in an xcess of joy. Excess in eating rich ood brings indigestion, sick headache .nd frequent attacks of dizziness. Dr. ierce's Pleasant Pellets will cure all ese. They are tiny, sugar-coated, and asy to swallow. No other preparation ompares with them as a Liver Pill. hey are guaranteed, and one is a dose. Killed in the Prize Ring. CYsTAL FALLJs, Mich., July 18. smes McCormick died to-day from in uries received in a prize fight with1 NVm. Daniels, of Rhinelander, last iight. The fight was ten rounds, withi ight gloves. In the seventh round Mc ormik appeared dazed and fell un ~onscious under a terrific blow from iiels, dying a few hours later. el and his two seconds, Fr4a1 RHE itte and John Daly, were arrested .forn.g the charge of murder. spared to AROUSE THE SLEEPING CAMP! Mr. W. P Calhoun Sounds the Eallying Call for Democrats. [From the AbbevillePress and Banner.] ABBEVILLE, S. C., July 13. I have been watching politics events i in the State for some time with a great deal of interest, and, at the same time with grave apprehensions of the result >f the measures being advocated by rertain men who seem willing to de troy the Democratic government of )ur State in order to advance their per onal interest. They may say what they pleaseto he contrary, but every step taken by 1essrs. Talbert, Stokes, Terrell & Com rany is to prepare our people for a bolt rom the Democratic party, if they ,hink they can gain a sufficient num- - er of followers to reasonably insure uccess. There are, in my opinion, >nly two things that will prevent this >olt. The first is this: If the men -eferred to can secure theirpolitical ad Jancement by means of the Alliance vithin the Democratic party, all may e well. The other and, perhaps, the nost powerful reason to prevent the >olt, will be their failure to control a ufficient number of the Allianemen >f the State to follow them to insure -, uccess. This is not only my individual pinion, but that of a great many of >ur people, including farmers, Alliance nen, merchants, lawyers and men of f all professions. A very prominent Allianceman in his county said to me that he "smelt hird party in the air," and "that in is opinion it was time for Democrats o go to work if they proposed to hold he party together." There are mutterings in this section gainst the doings of the men referred o above that means much; and as oon as-it is heard that crowd had bet er heed at once. The opinion Isfreely xpressed that the Democracy of South ,arolina should be at once organized to to battle against the third party de non, and to make the men now sus ected of a tendecy to third partyism leclare themselves in such a manneras o leave no doubt as to where they tand. No doubt many of them would . leclare in words that they are Demo rats, but that declaration should not e accepted as sufficient proof. Let heir actions and conduct, or some ther test to be hereafter determined on e the test. Zo delay i nemy is in the fie'd actively fighting _ )emocracy and our constitutional gov rnment, is suicidal to the cause of De nocracy. We should not keep idle and . nactive till it is too late to act. Immediate action on the part of the )emocracy is absolutely necmaary to >ut a stop to the third party movement. f State Chairman Irby refuses to aid s in organizing the-Democracy, there re other methods of organizing for rhich we have sufficient precedent; nd if we, in this emergency, follow the recedent, we cannot be blamed nor - riticised for so doing. Alliancemen who openly say that If bey can get their demands within the " )einocratic party that they will rean 2 the party; and if they mcannot do so bey will seek them in another way,j annot call themselves Democrats. 'hey are merely conditional democrats pon whom we cannot depend. We do ot want such men in the party, and bey ought.not to remain members of ur Democratic organization. Be this all for the organizationof the party at > bis early date a is meant to weed ont -~ 1 such from our ranks and to .give emn the privilege of -seeking olitical advancement outside sof the emocratic party, as we caniot afford >support and advance such men. - I do not think that the farme.s of be State will quit the Democatic arty. It is the only safe anchor that - ey have in politics; but an effort Lould be made to stem the t,ide that ow threatens-the Democratic .party. iive each man the chance to say. where e stands; and whenever a man pre ants himself, claiming that he is a - )emocrat on certain conditions or on ny conditions, strike his name fromA Le roll, because such a man cannot b Democrat. Imake this motion for Abbeville ~ounty. Now let all the counties ta econd it, speak out. Wx. PATRICK CALHOUN. CHARLESTON POLITICS. - The "Ring" Winl Have Control of the Conventioni. [Special to Augusta Chronicle.) CHARLESToN, S. C., July 22.-The Democratic executive committee ad ourned at midnight, after the appoint nent of representatives on theo city :onvention as follows: Total member iip of the clubs: Ring, 2428; Reform, M32. Delegates-Ring, 99; Reformers, - This gives the chairman of the new executive committee to the ringster, - ,lso the organization ofthe convenltionl. [n revising the club rolls, the com rittee struc1k off 231 names from the ringsters and 509 reformers. The latter are breathing vengeance. Against John shennan. BIR)fINGHAM, ALA., July 21-Th gon. Jerry Simpsonl spoke here to-day to a good audience. He disclaimed being here in the intea-est of any party, aut made a speech sigainst both the ol parties. He declared that John Sher-. nan, the father of our financial system a a rich enemy of the humarace. 8* e Alliance has determin*ods aim in Ohio.