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STABLISHED865. NWBERRY,S..,PRICE $1.50 A YEAR - A RAMBLE AMONG SURNAMES. Annual Address Delivered by Rev. J. Wal ter Daniel Wfore the Alumni Asso eiation of Newberry College, June 16, 1891. 2. "There is no excellency without abor," and indeed, it appears that there would have been few surnames without it. Like the doves 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 also Brewersand Brewsters, showing that the brewer's art was also in the haids of women. Over the pro ducts of their art many a brave knight uttered the common Saxon toast waes hal (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.: arts of animals, frightful dragont d 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 lug scenes. "The story is told of a cer tain shoe-maker, who hearing or seeing the Latin expression-MAens 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 Crispia, 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 scia 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 E'ck, Bulock, Lamb, Roe and man ' thers. The Fishers made their name with hook and line, but the com peting fishmongers took their names kdoubtless 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 were not ignored in the day of surname-making for we have the names-Wren, Dove, Sparrow, Swann, Nightingale, Finch, Bullfinch, Jay, Hawkes, Crane, Drake, Partridge, Wookcock, Henshaw, which Is properly speaking Hernshaw, an other name for heron: and this brings to mind the'saying-"He doesn't know a hawk 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 which the hawk pursues. The major part of these names, per haps, came from the painted signs of hucksters, though some of them may - have originated from trivial character isttics and incidents. Carlyle informs us that Harald, the first Christian king of Norway, as early as A. D. 961, "got the name of Gre.yfell froin his people on a very trivial account, but seeming ly with perfect good-humour on their part. Some Iceland t:aders had brought a cargo of furs to Trondhjem (Lade) for sale; sale being slacker than the Icelander wished, he presented a chosen specimen, cloak, doublet, or whatever it was, to Harald, who wore it with * acceptance in public, and rapidly brought disposal of the Icelander's stock, and the surname of Greyfell to himself." The surname of the first conquerer of the mimerous jarls of Norway, Harald, Fairhair, and that of the au thor of the Norman conquest of En gland, Rolf the Ganger (Walker) came from incidenta equally as trivial as that which gave Harald Greyfell his appellation. BoIf 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,"hence his name. Harald aspired to marry the beautiful Gyda-the proud beauty answered him -"Her it would not beseem to wed any jarl or poor creature of that kind, let him do as Gorm of Denmark, Eri< of Sweden, and Egbert of England subdue into peace and regulation the confused, contentious bits of jarlF around him, and become a king; the! perhaps, she might think of his pro posal; till then, not." The proud an *- swer pleased the young suitor, and "11 vowed to let his hair grow, never t< cut or even to comb it till this fea were done, and the peerless Gyda his own." It took him twelve years to a -omplish the work, but it was done ani 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 t :"a;, sign or acquirement. The people of South Carolina are in debted for some of their most euphoni ous names of streams and places, not tc 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 screaming 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 attracted 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 the 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." Ar 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-qau-"the place of very big white oaks," or as he planted his corn within the rich botton lands of the Saluda and harvested a large yield he christened the stream "corn river"; or as he followed the Santee in its meandering course through the swamps be called it "The snake's trail." And when he would forever-ehroniole the bloody battle fought between the Catawbas-a wandering and warlike Canadian tribe that dared to invade Chicola-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 inviolable 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 distinguished. Ford and ton are frequently met with as elements of which English surnames are com pounded-as Norton (Northtown), Sut ton (Southtown), Weston (Westown), Sston and Easton (Eastown). Dray ton, literally waggon town. Beresford, explains its derivation when we re member that the spelling of the first syllable is pre::isely the way that the Anglo-Saxons spelled bear, the wild animal. These two last names are in dissolubly connected with the history of education in South Carolina. Gov ernor Drayton may be justly regarded as the founder of the South Carolina College, and Richard Beresford left at his death in 1722 the sum of six thous and and five hundred pounds for the maintenance and education of the pooz children in the Parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis near Charleston. Jour nalism in South Carolina was first in troduced by a man whose forefathers received their surname by living in close proximity to some bog or swamp, the peculiarity of which was its white mud, or soil. Thomas Whitmarsh issued "The South Carolina Gazette' on Saturday, January the 8th, 1731. His successors, though not swami 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 thequill, Croft in the Saxon tongue m,amt S wood. It is also frequently used als< as an element in other surnames Therefore those names compounded o: that term give us, at least, the place o the habitation of their ancestors. Thi old English name Ravenscroft wa first given to some man who lived nea: a forest noted as a haunt of that mis chievous and noisy bird. Ban mean a proclamation; it is of Sanskrit origin and is closely allied to bane destruction hence we have even from other tongue bandit, abandon, &c., it therefore mean a proclamation of outlawry. A woo! infested with outlaws would ver; naturally be spoken of as Bancroft an! George or Henry who lived near tha wood was so called. Lea, Leghi o leigh signified a partially wooded fiel' -a pasture-and this word served n an ending of mkny surnames, such a Horseley, Cowley, Ashley, Oakle3 Berkley or Birchley and Tindley. Wes ley and Westfield are almost the sam name, B1ay or Haw means a hedge therefore, we have the name Haynes Haley, Hawler or Hedgefield; Harle2 Hay wood, Hagood, Ha wes, Hawwortl Hawthorn and Haughton or Hough tot I have no apology tooffer for leadin tyou into the swamps, along the hedge through the towns and cities, over tI -fields and through the woods and pa tired, let us refersh ourselves by taking shelter under the thratched roof of our ancestors where we may look upon the flaxen-haired urchins of our old Saxon progenitors. If our resting place be under the bumble roof of John we can certainly find no difficulty in account ing for the-existence of the Johnsons: if we stop with William we may account for many surnames, and an English writer has framed a list of thirty from that single appellative, as Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Fitz Williams, etc. The Johnsons and Jacksous 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 1 sk7 to signify the same thing. The Welch prefix ap which signifies son. I It is said of a Welshman, who was very zealous that no one should surpass him in the length of his pedigree, when 1 making out his genealogical tree, wrote near the middle of his long array of I aps-"about this time Adam was born." Frequently the a in ap was dropped and thus John ap Richard I became John Prichard-ap Howel, I Powel-ap Rice, Price and so on. We i are all familiar with the Macs and O'8. The Irish and Highland Scotch prefix i Mac to indicate sonship, while the Irish use 0 to signifying a grandson. Some ludicrous things occur some- i times in bestowing Christian names, I when some little Jenkins or Jones is I handicapped for life with some such historic cognomen as Julius Caesar, or George Washington. I knew one little I Smith, not above five years old, bear- I ing the ponderous appellation Napoleon < Bonaparte. But things still more I amusing occur in surnames, when, for 4 instance some sweet little maid bears i the name Minnie Clarkson, or Nellie O'Brian, or Julia McElhany, which in I plain English means "Minnie the son 4 of Clark," or "Nelly the grandson of i 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- I tradictions-"John Belton O'Neall Smith" means that John Belton is the I grandson of Neal Smith, which may I be anything else but true, for the i grandfather in all probabilty was really the ubiquitous John Smith. But a. unrelenting fate has fixed i these names upon us and we claimi them with all of their contradictions. I But it does seem a little strange that the daughters of the Rices, Richards, i Thomas, Brians and Beals did not re- I ceive any such lasting cognomenic dis- 1 tinction. But, perhaps, names were : not plentiful, and evidently they were not, for our progenitors utilized every Heath, Wood, Glen, Meadow-pasture marsh, hedge, and Christian name in 2 making surnames, therefore they must ) have thought that it would be but a waste of time and name material to confer such appellations on the sex ever ready to change them when a proper opportunity presented itself. Towns and streams, hills and wells, and the trees of the forest were also a fiitful source from which fa.mily names were culled. While Richard who lived at or near the wood, natural ly inherited the title Richard Atwood, John. from Cornwall became John Cornwall 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 Underhil 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 oalks,abbreviated into Noaks. William who had pitched his tent or cabin near a notable ash tree was known as Willian atten ash, which easily drifted into Nash. Surnames were also derived from re ligious offices which men held as Priest, Abbot, Prior, Dean, Parson, Sexton and 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 Ithe knowing man." The knowing man was truly the leader of the men of his community, the name signifies pri maily the home of ti.e king. God "ath made no kings and priests." The great Carlyle derives the term king from konning-kanning, the man twho knows or cans. Kings among the Ioriginal Scandinavian tribes were the strongest and most potent men physi Ically and mentally. Their attain tments fitted them for the posi rtion of leaders and governors. The Idarkest ages of the world have srecognized true worth, and have 5honored and rewarded the acquirements ,and accomplishments of their sons. SThe man who knows or cans has ever ebeen the true king of his commu ~nity. There is something superbly , grand in that measure.of honest and ',sincere mental culturff which enables i,a man to rise superior to his environ i.ments, and to ,91ercome the opposing gcircumstances of his life. Assiduous i,attention and research, under the great ~laws of stewardship,or sincere thought, ~-will raise any man of moderate ability +u t he throne of character and worth, give him a name among men, anc clothe him with royal robes. When once the honest and sincere student begins to pull at the latch strings of hidden truth, and to ride in the garnished chariots of thought tc the uttermost ends of the earth, and to walk with uncovered head amid the supernal glories of God's magnificent bandiwork, and to link to the panting mngine of sanctified ambition by the iron 3ouples of consecrated will,the richly la len coaches of the best thought of anti luity, viewing them under the foot, side Lnd headlights of history, then the -ingdoms of darkness will. tremble inder the thunders of his progress, and ;he devotees of ignorance and inertness will be ponderous weight of his ever revolving chariot wheels, and he will -eign as a king in the realm of thought. Let us eagerly then press toward the ;hrone designed for all true men, for reater names are.yet to be made than iave been made. Did I say eagerly? What volumes >f force and energy are pent up in that erm? There is a kind of back water or ddying swirl that frequently occurs in he waters of the river Trent, very dan ,erous to bargemen. At Nottingham, hen these destructive swirls begin to rouble the waters one may hear the >agemen cry out-"Have a care, there s the eager coming!" "Curious," says ,arlyle, "that word surviving like the >eak of a submerged world!" In an ient Norse mythology Aegir was a sea rod. These Nottingham bargeman ire the descendants of the Northmen, ience their ancestors believed in Aegir, heretore the survival of the term as ipplied to the angry boiling waters. kegir spoke to the hardy Norsemen bhrough the troubled, stormlashed bil ows of the restless North seas. These >ld Danes and Norwegians listened to s angry howls, felt his spray-bur lened breath, looked upon the foam mnd froth spit from his devouring nouth, read his ambition and uncon rolable spirit in the waves that thun lered against their rock-bound coast Lnd leaped heavenward when their ourse was thus impeded: and they aw his resistless power in the merci ess way in which he toyed with their >oats-grasping them in their frothy ips they creaked and groaned, raising hem skywark on tongue's end, they ottered and trembled, spitting them, nsphered in a volume of frothy spray, Lgainst the jutting rocks they were rushed, r: opening his cavern-like nouth, he swallowed them without nastication! Aegir! Who can compute is power, or stay his stormy tread! Victory is written on every fold of uis nsign, and the earth trembles when ie walks! Eagerly then let us press ward the throne of power, eagerly earch for the pure gold of thought, sagerly urge forward the steeds of pro ress, and garnish daily the royal char -iot of wisdom! Let us ride with kings nd wal& with princes. Talk with the hilosophers of the past, and sit at the ~eet of Him Mi; "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 trying. THE THIRD PARTY APPEAL. It Looks Very Much Like the Production ci a spiritualIstIc Crank. CINCINNA rI, July 23.-Robert Schil* ing has made pnblic the address of the ational executive committee of the People's Party to the citizens of the United States. It occupies four closely printed small octavo pages, and seti out with a general statement of griev. anees, which occupies about one-fourth f the document. In this statemeni tre suchi phrases as the following : "The Declaration of Inde',endence from the arrogance of British politicians must be supplemented by the declara tion of -independence from the fright ul power of concentrated wealth. "We consider violence in settling disputes as unworthy of a civilized nation, and for this reason we havE organized the Party of the People tc overthrow tyrants who have robbec and are continuing to rob of that t< which they have no moral right." The document then goes on with specification of evils in matters of land labor and money and in conclusior suggests a remedy. The concluding paragraph appeals in the name of thi liberty, for which the fathers of th< Republic pledged their lives, for thi aid of every honest man in this strug gle by joining the Party of the People Here Lieu ! Epitaphy is a demoralizing kind o tafy. It apnears on the tombstone and eulogizes' the dead almost to thi 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 botl amuse and amaze the dead of whon they are written. A truthful epitapl in many instances, would be : "Her lies one who omitted to take Dh Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If sick and suffering, and dreading pre mature death, test the potent remedy It cures all chronic, liver, blood, an lung diseases, as billiousness, skin an' scalp diseases, scrofulous sores an swlings salt-rheum, tetter, erysipela' and even scrofu]a of the lungs (or Cor sumption), if taken in time. Ellied by a Circular Saw. LSpecial to the State.1 EDGEFIELD, S. C., July 18.-Evere Hook, a young man about ninetee years of age, a son of Mr. J. Hook, fe on a circular saw this morning at h father's sawmill, two miles fr')m tow: and was literally cut in two-one po tion of the body falling on one side the saw and the other part on the opp sites ide. 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 o General Sessions for murder, and the trial is attracting widespread interest The Court House has been thronged al 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 Majoi 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 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. Cothrao for the State were grand efforts. The case was given to the jury at 5 o'clock this afternoon and the jury is still out. The court room has beer 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 bad 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. [New York Sun.1 ASBUTRY 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 FIl 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 theii requests. During the day men posted signs which said : "All the police have rigid orders t< enforce the following : Be it enacted by the board of trustees of the Ocear Grove Camp Meeting Association thai bathing in a nude state or in impropel or indecent bathing apparel, or passing through the streets or avenues to oi from the bathing grounds without suit able covering, is hereby prohibited al all times within the limit of the associ ation grounds; and any person offend ing against this provision will be finec $5 or imprisoned five days in the coun ty jail, according to the discretion o the police justice." Ayer's Cathartic Pills are recoin mended by the best physicians, because they are free from calomel and otbe: injurious drugs, being composed o purely vegetable ingredients. While t"'rough in their action, they stimu late and strengthen the bowels anc secretary organs. ATLANTA's NUDE GSOsT. He Has Again Made His Appearance Bn Not in West End. [Special to Augusta Chronicle.1 A TLANTA, Ga., July 1.-West End' famous ghost seems to have transferrei his headquarters to the southern portioi of the city. At mid-day to-day th resideats of Crew street were startlei by the appearance on the pourch of vacant house of a man entirely nude He made his appearance three times Then men quickly surrounded th house and sent for the police. Whe the police arrived a search was mad and no trace of the supposed ghos could be found. WVest End, it will b remembered, had a mystery of th! kind. The only difference being thi he appeared at night. $11,134,209 BOUNTY That is What the Sugar Provision of ti McKinley Bill Calls For. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.--T1 following is the estimate prepared I the commissioner of internal revenm of the annual cost of the sugar bouni tprovision of the McKinlev tariff bh iCane sugar, $10,350,000; beat suga 1$584,200; sorghum sugar, S.50.000; map ssugar, $150,000. Total, $11,134,200. rDid you notice that fine head of hi f at church last Sunday ? That was Ml - B-. She never prmits herself to out of Hall4 Hair Renewer. Liberty Hall's Liberty. [The State, 19th.1 In the light which The State's New berry letter sheds upon the shadowy proceedings 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 thought and of speech, and that our own people followed Washington and Lee in contests for political freedom, impress us as a dream would do? Have we won by devotion of blood and brain, by emigration to a new country, by the right of making our own constitution and laws, by the priv ilege of forming our own society, no greater liberty to think and act accord ing to our consciences than the mem bers of Liberty Hall Alliance of New berry County are allowed? Have we thrown off the tyranny of kings and inquisitors, of Federal bayo nets and Union Leagues, only to yield ourselves to the tyranny of the oath bound causus of a class? Have even the members of that class so far divested themselves of the attri butes of freemen as to mould their con sciences and attune their voices to the fiat of a majority of themselves? Liberty Hall Alliance, of Newberry County, we judge to be an aggregation of farmers who last year followed to victory one who was then the idol of the Alliance in this State, and who are fol lowing him still. In that they show consistency. But they also show con sistency in adhering to the pledge of the Farmers' Alliance that it was to be non-political in character. They know that the pressure for the sub-treasury scheme is dividing the Democratic party. With these convictions they held a meeting and "pledged their un divided support to the Democratic party," promised to "oppose any meas ure tending to its ~destruction," and "heartily endored Governor Tillman's views onthe sub-treasury bill, so far as its merits have yet been discussed." These were expressions innocent enough in a land accustomed to free thought and free speech, but fraught with danger to the men who were cracking the overseer's lash of "au thority" and force over the backs of their serfs. Their authority was men aced, their dictum repudiated, and the rebellion must be suppressed. . So we find State Lecturer Talbert in the Newberry County Alliance meet ing lecturing the insubordinate Alli ance. He is backed by the re tiring county president, -and the body adopts a resolution "requesting"-with a distinct flavor of menace-the Liber ty Hall Alliance to rescind its resolu tions "as opposed to the demands of the Supreme Council at Ocala and in controvention of the right of the ma jority to rule." This is Democracy with a vengeance! Imagine a Democratic State conven tion directing a county convention to rescind its resolutions because the State convention did not approve them ! Im agine a church convention, even, com pelling a congregation to eat its own words ! Imagine such a system of discipline applied to any organization of men who own themselves and who value their liberty ! In nearly every order or party or government the broadest powers are vested in the body nearest to the indi vidual-the basis of all power-and the primary organzation acts upon the sec ondary and influences it. But in the Alliance the plan is reversed. The pyramid is inverted, and the width and weight of Macune, sitting on the broad top, oveehadows and crushes the puny individual at the inverted apex who has made him what he is-a master. From the punishment of individuals the managers of the Alliance political machine have progressed to the dis ciplining of Alliances. We shall watch the experiment with interest. It is no fight of ours, except to the extent that The State stands for the rights of all freemen. But we have admired the plack of Liberty Hall Alliance, and hope that in dealing with the question of eating its own words it will prove worthy of its name. LIBERTY HALL SHOULD HOLD ITS GROUND. [News and Courier.] The action of the Newberry County Alliance, on Friday, in formally asking !he Liberty Hall Sub-Alliauce to re scind the resolutions it adopted re cently opposing the introduction of discordant political measures into the Order, pledging its support to the Dem ocratic party, and disapproving the sub-treasury scheme, was certainly not well considered. The memt&2 of the Liberty Hall Sub-Alliance expressed their opinions Sand sentiments in the resolutions they Iadopted ; and this they had a right to Sdo, unless they are forbidden to exer cise the privilege of free thought and Sfree speech in the Order. Thi.e, we think, the officers of the Order will be eslow to claim, for it is not possible for eany organmzation that is subject to such a rule to command the support of the tfarmers of South Carolina. If the members of the "Liberty Hall" Sub-Alliance, however, are entitled to exercise the common privilege of .American citizens in making known their views on questions of public pol icy, it is surely an indefensible act on ethe part of the Newberry Alliance to Srequire them to recall the opinion they have expressed and consent to wear a 1muzzle henceforth, because some other rmembers of the Order hold different opinmons. The Alliance in South Carolina can inot prosper, or even sust.ain itself very Slong, if it is to be formally and finally pression within its organization. Th Liberty Hall members believed wha they said in their resolutions. To shu their mouths will not change thei minds. If they are the kind of mei we take them to be; if they are jealou of their liberty and rights as citizen5 as they ought to be, and as most of th farmers of South Carolina have alway shown themselves to be, they will re sign from the Alliance rather than re main in it on such terms. Nothin; the Order can do for them, or give to them, can be worth the loss of thei independence and manhood. It was unwise on the part of th< leaders of the Newberry Alliance t< make this issue, moreover, on othe: grounds. There is considerable differ ence of opinion on the sub-treasur3 scheme, it is stated, among the Allianc men, even in Newberry County. The cheme is plainly and rapidly losinj upporters elsewhere, as it comes to b better understood. There is no reasor whatever to believe that it can be car ried into effect. Many of the farmer. ,n Texas, where the scheme originated save declared against it. The Allianc .n Mississippi has practically discardec t. The farmers of the Northern ani Eastern States are either opposed to it rhe Liberty Hall Alliance men are eaither opposed to it or indifferent to it ['he Liberty Hall Alliance men are backed by a majority of the farmers o ;he country on this question, and the] have simply taken the position whict he whole Alliance will take a fea nonths or weeks later. To ask then ;o retreat in these circumstances, on th< lea that they -need "education" ani 'enlightenment,' speaks very badl3 !or the enlightenment of their leader. mnd worse for their capacity to act a ;rue leaders. The Liberty Hall men should holc :heir ground and refuse to be "muz ted." The welfare of the Alliance de >ends on the thinking men in iti nanks, not on the politicians who havc )btained control and direction of it iffairs, and some of whom appear t< .ave lost all discretion in the exercisc )f the powers with which they havi been invested, or which they have as sumed. The farmers of South Carolin and Georgia and other Southerr tates cannot afford to be driven hithe, and thither blind fold at the will of i few men, whoever they may be, o, however well meaning they may be The sober and re.lecting men amonl their own number must decide th, guestions which are before them an in which their interests are so nearl3 involved. Mistakes at this time will b felt for years and years to come. It is better to "go slow" and go sure han to go wrong in haste and have t< retrace to-morrow the steps taken yes erday. The Liberty Hall farmers ar ight and wise in thinking for them elves and acting for the nselves lik men, and the sooner their exampl a followed by all the other Alliance nen in the State and in the countr3 ~he better it will be for them and fo3 he Order to which they belong. A sTRANGE PHENOMENA. hany Rabid Foxes Are Running in the Woods at Ten Mile~ Ri-The Negro Population Is in ai State of ranic. CHARLESTON, S. C., July 21.-Lasl al, the country aro und Pineoppolis, suburb of this city, 'was demoralized b3 reports of ravages of mad foxes. Startling news was received toHda3 a the effect that the disease had spreac brough the country, and it has becom' langerous to travel through the woods A planter from Ten Mile Hill report that the woods in that section are ful >f mad foxes, and that a serious statt >f things exists there. The negro popu Lation, which is very dense around the phosphate mines, :s in an utter state >f panic. Many persons have been at acked by mad foxes within the ps few days, and thus far thirteen personi iave been seriously bitten. To-day, a negro named William Fra ser had a de.sperate encounter with oni f the animals. 'The fox rushed at hi 3nd a lively fight ensued, the mai being unarmed. The man's clothcs wer torn into shreds, but he finally sac reeded in heating the beast off withou suffering any serious damage. Two of the mad foxes have bee thus far killed, but the entire populb tion is now up in arms, and au effo3 will be made to clear the arlma out. None of the persons bitten by th foxes have as yet showed any sympton of h ydrophobia. The theory is advanced that the di ease is caused by the drouth. That se ton of the country was formerly lo and swampy, hut it is said that sine the earthquake of 1886 the water basil in the forests have become dry, ti rain water seeming to pass into tl bowels of the earth almost as soon it falls. "Two souls With But a single Thought As they sat side by side, they sighe "Oh, my idol !" he said, and then idle "Dear Luke," said she, as she look4 "I will wed thee if thou wilt," and: wilted. The honeymoon passed in excess of joy. Excess in eating ri< food brings indigestion, sick headacl and frequent attacks of dizziness. I Pierce's Pleasant Pellets will cure: these. They are tiny, sugar-coated, al easy to swallow. No other preparati compares with them as a Liver Pi They are guaranteed, and one is a do: Killed the Prize Ring. CRYsTAL FALLs, Mich., July 18 James McCormick died to-day from juries received in a prize fight wi Win. Daniels, of Rhinelander, 1 night. The fight was ten rounds, w! light gloves. In the seventh round I Cormick appeared dazed and fell i conscious under a terrific blow fri Daniels, dying a few hours Iat Daniels and his two seconds, Fra Broulette and John Daly, were arres to-day on thectharge of murder. e AROUSE THE SLEEPING CAMP! Mr. W. P Calhoun Sounds the Rallying r Call for Democrats. [From the AbbevillePress and Banner.] s ABBEVILLE, S. C., July 13. e I have been watching politics events s in the State for some time with a great deal of interest, and, at the same time with grave apprehensions of the result of the measures being advocated by certain men who seem willing to de r stroy the Democratic government of our State in order to advance their per sonal interest. They may say what they please to r the contrary, but every step taken by Messrs. Talbert, Stokes, Terrell & Com pany is to prepare our people for a bolt from the Democratic party, if they think they can gain a sufficient num ber of followers to reasonably insure success. There are, in my opinion, only two things that will prevent this bolt. The first is this: If the men referred to can secure their political ad vancement by means of the Alliance within the Democratic party, all may be well. The other and, perhaps, the most powerful reason to prevent the bolt, will be their failure to control a sufficient number of the Alliancemen of the State to follow them to insure success. This is not only my individual r opinion, but that of a great many of our people, including farmers, Alliance men, merchants, lawyers and men of of all professions. A very prominent Allianceman in this county said to me that he "smelt third party in the air," and "that In his opinion it was tirie for Democrats to go to work if they proposed to hold the party together." There are mutterings in this section . _ against the doings of the men referred to above that means much; -and as - soon as it is heard that crowd had bet ter heed at once. The opinion is freely expressed that the Democracy of South Carolina should be at once organized to- , do battle against the third party de mon, and to make the men now sus pected of a tendecy to third partyism declare themselves in such i manner as to leave no doubt as to where they stand. No doubt m.anyof them would , declare in words that they are Demo r crats, but that declaration should not be accepted as sufficient proof. Let their actions and conduct, or some other test to be hereafter determined on be the test. To delay in this matter while the enemy is in the field actively fighting Democracy and our constitutional gov ernment, is suicidal to the cause of De mocracy. We should not keep idle and inactive till it is too late to act. Immediate action on the part of the Democracy is absolutely necessary to put a stop to the third party movement. - If State Chairman Irby refuses to aid us in organizing the Democracy, there are other methods of oranisingo r whieh we have sufficient precedent; and if we, in this emergency, follow the precedent, we cannot be blamed nor criticised for so doing. Aliiancemen who openly say that If , they can get their demands within the Democratic party that they will remain in the party, and if they cannot do so they will seek them in another way, cannot call themselves Democrats. They are merely conditional democrats upon whom we cannot depend. We do ' not want such men in the party, and they ought.not to remain members of our Democratic organization. By this call for the organization of the party at this early date it is meant to weed ont all such from our ranks and to give them the privilege of seeking their political advancement outside of the Democratic party, as we cannot afford to support and advance such men. do not think that the farmers ofI the State will quit the Democratic party. It is the only safe anchor that they have in politics; but an effort . should be made to stem the tide that now threatens the Democratic party. Give each man the chance to say where I he stands; and whenever a man pre sents himself, claiming that he is a Democrat on certain conditions or on t any conditions, strik~e his name'from the roll, because such a man cannot be I ca Democrat. I make this motion for Abbeville County. Now let all the counties that Ss.econd it, speak out. Wx. PATRICK CALHOUN. Is CHAELESTON POLITICs.-9 *The "Ring" wmno entrol or the 2s [Special to Augusta Chronicle.] >e CHARLESTON, S. C., July 22.-The Democratic executive committee ad jourued at midnight, after the appoint -" convention as follows: Total member d. ship of the clubs: Ring, 2428; Reform, -' 2432. DelgaesRig 99; Reformers, ,89. an IThis gives the chairman of the new - ch ex"cutive mmittee to the ringsters, be Ialso the on ofthe convetIon. )r. , a ~ mittee struck of 231 names from the o1 ringsters and 509 reformers. 1. The latter are breathing vengeance. Against John a.orman. _BIEM[NGoHA M, ALA., July 21.-The n- Hon. Jerry Simpson spoke here to-day . ith to a good audience. He disclaimed ast being here in the interest of any party, i hbut made a speech against both the old - in- parties. He declared that John Sher ,m man, the father of our financial system, er- is a rich enemy of the human race, and the Alliance has determined to defeat him in Ohio.