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EVEiY TiiURSDAY ^r NE vBERR Y. .; LL, e. N EL-,E1RT H. AULL. P i THERUPDAY, AUGUST TILLMAN AT jzED SrI1NGS. Governor Tilman is a man of un usual ability. He is a skillful debater ud politician, as he demonstrated in the last canpaign. But we had not expected to find in him thescholar and the poet. His introductory rernarks to the Scotchmen of Noril Carolina are felicitous and show an appreciative familiarity with the immortal Robbie B'urns and the literature of Scotland hat we would not have expected from the rough campaigner of last year. It is well, however, that some of the Governor's quotations were veiled in the Scotch dialect, or else they must have rather embarrassed .he bonny cotch lassies of Red Springs. We cannot, of course, agree with ~~__ It bu everything the Governor said, but taken as a whole the address was an admirable one, and the more remark able in that it was delivered, as we are informed, without notes or manu seriUt. MIr. Tiliman 's remLa ks on th:e Third party are particular good and timely. Coming as they do from an Alliance man in good and regular standing, no doubt they will have great weight and influence. The only weak point in the whole address is the Governor's utterances on the tari.1. Admitting, as he does, that the peple are being robbed by the tarifT, it is strauge that the Gov ernor can so belittle the issue involved in the tight against the tariff. So far as Governor Tillman suggests leme dies for the evils that are now afflict ing the country, he is in almost entire accord with Senator Butler and other non-Alliance De-noerats who have spoken recently. While we voted for Tillman only be came we thought he was the regular democratic nominee, the more we hear of hin and from him, the better re conciled we become to the way in which our vote was east. There is more in him that at one time we were willing.to believe. The quill drivers were ready to say last Friday that it had been nearly a hundred years since a white woman had been hanged in South Carolina, but Gov. Tillmnan stepped ia and knocked up their arrangements. The third party people are after John Sherman's seaip. The Ohio Senator says he has had harder political battles before. T w notable men die_latT..u4sday - ~ otbenegYork at u~hssell Lowell, poel and historian, of Massachusetts. All London turned out last Sunday at St. Paul's Cathedral to hear thE negro preacher, Massiah, of Springfield, Ill. It was a novelty far the big cit:., The woods are full of "reforms" and "reformers." There is the "ballot re~ form," the "reform press," and the "re formed drunkardi"-who is generally fuller than the woods - but the "drese reform" takes the ca:. It is going tc cut the number of articles of woman'e apparel from fourteen down to four. How the women will spend tbeir timE then is the question that will be agi tated. Yoiu eedn't count on her get ting ready for church any sooner, or any other place she wants to go, even if she has ten garments less to buckle on. We don't see any signs of the mil lennium in this movement. Dr. Pope in his letter to the Cotton Plant last week says in substance that the applause of Butler's speech came from "for:yvor fifty of those opposed to the sub-treasury bill" or plan. We do r.ot know whether those who cheered were opposed to the sub-treas Y plan or not, but, however this may be, our observation was that of those who cheered the mia ority were farmers, and presumably Alliance men. The National Economist never lets :nd opport unxity paiss to have a tling at the News and Courier. No other paper in any section of country seems to eX cite the animosity of the Economist as does our est eemxed contenmporary. Presideat MeDowell has "-became convinced that Macune is not guilty, and is a persecuted and slandered man,'' and goes bwck on both McAllis ter and Hall. Het chairges McAllister with being the paid correspondent of a A-mp' is paler uxnfriendly to the Alli ance. VINDING 11' TUE tACOSAW CAsE-l. The "Octopu'.a" F-orenr Retaie From pecia to Th '- e. UnsIExu.E. Augus IS.-H. A. M. Smith:, of Charleston, and Attorney General iiope' t-day presented to Judge Sim,onton, for ignatd are, the fin:i order in the (oisa-v e: The order except a few 1min!or poit 1 been agrceed upon byv counsel for the~ State and the Coosaw C'omipany, and? no representta five of the C'oea L'Conmpaniy was pre sect. Thec ordecr w'ill be sent tiret to C'hiefJus:ice F-uler to sign, and will thenl be signed by Judg-e Simonton. * .it forever "restrais and enjoin's the Coosaw Comnp-'y f rom, in any~ way, claiming or attemiipting to eialmi, anzy right, title, interes: or grant in or to the phosphate rock or phosphat del)osits in the Coosaw River," or from minung * or removing the rock wvithouthavxing obtained a licen:se to dio so. 1.. 12. Brooks is discharged as receiver and comnensation tixed for h is servcs. Comnprom!s-d at TIhrty t'er Cen:t. A TLx.\ , G;a., August 14.-St eph en A. Ryan's creditors htave agtreed and compromised with hinm. This course was determined upon to-day. They get 30 cents on the dollar and Ryan pays the coast of the receivership and the miigtin thns far. Le d e.spaired t-l by my'.'P - il n l'1:Osi'EI:ITY DIATF. A L;ve!y Co:loquy J.'etweeni an Anliance Man, a Mav;ter MLLChiniSt, a I'lhysiclan and a Preacher-Senator 1tintler-s V;ews About "Supply and Deinand." To I he Edkitor of the News and Cou rier: Therecent debate at Prosperity has bccn fUll reported in the public prints. What n,ay result from the I ciscussion cannot Just yet be ascei tained. The effeet of it upon the -u (lience may be conjectured from the after-comwents of the hearers. These aini.dversions. if they could all be gathered u, would make a book of inlghry interesting reading. Here are a 1f. ~enarks on the road home: 1"What do you think of the speaking to-day, Doe?" asked Jim B., an Alliance -.man. I attended the meeting," replied the Doctor, "to learn something of 'the LMOVem"lent,' but the great Cryptologist did not disclose anytiintg of it to me. I wasdisappointed." . "Stokes is a mighty smart man, Doe," persisted Jim, "but he has a poor delivery." "I thought,' retorted the Doctor, "he woul. be delivered in his reply; but Talbert took it away from him. Jim, you are an Alliance man, tell me of tie plan." "That's just what I want to know, Doe. i'm for it, or for anything to help the down-trodden farmer. Long ago I un'dortook a scheme for my own relief. Change of crop was my first. One year, before the war, I planted Most. of my ground in pindars. When they was gathered I took a wagon load of 'em to Columbia and glutted the market with seven bushels-the Legis lature was a-settin' at the time, too. I then tried sca'city of crops, and one year planted altogether corn. My crop was about a mess of roas'iP'-ears, lack ing nine nubbins-and tre only de mand was from myself. Butler might have saved his breath. He i-ieedn't tell me about supply and demand, I knowed it a'ready." "That's true, Jim," rejoined Dan P., a master machinist, "not only with crops, but in all business. Here's Doe, now. He's got enough pills and things in them old medical bags of his to sup ply the whole crowd to-day. But it's >owerful healthy hereabouts, hud I'll Eet he haint give a pill to man, woman or child this month." "I should smile," replied the Doctor; "and here by my side is my old friend S., who belongs to the only profession or trade whose fees are limited by statute; who knows enough law to satisfy Lycurgus, and when he does get a case can 'soc with Socrates; rip with Ripides and cant with old Can tharides. He doesn't get business -enough to warrant him in buying a box of my pills. His knowledge of plants is so meagre at he can't tell mint from pot-margery, even in a julep." "Ha! ha!" laughed Ben J. "Both Doe and 'Squire have their private ware house to put away their things until the demand conies. I have always believed, though, that when a man's business don't pay, nobody can hinder him from going at something else." "Bully for you, Ben," retorted Jim; "you never (id any work in your life, that I know of, only to sell a few water melons at this season of the year, and your warehouse is your wife's estate." "Ahem! we are becoming too perso nal," said the Parson, " .ad straying from the subject. I think the farmer has his grievances, and it strikes me the remedy is in his own hands. SL: Paul directs us to magnify our_oItes and by no means to underrate them. The true remedy then is to dignify labor, instead of which the cry is that farmers are a down-trodden, oppressed people. Demagogues tell them that the 'hornyv-handed sons of toil,' who feed and clothe the world and should be the most independent class, are despised by t'i other classes, who are not only un rateful, but scornful. The sons of far iers hearing this, and being persuaded that their fathlers believe it, betake themselves to the professions, already crowded, or go to some town and be cone counter-hoppers on low salaries. Some few succeed, and may amass for tunes-fully nine-tenths are failures. The failures are not rememibered-but t he few who succeed are the envy of the covetous. By the introduction of steam as our great mechanical agent we are entering the period of large towns and cities, and the markets are brought almost to the farmers' door. this influx to cities decreases the number of pro ducers and increases that of consumers. So that if supply and demand are im portant factors in this problem, it seems to me the producers have not.seen their best days. I1 beg pardon, my discourses are generally on Sundays. Jim, give us your further experience as a farmer. I believe you were a Granger?" "Trhat's a fact, Parson," replied Jim. "y individual efforts seemed like they were no account. I thought co-opera tion was the thing. The Grange seemed all right; tit I found out that I could sell to better advantage to the specula tor than the Grange agent could, who had himself to sell to the speculator, and took his commissions for selling besides." "But how about this Ailiance plan, Jim?" q1ueried the Doctor. "Well you see, D)oc, I don't know exactly what it is. I wvent in for any thing'that would help the farmer. So a little over a year ago I jumped into the 'Yarmers' Mlovement,' as it was called, but when the election of State oficers was declared I foundtbat aboutI three of the candidates elected was said to be farmers-the balance of themi was mostly laiwyers and such like. That was reform with a vengeance." "Rfom are of slOW progress," re arked the Parson. "Over eighteen hundred years- ago Christ proclaimed Ithe ne w social systems.~ Christianity has already potenitilly reconstructed society; what it needs' is not revolution, but developmient. The Christian pro ess oIf reconstructionl is st ill imiperfect, though in the r i'ht direction. But pro eeed, Jim." "Wel, sir, I we't in for county ware houses, andI kept b.ack my cotton. T day I heard tha't if I had sold it a year ago this cotton would have fetched 12 ents, andl would now bring only about S ents-and no ware house vet. 'The wagoner L utler)~ in his great sixteen horse act, as the circus bills say, told a heap of' truth t, -day, as I knowv by ex pree.And I 'iowed he wvas just abot rghtwhen he spoke of the Iscareity of money- special w.ith me a d hi'm. I wats glad when he touched Io the sub-reasuiry bill, (which Mir. ioes said was not to be debated on,) r that struck me as the real thing for he farmer But he skin ned it alive, ad show ed it was unconstituti"i'na!, u'rliable and imip'ssile. And when he- was- opening up oni 11exi'le currencyV a eow. sittin byime pul:led out of his vatecat po'ckct a hund.ired'-doilar' bl' Co i' erne money, and showed it to m -- ti-at ilexible enough'."said he. -~\o~r ir' a Indian rubber band,' say-s Ia th'en I 11opped, for I remrembered w wben I sold a wagon load of cotton I w~ould get about a wagoni load( of Con fdre mon-y for it, and when I bo it abarrei'of su:zar I would have toqy bout two loads of Confedecrate cure'v""V : ill I am an Alince man. It is good for men followiwg the same purs. it to form associatios "Un~tt wh'at about the Th ird Party?" n i'd the Doctor. roet cieties, whnc polities and even reliionarenot put entirely out, is dangrous Asto a Thi;Id Party, I don' t hold to ~ itand nobody else that int eekin otilee I ant an Alliance man and( I a-o a true D)emocrat, and aly miai who says that I ain't an out n'd ut South Carolina: Democrat, to , y ace, I'll knock the fillin' out of I i~m on the spot. That's tile kind c; |man I am." Tn Jim,n" askd the Dtr to-Ly ovrca LI -t iwo,redl Jal,rdn imu. "Higher'. ThetC," rejoiediBen. "e's a nily to -ock in the pit," sug rested an.preser%v,,1 that we %ellows wear the usualutes j iourning for thirty days, with the privilege of re newal. And I move, too, that Doe, who kows many language!, writ the ini icription for his tomb i FrenLch, (er mnan and English, lile Wiack medi -ines are ad vertised." "No," replied the Doctor. "If he is as dead as you say, the i;st-riptiou zhould be in a dead la!gug. A CONVe-NTION OF FAEMEIS. (ietti of ALianceinen) Oppcs:d to the Sub-Treasury P!an. Sr. LoUIs, August 13.-The exceu :ve conmnittee appointed by the Fort Worth Farmers' Alliance convention, wvith U.:S. Hal, president of the 'Mis souri Alliance, as chairman, has issued x circular to the nembers of the Far rners' Alliance and Industrial Union md of the farmers and laborers of the nited States, calling a convention of the members of those bodies who are in ecord with the resolutions pased at 1e Fort Worth meeting. The conven Lion will be held in St. Louis (,i; Sept. 15th next at a period when fall festivi ias are in full blast, streets illuminated, exposition wide open, and the fair only few weeks distant. Nearly all the railroads have agreed to make reduced rates for the convention. The basis of represratation will be fixed at three rleleates from a,h and every County in the jurisdiction of the National Alli ance- All members of the order are ordially invited to take part in making this manifestation of the farmens of this country a grand success. It will be remembered that the resolutions re ferred to reject the sub-treasury plan and appeal to the farmers to vote against all schemes that would make a loan establishment of the United States Treasury. The circular eonchdes as follows: "This meeting will be a protest on part of lovers of the constitution of the Alliance-against seeing that organiza tion prostituted by a body of men who have no interest in farming, and whose love for the organizatiou is limited by the amount of personal gain they can get out of it. This is an effort on the part of conservative members and real farmers of the order to emancipate the Farmers' Alliance from the control of scheming politicians and designing demagogues. That we will succeed in this etrt we entertain no doubt." The letter is signed by U. S. Hall, Chairman, of Hubbard, Mo.; W. S. McAllster, Canton, Miss., and W. L. Sargent, Rayner, Texas. SWEPT BY FLAMES. Fifty-five Buildings in Jacksonville Burned -Losses Estimated at a Round Million. JACKSoNQILLE, August 18.-A path of smoldering ruins, two blocks wide and six blocks long, extending from Bay street up to Beaver street, and one block on each side, is the result of a fire which started at midnight last night. It caught in R. D. Knight & Co.'8 grocery, adjoining the L%rge- ubbard building, and in ayery short time the block was s-ass of flames. It destroyed ffty.1; buildings, including Knight's sf6re, among them the Hubbard block, in wbich was the Western Union Tele graph otlice <md haif a dozen oiher large concerns, Tremont Hotel, Seminole Club, Smith & Matlair's building, Hotel Placide, Chelsea House, Tilton House, MMurry & Baker's carriage ware house, St. Joseph's convent, the Ritz waller residence and Lloyd Bros.' crockery store. The lire spread on all sides, being fanned by a still breeze! Trhe firemen worked heroically throughout, but nothing could stay the flames until ex hausted for wvant of material. They were stopped on Beaver street on1 the north, Laura street on the east. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000; in suran ce $S500,000. JACKSONvILLE, August IS--The total losses are now estimated at $850, 000, and insurance $500,00. ALLIANCE LEADERIS IN COUNCIL. M. e'ing et Frominent Alliance Men of the Third District at Belton. LSpecial to News and Courier.] BELTON, August 14.-The Alliance of the 3d district held a business meet ing here to-day. The following delegatet Were in attendance: Abbeville County-County Lecturer Graves, Dr. H. H. Williams. Anderson County-County Lecture! J. B. Watson, A.'.C. Latimer Neberry County-District Lecturer Joseph L. Keitt, County Lecturer DJr. Sampson Pope, Dr. WV. E. Lake. Oconee Conuty-J. N. Pickett. Pickens County--County Lecturer Singleton, P. J. Johnson, Dr. W. F. Field, Mr. Bowen. The several county lecturers sub mitted reports concerning the organiza tion and membership of the Sub-Alli ances. These were construed as favor ale to the Order. ' figures show a falling otl in membership of the Alli ane in Anderson and A bbeville, again in Pickens and Oconee and a standstill in New berry. A BABY WiHO SMOKEBs. The Falher Who Taught Him to Do so Will be Proiecutedl. [New York Suu.] CItICAGo, August 16.-The Illinois -uane Society has decided to pros ecute the parents of two-year-old Leon ard Turner, the tobacco-smoking baby. The child's case wa brought to public notice a day or two ago. Ever since the baby was two mouths old his father, who is said to a dissipated char acter, has been teaching him to smoke. The childh has now tbecome so accus ted to the weed that he cries for his pipe and tobacc.. Ihe mother has had to work to sup port the family, and of late has been leaving the little boy at a nursery. The matron of the nursery refused to allow the use of tobacco, and repo'rted the case. The H-umiane Society toon the matter up yesterday. The child was founid to be inm a vecry feeble coniition, already suliering frontr acute mecatime poisonig, and having is what is known to p)hysicians5 as the "tobacco be:art." is skinl, eyes and b)rain atre also afeted. lHe displays little in telligence, and brightens up only wvhen his pipe is placed before is eves. mEAHI OFi & MUCHI HONOlI!ED WO MAN. Mr. Jamens K. Poik 1r-.44 Peacefuh!y Awy in Her Eighty-Eiahth Year. N\s!vH.L": Tenn.. Aug 14-Sur runded by a few loving friends anId relatives, 31rs. Jas. K. Polk, relict of the :enlth president of the United States, leparted this life at 7.30) o'clock this rnrning peacefully and quietly anid in al possession of her mental faculties. JIs. Polk had been in perfe::t health mtli last Wednesday evening, when, m returning from a short drive she svas taken suddenly ill, from which she 2ever recovered. Had she lived until September 4th she would have been sighxteen years beyond the allotted time >f three score and ten. 'The cause of leath was simply exhaustion fromn old ige. Bells throughout the city are rnournfuly tolling and sympathy and regzret are heard from many friend:>, and many gazed sadly on the bulletins wih nnnmmed her death. "THE MEN WE ARE AFTER." President Polk Describes the Programme of the Alliance-All the Old Timers to be Ousted-The Fight to be Made for the Off:ces First and for the '*De mands" Afterwards [1-'"om the New York Hcrad.] WAsmso-roN, August 1'.-"Monol olits in the United States Senate are the iien w are after," said President L. L. Polk, of the Fariers' Alliance. That gentleman with a corps of as sistants is now busy in forwarding Afli ance interests, which means the inter ests of a third political party. 'he Al lianlCe is in poliLies to stay, and Presi dent Polk does not care vlio knows it. Au interesting feature of the Third Party movement is the fraiikness with which tho leaders take the public into their coifidence. They have evidently no secrets and announce their plans without hesit'ancy. That was t he case to-dy with Pre;ident Folk, when he said in the course of an interview: "Our campaign at present is not, to elect a President or to secure the Gov ernorship of the States. We are strik ing at the monopolists in the United States Senate. So far we have landed three. The first was Senator H.ampton, of S-outh Carolina, theu John ,J. Ingalls, of KanIsas, am'i he was fnllwet by Gideon C. Moody, of Sw;-li D)akota. The next one to go into rvtirenent wili be John Sherman, of Ohio. Matt itan som, of North Carolina, will also be retired. The fate.of these two Senators is just as dertainly seaied as that (If John J. Ingall. OLD POLITICIANS M sT GO. "We made two mistakes that will not be repeated," continued Col. Iolk. "With complete control of the -North Carolina Legislature we allowed Sena tor Vance to be re-elected on the strength of his promises that he would be a fithful political servant to the interests of the people. The election of Governor Gordon, of Georgia, was Uso a mistake, as he had shown himself to be more interested in his own personal succs-3 than that of the Alliance. Here after no promises of the politicians of the old parties will be accepted." "How do you propose to beat John Sherman in Ohio?" "We have him defeated. In the leg islative districts the Alliapce will sup port candidates pledged to vote against Sherman. The voting strength of the actual organization is 4o,000. Our nem bers, however, are doing missionary work among the farmers geverally and thousands of voters not clnnected with the Alliance itself will be rallied against Sherman. If you, would look over the corresponden from Ohio you would be convinceu that it is now an impossibility for him to succeed hin self." "Is the fight being made on Mcin ley also?" "It is not. As I stated, we are now cleaning the United States Senate. Governorships are not valuable to us at the present time. It would have a good moral effect to elect State officers, inerely as an evidence of the strength of the organization, but our primary object is to secure the balance of power n the Legislatures, which enaLt the laws and elect United States Senators. Probably many Alliance members will support the people's tickcs in Ohio, but there is no movement to have them do so. Consequently the Alliance is not fighting McKinley, but do not infer from that I think he will he elected." NOT FIGUR'ING ON IOWA. "Can Senator Wilson of Iowa, he re tu rued?" N e are not figuring much on results from Iowa," replied Col. Polk. "The organization in that State is weak, though the popular assumption is that we are mnakinug agreat fight there. That idea is a mistaken one. The mo:4 we expect to get out of the contest in Iowa is to determine what strength the movement is developing there. No salps are expected. In the Northwest, however, the voters seem to be more ready to break away from the old par ties than in other sections of the coun try." "Will the Alliance undertake to dic tate the successor of Senator Quay in Pennsylvania?" "As matters now stand. I think not. The state is not yet sufliciently orga nized. However, the wvork is progres sing rapidly. You do not see much about it in the newspapers, but about two local Alliances per day are being organized in the State. By the time Senator Cameron's term expires we will proba bly be ready to supply his succes sor. In New York State the situation is much the same. Nevertheless, Senator H-iscock will bie retired in 1893, though other causes will operate to that besides the spread of the Alliance movement." HIoPE TO BEAT GORMIAN. "The reports from Baltimore are to t he effect that Senator Gornman has cap tured the Maryland Alliance. Is it true?" "That is an invention. I was pres ent throughout the recent Convent10IO.. If the Maryland Alliance is true to its principles two Alliance Senators will be elected from that State next winter, and Arthur P. Gormnan will not be omse of them. He is too much of a straddler on the silver question to suit our pr-in ciples, anid is unacceptable in othier was Tlhe two Alabama Senators must also be relieved from further ser vice in the United States Senate. Mir. Moran will conme first, then MIr. Pugh. Congressman O:tes, who has openly dleclared against the Alliance, will head the procession of those who go out of public life fromi that State. T1his fall we expect to secure coml)ete control oft Virinia." "You have been mentioned as5 the probable Alliance Presidential canUi date in 1892, Col. P'olk, have vou not '."' "WeX ll, the niewspa p'ers -un~l some timre ago that I wvantedl to ie Governor of North C'aro ima, and when that didi not transpire I was annountced us d.esiring to comre to she Senate to fill V,an- s old shoes. That statemuent likewise urnedl out to bie incorrect. YOuR can ra your own conclusion about the report nowv going around. Do not for get, though, there will be an Alliance nt ional ticket ini the fie.ld next fal MIxico's B11 7OLcANo). AsA,lei From, Three to six TIch'" L2 4cp in the strieets of Cg,!!m. C;rry o' M31 swo, August 1 4.-The ashes from thle vo,l,cano have ceasedl to fall ini Co llim a, thiough though lhe ci Ulun of fir. is the~ samie as ysedy The fall of ashes in some cases nave attained a depth of from three to six inches on housetops and in the streets. ITi ie eruption is (in a seale of magn i ttde never before obs.rved. Streamis of lava many feet in widlth are now c oursing down the Sides5 of thle volcanro, burning evet ything in their course. Thw Governor of Colimna has senit a commission to the volcano to miake a seie ii:iiui report upon the erup'tion:. Another Cure for Rtheumoathim. LAKE Cr rv FLA. P. P. . Pn'.ffj Co., &'r<mna!h, (,a. (JGENT-rr rsI had Bhieumatt:sm for over six veairs, and last May wats taken down and continned to my bed. My legs and feet we re had!y swollen and th color of ar redI apple, and I was mi a faerful condition. I heard1 of P. P. P. I Pickly Ash, Poke Foo4t and P'otas sim) and after seeing.what tile in rdients were-as. thef jonu ;a c theebotc-I concludedl to try it, .nd after taking three simal b otte as abe to go down town and attend to m business, and I miust s:' that. I l ike aohe.r man. .Am now~ takmg" the are size, anid to-day I believe tha t II will soon be as likely as any man of sixty-one years of age can extpect to be. A C NGxe FACE'TO. FACF WITH D-2AT111. Jre(bs and Mrp. Jub-ohI itug:lst t:td thi! (;aLlOwV? Verore Governor Tillmarnt'! Respite wa. Made Knowi to Them. [Condensed froi News Ca cntiel CHERAW, August 14.-ile Ctest field hanging is again off. Govern Tiillnan:eiit a reprieve :hat WLs 11an ed in at the iait inute, and read jU as the prisoners, David J. Jacobs, ai -Mary Johnsoi, both white, weres'al iug under the gallows with tue nou about their neei. It was a long, hard .nd rocky rie which I had to travel to reach Ciestt field Court H1o1use t,)-6ay, and upon i arrival there I found quite a number persons aiSnembled. Later wagon lo. after wagon load aLrlitd and Uy Ml day this unLus,uaily quiet ocality w thickly populated with several hundr people. It seems that G-vernor lilhntral plan was to force an acknowledgme from the man aid womn convicted 1iurder by aI!owin them to Ue tak to the0 gallows as if for execution. T Governor's priv.-e CeCreary, w came to Cheraw last night, was Chesterlitld all the morning with t reprieve in his pock,-t. Somehow t Cat got out Of the bag, and it becaz noised about that soIle (We had cim with an order for astay ofthe sentent In fact the Rev. Mr. Yongue, who w in at:d out of the jail al1 the mornin told the reporter that he was sure th no execution was going to take pl1a Had this reached the ears of Mrs Joh son and Jacobs it is highly probal that they wouldl have acted just as t account bit1,w shows Ihey did. JUST As T1!: TRAP V.'.aS Ant-IT FALL. The feet of neither one as yet h been bound and the bieriff was jt about to performn this last act wheu large, dark whiskered man fron t audience in the yard called to him desist and handed him a letter, whi proved to be a repriive frui (Jovern Tillman: IID TIIEY XoV THAT IWAS co.dMIN Neither the man nor the woim set.ed very much elated at their su den rescue iroiui a horrible death, aj on hearing the missive read betray noerotioll of any kiud. They simp were loosed and walked down the g lows steps into the jail. When insik however, the ierve. of Jacobs, strul to the highest tension thronghout t whole proceedings, gave way at last accoun t of tle reCt ion, and he requir the support of two men to enable hi to reach his cell. The womau, befc she catte do\n n again, addressed t' audlienceonce mwre, declaring her i noceive atnd begging theI to pray f her, as they hoped God torequite the in the world toconim. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. [Columbia Record, 17th.] Thc Governor took final action t day in tle no\w celebrated Chesterfie murder case by commuting the dea sentences of David Jacobs and Ma Johnston to life impri-sonmient in t, penitentiary. The Sheriff of Chesterfield was once notiliod of his actio.:, and t prisoner. will probably be brought the penitentiary to-norrow or ne day Cov. Tillman when asked vhat i fluenced him- 1 in his actions stated th he coutld nott satisfy lhunseif beyond reasonable dIoubht as to either their I nocence or guilt. A st:1SMIC LONG 110W. Gti:mn at the' Truth about the I:ect Mextcan Earthquake. SANx FRANersco, Argost 14.-T Ch ronilers Yumra, A rizono, correspc (dent has made a trip to the town Lerdo, Mexico, which was report destroyed by an earthquake;on July He rep)orts that the accounts of t earthquake have been greatly exaggt ated. No houses were destroyed al he failed to find the place where I Colorado River was reported to pour1 ig in to a fissure int thle eart There was no tidal wave in the G uif California, and the shock was hard ft there. The statement that the hi disappeared is explained1 by the f: that a por'tioni of the sand bluil'oue hut dIred feet high fell into the river. The corresponden t also investiugat the alleged disappearanice of the rib on the day of the earthquake. found that opposite Lerdo is a lat islnd. A month ago the river flow~ in the east chlanntel nlearest 1.0 Ler, Then it began to change into the w channel. The cause was the gradt eating away of the sand bluff on 1 mainland, which felt. into the ea-t ch: neul and blocked it up. This was niotic three weeks before the earthquake. Wyhy Senattor Irby 1" Hapypy. [Fromt the Coilmbia Record..] When a Record~reporter "droppedi at thle Capittd to-day and enteredt ante rooml of thle Governtor's oflie found qute a ntotable a3ssemlage ga ered in Private Secretary Topkir tel, swapingiil yarnis that were all!w andI a yard wvide. Col.J ohnt Lawrenice Manning Ir our fartmer repbresenta tV ive from Lau r in the Untited States Sena:te, was h1o i ng downi a ~o inctous seait ait otnd( table. Tile (Colonel was vi ex uberant mut was enatt ing mlerr awayv at a 2.40 aice. "Wedl, I have good renseno to lau: a. litt le *ad feei waly up'' said the Ci e1, whe liisuonw one reinarked up;on1 ju ilai u expressionl that pliayedl over. "What's the utattel :" sail o0 "''That's the size of it, friend Tilbuta it," sa %id' the (olonuel. "li've been t tinga those li tile cheeks for some t. Thl'y onliy lcall for $4li.iO8 a monl1 bt then, you kno0w, it helpas to t:l te havysead out of an old farmwr L te. Nhte! an :tit Johntston11e get t hei too, andt we ate cons'ierable of aha trio.'' (!r'tx::D FO1R ALL TRAFIC 1:a :rCoad's New Cot'mtedimr. Newberry atnd Laurens Railroadi, I ist returned froml aln inspectiont t. over his road-the a lnumbiai, Ne berry anid '.aurens-an~d has found. I a te condition. While away coipeted arrangements for comtple fre giht conn ctlionils with all pointts. he ro'ad- will now handle goo witi lretat ease andt promptness I Leiarts, Ir:r.o. Ballentine's, WNh Roc, Chapin's Little lounotai iig's. P rosperity, Newberry, Jalaf ttn ChLe-ter, Grleenwoodl, Abbevil the'n, GaI., L'Eletoni, Ga., and 1,< atlons alaug th'e (Georgia, Caroli ad Northern Railway. Th best part of the arrangemen ts in this-that goods from Baltimzo! B,tosttn Ne York, anad all Easte points5 for this city, can nIow be broun here wit h great promptness, if orderi via Seaboard Air Line, so that they w omec over the Colum bia, New berry ai Laurens road.-The State, 10Jth. ...ADVERTISED) LETrTE1s. A br .'m. .lonu V.roos, Mrs Maryl __ F.ortU7, B P rersons callHng for the above otters-w please say that, ttiey were advertJsdi L,M00Ex4ae -. ~ 4L~ ~ 4-' RAILRtOAD F--,j1r.yEFS STIKIE er M acine s hop ofthe soutJ Carolina Rail way Devaerted. LSpecial to the .egister.] -) ' r i.F3'lrox, S. C.. August 17. m"AlplOyee,s in the machine shops of the South Carolina Railway, eleven men and ine boys, gnit work to-day, leav itl_ onV two men at work in the entire e.ta")li;hnm. - The strike was cauted by the refus:a! of the railroad to increase w:ages twenty-five cents a day, the preselit pay ieing c2.5u to $2.75.a day. The .trike is inaugurated under the auspies of the International Associa tion of Mai:nIsts, an1d the strikers hope to abtain the support of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and other unions. Both Receiver Chmiberlain and General Wanager "Ward are out of the cily. Other rail roads oflicials here say that no atten tion will be paid to the demands of the I strikers. The strike is made under the - sanction of the Grand Lodge of the gouthern divisi,on o the associatlon at B ienmond, Va. Nailroad authorities say they can get al;og without work at for six months to come. All the strik ers are o1 employees of the road. rh- Aiiance Ent-rs Chicago. e KANAS CITY, Mo., August 17. s e Star's speiil fromn Topeka, Kati sas, says W. F. Rightmeyer, secretary t of the Citiz-ns' -ational Alliance and e IndUstria, Union will leave Topeka to m norrow to organize Alliances in Chi le caigo. (bitn~anj. ro .nie l,f Brooks, wife of Q. A. Brooks, of Vaugbanville, S. C., was id birn February 2uth, 18(;7, was married st to C. A. Brooks on March 12th. 1885, . a by Rev. G. W. Holiaud, D. D., and Le diedt .Ine 17th. 1891. to She was the mother of three children, lh the younigeat of whom preceded the or niother to heaven only three days. The remaining two ci:ildren and her husband mourn thei- irreparable loss. ..? Those who knew her best loved her most. Hersweetand amiable disposition made everything pleasant about her; d she was the light and life of a now dark id and desolate home.. Her neighbors ,d and friends all miss h-r genial and l happy smile and cheerful words. Her 1- church misses one of its most faithful 0, and devoted members. i, Thou art -,one to the grave-but we will not ae deplore thee: )n Though sorrows and darkness encompazs the d tona, Thy .aviour has passed throuz-h its portals il1 1before thee, re And - he Looip of his love is thy guide t arough lie fliom n- "Thou art gone to the grave-but we will not or deplore thee; in Whose Gjod was thy ransom, thy guardian, .1nd guide; le :ave thev; he took thee; and he will re store thee; And death has no sting, for the Saviour has died." A FRImsD. 6 A ~ RT SCHOOL. ry EDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, W ' 1891, Miss Lucy Bowers will open au Art School ov. Mr. J. D. a I)avenport's store, Main street. Lessons e in DrawiLg, Charcoal and Painting. t Patronage solicited. For particulars address MISS LUCY BOWERS, Newberry, S. C. n" EXECUTOR'S SALE. B Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF the Court of Probate of Newberry County, I will sell in front of thbe Court House, on Saturday, the 29th day of t August next, within the legal hours of sale, all the personal property of Anna Gray, deceased, consisting of house he hold and kitchen furniture. n- Trms cash. of WA LTER F. G RAY, ed Executor of Anna Gray. 10. Newberry, S. C., August 14, 1891. South Carolina College, he COLUMIBIA, S. C. be {\PENs EPEMBlER 29T -T. ENTRANCE AfExaminations begin iSeptember 24th. Cims'icai, Literary. Scientific and Law of Counrses. Thirteen Professors lv For furthe!r informjation. :oldress the Presi dent. JAMES WOUJDROW. tet ISM , OE DR.. KIC' REV , retrne frm AylrMTxa.oN E 1 l3e rThe loing adxtacte frmi t wit-h hen beenh aWATorldenwn yEarlst:ue ry - hI retunewnd for Tyer, Teas WIS Ett 11errnetue. tothre,EA PtrUirDIN Bofis d- hr physialsystem.wa cuhed nof alogstfree l-dfrom he srvsn headache. withawhich ahe ie hoats a MA tRT Yo twety caruely yihaidone wdas xfo h rom pa\in. AfEter A e compet trne,sfor t ation staene witnrch,d EEnta Ga.,was cure ofEASEn stad h DiSasPEAD Sh caappearHs toe a been arsn 0. uvnid rom andrvous hapdache. playfala a , i rheatycild. FOR ThIRTY ErsA , macely ti h:nvinO ae tay' edimpio, nd rom teinye bii takingsRoyal(ermetuermois,aboonitos "t- nirwomplItbuldeu trenrmthioncrhaes tee ppISAteA. shietin relipeastob then t er -C couner,f d isas happysre halayf.s rghalth.Paysci. Ineoav ersepsi manyofou w--s:o Pataeithe medicier. Bldand tsimdny kf all of em nishis an Fevrs.etat allmedy." an dr.l isess Fmalerues. e nto w'on.Itd byildsir te srenath, inresfesrthe aepete iscdigesion reieves from of te e.gallon of die ad pesre diectsaltp Itn esah bottlile curafor he:nts,Nu ATATIa. Paralysi,EInomn . Atapepsa. and bon Paugpits.Ifn Lyver Badder an Knoy see.Cland pFr. rh ll p Bloo'd crtf usiatdo kondiesFer ale rouble,etc LIPrmpeba dei tre xt mractfern p.ope theLprce ha oenrdcfro B$2.50t ye.0pe ocntae ottl iic makery.n galo oef ediin of per irectoved accpd -)ec vinliac botrle. Fo alef teqult ot mepunl o, it cn bef enui y lyewipress. us ncatres of wovnebl cues blue 9 'or Delici. u F o Imptroe Gand t r pondofExrcto itf Bee eual Colforty te riaturC . anLibi Thn blrasue eo Cn moic earss and bntofe the habi, le tha Prmee a ae to xuriet ropth.i in ries ndever Fot reset.Ga Oie egHair. to iS Yothful Colore iO,ad$. tDu nist. re -- inp~rices nevery othe respct Omee over f,hOZC.aG . o we'sstre Rap;t uEI 01UT Sullmor AnRu4offIfl x W E STILL H.AVE ON HAND A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF sPING AN3 sUMMER CLOTHINC, SHOES, HATS AND GENTS' FURNISH!NG GOODS -WHICH WE WILL BLL MENA FOR CASH QUR STOCK OF THIN GOODS, CONSISTING OF I AA SICILID4 PRAIP OTE AN'T SEERSUCIKER COXATS A2.CD VEST IS IMMENSE! ALL THE DIFFERENTCUTS--LONG, 8HORT, MEDIUM. NECLICE SHIRTS IN PROFUSION IN ALL QUALITIES FROM THE PLAINEST AND CHEAPEST TO THE FINEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS. OrI Straw Hat Trade Has B6n ImmeS, It WE STILL HAVE A NICE VARIETY TO SELECT FROM. T O THE LADIES WE WANT TO STATE THAT OUR LINE OF --- = 'CoX D TM X 0 ARE THE HANDSOMEST LOW CUT 1HOES IN THE COUNTY WE HAVE THEM IN PLAIN TOES AND PATENT LEATHER TIPS IN OPERA AND COMMON SENSE TOES. We will close out our entire stock of Boy's and Children's Clothing at prime cost from now on. Call early and get your choice before they are all gone. Yours sincerely, SMITH & WEARN. UNTIL THE IST DAY Of EPTEMBWR WE OFFER OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF CLOrTIJNG-, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, -0 HATS, CAPS, Glass and Crockery Ware, AT AND BELOW JTBEW Y"ORK OOST.. Respectfully, 0. KLETTNER. NOW FOR BARGAINS. SPRINC CLOTHING BLALOCK'S Clothing House, N E WBERRY, S, C THIS SALE WILL LAST FOR 30 DAYS. Now is Your Opportunity. MINTER &LDX G1 iMMIESON 18SPRING / SUMMER GOODS. Do Thiu is bar canc e se ao ofeedto te ublic tosecre we have marked down to cost and some below cost. Straw Hats to be Closed Out at Any Price. season to >anothe and if you wi- cgl an veram oure prices you will be convinced of this fact. THE SHOE HOUSE OF NEWBERRYdI fall trade that ue have ever carrtd and inhofrder to make room for them, we will sell all 8UMMER 8STYLES A T GRE ATL Y H EDUGED PRIOES.& Dlonot miss t us andwi 30?