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0 --- h Iry them and see. Foot's oldstand W.M. Sherard&C. LOWTABLIE ED_18_.rEIRRY, S. C. THULTRSDAY, OCTER 8,1891. A R ESTABLISHED 1865. NEV DEFENUE OF THE ALLIANCE PLAN. Any Alliance Man can Vote According to his Convictions, but Macune, Stokes and Talbert Say that when the Alliance Majority has Decided on a Policy every Mem ber of the Alliance Is Bound to Support it. COLUMBIA, September25.- Sedretary of the State Tindal banded the follow ing this morning to this correspondent for publication in the News and Cou rier: To the E ditor of The News and Cour ier: Your paper and some other daily papers have assumed an attitude to wards the Alliance which bodes evil to the whole State. The people who are not eiigible to membership in the Alliance are taught to believe that the farmers are seeking to rule them through a secret, oath bound political society. This is not true. The secrets of the Alliance are for business and social purposes. When one enters a store to buy a piece of goods he finds a secret mark upon it. It is the merchants' secret. It is his right, and no one complains of it,.It is a very unwise business man who parades his business affairs before the world. And no one has a right to complain of the secrets of the Alliance. Suppose the merchants in their boards of trade should conclude, from frequent interchange of views, that their itterests would oe promoted by a certain law, or by certaia changes of existing laws, what could they do but go out before the whole people to advo cate their measures? [This is all which the Alliance has done politically.] In their contest with the Bagging Trust, and the cruel extortions of the credit and lien law business, they naturally enough inquired into the cause of the evil and the way to remove it. They laid their unfortunate condition befere the country, and the measures which they think would relieve them in the most public manner, and invited the fullest discussion of them. They had a right to expect that in other classes they would find many humane people who would consider their case in a fair spirit. 31ACUNE'S DOCTRINE DISPUTED. No man's vote politically is bound by any oath of the Alliance, nor can be, for the. reas3n that the Alliance has no ,ight under its constitution or laws to ask him how he voted at the last elec tion; and so far as politics is concerned tiere is no Alliance oath nor secret. If you can by fair argument show an Alliance member that you have a better remedy than his tor the inade quate supply of money, there is no Alliance oath to hinder him from assenting to your proposition. The de mand for more money and the best way to get it is therefore as open for public debate as any political question which ever was before the people. Senator Morgan, whom you quote, says: "Before the great Democracy is required to adopt the Ocala platform, it should be discussed bdfore the people and voted on in Democratic primaries, and every Democrat should be.heard datiently, fairly and fraternally, who * wishes to be heard." etc. That is pre cisely what the Alliance proposes. It seeks to get patient, fair and frater nal discussion. It has failed to get it so far, but is making very' rapid pro gress. The endmies of the Alliance have tried to prevent fair discussion and to denounce in advance every man as a demagogue who might sympathize with the Ocala -demands. I&nstead-of~ patient, fair and fraternal discussion it has been "socialism," "paternalism," ''undemocratic demagogueism," which is mere abusive assrrtion and not dis cussion. When Christ restored sigbt to a man who had been born blind it caused' great wonder among the people, and they took himi to their rulers, the Pharisees, to hear an explanation of it. They denounced Christ as an imposter Sand devil. The blind man remonstrated that whereas lhe was blind he now could see. This argument made them i. They said: "Do you who are ter'er born in sin undertake to able At .a d cast him of the temple. MISS ~~DARE HTlT BACK. utix'r av for South Caro fte-''obs eyes has On mn 'V- .he wrongs ecof&', - nolitical PIr,_ ( case this, tute,.o Georg , set of u< eir~'N uipped- ~. nt halit hui , turn~ c advo tiuy -ut has . mis- ,iat a man tothmpathines the w me tC and towns of tlt is suf)try by the roefa talk vhat must WAN THE FOOLS. orhave imprudent imprudent things. n has the same-even ut the farmers honestly al to the best intelligence tof the whole country-of class to aid them in solving their Moblemns. Discussion in a wise, candid spirit could only result in good. But if the present (apparently predeteriumi) policy of the opposition is presevered in it cnn only result in evil. It is un wise and most mischievious-in tendency. I is to our common interest to restor the unity of the Democratic party am not seek further to divide it. This wil depend upon the attitude of the citQ press. That has lost nearly all influencA with the people outside of towns an( cities. It can only foster prejudice ir the minds of the urban population. I that a patural result of candor an( fairness? What interest is or can b promoted by such a course? My position in the Alliance is a ver3 modest one-only a private member. ] know, however, that many thousand. of people have been practically bene fited by it, which they will not forget SO HAVE WE, WHEN WE HAVE BOTE SIDES. For education and interest I am con servative, but I have an abiding faitl in the good sense and capacity of th4 people for self-government, and, there fore, am and always have been a Dem ocrat. I feel it to be my duty to pro test against the policy you are pursuflig and. to appeal for more fairness anc -more confidence in the people. If th( people cannot be trusted at all, ther the Democraic party, and our republi can government itself, are based' upor a false theory and are humbugs. CERTAINLY, AND THE TRUH WILLPtE VA';. For twenty-five years I have live among the plain farmers. I knoU them. They are neither Communist. nor fools. They have a strong sense ol justice and are too conservative foi their own good. i have seen sometimeE their lien accounts and wondered tc myself that they were not in arms. ] have seen their desperate struggle against adverse business conditions their gloom every winter and the:re newed bepe and courage of the- return ing spring. I fought wi. them 'dur ing the war and in 1876. Their patriot ism, their fortitude, their patience, forbearance and hope should appeal fox sympathy in their effort to fin way to rid themselves by law of their op pression. It is not safe to bully them. They are too easyly persuaded by kindness and fair argument, but don't undertake to drive them outof the temple, because their eyes have been opened to their wiongs. Tho who trieil thattefore.got put out themselves. The "Otes plan" is not pure patriotism. It is, "I am holier than thou and I shall control." Unity, harmony and progress can only be-maintained' by candor,~by mutual forbearance and kindness. When you ask Col. Talbert to say whether he would stand by the- Democratic party f his views did not prevail, he said, squarely, he would; but when he meas ured you by the same standard you vir tually say, "I am the party, the master f this Temple. Get out!" You declare in advance th'ere shall be two parties. How often and 14ow eloquently have we been warned in your columns against such a calamity? But rather than trust the people and let "free, pa tient and fraternal diiscussion"' evolve the truth as it would, you close- the door agairs"t it. This is all wrong, and is inconsistent with your course last, year, when you stood by the Demo eratic Convention. If it were -right as to the State, whsy not as to the Nat.ional Democracy? . -J. EK TINri. Good Advice. [From the Gaffney Courier.] Being an .old farmer of forty sears experience, having fought many a baird battle :with General .Green, and having always gained the victory, I am prompted to give my brother farniers a word of cheer. NO'W brother farmers, it won't do to plant cotton to buy corn, flour, &c. It will always keep your nose to the grindstone. You will be no better than a slave for some one as long as you con tinue this picnic. You will never be an independent and free man as long as you neglect grain. Your old bro ther has always raised cotton,.as a sur plus crop, and now to-day be . owes ne man any thing but love, excepUJa.forty dolar note and a little store account; and I have for the last thirty years had corn tosell and to keep, and money to lend and to use. Ought i not- to be thankful? I thought I would quit here, bnt there is so much more I want to say to my young brother farmers who have to battle with General Green. . You beve bad to fight hard this year to sa've your crops, and you deserve a great leal of credit in saving them. But, h, my friends, I was in a mighty fight 1867 when it rained enery day from ;.47ttb of June to the 4th of July, and ~lways have believed I lost 100 bush of corn by two plows standing idle .the 17th of June, Saturday.. >ow let me say that too many of come to Gaffney's on Saturday. You don't know what a day's plowing is worth. Never put off until Monday what should be done on Saturday. They Were simple Mountaineers. Mrs. Brownstone (at seaside:) "I wonder why that fishermnan does not go out to-day?" Miss Brownstone: "Because he can't atch anything but mackerel to-day, and he doesn't want them." "Did you ask him?" "'I asked him why he didn't go out, and he said he didn't like that mack erel sky." Professor G3autbier, of Paris, states tat certain vital processes of the body develop putrefying substances in the tissues, wvhich, -if not speedily elimiina ted, produce disease. Ayer's Sarsapa rilla effects the removal of these sub donnes and therebhy preeres healtb. 'or it provokes more careful investiga tion. There is no comfort that costs less and is worth so much as letters from kindred and friends, and yet there is no duty so-easily neglected. How longingly do the folks look for letters from their absent children-scattered children. How carefully does the good mother put them away when they do come. Sometimes there is a long inter val, and she asks every day, "Is there no letter?' and her loving heart imag-, ines that her boy or her girl is sick. Children, why don't you write to the old folks at home? Write often write regular, write cheerfully, for they won't be here long, and theu you will wish you had. I had a good letter to day from an old army friend who is in his eightieth year, and his wife the same, and they are hale and hearty and happy, and he quotes, "John Anderson my Joe," and writes with out glasses and says his love for old friends grows purer and stron .er as the years roll on. He writes me periodi cally and always cheerfully and I put his letters away among my treasures: These letters for the home and heart are the only compensation for absence, for separation of kindred and friends. Solomon felt it . en he said, "As cold water is to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far country." Then write to your parents, childrea-write to your broth ers and sisters-write often, write thoughtfully. Don't write hurriedly and carelessly like its something disa greeable that had to be done-but take pains both in the manner and the mat ter--write a letter that is worth the postage and will do to read more than once. There is no better evidence of good conduct and good principles than the affectionate and carefully written letters that a school girl or a college boy sends home to the parents once a week. BILL ARP. LABORERS ALL. Vamous Americans Who Once Lived by Daily Toll. [W. H. F., in Boston Globe.] I have no Labor day sermon to preach, but I have collected for you and your readers a few simple facts, which I know you will be glad to print as a sentimental offering to Labor day, and which suggests to me the text, "All are Laborers in the Vine yard." Washington was once a land sur veyor. Bamilton, a merchant's clerk. Webster, a farmer's boy. Grant, a farmer. Andrew Johnson, a tailor. Lincoln, a rail splitter.. Fillmore, a wool carder. Franklin, a printer. Garfield, a towboy on the canal. Roger Sherman, a shoemaker. Gen. Putnan, a farmer. Gen. Henry Knox, a bookseller: Gen. John Sullivan, a farmer. Paull Revere, a silversmii,b. Horace Greeley, a compositor. Corn. Vanderbilt, a ferrymnan. IJames Lick, a piano maker. Tom Paine, a staymaker. Theodore Parker, a farm hand. Bayard Taylor, a printer. T. V. Powderly, a switch tender. Henry Wilson, a shoemaker. Gen. Banks, a mill boy. Gov. Briggs, a hatter. Stephen A. Douglass, a cabinet maker. Jay Gould, a land surveyor. Henry Clay, a mill boy. C. P. Huntington, a pedler. George W. Childs, a clerk in a book store. Oliver Ames, a practical mechanic. Vice-President Morton, a cler k in a country store. Joseph E. McDonald, a saddler. Patrick A. Collins, an upholsterer. Leopold Morse, a pedler. Frank Jones, a pedler. Gen. B. F. Butler, a chore boy on n farm. William Dean Howells, a printer. Mark Twain, a cabin boy of a st'?am boat. Hugh O'Brien, a printer. S' tretary Foster, a country clerk. Senator Gorman, a Senate page. Robert Collier, a blacksmith. Elihu Burritt, a blacksmith. John G. Whittier. a shoemaker. Walt Whitman, a printer. Thomas A.- Edison, a newsboy. Henry B. Lovering, a shoemaker. George M. Stearns, a chore boy on a farm. Hannibal. Hamlin, a printer. Schuyler Colfax, a clerk in store. B. P. Hutchinson, a shoemaker. Dwight L. Moody, a farm hand. Senator Plumb, a compositor. John Sherman, a river boatman. Win. *D. Kelly, a jeweller's appren tice. LThomas Starr King, a clerk in a store. A Clemson for Alabama. BIRMINGHA M, A LA., October 1.-The will of the Hon. Merit Street, a prom inent and wealthy citizen of Clay Coun ty, has -been probated. In it he pro vides for founding an industrial school for boys and girls, setting aside for that purpose four hundred and twenty acres of land in Clay County, with money to erect the necessary buildings. He also provides an endowment fund to pay teachers, and provides that all pupils shll wo'rk so many hours per day. All the- proceeds of the farm and wrkshops-are to go to the endowment 1 fund. It is.the m.ost important bequest 1 ever nmade to the cause of education by a private individual in Alabama. Mr. Street bore the general reputation of ' being a close, hard man in money mat ters, and his bequest comes in thena t re of a g,-ntifying surri. THE HOMtE CIRCLE. Bill Arp'Tells How it is Saddened and Con. secrated-Who Wrote the Hymn? "The baby is dead." That was the sad telegram that came to us from for away where one of ow bov, is living. It saddened the household, for w( had never seen the child nor th( mother, and they were to come and visit us next month, and expected tc be so happy. There is trouble that iE trouble-grief that is grief. The firsl child, and old enough to have twined around her mother's heart and absorbed her very life. The father can love, too, and caress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and feel deso,te. Time will temper his grief, bnt a mothei never ceases to lament the death of hei first born child. It has been more than thirty years since we lost one, but the little gar ments that he wore are hidden away somewhere, and sometimes I see the mother fondling theif as they lie in the old trunk-the trunk that holds hex hearts .best treasures. It was Sterue who said "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is sad, and she will rise from it with a hope and a trust that she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bond that cannot be taken-it is not lost-it is saved. But still the pang of separa tion i. very- crushing to the parent's heart.Ho-* the world shrinks up; how mean and insignificant are all its pleas ures. I have felt that way, and, been comforted with the feeling, and so I know has every parent who has lost a child. Well, I suppose I must answer my friend, Colonel Dawson, for be is a friend and a Georgian, and was kind to me when I last visited New York, where he lives. He complains in the last number of the Sunny South that I hal given Montgomery as the author of that beautiful hymn: Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed. And writes twocolumns in proof that his mother wrote it. He says that he published this same declaration in the Chicago Cirrent in 1884. IAid not see that; nobody down south saw-it. What is "current" in Chicago is not very cur rent here, and to I think that is excuse enough. The hymn has been seen set down to Montgomery for fifty years or more without question. It is in every hymn book of every Christian denomi nation. It is in every edition of Mont gomery's poetical works that I have ever seen. I have a copy before me, published in Edinburgh in 1869, which g'ves eight verses to the hymn. John Bartlett's standard work on "Familiar Quotations" is now in the sixth edi tion, and quotes the hymn from Mont gomery. W. Davenport Adams, an other standard author of English litera ture, gives the same authorship. And so Colonel Dawson has no good reason for requesting me "to be more careful in the future about aiding and 'abetting British marauders of the property of American genius." I am sure that no American, and certainly no southerner, desires to champion the claim of Mont gomnery, but rather would take both pride and comfort in seeing Mrs. Daw son's authorship established. It seems that Mrs. .Dawson died in 1819, in Cyn thiana, Ky., and lef - r poetical manu scripts in possession or a friend. Among them was found the hymn of ten verses in her own hand-writing. It seems further that in 1819 Montgomery pub lished a volume of his own poems and included this one, which he marked "Anon:" How it got into Mr. Mont j;omery's possession is not explained. But enough of this. It is sufficient for me to know that it is a most beau tiful hymn and to believe that Mrs. Dawson and Mr. Montgomery are both in heaven. And now comes another friend and gently chides mie forsetting down John Wesley as a Methodist. sHe asserts that John and Charles WVesley main tained to the last their connection with and allegiance to the Church of En gland, and that they were never de posed from it. No doubt that is true but still they were the* founders of Methodism. The established church of England was closed against them. . They and their followers formed a so ciety, and it was called the Methodist society. They appointed laymen- to preach and assigned them circuits. In 7353 John" came to Georgia as a mis sionary with General O'glethorpe, and returned to England in ~1738 and con nected himself .with the Moravians. He says in'his autobiography that he never was convert ed until a quarter be fore 9 o'clock .on. Wednesday night, 24th of May.,1738. In 1744he attempted to preach at Taunton and was forbid den by the magistrates. In 1770 he as sumed the office of bishop, and 1784 or dained Rev. Thomas Coke bishop of America. Coke camne over immediately and established the Methodist Episco pal church. Mr. Wesley abridged the English.liturgy-prepared his own dis-, cipline. If, with all these depai-tures from church government and church control, Mr. Wesley chose to call him self an Episcopalian, it was his privi lege to do so, but hardly any body else would so classify him. I do not say his treatment by the Church of En gand was wrong or unreasonable,.conl sidering his independente and defec tion, but nevertheless it was such that the Episcopal church cannot now claim him with propriety. ge is the comx mon property of the Christian world. Now, let me say that these letters from fri6dids known or unkniown ax e always welcome. Of course I make mis RIOT AMONG COTTON PICKECS The Leaders Taken from a Sherifrv Posse and Hung. -NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.-A Helena, Ark., Special says: There has been con siderable excitement here over the war fare in the county caused by a body of imported cotton pickers exciting ne groes to a general strike for higher wages, which he culminated lin a riot. Yesterday deputies Frank Mills and Jesse Hodges, who have been with Sheriff Derrick the last few days, arrived in the city and report as follows: Wednesday afternoon they succeeded in locating thirteen of the worst of the rioting negroes in a cane brake near Cat's Island and thence to Memphis. A sheriff's posse called upon them to surrender and give up their arms. The negroes answered by a volley of shots Aad made a dash to escape, Two were kilied, two escaped and nine were captured. These negroes were disarmed and given in charge of deputies Mills and Hodges, who started with them to Marianna County seat. A few mile. back of Hackley's landing the deputies found themselves and prisoners sur rounded by a crowd of masked men, mounted and armed. They demanded the prisoners at the hands of the dep uties, and as they outnumbered the deputies two to one, took charge of the prisoners, marched them into a thicket and hung them. It is believed that most of the negroes were from Mem phis. Among the killed is Ben Pat terson, who is known as a crap shooter and all around negro gambler, and who organized the strike on behalf of the cotton pickers who annually go from Memphis to the bottoms. The balance had nothing to do with the disturb ances whatever. It remains tu be seen whether the trouble is enire: o-. a, al though the general iipress.ou is that it is. The death of Patterson settles it. NEW ORLEA_NS, La., Oct. 2.-The Picayune's Helena, Ark., special says: It now appears that no less than fifteen negroes were killed of the gang of nineteen who commenced the trouble. Of the remaining four three are in jail at Marianna and one in jail at Forest City. To a millionaire merchant, J. F. Frank, of Memphis, is laid the charge of having incited the trouble by saying in the presence of a hundred negroes at his store that he would have his cotton picked if he had to pay a dollar per hundred for the work. BITTEN BY A BLUE-GUMMED NEGRO. Resulting, After Four Years' Suffering. In a Terrible Death. MOBILE, Ala., September 30.-Death released from his sufftrings to-day John King, whose medical history of the past four years will become one of the noted book cases of the profes sion. Four years ago John King was one of the handsomest, most atletic and most promising men on the Mobile police force,, twenty-seven years of age, full six feet in height, intelligent, active, alert and courageous. February 10, 1887, King, while in the line of his duty, arrested a negro named Richard Richards, who resisted and ~ savagely bit the thumb of the police man's left hand, but was brought in and locked up. The next day King was very ill from his wound. The arm I swelled, then in time the illness spread through the system, afTecting the left side of the body chiefly, finally settling I in the left foot and leg. He was confined to his bed from this ~ cause for six months. When he came from his sick room, it was with a con stitution entirely scattered, instead of ' the stalwart young tnan who was known as Policeman King. He was in r looks and in gait an aged man. He was, his doctors said, the victim o)f blood poisoning. Richards, his as sailant, was described as a "blue gurr .ned" negro, and such are popu larly believed to have poison in their ' bite. King never recovered the injury. ~ His lameness became more pronounced, ~ and he came a hopeless and helpless I invalid, failing perceptibly until death ~ released him. The most skillfulphysi- ~ ::ans of Mobile and of New Orleans I bave been battling with the singular a malady, which, in the end, baffled t ~hem. 8 Leaf by leaf the rosee fall ; One by one our dear ones die. 0, to keep them with us still ! Loving hearts send up thbe cry. r: Wife and mother, 0 how dear, Fading like a mist away. Father, let us keep them here. v - Tearfully to God we pray. Many a wife and mother, who seems g loomed to die because she suffers from liseases peculiar to women, which saps ser life away like a vampire, and baffles s h' skill of the family physician, can t: >e saved by employing the proper rem ~dy. This remedy is Dr. Pierce's Fav >rite Prescription, the greatest boon ~ver conferred by man on weak, suf- 0 ~ering, despairing women. It is a spe ~ific for all phases of female weakness, 1o matter what their name. He Fell into their Ways. d - t (From the New York Sun.] c What the great and growing, but e somiewhat gross, Southwest most needs P s contact with the refining influences 1 >f our more ad vanced Eastern culture, 0 mnd it is pleasing to note where an d Easter'n man haLs given points to our il WVestern brothers. Mr. Marcos Alex- V mnder, of Brooklyn, who recently moved d :o Tom Green County, Texas, receives ti his tribute in a local newspaper of that o -egion: "Mr. Alexander was allowed he honor of pulling the badger in a ti log an<' badger fight nmatched at the v stock Exchangesaloon Sa turday night, rp md did his duty in such a graceful y nnne.r as to make many friends." - $118,548,959, FOR PENSIO%S. ( L38,216 Names Added During the Year There Are Still 688,649 Survivors Who Are not Pensioned and 879,908 De ce:.sed Soldiers Not Represented on the Rolls. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The annual report of Comwissioner Raum of the 1 Pension Bureau, submitted to the Sec- I -etary of the Interior to-day, shows a hat on'June 30, 1891, there were 676,- 1 [60 pensioners borne upon the rolls of i ,he bureau, being 138,216 more than I were carried on the rolls at the close of < he last fiscal year. They are classified 9 is follows: Widows and daughters of a Revolutionary soldiers, 23; army inva id.pensioners 413,597; army widows, ninor children, &c., 108,537; navy in -alid pensioners, 5,449; navy widows, 7 ninor children, &c., 2,568; survivors of .he war of 1812, 7,590; survivors of the Ulexican war, 16,379; widows of soldiers )f the Mexican war, 6,976. The following are the number of )ensions of the several classes granted a inder the act of June 27, 1890: -To ' rmy invalid pensioners, 97,136; army I widows, -ininor caildren, &c., 12,209; r iavy invalid pensioners, 3,976; navy 1 widows, minor children, &c., 1,436. F During the last fiscal year first pay- t nents were paid upon 131,160 original ( :laims, requiring $31,391,538 for their ayment. This is an increase in the e iumber of original payments over the i rear 1890 of 64,532. The aggregate cost, ] iowever, was $1,087,302 less. t There were 222,521 first payments of S very description, requiring $38,552,274, < )eing $69,592 less than was required < or the 130,514 first j yments made e luring the year was $239.33, and the t verage value of first payment on a laims allowed under the act of June 2 .7, 1890, was $71.28. The average value )f first payments for the preceding year a was $485.71, being a reduction in the t Lverage first payment of $246,38. The aggregate annual value of the < 76,160 pensions on the roll June 31, 1 .891, was $88,247,200, and the average a Lnual value of each pension was I 139.99. The average annual value of t sch pension under the act of June 27, 4 890, was $121.51. At the close of the fiscal year there 8 were 38,574 pensions onk the roll who r -emained unpaid 'or the want of time, a Lnd who were entitled to receive $4,- a 183,242, which will be paid out of the t ppropriation for the current fiscal 2 rear, and there remained at the close v >f the fiscal year in the hands of the everal pension agents the sum of 5,713,853.84, which has since been cov bred into the Treasury. This amount, dded to $3,607,133.22 of the pension pprpriation not drawn from the [reasury, aggregates $9,320,986.06 of he appropriation which was not ex >ended.- There will be a deficiency in 9 he appropriation for the payment of ees and expenses of examining sur eons of about $300,000. The total amount disbursed on ac- C ount of pensions, expenses, &c., dur- ~ g the fiscal year was $118,548,959.71, a compared with $106,493,890.19 dis ursed during the preceding fiscal year. r bo that it appears that 138,216 pensions ere added to the rolls during the fis al year just closed, at an increased cost o the nation of $12,055,069 as compared ith the expenditure includes. $4,357,- ' 47 paid upon vouchers remaining un aid at the close of the year. Of the 12,402 soldiers to whom cer ificates were issued under the general I w from Feb. 14 to June 30,1891, 1,371 ~ rere to persons who served six months c d under, while 11,031 served for ~ even months and over, and the largest V umber of certificates issued to soldiers f a particular length of service was 05 to those who served thirty-four onths and 878 to those who served birty-six months. The remarkableg iteis disclosed that fifty certificates ,ere issued to men who served from 61 to 476 months. It also appears that f the 71,004 persons to whom pensionsV rere granted under the act of June 27, 890, 1,1363 were issued to soldiers who erved six months and under, 26,099 to c ersons who served a year or under, nd 44,905 to persons who served thir- t een months and over, and that the rget number of certificates issued to ny class was 4,693 to men who served t birty-six months. The age of the reatest number of pensioners underg oth the old and the new law was p yrty-seven years. tI "I submit" satys the commissioner, a that this date shows that the pensions ow being granted under the old as t -elI as the ne w law are not to personis a: hose terms were short and who saw n ut little service during the war. The Y. reat majority of certificates now beings ued are to the veterans of the great tl ~ruggle for the Union, and many of tL 2ese men would have goe to their raves in want but for the just, hu-t lane, and timely enactment of the la w June 27, 1890." During the last year 20,525 permioners T ere dropped from the rolls for various iuses, and of this number 13,229 were ropped by reason of death. In 1890T e loss to the pension rolls by the de-0 ease of widows and der-endent moth s and fathers was at the rate of 235 er 1,000; in 1590) 33 per 1,000, and in 391, 3.5 per 1,000. It is estimated that tc the soldiers who served the country ce uring the late war 1,1)04,658 were killed t battle or died during and since theU 'ar. On June 30 last 124,750 of theses eceased ssidiers were represented on a 2e pension rolls hy their widows or bI ther depedents.p There are about 1,208,707 soldiers of te e L~nion now living, and of the sur ivors 20,138 are now on the pension al >lls. There are, therefore, 688,649 sur- iz. !ors who are not pensioned and 879,- te So deceased so1liers not represen-ted on the pension rolls. There were 154, 17 Congressional calls for the consid ration of cases made during the past iscal year, being an average of more han 500 per day. The Commissioner renews his recom nendation of last year as to the rea7d ustment of the pension ratings under he act of March 3, 1883, and March 4, 890. The Commissioner says that on n average about 30,000 certificates are eing issued each month, and that dur ng the current year he expects that as nany as 350,000 claims will be adjudi ated, for which he believes the present ppropriation of $133,473,085 will be Lmply sufficient. YORK TOWNSHIP BONDS. heir Legality Acknowledged and the Peo ple Must Pay the Taxes. [Yorkville Enquirer.] The board of county. comn -'0one; s agents, last Fliday-uUred into an greemeutwith W. K. Blodgett, the older of the bonds voted by York ownship in aid of the Three C's rail oad, by which the legality of the said onds is acknowledged, and the suit ending in the United States court is o be discontinued, as in the case of atawba and Ebenezer townships. The agreement is the same as that ntered into on the part of the other ownships, with one exception. Mr. 3lodgett represented that he had con rol of the matured coupons on only 0,000 of the $76,000 of bonds, and ould not rebate the accrued interest n the remaining $25,000. He, how ver, cancels the accrued interest on he $50,000 up to January 1, 1889, and lso 20 per cent. of the whole debt of 75,000. By this arrangement York township aves in principal and interest some hing over $21,500. After signing the agreement, the ounty commissioners at once made a evy of 91 mills to pay the current and ccrued interest, and this fall the tax ayers of York township will pay axes as follows: For State purposes, mills; ordinary county, 2 mills; Zarrow Gauge railroad, 1- mills; con titutional school, 2 mills; Three C's ailroad, 94 mills. Total 20 mills. In ddition to this, taxpayers in the town re assessed 2 mills for the local school ax, which makes the total 22 mills. Text year the Three C's railroad tax 6il be about 4 mills, or a little less. low a Spa"ish Noblenan Won a Hazard ous Bet. [From the Boston Sunday Herald.] CITY OF MEXICO, August 22.-A ealthy gentleman of Basque descent ved in the city of Mexico. He was a od deal of a madcap and noted for is daring eccentricities. The reigning riceroy, a Spanish nobleman, was es ecially objectionabie to him, and one ay, when the Basque gentleman was mong some lively and congenial riends, talk fell on the law which pro ided that no one other than the Vice ay might drive about with spotted orses. This was a privilege which be Viceroys were very zealous in main iining. As a result of the discussion the ~aque gentleman, something of a ealavera," as they say in Spanish-a ild fellow, we would put it-wagered rith a Miexican marquis that he would imself hitch four spotted horses into is coach and drive through the prmn ial streets of Mexico. Twenty thou md dollars was the atuount of the ager. In a few days a handsome coach, -ithfour spotted horses, was driven p the main avenue of the city past 3e present Iturbide Hotel to the very ,tes of the viceregal palace. The coach as driven several times -up and down ifront of the palace, while sentries resented arms, tbinking it to be the iceregal coach. Some one ran up ~airs and informed the Viceroy him f of the presence in the street. of a ach with spotted horses, and out ent the pompous Spanish vice-king >a balcony to see, with his own eyes, le defiance of his privilege and infrac on of the law. The Basque gentlenman leaned out of ie window, saluted the Viceroy most raciously, and then ordered the coach lan to enter the mamn courtyard of the slace. On reaching the very heart of te viceregal authority the Basque ighte<l, passed gravely up the stair Lse to the viceregal apartments, and, the astonished and dazed function -y, said: "Knowing how fond you ere of horses, I have come to present yu with a coach and four as an expres on of my admiration!" The Viceroy, perforce, had to accept le handsome gift, and could say no aing. The coach and horses cost $3,000, and ie lever Basque pocketed Sl'7,0mK ofit when the wager was settled. What shakespeare light flave Said. take or not to take: that is the question. hether 'tis better for a wan to suffer be pangs and torments of indigestion, r something take, and, in its taking, end them. Shakespeare didn't say that, but 'ry likely he would have said some ing similar, if he were living in this h century, when so many suffer no Id agonies from indigestion. Of urse he would have gone on to say at a man must be a fool not to take e "something" which would put an d to the "pangs and torments" oken of, if he could get it. Now it is fact that weakened, impoverished ood brings on indigestion, which is e cause of dyspepsia, constipation-a isoned condition of the whole sys m-and it is a fact, also, that Dr. erce's Golden Medical Discovery will purify the blood and enrich it that the weakened organs are revital d and strengthened. It is guaran ed to do this. If it doesn't, your one wil be returned to you. THE CANAL IN COURT. Claimant Gunn to Sue Columbia's Counil -Formal Preliminary Demand for $2M0.000 Damasge. COLUMBIA, Oct. 1.-The gun Ias fired. Here is the charge: "In re Colu1mbia canal. "Columbia, S. C., Oct. 1, 1891. "To the Honorable, the Mayor,,thb Aldermen and Common Council, of the city of Columbia ; comprising the following gentlemen: F. W. McMas ter, mayor; J. S. Dunn, W. McB. Sloan; G. W. Ulworden; R. S. Des portes, P. Motz, E. J. Brennen, W. C. Fisher, Joseph R. Allen, C. C. Habe nicht, Joseph H. Green, H. J. Hennles, J. M. Smith, aldermen. "Gentlemen: Having waited a Sa cient time withoutLLLeodge'nent of the notice, W our behalf on you, or receig any Intimation of the Inten ton of your corporate body regarding the sale of the canal, we hereby make a joint demand upon you, collectively and individually, for the sum of $250, 000 by way of damages sustained through your breach of contract and failure to complete-t due notice having been se u you of our readiness to complete the - conts act within the time specified with- . in the articles of agreement of June 29th, 1891. "We hereby require that the amount of damages claimed shall be placed to our joint credit in the banking house of Messrs. John Patton.& Sons, bank ers, William street, New York within the date thereof, failing immediate action for recovery will be commenced in the U States circuit courts; and we f i.. hereby notify you that in our claim for damages we conjoin with you theffol lowirg gentlemen: Messrs. F. W. McMaster, R. S. Desportes, John T. Rhett, W. B. Lowrance, C. J. Iredell, acting as the board of trustees of the. Columbia canal, we holding them col lectively and individually liable for the damages sustained by the failure to complete their agreement. "Respectively, "ALExANDEE HAMITiON GuNN, "GEORGE C. SCHOFIELD. "Served upon the Hon. F. W., Master, chairman of board of trustei of the Columbia canal, for himself and; the other members of the board by "Robert W. Shand, J. S. Muller, so. licitors." - Miyor McMaster says he shall dw assemble the council or tru and that Mr. Gunn can-go ahead and The council for Gunn and Scho say this does not abandon the uis< against the city and Boston purehasnme to compel the deliverance of the prop erty to them. COTTON. BY TORCH WILL. What's the matter at the South? Cotton, Empty pot and hungry mouth! I Worse tban pestilence and drougbt! What has rubbed her to the raw? Cotton. Cruller than civil war! Why is she a working for .C!otton? Who has robbed her bern and stable? I Cotton. Orchard, garden, store and tab'!n; Second Cain that slaughtered Abel Cotton! Also slew the precious Grass? Cotton. Also miade aperfect ass. Of his followers in mass? Cotton!! What has killed our woods so dead? - Cotton. Ravaged all our land so red?A Where's our money, meat and bread? What's the world a stealing at? Cotton. What's the fellow's feeling that Broke himself a dealiag at Cotton? What is it the planter lacks? Cotton. Let him go to-prayer, and "ax" Providence-treble tax Cotton! Wh' has left us but a button? Cotton. Breaches down, and fences rotten? Cotton, Cotton, Cotton, Cotton, Cotton! Please to tell us what to do! C.,tton. nlow to make a meal of you, Boiled or baked, or roast, ortmtew? Cotton! Get a hydrostatic screw! Cotton. Dig a hole and drive himt to WVell, the other side; adieu, Cotton! Get a r ,pe! and let us swing Cotton. Eligher than a kite; and sing. 'Ruin's seized the rathless King" Cotton! Then the South shall rise indeed Cotton! something better than a weed, . 'Cotton! When her veins no longer bleed Cotton; When she finds a better feed ['han "cotton-lint," or even "seed Cotton"!! Herman's Sayings. A man is a wonderful creature, bough his origin is of earth, a6d his 'nd it' also but dust, yet while existing w'e find in many an fron heart. It is a fact that medicine currrflhe loctor more frequently tha:a it.enres 9 he patient. Modern love is not blind ; it fiuds~ !Lmy a1ways tor'chTe .ple.