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EST ED1865.NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, J ESTALISED -- --- - - --WEDESDA, JNE , 182. ___PRICE $1.50 A YEAR COLONEL $. S. KZITT, THE SAGE OF >t oaEE, Has Another Say-The A111ance "BesPan sible for the Present Deplorable Con ayitoa of-Afirs In this StAe." Editor Herald and News: Citizens of " the State, if one of you determined to build a house in which to live out your days with your wife and childreu, what would you first do? If you could, you would procure all first-class lum ber and haul it to the spot on which you determined to build your residence. Next you would employ a carpenter to build It. After commencing work, if you found out you were being imposed on by a cobbler who could not even draw a straight line, what would you do? Why, discharge him at once, and look out for a skilled workman who can build not only a snug house, but one of beauty. That is a duty you owe your family. Let us make the appli cation to our State affairs. Two years ago we employed B. R. Tillman at an annual salary of $3,500 and perquisites to manage our State affairs. He has proven he is utterly ignorant of our form of Government and. her laws. He does not know the difference be tween a return of property for taxes and the assessment of property for taxes. No person or corporation as aseses their property. Each person makes his return. He can put a valu ation on it if he wishes, or he can.let it alone, The township board consist ing of three members, takes the returns made to the auditor and assesses the property of each person. This is aggre gated by the auditor. The chairmen of the township boards constitute the county board. Tho duty of the county board is to equalize the assessments between the townships. These boards have no authority to assess, nor in their equalization can they reduce the aggre gate below the assessments of the township assessors, as aggregated by the auditor. The State Board is com posed of the chairmen of the county boards, and equalizes the assessmrnts between the counties. The. action of j - the boards is final. There is no appeal from it. If Tillman or any official can raise it in the case of a bank, he or ---~-they can raise it in the case of every person. There would then be no use for boards of assessors. Tillman's ig norance and'presumption is the cause of the.State's lawsuits with the banks. He is wholly, to blame. Again he is so ignorant and arrogant he does not - know the,full, simple tit-toreaefa& always rests somewhere and always melhai unless fraud Harris' Tis Water will 'fthe agricul e State. When For sale by Robertson & Gild and delivered E. Pelham. - sed. If chips tendered as a P. P. P. stimulates the a they should aids the process of assimil t poey s nervous troubles, and invi property was strengthens every organ ot At the proper Nervous prostration is als( not paid,' fore the great and powerful Pdsl h rp eff'ects are permanent and -dsl h rp - know an agent Spring. ?rincipal when he The spring is here and pe of his authority. stallment man with Fur;se is not bound by Carriages, Trunks, etc., ited without au fered o'a small monthly C fund comisin mients. Stoneware and fn cmms on hand. Cash not refui Tillman's act does R. C. We. The members only The Instal ndividu~ally. (f. Mai st, nstitution, Article 9, If you are not sati "No money shall be &~ Wearn are selling , treasury but in pursu call on them and yiations made by law." ma want . offier paying it out -'~-O to lose it. Let us come Eve~ one who haess. Tillman by his rash heel (J'ee" recomrsly impaired the credit the finest cheese evelt will be diffcult to re ity. Leave your cg ehsdn.I ei ----we State will be ruined and cozmmelncem4 be higher than for years. For the Commen n top of deficiency will College the. Richm. Ther will be no e Railroad will sell trip tickets to Newtillman's ignorance of the the following rates, of the State by his tempo beo-nemdqtet to the Supreme ptoton. 4t,ICkr. Jones, Speaker of the Anderson...... ...... 3 Representatives, and Lieu cme og.i- lovernor Gary. Mr. Jones .r.n......... olumbia to take the seat. o HuIi~..'.'.'~'.is credit that he promptly de Spartanburg .....the appointment as soon as A Bab.y Dies-Tr shown he was disqualified. 4l. fellow Gary wants to sit on Coroner Rea he can't be made to under cild o 0ej~ constitution. He would be C. Wilgon-apioni to frame a new one. '~-~t~MOwould have bel'.eved South Carohina could, by any possibility, have been officered with such ignorant offi cials? The State is iin a deplorable conditior.. The Legislature has no right to appropriate the people's money to defray the expenses of Tillman's lawsuits. Offiials should be made to pay for their ignorance and presump tion. What citizen of the State, if he has money to invest, will put it in ry. Shi~erescurities to be dominated over e to its des ignora~nt and rash man who ch,that fell ane nothing but assail capital git ____has been in office? 'If our own Dearness trill not invest in our securities local applien we expect those outside our h the diset todo so? is only, of the State, think well on an you again vote for this man ed cond*as well nigh ruined us. He is ng of the lly ignorant, rash and presumnp tube ge but"he is a Godless man. In his mbingsh at Gai ille he said, "I wou ness is er go to hell w'th my an the in3fianiaven with the opposition." Such .$iis t@timent and such language would ver;- ninerace the leader of a barberous tribe etarrh, w-frica. All the acts of this man ed condit to the fact that he will ar s there on schedule time. Farm a il will any of you get aboard b) that his train and go with him? tarrh Cu you do, farewell, we aregoing in the F. J. CH.tete direction. We hope to live in Sodbmpanionship with the virtuous When i wed Shoe heLilly Br ortable shoe throughout the great hereafter. The preacher who sanctions such a senti ment and such language by supporting A Tillman desecrates the pulpit and should not be allowed again to enter it. He sells out God and country for the hope of pelf and place. Alliancemen, we are responsibie for the present deplorable condition of af fairs in this State. We elected Till- in man. He never could have l-een Cc elected but for the support of our order. You owe it to your wives and children It to drop bim and save our Christian 18 ivilization from barbarism by electing to office clean, capable and God-loving tb men. If you do not, if we are not on th the road to anarchy and a bloody revo- ah lution i.he writer, who has been a stu- be dent of the history of all nations and peoples for forty years, has read it to Ge no purpose. If it comes, the late war between the States was child's play. be We then had 35,000,000 of people; we el now have 05,000,000. Be warned in time and save the tate, save your families from destruc- ye tion.and your homes from desolation S before it is too late. 1 Respectfully Gr ELLISON S. KEITT. Enoree Plantation, S. C., May, 30, zei 1892. m th THE LAURENS LYNCHING. ad m( 'articulars of the Tragic Taking Off of U Dave Shaw. sel col Special the State.] tic LAURES, June 1.'-From all I can wi 'ear and see there seems to have been Tt lynching in this county on the night HE >f Friday, May 27, that has been kept aft rery quiet, and I will try to give the H1 acts in the case. str On Friday afternoon, May 27, John r !f. Abercrombie, constable for John Po . Hellms, trial justice, arrested a tegro Dave Shaw, on suspicion that he be tad broken' into the store of William JO 3opkins on the night of May 21. The Bi :vidence on which the war:ant was i ssued was very slight, as follows: an )ne negro said that Dave Shaw staid th' l night at one place.and another negro ou aid he staid at another place on the pu ight when William Hopkins' store th was robbed. th' After arresting Dave Shaw, Aber- th rombie carried him to William Hop- th :ins' residence, arriving there at or ibout 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and Pr ocked him up in a crib. Abercrombie de hen went off, as he said, to hunt up ,vidence against the negro. When th abercrombie arrived at Hopkins' with he negro a considerable number of D nen had gathered there, and they sai ontinued to arrive until forty or more ve tad collected. These men sat around and talked oh mntil nearly sundown, and then left. Ja ,bercrombie returned to Hopkins be ween sundown and dark, ate his sup- . >er, and then, in company with Wil- Wi iamt Abercrombie and John Hopkins, asn tarted with the prisoner for the home Ia >f Trial Justice Hellms, .about five th~ niles away. Half a mile from Wil- p iam Hopkins' they had to cross Rabun pro reek. John M. Abercrombie dis- do nounted from his horse and went with the prisoner across the foot-log,in he others leading his horse across the ter ~reek. When they all had crossed, tal ron M. Abetcrombie continued to do walk with the prisoner. William A ber- ru irombie asked him if he didn't want to ati -ide. He said no, he would walk a ha wrhile. y Two handred and thirty yards from :he creek, when John M. A bercrombie s md the prisoner were about twenty- W ive or thirty yards ahead of the other v fficers, a party of men ran into the V mad, fired ten or twelve shots, de- re~ anded the prisoner, took him from j he officers and carrled him into the thZ pine thicket. The officers ran back to wards the creek, and when they got to- tit gether went back to the house of Wil- er lam Hopkins. The mob carried the prisoner about d 00 yards from where they took him from the officers, and hung him to a tree. The limb was too low, so they re1 :arried him to another tree, about ne ifteen feet away, and there found a c imb about ten feet high, to which they ~ awung him. en They beat the prisoner with a pine hi sti ud a cedar stick until threads of bis clothing adhered to the stick. Neighbors who knew Dave Shaw's hi voice heard him cry out: "You have shot me!" There was a considerable pool of blood on the ground, and there p was blood on the pine tree and on the t eaves of the cowitch vine that ran up the tree. There was a plain mark ch where they had dragged the body fromat the tree to the road; and now comes a mystery. The body has never been i found. Scores of negroes, assisted by a V few whites, have searched rivers, lakes, 01 reeks and woods for four days without te< ny success. I think the :iegro is dead v nd eff'ectually concealed. v The good people of this community h are outspoken in their condemnation of he te deed. The concensus of opinion is p that the mob did not intend to take the negroe's life, but only wanted toal frighen him into a confession, when',1 by some mischance the poor fellow's ife was forfeited. ab T c eidnot report the~mt-B r to t e Trial Justice until Saturday 1to night, when the Trial Justice went to his home and asked him about it. The constable went fishing on Satur- re: cday. Ti It is believed by many that if this ta matter is sifted to the bottom it will ereate a stir. L AURENS. a9 yc Smith & WVearn are closing out their . stock at a discount. There is no hum bug about it. Read their advertise- sU ment. tf. H GRAND FATHER "TIPPECANOE." enin6cence or t:.e Campa,gn of 1840 -The Powerful Speech of Chancellor Caldwell Against Harrison. De livered rt Srartanburf. To the Editor of The Herald and nws: Your reader. will no doubt take erest in the accompanying lettei irm Maj. Wni. Hoy, of Spartanburg unty, which was published in the roi.a Spartan. on 13th April last. describes scenes at Spartanburg, in 10, when Gen. W. H. Harrison, the ndfather of the present President of a United States, was a candidate foc at office against Martin Van Buren, d when Patrick C. Caldwell, of New rry, and Col. J. H. Irby, of Laurens, re candidates for Congress. The neral Caldwell whose speech is de. .ibed was James J. Caldwell, of New cry, who afterwards became Chan lor. J. S. REID. ks this is goi fg to be a Presidential xr, I pr.pose to state a few incidents a pubic meeting that took place at artanburg, C. H., saleday in August, 0. It had been published in the eenville Mountaineer that the citi is of the county would hold a iss meeting on that day to eodorse leading measures of Van Buren's ministration. Col. H. H. Thomson ved that John Crawford be called to chair and that Major Henry and eral leading citizens constitute a nmittee to draw up suitable resolu ns expressive of the views of those o constituted the meeting. Col, omson's motion was carried. Mr. nry and his committee retired and er a short abscence returned. Major mry submitted to the meeting s ing of resolutions fully endorsing n Buren's administration and sup. ted his resolutions in a speech, ijor Barry moved that the resolution passed by acclamation. Before Ma Barry's motion got a second Dr. rings rose to a point of order and luired of the chairman if there wal yone present who did not approve of resolutions. If there were any they ht to discuss them before they were t to a vote. Dr. Winsmith now said tt there should be a discussion before vote was put. The chairman, )ugh an old member ef the Legisla -e and a Senator of the district al time, appeared to be taken by sur se, and after some hesitation and ibt, admitted that it might be in or to discuss the resolutions. Wm alker, of the Walker house, moved tt Dr. Bivings should address th eting. No objection being made, . Bivings addressed the meeting as ilting the administration with f ugeance. The doctor was a good iaker and bad stumped North Car. na in 3828 in favor of Adams againsi -kson. In those times it was a com >n remark that Jackson was nothing thout Van Buren, and Van Buret thing without Jackson. The Doctor aulted both administrations simulta. >usly. [f either-bad made a blundet doctor had made a note of it and sented -an array of charges. Thi tor had not forgotten one item o: a speeches he had made in North rolina in 1828, greatly adding to his ~ormation on that subject in the in vening12 years. Major Henry was en by surprise. To have met all thi stor's charges, he would have had t( :aage over at least a cart-load of liter re, which was not at hand. No ont d ever seen him pestered and throwr his guard before. or some time there was confusion me one shouted that General Cald 11 was in the house. One hiundrec ices rang out for him to come for trd and address the audience. H4 ponded promptly. The General wa t returning from a pleasure trip ir a mountains and had come into the eting after it was organized, but it ae to hear Dr. Bivings's speech. Gen L Caldwell had a near relation that . a candidate for Congress in tbE ~tricts composed of Laurens, Lexing 1, Newberry and perhaps Fairfield, t Cadwell, as hA was then called, wai ~arded as a slow sailor or at least gative man who did not display his ors and charge Colonel Irby, whc ? a very able man and a man of great ergy and tact in elections, who was ; opponent. Col. Irby was running a independent or disaffected Dem rat, but he was almost as severe in charges against Van Buren as thE higs were. General Caldwell had pared himself to meet Colonel Irby any other man in the South thai >k the Harrison side. He had data a small slip of paper to meet all the arges made against Van Buren. HE acked Harrison's political and mili y record. He commenced hy show that Harrison freed his negroes in rginia, his native State, moved to o, a free State, was sent to the Uni lStates Congress from Ohio, there ted for the tariff of 1824. When ap inted territorial governor of Indiana, signed a statute of the Legislature viding that any one who com eed an action in a State case and led to establish his case, should pay costs, or in default of that receive lashes on the bare back. A class of ple who was always grumbling out hard times and blaming Van ren for them, never failed afterwar~d nathmatize Harrison when his name s called. He took up Harrison's litary record, told about the Indianl erring him to a camping place at ppecanoe which would be disadvan. ~eous to his army in a night attack d his whole army was saved by thE per-human exertions of some gallant ung spirits that threw away their es rather than see the whole countr3 bject to be massacred by the savages, a rraign,d Harrison for not rein forcing Winchester at Miami. He severely criticized his imanagemient of the Thames. The best part of Caldwell's speech was his description of Harrison's first Cabinet meetidg, if he should happen to be elected. He invoked the higher powers to save the country from such a calamity. It is near fift -two years since that speech was made and your readers will pardon me for not being able to follow a trained lawyer in this description of Harrison's first Cabinet meeting. He supposed that Harrison would have to be like a man made of wax. Clay with his high tariff the ory and Colonel Preston the best nuli fication orator at that time, stumping North Carolina for Harrison. Harri son would have to submit to a twist each way to please Clay and Preston. Seward and Stevens, of Georgia, would have to take him through the same process. Caldwell showed that Harrison would have innumerable such cases as Clay's and Preston's to conciliate and before they all got done twisting him, he would be out of shape or something to that effect. Caldwell mentioned all the good and strong parts of General Jackson's character and wound up by giving a thundering stamp on the floor and saying at the same time that Harrison would not make such a man as Jackson if he was to live a tLou sand years. The audience vociferously cheered him. Wm. Walker called for Dr. Winsmith. Elisha Poole seconded the call of Walker. Messrs. Poole and Walker got their friend in trouble. Dr. Winnsmith had a stumpy road to travel and as a matter of course wade the poorest effort of his life. Hun= dreds of people, then in the house re membered his speeches in favor of nulli fication, urging the people to nullify the very acts that Harrison, as a member of the United States Senate, had voted for. He made so poor a de fence of Harrison that his remarks were almost incoherent and it became evident that he was speaking against time. Night came on and the court house had to be lighted. Calls were made from every part of the house for a vote on the resolutions, which eventually drowned the doctor out and brought his prolix remarks to. a close. The vote was taken and the resolutions passed almost unanimously. Some person made a call for the sentiments of the candidates, allowing two min utes for each one to define his position. Capt. Ralph Smith and Mr. Moses Wilkins declared for Harrison and were greeted with a hundred shouts that they would never see Columbia only at their own expense. Dr. Riv ings and his Lieutenants were not sat isfied with the results of the day and ap pointed another day for a big Harrison demonstration and it was heralded in advance that Col. Preston was to be the big gun of the day. The meeting took place, I think, in September. I don't recollect the day of the month. Col. Preston was on hand but his powerful eloquence, which it was claimed in nullification times, bad swayed solid masses of men and electri fled senates, had lost its charm, from what cause I don't know. Perhaps it was bad health, age and other causes. They took him in to North Carolina to make Whig speeches but the dem ocrats called up his nullification speeches in South Carolina and the Whig majority was greatly reduced in North Carolina by the reproduction of those speeches. In one of these speeches he had called North Carolina the Rip Van Winkle of the South. Your readers will please excuse me for not inserting in the proper place the names of all the candidates for the legislature in 1840. When Messrs. Smith and Wilkins declared for Har rison, Major Henry, John Hunt, Wmn. Pooie, H. H. Thomson, Dr. Littlejohn, James Cooper, and Robert Alexander all declared themselves for Van Buren. The first five were elected. Smith and Wilkins received about six hundred votes each. LYNCHED FORL THE USUAL CRLIME. This Time it Happened at Port Jervis, N. Y.--Not therners do notStand that Sort or Thing any Better thun Southerners. PORT JERVIs, N. Y., June 2.-A ne gro named Bob Jackson assaulted a young white girl named Lena Mc Mahon on the outskirts of this village to-day, in the presence of a number of young girls and of two young negroes, who were kept at bay by Jackson's revolver. The girl's injuries will prob ably kill her. Jackson fled, but was pursued and caught nine miles from Port Jervis and brought back. Jackson confessed the crime and implicated William Foley, a white man, who be claimed was in a conspiracy to ruin Miss McMahon. Foley has been paying attentions to the girl con rary to the wishes of her par ents. Jackson was placed in the village lock-up and a large crowd gathered out side. Some person raised the cry. "Lynch him!'' and it was promptly d',ne. The village police were power less to protect him. A noose was ad justed about his neck and he was strung up to a neighboring tree in the presence of a bowling mob of over a thousand people. For over an hour the body hung suspended from the tree, where it was viewed by crowds of people. Jackson was about 22 years of age, and had re sided in Port Jervis about a year. His pare-nts live in Patterson, N. J. Amount of Money in Circulation. WXASHNGTo, June 2.-Thelmont bly Treasury statement issued to-day gives the per capita circulation of all kinds of money as $24.77, and the aggregate circulation as $1,020,0l0.229, an increase since May 1, 1892, of $6,437,985, and "Governor Tillnan's Pos0tion "-Another View. To the Cotton Plant: The writer of the article in The Cotton Plant of May _1, headed "Governor Tillman's posi tion" expresses peculiar Alliance views. And I am constrained to believe that all true Alliancemen will not agree with him. His assertion that the con ference after organizing wisely invited all delegates in sympathy with the Alliance and its demands, to participate in the deliberations is supported by the approval of a majority of the Alliance men present. But whether the action was wise or not when considered solely with reference to the success of the Alliance demands, as I claim it should be considered, is at least questionable. I have never doubted that it was an error. The call was for a conference of Alliance delegates. It was proper. The duty and responsibility of protecting the demands devolved upon Alliance men. They were under obligation to the Order and the responsibility of shaping a policy to protect these de mands rested upon them. Not so with those who were not members. How ever much they may have been in ac cord with the objects of the organiza tion, they owed no allegiance to it. Their support was voluntary. Every one of them owed allegiance to the Democratic party, and upon any ques tion that would raise an issue between political party and the Alliance de mands their attitude and their votes would undoubtedly favor the political party. This fact was demonstrated in the conference, for a most violent parti san motion was made by one of our sympathizers. A motion that should not be entertained in an Alliance meet ing. And it seemed that the meeting was more in the nature of a partisan political conference than an Alliance conference. While I fully appreciate the assistance rendered by our sympa thizers in supporting the Alliance de mands and would not deny to them any privileges that should be extended to good citizens, I cannot agree that it was wise to admit them to an Alliance conference with full powers to partici pate in shaping its policy. Again-The writer says: "The order and the Governor are to be congratu lated upon the positive and definite assurance that henceforth there will be harmony between himself and the Order"-"that if the Alliance would not come to him, he would go to the Alliance"-I cannot discover the pro cess of reasoning by which the writer can reasonably conclude.that the Order should be congratulated upon the utterances of Governor Tillman or upon his actions. The expression of the Gov ernor above stated- under quotations appears to me to be more of a declara tion of war than of harmony with the Alliance. Coupled with the condition that the defeated party will surrender -I am not satisfied ,.t present that the Governor does not consider that the Alliance has surrendered to him. He certainly has strong grounds upon which to base such an opinion. If his course of action should be governed by that supposition then I cannot see any cause why the Order should be con gratulated. There is nothing in the Governor's declaration that indicates a loyal Allianceman, although he is a member of the organization. His re cord up to the present time is in opposi tion to the Alliance. It is well known that he personally opposes the sub-trea so;ry plan and favors State banks of issue. It was hoped that after the Spartanburg meeting he would fall into line and no longer antagonize the Alli ance. But what are the facts? In his address at Newberry he advised the people not to join hands with the North-western people, but to stand with the North-eastern 'emnocrats. At Greenville he said that the Alliance had abandoned -the saib-treasury bill. In his interview with the correspon dent of the Atlanta Constitution dated May 6th, he says: "But there is a dis cordant element and apparently insep erable barrier to a cordial and lasting union. The farmers of the Northwest have hitherto been the blackest of black Republicans, and so far as I can discover there is little or no change to wards the South among them on that question." The Alliance constitution says in the declaration of purposes, "Sec. 6, To suppress personal, local, sectiolal and national prejudices all unhealthful rivalry and all selfish ambition." No organization except the Alliance has undertaken the work of restoring fraternal relations between the sections of our country divided by the civil war. I have met men of the Northwest and have had the most positive assurances not only from them, l>ut gromn Alliance lecturers also that seetieaal feeling in that part of the country is disappearing with amazing rapidity. Those people are honest and they are progressive and detenined. They have taken the ini tiative in breaking old party ties so that the sections could meet upon com mon ground to advance the common interest of the country. There is no reason why our people should be told that there is an inseperable barrier be tween us and the people of Kansas when S2,000 Republican majority was overcome two years ago by the People's party standing upon the Alliance plat form. That is the platform of the peo ple of South Carolina to-day. The Alliance rises to a higher plane than the success of political parties. It is working with the patriotic purpose of establishing fraternal relations between the sections of our c>untry, and to re stre good government based upon the princip)le of "equal rights to all and special privileges to nonie." Members and spirit of the constitution when they give expression to language that engenders sectional prejudice and can make no claim of loyalty. It is perti nent to inquire the source from which Gov. Tillman made his discovery. It was certainly not inside the Alliance. Again-It is generally understood that Gov. Tillman favors Hill for Presi dent. Can he think that Alliancemen who have any regard for its demands wlil follow him on th .t line ? In the same issue of the Cotton Plant I read an interview with the Iresident of the North Carolina Alliarce in which he says: "As to the candidates now before the party, I can say that the Alliance is against Cleveland, but more would vote for him than for Hill." Cleveland is an open and avowed opponent of our policy, and command! respect, while Hill is a political tricks;er who is trying to get our votes by shielding his posi tion-knowing full well that his policy would be against us. I t is not surpris ing that the Alliancemen of North Carolina do not intend to support him. What will be Gov. Tillman's position should the Alliance prefer to stand by our State platform against Hill if he is nominated? Would he undertake to carry the Alliance with him or would he go with the Alliance? His declara tion leaves that an oper. question. The action of the State Convention makes his position still more complicated. Under the circumstances the writer in the Cotton Plant must-be more explicit to impress ordinary minds that the Al liance has cause for congratulation. Jos. L. KErrT. A BIG BLAZE IN BARN WELL. The Opera House and Some Stores De stroyed-Total Loss Approximates $20,000. [Special to News and Courier.] BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, June 2. Fire bugs have been at work in Barn well again. The fire alarm was sounded at about 3 o'clock this morning, and the stables of R. W. Dicks were discov ered to be on fire. The :iames quickly spreak and all the buildings in the southwest angle of the Court House square were consumed. The fire i. probably, lie the other, incendiary,.but the loss is much greater, the aggregate losses probably summing up $20,000. The night watchman, Mr. Blackman, says that he saw the fire soon after it sta.ted, and that if he had had a bucket he could probably have extinguished it.' He said he tried his best to rouse the people by firing his pistol, but it was some time before he sacceeded, and then the fire was uncontrollable. There were a few colored persons who did good work, but the most of them looked on in stolid composure. They claim that it was because during the last fire a no torious scamp by the nameof Jim Wil liams, who was plundering, was ar rested. By strenuous effort and with the aid of a common garden squirt, the first building on Brown's row, belonging to Col. J. J. Brown, was saved. If that had burnt the entire block, including five store houses, the ba.nk and the Davis HoteJ, would probably have been burnt. The Baptist church was saved by the heroic efforts of thc.s( few who assisted, a good many even of the whites emulating in masterly inactiv ity the apathetic indifference of their black brethren. The following is a list of buildings burnt, and approximate losses. R. WV. Dicks, livery stable building and store house, S2,000, covered by in surance. S. L. Knopf, whbo occupied said store house, stock of goods, about $1,500, in sured; some of goods saved. Win. McNab, about $4,020, in store house nad goods; insured fcr about $3, 000. The Opera House burni. next; cost $8,000, insured for $5,000. John L. Bronson, $3,500 in goods, of he saved one-half. His store house was worth about $1,500. He was about the heaviest individual loser above insur ance. He was insured for only $1,000 on stock and building. WV. R. Christi, who occuped one of the stores under the Opera .t.ouse, lost some goods and saved same, and the same may he said of Dr. R. C. Kirk land, druggist, who occupied the other Opera House store. Christi 's loss and insurance unknown; Kirkland claims a stock of $2,000, and he says that his in surance of $650 will recoup the loss of what he failed to'save. It seems to be a serious <ju stion what to do to stop these fires Interesting to Ladies. Dear Madam : Does your husband seem tired of you, are you always peevish ? Do you and your husband have little spats now and then ? 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The Question of Back-Pensions to Union Soldiers. t) "The tangled web we weave When we practice to deceive." W. F. Hill, the editor of the West- t] moreland, Kansas, Record, found that a in the South it is claimed that the sol- tj dier resolution is not a part of the St. c Louis conference platform, and that no n party denounces the pensioning of o: union soldiers more bitterly than does h the Alliance. In the North, none, ac- a cording to the ste.tement of the Alli- S ance men, are ready to do as much for r, the soldier as they. So Editor Hill used a little strategy, which is thus de- b scribed in the issue of the Recorder for f4 May 12th: THE THIRD PARTY TRICK EXPOSED. m "We concluded that we would like 8 to know what Col. L. L. Polk had to 1 say on this question. A letter, dated Goldsboro, North Carolina, written to d Colonel Polk, asking him whether the resolution favoring makingthe pay of Union soldiers received during the war equal to gold was a part of the St. Louis conterence platform. Later the post master at Goldsboro was ordered by W. b F. Hill to forward his mail to this place. Another letter was written from West- p moreland, Kansas, asking Colonel Polk a for the same information as the Golds boro letter. "The colonel answered the first letter C and referred the second to Doctor Mc Lallin, editor of the Topeka Advocate. a Here are both letters in full, showing how the so-called reformers work theo soldier racket in the South and the 8 North: q THE SOUTHERN EDITION OF THE ST. t' LOUIS THIRD PARTY PLATFORM. a "WASHINGToN, D. C., April 5, '92. c "Mr. Will T. Hill, Goldsboro, N. C.: b "My Dear Sir and Brother:-Reply- a ing to yours of the 21st ult., I beg to s assure you that there is no clause I in our platform for pensoining Union n soldiers. It never has been there. It E is not one of our demands. Leading Democratic papers all over the country V acknowledge their inability to meet our I issues when they have to resort to vil- e lainous and willful misrepresentation I and- lying. To show you to what great li lengths they will go in this direction, l the Atlanta Journal, a few days ago in i1 a long editorial, charged directly and s absolutely that the pension clause and t: woman's suffrage clause were both in r our platform. On their part it seems n that the campaign is to be one of 0 evasion, m'srepresentation, personal fI abuse and downright lying. If they v can aftorc' it, we can. Just simply as- il sert in reply to these charges that they are lies from beginning to end. fi "The desperation of their cause could v not be more fully demonstrated than 9 by the cowardly nd unmanly methods 1 they have adopted. "But the peopleare going to be heard. I I pray God that they may have thee manliness and loyalty to itaud un finchingly by our principles. Write ( me and keep me informed as to the sit-e uation in your section of the State.e Would have written earlier but for the enormous amount of.. work in my of-e "Yours truly and paternally, L.L. POLK, a "President N. F. A. & I. U." I THE NoRTHWESTERN EDITION OF THE ST. LOUIS THIRD PARTY PLAT FORM. "TOPEKA, KAN., May 1, 1892. "Mr. J. McKee, Westmoreland, Kan- I sas:e "Dear Sir:-Your letter of April 27, s 1892, to Colonel Polk, Washington, D.g C., has been referred to me for reply. In answer I will say, was secretary of p the committee on platform ini the St. I Louis Convention. The resolution re- 1j lating to the payment of the difference a between the value of the money in c which the soldiers were paid and gold x was introduced by a Confederate sol dier from Texas, and was unanimously t: adopted, every southern as well as ti northern delegate voting for it, just as b it appears in all the reform papers in tj the country. There is no question about c: this. I acted as secretary during the si whole session of the committee on de- vi mands, and know whereof I speak. i "Yours truly, i "S. McL ALLIN." el A WESTERN EDITOR'S COMMENT ON h THE PARTY THAT FACES BOTi b WAYS. The Recorder comments editorially as follows on them: "The above letters are fair samples of the duplicity in politics practiced byA te so-called reformers. To a supposed North Carolinian, Colonel Polk consid ers that to claim that pensioning union soldiers is one of the demands of the St. s, Louis conference is 'villis.nous and will. ful misrepreseutation and lying.' Colo. d< nel Polk was chairman of that confer ence, and ought to know what demands , were adopted. In writing to North sa Carolina, he claims with much energy to know all about it. A northern man ~ets entirely different information from h4 Dr. S. McLallin, who is most positive in in his assertions, because he was kr ecretary of the committee on plat- ro form' 0LONEL POLK~ AND DOCToR McLAL LIN'S DIFFERENT JOB. ry "Both Colonel Polk and Doctor Mc Uallin will get copies of this article and ;hey can get together in their state- dl nents if they desire. The old soldiers, th neanwhile, will hold their breath, real zing that their future welfare depends h pon the settling of the questionh rhether the soldier plank is one of the m it T.nnis demands. Is Our Race Decaying? [San Francisco Call.] Until the discoveries of the bones of be cave-dwellers and the drift men it ras quite frequently assumed that men f ancient times weretaller and stronger ban those of the present day. Poe .rote about the giants, the nurserf iles abounded in adventures of races Dmpared to which our people are pig iies. As a matter of fact, no skeleton f the prehistoric period appears to ave belonged to a man whose stature ras equal to that of our tallest men. ome skeletons found on the Mediter mean coast seemed to have formed art of men whose height was six.feet; ut by far the greater number of bones >und in the drift in France, Germany nd Belgium belonging sto men who rere about five feet six, and whose trength, judging from their arm and g bones, must have been less than bat of the strong men of the present ay. The chances are that the intellectual >rce of our ancestors was as inferior to be intellectual force of the existing aces as their physical force. In works ' pure imagination and of abstract hilosophy mankind has perhaps made ut little progress within the historic eriod. It is difficult to detect actual dvance between Tennyson and Victor fugo on one side and Job, Ezekiel, fomer and Horace on the other. Nor an any particular march of intellect e observed by a comparison between he leading metaphysicians of to-day nd Aristotle and Plato. But in every ther branch of human thought there i marked progress, and such rapid pro ress that text-books become anti uated and obsolete in less than a cen ary. This is not only the case in ex et sciences in which the course of dis overy necessarily effaces past theory, ,ut also in such branches of knowledge s law, ethics, political economy and ocial science, in which- progress im >lies growing development of the hu nan mind. At the very time when thakespeare was giving voice to houghts which are as true now as rhen he uttered them, the Engilsh eople had no share in their own gov rnment; doubtless starved to death in rison, men were immured in jail for ifetime without a trial, women had no awful names, towns had no drains, gnorance was no fault, vice scarcely hame, and nobody complained of bese things. Their enormity was not ealized even by the clearest headed aen of the day. Surely it is imposing n public credulity to say that the re )rms which have taken place in these ital matters do not imply an advance a brain-power. We need not go back to Shakespeare Dr proof that mankind is growing riser and braver and kinder with each eneration. He who reads McMaster's uistory is amazed to find how narrow ninded and bigoted and selfish and iard-hearted. and short-sighted Ameri ans were only a century ago. At the 'ery time when Washington and his ompeers were laying the foundation f the best government the world has ver knoten the masses of the Ameri an people were in many parts of the ountry living in savagery which can ,ot be paralleled to-day outside of ~ussia. Women died for want of care .t the period of maternity; debtors ioked their heads out of holes called irisons in Connecticut and begged the vayfarer for a crust of bread; slaves ield their lives and the honor of their aughters at the mercy of their owners; iewspapers reviled the best men in the and in the foulest billingsgate; the ripple and the blind were often left to tarve unless they chanced to meet a ;ood Samaritan. Some of these things night happen anywhere, even at the >resent time, but then they were mat ers of common occurrence, elicited [ttle or no outcry, nor attracted much ,ttention. Does not the disappearance ,f these infamies imply a growth in cioral and mental stature. Whoever may hold to the contrary, be world is growing better every year bat rolls over. Error still rears its ead, crimes occur, injustice is prae iced, the weak are still sometimes rushed to the wall, the base still occa ionally rise to the surface of the social rave, but all these wrongs arouse the 2dignant protest from the masses, and 1 honest men's breasts r' longing to ure them fiercely burns. 't will be me to sy that the march oi progress us stopped when we find that things ase and vile and shameful rouse no idignation. WHAT IS PLUCK? Batch of Deninition~s Sent to a British Paper. [From the London Tid Bits. I This is the one that won: Fighting with the scabbard when the iord is broken. The following are some of the best 4finitions sent in: Moral backbone. The power a man has to say "no" hen he knows his wife wants him to y "yes." Fearlessness free~ -n foolhardiness. The chivalry oz nature's knight >od. That which enables one, when fight g against adverse circumstances and aocked down, to rise and try another und. The heart of a lion in the body of a an. The best remedy for despair. The force which converts an ordina man into a hero. Honest daring without caring. rlie absence of fear in the presence of nger. The courage to do the right thing at e right moment. rrrepressible stoutheartedness. rhat which keeps a man up when 's down. rhe offspring of courage and the >ther of success.