Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e 1 "evriW&. GilD T. A5. ~TABLSHED) 1865. WE~jy .C,TEDY AUR 0 89 WC EK 1.0AYAJ CONFEDERATES PROTEST, DEULARK THAT THEY DO NOV WAZ FEDERAL MONEY. Repudiato flutler-111s From the Ju etary onmaittee Taken up asud How Gives Notice of Hls Purpose to Speak Agalust Xxpausion. Washington, D. C.,.Jan. 5.-Und a special order. adopted bofore t recess the house devoted today consideration of bills presented I the committee on the judiciary. T bills were first considered in coi mittee of the whole. The first bi called up was one t-> create an add tional circuit judge in the Sixth jud cial circuit. It is this judgesh with which rumor connected ti name of William R. Day. In the Senate Berry, of Arkana presented protests from Confedera camps against Butler's resolution I pension Confederate veterans. Senator Hoar gave notice that I will speak on the subject of expai Sion. The Nicaragua canal bill came u and Mr. Caffory spoke on the Claj ton-Bulwer treaty. * Washington, D. C., Jan. 5. number- of petitions of ex-Confo erate soldiers and officers were r ceived today by Southern St nato asking them to enter their prote against Senator Butler's \resolutic to have the names of Confederal On Wednesday th selling the BANKRUP1 of the Newberry Cr less of cost. want bargains. D. C. Flynn soldiers added to the pension roll The Southern members and Senato are indignant over Butler's sugge tion and say the North Carolina Sei ator in no wa'y represents the Sout "NO, THANK YOU I" North Carolina Veterans Give Mark uttler 1;omo Advice. Raleigh, N. C., January 7.-Ti local camp of Confederate veterar tonight adopted the following res lution in regard to Senator Bntler bill to put them on the pension rol "We, the members of L. O'l branch camp of Confederate veteral of Raleigh, N. C., in meeting asser b!led, having sieen in the papers th Senator Batler has introduced a b in the United States Senate to pe sion the Confederate veterans, " .hereby enter our protest against sa bill, as degrading and demoralizir in its tendecy arid suggest to i honorable senator that he use Ii efforts to purge the pension rolls the b)ummeors and -bounty jumpers the Federal army, and we will thai him for same." -The lleason for It. "Huh!" exclaimed Percy Reginal aged six, as he examined Will Cleaver's little brother, "he ain't g no teeth." "Course lhe ain't," said Willie; "I ain't old enuff yet," brother Harry ain't no older 'n wh he is, an' lhe's got a hull lot o' teeth "That don't make no difference argued Willis, "'n' 'sides, Har Tompkin's pa, he's a dentist."-D troit Free Press. According to a story circalati: in Berlin, the Empress Augus Victoria met a chimney-sweep in room of the royal palace on morning before Christmas. S noded in a friendly manner, ai bade him wait a moment. Soon s returned leading her two young children, Prince Joachim, eig years old, and Princese Vi.ctori aged six, each bearing a C'hr istm honey cake, which was offered to ti sweep. The prince presented t gift with royal sauvity. The liti princess at first was freightened I the grimy appearance of the swee * Finally she handed him the.cake jir; ilngerly' mauner. FILIPINOS WILL FIGHT. (T AGUINALDO GONE TO I10ILO '10 LIEAD TIIM A(JAINST US. * Fine Words Which May or May No tuller PartuIps--Prntmiite Which tite Natives Do Not Slioui to I rusr. Dr Washington, D. 0., Jan. 5.-Pros 1e ident McKinley today proclaimed the, to rules for Pilipinos. The President's O instructions to General Otis are to 'accomplish pacification of the natives of the Philippines by the sway of justice and right. The United States rule, he says, will b"o firm but kindly. H formally de clares Spanish sovereignty in the islands at an end and he proclaims the country American territory. He , says wo go thore not as invaders or e conquerors but as friends to the natives. Paris, Jan. 5.-A n oflicial tole e gram received by the Filipino junta I- here dated Manila, Jan. 4th, says: Aguinaldo has gone to Iloilo at the p request of the insurgents there to . place himself at their head with a view of their proceeding to fighting A with the Americans. 1- A pprall er1hensin. 7a (From Puck.) t BuLglar(on trial)-"Idon'tlike de looks of dis jury." Friend-"No; dey looks as if dey was prejudiced agin burglary." a 11th, we will commence STOCK : cery Company regard Come at once if you Manager. 1.4) PAY FOR WIMEELEIt. 7 The Speaker Refuses to Allow Soldier 3- enMmtborm Their Salary. Washington, D. C., January 7. Speaker Roed has refused to sign the warrants of Representatives Camhell, Colson and Wheeler for their December pay and has told the committee on the judiciary that it "e must bring in a report at once on I the Bailey resolution. s OUR AT 1113 U1iE T( WAlID CHINA. Ite port Irn shanalglfati or a secrft Treaty lit - 3. tweon the United statesI and Elnglanld. Is (Special to Nowv York Sun.) ~t Shanghai, January 0.-Accodn 11 to Chinese reports that are current -here a secret treaty exists between to the United States and Great Britain d to prevent the further alienation of g Chinese territory. is TE SI:COND IN H*AVANA. Col Jonel.s Heports the stafe Arrivai of the ik It"'"""ui' (Special to Greenville News.) Columbia, S. 0., January 7.-Col. Wilie Jones notitied Governor El. Jerbo today of the safe arrival of the ie Second regiment. The message is tdated Havana toda). Col. Floyd Names is Military Assitant. e Columbia, S. C.,January 7.-Ad ,jutant General Floyd announces that. ,,John D. Frost, Jr., of Columbia, will be appointed assistanrt. Major Frost a-was adjutant and major in the First Carolina. Two regimenlts here paraded to ig day. a HIs Horrid HIaHuctina~cion. 2e Attendlant (in~ insane asylamn) 20 That poor fellow over there is the id most pitiable case in the inistitution. 5e He weeps and bemoans his lot from at morning till night, and nothing can lit be done to alleviate his distress of a, mind. Visitor-hat is the nature of his le Attendant-He believes that he is IY the husband of seven wives who aro P' all coming to visit hims on the morrow. COLORED RACE CELEBRATE TVIN 'liRTY SIX ANNIVIIt4AItV OF E.iAMIt'ATION (AlOdURVEl) W111 U j N- UA LVI 'r1tLN I'. Thnam,q 1E. II r 1,u 41ratoir 0d it,? Day A Full trport uf 111m igie4 cle, Whiteh in Set Ablo and 'ractival A ddre si. (Spartanbarg Iloarld 2.) Yesterday the colored people of this city cetebrated the 8thh anni versary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. There was much interest and enthusiasm mani tested. The exercises wero held in the court house, and at 1 o'clock p. i. yesterdry a vast crowd had assom bled in the court room and the out side space was also thronged and packed. Rev. G. F. Mills gave an iitro ductory address and Wilson Lowry road the proclaination of ematicipa tion. Rev. D. H. Kearso read a splendid Iap0r on the issues of today. Editor Lorgan, of the Piedmont Indicator, was master of ceremonies. About 1:45 o'clock p. Im. the orator of the day, Thomas E. Miller, ad dressed the colored citizens of Spar. tanburg. We have mot here to celebrate the day that counts more for the negro than any other day in the calendar. With its reoccurrence, it brings to us marshaled in their order events of the past. Events in which are min gled agonized sunffering, buried hopes and many blessings some of which are still in disguise. Disappointments are among the heaviest burdens that can be milicted upon any race, peo ple or nation. If a race's hopes have been fir.n, their expectation great and aspirations high, then they bear disappointment in grief and sore affliction. To make the burden or disappointment light, our raco must keep abreast of the times. It is a hard lesson to learn (that is to turn loose cherished idols around which clustered shattered hopes.) The his tory of all mankind teaches this lesson and it is my self-inflicted task today, to call my people's attention to the fact that there is a Pharaoh on the throne who knows not Joseph. In this expression, I am not roferring to the rulers of our State, but to the ruler of our nation, his advisers and those of tht several State govern ionts, North and South, republican as Well as dvilmocratic. The central idea of the Fodiral compact, was the iLdividUal sover eignty of each State. The develop ment of this idea of home rule, whether in peace or anarchy, was en larged upon by Jefferson and was exemplified at all times of our na tional exist ance by every great leader republican or dlemocrat, whenever t.he rights of any one of their States were int< rtered withI. Read the messages of any one of our presidents, or all of thenm, and you wi.l be convinced thbat there has never beoon a president in the white house wvho has forgotton this contral idea and who has ever failed to em phasize the fact, that each State is a sovereign within it.s confines, hav ing the right to manage its citizens and t.heir rights ini pol1ities, business anid p)roperty ; hence t he citizeniship~ that is weak, tottering and depend ent upon assistance, is.reduced to but one alternativ'e; and it is tIs, te make the State the guiding star of their political hope and their mnateirial prosperity. There is another fact that 1 wish to call your attention te, it is this, that the negro miust so hive in the South, as to prove. by his acti that his only hope is confined wit hir the limit of the State in which lu lives. it is better by far to hav< no political hope than to have one that is predicated upon nationa: aid, national p)rotect ion, or nation al in. terference in onir h('hal f. I believe that there should be n< taxat;on without repr-esentation, ani if this represenitat ion is to come t< us, it can and will only come through and by the permission of the peoll o each towne.hip first, second, through and by the people of each county t hirda through and~ by t he p)eople of ouw ownt State. i'his is not what 'my p)eople wan to heair me say, but it is a worthleni CIo Death of of the entire sto< up the estate of ClothiNm FLY1 and poor physician, who has ding. nosed the case, knows the medicine that his patient wants to take will ruin him, but through fear, or some unknown reasou pormits his patient to drink the deadly (Irtig. I know the disease, I have learned the remo dy, and I am here to administer it. Therefore I pray thoe, 1 ont reat thee in the namo of the negroes unborn, to shatter the idol of our hopes dur ing the past thirty years, the idol that has been enthorned on the out side of the State for it, is impotent through reigning. It has hands but it cannot be uplifted in your behalf, it has oars but it will hear you not. it has voice but the voico has been hushed, it hits OyCs but the eyes will not penetrate across the line of any sovereign State, it has understanding but not for your cause, it has regard for the rights of the citizens of the United States, but that citizenship onist not be clothed in a black skin. Every act of this idol of ours empha sizes threadworn dogmna of anti-bel lum tinies, that wherever the Ameri can eagle spreads its wings and the stars and stripes are hoisted in power and might, the hind covered by the t wo, is the home, country and govern mmnt of the white race. Do you doubt it? Then oh, my people, I an sorry for you. Can't you open your o es and see that I am telling you the truth ? Then if you are too blind to read the signs of the times as I have presented them to you, I am burdened over much, for my task a. mong you will continuo to be hard and my soif inflicted yoke of staying in th- State and working for you and and our white fellow citizens is in deed heavy and galling. * * * * * Has Gov. Russell lifted up his lit. tlo finger in attempting to p)rotect his black republican followers in North Carolina? Has the republican administration (lone a single thmng in the United States Court, save to make foes for officers und witnesses in the case of the Post M'ister wvho was killon at Lake City ? Will they ever (10 any thing otheir than to make fees for the officers and witnesses? WVill the guilty parties ever be pun. ished ? No! never. T1he redress for these wrongs if found at all, will come to us from other hands than theirs. It must come to us through and by the teachings of such white men as Rev. Wingard, who was born upon the bank of the Saltkachatio, soil that is endeared by its past his tory to South Carolinians all. We will have to stay here trusting in God, acknowledging to our white citizens oe helplessnes and weak nesses, relying on them to right the ills we hear, shoulder to shoulder, negro and,white men imust stoolp under the burden and together with a heart of:love, labor for the State of South Ciirolina, the good of the race and the glory of God. A venerable old gentloman, ripe in scholarship, ripe ini age, ripe in well formed dluty to Massachusetts and1 the natijonal republican yarty, a member of the national election re turning b)oard in 1870, by whom the vote of South Carolina, Florida, and Loi isiana woero taken away from Trilden and given to Hayes; a com mission who found poe to go be hind the election retur-ns to make a republican p)resident., but later, by a partner comr Nk in the Flynn'si the dead partner i Sacrif iced! no money refund [N'S CA their acts Qf omnission, if not by thoir acts Of commission, assisted in the overthrow of the republican stato governments of the three aforesaid states. The pilgrim from Massachusetts is in 1898, through the graco and social consideration of an organization of the best citizens of Charleston the honored guest of said city, the ban. quot orator of a feast, that in magni ficance, jollification, wit anid spllelidor, rivals the festive occassions of ancient Babylon. He has been among us with nothing but love in his heart., peace and good will in his voieo; love, devotion and praise for the deeds of our groat Rutle(dgc, Pinek ney, Lawrencv, Marion, Suntor and Calhoun. He did i ot forget us (the negro) in his masterly love feast of his, for he said, among othur things, that the south has dealt more kindly toward us, the negroes sinco 0mnauci pati6n than the nor(h. * * Some of my follow citizens have not opened their eye and seen our condition hence they may aceise me of slandering the white republicans among us or being too hard upon them in other southern states; but are our troubles of 1876 and 1877 forgotten ? Is tho abject position in which we were placed and loft by Hayes forgotten ? You talk about the recent trouble at Phonix. Is the beam so largo in your o)o that you cannot see the negros that have been desortnd by a republican gov ornor, republican judges, republican government, town and county, anud turned over to the i inriated white citizens of Wiashinigton ? UIREYiFUs SEI OU8sm,Y LL,1. Commandan,,,it. of P'riMnn senmda to, Ouyenne, for ai Phy,sicia.. (Special to New York Sun.) London, January 6.---A dispatch to the To'logramu from Cayenne, French Guiana, saysa that the chief phlysician of the pen itenitiary has gono to the Ile du D)iable, at the re quest of the commandant there, to attend Dr'eyfus, who is ufering with dysentecry. Hius conidit ion is reporl id to b)e serious. 4) )On ~l d f..m oneu -r'mni,. (From Pearson's Wooly.) First B3oy-"Is that a good house dog?" Se'cond Boy-"No." "Gooud bird dog ?" "Good for rabbits ?" "No.-' "Knows somei t.ri('ks, p)erhap)s?" "What is it good1 for?" "'Nothiin', only to take prizes at shows." Richmond, Vai., January (.-D r. Moses D). Hoge, thle well. knowni and eminent Presbyterian divine, dlied at 2 20 o'cloc'k this morning. The mant with a pistol in one hipj pocket usually has a fliik of liquor inii the other. To Oure a Coldin OneI Nliht Take Van Lecar's Cold Capsules for' Lai (rippo, Coug hH nomd Cobh-; 12 dloses 25 cents at, all tir 'uggists. Guaraznt.ood to cure or money refunded. t.&tim >e1s the immedic Dash Store AT 4 Shoes Sac j1CACEI ed during this sa SHS SEABOARD AIR LINE SALE. 'T i NI . ew O?VFIE A l.l.V C ONEF1 hM e1) AT IAlriaonie Allt * ', t lirokn ss Ns rftotk mov-kio lb 4-11sise' - .4p).-1 kuint on4#1 It" to) :191..1 It-y ,f file N4'v Mias'rA. 131ltimlorv, h\id., Jan11. ").-Tho ro purt Concevrnling tho proj)k)."%d pur cha1se of the St"lboa'd itid loulokt IRailroad colmlpany, the parit cor poratioln of tho Selboard Air I,ino System, is oflicially coi I1rm1ied. The syMdicate which has bid for the property, subject to tho approval of t.ho owners of throt-fourths of tho stock pooled with Messrs. bonlis M Lano and L'g4i hI.. Watts, is com posed of Baltnore, RieW nomd AndI Now York capitalists. John Skolton Wiiiams, President of tho Georgin and Alitimai Rtilroad company, is tlie movinlg spirit in the transaction and it is uidoistood thait, he will be prosidott of C1he company when control i-; trantnsferred to the syndicato. Tho price itgrved npon is $200 it share, Whieh is $l5 t shatro more itan wats oiorod for at controlling in terest in the proport.y two years ago by Thomas P. Ryan. A membor of the syndiiente sitid today t hiat, it, the i nteit ion of t.ho now owners to continuno th company ais an indepondoit system, though lo admlitto(d that at lino mlight. ultimlal'o ly bo built fro.n A lantat, 1 ho Seal boiir's Southern timinus to Mont golmlery, where conlietion vollih be madi wit Ih ho Georgia anIl Alaibttil. The distnitict bew(-on thives points is 1'75 mailes This wouhlll no~ka a tharonigh lino fromu Wahingtoni 4.0 maorrow will say. The ofler of :200) a sharc, nurdo by the symlicate heaaded by3 the banakinag htouise of diohni l2. Wi lhamsit & Sonts, of lichmnond, Vai., for the p)ooled( stock ofi It Seabloard andit lloanoke rilrhoad' , hats been accepj teid by allI petons living ini Baltimaore whlo have st ockm th Ile pool. Assu rancos have b)eent received thait out of t owna stock - holders who signed t ho p oolinog aigrieeme wll alsto.V aI115)ucceph t and the neces:(arty thIiree- fouib lassen-il t. unader the agreemenlilt wVel, :t is unid:1dood, be readt(ily se-cuared. The offera of I be~ 1 ynadicle to buy ont'a~ i h:' com,.3 lold wil ha iLt ilh con t rol of thle thoausanid mii les of railroad in the Seaboatrd A ir- Linoi syst eam ts on10 of ia nuinher of oltfors for thlis prope'rty~ ian t palst t.h reii ears. Theli big raite war wvhich wais the enl mtinati on of th diiiisaigreemtlliit be.t tweein tIhe Sout haern tad thel Seaboard atnd the subsegnent li tigattiona coing farm th lao yatn synidica:to in its at-. emapt to break ny h t h~ ptool which hlt the conitrol of the systemn, kept thinlgs att at teiniona. Critici.-im was shiot at t.ho mnaagemaent for ntot noc ceinIug thea olIVer $ I25 a shareni mae b)y thea~ liyanu syn.icalett i, and the claimi IhIaitth p a rope'rty wa is wort moro5l wasI th iid by a-i'am sIockhoial lors stignjig t ho a, rtolmentt. Conasiderab le lia-str.t is maifesterd int the plias of thle syndaiienhl', wic hi inceluudes, in ait.onta l. ichmuoind atnd Bath imaoro ciapit alitsts, a numlibor of Now Vol k menrl whao ire repro-e asenteid by thle Produace Exchiange le! ite Closing Out 2NCE to settle i1f iced!1 I,M Ezk n.. le at RE. stlited that. Io fiirst movo will be to coim1Iplt tho construction of (ho lichloonld, Potershug and Carolina Rtailroad from Hiechmlond to idge.t wiy, N. C., whoro it. meet H tihe See board Air Linl(i. Some tie ago property was plircslleld inl Richl 111011d to h usod a1s termIlinialt for th's now road. A commetion with the Ovorgil 11n1d Alabata will not, it is sild, he a it hiig of the near futitur aill hough the fiet t lat, tho syidicato 11118 a convt rolling interest in that road will iilco liteps to connet the two proporties. It is rogarded as highly improba blo that such al Connection, if made would he built, from Atlanta to Mont. gomlWry, ats these two cities are the western1 terminal of tho two systemr. 'ho most. likely plan would be to build from some point on the Geor gin, O rolinai and Northern to Savan tahO as to soouro a direct route to (hat cit.y. The Soaboard already has it direct routo to Atlanta. A planV.. esJAlish a now direct line from the national capital to Florida by build. ing into Richmond and securing a connect ion from there to Washington Would take the road towards Savan na1h. Th Seaboa d has been anxions for somoh) years to roach Now Orloans, and a col Idt.ionl into Washington, n1udi by tilling in the gap from itid(geway, N. C., to ticllmond, Vr., would put, tle Hystem in position to mamkte isatis[tetory terms for reaching tlh Crosent. City. There has beien conlsiderable tialk ill the palst of an ianc o)j%t w I the 0 Lonisvillo and Nahlvillo and ie Seaboard Air Line, andS it is believed thaut such1 Pu agree moi t wonl gnickly follow, if tI e Seaboard was inf aI ptjosition to frniish a sattis-fa&ctory ent rance into \vash inigtoni. Tlhere wonki h)o buit litle dilliculty in1 arranging for through cars to Bailtimiore, Phijladelphlia and New York( fromi Washinbgtonl. Norfolk, Va., ,Jan. 4.-The Asisoci. aited Press5 dlispatch this miornring, withi respaect t.o t he deal of MIr. ,Jol,nu Sk{eltoin Williami-, of Iiinmond and h)is assiociates, for a contlrolling in t.erest in tile S,ab)oard Air Line stock, fell upon Norfolk with tI o st,a&rtlIinog effe&ct of a thnde ir clapi from a clondless sky. Both towi ai ha ve booni sti rredl froma contre to cir.. emzuforencee all daiy. A replresenitat ivo of 1Th( Virginiian Pilot called upon E. St. Jlohnu, vice presidenit and1 geneoral manager cf the11 Seab)oard Air Line, in the comn pany(1's buddinig in Portsmouth. He, too, was in search of information. Thle dIisp)atch was a great surprise to im . O t her genolral oilicors were 1a mucho I in the thark. Later in the daly the rep ollter ran across at gentlemn who dloes kniow. Hie is largely in toro~sted4( ill Norfolk (ont erprisos and vonIched3 for thle aiccuiracy of the Thle S,iaboaird Air Liue will be melrg(ed withi the Gorgiai and Alaba-. mal itail roatd, of wWebch 'John1 Skelton WV illim 1115is presidonlI, and1( a stronIg systemIl will be orgal.ize/d. Thie deal has bon on0)1 hanitid for several weeks and1( is ('joctet(I to hI) consuimated ini Biltimore t.o morrow aight. The lsynd((iato is much01 worried that the deail obnaineld pulicily boefore it was coi51nsnmmtedl, but 1( thirmormant says t here is no0w no danger 9) I filiura.