Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% • \ .1 . ,, ■ • : ‘ •• J m t for J I AND 1 Par Anamn in Adranoe; i for tix months; as oonts for ADTBnnnxe Ratbs: Mwrtlon $1 UnMrtfon— dontrarl adTorttosments inserted npoa the mort reasonable terms. m •Uw. —• — — South Carolina who has advocated sound r, and stood out against free ej, a Beanottsville negro, half-a-gallon of peanuts J. lUt, and, being so in eating peanuts, to place himself out- ;—.'-gallon, from the be died'that night. r has issued an address she of the State invit- 1 10 *'•* •» convention at i April 14 for the purpose factional tioo- . t tanks, and to a ptettorm njmn which the I in Congreedonal dr that the recent < x~rrr-~ i •P?*b «>f Mr. trader aMb. sfpst&i that Nansen has reached the Pole, where he found land and i he is now on his way back. H. D. Money, who has been sleeted to the Senate from Mississippi, will not take his ssat an taiwu. Tbs rssson why he was sleet ed so long ahead of the time of the beginning of the term is that the new constitution of the State of Mississip- r one session of the four years. The held in 1M0. Tbs News of the Week. There was a small firs in Abbeville on Thursday lash There wm a small fire in Florence on Tuesday night The seed department at Washing ton is to be re-established. Kopprel A Co., bankers, of Chisago, . faHedlsst Friday for $400,000. A carload of hogs was shipped from Sumter to Chariewton last Monday. G. R. West, a prominent merchant of 8j>artanburg, died in that dty last These have recently been a number of incendiary fires in the town of Bl- loree, 8.0, Moody, the great evangelist, will begins series of meetings in Charles ton on the 88rd inst - Two men who were charged with burulng a barn were lynched at Mon- ticello, Ky., on Monday. Seven counties of Alabama have beeaqavriedby MeKinleyforthe Re publican Presidential nomination. The depot, its contents and three box ran at Blackville, 8. C., were burned on Saturday night. »Jewelry firm of Hen- * Co., of New York, 1 last wusk for $90,000. Waltsr Matson, a young white man, was drowned in the Cooper River, near Charleston, on Saturday. Brandt Smalls, a negro, was run over by a yard engine in the city of Chariest on last Fridayand killed. A bank in San Francisco. Cal., was robbed in the broad day light on Monday, and the robbers escaped. The annual convention of the Unit ed Confederate Veterans of this State will be held in Charleston on April U. Senator Tillman addressed the Com mercial Club, of Providcnoe, R. I., on the dispensary law last Saturday night next week Dr. WOliam Weston, one of the most prominent citizens of Richland Cbunty, died at his home near Colum bia last week. Fifty men were buried alive at New castle, Cola, on Tuesday by the wrecking of a coal mine caused by gas explosion. B. A. Young, a Jeweler and book- dealer of Camden, 8. C., made an as- Dt on Thursday last. His lia- »about $9,000. Three children ate some toadstools while playing in the woods near An niston, Ala., on Thursday, and all died within twelve hours thereafter. Eugene V. Debs, president American Bailway Union of the Unit ed States, addressed a large audience in Atlanta, Ga., last Thursday. Destructive fires occurred In Phila- delphia, Toledo, O., Martin’s Ferry, O., Boston, Greenville, N. C., Troy, N. Y.. and Cincinnati, on Monday. Lockett A Co.’s tobacco factory and stemmery in Clarksville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire on Saturday, con suming 1,900,000 pounds of tobacco and causing a loss of $79,000. The entire stock of trotting horses ®f Henry C. Jewitt was sold at auction in New York City on Thursday last None of the horses sold for levs then $•.000, and one brought $10,089. Chadbourne, of the bark “fted P. Litchfield,” and his wife both died on board the vessel while in the tropica on * recent vo 1 Hoag Kong, Chinn, to Balti Congressman Elliott made quite 'an awe speech in the House on Thursday ssatitesr*- B, “"” David Sehneitmaiy one of tbs most unique pereoaageefb history, died in Chattanooga, TemALnn Thursday last at the age of SkywHMSAFfien $ years old he was left an imbecile without the power of speeeh by an attack of measles. His body was as stunted as bis mental development, for be ra- malnt d a child in ways stature. He waa able to speak only in monosylla bles and by restores, bat understood lytbing spoken to him. His height as slightly under four feet, And to hie death his lace and features resem bled those of a little child. ~~~ aanmv uatsuvichjr. A/UUJ* V7- u r jy hPpoking on Hiller, when ttelattrastruck him over the heart piece of iron, with the above TILLMAN’S VINDICATION. A spirit of fairness induces us to publish this week Senator Tillman’s recent letter to the New York World, in which he seeks to vindicate himself for the notorious speech he aeliver ed in Congress a short time ago. The same spirit would have long since led us to publish that speech in full, were it not a practical impossibility to do so, since it would more than till the entire space devoted to read ing matter in this paper .The Senator’s admirers in this Coun ty will miss nothing by that, however, as we understand k,e has had his speech put up in pamphlet form, and is prepar ing to distribute copies of it broadcast wherever he is known The Senator is correct in say ing, in substance, that the news papers which called him such names as “a filthy baboon”, “a blatherskite”, and ‘‘the chief tain of Anarchists”, put them selves on a level with him by the use of such language. There are some editors, however, to whom this criticism will notap ply—those who, whatever their personal opinion of the Senator, confined their strictures on his Washington speech closely within ‘‘parliamentary”* limits. He says other senators have used as nasty language as his. We think he must surely be mistaken in this, but even if be is not, that is a poor excuse. Such language, we feel sure, never before fell from the lips of a United States Senator from South Carolina in the halls of Congress. ‘‘If my language was unpar liamentary and indecent,” he asks, ‘‘why did no Senator call me to order?” That he should have been called to order, there can be no doubt, and the Sena tor is again right when he places upon his colleagues the onus of permitting such utterances to go out to the country unchal lenged and unrebuked. Doubt less there were some of them who feared the ‘‘tongue-lash ing” they would receive if they, undertook to interrupt the re doubtable Senator. There were others, perhaps, who held their peace because they thought there was nothing to answer. They could not reply “in kind”, and there was nothing in the Senator’s argument from be ginning to end that threw any light on the financial questions , - , ,. , which he was supposed to have in hi8 Hfe and wou , d prob ^ bly to discuss. Still, something perfectly willing that he should enjoy it all he wanted to. We predicted from the very first that it would attract for him the attention of the Nation. Nor, as he brags, is he without considerable popular endorse ment; but that does not prove that he is right. There is an other alternative; there may be something radically wrong with our entire body politic. We be lieve, (and have believed for a long time), that there is, arid we have the gravest fears for the future of a country where such a condition of things can exist. BRING THEM TO DARLINGTON. As is well known, the Citadel cadets go into camp every year, selecting for that purpose two towns in the State some thirty or forty miles apart. The cus tom has been for them to go by rail from Charleston to the first of these towns, and after camp ing there for a few days, to march through the country to the second town selected, where they camp for a week or more. The Sumter correspondent of the Mews and Courier suggests that Sumter and Darlington be chosen for the camping places this year, the corps going first to Darlington and then march ing to Sumter. The suggestion is an admirable one for .all the parties interested, and we would like the best in the world to see it earned out, with this one modification, that the camp be pitched in Sumter first and then in Darlington. The presence in Darlington of this splendid corps of a hundred and twenty- five young men would brighten up things considerably for us in the month of June. Our peo ple always know how to do a thing like that right, and-we be lieve they would give the Cita del boys the best time they ever had in their lives. The cadets have never visited any portion of the Pee Dee section on the occasion of their annual en campments. By adopting for this summer the plan that has been proposed, >hey would be afforded an opportunity of be coming acquainted with two of the very best towns in the State, The country through which they would pass in marching from Sumter to Darlington is one of the most fertile farming regions in South Carolina, and is the center of the new tobac co industry. That crop would be at its best in June, and would prove quite a novel object les son for most of “the boys in gray.” If we are to secure this prize, a delegation should be sent to Charleston at once to see Col. Coward before some other town gets ahead of us W bo will undertake t6 set the ball in motion? It seems to us that the Darlington Board of Trade could get in some good work along this line if they would take hold of the matter immediately. Business Men Endorse It. [Neve and Courier.] The connecting link of asp halt that is to join Charleston and Summerville together iu the warmest kind of an embrace is the talk of not only all the wheelmen and wheel women of the city, but also of'the busiuess men. A prominent business Heeding For The Populist Party. tWaehlnirton Cor., Galveston News.] But, after all, he is nothing but a politician, with all the cowardice of the average poli tician. I very much doubt if he has been a leader of the people of South Carolina, though he is their absolute mas ter now.He has only been detect ing in them that which they have desired, and he has put before them their desires in a way that pleased them. For, when he came here, he told sev eral persons that his people were heading for the Populist party, and that he had to go with them. If he were a great man, if he came anywhere near the standard of a patriot and statesman, he would not have confessed that he had to follow whithersoever his people led. He said this with some degree of regret, because he was a Democrat, but as his people went so would he go. The ques tion of the wisdom of the course cut no figure with him. He would be with them to hold the ofiSces and to make his life one of ea s e. He had taught them that the Government could and ought to do everything for them. He, as Governor, had exercised the right of the Gov ernment to go into the whiskey traffic. He had taught them that it ought to furnish them money for their crops, whether or not other people wanted to buy them. 'In fact, he had taught them to rely on the Gov ernment for everything, and now Jthat they have learned his lessons well and showed a dis position to go into that party which had for its tenets all that he had been teaching, lie hung his head in regret and said that he would have to go with them. He had, in one instance, ;one only a certain distance, ut having gone that no one can blame him for going the rest of the way. He had shown his people the road, and why should he abandon them for their insis tence in proceeding further? I allude here to the financial ques tion. He had taught them that the Government could fix its stamp on fifty cents worth of silver and it would be worth a dollar. They learned this. Then they wanted to know if the Government could do litis why it could not put its stamp on a piece of paper and make it worth a dollar. He could not say that this question was an unreasonable one. He could not say that the Government was limited in any way in the power to make money by stamp ing us promises. He would Would Not KIM The Bride, [Troy Times.] One of the most modest mem ■ hereof congress is “Bob” Cous ins, of Iowa. It is told that not many sessions ago Mr. Mer cer, a member from Nebraska, still in the honse, married a young lady well known in Washirgton. Inasmuch as Cousins is an intimate friend of Mercer’s, both being born in Iowa, the latter thought it would be an excellent idea to have Cousins act as best man at the wedding. Bob consented. The ceremony occurred. After it was over the minister kissed tno bride, bridesmaids ditto. The bride, supposing the best man would be glad of a similar courtesy extended to him, puck ered up her lips to Bob in order that he might avail himself of the opportunity so graciously extended to him. When Mr. Cousins realized what was ex pected of him in the premises he gave one look at the bride, turned so red that even the darkest corner of tho church became as light as noonday, bolted down the aisle and out of the church, leaving the bride in rather au embarrassed state of mind, to say nothing of the mingled feelings of surprise and bewilderment of the other mem bers of the br’dal party and friends. Bot h Mercer and Cou sins are in the present congress, but the latter would rather talk on almost any subject than on certain inciuents connected with the wedding of the gen tleman from Nebraska. Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Headache, Electric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and tho most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence. We urge all who are afflicted to procure a botttle, and give this remedy fair trial. la cases of habitual constipation, Electirc Bitteres cureby giving the need ed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only fifty cents at Dr. J A. Boyd’s drug store. Robbery By Wager Is something new in the annals of crime. should have been done to pre vent him from going on as he did. As to there being no answer to his charges because they are true, a number of papers have undertaken to show, and have shown conclusively, that such of his statements as assumed tangible shape were glaringly incorrect. As a rule, his state menu, as they have been ever since he entered public life, were mere bald assertions, un accompanied by proof, or by le gitimate argument of any kind which would have been in the nature of proof. All who did not happen to agree with his own particular views were wrong—fit subjects ter his and for the vile charges be forthwith proceeded Plfhout one of evidence to support his i statements, ' re’iftve never sought to de* which iby his re- bs Wm break a limb if he fried to, said yesterday with enthusiasm; “The track could be extended from Rutledge avfenue and could wind its way for a good dis tance along the bank of the Ashley,-and then through the oaks and pines to Summerville This road if built will bring forth more good results than would at first be imagined The property in the suburbs will en hance in value and the city will S read out. When the prospec- re homebuilder sees a good road leading to the city he will build in the suburbs, and the dirty hovels, where so many murders and crimes are committed, will vanish to make room for'neat residences. In all large towns the handsomest residences are built in the quiet suburbe, where the owner can spend a day and night of peace and rest far from the sound of the drays and wagons and from fhe haatof theourbatones. This, however, is only done when a good road over which it would be a pleasure to travel in a pri vate conveyance connects with the city property.” • s promises. He have soon jrot himself in a hole had he tried this character of argument, and, being shrewd, he contented himself by regret ting that his people were head ing for the Populist party, arid he would have to go with them. In the course of human events there are other people who I know will be just as em barrassed as is Tillman, and who will find no escape from that embarrassment except in the way that he has found it— that is, in going with their peo ple, even if they are going to destroy a republican form of government. A Forgotten Fortune. [Philadelphia Press.] One of the great capitalists m NewYork.aman whose achieve ments by reason of their mag nitude cause his name to be as familiar to the public as that of almost any man in New York, went into the safe deposit vaults one day and gave to the man agers an envelope which he said contained 2,000 shares of Northwestern stocic. He did not want to put this stock in his .vault for reasons best known to himself. The envelope was given to an employee who did not know its contents, who was instructed to place it in his own private vault until called for, and with that arrangement the capitalist seemed content. A few months later this capitalist was in a great state of mind. He could not find anywhere among his possessions a block of 2,000 shares of Northwestern stock. He could not say wheth er it had been lost or stolen. At last he gave a bond to the rail way company and received for it new stock and the old issue was canceled. At the begin ning of the following year the deposit company’s employe ask ed that he might be relieved of the responsibility of caring for that capitalist’s envelope, al though he did not know what it contained The capitalist was sent for and the envelope given to him. He himself received the envelope in apparent ignor ance of its contents until he opened it and found within the miseingr 3,000 shares of the value of $200,000. The whole transac tion was an utter blank to him. If he had been a man of intemp erate habits it might have been explained, but be is practically a total abstainer. Ijoe of businc isn't advertised ought without exception. ness that to be, Pas sen limited sto er (on the vestibule tarter, does this train An Artist In Crime Is something new in detective Fiction. The hero Defies the Detectives And wins his wager, doing a little detective work himself. An Artist In Crime Is Ottolengui’s great est detective story. You may Read It In This Paper WOODS &MAGFARLAN. 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