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Cjj? $?ate|oait at? Smt WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18. 1 The SrjrJtlr ?aroliDt?l I Association Invited t < Asbury Park, N.J. Mr. Hugh Wilson, President Caroiioa State Presa Assoeiatioi On July 2, 3, 4, 5 and <5 the N al Editorial Association -viii hol annaal convention at Asbury Park, Jersey. From correspondence and data in possession of this committee, safe to assert that the coming BM will be the largest and mott impc is the history of the National Ast tion. The day sessions will be de to the discussion of m?thode of an and. conducting, newspapers and management of printing offices which the brightest newspaper mt the country will lead. The eve sasions will be wo less insert? lectures by soase of the most di gnashed editors lo America. The casion is one which no progrej journalist or Presa Association afford to miss. The Citizens Committee, io conj t?on with the Mayor sud Coonci Asbury Park, desire to extend thro yon a special invitation to your Asst tiou to attend tina meeting aa a sepa body in addition to sending your u delegation to the National Conven tic Asbury Park ia of unusual meei biiity from all points. More than hundred passenger traine stop at sta?ions daily. Reduced transportai rates, secured by the National Asso t?on, are available for every mern be the looa] ? organisations. Namer halls afora' abundant scoommodsti for meetings, while the city can en) tain, in perfect comfort, one bund thousand guests. ? number of State Associati have already signified their intention participate ia this great gathering individual societies, and will send fir 100 to 200 each. Upon the acceptance of this inri tion kindly notify this committee once; thea nt the earliest possi moment, advise ns of the number v wi? come and if you desire to bold a special meetings. The committee i take pleasure in assigning hotel seco modations to your members and sew ing halla for your meetings. Very truly yours. JNO. L. COFFIN, Secretary Executive Committee. The Lynching of Jeff Gm ford. Io connection with the complei comprehensive, and, we believe, ab? lately correct story of the lynching Jeff Crawford, published elsewhere this issue, ec?ittfriai comment is bard necessary. Just a little common sens applied to the cold facts in. this case, calculated to develop ic the 21 tods most thinking people the why, at wherefore, of tue tragedy. Take ti lacis: A horrible crime was committed io civilized community. The revoltic details were calculated to freeze tl very blood. Alarmed for the safety < themselves, their wives and the children, with such a fiend at large i their midst, the outraged citizens f once began a search for the mnrderei Several suspicious characters wei arrested and, notwithstanding th frenzy of excitement, turned loose A length an absolutely convincing web c circumstantial evidence was woo* about the guilty wretch who committee the murder. Not a man io the neigh borhood had a shadow of doubt. Tb provocation was almost sufficient t< justify lynching on the spot. But then was no lynchiog then. With a for bearanee that is a credit to the highes civilisation of the oioeteenth century the people turned the prisoner over u the proper authorities io order thal recognized law might take its course. Io due time the trial came on. Thc defendant bad the advantage of counsel and all the witnesses that be desired tc summon. The State made out a case that waa absolutely remarkable for its completeness and strength. The de? fence was so weak as to fail to eveo throw doubt on the most trivial state? ment of the least important proseoutiog witness. The jory returned a verdict of guilty, and there was a notice of a motion for a new trial, on the ground of alleged incompetency of a witness whose testimony, though ruled com? petent by the court, was really of doubt? fui importance to the case. For this the execution of the sentence was to have beeo delayed a year, and it was this that tried the hitherto patient people beyond limits of human endurance. There is nothing the matter with the law. It is as pei feet as it should be, and even its delay is recognized as a wise provision that is calculated to more faithfully guard the liberty of the peo? ple. Bot it should be remembered that these wise provisions-even the sacred right of appeal-ts sobseeptible of abuse. By takiog advantage of blind? folded justice, lawyer* are enabled to sometimes commit great wrongs in the name of the law. When this is done, the logical consequence is an appeal to the lower court of Judge Lynch. So far as we are able to accouot for it, the case of Jeff Crawford is explained. Lynch law is a terrible thing. In no case is it absolutely justifiable. In all cases it is wrong. Mob violence under tbe most sggravatiog circumstances tends to mob violeoce under circum? stances lesa aggravating. The result is a meo ace to life, liberty and peaceful security io whole communities. It is indeed a serious question for coosidera I don. Bot where lies the responsibility ? Some answer, with the lynchers ; others say with the machinery of tbs courts ; and still others make a scapegoat of lawyers, who labor to defeat the ends of justice. There is some reason in all of the answers, and the oaly remedy Hes io a general strengthening of weak places all around.--YorkVille Enquirer. The Evolution of Tillman. I Farmer Tillman said at Beooettsville, or about the time be took bis first step I io polities that be did cot want an office aod would not have one. Later be said that the only office he Wanted was a trusteeship of au Agricultural College. At the extraordinary March convention wheo Irby * 'broke the record" aod eooeted io his friend Tilhnao as the farmers' caodidate for Governor, Till? man accepted the nomination, not as a caodidate, bot as the only representative of bis faction who, according to bis owo statement, had the "nene aod the brains to lead," disclaiming again his desire to hold office by say tog "they will preach from the boase tops he wants office." Having served ooe term as Governor be made his second canvass as tba leader of the reform fac? tion. . Kow he publishes h letter pro? claiming that be is a candidate for the U. S. Seaate: This time be does oot represent either the agri? cultural college .folks nor cao be olaim to be anybody's caodidate bot his owo. He does oot stand aa the exponent of Democracy and he is on alterably op? posed to the Bfost distinguish dem a n d of Ocaiatsm, and pronounces other Alliance dem ands as of questionable wisdom. He is understood as being no prohibition ist and cao not be classed a Republican. Who tb en does Farmer Tillman DOW represent? Certainly nobody or oo party but B. R. Till- j mao. We do oot deny Governor Tillman's right to be a caodidate but the evolu? tion from farmer to caodidate for the highest office io the gift of the people is so complete and bas been so rapid that we merely recall the record to show that those who preached from Ehe boose* tops that he only wanted ao office knew what they were talking about. Three years of office-holding has either shown him op- or has given him a bad case of the political leprosy we beard so much about when be was "only a plato mao" fighting the rings. The Governor'? genius is certainly oot destructive of bis own interests, however many scars be may have pat upon the distracted State over which he has roled with a rod of iroo. Wheo be has climbed the goldeo stairs, even to the seat of a Senator, be cao look back upon bis record aod feel that his ambitioo to be "DO ordinary Governor" has been folly realized for Sooth Carolina had o ever before borne so mach strife and bitter? ness merely for the glory of ber Gov? ernor.-Fairfield News & Herald. Lynching at Lancaster. Oo Monday, May 28, a negro named Hardy Gill went to the house of James A. Clark, in Lancaster County, while Clark was away, aod began to raise a disturbaoce. He was ordered to leave the premises by Mrs Clark, where a poo be picked up an andiron and beat ber nearly to death. He theo picked up the baby aod threw it across the house, it is probable that both mother aod child will die from the injuries received. Gill was arrested and placed io the Lancaster jail. Oo the rooming of the 2d inst., a large party weot to the jail aod took Gill away with them. About 10 o'clock Saturday the body of Gill was found io the road about three miles from Lancaster, riddled with bullets. No regrets are heard oo aoy side for the treatment Gill received. Both Demo? crats aod Republicans say that he de? served his fate. mmm ? ? Turned Him Out Because of his official conduct io ! releasing tbe famous Cbicco, of Charleston, who was indicted for per? jury, in getting bis license mooey re? turned, tbe Governor has removed Trial Justice Milan from office. Judg? ing by what we have ?eeo of the case, we have oo doubt that Cbicco should have been bound over Ho Court, and that his release was) because of politics. While we think the Governor acted right io removiog Milao, yet if he bad appointed a less objectiooal successor, the bowlers might have bad less pre? text for bursting wide opeo, aod throw? ing mud.-Abbeville Press and Ban? ner. The Carolina Spartan uomioates Col. W. H. Wallace, for editor of the Soutbero Christian Advocate to take the place of Rev. W. D. Kirkland, who was eleeted Sunday School edi? tor by the general conference. Surely oo fitter Dame than that of Col. Wal? lace could be mentioned io connection with the Christian Advocate. At Columbus, 0., Miss Eleanor Marks, aged twenty-two, apparently died last Mooday night. The next day, while supposed corpse was being borne from hearse to the grave, a faiot tapping attracted the attention of the pallbearers and upoo the coff o lid being raised Miss Marks was found to bo alive. She was removed to her home and is recovering. Miss Marks reports that she had a knowledge of all that passed wbile tbe preparations were making for ber burial, but that she was unable to give any sigo until the fear of burial roused ber into action. Redemption of Bad Lands. The Project of a Big Company Or ganized in This State. A mammoth real estate company is being organized by Sooth Caroliua and Northern capitalists and a charter will soon be procured from the Secretary of Sute. It is to be koowo as "The South Carolina Real Estate and Homestead Company,1' and its to be a branch of a big company which is to operate through? ont the Sooth. The principal objects of the company are to buy and reclaim the acclaimed lauds in this State and to sell them to j desirable immigrants. An agency is to be ef tabled at Castle Garden and immigrants vril? be induced io come to Sooth Carolina and settle. At the last session of the Legislature a bili was introduced for the incorpora? tion of the company but owing to the rush of business daring the last days of the session it did not get through. The first section of the bill, which was as follows, ???es the.,names of . the pro-. motors and the projects of .the company.: "SeojSpns?; Th^hfr&s S ; Bull, of tbe'Stafe of South vjaf?rus; John M. Ball, of the State of Sooth Carolina ; Wm. P Ball, of the State of South Carolina; Co aries A. Donbass, of the State of South Carou>nV^t??il^iA..>:jC Wolfe, of the State pf Son^;:?jgo lina; John H. Livingston, of the State of Florida ; Thomas R. Scott, of the State of New Jersey ; Hon. George W. Gibbons, of the State of New York ; D. G. Waterman, of the State of Massachusetts ; H. G. Cl age to ne, of the State of Pennsylvania; John B. Randolph, of the District of Colombia, city of Washington.their successors, and each bf their assignees, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate aud politic, by the name of the South Carolina Real Estate and Homestead Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue sod be sued, to plead and be rm pleaded, to defeod and be defended in all courts of law and eq ai ty within the jurisdiction of - tbe United States; . to take, Sold, and enjoy possession, either by * purchase or otherwise, of' land, tenements, and person? al property,.-. ao^gmajr make and : have s. com mon seal, ordain ind estaib- ; lish such by laws, ordinances, and r?g? ulations, not inconsistent with this Act or with the laws of this State or the : laws of the United States, as may be necessary and proper for the manage? ment of the concerns of said company. And the said corportci;ion shall have power to lease or purcbsise large tracts or bodies of lands anywhere within the United States or Territories, aod to survey and divide the same into suit? able farms or homesteads of two hun? dred acres, or less, and erect thereon such buildings as may be necessary to the convenience and comfort of families living tbereoo."-Colad Bia Register The weather predictions of Rev. Irl Hicks have heretofore proven so cor? rect that we give his forecastes for June: Jane the 3rd brings New Moon and the center of a storm period. By* that'"Sate a'Very warm wavewill be well advanced from the west, and storm conditions of marked energy will be in sight to all who read general indications. Watch all storms between 2nd and 6th. A cool dash will follow them. On and touching (be 9th and 10th, it will grow very warm again, and a series of bard rain, thunder and wind storms will follow each other daily for several days. From the 14th to 15th is a regular period, with a Mercury equinox central on the 16tb. Many showers must be expected all along here, with dangerous storms probable on the black figure days. The 20th and 21st are centers of dis? turbance excited by Mercury, Venus and the Solstice crisis. Hard storms, with bail and mach lightning, followed by unseasonable cold. From 26th to 30th falls a storm period that will bring threatening bluster, with some severe storms. Watch them all. Earthquakes and volcaoic activity due in June. A negro woman is in England lec? turing as to the South and its savage treatment of negroes. She says ne? groes are hanged for assaulting white women, but no one believes that any assaults are really perpetrated. Aod Eogland believes the lie. She told one of ber audiences that "Governor Till? man, of South Carolina, wheo first elected condemned lynching, and de dared he would protect the negro. At his second candidature two years ago, standing under a tree where eight negroes bad been lynched, be declared be would himself lead a mob to lynch a negro who assaulted a white woman." The governor admits the charge. He says : **I said io my canvass two years ago. aod I say now that Governor as I am, I would lead a mob to lynch any man, white or black, who bad ravished any woman, white or black. I send you a copy of my inaugural address, io which my views as to the sacred obli? gations to white people of the South are under in dealing with the negro are set forth in full. I am on record as hav? ing asked the Legislature to give me power to remove any sheriff who al? lowed a prisoner to be lynched wbile under bis protection or io his custody." j Lynching will continue as long as j rapiogs continue. When crimes cease the lynchings will cease. But Govern? ors need not to take a hand iu the vio? lent way of ridding the world of brutee. I What is a Mugwump. Oar contemporary The State, is still trying to decide what a Democrat is. By way of diversion, we commend the Texas Siftings definition of a Mugwump. The Mugwump is a very useful insti? tution. He hold the balance of power, aod consequently, both parties are obliged to rake bim iuto consideration when it comes to nominating candidates. If the Republicans nominate an ob? jectionable candidate the Mugwump takes a seat on the other end of the poli? tical see-saw, and the objectionable can? didate is burled into the air as if pro? pelled by the bind leg of a mule. The bounced candidate rarely survives the fall he gets ; but if be does be is too badly crippled to take any part io sub? sequent political proceedings. If ? similar accident happens to the Demo? cratic caodidate Mr. Mug sits over oo the Republican end, aod the misguided Democracy goes oo au excursion to the stars. The Mugwump was created for the purpose of puttiog both parties oo their good behavior, and be does it too. If it were not for the Mugwump tbe country would be filled with the lamen? tations of bounced officials. As it is oot eveo all the offensive partisans are removed, to order to maintain bis present supremacy the Mugwump should continue to be independent of both parties. He should be like a man on the car who rang the bell at both ends. Useless Extravagance. During the past week, and for some weeks previous, there have come to this office, as to other newspaper offices, numerous invitations to col? lege aod school commeoeemeots. These invitations are elegantly prioted aod engraved, and from tbe stand? point, of good taste are above criti? cism. But there is one feature of them that strikes us as proper for comment -their expensiveness. Io these hard times when it is at great sacrifices that most people cao give their childreo a college education every thing that tends toward extravagance should be discouraged. From what we know of the printing business, and from facts that have come to^ioW^ Bore that the greater portion oP these ele? gant invitations that we have beeo receiving must have cost very nearly the sum of one hundred dollars for five or six hundred-somewhere from twelve aod a half to tweoty cents each. This makes a pretty heavy expense to a student who wants to send many to friends. Suppose he sends fifty and almost soy student, especially if he is of the graduating class, would like to send as many as fifty-it would cost him from six to ten dollars There seems to be a rivalry among the" several- colleges in this matter of invitations-each vieiog with the other to see- which cab .get out the handsomest invitations. It would be decidely better if they would turn their rivalry into more profitable aod less expensive channels. As loog as some coll?ges iodulge io the costly invitations, all will, whether their students are able to stand the expense or not. There should, there? fore, be a common consent or under? standing to quit this foolishness, aod to substitute a less expensive style of college invitations.-Newberry Obser ver. . If somebody will give BS a basis to fight oo we are half way disposed to eater the campaign as the voluoteer organ of Senator Butler. He seems to bave no friends anywhere. As the Aiken Recorder remarks : "While he has lost the sympathy of many of the conservatives, he bas not gained the vote of a Tillmanite. Io conse? quence when the Legislature meets he will be retired into obscurity."-Green? ville News. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she.gave them Castoria UStnnaiVA VOR ERHEB SEX. Th ii remedy KR?N X**"1* injected directly to the .eat of UBI VfB V tbOM diaea?e? of tbe Geni to-Urinary Or. ?SS^SS5H5^S555K*?*? requires so chant? of diet cr k nauseous, mercurial cr yoiSOtM? med mf^m^f^^mfwk Jcinesto bo token internally. VI hen. ll MII'ASA PREVENTIVE WW ^Lftfl by either ?rx it is impossiblotccontract BBBB^ J BEBB any venertal disease; butin the case of - - tho- already UiryorrtraATILT Arrunzo . - _ _* with Oonorrhcra and Gleet, we guaran. ET" XT BC H??!te?*cure- Pnce by mail, postigo po?u, K* V aEW*aC*1 |1 per box,or Cb??for S4. For sale by Dr. J. F. W. Deforme, Sumter. S.C. LAPSES ???ou DR. FELIX LE BRUN'S STEEL BHD PEjfflYHOYJH PILLS are toe original and only FRENCH, safe and re liable cure on the market Price $1.00; sent by mail. Genuine sold only by Dr. J. F. W. DeLorme, Sumter, S. C. VITAL TO MANHOOD. Da. E. C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT? MENT, a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Fit*, Neu? ralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental Depression. Softening of Brain, causing insanity, misery, decay, death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power in either sex, Impotency, Leucorrhrea and all Female Weaknesses, Involuntary Losses, Sperma torrhoea c-nmaed by over-exertion of brain. Self abuse, over-indulgence. A month's treatment, tl, 6 for 85, by mail. With each order for 6 boxes, with (Swill semi written guarantee to refund if not cured. GuaranN-esissued by agent WEST'S LIVER PILLS cures Sick Headache, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia and Constipation. GUARANTEES issued only by J. F. W, DeLorme, Sumter, S. C. for Infants and Children " Cas to ria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription ?.novm to me." H. A. AECHES, 5L D., 121 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, Ni Y. ''The use of 'Castoria is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Casto ria within easy reach.'" C?ELOS MARTYN, D. D.., New York City Cast? ri a cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Trais "Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. v "For several years I hare recommended your 'Castoria,7 and shall always continue to do sd as it has invariably produced beneficial results.1' ED wc? F. PABDEE, iL D_, 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. THE CENTAUB COJSPAKT, 77 MCBRAI STBEET, NSW YOSK OTT. SCHWERIN New Orleans Mola?se? In Barrels, Half Barrels and Kegs. Flour, Sugar, Crackers, Meat, Cheese, Starch, Cottee, Lard, Soap, And everything nice in the Grocery Line WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Call and See Us. Our Retail Department is Complete. Schwerin & Co. Feb. 7. ._ ~ JE WELRW Watches, Diamonds, Sterling and Flated Silverware, LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS. Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors. Machine Needles, &c. FOLSOM. SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH. ESTABLISHED 1868. Sumter, S. C. THE INTERNATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. A Modern Work of reference for the Home, Library, Office or School. 15 Royal Octavo Vols., 50,000 Titles, 125 Double Page Maps, 150 Double Page Illustrations. Cash or easy payments. Write for terms to CHAS. H. CHAPMAN. P, 0- Box, 195, Charleston, S. C, Feb 14-x General Southern Ageot. A CAR LOAD OF Fine Buggy Horses* A Full Line of OLD HICKORY WAGONS, BUGGIES. CARRIAGES. HARNESS, WHIPS, ETC. ALL FOR SALE LOW FOB CASH. W. M. GRAHAM. Jan. ll. I RETAIL White Corn at 75c. per bushel in sacks, Mixed Oats, at 55c, " 4< " Ship Stuff, at {1.25 per 100 lbs., io sacks. Choice Timothy Hay, $1.20 per 100 lbs., in bales. Cotton Seed Mea), at $1.30 per sack. Cotton Seed Hulls, at $4 50 per ton in bulk. Lime, $1.25 per barrel. I ALSO SELL Rosendale and Portlaod Cement, Plaster of Paris, Fire Bricks, Flue Pipe, Aod Other Buildiog Material. Cow Hair, Sewer Pipe, Special Prices on Large Lots, H. HARBY.