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Pope as a Republican. The Political Kaleidoscope of Newberry. Columbia Register, Jan. 6. While the political situation in South Carolina appears to be caira, there is mach under the surface to interest and even alarm the Demo? crats. On the heels of the circular issued by Republican leaders calling for thorough organization of the party in this State to try to elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention comes the story that Dr. Sampson Pope is dickering with the na? tional Republicans to join them, ostensibly for the purpose of leading the Republican fight in South Caro? lina in 1896. but more likely for the purpose of leading the fight against the convention this year. At the same time is the statement that the - national Republicans propose to enter \ibe South two years from now in a different way from the past and that they will endeavor to reconstruct the party with decent white men. JOIN* THE CONSERVATIVES. One of the Columbia Republicans who signed the call for the Repub? lican convention, published in The Register yesterday, has' stated that whiie he does not know what his party will do he is reasonably satis? fied that it will support Conservative delegates to the Constitutional Con? vention if they are put out in the various counties. If the Conserva? tives do not put out tickets then the j Republicans will put them out. The i man said he feit sure that the Repub? licans could carry a number of coun? ties, but if they could eecuro the aid ; of the Conservatives there was no j telling how many they could carry. REPUBLICAN BOODLE. lt has already been intimated that j the national Republican committee j will send money to this State this year to try to prevent the Democrats ; getting control of the Constitutional j Convention. If Dr. Pope and other ' Independents should join in the ! fight against the white men, and j should be aided by an abundance of j money, there is no predicting what would happen in the State. The Washington correspondent of j the Piedmont Headlight has this to say of Dr. Pope : .'I have a little item of South Carolina news for you. I have it from good authority that old Samps. Pope is making overtures to join the Republican party, and will doubtless become their leader in your State at the next campaign. Samps, is posing j as not only an astute politician, but as ! a staunch believer in the doctrines of the Republican party, and he pro? mises to carry the Palmette State into their column in 1896, if he is ghen his own way and plenty of j boodle. A promineut Republican j to-day asked me what kind of a man j was Dr. Sampson Pope ? I told him i that the Doctor was a cross between a portable lunatic asylum and a second class crank, and I very much doubted if he had influence enough in his State to control his own vote. But wouldn't it be amusing to see j this galvanized anti idol presiding! over a negro Republican meeting?" j THE REPUBLICAN SCHEME. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the follow- j iog as the Republican scheme in the j South in the future : "It is regarded as more than probable that the next Republican nominnee for Vice President will be taken from the South. The returns j of the last election have given re- J newed hope to the Republican lead? ers of making serious inroads upon the Solid South. The policy of the party will be to foster whatever tendency exists in the South to cut away from the old Democratic alliauces To this end liberal appro? priations for that section will be made by the next Republican House, and a policy of conciliation will be systematically* pursued. There will be no meance of a force bill held out, ! but everything will be done which indicates a disposition to build up I the material interests of the South. ; Republican leaders have come to the j conclusion that the South once more offers an mvivitmg fieid for them. If they can only make a half-dozen States in that section debatable ground, the pro?ptct8 of the party for supremacy are immeasurably im? proved "After the bitter disappointment ; caused by the failure of the hopes and the apparently well-laid plans based upon the reconstruction legis? lation, the South was by tacit consent given up to the Democrats In all I their bedrock calculations from 1880' down, the Republicans, whiie some? times making nominal claims for the > sake of effect, have really never taken the South into consideration. < The history of last November has wrought a marvellous change. Next year, when the State elections roi! around, the Republicans will come ' up all over the South in compact and well-drilled organization Then can? didates will be selected with care, and thc party platforms will be art? fully and skillfully constructed for i home consumption. This is a matter which is engaging the earnest and constant attention here of the most trusted men at the head of Kepubli can party affairs. "Local Republicans in the South I have iong lamented their inability secure a patient hearing or aroi any interest in their cause when tl j come to Washington. This was 1 surprising, for, as a rule, they ha not been of the type to inspire spect or confidence, and what th had to propose or suggest carried insurance of substantial resnl The change in the situation li wrougiit change in purpose a stimulated hope for the future. T South will be looked after as it ne? was before. The outlines of t improved plan of Republican ca paign may be briefly summarize Local ambitions and local int?r?t will be aroused, reputable men on will be sought for to put on t tickets, and eflorts steadily direct to still and allay local prejudices a apprehensions. **The Democrats of the South mi be up and doing if they wish to 1 pair the severe injuries inflicted upi them this year. If the Republicans the local elections next year in ti South can bold on to what they ca tured this year, they will be happ If they succeed in doing better, th< will be jubilant In either event, in any event, it has been determim to make a desperate and contiuuno struggle all along the line for Sout ern electoral votes in 1896. An ii portant means undoubtedly for tl accomplishment of this end will 1 the nomination of a Southern man f Vice President. The Southei horizon will be closely scanned for Republican star of the first magnitud aud little, if any, doubt exists that 1 will be discovered. "It is not doubted he might be di covered in Maryland, where there ai so many Republicans of the highe character and ability, but Mary lar. will probably be eliminated from tl lange of choice, as being too ii North It seems to be accepted a most b}'common consent that in ti distinctively Sothern States a Repu I Hean of character and position is rara avis. This, more or less, ma !?ave been the case in the past. It very doubtful whether the propositio is tenable now or has been in lecei periods. "It has long been contended b the shrewdest politicians of botb pai ties that the enormous preponderanc of the party in the South would less? Inevitably with the diminishing sign ficance of the race question. Whetl er so or not, Republican policy wi proceed on this line. No distrust i felt as to the right man being found if, as now believed, party interest di mands him, when the moment foraci ion arrives. It was affirmed wit! mach confidence to-day that th? names of eight or ten men could b mentioned each of whom would am ply meet all the requirements of tin situation. More will come to tin front in due time. These new move on the political chessboard will adi gathering interest to the pre!:minarie? as well as the active operations o the next Presidential campaign. The Sumter Daily Item is urging upon the farmers of Sumter tba? the} go into truck raising more generally The idea is a good one, the busioes; can bs made very successful. There ii but. ooe secret of success io it. and thai is to ger to market first with the best stuff. Follow this rule in truck fartn iug and you are bound to succeed. Charleston Post. Major-elect Strong of New York says that after eight or ten men bad called to see him about street cleaning, he went by appointment to see a lady, from whom he learned more about street cleaning in seven or eight minutes than be ever knew before. Tbe Carrara marble quarries are practically inexhaustible. The entire mass of Mount Sagro, which dominates Carrara, is solid marble. About 160, 000 tons of marble are annually ex? ported. The Czar's private treasury is prac? tically inexhaustible for he has no settled civil list, but draws what he likes from the imperial exchequer, every ruble in which is supposed to be? long to him. The manager of a French press clipping agency, who deals in news? papers of the entire world, made a calculation as to who is oftenest men? tioned as a public character. Napoleon 1. stands first. Then comes the Em? peror of Germany, then Prince Bis? marck, and io the fourrh place Mr. Gladstone. The Japanese Minister. Mr. Kuri no. is naturally feeling very enthusiastic nowadays on accoant of the grfat victories achieved by his country in tbe war with (Jiiina. So he means to cele? brate his birthday by a grand reception and ball, to be cgiven at the legation on January ll, and for which Mrs. Olney has consented to actas chaperon. Mrs Kurino has not come to this country on account of ber many small children. Governor Evans has signed all the bills passed by the recent Legislature except one, aud he says he thinks he will let this go without his approval. Tbe bill is one to do away with the an? nual publication of the reports of tbe dis? bursements of County Treasurers. The Governor says that he does uot thiuk it wise to do away with these publications. They are safeguards to some extent. When thc Reformers came into power several County Treasurera were found to be short in their accounts. The Governor thinks that if these publica? tions were done away with it might aid to cover up something which ought to come to light.-Register Jan 6. Not Much Improvement in ! Business. Sales Continue Light, While Col? lections Continue Slow. NEW YOKK, Jan. 4.-Bradstreet's says : There has been no material im? provement in general trade. At large Eastern cities cnly a moderate volume of busiuess is reported, Buffalo and Boston inclining to re? gard the near outlook the more hope? fully. Philadelphia and Pittsburg are naturally affected somewhat by | lower quotations for iron and steel and Baltimore prefers awaiting or? ders from commercial travelers before expressing opinions on the outlook Geueral trade is reported quiet at Charleston, Nashville and Memphis, with mercantile collections fair only, j At Chattanooga and at Atlanta very little is doing in wholesale lines, the j former reporting manufactures quiet j as a result of prolonged holiday in- j fluence and the weather. At Savan- j nah trade is quiet but improving and j collection are only fair. Cotton manufacturers are taking some new | contracts, but merchants will act with extreme conservatism. Augusta cotton factories report a fairly good demand ?nd improved collections, : though general trade shows no gain. City aud country trade is reported fait ly satisfactory by Jacksonville. Damage from extremely cold weather in Florida to fruit and vege tables is quite heavy, orange growers being affected seriously. At Bir? mingham manufacturers report or? ders scattered, general trade quiet and collection only fair. There is only a small volume of business at New Oilcans and collection are slow. At Galveston trade is very quiet and orders are for needs only. All Western cities announce prac? tically unchanged trade conditions and light or moderate volumes of business, conspicuously Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit aud Louisville, although the Straits City reports coid weather has stimalated orders and | Louisville that merchants are more j hopeful. At Chicago orders are \ mostly of the filling-in variety, and St. Louis merchants are still working on inventories and starting out com- j mercial travelers. Business is confined mostly to mail orders.^ Although the United States has been j but, fifty years in the manufacture of j silk guuds, ic is said to stand second iu that branch of iuduatry. The only ! natioo, to excel this country is France, j In European factories the speed of the ; spliodled ranges troin 2,500 to 4,000 : revolutions per minute ; here it runs j up to 12,000 and 15,000 per minute. I These high speed spindles are not a ; monopoly, but with automatic attach- ; meut ot oue kind aud auother save j labor on a grand scale. There is, for ! example, a belt spinner, obviating the j use of - bands, oue belt touching the ' Hanges of all the spindles and turning : them uniformly. A weaver ur spinier from Europe entering an American silk factory otteu has difficulty in Ceiling what process the unfamiliar machinery is eugaged on. Fifty per cent, of the I raw silk imported into ibis country ' conies lrom Japan. Two Mills a Month. The Wool and Cotton Reporter's review of mill construction throughout | the couutry credits New York with 38 new textile mills constructed dur- ; ing the past year, Pennsylvania with I 36, North Carolina with 26. South ; Carolina with 23, Georgia 19, Massa- j chusettsl?, Maine ll, Virginia and ; Rhode Island 8 each. Texas and Connecticut 7 each. i This is a good exhibit for the ! Carolinas. With about 12,000,000 : white population New York and Pennsylvania together built seventy four new mills. With about 2,000,000 white population the Carolinas built forty-nine new mills. That is to say, j in proportion to white population the two Southern States built four mills to i the two greatest Northern States one. ' South Carolina with 400,000 white j population, built 50 per cent more j mills than Massachusetta with six times a?, large a wnite population; twice as many as Maine with 50 per cent larger while population; and three times as many as Connecticut with nearly double its white popula-: tion. It should be noted that this exibit covers all "textile'' mills, not | cotton mills alone. If the comparisons were confined to cotton mills, South Carolina, we believe, would show narly as many new mills for the yem? as all the Northern States put togeth? er. This is glory enough for 1894 ! The comparison will be still more favorable, we hope, at the end of 1S?5. ; -News and Courier. Congressman Livingston of the Fifth Georgia District is catching some hot shot because he wants less of useless ; powder burning in the anny and the navy. He objected the other day to an ; appropriation of S22.000 for tiring the : morning and evening guns at military t>o>D. The congressman doesn't re gard the army and navy tenet that thc sun cannot go down or git up utitii the ?*ui! ha-* been tir-'<i, at;'! wants !?> know what is the practicability of thc powder burning. His audacity in questioning military usage bas drawn upon him the verbal fire ot military meo, who look upon him as au unholy and unhappy in? fidel.-Savannah News. \ The Republicans Organizing The State. The Republican leaders in this Mate, alarmed at the possibilities at? tending upon a Constitutional conven tion :>Tid fearing that without some decisive action on their part they will be debarred from a just share of rep? resentation in that convention, have issued a call for a convention of their party to meet in this city on Wednes? day, February G. According to the terms of the call, it will not, however, be strictly speaking, a party conven? tion, but all are invited to participate in it who "believe in the doctrine of protection and honest elections" re | gardless of thei. past party affilia? tions. The call is as follows: COLUMBIA, Jan. 4, 1895. The approaching Constitutional con? vention presents a situation of the most vital concern. The projectors of the scheme to supplant the present Constitution have concealed their pur? poses beyond the admission and boast | that the elective franchise is to be so ? restricted and manipulated that a large proportion of the colored voters are to be disfranchised. The power of the convention is supreme. If the pee- ! pie do not rise in their might and elect delegates who will protect their estab? lished rights and interests there is im minent danger that an intolerant and partisan spirit will dominate,, and an organic law be adopted which will represent the views, principles and schemes of a hostile and revengeful faction. Thc call tor action and untiring ef? fort to avert the fate which has been decreed is loud and imperative. The lethargy and despair under which the people rest must be thrown oft". No issue of equal importance has ever been presented to the citizens of the State, and it is tirar- means were adopted to arouse the voters and ac qaint them with the perilous situa? tion. As now circumstanced, Republi? cans are powerless. Where active and efficient organization is essen-, tial they are in the dilemma of hav- ! ing no binding and legal party organization, growing out of the failure to elect a State executive j committee and couuty chairman during the last year, as required by j the rules of the party. It is therefore felt, and the occa-1 sion demands the assembling of a I State convention as speedily as pos- ? sible, to be composed of the most ' intelligent, wise and representative \ men, for the purpose of formulating plans for conducting this campaign and of organizing the party on a live, liberal, progressive basis, so that those who see in the success of; the Republican party the best hope for the welfare of the people and the : prosperity of our country, may iee! that in our party they will find a welcome and chance for preferment, j It should be understood the question ! of pa*t party affiliation is ignored, and that all those who believe iu the doctrine of protection and honest elections are entitled to and will be accorded fair and equal lecognition. The unloosing of party ties in the State ?fters the chance for the Re? publican party to begin a career of active usefulness and secure the co? operation of all well wishers Be? sides the usual registration days on ! the first Monday in each month, j there have been ten extra registration j days provided. This offers a great opportunity and incentive, and we : believe the people can, on this \ supreme occasion, be aroused j throughout the State. Therefore we feel impelled and j warranted by the overmastering issue \ aud our crippled party condition to | assume the responsibility of calling | a State Republican convention, to j meet at Columbia, S C , on Wed nos- ! day, February 6th, 1895; at 12 m , to take such action as the exigency de? mands Each couuty will be entitled to the I same number of delegates and alter? nates as it has members of the Gen? eral Assembly, and where not other- j wise provided a mass meeting to elect delegates should be held at the county seat in each county on Satur? day, February 2nd, 1S95. The very life of suffrage in this State is at stake and other cherished rights and interests are imperilled. The time for organization is so short that the ministers of the State must be appealed to and depended upon to j bring to the knowledge of the people the vital and transcendent issues that are involved in the Constitutional Conventional scheme and the neces sity of sending as delegates the best obtainable men. E. M. Brayton. W. B. Anderson. R. E. Hart. E. H. Coit. J. ll. Wilson. J. 0. Daniels. R. W. Memm inger V. P. Clayton. F. H. Gregory. Frank Nichols. C. P. Holmes. L I). Melton. S. li Xix J. W. Morris. Geo. W. Murray. Simeon Corley. J. C. Hunter. F. M. Prickelt. , W. W. Russell. T A. Owdom. C. C. Johnson. A New Financial Scheme. Something to Supersede The Carlisle Bill. WASHINGTON. January 7.-To? night the indications for the passage of 'he Car lisle financial bill through the House are decidedly unfavorable. Th? Democratic caucus held this afternoon did not clear the atmosphere of the cloud of doubt and uncertainty that bas hovered over the bill ever since ir. was reported to the House by Chairman Sprioger. It is true that the resolu? tion to support the bill introduced by Speaker Crisp was carried by a very narrow margin, which wa9 probably due largely to his personal popularity among the members. The vote was 81 for 59, against, with 75 absentees The general impression here to-night is that the bill cannot pass the House. On the Senate side of the Capitol there is a disposition to frame a finan? cial measure to meet the changed con? dition of affairs. Underlying the whole question are the suggestions agreed upon by the Senate steering committee in the first session of the present Congress, when the repeal of i the Sherman Silver Act was under con- j sideration. That committee was com- j posed of Mr. Justice White, of ; Louisiana, then a Senator: Senators: Gray cf Delaware, Black buri of Ken- j tucky. Ransom of North Carolina, | Cockrell of Missouri, Vilas of Wis- i consin, Waithall of Mississippi, and : Gorman of Maryland. The tendency now is to take some ; practical steps to relieve tho treasurv, : fur the Secretary shews by the records : that the expenditures are ?80,000,000 in excess of the receipts up to the pre? sent time. Thc question is being quietly considered by the leading Sena- i tors cf both sides of the chamber, and if any result is obtained it will pro bably bo on the lines of a compromise bill. It is propose io issue ?500,000, 000 of 2| cr 3 per cent, bonds of the d?nomination of ?50 and make it a j popular loan, to run for thirty years or j a shorter period, a? the discretion of j the Secretary of the Treasury. One huodred million dollars derived from the sale of bonds is to be expended to relieve the present wants of the I treasury, the balance to be issued from ! time to time to take up the greenbacks and retire them as rapidly as the national bank circulation increases. To permit the national banks to issue notes up to the par value of their bonds, to reduce the tax on national aod State banks from 1 to a J per cent, j to withdraw from circulation all Uoited ! States treasury notes and national bank j notes under $20 and issue silver certi- j ficates from ?1 np to $20, thus giving : fair recognition to the advocates of stiver. To authorize the holders of ; silver bullion to tahe their silver to the ? mints of the United States for actual i coinage, the Government to charge as ? seigniorage to the difference between : the commercial and the coinage value j of the silver, not to exceed $50,000,- ? 000 in any one year. The Govern- ; ment to withdraw the greenbacks and the treasury notes from circulation as . fast as there is an increase in the | national banking currency and silver j dollars. To prohibit the national backs from withdrawing their circula tioo without the consent of the Secre- ; fry of the Treasury, in order to pre- | vent the contraction of the currency. ; The bill also proposes to require duties on all imports from gold standard coun? tries to be paid one-half iu gold. The more this subject is discussed j the more reasonable it appears. Secre- j tary Carlisle and the friends of the Ad- ? ministration are said to be in favor of ! something of this nature. It is said i that some of the Republican leaders are j williog to lend their aid to pass such a j measure which is constructed with a ! view to meeting the demands of all the I contending elements from the gold bugs j down to and including the free silver ; and State bank tax advocates. The I suggestions herein contained will be i formally presented in the Senate io a j few days and it is claimed that they will commend themselves to a majority of j the two houses of Congress.-News and Courier. Calling a whiskey shop a dispensary j does not make it respectable. You might as well endeavor to make an as- ! sigoation house, or a browne! of lowest type, respectable by calling it "The House Beautiful.v or "Rest for the Heart Sick." Selling whiskey from : the overcoat pocket, the ox wagon, the dark cellar or the dispensary is alike disreputable and the men who engage in it lower themselves by so doing.- ! Carolina Spartan. A point of law of great interest to women bas just beeu decided in Miiwa- I kee, where Judge Johnson decided that a woman is not a chattel of her hus band. Sophia Marrigold aud her hus? band sold ground to the Cudahay Pack? ing Company for $4,014. In addition to this sum, Mrs. Marrigold was tu get ?500 for signing away her dower* The packing company gave both checks to Marrigold and he refused to give his j wife her check for ?500. She brought ; suit against her husband for divorce md the Cadahays for the ?500 They held that the handing of the cheek to her husband was suffieieut delivery, but the- court held that it was nor. and gave plaintiff Judgment for her claim lt is not to ba wondered at that AyerTs Pills ?ire in snob universal demand. For ?!?j our^ ot constipation, billiousness, or any other complaint needing a laxative, these pills ure unsurpassed. They are sugar? coated, easy to take and every dese is etfec- , Good-Bye, Old Year! Good-bye, Old Year ! Wrapped in the winding sheet which you yourself have woven, you jake yout place to-night in the chilly chamber assigned you "in the silent halls of death." The dew of eternal morning is already upon your brow : those glassy eyes assume a stare as fixed as the fate that awaits you, and at "midnight's holy hour" your younger brother will come and assume the heritage which time has thrust upon him. <T<>od-bye, Old Y'ear ! To day the kindly earth is slum? bering, lapped in universal snow. It is?well. The flakes shall be your flowers, and the snow birds shall twitter your requiem as they sang your natal hymn. Since early au? tumn the sumach, the sassafras and the oak have been spreading a bun dred-hued carpet for the feet of the mourners who shall follow you to your last home under the hill. The tasteful tapestry is now complete and the burial hour is almost here. Good? bye, Old Year. The emotions of men are not al? ways deep, and while some are whis? pering "The year is dead !" others will shout "Long live the year!" Around your bier to-night will sit a motley host. Mourning and mirth will meet on common ground, ac? cording to the gifts you have brought mankind. Twin hearts in which the fervent fires of affection keep hope aglow will claps their hands and look in pensive silence upon you as they think of the joy you have brought them and then cast a furtive look to the unfolding future, wondering what the to-morrow of time will bring. Thoughtless revellers wiil brim their bumpers with "a health to the dead already and three cheers for the next to die." Old age, palsied and wrin? kled, will cast a retrospective look towards-"so sad,^ so strange,-the days that are nc more," and piantiug their feeble feet upon the steadfast Rock of Ages, await the hour when loving friends wiil bid them, as we now bid you, good-bye, Old Y"ear ! In the great, wild wood of life you have been "a companion of owls and a brother of dragons"-you have been a half-sister to sylphs and a father to fauns. The gamut which God attuned in your infant hear: has responded in symphonies of soul-felt sorrow and thrilled with the madden? ing measures of mirth. To-nigh t, like the master of musical masters, your own requiem will croon you to rest. With a smile and a (tear, good? bye, Old Yrear.-Augusta Evening Chronicle. JOODS Hopkins, founder of Johns Hopkins University, was a Maryland Quaker. He died a bachelor in 1873, at the age of 89, leaving for the iostitu ion ?3,000,000. Prof. Neumann of the University of Koenigsberg, is 96 vears of age, and DC7 * C for sixty-six years has been lecturing continuously on physics and mineral? ogy. He is the oldest professor in active work ia Germany. Prof. Jobo Stuart Blackie, the fam? ous author, is one of tbe sights of Edinboro. His active life runs through three gsueratioos and a: 86 he is still vigorous. Surviving so many famous men who were his friends, he is justly called the "last o* the Scots.r Hard times as weil as adamantine morals doubtless affected Col. Breckin ridge's lecture receipts io Charleston. We have known Sbakspearean plays, well rendered, to draw not more tbao forty people. Yet that was not be? cause Shakspeare stole deer.-The State. Secretary Carlisle has proposed a practical piao, and those who have ob? jected to it have failed utterly to bring forward'aoy reasonable substitute. The argument of the President and the Secretary of tbe Treasury io favor of the retirement of the government's legal tender notes and the withdrawal of the government from the banking business, is simply unanswerable.-At? lanta Journal. In London a paving stone was uotieed to have raised above the other bv its side, and workingmen were seat to replace it on a level with the rest of the pavement. Before they reached thore numerous toadstools appeared be? tween it and its fellows, aud when it was taken up it was found that the growth of these fungi, soft and spongy though they are, had lifted tue stone, which was four feet across oue way aud two feel across the other way, and weighed 212 pounds. Tbis seems even more wonderful than tbe splitting of a mck by the roots of au oak or other tree growiog in a crevice of a rock. In New York a dav or two a<*c a t?mate baooon sprang upon aud :ried to kill Mrs. Macart, the wife of the baboon's trainer. It is alleged that the simian was in love with tbe trainer and was desperately jealous of his wife. How the baboon was able to know that the woman was Macart's wife aud a rival is not explained by the veracious writers who made a love story out of the brute's viciousness. The animal attack? ed Mrs. Macart probably because it is monkey nature to tease or hurt women. Any woman who ha< -ver beer, to a managerle knows pertectly weil that every monkey is constantly OD the watch to snatch a woman's hat or tear lier clothes. It will pay voa to take Hood's Sarsapa? rilla. With lian- blood you neei no: fear the &rnp. ^ pneumonia, ?iptheria or Jevers. Hood's ^Sarsaparilla w.ll make vc:: street aod healthy.