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THE PLATFORM. The Candidates on the Joint Ticket Declare Their Po sition?A Plain and ? Succinct State ment. AW ADDRESS TO THE DEMO CHATS OF SUMTER. All Good Citizens Can Stand on This Platform. The following address was pre pared yesterday afternoon by the nominees for the Constitutional Con vention aud to day has been spread broad cast over the couuty. There can be no doubt where these men stand, for they have placed them selves on record : To the Democracy of Suinter County : The undersigned, having been nominated for the position of Dele gates to the Constitutional Conven tion upon a joint ticket composed equally of Conservatives and Reform ers, desire briefly to etate the under lying principles which we advocate in our candidacy The County Democratic Executive Committee has made no order for Campaign Meetings. Should said Committee make such appointments we expect to be present and address the people. Meantime we must con teut ourselves with this statement of our views upon the questions of the day. First. We renew our declarations of fealty to the Democratic Party, j ' We have always been* members of that party, and can belong to no other Its history and principles have been a record of loyalty to the rights of the people, aud a jealous regard to the interests of the masses against the encroachments of the classes. We believe that all evils of legislation, existing or threatening, can best be remedied within the ranks of that party. iecond. We advocate fairness and ? $* in all elections. The moral Xoiw of the youth of the country and of coming generations, must not be polluted by a record of dishonesty and corruption in elections The right to ote is the right preservative of all other rights Confidence iu the pur ity of the ballot box should be main tained at all hazards The voice of the majority, fairly and legally ex pressed, and honestly ascertained, is tbe key-stone of free and popular government. Third. We demaud the maintain ance of white supremacy as affording tbe only guarantee of a wise and stable government for ourselves and our posterity. While we do not ad- j vocale a policy of injustice to the j black man, yet we are nevertheless j firm in the conviction that the rule of j the white race must necessarily redound to the beet aud permanent advantage of all classes of our citi zens. We fee! confident that the j convention can and will adopt a plan in reference to the suffrage, consist : ent with honest elections, white su premacy, justice to the colored race j and not in conflict with the Constitu tion of the United States. Fourth. We cordially favor the ! mai tai nance of the homestead law. This benevolent legislation for the protection of the unfortunate debtor : exists iu almost all enlightened ? governments The preservation of ; the family home pr?serv?e the integ rity and solidity of the family itself ; and family government is the corner stone of all human government. Xor is there auy injustice to the creditor class in a homestead law honeetly ad minietered, because all dealinge be tween man and man are with full notice of the right of the homestead exemption, aud no deception ie prac ticed upon any one Fifth. We pledge ourselves to the maintainance of a system of free pub lic schools for the education of the youth of the State. In a republican form of government an educated bal lot is the great safeguard of popular institutions, and we do not see how a less tai than two mills preserved in the Constitution can successfully maintain the public schools. Sixth. We believe that the Con stitution should be the embodiment of sound and juet principles of gov ernment, leaving it to the wisdom of succeeding legislatures to carry out all essential details. With this general statement of our views we appea? to all patriotic an right minded men in Sumter County, irrespective of past political differen ces, to go to the polls on Tuesday August 20th, and by their free bal lots give expression to their confi dence in these principles, if they ap prove the same. Kespectfully, T. FRASER, SHEPARD NASH, R D. LEE, R. P. STACKHOUSE, JAS. . SCARBOROUGH, GEO. P. McKAGEN. The Financial Question. It is the duty of every man who feels that he knows or realizes what may be for the weal or woe of his fellow citizens, to speak out ; and more especially is this the case when they are composed largely of the poor and deserving?the widows, minors and orphans of the land. I have especial reference now to the "silver craze" and its influence upon the finances of the country, if carried out to its dire consummation accord ing to the plans of that arch schemer and consummate trickster, R. Tillman By way of illustration, here is a family?mother and orphan children?who have $1,000.00 in a savings bank?the hard earned sav ings of the dead husband and father ?perhaps their little all. The country is flooded with silver, and what is the result t Their little capi tal is depreciated 25 or 50 per cent , and they are practically impover ished. Ttius would it be in huudreds and | thousands of cases, and the country is swept as with a besom of destruc-1 tion. Appearances are oft-times j most deceptive?money will appa- ? rently be very plenty, debts, com paratively easily paid?but etop just here and consider : Whilr the debtor is the beneficiary, how is it with the creditor ? Is not he the loser in the same proportion ??25 or 50 per cent. In other words he gets only half the just debt, which was due him Is this right? Is it just? Ah, but those aspirants for high places?the Presidential chair, for instance?will need much more money in ad dition to that which has been so mys teriously piled up already, and they are consequently most zealous in their advocacy of this and other populistic schemes that they may be the better prepared to carry out their nefarious designs Mr Editor, need I say more on this subject '! It should be sufficient for all parties concerned?a word to the wise, &c.?and this accounts largely for the hoisting the flood gates of abuse, billingsgate and vituperation, which has been poured out upon the devoted head ot our gallant leader, Grover Cleveland, and his scarcely less deserving, in this connection, as sociate, Mr. Carlisle. John H. Furman, M. D. Privateer, Aug. 9, '95. - % - mm The Georgia Melon in the Northwest "There is a tragedy or a comedy in every Georgia watermelon !" This remark was recently made by one of the largest fruit dealers j in Chicago He meant that the shippers in Georgia never know whether their melons would bring them a cash return or a liability. Many car loads of melons this Stimmer have not paid freight charges and were left on the hands of the railway companies to dispose of. Other kiuds of fruit ate cheap and Georgia is a long distance from the market and freight charges are high. The commission merchants have made very little. In one in- j stance a merchant sent the shipper $10 for 8.000 melons, and received | a letter of thanks, the correspondent saying that on another consignment j equally as large he was out of pocket for the freight. The fruit growers of Southern Missouri are furnishing many of the melons, and one man in that district shipped last week thirty-three car loads to j Chicago. The Missouri shippers get from a cent and a half to four cents | a piece for their melons, after all j expenses are paid, and the Geor-1 gians are lucky when they get a | cent for ten melons. Cheaper freight rates do not ?fter much hope for the melon men of this section. What Southern pro ducers need is more and better home markets, aud we cannot have them until immigration and diver sified industry build up our cities and towns.?Atlanta Constitution. No Clerkships to Give Attorney General Barber says his office is being flooded with letters from people al! over the State making appli cation for appointment to clerkships in the Constitution convention. He says that if the applicants will simply glance over the convention act. they will sec that he has no clerkships to give. The election of clerks, etc., is a matter left entirely to the convention. No provision has been made whereby he is to select clerks and copyists and be ha.^ nothing whatever tojdo with the mat ter.? The ?State. Express and Freight Collide. Both Engines Smashed to Smithereens ? An Engi neer, Two Firemen and a Brakeman Lose Their Lives. Manchester, . , August 8 ? special to the Manchester Union from Plymouth, . H., says : The canooD ball express train smashed into a spe cial freight just below Plymouth vil lage about 6 o'clock this morning with frightful results. Engineer Frank Ste vens and Fireman Geo. S. Merrill and Henry G. Sioes were instantly killed Several passengers were seriously in jured and foarteen new freight oars just from the shops were stove in pieces as were tbe looomotives. Plymouth, N. H., August S?The railroad aocideot reported from Man chester today occurred one mile south of here on tbe White Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The southbound "Cannon Ball" ex press met ou a curve au extra freight, northbound. Tbe crash was plainly beard in Plymouth. The engines were completely demol- ' ished, both being thrown overa twen- ! ty foot embankment and reduced to kindiing wood. The bodies of tbe dead were fearfully mangled and so scalded as j to be hardly recoguizable. The killed are Frank Stevens, of ! Lake Port, engineer of the "Cannon Ball ;" George Merrill, of Lake Port, j fireman of tbe 4,Cannon Ball:" Henry j G. Lines, of Woodsville, fireman of tbe j freight; Arthur Austiu, of Haverhill, a freight brakeman, was so badly hurt he will probably die. The morning was foggy and the "Cannon Ball'' was run ning thirty-five miles an hour. Tele graph and telephone poles were de stroyed for several hundred feet and all but one wire were cut off. Engineer Eaton, of the freight, had jast been transferred from tbe Northern to White Mouotain division of tbe Boston and Maine, and was learning the road be- j tween Concord and Woodsville His escape was miraculous. The first be knew of the affair was a crash and the next instant* he was crawling from be neath the wrecked locomotives on his hands and knees. Although he is con siderably injured, tbe result will not be serious The orders for the movement of the two trains were given by the dis patcher at Woodsville and it is not known who blundered. Justice Jackson's Death, Nashville, Teon., Aug. 8 ?Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of tbe Uoited States died at 2 p. m. at bis residence at West Meade, six miles from this city aged 63. Judge Jackson bad been in failing health for several years, but it has only been io the last nine months that the progress in the dis ease began to cause hie family and friends uneasiness. Last year he went on a lengthy trip to the far West in search of health. Later he went to Thomaeville, Ga., where it was hoped the mild and bracing climate would restore his vigorous constitu tion. Tbe trip did him little good and after a time be was brought home. At his old home, surrounded by the scenes he loved so well, Judge Jack son seemed to improve steadily until he went to Washington to sit in the second hearing of the income tax case. He stood that trying trip fairly well and after his return home appeared to lose strength rapidly. He was afflicted with a complication of diseases which it was impossible to fight off Nevertheless, Judge Jackson did not take to his bed until eight days ago Since that time his family and friends realized that the end was near and his death to-day was not unexpected. Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy. daughter of David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1S73. To this union were born four children as follows : Henry, Mary, William H., and Howell Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present soliciting freight agent for the Southern railway, with headquarters at Atlanta. W. H Jackson is district attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at Cin cinnati. Howell Jackson is manager of the Jaokson Cotton Mill at Jackson. Teon. In 1876 Judge Jacksoo married Miss Mary E. Harding, daughter of tbe late General Harding. Of this union three children, Miss Elizabeth and Louis and Harding A. Jackson, survive him. Hickson, the Alabama Hero. The United States Consul who Rescued Survivors of the Kucheng Massacre. Froru the New York Mail and Express. The tragic news that comes from China of the slaughter of a dozen men and women missionaries at Kucheng, in the Foochow Foo dis trict of Foki?n, is tempered only by the superb heroism displayed by the American consul at Foochow, Col J. Courtney Hixson, of Alabama. As soon as the news readied him at his post he engaged steam launches, call ed for volunteers and. aimed to the teeth, went up the brandi of the Min river which leads to the city where the outrage occurred, arni there saved a number ol Gospel workers ?rom the fury of the mob. This may not seem a great feat to us living twelve thou sand miles away, where law and ! order are the universal rule, but any j one who has: vieited the far East, and especially in the Foochow province, recognizes it as a heroic deed of the : grandest type. The natives of that district are among the most turbulent, savage, brutal and vicious in the Chinese Empire. Bishop Williams, who studied them critically, said that one-half were addicted to the opium habit and would commit any crime in j order to gratify their craving for that ! deadly drug. It has been the scene j ? of repeated and almost constant riot I ing so far back as the time when the port was opened to foreign commerce. There is an Anti-Christian movement, an auti foreign movement and an anti progressive movement there which shrink at nothing. The magistrates, soldiers and officials are as bad, if not worse, than the mob itself. When, thorefore. Col Hixson left Foochow, where, thanks to our diplomatic arrangements, there is compatative safety for foreigners, and went up the Yu Eng-Foo River, he took his life in his hands, knowing well that he ran the chances of being shot, stab bed, burned to death, tortured, poisoned or shot with poisoned ar rows All of these things occurred to foreigners in that district before this, not once, but often That he rescued the survivors at Kucheng is a triumph of which he, his State and his people can well be proud There are consuls and consuls. Many are mere political ciphers who are of no uee to anybody, not even to them- ! selves. There are others who are ca- ? pable, manly and efficient In the latter class every now and then we run across some individual, who when the crucial moment arrives, displays the magnificent bravery and the su perb self-sacrifice of the ideal consul Such a one is Col Hixson, of Alabama, to whom the Mail and Express con veys its compliments and congratula tions The Insurgents Gaining Strength and the Span iards Realize the Mag nitude of the Strug gle. Jacksonville, Aug. 8.?A cable gram to the Times Union from Key West says : F. Y. Margall, leader of the Republican party in Spain, recently published in a weekly paper j called Don Quijote, an article head ed "East ("uba," which has caused considerable excitement in the Isl and of Cuba. The article severely censures the government and claims that it alone is responsable for the I present state of affai * in Cuba ! The paper said for $3 f*r copy, a ! translation would be se t by mail, j Private advices to this city state that j much uneasiness is felt in Havana, j The officials hear that an attack will i be made on that city in the course of i a few weeks. It is reported that j shortly martial law will be declared i in Havana Fortifications are-being erected at Puntes Grandes, a fortifi cation of Havaua, which will be( heavily mounted with cannon. Roloff, in the early part of last j week, attacked a guerrilla band com j posed of 250 men near Remedois, I completely routing them. Immedi ? ately upon the landing of Roloff, he j was joined by many young men of I the best families in Santi Spiritu, 1 Santa Clara and Remedois provinces. The insurgents are gaining such : strength in the province of Santa Clara that in the course of a few : weeks they will be in complete con trol. It is rumored in Havana that Col. Baguerro died from wounds re ! ceived at the battle of Yalanzuella. He was a distinguished officer in the Spanish army. Valincia, the Cuban traitor, who betrayed to the Spanish authorities the arms and ammunition stored away in the Vuelta Abajo dis trict has been rewarded by a trip to Spain. Gen. Mella reports officially to the government that on the 2nd, 3d and -4th, he attacked and completely ; routed the insurgents under Gen. Gomez, killing three. His troops be : ing exhausted,, he would not pursue the enemy. On the 1st, near Matan ; zas, seventeen of the Guardia Civil i attacked the band of Matagas, the I notorious bandit. They lost three killed and many injured. It is posi tively asserted that notwithstanding official reports, Flor Crombet is alive ' and will soon rejoin the insurgents, having completely recovered from ; his wound. i The Louvre Cafe, a rendezvous for all the prominent young men of Havanna, is almost d?sert?e". Many j of its patrons have joined the revolu tionists at Puerto Principe, and oth ! ere have formed bands near Matan ; zas Passengers by the Mascotte re port that business is terribly de pressed in Cienfugos and the people demoralized, fearing an attack from the insurgents momentarily, a* the plantations arc deserted, orders hav ing been issued l>y the insurgents that the grinding ol cane will not L?c allowed, threatening death and de struction of property to who at tempt t" work on the plantations I i?'l>- ?? A withdrawal o? two and ;i half mil liou dollari: from the gold reserve i* ex I pected to be made this week Tillman on Prohibition. The Debate on the Temper ance Question at Prohibi tion Park. New Yokk. August 8.? Senator Till man and Prof. Samuel Dickey, of Michigan, chairmao of the national committee of tbe Prohibition party to night debated the liquor question at Prohibition Park, Staten Islaud. The subject in full was : '"Is State control of the liquor traffic tbe best means of promoting temperance reform ?" Sen ator Tillman spoke for tbe affirmative aud was followed by Prof. Dickey. The Senator spoke again and the pro fessor closed the debate. Each spoke forty minutes in ail. The discussion took place in the auditorium of the park before about 600 people. Dr. D. S. Gregory, of tbe park, presided. On the stage, besides a jury of twenty meo of every political faith, was ex-Governor John P. St. John, of Kansas, who will speak for prohibition against Senator Tillman at the park to-morrow night. When Senator Tillman began the de bate he explained his well known dis pensary scheme, upon which the voter?* of his State have split into Tillmanite and anti-Tillmanites He then con tinued : "There are three liquor regulating systems?the high license, the prohibi tion and the dispensary system?the last named, being modification of the Norwegian system. High license is a monopoly and breeds open saloons and evepy sort of seductive influences resulting in evil. "What does prohibition breed ?" shouted the Senator. "Hypocrites, perjurer* and 'bootleggers.' Why pro hibition was giveu up as a dismal I failure iu Iowa, and now they bave a j system of local option. What do we i do ? We propose to treat human be ings not as angels, but as we find them to be. The love of liquor is born in every human appetite. Even our friend, Mr Roosevelt, can't close all the saloons in your city here. Our sys tem reduces tbe evil to a minimum We say to the people, if there must be liquor drinking, let the profit go to the State, and if you want it, come up like men as for any other commodity, ! Don't sneak. The systems doo't keep i them from getting liquor." Prof Dickie then said that the dis \ pensary system had been tried abroad j and proved a failure ; that if prohibi tion bred hypocrites and ""boot-leg gers," the dispensary system has be I gotten riot and bloodshed in South Caro I lina. He said be opposed the dispen j sary system because the Bible forbids j a man's putting the bottle to his neigh bor's lips, that the State had no right to do what man was forbidden to do. There are two great systems open to mankind?total abstinence or drunken ness. If the business is bad when ; tbe State is a partner, as under tbe j license system, he asked, how doubly damned was it when the State was the sole proprietor ? The jury after they had retired for deliberation, decided to disagree for the present, so their de cision will be tiven to-morrow night. He Attends a Meeting Man * aged by Negroes and Is Advertised as a Draw l ing Freak. From the New York Sun. The camp meeting and jubilee servi I ces, which the negr mgregatious of ! this eity and Staten island have been j arranging for tbe past month at Prohi 1 bitiou Park, Staten Island, have, up to ! date, been a failure. The meetings j were, according to the handbills and ; posters which have been liberally dis ! tributed about this city and Staten Isl and, to have opened in a blaze of glory I on Tuesday afternoon, but when the time came for the first of the three ; meetings scheduled for Tuesday, the ; enthusiastic workers, led by the Rev. ; H. R. Edmunds, of the Union African Methodist Episcopal Church, of this city, and the Rev. J. E. Peterson, of the Union African Church of Staple ton, Staten Island, and followed by the combined choirs of the two churches, marched out oo the platform of the Prohibition Park meeting ball to find every one of the 8,000 chairs in the place unoccupied. There was a man to the box office outside to sell admis sion tiokets for ten cents each, and a sleepy boy stood at the door to collect them, but no one else was around. The ministers looked surprised aud one or two of the choir snickered, but, nothing daunted, Mr. Edmunds arose and said : "Never mind, brethren, they'll be here later." and then he suggested singing a hymn, which suggestion met with the approval of everybody. Af ter the hymn the jubilee workers left the ball. The second meeting was scheduled for 3.15 o'clock, and promptly at that hour the ministers, the choir aud the others marched on the stage again This time two of the 8,000 chairs were occupied, hut it wa> by reporters, and once more the meeting had tc be ad jouroed. This time the workers went ol? in a side room by the nisei ve- and held a quiet little service <>t their own. Wbeu S o'clock rolled around there were seven people i:: the big hali, and three of those were white men. The Kev V. Johnson was down for sermon, and be was determined to deli ver it, despite the small congregation Two of the white men left the hall when they raw that there wasn't going to be any real revival meeting, but the other five heard Mr. Johnson out Then the choir e>ang two hymn* aud the meeting adjourned. Yesterday things were almost as bad. despite the fact that Bishop Buley, of Wilmington, Del., was one of the attractions. There were a few people at the evening service, but the oumber ar botti afternoon services could be counted on the fiogers of one hand. Mr. Edmunds is not discouraged yet, ami save that things will be better later on He has great confidence in the meetings which come later, as there will be a debate to-morrow night on the question : "State Control of Alco holic Beverages ; or, Is Liquid Damna tion Morally Right or Legally Wrong?" The posters read : "A red hot disoussion on this ques tion Two typical States?Fire-eating South Carolina versus Bleeding. Drought-stricken Kansas. Two famous Ex Governor*?Ex-Governor B. R. Tillman venous Ex-Governor John P. St John ; also Prof Samuel Dickie, chairman Narional prohibition com mittee, will make these the liveliest temperance debates ever known on Stateu Island." Kenneth Bazemore bad the good fortune to receive a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy when three members of bis family were pick with dysen tery. This one small bottle cured them all and he had some left which he gave to Geo. W. Biker, h prorainent merchant of the place, Lewiston, N.C., and it cured him of the same complaint. When troubled with dysen tery, diarrhoea, colic or cholera morbus, give this remedy a trial and you will be more toar, pleased with the result The praise that naturally follows its introduction aud use has ronde it very popular. 25 ane 50 cent bot tles for sale bv Dr. A. J. China. ; Untold Agonies _? Every Limb Ached With riuscii lar Rneumatism A Perfect Cure by Hood's C?.rs2? par'iia. The cause o? rheumatism is lactic acid in the bkxnl. which accumulates in the joints, ami gives the victim >uoh dreadful puins a?id aches. Flood s Sar saparilla neutralizes the acid, purifies the blood and thus cures rheumatism. "Five years ago I had my ?rst attack Of lumbago or muscular rheumatism. I V.-&3 in bed two weeks. J had a good physician but he did not do me any good. friend recom mended Hood's Sarsaparille and I sent for a bot tle. At that time I ached in every limb, especially in my back and hip. I felt as though I had a fever and for a few hours at sot. Thomae S. Palmer ... . Abbeville, s. C night it was im possible to sleep. I suffered untold agonies. Constipation was not the least of my troubles. I commenced to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and felt a decided change in three days. I was able to get oat of bed Hood's ^ii* Cures and sit at the flre in course of a week. I can recommend it as the best remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia I ever tried." T. S. Palmer, Abbeville, S. C Hoot?'s PilrS aro the best aiter-dinner pills, assist ?licest?on. pr<w<>nt constinatioa. "AN ORDINANCE" "ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO DEFINE THE DUTIES, AND DECLARE THE POWERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF SUMTER, S. ?I? Whkhkas, An Act of the General Assem bly of the State of South Carolina entitled 1 An Act to Establish Local Boards of Health in the Cities and Incorporated Towns of the State, and to define the powers thereof," ap proved January 5th, 1S95, provides tor the election of a board of health, in cities and incorporated towns of said State, and such election was held in the City of Sumter or. 27th day of June, 1395. and Julius A. .Mood. M. D., George D. Shore, Esc , William M. Grabara, Esq , S Chandler Baker. M. D.. and Archibald China, M. D.. \v<?re elected at said election, and now compose the said Board of Health in snd for said City : Now. therefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Sumter, S. C, in Council assemble?, aud by the authority of the same : Section I. That the said Board of Health, and their successors hereafter chosen, shall elect a Secretary and a Health Officer, who shall hold and exercise the duties of their respective offices at the pleasure of the Board ; and said Board shall have all the powers, and shall perform all the duties con ferred and required by said Act of* the General Assembly. Sec. II. That the Secretary and the Health Officer of said Board ot Health shall each give bond to the City of Samter in the sum of one hundred dollars, for the faithful dis charge of his duties, and they sha!; aleo tf?k<? aod subscribe the oath required to be taken by members of the Board of Health. Sec. III. That all rules and regulations which may be made by said Board of Health, wuen ratified by the City Council, shall have all the force aud effect of an ordinance or ordinances of said City of Sumter. Sec. IV. That in addition to the remedies provided by the said act of the Generai As sembly for abating nuisances, any person, cr persons, who shall refus? or neglect to re move, or abite any nuisance in the City of Sumter. when required so to do. by the said Board of Health sha!! be deemed guiltv of a violation of this ordinance, and upon con viction for such refusal r neg!e<-t, before the Mayor or the City Council, of City of Sum te.-, may be fined nor m?re ihnn fifty dollars, or be imprisoned :-n the city prison not more than thirty days Done. and ratified in Council assembled, and under the corporate seal ot the Ci tv < Sumter. S C this ''-tri dav of August * \ t'. :s^o ft. j SS. C PIERSON, C M. HURST, Mavo Clerk and Treasurer. August 7?2t.