Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.AH EMINENT MER? CHANT'S VIEW. Mr. George Williams Does Not Think That the Election of Eith? er er Bryan or McKinley Would Kum the Country. To the Editor of The News and Confier : YOQ will see that your old correspondent is again io the quiet and peaceful valley of Nacoocb.ee. I feel it a great privilege to once more visit this "Child of the Chattahoochee, Bid in the bills afar." Nearly all the friends and relatives of my early childhood have crossed the river. Since I was here last summer an only brother, Edwin P. William.-?, aged 83, died. Two sisters and a col? ored mauma, who is 100 years old, are the only oaes left of my early com pan ions. The old most make places for the yoong. None of os, however aged we may be, or however good off io health are willzog to die. Heaven we ail believe to be a very good place, bot we know more of oar earthly home than we do of Bea veo. All are will? ing to live as loog as they cao. It is s mereifol provision of Providence that the young or old ever realize that they are going to die. All waot to live, even if they have to work so hard aod straggle for a living. The rest ia my quiet mountain home gives me ao opportunity to investigate the mach agitated question of "gold and silver." I take op this question almost from the beginning of time. We find that ancient Abraham dealt in silver. He weighed four hundred shekels of silver to Ephroo to pay for the field of Mach pelah. For a loog period* the metal that was used for money was cast into rode bars aod stamped Originally, so far as I can learn, silver coin was io all countries, for a loog period the only coin which was considered as the stand? ard er measure af value. In Englaod geld was oot legal tender for a c?ntury after it waff coined into money. Before the discovery of the aines m America the value of gold and stiver was regulated in the? different mints in Europe between the proportions of 1 to 10. That is one ounce of gold was worth ten . ounces of silver, while at one time it was 1 to 5. For the past two hundred years it has beeo about 1 to 15 This vexed aod muoh mis? understood question will have to be set? tled for the good of the country by the people aod not by the politicians and speculators. More than 550 years ago DeSoto tarched from Florida to "Nacoochee lld Town" with an army of Spaniards anti Indians numbering some five thou? sand. Here,jio this beautiful country, :bes the capital of the Cherokee Nation, he establised, io Nacoochee Valley, bis headquarters, sheltered as they were on the north, west and south by mountain walis, some of them towering five thou? sand feet in toe air. DeSoto bad beeo informed by earlier Spanish ad? venturers that great quantities of gold 09uld be found here. He built a loog ?ow of nooses and in a short time h is coffers were filled with gold. DeSoto was consequently the first "gold bug'7 in this country. His fate is known to your readers. The reason the natives are for gold is because of the discovery of that preoious metal here in 1828. Notbwithstanding the vast quantity gathered by the Spaniards and the millions and millions since 1828 by our people there is still more gold io "Nacoochee and its surround ?ngs'' than there is in all the vaults of the United States. How much it will cost to remove it from its snug deposits remains to be seen. The modero im ro vern en ts io machinery has greatly lessened the expense of mining. When I was a boy here in my early teens aad saw the miners picking up nuggets worth from ose to four thou sand dollars I was a true, true gold bug. But my father, who was a farm? er, was not willing that the agricultural curran cy of the country should be dis? turbed, ordered me to the oom field to make coro, which was a legal tender at ooe dollar per bushel and to make bacon at ten cents per pound, aod other farm products, winch bad their cur? rency value. I was taught that agri? culture was the true foundation of all wealth aod labor the power that sop plies nations with their aooual con? sumption. Aod that labor, either with the hands or the brains, the application of oar gifts to some bepeficeot result, is the basis of improvement aod happi-1 Bess. If our people will devote more time ! to the cultivation of the soil aod less to politics it would be better for the whole country. I shall be glad when our Presidential eleetioo is over. Since my earliest recollection it has beeo a thorn io the flesh. Io 1843 I was deeply interested io the eleetioo of Heory Clay for Presdent. Political excitement at that time raD high, brother arrayed against brother, and father against son. I was ao old line Whig. I had worked myself up to the belief that if Clay was oct elected the j country would become bankrupt. To my sunrise and mortification Henry Clay was defeated by James K. ! Polk. As I DOW remember Polk's ad- j ministration was a brilliant one. The great State of Texas was admitted into the Uoioo. The country prospered from Maine to Texas. I was so disap? pointed at the defeat of Clay I have never gone crazy again io politics. I have always endeavored to vote for the j best mao. I do oot oow believe that the eieo j tioo of either McKinley or Bryan will I ruio the couotry. Some of my best j friends thiok that if McKinley should j be elected the great fioaocial question would be settled. So far as I cao see very few meo have a clear ooderstaod- ! iog of the gold and silver question. For ages it has bothered the best minds io the old and new world. George W. Williams. Nacooehee, Ga., Aog. 22. Bourke Cockran Gets Roasted fur Slandering the South. Wasbiogtoo Post. Oar very good frieod, Hon. J. C. S Blackburn, the seoior senator from Kentocky, must have been ro a hurry wheo, just before leaving Washington oo Thursday last, be said ; "I am suprised that the newspapers which are disposed to be eminently fair io this fight should allow this speeoh of Bourke Coekran's to pass without tak? ing him to task for the only tbiog that is in it. I Dever believed that Bourke Cockran was capable of making so dis? astrous a failure as he did the other night. He oever aoswered oor pretend? ed to answer oor touched upon a single point io Bryan's speech made at Madison Square garden The only ihing that attracts attention io Bourke Coekran's utterance is conclusive proof that he furnishes that be is far io advance of any radical Republican stump speaker in this country io this manner of malig? nity. He charges that the silver move? ment is a conspiracy, the object of which is to overturn all the rigb-ts of property. This coospiaracy is composed of silver mine owners of the of the west and uorecoociled slave owners of the south. He insists that, having lost their property io their slaves, as a re? sult of war, they now seek to destroy the other property io order to balance the account.7' The Post is ooe of the newspapers which-are "disposed to eminently fair io this fight,7' but we feel sure chat, if Mr. Blackburn bad stopped to think, he would have realized that neither The Post oor any other self-respecting newspaper is or could be ander the smallest obligation to treat Mr. Bourke Cockran seriously io the coooectioo he refers to. Let Mr. Blaokburo considei for a moment who Bourke Cockran is, and who are the persons be describes as "the unreconciled slave owners of the South. Cao he see, cao he imag? ine any reason why snob geotlemeo as Jobo W. Daoiel, Edward Cary Wal thali, James K. Jones, George Gra? ham Vest, Francis Marion Cockrell, Jobo T. Morgan, Isham G. Harris, and scores of others we might name -can be imagine any reason, we ask, whv these geotlemeo should need de? fence against Bourke Cockran V They may be mistaken, but at least they are sincere, honorable, high-minded, pa triotic American citizens They have inherited the character of patriotic an? cestors. They respect the traditions of families whose history is part of the history of oar couotry. Does oot the spectacle of this political Hessian, this truculent adventurer, lecturiog them on duty and booor, strike Mr. Blaokburo as grotesque ? All we koow of Cock? ran is that be was takeo ap by Tam? many Hall and sent to Chicago to de? feat Mr. Cleveland's Domination in 1892 ; that he delivered a tremendous oratioo, which had about as mach effect oo his audience as the barking of a yellow cur arouod the corner might have had; that, a few months after? ward, he was one of Mr. Cleveland's most assiduous toadies ; that be de? claimed and orated and spattered io congress against the income tax, and theo voted for it wheo the time came ; that Tammaoy Hall, disgusted with his coarse coooeit.aod indignant at his base ingratitude, relegated him to the poli? tical obscurity from which he bad beeo originally snatched ; that oow be ?ends his lungs, his language, and his legs to thsse who cao-if they will-give him what he chiefly waots. And that is knowing quite enough. No, no, Mr. Blackburn. The gen? tlemen of the South need no defense against this imported blatherskite, this swaggering adventurer, this prefes sional soldier of fortune. Their repu? tations, their motives, their claims to honor and respect are oot at the dis posai of Bourke Cockrao, and The Post, for one, declines to insult them by such supposition. TR031S0K, Norway, Aug. 24 -Pro-j fessor Andree has arrived here from j Danes Island, Spitzbergen, on board the Vigo. He has abandoned for this year his idea of crossing the arctic re- j gion io a baliooo, the season having j become too far advanced to justify aa i ascension. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 24-The Progressive Farmer, the official organ of the Farmers' Alliance, says editori? ally to-day : "Millions of Popu? lists will refuse to support Bryan if Sewali is not taken down. The Popu- ! lists have met the silver Democrats more j than half way. but if Sewali is oot ta ken down, a Presidential candidate is | certain. This feeling is io the oorth aod west as well as io the south." PARIS, Aug. 24.-Telegraphic ad? vices from Rio de Janerio state that en- ! gagements between Italians and^Bra- i zilians took place at Soa Paulo on the ; 22d and 23d instants. According to the newspapers of Soa Paulo, the j trouble was fomented by the Italian ! consul at that place, and it is rumored j that the Brazilian government hap de- i cided to withdraw the consul's exe-1 quateur. I Steamships Keep It Up. Passenger and Freight Rates From Norfolk to Balti? more Cut With a Heavy Hand. BALTIMORE, August 22 -The rate war between the Bay Line and the York River line broke out afresh to-day when the latter an? nounced that it would meet the cut in passenger rates put into effect by the Bay Line July IT, and would go 'under the latter's cut in freight rates on Norfolk business. The Mer? chants' and Miners' Transportation company has also taken a hand in the fight, and announces that beginning next Monday it will meet the cut of the York River line. The action of the York River line is in retaliation for the reduction by the Uld Bay line in passenger rates via* its James river route from Baltimore to Rich? mond from ?2 50 to $1. and the freight rates from 25 cents to 10 cents a hundred pounds on first class shipments, with a similar reduction on all other classes and commodities. The action of the York River line would seem to indicate that hope o? compromising the differences has been abandoned and that now it must be a fight to the finish. The railroad companies which are back of the two .steamship companies in their fight are temporarily hand tied. United States Judge Simon ton before whom the Seaboard Air Line vs. the Sothern Railway case was recently argued, has not yet dis? posed cf the injunction suit, and the rate slashing will, therefore, be con? fined to points reached by the boats. Beginning Monday morning, the York River line and the Merchants' aDd Miners' Transportation company will put into effect a passenger rate between Baltimore and Newport News and Norfolk of $1 and $1 f>0 for the round trip. Freight rat-s will be reduced to 5 cents per 1U0 pounds on the three first classes and 3 cents per 100 pounds on the re? maining classes. The Bay Line, it is expected, will promptly ine^t these reductions, and possibly cut under them, they having been the aggressors throughout the fight. Sensation in Macon's Leading Methodist Church. MACON, Ga , Aug. 23.-A sensation was created in the leading Methodist church in this city to-night, caused by a difficulty between Rev. Alonzo Monk, pastor of the church, and Tilden Adam sop. a reporter of The Daily Telegraph. Mr. Adamson reported the reverened gentleman's sermon last Sunday, which was pronounced by the pastor to be cor? rect. But at to-night's services Mr. Monk, in bis sermon, was particularly severe on the reporter and reflected on him in such a manner as to cause Mr. Adamson to resent it at the end of the services. Going to pulpit the young gentleman demanded an explanation of the Doc? tor's remarks. An exohange of words angered both gentlemen, whereupon they grappled eaoh other. Deacons of the church rushed for? ward, and an exchange of blows between them and the reporter followed. The newspaper man stood firm and defended himself as best be could against odds. Police were sent for. The congrega? tion was greatly excited, more than a thousand people being present. Women and men stood on tip toe to watob the outcome of the scuffle. Fi? nally order was restored,but the services were somewhat shortened by the soene. Mr. Monk has been particularly se? vere on the barrooms and lewd houses of the city, and his language has been the topio of discussion for a week. The trouble to-night is really an outcome of his sermon on the barrooms of Macon. Mr. Monk is one of the .ablest minis? ters in the Methodist church and while people approve bis severe attack on the lower elements of society, there are ochers who condemn it as ill-advised and intemperate. ---aa?-~?-?~~<T? Remedy For Flies on Cattle. Take coal tar two parts and ebal oil ! and grease one part each and mix with t a small amount of carbolic acid. Ap- ] ply with a cloth by moistening the hair and horns of the animal with the liquid. In the applications include feet and legs, and it will drive every fly away, and one application will last ten days or more in dry weather. Apply as often as necessary and your cows will be en? tirely secure from flies of all kinds. Any kind of old lard or grease can be used. Coal tar is the base of this remedy, aed when too thick to spread i well, use more oil ; when too thin to ? adhere well, use more coal tar. Car- j bolic acid will cost about 50 or GO cents j in crystals by the pound, and every ! farmer should always keep lt on hand, I as it, in its many uses, is indispensable. ! This remedy is equally effective as a j lice exterminator on poultry, and is | used simply by painting the sides of ! the hennery aud roosts and dropping j boards with the liquid. For young ! chickens saturate a cloth and place io j the bottom of a box, and place the ' mother aod young chickens in the box ? for an hour or so. This recipe, i says H. F. Work, in the Drainage Journal, is equal to any preparation in the market.1;-Scientific American. Storm Extends Over Half a Dozen States. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 23.-A severe wind 1 storm visited the States of Illinois, Mis? souri, Arkansas and Texae and Okla? homa territory last night. Several lives were lost and much property de? stroyed. Electrical discharges and heavy rains acoompained the storm of wind. At Birmingham, Ills , the electric light plant, the Austin planing mill, the Trade palace and the Austin col? lege were unroofed. All wires are down and the city is in darkness to? night. At Mendota, Ills, Pohl's hotel and several residences were unroofed. All the grain fields about Mascoutah, Ills., were destroyed. At West Plains, Mo., the storm was severe upon light structures. The grand stand at the bali park, where a game was in progress, was blown down and 15 people were injured, none fatally. Near Browning, Mo , the farm house of Thomas Gooch was biowo down and Gooeh's wife and infant son were kill? ed. The public schor-l building at James, Mo , was totally wrecked and the Drummond hotel unroofed At Edina, Mo . Peter Lorey. a boy, was killed by a falling tree. At Fort Worth, Tex , a general rain fell for the first time io over three months. The downpour exteoded into the Pandbandle country as far as Clar? endon, and on the Texas Pacific road west of Midland At Guthrie, Okla., the long dry spell was broken by a heavy rain, the temperature dropping nearly 40 degrees in a few hours. An Improbable Story. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28 -It is said that within the next month. Gen. Estrada Palma, the minister plenipo? tentiary of the Cuban republic to the United States, and Gonzales Que sada, the secretary of legation, with other prominent supporters of the revolutionary cause, will gc to Cuba to consult with President Cisneros, as to the future conduct of the battle for freedom Generals Gomez and Maceo are both said to have expressed the opinion that nothing can be accom? plished under the present system of i fighting. They do not want to go ! on struggling as during the Ten Years' war, with n* hope of gaining I the freedom of thc and unlees they secure recognition as belligerents from the United States To do this ? it is claimed by both commanders that they must inaugurate a cam? paign of the most destructive char? acter. Heretofore when parts of the armies have invaded a town they have simply driven the Spanish forces out and then have themselves retreated. Their plan now is to make forced marches upon all of the interior cities and after effecting their cap? ture, destroy them. They cannot do this, however, without the sanction of the Cubau junta in the United States and it is for the purpose of settling the issue thus raised that Palma, Quesada and others have been summoned to the island. How these leaders will get to Cuba, is, of course, a mystery to all save them? selves. It is stated on good author? ity that three large expeditions are to be sent out from different places in this country and that they will unite and land at a designated point The veesels will be armed and pre? pared to fight if they should be over? taken by Spanish cruisers. At the same time these expeditions go out there will be other ships sent to the coast as decoys. The leaders in the movement have no apprehension of their ability to effect a landing. It is expected that the conference between Cisneros, Palma, Quesada and others will result in a dccisioi to start both of the armies of Gomez and Maceo on the aggressive about the first of October and that when a town is captured it will be destroyed. Maceo, it is said, would like to in? augurate a line of action somewhat of the kind as Sherman's march to I the sea, and it is believed that he ! will have his way. j When John Gary Evans jumped on the Greenville News, he evidently woke the wrong passenger. The News bas promptly fired a broadside, which tears the already perforated bide of that offi? cial io several places Here are the ! latest questions propounded by the j Greenville News : ''Where were you I on the night of the 27th of June, j when you returned from the Marion j meeting ? Don't you remember that you appointed a meeting of the board for that night to elect a bank examiner? ! Do you go around back streets to tbe j executive mansion ? When the board | mot according to appointment in the ? executive office, did you attend ? ! Were you called up a dozen or more j times over the telephone by tbe board j and did you refuse to answer ? Didi the board remain until after ll o'clock that night waiting for you and you did ; not appear ? If the News is correctly j informed that was the night that five ci tizeos from Charleston were wirh you ! dickering for liquor privileges in pay- ? ment of 500 votes." And there are j mutterings of worse things to follow Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines sold j on easy terms, and exchanged for old ones at the Sumter Music House, in Masonic Temple. J "Miscegenation" was the title of a book writted hy Croly and Wake? man, two employees of the World, in the good old time?, when it was a pious paper. The book was intended as a satire ; but the abolitionists took it seriously. It argued that a mingling of the whit? and black races would produce beings of the mental and physical type of Theo? dore Tilton, who was considered a genius and an Apollo in those days, before he accused Henry Ward Beecher of "nest hiding" with Mrs. Tilton The work has lons: been for gotten ; but I am constantly remind ed of it of late by the couples that I meet on the street cars and excursion boats White men escorting colored women are sometimes encountered ; but generally it is a darkey that es? corts a white woman The men can not be mistaken for Cubans or South Americans ; they are undoubtedly negroes. The women are fair, and in most instances are really pretty. Both the men and women are well dressed and seem about the average of intelligence. These rniscegenat ing couples are 60 numerous nowa days that they attract no special at? tention Only a few years ago a white man with a darkey girl would have been mobbed in this neighbor? hood, and a white woman with a black mat) would certainly have been hissed off the cars. In all New York only one marriage between the races was put on record, and that made a newspaper sensatiou. But now in the upheaval and chaos of things, the whites and blacks seem to be coming together, and a pub? lisher might turn an honest dollar by the republication of Crolv and Wake man's book.-Town Topics. CHICAGO, Aug 24.-The Hay Mar? ket Produce bank made ?n assignment to-day The assignee says the liabil? ities are ?160.000; assets about the' same. A large majority of the cus- j toruers of the bank come from the gar- j den truck farmers and their losses will, be considerable. Au angry crowd of farmers who bad money deposited io the bank gathered about the doors of the institution soon after the assign- j meot wa? announced, but they were | kept in check by the police. PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mex., Aug. 24 - There is considerable excitement among Americans over the imprison? ment of Jerry McCarthy, the well known American passenger conductor employed on the Mexican International railway McCarthy's train ran over and killed a Mexioan about two months ago. About 10 days ago, McCarthy was arrested and placed in jail, charged with being responsible for the accident. Bail is denied bim aod be most remain iu confinement until after trial. Tobacco Baskets, cheap as the cheapest for sale bv Lefi Bros. July 1. Sewing Machines aod Organs cleaned and repaired nt the Sumter Music House. Tobacco Baskets, cheap as the cheapest- 1 for sale by Levi Bros, j Well Satisfied with Ayer's Hair Vigor. "Nearly forty years ugo, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gray. I began using Ayer's Hair Vigor, and was so well satis? fied with the results that I have never tried any other kind of dress? ing. Itrequiresonly an occasional appli? cation of AYER'S Hair Vigor to keep j my hair of good color, to remove : ?dandruff, to heal f itching Eumors, and prevent the j hair fiom falling out. Ineverhesi- j tate to recommend Ayer's medicines j to my friends."-Mrs. H. M. HAIGHT, ; Avoca, Nebr. j Hair Vigor Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer 5c Co., Lowell, Maes. Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla for the Complexion. fSncklen's Arnica Salve. The Beet Salve in the world for Cats, Braise? Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter Chapped < .>.. Chilblains, Corns and all Ss n Emptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It ie guaranteed to give per? fect satisuction, or money refunded. Price 52ceot8 per *ox. For ?ale by Dr J. F. W.De Lori** "Complets ABD How to Attain lt." A Wonderful New Medical Book,wTitten for Men Only. One copy may be bad free on application. ERIE MEDICAL CO. BUFFALO, N.Y, $500 REWARD. We will pay the above reward for any case of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Head? ache Indigestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver pills, when the directions ate strictly com? plied with. They ai> purely Vegetable, and never fail to give iatisfation. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, 25 cents. Beware ot of counter? feits and imitations. The genuine manu? factured only by THE JOHN C WEST COMPA? NY. Chicago, 111. For sale in Sumterbv J. F. W. DeLorme. ?Z.?lt3HII'Q FOB EITHER SEX. UCMJfUin O This remedy being in > .jected directly to the G, ?S\ seat of those diseases Q of the Genito-Urinary Jj in Organs, requires no UU ll change of diet Cure - - ^BW guaranteed in 1 to 3 - days. Small plain pack ATTIt by mail, Sl.OO. \JF9HJ AJE* Sold only by J. F. W. DELORME, Sumter, S. C. ADI ES DOYOOKttO? DR. FELIX LE BRUN'? Steel ? Pennyroyal Pills ^T^t?l2r,ori^inal and only FKENCH, safe and reliable cure on the market. Price, $1.00; sent by mail. Genuine sold only by . DELORME, Sumter, S. C. Anti-Skeet AND Anti-Fly Drifts Of ijpitos ansi Flies. ONLY 10 CENTS A BOX. Every Package Dyes Cotton, Silk and Wool, or Mixed Goods. 10 CENTS A PACKAGE. TRY THEM. Prescriptions Pilled Day and Night. J.S.H?GHSON &G0. 5 DRUGGISTS, MONAGHAN BLOCK SUMTER, S. C. FARMING LAND. THOSE WHO HAVE GOOD FARMING Lands for sale aud those who desire to purchase farms are requested to communi? cate witb me. W. H. INGRAM. SUMTER, S. C., REAL ESTATE AGENT. ?ugl2-3mJ NOTIC ES. ? have got in stock a full line of Buggies, Ladies7 Phaetons, Surreys. Car? riages, one and two-horse Farm Wagons, which I offer for sale at Low Prices. I represent several of the largest wholesale manufacturing companies in the United States and eau compete in quality and price with any dealer in the country. Call and examine my stock and get my prices. I will save you money. GEO. F. EPPERSON Office at Epperson's Livery Stables. _._._ -mm* -