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o ?tl) ron SUMTES WATCHMAN, JCSt?bUftfe?d April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE T KDE SODTHKOX, Established Jone, 136 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C;" WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25,1897. Sew Series-Yoi. XYII. So. 4 ^ grtfrHifttrt groy Yedneiday, JNT. C3t. Osteen9 SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. ADTBBTIBIIIIT: "* One Square first insertion.............$1 00 Srerj snbeequent insertion....... 0 Contracts for three mon tba, or longer will bi made st reduced rates. AU communications which snbeerte private ; ioterests will be charged for ag ad versements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be 1. charged for. The Great famine in India. Julian Hawthorne's Graphic fl Description of the Fearful Famine. From the American Monthly Magazine. Mr. Julian Hawthorne's article on ?gthe India famine, in the August num? ber of the Cosmopolitan is. if possi? ble, even a et ronger piece of de? scriptive writing than bia article last romonth on the plagne in Bombay. It ie like his-July article in being the frankest, the most unreserved, and apparently the most trnthfnl article that has appeared in any prominent q nari er on the fearful conditions pre? vailing in the most popul?os pai$ of J the British Empire. Mr Hawthorne ^ -does not ?inch from ^is task, al .V though he is dealing with matters cf ^ the most shocking and heart rending i character. Ile ba? convinced him ; self that not less than eight millions .; of people have - already died ?f the * famine up to the time when his in? vestigation was made m the spring fof the present year, and that there - Ss reason enough to fear that there will not be less than twenty million deaths in the agr?gate, as tbe im? mediate or less direct consequence of the want of food throughout a great? er part of India Several things be makes clear which we're not so well understood before He shows, for example, {hat people are starving in India through lack of ability to purchase, and not from the actual non existence of food. There are native merchants every? where with wheat to sell, but the masses have no money with which to buy. In order that they may have money* the English Government in ; India maintains relief works and sev- j eral millions of people are now em? ployed in such work as quarrying! and breading stone for the roads, in return for which they obtain three or four cents a day as wages, with which they go their way to purchase . wheat at famine prices from the na? tive dealers These relief works are : evidently saving the lives of mil? lions of people ; bot they come very far short of meeting the whole situa - tion. Mr. Hawthorne declares that the miss ionaries are, above all others, the right persons to whom to send rooney for the relief of the suffering I n the following interesting passage he explains the position in which the Britisb officials are placed : "It was roy great good fortune to be thrown with the missionaries from the start;, and I was able to compare their methods and knowledge with those of the Government people It was as if you should sit with the au? dience in front of a theatre and wit? ness the performance from that point of view, and then should go behind the scenes and see the reality. The first is the posture of the Govern? ment people ; the latter that of the missionaries. It is the Government's mieforune, not its fault Let me em? phatically declare that the Eng lish in India are doing all that wis i dom and experience can advise, and heroic energy and devtion execute to combat and diminish this stupen? dous calamity ; they are are sparing neither time, money nor life itself. But whatever they do as a Govern? ment is avoided of a moiety or more of its effect by the strict necessity they are under to employ native sub? ordinates The moment their white backs are turned the native subordinates pocket a part (as much as is safe, and often rather more,) of the money contributed or payable, and give the relief destined for the starv? ing to their c?rn ccmpara?i>plr com? fortable friends, or to persons with whom they have previously agreed to divide. It is impossible te stop this wholesale robbery, for the simple reason that there are not enough white men in India for that purpose." Mr. Hawthorne describes the famine area as nearly half that of the United States ; means of transporta tion are very inadequate and the climate deadly. "Millions, literally, of the people starve te death without the Govern? ment having any knowledge thereof. In the last famine (1877-78 this was 30 much the case that Lord Lytton, then Viceroy, was able to declare io a public address that not more than three or four persons in all India had ! starved far lack of food, while at tb? j very moment he spoke, as afterward .overwhelmingly shown, not less tha sixty thousand persons had died r absolute starvation, not merely in a India, bot in the very district ( small one) in which the address wa delivered. In that famine the nam ber of deaths due to the lack of foo was between sis and seven millions So mnch was admitted, bat there ar always many deaths which are neve recorded. That famine affected onl; a part of the whole county compare< with the present one ; yet when I re tamed after tour to Bombay (not t England) and made the statemen that eight million persons had airead; died of famine and disease directly caused thereby, I was met with blanl incredulity. Bat I know, and tb< missionaries know, and Mr. Meri wether knows, that the statement ii within the troth " Mr. Hawthorne's description of th? typical village com m a ni ty is wei worth reading : ?'The villages are the oldest tbingi in India The same class have livec in them, jost as they are living now, for thousands of years The whole political structure of India is basec upon the village. The great rajahs pursue their intrigues and conduc their wars and their kingdoms past* Yrom them and are taken by others and all the while the village goes or unchanged and unheed ng 11 Th< hundred, or possibly thousand, in? habitants of the typical village rarelj get twenty miles away from the place of their birth But MeLaurin Too Unwell tc Appear - / Beuoettsville, Aug. 18 -Still con? fined to hie bed from the physical "collapse which he suffeteJ at York ville. Senator MeLaurin was again . unable to-day to face his opponents on the stump in his home county The absent senator was touchingly remembered by a number of very handsome boquets for him being sent to the stand The crowd which as? sembled numbered about 800. They listened quietly and as quietly left when the speaking was Over. Chairman W D. Evans presided He introduced former Governor Evans as "a young and gallant 6on of South Carolina-one who is not unknown to you *. Mr. Evans expressed his gratifica? tion that so many were preseut, and took it to indicate that the people were awakening to the real issue of this campaign. He did not believe that animosity or county pride? would cause the voters to forget that Dem? ocratic principles were at stake. It was not -his intention to strike Me? Laurin except on his public utter? ances. He desired to conduct the campaign fairly and honestly, but he did not think his mooth should be estopped while one of his opponents lay sick in bed. Especially should he have the right of speech, as that sick opponent was having circulars and copies of a York vi lie paper con taining the supposed speech of Mr. MeLaurin at that place. In speaking in Mc La arin's absence he was. at the disadvantage of having to read from his speeches and of showing up their fallacies. The question of this campaign is, said Mr. Evans, "Will you follow this 'new evangel,' who would lead you into the Republican party, or will you cling to the faith of your fathers V1 Hastily then he reviewed the history of the'tariff from 1832 to the present. He told of nullification and declared, "That's what you got for making a straight fight" He charged that Mr. MeLaurin had spent two hours in Sumter in trying to show there could be nonsuch thing as tariff for revenue only A comparison was then drawn between the Democratic and Republican tariff demands. That word "protection*' in the Republican platform was misleading, said Mr. Evans. We think of it as the pro? tection of a father for his child or the protection told of in holy writ. The farmer of the south and west is. a free trader if he's got any sense. Why? Because he's got no manu? facturing interest to protect It ie to his interest to buy his goods as cheap as possible. A little later Mr. Evans declared he had to take McLanrin's printed record around with hfm, for he would deny everything if the record was not pulled on him. He had succeed- j ed in pinning him down to one thing, j and that was his opposition to free ! raw material. MeLaurin has declared, j "I don't believe in free raw tnateri- j a! " Then he stands with Havemey- j I er and the sugar trust. Should ? MeLaurin be elected on his platform j of opposition to free raw material he ? could reeeiv?, were he corrupt, ?1, j 000,000 for voting to place a duty | on sugar. The peAple would be estopped from criticising him, because prior to bis election he bad an? nounced that he opposed free saw material. Mr. Evans vigorously attacked M i McLaurin* on the cotton, wool an hide schedules. In conclue-ion. b declared that McLaurin was the jaci o lantern that would lead the peopl [ into a bog until they would sink b( youd hope of extrication. Mr. Evans was applauded. Col. Irby was introduced as th "unconquerable leader of Reform i 1S90 and 1892" He spoke wit more than his accustomed fire an vigor. "I am not the man/1 he began, "t strike a sick or fallen foe " He praj ed God that McLaurin would be re stored to health and vigor ic time t meet him once moreton the stump Then, and only until then, would h assail him. . "I had rather be defeated ten thoo sand times than to know that I ha? been elected by striking the sick : (Applause ) McLaurin, if possible, should re turn to the stump, but if he can't re turn, I 6ay he either ought to with draw from this race or send Governo Ellerbe. Why Governor Eilerbe Because he, above all other men, i responsible for the political status o affairs in this State, and if he come PH take care of bim "I am as much of a Reformer to day as I was in 1890, bot I am i Democrat " No one could impugi his record as a Democrat or a Re former. He told how he was sacri fleed last year ; spoke of his recor< and services to the party, and de dared that McLaurin himself said h< never voted wrong His vote on th< Wilson bil! and his defeat cf the si! ver compromise, placing the ratio a 20 to 1, were recounted. He did no have and had never had a pol?tica godfather^ Mr. Evans had st Camden inti mated that Tillman favored hit (Evans') election Mr. Evans denied that he had Hi had only said, he declared, that h* had received a letter from Tilfmar saying he was "hands off" in thie race, but that if he were elected hi would welcome him as a colleague. Col. Irby said the explanation wat satisfactory. He concluded by say? ing he had not made the speech he would have made had Senator Mc Laurin been present. If elected, he said, the people would have twe United States senators who would ever act for the best interests of the people. . The speaking to morrow will be at Darlington. ? Coban Filibustering Expedi? tions Get Away. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 18 -The fact developed here to-night that five Cuban filibusteriog expeditions have left this city within the past few months. The last to pot out, accord? ing to information famished, was on Tuesday when not alone provisions taken, but ammunition ?as well. Agents of the Coban cause bave work? ed their expeditions so neatly that they pot oat ander the eyes of pinkerton detectives whe are said to be stationed here. The expedition of Tuesday, it is reported, consisted of twelve rapid fire gani) and six dynamite goos. There were also 50,000 cartridges All these articles were landed on a mad soow and this boat was towed ap the beach about 'eight miles, wbere a steamer was met and the transfer effect? ed. Pinkerton detectives are said to have questioned the Caban agents while they were loading the boats as to the destination of the provisions, and re? ceived the answer that* they were for coontry places op the coast. To is satisfied the detectives, and they left. Business is Improving. Philadelphia. Aug"18.-A high of? ficial of the Pennsylvania company said to-day that business is showing a material increase and that the compaoy is taxed to its otmost to famish the cars, owing to the heavy grain move? ment which is now coming east. While there iajnot a oar famine, there is a scarcity of cars, and that those that have been in storage ar'? now being util? ized. Tbe greatest demand is for box oars and for coal cars. Most of the box caris are used for carrying grain. This business is east bound, but the cars are being returned fully loaded with general merchandise. The rail? road officials say that to all appearances a general boom has set in and the oompaoies are being taxed to move their new business. The Reading company also reportb better business, not only ic freight but in passengers as well. This compaoy is doing an immense business in anthracite coal trade, as well as securing a large amount of grain which is being loaded oo vesseU at Port Richmond. It is stated that rates ar>e beiog better main? tained and that there is no inclination on the part of the lines that are mem? bers of the Joint Traffic association ro cut prices. The elevator of the Davenport, Ia., Glucose Works, was blown up last week by a dust explosion. Four men were killed and two others in? jured Mutiny and Murder. j Boston, Aug. 17.-A cable received t io this city from Buenos Ayres says that Capt. J. W. Wbitmao aod Mate Will tam Haneburg of the schooner Olive Pecker, which sailed from this port on June 27, had beeo murdered by the orew. Thej>rineipal owners of the vessel are J. P. Elliott & Co. of Boston, who also sent oat the barkeotioe Herbert Faller, oo which Capt. Nash aod his wife and Mate Bamberg were morder ed. The Pecker was built io Belfast, Me. The message containing the in? formation was from a banking firm io Buenos Ayres and gave only the bare facts of the doable morder, together with the statement that the vessel was afterwards barned, bat that the crew escaped aod Iaoded at Bahia. The owoers hope they are io the custody of the United States consol there, who would naturally assume charge of the shipwrecked meo. The Olive Pecker was a stauoch 3-masted vessel aod her cargo consisted of 677,888 feet of pine and 81,030 feet of sprace lamber Capt. J W. Whitman of Rockland, Me., was in command and he bad a crew of seveo meo The Pecker was a fine vessel of 832 toos net. She was built as Bel? fast, Me. The captaio held a large io terest io ber. The valuation of the vessel is placed at $30,000, upon which there is partial insurance. The cargo carried by the unfortunate vessel was snipped by the Export Lumber Com? pany. They decline to put a valuation oo it, but it is thought it is fully in? sured As far as information received bj the owners of the schooner is con? cerned, the vessel wj? making good progress in her conree aod most have been between 40 and 50 days out when the murderous event of which they were advised to? day occurred. This would bring the Peaker well along toward ber destination. The opinion is borne oat by the oews that the crew landed at Bahia or, as the owners believe, Bahia Blanco, which is about 70 miles north of Buenos Ayres. From the meagre details received the owoers form the theory that the crew mutinied, killed the captaio and first officer and seized the ship. It is difficult, however, for them to explain the burning of the ves? sel, unless uoawed by the presence cf superior officers, trouble ensued be? tween members of the crew aod the fire was caused by accident It is pointed out, however, that Hansburg, the mate, was not known either to the captain of the Pecker or to the owners, as be was shipped the day before the vessel left this port. * Bradstreet's Weekly Re ti view. Fine Reports Prom All Parts of the Country, New York, Aug. 20.-Bradstreets tomorrow will say : Special telegrams from trade cen? ters throughout the country emphasize the growing prosperity of the farmer due to higher prices for almost all produce still in his hands and point to a continuation of the demand which has been conspicuous within the past few weeks The volume of trade continues to increase and prices are hardening. No such vol? ume of business largely in anticipa? tion of requirements, has been re? ported since 1892. Larger transac? tions have been in dry goods, cloth? ing and shoes, and south and west, in wagonsjand farm implements. Another very favorable bank clear? ings report is found in the totals $1, 140,000,000 this week, which, while it is 1 per cent, less than last week, is 40 per cent, larger than in the third week of August, 1896 ; 26 per cent, heavier than in 1895 ; 40 per cent, larger than in 1894 and fully 55 per cent. larger than, in the like week of 1893, when clearings totals were reduced to very low figures. Compared with like period in 1892, a year of large volume of business, tbis week's totals show a gain of 13 per cent, among 86 of the cities re? porting larger bank clearings, only 17 show decreases this week com? pared with the corresponding period last year. Bank clearings at other cities than New York are 17 per cent, larger this week than in like week a year ago, but at New York the in? crease is 56 per cent Prices of sta? ples contiuue the favorable inovernnt of tiie past few weeks with advance for wheat flour, wheat, uew pork, butter, eggs, cheese, corn and oats Hides are also firmer and higher. Ginghams have advanced 1 4 cent while the cotton mills are starting up and jobbers in woolen goods are get? ting higher prices for spring delivery! There have been a large number of resumptions among iron and steel concerns this week ; Bessemer pig is 25 cents higher and the outlook is for improvement. Sugar, cotton, print cloths, wool and petroleum are firm and unchanged, while ooffee, almost alone among the staples is lower than last week. Exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States and Montreal this week are the largest in any week since September, 1893, amounting to 5, 218,000 bushels this week, as com? pared with 4,460,000 bushels last week, 2,991,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 2,389,000 bushels two years ago, 3,182,000 bushels three years ago, and as contrast? ed with 4,960,000 bushels in the cor responding week of 1893 The exports of Indian corn were also exceptionally heavy, the largest since the third week in April this year, amounting to 3, 929,035 bushels as compared with 3,275,000 bushels last week, 2,769, 000 bushels in the week a year ago, 1,195,000 bushels two years ago, 105,000 bushels three years ago, and as contrasted with 983,000 bushels in the like week of 1893. There are 221 business failures re? ported throughout the United States this week, against 214 last week, 264 a year ago, 192 two years ago, j 251 thre years ago.and as contrasted with 456 in the third week of Au? gust, 1893. Mounted Whitecaps. 120 Masked White Men Hide Through Camden. Special to The State. Camden, Aug. . 20.-Considerable excitement was created to-night by a supposed whitecap crowd that passed threugh the city at 9 o'clock to-night. One hundred and twenty men rode in';o the city ; they were white men masked and armed. They rode quietly down Main Street and went out towards the south. Others were also seen on the side streets. About twenty-five minutes later two mounted white men, also armed but ua < masked, rode down Main Street and in? quired if a crowd of men bad pa6se? ; through. A citizen entered into conversation with them and on attempting to ap? proach them one of the men fired off bis gun into the grouod and then gal? loped rapidy out of town. No one knows from where they came or where they are going. From rumors picked np the white? caps are possibly the ones who have been after the Mormons lately in Fair? field county. This is strengthened by ! the fact that a good many Mormons live a few miles below Camden in the direc? tion taken by the whitecaps. The poiice force, io addition to the pistols they always carry, are arming themselves with Winchester rifles and extra men will very probably be pat on duty to-night. The sheriff and deputy sheriff have been sent for and are on the alert, not knowing what the night may bring forth. MCLA?RI??IS'BETTEB:. His Physician Issues Anoth? er Encouraging Bulletin. Senator McLaurin's friends are still anxiously inquiring each day for infor? mation as to his condition, it is now confidently hoped that be will be able to attend at least two or three of the campaign meetings before they come to an end. Below is given a dispatch to the campaign press association, >nich was received from Bsnnettsville yester? day afternoon : .'Senator McLaurin is convalescing very favorably. No symptom ie left except the prostration, which is 6tili very great. "J. T. Jennings. M. I>." - ??>-?i i- - Hanged in Newberry.. Newberry, Aug 20.-Touney Lyles, a colored youth of 18 years, was hanged to-day. Promptly at 12.:03 the march to the scaffold was begun. Arriving at the scaffold Lyles, who was very cool and collected, tock bio place upon the trap, and his hands and feet were strapped. The ?OOSB was then adjusted, and Sheriff Buford! read the death waraot. After which Lyles made a statement, saying that he was prepared to die, and ending np by pray? ing for everyone present. He thanked Sheriff Buford, and bid all farewell. He never alluded to his crime. After which Kev. A. McXiel made a fervent prayer. While the noose wss being tighten? ed, he requested that it be all right, so as to cause instant death, it was done so. The trap was sprung at 12:13, and j life was declared extinct 15 minutes later. His body was taken io j charge by h ie people aod buried at j Cedar Grove church. I Thc crime by which Lyles lost his life, was committing rape upon a Miss Jane Williard, an elderly woman who lives near Wbitmire's on the 16tb of March. Lyles was captured and narrowly es? caped lyuching, but was safely brought here, and at the last term of court was given a fair trial, bat the evidence be? ing overwhelming he. was convicted and Eeoieoced to die to day. Aogiollilo Garroted. Sao Sebastian, August 20.-Michael Aogioliilo, who shot aod killed Senor Canovas del Castillo, the prime miois of Spain, at the baths of Santa Agueda oo Sunday, August 8, was executed at ll o'clock this morning jo the prison at Vergara, accordiog to the sentence of the Court-martial imposed upon bim oo the last Monday, after hit) trial oo thc previous Sunday, which sentence was confirmed by the the supreme coun? cil for war yesterday. Angilliolo heard calmly the news that he was to be executed to-day, but he appeared to be surprised at it, aod bitterly complained of the fre? quent visits of the priests, de declaring that they would obtain noth? ing from him. He declioed to enter the chapel, saying he was comfortable enough io his cell. Ao executioner from Barges performed the garotting, jost prior to which a priest exhorted the Anarchist to repeat, to which Aogioliilo responded : "?Since yoa cannot get me cut of prisoo leave me io peace. I myself will settle with God.,;' Dillion, Aug. 20-Constable Sellers seized a carload of liquor to-day ship? ped by Kosenthai & Co., of Cincinnati, consigned tc Seigler here. This seizure was made by order of Governor El Ierbe who is also in town. Nebraska used to be marked on the map as a part of the "Great Ameri? can Desert " If the mapmakers would visit Nebraska now they would have to change the designation to that of the ''Great Americen Grain Garden."--Omaha Bee. Seattle, Wash., .Aug. 18.-The steamer Alki arrived this morn? ing from Dyea, Alaska. This afternoon Willis Thorp was hand? ed a letter by a man who came down on the Alki from Dyea It was written by Edward Thorp and came overland, saying that be had cleaned op $130,000 in the Klondike in eight weeks and was coming - home on the steamer Portland, which is doe in Seattle on Aug. 26. Thorp left Seat? tle one year ago, having gone north with a drove of cattle. Washington, August 17.-OiScers of the navy department were much interested to-day in the report of the Yashima, the new Japanese battle ship built in England. She is the fast? est battle ship afioat, and it is claimed, from the showing made cn ber trial trip, that she \? one of the" greatest ughiing machines ever built. She is 372 feet long, with 73 feet beam and 26 3 feet deep and 12, 400 tons displacmeot. Under 1-J air pressure for four hours she made 19.9 knots, and for a single boor 19.46 knots. Sbe has the best armor, ran-g ing in thickness from 18 to 14 ioches. Naval officers say that there is no equal to her io point of speed, and while there, is some discussion as to the amount of coal she will consume, there seems to be no question as to ber splendid equip? ment as a battle ship. Asheville. N. C., Aogost 17.-At Heodersonville, twenty miles from here, this moroiDg, Mrs. Ben F. 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