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THE 80STE8 OF
TIE CONFEDERES.
loy. Bayward Replies td Secretary
Appoints Co!. M. P. Tribble, of j
Anderson, to Prepare South
Carolina's Roil.
* Columbia, March 25.-Governor
Heyward has! sent the following letter
to Hon, Elihu Root, secretary of war:
"Absence from my office has prevent?
ed my replying earlier to your com?
munication of March 6th. I note with
much pleasure that it is the intention
of y?ur department to compile and
publish, as ^continuation of the pub?
lication known as "The Officiai Re?
cords of the Union and Confederate
Armies," a complete list or roster of
the officers and men who served in
these armies during the Civil war. I
feel sure that "this action on the part
of the general government will meet
with "favor throughout the entire south,
and that those who served in the Con?
federate armies and their descendants
will appreciate. this opportunity of
having thei r names handed down to
.history. I shall be glad to give to
your-department whatever cooperation
lies in my^$Jbwer.
" You r?quest; that ? should designate
some on^> 'fiom this State to com?
municate with Brig. Gen. F. C: Ains?
worth, chief of the record and pension
office of your department, relative to
the details- of the work. I would re?
spectfully suggest CoL M. P.. Tribble
of Andersor, S. C. I will' request
GoL|Tribble to correspond with you."
The governor also sent Col. Tribble
a letter as follows :
" I have been notified by the Hon.
Elihu Root, secretary of war, to name
an official from South Carolina to
co-operate with Brig. Gen. F. C. Ains?
worth, chief of the record and pension
office of the war department,, in com?
piling a full roster and list of the offi?
cers and qplisted men who bore arms
for the Confederacy during the great
war/ This roster and list of names
will be compiled and published as a
continuation of the publication known
as "The Official. Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies." In com?
pliance with the request of Secretary
Root, I have the pleasure of naming
you for this important work. I feel I
sure that with you the work will re- i
ceive loving and faithful service, and ?
I am very glad to name so true and
tried a citizen for the discharge of
this duty which means so much for
the history of oar State.
"Secretary Root requests that you
communicate with Brig. Gen. F.* C.
Ainsworth, chief of the record and
pension office at Washington, D. C.,
and I have written him that you will
do so."
A Good Story.
?The following story, though it is
more suggestive of the minstrel stage
than reality, is repeated by the grave
and accurate New York Times, though
it admits that it had it from the
Kansas City Journal, that had/it in
turn from the Sedgewick Pantagraph.
As the tale runs 4'two young women
of Sedgewick hired a livery horse with
which to take a drive into the coantry.
Before the start was made the livery?
man in answer to his patrons' inquir
ies^ as to the temper and disposition
of the horse, assured them that he
would be as gentle as a lamb if they
kept the rein away from his tail,
whileL-ihere jnight be trouble if they
didn't. The young women returned
in safety, and when asked if tbe^borse
had misbehaved one of them replied :
'Oh, no. There was one little.shower,
but we had an umbrella, and held it
so that not-a drop touched the horses'
tail. * ' And that, ' concludes the Pan?
tagraph, 'explains the dazed look the
liveryman has been wearing for the
past few days. '
Makes a Clean Sr/eep.
There's nothing like doing a thing
thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever
heard of Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the
best. It sweeps away and cures Boras,
Sore?, Bruises, Cuts, Bo?s, Ulcer?, Skin
Eruptions and Piles. It's only 25c, and
guaranteed to give satisfaction by J. F. W.
DeLorme, druggist.
Maysviile, Ky., March 23.- There is
much anxiety over the smallpox situa?
tion. Maysvi Ile has had over 100 cases
since December and sixteen deaths
have been reported. ?
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., krew
what to do in the hour of n^ed. Kis wife
had such an unusual cas-e of stomach and
liver trouble, physicians conld not help
her. He thought of and tried Dr. King's
New Life Pills and she got relief at once
and was fins Hy cured. Only 25c, at J. F.
$?. T>Lonne's Drag Store.
ALLIANCE EXOH?HOE
IS il TROUBLE Mt
Testimony to be Taken by the
Master in Equity.
EXPENSES WILL BEGIN TO PILE UP.
Judge Gary Has Issued an Order
' Referring the Matter to Master
Verner for Investigation.
Judge Gary has filed an order of re?
ference in the case of the Farmers Al?
liance exchange. The testimony will
be taken by the master of Eic h I and
county, and the case will then come
before Jndge Gary in its entirety.
The case is nominally entitled
Brookshire against the Farmers Al?
liance exchange, and is a petition for
the appointment of a receiver for that
concern. There seems to be an un?
dercurrent of deep feeling among those
who were once leaders in this concern,
and the directors claim that Brook?
shire is nothing more than a figurehead
and that the real reason of a motion
for a receiver is to have him pay cer?
tain old claims which the directors
say are such that they have not been
presented heretofore.
At the hearing before Jndge Gary
last Saturday Brookshires' attorneys
urged that there were claims outstand?
ing and the fund in bank should not
be dissipated without giving the
claimants a showing. The petitioner
was represented by Bellinger, Town?
send & Haskell and James Verner.
In reply the directors made a pointed
reply, which was a "roast" of the ad?
ministration of M. L. Donaldson as
agent of the exchange. The reply
gives a resume of the history of the
exchange. The attorneys for the
directors are Wm. H. Ly les of Co?
lumbia and W. H. Hunt of Newberry.
Those constituting the exchange
directorate and who resisted the ap?
plication are A. C. Lyles, J. L. Keitt,
J. B. Donthit, J. P. Ashe, S. T. Mc
Keown, 0. P. Goodwin. The credit?
ors are M. L. Donaldson, C. J. Coit
and others.
v CoL L. M. Keitt of Newberry, secre?
tary of the State Farmers' Alliance
: exchange, white in Columbia at the
hearing, expressed himself very plain?
ly about this action. "The present
board of directors, " he said, "Lad been
in office but three years-since July,
1899-and the-entire capital stock of
! the corporation is jnst as they found
it, is now intact and perfectly safe. It
is drawing interest and can be realized
at any time within 4S hours. It has
been the earnest desire of the present
board to show the farmers of the State
that this, matter could be honestly and
economically administered and wound
up.
"At the special meeting held here
on the 29th of October last a resolution
was passed authorizing the board of
trustees to wind up the affairs of the
corporation. It requires some little
time for conference, to get advice and
to determine what to do. In February
a notice was sent out through the re?
gular channels informing the sab-al?
liances that their pro rata share would
be paid out just as soon as certificates
could be gotten in and a meeting held
for the purpose of distributing the
funds on hand.
"The directors intended to carry this
matter through faithfully and at the
least possible cost. This work was to
be done by the secretary and treasnser,
who get annual salaries of but $100
and 850 respectively. If these officers
had been allowed" to proceed in the
way which had been planned the sub
alliances would have had the money at
a very early date and without cost.
"Mr. Brookshire alleges that he is
authorized by the members of the Cash
Bill sub-alliance to bring this action.
But the directors can hardly believe
that; tbe Cash Hill sub-alliance has
ever authorized any such action. Mr.
Brookshire does not state, nor does
he even allege, that there has been
any organized action of ?he sub-al?
liance for the purpose indicated. Fur?
thermore, the attorneys who brought
the action in the name of Brookshire
admitted that they represented Col.
Donaldson and Maj. Coit. The officers
of the alliance think it would be un
iair to the other alliances if the Cash
Hill alliance would allow itself to be
made use of in this way.
"When the alliance exchange was
chartered it was proposed to make the
capital stock 850,000, but 823,000 is
all that was ever paid in and Col.
Donaldson, as agent, lost 85,080 of
that amount and Col. D. P. Duncan
lost 81,850 subsequently."
The directors feared that getting the
matter into liquidation would entail a
cost which would reduce the fund
materially.
In his order yesterday Judge Gary
said : "In order that the court may be
fully advised as to the conduct of the
affairs of said corporation by its
directors, before deciding as to the
necessity of the appointment of a re?
ceiver to take charge of the property
of said corporation, it is ordered that
the above entitled cause be, and is
hereby referred to tho master for Rich?
land county," etc.-The State, March
24.
Good Advice.
Themost miserable being? ;n the world
are those Buffering from dyspepsia and
liver complaint. More than seventy- ye
per cent, of the people in the United States
arc afflicted with these two diseases and
their effects ; such as Roar stomach, sick
headache, habitual costiveness, palpita?
tion of the heart, heart-bu ru, water
brash, gnawing and burning pains at the
pit cf the stomach, yellow skin, coated
iongue and disagreeable taste in the
mouth, coming up cf food after eating,
low spirit?, etc. Go to your druggist
and get a bottle of August Flower for 2/>
or 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try it. China's Drug Store.
FBEEOOM FOB ?BEL?NQ IN SIGHT
Irish Land Bil! Introduced in House
of Gommons.
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IRELAND FOS THE IRISH.
English Government Will Furnish
Money for Purchase of Land
From Landlords by Tenants.
London, March 25.-The Irish sec?
retary, Mr. Wyndham, in trod aced
the ^government's long anticipated
Irish land bill in the house of com?
mons this afternoon. It proposes a
grant of $60,000,000 for the purpose of
the bill. Tenants are to pay Z% per j
cent.. interest on loans from the gov
eminent. Mr. Wyndham said he
thought the scheme would not involve
$500,000,000, but that - $750,000,000
would be safely, advanced on Irish
land. The advances to tenants are
limited to $2,500 in the congested dis?
tricts and $5,000 elsewhere.. The bill
so provides that untenanted farms
and grazing lands shall be sold to
neighboring tenants and that three
commissioners, to he known as estate
commissioners, shall supervise* the
sales. The names of the three com?
missioners are Michael Finucane,
..secretary to the government of Bengal
revenae, general and statistical de?
partment; Frederick S. French, now
one of the Irish land commissioners,
and Wm. F. Bailey, one of the assist?
ant commissioners on the Irish land
commission. They will be under
the general control of the lord lieu?
tenant of Ireland. The bill will be?
come effective Nov. 1.
The keen interest felt in this new
legislation which, it is hoped, will
promote peace and contentment in
Ireland, was shown by the crowded
house. The peers' gallery and the
distinguished strangers' gallery were
filled and there has been no such
gathering of members of parliament
since the opening of the session. In
i the diplomatic- gallery sat United
States Secretary Henry White, an in?
terested spectator, while almost every
Irish peer listened to Mr. Wyndham's
exposition of the bill. From an early
hour this morning, the stone benches
from the house of commons entrance
to the doors of the lobby were packed
with impatient Irishmen, among whom
were many priests. Most of these went
away without seeing even ;che inside
of the legislative chamber, the galleries
j of which were crowded as has not been
I the case for many a day. Michael
Davitt, the "father" of zho Land
league, celebrated his 57th birthday
by reentering the house for the first
time since he ceased to be a. member,
in order to hear the chief secretary
for Ireland unfold his plans.
For the most part the Liberal mem?
bers sat glum, the applause coming
from the Irish benches. A hush of
expectation fell on the assembly as
John Redmond, the Irish leader, rose
to speak. If he refused to countenance
the bill its death, and perhaps even
the government's downfall, was de?
creed. When the gallerias of the
house found him sympathetic and non
conimital, a feeling of relief pervaded
all sides. What Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman, the Liberal leader, and
others said had little effect. Even
T. W. Russell, who, with others
criticised the details and various omis
sions in Mr. Wyndham's plan wound
up with a gutteral and reluctant ad?
mission that "it is'a great bill."
The passage to the first reading of
the bill was followed by the rush to
the lobby, where ensued scenes that
might well make the ghost of Parnell
turn in his grave. The tall form of
Lord Dudley, old lieutenant of Ire?
land, could be seen amidst a crowd of
Nationalists, who scarcely a year ago
would rather have suffered any penalty
than be associated with the official
head of the Irish government. Beside
Lord Dudley stood the grizzled little
Sir Anthony McDonnell, the first Na?
tional assistant Irish secretary. He
it who was drafted the bill. Horace
Plunkett, Lord Iveagh, Lord Ash?
bourne and many Unionist members,
joined the group. The Duke of Aber?
corn, the most powerful landlord in
Ireland, asked to be introduced to
John Redmond, and the mutual friend
brought the duke to the leader of the
Nationalist party, with whom the
leader of the Irish landlords heartily
shook hands, and they patched up the
peace of Ireland over the house cf
commons refreshments bar.
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A Great Sensation.
There was a big sensation in Leesville,
Ind., when W. H. Brown, of that place,
who was expected to die, had his life saved
by Dr. Bong's New Discovery for Con?
sumption. Ke writes: "I endured in?
sufferable agonies from Asthma, but your
New Discovery gave me immediate relief
and soon thereafter effected a complete
cure." Similar cures of Consumption,
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are
numerous. It's the peerless remedy for
all throat and lung troubles. Price 50c, and
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Druggist. Trial bottles free.
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Col. William Jennings Bryan is said
to be seeking the chairmanship of the
National Democratic Executive Com?
mittee.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident, is na: rai:jd by John
Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows: *T
was in an awful condition. My skin was
almost yellow, eye- sunken, tongue coated,
p'ju continually in back and sides, no
appetite, growing weaker day by day.
Ti ree physicians had given me up. Then
I was advised to use Electric Bitters: t-.>
my grer.t joy, tho first bottle made a de?
cided improvement. I continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a well man.
I know they robbed the grave cf anocher
victim." No one should fail to try them.
Only 50 cents, guaranteed, at J. F. W. De
J. v/me'a drug store.
! THE IRISH iii BILL
?
lt Has in ii the Germ of a Great
Reform.
WHAT JOHN REDMOND SAYS
About the Measure in a Letter
to the Associated Press-it is
a Far-Reaching and Impor?
tant Measure.
London, March 26.-Former Con?
gressman W. Bonrke Cockran, of New
York, will not be able to be present at
the Convention of Irish Nationalists,
ri? be held in Dublin on April 14, for
fie purpose of considering the Irish
nd purchase bili introduced in tho
ouse of Commons yesterday. His
doctors say he must not leave the
warm climate of Egypt until May, as
his lungs are seriously affected, and
he will remain at Assoun, upper
Egypt. John Redmond, the Irish
leader, and other members of the
Hcjose of Commons, deeply regret the
fact that Mr. Cockran will not be
present at the Convention. The Irish
members maintain the same attitude
towards the land bill,*reserving serious
criticism of the measure until the text
is .published, and are awaiting the de?
cision of the Convention before com?
mitting themselves to a definite policy.
John Redmond wrote the following
for the Associated Press:
"The land bill in many respects is
a far reaching and important - mea?
sure. It proposes a loan for the pur?
pose of enabling the landlords to be
bought out to the extent of a hundred
million pounds, in addition to a bonus,
not to be repaid, to amount to at least
twelve million pounds. The bill does
not fill all the requirements of the case.
It does not provide as good terms
either for the landlord or the tenants
as proposed at the recent land confer?
ence, but it marks an enormous ad?
vance on any measure of its kind hith?
erto proposed by an English Govern?
ment. It is the direct result of the
unity of the National movement in
Ireland and the National party in
Parliament for the past three years,
which led to the break-down of
coercion in Ireland, and which induced
the landlords to come to the conclusion
that their best interests lay in making
friends with the Irish people, instead
of continuing in conflict with them.
The land conference, which ensued,
.spoke in the name of united Ireland.
"Regarding the result of this mea?
sure, I cannot speak with any certainty.
Its details, many of which seem to me
highly objectionable, are capable of
improvement by discussion. If this
measure should provide, as every one
hopes, a settlement of the land ques?
tion, not only will a great social and
industrial problem be put once for all
on a sound basis, but it will make a
concession to home rule, in answer to
the united demand of all classes in Ire?
land, a certainty in the near future,
i "Until, the clauses of the bill are
actually in my hands I cannot say, of
course, whether they will actually car?
ry out the project in view. Therefore
I cannot say to a certainty if the bill
will.be accepted by the National Con?
vention, which assembles in Dublin
on April 14. This great assembly will
have the deciding voice in the matter.
If it rejects the bill the measure
will be dead. If it accepts it, subject
to certain amendments, it is quite
possible the bill may be moulded in
committee into such a shape that it
will entirely transform Ireland."
WHAT IS THOUGHT OF IT.
London, March 26.-Mr. Wyndham
has no cause of be dissatisfied with
the reception given to the Irish land
bill up to the present time. A day's
reflection has not modified the first
favorable opinions expressed. Perhaps
the strongest indications of opposition
yet evinced have come from the Ulster
landlords, the majority of whom are
said to be unlikely to sell their estates.
T. W. Russell, member for one cf
the Ulster divisions, declares that
this difficulty, arising from the omis?
sion of a compulsory clanse in the
bill, jjill result in a continuance cf the
agitation in Ulster by the tenants,
who are thus deprived cf availing
themselves of the new measure.
William O'Brien has issued a mani?
festo criticising many features of the
bill, but strongly deprecating anything
like a hasty condemnation by the Na?
tionalist Convention. Generally speak?
ing, the Nationalists heartily welcome
the bill, not because they regard it as
perfect, but because it gives ministeri?
al sanction to the principle of State
aid in the shape of the bonus provided
for under the bili, and because it is
held to contain the germs of a future
measure of self-government for Ire?
land.
Along the provisions of the bill
which Mr. Wyndham had not time to
explain yesterday is a very important
one, sweeping away all arrears of rent,
except for the year preceding the pas
sage of the Act. Several other ex?
tremely good features of the measure
will also come to light when the text is
distributed.
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ach. When the breath is bad the stomach
is out o? order. There is no remedy in the
world e^ual io Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for
carirg indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach disorders. Mrs. Mary Crick,
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of remedies but continued io grow worse.
By the us:? of Kodol I began to improve
at one-.', raid after taking a few bottles am
fully restored in weight, health and
strength and can eat whatever I like." Ko?
dol digests what you eat and and makes
the stomach sweet. J. S. Kughson ?'c Co.
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