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m Mimi WIN WM Wzm of Monal Coro! Ci?s feyid ?dmft Heg?ife. TSE OSLO? LINE Siyb Women of the City Cancel aSS Engagements for Et?Brtam raents for Visitors at? fl^ fuse to Attend Convention. New Orleans, La., March 25.-Never 51 before in the history of the women's Bgcktbs of New Orleans have the mem? bers been wjr?ught up to such a high pitch of excitement as they have been \ itoday over the question of admitting ? /negro delegates to the National Coun? cil of Women, which will meet in this -city tomorrow. "The oncers bf the Na? tional Council ist ak executive session last night voted to-admit all colored delegates who oS?f proper credentials, accompanied by a statement of the treasurer that their dues have been fully paid up. ? When this notice was served on the ^committee representing the local council of women, the New Orleans dabs announced that ?hey would not only refuse to attend the conven? tion, but that the local organization would not "officially" entertain the visiting delegate. *AU arrangements for receptions, entertainments, etc., ~. were therefore cancelled, and the visitors were given to understand that they must shift for themselves. When this information was communicated to the officers Ol the national council they held another secret session and gave oat the following to the press: "The general officers of the National Council of Women of the United States will hold a r?ception in the Palm Garden of the New St. Charles Hotel Thursday evening from 9:30 to 130, o'clock. The officers will be assisted "by other members of the Executive Committee. "Ali believers in the organized efforts of women are invited. BUSINESS MEETING ONLY. _ Mrs. Sewall, president of the coun? cil, in explanation of the action of the officers said : "^l?m astonished that there should nave been . any excitement raised here -over the point According to my own point of view, there is a clear differ . -ene? between a. business and a social --^relationship in the North as well as in the South. The council is for the -sociological improvement cf the country, and every national organiza? tion of women is eligible to member ship. We recognize all regardless of I social standing, admitting them to! the business meetings of the national I council, but give them no more re? cognition as a social equality, whether ; white or black. It is no social organ- j -iaj?tion, but a serious working force, -seeking the betterment of the whole -country.^ ' STAND BY NEW ORLEANS. The Southern delegates who have arrived so far have taken sides with /ti? New Orleans women, and they de? clare that they will not attend the National Council. One of the officers of the New Orleans Council, in ex -pSaoation of the action of that body, said: "Under no circumstances will tile club women of New Orleans meet negroes on terms of equality. If the visiting delegates wish to associate with negroes they are at liberty to do 90, but the women of the South will ?ot. ' * -Courier-Journal. HESTER'S WEEKLY STATEMENT Shows an Increase in Many Re? spects-Bales in Sight. l?ew Orleans, March. 27.-Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement is? sued today shows for the 27 days of March an increase over last year of 28, OOO and an increpe over the same period tear before last of 32,000. / For the 2G8 days of the season that -have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the same days last year S3,000 and ahead of the same time year before last 633,000. The amount brought into sight dur ' ing the past week has been 129,282 against 121,361 for the same seven days last year and 131,012 year before last. The movement since Sept. 1 shows receipts at all United States ports to be 6,988,653 against 6,887,893 last year : over and across the Mississippi, Ohio ?and JPotomac rivers to, northern mills and Canada 929,980 against 985,306 last year; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year ' 160,738 against 267,696 last year ; southern mill taking:: 1,355,500 .gainst 1,210,704 last year. ; The total movement since Sept. 1 is a.434,871 against 9,351,599 last year and 8,801,409 year before last. Foreign exports for the week have been 152,303 against 95,556 last year, making the total thus far for the season 5,760,612 against 5,543,281 last year. The total takings of American mills, north and south, and Canada, thus far for the season have been 3,363,302 against 3,044,074 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres have decreased during the week 104,545 bales against a decrease during the corresponding period last season of 47,966. ? Inclufling stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far for the n6w crop the supply to date is 9,849,945 against 9,711,286 for the same period last year. Manila, March 27.-Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel's forces today. It is believed San Miguel was killed. Lieut. Reese was seriously wounded. The scouts lost three men killed and eleven men wounded. Walterboro, March 28.-The trial of Magistrate L. C. Behling for the kill? ing of Henry M. Blitcb, near Young's Island, came to a close last night about 10 o'clock, when the jury brought in a verdict of, net guilty. Three days were consumed in the trial ury remained in the THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH. Walter Page Predicts an Ultimate Lowland Black Belt. Two negroes sat down at dinner last ? night in a company that included several prominent Southerners of this city. The dinner was one of the monthly affairs of the Unitarian Club at the Hotel St. Denis. Of the three Speakers two were Southerners-Wal? ter .H. Page, editor and publisher, and George Cary Eggleston, author. Among those present was Dr. Jas. H. Parker long a prominent member of the 'New York Southern Society. There were a few Southern women. The negroes present were William E. Benson, a teacher of Alabama, and another colored educator, a Mr. Brown, who left early, before the speech-making began. Mr. Eggleston, who spoke first, dis? cussed "The South As It Was." President W. H. Baldwin, Jr, of the Long Island Railroad Company, fol? lowed with "The South As It Is." Mr. Page talked about ."The South As It Is to Be." Both Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Page are members of the educational boards now engaged in j Southern work under the leadership! of Robert C. Ogden. "Don't give the negro that sort of high education which makes him j aspire and dream of great things, but gives him ho power to do anything practical after he has acquired it. This was the keynote of Mr. Baldwin's talk. He declared that the South saw greater growth in the last year than in all the thirty-five preceding years. The psychological moment for a section having 98 per cent native born Ameri? can population, he said had arrived, and the last twelve month had witness? ed the beginning of a great education? al era. "The question to be solved in the South today, ' ' he continu?d, " is a con? dition, not a theory. There isn't any theory about it. 'Tis as inconsistent a condition as ever existed, but 'tis none the less real._ It was brought about by the past There is no reason for us to discuss it or to criticse it hypercritically. It faces us and it must be faced." "For the mass," Mr. Baldwin de? clared, "there should-be industrial education, with higher training for the one in a hundred who can use it." Recently Mr. Baldwin received from a noted English educator the statement that . the educational methods now started in the South were just what Great Britain must adopt to uplift her unlearned people in far-away colonies. Then he got a letter from London asking him if Booker T. Washington could be employed at any price to go to South Africa to study conditions among the blacks there, with the view of reporting to British educators as to methods that ought to be employed in educating the Africans. Less than a year ago, he continued, four students of Washington's Tus? kegee School passed through here on their way to West Africa, whither they had been called by the German Government. They stopped at Mr. Baldwin's house on their way. When one of them returned he gavo the railroad president a pair of common cotton stockings, which now hang in the latter's home. These stockings were made by she African negroes af? ter they had been taught, and the re? turning teacher was asked what man? ner of men were the blacks out there. "They are just like the rest of us in Alabama," replied the Tuskegee graduate. *1 All they need is teaching. ' ' "The problem is the South's," said the speaker. "Thedifficulties and the negroes are there. The South must solve the question not the North. But if we do not give our aid we must be held responsible for our remissness. Free education is gaining. A little while ago politicians in the South were afraid to speak it, but now four State Governors are running on free education platforms.. This is the most remarkable sign of advance that has been seen since the civil war." Mr. Page recalled a much-heralded theory that the negroes eventually would all leave the South. He pre? dicted that they would never leave. The black population of Alabama had long been as great as that of all the original free States combined,, and it was still growing. In what had been known as black belts the color h?cl .become blacker. The ultimate black belt would begin in the down-country counties of Virginia and extend near the coast down to the Gulf. In one hundred years, Mr. Page calculated, all this strip would be habited by ne? groes. On the other hand, figures had shown that the whites were gaining in the uplands, and it was reasonable to presume that they would be alone there in due time. Mr. Page said there were more black illiterates now than in 1865, when all the b^cks were illiterate. Education had not been able to keep pace with the growth of the race, nor could it keep pace for hundreds of years to come. "And what is going to be the politics of the South in future?" he asked. "Properly speaking, the South has hid no politics in the past. It has had traditions only. Conditions were such that the blacks were bound to vote one way, the whites another. You know that the negro has been excluded from voting altogether nowadays, allowing the whites to divide somewhat in their political opinions. It is now to be hoped that the negro, having been eli? minated, the whites ultimately . will be divided and vote as they think they should, not fearing negro domination any longer. "The negro, for the present must be counted ont. That is we must ad? mit that he has been counted out. If I had had my way it would not be so, but I would have established the same binding voting qaulifications for whites and blacks alike. Bat the fact remains that the black is out. For a very, very long time the mass of negroes are not to have anything to do with politics. In four States they already are excluded from the polls legally and in the others they will be shut away in other ways. 4 4 But there may come a time when their votes will be needed by the suc? cessful party. We cannot tell what will happen then." Mr. Eggleston told of the old South, its' plantation life and its quaint customs. 4iSlavery is dead," he said, "and none rejoices more than the South. We have fco excuse, no justification for mm^?mmiaL?i??linn^JBjit I wish to say on earth a laboring class so richly re? quited for its labors as the Southern slave." The Rev. Dr. Thomas Slicer presid? ed as toastmaster at the dinner, and among those present were George Haven Putnam, Mrs. Baldwin, Os? wald G. Villard, Mrs. Slicer, Mrs. Eggleston, Mrs. Villard, the Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo, the Rev. Walter Reid Hunt, Mrs. Minot J. Savage and many well know ?itarian ministers-. VENEZUELAN ARBITRATION. Allies May Object the Czar's Naming the Members of the Court. Washington March 29.-Minster Bowen hopes to begin work during the present week with the diplomatic representatives of the. Venezuelan blockading Powers on the protocol for sending to The Hague arbitration tribunal the question whether these nations shall have preferential treat? ment in the payment cf the claims of their citizens. Mr. Bowen heretofore has submitted to the British ambassa dor the draft of a protocol for the purpose stated, a notable feature of which is that the Czar of Russia shall hame the members of the Court. It is known that the allies intend to Offer some amendments to the draft prepared by Venezuela's representa? tives but their nature has not been made known although one of them is believed to be regarding the proposi? tion relative to the Czar as there is thought to be some objection on their part to that monarch assuming the function of naming the members of the Court. Teaching Temperance. Every teacher is requested to read carefully the copy of the State law concering temperance instruction in the schools. and also a comment on the same by a South Carolina lawyer. ? statement made a few days since by a prominent school official, claimed my attention. He said there were about six thousand teachers in South Carolina, and about one thousand of these were new teachers. To these young teachers as well as to older ones we appeal for nelp. The Christian Temperance Workers have for several years been trying to bring to the notice of all teachers the laws of South Carolina, with regard to Scientific Temperance instruction in all schools that use any public money.' The law makes it the duty of teach? ers to see that the proper text books on this vital subject shall be placed in the hands of all pupils able to read, and those not able to read shall be taught the same orally by the teachers. Three books have been recommended by our State School Board, viz: (First Book) Our Wonderful Bodies, for very small children, costing 22 cents. (Second Book) Our Wonderful Bodies, for a more advanced grade, costing 38 cents ; then fora still higher class, Hutchinson's Philology and Hygiene costing a little more. These books are fine and well worth the study of teacher and parent. The requirements of all state laws relating to the effects Of alcohol and narcoties on the human system have been fully met. Familiar language is used, facts presented in an attractive and simple manner so that the young? est pupil may understand. Some who feel the need, and are eager for immediate results think this is a slow way cf working for the tem? perance cause, but it certainly is the surest. If we would have Temperance work? ers and voters we must educate them. The children of today who are reared ? in criminal neglect, will" help make the laws of tomorrow. Too much emphasis can not be given to the great need of early child train- ? ing in the school and home. Let us look well to the rights of the children to be faithfully warned in time against the deadly cigarette. Dear teachers, let us take the little boys not too young to learn these bad habits, and not too young to learn the simple truths taught in these books and lead them on, knowing as the shepherds do, that where the lambs go, the flocks will follow. It is not necessary for the pupils to grow up for results, as the parents learn from the children's books and teachers learn while instructing the children. The worst foe of youth today is the cigarette. It has been said that this is pre-eminently the k< reason why" age, and that it is utterly useless in these days of intelligent thought to advance a theory without giving bed? rock reasons for it. These little books teach the children why and how to? bacco injures the nerves, the heart, the digestion, the brain, the will pow? er and the whole fabric cf a growing boy. Some one writes that if all our teach? ers would only conscientiously teach what our state laws require, soon we would have a vast army of workers which by their numbers would make a Napoleon turn green with envy, or astonish a Cromwell by their zeal and devotion. Dr. Bremer of the Hospital for the Insane of St. Louis, says, "There is an alarming increase of juvenile smokers and basing my assertion on the experience gained in private prac tcie and at this Institution for the in? sane, I will broadly state that the boy who smokes at seven, will drink whis? key at fourteen, taek to morphine at twenty-five, and wind up with cocaine and the rest of the narcotics at thirty. " Yours in this work of prevention, Mrs. E. S. Herbert. Chicago, Marchi).-Gustavus Frank? lin Swift, president of the Swift Pack? ing company, died at his home on Ellis avenue early today of internal hemor? rhages resulting from a surgical opera? tion performed several days ago. Mr. Swift was 63 years old. Chicago, March 2.- N. K. Fair? banks, millonaire manufacturer and director in several banks and manu? facturing concerns, died at his home here today, aged 73. He had been ill but a short time. Mr. Fairbanks was active in charitable work, being one of the founders of the Relief and Aid Society and of the St. Luke's society. He was born in Sodus, Wayne county, New York, in 1829, but had lived in Chicago for nearly half a century. He ADMIRAL DEWEY TALKS TOO MUCH. Makes Statements Calculated to Affect Pleasant Relations With Germany-Washington Stirred. Washington, March 27.-All Wash? ington is agog today over an interview of Admiral Dewey, printed this morn? ing, in which among other sensational things, he says that the winter man? oeuvres in the Carribean sea 4 ' were an object lesson to the kaiser more than to any other person." The admiral today affirmed every word of the in? terview, though protesting he cherish? ed no ill will against the German em? peror. In naval and diplomatic circles Dewey's sharp words have been the main topic today, and Germany's at? titude in the matter is being awaited, not with anxiety but certainly with interest. At the navy department it is said, while the department assumes no responsibility for what the admiral may say, no official notice will be taken of his interview unless the State department calls attention to it. This Secretary Hay will do only in the event that Berlin authorities make inquiries on the subject. No one denies the truth of the admiral's assertions, though in official circles his action in giving them publicity is consider? ed indiscreet. Should Germany ques? tion this government in the matter it is not at all certain that Secretary Hay will admit the pertinency of the inquiry. After paying a warm tribute to the American navy, which, he says, is "the greatest navy in the world," the admiral says: 44The German navy is an entirely different organization in its make-up of human material. I have made a deep study of that navy. My belief is that its efficiency in possible action is overestimated. The men do not begin to compare in education and intelligence with the Americans. Their men have in my opinion been educated so that they look to the officers and depend upon them for specific instructions in the least matters. They have not the self reliance of Americans." Of the Carribean sea manoeuvres the admiral says : 4 4 They were the greatest object les? son of that kind probably that the world has ever seen. . It was more an object lesson to the ki ser than to any other person. Think of it, 54 war? ships, including colliers and all I Ger? many could not possibly get a fleet over there that could fight such an aggregation of warships as that." It is learned tonight that the ad? miral's remarks have been cabled in extenso to the Berlin foreign office from the embassy here. . Birmingham, Ala., March 27.-Will Dorsey, cdlored, was hanged here to? day for highway robbery, it being the first instance in the State's histo? ry where the death penalty has been imposed, for this crime. Dorsey was convicted for entering the home of David McNamara, a mine operator near Pratt mines, three years ago, and shooting down McNamara and robbing the place. McNamara, though badly wounded, recovered. Columbia, March 28.-The State pension board adjourned last night, to be called together again after the irr?gularit?s in Spartanburg are in? vestigated and reported upon. As to the exact nature of these irregularities little can be learned, beyond the gen? eral statement that there has been a great deal of laxity in the conduct of the business in that county, and it is of such a character that ii was thought best to revise the whole business. Comptroller General Jones will send a man from his office on Monday to be? gin this work. In the meantime the board decided to give out no figures. Mr. Jones said that the increase in the number of pensioners would be very large, but what the percentage is he would not say. It is certain that some of the classes will have the amounts due them considerably re? duced. Safe Blowers in McCoil. Gibson, N. C., March 2S.-Safe blowers visited the town of McCoil, Marlboro County, South Carolina, last night, They entered the postoffice, and with nitro-glycerine blew open the safe and obtained 8850. Part of the money belonged to several local de? positors, but most was postoffice funds. There is no clue, but officers with bloodhounds are pursuing differ? ent trails. Taxing Building and Loans. Spartanburg, March 29.-One of the four local building and loan associa? tions and the equalization board, which is in session at the county auditor's office, held a conference today, at which the taxation matter was settled, if the decision of the com? ptroller general in Columbia proves not adverse to the agreement. This settlement provides that the institu? tion furnish to the equalization board a list of all stockholders in each series and also in each list the value of the stock of the series, and also to check off the names of those who have bor? rowed in that series. No further return is required of the association. The equalization board will then take the list and on the stock of each individual stockholder list this on his individual returns for taxation. This stock will be returned by the board at GO per cent of its value, the same as bank stock. Stockholders who are borrow? ers will not be required to pay tax on such stock and will thus escape double taxation. Johnson, March 29.- Yesterday after? noon a few miles from town Mr. Frank Payne killed a negro named Will Clark. From what can be ascertained it ap? pears that Mr. Payne was out hunting and met up with the negro and they had some words about some matter. Not being satisfied the negro opened fire on Mr. Payne with a revolver, Mr. Payne returning tho fire with both loads of his shot gun, the negro still firing. Mr. Payne had only time to put in one other load and fired the third killing^the negro almost instantly. Mr. Pavne was not hurt,_ Hanged for Robbery. The Pension Disease. CUBANS RATIFY TREATY. Their Senate Approves the Treaty Without Change. VOTE NOT UNANIMOUS. To Put lt Into Effect President Roosevelt Will Have to Call an Extra Session of Congress This Fall. Habana, March 28.-The treaty of reciprocity between Cuba and the United States as amended by the sen-' ate of the United States was approved at 8 o'clock tonight in the Cuban sen? ate by a vote of 12 to 9. This appoval is absolute and is not hampered by any conditions, the questionable time limit having been dispensed with through the receipt of the cable mes? sage from Secretary Hay; in which it was positively declared that President Roosevelt would call a special session of congress prior to Dec. L The pur? port of his assurance was transmitted to the senate by President Palma and read at the beginning of the session, an understanding having been reached previously with Senators Bustamente, Capote nd Dolz, composing the major? ity of the foreign relations committee, that the objectionable condition in the report be eliminated. This was done by the offering of amendments by other administration senators substituting the unconditional adoption of the ' amendments to the treaty by the j American senate for the qualified ac j ceptance contained in the original re? port. ! * inal action was delayed for a long I time by the discussion of an amend? ment offered by Senors Sanguilly, [ Tamayo and Reci, requiring the house ?to pass upon the treaty. This was voted down, 5 to 15. An amendment to or a substitute j for the comimttee's report was then offered by Senators Frias,' Monteagudo, and Betancourt. This approved and i ratified al! the amendments of the sen? ate at Washington and recommended that the Cuban executive take action j conducive to obtaining effective re? ciprocity as soon as possible. To this I substitute report was added the fol I lowing : "This recommendation must not be taken as an amendment to or a modi? fication of the treaty. ' ' Senators Bustamente, Capot and Dolz announced their acceptance of i the substitute report, while Senators Zayas and another committee man argued against it. "The chief conten I tioa of the last named was the uncer? tainty as to the action of the Ameri? can congress. ! Senator Sanguilly, in a long and im? passioned (speech against the ratifica? tion of the treaty, impressively pic? tured the gradual absorption of Cuba by the United States, in which he said the present action was one step. He argued that it was disgraceful for ; Cuba to be a party to such a scheme. Senator Bustamente, in a brief and able final speech, cited various inci? dents of history to show that neither weak or wicked nations make com? mercial treaties, and predicted with certainty the results in this case. The vote was taken separately on each section of the substitute report. The vote on the unconditional ratifica? tion of the treaty was 12 to 9; on the recommendation to the executive it was ll to"U The present session of the senate then adjourned. The ratifications will be exchanged by cable. United States Minister Squires said this evening to the representative of the Associated Press : "The ratification of the treaty with? out amendment is due almost entirely to the assurances given by President Roosevelt that he will call an extra session of congress before Dec. 1. This action of the president will be ap? preciated .and accepted by the Cuban government and people as an addition? al evidence of most sincere friendship and interest on the part of a man in whom they have ever had unbounded faith and confidence."_ SHOCKED THE KAISER. , The German Emperor Couldn't Understand Why the Police Did Not Arrest Senator Tillman. Berlin, March 27.-Chief of Police Count Bernstoff, who visited the Unit? ed States to make observations for the Kaiser, dumfounded William and Court society by his report of Senator Tillman's anti-negro speech, delivered at the New York Press Club banquet. "I wasastonishe'd at this man's out? burst of eloquence: nothing like it was ever heard in our Parliament or lecture platform. Such eloquence must be heard to be appreciated," said the Count. "Did he refer to Roosevelt?" asked the Kaiser. "He pulled him over the coals bodi? ly-'roasted him,* as they say in the United States. " "But was no police? man on hand, to dissolve the assem? blage?" It was the Kaiser's turn now to be astonished. "No, your Majesty, police interfer? ence would have been illegal." William and the Court talked long and earnestly on this "condition of things," which to them seemed in? compatible with the dignity of a civilized Government. "And Senator Tillman, will he not be prosecuted?" '.No: not at all, though, according to our laws, he deserved at least ten vears in the penitentiary." The Kaiser's belief in BernstorfTs truthfulness is sadly shaken. Tho impregnable strength of Gib? raltar" has been reduced to a figment of the imagination,according to French engineers, who say that a fleet of modern warships, steaming at eighteen or nineteen knots an hour and hugging the Morocca shore, could pound the rock to pieces without being seriously endangered themselves. So extensive has been the honey-combing of the rock, say these Frenchmen, that one of the greatest guns of the fortification could not be fired without the con? cussion from it knocking down ton's of rock upon the heads of the gun crew. With the integrity of Gibraltar ques? tioned we shall have to get a new simile for impregnability. CRUM BOND APPROVED. Washington, March 27.-Dr. Cram is now collector of the port of Charles? ton. Secretary Shaw today approved Crnm's bond for $50,000, and his com? mission is already in Charleston. It was the original intention of Crom to file a bond endorsed by reliable per? sonal friends, but npon further con? sideration it was deemed advisable to follow the now almost general practice of being bonded by a surety company The Fidelity and Guaranty Com? pany, of Baltimore, furnished the necessary bond. Thus the Crom case ceases, for the time being, to be a national issue. He will probably qualify within a few days and take charge of the Char? leston Custom House. When Congress reasembles next win? ter Cram's nomination will have to? be again submitted to the Senate. His friends may delay action indefinitely, and in the meantime he will continue tn office at the pleasure of the Presi? dent. Take Crum Into Cotirt Some very good lawyers hold that President Roosevelt's appointment of Dr. Crum to be Collector of Customs ! at Charleston was in clear and open i violation of the provision of the Con? stitution which requires that such ap ' pointments shall be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and confers upon the President the ? power only to "fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate." The vacancy which Crom has been appointed to fill did not "happen" during the recess of the Senate, or rather he was not appoint? ed during the recess, and when he was appointed he was not confirmed by the Senate. The provision in the Consti? tution was evidently made to guard against precisely such an abuse of au? thority as that of which the President is guilty in this case. The question ought to be tested in the Courts, and we wish that Mayor Smyth, acting in behalf of the com? munity, which can hope for relief in no other way would apply to the Uni? ted States Court here for an order restraining Dr. Cram from entering upon the discharge of the duties of Collector until he can etsablish his right to do so under the Constitution and laws of the country.-News and Courier. Validity of Appointment of Crum May be Tested. If it can be shown that President Roosevelt's appointment of Dr. Cram to be collector of customs at Charles^ ton was in violation of the provision of the Constitution which requires that such appointments shall be made by and with the advice and consent of " the Senate, Mayor J. Adger Smyth, in behalf of the community, will ap? ply to the United States Court for an order "restraining Dr. Cram from en? tering upon the discharge of the du? ties of collector until he can establish his right to do so under the Constitu? tion and laws of the country." The Mayor, who believes in Davy Crock? ett's rule of conduct, "Be sure you are right and then go ahead," has re? ferred the matter to Corporation Counsel Moffett, who will investigate^ the legal status of the contention. The action of the Mayor will be gov? erned, of course, by the report of the corporation counsel. The editorial, which appeared in The News and Couriei yesterday, opened the door of hope to those who have earnestly striven to prevent the appointment of the colored physician. -News and Courier, 31st. The Trial of J. H. Tillman. Columbia, March 30.-The prospect now is that the case against Mr. James H. Tiliamn for the killing of Mr. N. G. Gonzales, will be heard at the ap? proaching trem of the Court here% The understanding is that the case will be called the second week of court, and that if necessary an entire week will be given to the case. The expecta? tion is that the case will go promptly to trial and that both sides will an? nounce that they are ready. No sug? gestion has yet been made that a change of venue will be asked for at this trial. The defence will be represented by Mr. George Johnstone, of Newberry: Congresman George Croft and Mr Patrick H. Nelson, and the prosecu? tion will be represented by Solicitor J. Wm. Thurmend, former Attorney Gen? eral G. Duncan Bellinger, Col. An? drew Crawford and William Elliott, Jr., Judge Klugh will be the trial Judge. The Mullins Post Robbery. Columbia, March 28.-The Governor was informed today by telephone of the robbery of the postoffice at Mullins last night," the thieves getting $1,(XXL The postmaster asked that bloodhounds be sent, as he thought the robbers could be tracked. Later he received a telegram asking that the blood? hounds be sent on a special train. While the Governor was willing to render all assistance necessary, he did not feel called upon to incur any expense in the matter, as it was something for the Federal authorities to attend to. The safe was blown open and all its valuable contents were taken by the robbers. An Annapolis Cadetship. Colnmbia, March 2S.-Only six young men appeared today to stand the examination for Annapolis from this Congressional district. Twice that many had expressed the intention of standing the examination, but for some reason they did not attend. Be? sides those six, two others appeared for the physical exaimnation, but were rejected. The result will be announcd next Wednesday Ly Congressman Lev? er. That was a sensible Chicago judge whjo told a husband and wife, who were before him in divorce proceed? ings, to both kiss the baby and make up. They did. Of the five new battleships author? ized by Congress the three 10,000-ton vessels will be named Vermont, Kans? as and Minnesota, and the two 13,. 000-ton vessels will be named Missis? sippi and the Idaho.