The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 14, 1895, Image 6
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PALMETTO POINTERS
THE CATERPILLAR PEST.
Commissioner Davis Tells How to Get
Rid of Them.
Owing to the extremely wet spring,
followed by hot sunshine, the caterpillars
have made their appearance in
great numbers, and are defoliating our *
gardens and shade treos. The commissioners
for the planting and protection
of shade trees have been furnished,
through the liberality of the present
City Council, with a small annual appropriation,
which has been applied
to the planting out and boxing of
young shade trees, but they have no
funds for the purpose of employing
men to destroy caterpillars.
If the residents of the city would
look after the two or three trees in
their immediate front the nuisance
would be considerably abated, nud the
ravages of the pests reduced to a
minimum. The best time to destroy
them is while they are still in the web,
and before they have scattered themselves
over the tree. This can best be
done by tying a rag on the end of a
stick, saturating it with kerosene,
iguitiug it and passing it under the
nests; if done rapidly this will not injure
the trees, ami will effectually
destroy the nests. The English sparrows
were imported into this country
and established in some of the principal
cities with the expectation that they
would effectually destroy these depredators
upon the shrubbery and
trees and parks, but this hope has
been a delusion and a snare. They
confine themselves totheseedof plants
and the robbery of the food distributed
to our poultry, and to the driving away
from our gardens and parks of all
other small birds which heretofore
contributed so ranch to their attractiveness.
1 lnive nev? r seen one destroy
a wuiiii or caterpillar.
Zimmerman Davis
Chairman Commissioners for the
Planting and Protection of Shade
Trees, Charleston, S. C.
DROWNKI) IN HIS BATH.
The Fate of a County Chain Bang Convict
in Darlington County.
Frank Geddings, colored, one of the
Darlington county chain gang was accidentally
drowned while the guard
was having them bathe. Frank was
swimming and it is supposed he took
11. . i i. ii :e K .i
crump una uc iic^uu uwiumuii^ im xicip.
Oue of the meu swam to him and
caught him and they both came near
being drowned. The one who went to
help broke away under the water. The
body was not fouud until the next
moTning. An inquest was held by
Trial Justice Smith and a verdict of
accidental drowning was rendered.
Orangeburg Crops Not So flood.
A dispatch from Orangeburg says:
News from the country concerning
the condition of the crops is not very
encouraging. The extreme hot weather
of the last five or six days following so
closely upon the lieels of the recent
almost wintry weather 1ms been most
detrimental in its effects upon both
cotton ami corn. In some sections
farmers have ploughed up tli >ir cotton
and planted over, a part of the land in
cotton and a part in corn, and the hot
sun acting upon the damp earth has
seriously injured corn by "firing" it
From one end of the county to the
other the complaint is that the crops
are in a sorry plight, and so far t lie
outlook indicates but a liafl crop o'
-_"?uhmi lur mis season.
Artesian Well at Hampton.
L. K. namborg, who has been sinkin^tui
Ait.sian well in Hampton for
tin* past three weeks, I.us just coin
pleteil a tine well for the town near
the depot. It is about twelve hundred
feet deep, and the water comes within
three feet of the surface. The earth
around will be removed and Hampton
will have a flowing well. It will have
only to be dug even with the bed of
the ruilroud t<> make it a flowing welt.
The water is very tine and will be analyze
I before long. This is a big
feather in Hampton's cap.
I lip Mult .Minted.
At Charleston a I>111 was filed in tbfe
I*nited States ('ireuit Court on Wed
uesdav, abating tproceedings begun
by tin- State of S.uitli Carolina to
forfeit tin- charter of tin- I'oit Royal
tin?1 Augusta Railroad Company. The
aiiit is abated, because, under the act
of 1 -?i>I. tin* begi-latuie repealed the
charter of the road, ami provided for
its ln|uidation and the distribution of
its assets. The eourt says that all
questions arising in the ease li n - been
set t led.
Another Cotton >1111.
The secretary of state on C; iy i??
Ailed a eon- i,i- sou t<> the corporator-!
of the I'roqelltv Cottoll Mill Com
pan\ of i'i. s|?erity, Newberry county
The capital ck is to be $50,000.
lie also granted a charter to the
Standard fertilizer Coinpnn. < f ('liarlest
oil. lie m | ital stock is t < ! < $50,000
oihccisaiid lirectora ha\cbcen
elected.
* ' CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.
State Commissioner Mlxson and a Con- t>i
stable Arrested.
At Columbia on Wednesday morning ,
an interesting legal move was made'in
the matter of the dispensary law. State
Commissioner Mixson and Liquor Constable
Beach were arrested. The proceodings
were made under the special
conspiracy act of Congress, which was .
referred to in the Debs case. They W1
are arrested upon a warraut sworn out
by two leading citizens, Messrs. Midler J11'
and Beck, before United States Com- .
missioner Reid, of Newberry. They
were charged with conspiracy to violate
the special interstate commerce act of a"
i unn ^ v. i i : A... wl
jloi/v/ iii nwiuu ucci ut'iuu^ui^ in
the complainants. The commissioner av
also issued a warrant for the search and
seizure of the confiscated liquor. The a*
prisoners were taken up for a prelimi- Pa
nary hearing. Dr. Pope appeared for
the complainauts, and asked that they *e'
be bound over for conspiracy. The
Assistant Attorney-General told the
deputy marslinl to consider the seized
property in his possession for the pur- 'K
poses of this case. *?'
The State maintains that the dofon
dants cauuot be held criminally liable |
under this act of Congress.
lao bearing was concluded at the nfteruoou
session, Dr. Pope and Judge ; co
Townsend both making lengthy , j,fl
speeches, the former arguing that the i
commissioner bail jurisdiction ami the j
latter ilenying it.
Dr Pope's apeech was a spicy one
The commissioner decided that the de- ,
fendants were iu contempt of Judge
Simontou's order of injunction, which, j au
he said, was now the law. ami bound I ra
Mix son over to appear before trial at [
the November term of the United States
District Court in the sum of 8a
SI.<>()(), making the constable's bond
oulv hnlf that amount.
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HARMONY IS ON TOP. 111
Tlie Peace Faction !? Winning in (he .
Fight. 1
A dispatch from Columbia says. 1
Laurens county is the fourth county to aa
take action iti the direction of "peace 1,1
and harmony." The executive com- or
niittee of thut county has passed resol
utious recommending that such delegates
be sent to the constitutional con
vention as pledge themselves to sub- '
mit to the will of the majority of the 1^
white voters of Lautens county, with- cf.
out regard to their past factional '
affiliations. VG
Since Senator Tillman has advised ne
the democratic executive committee of
Edgefield county to see to it that th? i
delegates to the convention be divided
equally between the two factions, ai! |
J 1.4 4.. l.:.. :4: i i I 111
iiuiiut itj in* jinsiiKHi iuis neeu re- j
moved. Before ho so ml vised it was ; ^T(
generally noised abroad that lie wouid ' ^
kick out of the agreement made at the j ""
Hemphill-Barnwell conference. Tlis *?
action has given much strength to the ! w<
"peace anil harmony" faction, and the !
fighting element has been put very
much on the defensive. There are !
some who say that this element has to | 'K
do much talking to keep its courage ?.l;
up, but there is no disguising the fact ri<
that it is backed by fighters of ex- j
perience with goodly numbers of Cft
voters behind them. Richland county j
is considered iho headquarters of the in
fighting element, luit many of the lead- . b'
ing politicans of the country, among Wl
theiuSenator Sloan and Representative*
Pat tun and Weston, have signilied I n
tiieir intention of coming to some , w<
equitable agreement with the refor- J ar
niers. eu
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Oil
AN AfiltKKMRNT.
What (iovernor KvansSays About the | ^
Sel/.urt;of Liquors and the Causes.
en
In speaking about the stiznres of \\
liquors which are st.ll being made de- tif
spite .Tii'lge Simontou's order of injunc- j cii
tion. (iovernor Evans on Thursday
remarked that they had an agreement , ini
with tiie revenue authorities whereby th
they were to seize and hold all liquors
shinned in for private or other use . m
when the package was not addressed in mi
the name of the party purchasing it. o.
In regard to the cases brought i?v ' sh
Dr Pope before Commissioner Reid, , he
Coventor Evans said be would have l)r i th
Pope or Reid's deputy, or anybody
else arrested as soon as they stepped cri
inside the dispensary to search and fu
seize property therein. He held that ca
they had no right under the law to go
that far, and he would arrest them the
same as an ordinary citizen going in
there to take up something and walk j
out with it. tc
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To The Convention vf
Gov Evans Appoints Delegates for ct
the Rig Memphis Convention ,s
South Carolina is to|be represented ^
at that big bi-metailie convention t<> !>< j fc
hehl in Memphis on the I*2111 and 1 "51h w
?Gov. Evans was requested toappoiut jr,
ten delegates from this State and this
lie has done, ante, wiring tie- following ftj
appointment* Pj
State-at large Senators Tillman ar
and 11 by and W l>. Evans. u,
Eir?t Congressional District? j n
Thoiiias Talbn d i|t
S. cond Di*tti t W* J. Talbert. ftf]
Third District \ C. Latimer I s:i
Fourth Distre l Stanyarne Wilson. ,
Fifth District 1'. d Strait. , \\
Sixth District .Ino. R. McLanrin. jp
Seventh District- J. Win. Stokes. |
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CROPS ARB BETTER
rector Bauer's Weekly Bulletin of
the Condition of the Weather
and the Crops.
The following weekly bulletin of the
ndition of the weather and the crops
ring the past week was issued by
ate Observer Bauer:
There Has a quick transition from
e cold conditions that ended
th the beginning of this crop week,
an extreme of heat, with the
gliest recorded temperatures for the
it decade of May or the first decade
forty years in Charleston, where
e maximum reached 07 on June 1st
d 2d. In various other localities
lere less extended records are kept
ailable for comparison, they show
at it was the hottest week ever known
this seasou uud rarely ever ?urssed
by the warmest periods in July
August. Many reports indicate
mperaturo of 100 or over on the 1st,
. and 3d.
This hot, dry weather lias tended to
nits j?u*> iuuf? uuuuiiuiu cuiiui*
>ns bv supplying some of the heat
st during April ami May, and to reice
the previous excessive rainfall to
arly a seasonable amount. Its efcts
on all crops has been very favorile.
It was the indicated need of
rn and cotton, and perhaps more
irticularly for peaches, plums and
;rries, which are beginning to ripen.
The highest temperature reported
?s 103 on the 2d (Sunday), from
ila, Lexington county. The lowes
ported was 50 on the 28th of May.
urn Greenville, Liberty, Looper't*
ul Spartanburg, making the weekly
nge in the State 55 degrees. The
ean temperature for the week for the
ate was 82.5 and the normal for the
me period is approximately 75.5.
There was no rain iu any portion of
e State during the entire week. The
>rmal raiufall for the same period is
proximately 1.00 inches.
Cotton made rapid improvement, in
owth, color and possibly* stand, alough
some correspondents say tba
matching" or replanting is still neeesry
and that some of the "late plantg
is kIow in germinating. Blaek-leg"
"sore-shank" was bad iu places and
ttkes recovery slow. A few state that
is still dying on sandy land but this
not common now. Also that some
Ids plunted in cotton have been
owed up and planted in some other
op. Cotton is Hiuall for the season,
elds are being cleaued from grass
ry fast, and chopping to a stand is
inrly finished.
Corn lias been much improved by
e hot weather and has regained a
salthy color. It is generally small
r the season with an uneven stan .
>ttom lands nearly all planted. Bud
jrms and cut worms less active than
retofore, but they have ulreaily
maged the stand very much on botm
lands. Fields generally well
>rlced ami free from grass.
The rice crop continues to grow
;11 and looks very premising at this,
ue. The hot weather has dried the
>ggy lands so that plows could be put
i and preparatio's for planting June
e are well under way.
It stated that the stand of sugarne
and sorghnm is very poor.
Melons have improved greatly, but
sects continue to eat the plant at
aees, and others say that the hot situ
Its the vines.
Potatoes along the coast are yielding
large crop, but they are not doings.:
;11 in the interior. Sweet potatoes
e not growing well, having appartly
not fully recovered from the set.ok
by the cold weather of the profits
week.
Peaches have ceased to drop nn 1 a
11 crop is now beyon.l peradventure
a doubt. Plums are s.ud t<> be riprug
prematurely, an I are not good.
irielie.s ol wil l hemes are very plenul.
Sunshine has been very benetiil
to u nit and berries.
Tobacco lias shared in thp general
iproveinent, noted lot* crops, due to
e hot weather.
Gardens wilted during the daytime,
uler the influence of the heat, and
ust soon have rain or else will deteriate.
Vegetables abundant. Truck
ipment to Northern markets continue
avy from the coast counties, where
p industry is centered.
All correspondents agree that the
op prospects have improved wonderliy
but that rain is the present indited
need.
Eccentricities of Food.
OIL _ i M ? ? ....
iu_- i'R'ucu suau-oaung nanit is said
? bo growing apace m America. Its
Itimate popular adoption should by
a means occasion surprise. Snail
iting is no more queer than turtle
iting. The development of cookery
the miracle of civilization, and yet
10 American custom of pickled pigs'
et might offend the Afrioau epicure,
ho dines upon elephants' feet baked
i a hole in tlio ground. Rattlelakes,
black snakes and lizards were
1 pronounced edible by the late
rank Bucklaud, the naturalist, and
e no moro repulsive, in a way, thnn
ic misshapen frog In Now Zealand
great delicacy is tho boiled grass>ppor,
afterwarn cnispod in an oven
ul served headless. Tho flavor is
id to resemble that of shrimp. Here
a suggestion for a Kansas farmer,
hy not the pate do grasshopper as a
val edible to the hors d'oeuvro do
uil??Philadelphia Record.
REGISTRATION LAV.
,
ARGUED BEFORE THE U. 8. CIRCUIT
COURT OF APPEALS.
! Chief Justice Fuller and Judges
Hughes and Seymour On the
Bench. Arguments of Counsol
Heard In Full.
The South Carolina registration case
I *as fully argued on Friday in the U.
| S. Court of Appeals before Chief Jus;
tice Fuller and Judges Seymour and
Hughes at Eichinoud, Vu., and was
taken under consideration by the
Court.
The reeord of the case contains a i
great quanity of irrelevant and unnec- |
essary matter, but the gist of the euse
seems to be this: The constitution of
South Carolina provides that "Every <
malo citizen of the United States, of i
| the age of twenty-one years and up- 1
; wards, * * who shall hereafter
! reside in this State one year, and in
the county in which he offers to vote
sixty days next preceding any election,
' shall bo entitled to vote." Certain i <
nelsons named are nut under disabili- ! '
; ties. The State is pi veil author- .
ity to puss u registration law. I( then i
J provides that "the General Assembly i :
; shall never pass any law that will du- i j
prive any of the eiti/.ens of this State j
i of the right of siilVrnge, except for J '
treason* murder, robhoty, or duelling. | 1
, whereof the person shall have been j j
; duly tried and convicted " The fol- (
: lowing is an extract from the opinion J
! delivered by judge (loll', when he J
; granted the injunction that wus ap- \
pealed from: <
"While, as a rule, the rights of ? 1 j
citizen of a State are such a.s all citi- J
i zens of the 1'iuted States enjoy, yet 1 <
| this plaintiff has also certain rights un- j '
' del* the Constitution of South Carolina, j '
i by virtue of the net of Congiess of : ,
Tune 125, lSllS. which was accepted j i
and acted upon by that State, in which i
it is provided tlj.tt the Constitution of i j
| said State shall never he so changed as i
to deprive any citizen ?r class of citi- *
| zens of the I'nibul States of the right j
j to vote in said State, who are entitled j t
j to vote by the Constitution of the j i
I same, recognized in said act, except 1
' as a punishment for crime. The Con- j
atitutiou there referred to is one from <
! which 1 have before quoted the pres- ?
j out. organic law of that Stute," us j 1
! herein before sot forth. ,
Judge Golf seems to have made the : i
plaintiff's right to nn injunction turn j
principally upon the idea that the act t
! of Congress had fastened the provis- t
ions of her Constitution respecting <
the right of suffrage upon South Car- J
j oliua perpetually, and that any law ,
j passed l>v her Legislation that violated j I
| those provisions of he/ Constitution, | 1
was not only a violation of a voter's | '
I rights as a citizen of the State of South i
J Carolina, but a violation of the rights j t
| which the act of Congress of June'25th, I '
1808 secured to him, and therefore, a f
\ case hero arises of which a Federal <
court had jurisdiction. He discussed t
the fourteenth amendment cunsidorn* : j
blv as bearing on the case, but tlie? j ;
I foregoing seems to have been what he j i
most relied on. I '
, He made out the violation of the '.
plaintiff's right thu?: i
, The registration law of South Caro- j
linn provides thus: Voters shall be reg- j
istered and no one shall be allowed ,
to vote uniess registered according to
i the provisions of the act. When a reg- j !
; istratiou has been completed the j '
! books shall be closed and not reopened j ?
until after the next general election. >
and then only for those who became J
entitled to register alter that election. <
1 They are to be opened on the irst <
Monday in each month until the first t
Monday iti lulv t receding the next j
i * i ' i ! '
general election, ami not reopened uu- ;
tii after the next general election The <
law thus provides for registering such
persons as were entitled to register
when it went, into effect, and such as
acquired the right thereafter
The law, therefore, closes registra- |
I ti.'/H .T:ily 1st, though the election does j
not take piece until the following i
November. Judge ll >ft' thought tl if> j
1 an unreasonable requirement, as it. !
prevented registration at the very (
time voters were hecotniug most iu!
terested in elections The law also |
required voters to get a certificate that j
they wore registered, and that they , <
were not to vote unless they carried j |
I the certificate to the polls. In case a ! |
voter removes from one county to j
| another, or from one precinct in a ; i
county to another, or from one resi- ! |
deuce in a pieeinct to another. ho |
shall obtain u tutiisfvr and a leiiewal |
certificate. j ,
Judge (rotf held that all these wero I
uiireasonal.lt- \exntiuns and burden- i
j some additions to the requirements of I
; the Constitution of the State, when ^ {
the net of Congress had provided that '
j there should be no swletRiitinl change 1
in the citizen's right to vote. ,
Judge (loft' discussed the rights
! of the . n .? i ? Miiiym ti's opinion,
but there seems to be nothing in the '
case to show Unit the pi hi ntift' was a | 1
negro, though Judge Coll'states that he
was. The ease before the court i
' arose lius:
The Legislature of South Carolina
I passed an act in December, 185)4, providing
for the calling of a constituionnl
1 1
convention. Those requirements ot I >
the law then existing were made V
necessary for votera in voting for dele- 1 j
pates to the convention, and some
others were nddcd which Judge Guff
thought as injurious aa those mentioned.
The plain tiff iilod his bill in the
United States Circuit Court asking
that the olliccrs be enjoined from exoeut- 1
itig the act providing for electing 1 5
members of the constitutional convention.
He averred in his bill that, he
"failed to register at the registration | ,
made after the general election of I
1888, or to bo rcgiatered during the
ten daya iu March 1895, provided for
in said act of 1894, because, although
he made repeated and persistent efforts
to become registered, lie found himself
unable to comply with the unreasonable,
unnecessary, and burdensome
rules, regulations, and restrictions
prescribed l>y said unconstitutional
registration laws as conditions precedent
to his right to register," though he
does not say the officers of the Stato
prevented his registering.
FOR HIE STATE.
Mr. William A. Harbor, Attorney-General
of the Stato of South Carolina, opened the
argument iu behutl of the State. Ho relied
chiefly upon two grounds for dismissing the
oinpininniit's bill: First, that there was no
Federal question involved; and, second, that
h court of equity was without jurisdiction in
i ease of that nature, for the reason that if
my legal rights of the complainant should
l?e violated, he had a full and complete rtmisdy
before the common-law courts.
in support of his first contention, lie reviewed
the registration laws of the State of
South Carolina, which have been in full
operation for the past thirteen years, and
pointed out that they bore equally on all
itizons, rich and poor, white and black,
without discrimination, and wore not in contravention
of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution. He eontended
that the right of n citizen to vote was
derived solely from the State laws, subject
only to the two named amendments to tho
United State* Constitution, and that this was
recognized by that Constitution, itmlf.
He showed that there was nothing in
tho registration laws of South Carolina that
i bridged ordenHi to any citizen the right to
vote on account of race, color, or previous
ondition of servitude, as forbidden by tLo
fourteenth amendment. In support of his
?tcond contention, that the case was not a
proper one f,>r an equity tribunal, Mr. Hurler's
argument was mostly of a technical
nature, and in ii lie cited the South Carolina
itatutes toshow tlisi* ample remedy was open
:o any voter entitled to registration to have
His name idacod on the poll-books. He fur:hor
called attention to the fact that the decdon
from which the complainant declared
hat he was disbarred was to be held for
State officers alone, and that there was no
vuiso for any Federal interference, in the
ourse of Mr. Harbor's argument, tho inter sting
point was brought out that, although
he complainant. Mills, was a negro, there
was no allegation in the bill to that effect,
ip.d that, although Judge Goff, in his opinon.
had mentioned Mills as being a negro.
Mr. Charles A. Douglass followed Mr Barker,
in behalf of the complainant. Mills. Ho
;ook up the registration statutes of Houth
rtarolina and pointed out the many obstrueJons
that a voter met with in securing regis
ration nnd in voting, and contended that
heao olwtructions were so numerous aud
orinidablo as to amount praetieally to disfranchisement,
and ho urged that the barkers
be torn down, and froe access to tho
:tolls allowed.
In the afternoon Mr. II. W. Obear closed
.he argument for the complainant. His time
ivas taken up mostly with a consideration of
Jie question whether the case was a proper
me for the equity cognizance. In the course
tf his argument, ho alluded to the alloguion
in the bill that the complainant stated
lutt "although he made repeated and persist nt
efforts to become registered, he found
liinsi If unable to comply with the unroasouible,
unnecessary, and i)urdensome rogulaions,"
and here bo was interrupted by Chief
fust ice Fuller, who closely questioned hiru
v- to tins sufficiency of the allegations as to
vliat those efforts were, the Chief Justice
ntirnnting that there was nothing to make
t appear that the registration officers had
mpoded him in these efforts, or were in any
vay responsible for the failure.
General Edward McCrady closed for the
ippcllant, in a brief review of the salient
>oin;s of tho case.
Mr. Chif?f Justice Fuller interrupted the
miib.sel for appellee, Milis, quite frequently
n the course of their argument, and from
lie drift of his questions it was irmLsed
hat he would be in favorof reversing Judge
off, upon the ground that there was lack
>{ Federal jurisdiction to interfere.
At (tie conclusion of the argument the Court
>et Tuesday as the day upon which briefs in
.he ease should ho filed.
i in- * oiiri i in * 11 auj oilmen, six iiours ooiug
onsumed in the hearing of the argument.
(lenorul M'-Orady returned to Charleston,
ind 'Jhief Justice Fuller to Washington.
Testa's Original Urn.
Nicola Testa's idea of electric iliumiuutiou
is dilTerent from nay hitherto
conceived. His theory is that the light
of the snn is the result of electric
vibrations in the 91,000,000 miles of
Bther which separate us from that luminary,
und does not proceed from a
groat orb on tire, as the sun has always
beeu supposed to be. Now, if these
vibrations can lie reproduced by artificial
means, the light will follow. Tho
rapidity of the vibrations is a Becond
necessary to produce the desired remit
is expressed by tho figure tivo and
Fourteen ciphers, and Testa is now
trying to build a machine that will
produce these vibrations. Should ho
mcceed in only a partial dogree, tho
rnmilfc will 1?a fcr? ill* nwnv witli l< mnu
- ? ? ? " "?J
and wireH. Tho machino will ronder
luminous tho ether of a room or a city,
jiving a light like that produced by
the sun.?New York Dispatch.
Uio Singular Fo>ke:! Tr.51 Calerpiller.
Tho singular forkoil-tail caterpilie*
Tf Cerura, as it well known, semis
w hen disturbed a jet of vapor containing
formic acid. It also appeal-; iro n
die researches of Mr. Setter that theso
restores in tho imago state secrete
ree potassium hydroxid, a substance
for tho lirst tune known to exist in
ho animal kingdom.?Now York In*
Impendent.