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?h? Union Jinxes UNION, s. c. PALMETTO POINTERS RKNEWING Til IS FKiHT. A New Assault. To He Made ou tli?. Dispensary. Another supreme effort is to be mpue j to overturn the dispeusary. D.strict Attorney Murphy is to make it. He will baae his action on an act of con- j gress passed in 1891, and will ask the ' United btates circuit eonrt to declare j the dispensary law an immense monopoly, and in violation of the said act of congress. A number of suits preparatory have been filed by Murphy, Farrow & Legare, of which District Attorney Murphy is the senior member. The , suits ure in the nature of civil actions agaiust State Commissioner Mixtion for | the recovery of liquor seized, or of judgment for its value with punitive j damages. It is understood that when the district attorney brings his action charging violatiou of the act of congress, he will also allege the unconstitutionality of the law, anil will ask .Itulgo Simon- j ton, before whom the aetiou is to be ; brought, to issue nu injunction restraining all persons in anyway connected with the exeeutiou of the dispensary system, from performing the duties laid upon them by the law. An Old IMiot ograpli of Columbia. Colonel James G. Gibbes, of Colum- j bia, has placed in the office of the secretary of state what he claims to be the first photograph ever taken in America It was taken by Colonel Gibbes himself in December, 185-i,aud the imprint is on ordinary writing paper. There were no artists' materials then on the market and each photographer had to manipulate the chemicals and manufacture his own materials. The art of inakiug photographs, as differing from daguerreotypes, had just been discovered in the early part of 1854 and Colonel Cibbes, wbo was in Paris at that time, learned the art and practiced it for liis own amuse* meat upon his return to this country. At the same time that he learned, Meade, who afterwards hecumo a fi mous photographer in New York, was instructed in the art by the same teacher, but Meade did not come to this country until the spring of 1855. , Summer Schoolsv / ..Wh?U tbesu^e-JsgetnugaRyfagflaefy ; with its work others are in progress over the the State. In Laurens the j summer school closed a successful three weeks' session. In Abbeville tho session has begun. In Greenville the work has started under the most favorable conditions. In Ficrence the school begins its work on the 29th, in Colleton on the 5th of August, in Williamsburg on the 12th of August and an institute is to be held in Spartanburg County Non Kst Inventus. Sheriff Ferguson of Charleston, has made a return of non est inventus on the arrest warrant for \V. .T. Bowen, the liquor dealer sentenced by .fudge Buchanan for contempt of court, ?mj>1 the report comes from Charleston thr t Bowou is 000 miles out of the state; that tho last time he was beard from he was in Alabama, and was heading for Mexico. Tho State authorities say that ail ihis is a game of bluff, and maintain that Bowen is still in Cnarlest oi. Tbej' do not excuse Sheriff Ferfrom all blame in the matter. j A charter was issued to Mills Manufacturing Company, <>1* Oreenvilla. i This ! > oue of the many new n.ilia that OreeiiMlle propose* to finish this year. Am tlmr cotton seed oil mill has been organized at Anderson ami will begin work next fall. The following constitute the board of corporators who have filed their petition for a charter \V. F Cox, P K Met hilly, J. L. (Menu, Oliver Bolt, John Eskew, W. (? Watson, 11 B Dean, and J S. Fowler. Supreme < on i t Tiio following elections wore tiled with th? elerk <>f the State Supreme Court \V, J Johnson, appellant, vh. J. Henry Johnson < t al.. respondents Affirmed. Opinion hy Pope, A J. .1 M. Wood ley. petitioner, vs the Town Council of Ci?o, respondent Injuiietiou denied Opinion oV Pope, A J. loliu L. Young, respondent, vs. Philip M. Cohen, appellant. Allinned. Opinion hy Pope, A. 1. Frances C. Brown, respondent, vs. George I). Brown appellant. Aftiruuul. Opinion hy Ernest Gary, A. -I Eveline <^niek. et. al.. plaintitl's, re- ji spomlenta, ap| ellauts. vs. Allen CampBell, defendant, appellant, et. al., de- || fendutits, affirmed. Opinion hy Gary, ' A. .1. I The Bank of Manning, appellant vh. 1 Emma J. Mellett, et. al., respondents; < order reversed. Opinion by Gary. A * 1. I' I APPEAL to UNCLE SAM: , t ! 1 CAROLINA XEOROKS IS- 1 SUE AN ADDRESS. 1 A Stale Conference at Columbia Hearing <>" Hie Future Welfare of their , Race. The State Conference of negroes, . which was called 1?y the Ministerial Union of South Caroliua to consider the Constitutional convention outlook so far as the black race is concerned, assembled at Columbia on Weduesdav. ! There were ubout seventy-live representative negroes from the various sec- j tious of the State present Among them were many of the leading negro preachers of the State. The following address was unani- , luouslv adopted : "To the People of the United States : As a part of the constitution elements ... i ruin \vLiii.*ii um ?.imiuuiu guiviuiut ui draws its life blood iu time of peace, ami from whose life blooil it exacts tribute in time of war, under the broad reciprocal relations that should exist among all the people of one common country, that should be elastic, offeu sive or defensive weapons for every American citizen, however humble at home or abroad, in order that the theory of government handed down by the fathers might be fully realized and enjoyed by every individual on every iueh of national territory, we submit that a a small, but desperate minority of the population Las declared its purpose to perpetuate its power bv unlaw fully trampling under feet all the rights and franchises granted us by the Fed- , eral Constitution as a means of protecting life, liberty and property. "We have used every means in do- i fense of our constitutional rights and franchises known to law-abiding citi zeus in this Stute, without effect, uiul us a lust resort are forced to cull upon the strong arm of the national government for a defense of rights grunted and guaranteed by itself. "As the army and navy are held us a reserve force to uphold local authorities in every State, the federal government. in order not to be imposed upon and to support anarchy under the pretense of suppressing it, ^should see to it that a republican form of government. which we understand to be a government instituted by the sovereign will of a majority of the constitutionally quulitied voters, actually exists in every State. "We humbly crave your influence with the constituted authorities of the nation, in order that their consciences ! and arms might be strengthened in efhniYot/' nflagfTt;*' i Americau citizen might ^ai^B^3equal protection of the law, witumit which constitutional guarantees are mere mockeries, ami life itself a burden to | the people of the State. "We assure the fair-minded white i pie of this State that we are willing to ; use every means within our power to j aid in the overthrow of the smull but 1 designing clique now in possession of 1 the government, which has busied itself in the reorganization of the courts and militia for the purpose of perpetuating its power and which has been so | emboldened with success in former re volutionary steps as to declare, under cover of the unconstitutional registration law s, its determination to hold a convention of its own making and liking, and disfranchise the vast majority of the voting population regardless of constitutional prohibitions. "It assigns as its reason for such unconstitutional and revolutionary steps that a Constitution must he made to prevent what they are pleased to call "negro domination" and to establish "white supremacy," which means, re dueed to its essence, the supremacy of the faction now in control. "As the facts of history themselves prove, we deny that there has ever been a desire or attempt on our part to dominate the government. With the large body of us voting, most of whom are illiterate ami poor, there is not as much danger of our control of I government as there is of the laboring classes in MassacLusett <, New \ork or Pennsylvania, who with unlimited sitf- ' frage contrasted with Tillniaiiite fol lowing do not control. "While we are entitled to participation in the government commensurate with our wealth and intelligence, representation is only a secondary con- > sideration comnarcd with our riirht to retain our right of suffrage, which cannot he annulled by any constitutional means. 1 "Under our theory of self govern ment. in order that every man may possess the means within his person to protect life liberty and possessions, the governing power is divided into as , many fractional parts as there are i male adults, to each of whom is deeded an equal portion, designed to be used in a representative capacity and the ballot made in instrument. As under our form of government ail officers and administrators of the law designed to be the creatures of the governed, and are therefore the ser- | rants of all, to whom they must look for return to all continuation in oflhie, ( which means protection for ail, the lunger to the governed in such a form >f government does not exist half so ( much in poverty or ?o tile 1 lceumulatious of vast fortum s l>y the few, tiie intlueuee <>f which may bt used to swerve the servants of the people to administer the government 01 law in the interests of a few to the iletriment of the many. Besides, il there is to be a privileged cIush gov eminent, restricted to persons possess iug a certaiu amount of property 01 education, whut reasons are there foi not further restricting the governing c1?hh to a few college professors 01 millionaires ? "By making the officers of the law who shall be the servants of all, tin dependent creatures of a class only you make them the williug or unwil iug tools of that class alone, and thej will be bound to construe and admin inter the law to please members there of only, in which system it is appnreu that the class shorn of power is with out even as much protection as slave whose masters' ballots protect them Such a form of government we lnu in a limited degree before the late war when the free negroes, the unprivi leged class, had to have guardians b; whom many were deprived of freedon and property. Any form of govern nieut (if we may diguify it by sueh term) which forces a class of people i contribute to its existence without voice, whose contributions in th hands of the priviledged class are usei as engines of oppression is worse thai that among savages, where all men ar at least equal. By nature's God am the Constitution of the Uuited State we have been made free men and guar diuns of our own rights and our bal I-.* ? 1 W...U ftf <1a t u <% -> |>i uwiiii x?v fetise, and no honest and loyal eitizei is willing to deprive us of them, am we shall tight the flesh, the devil nu all his imps through every court am power in the nation before we shall b robbed of our rights by anarehisti uulli tiers. "A privileged class governmeu produces ou the one hand a class c cringing, suppliant cowards glad eve for the poor privilege of life torn shot time, and 011 the other a class of arrc gant, cruel and heartless nmrdererf because conscious of wrongfully ol taiued j nner, whose members fen nothing from their creatures, the oft; cers of the law who eoustrue and ad minister it as suits the will of thei masters. "Such a government we have in thi State today, and the ruling faction i in favor of handing it down in all il wickedness as a curse to geueratioi] unborn, but we are unwilling to enta such a legacy to future generations. Most of our murders and all ou lynching* arc immediately iraceauie i such a government, anil under it on State will continue to siul^row bad t &8e-H ho "Man, naturally given to error, impelled to right action from only tw causes: the hope of rewurd or fen of punishment;andthe law ante-datin the Mosaic age. that he that taket man's life must forfeit his own as penalty, has been abrogated, and tli rule in this State is that a white ma taking the life of a colored man dot not pay' the penalty with his owi which has spread to others, and is n longer confined to the oppressed clasi Upon the slightest provocatio members of the privileged class, witl out fear of punishment, murder or j?la the part of prowling savages or cann 1mIs, and dignify it by calling it lynching, as the conscience of tli State has been so seared that it is r< garded us a virtue rather than a crim to lynch u fellow-being. Murders an lynchiugs are noxious plants tlourisl ing only under a privileged class government, and will surely die when tli sheriff aud court are made to depen for future favors upon thf^Hufl'rage i every man. "NVe believe in universal suffragt because we believe in that right of al which, under our form of governmeul cannot be secured without making tli political power of each man equal i the creation of the administrators i the law The most illiterate aud humbles citizen, possessing nothing but his lit and muscles, has a much right to tli means of protecting his property though invisible, as the millionaire. When deprived of our ballot, on itilluciicc with the atliniuistrators < lie law is gone ami we are absolutely without protection. "While all members of the privil egeil class do not take advautage of on helpless condition, many do, and it i cruel and hope-destroying to depriv us of the power to aid humane am liberal ineii ill the election of suel honest men as will in the dispensatiol of justice, hold the scales equally bal aneed, whether the subject weighed i black or white. Tin* rule adopted le the democratic Executive Commit tee, debarring all colored men, regard less of past political affiliations, fron pnrtieijiation in the approaching pri onirics of said party, and allowing al w hite men, regardless of past politics affiliation. to participate in the same with tho declared purpose of counting in in the oencral election the onci named in tho primaries, is violative o every principle of justice and honest \ repugnant to the doctrines of civili/.ei government and a practical rcpudiatioi of the Federal constitution. "We view with alarm tho action o Conservatives, whom we are Lo irguni as broad and liberal* men i when they, to our exclusion unci iu r? pudiutiou of our rights, accept a | equal division with the udmiuistratio ! faction ami submit tlrat it is most ui ! I reasonable to expect our support whe I j failing to secure such concessions. W ' ! submit that the.only honorable thin for them to do, if they mean justice, r i to make a fair tight from principle i : | every county in tlio Stute for tl ? rights of all, in which they would g< r the support of the honest iutii) iu tl Stute regardless of race and politics. ' ; "We further submit that We star 3 ready to join with any number of tl ' j liberal white men of the State, aud 1 ' j aid them iu making a Constitutic 7 | broad enough to cover the rights i " every man, however rich or poor, at will only vote exclusively for delegat of our owu race and party, when sm j members fail or refuse to co-operat s "To the men of our race, we at | : uounce that no legal constitution ct I be made with our united oppositio: ' We must organize to continue to rai the means to prosecute the tight no pending in the Federal courts for tl preservation of constitutional liber to a final termination, aud to nml ( such a showing in the approachii election as will enable us to moveCo gress to action through petitions, j "Before a final determination of tl I litigation the proposed convention mi : be holdt u and all the wicked plans j ; our enemies incorporated into a in Constitution, but if we shall* prove 8 1 the satisfaction of 'the Federal S preme Court that in its making all tl rights and franchises granted us 1 the supreme Constitution have be< II ^ ignored and trampled under feet, j ; which we have no doubt, throuj , fraudulent and unconstitutional reg: trntiou laws, the new Constitution w \ ! iimount to nothiug, and our enemi L will have their pains for their laboi . | "We congratulate all lovers of ho f j est government in this State for t possesion of at least one judge, in t " person of Chief Justice Melver, who judicial ermine remains unsullied, at grieve to feel that the time will hoi ' come when our State will be depriv ' of the last of such tribunes. ;r "After remaining in session t I nearly midnight, the conference linn lv adjourned. They gave to the pre r only the cut and dried, specially pi pared matter desired, and withheld i IH information an to the proceeding There was a good deal of talk durii the conference, but how the membt '.'j stood on the adoption of the addrt is not known. "Resolved. That a State executive co ir uiittee be appointed by the ehairiuan of t! o conference, consisting of one member fr< ir each county to direct and manage the ec veiltion campaign for tlio State, each me ? l>?*r of the State committee t<> be authork II to aunollM. ?o? p . V..WVo afreet the campaign in his couu s That we liold ourselves in readiness toji with the liberal white men in every.coui ? who ask or may ask our support, hut if u< ir appear, we recommend that a ticket l?c no tT IIIIU' M IF) WUl |? (1IIU U'" HJI ? | thorn at the election for del a gates to I 11 j Constitutional convention, lit* it further ft i "Resolved, That the above mentioned ie j ganizatlou continue the work of organizi i clubs and raising funds for the prosecuti i of the light for honest elections now in p *8 j gross in the Federal courts, and that this i, j ganization work in harmony with the Mi () i isterial Union. s j Under the above resolution, the f< n lowing were appointed : j "Abbeville, A. I'. Crawford: Aiken. S. ; Smith; Anderson. T. .1. Harris; Buruw< y I Thomas Clark: Beaufort, Samuel Gre< i- Berkeley, f\ Gillian); Chester, Moses B? son; Chesterfield. H. I.. Shrewsbury: Col ton. c. l\ Chisotm; Charleston, \V. .1. lira Darlington, Dr. I.. I*. Daiu"l; Falrl'.e Samuel Adams: Florence, s. \V. Williai t. Georgetown, H. I). Andersen; (treeuvilh*. j F. Goldsmith; Hampton, h. ! '.. I'rimus: Hi I ' ry. T. J. Gordon; Kershaw, A. W. Powi Lexington, Jesse lliller; Laurens, l\ S. ! - ! her; Lancaster. F. 11. McCoy; Marlboro, J. |t, Cain: Marion, W. II. Collier; Newberry, , T. M. Daiiiels; Orangeburg, C. W. Caldwt II | Bichlaiid. It. E. Hart: Sumter. 11. H. Iti< >f unison; Union, W. D. MeMalian; Williau j burg. J. S. Tluirp; York, T. F. Hunt: Spi , i tnnburg, H. Sims; Edgefield, J. A. bnuie j' Clarendon, A. Collins. i3 j THIS IS SPORT. '! A It aschall Game Minis in a Riot, Se ?f oral Wounded. .( A ruling of the umpire in the seeo t, , inning of a match game of baseball I ,, j tweeu negro teams of Greenwood n Clinton on Friilay at Columbia brong on a riot which required all the polii ,. men of the town to quell. When t ,f lield was cleared, Silas Roilen a v IOU11U To DC HIOl TlirOIIgU TI1C leg. 1' Hester through the thigh ami Alln Gilbert had bin skull cracked with _ baseball bat. Clifton is to be extended to t Southern Railway. The large m 1 number three is now in course of co utruction and streets are being grad s to make arrangements for a numb v of new buildings. Alter this work completed the Clifton Mill will have populutiou of from .'J.001) to 4.000, Charleston Will Divide. ' j The following resolution was a.loji ^ , ed Monday by the Democratic exec . | tive committee of Charleston, which ' composed entirely of Conservatives: s "Resolved, That this committee ea 1 nestly recommend to the citizens this county ami of all toe counties I I ihe State a division of the delegatio ' | between the two factions of the Dem cratic party with a view to obtaining f j Constitutional Convention which w 1 r;p.?,o.ju?. iue wtiole Democracy of tl , I State." ltlCIILANI> DIVIDES. u The Proportion Is Three Conservatives 11 to Two Koformers. Richland lias cast tlio die. The u convention Saturday at Columbiu call's ed by the County Executive Commitig tee to discuss the matter of a division is of the delegates to the constitutional n convention between the factious, and ie decide whether or not there should be ft such a division, reaohod the conclusion >e that the delegates should be divided,so that the Conservatives shall have three id and the Reformers two; that they shall ie be chosen in the primary election to called In the Irby committee, the three ?n Conservatives receiving the highest of votes uud the two Reformers receiving id the highest votes being declared the es nominees to be presented to the gon:h eral election. The vote stood 39 to 53, e. and it was a noteworthy fact that there i_ were many absentees from the deleiu gations elected by the city clubs,w hile q. the country clubs wero fully repre8e sen ted. iw The temporary organization was iie made permanent on motion of Mr. F. ty H. Weston. Mr. Weston then offered io the following: ig "Whereas there is a movement u- among the Democrats of South Carolina to bury their past differences, to lie reconcile the opposiug factions in the iv party, and of "Whereas such a movement is truly >\v commendable and desirable,and should to receive the hearty support of all who u- love their State and glory iu its proshe perity; therefore, be it >v "Resolved, That Richland county n should send to the constitutional con of volition a delegation composed of three jh Conservatives and two Reformers." is- Dr. Robertson, moved that as many ill candidates as felt like it should go into es the primary, and that the two Reformrt?. ers and the three Conservatives getn ting the highest votes should be delie clared Richland's nominees. Mr. Pathe ton offered as an amendment, which se was accepted, that the executive id committee be asked to prepare such m rules for the primary election as would ed carry out the agreement made in thiH convention. The whole thing was ill then adopted, aud the Convention >1- adjourned. 'SS ? "C* Supreme Court Decisions. 1111 M. C. Butler vs. W. H ElDrbe, H Comptroller General, aud W. T. C. uf? Bates, Treasurer of South Carolina, 'rs judgment of the Court is that the '8H complaint bo dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Pope, A. J., and Gary, A. J., concurring in that conclusion iu ,m separate opiuious, Mclver, C. J., dia>u seating for reasons stated in bis opiu 111" ion iV*- il , d.,#oKo, cleri- f ^npicmo ty. Court, upon the affidavits of Richard D. Lee, Esq., attorney for respondent, me *n.ftCC?fdance with Rules 1 and 2 of m- this Court, entered an order dismissby ing the appeal for want of )*osecution, tbi-. I- m+K ,'n 41.?1 n?..? nuu V/UDkO, 1U IUC tunc Wl UfJIU (1C1 VUJJC* land, respondent, vs. the Western Asi,1K surance Company, appellant. This ion case wan tried before Judge Witherro~ spoou, in Sumter, at the March term. ;;r: 1895. LJ. A new hotel has been erected at GHenu Springs .jj" W.J. Bowen, the Charleston liquot a: dealer that Judge Jbiehanan sentenced 'it- to four months in the penitentiary for contempt, cannot be found at: 1 Id. Charles A. Brown will issue at Dar"S; liugton on Wednesday, the 17th of >r'* this month, the first cojiy of the Darlingtouian, a newsy five column folio. <u- The politics of the paper will be J|- straiglitout Democracy. II: Tho organization of the company for It- the first Lancaster mill whs effected there Monday. Tho capital stock will ,jH. be 8150,00(1, half of which 870,000, is home subscription. Tho balance will be Northern capital. A commission for a charter was is. sued at Columbia to the Florence Tov bacco and Warehouse and Prize Company, of Florence. The capital stock iid of the company to be >5,0 >o, which is to be increased to 80,000 if the -.tucknd holders so elect. Mills Moving South. |i(, 1 ho Thuriow Manufacturing Company, ol UH Chester, Pa., concluded a deal for tlio purnIl chase of tins Enterprise Manufacturing Cornet patty's buildings ami property at Birmingham, Ala., formerly used as a soap factory, 11 and will at once remove from Chester, Pa., 'o Birmingham a 5,000-spindle-eotton-mill.l The blilpmnnt of tlio machinery will begiu at oocp, and the uiill will be in operatloa by Sept. 1st. > J. 11. Cotton, president of the Thurlow ue Manufacturing Company, recently made a ill four months' tour of the South, and decided u_ tii it this section Is to ho the future seat ol ^ ibe co'ton manufacturing industry of Arnere(* lea. His company already tins mill in er North Carolina, and contemplates the locajn tion of o*hers, besides the one in Birming? Lum' Six Persons Drowned. A special fro,ii Tialnapanihi Mexico, .-ays it-' that a watei ip'Oi! in the iiiouiilains above l|. caused almost th* < r'. ( ! I." ituindalion of j9 that plnee. 'I'ii !!i?e| tta-ln <1 r.\v i va part <>f the Milage ill' I; III M|e.|-. and s:\ rii?i>o||H were ilfiAV" . of Constable I'ettigrew Dead. >h Constable Pettigrow died at Spur hs tnnburg on Saturday, llin body wuh o- taken to bin homo in Fairfield county, ft Careful numing and the beat. ' - uaeuuon could not nave him. 'Poland tie ban reeovered and gone to Enoree for a rest.