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Kqual Division in York. | The Yorkville Enquirer gives on ox- I tended notice of a meeting tlmt was . Jheld in York County, at which a divijsiou of the delegates was agreed to. Speeches were made by Judge Earlo jand Judge Witherspoou. Twenty f lubs had representatives at the meet- f "? The following is the action of the conference: Resolved, That it iB the souse of this Convention that, so far as practicable, there shall be an equal division be- 1 tween Conservatives and Reformers of a ,4he delegates to the Constitutional Con- * vention, as the best method of secur- 11 ing the best men to send to that body. '2. That we pledge ourselves to per- * petuato white supremacy by fair and honorable means. 3. That the homestead provision 1 should be retained iu tlio Constitution. ? 4. That tho live candidates for the ? Constitutional Convention for York tl , Uountv ue nominated ny primary clec! tiou, and be divided between the Ro- ~ I form and the Conservative factions, as j, follows, to wit: The candidate cf F I either faction receiving the highest ? number of votes in the primary to be j the first or odd delegate, and the two y candidates from the Reform factious | and the two candidates from the Con- * ! servativo faction receiving the uext tl I highest number of votes in the pri- tl ! mary to be the remaining four dele- '! | gates. * I 5. That in the interest of harmony . between the factions and a united a ' white people we suggest that each can- J1 I didate for the Constitutional Conven- e Fa tion pledge himself to abide the result li jfj. of the primary election under the >' 1 plans above sot forth. The resolu- J,' ? tions were unanimously adopted. y R Before adjourning Chairman White I extended his sincere congratulations c R on the most happy solution of a very h R knotty question. t | Among the delegates were Represen- n H tatives W. N. Eldor, Dr. T R. 1 R Carcthers. Commissioner J. C. Wil R born, Senator D. E. Fiuloy and most c L of the Reform leaders Conservatives were present from most of the clubs. DARLINGTON CONSERVATIVES. > Equal Division or no Primary Is the j Platform Adopted. f A Convention of tho Conservatives J of Darlington County was held in the I Court House at Darlington laBt week t and was called to order by W. F. Dar- 5 ga'u, Who read tho call which had been previously published. Dr. A. T. Baird 5 was made temporary secretary. A ' committee of three was appointed on ^ credentials, consisting of Messrs. Mc- B Jmer, Coker and Otfbose, who reported t that nine townships were represented, making a majority of the townships in L the county. Major J. J. Lucas was t then elected permanent chairman and t Geo. H. McKee secretary. The resignation of W. D. Coker, of the State executive committee, was accepted. W. F. Darpan was then elected as member of the State Conservative committee. A motion prevailed that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair who should confer with the Reformers It I I*??-? ? ? Inuu net: 11 nu <-( | II 111 division OI untrammelled delegates to the Constitutional Convention can he had. The Chair appoiuted E. S. Mclver, W. F. Dar- | gau aud A. T. Bnird as such commitA motion prevailed that this committee he instructed to report the result of the conference to the county executive committee, and that this committee have full power to take such action as they may see tit in regard to , naming Conservative delegates in case their proposition is agreed to. A motion prevailed that "we, the Conservatives of Darlington County, will go into the primary only upon a division of untrammelled delegates." Delegates to this Convention were requested to let it he known in their re- ? spective neighborhoods what was the action of this Convention as regards a 1 division of delegatesand also in regard 1 to going into the primary. On motion j the Convention adiourued t TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. 4 A hail storm throughout the tobacco- ^ growing district of Connecticutt Saturday t afternoon nearly destroyed the crop. Some J places it fell two inches deen on the fields. ? * f I At Galveston, Texas, on Saturday the Aral halo of the season, classed as strictly middling. was sold at auction to Kuhn & Frausseu. The price puid was $100. = Fire broke out Saturday in the Augusta, t Ga.. steam laundry. After n fight of three 0 and one halt hours it was subdued, having j, been conifned to the iiiiildintr in urlil.'h It I? ? ? " ? .. v itarteo. I.o<?s $23,000. }1 Assistant Postmaster General Jones has d ssued an order to postmasters throughout ji he country forbidding the issue of money ti irdors payable on their own offices. The o ?rder can be issued on a substation. J Tlr? Tennessee Coal, iron and Jtailroad tl Jo. 1 pany has made another advance of two- I1 hirus isduction of la->t year in the wages tl ft their workers in the mines?this time imoag handlers of coal, cleaners of drifts tt !k theLugiish elections Saturday the Lib- j1 irals w-'re badly beaten. Sir William Vernon I1 ^arcoui >va- dented ic Derby. The Conlervatives and Unionists will have 76 in tho Cl krw Parliament, the Liberals 5 and the Par- J* I A. Detroit, MI'h., the Michigan Malleable {} ton Works, which employs between 200 and Cl DO men. nearly all of whom are skilled Ircrvieen will .ugreasp the wages pi its employes 10 per cent., beginning Au B1 n BjWfovemor uroonhaige has vetoed more Mill" thnn any other Masnaohusetta Oovornor a Hpfifrln the memory of man. 0 ) I / ^ i 3NDEAY0RERS MEET IN NATIONAL CONVENTION. iTfty Thousand From Every Corner of This Country Pour into Boston. By midnight Wednesday nearly 50,000 Inristian Endeavorers were in Boston, Mass. 0 attend the grand cpuvention. During the fternoon the business portion of the city ras crowded with bands of Endeavorers, l&rching with their grips to their headquar?rs and singing their hymns, or strolling nd examining the decorations. The grand convention opened at 7:30 tills vecing and at 9:15 simultaneous meetings 1 Boston, Cambridge and Somervlle churchs. Among the mos^ important, was the terkely Temple, at which Rev. Geo. E. Horr. r., D. D., of Boston, presided and welcomed tie delegates. Tho subject of the evening, The Religious Press," was discussed by Lev. Wni. Hayes Ward, D. D., of New York ity. Rev. A. E. Dunning, D. D., of Boston, illowod upon "The Relation of the Religious 'ress to Christian Endeavor." Jamaica 'lain extended its local greeting to the Eueavorers with a grnud union rally at the naaaica Plain Baptist Church. Rev. Palph I. Hunt, pastor, presided. The mass meetings of tho great Christian ludeavor convention began at 9:30 Thursay morning in Mechanics' Hall and tho outs, Endeavor and Willistou. I.ong before hat hour Mechanics' Hall was packed to the oors. and when Musical Director Percy 8. ostor. of Washington, rose to lead the opcnag praise service. hundreds of people hrouged the rest of the building and the venue unable to gaiu admission. President 'rancis E. Claik, D. D., occupied the chair, lev. Smith Buker, D. D., of Boston, conductd devotional exercises, and after singing a ymn of welcome, written for the occasion y Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D.. author of "Amer a." Rev. A. II. Plumb delivered the weloaic of the city. Hon. S. B. Capen then welcomed the delegates. Qovernor Greenhalge delivered the welome of the Commonwealth of Mnssachuett3. The response of the board of trustees oi he United Society of Christian Endeavor ind visiting Endeuvorers, was delivered by lev. E. R. Dille, D. D.. of San Francisco. The meeting closed with the reading of th? eport of General Secretary John W. Baker, if the United Society of Christian Endeavor. The report showed a total of 41,229 soioties, with an individual membership from ivory clime and every nation, with skins ol iirymgvuicr.oi wiu.-ii ms ?ru reu, zu.auu art fellow, 109,400 are black, aud 343,560 art vhite;lu all, a great inter-racial Lrotherhood if'2,473,740. Upon the missionary roll ol lonor are the names of over 5,000 socletiei rom 35 States, seven territories, seven provinces and four foreign lands. Each social tas given not less than ten dollars to its own lenominational home or foreign missionary toard for the cause of missions. The totaJ amount as reported on this roll of honor is 1149,719. In addition to this amount ol noney which has been given by these 5,51 societies enrolled upon the honor roll, 1190,884 has been givoii by these same soitles for "Christ and the Church" in othei rays, making a total of $340,603. In the las) ix years, 816,355 new members have added o the rolls. Three great meetings were held during th? lay in the three places prepared. In the afternoon the Christian Endeavorers' net in rallies according to their denominaions In the hal'.s, tents and city churches. BEV. DR. F. K. CLARK. ("Founder of the Y P 8. of C. E.) The first NatTonaTConvention of the Younij i People's Society of Christian Endeavor wai j leld in Portland, Me. (its birthplace), it ? .882. The membership then was 481, com- |! arising six societies. At the twelfth convon. < Ion held in Cleveland, Ohio, in .Tune, 1894 18,741 societies, with a membership of 1,724,i00, were repres-nted. ^ Rev\ Dr. Francis E. Clark, of the Wllllston f S.IK.VII, ..I 1 UI1IU1IU, an-., was tin- originaor of the sooiety. Boing desirous of Inter* j sting tho young people in ?>< r"h work ha * uviioti ihom to his house and talked to :c liem about it, nn<l their enthusiasm being 3 irousod, he asked them to sign this pledge: 1 "Trusting iu the I.ord Jesus Christ fot S trongth, I promise Him that I will strive to 1 lo whatever Ho would like to have me do; ' hat I will pray to Him and road the IMbla n vory day, and that, just so far as I know r low, throughout my whole life, I will ondea- 1 'or to load a Christian ltfo. As an active r (lumber I promise to bo true to nil my J iutlos, to bo present at and to take some ; urt aside from singing in every meeting, inless hindered by somo reason which I can 1 onscientiously give to my Lord and Master. ^ esus Christ. If obliged to be absent from ho monthly consecration meeting, I will, if ossible. send an excuse for my absonce to * ho society." Tho ilrst name sulacribe.1 to this pledget ras that of W. II. Ponnell, who has over1 inon been prominent In the society. It wasj' i <n junK uuiorc every cnnrcn in rortlnndj fl(l n similar society. A member of Willis- v m Church moved to Lincoln. Nob., nnd t nrrleil tho idon there. Another c lovod to South Ilitdley, Mass.. nnd started society there. And so it spread, not onlj ' iroughout this country,hut t > foreign coun t ies, until It has roncned every civilized '' suntry on tho globe, nnd <? zzr... uiwu uiu uoi civilized. t - . 'J s Nat cake made in India from rich, * utritious nuts is being extensively Did in Europe as far superior to oil ake or oil meal* * v THE BEST OF THE YEAR. -"Weekly Bulletin of tbe Condition < the Crops Quite Encouraging. The following weokly bulletin of tl condition of the weather and crops i South Carolina, which is more ei couraging than any. heretofore issue this season, was issued by State Weatl er Observer Bauor: The greater number of reports, an including nearly every county, are of favorable tone, and indicate that a crops have made satisfactory growtl are in excellent condition generall; and with a few exceptions are clea and well worked. There are reports from Picken Greenville, Laurens, Union, York an Chesterfield counties of serious injui to the cotton plant by lice. These ii sects have appeared in localities whei they were never before known. Who. fields are said to have been ruined i a short time, as the lice spread wit marvellous rapidity. Lice have abov disappeared from other portions of tb State. Worms are still injuring cor in the northern and western conntiei No destructive wind or hail storn were reported during the past week. There was scarcely an averag amount of sunshine, although includ ing the whole State, nearly so. Thei was least cloudiness iu the central an northeastern counties, and most in tb Georgia border and extremo wester counties, and in Berkeley where ther was but 25 per cent of the possibh while in Horry there was 90 per cen' There is but little chunge to note i the condition of crops, but win change there is, is towards bettermer generully, except over acomparativel small area where insects and want c timely rain caused positive injury o retarded growth. Of cotton, it is universally said tha it is very small but healthy, and whoi well fertilized looking promising. 1 is putting on squares freely, but i slow to bloom in the up-couutry; bloi soming is gctleral in the eastern poi tions of the State. The crop iH genqi ally well worked and free from gra? Aside from its being undersized, il condition is all that could be desiret Corn is doing well generally. Earl planting is being laid by in cxcellen condition. In a few localities it we too dry, but this is exceptional. Late corn looks fine. Some corn plante in stubble land just coming up an some still being planted. In th eastern counties the crop is almot made. Small grains nearly all harveste( and thrashed, with a yield below a average crop for wheat and oats, cor sidering the State as a whole. Watermelons are ripening and wi be ready to market, from the southeri portions of the State, this week. Th orop is not uniform, being large in lc anil nnlv fair in nUioro The indications are {that thei will be a large acreage devoted t peas this year, both as a forage cro and for fertilizing purposes. Suga* cane and sorghum as well 3 rice are growing well and look promji ing. The acreage devoted to rice i larger than last year. The tobacco crop is a fins one, an is being harvested and cured It will be a very remunerative croj whore properly handled since planting Some fields were partially ruined b injudicious cultivation. Exporienc and observation will indicate the pre per treatment for this crop. Fruit continues quite plentiful wit] the single exception of Horry county where it is scarce. Vegetables continue in abundar supply. Truck shipments to the nortl ern markets from the coast region have about ended for the season. In comparison with othtfV portion of the country, this State has been ex ceptionally favored by good growin weather, and immunity from destruc kiva agencies, whether wiuds, excessiv rains, floods, or insects, since the grow ng season began, and ub a result ther 8 possibly no State where the crop tre uniformally more promising ut tin iirne. $15,000,000 Offered. A dispatch the the Cincinnati Enquire rom Chicago says that $15,000,000 has bee ifToretl for a controlling interest In th to:;taS Tolegrapn Company, that the -.virr ?f the eompnnv may be a9ed to desfrov th Jell telephone monopoly. The Starnlar telephone Company, which is baekeu by th Itaclard. Oil and sugar tr.us,t interests, i legotiatlng for either the purchase oulrigli >f the Postal Telegraph Company's plnr.t .1 1 controlling interest is the stock of ?ha ontpany. It Is stated that an offer \vn nade of $15,000,000 for the plant of the Postr oh) pa ay, thai being the par value cf all it iapltr.1 stock. This offer was declined, an hen an offer was made for a controlling iu crest ia the compnuy. Negotiations ii urthernm-.e of this offer ar* said to bo nil FIN AL DAY OK I II K RACES, l iinlty Hall Crew Wins the Oram l'rize Cup. Thursday was the c'oslng day of tho Hec ey regatta. The Grand Challenge cup, fo vh'.ch the Cornells competed, was won l> he Trinity Hall crow over the New Colics if Oxford. The Leandors were the holder if the cup. Eton College won in final heal he Ladies plate. Iv-ating St. John's (Oxford nsily. The final heat of the RtewnrU'a ?i???i z:.n. .mas won t>v the London Itowini Jluh, over the Thames Rowing clubs, four riie Cornell men held a meeting and resolvei ubjoet to the approval of the University, t< end two crews to Henley in 1896. The nee ssary funds were arranged for. Many German newspapers severely crttfise the expenditure Incurred by the Kiel nativities THE LATEST NEWS. 10 GIjRANIXGS FltOM MANY POINTS, in a- * d Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. id a Newsy Southern Notes. H At Adalrsvllie, On., n little child, threes , miles in the country, swallowed carbolic acid a? | and will probably dlo. The mediclno had Jt ' been loft as a wash. in | P The Cherry Cotton Mills a! Florence, Ala., ! declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent. This mill makes a specialty of fine yarns,and "i is running twenty-four hours a day. Tho Stnte militia, who have been under. T arms at Charleston, W. Va., for a week or l- moro for the purpose of suppressing any* Q outbreak of the striking miners tn tho Elk 0 horn region, were dismissed to their homes. A son of Dr. Banks and a negro boy were " killed by lightuing near Dadeville, Ala. The n boys were at a grindstone in tho yard when it the bolt struck a tree and passed to where ia mn uuyo were scanning. M'Doy were Doth | killed instnntly. At Columbia. 8. C., on Wednesday, a State s> j conference of about 100 of the representative is negroes of the State met to discuss the outj look for the coining constitutional conven,e tion. The conference was held with closed > I doors. The negroes adopted a long address to "the people of tho United States," appenl e 1 ing for the negroes' right under the eonstij ! tution. The negroes will organize for the coming election. 10 -r -.? n The RxpoRition. e Advices frpm New Jersey Indicate that 5, that State will be represented at t he Cotton States and international Exposition. Gover" npr Werts has issued a proclamation urging " the people to take immediate action to this it | end. The newspapers have taken up tho it | matter in earnest and the exhibit is expected y [ to be attractive. >f ' Washington. r j Henry Clay England, a lawyer of Rock! vlUe, Md., and a well known citizen, was ,? ( g^uui uy tic electric oir un infl outskirts Ol >e I Washington and instantly killed. r. I Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, who has recently visited Washington says that the is administration will soon take aggressivo ac3. tlon in favor of Venezuela. ?. Secretary Herbert has determined to de' tach Constructor Fcrnand and Civil Engineer Aaserson from the New York navy yard, af' ter carefully considering their explanations ts of the serious frauds practiced in their de1 partment. 7 Labor. Wages in the woolen and worsted industry is all over the stato of Rhode Island will be in u creased during the present month from 7>? to 12 per cent. > I The rod mill of the Steel and Wire Coropany, at Braddock, Pa., resumed work on 0 ' Wedeaday and the other departments will be it started in a few days. About 800 hands are employed. 1 Foreign. n The QueeD has signed the proclamation k- dissolving Parliament and fixing August 12th as the date of assembling for "the new U Parliament. At Limerick, Ireland, a wholesale poisona Ing case has occurred among the Laurell Hill 6 nuns, four of whom partook of poisoned >. custard. Two have died, and others who ate of the poisoned dish are dangerously ill. _ A disastrous conflagration occurred at Broi-terode, n village at Hesse Nassau. Three ? hundred and fifty houses were destroyed and p ten of the villagers wero killed while seeking to rescue their valuables. Two thousand ^ persens are homeless. '* Cri;r?e. 8 Daniel Werling, who killed his wife, Barbara, at the Pittsburg Market House on A April 17, 1894, was hanged at that city oo , Thursday. Daniel Ackerman. a resident of Smith ' M.tlf-. N. J., on Friday stabbed his wife and J. hi'O.'-i'.f. Mrs. Ackermau is dead, and the y maa tidying. Thesupposed cause is jealousy, e James Pittman, a negro, lias been arrrested . at Pulatka, Fla., for robbing the postoffice of registered matter. Ho worked next to the postoffice and entered it at night by using ti falsa keys. , In the Nobles murder trial at Jefferson, ! Ga., Mrs. Nobles and Gns were convicted in . tbe first degree and sentenced to bang on August 16th. Mary Fambles was convicted 1" with a recommendation to life imprisonment, s Deb'oy Nobles was acquitted. s Miscellaneous. Firo has destroyed 230 houses in the town of Sam brow, governmeutof Lomsha, Poland, g Two thousand people are rendered bome!e.-?s by tbe conflagration, c A poll of the press of Iowa shows that every Democratic, paper In the State, with only two exceptions, is opposed to free sll0 ver coinage at lfi to 1. Five tlren.cn wore burned to death or 8 smothered in a burning livery stable at'leI troit, Mich., on Thursday, one fatally injurI od by jumping. The lire damage was $60,1 ni in r A' Now York. Recorder Go ft sentenced | Vin 'e'.j'.o Vino, wife murderer, to be electro- j cute' 1 some time during the weei? beginning w | August 12tli. at Sing Sing. '9 ! In a drowning accident just off Bluff Point, a | ou Lake Keuka, N. Y., live persons lost their d j lives. Terry Tufft, with his wife and three d | children, were in a sail boat when a strong s wind capsized the boat and the whole party lt were drowned. The bodies were recovered. * At Chicago, Judge Woods modified the sentence of Eugene V. Debs from one year in j jail to six months, and eight others, directors '' of the American Hallway Union, from six I months to three. The sentences art! now as : the court originally imposed 1bem. i \ The Supreme Conrt of Kansas has render- j U ed its decision in the case of Mrs. Mary ; Lease against the members of the Hoard of [ Charities, in favor of the defendant, George j C. Clark, who was appointed to succeed hoj ' osa member of the Board. This effectually j ! removes Mrs. Lease from office. Two little girls were ground to nieces unj der a motor in Cleveland, ()., Friday afternoon. They were Stella Schlaubecker, aged f ! 8 years, and her cousin, Eleanor Grop, aged y' 7. They were crossing the street and rtop,, : ped on the car track to piek up something 1 Oraut Kerns, tho moiorman, was arrested, 3 ^ charged with criminal carelessness ) j Corbett ami Fl???l",n,nr.". ri?iu. j I A special from Austin. Tex., says: Attor- ( ney General Crane, in an opinion, which will j be sent < > Comity Attorney Gillespie, at ( I: Dallas will Hold ihe Corbett Fit:tsimmons . 0 light illegal, and that the law must bo en,'oroed until declared void and inoporativo ! by the Supreme Court. I 1 Lack of raonoy is the ohief oap?o suicide in France. * DISASTER IN ATLANTIC CITY. Trnglc Closing of the Annual Reunion of the Elks. K frightful accident terminated the Elk festivities at the Inlet Casino, Atlantic City,' N. J., on Wednesday night, in which a large number of persons sustained injuries raort or less severe. It was at 9 art o'clock whea Grand Exalted Ruler of tho ItufTalo Bodj Meade D. Dotwiler. of Harrisburg, had (inJshed his address at tho opening social sear sion of the Elks and was about to introduct James J. Armstrong, of New York, when I cracking sound was heard. A moment later the floor, upon which wert almost a thousand people, slowly opened) and tho mass of humanity was precipitate to the first Hoor, a distance of twenty.flw feet Men, women and oblldren were pluncraj into the hole and upon one nnother. Th? cries shrieks and groans were deafening uqI the direst confusion reigned. An alarm wai immediately sent out. and all the physician* * in town responded. When the first" feeling of panic had subsided the surviving Ellu gallantly rushed to the rescue of their injur, ed brethren and friends, indifferent to the danger that confronted them, as they did not know what instant tho remainder of the pa. vilion might bury them beneath its ruins.; While the work of rescue was going on the i lights on the first floor became extinguished' and plunged the place into darkness. Men run to the ear barn of the trolly road near hv and obtained a number of headlights from the cars. These wero most useful ini assisting tho work of tho rescuers. Tho work of extricating the injured proceieded' j rapidly, and by 12 o'clock they had all been removed to the hospitals or their hotels. A visit to the scene of tho accident Thursj day morning showed that one of the big and | worn pillars holding the floor had given wa^ i and tlie weight on tue floor gradually pres. i sod the other pillar sufficiently to weaken it and the floor opened like a trap in the centre., j The floor, however, slipped down gradually) . nml the disaster was thus not so serious as it won 111 hfivM haftn Imil if . .. ?? W vmaunu lUlUUgU I suddenly. The injured are all the people. ! who were the llrst to reach the lower floor. Mayor Stoce condemned the building and , directed the building inspector to have it, I torn down and also to make an investlga-' ! tion of the unfortunate affair. At the Elks' Grand Lodge session Thurs-, day morning an air of gloom pervaded the( meetiug room. A committee was appointedi to look into the conditiouof the injured with! power to render whatever assistance theyj deemed necessary. Those seriously hurt are improving, excepting Frederick Klaprotb, the Camden musician, who was tearfully crushed between the beams. He Is still alive, but is in a critical condition. The only other porsou who was reported^ as being critically hurt, Mrs. Rockwell, of Philadelphia, was improved and will mT cover. It appears that many people who were reported as seriously injured were only slightly bruised. There are now In the' hospital. Besides Rlaproth, Leopold Fnrpi' of Philadelphia, had a leg broken; Dr.I Frick, of Roanoke, Ya., log fractured and internally injured;* Anton E. Dlmon, of Camden, musician, leg broken; Prescott Ericmau, of Mt. Holy, N. J._, leg fractured; Monroe Barry, of New Yprk, leg brokbpt Mrs. J. Melville Jansen, wife of a member of Carncross Minttrels.of Philadelphia, leg fractured. | At the Elks' headqupiters tfae clothing aujp jewerly recovered from the nanp or the agstl cident were gathered togethofTPid delivered] to the owners upon caoiittg and describilijl property. , _ THE MINISTERS ARE MAD. \ Their Union Repudiate the Confer-*' on re'a Action. I The following card to the Editor of tho Columbia "State," from tlie Colored Ministerial Union shows that th? negro politicians captured the StaY? conference of the negroes on Wedn?^-, day, got tho upper hand of t}ie ministers, issuing en address of which they Id id cot approve : j , "Yon wjll please nllow mo to s^, that the Ministerial Union of Soutn Cnrolina is not in accord with t^e totys and spirit of the address issued by the conference of the 10th inst. We assume none of the responsibility, and tafco this method of telling tho friends of our cause that the work of yesterday ra the selfish work of politicians ardsuch pliant tools as are void of common sense, and blinded to the negroes'best interest. The sensible ministers of this State can see clearly that tho condition of affairs in this State must be settled by the citizens of this Statu and not by tbe Northern people, nor the Federal government. "We are fuily aware that we must r. so i n proportion to the sentiment made in on/ ivor among the white peoplo of the State in which wo live. Wo stand to the priciplos promulgated by the Miuisteis' Union nod ask to b'q 5 netanred only by our intelligence and iroperty and to this extent wo ask for representation. "We reiterate that we are not wedded to nnv political party. Wo waqt peace, prosperity and good government. Let the parties and politicians go to fluders. "We are considering the advisability of calling the Union togethor that the voice of the the people might be heard and not the will of those who are bidding for the loaves nnd fishes of *96. "Win. L>. Uhappelle, "Chairman Ministers' Union. "H. W. Raiford, Sec." ANOTHER PROTEST. Secretary Raiford, of the Union, hands in the following additional card) "Many of the ministers of thought ind following were purposely denied Ihe floor. They were not allowed opinion or word in the meeting ; hence they feel and declare tliemselvo frpe from any part or responsibility in norm of the wild and extravagant demand! ind declarations of the convention ou .ho 10th insf. H. M. Raiford." A Horrible Death. George R. List, a carpenter, met a byrrl>le death at the Mt. Vernon shops of tlie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Baltimore,, Hd.. on Saturday. He was standing near a arge circular saw when a pile of lumber oppled over on him. throwing his t)e*<t igainst the swiftly revolving saw. In an lutanoo the blade had bisected hie brain.