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iPAIMETTO ' : PENCILLING!). (INTERESTING ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. /The South Carolina Exhibit at the Exposition. Commissioner Roche has scut out Ithc following circular letter to the commissioners of 'die various counties, and it indicates what arrangements Jiave been made with the railroads for the free transportation of articles for the exhibit: i "Dear Sir: I have established bendquar iters in Charleston and am now ready to rojcelve contributions to the State exhibit at the {Atlanta Exposition. Please advise me what [articles may be expected from your county [and the approximate quantities of euch that twill bo sent. ] am especially anxious to receive at an early date specimens of woods iUad minerals, as they will have to be prc[pared for exhibition. Specimens of building stones, especially granite, must he large enough to be dressed to cubes of eight inch;cs. I have arranged with the railroad companies to bring toJColuinbia free of charge all articles intended for the exhibit and addressed to tne as commissioner. Perishable articles, such ns fruit, should, however, be ;sent by express collect, i mail you a package of shipping tags to facilitate von in your work. Please see that the blanks arc properly filled out before shipping. "It is extremal} important that I should receive full and early information as to what your county will do towards making the State exhibit a success, and 1 will, therefore, be obliged to you if you will communicate with me at your earliest convenience. Yours very truly. "E. L. Koeho, Commissioner." Death of a Prominent Clergyman. I\ev. J. Howkins, D. P., editor of the Lutheran Visitor, author of Mowkins' Catechism, and one of the most eminent divines iu the Lutheran Church, died at his home in Newberry on Tuesday from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, received two weeks ago. Be had served churches iu Georgia, {South Carolina, Virginia and Mar\land. No Rapid Transit for Chariest oil. There can no longer be a doubt that, the negotiations for the sale of the two street railway companies of Charleston to Northerners who conte:.,plated converting them into a consolidated electrical system are positively and finally "off." The old. time horsrrcars will continue running in that city indefinitely. The election blanks are being sent out by Secretary Toinpkiu6. Efforts o :e being mude at Greenwood of u large and modern hotel for iumr.er and winter tourists. In view of other celebrations coining about the same time,Camp Sumter bus postponed its celebration until the fall, i The Columbia, Newberry and Laujcns Road ran its passenger engine into Columbia Thursday for the liret time. At Laurens, Samuel Duncan, Stato ^constable, was acquitted of the uinrder of Workman, E\-State constable, at Clinton in June. There have been good rains nil through Edgefield county. Corn is fine, cotton small but growing slowly owing to very little fertilizers used. I Orangeburg can boast of having one of the prettiest grocery stores in the Btate. Mr. S. G. Parlor has fitted up his grocery store with the latest ekvitrio fans, which makes one forget, for the time the hot rays outside. 1 William Sheppnrd, who was sent to the Penitentiary by Judge Townsend in the dispensary contempt proceedings has been put iu stripes and bad his bail clipped. Tho prison authorities say this had to be done according to the prison rules. Solicitor G. D. Bellinger's Artesian well at Barnwell has reached KiO feet in depth. It is being dug by a combination of the Artesian and driven well methods. It has already passed ^through a stratum of rock that wm perforated with a drill. The work is tieiug done by ordinary unskilled hands. v At Parlington, the first sale of the season's tobacco was made on Monday at Sydnor it Troadway's ware house. Jt was Darlington tobicco, sold at the home market, which again leads the record. C'. S. MeCullough claims precedence on the early tobacco record, lie having iu J890 cured a barn on June 10. Barnwell county farmers are meeting with hard luck. Owing to the Killing of oats through out the county they have not been able to feed their stock as they should, as a grrat many farmers place gient dependence on oats t<> supple nent their corn crop. The remit is that a considerable number of animals are dying. Severn! horses and mules have ilieil near l.idgewoy in Fairfield county recently from an unknown futal disease resembling (lisloinjier or glanders.The nuinuil is affected tirst by a thin mucus running fro n onr nostril, then on the Nocond ?" third day from both.and beromcB very offensive 'L'he animal refuses to eat, lingers two or three days and dies. Every piecuutiou is now being used to prevent contagion.There have been no new cases in oyer a week, therefore it is If. he hopod that it is not that fatal and incurable disease, glati, C "t r ?* ilera, ?' ' * * ** FLORENCE TOBACCO GROWERS. Meet and GIts Valuable Pointers to Those New In the Business. A special from Florence to the Co- j lumbia State cajs: If any one doubts the solidity of the tobacco industry in the Pee Dee section of Sonth Carolina his fears will soon subside if he will but attend one of the monthly meetings held by the Florence Tobacco Growers' Association. At the last regular monthly meeting of this association a free and open discussion of thoj j modes of handling tobacco, from the, [ practical nnd economical point of view was had. The first subject was "The Handling of Crop from Field to Barn and the Handling ol it After it is Cured." Mr. Smilie A. Gregg gave | his experience and described his methods of housing the crop. He said that in cropping the leaves from the stalk it was very important to mash and crumple them n6 little as possible. He does not use baskets at all. His men were instructed to run their hands under each pile of leaves, resting it ou their arms and fading it on the wagons. He thought his way not the most elaborate, but the cheapest. He tries to keep freshly-cut tobacco in the shade ! as much as possible. Tobacco com- j mences yellowing as soon as pulled off the str.lk, sc he would avoid tilling a barn partly one day nnd the balance the next day. Mr. B. C. Commander recommended the use of wooden frames, seven feet long, with cloth bottoms, as carriers. The leaves are piled up on them m the H .1 J it. r __ it i ? .? neiu. tue irnmes men put uirtciiy on | the wagons anil cartied without further handling to the 1 nrn . Mr. M. S. Haynesworth said he used baskets iu much the seme way. The tobacco war not take i out of the baskets when put thcie by the croppers until it if hung up in the bain. Two wagons can tii. :wo twenty-foot barns in a day. I\1 r. A. E. CurraD said he also used baskets, out ihat the most important, thing was to start at the tops of the plants wheu picking tlie leaves and to crop downward. The next topic was "Curing Tobacco." Mr. Cius McSween, who is Baid to be the beet curer of tobacco in this county, white stem?going fast at n higher temperature 5 degrees higher than the outside atmr-aybere. He first tries to make ?i.,e le^.i wilt at 100 degrees, then lets i yellow at i 05 degrees. That the a mount o; yellow i ng to be permitted if: a mattei of judgment. Wheu the tips of the leaf curls he raises the temperature by degrees per hour to 130 to kill the leaf, then to 133 for several hours to make certain of this; after that to 100 3 - 1 degrees per hour to kill the stem, i t b.Kes nearly a week to cure a barn. He emeu very slowly, bo as to make a white stem, going fast at a higher tenipeitdme than 1(50 degrees produce* a Iflack Biem. whichdoc6 not bring nearly so high a price. A beat of] 1;" degrees without any air being iutmiluced will make the yellow color ' set." If a man can get to 115 degrees successful iv Le will probably cure his bare ali right. He uses logbarns, weather-boarded inside and our., without order", rrenlnatoit in the roof. Sf.il eatin; "Oracling aj.d Prcpara tiou for Market." Ov this, point, Mr. Smilic A. Gregg ?*i i twelve-cent tobacco : out n;? ir.n i-jgainly package, wot le brmg ie.'.t than four-cent tobacco in m?: packages. The piles as laid on tm wuvehovib? floor Khould be uniform, the tying neatly done, stems together art"' tho radfi even. Ji in better to -ell wrappers If.te in the season, but cett^ri u.ul r.mokcrj at any time. Mr. fl E. C'r.rrse /aid he made aboiit eight grades of tobacco io Ibo barr.-. Thinks grade:net tobacco shouid tie f-vnilinr with the diP'erenf prices or tobacco and not simply too colors. M: S. C. DtiHCiibury, ot Williams burg woo is planting h:s first j this vent, was advised by tne evpori licit! growers jiresent no: to cure on tli?- stalk. He sail! that iie had heard , the president oi the association recom- i mend the use of "eonunon scum." in ) growing tobacco, ami that he thought he nnd a fair share <>f it. hut that somehow Le couldn't apply it to tobnceo. ? A few days later the. "State" teeen- j ed tiie following from J. E Iboehin- : ton of Kingstree, S ('. 'Kegardin/-; ' tin aceoMiit of the meeting of the Flor- i ' ence County Tobacco Growers Abbooi iiuiiii. u> |>uuiiniii'd :n your paper, ? i w sh in Miv ti>i the benefit, of *?Mio h j that the j>)uti '? curing as there told i>v M: McSvveeii as I lint which he found the beat, is tie- beat oinu i iia\o to c! 1 sii; c 1 begun eurinp tobacco tins k a son. ! followed it very closely <mi in.- two In:; us t!i?k week. 'I*ti tolmeeo : now en ' n mill taken o'.it ol the 1 ill. '. l* .is mghi and pretty as it I Cull i t'. There was n Virginian Liere this < veek and he said I Lave sixteen acres < of the lineat growing tobacco he has \ ever seen and when J took hjin into my pack house he was completely carried away with the tobacco an I said it is the 1 brightest he ever saw. "Another thing '.will mention which is quite important tp South Carolina as ( a tobacco growing Slate; showing the | | seasons to be rt.uch earlier than North j Caroliqat or Virginia and ihat Wd- , ham's burg county ts ahead <o Calling I ton yluivQQp conntiee the two ( bunubr tobacco cbtthtlce of South Oaio , lina. I broke ike record in curing this 1 season the earliest barn of tobacco ever | cared in tbe United States, having cured my first barn on June 17, and' the earliest over cared before was in 1 North Carolina in 1893, on the 25th of June." ? - ! 1 "Equal Division" Rescinded. The Reformers met in the county , court house at Walhalla on Monday i and remained in session three hours, j Senator S. Y. Stribling was eleoted ! chairman, and Representative J. R. Earle secretary. Seventeen clubs were | represented by about seventy-five dele- * gutes. The plan of the county Demo- ? cratic executivo committeo heretofore * adopted, looking to u division of the a delegates between Reformers and Con- | c servatives, was repudiated by u large * majority Tue following resolutions were adopted: I Whereas, the executive committee of * the Democratic party of Ocouce conn- * ty have met and promulgated certain * rules that this convention regard as c undemocratic and in conflict the con- T stitutiona) rights of the voters andean- ; didates. Resolved, therefore. That it is the ; ? st use of this convention of Reformers | that '.he county executive committee j * should at once be called together and * repeal and rescind such rules. Second, That the executive commit- * tee should at once provide for mass ' . meetings to be addressed by candidates for delegates to the Constitutional eon- * vention. R lie*1olotions were also passed author- i 6 izing u d uihet organization of the Re- i 6 fo:iue:s of the county. ?- | * IN ALL BVT ONE COUNTY. c The New Commissioners of Election as ^ Appointed By the Governor. XTnder the provisions of the Constitutionul Act Governor Evans has now c appointed the cominissionerB of election ' u in all the counties in the State, exeent one, Oconee. The following appoint- p meats wore made on Wednesday: s Horry?J. M. Stalvey, W. J. Hendrix, W. ?T. Lewis. I Newberry?J. B. Fellers,O. G. Snle6, C. W. Buford. f] Edgefield?J. B. Davie, Ed. Folk, B S. B. Mays. e Richland?J. S. Yerner.R. E. Blake- p ley, L. H. Seay. v Chesterfield?G. A. Malloy, D. H. v Laney, H. D. Tiller. t, Berkeley?R. H. Sweeney, A. II. Dennis, D. J. Wliilden. c Georgetown?F. M. Mcrrimau, J. \ W. Baxter, S. W. Eongime. ? Beaufort?Thomas F. Walsh,Charles \ L. Fuul, W. Barnes. j Union?Tlicrthas .T. Bedenbnugh, C. x A. Spencer, N. B. Lee. t Marion?H.I. Gasque.B. F. Elliott, J. E. Middleton. 0 Chester?J. C. McOfer.G. Williams, j P. L. Hardin. n Lancaster?T. Y. Williams, H E. r Coffee, U. M. Neal. ? Spartanbnrg?B B. Bishop, Will J. h Hill, E. L. Willis. Marlboro?Charles Crosland, A. C. c Pearson, E. W. Evans. I Orangeburg?J. H. ' Claffy, Henry j H. Branson, C. A. Stroman. ,, Abbeville?P. J. Ellis, J. E. Joues, p W. A. LuDier. < Fairfield?Hayne McMeekin, S. H. j Terrace, J. R. Delnney. ^ Greenville?R. F. G. Holtzclaw, ThomftB B. Goldsmith, Dr. T. E. Wood. n Williamsburg?W. W. Grayson, W. I M. Campbell, J. B. McCutchen. Colleton?II. W. Ackerman, 1). H. Behre, W. N. Campbell. ' Pickens?A. C. Shirley,G. W.Door, ^ J. N. Murphee. Clarendon?Louis Appelt, S. W. Mcintosh, J. M. Barwiek Sumter?E. J. Goodman. W. K. ^ Crosswell, L. D. Jannings. i r Kershaw?R. P> Williams, W. F. ? H Reed, H. T Johnson. Charleston ? F. A. Lord, W. M. ^ Powors. F. L. Meyer. I " Laurens?.) Andv Jones, J. A. I ^ Wood, W. II. He!lams. Anderson?J J. Gilmer, Joseph N. 11 Byuun>, R. E. Parker. Florence?N. Lafayette Jones, Thomas C. Crawford, Henry S. Rose. York ? J. E Lowrey, D. C. ('lark, W T. Beamgard. j, Hampton?A. A. Browning, Thomas ^ I. Riley, II J. Jenkins. ! ? Aiken ? G C. Mosely, D. II. Wise (] I>. I1'. flollev. 11 Lexington?A II Dreher, Samuel f, B Georcre. John II. Bailev. > Itiirnufll ? Edward Hazel, C. ('. |j IIiisIi, (iooige W. I'encock. v 1 >< ilington? E. E. Kirvfo, W. 1M. tl Hani", Hacklier Floyd. tl Till' : jr > 'iii ?*. ' ( ' > v mi 1 h iii tin jj, , !; " I it 1 lie up; <<i nl :ii? ( : till' H i' ' * t-IiiluiHsioilCi's <>i oh' *!' tli tlldri till' ['" ll.'f fltuUi'll C(tl:''l-ntioll !! t. < >. ?11 " ir.ty wiiw 1 in-1ti?iv ;?iio Having. lor I Ijis on:;n1 v t mo in]lowing v.- Muiutinorit * i Mi- made .1 H. Flovil. A. I'. II .lit i S ! '>. i. Wnikor. Executive Appointment's. (' flovertmr Evnns on Friday appoint- ' ^ <1 tlamos Dixon aiul Henry Eohl to bo '' mil tor ooininissiooors for Charleston '' inrbor. !l t appointed I'. I!. McCoy to '* ic chairman of the hoard of election ^ 'onuniKsioners for llichlaud county, i r ice John 8. Vomer, resigned' I ^ I I iYERY WHITE MAN MAY YOTE. UK RULE THAT CiOVF.RNS TIIF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES. t Was Passed Last May but has .lust Rfpn Officially Published For Distrlhutlou. "With tbe fast changing complicaions in the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention it will uot ?e amiss to republish the resolutions dopted at tbe meeting of the Demoratic executive committee held laRt day and which stands unchanged. The resolutions provide in tbo first lace, without quibble, that there shall e a division of the managers of eleciou, that, pledges must be tiled at least en days before tbe primary and that ivery white voter in the State cuu ote. The party resolutions will be all the aoro interesting at this juncture in iew of the general tendency of goiug nto the primary and settling matters here as near an possible. The resoluions, which have just been published y Secretary Tompkins for distribu ion, mul as lollows: "A primary election is hereby orlercd to he lielil in every county in bis State on the 80th ilayof July next, t which every white voter in this tale shall be entitled to vote, who hall make pledges to the managers ondiicting tnc diction that lie will upj ort tin- nominees of such election ir the day of the election to be held n the third Tuesday in August for lelegates to the State Constitutional Convention. "Each county executive committee hall npjioint three managers and one lerli to hold sueh election; two of the uunugers shall be Reformers and one aanager and the clerk shall be Couervatives, or vice versa. The polls hall be open from 8 a . m. to ! p. in. "Each candidate for the Coustituional Convention shall at least ten ays before the said primary election ile his pledge with the chairnmu or ecretary of the county Democratic xecntive committee that he will abide iv the result of the clectiou and Bupiort the nominees of the party, and no ote for any candidate who has failed o sign such pledge shall be counted. "To prevent the signal popping of andidntcs no Vote for delegates shall ie counted which does not. contain tbo 01 Mfirmurh ^uu uitw r>jj.;nr?i lie pledge of tno same number a* the eh gates to which snid county is entiled under the Avt calling ihuCouvenion. "The second primary shall l?c held n August 13. if necessary, according o the rules of the party, au.i the same aanngers shad serve. All existing ules of this comniitteo heretofore dopted are hereby renftlrmad, when lot inconsistent with the foregoing. "The State Democratic executive ommittee, recognizing the fact thut here are fnetionnl differences existing n the Democratic party, earnestly sug;ests to the Domocrats of the Stute o square such factional differences in he election of delegates to theOonstiutionol Convent ion, and Jet each cau lidnte staml on his merits. J. L. M. Iiu.Y. "Chairman State Democratic Execitive Commit tee. "D 11 Tompkins, Secremry." .KJHTMMCi STRIKES IN HAMPTON Tilir Negroes Killed by Two Bolts. Several Whites Shocked. A special from Hampton, says: On 'ridoy three negroes were killed ontight by lightning during a thunder torin that passsed over the town of rw.... 1!.. i . i i i i uiiKuir, imi mill's iii'linv liere, not her negro whs seriously wounded lit it jh thought th.it he will recover, he bolt Htruel; a large Hycinnoru in rout of the postolllee anil sev eral white leu who wr.-t neat by, recciveil severe hocliH. Doings Ahoitt DIMon. A special from l> 'Ion savs we have ?(1 an abundance of rain in the past oc li. hetor? this wc were beginning to eed it. on icru (Specially, eotton wni omg remnriablv we!' before,for wliilo .c plant was small was very heavily niteil. Corn now doing very we!!, tdced at. 1 w.tu the present in (lion oiis our j i < pie wjli be better ofl' this i ear thuti ever before, at least most of ie farmers wi'I have their own "hog ml hominy. S m< . however, Inm ecu so unfortunate as to .s. quite a I irg?- number of Lops trout cliolera. Tobneto. inelour cane, aud. in fact, , 1. crops arc doing .xeecdmgjy weli. Id ntriSK AT SEA. outh Carolina's Naval Reserve WW <?et a Trip. Secretary Herbert ha* noiiiicd C?ov- | Mii.i by wire 11ml the United | tat<?. monitor Ampbitntc lmd been orereil to ('hiiricKton and would "rr;*.o here ??? ' ;! , 2?ii?, wlien u would bo t the service of the Ktatt' nnvul reserve | :>r practice for three dAya. Governor , Svai h immediately ordered the i{jtvai eserve to report for duty at Charles>u July 27th. _ ^ TRYING HABEAS CORPUS. The State Makes a Move to Have Lafu and Other Constables, Jailed by g Judge Slmonton, Set Free. The State authorities have not been I remaining as inactive in regard to the: cases of the constables jailed by order 1 of Jiulge Simoutou for contempt of' court in seizing liquor in violation of 1 his order of injuuction,as bus been be-, lioved. When tho constables went to1 jail, the State's attorneys announced that they would have to serve their' sentences. Now, however, every possible effort is being made to have them released. tu n 1 T1 l . 1 uvutrnu utti uci \j U A IIUUV returned to Columbio and then it became kuowu that he had been to Sorreuto, Me., wkcro Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court,is spending the summer and that a few days ago he had presented to the . Chief Justice a petition for habeas corpus in the case of Lnfnr, the con- i stable who is confined in the Richland jail. Of course, the case of Lafar is taken up, because, the decision iu that will govern nil the other cases. Attorney General Barber stated that the petition he had presented to the Chief Justice was substantially the same as that presented to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Constable Reach, except that they are taking in the amendment made to the bill of complaint by Attorney Bryan. He stated further that he intended to go to the very last ditch iu nil these liquor cases. THX PETITION. The petition presented is very long, but the Following is tho way it concludes, giving in luief form nil of the grounds upon which the writ ie asked for: 1. That tho United States circuit judgo was without jurisdiction aud exceeded his authority in grnutiDg the order of injunction, in tho nbove enti-, / lied case, and the disobedience of a Void order, or so much of it as may be 1 void, cunuot bo punished as for a contempt. i 2. That the party filing the petition j in this proceeding of attachment for contempt, was not a party to the record, ami the petition is insufficient to authorize an attachment for contempt, Ho far as he is concerned and should be quashed. 3. That the injunction is in fact a final one, broader than the prayer iu Ihe bill for the temporary injunction, j and is void, insofar as it enjoins the Seizure of ales, wines aud liquors of I other jiersons thau the complainant, \ and a violation of so much of it as is void cauuot be punished in this pro- ^ ceeding. 4. That the order of injunction is indefinite, uncertain, aud ambiguous and difficult of construction and understanding, aud is not such an order as } will authorize punishment by way of contempt proceedings or its violation, especially when a copy of it was not J served upon two of respondents. fi Tlitit tliH rpHnnnilpnt. nim not. n f party to the original bill iu the cane, nor agent nor servant of, nor co-conHpirator with any of the defendants named therein, and cannot be punished for a violation of the injunction until nfter service of the writ upon him. 6. That the respondent, a State constable under the dispensary law of South Carolina, is required to enforce tho law, and in the discharge of his official duties has not wilfully and defiantly disobeyed the order of injunction, but has acted concientiously to tho best of his knowledge and ability, and, if there has been any techical violation of the order, it has been the result of honest mistakes on his part, arising from the uncertainty of the order, for which he should not be punished, especially when so difficult aud delicate a duty has been imposed upon him of determining when liquors are imported for personal use and consumption. 7. That the question of the authority jf the circuit court to grant the order of injunction has been submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in a habeas corpus proceeding, and that court has ordered tlie filing of the petition, which decision practically ren iters uneertion at least the validity of the injuiietiou, and respondent ought not to lie punished for contempt for its violation, before the final decision in the habeas corpus proceeding ; that action should at least be suspended until such decision, as irremediable injury might otherwise result M. That the circuit judge e xceeded his authority in adding imprisonment until the return ofthelitpior seized, as this is requiring an impossibility of petitioner, as the iiiptor is in the possession of the Stab . Wherefore you r pet it loner insists that he is held in custody against law and contrary to the Constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land. Wherefore, to be relieved of said uni.....r..i i -i liitviiM mi I' ill iuii f 11? 1 III | * I Irl IIIIIUIJ fc your petitioner |>ravs Unit a writ of habeas ( or|ui.s. to la- directed to the ? Hiii'l .loin) T Milliter, I'niteil Statcfi marshal aforesaid, may issue in this behalf, so that your ;>< itiwiurr inaj' lio forthwith brought In11'ore this court to do, submit to aiul receive \\liat the law may i equire. William A, Ihirbcr, i In the. Reason just ondec. Canada and tiro United States sent to Europe uoarfar 4.500*000 barrels of apples.