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" Do thou Groat Liberty Inspire our Souls and make our lives in thy possession happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Defence."
YOI.. XII.
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NO.-8.
i?uCTvi?ira?uini?w I? ??!?
! , STATE NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF INTIDRRST PAR.
AGRA 1* II 10 AIJTJY PORTRAYED
In Conjunction With Political Notos
and Prosa Commont.
Capt. A. A. Pollock, of Ohoraw bas
gottou bia broom factory in running
ordor, nud ia turning out brooms for
tho trade. Ho has raisod his own
broom oom, and if business pnys woll
tho plant will bo onlargcd noxt year.
Tho township bond dooision of tho
state supremo oourt is revorsod by tho
supremo court of tho Unitod States.
Tho opinion of tho highor oourt, sum
marized olaowhoro, is swooping in its
terms and not only ostablishos tho val
idity of a largo indobtodnoss in this
stete, but givoR n broad hint to tho
constitutional convention.
Tho constitutional oonvoution is now
gettiug towards- tho ond of its work.
The ninth wook of tho workingsossion
hes boon concluded, leaving only eight
articles of tho constitution entiroly
completed along with two ordinnnoos,
but tho heaviest work is now out of
tho way, that is to say tho most im
portant matters not yot finally sottlod
havo been prnoticnlly disposed of.
Tho Port Royal and Westorn Caro
lina railway was sold at Groonwood a
few days ago. Mr. A. B. Hutchinson,
representing Samuel Thomas una
Thomas Byan, of Now York, deposited
tho cor ti tied chook nooossnry to bid,
and offerod ?2,650,000 for tho ontiro
property, and it was knocked down to
him. Messrs. Thomas and Byan aro
membora of tho Oontrnl reorganization
oom mitt co.
?
York county soil, somo of it at least,
is still valuable. Several days ago Mr.
John M. Hopo, of Yorkvillo, sold a
traot of about eighty-four norcs, about
ono and a quarto? milos from Yorkvillo,
for $3,000 in. cash, whioh is about 830
por aero. Mr. Elias Inman was tho
purchasor. Yorkvillo hus no ootton
lao tory or other manufacturing outor
priao that ia usually considered a town
b^oxm??V,;?mt*l?{V?? tho growth of tho
- town soenia to bo\f>t9?f?y* . -
Tho constitutional convention hav
ing by ordinr.nco provided for tho
postponement of tho session of tho leg
islature to tho second Tuesday in Jan
uary, there will bo no oh anco for any
legislative extension of tho timo for
tho payment of tuxes, and those who
hold back in thnt hopo will bo disap
pointed. It will bo well for all who
can possibly do so to maka tho puy
mont. at once, and avoid tho rush of
tho last few (lays and tho consequent ;
clangor of being erowdod out und con- ,
scquontly haying to pay Ibo penalty.
An cxehnngo rom arks: Tho Now 1
York World in itu rofcronco to lynch- 1
inga in South Carolina, bun evidently '
mistaken certain Tennessee and Texas ?
outrages of peculiar atrocity for South .
Carolina crimen. < Plain hangings and
shootings satisfy tho lynchers of this
?talo. Their tastes aro simple and do
not demand tho highly seaaoncd hor
rors which arc considered essential
chewhero. Tho South Carolina lynch
er endeavors to bo lawless in a purely 1
conventional way und to bo savage 1
without unnccoeHsary excess.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED 1
Postponing tho Session of tho Gonoral i
Assembly. i
Tho constitutional convention hav
ing ratified tho ordinanco authorizing
' tho governor to postpono tho regular
session of tho logislnturo from tho 4th '
Tuesday in November to tho 2d Tue?- ,
day in January. Govornor Evans lina '
nooordingly issued tho following proc
lamation, announoing tho postpon
ment : / j
Whoroas, tho pooplo of South Caro
linn, in constitutional convention na? (
somblod, havo by ordinanco postponed 1 \
tho next regular session of tho gonoral i
assembly until thc second Tuesday in J
January, A. D., 1890. ' j1
NoWjtnorofore, I, John GaryEvnnii, If
govornor of South Carolina, aa requir
ed by said ordinanco, do proclaim that
tho regular session of tho gonoral as
sembly of South Carolina is postponed iC
from tho fourth Tuesday in Novornbor, \ )
A. J)., 1895, and required to oonvono
in tho capitol in rogulnr session at '
noon on tho socond Tuesday in J^n- t
unry next, A. D., 1890. ,
JOHN GAKY EVAN?, Govornor. 1
A DKCRICASICD ATTKNDANOIS (
Of Publie School Pupila Shown In11
South Carolina, f
Tho roport of Suporintondontof Ed- I
.uoation Mayflold shows that tho total I
enrollment of pupils in tho puhlio I
schools of tho stato for tho year end- l
ing October 31et was 223,021. Of (
these, 103,729 woro white ohildron'and
119,292 woro oolorod oliildron. 'Thia I
shows a docroasod onrolbnent as com- ?1
pared with tho year prcoeding, whon U
tho total onrollmont was 220,700; i
? 100,170 hoing wbito, 2,417 grontor i
thiin this yonr, and 120,500 colored, or ?
1,298 grouter thou thia yonr; tho total
dcorcase.d nttondnnoo boing 3,745 pu
pils. Tho dooreosod attendauco ia at
tributed to tho bolter crop your, when
tho ohihlrou woro kept at homo to aid
in gathering tho orops.
Tho total cost of maintaining tho
public aohoola during tho year was
$573,748.00. Of thia $470,083.67 WOB
paid as teaohors' salarios.
Tho superintendent reooramonds an
annual lovy of three mills on all tho
toxnblo property in tho atato for com
mon sohool purposes nnd an ndditioual
mill to bo used os an equalization fund
with which to aid tho sohools in tho
poorer oohool districts, whore tho
sohool term does not exoood two
months in tho yoor.
During tho past your tho stnto levy
toroommon sohool purposes WOB two
mills, but in addition to this n largo
number of sohool districts impoeod
additional lovios varying from two to
fivo mills.
As provided in tho artiolo in tho now
constitution now hoing passed upon by
tho oonatitutioual oouvontion,tho stnto
leyy horoaftor is to bo throo milla.
This will produco obout $650,000, nud
to this will bo nddod tho profits from
tho dieponsary, whioh will probably bo
something moro than $300,000, so thal
next year's common sohool fuod will
probably roaoh $1,000,000.
JUDGE SIMONTON TURNED DOWN
Important AnBwors to Questions Ask
ed by tho Appolato Court.
A "Washington Bpooial Baye: A alight
diiferenoo of opinion botwoon tho su
premo court of tho United States and
Jndgo Simontou, of tho Unitod States
oirouit court, for South Carolina, was
uiado manifest wbon Justico Grey road
tho nuswor of tho formor body to cer
tain questions propounded by tho
oourt of apponla for tho Fourth oirouit
in tho coso of Qoorgo W. Folsom va.
TowiiBhip 96, county of Abbevillo,
South Carolina.
Folsom, a ro3idont of Tonuessoo,
sued in tho oirouit court of South
Carolina to recover dofnultod intoroat
upon bouda issued by tho township in
aid of tho construction of tho Grcon
villo and Port Royal railroad and for
ft writ of mandamus to compel tho
county commissioners to lovy and col
lect a tax for their payment* Dofonso
was sot up that tho oaoo won controlled
by tho decision of tho state supromo
court in tho onso of Floyd vs. Porrju.
and fhi.t tho plain tin" could not re
cover. This dofenso was hold to bo
good by Jndgo Simontou, and tho caso
went to tho oourt of appeals. That
court asked tho supremo court to an
swer these questions:
First-Was tho circuit court bound
to follow tho decision of tho stato su
promo court in the onso of Floyd vs. j
Ferr in?
Socond-Was plaintiff entitled to j
recover upon tho bonds and coupons, ?
Ibero having boen at tho tim? ho carno
into possession of thom no adverso de
cision by tho stato supremo court re
spected them ?
Third-Whether bonds issued under
trots of December 23, 1882, and Do
rcomber 24, 1885, constituted valid in
debtedness against tho township issu
ing thom?
Fourth-Whothor tho not of Decem
ber 10, 1887, validated these bonds nod \
medo thom binding upon township06?
Tho first question^ Justice Gray said,
tho supremo court answered in thc
negative; tho second and third in tho
afllrmative ; tho fourth was not an- ?
swerod. In his opinion, tho justice
said that tho legislature as a stato had
tho powor to vest in a township any
nnd nil powors appropriated to that
torritory to bo used for tho benefit of
lill people, and that tho power to insue
tho bonds in question cum o within that
scope.
TO COX KMC DIC RAT Ii VETERANS.
\n Important Circular lu Regard to a
Cou fedornto 11 (story.
Vo tho United Confederate Veterana
of South Carolina:
Fellow Comrados: Tho flattering
indorsement tho convention of United
Jonfederato Veterans in Columbia
javo the plans suggested and publish*
id in various papers, for collecting thu
acts and data pertaining to tho histo
.y of tho South Carolina troops during
ho war, prompts mo to explain my
.oason for not wishing to wait for (ho
egislaturo to make an appropriation
o carry on that work.
To nek tho slato to appropriate mon
ly to bo oxpondod in an onterpriso in
vhich, porhnps, many of its citizens
col no intorost, and IOFH pride, is otily
riving ground for obstructionists nnd
sroakern to opposo it and pour cold
voter upon it. I havo no doubt (and I
ihuddor at tho thought) that thoro aro
non In this stato today who might bo
)f somo sorvico in this work, who
vould rather soo tho record? that bravo
non and Womon havo modo for.them
lelves and their stato during that ovont
ul strugglo destroyod or hid forover
rom mortal sight, rather than to havo
hem prosorvod as history to bo rend
md rovored by loyal nnd patriotic gon
irations yot unborn.
Tho mon of our stnto who, in 1861
;o 1885, immortalized tho narnu of
[??oe, Jnckson, Boourognrd, Hill,Long?
itroot, Stuart, Hampton, Butlor, Ev
ins, Gary, Jonkins and inany others,
iro not "doadbonts" knocking at tho
door of tho stato treasury, oiuimitip?
something that io not duo thom. Tho
work boforo us is n labor of lovo. Let
tho survivors of tho difloront rogi
monts, bnttulions and batteries select
thoir nblost uni most ouorgotio com
rodo who will go to work nt onoo and
gather up ovory obtainable incidont
worthy of noto pertaining to bis oom
maud, or nny individual soldier (dond
or nlivo) connootod with it, lind lot it
bo written down for tho uso of tho
stnto historian; whoso duty it will bo
to put it in book form. If this work
is dono thoroughly and properly, tho
Btnto authorities will BOO at onoo n bo
nanza in procuring tho publiontion of
thoso rooordB, nod will willingly pay
thoBO who havo labored BO faithfully in
gotting thom np.
I vorily holicvo it will realizo a Buf
floionoy from tho Bolo of tho book (ni
tor paying all oxpousuB incurred io its
pUblioatioh) n uum suflloiont to bestow
n bounty upon ovory disabled confed
erate Bold i or in tho state without ono
cont of cxp'onso to tho tnpnyors.
Whon tho logisiaturo is asked to rniso
monoy to procuro tho publication of
i this history, somo peoplo will begin to
I ory out: "It's n mouoy machine, got
, ton up by tho old soldiers and their
nllioB to deplete tho stato troasury or
live nt tho cxpobso of tho tnx-payors."
Gentlomou, tho mou who saved tho
reputation of tho Btnto in ita darkest
dnys, aro not going to do any such
thing; neither do ?hoy intend that
thoir onomioa shall write thoir history
for thom-roark that.
Wo hnvo n right to meet in conven
tion, with open doors, ns wo hnvo
dono, and rooount tho deeds nnd
recall tho memories of tho past, with
out being guilty of any disloyalty to
tho g?n?ral government. Tho war is
ovor. Tho flag of tho nation is our
flag. Tho Boldiors ot both armies,
north and south, cnn now meot and
exchango courtesies, ami in tho most
pleasant and dispassionate manner,
rooount tho inoidcuts of tho past, tlu
nooda of tho present nnd tho hopes ol
tho future, without disoord or ombar
rnssmont whatever.
Lot ovory old moldier who frught 01
tho sido of tho south rom ember tba
his nnmo will soon bo forgotten am
his deeds perish with tho cause ho heh
so dour unless ho bestirs himself ti
tho duty boforo him.
If ho is an uneducated man who cnn'
write, let him o?ill to hin nssistnno
somo ono who will writo for bim. Ii
thin ho will lind somo mon willing an?
ready to givohim assistance-thou tb
noblo women of our Btnto. So there i
no reason why a single incident romera
bored by an old soldior should not b
incorporated in tho history if it i
worth preserving at all.
Thoro aro plenty of publishinj
houses in our state, and many moi
throughout pur country that would b
glad to got tho publication of th CS
records, and will pay a hn?dsoni? roy
ally for that privilege. Bo let us b
up and doing; thoro is not a ihbmoii
to lose. No loyal son of Month Caro
linnean distrust his mothor stato, am
ho may rest assn rod that if ho does hi
duty faithfully he will recompons
himself for it. A history gotten up t
maintain tho truth is of inonlonlnbl,
more valu? than ono made mainly fo
tho monoy, thu stato might agree t
pay for it. Lot ns work to tho heart
i of tho peoplo Hither than thoir pool?
its for ri Imo history. Moiling all pi
peru friendly to our courue, will cop
j this letter, I nm yours fraternally,
I JAMBS L, STUAIN,
Adi.Cami)Gilwi. U.?.V.. Union.S.C
TH 10 PKOKKSSO'It IJYN'CJIKI).
C'hnr?od with Having Assaulted On
o? Ills Pupils.
A special frnin Alloy. Cia., Fays:.Pt
? doy morning about 2 o'clock a ma
went to the house of tho sh or i fl' of th
ni mn ty, and calling him out, told hil
he had n man nt tho jail that ho wan
cd iin prison ed, and ho inducod til
f horiiV lo go with him lo tho jail. O
tho way there, a distance of about
half milo, three masked men sprat)
I from tho side of tho road and in a nu
mont tho sheriff was disarmed and d<
I prived bf tho jail keys.
j Taking tho sheriff along, and boin
joined by more masked mon, tho a
tacking party proceeded to tho jail an
opened it, Inking* T. W. I'orduc, wi:
was confined iii it under a wurrin
charging him with having ooinmitte
an assault upon Miss Wallie Grady,
daughter of .1. Ia. Grady, a promtnci
mill and turpentine man, and who wi
awaiting tho action of tho grand jur;
?Vorything was dono without alarm 1
tho sleepy town and at about 9 o'cloi
iho body of J?orduo waa found by tl
roadside about two miles from towi
dead, shot with many bullets and li
throat cut from enr to ear.
All tho parties aro whito, and Po
duo was an old man who has for yen
boon a teacher in sohooln in Georgi
M. AND N. O. 8ALTO.
Hld In by tho Heprosontnttvo of tl
Construction Creditors.
Tho Tonncssoo division of tho Stat
otta and North Giorgia railroad, M
miles, and including the bridgo aero
tho .Toiinossee rivor at Knoxville, wi
sold by Speoiol Master H. M. Tayh
Saturday afternoon to R, T. D. Lui
ronco, of Mnriotta, Ga., roprosontir
tho construction oroditors. Mr. La\
ronoo'H bid was $380,000, a sum largo
in oxcofis of tho upsot pr ico.
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSSIP OW WASHINGTON IN
j Ii RIK F PARAGRAPHS.
i Tho magnificent now battleship
Indiana linn booomo tho property of tho
United States government through
ricoeptnneo from tho contrnotore, tho
Orampo Shipbuilding company, of
Philndolphia.
I The annual mooting of tho National
Oivil Servieo Itoform Longuo will bo
liold in Washington Doocmbor 12 and
IB. Ex-Socrotory of tho Interior Carl
Schurz, tho presidout, will doliYor his
(iiunnal address on tho oponiug night,
ojud a roooption will bo givon tho next
oVoning. All municipal associations .
aird affiliated organizations hove boon
asked to send delegates.
. Hiram Hitohoock, presidout of tho
Maritime Canal Company of Nicara
gua, bas submitted bis annual report
to tho secretary of tho interior. Thoro
aro no now foaturoB contained in it ex
copt that tho Nicaragua Canal Con
struction Company has boon reorgan
ized and is now tho Nicaragua Compa
ny. When tho construction company '
j failed in 1893 all work was suapondod,
but now tho Nicaragua Company is
making activo proparationB for resum
ing tho work undor tho oontraot whioh
tho construction oompauy had with
tho maritime company.
Monroe. Doctrino Resolutions.
From hints thrown out by leadors
of both political parties at ibo capital,
Rtrong probabilities soom to exist that
two important joint resol uti omi will bo
offorod immediately after tho assem
bling of tho fifty-fourth congross. Tho
first will bo au affirmation of tho prin
ciples embodied in tho Monroo doo
trino, expressing in plain and vigor
ous Innguntfo tho sympathy of tho
Amorieau peoplo with the government
of Venezuela in ito boundary disputo
with Groat Britain. Tho second, a
joint resolution, whioh ia being pro
pnrod with mn oh care, provides for
tho annexation of thc Hawaiian islands
to tho United States uudor a torrito
, rial form of govornmont.
Tiwi Philadelphia Mint on Full Timo.
Tho troasury department was in
formed Thursday of tho withdrawal of
?5500,000 in gold at Now York for ex
port to Europe This ret?neos tho
treasury gold reserve to $80,304,557.
Ol tliis reserve about $32,000,000 is in
gold coin, against which no gold cer
tificates aro held. Tho gold coin hold
ings at Now York, becnuso of tho
recent hcnv3' exports of gold, hove
become less than it is customary to
hayo in tho subtronSnry and gold coin
has been ordered shipped from tho
Philadelphia mint to replenish Mm do
ubted stock of gold coin on hand at
Now York. Tho Philadelphia mint is
now nt work on full time and has been
for several weeks past in turning gold
bullion into coin. Tho" coinage thia
month ut the mint will bo unusually
heavy.
Tho annual report of tho commis
donor of i ti tori? al rovonuo just- made
public shows receipts during tho last
fiscal year as follows:
Prom spirits, $79,802,027 ; deorcaso,
$.,,300,021. Tobacco, $29,70 1,007; in
crease. $1,0.87,009. For m oh tod liquors,
$31,-110,017; increase, $'225,829. in
come tax, $77,139. Oleomargcrinc,
$1,109,211; decrease, $311,228. Mis
cellaneous, $551,583; increase, $898,*
554. The total receipts .from all
sources were $143,240,077, a deorcaso
of $3,922,371.
During tho year 8,309 violations of
tho internal revenue law were report
ed by rayonne agents; 1,727 stills
wore seized, 147 stills removed, 871
persons arrested, ono officer wns killed
and three others woro wounded.
Commissioner Miller estimates that
tho revenues for tho year will aggro
gat o $105,000,000.
Famous Guiaos Caso Roded.
T|io famous Myra Clark Gaines ease,
it is believed, was tinnily ended in tho
Bupromo oour'f of tho United States
Friday, when Chief Justice Fuller an
nounced that tho appeal of tho city of
Now Orleans from tho judgo of tho
circnit court of tho United Slatos .for
tho eastern district of Louisiana, in
favor of tho United States ex roi, W.
W. Whitney, had boon dismissed for
failure to print tho record. Myra Clark
Gaines, then Mrs. W. W. Whituoy (not
tho W. W. Whitney just named)
instituted tho first suit for tho
recovery of tho property bequeath
ed her by tho will of her father,
Daniel Clark, in tho oirouit court of
tho United States for tho distriot of
Louisiana in 1830, and Ovo yoars lalor
it had readied tho supremo court of
tho United States. From that dato
1841?-until now, in ono form or nn
othok tho oontrovorsy has had a plaoo
on t(io oahurdar of tho oourt. In 1850
tho plaintif.', wen a widow,having sur*
vive?jl both Mr, Whitnoy and General
E. Pi Gaines-, whom nbc subsequently
inarmed, ill od an original bill in tho
suprimi? oourt of tho Unitod
States ngainst tho oity of Now Or
leans' to recover property hold by it
Doings of tho Chiefs nn<l Hoads o? th o
i i
Various Dopartmonts.
Internal Rovonuo Receipts,
mu? a decision in hor favor was
rendered at tho Dcoombor terra, 1807.
Tho valno of tho proporty oloimcd waa
estimated in 1861 to ho $85,000,000.
Suits subBequontly prosooutod woro
filed for tho purpoao of getting posses
siou of tho i^roperty inoludod undor
tho supromo oourt judgment of 1867.
It was cstimatod that sho recovered
nix or sovon million dollars' worth iu
all, but oho dorivod littlo personal
benofit therefrom, OB it . was largely
eaten up by tho exponaos of maintain
ing thr. litigation. Sho died January
9. 1805._
?OY TRAIN WRECKERS CONFESS
Evpootod to Got Tliouaanda from
Injured Passengers.
At tho ooronor's inquest ovor tho
bodios of Euginoor Hager and Billy
Bonn, who wore killed in tho rooont
railroad wrook at Romo, N. Y., Miss
Oolia Forriu, a friond of Hildroth, tho
leader of tho gang of boy wrookors,
testified that Hildroth oamo to her
boneo Tuesday and told hor how tho
boys wfeokod tho train. He said to
her that thoy turned tho loosonod rails
so that tho train would run iuto the
ditoh.
The four boys oonoornod all con
fessed exoopt Bristoe, who is snid to
havo boon ono of the loadors. Tho
ovid?neo of tho othors.iurplioateB him,
All tho boyB had rovolvera, which they
throw away in tho woods after tho
wrook.
All tho youugators had boon reading
dinio novels. They wout to Utica a
fow weeks ago, and whilo thoro pur
chased an outfit of revolvers. Thoy
carno homo from thoro in a box oar and
on the way thoy planned tho wrock.
Thoy thought thoy would got several
thousand dollars from tho wounded
passougors and corpsos. Thoy weak
ened aftortho rails,had boon loosenod.
Whon tho crash carno and tho hoyt
heard tho Ories of tho people thoy ran
away through tho woode, throwing
thoir rovolvora away as thoy ran. Ono
of thom lost his hat, but did not stop
to got it. Tho finding of tho hat onus
ed suspioiou to rest on tho boys . and
they woro arrested.
John W. Hildroth, Thoodore Hib
bard and Fred Bristoe, throe of tho
young wreckorB.wero nrroignod boforo
tho recorder for murder in tho first
degree. All of thom pleaded not guilty
and a hearing was sot for Decomber
3d. Tho inquest was continued ' to
November 26th. None of those wound
ed in tho wreck aro likely to dio.
BIO CHICAGO BLAZE.
Sixteen Firms Burned Out-A Panic
Narrowly Averted.
A Uro which caused a proporty loss
of 8500,000 and imperilod tho livoB of
half a thousand persons, moally young
womon, originated at 3 o'clock Thurs
day nftorhpoh on tho third floor of
Charlea Emerton & Co., feather and
down goods factory, 175 and 181
Hoot h Canal strcot, Chicago. Tho
conflagration waa attondbd by scones
of intonso excitement and a
KO^re ot' firemen narrowly eaenped
being killed by lire and falling walls,
When tho flames were raging most
furiously, in i.pito of tho best efforts
of twenty-five engines and a amull
army bf fir? mon, Aro brands woro car
ried by tho wind to adjoining marni
factoring buildings and it looked as if
many moro would havo to go.
The feven-slory br i ok building ex
tending from 175 Canal stroet south to
tho corner ol Jackson street, the
nine-story brick building adjoining on
tho north and tho greater part of tho
four-ntory brick building in tho aamo
direction woro entirely destroyed.
Tluso buildings occupied nonrly
tho whole of tho block on tho west
Sido of Canal street botwocn Adama
and Jackson streets. Tho seven and
ni no-story buildings woro owned by
Warroo (Springer, and thc owner of
tho four-slory building, whioh is one
third saved, io William J. Wilson,
Tho buildings woro amply insured.
Ih all sixteen firms woro burned out,
und tho losses riro estimated at $8,50,
000. Tho building IOSB is plnood at
3150,000._
SOUTH CAROLINA HOMICSTEADS.
Tho Exemption la $1,000 In Land
and ijloOO In Personal Property.
Tho South Carolina constitutional
convention at Thursday's Bennion dis
posed of tho homcstoad exomption
matter, which had been left over for
about a month. Tho exomption is
$1,000 in land and ?500 in personal
property, and after it is set off it can
not bo mortgaged. Throo hundred
dollars'worth of personal proporty and
wearing nppnrol is exemptod to un
married persons also.
Tho soction on miscegenation which
was also loft ovor, was brought up.
Tho convention had practically ngrood
on prohibiting marriages whoro thoro
is moro than ono-oighth negro blood,
but another fight was made to prohibit
thom whon any blocd whatever exist
ed, but no voto was arrived at.
Three Children Boasted.
Whilo sconroly look od in a cabin on
tho plantation of Mr. W. A. Ansley,
nenr For fay th, On., threo negro ohild
ron woro roasted oliyo. Tho mother of
tho childron, Goorgia Ann Head, loft
thom usloop whilo sho wont to tho lot
to milk tho cows, looking tho door bo?
hind hor.
WOMEN AND B ABES
BUTCHERED WITHOUT MERCY
KY SPANISH SOLDIERS.
A Probability That tho Murderers
Will Do Sontcncod to Doath.
Colonel Fornando Foguorodo, tho
Cuban loader, of Tampa, Fin., iain ro-?
ooipt of a lotter from Havana, giving
details of atrocities which woro com
mitted by Spaniards in Matanzas pro
vince.
Colonel Molino, who oommands a
Spanish regiment, rooontly encounter
ed tho advance guard of Gomez's army
in Matanzas, and was dofeated. Whilo
soldiers under Molino woio in rotront,
they mot a group of women and ohild
ron near a little town called Oayopiuo.
As tho soldiers passed, ono of tho wo
mon mado a sneering remark about
tho Spaniards. Tho remark was over
heard by the soldiers and so enraged
them that they butohored overyono of
tho women and bhildrou. There wero
ten women and about a dozon children
in tho group.
Tho lotter says that tho Spaniards
after shooting down thoir victime,
stabbed thom with bayonets, inflicting
tho most horriblo wounds. Ono baby
wnB killed at its mother's bronst, and
tho bullet that passed through tho in
fant, also passed through tho mothor.
Colonel Meliuo mado no report of tho
butchery, but it happened that two of
tho women murdered were wives of the
Spaniards engnged in tho sawmill bus
iness at Matanzas.
"When they learned how thoir Joved
onoB had been slaughtered they sent
Do Campos information of tho horriblo
affair and domandod that Colonel Mo
lino bo punished. It is stated that Do
Campos has ordorod that Molino bo
courtmnrtinled, and it is thought tho
butchers will bo seotonood to death, as
tho mnBsaoro is condemned ne bitterly
by Spaniards ns by Cubans.
AT DELMONICO'S.
Tho Now York Chamber of Commorco
Banquets-Carlisle Spooks.
! The Now York Chamber of Com
morco held its 127th onnual banquet
Tuoodoy night nt Dolmonioo's. Tho
bauquet hall was decorated with tho
fltars and stripes and tho greatest en
thusiasm prevailed. Alcqau?or E. Orr,
president of tho Chamber of Com
rnoroo, presplod, and around him wero
soatod, besides tho speakers of tho eve
ning, Hon. Carl Scurz, Hoar Admiral
Erbon, Mayor Strong, Hon. Hilary A.
Horbert, Hon. Judson Harmon, Gon
oral Thomas H. Rugor, Commander
i Montgomery Sioard, J. N. Constable,
i W. H. Webb, Calvin S. Brice, Genend
I Horaoe Porter, J. Edward Simmons,
j John Jacob Astor and Jnmos G. Can
non. Tho mooting was ooilod to order
. by Presidont Orr, who introduced tho
j Hon. Joh)? G. Onrlislo, secretary jf
j tho treasury, who spoke on "Our Our
? roney Question."
I Tho other lonsts responded to wero:
I "Our Domestic Commerce, by Hon.
i Julius 0. Burrows; "Nntional Dovel
j opinent and Oopportunity," by Hon,
Charles Emory Smith; "Tho City of
New York," by Mayor Strong, and
"Ethics in Politics," by Rev. Dr. M.
, W. Strykor.
Mr. Clovrlnnd Ponds l?egrots.
Among tho lottors of rogrot road
was tho following :
"ExncuTivH MANSION, Washington,
3>. C., November li-My Dear Mr.
Orr : I nm sorry that I feel obliged to
write it, but you must lot mo off'from
tho Chamber of Commorco dinner thia
yenr. There novor was a time wbon
my admiration for this important bus
iness organization was so great, and I
am suro that tho recent efforts of its
mombers to snvo tho country from tho
havoo of financial madness ought tobo
approoiatod by ovory patriotio citizon.
"I would enjoy exceedingly a re
I nowal of my association with my
frionds in tho chambor at thoir ban
quet board, but tho troublo is, I oau
not attend this year and do tho things
required of mo hore in tho way of offi
cial duty. Very truly yours,
"GKOVRII OiiKVBXiANi>.M
A lotter of regret was nlso read from
Governor Levi P. Morton, who statod
that official engagements provoutod
him from hoing presidont.
TRUNK LINKS AGREE.
Articles of Organization Approved
and Talco Effect January 1.
Tho following statemont has boet
given out nt tho offico of tho Trunk
Lines Association at Now York:
"Tho nrtiolos of organization of tba
joint trafilo OB?ooiation havo boon
unanimously approvod by ovory party
to it, and it was agrood to mnko thom
effeotivo January 1, 1890.
"Tho presidonts oro uow in oxecu
tivo Bossion in regard to tho appoint
mont of arbitrators.
"Tho board of managers will doubt
less bo announced in a vory fow days.
Thooommittoo on rovision has boon
continued with power to arrango all
details, proouro signatures to tho err
groBsod agrooment, dooido on tho do
livory of oopio8 of tho ?propor publio
authorities, tho press, bto."
