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EATJRENS.- g. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1891.
VOL. VII.
EATJRENS.- g. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1891.
NO. 18.
DK. 1'A IMAGE IN ATHENS.
WCMDr.P.S OF THE ACROPOLI8 AND
ITS SUGGESTIONS.
O, OCK1U
lo Aero*
Tli>' Ji.vhi Where tt>e Atlieninua Dally
Met to u< .r ur Teil Some New Thing?
si. l'oul on Muri nil?A City Wholly
Utven to Idolatry
BnooKLVN, Nov. 22.?The congrega
tion at tlio Tabernacle, led *?y cornet
an ' organ, i w this tnorniug with great
power tho hyuin ofIbano Watts^ begin
niog:
Odr God, our help lu ages past,
Our hope for yearn to couie.
The sermon, which was on tho xvusvm
pobs, Is tho sixth oltbo scrieB Dr. Tab/
m:r c is preaching on tho subjects BUg
gosiod by his tour in Hiblo lauds. His
tagt was taken from Acts xt?, 1?,
''While Paul waited for them at Athens
his spirit was stirred in him, when he
saw the city wholly given to idolatry."
(t seemed as it morning would never
come. Wo had arrived after dark in
Athens, Greece* and the night was sleop
less with oxpcotnltou, aid my watch
slowly announced to nio ouo and two
ami three and four o'clock; and at the]
first ray of dawu I called our party to
lookout 6f the window upon that city
to will?. '\ l'aal said ho was a debtor, nnd
to which dio whole earth is debtor lor
Greek architecture, Greek sculpture,
Greek poetry. Greek eloqueu:o, Greek
prowess and Greek history.
Tim', morning in Athens wo sauntered
for, u armed With' most generous and
lovely letters from tho president, ot thoj
TJmu d Stales and his bticrciary of state,
and during nil our slay in that city those
letters caused evory door and every gatoj
and overy t^otnple and ovory palace to
swing open ,before us. T!v uughtUstj
geographical uanio o>r'< ;>.<th todu} V
Amoricii.
But this morning wo p??"> i\?iwA\
whore stov-d the Atora, tho r/cicnt I
market plate, iho ' tyc?ditx wJwi pthttr--jJ
soi era used to m^v*'their disiiplo*,
walking whllo theitalked, auf1 where
Paul, tho Chnsllnr/oacian, flung numy
proud Sio enndi/ ! ihe laugh on many
an impertinent Jfujureap. The marl et
place- was the. A-uer of social aud politi
cal Ute, and It?i the p'aco whero peo
ple went J^1*affdViodr the news.
'i lie ma'tit place \?ay? a ?pu e three
hutidrc^-.nVd fitly varies ^ong and two
huitito* nnd fifty wltJrfi, nntl It Was given
fi>. {t^^V^faA merchandise, nnd
fg^ng an^^liesopliiztng. All this I
BfeffifeG know in order to understand 11
.the BlWo when it says Paul, "There
lOrc disputed he In the market daily with
(hem (hat met him." You see it was
?the. best place tw got an audience, and if
j a n an feel? himself called to preach ho
wants people t?> preach to. But before
we make our chief visits of today wo
must take a turn at tho Stadium. Jt is
a little way out-, but 20 wo must. The
Stadium wa? -tho place whoro the foot
race s occurred.
Paul bad been out there no doubt, lor
he frequently uses the -scenes of that I
place as figures when ho tells vis, "Let |
us 1 uu the race that is set before us, "
and again. "They do it to obtain a cor- ]
ruptiblo garland, bin we an im- ?rrupti
ble." Tt.e marble and tho gliding have
been removed but the high Jmouuds
against w 'ch tho se tts were pilod are
slid there. T'eu Suuilum is six hundred
auo eighty feet, long, one. hundred aud
thnty feet wide, aud heldf>rty thousand*1
spectators. There is today tho very
t" * 2l through w'.iich the defeated racer
departed fi om the Studium und from tho
hisses of tho people, mid there aro the
stairs up which tue victor wont- to the
top Ot tho hill to be crowned with the
lau cel.
In tin's place contests with wild beasts
sometimes too ; place,. acd while Had
rian, ' ie empf .or, sat oa yonder height
one. thousand beasts where slaiu in one
colebrat.joo,.M.H.^.itH^rtS'thiefly for foot
rfc^nFT atf).v?b*% pro posed to my' friend
time, day while wo were In the Stadium
thuiwe try which of us could run the
sooner froni end to end of this histotjcal
grcund. and so .it tho word given \<s the I
lookers on wo starten- <*Ide by side hut1
before I got tlirough I tbuud out what
Pu'u meant when he compares the
spiritual'race with tho race im this very
Stadium, as be says. W.ay a3ido every
weight." My heavy overcoat aud my
friend's freedom from such incumbrauco
showed tho advantage In any kind of a !
race ot "laying aside every weight."
Wo come now to tho Acropolis. It
is u rock about two miles in circuatfer-]
ghee at the base and a thousand 4cet In |
Circumference at tho top and three hun
dred feet hi :h. On It has been crowded
moro elaborate architecture and sculp
tuio than in any other placo under the
whole heavens. On?;.?ally a fortress,
afterward a congregation of temples and |
Btfliuesnnd pillars, their ruins an en
chantment from which no obtrorver eve.
brt akH away. No.wouder that Arislldes!
thought it the center of all things
Greece, the cooler of the world, Attica,
tho center of Greece; Athens, the center
oi Attica, ami ihe Acropolis, the couter
01 Athens. Earthquakes huve shuken
It, Vorres plundered It.
J.oi i Elgin, the English embnssndor
at Cbnstanlinople, yo\ pcrml&sion of the
su'.tan to remove lrom tho Acropolis lal
len piocca ot tho building, but he took
from the building to England tho llnesi
steiues, removing tin mat an expense ol
eig ht huiuh'ed thousand dollars. .A storm
overthrow nvoiy ol the statues of the
Acropolis. Moro8iui, the general, at
tempted to rernovo from a pediment the
sculptured car and horses of "Victory,
but tho clumsy machinery dropped it
and all was lost.
Hut tho overshadowing wonder of nil
divinuico; centners in battle; weaponry
from Marathon; chariot ol uigui; char'.ot
ol the morning; h ?hcs of tho sun, the |
fates, tho furies; etatuo of Jupiter holding I
in hie right hand tho thunderbolt; silver ,
footed chair in which Xerxes watched
tho battle of Salamis only a few miles
away.
Hero is tho colossal statue of Minerva
In fud armor, oysB^of gray colored stono,
figure of a Sphinx on hor head, gritTlns
by her sldo (whichare lions with eagle's'
beak), spear in one hand, staluoof liber
ty In tho other, a shield carved with bat
tle scenes, and even the slippers scul.>
turod and tied on with thongs oi gold.
Ear out at sea the sailors saw this statue
ol Minerva rising hi;h above alt tho tem
ples, gliltorlng in the sUu. Here are
Kl..iu sol equestrians, statue of a hon
ness, And there are the Graces, and yon
der a horse in brouzo.
There is a statue paid in the time of
Augustus to have of its own accord
turned mound from east to West and
jjpit blond; sL.tues made out of shields
c^^nicrt"! in battle; statue of Apollo,
<% o"ILt ol locusts; statue of Ann
trunk and singing; statue ot
1 . ? (irce-k ^venv-sbleXOT
Acropolis and yonder^ytHijieo a statue
of Hygeia, and the statute ^Theseus
fltfhtiugr the Minotaur and thb sta^o
of Hercules slaying serpents. Nd^Ta
der that Petronlus said It was easieito
find a god than a man iu Athens. Ob,
the Acropolis! The most of Its 101.? -
ples and statues made from the marble
quarries of Mount Pentellcum. a little
way from the city.
Hut we cannot atop Iouger here, for]
theTe is a hill t^ar by of more interest,!
though it has not one chip of marble
i<> suggest a statue or a temple. Wei
hasten down the Acropolis to- ascond
the Areopagus, or Mars HilV*fc ;*i 1*
called. It Cook only about three mlnu\
tes to walk the dtt-tano?, and the two
hilltops are so near that what I said in
religious dlscoui ?e on Mara Ulli was 1
heard diatinutly by some English geny
Omen on the Acropolis. This Majf
ejlill is a rough pile of rock Dft^R
fc-TV It was famous long bofoiMjew
\?*.umcnt times. ^
TtrR^PersIans easily and terribly*^.
saultedth^-Acropolls from thisIdjjR>p.
Here assembled "tiMl court totjfcri,,^.
nnls. It was held irHflP^dJpUiine, so
that the faces of the juufiVcould not
be seen, nor tho faces owho lawyers
who mude the plea, and wir stead of a
trial being one of smile i, It must
have been one of wvf justice. But
there was cue oonAion on this hill
memorable ahovo/tll others.
A little man/physically w*ak, and
his rhetoric d/scilbed by himself as
contemptible, /ad by his sermons rocked
Athens with,'commotion, and he was
Summoned ,?ther by writ of law or
hearty invJiatlon to come upon that
pulpit of rock and give a specimen of
his theology. All the wise-acres of
Athens tuined out and turned up to
hear him ./The more venerable of them
set In ao amphitheater, thft^granlte
other people swarmed on all sides of
the hill aud at the base of it to hear
i ins.man, whom some called a fanatic,
und others called a madcap, and others
a blasphemer, and others styled con
temptuously ''this fellow."
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or
invitation, aud confronted them and
ga ??thom the biggest dose that mor
tal's" eVev ?eok. j He was so built that,
nothing couldscare him, aud as for
Jupiter and. Atheala, the god and the
aroddess, whose images were In full
light on the adjoining hill, he had not
io much regard for them as h? had for
the ant that was crawling in the sand i
under his feet. In that audience were
the ilrst orators of the world, and they 1
had voices likellutes when they were I
passive, and like trumpets when they
were aroused, and I think they laughed
in the sleeves of their gowns as this in
dgnitlcant looking man rose to speak.
In that audience we. e .Scholiasts, who
inew everything, or thought they did,
md from ti e end of the longest hair on 1
ihe top of their craniums to the end of
tu?, nail on the longest toe, they were I
jtufJfed with bypercrlticism, and they
leaned back with a supercilious look to -
listen. As in 1889,1 stood on that rock I
ivhere Paul stood, and a slab of which i
[brought from Athens by consent of
the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis, tho i
prime minister, and had placed In yon- ]
ier Memorial Wall, I read the whole
itory, Bible in hand.
What I have so far said in this dia- :
mrse was necessary in order that you
may understand the boldness, the dell
nice, the holy recklessness, the mag
[licence of Paul's speech. The first
thunderbolt he launched at the opposite
tr'l?the Acropolis?that moment all
uz littei with idols and temp1 es. He
uries out, "God who made the world."
Why, they thought that Prometheus
made it, that Mercury made it, that
Apollo'm&de It, that Poseidon made it,
that Eros made it, that Pandrocus made
it, that Boreas made It, that it took all
the gods of the Parthenon, yea, all the
arods and goddesses of the Acropolis to
make it, and here stands a man with
out any ecclesiastical title, neither a D.
l?., nor even a reverend, declaring that
the world was made by the Lord ol
heaven and earth, r xd hencs the Infer
ence that all tho splendid co\ ering of
the Acropolis, so near that the people
standing on the steps of the Parthenon
could hear it, was a deceit, a falsehood,
a sham, a blasphemy. Look at the
fac?:s of his auditois; they are turning
pale, and then red, and then wrathful.
Them had been several earthquakes in
that region, but that was the severo3t
Bhocl- these men had e\ er felt.
Tire Persians had bombarded the
ACTOnolls .from the heights of Mars
IIill,*imt this i>auiiltr? bonib^meut
was greater and more tcrrllic. "What,"
said his hearers, "have we been hauling
with many yokes of oxen for centuries,
these blocks from the quarries of Mount
Pentellcum, and have we bad our arch
itects putting up t hose, structures of un
paralleled splendor, and have we'had
the greatest of all sculptors, Phidias,
with his mm chiseling away at those
wondrous pediments and cuttting away
at these f riey.es, and have we taxed the
nation's resources'to the Utmost, now
to be told (hat thoae statues see noth
ing, hear nothing, know nothing?"
Oh, Paul, slop for a moment andgiva
these startled and overwhelmed audi
tors time to catch their breathl Make
a rhetorical pause! Take a look around
you at the interesting landscape, and
give your heurers time to recover! N#,
he does not make even a period, or so
.much as a colon or ncmi< n, hut laun
ches the second thunderbolt right after
the first and in the same breath goes
dp to say. God"dwelleth not In temples
niade with hands." Oh', Paul! Is not
d^ity more in the Parthenon, or more
in the Erechthelim- v" more in the
tehaple of Zeus '* ? ..iplus than in the
open air, more than on tie- hilt where
wo are sitting, more tb/ / on Mount
Hjmettus out yonder,fjotu which the
bees get their honey? v^N? more!" re
spond-) Paul, "He dwelleth not In tem
ples made with hands."
But surely the preacher on the pol
fit of rock on Mars Hill will stop now.
Iis audience can endure no more. Two
thunderbolts are enough. No, iu the
same breath ho launches the third thun
derbolt, which to them . Is more fiery,
more terrible, more demolishing than
the others, as he cries out. "hath made
of one blood all nations. Oh, Paul!
you forget you are speaking to the
proudest and most exclusive audience
in the world. Do not say "ot one blood."
You cannot mean that. Had Socrates
and Plato and Demosthenes and Solon
and Lycurguaand Draco and Bophocles
and Euripides and ./Eschylus and Parl
ors and Phidias and Mlltlades blood
just like the Persians, like the Turks,
?like the Jf<fyptian8, like the common
herd of humanity? "Yes," says Paul,
"of one bipod all nations."
Hurely that must be the closing para
graph of the sermon. Ills auditors
must let up from the nervous strain.
Paul has smashed the Acropolis and
smashed tho naMonal pride of, the
Greeks, and what more can he?ay?
Those Grecian orators, standing on that
place, always closed their addresses
with something sublime and ollnoac
trie?a peroratioif-^and Paul is going
to give them a peroration which will
eclipse in power and magesty all that
ho his yet said. Heretofore ha has hurl
ed one thunderbolt at a time; now he
wilt close by hurltug twe at snce. The
little old man, under the power of his
speech, has straightened himself up,
and tne stoop has gone out of his shoul
1 dsrs. and he looks about three feet tall
Isrthnn when he bogan; anOhls eyes,
which wer? quiet, became two Humes
of Are; und his face, which was calm in
the introduction, new depicts a whirl
wind of emotion as he ties the two
thunderbelts together with a cord of in
consumable courage and hurls them at 1
the crowd now standing or Bitting
aghast?the two thunderbolts of Kesjur
jrectlon ?lud Last. Judgment. His clos
ing wo*4fw*rere, "Because he hath ap
pointed a>Juy in which he ?vlll judge
the world in righteousness by that man
whom he hath ordained, whereof he
hath given assunuice unto all men in
that ho hath rained him from the
dead.'.'
llemeiuber those thoughts were to
them r>. vel and provocative; that Christ,
the despised Nazarene, would come to
be their judge, aud they should have to
get up out of their ct tuetsries to Btand
before him and take their eternal doom.
Mightiest burnt of elocutionary power
ever heard The ancestors of some of
those (irecks had heard DomoBtheut-s
in his oration on the crown, had heard
iEsohlnes in his speeches against Tim
archus aud Ctesiphon, had heard Plato
In his great argument for immortalit y
of the soul, had heard Socrates on his
deathbed, suicidal cup of hemlock, in
hand, leave.his hearerd in emotion too
great to bear; had in the theater of
Dionysus at the foot of the Acropolis
(the ruius of its piled up amphitneater
and the marble floor of its orchestra
still there) seen enacted the tragedies
of ^Eschylus and Sophoch s, but neither
had the ancestors of these Grecians on
Mars Hill or themselves ever heard or
witnessed such tornadoes of moral
power as that with which Paul new
whelmed his hearers. At those, two
thoughts of resurrectiou and judgment
the audience sprang to their leal. Some
moved they adjourn to some other day
to hear more on the same theme, but
Qttr?^'l,iVihav?towi the sacred orator
t? pieces.
The record says: "Some mocked." 1
suppose it means that they mimicked
the solemnity of hjtj voice; that they
took off his Impassioned gesticulations,
and they cried out: "Jew! Jew! Where
did you study rhetoric? You ought to
hear our orators speak! You had bet
ter go back to your business of tent
making. Our Lycurgua knew more in
a minute than you will know In a month,
bay, where did you get that crooked
back, and those, weak eyes from ? Ha!
ha! You try to teach usGreciauB! What
nonsense you talk about when you
speak of resurrection and judgment.
Now, little old man,climb down the side
of Mars Hill and get out of sight as
soon as possible." "Some mocked."
But that scene adjourned to the day of
which the sacred orator had spoken?
the day of resurrection and judgment.
As in Athens, that evening in 1889,
we climbed down the pile of slippery
rocks, where all this had occurred, on
our way back to our hotel, I stood half
way between tho Acropolis and Mats
In the gathering shadow) of oveatide,
I seemed to hear those two hills in sub
lime and awful converse. "I am chief
ly of the past;" said the Acropolis. "I
am chiefly of tho *=t?tu?.-?,"- .-..m \Cd Mars
11111. The Acropolis said: "My orawm
are dead. My lawgivers are dead. My
poets are dead. My architects are dead.
My Bcuptora are dead. Iam a monu
ment of the dead past. I shall never,
never again bear a song suag. 1 will
never again see a column lifted. I
will never again behold a goddess
crowned."
Mars Hill responded: "I too, have a
history. I had on my htights warriors
who will never again unsheath the
sword, and judges who will never agaiu
utter a doom and orators who will
never again make a plea. But my in
fluence is to be more in the future thau
it ever was iu the past. The words that
mission;' y, Paul, uttered that oxciting
day in the hearing of tho wisest men
and the populace on my rocky shoul
ders have only begun their majtBtic
role; the brotherhood of man, and tho
Christ of God. and the peroration of
resurrection and last judgment with
which the Tarsian orator closed his ser
mon that day amid the mocking crowd
shall yet revolutionize the planet. Oh,
Acropolis! 1 have stood hero long
enough to witness that your gods are
no gods at all. Your Boreas could not
control the winds. Your Neptune could
not manage the sea. Your Apollo
never evoked a musical note. Your
goal Ceres never grew .* harvest. Yrour
goddess of wisdom, Minerva, never
knew the Greek alphabet. Your Jupl
lev coultl not handle the lightnings.
But the God whom 1 proclaimed on tue
day. when Paul preached before the
astounded assemblage on my rough
heightsls the Godot-mittiC; the God of
wisdom, the God of power, the God of
love, the God of storms, the God of flun
shine, the God of the land and the God
of the sea, tho God over all, blessed for*
ever."
Then the Acropolis spake and said,
as though in self doleuse, "My Plato
argued tor the immortality of tho soul,
and my Socrates praised virtue, and my
Mittiades at Marathon drove back the
Persian oppressors." "Yes," said Mars
Hill, "your Plato laboriously guessed at
the immortality of tho soul, but my
Pr. \, divinely inspired, declared it as a
faet straight from Clod. Your Socrates
praised virtue, but expired as a suicide.
Your Miltiades was bravo against
earthly tow, yet died from a wound
ignominionsly gotten in after defeat.
Uut my Paul challenged all earth ami
all hell with this battle shout. "We
wrestle not against llesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers
against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places, and then on the
29th of June, in the year 00, on the
road to Ostiu, after the sword of the
headsman had given one keen atmke,
took the crown of martyrocm."
I After a moment'a silence by both
hills the A crop Iis moaned out in the
darkness. "Alas! Alas!" and Mars Hili
responded, "Hosannah! Hosannah!"
Then the voices of both hills became
Indistinct, and as I passed on aud away
In tho twilight I seamed to hear only
two Bounds?a fragment of Penlelicon
marble from the architrave of the
Acropolis dropping down en the ruins
of a snattered l<\<\Vfald the other sound
seemed to cemo'i'tom the rock en Mars
Hill, from which we had just descend
ed. But we were by. this time so far
off that the fragments of sontences
were smaller when dropping from Mars
Hill than were the fragments '??> fallen
marble on the Acropolis, and ?<vudi
only hear parts of disconiiecte:-..)en
tences wafted on the night air?,r(\-l
who made the world"?"of ono blotty
all nations"?"appointed a day In which
he will judgo tho world"?"raised fror?
the dead."
As that night in Athens I put my
tired hyad on my pillow, and the ex
citing scenes of the day passed through
my mind, I thought on the samo^sub
ject on which, as a boy,1 I made my
commencement, speech in N!bio's thea
ter on graduation day from the New
York university, viz, "The moral effects
of -sculpture and architecture." but
r further than I cenld have thought In
boyhood, I thought in Athens that
night that the moral effects of architec
ture and sculpture depend on what you
do-in ,Treat boilings niter they are put
un-nnd upon the character ot the men
wflrvae forms you cut in tho marble.
Yea! I thought that night what
Struggles the martyrs went through in
order that In our time tha Gospel Might
(have fall swing; and I thought that
BHK^flH^HfbflHBfliSaffill
night wiirtt w-Mratny religion It must be
that could absorb a hero like him whom
we- have considered to-day, a man tho
superler of the whole human race, the
inildels but pigmies or homunoull com
pared with him: aud I thought what a
rapturous consideration it is that
through the same grace that saved
Paul, we shall confront this great
apostle, and shall have the opportunity,
amid tke familiarities of tho skies, of
asking him whut was the greatest oc-!
easion of all his life.
He may say, "The shipwreck of
Mellta." H? may say, "The riot at
Ephesus." He may say, "My last walk
out on the road to Ostia." But, 1 think
ho will say, "The day I stood on Mars |
Hill addressing tho Indignant Areo
pagites, and looking off upon the tower
ing form of the goddess Minerva, and
the majesty of the P trthenon and all
the brilliant divinities of the Acropolis.
That account in the Bible was true.
My spirit was stirred wlthiu me when
1 saw tho city wholly given up to idol
atry.'"
?OINQ TO THE THIRD PARTY.
Xlio Imlastrlal Orgaulcatloae to Hohl a
Convention,
Indianapolis, Nov. 19.?The com
mittee on confederation of the various
industriid organizations met this morn
ing at the Hotel Denison. This coin
mitteo was composed of five represen
tatives from each of the six organiza
tions and was chosen by the latter for
tho purpose of calling a congress of all
labor and industrial classes.
Tho dutv of tho present meeting of
the committee is to tlx the plaro. The
matter occasioned a lengthy discussion
and ended In referring the question to a
Bub-committee, consisting of Terrell,
Taubeneck and Baumgartin, with iu
sviif,.M?hP that neither Indianapolis,
Louisville, Cincinnati, OuicugVr -ol
: prlngOeldj Ills., bo chosen.
rids committee will look into the de
sirability cf theao places and the rates
of transportation that can b i obtained,
alter which it will report. It will make
a dectsiou within twenty days.
Tho political phase of the situation
cropped out in the meeting, consuming
much of the time of the session. The
question at issue was whether the call
for a confederate assembly ou February
22 should leave the way open for the
nomination of a national ticket at that
meeting or whether the scope of the
work to be done thero should be limit
ed so as to prevent political action.
The latte< course was dually decided
upon. When the assembly convenes it
will proceed to draw up a platform of
declarations and demands and the two
great political parties will be required
to give them consideration aud endorse
ment.
It Is not expected by any one that the
great parties will take ?ny notice of
these demands and the wny will remain
clear for the People's parly to call a con
vention after the other political conven
tions have been held and adopt, the plat
form of the confederate labor assembly.
"SWa is tho plan of action now determin
ed up?tl uj vj-- i ftople's party.
Tho confederate^.,..^ , J f lnd..?,.
trial unions as it is called1, W^VXa
minds of the committee, bo the ino.-ft
important organization of recent years.
It alms tor the consolidation of all la
boring classes and tho subsequent di
version of tho whole strength of gi
gantic combination into the ranks of
the third party. It will be composed of
twenty-llye delegates at large from each
confederate organization and one dele
gate for each leu thousand or fraction
thereof of members..
A committee consisting of C. W. Ma
cune, II. W. BaumgarteD, F. W. ?ilroth
and J. B. Stelle, was appointed to pre
pare an address to the laboring people
setting forth the objects and purposes
of the February meeting, which address
is to be published within twenty days.
THE PEOPLE'8 PARTY.
tiibv inHue a Proclamation Retting Forth
their Plans.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.?The |
executive committee of the People's
party today issued a proclamation,
signed by II. F. Taubeueck, chairman,
Robert Schilling, secretary, and M. C.
Hanking, treasurer. It starts out:
"The national co umtttee of tho Peo
ple's party of tho United States deem it
proper to lay before their constituents
at this tiino some statements of the re
ports of the conference held by them
with various representatives of organ
ized industry in this city during the
past few days. Those results have been
in every rcspecl most satisfactory.
There is no longer any doubt that can
didates for President and Vice Presl- [
dent will be in|tbe field before June let, I
1802, nominated by the People's party.
It seems to us very plain that the time
has come when no influence of the old
political organizations and no power of
aggregated capital can provent the hon
est and unanimous coming togetner
and co-operation of all tho labor organ
izations in the United State, whether
employed in the workshop, in the mine,
or on the farm. This is an Important
event in the history of tho natiou and
I of civilized man--thero has been no
precedent of It in any of the past ages."
It has this to say about the Kansas]
election: "As a striking illustration of
Colossal lies with which the people are
fed aad misled, we would poiut to the
vote of the Peoples' party this year in
the State of Kansas. Nine-tenths of
the population of this country, incon
sequence of the gross misrepresenta
tions ef tho press, bolieve that the Peo
ple's party vote of Kansas In 1801 fell
off very greatly from their vote In 1800;
while the official publication of tho vote
taken this year shews that although tho
total vot? of all parties in Kansas was
about 30,000 less Chan It was a year ago,
the People's party vote was actually in
creased about 1*4 per cent, over its
vote in lS'.K), or 47 per cent, of tho en
tire vote. The Republican majority In
South Dakota was reduced from 10.000
inlB?Oto 2,700 in 1801, while in Ne
braske tho People's party came within
8,000 votes of defeating the combined
power iof both the old parties, and
elected eleven district judges. It is true
that in seme judicial districts of Kansas
the People's party candidates were de
feated, but it was only by an unholy
union of the Demociatic and Republi
can parties against them."
They'll Uav* War.
Y Uio Janeiro, Nov. 18.?From dis
| patches received hero today it is learned
j that the insurgents aro fortifying the
city ol Rio Grande and aro making pre
parations lor repelling any advances
mado on tho placj by the forces of Presi
dent Fouscoa. They have sunk two
ships in tho mouth of the Rio Grande
river to obstruct navigation. The gov
ernment has order cd a force of troops to
the City ot Ucsberro, the capital of tho
province of San'a Catherine, 4G0 milos
southwest of'.do Juuoiro. It contains
tho pal*74rtf the president of the prov
ince and awtrsenat und is deiendedby
several forts.
W?iiTe? te H?<if to Manic.
Amr.knb, Texas, Nov. 20.?William
11. Flizzie was hanged here to-day for
the murder of his wife in Comnnohe
County la>t June. Two days ago he
req uested that the Abileno Cornet Baad
be permitted to play at the hanging.
?
THE STATE'S FINANCES.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ?T?TE
TREASURER.
Tbo Tronsury IUnerve Fand Practically a
Myth?H.r.uUInK the Coniola?A Brl?f
Statement of th? Stnta'a Financial Con
ditions
Columbia, 8. C, Nov. 20.?The fel
lowiug is the annual report of the State
Treasurer to the Legislature, which
will no doubt be read with interest:
From tht itatements or exhibits giv
en In this report, an idea can be formed
of the condition of the Unauoial affairs
of this State. No-one can say that they
are in an eminently satisfactory condi
tion. The fiscal year was begun with
cash liabilities amounting to $489,197.33,
and with cash assets only 977,943 93,
and with merely 03,943 to the credit of
the general fund, and available for the
current expenses of the government.
Notwithstanding the facts just stated
and the further circumstance that the
receipts from phosphate royalty fell off
862,030.60, a8 compared with the preced
ing year, and that some 015,000 of the
receipts of tho fiscal year just closed
were applied to payment of debts of
preceding year, fortunately we have
been able to meet every demand made
upon the Treasury. We have paid the
loan negotiated under Act of the Leg
islature by the last Administration
amounting with interestto850,500,and
also every claim against the State as it
was presented, without resorting to a
loan, except in one small instance.
A loan of 8800 was obtained from the
Central National Bank, with which to
purchase bluo four and a half por cent.
hoBds and certificates of stock needed
for purposes of exchange, and
purpose was technically lovured for
in the appropri?V*ou of 81.000 for the
fcSKSGJ! W completing the consolida
tion. It will be necessury for the Leg
islature to appropriate the uum of 8800
to pay this loan kindly made to the
State without iuterest. I beg leave to
call your attention and that of tho
Legislature, especially, to the fact that
tho State owes a large floating debt, es
timated at 8271.890.07 of past due inter
est alone, hesldeB unpaid Appropria
tions as set forth above, and to the fur
ther fact that the so-called "Treasury
Reserve Fund" is practlcaily a myth
representing for the most part debts,
and not credits of the State. The Sink
ing Fund portion of what constituted
the original "Treasury Reserve Fund,"
amounting to 840,047.18, when the Act
was passed in 1880, has since been ex
pended, as I understand, under laws
governing the Sinking Fund in pay
ment ot warrants drawn against it by
the Board of Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund. The direct Tax Fund
portion under Act of 1884, amounting
originally to 839,244.39, (tho amount re
ceived from Congress) has beon reduced
to 818,453.77, by payments upon the
warrants of the Governor to parties to
whom it belonged under the law.
The interest on the unfuuded bonds
has been reduced gradually as the fund
ing iu Brown Consols progressed, to
892,893.43, as estimated. Bin it shoiMd
bo borne in mind that these are in a |
c7;ffio debts the State owes, and do not
gerve in*?ft(HS.a Pructically held in re
Tho only avaBatfe^W
reserve fund Is to raise aol?u.cre,,<te a
by taxation or the sale of state TSVUIW
ties aud then hold it in reserve for the'
special purposes for which it was cre
ated. A reserve fund is really needed
to meet the large floating debt of the
State, composed principally of past duo
but uncalled for interest, and interest
on unfunded bonds, estimated to be
8271,890.07, besides unpaid appropria
tions. It would perhaps better satisfy
tho people of the State if the Legisla
ture would have this reserve fund in
vestigated by a competent committee.
It is surprising that tho consolidation
does not progress more rapidly mid that
tho past due interest has not been
called for. Some of it may never bo
called for. However, a demand is liablo
to be made upon the treasury at any
time for the mon*y, and yet it has been
the policy of the Legislature to ignore
tho danger and raise barely enough
; money to meet the current expenses of
the State, and depend upon borrowing
to meet any such emergency. 1 feel it I
my duty to respectfully suggest that
this is not the wisest policy, especially
at this time when so large a part of tho
State debt is nearlng maturity, and
when it is more than ever incumbent
upon the State to see that her treasury
is provided with ample funds to pay
promptly any just cIp'o) against her.
I complied with instructions given
mo in the Act, and had proper notices
inserted in newspapers. 1 also had cir
culars and copies of the Act printed,
nrd notice jjiven that they could be had
lpon application oy parties desiring in
formation, and have sent out a large
lumber of copies. Copies of tho circu
lars and notices are furnished with this
report. I also had prepared with much
care the necessary books In which to
record all transactions under the re
funding Act and duplicates of these
books for the offices of Governor and
Secretary of State. An agreement was
I entered into with tho American Bank
Note Company, to furnish the necessary
dates and to engrave the bonds and
stock certificates as needed. 1 have or
lered and paid for only three hundred
ono thousand dollar bonds, three hun
dred live hundred dollar bonds, and two
hundred and fifty stock certificates, re
serving orders f?r a further supply as
may be required from time to time, as
refunding progresses.
Until .luly, 1892. the office is restiict
I ed to the system of exchanging the new
four per cents for the Brown Consols.
Hut littlo progress has been made in
I exchanging. Only 829,390.70 of new
j four per cents, havo been exchanged for
an equal amount of Brown Consols.
Under tho rigid requirements of the
Act, 1 am afraid not many exchanges
will be effected. Propositions were
made, if authority had been given me
to accept, might havo resulted in my
exchanging one.Million of these bonds
by this tune.
1 am not seeking responsibility, but I
respectfully submit; that perhaps a
wider discretion should be given to the
Governor and Treasurer than is al
lowed in the Act as it stands. In the
feasible event of the holders of the
Irown Consols declining to make a
voluntary exchange for the new four
per cents., such provisions should be
made as will Insure the sale of the four
per cents. In order that proceeds thore
| of may be applied to the redemption of
the Ccnsols at maturity In July, 1893.
An appropriation of funds should
also bo made for the payment of the
[difference of two per ceut. In Interest
reo uired In the Act.
I The variety, character and condition of
the assets of the Clemson bequest give
1 the Treasurer and his assistants much
trouble and increases very greatly his
responsibility. The State Treasurer
has virtually been made an executor In
thU case and responsible for the man
agement of an estate, some of tho so
! curities of which are payable in anoth
er State, and soms are against parties
in different Counties in this State, se
cured by mortgages on properly, con
ing which I know nothing of my own
knowledge. See table No. 8 for dstalled
^statement.
I have given notice to all
against whom claims aro past due to
settle by November 7th, or the c^ims
will be placed In the hands of thtr^t
I torney General for collection, my InteVj
tlon being to invest ?11 the funds i\i
State securities. 'h
1 respoctfully ask that the I/egisla\
ture will autheri/.e the speedy conver
sion of all notes, etc., into cash?the In
vestment of this into a piece of scrip
such us the land scrip.
The requirements under Act or 1880,
No. 180, in regard to the Land Scrip
have not beeu carried nut, because the
Hoard of Trustees of the University of
South Carolina, to whom the Scrip was
issued, have not been able to produce it
for cancellation. Conseqently the State
Treasurer could not issue the now Scrip
in lieu thereof to the Trustees of the
University, and the Trustees of Clem
Bon College. This oflice holds the re
ceipt of W. D. Simpson, President of
the Trustees of the University of South
Carolina, for this missing Scrip.
If it is impossible to find tlds Scrip, as
seems to be the case, It might bo well for
the Legislature nevertheless to author
ize the issue of Scrip to t? o two Boards
of Trustees respectively, and at the
same time provit'e for converting tho
CIeui8on Bequest into sin iliar Scrip.
The collection of the privilege tax on
fertilizers was imposed upon this office
by Act of December, 1800. Table No. 0
exhltits the amount collected by this
oflice nnd from what companies, and
also tho amount col'ected by the De
partment of Agriculture. Collections
for this fiscal year exceeded those of
1880-00, by 814,240,25.
On January 10, 1801,1 received from
A. W. Jones, auditor Abbeville Count.-/,
and ex-olllno eRCheator, flJ9&,?jQr?s tho
sum of escheated esta-Veer T.Stacy Bur
ton. i>. "-./"lfm statement, on file in this
tnlioe. 1 took the liberty of placing tills
amount tu one of our best savings hank
at au interest while awaiting needed
Instructions from the Legislature as to
what disposition to make of It.
Alexander Downer, of Kdgefield
County, Borne time pritr to 1838, in his
will devised and bequeathed tho princi
pal part of his estate lor tho purpose of
establishing and maiutalng a school for
orphan children on his plantation. The
Legislature in 1838 ordered tho appraise
ment and sale of the plantation aud the
erection and maintenance of a school
lor orphan children at or near the plan
tation. In 1880 the Legislature ordered
the sale of the school building and
lands by a board of commissioners, and
the investment and reinvestment of
the funds and their presoYution.
In 1887 an Act was passed authoriz
ing tho State Treasurer to receive the
assets of this fund from E. S. Ham
mond, troasuror, and to safely keep the
same. Authority was given to invest
the assets in Seuth Carolina and Geor
gia Stato securities or in bonds of the
city of Augusta. As stated In this re
port, the fund now amounts to $8,274 38,
and it might be well to make some
practical use of tho sums not Inconsis
tent with the benevolent purposo of
Mr. Downer. _
Hot RcpabUcnim.
New YORK, Nov. 18.?The executive
committee of tho Republican county
committee held a breezy meeting here
today. Considerable dissatisfaction was
manifested with the administration at
Washington at not furnishing jobs for
the hard workers of tho party here. A
?Solution was passe.I. That the sccre
upo^S appointed a committee to wail
insist thWfiGKelary of tho Treasury and
meat employ bo t?flW!? in the govern
cans put In their places. -ytlRcpubli
qucsted t? make a complete list 01"*?
DomocratB in the government employ iu
tho city and to suggest the names of Re
publicans to fill their places. Just at
that moment one of the members shout
ed out, "How about your civil service?"
Instantly G. W. Wanaiuaker was on
his feet. llTo the d ? with your civil
services; what we want is all Republi
cans in this administration."
Tho chairman called him to order
sharply._
"VVholo Family AaPhVXlatcd.
AKDKRSON, Ind., Nov. Vi.?An entire
family was suffocated by gas at Lapello
last night. Mrs. Mary Huffman aud
her two sous, l'eter and Newton, both
grown, retired for the night and left
the gas burning at high pressure in a
stove. Somehow tho dritit was imper
fect, and tho blaze was extinguished
durintr the night. Gas poured into the
room and asphyxiated the whole fam
ily. Their condition wan not discov
ered until a lato hour in the morning.1
when a neighbor called and tried to gel
in. Tho doors were locked, but peering
through the windows the lifeless body
of Newton, the youngest, was seen lying
In bed. The doors were broken open
and Mrs. Huffman and the older son
taken out into the air and a physician
hastily summoned. Alter woiking
with them for an hour or two anima
tion returned, but they cannot livo.
The younger boy was dead when dis
covered. _
The Price of Cotton.
Atlanta, Nov. 18.?It seems that
there Is no end to tho fall in the price
of cotton. There was a drop of six
points more up to noon. Tho price at
noon of January cotton was 7.78 cents
per pound. Tho day before it was 7.81.
The closing price was 7.81. The decline
has been steady. There's no telling
how much lower it will go, as the re
coipts are steadily increasing,
To-day's estimated receipts are 82,000
bales. Tho receipts today a year ago
were 50,000 bales only, a difference of
20,000 bales. Tho difference In price is
2 cents less than to day one year ago.
I "I believe that it will prove a bless
ing in disguise to the farmers," Said a
prominent cotton buyer to a reporter.
"It will load them to plant more corn
and rye. They ought to bo planting
rye right now. It is the surest winter
crop, and brings good prices. \ There
are many interesting phases to tho sit
uation. The heavy receipts are ?n
doubtedly the cause of the rapid de
cline. It readied within two points of
this price lust year. With heavy crops
two years it is natural that the price
should drop a little. I don't believe it
will fall much lower, the bottom has
about been reached. I have known the
timo when I sold cotton for Uyo cents
a pound, and thought I was doing well,
but provisions were proportionately
cheap. The farmers will learn a lesson
and profit by this experience.
?.....?t Out for Thttin.
New Berne, N. C, Nov. 18.?Two
-epresentatives of a lloston bad debt
agency, who camo hero last week, left
tlds citv bright and early, leaving be
hind them a debt which some rival
agency would find it hard to collect.
The men, who gave their names as M.
L. Hubbard and V. M. Weaver, claimed
to be traveling represent?ti ves of a debt
agency with headquarters at lloston.
They engaged board with Mrs. J. M.
Hlnes, of New Berne, and, after run
ning up a bill of 816 for their board, left
for parts unknown, taking everything
they had with them except the bill,
which they kindly left with their land
lady. As no answerB can bo gotten to
letters written to the Boston firm whose
name they gave, it Is supposed here that
I the men are dead beats and are taking
lln the country as they go.
-
MURDERED HIS UNCLE.
HU Furpofte Wm to Obtain the Old Mitu'a
L.tfe iDRurauo*.
Faystteville, N. C, Nov. 18.?Tho
J]P( J). A. McDougald,charged with
kn'- ,ux his uncle, Simon Counolly, aa
old Han living in Uobeson county, be
gan her* to-day. MoDougald was a
lead'ng merchant ot Laurinburg, was
president of the 1. M. C. A. and prom
inent \n church and social circles. lie
is also of a most excellent family. It is
charged tbet ?>? left bis homo in Lau
rinburg on the afternoon ot tho 21st
day of April, 1891, and going to his
uncle's house, called him out to ask Hie
way to a neighbor's, and when a few
hundred yards from the house shot Ins
uncle down in cold blood, whore the
old man was found dead the next morn
lug. Three parties were lmmediatclv
arrested on suspicion, at the instance
of MoDougald. Alter several days' in
vestigation they weie discharged. Sim
pleton was directed against McDou
gald, and he lied tho State and was ru
cently arrest cd in Oregon by a l'lnker
t?n detective and brought bas ier
trial. There are 150 witnesses in the
cuse. The motive chamed for the
murder is that McDoug/ld wanted to
get the Insurance on K?s uncle's lite, in
which he was intervsted. All tho facts
are circumstantial, and It promises to
he the mdet remarkable trial In this
State sincfe'thc war.
WJuvisc'the case was called to-day both
?/noes announced their readiness and a
jury was soon selected, composel of
nine farmers and three clerks.
Dr. lt. H. Lewis, coroner of Hobeson
couuty, tho first witness, testified that
he saw the murdered man the morning
after murder; that two bullets passed
through his head and caused death.
Tho testimony of the next flrtOeSfl
tended to show that McDougald k ft
his home In Luurinburg on the morn
ing of April 21, went to Maxton ar t
from there to Shannon, a short dntanct
from the scene of the murder. C. A
Cottingham traveled on a train from
Laurinburg to Maxton with tho de
fendant, McDougald had a duster and
a black valise and got oil at Maxton.
E, McCormac saw McDougald at Max
ton on April 21st, and McDougald asked
him about trains to FayetteviUe, The
prisoner now wears a full beard. All
tho witnesses examined tc-day swore
that on April 2lst McDougald was
clean shaven, except a mustache. The
court took a recess until morning.
Some sensational testimony is looked
for involving others in a conspiracy
with the defendant to murder Counolly
to obtain $5,003 insurance on his life.
A great crowd of people from this sec
tion of the State are here. Sympathy
and opinion is about equally divided as
to the guilt or innocence of the pris
oner.
C*N THIS BE TRUE?
McAllUter Charge* SlcCuue with All Sort*
Ol KaHcallty.
Indianapolis, Ind , Nov. 21.?W. s
McAllister, of Mississippi, chairman <
tho executive committee of the Ar
Sub-Treasury Alliance, publishes
open- letter, making a herce altue*
Dr. C. W. Macune, eh'"
ecutivo committee of
it ho says:
"When the serpet.
sanctified Eden, Jea
upon its sinuous trai
cunning, calculating
with credulous Eve
Macune with the cor
veigTexas Alliancen,
dollars V?in to put i
The Texas Aiu linanci..
ished for a little o. lixci
failed hopelessly in theo*/*
Manager Macune's iirst ha'
shows its (inanoial condition
to have been as follows:
amouut of cash capital. 87
leash subscriptions, 817,500
tions in cattle. 811,000; cout
the city of Dallas, 805,000; ec
by the city of Helton, 812,000;
scriptions, 8183,500.
"After tho faiuro in tho
1889, the exchange propert y a.
was sold, to pay its debts, for
Thus the loss borne by subscribe
8148.5C0. What became of this 8.
between what was originally
scribed and paid in as capital stock
what the exchange property, Inolud
assets, etc., sold for after the collapse in
1880?
"The exchange pay roll contained the
names of nineteen ralhoad employees,
and cost tue fanners of Texas 81,891.50
every month In the y,:::r.- Later tho OX:
orbltant salaries were proven tr> be
frauds perpetrated by Macune up< n
the stockho'ders in his desperate effort
to account for the lunds that passed
into his hands. The actual salaries
paid were not as great by half as were
represented by Macune to the investb
gating committee, under oath.
"lie got thousands of farmers to club
together and give joint notes lor pro
visions to bo purchased In future. The
accounts of tho exchange show that
8120,901 95 worth of notes, secured by
mortgages, had been placed in Macune's
hands, and that 8348,035.84 worth of
them had been pledged as collaterals for
cash loans and as security for the pay
ment of amounts duo for cotton com
presses, cotton gins ami other property
purchased bv Macune for the exchange.
This left 872,869.11 werth of these
notes which Macune utterly failtd to
account for. Hut those who had signed
them have since had to pay them.
"Over 8300,000 of such collateral was
put out by Macune. Often the amount
loaned was ridiculously small, and iu
hundreds of cases those who made the
notes got only a very small part of their
face ?olne." _
Will Fight.
Charleston, s. c, Nov. 20.?The
solicitors of all tho banks here held a
meeting to-day which lasted several
hours, The proceedings were secret,
but it is said that steps will be taken to
laake a light on the line.of the New
berry Hank casts recently decided by
Judge Hudson. It Is also said that the
Comptroller (leneral has written a red
hot letter to the County Auditor, In
which attontlon is called to Sections
239 and 210 of tho Ueueral Statutes,
which provides imprisonment for per
sons refusing to make true returns or
for making lalse returns._
Patlllo Acquitted.
Avousta, Ga., Nov. IK.?The trial of
Louis (I. I'atillo for the killing of Char
les T. Hudson was ended tonight at 8:10
o'clock, when the jury, after bolng out
an hour and ten minutes, returnd a ver
dict of not guilty. The verdict was just
what Mr. Patllo expected, and what It
would have been in the opinion of tho
public. Mr. Fatillo thanked the jury
for acquitting and vindicating him,
and ho received the congratulations
from many friends._
Vaated Too I<onft, \
Nkw York. Nov. 19.?G. Henry str~*
ton, one of a dozen men who bor
fasting contest in the Fourteenthstreet
museum and who lasted lorur^r than all
the others, and who was tafton to Belle
vue Hospital on Tuesday? an exhaust
ed condition, died Mils morning. An
autopsy wilrbe li*ld to determine the
cause ot his death.
M JC
THE GIRW SCIIO?l
THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MAKES
ITSREPOIYf.
"UnllHof Kids uytlio fct>v^ral Ottlna?So
l?ot|ou of Site Left to Die \ru?t?j?-~Oo t
llnn of rinn H?d Scoit? of the Si-houi.
Columbia, 8. C, Nov. 21.?-The re
port of tho Legislative commission ap
pointed to investigate and report "pon
the requirements for an industrial
school for womon and the- probable cost
of its maintenance, wa'i ;;ivoc to the
State pnater la/, night: The report is
voluminous, exhaustive and carefully
prepared, and should give tho Legisla
tive Solons all the iuformation neces
sary for taking action ou the pres .!ox
question. The committee ' ..vux}^T~
the' ? work in u very thopwfgh aud saW
isf.u-lory hmnnor.. ^T-uoy have porsoflP
ally Una' :*rfd the h ading industrial
am.'.'-<auuul training institutions in the
'country aud have sent out circulars of
inquiry to institutions and educators
in this country and in other countries.
Most of the work of tho committee inn
been reported jnn i pasm in these col
umns and it would uu a work of supe
rerogation to publish therepoit In de
tail.
The object of the report i* stated to'
be "to pr. sent the outlines, the geuoral
features of a model Imlustrlal school
lor women, in addition to facts con
cerning location and cost."
The design of tho school should he to
prepare girls to earn their own liveli
hood; to exert a reiinlog influence on 3o
cioty and family by moans of ciltlvatod
intellects, and to be skillful in the do
mestic arts. .Such an institution would
pot be a mere'shop rchool, divorcing
Lnteiltfcvnce and manual labor and thus
bringing the latter into disrepute, but
would aim tit joining In the student a
?Vuitu'.ed mind'" with a "skillful hand."
Vor tho Indus! rial and domes) lo depart
ments the following inihV.I riej arc sug
geuo I:
Stawing,art-needlework,dressm .king,
mihtuery, cooking, house-kee'iolng,
dr,aw\ng [free hand and uieohanii i.
design,(technical aud decorative) tin 1
architectural,] clay modeling, woo
carving, eograving, stenography, ty
w rlting, telegraphy, ohol ?graphy, b'
keeping, tvpe-aettitig Hud printing
Tho complete course of study
extend over four sessions <
months each, and tii ? time, n'
equally divide I between t'
and Indu drial ; pi
of admission .
fifteen yea:, a ,
edge of the >
should be re
dents.
Thero s'
of study,
viously i
should 1
tlm
acres.
A udersoh,..
out of which desiiry
chased for 85 t DO t j
; 1.'MifS .<ie -^3'.,? i, >u t. til which clo
sirabidsite oan be purchased for 310.0QQ
t o #25,000.
All c2 t esc bills were found to ema
nate fron? properly constituted and re
presentative authority. "Wo refrain,"
say the committee, ?Tiom rocomih?nd
ing any one. of the communities a? the
place for the location oftho school be
cause wo are convinced that it Is I he in
terest of the proposed Institution to
leave the selection of locntion entirely
In the hands of tho board ot trustees to
be chosen \?y the General Assembly,
who will be able to make a dctlnate con
tract with a community and sec that
proper-guarantees are full) secured be
fore finally act ing, and we recommend
that tills board, when constituted, he
given the authority to tlnally nnddeih
nately determine this tnattor.
The committee recdmuiond that in
tho act creating theschool any commu
nity i.i which it is finally located be al
lowed to vo>e an appropriation for it in
I bonds or otnorwlse. The suggestion is
made that the board of trustees consist
ot tho Governor, the State Superinten
dent of Education. ex-ofUclo, and seven
others tobe elected by the Legislature
"Twentieth century people in full ac
cord with the broadest and best ideas
as to tho edituation<.of women, i mieof
whom ahou'd be woioen"?the regular
term of oflice to be t t yei'-a. A num
ber of scholarships of tree tuition, ap
portioned to the different counties ac
cording to the ni'mber ol white girls
15 to 25 years of ago.
Tho report oloso3 with an eloquent
and timely plea ror the proper provis
ion for the fair danghtt rs ot Carolina.
-State.
.Sf ii?Atlon tu iChnrli*si(Mi.
Cii.M:f.Ksi-o\, S. C. Nov. 20?There
was something of a soqaatlon in the
Sessions Court to-day. The grand urv
lnthelt presontmoul charged speclflcal'
ly that prisoners wore ::fi> In Jail with
out warrant of law. Solicitor Jervey
to day Hiked and got leave from .fudge
Witherspobn to put on record a slate
ment showing that thero was absolutely
no truth in the charges and claiming
that ho had proven to a corjjjrtftteo of
the grantl jury that tho statements of
tho prisoner* in qiiestVp were false
long before thoy handed In thai* pre
sentment.
W*?h'>TUfo:- >< <>?? I'liitrorin.
/u v ro.v, VVTAblngtofl, Nov. 20. Che
State FaVmers' Alliance last to I gl
elected n. Y. lUvens President. KeJ
lntions were adopted favoring the si
treasury scheree, tho third party mo-te
men^andiiu freo and uahmit^d:C0ln\
age of domestic Silver;,
revenue only. Sud the < lection of the
President arid J 'pl'.Ai/Si-ateS Sen
by dlroct vote oHnc < -mie.
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