THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
SUGGESTIONS OF WORK IH TIIK
. FUTURE.
liOcal < )!???.;i ni/ni ions Are Recom
mended?AdvertIsing tho Resources
rf** tho South-Urging Co-Operattort
Win. the Rai roads. ^
At the SoUthorn Immigration Con
gross held lost week in Augusta, Ga.,
the follow in;: resolutions wore reported
by tho com ni iti it on pi to is aud resolu
tions submitted for consideration :
1. That whorovor county und State
organizations have not ulroudy boon
formed, thoy bo ut onoo perfected, und
that tho officers of uuoh county organi
zations ooustituto a Statu board of im
migration.
2. That tho olllcors duly authorized
by eaoh State convention shall report
results of tholr olTorts at least twioo
each year to the secretary of tho South
ern Immigration Congress.
3. That tho Southern Immigration
Congross urgo tho co-operation of all
rail linos, St tto und county olllcors and
the citizens at largo In tho furtherance
of p an proposed.
4. That this Southern Immigration
Congress earnestly recommend to tho
Congress of the United States tho es
tablishment of a permanent exposition
at tho National Capitol in which the
products and resources of tho several
States of tho Union muy bo fitly und
properly displayed, und wo urgo upon
tho Legislatures oi tho various Status
an appropriation of money necessary to
ostnhlr.h and maintain this most prac
tical inothod of bringing to public at
tlon the resources of tho ouo common
country.
5. That tho Congross of tho United
Statos is earnestly urged to make such
appropriations as may bo nuodod to
curry into oiToot tho recommendations
of this congress.
<j. That ttiis congress appoint a oom
mittoo of live of Its members, to devise
some practical plan to lay *boforo tho
bettor class of emigrants from Europe,
tho manifold advantugos of tho South,
and to induce and encourage emigra
tion to tho Southern States, which
committee shall report to the next
mooting of this congress.
Whereas, it is the souso of this con
gross that tho exhibition of tho pro
dUOte of the'farms, mines and forests
of tho Southern States In tho Northern,
Now England und Northwestern States
and foreign countries Is uu excellent
mode of u Ivertlslng, Therefore bo it,
Resolved, That we endorse tho work
of the executive committee of this as
sociation and their efforts to make ex
hibitions in the Northern, Now Eng
land and Northwestern Slates, and in
tho Dominion of Canada, and earnestly
request Southern editors, landed cor
ftoratioiis, immigration associations,
)oards of trade, railway lines and pro
gressive business men of tho South to
co-operato with tho executive commit
tee in liilai':: iii: this mode of advertis
ing by establishing a train of curs in
Which will boexhibited the products of
the. South?said train of ears to be car
ried to every section of the .said North
ern, New IDnglutld and Northwestern
States, and to the Dominion uf Canada,
and that similar advertising shall be
douo in foreign countries us soon us
practicable. Tue details of those ox
hib ts to ho left to toe executive com
mittee representing us It doos the en
tire South, as it is composed of one re
presentative from each Southern State.
Resolved, That a committee of live.
Governor \V. J. Northen of Georgia us
Chairman, bo appointed to confer with
officers of the Southern Railway and
Steamship AssooiotiOn in regard to
rates on Southern products.
Resolved. That in tho opinion of this
convention one of the conditions which
has greatly,retarded the material de
velopment of the States hero repre
sented, aud which serves todiseourugo
immigration is the deplorable condi
tion of our public roads.
Resolved, That this convention ur
ges upon tho Legislatures of tho sov
oral Statos tho great importance of
adopting better methods of building
and maintaining our public roads under
intolligont engineering supervision.
Bo it resolved. That this convention
endorse most earnestly the movement
towards direct trade, both In tho mat
ter of exports and imports between the
ports on the South Atlantic and Eu
rope, which has already been success
fully inaugurated by * loading large
steamers with grain and Western pro
ducts from tho South Atlantic and
Gulf ports. And, bo it further
Resolved, That this convention will
do its utmost to onoourago desirable
immigration through steamers coming
directly to Southern ports, and that all
tho States in the South will unite to
encourage and assist in settling up
their wnsto lands und sotting forth the
i?reat advantages of climate and soil
n tho various localities. That tho
only hope for tho future of our rail
roads and tho permanent building up
of tho Southern section of our country
is by tho bringing in of now peoplo to
stimulato industry und by putting now
lifo into enterprises and doing for tho
South what immigration has done for
tho waste lands of tho groat West.
Recognizing the faet that tho people
whom it is desired to bring with their
labor and capital into tho States here
represented look to the States thom
selve, to publish uccuruto and impar
tial information concerning thoir ro
soureos.
Rosolvod, That this convontion oarn
ostly recommends to tho governments
of these sovera' Statos that thoy con
tinue to collect, through thoir geologi
cal surveys und departments of agri
culture and immigration, such infor
mation, and publish it on a larftor
scale in an attractive form, and that
this published information ho widely
distributed in accordance with intelli
gent organized plans. Recognizing
tho fact that capital without labor can
not develop tho rosourcos of a country,
neither can labor without capital, and
that they are equally dependent upon
each other, ami that thoy aro equally
entitled to tho fostering earo and just
treatment of tho courts and legisla
tures of tho country ; and recognizing
the furthor faot that neither can bo
induced to como into thoso Southern
States without assurnncO that it or
thoy will be justly and fairly doalt
with without rogard to tho fact as to
wbother it is organized or unorganized
labor, or whether it bo tho capital of
individuals or corporations. Thoro
fore**
Rosolvod, That it is the sonso of
this convnt ion that it is tho duty of
every good citizen to uao his best on
doavo.rs and Jnlluenco to soo that ouch
recoivo tho sutno fair equal and im
partial justice and condemn and dls
courage all prejudice and partially
that may oxlst against olthor.
Resolved furthor, That tho tlmo
has como when wo should rogard
railroads as allies, not enemies, for
placing business boforo politics and to
encourage tho enaotmont of laws to
increase confldonoo both of tho laboror
and capitalist in the exposition of tho
people- of tho South to troat thorn
fairly and justly.
? Tho fiivt foftturo of tho report was
the ono whioh eleelted most debate
It wis i.Hacked by a delegate from
irginiu, Mfc Sharp, as ? scheme of
tho Louisville- and Nushvlllo railroad,
and was warmly defended by Mr. At
wood of tlt?t road as a patriotic effort
to inuko tbo most of tho facilities at
baud. He said tho railroads wore al
ready co-operating in overy way to
facilitate the movoment, and thoy
could not do it all. It was bout to
have those county organizations and
let each county got up the literature
and forward it to tho railroads for dis
tribution wboro it would do tho most
good, and afterwards to run excursions
to tbo advortised sections.
Tho report of tho commlttoo was
adopted.
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
United Stato Senator .larvis of North
Carol inu read a paper on obstaelos to
Southern development, In which ho ad
vocated the establishment of suoh
Stato, county and city governments
throughout tho South as would give
tho fullest assurance to tho wu.d-bo
sottlor that his lifo, liberty and prop
erty would be as soouro as in any other
section of tho, country. Ho showed,
that tho capital is tho most timid
thing in tho world, that a man will
risk"nimsolf whoro ho will not risk his
money, and that the money would not
seek investment, whoro there is bad
government. With reference to tho I
presonoe of negroes in tho South, ho
said tho negroos are not responsiblo I
for being hero, but aro horo to stay, j
All plans for thoir colonization olso
where, or their exportation aro wild
add visionary. Tho nogro could not j
go away if ho would ; and ho should 1
not if no could. Ho must bo recog
nized as a flxturo in tbo South, and tho '?
wisest plan to pursue is to oducato
him and make tbo best possible oitizon '
out of him. Ho commended all that
was being dono in this direction, but
regretted that it was not more. Ho
said tho elevation of tho negro race
must begin in their homes. Thoy must I
bo provided with better accommoda- '
tions with ample room to separate
the sexes, and with good teachers in
thoir schools. Thoir preachers must
bo instructed and aided by tho white
preachers, and whoro one Is unworthy,
no must bo exposed and displaced, as
tho teacher and tho preacher oxcor
ciso tremendous inlluonco among
them, and when vicious do a vast deal
of harm. B.sttor homes, hotter sehools,
and churches, better teachers aud
preachors, aud better laws would make
tho negro an intelligent and law abid
ing citizen, and then capital aud labor
would not hesitate to come among
them. Ho referred to tho fact that
strikes and strife among labor wero
unknown among Southern negroos. and
tho South doos not desire Indiscrimin
ate immigration of those classes that
aro not law abiding. It wauts only
such peoplo as ean conform to our
oivilizutam and becomo good citizens.
In the course of his remarks, ho also
advocated tho ropcal by Congress of
tho 10 per eont. tax on Stato banks and
the coinage of silver on tho same terms
With gold.
There is somo discontent oxprosed
among representatives of distant States
thats so much timo has been occupied
in talking on matters extraneous to tho
purpose of the convention. There is no
division of sentiment among tho dele
gates on the proposition that the South
is tho best country in tho world, but
what this congress wants to do. is to
devise ways and moans for convincing
the outside world of this fact, and Lo
persuade people from distant sections
to come hero to live. This was the
object they had in coming hundreds
of miles to the congress, and they feel
that valuable timo is being wasted in
discussing everything else but im
migration.
WHY WE WANT IMMIGRANTS.
Sensible llcasons Cor Inviting the
i:i;;bt Kind of People to South Caro
lina.
The State. 31st U.t.
Tho Nows and Courier inquires if
citizens of Northorn States "aro so
convinced by experience that thoy
could do hotter in a thinly sottled
State than whoro thoy are, why, in tho
name of senso, wo should want to im
port several millions of them to put
our States in tho samo condition as tho
States thoy aro leaving ?" If a denso
population means prosperity and tho
development of a region, why, it asks,
should theso peoplo want to come to
our thinly sottled Statos?
Unfortunately, there is not yet evi
dence that Northorn farmers, in groat
numbers wish to eomo to tho South.
Wo want to put them in that mind,
and wo know that it is to their inter
est to come ; and that it is tho object
of the immigration convention, lint
farmers in the middle and contral
Western Statos do seek homos in more
thinly sottlod States for g*ood reasons.
Tho thickening of population around
thorn has increased the value of lands
-so much that to increase their farming
area is becoming moro and more cost
ly. It does not pay to raise crops on
$100*an-aore land whon thoy can bo pro
duced as well on $-Van-acro land?thc^
investment required is too large, and
tho owner of choap land has a groat
advantage over them in competition.
Tor this reason there has boon a con
stant movoment westward. A farmer
could once sell his land in Pennsylva
nia for enough to buy twicoas much in
tho Wost and still have a comfortable
capital in cash. Tho Wost has now
filled t * to such a degree that cheap
lands ai 1 no longer plentiful, and tho
farmer i < naturally looking to the
South, attracted by our choap and for
tilo soil and mild climate, and yot
doubtful of tho venture for other rea
sons. Tho timo is opportuno to remove
his doubts and bring him horo.
Why do we want him bore? Because
his coming will muko our lands moro
valuable, furthor diversify our indus
tries, awaKon our yot dormant resour
ces, touch by oxamplo bottor and moro
economic methods than the haphazard
ones which aro our inheritance from
tbo slave systom, creato villagos, on
largo tows and cities, multiply schools,
ineroaso tho circulation of newspapers,
add to tho wealth of tho Stato. Ho
cause ho would holp to rellovo us of
ovue.political slavery to tho ghost of
black rulo, creato a fooling of politi
cal security whioh would onablo us to
vote us wo boliovo and hold public ser
vants to their proper accountability,
and in other ways mako us as froo in
political action as tho peoplo of tho
North.
Wo want men of somo littlo moans,
of course; men who can build com
fortablo homes and live creditably, and
this sort, wo a Mime, will bo tho only
kind specially invited, or who can
como as indopendont land ownors.
?A distinguished Chinaman, named
Kim Wing, has roaohod Mobilo, Ala.,
on rote from his homo in Morida, Mex
ico, to Hong Kong, China, whoro ho
goos to got 200,000 of his countrymen
to sottlo in Mexico. Wing Is a wealthy
morohant of Merida, and is a highly
educated man. It has been with groat
dlflleiilty that ho has porsuaded tho
Mexican government to pormit. him to
bring so largo a numbor of his country
men ovor at ond timo. Thoy aro to bo
omployod on coffee and hemp plan*
tatlons, which aro to be oporatod by
Wing.
THE GREAT TARIFF DEBATE.
PEN PICTURES OF NOTED BEN?
ATOK&.
The Tariff Bill Will Pas? Shortly?
Incident* ami Characteristic*! of the
Prominent Men Engaged in the Die
cuasion.
(8peclal to fto Augusta (Jhronlole:
Washington, May 29.?The tariff
bill seems to bo on tho three quarter
st. rote 11 at last. It has had protty hard
running for tbo track up to this point
has boon very muddy. The sugar
schedulo will be iinished by the middle
of next wook at tho farthest. Then
partigraph after paragraph will be
passed with a rapidity which the Son
ate is noted for passing appropriation
bills. Senator Hill will speak about
free raw raatorial, and tho Republicans
will probably vote with him aftor first
voting for a bounty on sugar. Tho
schodulo as it now stands will pass the
Senate, however, but it ia exceedingly
doubtful whether or no it will find safe
anchor in tho conforonco.
Tho question of tho tariff is now los
ing part of its interest, but strange to
say tbo interest which surrounds tho
leaders of this groat movement, is in
creasing. It shows that aftor all peo
ple are moro interesting than princi
ples und quaint characters more at
tractive to ' muny people than great
questions. For instance, if Senator
A Id rieh takes the lloor to talk the gal
leries are easily emptied, yot Aldrieh,
ou his sldo of tho question, is a tariff
oxport, tho same is true of Fryo of
Maine, Allison of Iowa, und u number
of others. Yot a wranglo botweon Hoar
and Harris, botween Chandler and
Vest, between Toller and Voorhoos,
Lindsay and Aldrieh, or a speech from
Senator Gorman, Hill or Vilas will
crowd the galleries for a day.
It is rather curious the number of
men who havocotnoto tho front during
this debate Tho most remarkable, in
cident is that of Senator Jones of Ar
kansas. He has really supplanted
Senat or Voorheos In importance on tho
Finance Committee, it has been a
voluntary retirement of tho tall scya
i/ioro of tho Wabash, tbo romoiubraueo
of tho trying experiment of tho extra
session was too fresh in his memory for
him to enter upon another prolonged
und arduous discussiou upon tho floor,
however, aud his prosonco seems to
add strength to tho cause of tariff re
form. He is getting old and shows his
advancing years. Ho has reached tho
stago when bo is willing to remain in
the counsel tents and not go forth with
the army to battle. Tho victory ho
Won in tho extra session would cover
his closing years with glory from a par
liamentary standpoint, even should ho
not take any other prominent part in
national logislution. Ho has certainly
lowered his lance for this Congress a'
least and thrown his raantlo upon
Jones, of Arkansas.
When sitting in his Senate seat, h?
has tho appearance of a orouohing lion
aud his tormentors havo failed utterly
to far to rouse him from tho lethargy
into which ho seems to have fallen,
lie sits quietly hour aftor hour, his
hdad bowed upon his breast, bis face
Impassive and absolutely without ex
pression. Ho knows that he must rest
aud rest fully if he intends to live. Tho
Republicans have tried to goro him
into tho open, but ho glances at them
in a half sleepy vacant manner and re
sumes his pose which is that of a eom
plote divorcement from activity.
The most Interesting character in tbo
fight is Harris of Tenuosseo. Ho is
the ringmaster who cracks tho whip,
asks the questions and shifts tho scene.
All of his lifo has been spent in party
warfare and ho knows how to meet
steel with steel. Ho is tho aeknowl
odgod parliamentarian of tho Senate
and tho combined forces of tbo Repub
licans cannot shako him. There is not
a Senator, Democratic or Republican,
who does not lovo him personally. Nor
is there any other Senator upon tho
lloor from whom thoy would receive
the rebuffs, satire or lectures as they
do from Harris. Hoar loves dearly
to make him mad and succeeds iu do
ing it. Harris speaks with great di
rectnoss and vigor of language, has a
way of pointing his long forefinger at
tho face of tho man to whom ho is talk
ing, and after scoring him soundly dis
misses him with a gesture of disgust
and then " moves to lay tho amendment
on tho table."
Harris in roality lays down tho law
for tho Senate. He is positivo and
dogmatic to the last dogreo, rides
roughshod over evoryono that comes in
his way, whether friend or foe, and is
ospeeially equipped for his fight in
eloso quarters. Whon Harris rises
tho din of the fray is hoard, and tho
audience look out for blood spots on tho
turf. Ho hasn't a particlo of humor
and fails to understand why either the
Sonate or gal'orios should laugh when
he courteously dismisses Senator Roar
as an antagonist not worthy of h is steel.
When bo rises to make a motion his
words seem to fall to tho ground of
thoir own woight. It is suid that Iono
in Olympus could not pronounco tho
?fato of tho world moro imprcsslvoly
than Senator Harris makes a motion
in tho tariff fight.
Theso wrangles represent tho daily
show of the Senuto, and it is for those
that tho gallories aro crowded at 11
o'clock ovory day. One of these sham
battles was taking plaeo on tho floor
tho day that Sonator Jarvis was sworn
into tho Senate. Ho sat thoro eagorly
drinking in overy word. His expres
sion had boon noted by the press gal
lery especially us something unusual
in tho Senate, but no ono know how to
deli no it until Angus McSwoon, a clever
Scotchman and correspondent of the
Hultimoro Sun, said :
" Hoys, ho thinks it is all real."
Tho gallory bocamo uptoarious and
tho long-suffering Palmer of Illinois
shook his head that tho Vico-Prosl
dent did not rap for ordor. Sonator
Vest represents tho reserve corps on
tho Democratic sldo as Chandler doos
on tho Republican. Whon the opposi
tion charges too heavily upon Jones i
and Harris, Vost throws hlmsolf into
tho broach and helps to hold tho bridge.
Ho is a cunning partisan and yet one
of tho readiest debaters on tbo floor.
He |g very plausiblo and though ho
snarls liko a dog, whines liko a cat,
ho is v ithal ono of tho heavy guns of
tho light. Whon tho noise Is loudost
thoro you will hoar the scrooch of
Vost abovo all his follows, reaching
out for fame, calling loudly for ap
plause.
Jones doos tho heavy thinking part,
the part assignod to him by Voorhoos
retired from tho dramatis porsonnao
of this drai ia. It would seom that
Sonator Met' orson would havo taken
this rolo, but (mm tho incoption of the
fight it was cl early ovldont that no
Kastern man could load it. Thoy woro
not to bo rolled upon suftiolontly for
the work to bo dono, so It foil to Jonos
and the opposition thought it had a
cinch. Ho IB a lawyer, thoroughly
equipped for handling mon and great
mattors, and his physiquo is proof
against futiguo. It is impossible to
entrap him, for whon he is unablo to
answer, ho says so with promptness.
Ho is good-naturod and even Chandler
cannot provoke him to wrath. Just
now he Is the flowor from which all
bees expect to sip their honey. He
has the say so whuther an amendment
shall bo adopted or not and manages
l as exclusively this end of the line as
Harris does the parliamentary strate
gic part of the program.
Chandler Is his own element. Ho Is
now compeer and no confrer. He Is a
freo lauco. He romlnds one of the bug
who wanted to be a rhlnocerous and
wear an Ivory tooth pick on his nosp
but unable to gratify this ambition no
is willing to remain a bumble boo or a
Juno bug and buzz and but his head
against the wall. Ho Is a gad fly on
the Democratic neck and a wasp with
in his owu party. Ho loves to tear
Democratic shams to tatters and fling
their unsightly rags to the broozo. Ho
is quick to appreciate humor and if
tho laugh is on tho othor sldoho brings
both wit and satlro to his aid. He has
no respect for fnets or figures,-sarcasm
and wit are his handmaidens and bis
humor is tho onlv thing which makes
his speeches palatable.
Senator Hoar Is a oherublc old soul,
yot hiding behind his smiling counten
ance is tho gall and wormwood of a
century. There Is something like tho
Shy lock about the Massachusetts Sen
ator. Ho is thoroughly implucablo and
will novor withdraw his lanco boeauso
his victor wlncod. His words aro rasp
ing and oven his voico is irritating.
Ho does not arguo half as much as ho
taunts tho Domocratio foos.
Gorman, of courso, Is ono of tho pic
ture cards of tho Sonate. Whatever
ho does is attractive just as a jugglor
is attractive. Ho remains silent and
quiot during tho first part of any fight,
yot when ho comes out of his hole ho
foreshadows tho ond as clearly as tho
ground hog foreshadows summer. Ho
eati scont tho roundup of a battlo farth
er than any man who Is on tho trail,
and when once he joins tho forces, It
(foes not tako him long to forge to tho
front. Of courso thoro aro a number
of others who speak in a dosultory sort
of a way, but these aro tho men who
aro rosily at tho head of their forces.
The present fight is a groat show if
one only knows how to appreciate it
und it makes no difforonco which ox is
gored. Tho tariIT bill is certain a?ud
tho country may turn from anxiety of
its fato to tho amusing featuros of tho
fight.
FIGHTING l <>il IUCPI3A.Ii.
A Strong Attack on the Obnoxious
Dank rax? Congressman Mcljaurin
Makes an Able Speech on the Cur
rency.
In tho House of Representatives last
wook, tho bill to repeal the ten per
cent, tax on State bunks wee under"
consideration, and -tho debate was very
interesting und satisfactory to the
friends of tho moasuro.
Black (Dom.) of Georgia had the
floor, and presented his argument
against tho constitutionality of tho
law. Ho spoke an hour, attracting the
close attention of tho members. His
peroration was an eloquent rocital of
tho leading part taken by the South in
tho history of the government and of
the nation, and a refutation of tho as
sertion that the repeat of tho bill was
desired alone by tho Representatives
of the South. At its close he was
warmly applauded and received the
congratulations of his associates on
the floor.
Walker (Rep.) of Massachusetts
spoke two'hours upon agenoral finan
cial plan as embodied in a bill intro
duced early in tho session by himself.
Ho had no dofeuco to mako of tho ex
isting financial system ol th .ountry.
What it needed was floxib> i/y. The
object of his bill was to force into cir
culation every dollar that could bo ad
vantageously used. The present sys
tem withheld from circulation GOO of
tho 2,800 millions of currency. That,
ho emphatically said, must stop.
M'LAURIN SPEAKS.
McLofttrin of South Carolina address
ed tho House on tho bill. Ho told of
tho direful results to tho cotton mar
ket during tho financial stringency,
and how ''King Cotton" was saved
from dothronomont only by tho issue
of cleariug honso confidence corticatos,
which passed current in South Caro
lina and enabled the peoplo to tide over
tho crop moving period. But tho
promised prosperity when tho Sherman
act was repoaled hud failed to mate
rialize, ho said, and tho crop moving
period was agaiu upon them. What
were they to do?
If South Carolina had to pay a tax
upon her clearling-houso certificates,
ho saw no reason to oxotnpt tho groat
clearing-house association of Now
i'ork, for whtlo in tho uso made of the
South Carolina certificates thoro was
a wido dilToronco, tho legal principle
was tho same. Ho did not believe as
some did, that Stato banks would
cure all our financial woes, but the
ropoal of the this tax was a step to
ward a radical change in our financial
system, a step toward decentralizing
tho enormous and idangorous powers
now vostod in tho national banking
system.
Thoro wore, said Mr. MoLaurin, but
two avenues through which tho cur
rency could now bo increased, to wit :
1, Tho coinago of trold. 2. Additional
National bank notes. Every other
channel had boon closed. Ho bo"ioved
wo noodod a currency which had both
local and national characteristics.
The old Stato banks woro not in touch
with tho spirit of tho ago. Every
section of tho Union was entitled to
onough curroncy to raiso and market
Its crop, and it was tho duty of the
government to provido tho machinery
to do this. Thor*United Statos might
issue onough treasury notes to bo
dividod among tho various States in
proportion to population, tho Statos
depositing with the government their
bonds bearing a sufficient amount of
intoroat to covor all oxpunsos. It
would thou bo loft to oaoh Stato to
provido tho method of distributing its
quota of monoy and wo would have a
currency to do local business which
would pass at par overwhoro.
Whoclor of Alabama followed Mr.
McLaurin in an argument favoring the
repeal of tho law. It was, ho declared,
a war moasuro, pure and simple, and
had no foundation other than in the
necessity that was thon supposed to
exist for tho national government to
control tho issuo of tho circulating
medium. Ho hopod tho Houso would
yield to the oloquont appoal of the
gentleman from Georgia and givo tho
country an adequate amount of money.
When ho spoko of monoy ho meant
monoy with a purchasing power. Ho
characterized tho national banks as
a groat trust. Tho presldonts of theso
institutions in Now York city acted as
ono man.
?Duolling in Europe is increasing,
and increasing at such a rapid rato
that if tho weekly lists of victims kill
od on tho spot or malmod for lifo by
bullets, sabros and raptors wore footed
up at tho ond of the yoar they would be
found to exceed in uumber tho killed
and wounded on an avorago hattloflold.
And the majority of thoso unfortunate
pooplo had as littlo roason on whioh to
tako each other's live, as have tho
bulk of soldiers in a Europoan war.
Thoy aro forced to fight by "publio
opinion," regulated by tho code of
" knightly honor," whioh is approved
and upheld by the army. ,
APPEAL FBOM THE WOMEN.
WHY NOT ENEOIICE THE LAW ?
The Saloon Eloiuont Taking Charge
of Affair**?Mis. Cliapin Wants Abso
lute Prohibition and Asks fbr Help
(Vom the Mou.
Tho Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has mado an appeal to Gover
nor Tillraan to do what ho can to aid
in the enforcement of tho prohibition
law aud also appeals to tho mon of the
State to do likewise. The appoal is as
follows and speaks for itself:
charleston, S. c, May 22.
Governor Tillman :
Tho members of tho Woman's Chris
tian Tomporanco Union of Charles
ton do most oarnostly ontroat you not
to relax your efforts for tho protection
of our homes and dear onos from the
destruction that now seems to throaton
them in tho return to liconso and tho
rostoratlon to powor of tho rum (londs.
Nowspapors, which a few months ago
proacnod prohibition so eloquently
that many really bellovod they meant
what thoy proacnod, aro now advocat
ing liconso?high license?with re
stictions, as though the restrictions
thoy proposo have not been a dead let
ter on our statute books for yoars,
scoffed at and dotlod by the lawless
crowd which thoy proposo to restore
to office. "South Carolina, tho Pal
metto Stato, iu tho liquor trntllc," has
boon a rallying cry for tho anti-dis
pensary host, and now, no soonor have
tho dispensaries been elosed, than
those very peoplo advocate, forming a
now partnership, with tho "Tho Pal
metto Stato," which thoy had taught
us to boliovo they hold so saorod as
chief partner in tho firm of Van
Backt, Shop & Co.
Whon tho Evans bill passed in 1892
ws wished it*had boon prohibition,
and folt dreadfully over it, but whon
wo read tho bill and found it proposed
to c'oso ovory opon barroom in tho
Stato and to allow liquor sold only by
responsible persons whoso characters
had to bo ondorsod by a majority of
persons in thoir ward or town, as tho
ease might bo, and who woro pledged
under oath not to soli to minors, drunk
ards, or .any ono under tho influence of
liquor and to keep a record of all sales
made, which would at all times bo
open to inspection, tho liquor sold in
tho dispensarios was to bo analyzed by
tho Stato chemist to insure its purity,
and tho places in which it was sold
woro to bo closod at ? o'clock aud kept
closed on tho Subbath : the Now York
Tribune pronounced it " iron clad
prohibition," and wo folt that it was
only ono stop from it. So wo gavo it
our encouragement and support and
dospite of throats from barkeepers,
and only dlsuouragoment from thoso
whom wo had a right to oxpeet would
havo stood by us, wo havo held the
fort, working and praying for prohi
bition. Somo uro rejoicing that it has
como, not in our city, however, whoro
tho dons of iniquity arb all open, oven
on Sundays. Wo aro still hoping,
praying, waiting. Whon tho Supremo
Court decided that tho dispensary bill
was unconstitutional, many were in
clined to think, as Jacob did, "All
thoso things aro against mo ;" but wo
know better. Tho dispensary had
done tho work God intended it to do.
This tight is a battle between the
devil and his allies and our great King
and his followers, and unless wo prove
traitors wo must win tho victory, for
"Our God is within the shadows,
" Keeping watch above His own."
Tho dispensary proved that with a
man of courage at tho head of affairs,
liquor laws could bo enforced, if not
absolutely at first, fully as well as laws
against burglary, murder of any other
crime. Public barrooms woro most
certainly closed, and that in despite
of tho combined efforts of all classes
of peoplo who gavo encouragement,
and actually brought in to promiuenco
tho lowost oluss of peoplo, because
they darod to dofy tbo law. You have
shown what an immense revenue ac
crues from tho sale of whiskey, but
you havo told us your "object is not
revenue," and we boliovo you aro too
truo a man to sell the right of way
into our homes aud barter our boys to
tbo foroign rum-seller for revenue.
" Whon for our cause all hope is lost,
"When every heart was tempest
tossed;
" When homes in ashes round us lay
" And o'or us beamed nochoering ray ;
"When o'en our bravest were un
manned
" And wavod the woo wave o'er tho
land,
" Your Southern women chocked each
tear
'? And offerod nothing but words of
ehoor."
And now wo como to tbo men of
Carolina, particularly to those who
make and enforce our laws, and on
troat you to protect tho homes wo
took caro of during tho war. " Homo
is our kingdom," you say, but wo aro
powerless to defend it. You put into
tbo bauds of the vilest of the scour
ing of creation a weapon " firmer sot
than ballots or than bayonets," with
which to attack our homes and destroy
our dearost onos. Your protection,
you say, is all sufficient. God grant
It may bo so, in this ease, for wo aro
standing baliotlcss, utterly unablo to
defend our homes, and wo appeal to
tho mon of our Stato for help in this
timo of threatened destruction. If I
you do not help us now and tho do- i
stroyers of our homes got into powor |
again, the wives and mothers of
our Stato will havo again to go, ns
thoy havo gono in the past, into tho
rum shops at night, and, on their
knees, plead with brutal barkeepers,
I who with curses havo thrust them into
tho Street.
Wo want prohibition, absolute pro
hibition, without any "clauses ex
empting wine, beer or any liquor ns a
beverage." Atlanta's experience is an
object losson to us. Men who sworo
solomnly not to soil spirituous liquors
soon perjured themselves, and as an
oxeuso for oponing thoir bar rooms on
Sunday, kopt a menagerie and made
tho QXOUse "they hiul to feed the
animals," I can nover forgot Mr.
Grady's look as ho prophesied what
exactly camo to pass.
Hot us bo warnod by Atlanta's ox
porlenoe to make no compromise with
the berried trafllc, for tho divine con
demnation rests upon any nation or
govornmont which legalizes ovil,
" frame! h mischief by law nnd just i lies
tho wlckod for roward."
With grout rospect,
MKS. SALL1H P. Chapin,
Stato President of South Curolinn,
Mrs. T. P. DKGaPPHRBLLY,
President of Charleston W. C. T. U.
?Col. William C. Oates, who hns
just boon nominated for Governor by
tho Alabama Democrats, probably has
asdisctincta recollection of tho civil
war as any man living. Ho was sovero
ly wounded in battle six times, once In
tlio right arm. thon in tho right log,
again in tho loft hip and clear through
tho right hip and thigh, then In the
head and finally, in tho lust, grasp of
tho lost cause before Hlohmond, his
right arm was carried away.
A CONSPIRACY IN ELOR1UA.
Ono Negro Already Lynched Ihr n '
Viol to Couimittho Usual Crime and I
Othera of the Conspirators May
Share his Fate.
Jacksonville, May 29.?A special
to the Times-Union from Palatka, Via,
says: Tho p^oplo of this section aro
vory much excited over tho discovery
of adiabolicul conspiracy a ?.; tho1
nogroos to commit a series of outrages
upon whlto women. The particulars
aro that about a week ago a negro
preacher by tho namo of I. T. Burgiss
came to tho turpentine stills in the
neighborhood of Putnam Hall aud pro
cured employment. After becoming
acquainted with tho colorod employees
ho made damaging remarks about tho
daughter of a farmer living uear by,
and proposed to the negroes that thoy
should Seiko this girl and sevoral other
white women and carry thorn into the
swamp and make t hem submit to their
embrace.^. It is understood that sev
eral negroos agreed to tho plan a..d
that preparations wore being mado to
carry it into effect.
Fortunately the white people got a
bint of tho conspiracy and began to
make an investigation. Thoy scoured
evidoneo that such a conspiracy did
exist aud they took steps to guard thoir
homes. In the mean while the negroes
learned that their diabolical plan was
known and soorotly thoy boguu to loavo
tho country. Ono of those to leave was
Burgiss, who had suggested the out
rages r.pon tho women. He fled just
in tim ) to escape from a number of
white men who had gonotosecuro him.
It was learned that Burgiss had gone
to Georgia and the father of tho young
lady whom liurgiss had so vilely slan
dered swore out a warrant against the
negro.
Tho Georgia authorities wcro com
municated with and Burgiss was ar
rested. A Florida officer went for tho
negro and brought him back. Fearing
a mob he stopped at a little station
called Newburg, intending to secrete
tho prisoner at a friend's homo nearby.
Tho officer started to his friend's house,
but bad not proceeded more than half a
mile when bo was suddenly confronted
by between seventy-live and ono hun
dred mounted men. Thoy covered him
with guns and ritles and demanded the
prisoner. Being overpowered there
was no other alternative but to givo
him up, and tho next morning Burgiss
was seon hanging from a limb two
milos from tho place where ho was
taken from Deputy Lane. Burgiss is
described as being about 4? years of
age, six feet and weighing about ono
hundred and eighty pounds. Ho con
fessed to Mr. Lane that tho roport he
circulated about tho farmor's daughter
was untrue, but ho mado tho remark
about her to interest the nogroos in
his undertaking. Tho white poople
aro wild with rage, and it is boliovcd
that more lynchings will spoodily fol
losv.
RUSSIAN INTOLERANCE.
An Interest in..- Incident in Diploma
tic Colors?Russia Denies Admis
sion to a Citizen ol'the United States.
Congressman Kayner, of Maryland,
a member of tho foreign affairs com
mitte, hub introduced in the Houso a
resolution which will probably lead to
an interesting diplomatic controversy
with Russia.
Rabbi Krauskopf, a well known He
brew philanthropist of Philadelphia,
has been denied the privilege of enter
ing Russia, an?l tho resolutions calls
upon Secretary Gresbam to insist that
Russia shall keep faith with tho
United States under the terms of the
treaty of 1834, which says thut "the
inhabitants of thoir respective states
shull mutually have liberty to enter
the ports, places and rivers of the ter
ritories of each party wherever foreign
commerce is permitted," and that If
tho Czar's government rofusos to res
pect the conditions that steps be taken
to abrogato tho treaty.
It is quite probable that the purpose
of Rabbi Krauskopf's Jvisit hud uii; im
portunt bearing on Russia's action in
the euse. Ho desires to observe the
condition of Russian Jews and to
petition tho Czar to permit him to
carry out plans to relieve the congested
Jewish settlement by colonizing the
excess of population in the sparsely
settled interior parts of the empire.
The means for accomplishing this, be
believes, will bo subscribed i>y his co
religionists bore and abroad.
Rabbi Krauskopf's application for
safe conduct through the empire was
laid before Prince Cuntacuuzene, the
Russiun minister, some weeks ago.
Tho prince listened in silence und then
announced his deep regret that ho
must decline to take any official cogni
zance of tho matter. Then through
his friends in congress Dr. Krauskopf
brought his plan to the attention of
Secretary Gresbam and President
Cleveland, who wont so far as to for
ward an official communication upon
the subject from the stuto department
to Andrew 1). White, United States
minister to Russia. This communica
tion Wits in the nature of a "feeler''
put forth to ascertain, if possible, in
what spirit Dr. Krauskopf's proposed
visit to Russia would be received on the
part ofthat government. It was un
derstood that lie was to go fully equip
ped with passports and with the most
potent crcdntiuls of his American eiti
zonship. It was also made plain that
tho rabbi's mission was purely peaceful
and philanthropic. This reply of the
Russian government has been trans
mitted througa Ministor White:
" Russian government deeply regrets
tho Impossibility of acceding to the
request of tho reverned Jewish divine."
Rabbi Krauskopf has been barred
solely on account of his religious faith,
and Congressman Hayner will raise
the point whether a citizen of this
country, no matter what bis religion
may bo, eon be denied a safe conduct
under the terms of tho treaty. This
country imposes no such restrictions
upon Russian visitors.
?Genova, Ala., close to tl.o Florida
line, is agitated over a BOelaeial sensa
tion. Ed Cowart, a prominent young
man. and Miss Lizzie Lunwood, a pop
ular belle, were to havo wedded. All
arrangements were made; the preaohor
and the guests had all arrived ; tho
wedding supper was spread, but the
bridegroom wus missing. A dolegtl
tion wus sent after him, but ho declined
to come, saying bo bad changed his
mind. Tho bridal party was notified
accordingly. The assembled gentle
men provided thomselvcs with masks,
again called upon the bridegroom, car
ried him into the woods, buckle?) him
across a log and lashed him unmerci
fully, tho blood being mado to flow
from hlH back. Thoy thronten to sorvo
the noxt flirt ovon worse.
?During tho World's Fair tho Ferris
whool went around 10,000 times und
carried 2,000,000 passengers. Tho
largest singlo load carried was Octo
ber 19th, when at 12.20 o'clock 1,768
people woro on tho curs. Tho largest
day's business'was October 10th, when
.'W.OOO p oplo were carried. October
9th, 10th and 11th thoro were 114.000
passongors. tho largest number for
any three days.
state news in uk i he.
Interesting Notes from Varloes.Soar
obs.
?Tho Sututor Frooman nominates
Hon. W. D. Evans nor the United States
Sonate.
?Dr. L. C. Stephens, of Barnwoll,
has gone to San Francisco, Cnl., as a
dolegato to tho Amorican Medical As
sociation.
?Tho St. Matthews cotton sood oil
mill, In its first yoar's operation has
earned for tho stockholders a dividend
of 33i por cont.
?Tho peoplo of Clarendon aro anx
ious for Hon. J. E. Tindnl to make tho
race for Oovornor, believing that ho
can do moro towards solidifying tho
roform faction than any other man
mentioned for the placo.
?An old woathor observor calls at
tention to it as a romarkablo fact that
nearly all hailstorms in this section
go from wost to oast, and that a storm
from north to south, though occurring
occasionally, is something very un
usual.
?Prominent citlzons of Lancaster
havo, through a published card in the
local paper, gien warning to all who
may persist in selling liquor in that
town that they will be prosecuted to
the fullest extent of tho law for every
violation.
?Congressman Talbert has intro
duced a bill " to enjoin tho further is
sue of bunds by tho Secretary of tho
Treasury and to coin the seigniorage,'*
which amounts to #.V>.000,000. This.
Mr. Talbert thinks, will solve our finan
cial troubles.
?Tho Oakland club of Fatrfleld
County has passed a set of resolutions
in whioh it recommends that " Demo
crats opposed to tho Reform movement
should carry tho issue square into the
November election without going i'.to
tho primaries.
?Tho Secretary of the Stato has is
sued a commission to tho Greenville
County Hodge Fenco Company, with
tho following corporators : lt. Y. Hel
lans. H. B. Buist and A. Blytho. The
capital stock is *12,00U, divided into
shares of $100 each.
?Brigadior General D. W. Flagler,
of tho War Department, bus issued ti
docisiou which holds that the arms of
tho Washington Light Infantry of
Charleston aro tho property of the
Stato under tho terms upon which
thoy were given tho company by Con
gross. Tho arms will accordingly be
turned over to the State.
?Tho Lover, of Chicago, tho loading
prohibition organ of the West, says
oditorially : "Tho mayor ol Colum
bia, S. C, is mado of tho right kind of
stuff. He has issued a proclamation
giving due notieo that under tho re
cent doeision of the Supreme Court ho
will onforco the laws of the Stato and
of the city prohibiting the sale of
liquor. Such a mayor is an honor and
a credit to his city."
?The Prosperity Canning Company
is arranging to can this season fifty
acres of tomatoes, being 10.000 bushels,
or about 140,000three pound cans. This
represents about 500 cans of tomatoes
alone per working day all the year
round and does not include tho output
of other canned products. Tho Pros
perity cannery was begun in a small,
experimental way, but, for Its capacity,
has proved a paying, even a profitable,
enterprise from the start.
?The Alken Times notes the sale
of tho "Sand Dar Ferry," wbeh bo
longs to tho estate of the late Miss
.Julia Whatley. of Augusta, Ga. Tho
Times says: " Tnis lovely place on
the Savannah wa.; the regular duell
ing placo of tho country gentry before
the war. More duels have probably
been fought there thi:n at any other
place in the State. It has been in the
possession of tho Whatley family for
over sixty years."
?Tho safe used by the threo C's
Railroad Company in its olllco at
Yorkvillo was blown open last week
and a sum of money not exceeding $45
was taken therefrom. Tho job was
evidently the work of an experience I
craksman, as it was accomplished by
bouring a hole in tho door and forcing
powder into the safe. The whole
thing seems to have been worked ex
actly in tho way told about in the dime
novols. There is no clue to the identity
of tho robber. This is Yorkvlllo's first
experience with this c'ass oforiminals.
?Tho Republicans are preparing to
test the constitutionality of tho regis
tration laws of South Carolina, in ac
cordance with tli3 resolution recently
adopted by the State executivo com
mittee of tho Republican party. The
committee apppointod by the State
committee to have tho test made and
raise funds therefor has been bard at
work and it proposes, if possible, to
have the constitutionality of tho law
docitled upon in very short rdo. The
work has boon in tho bands of Stato
Chairman Webster and ex-State Chair
man Brayton.
An Unreconstructed Rebel.?At
the reunion of the Confederate cavalry
veterans in Richmond last week, Gen.
Thomas L. Rosscr was one of tho
speakers, and among other things he
spoKo as follows:
14 Comrades, when you marched out
in 'til you were buoyed by hope of tho
future. Now you have only the mem
ory of the lost. The great principles
which we fought for have been de
feated, but they aro not dead. We
are now only an ambulance corps. But
we tire here today to do honor to tho
men who foil, for wo love their mem
ory us we lovo our Co I. The men who
overran us rem nd mo of the locusts
which are now inlostmj' portions of
this State. They cou.d not whip us,
but they devour? d c ur substance. The
army that devoured us wus an army of
substitutes. We killed all the substi
tutes and the men whom they repres
ented stopped at homo and made
money, and now draw pensions. I de
spise the man who gives the United
States money toa pensioner. This coun
try oan't stand when it makes oneciti
Zon support another. I shall never vote
for a Congressman who is in favor of
government pensions. I will say to
Massachusetts, you pay your pensioners
as Virginia pays hers."
General Rossor then went on to say
that the G. A. R. was banded together
to get pensions, and if ho had been at
Birmingham he would have voted
against the proposition to invite them
to Atlanta/ He did not want them to
come to Richmond.
"Some time ago," ho continued,
"wo unveiled a monument to tho
greatest general who ever lived : today
WO unveil a monument to the greatest
paivate so.diers who over lived, and in
time we will unveil a monument to
tho President of tho Confederate
States. Rut wo aro mocked at tho
North, and will live to soo tho Yankee
army inarch again throught the South
and pull down our monuments. 1 don't
know what sort of stub' the rising gen
eration aiO mado of, hut if you and I
are living, there will bo bloodshed
when that is done.''
?A Raleigh real estate firm is nego
tiating for a tract of 67,000 acres of
laud on the North Carolina sound for a
fish and game prosorvo for Now York
and Washington partlos.
OENEKAL* NEWS Hl MMAffl^ Jj
! itcsl [tents and Curious Notes tV< in Mm'
Our Exchanges. ^i^H
?Chief Justice Logau K. HlcccklcjH
of tho Georgia Supreme Court, hto9
become a father at the ago of 77. HjfjH
married the second time about a^ear-B
ago, a young lady from New York. 1
?Tho hotel at Columbia, Tex., was '
burnod lust week. Cburles Lewis, a
capitalist, was the only person wh? o.-t
his life. Soveral of the guosts jumped
from tho second lloor ana wore uuu y
injured
?The potitions for woman suffrage
so far present! d to tho New York C?.n
btitutioual Convention contain 212,153
signatures. Tbo array of names is as
notable iu the standing and cbaructor
us in tbo number of petitioners.
?Nearly every charitable institution
in Now York, Hebrew, Catholic, Pres
byterian, Episcopalian, and all other
denominations is remembered in tho
will of the lato Jesse Scligman, tho
Hebrew millionaire and philanthropist.
?Secretary Lament is proceeding
with his sweeping reductions"^! tho
force in tho War Department. Five
hundred employes have been dis
charged, and about half tho army otll
eers on duty will bo sent to thoir regi
ments.
?Owing to tho late frost the orange
orop of California will bo fur im low tue
average for this season. Tho total
output from Southern California will -
reaoh about 4,000 carloads, of which
over 3,000 will go Eus?-. This is 20
percent, below lust season's crop.
?Tho enormous sum of $l,2T>0,000 *
cash has been paid iu royalties to tho
interests represented by Mr. Moody
since his book of hymns was printed
twenty years ago. Tho sale of tho
hymns is said to have readied the
wonderful total of 20.000,000 volumes.
?The relatives of Tom Wool folk,
who was haugud in Georgia lor ti.o
killing of several members of his
family after bankrupting his county to
convict him, have put a monumont to
his memory.
?Ex-Senator Walthall's health is so
poor it is improbable ho will serve
another terra in the Senate, i t. is Jus
ambition to close his political career- -?
as Governor of Mississippi, and thoro
would bo no opposition to his nomina
tion for that otllco if bo expressed a
desiro to bo the Democratic candi
date.
?At Port Townsond, Wash., Frank
C. MoDlll, a restaurant keeper, has
turned up as a long lost heir to a for
tune iu Chattanooga, Tonn., valued at
$50,000. Ho had been absent from
homo for fifteen years and several
thousand dollars havo been spent iu
vain endeavors to ascertain his where
abouts.
?Dooly County. (Ja,, is iu a happy
financial condition and one of which its
people have a cause to be proud. It does
not owe a cent and has $13,000 in tho
treasury, more than enough to run the
county both this year and the next. Tho
grand jury has therefore decided net
to levy any tax at all this year.
?The common tuberose is an excel
colleut illustration of a popular mis
nomer. The plant is no rose at all and
has no connection with the rose family^
Its name is a corruption. The French
gardeners always call it plante tubo
reuse, or tuber plant, and tho latter
part of the name was corrupted by ig
norant people into tuberose.
?A bloody tragedy took placo last
week on streets of Hockwood, Tonn.
In cold blood, without a word of dis
pute, Holman Hinds emptied the con
tents of a shotgun into .lohn Montgom
ery. Both men are well-to-do farmers
of Eloano County. The wounded man
died in a few hours, and his murderer
was arrested. An old dispute over
land led to tho crime.
?The Winston Sentinel mentions as
an instance of the economy of adminis
tration that North Carol Am. with a
population of 1,(117.1)47, pays $82,000 for
her judges and" prosecuting uttering -sy-?
wbilo Virginia, with 1,055,980, pays
$200,000 for her judges and prosecuting
attorneys. At the same timo .It is
claimed that tho judiciary of North
Carolina compares in ability aud in
tegrity with that of any State of tho
Union.
?II. Bollvor Thompson, tho assis
tant State engineer of Louisiana, has
brought suit against the Yav.oo and
Mississippi Valley Hailrnad Company
for the sum of $4<>,25U for the loss of an
eye, caused by being struck by the boll
rope which was running through the
ear loosely aud irregularly and was
suddenly drawn by an employee of the
railroad company who was standing on
the platform.
THREATENS THE MAYOR.
A Slate DetectiveOclS Ugly ami Tries
to Sliool Mayor Sloan.
COLUMBIA, S. C. May 30.?Today a
sensational attack was made upon
Mayor W. Meli. Sloan, of this city,
which is curiously connected with tho
liquor riots. Last night a young man
named Power was arrested for disor
derly conduct In a disreputable locali
ty of the city. This morning tho may
or imposed upon him a tine of $2">.
Power, when arrested, had a Colt's
pistol, which he said a man named
Nowcomb had loaned him. Nowoomb
is a Texan, claiming to bo a Plnkorton
detective, and has papers which pur
port that ho is in the service of tho
Stato.
This afternoon Newcoinb, armed to
the teeth, called at Mayor Sloan's re
sidence and presented a note from At
torney General Buchanan, stating that
tho pistol taken from Power belonged
to the State and requesting its return
to Nowcomb. Sloan promptly gavo
him an order for it. Then Nowcomb
commenced to abuse the mayor in u
foul manner and swore that if he would
come out into the street he would show
him what he would do. Nowcomb pro
ceeded to tho olHco of tho oify clerk.
Walker, in the city hall building, and
denounced that official. Coming down
tho steps he saw Mayor Sloan at a dis
tance, and, putting his hand to his
pocket, declared that he would shoot
him.
Two polieomen promptly soi/.ed New
comb, handcuffed him ami hustled him
olT to tho guardhouse. Tonight At
torney General Buchanan called on
Mayor Sloan and. explaining that New
comb was needed to testify before tho
Florence county grand jury which will
ho discharged tomorrow, asked his re
lease. Tho mayor refused on tbo
ground that ho had no right to do so,
and Buohnnan said that he would re
sort to legal process. Nowcomb claims
himself that ho had been engaged by
tho government in forreting out tho
looting of the Florence county dispen
sary, which occurred the night aftor
tho Darlington riot. It is said that
his friend Power had been working
with him.
Power was tried today in his absence*
at Florence on t be charge of making an
aggravated assault upon a man named
Fladgor, hlfl cousin. Power is a man
of good family connections. Nowcomb
will doubtless be lined in the mayor's
court tomorrow morning and immedia
tely afterwards arrested on the charge
of assault with intent to kill and re>
mandod to a highor court.