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[Five Candidates are Stumping the
?L State for Earle's Place,
A SUMMARY OF THE SPEECHES.
McLaurin and Kvans Speak on Tariff
Issues?May field Discusses Dispensary,
Etc. ?irby on Suffrage.
The following is a brief summary of
the Senatorial campaign speeches from
day to day.
The Lexington Meeting.
At this point the speaking was held j
? . two miles from the town. The crowd j
was good-natured and showed a desire ;
to ask questions on all issues they did
not understand.
r Mr. May held at the outset of his |
* speech denied that he was in a combi- |
nation to secure the defeat of Mr. Mc- i
: Laurin. He had, he said, before the |
\ campaign began and before anv others |
jk_ had announced their candidacy written
to Mr. McLaurin telling him of his intended
candidacy, and suggesting that
' they pitch it on a high plate.
Mr, Mayfield then turned his attention
to the dispensary. He was interrupted
by a man in the audience, who
aid he wanted to hear national issues
diacussed. Mr. Mavfield rejoined that
the Tillman bill had made the dispen
sary a national question. He declared
that were he elected he would vote
(0 against that bill, etc.
^ ? Col. Irby jumped on Col. Xeal, sa
. perintendent of the penitentiary, at the
outset of his speech for the campaign
schedule arranged. He termed Neal
an aurora ooreaus, auu u? lucu ^?>c
his usual earning to the voters that
they were in a fair way to be disfranchised
on account of the suffrage clause
*' !? in the Constitution. Col. Irby s speech
was shorter on account oflndisposiF
tion.
t; Mr. John Gary Evans insinuated
when he began that McLaurin had
telegraphed to Ellerbe before Earle was
* buried ashing for the appointment to
the place. Air. Evaus declared he
, v would not do such a thing. He was
i endorsed at the last election by 40,000
kv' voters, and it would have been nothing
B&. bnt right, he suggested, for Ellerbe to
have appointed nun Senator in deference
to the endorsement of the voters.
Mr. Evans took issue with Mr. Mcjgt
Laurin's tariff policy and proceeded to
adduce strong free trade arguments
, He, too, came in for a number of questions
on the tariff, which he satisfactorily
answered. The people showed a
j? lively interest in what he was saying.
He concluded amid applause.
K& ' Mr. McLaurin began his speech by
saying that be did not believe this was
& the place or the time to inaugurate a
campaign against the dispensary.
Tn midst of his tariff sneech he
broke off. and declared that he was get- I
Sp ting tired of being twitted for being a I
Populist, and for having written the I
Populist platform. He vehemently declared
that he was elected to Congress by
theFarmers' Alliance on the principles
rocated by that organization. He stood
by those pxinciples then, and he stood
bv those principles today. He was not
like a lot of measlev politicians who
work the Alliance for all they could
when it was a power, but who now rose
up to buffet it since it had ceased to be
the power it had been.
Senator McLaurin, after thisdepar:
ture from his usual speech, returned to
ft the discussion of the tariff Before takl
ing his seat he declared that Mr. Evans
did him an injustice in speaking as he
& bed of his appointment to the Senate.
I1'.' The Wlnnsboro Sleeting.
The Senatorial candidates were heard
t here by an audience of between 800 and
400. Each was accorded an attentive
hearing and the meetfng passed oft
. without incident. Messrs. Irby and
rfcr* Dull can were absent They sent no
excuses.
V- Vroni fir?f nnAiilr. i
A4vUVVV*UVA XJ T HUU, ?MV -w ? r I
&? ?r, began by expressing his regrets that
| . the campaign had been arranged at a
i; time when the people could not tarn
j. out to hear the discussion of the most
momentous question singe 1832.
a \ He then attacked McLaurin's pocket,L>.
book tariff policy and declared it was
* . the Southern farmer's love of principle
that would save the country when
:fV- other sections had been led from the
W&-: riffht by desires for sordid wealth.
^ After proceeding a little further, Mr.
Evans declared: "I desire to say right*
.? here that this tariff discussion interests
the Conservatives as well as the farmer
A. Reformers." This is a matter of principle
and not a factional fight, he asacoted.
"Now, go to the man who
supports the principle you believe in
* and not say 'this man has been more
1 favorable to my faction than the oth^
era."' After getting in the midst of
his free trade argument, Mr. Evans
jf > asked: "Can you Reformers afford to
vote this tax on yourselves; can you
ft' Conservatives afford to vote for a man
W? . who thus proposes to tax you because
you think he'll do a little more for your
faction?''
? < Mr. Evans charged that McLaurin
J* was the beneficiary of the machinations
V of a scheming set of politicians in
Columbia, ami that the Governor was
helping him with his administration.
Mr. Evans' speech was the
strongest argument for free trade
that he has yet made. He was applauded
when he concluded.
Mr. McLaurin opened with a defense
\of Governor Ellerbe. He repelled the
charge that the politicians in Columbia
were scheming to secure his election.
But, he declared. Governor EvBrcana
last year, with the full force of his
administration behind him, and with
scheming politicians to aid him, was re,
pudiated bv the voters. If Mr. Evans
. was the only man in the State to uphold
the Democracy of Calhoun, of
Hayne, of Preston, "then God save the
mark." (Applause!)
/ Mr. McLaurin explained his position
on the tariff. During his speech the e
were frequent exchanges of badinage
between him and Evans.
He asked why Ellerbe had been made
fv, the issue. He had made a good governor
and "thanks be to God, the governor
of the whole neople." As to
> V helping him, it was but natural for
i.J Ellerbe or any other man with a spark
e chivalry to feel for a man opposed by
A N ; thr<# who misrepresent him at every j
turQ, If they wanted to make Ellerbe j
k.
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the issue, he was ready to meet them
ou every stump, but he preferred to
make the campaign on national issues.
(Applause.)
Mr. Mayfield began by declaring
that he was in no combination, but reaffirmed
his previous statement that
Governor Ellerbe had said to him that
he would bring the full force
of his administration to aid
McLaurin. The governor, he asserted,had
said to him that should only
he and McLaurin run he would be
hands ofl. but should others run he
would use his full influence to secure
the election of McLaurin. He had no
desire to make this statement but the
charges day after day on the stump and
the continual assertions of Ellerbe's
paper (TheEvening Record) had forced
him in self-defence to deny being in u
combination.
Mr. McLaurin asked if that was not a
private conversation held in the Governor's
office that he was repeating.
Mavtield answered "no."
Mr. Mavtield answered that Governor
Ellerbe would have all the opportunity
at Columbia to defend himself.
Mr. Mavtield then procdeeded with
bis speech, which Mas an aggressive
attack on McLaurin's tarift i>oliov. He
declared that McLauin's schedule on
lumber was a tax on the people from [
the cradle to the grave. (Laughter and
applause.)
In conclusion he declared: "Mr.
Tillman is not running this campaign.
The people are running it and I believe
the people will declare in favor of S.
G. Mavtield on the 31st of August."
(Applause.)
The Columbia Meeting.
The campaign meeting held here was
A nnfnvn/1 atYair am] fltA TtAH
a jjuuu
pic who listened attentively to the candidates
applauded theiu loudly when
good points were scored.
This was the first meeting at which
all the five candidates appeared and the
voters of Richland had a chance to
judge of the predilectionswhich the aspirants
for the vacant seat in the
United States Senate have been credited
with possessing.
Senator McLaurin spoke first and
made a clear defense of the position he ,
held i n the tariff question. The crowd
listened attentively to him and his
speech was frequently punctuated with
applause.
State Senator May field followed and
vigorously attacked McLaurin's vote on
the tariff' He made a good speech, and
he. too, was applauded.
Col. Irbv looked joyous and began
his speech by telling some jokes which
kept the crowd laughing. He declared
he was the only "original" package in
the whole pack. He jumped on Ellerbe,
and alluded to him as "the jay
bird Governor."
"Any man in the crowd has a bigger
heart and a larcer head than our Got
ernor," declared Irby, and the crowd
laughed heartily.
Irby said Stokes, of Colleton, beat
Ellerbe nine votes for Comptroller General,
but that Ellerbe was cheated in.
He said that he had expected Ellerbe
to be the last man to combine against
him. Irby made the best speech of
this campaign and he was warmly received.
*
Duncan made his first appearance in ,
the Senatorial arena, and after discuss- '
.ing the dispensary, spoke at length of
McLaurin's alleged shortcomings to
represent the people in the Senate. He
did not receive any applause but simply
made his speech. The crowd giving
him good attention.
Governor Evans was the last candidate
to speak and he had many friends
in the crowd who loudly applauded
him. He jumped at once into the tarift
question and gave a lucid and strong
argument from his standpoint He declared
he was for Calhoun doctrine and
said the people would turn McLaurin
down on his tariff vote. Evans was the
last, speaker and held his audience well.
He interspersed humorous hits in his
speech in jumping on McLaurin, and
he amused his hearers. At the conclusion
of his speech he received considerable
applause.
Mayfield defended his attack on
Ellerbe on the ground that the Evening
Record is owned and controlled bv
Ellerbe, Xeal and McLaurin, and Ellerbe
had hit him first.
McLanrin said he gave Koester $500,
but had no stock in the paper.
- McLaurin said it was none of Mayfield's
business if he wrote the Populist
platform.
The Orangeburg Meeting.
At the senatorial campaign meeting;
at Orangeburg there was a large audience.
but not nearly so large as in the
previous campaigns. Candidate Duncandid
not appear. The sun streamed
down on the speakers, and Seoator McLaurin
and Col. Irby abbreviated their
speeches, because they could not stand
the heat, and were feeling unwell.
Mayfield, who spoke first, said that
Governor Ellerbe had dealt doubly with
the people of Charleston, as to tne removal
of the metropolitan police, and
that he could prove it if Governor Ellerbe
denied the accusation. Mayfield
said he was approached to vote against
Chief Justice Mclver, and that he refused
to do so, whereupon Governor Ellerbe
expressed surprise.
Irby said that McLaurin belonged to
every party that came along, and
when defeated would join the anar
ctnsts.
McLaurin said that he had heard that
Col. Irby had a pair of horses, and had
named one "Treachery," after Governor
Evans, and the other "Ingratitude,"
after Senator Tillman. McLaurin,
to show that he and Senator Tillman
were on the same platform, read a
telegram from Tillman, stating that he
thought he could save free bagging and
ties by pairing his vote for $1 tax on
lumber, and he would vote as he paired
McLaurin. This, McLaurin said, would
make his opi>onents sick.
Evans reiterated his charge that McLaurin
was, to all intents, a Republican.
The Dorchester Meeting.
The Senatorial'campaign meeting at
George's was devoid of special interest
or feature. The candidates are showing
some wear on account of the strain
of the campaign, although onl}- fifteen
out of the forty counties have been
visited. There were about 200 voters
at the meeting and they were very
much divided as to the rival candidates.
Col. Irby devoted much time to ridiculing
the present Governor.
Senator McLaurin said that from
what he gathered Co!. Irby was not
after the Senatorship, but was willipg
to let his penitent political son have thai
office, and take the office of Governor |
himself two years hence. Col. Irby
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said he wanted the Seuatorship and he
expected to get.
McLaurin said his tariff position was
beimr persistently misrepresented and
misquoted, and to explain his true
views took up all of his time.
Col. Irby said that with the negro vote
out of the waj* there will soon be a Republican
party in South Carolina, and
that McLaurin will lead it. McLaurin
insists that he stands on the Bryan
platform.
Mr. Duncan was not present on account
of the siekuess of his wife.
Ex-Governor Evans said he was making
the fight that has been -made for
fifty years, and his contention was for
Democracj- and against the new evangel.
The Democratic party is the friend of
the masses and believes in a tariff for
revenue only. He explained at length
what was a tariff for revenue only, and
fully the system of collecting duties.
He said McLaurin dodged around every
day on his tariff views. The News
and Courier took up his (Evans') vie^s.
They are beginniug to be stung and
McLaurin is crying to the News and
Courier and The State, ''Help ir.e Cassitis,
or I sink."
Mayfield joked with his audience and
finally said he would run the whole
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ttunu iv/ lavii a wi aaj.o. aav
was the only real farmer in the race.
Without any joking the others ill had
had paying offices and now he wanted
the job. He opi>i>sed Tillman's $3 poll
tax and beat Tillman's vote in his
county. He thought Dorchester ought
to have had its county and helped its
representatives. If elected he would
favor and work for a change in
the national banking law. This, he argued,
was most important. It would be
1902 before the country could get free
coinage of silver, and that was whj* he
wanted elasticity in issuing bank notes.
He went over his liquor system at
length. He wanted the central dispensary
and the constabularj- wipjd out.
Asa financial system the dispensary is
a stupendous failure. He favored temperance,
himself being a teetotaler, but
if anyone wanted a drink he could get
it.
The Bamberg Meeting.
The campaign meeting here was somen-Viot
mnro iiorsnnal than 11 ft 11 a1 f!ol.
Irby poured his fire into Senator McLaurin
and gave his young friend, ezGovernor
Evans a few jabs. Mr. Mayfield
was a bit more severe than usual.
Senator McLaurin and Governor
Evans followed each other and devoted
practically their entire time to the
tariff discussion, both making capital
speeches. Col. Irby pulled up his
sleeves and did not joke as much as
usual, and Mr. Mayfield talked right
plainly out in meeting. Although
there are but 1,500 voters in this
county, the four candidates battled for
over four hours to make the best impression.
The attention and the audience
were ideal.
Mr. Dnncan sent his regrets at not
being able to be present
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.
What the Regulur Weekly Bulletin
Says About Cotton.
Observer Bauer in his weekly bulletin
of the weather and crops of the
State has this to say about cotton:
"The condition of cotton has improved
in many places, but the stalk
generally continues undersized, although
well fruited, with full grown
bolls numerous. Bolls nearly read^tj
open in southeastern counties, xns
prevailing unseasonable cool nights
hindered the growth, and caused the
plant to become lousy, while 'honey
dew' is reported from a number ci
counties. Shedding of leaves, squares
and small bolls is quite common. Man y
fields are becoming grassy, and in
Fairfield some fields have been abandoned
on account of the grass. Ruit
has developed in Barnwell, Bamberg,
Florence and Williamsburg cohnties.
Over quite large areas there has been
too much rain for cotton. Laying-by
is well under way, and more than half
the reports indicate that the fields 'laid
by are clean and in good condition.
"Notwithstanding the numerous adverse
reports from eastern and central
counties, the majority of all reports indicate
that the present oondition of the
crop is promising, but that it is in a
critical stage. A continuation of rainy
weather will, by hindering cultivation,
of which many fields stand in need,
tend to cause deterioration in condition.
Sea Island cotton continues to
dowAU."
CLE31 SON COLLEGE.
Board of Trustees Want Further Investigation.
There seems to be considerable dif/?#
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of trustees of Clemsoc and the State
board of health. The latter has made
restrictions on the 6amtary arrangements
of the college which members
of the board of trustees do not think
correct. The doctors, for instance, say
that the fever at the college was typhoid.
while the board, acting on the
statement of physicians living in the
neighborhood, sav it was only malaria.
It is understood that the board of trustees
requested Dr. JJabcock to go to
Clemson and make an inveatigation,
but he declined because of the pressure
of duties at the Hospital for the
Insane, as well as the fact that the
board of health is supreme in such
matters. According to tho h.w creat
igg the board it has what may be
termed supreme power. They can say
such and such a disease is typhoid fever
and it goes. They can order certain
changes insanitary arrangements
to be made and that settles it. Hence
no physician would be justified in going
against them from a legal standpoint;
and professionally doctors never
disagree. ?The Register.
MORE XE^COUNTIES.
Stonewall and DeKalb Are the Ne:st
to Appear.
It appeers that there are two move
new county schemes looming up on the
horizon. At present the Edisto County
election is tho only one pending. Here
is what is said about the latest schemts
in the Sumter Item:
"The defeat of Lee county leaves the
battle to be fought out between Stonewall
and DeKalb. The advocates of the
first favor Wisacky for the county seat,
while those who are working for DeKalb
thing Magnolia Lynchburg an
deal location for a court house townV
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His Discussion in Committee on His
Dispensary Bill.
JOLLIED BY SPEAKER REED.
"Courts Have Flopped" Said Tlllntan;
"Only the Last Flop Courts,"
Kemarkod Iteea.
"J. B. H.," in a specie,1 froni Washington
to the State, has :his to say of
the hearing before the comn.ittee on
rules on Senator Tillman's dispensary
bill:
Senator Tillman argued that the effect
of the dicisions of the United
States courts was to render it impossible
for any State to enact a law which
in any way interfered with f *ee commerce
between the States on the subject
of liquor. He reviewed the decisions,
and read freely from tho report
which he had presented to thf Senate
from the committee on commence upon
the bill. He argued the "police
power" had been by those tlecisions
reduced to practically nothing. That
no State could go further than Maine
and Kansas, which allowed sales only
for medicinal and mechanical Dumoses.
though, he said, Maine has, in violation
of law, some four be,loons.
Speaker Reed remarked: "Well,
those, you -know, txe for strangers."
Senator Tillman continued that it
had required some 30 odd acts to form
the Maine law as it now stands. That
South Carolina had been for the past
four years trying to perfect its law,
adapting it to the decisions of the Supreme
Court, and when she thought
she had at last succeeded, Judge
Simonton came in and paralyzed the
whole business. That it wan a police
law, as judged by its eflects, for drunkenness
and consumption of liquor had
been by it reduced one-half. But the
Supreme Court had decided th at in law
it was not an exercise of the police
power. That the cou:rt hat flopped
from one side to the other and the last
flop knocked the law endwise.
Speaker Reed here interjected, sotto
voice: "Well, you know, we must be
bound by the last 'flop.'"
Tillman continued that it wis necessary
to pass the bill if any Stale is to be
permitted to control the whiikey evil
along the Gottenbnrg idea, and that
the sentiment was growing all over the
of f v? Q f TVOO f vl XX r? .xarxxcf Qn.
proach that could be made to prohibition.
His argument lasted -10 minutes. The
Speaker was throwing bricks ut him, in
a pleasant way, all through it, and it
was soon evident that he was against
giving the bill the right of way in the
House.
Mr. J. P. K. Bryan followed with an
argument of SO minutes. He took the
position that this Union is a commercial
union, and that the passage of such
a bill as Senator Tillman's wo lid be destructive,
pro tanto, of such union, and
unconstitutional. He quoted the decision
of the Supreme Co art in Bowman
vs. Railway, affirmed in Scott vs. Donald,
that "what does not belong to
commerce belcngs to the police power,
and what does belong to commerce
does not belong tc the police
power," which, he claimed,
was the key of the controversy. That
the courts had decided that South Carolina
was engaged in a monopoly which
was destructive of commerce, and that
the dispensary law was therefore illegal.
This bill was designed to perpetuate
that illegal monopoly. The people
of the State aid not wish theiastituion,
and chiefly on account of its administration
by Gov. Evans, they repudiated
that gentleman at the senatorial election
last year bv 4,000 majority. That
Congress should not fasten upon the
people a condition of affairs they did
not wish, and :from which the decisions
of the courts had practically freed
them. He stated that the people believed
the system was reeking with dishonesty,
in rebates, shortages, etc.
He asked the committee to stay its
hand.
Congressman Elliott followed in a
short argument, re-enforcing the statements
of Mr. Bryan, and giving some
incidents of the oppression cf the law
and the illegal acts of its officers.
Congressman Latimer followed. He '
argued tha: the question affected every
State in the Union, and that Vfr. Bryan
and Mr. Elliott shouldnottry to reduce
it to a question of South Carl)Una politics,
upon which, local! v,there were two |
sides. He said that the eflect of the
decisions was that there must now be
either total prohibition or high license
?no middle gronnd. That the dispensary
in South Carolina had occupied
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tnat miaaie grouuu;t?uu me (uuru ijbving
decided that it had n at done so
legally, this bill was for the purpose of
enabling such system or syslems like it
to legally exist, by wiping out the I
question of police power entirely, which
was the only thing that stood in the
way. He resented seme oi the statements
made by Col. Elliott. Here he
and Congress'man Elliot exchanged
some remarks of a rather personal nature
which did not throw any light on
the discussion.
Senator Tillman closed. His remarks
were in reply to Mr. Bryan's
references to the administration of the
dispensary. He stated that there
were no shortages or bickerings
amongst officers while he was Governor,
and tho~e things, or tae charges
of them, had arisen since he became
Senator. He denied that the dispensary
had weakened in its hold upon tho
people of the State. That i ;s great resistance
and unpopu arity was in the
city of Charleston, which was the j
home of secession, and that citvhad
seceded against this law as it did in
1860; that the people there thought
they should control :he entire State.
He believed the people were as much
in favor of the law a.', heretofore. He
closed by deprecating the local and
factional turn that hail been given to
the discussion and expressed the hope
that the speaker would give him the rule
as he knew v.-hatever he, the speaker,
said, went with the House, though he
did not wish to be considered as making
any reflection upon the other members
of the committee.
The speaker blandly ren arkeil that I
he knew there had been ' senatorial" 1
remarks of tiiat kind, but he could not
% ,
admit their correctness.
Senator Tillman replied, in good nature,
that perhaps he should not have
said it, but he had made the statement
in the Senate and at a banquet, and he
never said anything behind a man's I
back he would not sa}* before his face, j
Mr. Reed pleasantly replied: Yes, but
some things are better if not said."
PALMETTO POINTERS.
Thhe Richland Volunteers have decided
to remain a part of the State militia.
The colored operatives in the Beaufort
Knitting Mill promise to prove a
success, it is said.
At Barnwell Messrs. T. H. and W. W.
Wannamaker were acquitted in the killin?
o* Ckas. Jones at Bamberg on June
22d.
Grading on the branch of the Ohio
River and Charleston railroad from
Blacksburg to Gaflfney is progressing
finely.
The city electric light plant at Laurens
began operations successfully and
the town is brilliantly illuminated by
arc lights.
The dispensary at Florence has been
robbed. It is said that a two-horse
wagon was used to carry away the O-tobe-joyful.
At Charleston William Munsenmayera
white boy, 18 years old, was accident,
ally shot and killed by a youth of 18
years of age, Frank Sims.
Near Camden, Taylor Belton, colored,
shot Charles Swerigen, a white man,
in his melon patch. The wounds are
not fatal, and Belton was not arrested.
Work on the foundation of the Converse
College Infirmary has been begun.
It is to be a neat two-story brick
building attached to the main building
in the rear. Work will be pushed
speedily.?Spartanburg Herald.
It is stated upon good authority that
the Southern railway will very soon
put on daily trains between Columbia
and Greenville. No official announcement
has yet been made but it is believed
that the change will go into
effect at an early date.
The Walterboro Dry Kiln and Planit
g Mill Company's entire plant has
been totally destroyed by fire. Four car
loads of dressed lumber and all lumber
in yard and several empty box cars were
destroyed also. Loss about820,000; insurance
312,000. The plant will be rebuilt
at an early date.
Spsrtanburg county will not be able
to hold the Court of Common Pleas
until the Legislature meets. In the
formation of Greenwood county the
Act creating it tacked it on to this
circuit and fixed the time for holding
the Civil Court at the same time set
for the Spartanburg courts. That be
ing so the last Act repeals the former
one. Cases cannot be docketed unless
by consent of both parties to a suit
No jury -will be drawn for the Court of
Common Pleas at the next term. Judge
Buchanan will return and hear equity
cases one week. The Court of Oeneral
Sessions will go on as usual. ?News and
Courier.
STATE FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
A Plan of Interest to Volunteer Fire
Departments.
At Greenville on the 21st a meeting
of the officers of the volunteer Are department
was held at the city hall for
the purpose of issuing a call to the volunteer
companies of the State, to meet
in the above city in August and form a
State Firemen's Association.
Such an organization as is proposed
to be formed has been talked of often
heretofore. Similar ones are in 01-oration
in North Carolina, Virginia, G eorgia
and other adjacent States. Their
object is to promote the relations of
firemen and hold annual tournaments
and conventions, the dues of the various
members to be used in making up
purses.
It was decided to send out a call to
the chiefs of all the departments in the
State and to every volunteer company,
asking each chiel ana a representative
from each company to meet in Greenville
daring the reunion of the Confederate
Veterans in August, when the
matter will be discussed and the association
probably formed. This time
was chosen on account of the low rates
that may be had for railway transportation.
The date of the meeting will
be announced later, but it will be about
the 24th or 25th of August. The local
firemen will entertain the delegates
who come in response to the calL
ABBEVILLE'S NEW RAILED AD
Will Run From Pelzer via Due West$25,000
Ra'sed.
A railroad meeting that means a good
deal, for Abbeville was held hut week.
The road is to run from Pelzer to Abbeville
viaDueWest and the bus: lessmen
of this town met with thedete: aination
to secure it. Abbeville voted $15,000,
part of which will be raised by subscription
and the remainder by bonds.
Interesting speeches were made by Col.
Smytbe, of Pelzer; Dr. wiueman, 01
Due West, Josh Ashley, of Honea
Path, and Messrs. Parker and McGowau.
of the above city.
Due West is to raise $?>,000 to have
the road go by there instead of Antreville.
This will give Abbeville three
roads, and they have secured them by
the prompt action of the business
men.
FOR ALLTSOLDIERS.
Gen. Walker Issues Another Genera!
Order to the Confederate Veterans.
The following general order has been
issued by the South Carolina Division,
United Confederate Veterans:
Charleston, S. C., July 18, 181)7.
General Orders No. 30: Notice has
been given these headquarters and in
accordance with the constitution it is
extended to the various camps, that at
the approaching convention of this division
it will be moved to amend the
.-ioustitutiou so as to incorporate therein
the provisions of General Order No.
20, relating to the formation of county
regiments.
By command of Major Gen. C. I.
Walker.
James G. Holmes,
Adjutant General, Chief of Stall'.
THE H03IK OF BILL XYE.
Summer Girl of Mountain Cities In
the Lund of the Sky.
Asheville, N. C.?July 24.?(Special
Correspondence.) ? Not many milea C
from this place lived Bill Nye?alas,
poor William, the people about here A
knew him well?and they have many
queer stories which they tell of him ; (
and many which the humorist in hi*
perigrination throughout this picturesque
region would tell to them.
It was Nye who gave the memorable
account of how it was that Yanderbilt
happened to settle in this rare and
rarificfl amotirm nf thn Snnfh
"George and me worked thecombination,"
he said. "We have tastes of
the same hue, often a dark brown. I'm
long on gray matter; he has the long -l
green. We pitched our tents side by ,'jj
side?this proves the greatness of menu
to say nothing of the country round
about."
But Nye has passed, and there is no ~ 4
monument save a cottage far up the ?&
river. Vanderbilt remaineth, and like
old Horace, he has erected a monument 'jci
more enduring than brass. Since the .'> !!
visit of McKiuley, when he refused to :
enter the estate unless an invitation waa
extended to the correspondents accompanying
him, newspaper men hare
rather risen in the estimation of Hard- w
ing, the surly English sub-manager, .
and more extended courtesies are shown
them.
But Biltmore is only an accessory feature
of this luxurious section. Ifcrep*
resents the artificial, and looking at it*
in this contrasted light with the limitless
wealth of nature spread ont in ita ; >
grandest forms, the scene makes a study
which i3 interesting and not soon to be t*
forgotten.
Asheville, just at this season, bfeoomea
the summer girl of the mountain oitiea.
She gets on a cool shirt-waist, with a
jaunty sailor hat and bedecks herself jn
the refreshing greenery of the season.
She looks delightfully cool, and there *,
is an air of comfort and serene satisfaction
in her manner that she can ddfy
the blistering heat which wilts her
rivals and sends them indoors. Instead
of retreating from the sun, Asheville ?
gets out and glories in its glare, for it
is tempered by a stiff breeze which
comes down from the crown of mountains
around; she goes a golfing, riga '?
up in wheeling costume for a spin, gets
into tennis paraphernalia, or starts oat
on a jaunt up the river for a try at
mountain trout.
Just now Asheville is on the verge
of the summer season. For the next
three months it will beagavplaoe?gay
in a summer way, for the town IS '
always lively and wears the air. of
prosperity throughout the Whole year. }'}\
The popular idea of Asheville is erroneous.
1 had pictured the place aa a 4
small mountain city, with two or threo
big hotels near bv and Biltmore and ;
Ed McKissick in the rear ground' In* r
stead, here is one of the most metronolitsl
towns in sDoearance in tbab-fbsfi
South. The people here . fall enjoyment
of life. The business part of tad'/^SB
city is in the bottom of a hugh basin
scooped out among the mountains and
eliced in two by the Swannanoa and M
French B.-oad. Here arj mile; of paved
streets, put down, by the way, by the
late Qeneral Pierce M. B. Young, who
secured the contract some years. before
he accepted his foreign appointment
From these radiate driveways which A
stretch in all directions and penetmte . - 1
the enciroling hills and heights, reach- i
ing far into the mean tains. It ie on n
this range of intermediate hills that tha
residences and resorts nave been built .
and on every protruding knob there ie
some majestic hotel or house which
gives a good effect to the general scene. <
The Southern Railway has made a
recent change in schedules, which puts
in trains from all sections at moat - enavenient
hours.
The Macon people are taking advan- c
tage of a train whioh leaves that aiigr }
At 7 10 o. m. and seta to this place M ^
9.45 a. m. The same train leaves Asheville
at 9 p. m. and arrives in Atlanta . ,
at 5.10 a. m., and in Maoon at 8.15
o'c lock.
Arrangements for transportation between
Charleston, Savannah and Co- ,
lnmbia are equally convenient The ;
train leaving here at 8.20 a m. gets to
Charleston at 8 p. m. <2
Drawing room cars have been pat on
between Jacksonville, Savannah, Asheville
and Cincinnati The train leaving
here at a 05 p. m. arrives in Savannah
at 5 a. m. and at Jacksonville at
9.10 a.m. Leaving Savannah at 11.85 *
p. m. and Jacksonville at 7, the trip is <
made to Asheville by 2.45 o'clook in
the afternoon.
Drawing room cars have been placed
on between New York. Philadelphia,
Chattanooga, Baltimore, Washington,
Salisbury and Nashville.
Leaving Asheville at 8.80 p. m. the i
trip is made to Chattanooga by 11.85
p. m.; arriving at Nashville at 6.40
a. m.
Leaving Asheville at 2.25 p. m the
trip is made to Washington at 8.42 a.
m., to Baltimore at 8 a. m., Philadelphia,
12.43 p. m., and New York at
12.52 p. m.
Trains 15 and 10 carry through Pullman
drawing cars between Norfolk.
Baleieh, Greensboro, Chattanooga ana
Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 1.17
a. m., Chattanooga is reached at
7.40 a. m. and Nashville at 1:35 p. m.
Leaving Asheville at 2.44 a. m., the
trip is made to Greensboro by 8.80, ! >
Norfolk at 5.25 p. m.
Trains 3, 5 and 6, between Asheville i}
and Morristown, make connections
with trains to and from Memphis, New
Orleans and the South. Double daily
trains run on the Murphy branch between
Ashville and Bryson City.
This change in trAius give excellent
connection from Asheyille with all
??! >*? Tliraa trains nmriA in Hnrinc thft
- c,
day from the West, and three leave in
the same direction; three come in and
depart from the South, and there are
two out and in from the East and
North.
Just, now ^plipville. ig, fillias: ud.
Crowds are coming in irom all sections.
The season is just on, and will ,
be more brilliant than any of former
years.
A Baltimore minister has declared
that all ministers who are spiritually
alive must denounce from their pulpitd
dancing, card-playing, theater-going ^
and bicycle riding. This pastor is evl- ?
dently pained at the sight of seeing others
happy. We think it was Macaulay
who said that the puritans abolishedbear-baiting
in England, not because
it hurt the bears, but. because It gavet
pleasure to the spectators. j