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"you are damming back the waters, but when in 1890 the waters come on with a full head, there will be some tine grinding done." I was told then by one of the leaders of the government: "Oh you have your party under your hat; the people do not back you but I believe that that leader realizes to-night whether he or I was a prophet. I do not prize you have given me, for mv conscience has been clear and I slept all night. I did not lie awake disturbed by that bad bed-fellow a guilty conscience. If your vindication had not been given and you bad dismissed me from your counsels, I would have slept just as sweetly, because I was actuated all the time by what I considered my duty; but nevertheless you have given to me a priceless heritage to hand down to my obildren. The revolution through which we haye pass' ed, for it is nothing else, has naturally caused a great many men to sink to the bottom, and on the other hand has elevated others from the bottom to the top.

That is always the result of a political revolution. Those on top resisted going down. They did all they could to keep the wheel from moving, but it would turn. But in any eyent, when elected, I can only do the beet lean. Angels can do no more.

You all remember the words of the poet: "He who serves or subdues ii'ankind Must look down," etc. I must take the hatred for my portion. I cannpt help it. It is here and it seems to me that it is ineradicable; but I can say truthfully here to-night that I cherish no animosity or personal feeling against any Anti-Tillmanite 10 South Carolina who has treated me with dAcfinov. There are a few isolated instances in which It would be a lie for me to say that I do not hold resentment.

But I recognize that they have rights. I have no eumities to gratify, and do not expect to punish those who haye opposed me politically. My line of conduct, so long as 1 shall be in control of the government, try to get the best men in public capacities for the benefit of the people. I have made no pledges to anybody. I am here with clean hands.

I have promised no one who may want office that he shall do thus and so. I went before the people on the merits of the question which I discussed under its issues, and I stand here the governor of the State, or the nominee for the governorship, and no earthly power can prevent my election unless I do. I stand here, I say, atiected by none of those contaminating interests which usually surround and environ politicians. I am no bolter, thank God! There are some things which I could wish differently, and I confess that I think that those who opposed me and were fairly, honestly and squarely beaten, should have long since subsided gracefully. Bnt about ten days ago the county, in which this city is, by resolution passed under this roof, instructed its representatives in this convention to withhold their endorsement of the action making my nomination unanimous.

Let us contrast things a little. I have been in politics about five years. 1 came here in '86 with about one hundred and twenty men, sent without concert of action, and promiscuously in the interest of reform. Well, they beat us, but when the nomination was proposed to be made unanimous, we voted for the motion and went home and elected the ticket. I came here again in with one hundred and forty men, and we were again beaten, and you know how.

Like good Democrats and good citizens we mla'de that nomination unanimous, and went forward with the work without a murmur stood up to the rack like men and elected the ticket. But now, forsooth, because the people, by amajority unexampled in the history of the Slate and with a unanimity unknown in its records; have seen lit to place me at the head of the government, What do we behold? The action of the Richland delegation is like the absence of Pompey's statue at Caesar's feast. Ctesar had given a feast to the Roman populace to try to increase his popularity. In his villa, surrounded by tine lawns and flower gardens, he had set up here and there the statue of all the worthies except that of Pompey, the Great. The very absence of Potnpey, the man who had died for the constitution and for the liberty of Rome, called the attention of the people to Caesar's attempt to cast a slur on his antagonist.

So Ttiohland's refusal to endorse the Democratic ticket unanimously, only points the application of this reference; aye, and does more, it shows a lack of the appreciation of the courtesies of life. White supremacy must be maintained at all hazards, and even if the minority of the white men will do as it has been threatened and as they have done on the coast, it gives me no alarm. You put this Democratic banner in my hands, the Straigbtout banner which was first brought into prominence in Edgefield in 1876. I have no more fear on the line of danger to the Democracy except in a few isolated flaces, than I have that I will be killed, and have no fear of that. I take it that it may be unnecessary, but I desire to put a contradiction on record just here.

It has gone abroad that I had myself guarded in Charleston. It is an infamous lie. I did not know it was done until I had left the citv. I shall not detain you much longer, but there is one point in the future policy of my administration and that of the gentlemen to be associated with me to which I deem in necessary to toach pnblic debt. The gravest question which confronts us at the present time is bow to pay the bonds which beeome-due- in 1893.

It has been said by some of those who claim to be experienced in finance that they "fear that these inexperienced men willnot be able to refund the debt." My answer to them is this: I have always paid my own debts, and, in the name of God, why should I try, as has been asserted I would do, to bring discredit on the State of South Carolina, or injure her credit "Voices, "You'll never do it." Well, again, our phosphate beds, which barely bring now a rental of over 1200,000, can be increased in renting value, and proper care may maintain them so, for I know whereof I speak. Charleston's credit should be among the best, and I feel that before my term expires it' will be as high and perhaps higher, than it has ever been. If the effort to refund the bonds fail, or the old bondholders refuse to take new ones, honesty demands that the State will sell the bonds for what they will bring and pay the debt, dollar for dollar, and nothing else can be done. I say, therefore, that all this twaddle about inexperience is not worth snap of the finger). It does not need experience to pay honest debts.

It only neeas the means. One word more, fellow Democrats, and I have done. of "Go on," I have touched upon the necessity for harmony. I stand here to-night, and I plead for harmony. I begged those gentlemen who opposed me in March to let the leopard alone and he would change his spots.

They did not heed the advice and I used my ciaws. If you are true Carolinians, and, whether you are Tillman or Anti-Tillman, lay aside all resentment and bitterness and feelings of revenge; uphold my hands and I say to you that South Carolina is bound to move forward, and from to-night there should be a new epoch. New forces are at work, and in a word we are born again; not because I have been nominated, but because you, the rank and file, have begun to study your interests and have determined no longer to stay at home with your rvovmU USliy wurt ItUU uiotvunuuiac, yvtuiLv a few politicians to conduct your affairs. I ask you to bear to my thanks. I ask you to accept my on the success of the fight we have fought together, arid I bid of you who are victorious endeavor, even by yielding some of your rights if necessary, to cease idle and puerile debating over unessential points.

Recollect that the unity of the party in the counties themselves is necessary for the well-being of the party in the State, and for good government in the counties. Get together. Put your shoulders to the wheel and we will move the old State upward and onward to a glorious future of peace and prosperity, which I foel can be achieved if our people will recollect that the cardinal principle of good goverment is self-government, and that with self-goyernment attained, the censure for its mismanagement must be laid on the governing people themselves. I thank you for your attention. Speeches were also made by all the other nominees except Dr.

Bates, and at 6.30 a. the convention adjourned sine die. SKETCHES OF THE NOMINEES. From The News and Courier. GOVERNOR B.

R. TILLMAN. Benjamin Ryan Tillman, the nominee of the "Farmers' Movement" party for governor of South Carolina, was born in Edgefield county on the 11th of August, 1847. His place of birth was at the Tillman homestead, Chester, which is but a part of the family estates, which cover about 10,000 acres. This homestead has been in the possession of the family for more than one hundred and twenty years.

The Tillmans came to America with Lord Baltimore, and settled first in Maryland. The name was probably, at that early date, spelled Tilghinan, as the weir-known general of that name belongs to the family which came over with Lord Baltimore. The settlement in South Carolina of be ancestors of the subject of this sketch was made on Horse creek, Edgefield county. Capt. Ben.

Tillman's father was named Benjamin Ryan Tillman. His colonial ancestors, Ryans and Tillmans, were Whigs and did good service in open and guerilla warfare against the Tories and other followers of Lord Cornwallis. They suffered persecution and retaliated in kind, as was the custom in the guerilla warfare of those days. On one tract or the Tillman lands is a place known as Shelving Rock, which was often the refuge of the Tillmans and Ryans and other Whig families. At another place is an historic tree, on which a Tory paid the penalty of his crimes.

At a third place is the Murder Field, so called from the fact that in that an ancestor of Capt. Tillman, a Ryan, was murdered by two of his slaves. Capt. Tillman now owns about 1,800 acres of the original tract and lives at his owa homstead, called "High View," near Roper's station, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad. Capt.

Tillman obtained his elementary edu cation at the old field school of George Golphin, at which school Senator Butler and Mart Gary were prepared for college. He left school in 1864, and soon thereafter was prostrated by a severe attack of fever by which he lost his left eye. This affliction made the young Tillman an invalid for two years. When he recovered he applied himself to reading and "read everything he could lay his on." His chief delight wes in poetry and novels. In poetry his taste was for the British classics, Milton, Pope, Dryden and Scott; in novels ho had all the standard works, including Scott, Bulwer, Dickens and Thackeray.

The library at his home, at High View, contains a number of the beat booke of this period and the period of the others just named. In 1867-68 Capt. Tillman lived in Florida, and on his return to South Carolina in 1858 t. married Miss Sallie A. Starke, of Elbert county, Miss Starke, although living ir.

Georgia, was of the South Carolina family of Starkes who reside in Fairfield county. On returning to South Carolina he devoted himself exclusively to farming, the study of agriculture and general reading. When the revolution of 1876 was being brought about, Capt. Tillman took an active part in the organization of th9 Democracy of his sectiou of Edgefield, and subsequently participated in some of the most perilous undertakings on behalf of the redemption of tho State. As early, however, as 1874, he was actively engaged in fighting for white supremacy, and'was on hand in the Ned Tennaut riots of that year.

Under Capt. A. P. Butler, as a member of the Edgefield Hussars, he took part in the Hamburg riot, the history of which is familiar to the country. Again, at the time of the Ellenton riot, he went down from his township with a company to the rescue, buton reaching Rouse's Bridge he found that the difficulty bad been settled by the United States troops.

The company which he commanded then was armed and equipped at private expense. Capt. Tillman followed the fortunes of the Democracy up to the doors of the State house in 1876, at the time of the formation of the Wallace House. It was he who took the message 1 fKo AAT1 fftf. 10 nauipcuu luvmug mui atium.

ence of the Straightout party on the night before the State House was investod by Federal troops. He was one of the six or seven thousand who stood in front of the capitol protesting with John C. Sheppard against the high-handed exclusion of the Laurens and Edgefield delegations. It was at this period, rather than any other, in which be laid the foundation for his personal popularity in his county. He was next heard of as delegate to the State convention of 1882, in which he voted for Gen.

Bratton for governor. Capt. Tillman is about tive feet ten inches in height, and dresses usually in the plain but substantial garb of the well-to-do Carolina farmer. His family consists of a wife and five daughters and two sons. He is considered a very successful farmer, his prosperity being due to an undivided attention to business, which has only been broken by the necessities of his recent canvass of the State.

All the lines of his face indicate determination and independence of spirit and action, and this impression is heightened by the firm set of his lips and a very direct and continuous gaze when in conversation. To the casual observer Capt. Tillman appears to be very ascetic in habit and decidedly of an unsociable nature. On the contrary he is at all times accessible, and while he is capable of the most bitter and uncivil sarcasm ana denunciation, that is not one of his methods of argument which is most generally exercised. All of his arguments on the campaign were very remarkable for being upon facts actual or alleged.

His favorite method in the campaign was the bo'd assertion of statements from which he drew the conclusions which became the real points at issue in the struggle. It was the exception when he was ever charged with misquoting a public record. His constructions and deductions were always the sole causes of attack both on thestump and in the newspapers. It has been conceded tnat Capt. Tillman made a fearless, if at times reckless, fight, and was congratulated on the close of the campaign by his opponents for his endurance and pluck.

The more notable of his faculties in debate are his aptness in repartee or rejoinder, and bis power or self-control. During the heat of debate in the campaign there were, nevertheless, several lamentable failures of his efforts atselfcontrol, a special instance being the Dargan incident during his Anderson speech. The amende-honorable, which was subsequently made to Dargan, was the subject of compliment in nearly all of the papers in the State. In the house of his friends Capt. Tillman is a type of the sociable Carolina farmer.

Although not communicative, be is always courteous to visitors and strangers, and he seldom talks politics unless the subject is broached. In this way he has succeeded in retaining the friendship of many who are opposed to him in 1 policy anu pnucivio. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR GARY. The nominee for lieutenant-governor, Col. Eugene B.

Gary, was bornatCokesbury, S. August 22,1854. He is a Democrat of the school of his distinguished dead kinsman, Gen. Mart Gary, under whom he studied law. Col.

Gary's education was completed at the State university. He is an earnest speaker, and during the recent campaign was fearless and outspoken. He cast his fortunes with Tillman, and stood on nearly every plank of the March convention platform. Col. Gary is a very agreeable talker, and is well up in the general literature of the day.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL POPE. Gen. Y. J. Pope was born in Newberry and is now 51 years of age.

He was grad uated from the Furman University, 8. in 1860. In 1861 he entered the war and remained in service to its close. He was adjutant of the 3d South Carolina Volunteers in May, 1862, and remained in that position, except when acting as adjutant-general for Gen. James Connor.

He bears on his body tfce scars of battle, having been wounded in five battles. After the war be resumed the study of the law, and in 1866 entered upon the practice at In 1866 he was elected by the legislature district judge of Newberry, and served as such until 1868, when the Republicans took charge of the State. From 1868 through 1876 he was in every political campaign to drive from power the Republican party in South Carolina. In 1877 he took his seat in the house of representatives as a member from Newberry. There he espoused the cause of the State against her illegal public debt, was elected assistant counsel for the State to conduct with Attorney-General Youmans and the Hon.

Henry A. Meetze, the famous test bond cases, which resulted in a saving to the State of In 1877 he was commissioned brigadier general of the 10th brigade of militia. In 1876 he was county chairman of the Democratic party for Newberry, winning golden opinions from all. In 1872 he represented the citizens of Laurens and Newberry against the prosecution before the United States circuit court, Judge Bond. In 1888 Gen.

Pope was elected to the State senate from Newberry county, and still holds iL" LT Lnn LAAR fiATrnnnl fimna bUO XIOUOO UUUU OUUA.UU VI OOVUiai for the circuit bench, ana has been a candidate for attorney-general before several State conventions. During the recent campaign Gen. Pope went with Capt. Tillman from the mountains to the sea, ana was one of the most effective of the stump speakers. He will doubtless devote all his talents and energies to the discharge of his duties as attorney-general, and those who know him best predict that he will acquit himself with honor and distinction.

STATE TREASURER BATES. Dr. C. T. Bates is a native of Orangeburg county, his birth place being old McCantsville.

From his earliest boyhood he was noted for his foresight. Fortunately he had efficient instructors in his early schooldays, being the pupil at different times of such educators as the Hon. Samuel Dibble, Joel Townsend, J. H. Buchanan and Virgil C.

Dibble. When the war began he was attending school under Mr. Samuel Dibble as principal, but, like all true South Carolinians, he laid aside his books and went into the field. The State had no more valued soldier than he. His record in war is one to be proud of.

His gallant deeds in military service in Capt. Alfred Fredericks's cavalry, in opposing and checking to some extent at Sisters Ferry, on the Savannah river, Sherman's devasting advance into South Carolina, his proficiency as courier for Gen. Stephenson, and his work at Rowesville and on the Santee, in withstanding Potter's raiders, excited admiration. When the war was over, after pushing his studies under Mr. V.

C. Dibble, he entered the University of South Carolina. He was a diligent student and was graduated with the degree of A. B. He took special iuterest in chemistry.

He was a member of the Chi-Psi fraternity and of the Clariosophic Literary Society. His society selected him'as their valedictory orator, and his oration on "Duty" made a lasting impression. At the Univenuty he pursued simultaneously with his literary course the study of medicine, attending regularly all the lectures, and upon graduation continued his course at the Belleyue Hospital, New York. After finishing his course he located at St. Matthew's, where he built up an extensive and lucrative practice.

From the beginning he took a very high stand in his profession, and the limitsof his practice were by no means the town and vicinity of St. Matthew's, for he was summoned to all parts of the county to visit patients when it was necessary to have the greatest skill and the utmost care and attention. In 1872 he was married to Miss Minnie B. Wannamaker, the daughter of the late Dr. W.

W. Wannamaker. He owned a large plantation at St. Matthew's and in connection with kin cjiinnaoofo 11 tt rmHiuoforl monv Q(ipOfl HIS I9UVV0001U11T Itiwiij uo. In 1882 be was called to Columbia to accept the position of assistant physician in thr'nsane asylum.

His work in that institution -as resiricted solely to the female department. Soon after he located in Columbia he was elected 6resident of the Richland Medical Society. health failing he was compelled to resign his position in the asylum, and in 1886 he returned to St. Matthew's and purchased several large Rlantations and settled down to quiet farm fe. He is one of the most successful farmers in the country and runs a model farm, cultivated after the modern scientific methods.

Since he retired from the practice of medicine he has not been a mere simple tiller of the soil, but has made farming a success. Dr. Bates is well known as an able financier. He is president of the St. Matthew's Saving's bank, and under his administration the bank has prospered and is successful even beyond the most sanguine hopes and expectations.

Dr. Bates is also a director of tne St. Matthew's Building and Loan Association, and St. Matthew's Manufacturing andWarehouse company. Dr.

Bates is a firm and true Democrat. In the darkest days of South Carolina he was oue of the foremost in inspiring the white yoters to rally to the rescue of tne State from Republican rule. He has frequently represented Orangeburg county in conventions, State and county, and was a member of the executive committee of the Farmers' State Association. Dr. Bates is a quiet, aifable and unassuming gentleman, whose character is unimpeachable and who every one believes is prompted by sincere and honest motives.

COMPTROLLER-OENERAL ELLEKRE. William H. Ellerbo, of Marion, the nominee for comptroller-general, is one of the youngest men who has ever been honored with a place on the State ticket in South Carolina, being only about 32 years of age. He is a planter and merchant and a very successful man of business. is tall and slender, but moves with grace and dignity.

He is a member of one of the oldest and most respected families of the PeeDee country. He received his collegiate education at Wofford College. He was one of the first to rally around Capt. Tillman, and has stood squarely by him throughout the recenl exciting campaign. Mr.

Ellerbe is not of an excitable nature, and has not allowed himself to be carried away by the passion and prejudice that have prevailed during the past six months. He has always been an open and fair fighter, and enjoys the confidence and respect of those who opposed his side in Marion county. lie has never held public oftice before, lie was put before the legislature several years ago as a candidate for a member of the board of agriculture by a farmers' caucus, but was defeated by Mr. 6uck, of Horry. He is eminently competent for the office for which he has been nominated, and will no doubt make a safe and conservative official.

ADJUTANT- GEN KRAI. FARLKY. Capt. Hugh. L.

Farley is 42 years of ago and a native of Laurens county. He entered tho army in 1861 when 16 years of age, and served throughout the war, and was promoted for gal, lantry at the battle of Chickamauga. After the war he was for several years engaged in planting on the coast near Charleston, and returned to the up country during the election troubles of 1869-70 and was among the prisoners sent to Columbia during the Laurens persecutions. He removed to Spartanburg in 1871 and was for a while connected with the Spartanburg and Union railroad there, and afterwards assumed editorial control of The Spartan, which he conducted with marked ability for four years. He took an active part in the campaign of 1876 in Spartanburg and adjoining counties, and has since engaged in the profession of law.

He was elected to the legislature from Spartanburg county in 1886 and was generally in his seat. Capt. Farley was a great admirer of Mart Gary and has been actively identified with the Tillman movement for the last six or eight months. He has been several times a candidate for the office to which he has been nominated. During the recent campaign he made a thorough canvass of the State and delivered quite a number of speecnes.

SUPERINTENDENT OK EDUCATION MATFIELD. Mr. W. D. Mayfield, the nominee for superintendent of education, is a resident of Greenville, aud is a lawyer by profession.

He is a large land owner and is a man of considerable property. In personal appearance he is tall and rather awkward in his movements. He is of spare build and wears no beard save a delicate mustache. He has a solemn bearing, Rnd if a little younger would be taken for a divinitj' student. He is a member of a large and inlluential family, who are scattered over the extreme Piedmont counties.

He is a Baptist in religion, and has a brother who is a prominent minister of that denomination. He has served the people of Greenville in the capacity of school commissioner, and made an acceptable and faithful officer. He is about 40 years of and is in the best health. He announced his candidacy at the opening meeting of the campaign in Greenville, last June, and took bis stand sqnarely on Capt. Tillman's platform.

He went-to every one of the campaign meetings and did all that he could to bring about the results of the recent convention. Ibe fatMle (ftqirim. YORKVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1890.

DIRECT TRADE FOR THE SOUTH. The conventioo of delegates from the Southern States met in Atlanta last Wednesday to consider the question of direct trade from Southern ports to Europe. Delegates were present from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Governors Fowle, of North Carolina, Fleming, of Florida, and Gordon, of Georgia, headed their re spective delegations. Tne convention was called at the suggestion and request of the Georgia State Alliance Gov.

Gordon called the convention to order. R. F. Burke, secretary of the State Alliance, was secretary, and the convention organized with Col. W.

J. Northen, the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, as president. Vice presidents were chosen as follows: North Carolina, Gov. Fowle; Florida, Gov. Fleming; South Carolina, M.

L. Donaldson: Alabama, C. M. Shelley; Tennessee, J. F.

Tillman. The feature of the morning session was an address by C. P. Goodyear, of Brunswick, in which he told of former efforts to bring about direct trade. He presented figures showing the marvelous growth of the Southern States in recent years, and urged that direct trade was thoroughly practicable, but to be brought about it must be made a purely business movement.

The morning session closed with the appointment of the following committee to present a general plan for the convention's action: Governor Fowle and R. M. Oates, of North Carolina; M. L. Donaldson and F.

VV. Wagener, of South Carolina; C. M. Shelly and J. H.

Rodney, of Alabama; Governor Fleming and W. G. Toomer, of Florida; J. F. Tillman, of Tennessee; Governor Gordon and C.

P. Goodyear, of Georgia. At the afternoon session the committee uu pmu ui ucuuu ujuuo na icpuit uiiuuku its chairman, Governor Fowle, who spoke at length urging the adoption of the report and showing the practicability of the movement, which he asserted, while benefitting the South particularly, would benefit the whqle country. His speech was an eloquent one and was received with great applause. The report of the committee favored the adoption of the resolutions introduced by the Hon.

Gazaway Hartridge, of Savannah, which recite that the South Atlantic and Gulf ports have not received adequate appropriations for rivers and harbors, and urge upon senators and representatives from the South the necessity for securing such appropriations as are necessary for the speedy improvement of the harbors of said ports. The following resolutions were also reported by the committee: Resolved, That this committee recommend to the convention the creation of a corporation to promote direct trade at some point on the South Atlantic coast, and another to promote direct Jrade at some Gulf port, each company to be capitalized at $1,000,000 with power to increase to The committee also recommended to the convention the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That this convention recommend the selection by the Alliance of each Southern State of a delegation of twelve members, and by each organized commercial body of each city in the South of one delegate from each of said bodies, to meet in Atlanta, the second Wednesday of January, 1891, to perfect details for the organization of the two companies to promote direct trade and to perfect a plan for soliciting subscriptions to the stock of such companies. The report was adopted as a whole. A subsequent resolution provided that Grangers and State Agricultural societies be represented, and that each governor of the Southern States be members of the next convention. A committee, consisting of W.

H. Fleming, of Georgia, Governor Fowle, Governor Fleming, C. P. Goodyear, of Georgia, and Jasper Miller, of South Carolina, was appointed to investigate the subject of obtaining charters of the corporations named in the resolutions above. After the discussion of minor details the convention adjourned.

MERE-MENTION. The official returns of the New York city census give the total population as 1,513,501, an increase since 1880 of 307,302. ExGovernor Cameron, of Virginia, has published a letter formally withdrawing from the Republican party. The Michigan State Democratic convention met on Thursday and nominated a ticket. Congress will adjourn probably not later than October 8th.

It is understood that the presiHonf Jo nnnAonrl trv avtra onccinn Thn Iuvuv io VW UU VA ikU UVOOIVU 11V Maine Democrats gained twelve legislative representatives in the recent election. The principal shops of the Richmond and Danville railroad will be removed from Burlington and other points, to Charlotte. The New Hampshire Prohibitionists have nominated a State ticket, and will also have congressional candidates in the field. The business failures throughout the country last week number for the United States 167 and Canada 26, a total of 193 against 203 the preceding week. There are twenty-seven States with over 1,000,000 population in each.

At the previous census there were nineteen. The McKinley tariff bill 1 was passed in the senate on Wednesday by a vote of 40 to 29. After casting 1,500 ballots and making no nomination, the Democratic congressional convention of the Seventh Tennessee district adjourned last Saturday, until October 1, to meet at i Franklin, the homeof the Alliance candidate. Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, issued last Saturday, an official report, covering the first two weeks of the new cotton year. The statement shows the receipts at all United States ports since September 1, to be 200,242 bales, against 127,745 bales for the corresponding period last year.

Heavy rains in the northern part of New York State for five days last week submerged farms, washed away millsand other buildings on streams, and seriously injured over miles of railroad track. The loss to property is immense. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mrs.

M. A. Carothers, Administratrix of the estate of S. A. to the Debtors aud Creditors.

H. A. D. Neely, County Notice -1S81MJ0. Kennedy Bros, it Fall Stock of Goods are Coming in Daily.

Withers Good Memory. Mrs. T. M. Dobson--Dobson's Racket.

M. it H. C. Immotiso Slock is Ready. Harris Boom for Yorkville.

W. C. Open Letter. A Story with a Sequel. Ludden Bates, Savannah, Summer Sale of Pianos and Organs.

RAINS. This section was visited on last Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday, with heavy rains, which, however, aside from slight damage to the opening cotton and retard ninlrinr. fni" a four ftdVS rPBIlltoil In nn pi rv i uft ivi iwtf other sersious loss to crops. xl. MUSIC HOUSE.

Attention is directed to the announcement of Harris Foster, who will open a first class music house in Yorkville on the 1st of October. They will handle pianos and organs of different styles and from different makers, and a full line of small musical instruments. THE CITADEL APPLICANTS. The board of examiners who conducted the competitive examination for the beneficiary scholarship from this county in the Citadel academy, have finished an examination of the papers of the whom there were awarded the scholarship to Ross Tompkins, of Rock Hill. RAILROAD EARNINGS.

A tabulated statement of the earnings of the railroads in the State during last' July, as compared with July, 1889, is published in The Charleston News of last Sunday. The showing in the aggregate is quite favorable to the railroads, there being an aggregate increase of $57,383.42. The Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line shows an increase of the Chester and Lenoir $292.54, and the earnings of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago last July were $9,044.52. The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta shows a decrease of $3,495.14. A STORY.

An authentic calf story reaches us from Gould. Rev. W. VV. Ratchford, of that neighborhood, owns a calf that figures in the story.

Mr. Ratchford i3 having a well 9unk, and it has reached a depth of sixty feet. One day last week a blast wa9 made at the bottom of the shaft, and as it was late in the afternoon, it was decided to leave the entrance of the shaft uncovered during the night, in order to admit escape of the smoke. Some time in the night a young calf that was frisking about in the lot, having no danger signals for its guidance, in careless mood, if not on mischief bent, stepped into the shaft and went down to the bottom. It was missed from its accustomed place next morning and its whereabouts not discovered until the workmen commenced to descend to their work, when the bleating of the animal was heard.

It was standing in water, but was quickly rescued and sent up to terra firma, when examination proved that it was but slightly hurt, and soon, with animal instinct, it sought its darn and was apparently as happy as a calf could be. THE YORK REPUBLICANS.X. The Republicans of York are evidently working, but in a quiet, secret manner. We are informed that a conclave of the party was held in Yorkville last Saturday, presided over by J. M.

Clinton, colored, county chairman. Ten of the eighteen precincts in the county are said to have been represented, and delegates were either elected or appointed to attend the State convention at Columbia to-morrow. We have been unable to procure the names of these delegates. There seems to be two factions of the party, the "ins" and the "outs," the former under the lead of Chairman Clinton, and the latter somewhat scattered and without a visible head. The reporter approached two prominent colored men in quest of information, and each returned about the same reply, the substance of which was that neither knew anything about what was being done.

Said one, "Clinton is managing the whole thing and seems to be doing so in his own interest." It is quite sure, however, that York will be represented in the State convention. BOLD BURGLARY. On Monday night last, the store of Withers Adickes, on Main street, near the public square was burglariously entered, the entrance having been effected by prying open the shutters of the front door. There are two shutters to the frontdoor, closing in the usual manner in the centre and secured with spring latches at the top of one and the bottom of the other, besides 1 I A SIS nrvrt OA me IOCK. Avaniuj; uimseu ui wo o)jnw between the floor and the shutter with the latch at the bottom, the burglar raised this latch from its socket in the floor, after which prying open the shutters was comparatively easy.

Goods to the amount of $300 or $400 was stolen, the articles consisting principally of razors, pocket cutlery, pistols and one or two watches. In the store was a Herring safe, the door of which had been left open. The papers in the safe were scattered on the floor, but a small drawer containing about $50 in money, baffled the robber. It shows that he made a desperate effort, but without success to force it open. The bungling attempt also indicates that the work was not done by a skillful or professional burglar.

An attempt was also made on the same night to enter the store of R. A. Parish, opposite Mr. Adickes's, by prying open the shutters of the front door in the manTier already described, but they were too firmly secured. SIX WHISKY CASES.

On Monday last John May, was notified by Intendant Cartwright to appear before him on the charge of selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the law prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of the town. It seems that several cases have been quite recently worked up against Mr. May by a detective, who placed the evidence in Intendant Cartwright's hands. On five of these cases the intendant decided to proceed, and also on a sixth case developed by Marshal Wilson on Monday. Mr.

Majr appeared before the intendant, and without a formal hearing denied all knowledge of the alleged transactions, claiming to have been absent from town at the time some of them are alleged to have occurred. It was then admitted by the intendant that the sales, or some of them, might have been made by a clerk in Mr. May's store, and if so, the cases would be prosecuted against the clerk, or either or both, as the evidence should indicate. Mr. May was averse to the cases going to trial, giving as his reason that he did not wish the name of his clerk to be connected with them, and proposed a compromise.

He declined to make any plea in behalf of himself or his clerk. The intendant replied that should the cases go to a hearing and he should be adjudged guilty, the fines would be fifty dollars in each case; that he could take the alternative of letting the cases go to trial, or by paying the fines that would be imposed, if adjudged guilty, admit to that extent the correctness of the charges. Mr. May desired that the proceedings should go no further and paid the amount imposed. HECENT DEATHS.

Intelligence has been received here of the death of Mrs. Flora B. Turley at her home in Roxbury, on the 17th of loot a nifiiat Mrs TiifIav was a sister of the late B. T. Wheeler, of this place, and was living with him here at the time of his death.

Mrs. Lula Thackston, wife of Prof. W. J. Thackston, died at Greenville at noon on Monday last.

Mrs. Thackston is affectionately remembered by many warm friends here who formed her acquaintance during her brief residence in our midst, and in his sore affliction the bereaved husband will have the Byrapathy of this entire community. Noticing the death of Mrs. Thackston, The Greenville News of yesterday says: The community was saddened yesterday by tbe announcement of the death of Mrs. W.

J. Thackston, wife of Prof. W. J. Thackston, principal of the Yorkville Graded schools.

Mrs. Thackston died at half past eleven o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her father, the Rev. Dr. T. M.

Bailey, on West street, this city. She had been ill for nearly three months, anil had steadily grown worse until her friends realized that the end was near. The loss is a terrible one to the young husband and family ol the deceased, and they have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. Mrs. Thackston was a favorite in literary and social circles in thin city.

Wherever she was known she was loved for her kind disposition and noble Christian character. She was a consistent member of the First Baptist I church, and wherever a kind or charitable deed could be done she was always willing and glad to do it. She was foremost in the Christian work of the church, being anxious to do her share under all circumstances. Mrs. Thackston had for some time previous to her illness resided with her husband iu Yorkville.

Her talents made her a favorite in literary circles there. She took a deep interest in literary matters and was regarded as one of the best informed young women of the State. She had been twice elected corresponding secretary of the Chautauqua convention of this State. Mrs. Thackston was 25 years of age, and had been a resident of this city for seven years before her marriage.

CHURCH' NOTICES. K. S. Nelson, rector. Sunday-school at 5.30 o'clock p.

m. Associate Reformed J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a.

in. and 8 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m.

T. R. English, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a.

m. and 8 o'clock p. in. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. in.

Trinity Methodist G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a.

m. and 8 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 3 30 o'clock p. m.

R. G. Patrick, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Communion services at Union next Sunday at 11 o'clock a.

m. Services in Yorkville Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday-school at 9.30 o'clock a. m. PERSONAL MENTION.

Rev. F. C. of Gastonia, is in Yorkville on business. Mrs.

Jno. M. Hope and child are visiting relatives and friends at Balloon. 5 Mrs. I.

M. Falk and children, of Charleston, are visiting Mr. M. Strauss. Joseph Herndon is visiting his Jpughters in Mecklenburg county, Va.

Mrs. J. G. McCants, of Winnsboro, is visiting Capt. Withers Adickes.

W. B. DeLoach, of Blacksburg, is in Yorkville. Mrs. Dr.

L. Alexander, of St. Augustine, is visiting her relatives at this place. Miss Lula Goodrum has returned home after an extended visit to Asheville and other points in North Carolina. Judge Witherspoon, who will preside over the fall terms of the Sixth circuit, opened court at Winnsboro last Monday.

John A. Darwin has bought out a livery business in Griffin, and with his family, will leave for that place about the 1st of October. Miss Willie Keene, the well-known milliner in Dobson's Racket store, has returned from her summer vacation spent with her relatives in Maryland. Mr. B.

F. Bear, foreman of the Carolina Buggy Company's paint shops, has returned to Yorkville, after an extended visit to relatives in the Northwest. Rev. G. H.

Waddell received a telegram last Monday informing him of the death of his father, Dr. Waddell, of Abbeville county, and he left immediately for his fsUher'B late home, which is near (Joranaca. A)r. George Walker was summoned to Greenville last Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of consulting with the resident physicians in charge of the case of Mrs. W.

J. ThackstOD. -ttlev. R. G.

Patrick has removed to the Episcopal rectory, recently vacated by Mr. J. A. Darwin, and Mr. J.

O. Walker has removed to the Thomas house on King's Mountain street, which he has recently purchased. Rev. K. S.

Nelson, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, who has been quite ill for several weeks with fever, has so far recovered as to be able to travel, and on Thursday last, accompanied by his mother and Mr. G. W. S. Hart, he left for the home of his mother at Alexandria, Va.

It is hoped that he will soon sufficiently recover his health as to enable him to return to his charge. INTERDENOMINATIONAL CONVENTION. I just Thursday the day appointed for the organization of the Sunday-schools of York county into an interdenominational association, and at 11 o'clock a.m., a number of delegates, representing various Sundayschools throughout the county, assembled at Trinity M. E. Church for the purpose.

The call, in answer to which these delcgntes assembled, was made under the auspices of the South Carolina State Interdenominational Sunday-school Association, the object of which association is to organize each county and township in the State into auxiliary associations for the promotion of Sunduv-school work, and looking to the accomplishment of the following uims "1. A Sunday-school within reach of every home in the State. 2. A convention at least once each year, within reach of every Sunday-school teacher. 3.

A working Sunday-school organization within reach of every Sunday-school teacher. 4. The visitation of every house to invite ull to. church and Sunday-school, und to mnke known to all God's free offer of salvation through Jesus Christ." The work of organization is in charge of Mr. C.

L. Kike, of Luurens, and with the execution of Oconee. Horrv. Georgetown und Beaufort counties, has been completed throughout the State. The convention was called to order by Rev.

B. P. Reid, and its proceedings opened with devotional of hymns, Scriptural reading and prayer by Revs. G. H.

Waddell and Dr. R. A. Ross. These exercises concluded, the convention effected a preliminary organization by the election of Rev.

B. P. Reid president, Rev. R. G.

Patrick vice-president, and W. D. Grist secretary, after which Mr. F. A.

Gilbert, in a short address in behalf of the Sunday-schools of the town, extended a hearty welcome to the assembled delegates. lie said that lie could think of no body of delegates that he would welcome into this town and church with greater pleasure than the one he was then addressing. He sincerely hoped and believed tlint the Association which to-day finds its birth in a very small beginning, may at length be compared to the streamlet rising in the mountains, which is joined by other streamlets and still others until a mighty flood flows unchecked in its majestic course toward the ocean. Mr. Gilbert's welcome was responded to on behalf of the convention by the chair and by Rev.

C. Fraser. The chair then announced thnt the convention was ready to go into permanent organization and suggested the enrollment of delegates, whereupon Rev. Mr. Patrick desired to know whether or not the delegates deemed it desirable or expedient to effect such This question provoked considerable discussion from a number of the delegates present.

Rev. Mr. Waddell took occasion to say that when the mntter was first broached some weeks ago, he was not, to say the least, very enthusiastic in its support, but in the meantime, after giving it more thought, his opinion had undergone quite a radical change, and he was now heartily in favor of organizing the Association. Rev. Dr.

English could see no harm, hut at the same time no good in such an organization. However, lie was open to conviction was present for the purpose of hearing both sides, and if the organization promised good results, of course, he was in favor of it. The chair took the liberty to say that as the convention had a programme, and the delegates had been called to carry out the same, he thought it proper to go into permanent organization, and if afterward it should develop that the ends of the Association do not meet the views of its members, they could disband and let the whole matter drop. Rev. Mr.

Eraser was of opinion thnt-it wus a good idea to organize. Objection to such organization probably arose from the fact that it was a new thing. He thought that it would do good in bringing Sabbath-school workers together in. order that they might gather experience from encli other. It was not a church matter, but simply a Sabbath-school matter, and would tend to spur up the laggards in Subbuth-sehool work.

Also, he said he had seen Sabbath-schools established through the instumcntality of such associations where otherwise there might not have been one. Rev. Dr. law said that this was the 11th Sundayschool convention that he had attended within the juist two months. His experience had been such us to give him a most favorable impression of them.

He found them a great help in his work of Bible distribution. He also these conventions showed a decided tendency to bring out the religious side of the people. While lie admitted that denominational conventions 'Were the means of accomplishing a great deal of good, they developed a tendency to Iwcome too sectarian, ami were not calculated to bring about altogether us good results as the interdenominational idea. lie also told of a recent experience in the mountains of North Carolina, where came across a Munuay-sciiooi mat nan neea established under tlie auspices of the Interdenominational Association. It was under the mnnugement of a mountaineer who designated himself the This mountaineer had told the Doctor that he also had under his charge another mission school of some fifty pupils, several miles away, and with money out of his own pockets purchased a Bible for each one of these pupils.

In conclusion, I)r. I.aw said "Therefore, I am not only convinced that no harm wiP result to any church or to any denomination, but if the people will bike hold of it, I lielicve it will result in great good." The chair then culled on Rev. Dr. Ross for an opinion. The doctor said that he did not know a great denl about the matter.

He had received a circular from Mr. Kike with reference to it some time ugo, but was on the eve of going North at the time and did not haveuti opportunity to attend to it himself. But, he said, the Baptists have their Sabbath-schools and their Sabbath-school convention, the Methodists have theirs, the Presbyterians have theirs, and the Associate Reformed Presbyterians theirs, and he did not see any need for any more conventions. The multiplicity was confusing. lie did not have one word to otter against the organization of the Association, however, and if the brethren think it is calculated to accomplish objects that cannot be accomplished by these other organizations, why let it go on.

It was then moved by Rev. Mr. Waddcll, and carried without a voice, that the convention proceed to a permanent organization. Upon motion, the secretary was directed to make a roll of the delegates present, which he found to be as follows MINISTERS. Revs.

Dr. R. A. Ross, Dr. T.

It. English, G. II. Wuddcll, R. G.

Patrick, B. P. Reid, V. Fraser. LAY DELEGATES.

C. Moore, II. J. Harshaw. L.

Wallace, J. L. Wallace. S. Boyd, J.

J. Carter, W. P. I sick. Hickory K.

Allison. King's Mountain A. Smith. Mt. Vcrnon-W.

S. Wilkerson, J. li. Leech, T. M.

Whisonnnt. B. Love. E. Gettcys.

S. Jefterys, F. A. Gilbert, G. H.O'Leary, W.

Adickes, W. D. Grist. Mr. Waddell ottered a resolution, and it was carried, that inasmuch as very few of the speakers designated in the programme were present, and it was impracticable to carry out the same, that so soon as the convention had effected a permanent organization and transacted such other business as could be attended to during the afternoon, it adjourn sine die.

Ujioii motion, the chair appointed a committee of four, consisting Revs. G. II. Waddell, T. English, R.

G. Patrick and Mr. C. L. Fike, to draft a constitution for the Association.

In order to allow the committee time in which to make its report, the convention then, at 1.10 p. 111., took a recess until 3 p. the visiting members in the meantime being assigned to the homes of the resident delegates for entertainment. At 3.15 p. the convention was again called to order and the report of the committee on constitution was re ecived and adopted by articles and ns whole an follows constitution of tiik york county s.

s. association. Aktici.r Association shall he culled the York County Sunday-school Association. Art. Any minister of the gospel, superintendent or ottieer, teacher or adult member of any Sunday-school In this county is a member of this Association, and 1m-ing present nt its meetings is entitled to take part in the same.

Art. object of the Association shall be the promotion of the interests of the Sunday-schools in this county and the encouragement of their organization and maintenance by such means as shall best arouse the public to a sense of their value and importance. Art. officers of this Association shall lie elected annually, and shall consist of a president, three vice-presidents, a secretary, a statistical secretary, a treasurer and an executive committee of live members, including the president and secretary, who shall be ex-oflicio members. Art shall be the duty of the president to preside at the meetings of the Association, and in cuse of his ulwenee one of the vice-presidents present shall take the chair.

Art. seeretarv shall keep a record of the pro- ecedings of each meeting, together with a list'of the Sunday-schools in the county, the name and postolHec address of the superintendent, the number of teachers, scholars, make a report at each annual meeting, i Art. statistical secretary shall render the secretary such assistance as may lie necessary, especially 6 in statistics. Art. treasurer shall shall keep faithful ac- count of all money collected and disbursed for the bene- 1 lit of the Association, and report at each annual meeting, Art.

executive committee shall arrange a programme for the annual meeting of the Association, 1 and invite such persons from abroad as may add to the I interest of the convention. They shall, previous to the meeting of the convention, appoint a local committee in the place where the convention is to meet, to provide mid arrange all things neceessnry for the coming session of the Association. The executive committee shall advance the work in the county by all possible means during the entire year. They sliull till till vacancies of of- fiee caused by death or removal; they shall suspend any officer failing to do his duty, and appoint an efficient worKer. liiey snail niso devise piuusior raising me necessary funds of this Association.

Art. Association shall meet in minimi two days' convention at such time and place as shall be chosen by the convention or by the executive committee. Art. Association is auxiliary to the South Carolinu State Sunday-school Association, and shall, by the secretary, make an annual report thereto ami represented by delegates in the convention of the Stutc Association. Art.

constitution may altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the delegates present at any nnmuil meeting. After adopting the above constitution, the convention proceeded to the election of offlcerkof the Association for the ensuing year. A. H. White, of Hock Hill, was put in nomination for president Uy Rev, G.

II. Wuddell. The nomination received several seconds, and motion, Mr. White was elected by acclamation. The vote was unanimous.

Messrs. D. D. Gaston, of Rlucksburg, W. S.

Wilkerson, of Mt. Vernon, and D. E. Finley, of Yorkville, were unanimously elected vice-presidents. Mr.

W. I). Grist was put in nomination for secretary, and unanimously elected. Messrs. W.

Adickes, F. A. Gilbert and M. M. Ross were placed in nomination for statistical secretary.

In a rising vote, Mr. Gilbert received a majority, and was declared elected. Mr. W. Adickes was unanimously elected treasurer.

Including the ex-ofllcio members provided for by the constitution, the executive by election, was composed as follows A. II. White, chairman W. I). Grist, secretary, Rev.

Dr. T. K. English, Rev. R.

G. Patrick, F. A. Gilbert. All the permanent officers having lieen elected, Rev.

P. Reid, president pro vacated the chair in favor of Vice-Presdent Wilkerson, at whose request it was assumed by Rev. G. II. Wuddell.

Rev. Mr. Reid begged to excused from further attendance on the convention, assigning as a reason for his request, a pressing engagement then neurly due. By resolution he was excused, with the thanks of the convention for the able and efficient service rendered in its organization. Reports from the Sunday-schools represented were then handed in to the statistical secretary.

Upon motion of Mr. Fike, the convention then proceeded to the election of delegates to represent York County Association in the State Interdenominational Sunday-school convention, to be held at Laurens on a date hereafter to fixed by the State executive committee. On motion, it was ordered that delegates should be nominated from the floor and elected by acclamation, and that alternates should serve for their respective principals in the order of their election, which resulted as follows DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. W.

B. lave. II. J. llarshaw, J.

E. Leech, W. D. Grist, F. A.

Gilbert, Rev. G. H. Waddell, Rev. T.

R. English, W. Adickes, Rev. R. G.

Patrick, Rev. B. P. Reid. After the election of delegates to the State convention, by request, Rev.

Dr. T. II. law, superintendent of the American Bible Society for North and South Carolina, addressed the convention on the sulijeet of "The Bible in the Sunday-school." During his he said that the battle cry of the Society is "a Bible in the hands of every child that can read." He said that if the child was unable to jwy full cost price for the book, then the society would furnish it at half price; if unable to pay half price, then the society would donate the book without money and without price. He wanted the convention to aid him in distributing the Bibles among the children, and said that he wus at the service of the Association at all times and under all circumstances, especially in the work of distributing Bibles among the destitute.

On motion, of Mr. C. L. Fike, the secretary was requested to furnish the county papers with a report of the proceedings of the convention for publication. On motion of Rev.

Mr. Patrick, the sum of 34.GO, with which to puy the expense of printing programmes, wns raised by voluntary contribution. There being no further business, on motion, the convention then, at 1.30 p. adjourned, to re-convene at a time and place hereafter to be designated by the executive committee. BY A UNANIMOUS RISING The.

Congressional Fifth Congressional district, convened in Kock Hill yesterday afternoon at 4.3U o'clock. It was called to order by A. H. ttTLi 4 Ka aaii4i if a aa YY IIlit?) Uliairumu Ul tuc JUACUUU VC uinmittee, and effected a temporary organization by the election of P. H.

Nelson, of Kershaw, chairman, and J. W. Floyd, of Kershaw, secretary. There were no contending delegations, and the roll, as called by the secretary, was unanimously adopted as the roll of the convention. York's delegation was composed as follows J.

C. Chambers, W. J. McGill, Capt. W.

B. Smith, A. H. White, Jas. L.

Moss, Dr. J. E. Massey, Dr. J.

H. Saye, W. S. Adams, J. W.

Simril, A. M. Black. On motion, the temporary chairman and secretary were elected permanent officers by acclamation, and the convention was ready for business. Mr.

Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster, moved, and it was so ordered, that such delegations as did not have a full representation present should be allowed to cast their full 8 vote, by their respective chairmen. 8 Dr. D. L.

DeSaussure, of Kershaw, 8 moved that the convention go into nomi- nations, and that it nominate by conven- tion. Mr. Ira B. Jonet offered a substitute to this motion, to the effect that the con- vention adopt the primary plan. After some discussion, in which tne primary plan was warmly advocated by members 8 of the Lancaster delegation, and was warm- ly opposed by members of the various oth- er delegations, the yeas and nays were called for on Mr.

Jones' substitute, result- 1 ing in its defeat by a vote of 30 to 9. The entire Lancaster delegation, six strong, two delegates from Kershaw, and one from Spartanburg, voted for a primary. The ayes and nays were then called for i on the original motion. It was carried, i and amid a storm of applause, Mr. D.

T. -1 Itedfearn, of Chesterfield, nominated Hon. John J. Hemphill for re-election to con- gress. Dr.

J. A. James, of Chesterfield, then 1 read a note from Mr. A. A.

Pollock, to the convention, to the following effect: "I deem it my duty in the interest of Demo- cratic harmony and unity, to withdraw my 1 name from the convention." Mr. Ira B. Jones then moved that nominations be closed. The motion was carried, as was also another by the same gen- tleman, that Mr. Hemphill be nominated by a rising vote, and on its being taken, every delegate in the house stood up.

On motion, the chair then appointed a 4 committee of three, consisting of Dr. D. L. DeSaussure, Ira B. Jones and D.

T. Redfearn, to wait on Mr. Hemphill, inform him of his nomination with a request to 1 address the conyention, and escort him in- to the hall. Shortly afterward Mr. Hemphill entered i the room in charge of the committee, and it was several minutes before the enthusi- asticr demonstration with which he was 2 greeted, had subsided sufficiently to admit 1 of his being heard.

The following is a synopsis of what he said Mr. President mid Gentlemen of the Convention I witnt to express to you, und through you to the people who have sent you here, my profound gratitude. I have had occasion, under similar circumstances, to express to you the same thing, but on this occasion it is, 8 if possible, deeper than ever. In the recent congress it became necessary for our people to ussumc a dctlunt attitude, and for their representatives to take upon themselves responsibilities that ordinarily they would hesitate to assume. Also, it hus been my lot to differ with sonic of our people on grave and important 7 matters.

I nm glad to feel that in the face cf these dif- ferenees you have again given me your endorsement, But while I have differed from some of you on one or two measures, I do not want any man to think that I will be any the less willing to serve him with all the ability at my command. 1 shall continue to work for the promotion of the interests of this district, this State and the whole country. The Democratic party nt this time is weak, und the most we can do is to do our full duty. If your representatives are not able, under present environments, to I legislate us they would do, they can at leust stand in the way of those who would legislate against us. The Southern States have been, and must be, for a long time to come, the great bulwark of the Democratic jMirty, and we must not forget the responsibility that 'J rests upon us.

If we should organize the next house with a majority of one, it would not take the enemy long to make it up, and the way for us to develop our fullest (j strength is to strive for a perfect union of all our forces. We have had father divided against sou and brother against brother. That must all he forgotten, for it is now the duty of every man to stand by the nominees of the Democratic party, and see thut its nominees are elected. As the nominee of the Democratic party, I now have no hesitation in saying that it is the duty of every mil nnlv himself but to bring as many others with him us we can, and roll up such majority that there shall no doubt as to the will of our people zus to who shall represent them. Our people are too cureless.

They take the election of their candidate too 3 much of a foregone conclusion, and it is possible that the result of such carelessness may sometime be a hole for the enemy. Another There are a great many people in this 0 country who arc continually circulating what they cull "measures for the relief of the people." I.et us be exceedingly careful about these things. The title and representations are misleading, and it is too often the ease that they are measures for the "relief" or profit of some individual or corporation. 1 have received dozens and dozens of petitions praying 111c to support the compound lard bill. Now there are a great many of our peo- pie who believe it will be to their "relief" to have that 4 bill passed, when in reality it is only a measure gotten up by the hog raisers for the purjiose of taxing the cot- ton seed mixed lard out of existence.

They represent that it is un ell'ort in behalf of wolesoiue, unadulterated swine fat. The "wholesome," "unadul- terated" words are to enlist your svmpatby, and the effect of the bill will be to iho price of hog and de- preeiate the price of cotlowseed. Now when a law once gets 011 lu.o suites statute I looks it never and it licliooves you to lie exceedingly en refill what kind of laws you lend your supisirt in ennetnif. I warn you not to commit "Ives to these neasures that arc heinj; sent out through the country intil you understand what they are for, who they are or, and who is liehind them. The two (treat principles of the Democratic party is hut "one man has as much riitht as any other muu," ml "equal rights to all; pri veleircs to none." it will he my purpose to represent what I conceive he the liest interests of all the people.

In conclusion, Mr. Hemphill said that there was a gentleman in Lancaster (Clark) who said he was ttoinit eon(tress. "1 think any man who thinks he can (jet congress from this district over the Democratic lominee must have heen horn in some far oil'country, in the dark of the moon. All I ask is that you omc out yourselves, and hrinit as many as you can nth you, and none hut Democrat will ever (to to confess from this district as lotitf as the Democratic party in existence, and the Democratic party will lie in existence as lon(t as human liberty shall he deemed a deirablc thin(tamuu(t mankind." On motion, the convention thenadjournid, after having been in session just one tour. Mr.

Hemphill was to have started for Washington last night. Before the repreentative of The Enquirer left Rock Sill, he was informed that the citizens ntended to hold a "ratification" meeting, Hid judging from the enthusiasm prevailng at the time, there is little reason to loubt that it was done in good form. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Richard Sessions, sheriff of Horry lounty, died at Conway on Wednesday ast. J.

F. Hawley, white, is in jail at Darington on a charge of bigamy. He has ust finished a term in the penitentiary of Georgia for the same crime, and he is also iharged with having a wife in North Carolina. Chester Bulletin: List Strong, colored, vas accidentally killed recently on Mr. 3.

P. Crosby's place by a piece of the )and wheel of Mr. Crosby's gin flying off ind striking him in the back of the head. 3e was instantly killed. Mr.

Crosby had ust left the spot where the negro was tilled. Had he remained there a few longer the probability is that he also vould have been killed. Lancaster Ledger: Aaron Beckham, jolored, was shot but not seriously by another colored dude named Mcjiiirt, at Mt. Carmel camp ground, last Friday afternoou. The ball took effect in he hip.

Beckham came near riding over McGuirt, who became indignant that any)ne should become so puffed up with pride is not to see an important person like him, md gave him a twenty-two calibre lesson in politeness. A committee of Charleston drummers called on the South Carolina railway iuthorities last Saturday, and in the interest of the planters along the road, asked that cheap excursions to cities from towns in the interior be stopped, as it interferred seriously with cotton picking. They revived the assurance of the authorities that the road would run no more excursions this season, except three or four that had been contracted for. court of general sessions for Fairfield opened at Winnsboro last Monday, Judge Witherspoon presiding. The criminal business at this term will be small.

A very interesting murder case will be tried at this term. John Ford, who muriered his wife, is now trying the insanity lodge. He claims to be sometimes the Christ and at others John the Baptist. It is not certain which he will finally settle )n. By an error, the governor of South Carolina; recently nominated, to the presilent, commissioners and alternates to the World's Fair from the Democratic party exclusively.

The attention of the governer having been called to his mistake, he rorwnrdeH new nominations. reDresentinc 30th political parties, and these have been jommissioned as follows: John R. Coch an, to be commissioner in place of J. C. 3oit, previously nominated, and J.

W. Lindell to be alternate in place of H. F. Elammett previously nominated. Henry Hemminger, colored, who was the jail at Abbeville under sentence of ieath, died last Wednesday night.

He vas convicted at the last term of court on charge of rape, committed on a little legro girl about 9 years of age, and by Judge Izlar to be hanged on Friday, the oth of September. His attoriey, Mr. W. L. Miller, took an appeal to he supreme court, which is now pending, ind thus the execution of the sentence was mspended.

Death has ended the case and ffenry Hemrainger will be tried at a ligher court. A Charleston dispatch of Saturday iays A race war on a small scale has just snded at the cotton mill here. The mill imploy8 about 500 operatives. During he past year a number of negroes have working at the mills and the of them employed has been gradually ncreased from time to time. In many of he departments the negroes were workng and doing work that had always been lone by white boys.

They were employsd as oilers and sweepers, and in other canities that had been filled before by vhites. The management was evidently mdeavoring to get negro labor in the nills gradually. Two or three rows during the week and the war culninated in a grand battle which was won the whites, who had gradually ran off he negroes. To-day the last negro em)Ioyed in the mill was discharged. The natter has been kept very quiet.

News and Courier: Delegates from lixteen sub-Alliancesof the Colored Farmsrs' State Alliance of South Carolina met it Hampton Court House, at 12 o'clock, September 6, State Lecturer Powell in the ihair. The petition of three National Aliance clubs praying to be admitted into he State Alliance was received and State lecturer Powell granted their request. The county exchange matter was and referred to the executive commitee. State Lecturer Powell requested the sounty officers to devise some plan for the jetter education of the youths of the order the county, and try to improve their immunity schools, and advised all to use lagging and not allow their cotton to be with jute, for the cheap rates were inly a snare trap. There was but one conention, and that was to bring about peace ind prosperity to all concerned.

State Lecturer Powell said "We are citizens if this State, and we are here to stay. 3ur ancestors helped to make this State vhat it is, and we shall help to make her vhatshe shall be in the future. We are letermined to build up co-operative indusries, giving employment to our children, vhich they could not get otherwise. We lave as good a chance here as anywhere slse, but we must utilize those chances." No Change in the Under date of last Monday Governor Richirdson has made the following written eply to the committee appointed by the Jtate convention to request him to recall he appointment of election commislioners: "I have carefully considered the passed by the late Democratic contention and which I had the honor to revive at you hands, in regard to the recent ippointment of commissioners of election or this State. I have been forced to the that neither right nor law would ustify the removal of any of these the most intelligent and patriotic in the the assignment sufficient cause.

These appointments vere not made until the last day allowed law so as to permit of such suggestions ind information as might be submitted. 3ut they were never preferred and in abence of such information and suggestions he selection of these important officials vas made only with the view of securing or the people the fairest possible expresion of their will at the polls. From the ligh character and intelligence of these ippointees this result, I feel confident, is issured. For reasons already stated and it would be an improper use of ny authority as governor to remove offlers without cause, I am compelled with itmost deference and respect for the wish of the convention to decline accede to the request 01 tne convention. South Carolina Census Dhe census office has announced the popuation of the First and Second enumeration listricts in South Carolina, by towns and ounties, as follows: first district.

Cities and 8,588, inrease Spartanburg 5,532, increase :,279. 4G.77G, increase Anderson 43,590, increase 9,978. xreenville 44,250, increase Laurens increase Oconee 18,703, inrease Pickens 16,346, increase 1,957 Spartanburg 55,306, increase Total 56,583, increase 44,117, or 20.77 per cent. second district. Cities and 3,002, iurease 660; Columbia 14,508, increase 4,472.

31,764, increase Chester 26,645, increase Edgefield increase 3,359 Fairfield 28,573, inirease808; Lexington 22,154, Sewberry 26,405, decrease 92; Richland 15,963, increase Union 25,284, insrease York 38,771, increase 8,050. fatal 284,760, increase 30,471, or 11.98 per STATE POLITICAL NOTES. The Democratic primary for Greenville county was held last Saturday. The following are nominated for the legislature: H. Buist, John It.

Harrison, II. P. Goodwin and J. A. Mooney.

They were apparently supported by the Tillmanites, although never put in nomination by a caucus. John It. Bellinger, the Straighout candidate, will get 1,200 or 1,000 votes in the county, but not enough to elect him. The ltepublicans are more active this year than they have been any year since 1878. Conventions are being held in the various counties and delegates elected to congressional conventions and the State convention which is to meet in Columbia on the 18th instant.

The Charleston convention split into two factions, electing Bravton and nnti-Rravtnn Hplpcrafpa tn thp State convention. In the Anderson convention John R. Cochran made a speeh against nominating a State or congressional ticket. He said that they need not think that the Democrats would divide. They might divide if the Republicans did not put out a ticket, but a Republican ticket would solidify them.

He was opposed to negro rule of the State. Democrats could rule it better. It was a good speech. Delegates were elected to both State and congressional conventions. THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.

A Jackson, dispatch of Monday says: Now that the mist of debate has cleared away from the atmosphere of the Constitutional convention, it may not be untimely to give a short of the situation. The perplexities that surround the suffrage problem seem to have increased with the discussion. The debate of the past ten days has developed powerful opposition to either an educational or a property qualification, and the delegates of the white counties are uncompromising in their hostility to such restrictions of the suffrage. They maintain that large numbers of their white constituents will be disfranchised by engrafting such suffrage limitations upon the constitution, and a serious schism in the Democratic party ranks is imminent if the Chrisman amendment, which embodies that idea, is carried through. Delegates from the black counties contend on the other hand that the question demands heroic remedies.

Four plans of settling the suffrage question have been proposed, and neither one of the four has met with that preponderance of support necessary to the harmonious adjustment of the question. The committee to whom was entrusted the task of formulating a suffrage plan, submitted a plan which its chairman announced did not reflect the views of any considerable majority of the committee, but represented a basis of compromise which was thought to be the best aottlamonf nnoaihla in vianr iha Hivor. QVVVIUIUVUl pUOQi U1V I IV TV VI illV Ul gent views that prevail. That report is divided into three branches, apportionment, franchise and electoral colleges. Under the apportionment plan the State is gerrymandered, giving the preponderance of power to the poor white counties and taking from the rich black counties, which pay the heaviest share of taxes, a large portion of their sovereignty.

The electoral plan makes an electoral college of the lower house of the legislature, and its province is to elect all the State officers in accordance with the wishes of the people as expressed at a primary, each county to have as many votes in the electoral college as it has representatives in the house. The Australian system is criticised as easily evaded and wholly inadequate to meet the present emergency. The report is also objected to because it makes no provision for white supremacy in the county government, which is considered to be of weightier importance than the executive. The franchise branch of the report limits the right, to vote to those who have resided two years in the State and one in the county, and have prepaid a poll tax of two dollars. It also prescribes a system of voting modeled upon the Australian plan.

The objections to the report are reflected in the speeches of those wno have opposed it. The black counties demur in the 1 -r aunugmeui ui men auverciKuijr, umcio insist that the proposed educational qualification is a temporary expedient, and that in a few years the danger of negro domioatiQD and consequent financial ruiu of the State will be greater than ever before. Official Crop South Carolina weather service, in co-operation with the U. States signal service, makes the following report for the week ending Saturday, September 13: The rainfall and temperature for the week have been above the average, and the sunshine below the average. The daily rains have greatly retarded cotton picking and injured open cotton in the fields.

A few correspondents report boll-rot, and in some districts seeds are sprouting in the open boll. Thus far no caterpillars have made their appearance, and the cotton plant itself is uninjured, and if the present rainy spell is soon succeeded by dry, sunshiny weather, the prospects for an abundant yield will beexcellent. Pastures and all late crops are reported in fine condition. The bulletin issued last Saturday night by the weather signal office at Washington says: The daily average temperature for the week ending September 13 has been above the average in all districts east of the rvn 5 onH in tho Woflt Olllf iitva mum vmv If WW. States.

The rainfall for the week has been in excess except in the upper lake region, and thence westward over the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, where the rainfall for the week has varied from onetenth to eight-tenths of an inch. The rainfall along the middle and south Atlantic coast was generally below one inch. In the Gulf States it has been from one to two inches, and in portions of central Texas from three to five inches. Frosts occurred in the extreme northwest, and in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and northern Illinois, with temperature from three to six degrees lower than has heretofore been observed during the first ten days in September. The frost in South Dakota was destructive of immature corn and root crops.

But slight damage occurred in Iowa and Kansas. Seeding is progressing under favorable conditions in Illinois. Excessive rains have delayed the picking of cotton in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama, but the conditions have generally been favorable for small crops. Heavy rains have also been unfavorable to cotton in the Carolinas. The week will open with cold weather in the central valleys, which will be followed during the early part of the week by warmer, fair weather.

The fall in the temperature will extend over the districts on the Atlantic coast during the early part of the week, with fair weather followed by warmer weather towards the end of the week. Earle on the Greenville News of Saturday publishes the following: The rumor that Col. Joseph H. Earle would be an independent candidate for governor, is contradicted by a telegram from Col. Earle, received yesterday afternoon in answer to one sent by Dr.

T. T. Earle, of this city. The news was received with relief by all who had read The News of yesterday. The following is the telegram sent to Col.

Earle: "C'ol. Hoyt brings report here that you in- tend running as an independent. What say you? Thomas T. Earlk." The following is the manly answer of Col. Earle: "The exclusion of the delegates from Sumter renders the action of the convention revolu- j.

(tAitntttr onrJ UOlfl tint, fftfll Koil tn QJin. UUUOl port Tillman, but will not run against him, because I will not consent to use the negro vote. White supremacy must be sustained at any loss. It is better to suffer wrong than to perpetrate a greater wrong. Jos.

H. Earle." Millions of Money for The Columbia Record of last Saturday publishes the following dispatch of the same date from Montgomery, A prominent member of the Farmers' A Alliance stated in this city this morning that the cotton committee of the National Alliance has perfected arrangements with a syndicate of European capitalists to advance $32 per bale upon 2,000,000 bales of cotton at a yearly interest of four per cent. The farmers will be allowed to store their cotton, and on the warehouse receipt the advance arranged for will be made, while the farmers will be allowed the privilege of selling the cottoh at any time within twelve months. 41 Prominent cotton men think that the withdrawal of this amount of cotton from the market will tend to advance the price of cotton within twelve months to twelve or thirteen cents per pound..