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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1891. TBRM81 iTheColumbia Daily Register haare duced its subscription price to six dollars "a year. The Register has always been as one of our most reliable and high-toned exchanges, and was cheap enough at its former price. indications point to Southern Alliancemen ignoring the Kansas Alliance, or a third party convention. President jiyingstone, of the Georgia Alliance, says formal- demands will be made on of the old parties.

If ignored, there ia possibility of a third party being rmed. Republican League of le State met in Columbia last week for or organize and electing legates to the National Convention, ich is how in session in Cincinnati, tero were one hundred delegates pres- jvamong whom were W. W. Russell, Postmaster, and J. S.

Russell, of.whom were elecied delegates to icinnati. has gone to the rational Convention. The annual meeting- of the Giand of Knights of Honor was held in jlumbia last week, and the session oughout was a.moBfc interesting one. is- reports of the grand officers show the ler to. be in a very flourishing condi ion, having 3,500 members in this State the first of January, being an in fo? abbat 500 for the last year.

The the order in the United State? ia in round numbers to be 135,000. paid out in this $100,000 in death benefits last year Past Grand P. McColly, of Anderson, was elected Representative to the next session of the supreme Lodge. The last number of the contains a long and elaborate iview by Robt. P.

Porter, superintendent census, of the industrial and sgricul of the South during the ten years, based on the official tat is cs of the census. Mr. Porter, at the beginning of his article, referring to the wonderful progress of the South during e. last decade, says: mineral evelqpmeht, and increase of manufac the period has bees of such importance as to' seriously attract the of the world. The South is 'vv' to-day producing as much coal, iron ore, pig iron as the entire United States 1870.

Hon. W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, days ago on a tour West for the purpose of organizing clubs. His trip will extend to Tacoma, will occupy sev 'il months; According to the official he goes as the repreaenta the National Association of Demo? cratic Clubs, which has perfected a plan of organization which has met with the i'pproVal of of the National and sional committees.

The plan is )W put in operation successfully, long before the fall campaign opens lere willb'e a Democratic club in every roting precinct in the United States. ides- the Vice-President selected for icb. State, there will be a correspondent appointed for each County, the whole will be directed from with the advice and co? operation of the several State, National and Congressional committees. Harrison and his party left Washington more than a week ago on an extended-trip through the South, West 3 Northwest, and at every stopping ace along the route the people have yen them a grand ovation. Especially this been the case in the South.

We ive been disgusted with reading the ac? counts of the homage paid the Presi people, and we cannot find words to express our contempt for i actibnB. As'the official head of our -great government, he deserves to be re as such, bat this could have been in a conservative way. His position ivvon the force bill and other measures that before the last Congress, aimed di? rectly against the interests of our people, should not beforgotten. To-day he would dbfanything that would tend to unite the interests of the North and if it would'not benefit his party, and he de serves to feel the indignation of every honest man of the South. It seems to us that such demonstrations as has been Harrison only tends to strengthen the renegades in the South have forsaken everything that honorable for the sake of a little official and every other section know that the ovations paid the Presi? dent by our people is nothing less than hypocricy and flattery, and we should not indulge in such foolishness.

The. Memphis Commercial says: J. Talbert, State lecturer of the Alliance South Carolina, as a special another page teY.3, that he is opposed and that he and the Alli xance will oppose any man for President who does not support their platform. He also says that South Carolina will not be column in 1892 if a third thirdparty is organized. Well, Mr.Talbert v.

may know what he is talking about, but we don't believe it." Mr. Talbert seems be falling in line with Mr. Keitt's ad? vice, but he is neither a prophet nor a son of a prophet. South Carolina Is a Democratic State, and any tlman who is nominated by the National Democracy, be he tor or against any par ticnlar measure, will carry the State by an overwhelming majority. There are ip every County, no doubt, who would rejoice to see the Democratic ranks broken, but when they step outside of the ranks they will find that they are in a very small minority.

The mass of our a -people who are in the Alliance have joined it to be benefited in an agricultu ral sense, and their motives are right, but when the leaders of that organization attempt to force them to give up the white man's party of the South, we be? llt; lieve the great masses of the Alliance will emphatically repudiate the leader and the principles of the men who attempt it. The hardy sons of toil in County, we know, will never forsake Our people know De consequences if there is divislorliSlhe white man's party. They may follow Mr. Talbert, Mr. Keitt and other leaders, a good distance, but when it comes to turning their backs on the civilization of our grand old Com? monwealth, right there they are going to THE NEW SOUTH.

The Wonderful Progress and Develop ment of the Southern States. Baltimore, April Manufac? Record this week publishes ah article from the pen of Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, on the material development and progress in the Sonthern States during the past decade, as shown by the facts and figures gathered by the Census Bureau. As epitomized, they show wonderful growth and progress- in mineral and agricultural development, and justify Mr. Porter's prediction of even greater and unprece? dented prosperity in the Hew South.

While the time, he says, has not yet arrived to give a complete inventory of the wonderful progress of the South during the last decade, official figures of the branches of inquiry already complet? ed indicate that the final returns will show that in no part of the United States has industrial progress been more satis? factory. One thing is certaia, namely: that the mineral development and crease in manufactures during this period has been of such magnitude and of snch importance as to seriously attract the attention of the world. The South is to-day producing as much coal, iron ore and pig iron as the entire United States produced in 1870, and the progress of the Southern States in the manufacture of steel Mr. Porter thinks will be as great during the next ten years as has been in the production of coal and pig iron during the past decade. And the class of labor attracted to the rich mineral regions will be of a higher character than of the past; that is, there will be artisans and me? chanics, who will command a much higher rate of wages, and hence increas? ing the consuming power of the South.

The trouble to day, he says, with this part of the country, is that most of its products have to be shipped North or to foreign countries for fnrther manipula? tion but once establish- an industrial condition that will require a greater variety of articles of consumption, and you will bring to that region a still greater diversification of manufactures. The remarkable development of the New South, as he calls it, is shown in a striking degree by the astonishing growth of individual cities in this section during the past ten years. In support of this, he cites the Wonderful and in some cases the phenomenal growth of a number of cities and towns during the decade in N. Ky. and Ga.

Anniston, that in 1880 had a population of 942, is returned by the census of 1890 as containing 9,876 inhab? itants. Birmingham, unknown when the census of 1870 was taken, and which in 1880 had a population of 3,086, had grown in 1890 to a flourishing city of 226,178 inhabitants, and in fact a centre of industrial activity of 75,000 people; Florence, with a population in 1890of 5,984, or380 percent greater than in 1880. Chattanooga in 1890 had a population of 29,100, or an increase during the decade of more than 125 per cent. Roanoke, which did not appear in the census of 1880, is now a city of 16,159 inhabitants. These he points to as some of the striking illus? trations of material progress, while a hundred similar examples could be given of small towns that had thus developed in the South, and the greater part of their growth has been due to the development of their mineral resources.

Facts already published by the census office, he says, exhibit a mineral develop? ment in the South, which, if continued through another decade, will bring about remarkable changes in a number of Southern States. In 1860, the best esti? mate that can be obtained show that the Southern States produced less than 1,000,000 tons of coal, and in 1870 about 2,000,000 tons. In the year 1880, as shown by official data, this production had increased to 5,676,160 tons. Accord? ing to the eleventh census return, the production in 1890 was 17,772,945. This gives an output in the coal producing States of the South in 1890 of more than twice the entire output of bituminous coal in the United States in 1860, and nearly 2,000,000 more tons than the total prodnction of the United States in 1870.

Far greater progress, Superintendent Porter says, has been shown by the South in the production of pig iron. The entire prodnction South in 1880 was 397,301 tons, which in 1888 had increased to 1,132,858 tons, and in 1890 to 2,917,529 tons. In fact, the products of iron ore in these Southern States now almost equals the total production of the United States in 1870. Nor has this development, Superin? tendent Porter says, of the mineral re? sources of the South been at the expense of its other industries. The manufacture of cotton, for example, has increased to a wonderful degree, as will be seen from the fact that in 1880 the amount of cotton consnmed in the South was 180,000 bales, while in 1890 it used 497,000 increase, in round numbers; of 175 per cent.

The fact that since 1865 nearly $8,000, 000,000 have been brought into the South to pay for cotton, explains in part the marvelous recuperative powers of this section since the war. While bad agricultural methods have made cotton raising unprofitable to many farmers, it iB claimed that cotton is one of the most profitable crops that can be raised when its cultivation is carried on intelligently on a cash basis. The South produces about three fourths of the world's annual cotton crop, but manufac? tures only about 7 or 8 per cent, of what it raises, the balance furnishing the material for spindles in New England and in Europe. The total cotton crop of the world now runs from about 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 bales, of which the South raises on an average of late years 7,000, 000 bales. Of the agricultural development of the South, Mr.

Porter says: The South has also made great strides in agricultural Erogress during the past ten years. This as been the result largely of diversify? ing her crops. At one time King Cotton held absolute sway on nearly every plan? tation. The supplies of hay and grain, even for farm nse, were obtained from the North and WeBt A vast in? crease has been made in the rearing of stock of all kinds, and grain, grass and vegetable crops are grown upon a con? stantly increasing acreage. Tens of thousands of acres in the Southern States, that at one time produced a bale of cotton to the acre, are now covered with millions of vines, peach and pear trees, while traina and steamers for months in the year bear Northward their burdens of vegetables and amall fruila to supply the markets in States where ice and snow still hold sway.

This development, however, has not been entirely the result of the increased demand of their export trade. The establishment of great industries, iron and cotton mills, has developed home markets in the South for fruits, vegeta? bles, butter, egga and a variety of crops, and has given a wonderful stimulus to agriculture in the Southern States. Superintendent Porter closes his re? markably interesting and instructive article by saying: "The advance and development of any part of the country is a step forward for the whole. South? ern progress, it should be remembered, is national progress, and, as such, the North can and does rejoice at it, and Northern men will note with gratifica? tion the wonderful results of a decade of industrial development as revealed by the eleventh census. In the Spring of 18841 visited all the Southern iron-pro during regions, and I repeat now what I said then, namely: that the great need of the South is a still further diversifica? tion of industries.

The next decade most develop steel manufactures, the further manipulation of iron and steel into ma? chinery, the manufacture of furniture along the timber belt and of the better grades of cotton goods in the vicinity of the cotton fields. If the advance ia along theae lines, the year 1900 will mark a more remarkable and more satisfactory industrial development in the Southern States than 1890." CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Parksville, April Hon. J. Press Blackwell fell in his field this morning of He went out to look after his hands as well as usual.

An inquest rendered a verdict as above stated. Mr. Blackweli served Edgefield in the Legislature from 1884 to 1888. He was about 46 years of age. Palmetto, April a thunderstorm this afternoon, lightning struck the ginhouse of Mr.

C. B. C. Hol leman, about two miles from here, while several parties in it were keeping out of the rain, and killed a negro named Lewis Ayres, and severely shocked Mr. Holle man himself, and some others lightly.

Mr. Hoilleman is improving, and will be all right in a day or two. Nashville, April Hopkinsville, special Bays that in Union county two brothers named Haynea, aged 14 and 16 respectively, be? came involved in an altercation over the opening of a gate, when one brother bo badly cut the other that he died soon af? terwards of his injuries. The one that did the cutting is almost crazy with re? morse and grief, and has to be watched lest he kill himself. Liberia, Kansas, April were brought in this evening that the court house in Hansford, Texas, in course of construction and nearly completed, was destroyed by a cyclone Wednesday afternoon.

Two men were killed. Every house was more or less damaged. From there the cyclone traveled in a Northeast? erly direction to Poludora, a little town on Beaver River, in Beaver County, Okla? homa, which place is reported aa entirely destroyed. Cleveland, 0., April fright? ful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad at Kip ton station, about forty miles west of Cleveland, early this even? ing, in which six postal clerks. and two engineers were killed.

The fast mail, No. 14, hound east, collided with No. 21, Toledo express, just aa the latter train was about to pull on to a siding to let the fast mail pass. The fast mail waa running at full speed and the force of the collision was so great that both en? gines, three mail cars and one baggage car were completely wrecked. Greenville, S.

April Holliday, a white man, instantly killed John Crews, colored, four miles from Central, in Pickens County, yeaterday. The two men had a dispute at a sawmill, which Crews had been operating, and refused to give possession to Holli? day, who had leased it. Crews struck Holliday with a monkey wrench and threw a weight at him. Holliday had a shotgun loaded with buckshot and fired. Crews was riddled with bullets.

The cor? oner's jury exonerated the slayer, who surrendered himself to the sheriff of Pickens County. Chattanooga, April most horrible accident occurred in this city to-night in the presence of several thousand persons who had gathered at the corner of 9th and Georgia avenue to witness the fire department pntting out a Bmall blaze in the European Hotel. Charles Werner, head hoseman of the Lookout fire department, was at the top of the long ladder playing the hose in the third story window, when he got a shock from a live electric light wire and dropped dead to the ground, to the horror of the large crowd. Savannah, April Dunham, colored, a field hand on the Deptford rice plantation, near Savannah, was struck by lightning to-day and in? stantly killed. Dunham and other hands were fleeing for shelter when the bolt fell.

Dunham's bat was split in half, his hair was burned off the flesh on part of; hia face was charred. One Bide of his body was nearly roasted and the shoe was torn from one foot and hurled 100 feet away. The man's clothing caught on fire and his body was nearly cremated, the other negroes being panic stricken, and fearing to go near the body. Dunham was sixty years old. New: York, April German steamship Eider was to sail for Europe at 1 o'clock.

At a little before that time a young couple came to the steamship wharf. They were talking earnestly, and the woman seemed to be very much de? pressed. Her eyes were red, aa if she had been weeping. The couple went on board the ship. Soon after tbis those on the wharf were startled by a pistol report.

It was followed by another quickly. The youDg woman fell to the deck. The young man bad fired at himself, and he fell over, too. Both were dead when they were picked up. The young man was Charles Ommecker.

The young wo? man was Louise Ornecher. They were sweethearts. She came from Germany two weeks ago to join Ommecker. To-day ahe waa returning home. Bucyrtjs, 0., April laughable but costly incident occurred in Schaafs restaurant on the night of the Golden Rod hop.

A number of musicians who had been playing for the dance went into Schaaf place for a lunch. They were followed by a bird dog belonging to one of the party. Soon the dog was seen pointing toward a table in one corner of the room. One of the men started to investigate when a fat and vigorous hen flew but. The dog went after it, and for 15 minutes dog, hen, feathers, men, tables, glasses and dishes were mixed in one mad whirl.

When finally the hen flew ont the door, and the dog had been caught, over $300 worth of damage had been done in broken mirrors, smashed glasa and tableware and the breaking of all the saloon fixtures in an adjoining room. Pittsburg, April night Constable McDonald, of Weat Newton, having in charge a prisoner named Sandy WilBon, of Greenaburg, boarded the ''fast line" on the Pennsylvania railroad bound for Greensburg. After taking their seats in the Bmoker the constable removed the handcuffs from the prisoner, and they sat together smoking and talking. Jeannette station was passed, when the constable remarked: "Well, Sandy, you will soon be locked up." Wilson replied, "I'll see you in hell first," and with a blow knock? ed the constable from the Beat and rushed out on to the platform and sprang from the train. Ab he did bo, Constable Mc? Donald followed.

Just aa both men reached the ground a freight train came down the opposite track. The "fast line" was stopped, and after a search Officer McDonald was found alive, but uncon? scious from several wounds. Wilson's lifeless body was found thirty feet from the track, horribly mangled. The men had jumped immediately in front of the freight train and were struck by the pi? lot. The constable and his lifeless pris? oner were placed on the train and taken to Greensburg.

McDonald will recover. Wilson was wanted on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife. Columbus, April Poole, an engineer of the Central rail? road, who for some years had been run? ning on the Southwestern road, between thia city and Macon, met with a frightful death to day. He waa only transferred to the Macon and Eufaula road a few days ago, and waa making hia second run to Albany from Montgomery. While nearing Georgetown, and about two miles east of that place, he leaned out of the window to look at a hot box.

At tbis point was an iron bridge spanning a large creek. The train was running at full speed, and when the engineer looked out, not knowing the trestle was ao near, he was struck by the timbers and knock? ed out of the window. He fell fully thirty feet into the creek below, which was Bix feet deep. The fireman stopped the train at once, and a party went back to search for the body of the engineer. It bad fallen in the creek, and dragging had to be resorted to recover it.

After more than an hour's hard work the body waa found and pulled out on the bank. An examination showed that the head had been knocked almost off, while a number of other severe bruises were sus? tained. The dead man was carried on to Eufaula, and prepared for burial, and the remains were shipped to Macon. They will be Interred in that city to? morrow. Mr.

Poolo leaves a wife and child who reside in Macon. Rev. M. B. Grier, of Due haa left the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church to the United Presby? terians.

A Plot to Steal Children. Chicago, April special from Springfield, Ohio, aayB The mys? tery surrounding probably the most sen? sational case of child stealing since the Charley Boss affair, has just been solved by the arrest of Mrs. Effie E. Cutler, Miss Bruner, Miss Batchellor and.Ellen Talbot, on the charge of stealing the Niles children at the instigation of their father, Doctor Niles. Tno story of the stealing reads more like a romance than a sober reality.

Doctor and 'Mrs. Nilea have been fighting in the courts for the custody of the children some time. Three weeks ago, on the eve of the decision of the court, the children were stolen and could not be found. Miss Ellen Talbot, a dressmaker, has confessed that ehe hired a horse and buggy and Btole the children at 5 o'clock in the morning from the house where the sheriff had placed them for safe keeping, and drove them twenty miles to a lonely country place, belonging to Mr. and Mra.

Cutler. Here they were kept in secret, and allowed to see no one. Miss Talbot further confessed that about a week afterward Bhe again went into the country and visited the house where the children were confined. They were taken into a room, and the light haired boy8, Paul and Louis, aged respectively 14 months and 4 years, were shorn of their curls. Some powerful hair dye was then applied, and their hair became a deep black.

They were then dressed in suite of girl's clothing which Miss Talbot took out for the purpose of completing the disguise. The children were then taken to Pitta burg, and finally to a little town in Mich? igan, (Howell, Livingston county). The Cuttera were to get forty dollare for stealing and taking care of the children. The father waa arrested and lodged in jail on the charge of child stealing, as he is said to have planned the whole scheme. It ia believed by lawyers and detectives engaged on the case that the offense ia clearly comprehended under the Ohio statuteon kidnapping or child stealing, for which the punishment is from one to twenty years in the penitentiary.

Dr. Niles had the children atolen, it is claimed, because it waa generally thought the courts would give them to hia wife, and she threatened to put them in a con? vent, to which he was violently opposed. MisB Bruner and Miss Kate Batchellor were arrested last night for complicity in the kidnapping case. Miss Batchellor is a boarding house keeper with whom the children were left for safe keeping. The sheriff has received a telegram from Mich? igan Baying that the children will soon be returned.

A New Sect In Pennsylvania. Wilkesbarre, April new religious sect has sprung up in Pike County. The members call themselves the "anticipators." Zachariah Myers, a farmer and God-fearing man, is the founder, and already the membership ia large and increasing every day. Within the last two months a big stampede baa set in, and the evangelical churchea are severely crippled. Mr.

Myers says one day last fall while he was ploughing in his field a big cloud hove in Bight in front of him. From the cloud came a voice. Mr. Myers trembled, but the Bpirit bade him not to fear. The spirit spoke as follows: "Before the centnry closes the world will end and man shall be no more.

Go tell thy peo? ple to prepare. Tell them not to wait an hour. There must be everlasting prayer. The world ia wicked; it is recking in its own corruption. There must be an end to all soon." Then without warning the cloud and Bpirit disappeared.

Mr. Meyers hastened home and told what happened. Soon the neighbors heard of it and came to Mr. Myers for further information. "Before we go any further," Baid My? ers, "we will organize a God-fearing con? gregation," and then the congregation was formed.

The founder of the new Beet says the new religion will be the universal religion of the world before the close of the world. Circulars are being prepared embodying all the doctrines and dogmas of the "new faith." These circulara will be sent to the Pope, bish? ops, prieata and preachers, imploring them to renounce their worldly religion and join the Anticipators. In an interview with Mr. Myera he said: "Don't call me a preacher. I don't propose to be one; but I have heard the Word of God.

I don't set a date for the world to come to an end; I do not belong to tbat class of cranks. Prayer and good works are our dogmaa of faith. We have no ceremony. We devote two hours daily praying the Lord to save us when the time for the destruc? tion of the world comes." "Do you think the people at large are going to believe the revelation made to you?" "If they want to save their souls they will." Prophet Myers Bayp the firat sign of the destruction of the world will be the falling from the heavens of a huge ball of fire. Then the great conflagration will start and continue until everything is consumed.

Myers is forty-eight years of age, five feet nine inches tall, and rather stout and quite intelligent. Hung au Innocent Man, Charleston, April hanging of Sam White, a white man, in Spartan burg, about twelve years ago for the mur? der- of Pete Hawkins, a colored man, will always be remembered as a remarkable execution. It happened just at a time when the whites apd colored races were decidedly at dagger's points, but that fact had no influence or bearing on the case. The idea of a white man being hung for the killing of a negro was rather repul? sive to a great many people who had suf? fered under negro domination and mis? rule, but the law took its course and the man was executed in the county jail. He suffered the penalty of the crime with the commission of which he had nothing to do and which was laid on hia head by the man who did the killing.

Dick Bride, another white man who was present at the murder, died recently in McDowell County, North Carolina. While on bis death bed he made a full confession of the crime in permitting Sam White to be hung for the murder of Pete Hawkins. Bride went on to say that be killed Hawkins, but put the blame on White, that the evidence taken was alto? gether againat White and that he had permitted him to be hanged for the mur? der, although he had nothing to do with it. The confession ia now made public for the firat time and has caused conside? rable to Greenville Ncivs. Rushing Work at Clemson, Col.

J. L. Orr returned yesterday from a meeting of the executive committee of the board of trustees of Clemson College. The frequent meetings of the committee are to keep the work at Fert Hill going. Buildings of all kinds are going up rapidly, and 25,000 brick are being made daily on the grounds.

The large building for the laboratory ia now finiBhed, with the exception of a little work in the in? terior. It is 150 feet by 100 feet, three stories high and of brick. The rock foundation for the mechanical hall are now being laid. The hall will be 150 feet by 50 feet, with an ell 60 feet long. Two professors houses are complete, and the excavationa are being made for the dor? mitories for the students.

The excava i tions are also being made Lfor the main college building, and the rock is being cut for the foundation for it. The Bcene at Fort Hill ia a buay one. Hundreds of workmen are engaged and there are no idlers to be aeen. The com? mittee i3 satisfied with the progress being News, April 18. A recent report of the Government bureau of statistics shows that our per capita consumption of spirits is about two-fifths less than it was fifty years ago, but we drink twice as much wine and ten times as much beer.

Our consumption of tea has doubled, and we drink three times as much coffee as we did fifty or sixty years ago. In Bpite of the activity of our temperance reformers the facts show that the consumption of stimulants ia increasing rapidly. If we keep on at this rate, in the course of a few genera? tions the American people will be physi? cal wrecks. Outside YIews or onr Politics. Washington, D.

April Carolina democrats, residingin ton, do not credit the statement sent out from Columbia last night, to the effect that many of the leading white men of the State are preparing to desert the democratic party and join forces with the republicans. A prominent South Caro? linian, who is familiar with the politics of the Palmetto State, said to-day that he wa3 aware that there wide-spread feeling of disgUBt at the ascendency of the Tillman faction, but he does not believe the white people of that State can be induced to cut away from all their past associations and traditions, to join the party led by Ex-Congressmen Smalls, Miller, and other equally offensive re? publicans. The defeat of General Wade Hampton was a bitter dose of political medicine for the better element in the State to take, and the latter's friends can never forgive Tillman and his followers for depriving General Hampton of his seat in the United States senate. Gov? ernor Tillman's administration has not been such as will pacify those who were opposed to his election, and there is a growing impression throughout the State that he will wear himself out with one term in the governor's chair. Another equally prominent South Car? olinian agrees with what ia stated above, and insists that the democratic party in South Carolina is the white man's party, and that nothing the present State ad? ministration can do will drive the white men into political affiliation with the blacks.

There was considerable indigna? tion felt in every section of the State when the faction captured the political machinery of the State and de? feated General Hampton for the senate. It was thought that the people of the State could not be Induced to go against Hampton after his devotion to them when they were most in need of a leader, hence his friends did not begin to make a fight in his behalf until it was too late. Past services were not recognized by the Till? man faction, so Hampton was sacrificed to satisfy the Ben Tillman Alliance de? mands. This state of affairs probably has given rise to the report that a white man's Eepublican party is to swallow up the Democrats who oppose Tillman. It is said upon the same authority that a movement is on foot to defeat Senator Butler when he comes up for re-election.

It is alleged that Tillman has the prom? ise of the Farmer's Alliance that he shall receive the next South Carolina Senator abip. Senator Butler's friendB say he will not remain idle and'allow the Tillmanites to organize against him, but he will go into the fight and contest every inch of ground with the present governor and thoBe who are behind him. Senator But? ler is more of a politician than Senator Hampton, and he will probably give the Tillman people an interesting struggle for Senatorial honors. The general impres? sion among South Carolinians in Wash? ington is that the alleged white man's Republican movement in that State is nothing more than a revival of the Bus sell-McLane independent Republican movement which a syndicate of Boston Republicans, beaded by Henry Cabot Lodge, has been at work upon for nearly two yeara Sun. This is Democracy.

Mr. Talbert says the labor convention to be held in February, 1892, will be "a people's move." Mr. Talbert, we suppose, will support the action of thatconvention, and if it puts a national ticket in the field, he will no longer be a Democrat bo far as political affiliations are concerned. He says be is opposed to a third party, provided the relief cannot be obtained through the present parties." Suppose the Democratic party, in its national plat? form, fails or re 'uses to endorse the sub treasury measure, and the Republican party should endorse it. Then, accord? ing to his own logic, he would be obliged to support the Republican ticket, for, as we understand him, the party that en? dorses the measure will receive the sup? port of the Alliance element he presumes to speak for.

But suppose both the Dem? ocratic and the Republican parties should repudiate the sub treasury plan, what will he do then Why, according to his own declarations, he would go off inio the third party movement. He could not do otherwise to be consistent with his own declared principles and purposes. If this is straight Democracy, then we have been laboring all our life under a mis? taken idea as to the true meaning of straight Democracy. Iu all his talk not one word does he utter against the infamous McKinley tariff. That, to our mind, is the prime evil of all the troubles and oppressions the farmers are complaining of.

It iB a living and winning? issue, and to Grover Cleveland, above all other men, are we indebted for an exposure of its glaring discriminations against the interest of the agriculturists and in favor of the manufacturers and monopolists of the country. But Mr. Talbert says he ia sgainst him. The Democratic party la the party of all the people. It is opposed to class legislation, and for that reason, if for no other, could not favor the sub-treasury measure, for under that measure the of all the people would be loaned to only one class, and at the rate of in? terest far below what all other classes of the people, or even the government it? self, could borrow at.

It would be class legislation of the rankest kind. Besides this it is claimed by some of the best lawyers of the country that the proposed measure is Democrat. Reynard on the Rampage. Oazly, Berkeley County, April two weeks Bince I was told, by a friend living near Pinopolis that a few days before that two negroes living on the place, while walking along a road, bad been attacked by a fox. One of the negroes, having his axe, killed It.

Another fox came into the yard, and upon being disturbed retreated nnder the corn barn growling. I thought no more of the matter until a few days ago when I learned that one night last week, on a neighboring place, some young? negroes had been similarly attacked. One had been bitten and another, who had been attacked, killed that fox. This caused me to make inquiry, and I learned of two others who have been similarly attacked. Two days ago a medical friend told me that, while visiting a place some five or six miles above Pinopolia, he learned of a negro child who had been attacked and badly bitten on the hand and thigh.

No one here has ever heard of the like condition of things before and cannot explain it. Whether or not it is an epidemic of rabies is the question asked, and the thought that it may be causes great uneasiness. If it is, not only is there risk from being fox-bitten, but also that the disease may be communicated to dogs and other domestic animals. Has any of your readers ever experienced a like condition of things of curious and Ingenious theories have been advanced to account for the fact that the sun, although he has whirled his burning disc across the heav? ens for untold ages, continues to burn without being consumed or his bulk being lessened iu the Some learned men affect to believe that the great orb is a monstrous ball of gaB, but even a great ball of gas would be consumed to its ut? most atom in the course of a few thousand years. Others pretend to believe that its fires are kept up by the remains of wreck? ed worlds which are constantly falling in? to its depths, but even this seems far from probable, not to say a purely absurd con? clusion.

In giving his opinion on the last opinion, one of the most eminent astronomers of the day has figured that a mountain range consisting of 176 cubic miles falling into the sun would only be sufficient to maintain the present heat for a single second a mass equal to that of our earth would engender only enough of heat to last 93 years. If these conclusions are correct and we have no means of proving them false, well may we ask the question: Of what wonderful, indestruc? tible substance is the sun composed. The Summer meeting of the State Ag? ricultural Society will be held in Orange burg. The rabbits in Australia are steadily increasing in spite of all the efforts here? tofore made for their extermination. A North Carolina man, however, has devis? ed a scheme for their deatrnction which promises to be effective.

Knowing the colored brothers fondness for rabbit meat and gunning, he advised the Australian government to import Southern darkies and employ them to hunt the little ras? cals down. This suggestion, it is reported, has been adopted, and the North Caro linfan, who has recently returned to this country, states that he is authorized to employ 20,000 colored men at one dollar per day for five years, who will be fur? nished with breech-loading shotguns and free ammunition and will have nothing to do bnt shoot rabbits as long as they last. It is a great scheme, and cannot fail of complete success, but there is one serious objection to it. It wonldbe cruel to send only 20,000 sable Nimrods on such a mission and leave three or four millions behind to die of envy. Kentucky has spent one hundred and nine days, and two hundred thousand dollars in framing a new Constitution, and the people are now called upon to vote on the question of adopting it.

The indications are that it will be found that both the time and tbe money have been thrown away when the votes are counted, not because Kentucky does not need a new Constitution badly, but because this new draft is not altogether satisfactory. The will of H. Sydney Biddle, the distinguished Philadelphia lawyer, was admitted to Probate Tuesday. It is prob ably tbe shortest on record, being as fol? lows "No. 208 South Fifth Street, Phil? adelphia.

This is my last will. I leare all my property to my wife, and make her my executrix. Signed, sealed and exc cuted this (Monday,) first day of July, 1889. (Signed,) A Sydney Biddle." Hib estate is valued at "under 000." It is said that prominent Alliance leaders in Kansas are paying the way for the return of the Alliance to the Repub? lican fold. They say that they will go into a third party movement if the Alli? ance men of the South will go with them, but that they will not lead a third party movement to elect a Democratic Presi? dent.

If they have to choose between the existing parties, they wili go to the Re? publicans. A canary died in New York recently at the age of 15 years. The bird was blind for the last two years of his life, but sang at times till within a few days of his death. One morning he refused food, but took a little water, and then, accord? ing to tbe writer, he nestled down in his cage, ruffled out his feathers as usual, coiled up as if to sleep, and thus gently died. is a young woman in Columbus to whom a merchant of that place offered twenty yards of silk for a dress if she would saw half a cord of wood in front of his store.

She borrowed a saw and went through the woodpile in exact? ly three hours, and the admiring crowd bought her a $12 hat to go with the dress. For nearly half a centnry Ayer's Cherry Pectoral has been the most popular cough remedy in the world. The constantly in? creasing demand for this remedy proves it to be tbe very best specific for colds, coughs, and all diseases of the tbroat and lungs. FOR RENT. ONE FOUR ROOM COTTAGE, ON WHITNER 8T.

Apply to A. LESSER. April Executor's Sale. PURSUANT to an order of W. F.

Coi, Judge of Probate for Andwson Coun? ty, I will sell at public outcry, in front of the Court House, in the city of Anderson, S. at 12 o'clock on Friday, the 8th day of May next, for cash, the choses in action, consisting of Notes and Accounts and the Judgments remaining uncollected and belonging to tbe estate of 55. Hall de? ceased also one share of stock in tbe Port Royal Western Carolina Railway Com? pany, and a fractional certificate of stock also the interest of tbe late Z. Hall in tbe late partnership of H. Robinson Co.

HUGH ROBINSON, Surviving Executor of th? Will of Z. Hall, Deceased. April 23, 1891, 42 3 MEDICAL CARD. WE, the undersigned, having formed a partnership for the practice of Med icine and 8urgery, respectfully offer our services to the citizens of Anderson and vicinity. Bros.

Drug Store. W. H. TODD R. W.

BROWN. April 9, 1891 40 4 LUMBER. IWISH to say to the public that I am still in the Lumber business. With a stock of 250,000 feet of Lumber on hand, and being located in a belt of lino timber, with two large Mills and Planers, I am prepared to fill orders promptly, either in rough or dressed Lumber. I keep on band at the Blue Ridge Yard an assortment of Lumber, and when in need of any call on Mr.

R. A. Coffee at the yard. Orders left with him will receive prompt atteniton. OTTO KAUFMAN.

April 16, HOUSE and LOT in WILLIAMSTON FOR SALE. IWILL sell the House and Lot, situate in tbe Town of WilliamBton, S. on Main Street, containing three and three quarter acres, more or less, and of which the Rev. John L. Kennedy died seized and gossessed, at public sale before the Court door, in the City of Anderson, on Saleeday in May next.

Terms cash. M. GLENN, Executor J. L. Kennedy, deceased.

April 9, NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the Estate of Lucinda J. Drake, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, prop? erly proven, to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, ana those indebted to make payment. MINERVA DRAKE, Adm'x. April 16.

SUMMEK GOODS. A. most thoroughly ventilated made. FLY FANS-from. $2.00 to $2.25.

FEY TRAPS-Wire 15c, Glass 30c. WATER COOLERS, White mountain Ice Cream Warranted tbe beat made. Kerosene and Gasolene Stoves. Rath Tnbs, Apple and Peach Parers, Baskets at Cost. TINWARE cheaper than any house in the country.

Gauze Door Cook Store Leads them All. Come and see them. SEEL ARCHER. OTXR, TERRELL CULTIVATOR The Best this side the Equator, A Boss Crop Regulator, For Cotton, Corn, Peas or Come and try one of them and you will never regret it. 100 DOZEN HOES, Big and Little," at prices that will make you smile.

OTHER GOODS INNUMERABLE. Yours, very truly, OUlSTlNTISrGrHAM BROS. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT C. S. MINOR CO.

ARE STILL LEADING THE TRADE IN ANDERSON! YES, they have the "git up and get" about them, and where-with-all to name prices which no other firm in a radiUB of a hundred mileB will dare to do. Don't neglect an oppor? tunity of seeing our Magnificent Stock, which is overflowing with the LATEST NOVELTIES in every Department. We would call your attention especially to our immense line of Flower Jars, Swinging Baskets, and Loga and Window Pots. We have the moat aplendid assortment of these goods that were ever offered to the Anderson public. Our line of Glassware is, as usual, complete in every detail.

The Ladies are invited, espe? cially to look at our line of Hats, Plumes, Wreaths, Lacea, Ribbons, Ruchinga, GloveB, Corsets, Hose, Anticipating your needs, this cold weather reminds us of the fact that we have on hand a few more of those Jersey Jack? ets, and they are cheaper than ever. You should not fail to see our line of Crockery and Yellow Ware before making your purchases elsewhere. We have on hand a large quantity of the wash woman's old reliable South Laundry Soap. We have also a splendid as? sortment of Toilet Soap. Please remember that Jay Gould's credit is not good with us, so send along the dimes with your orders.

The beaming countenance of Mr. T. W. MeCarley can be seen behind our counters again, where he will be pleased to aerve his friends and the public generally. In consideration of 10c.

we are yours, C. 8. MINOR CO. LOST, OR STOLEN! A SMALL BOY, with his Dad's Shoes on; had an M. T.

bag -on his back, containing two railroad tunnels and a bundle of bung holes. He wore a mutton chop coat, with bean soup linings. He was cross-eyed at the back of his neck, and his hair was cut curly. He was born before his elder brother, his mother being pres? ent on the occasion. When last seen he was shoveling the March wind off the Court House to raise money enuugh to buy him and his sister a pair of Nice Shoes at? THE SHOE STORE.

Big, New Stock Just in of and Slippers, And I propose to keep up with the Bell Cow or git out of the gang Go to the Shoe Store, or send your order, and we will send to you to try on at your house. Respectfully, O. B. YANWYGK. 18 LBS.

GRANULATED SUGAR 10,000 Lbs. Best Kettle Rendered Leaf Lard. 5,000 Lbs. Sugar Cured and Country Hams, Now in stock, Bought before the rise. Have a few more tliose Fine California Prunes at 15c per Pound.

OTJ35. STOCK OF FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES Is complete, and we will not be Undersold. Come all and give us a call. D. S.

MAXWELL SON, No, 5 Hotel Chi quota Place? HOW TO FILL YOUR PANTRY. BUY Canned English Peas at 15c. Buy Canned Corn at 15c. Buy 3 pound Canned Tomatoes at 10c. Buy 2 pound Canned Tomatoes at 8c.

Buy 3 pound California Peaches at 25c. Buy Standard Salmon at 15c. Buy Standard Mackerel at 15c. Buy Corn Beef at 10c per pound. Buy Dried B6ef at 10c per pound.

Buy Smoked Jole at 7c per pound. Buy Kingan Reliable Hams Cheap, Buy Excelsior Flour Cheap. Buy EVERYTHING in the Grocery line cheap, And from JEl. s. ijio-oisr, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, Anderson, S.

O. CS SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! In order to reduce our Large Stock of Dry Groods, WE WILL NOW OFFER THEM AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, COMPRISING A COMPLETE LINE OF FOREIGN and DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS, We would call special attention to our large and well assorted line of BLACK CASHMERES, HENRIETTAS and MOHAIRS that can't be beat in the city. HOSIERY. Our Hue of Hosiery for Ladies, Misses, Children and Gents is NOTIONS. A large line of Notions of all kinds.

TABLE LINENS, DAMASK, TOWELS, FLANNELS A.T COST. We are agents for Ferris Bros. GOOD SENSE CORSET and Hall's JSAZAR FORMS. TO THE LADIES. We extend a most cordial invitation to call and inspect our entire stock, as we will take pleasure in showing you through, and will guarantee to sell yon as cheap as anybody.

Promising you prompt and polite attention, We are yours truly, SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. COTTON COINC HIGHER. WE are glad to be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton is bound to go up, if you will not be in tto big a hurry to sell. In the meantime you can buy all kinds of? Grrocex'ics, Fireworks and Xmas Goods ybere in Town from? thanks for past patronage, Of all kinds as cheap or cheaper than anywbere in Town from? Yours, with thanks for past patronage,.