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The Otago Witness from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand • 18

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The Otago Witnessi
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18 OTAGO WITNESS May 3 1894 removal of these obstructions to ocean navigation The committee will also consider all correspondence which has passed between the Government of the United States and Great Britain on tiie matter The London of March 30 announces the marriage of Lord Francis Hope and May Yohe an American burlesque actress Lord Hope is heir presumptive to the Duke THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL Auckland April 26 GENERAL SUMMARY Tha nlwHJnmnf AnuriMn mnitj-fniliionaire Astra to a manbenUp of the London Carlton dub the recognised headquarters of the MhwM members of the Tory party was not by general ballot bat by the Political Committee of the olub which is permitted under a special role to every year a certain number of House of Representatives on April 3 Mr Grosvenor iff Ohio introduced a resolution calling 'fra a special investigation of his action in soiling railroad property and the telegraph knee engaged in the interests of commerce and with armed force and violence establishing a censorship of the drily and weekly press of the country and proMbiting the transmission of news despatches to newspapers The resolution wee referred to the House Committee on Inter-State and Foreign Commerce The embargo on newspapers in South fhimHm continued in force on April 5 A RELIGIOUS FIGHT The American Protective Association (Protestant) and Roman Catholio element into armed conflict at the polls for tiie municipal elections at Kansas on April 5 More than 200 shots were exchanged between tiie combatants in Iras than that many swntmds When the firing oeaaed six men were lyingUead or injured While the riot was in progress mmW of the Protective Association to Armour- dale and Argentine strongholds of the Order for reinforcements of 1000 armed men and an aasuranos was riven that they would shortly be on the way The American Protective -Association evidently mean business in and Nebraska Women took a at the polls in many places and their votes told in favour of good government Aft Legnnta (Colorado) where too issue was and order versus the gamblers" tiie latter were under" by the ballots of the women The Republicans have made a olean sweep of Kansu Nebraska Colorado and Ohio A DESPERADO A desperate-looking man named William Fredericks entered the branch office of too Ban Frandaoo Savings Union and walked up to William Herrick the cashier to whom ha handed the following note: Oashier After considering my deplorable condition I am convinced that toil life is not wrath living without liberal means and therefore I am resolved to make one more effort in the High road of Help to sustain my miserable existence Should you not comply with my demand I am compelled to employ my last a bottle of nitre-glycerine and Mow myself under toe rains of toe building blasted to everlasting nothingness Yours respectfully A Dxsphatb A skull and orossboues ware drawn in red ink The men after saying hie name was Bonne-mast drew a large revolver and ordered the oashier to comply with his request The letter acting quickly reaohed for a revolver to 125 On March 9 quantities of ammunition were found in the bush near the town It is believed the Bpanish soldiers intended to return and sack the town When the wartMp went away the Americana asked the commander of tiie Cleopatra to remain and protoot them which he promised to do until relieved by another ship If it had not been fra our British cousins God rally knows what would have been tiie fate of ns NEW TREATY WITH CHINA The Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate has had consideration an important treaty with China negotiated the new Chinese Minister and Secretary of Gresham As negotiated the treaty lets eside end supersedes the State Act and the recently enacted Geary law It is an immigration treaty and provides fra the admission of Chinese emigrants not labourers under restrictions It also nee fra its object toe protection iff the Chinese already hi the States While it does not repeal the Geary law it is said to render it nugatory in many particulars If passed aa it is likely to be it will ran fra 20 years Hod if neither Government give notice at the end iff that time it will remain in force fra another 20 yean It is said the new treaty will require American residents in China to be registered and photographed in the same-manner as the are in toe States That Secretary Gresham would offer such an insult to American missionaries is almost incredible It is considered that Chinese diplomacy has had toe best of it in forming the treaty AMERICAN SUMMARY James A Mulligan has been confirmed United States Consol General aft Apia Samoa The General Post Office oontnet with Pacific Mail Steamship Company for the portation of mails between New York Colon and San Francisco and Hongkong cancelled on March 31 fra non-compuanoe with theprovisions of the reoent subsidy law The strike at Connellsville in tiie ooke region of Pennsylvania grows in importance raid new aets of violence are developed daily AA least Mae lives were sacrificed within toe 12 hoars ending April 4 The first regular sermon ever given Harvard by a Roman Catholic priest preached there on April 1 by the Rev Peter Hie subject was Rationalism in the Father graduated from Harvard College at the dose of 1888 and is now a membra iff the Paulista a Roman Catholio order The big ship Somali one iff the largest British merchantmen afloat and a tea packet arrived from Hongkong with a monster cargo of Chinese end Japanese teas at San Fcandsoo on March 30 She was 147 days out and much anxiety was felt on her account The southeast trades carried toe unlucky craft into a calm expanse of oeean where fra 40 days she rolled slightly over 600 miles of smooth water The provisions gave out and daring the latter part of the voyage the crew subsisted on rice and tea The diet was monotonous but the sailors and officers grew fat on it The carrying eapadty of the Somali is 5408 tons wMoh is exceeded only by that of the French vessel La France The result of toe court-martial in the ease iff Commander Hegerman late iff the Kearsage United States man-of-war wrecked on toe Rooodra reef off the ooast of Central Africa was that the captain was found guilty iff negligence in suffering toe vessel to ran upon the reef and inefficiency in the performance of Me duty He wee sentenced to be suspended from duty fra two yean on welting fra orders but to retain Me present number in the list of commanders for long and faithful service All the members of the court recommended him to mercy The Navy department is making an effort to recover the plate at the Kearsage majority in the cause we espouse We shall try as we have been txying since 1886 to bring conviction to the minds of the patriotic Though it was not necessary to demand an English majority It was important to oonvinee the heart and mind and conscience of The Premier argued that the reason Pens were in opposition to Home Role was doe entirely to toe knowledge that English opinion upheld them otherwise the country would have risen as one man against the rejection of the MU Therefore he was determined to reduce the English majority against the Mil After the meeting a resolution of oonfidenoe in the Government was passed and tiie audience dispersed with cheers PROTEST AGAINST THE LORDS An impressive demonstration to protest against the action of the House of Lords in rejecting the Liability Bill was held in Hyde Park on Sunday March 18 It is estimated that 8000 persons were present There were 12 platforms in tiie Park from which speakers addressed the assembled throng Shortly before 3 an enormous procession from all parts of the city began to arrive Among those who took part in toe procession were representatives from every trade onion in London The chief speakers were Messrs Burns Woods Arch and Cramer all of whom are labour members of toe House of Commons Resolutions were read from aU the platforms calling upon the Government to agsin Introduce the Liability BiU immediately upon the reassembling of the House of Commons and also demanding that the Government take steps to bring about the entire abolition iff the House of Lords At the sound of the bugle the resolutions were adopted simultaneously on aU the platforms the crowd signifying their approval with a mighty shout Thera was no trouble of any Una reported and after the adoption of toe resolutions the people quickly dispersed MR GLADSTONE Mr Gladstone recently received a letter from his constituents in Midlothian in wMch he was requested to represent the borough in the House iff Commons He wrote in reply dedaring that his chief desire will be to follow the wishes of the constituents he represents wUl naturally be a change in my attendance in Parliament I cannot yet judge how far my sight and hearing will disable my performing parliamentary duties As to the merits ra demerits of my career certainly I have been ohargeaMe with many errors of judgment but I hope I have at least been governed by uprightness iff intention and a desire to He then reviews Ms public life of 60 years dating from Lard Derby's Reform Act which he describes as the political birth of Scotland and the beginning of a duty which he had solemnly recognised Mr Gladstone says Ms career has been a history of political economical social moral and intellectual emancipation In all toe numberless causes that had been brought forward in this time Scotland has battled fra the right am deeply he adds until thejust demands at Ireland are satisfied as the House of Commons tried to satisfy them neither too legislative wants of any portion of too United Kingdom will be adequately met nor will the Empire attain its maximum power nor its honour bo effectively cleared of too deepest historic stein ever attached to it" A BASH ELOPEMENT Banker Endorf iff Vienna was in New York on March 22 looking fra an American swindler named Ker It appears he had met Ker in Vienna and was fasrinated by his smooth plausibility when the American confided to him that he was in reslity Edward Vanderbilt a nephew of William Vanderbilt and that he was travelling incognita to avoid attention Endorf was churned and invited the young Croesus to Ms home where ho speedily fell in love with Freda Endorf toe daughter much to the delight of papa a delight which was changed subsequently to profound sorrow when Freda yielding to solicitations fled with Mm from toe parental roof taking with her toe equivalent of £30000 in hard cash The step was made too without the parties going through the marriage form Kerned preiriously been engaged in swindling operations in Europe on a luge scale and with uniform success A LONDON SENSATION In London on March 18 a sensation was caused by the discovery of a crime that somewhat resembles the notorious Gouffe murder in Paris The scene was in Grafton street in the Soho district and in the vicinity where the poliee recently raided the club An Austrian women named Marie Hermann well known as a night prowler rented a small room in Grafton On tiie night iff March 16 she in company with an elderly mi was seen to enter the room Subsequently loud quarrelling was heard in room A man named Hutchins who lodged with the woman Hermann found on the 17th blood stains in the rink and spoke to the women about it She passed the matter off lightly bat on Saturday Changed her lodgings taking better apartments in Maryle-bone street She took with her a heavy trank which she asked should be carefully handled In the meantime the suspicions of the officers were aroused They forced an entrance and found that the body of the missing man had been battered evidently with some blunt instrument The body presented a frightful appearance the clothing being drenched with blood Hermann was taken into oustody and Charged with wilful murder The body has been recognised as that of a well-to-do ex-jobmaster named Stevens 56 years of age It is believed that the woman had an accomplice aa Stevens was muscular He may however have been killed while asleep Prisoner is 44 years of age and ugly almost to repulriveness BRITISH OCCUPATION OF BLUE-FIELDS Captain A Rider an American now residing at Blueflelds Nicaragua Central -America sends a letter under date March 28 reviewing the situation there previous to the arrival of HMS Cleopatra and says that if it had not been for her coming all the American and foreign residents of the plan would have been killed The captain writes the formation of the Provisional Government the commander of the Cleopatra compelled toe Spanish troops to retire to Grey town They sailed for that place in the Cleopatra on March 5 Lieutenant-colonel Mann of the ship and 75 marines were left to prevent farther trouble After the vessel sailed it was found that some of the Spanish soldiers were still In town That night a frightful riot commenced between the Spanish soldiers and the natives The streets were filled with armed men and the greatest excitement prevailed Two soldiers and one native were killed and several wounded The foreign residents sent fra Colonel Mann encamped a short distance down the river He came to our relief and has sinoe remained in charge of the town The Cleopatra returned on the 6 th and increased the number of men on of Newcastle Miss Yohe appears nightly at the London Lyric Theatre THE FARNELLITES The convention of this wing of the Irish party was held in Dublin on April 3 Among those present were the Lord Mayors of Dublin and Cork Mr John Clancy MP and others A despatch from the Irish Independents of New York was received from Edward the president requesting the home party to draw on the treasurer (John Brennan) at the Bank of Ireland Dublin for £1000 A message of sympathy wss also sent from Chicago Mr John Redmond made a remark ably significant speech He said the convention was imperative The political situation was so changed that the leaders felt they could not continue to bear alone tiie responsibility for the futon policy of the Irish Independent party Fifteen years of labour sacrifice and suffering were endangered The cause of Ireland was confronted almost by rain because of the selfish jealousies of men who under the name of anti-Psrnellites were slavishly subservient to the English and injured tiie cause of tiie people they represented by petty disputes The speaker stated that it would be the policy of Lora Rosebery to make concessions to the Unionists to tiie detriment of Ireland and Home Rule Mr Redmond said he believed in constitutional agitation when it was conducted by fearless men but if this class of agitation was afiowed to rink into a force and a sham as it had in the hands of tiie anti-Psrnellites then it was better that it be abolished and that men of stern methods and resolutions come to the front as soon as possible The speaker concluded his remarks by saying that the electorate of Clare demanded that he should not support the Government as the latter had refosed to release their Irish political prisoners and when he returned to the House of Commons he would tell Sir William Vernon Hareonrt that the latter their homes and atop there Resolutions offered by the mayor of Cork declaring that the Government had forfeited all claims to the fldenoe of Irishmen and calling upon Irish MPs to strive fra an early dissolution of Parliament These resolutions were carried with loud DEATH OF LB GABON THE SPY Major Henri Le Caron the British Government spy died in London on April 2 from an internal tamour He had been living at Kensington under the name ff Dr Howard guarded night end day by dateetivee It is understood that one ra the interests instrumental in the Parnell proteontion was paying to Le Caron an annuity of £5000 and his lira was insured for a large sum under an agree meat by vrhioh he gave evidence before the Parnell Commission His real name was Beach He lived in the United States for a number of years and had had unobstrnoted opportunities to know the secret business iff the dan-na-Ghel He claimed to have had an interview with Parnell in London when that parliamentary leader in 1881 impressed on him the necessity for 'a good understanding between Irishmen who advocated the use of physical force against England and those who worked to promote national objects by assisting the party led by Parnell Le Caron was a graduate in the class of 1872 of the Detroit Medical College and kept drag stores in various places He at one time traded also for a drag house and practised medicine in the State of lllinois The other parts played in his remarkable career were those el an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic when the Fenians proposed to invade Canada in 1865 of the Nationalists Daring the inquest on the body iff Dr Cronin Hagerty a railway dene who gave evidence regarding Sullivan's bitter declaration against the deceased when he was tried and expelled from the Glan-narGael said Le Caron was a member of the committee that tried the doctor and that Le Caron was introduced to witness by Alexander Sullivan as a man of respectable character and worthy of all oonfidenoe THE BEHRING SEA AWARD Thera is perfect accord between Great Britain and tiie United States in regard to the plans and methods of enforcing the award No difficulty according to Ambassador Bayard need be feared on toe subject In the House of Commons on March 29 on the motion of Sir Charles Russell leave was given to introduce a bill for the enforcement of toe award It provides that any violation of the trams of the award is punishable and authorises British warships to seize British vessels engaged in their violation The bill empowers the Queen-in-Ooundl to authorise certain nanuifl officers iff the United States navy equally to seise British ships for violations In toe American Mil a similar provision will be included empowering British officers to seise American vessels The bill fixes a time fra closing the fisheries and specific protection is prescribed as also tiie authorised mode of capture and it gives a rule by which the system of licenses may be worked The real mission of Admiral John Walker who sailed from Ban Francisco on April 5 as a passenger on board the Oceanic steamship Mariposa fra Honolulu is to secure Pearl Harbour Hawaii as one of tiie stations and bases of supplies for war vessels policing the ocean for toe protection of seals San Francisco mid Yokohama being the others LORD ROSEBERY AT EDINBURGH Lord Rosebery arrived at Edinburgh on March 16 to make his expected address to toe delegates from the Liberal Association from all parts of Scotland The Premier was received at tiie station by the Liberal Committee and driven to tiie Corn Exchange being given an ovation from the crowds gathered along the route The Corn Exchange which holds 5000 people was packed an hoar before his arrival Members of the aristocracy and a large number of members of Parliament and others were upon the platform when Lord Rosebery entered the Exchange The vast audience rose and stood waiving their hats and cheering for several minutes Upon rising to speak he was greeted with resumed ovations and by the singing iff a jolly good During the course of his remarks the Premier said his thoughts went to the past rather than to the present to the immortal days of first Midlothian campaign The memory of that campaign quickened Ms pulse If Mr Gladstone was absent that night Ms inspiration was with them and it was by that inspiration that tiie Government intended to succeed continued the Premier to sit on tiie banks of the stream ef Time and watch the waters flow by until it runs dry fra an English vice to the Tory party The nature of Mr Astoria services to the party is not officially announced but it most be either the support of the Pall Mall Gazette or a very heavy subscription to the party funds Before he elegible to membership he most have signed a declaration attested by two members of the dub speaking from their personal knowledge of bis minion and his acceptance of Tory principles The subject naturally aroused the conjecture that Mr Astor really means to apply for naturalisation as a British subject bat an inquiry by a World's correspondent at the proper office shows he has as yet taken no step to that end Nothing bat the vigilance of an enginoerpre-vented a fatal accident to the Prince of Wales at tiie station of Marseilles Fraaoe on April 4 The Frinoe stopped too long at too buffet and as the train started elnng to the railing of a saloon carriage The stationmaater sawtbe danger and signalled the engineer who stopped the train A Leaden despatch of March 31 says Corbett wDl fight under the auspices of the National Sporting Glob before September or October provided Jaekson is willing and the purse is stisbetay At a dumev given at Nioe on March 31 according to a special pnbliahed in the London Standard by Baron Rothschild James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald announced that he would give three prises to be competed for in nest yachting regatta Each prise will be wrath £100 Baron da that he would give three prises of £300 each for the same Tne London Globe reports that startling meeting took place between Sir William Vernon Hareonrt and Lord Rosebery on March 14 It says that if the distinguished statesmen did not quarrel they at least told each other same hard nets It is stated that the Labouehere amendment episode in the House of Commons on the preceding evening was intended to be a demonstration against Lord Rosebery and the latter is said to be rally aware of the net The new M'Oartbyito committee controlling that section of the Irish party in the House iff finwimoM wmlsfai at Jnitin finrthr Edward Blake Michael Davitt John Dmra Timothy Hedy William Thomas Sexton and Sullivan Mr Abraham was elected to replace Mr Arthur as seeretary Visoount Deerhnrst the eldest son of the Earl of Coventry wea married to Miss Virginia Banyrlg stepdaughter iff Charles William of California on March 10 at All Ohnreb London in the presence of a of the nobility and gentry of tiie bride is a multi-worked as a market gardener in Ban Francisco California and his enormous i by a series of lucky coups in the market in that city in the early He is an Englishman ud was with Judaea trooper in Lord Cardi brigade made the famous doubted this seharge Bonyng Balaclava but vw denied the Aft a meeting tff shareholders of the Journal Mr Thomas Sexton MP severely criticised the action iff the directors complaining that in spite ef the loss of money there was no spirit of eoonomy shown Bur John Dillon said it was his lsst day on the Boerfl of Directors He denounced Mr i dividends as a bogus plan Throughout Mr speech there were frequent interruptions and a number of exciting scenes Mir Healy who followed bitterly attacked Hr Dillon declaring he had not a majority of The Times on March 29 said that in the best informed Radical circles it was taken for granted that ParliaiUent will dissolve i July It is not improbable that Mr Timothy Healy will join toeFarnellitee as he is dissatisfied with the so-called sssuranoa in Lord i printed on tiie 20th a manifesto the Irish National Leagna violently the attitude of Lord Rosebery ana the anti-ParnelHtas A olosa watch is being kept on all foreigners and Englishmen in London and Birmingham who are suspected of having Anarchistic tendencies Early on March 11 the police made a raid on a foreigners olnb in Grafton street Soho saburb of Birmingham Thirty-eight men we arrested and taken to the poliee station where they ware examined with the result that all but five were discharged from custody It is reported that the poiioe searched the premia and seised a quantity of Anarchist literature Mr Joseph Chamberlain addressed a crowd of Unionists at Edinburgh on March 22 In the course ef his remarks he said Mr Gladstone had left his kueoeasors a heritage iff woe The police ef Oxford have been investigating the mysterious disappearance ef the Hon Mrs Peilding wlur had been misting sinoe Monday Marsh 20 When last seen Mrs FeUding wai strolling in the direction of University Park She was much depressed at the recent loss of husband Rev Charles Feilding uncle of The River Gherweil was dragged 1 the body of the unfortunate i is little doubt she committed Bari Denbigh The lady found Thera i sue money article of the London Times of March 24 aunoonced the death of Solomon Basroon of the firm iff Davis 8assoonand Co iff Bombay Deceased was known as the opium millionaire The international glove fight between Burge ef Australia (known as the iron man and Arthur Valentine the light-weight champion was fought in London on March 19 The fought at eateh weights for £100 Thera 20 desperate rounds when Valentine declared the winner Burge had three ribs broken and was otherwise frightfully punished James Francis Hogan MF and seeretary of tiie Colonial party in Parliament made public a letter from an English resident of Samoa received on March 31 dedaring that the joint control is a failure The writer urges England to join the Samoan and Tongan groups to New Zealand and that the other Powers withdraw In the House of Commons on March 31 replying to a question on the subject of derelicts Mr Mun della said it had been decided to appoint a apodal committee to eon- and missed also Bounemant made a second shot whioh struck Herrick in the heart killing Mm instantly The book-keeper named Melvin fired two shots at Harriers murderer but tide did not prevent Mm from getting away temporarily He was only oaptnrod alter a long ohase Subsequently his name was found to ba William Fredericks who two months before bed killed a brakesman of the Central Pacific railroad and afterwards shot and killed Sheriff Fasooe of Nevada oonnty It is alio believed that tiie prisoner was a companion of Chris Evans the Californian bandit now sate ton tt hr SUttprlMU THE CHIBA nun MISSION A tea meeting was hold in the Choral Hall lut night in honour of Hiss Gertruda Jeffreys who leaves Dunedin to-day for Melbourne to undergo a short training prior to her for China to engage in mission work There was a large attendance upon the occasion and after the tea had been disposod of the gathering took the form of a publio meeting which was presided over by Mr Heycook Addresses were given by the chairman by Mr Wm Jeffreys (father of the young lady who le about to become a missionary) and by tbs Revs A North Borrie and Bannerman The speakers all referred to the necessity of missionary work bring carried on abroad well as at home and soma of them congratulated Miss Jeffreys upon being called to such ho iting ai to her too which lei having a desire to go to China a mission sry It may be mentioned that the young lady who is a daughter of Mr Wm Jeffreys of Mornlngton will ba Joined In Melbourne byMisa Ubn Traill formerly of Stewart Island and after the two have undergone a training they proceed together to CMee missionaries in connection with the China Inland Minion 'TKEivfErai'elNE af-CENTHRYi? a a 4 1 The Oldest Patent Medicine 4 The Safest Family Medlelne i' Of Purely Vegetable Ingredients I Free from Meroury and Inlurioue Drugs VL for wESl ACIDITY fflATULHNOT SXGK IllSAOXIj end all kindred eomplnlnta theee famous Pills act readily rarely and safely For all the oommon ailments of everyday nfemydsus a remedy fop COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS ark Simply invaluable Dr Collier writing in the Pharmycompoeia at toe Rbyri College of Physicians ef London says 11 fctvsno JuriUtlia tearing that it the but mail kb in tlukigdoa May bo bad threniut the world XaBomsainiftAMgAtt iiaua I Sf which was carried to Jamaica West Indies S' native wreckers as an historical relic of tiie 1 sMp The Californian Midwinter Fair is still drawing crowds of visitors and will probably remain open till July 4 Some of the oonoemonaries have not done as well as expected but gene-is regarded as a soooess statistics of the United States published on March 30 showed that there are 28440 wMte convicts in penitentiaries who know where they were born Of these 1415 are natives end 14275 bom abroad Similar statistics show that 51 per cent of the inmates df tin almshouses iff toe country are foreign born and 24 per cent of the inmates of benevolent institutions such as insane deaf and dumb and Idiot asylums These statistics are used to justify and sustain the rigorous inspection that is now being made of all immigrants Three thousand representative negroes from every pert at Alabama assembled at Birmingham in that State on Much 22 in convention to consider the question of emigration to Africa It was toe sense iff the assemblage that Africa is the natural home of the negro and that those in the United States should return to that country as soon as possible and establish on tiie Dark Continent a neat nation such aa the whites had established in America It was rted however that as white men had brought negro to America they ought to pay Ms foie back to Ms native land Resolutions were adopted to that effect Dr Houser of the Indian police announces that ho is about to olosa negotiations with ex-Queen Liliuokaiaui for a lecturing tour of the United States to begin at Ban Franekeo The Queen will wear a crown on too stage and will present precisely the same appearance that she did during her regal experience at Honolulu President Cleveland transmitted to Congress on March 19 a now declaration made by toe British Government to the effect that nothing like a protectorate over Blueflelds Nicaragua was intended and that the landing of troops from HMS Cleopatra was solely for the protection of British subjects in Blueflelds A letter has been received at Taooma Washington by James Belcher Hawaiian consul from President Dale of the islands asking the consul to use Ms efforts to dissuade people for the present from coming to Honolulu either in the capacity of volunteers fra military service ra fra toe purpose of obtaining employment The very low prices iff sugar has depressed every branch of trade and there ere many on tiie islands unable to obtain any kind of employment REVOLT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Darlington Florence and other towns in the Palmetto State are in a state of revolt against the dispensary laws as they are called which seem to control the whisky traffic and empower constables as spice to invade Bivate houses A terrible riot took place at Arlington on March 31 in whioh two constables and two citizens were killed and several people wounded At Florence a mob entered the State dispensary at 25 in the morning and destroyed toe entire stock of liquors in the building The constables who era required to act as domiciliary spies are flying in all directions If caught they will be lynched It is likely Governor Tillman will be called to acoonnt by the Federal Government In the.

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