The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-07

A Road Congress will be held in Allan
ia OH the 18th of October. 1t will be
composed Of delegates from all the South
ern States, each State being allowed twice
as many delegates as 1t has representa-
tives in the lower House Of Congress. The
object is to devise practical methods for
improving the public roads Of the South.
The Republicans in Ohio have been
making the main issue between them and
the Democrats in the present campaign
the free silver plank in the Democratic
platform. With this as the issue they
seem to worst the Democrats considera-
bly,. But Gov. Campbell and his friends
are making brave effortto hold the willy
Republicans to the true issue-the tariff
question. On this subject the Democrats
throw their enemies into hopeless confu-
sion.
The cities nf st. Louis, Mo-, Louisville,
KY, Springfield, ILL.,, Memphis, Tenn,
and others in that general section felt a
sharp earthquake shock on Saturday
night at about IL o'clock. A good deal of
crockery and glassware was molished,
but no great damage was done. A man
in st. Louis is reported to have been
shaken off the stool on which he was sit
ting. Many people in Terre Haute, Ind,
were nauseated by the undulations. The
shocks lasted from only one to four Sec
onds.
Mayor J. A. Henneman, of Spartan
burg, was shot by negro on last Sabbath
evening and died in few minutes there
after. The mayor was walking past
negro house in the city and heard the
negro and his wife quarreling. He start
ed into the house to command the peace,
and when he entered the yard the negro
ordered him out and started back into his
house as If to get q weapon of some kind.
The mayor followed him into the house
and a scuffle ensued. Directly they both
rolled into the yard, and the negro, hay
ing gotten possession of the mayors Pis-
tol, shot him before he could rise to his
feet. The negro surrendered himself:
There was talk Of lynching him. We
will hardly escape his just punishment
the gallows.
President Polk has returned from his
Kansas trip. He was asked what truth
there was in the assertion made by per-
sons who claimed to have heard him, that
he had made apologies to Kansas audi
ences for having fought for the cause OF Lee
and Jackson, and had hoped to aid and
aUGG IuoSuSuy Ill SOLlC way llOlCpiiOus
''It is absolutely and unqualifiedly false
in every particular. \ have new
or uttered a sentiment in Northern State
I would not willingly repeat in any
Southern State" IfPresident Polk would
procure few affidavits from responsible
men who heard his speeches denying
that he made the statements accredited to
him he would nail the accusation as "a lie
out of the whole CLOTH" Likewise, If his
accuser would furnish affidavits substan-
tiatlng his charges, the preponderance of
evidence would be in his favor. AS the
matter stands, it is simply question Of
veracity between accuser and accused.
One party or the other can certainly pro-
duce affidavits that will bear out the
truthfulness of the accusation or the de-
nial, and until this is done the matter
cannot be settled to the satisfaction of
everybody. We hope to see affidavits
from one side or the other, as each man
is as worthy of belief as the other, so far
as we know. President Polk has not de-
MED that he was an advocate Of third par
tyism in his speeches in Kansas.