The Revolt in South Carolina.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 302, 1 May 1894, Page 3

The Revolt in South Carolina.

— «- Darliogton, Florence, and other towns in the Palmetto State are in a state of revolt against the Dispensary Laws, as tbej are called, which seek to control the whisky traffic and empower constables, as spies, to invade private houses. A terrible riot took place at Darlington on March 31st, in which two constables and two citizens were killed and several people were wounded, and at Florence a mob entered a State dispensary at 2.5 in the morning, and destroyed the entire stock of liquors in the buildings'. Constables who are required tojact as domiciliary spies are flying in all directions. If caught they will be lynched. It is likely that Governor Tillman will be called to account by the Fed eral Government. In the House of Representatives on April 3rd, Grosvenor, of Ohio, introduced a resolution calling for a special investigation of his action in seizing railroad property and telegraph lines engaged in interstate commerce and with armed hordes and violence establishing a consorship of the daily and weekly press of the country and prohibiting the transmission of sews despatches to newspapers. The resolution was referred to the House Committee on interstate and Foreign Commerce. The embargo on newspapers in South Carolina continued in force on April sth.