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1111CEENS) S. C,. THIUTRSDAIrlY JAN 1A1 5,19. O 7 COL. KE EFT IS MA!D, HE MAKES A MOST SAVAGE ATTACK ON DR. J. W. STOKES. Say, honator Jr)y is io statlem111, ail -4ccuem Dr. Stoien of 'raenchety a<l With beiirng Influenced by !,i4 Own Pel a-inal A mbitlon. NEwnEIIY, S. C., Jlan. 3.- The [ol lowing article appeared this week in the Newberry Observer: Alliance men, our noble Order now covers thirty-live States, and we have millions of members. We have a great, and holy work before us. To lvo a clear understanding of the obligations of each one to the other and to the Or der education is absolutely necessary. To get that education I invoke you to subscribe for the National E.conomist, the oflicial or-gan of the Order, pub lished at Washington city. It will cost you only one dollar a year. It is worth to you more than all the other news papers put together. You will learn rom it the principles and demands of the Order and its great end and aim. If you do not take it, subscribe at once for it. There is great lack of knowledge among those who ought to be posted. The following will show the oblig-at0ion of each member of the Alliance to the Order and to tloe organizai i0s% wit Ih vhom we have confederated: ST. LoUs, 310 , Deceiber (th, 1889. Agreement made this (lay by and ie( tween the undersivned collunittec repre Sienting tho National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union oil tho one( part, and 'the undersigned committee representing 'h Knihts of Labor on the othe r part. dUI W u-): The udersignee conmnnittee representing the Knights of Labor having read the demands of the National Farieis Alliance and *Industrial Union which are 1 embodied In this agreement, lereby endorse I the Saine on behalf of the Kniglitts of I,ahm.r, and for the purpose of givilig practical effect to the delminnds iel in set forth, the legislative committees of both organ i zat ions will act ill concert before Congress for tle I purpose of securing the enactmeat of laws in harmony with the denlands miutually agreed. And it is further agie ed, in order tocarry out these objects, we will support 'for ollice only such men as canl be depelded '-upon to exact ties prLineiplese into statute law uninfluenced -by party eaucus. Na tional E4conolist, 16. 2, No 4, page 211. Is it not clear from the albove a1greC ment that any member of Con-gress who is a member of the Alliance o(mml1its perjury if he goes into a caucus of either of the great parties? I f he is in any degree inlluenced. by party caucus he is perjured. There i; no0 escape froiml it. On the hecels of.Mr. Irby's election t o the position of Ilnited States, ,-enator hie was interviewed by the crepn dent of Th'le News and Courier, and is reported as imaking the following state "I aim going to the Sonate as a Democrat and in full accord with the Nation i I De mocracy. I am in full sympathy with the Alliance, but whatever may lie obtaincd by me for the Alliance inust lhe -ontiUined througi the National Democratic party." Iow (loes this statement (it ir. Irby's who is the Alliance Iectirer of Laurens County, compare wvith his obligations as a menber of the Alli ance? Is he ignorant of his obligations . or is his conscience so seared t iat he i. insensible of his sworn duty ? Brother Alliancemen, great prin - ciples and demands are the basis of our noble Order, and we have before Con .gress pressing for solution a measure of financial relief of the greatest mug nitude. The Alliance is non ipartisall, but political. It rises high above men *and parties. It is the creature of the times andI the condlit ion of the country. Financial reform is the imperative de mand. it was that, and not tariff r form, that caused the recent great political revolution. Thue peop)le of the North and Northwest arc sick and tired growing corn for 12 cents per~ bushePl atnd raising beef for I cent per pounld. T1his is only tihe beginning of the rev olution for the purilication of thle (Gov - ernent and linancial reformn. Th'ie time is near at handl when tile (Order w ill mhoveoutni, taking~ its position, wvill draw its blade in dlefense of its prinici pleB andI demands, and, striking right ;and left will spare no foe. Whoever ~falters in the light is a traitor, anid ~should meet the traitors' fate. To permit a sculrvy fellow, leprous with crime and withlout anl element of statesmanship, to wvormi himself by po - ilitical trickery into high position, is niot ionly an impediment to the work, but ii crime agamnst the Order. A major ity of the members of the General A s sembly are A lliance menl,andl they could have elected a clean and able inani to reprerent our Ordler inl the Senat e and1( push our measures to success. A1 iw~as lest by the treason of one mn, Senator Stokes, president of tile State Alliance. Ho0w andt why? On Friday moring, I )eenmber 5, I s.0, ttile following appeared in1 t lie t'lh:-les tont Worldl, th1 e organ of Tlllinum aund irby: "W,hat I have seen anmd heanrdt to-day conflrms nic in nmy picviously exparessead - opinion that State Scnator ,J. W. es who Is also Pr1esidenit of the State Fanio -ers' Alliance, willl cut 110 figuri inl thle fight for thle Uilted States Senlatorshiip next Tu'lesd1ay; but that on the contrary lhe is being car-efnlly groomed for the G over nor-ship In 1894, when 'Tilhnan is mioire ii lIkely, as I have already piointed ont ini these columns, to succeed the 11Ion. NI. C. Butler in the United States Senate.'' Thell Tillnmnite wvho ispi red thIiis knew his mani. Stokes snlapped up~ anid swallowved the bait with avidity, as5 the seqult shows. On thle nighl tf lhe next dlay, Saturday, there was a cauens of aboult forty Alliancee meni, which wasit presided over by Senator Stokes, pr'esi dent of the State Aliiance. A ballot was taken, with IDonaldson in the lead, next Irby, then Keitt. Stokes, as pie dlicted, in tile (Chariestoni W~orld, cut no0 figure ini the light, .lie got only four votes, iIe was out of the raIce ill an Alliance coucus. It was then agreed1 to hold( an A lliance caucous on Mond(ay night, whaen aull Imh Alliance menibers of the Guenerail As sembly would be present and select anm Alliance candidate. A commnitte-e wals S appointed to wait on D)onalsonm, Irby and Keitt andl get them to state in writ ing thlelr. position on the principles and demands of the Alliance, to be readl be fore the caucus. President Stokes said to the write thlat his position was w~ell *known, bun, the position of Donaldson and Irby was net; hence the request that they be put in writing. I put mnine ill writing and handed it in. Senator 8tokes, presidlent of the State Alliance and presiding oficer of the caucus of A In c en I SI ,t ':n:y ilalit, inste; " rive,iug lin lii oi Alolnd, ul,as aIrlu, 1(-d off itito a cttiells Ntit-Alliance m-n, Tillmnanites; frc hich caucus Allice men who did n ml-port Till!Val wereexelude(d, and ill 60h1ch who Inlose Suipported. Tillim wvoult not, go. SI ikes sold otll the Alliance for t h1;d [ow of being Gover(inor of the Str nIr years elice. That is the logi 1o1lusi. T he result was tWse Allin ad no catdidate. Alliance miI W( "ree to vote for whom they pleas ,oine rightly exercise(d it. Senator Stokes, from his position president of the State Alliance and I raiitre to convene the caucus of the 1 .inn-e men on Mlonday night., which N igreed on, and his leading oft into a ca !IS of Non-Allianice men, is responsil ror tle failhire Oi the part of Allianl lUie. to send a representative man tot l'ite(l States Senate, wIlo would onor to the State an(l our noble Ord Tlle injury resulting to the Ord rroim the treason of this one man ca iot he estimated. TruIe anl brave m almot light under Ihe flag borne by raitor. .Rlespectfully, E 1 1,1-o N S. K FATT, Enoree Imiaitation, December 29, 181 niotou.-4 Strikers. PmisnUim, Jan1. I.-The strike lu-n-arian lurnace iei at Edgar Thoi Mni: stevl works at Braddock, la., I Illt-di l : L. a serious inot this afterno: 11 w%-hicb lour', 11(11 werc seriously hit Imd a (zmci others vere batteredl a id 1. Ml:. lln8arianis (Iult Work nidih and tho- 11lant wvas partia dIle. only albiut, I 0 heing at work A hoti. I o'clock a crowd of' wild str TS arme (d with clubs,. licks, shovels, Imi;er, barot iron a1)nd every oti -ilXqlvable weapl. Made an attack lit. 4'lice. 'The ilen were wholly I il cired for the assault. )lit ti >ravcly , stood their ground, and Ioody- riot wa; the rmilt. The howli 1ioh of 1111u-arieus used their weapl rily aili thc Imen were knocked don :lubcd, bri) sed and tllInercitl l;TTc1IUI:(;, .hml. 2.--No Furtl ton% c 0 a curr at Ed .ar Thomsoi I1rksh. TI lunuarian Furna lni have he((n awed .Nby the presence he She6ric withihi.ar force of,deputi rotud a rep it1f1lm ol7Nesterday's bloO ceiles is ot c* pcedel. 'This alterInoon tle -strikers were p 111,;and ditmfsed. The oliciaLs ol 'Edgamr Thompson wvoi MavV decideO to keep tihi' blast furna imng t. al 1 hazards and to conth h r (Wce ol '-uards unA qiit is restor ncral \Ialoee i en;this inoi 1 had leten delter-minled to prot li- Nvor'kmen and continue operat I: SeCLVe '1nten Werailrr 141ested I ": -ad ock th"iz mlornlinl., and lockedl Conlspirac.y to Murder, A N, k. IA., ,) ii. I.-The j [ !1 Foirs ythl eons pi racy t1i11 inl - al Cou't rendt-r-ed their ver(' an enin*. after' havinig been iEhe jury foundl tho defendlants, .1 hil . iIall. Charlk-s Clemoents i: ii rhit Lanenstc-r, gutilty of conspi .' id i rrder wil h recommendati A Oilt iilprisoillient, the defendai 1iis gii lit anI .Jlohn W. Lancas i it of con,piraey oily and the I eIdauit James Moore not guilty. This ends, after a tedious trial IreC weeks, one of the most falmc ses in Georgia's history. The c lene produced during the trial was he most startling latlure, revealing linbolical conspiracy among the :ndants to get id of' J. C. Forsy he Georgia agent of the Dodge est. >f N'ew York, w~ho lived at Normi tale, Dodge County. Chiarles Clements andlo Rich Lowv negro, were hir'ed to ruur ider 11. F ;yth for 8 0U. Together they iroacheid themir victimi's house on I light of the 7th of' October last,a Long shot F"orsythi through an o~ Vindow0~, whiile ('lements~ waited a: list:mee. Only 13->00 of the rewvard y paidl. L emn lhireb'h, wholise house wvas Staite's (.eviece, ando it wa1s chnily his testimony that the dletfnda were con viet ed. L owr'y escaped a has iiever been ('aught. A gove: mient, rewarod ot 8750 is outstanding: hiunt, and1 to-day~ Normian W.. Dodge lered an1 addulitiouimIi eward'i Of $1 ,01 Lowry ('ainei from Northi Carol andI is suppihosedl to have gone ti lhere, iIe is a br'ight inlatto, neC1 whlite, wvithi sq ilint eves, sandy~ red h; sLtbbiy 5giidy red( i mus;tache, weigh ahoti 17> pounds, hi'ght live feet inches. Ie wc~alks with head (downi usu lly d ' lresees weIll. N men: I.oI)<n:, Kas'., .Jaznar ) y ear's, a nd a sist er 10) years old1, atte cid ai meetingi here on1 Wednesday ii andi a bhzzar:ud arose asi they starte<I Iredyard1fro theiir h omec the el (loiir riniarkedl that they 'ouldl niket the dlistance:l aga.!inst tile storm 1 wild ha I~ve to Lgo withi the w ind(. TI difjted sothi abiout a liularter of' a ni craw~'ld ou. lus thel sniow and11 attempE to get homeii. lie cailel out to his si.s that het was soi stiiV lhe coul not tra' ma4 ini a shioirt tItue was frolzeni. 'J younlge r brothe ir wasi 51 also'ozen to die iunder' thle drllI. 'Thle parenits started Th'Iursday mforinlg to findo the'irihik m111l mi a sholrt time searching pal Were or1ganiz/edI. Friday mnorninug body~ ohf the young mani was foundil, lien the~ sea rchlers 1 foud thle girl, was conlcealedI beneath the drift. I' had beenut t1 hirty-six hours. The od not know her' br'othters were de she is in 11 fair waLy to recovery. letter f rom m~ ltidge Agency det somne hit hert<~ unknown facts coneq oug the (leal of )1 Capt. Wallace \\ onndtoed Rin ox. After thte l1it, letter states, Capt. Wal lace wvas ount thle entrance ofian lIndialOdge,with dleadI warriors lying near him, each diamn corps a shiowmig a bullet wou~ F'ive of' tu chambers in the capta revolver* were found em pty, and fr the( posi ioni in which the boeie la 15.presu l4ed that Walhace killed Aive dians btfore he wnn nonercme. l A I R1 T E1111' OT1ER SIDIE. ot in ot PRESIDENT STOKES ANSWERS THE to ATTACK OF COL. KEITT. [An A Mili Itch1ko .to the Severe Diatribe IIe Charge of MlaviuI Sol(I the Alliance M rwr a Guerinaltoria shilow Positively Ad. Ikutle anl Merclilesly Uldiculed. a 8 To the 1Editor of the News and Cou ,is rier: I have just read in your issue of i- January 3 the ill-timed, riot to say ill tempered article of Col. Ellison S. Keitt ne anent the Senatorial contest in which ce he was interested as a candidate, "not hle in a ommnon acceptance of that word,' d1o as he himself puts it. ?r. Your coinments thereon are eminent er ly pertinent, entirely fair, size Ip thE 11 situation fairly well, and doubtless ell give utteranco to the undercurrent 01 a conviction running through the mind. of all thinking men at all acquailted with the facts in the case. A.t thesam 0. ime, as you intimate, some expressior is proper and expected from me though, as you justly remark, no goot can possibly result to the Order or t< the public service by this public parad( of a purely family affair. ni, I feel sure, therefore, that you wil irt not refuse to a reply the facilities o nd your widely-read journal that have al at ready been accord.ed the untimely at Ily tack. re- As a whole the article .in question i: unique. Alialysis showsit to contaiti ;k. a modicum :>' argumentation, consi(d I erably more of declamation and innuen (loes, aid a coluna of anim's. Wit] ler its argument F shall deal principally o" with its anitiv; only incidentaily, see In- ondarily. Its :echu.mation I har ICY neither time nor patience to discust a It is strange1y familiar. an oft repet nr ed story. )ns ivested of its declaination and in Ii, entdo, C(l. Keitt's propositions ar Ily four, and to the disGussion of thei propositions I shall strive to bring at er solute fairness, btut at the :ame tim ) entire frankness and rigid logic. I e- tle applicatico of these tests to aspe . slons upon the characters of his bretti o8 ren-aspersions as unworthy as unwai ranted-results in apparent harshnes dy on my part, such. harshness must be al tributed to the inexorable condition lid of the case as I made u p by him, and i to any unfraternal feeling on my parl ks 'lie constitution of our Order forbid es as I understand it, m2y indulging befor the public through the press in animat versions upon a member of the Ordei in, Provision is made within the Order il c self for the adjudication of all diffei il.ences between mnemnbers. I shall et aodnlavor, therefore, to confine myself t his propositions: 1. Col. Keitt holds that an Allian( man, who is a imeinber of Congres commits perjury "if he is in any degr i intlienced by party caucus." In just Al fication of his charge he quotes a agreement signed by committees of t1 )et National Alliance and of the Knight ut of' Labor, which agreement, he int niates, every Alliance is sworn to obsem IIn view of* his ne pl0utamne _dsultra inanner *a- this point one canl scarcely help wor - lering whether Col. Reitt -hms eve n read the express reservation preceden t a to the pledge taken by every applican Le" for initiation and upon which th le- pledge is conditioned. There are not .few men in the Order as trie, as honeE 0f .tnl (i fit be not treason to say it) as ir mi t-lligent and statesniar.ike as Co f K*eitt, who think that the agreemer o qiroted by him, in so far as it relates t I paety Caucus, "conflicts with the frei loin of their p-olitical views." Thi quesl1ition has never been 2A4udicate' and( in cases of conflict of apiaion, el p Iecially amoug brethren and .equals, cr cmendable modlesty would .sugge the suppression of in temperaste-chargel or- 2. lLis secoind proposition, as weLl r Sthe thirdl, is a corollary of the firet. an so'taind or falls with it. The imnputat. of perjury to Senator irby, theref.e enis not justilied in the premnises. So' a tor Irby, wvhose recordl as an Alliane smain, it seems to me, wvill suffer no dl hoparagement by comparison even wit C ol. Ki ett't, proposes to work for th Alliance demands through me D)em< tscratic party. Col. Keitt's political com science is not offended by the parl whole of it. In our judgment ii 01shameful insinuations and ofYensis (epithets4 ai med by indir etion again: lihis brother Alliance muan by Col. K(ei ecare il wolly unwor thy a-nd inexcusah upon any conceivable -principle eithi hof public utility or of A liance p)olity. nr But Senator Irby is aLbundantly at ngto take care of' hiniself, even if it 'we inprobable that the ger,eral public, whom Col. Ku-itt has a.ppealed this cia of' distinctly Alliance jurisdictio wouldl not inake just, discriminatit '4. between the merits auf t the spirit of ti md two mn. nd.. 3. Ilis thiirdl proposition follows I 'lt, implcation from the second and fal for to tne grond with it, but the Colon m.iust not ev'ade the \og ic which lie hI d nvoked. If Senato,r irby Is guilty tperjury, as charged by Col. KeItt ii mlder the terms of the agreemnent quote then is every Allianco member of' LI iC (eneral Assembly involvedh in the san iile condemrnationi, Vol. Koitt being judg icy jury and prosecuting attorney in ti case-except those who voted for C( hier Aeitt. Now, sincee nor, even his su te porters votedi for him on the last seve Ier. al ballots, all are perjurers by reason< 'el. their failure to vote for Col. 1Kemt Th: Jhits conclusion is unavc udable, becam~ the agreemuent quoted r-eadls: "We wi uppor/).~n /br' oi/e only such men as cai be depienided uponi to) en act these prii ciples into statute law 'uninfluenced1 1: Sparty (iicaucu."' Tlhis, (00o. Keitt say the every mnember of the Albance is swo~r 'ho emily canid(ate iimember of' theo Allian< iey who conisuleredl that freedom from pa girl ty caucus influence was not in "conflic ad, wit h his political views." But on tIl last few ballots all the A.lliance men bers of. the Genieral Asseimbly failed I vote for ('o1. Keitt, atnd uinder his com -A struction they aull stand perjured I mila reason of that failure. This Is a grat Jn- charge preferred against venerab] at Senators AlcGill aind RXedtearn, againa the honest .Dr. Strait, ,Jose ph L. KeiLt, anm I at all the ot.her Alliance members of LI ave Senate and hIouse. On behalf of them In- men, whose h onesty alnd intelligenc nd. and .may I add their statesmanship, in's certf&inly equal. to Col. Keitt's, I repud GIn at0 -utterly the Imputation. IIe may b y It anidi believe hie is, a brilliant man an Ini a loyal membe r of the Order; but thn all t n loyalty, sanetyor eaven at-ea ianship in the Order resides in himi will be grudgingly admittedt by a large majority. 4. As to myself*. Col. Keitt says "all was lost by the treason of ono man, Senator Stokes." It woulu be fhterest I ing to know what the " w/" was that Col. Keitt says was lost. We presume he wrote from the stindpoint of ani Al liance man, and h(ow the Alliance i could lose anything in the election of Col. Irby, an honored and tristed oflil cer of the Order, pledged to its de mands and i tireless worker for its cause, as United States Senator, passes my apprehension. In the absence of an itemized account of loss we are driven to inference or else the method of exclusion. It could not be the loss of Hampton he deplored, because IIamp ton was a caucus man as a matter of course. It could not he Donaldson whose loss he deplores, for his (Donald son's) political views did not admit of ficedom from caucus influence. (IIis tory, by the way, furnishes no instances of nobler bearing during the tight and defeat than that of Donaldson and Hampton.) Then where and what is the loss? Col. Keitt was the only candidate (in an uncommon sense) who was not elected. The Colonel seems a good deal ex asperated because I called in, as lie says, the Alliance caucus, and he pro ceeds to state what transpired in the former Alliance caucus. lie must ex cuse me from discussing publicly what transpir(d behind the closed doors of an Alliance meeting. The Ipledga at initiation expressly forbids this. lut, assuming that the brother's premises are correct, let us see how his conchl sions follow. lie says that the Alli ance had a majority in the General As semibly and could have elected its man. Ile says, further, that the attendance upon the Alliance caucus was about forty. It required eight.y-one to elect a Senator on joint ballot. IIe cannot -certify that even all those forty miiim bers present, as he says, at the Ali ance caucus were unpledged or agreed with him as to the party caucus clause; Iand yet he asserts without (utalifica tion that the Alliance could have elect. ed its man independent of the ieforin imembers, who were in full sympathy Swith the Alliance, had stood shoulder to shoulder with us, and had in many instances come to the Legislature on S Alliance issues, but who were ineligible to membership. For my part, even if s it iad been possible to elect a Senator within ourselves, which I deny under existing circumstances, with Alliance i idemands iabsolutely secure in the hands ) o .lrby, Donalson or Keitt---the only m~ex who were to come before that gener-] caucus as lieforiers-I wa. opposo. to exciuding from participa tion men just as true to our principle, and hone%, though they were inellgibi 0 to menibertdip. Col. eitt lays imuch store by th .? fact that somc Alliance men could no ' gain access to the Reform caucus, hi he fails to state that those Alliane men could not go Into a caucus of Re formers becnitst I -'vnl pr (It/UI I 11(amplon. But I did not act wholly upon In own judgement in calling the Allianc causus. All the Alliance mem caindi dates were consulted either in persoi r or through their representatives, and . t ihought I had their concurrence in do t ing so. The only objection I heard wa! e raised after I had notified the genera a Reform caucus of our intention t< t meet with them. Col Keitt says I "sok out the Alliance for the shadow of be ing Governor of the State four year: t hence." I deny the charge in toto an( 0 cite him to his proofs. I take it tha my denial is worth fully as much as hii s assertion that he was at no time a can dlidate in a coinmon aiccep)tance of thia word, andI s0 som11 proof wvill be neces a sary on his part. And what (hoes h s ~ubmit in the nature of proof ? I quotation from the World's Columi;i Inotes, in whIch it was stated incidlen Stally that I was being "carefully groom ed b r tho Governorsh ip ini 1894," onl: this and nothing more. These are thI .erms of the trade lie says. 'The childlikc siuaplicity of this com .cepition is possible only in a mind at culstomied to unco("mmon01 attitude: eCertainly one of us comnmon min( wyould not 1he content wIth a shadov' 'That sort of trading, I presume, is p~ eculiairity of un3Jcommonl mindls. 1Ici e u hirgumnent. lIe says the Worn e~ yablished that shadowv ; afterward' Ae:loff into a general lieformn caucu st*refore the, shadowv wa:s the cause< Ltan leading off.-post. ho' prop/cr hv cThi3 is "logicalI conclusion" wvith a ve gertce. It is the logic of: sublimat< le N a rational mind wvill accepit this re pr'oof- iIe says there wais a tratn to This necessitates a p)urchlaser as wvell se a seller. Let him name the otheur par a to the trad(e, or else stand( bef oret ui' public tO w'~hich he has appealed, rat h iethanm to tho Order he is swornl to oli' as having spoken aigaint a~ Moth~ Iv Without a caulse. is Ile should kno1w 1 was niot in thme ci el when the World report wais wr'ittec aand had not been for' a week. Let hi Sjcall upj the man to whom or fromu who -.came any proposit.ion conlcerin g mn [,self and( the Governorship. Let hi * call witnes-ses within or withbout ti e State. Ile ans te Woirld behind huiii. SiIe has had a good deal to .say abol0 ii loyalt,y to the Order ;about erini I.,~ against the Order by the elect ion< I. rby, an honored mciimber of' the f)rd ..to the Se'nate. In my huimbule jiidg > menit, loyalty to t he Order means lova t.. jty to its card(inlal priinciple's -brother1 elore, (:hUr?ity/ ; crime M4giinis tihe (Ord 1.is inseparable from dilsregaird of th: I principles. Thai. qualit y of a mani, Swell as of an All 'inceiman,. is highue *y which take's a brother' by the handl a s says to him, "(G0, sin no miore." 1B n. tween this quality and that whmi a. thanks God '"I am'not as other ineni e. there is the 'whole diamuet.r' of ex i r-- tence. ,1. Wim. Stokes, t. President S. C. State F"armers' All e,ance. -. Orangeb'3rg, ,January 5, 189. O' The Minnesota F$arm,era' A ianco". S'r. PAUL, Min., Jain. 2. - A t yeste e' day's session of the F"ai'mers' Alliaii e~ a resolution to endorse thle Ocaia phmi ;t, form was heavily diefeaLted, and the su d. ject of sub-Treasuries igniored( in tI e, regular resolutiom, while tihe Cong< 6~ lard bill was endorsed. IBarly iln tI 3, session the new conlstutioni was, d s. feated, but a little before midmigli 1-- after a warm session, that action we a reconsidered, and the neow constituitio d. which Is a codificationi of the 8sugge btJ tion of Presidnt 1 )nnnnlv. was adot GHASTLY RELIGIOUS RITES. Peoplo wiho Sleepb ins Ceilunt, Wear Chains anud 'ndertiake to Work Muriales. SAN FRHA NCiSCO, Jali. 5.-There are. live women and one man living at No. 162 Amherst Street who sleep every i-:Iht inl their respective collills. A cer tain Dr. Jacques, a widower and gradu ate of the Victoria School of' Medicine, has fouided a community at the nii ber above mentioned, aud, in order to verily the reports as to tle. extraordinary character of tihe house in question, a visit was paid to the establishment. Dr. Jacques has the appearance of i very sincere man, but is evidetilly touched on the religious question. and, in fitet, lie adiits that Archbishop Fabre is not pleased with the work he is carry ing on. However, lie believes (od is with him, and that the ecclesiastical ap probation will sooner or later de8cend upon is head. "1 made a bargain with the bonDieu,''began the zealous doctor, "the year the smallpox raged in Mon treal," says tlie Toronto Empire. "I visited no less than 1,200 cases, aitd inl return God greatly favored the mission I have in hand. viz., the adoration of' the 'IIoly Face.' '' Aionig the patients was a framily fi-om St. Jerome nained. Aubin, and the father and mother, with five daughters, the eldest twenly-f ur years and the youmlu est thirteen, now live under the doctor's roof'. The parents live like ordinary mortals, but the live children lead a liie almost as severe as the terribly austere regime of a Carmllellte nun. 'lhe house inl question is not (If moderin construe tion by anly meanis, 11141 whlen the visitor was shown in to the courtyard inl the rear the elder Auibin was engaged washin the doctor's wagon, and his good wile was similaril occupied with the wi dows. As this worthy couple do not belong to the community proper, and conse (uvntly (it) not sleep in collins, they were left at their work and the next floor was r:iched. The live little sisters, as the doctor calls them, were found robed inl reld material, with a white head-dress lilling down over their shoulders. These girls have no education whatever, yet their melical protector says they are very learned in thin--s pertainin-u to the celestial sphere. They retire at $:30 an,.1 arie at -1, and although all work for the house, the greater part of the day is spent in adoration aid prayer. By the side of a nicely decorated alter stands a post about six feet in height, and upon tht latter hangs an ox chain ten feet long, the use of' which was ex plaimed as f0llows by the good doctor When Montreal is iven over to carni vals, to halls and parties, and when thic devil finds it easy to tempt flial men au< women kiid, it is at these seasons that L the live sisters devote themselves mos L intently to penitence and prayer. Tli Iheavy chain is hiun around each sister' - neek lor an hour at I time, while they kneel i Prayer for their sisters of' th world whom destiny has thrown it temptation's way. The doctor no draws aside a curtain, fan a large deep coflin, painted blach an1 co)ered with rrav cottoni, meets the astonished gaze of the reporter. The cloth beinlg Ieioved, the pillow is found to be made of soft wood, and not a sin gle article of' clothing is visible. The live sisters sleep uipstairs, the second floor bein divided into a hall' dozen small, clieerless rooms or cells. Thc I furniture in each of'these sleeping apart iments consists of' a black collin, ia table all n a tin wash basin, the same absenet dof clothing bemig quiiite [is mari'ked As or the floor below. Ini r'eply to a question, Dr1. Jacques statted the gir'ls would r'athier die ani3 time thani leave the comniunity, and1( h< -irattledl off the most wonderful miraclet that haid beeni operated following a brie ,'sojourn in his comniiumity. u A 1brother f'romn Oka had left his ow1 establishimenit, broken down with diseast andt after a sojourn of' forty-eight hour it, No. 162. Amherest Str'eet, hiad rert -ed to is monastic home ini Otland weigl sin'g sixty pounds more thanz when 11 left and being (nite unri'eonizale bi ,his religious confelrers5. "'In f'act,'' coi cluded the doctoir, ''far nmoire mir'ach ate peirformned at Ste. Anne de Bleaupir mid cycrythiing has b)een done but br'ini ing the dleadl to life. again.'' - Thne Lant e Can mt a.itn WVallace. man of' (apt:iin Geon. I). Wallace, wvl was killed ini thle late fight. with the li is dIians ini Soth IiI)akot a, arrive herlli'e oii e- special f raini laist even in g at S o'clock 1s charige of Co(l . I I. M1. Wallace. Tlhie bot ywas met at I lie deniot~ by al detachmtiei 1(1 of' the .Jenikinis lille's. wvho ae,ted as e'r millitary gutardl over the iremnaiins aut tI 3', I'resbyl eri:am (Chuirchi duinig the nmighi er Timu fun:eralI se'rvices wer'e held in t(I Pr eei ani'li Church fthis mnorin g at by (o'lock, thle I I.G(. I 'at rick of thle Il:apLt lb, hzuircht and1( ,. ( . ( bulloway of the Assi m ca'te ClIe~f'ornwd ii'resbyi'(5 eriani ('hurci tm olliciatinig, auf'ter' whliich inut ermient,toe Y- pI a(e ini thle ('emletery with mli iitam mI hmtoors bty thei .Jenkinis liiles. I )urit IC t lie futrnalI services5 buinIess waLs tont ire itsuspeilded. -( 'obtunubia liegisteir. if (oNuoz o , N. ftI., .January 6i.. -Th'le St r,peme us t 't, ChI iefI .Justice I )oo delivye e-. iing the ipinion, decided to-day to di:I I- miiiss th . casMe atgaist Clerk J1e(welt. ( / fte gr'otund of wanimt o,f jurmisdictiom 'r 'lThis d'cision heaves theo matter of' ina e ing tip Ihe roll of' miemibers of' the I lous us ini ( lerk .1 ewel I 's ha:ndls, and thle aidmi: at sin of "if"' ent itledt mmbmmers will resu. il in fte elect iton of 'lTuttle (ltepubllicl f- for Governio' and1( a lI epullican Unii te hi States S.'imator'. - 1M ytorioums AsMssination in i loutliattna. 1 N -:wm )mu ,ixS, Jani. '2.- A T'ime: I )emnocrait .\miit.e City, La., speOcial saLyI ~ '. ( . lIIonye', aL proimient cit izen of ot. townl, was assassinated to-nighit aLt o'loc'k oni t he~ cornier of' ltailroad aivem and( Mtilbemrry street, the most conispict -otis place in town, yet where the kil ,inug wa.s (done waIs aL dark p)lace. 1I was shiot six times amid ins8tanltly kille Theli murderer escaped. SFive of thne Crow D)rowned. c bark TJopsy, Capt. Knight, from King 3- ton to Grand Cayman went ashore < t, Cayman b)each 1)ec. 15, and is a tot tw loss. T ho captauin, two mates, One se a, man and the cabin boy were lost; sevi 8- of the crew were rescued. News w t- brought here to-day by the~ schxoon Union. Capt. Post.r NEBRASKA POLITICS. A Lively Tit in he Organization of tho 1 11omo of Itprepientativem. LINCON, N'eb., JIa. 8.-All of the .loors of the representativo hall were 'losely guardel this morning and none buti members of the Legislature, State Alicers aid persinm having business in Alde were aliitth-4. All of the mem bers Were ol hand promptly although they found Lreat ditliclty in pushiniIg their way througi the crowds thiat e filled the cor ritor :i besieged the 1 Capitol at all joint ". 'hI'e Alliance hatl taken posession of the house at 5 a. In. 'T'hleY placed the p Speaker in the h-aitr an- it a cordon of assist,:Iint se:,,eaiits-att-arms around It him. When Lieitnant Gitovernor \le- A Kit-john appearetd lie was not allowed to C take his seat but stoud in front of the y Speaker's dlesk realy to call the joint ses-ion to order. 1 At 9 o'clovk the Speaker issued i order for thearrest of Lietit enat it ov ernor McKijohn on the chnarge of is- i conduct inl office anld a breach of the p feace. Th e Liv tieni t (ioverinor d i fled the oliver and \ was not taken into custody. Both siles had a force of ser geants-at-arms within call, an<d anyt at tempt on either side to pnowceel with a can vass of the vote wo hi have preci p1i - ated a row. To avoid this a com mittee from each party was sent with I a statement of the case to the Squpreme Court. G;overnor ThiiYer ordered out a com plany of tiet National ( iards anl at If O'clock they sta ke,1 aran in thit cor ri(lors of' t he capitol. Crowds ai-e ar rivitng on evory tr.dtii to at,Aend lie in aligurat iol of( G oern Oelect. loyd ail considsierablo. itptience is sIoyn over the delay in cotunttinig tho vote. At 12:15 p. im. t he (Siipreme Court is sued a writ of iiaind:aus ordering the Speaker of the llous-! to canvass the returns. 'he SbhO vriff of Laim -aster (Cm Iuty, With hisdepltities ald tlie bailiflof the Supremii Coirt, burst in ite doors of1 the llous" ani ftitturht their way throllgl the ) crmwtl ( Alliaileeneilli guardiig tIli- c[t rance. Thm wril was served on the Shaker. A motion to t ake a roecss lint il 3 o'clock was ic-lari<l carried by th l Lieuitenlant Governorian ,, thet.llmo erats ani Ieltithliaiis filed out of tho hall. The - peaker of the lo-use de charel that n) rt'ctss had bten taken and all the Alliance Ilueilbers preseit remaiined in ant others were called in for an atteipt Ito proceed to tiht busi niss of the joint, -.ssson. THE- CAI"s-:. (11 THE- Tu nii: .lames E. fBoyd, lecrat. oft imaha was elected last. Novebier by 1, 1I1 pili rality over .1uns 11. IP>)wers, Alliance caidilate, the l"opuiblican n1in beipng third ini the race. 'riiijition was de featel, ant its adhMrents put, the Alli anceimen lp to co itest. ig Ioyd's Ovc tion. It, was atei1 t hat, lioyd was not, e.gible to oflice-, froni the tiet, that his father only too,,i out i s svconl papers last Noveniber, after It election. Boyd was born like Is father, inl Ire land, and was about i ft-n years 101(I when the faily settlo<d in ()hio. 'T'le pre,; t Governor of Nebraska, John M. Tluaiyer, at first. was disposed to yield his srat to Ir. Boyld, but now lie ias siezel 11 uoln I 'oyd's <t mstioned citizenship as a pretvx4L to hohl over. Ile hasgiven it out, t hat, Ie will hold on to 'ie chair, tlt- seal, aid the ollice of Goverior till the cows come liol,le. This has arousedl t he CointV Tyroine grit of' \i-. 1uyd. Ile says ie will he inaugiurated! if he lhas to throw Mr. Thayer out iof the window. 'le( I)em oerats siy Xar. Ityt will he seat ed. A dliplicitte State seail has been1 ligil in ilnaba for it- iii c:ase tbe prieselilI, See-| retary of State iref 0 stes to delil\'ei tip t,he onie nlow ili the St aI,o 11 ot,sL. I W As itN<IT.4)N, .l an. 8.---( 10e. Selio lieldl has reveivet-t a telegr-am f'ro im Gen. 1 Miles detailing the1 ci rcumi))stancies of' ,the kill ing 4)ofA Liutenant Casey' by thle s Indians as follows: - ' I epor-ts f rot G en eral I rooke state that L ieuteniant Castey, of' the TI wety. c se'cond4 Inf at ry. waas ki11lce< to-day. 'There ts been il iht ing and ski rm ish ing on t hat tairt. of t lie line for several Sdays. Lietettnt ('asey w:ts out with his scouts wattchiing ft- hostile camnp and wi1th one (Ch evennii in i et two tntdi ans, an ( )zafalfa and a Iliruile-. The (Ohallalla wariited ietuttenanit Ca~sev that the l',rutfts wente ha i andt wtoul shoot. As l.i-uiteintriit ( 'ist'y t irrit'd t.o o !' ;iwily tfi' Ilift'l lit'tf, st niiliig bii S "Liut'ri;iut ( aosey was onte of the n tost btrilliatt antI be'lovedt~ ttflicCrs of' t.he servie. flThere is a retport of hetavy afiing Iii to' tear t lhe IiosilIe camip t haL Snany he be( teii t wo elo-illents of thet *Idotiai cailt f. '. L4itrtniait (Ca;stey was a brothetr of Ct-un. Thfoiunas L,. ('asev, Chief of' thte ;t f'ngine'ers ttf t he A\ roiy, andI was ab~oif. ~. 4t) y e-rs of age. lIt i lu(d bteeni in tooin Ii iiiild ott t lhe irottpf of ( litvt'utne scolits k 1441 abott a ytear andt as wortikinig y ea;rnt'stly ini tit' iitnt'rest otf thte lidis thfeit.islve's. YC'ol. Fos, lh til se-ncieel. \\Asili N(i'TtN, .Iaii. 7. --A i'ejortt i-eachtteIlit .h t tt tHlay, LIl uioigh aii uiiltllio,i Il'inc liige. Th'i' s repor tt was coiifirimed a 't the wvar'tI deairtmen t ttoday. The -fl llcI however, httow a dlecided (is iinehnatittm to talk about the matter-. Neit,ber Set'itfairy f 'roctor nor Geni S ~chwoltl is willhnu to say v'ery much on theMh subjct, ail thoutigh both1 praetical ly a dit, that Gein. M'iles ditd not, at en. tirely uplon his owii respjonsibility. Neithier of1 them a(linit hiavin or dheredl Col. F"or'sythi's suspeCnsioni f1-on thie 'ommandli(, hut, both say (Gen. Mile: r iobabIly actedl upon a suggestion Iron 7 here. C A ~NtegroEoi. A\ i:( UsT 'A, G'a., .Jani. 8. -1lirdly week passes in which from twenity t live hiundred negr-oes from Stut hi ('aro iinia and North Carolina (do inot pais through Augusta on their wiy t) South Georgia, Alabama or Arknsas. Las hi night twen1ty-fiv camio odown oni th s- Knoxville traIn on their way to Ala nbamna. The Columbia train brought ni al nearly lifty, bound for Southwest eo)r a- gla, wh ) wvere going to work in the tuir ii petOh' business. A car 1l)ad( number' as mng oveor fifty negroes came in last ntigh er on tne South Carolina train. TIhiey ar~ bound for A rkansa8 INDIANS IN A TIAP. 'rE HOSTILES SAID TO BE SUR ROUNDED. arrow Eseapo of ihi hoventh Cayalry from 31assitcre-The Ni iti Rides in Just in Tme--nrin Ing iiWomeni andl Chit diren from the 1itllo Field-4. CiIIC :o, .ati. I. A special from line llid-e A,gvncy. S. I)., sa%s: It is vident from the ti- tim' y' o otlicers and len that thie Seventil ('avalry escaped Io tragic fate of Ctisti r ill the battle of hite Clay Creek. T11 troops had assed the Catholic MisssiolIn aullI were dis kounted in a bi_ valley one and a half tiles wide justt beyond the school4 Lt the enIld of this valley Is a narrow imion not over 75 yards wide and 300 ard,; loig, opening into a small circulat a.k. It was tle obect of the Indians i draw thein into tis valley. The Ii ians were .ettini realy to make a rush n toot 1or the top ot the hill when tho ry arose m' nt te troops that they ere aur'ou le(l. Alvanicin now In ite, Iow in anoter dir.ection on either ide o the vall,v tht-y tound them clves opposed eai-!i timo by 200 or i liolians. SOW1 thj hills b1e1an to 'iVarlll witi l 1., -1.01111 warriors and [I twenity mlinulte's mI .rc a t".a4edy would myve .ni 01 to the wb wheln tile 1fIi riil'- Nitith rotd ii. ::- (y rode. be Ore at the tIm: oi the Meek 'r inaisacre, attaiL:tu lii bush y the rear >w. thraae.wttrtte neery Nirection. Ihetore t. 'nINy cIulrally 'roln thew cotuslion tho hoN-, in bilue villnirew1- slowy mlllnly to Pince 1i"ie. The V .emy * are stealing lorses mid cattle in every direction. While tile )lizzard made the obl men, women and IihIren sutler. it will hive little or no Ifect oi the buiks :idt warriors. It is wli(ved I ittle W41und1I was the Ilead that iinlil alinl direikd the hattle, as it howed morn er, si than had been lisplaycl sillvc Eil Clotd:'i lihIlting lavs. Ohd Lied 4,1111,n inl a letter last liIit, claimin' thai he was a prisoner iiil le in thl sublir's to coio and ae 111111. TFlis is cr rohorated by the riti14h11S who say thaI WIlen thie Stam1 ie, took place MI)II1da\- old lted's wi'e Ia I >thrw Ilwir hhnsinto a wagon 1n1l4 with triue wilt ly sIpirit saidl she was for war mald Wouh 1 : 'In the bloody liath evein it' he lii. 1.rd 1reliainled and to,1h1t, otn the t0her Iide. A special to the lu- alti mil Ume I~ih;e A gency S. 11., s:. : All coi 11in .ili41 wi t tii t': i it);I is ilut, of (eNCepit, to ollice,rs over the mihi:ar-v wire. There msIbe) n1:6 mail-eVice since .-unlday m1114 no1 (11i- c.\:.pt 11111ianls to cari'y tele-r:U s 1t Ilh -;til roil. (ienier at liles seii out a t'ie:':n warning .mettlors aloie the ril iil . Much is been s.id ihml the treach ery of, imii scouts. Thcre are cases einoui to make evi, tme lear them when aw fy frm the .\!nit*y, but they ar., not distiurhivl :1- a rilbe. Captain Taylor <h-mes emphlmitiall\ that any of his 111en tirieil a:it the soliers, but siays they tht I Irvely with 1m', :lid mnany so!diors c llim iA words. ( 'aipt. .fat-o .lakmn, of the Sevenlth ( 'avalry, had a n:rr'-1OW esCIpe, howevel4, 1'rom sone who wore the police uiifori anid te soldiers ioti lir overcoats and tapes. 'The11o Calitail hiad a squtad 6f I wenity mlenl ebain tc-6atives a mH!e or m11o.e Imroim W40itl.-d 11ntico , when half a dozeln of le traiitr. or hostiles dis guised inl poliat1 scotts' elothting, rod'e uip with ai plea'at reei .tinted, cati te'redi tIl lifty' yards,1- wheeled and withi mitt warntlig, openc I tle. At thle same intatiit ll Iy litt morii 'e ini ans appearied tover' thle irest of th h1m~ 1, andlI startedl tdr the( lit tle~ hand whoiti ritreatedl for the icreek, tiing ats thtey wenlt. C'aptain I urt on, "who e>i'#erted the0 wta.gonin ftinSevtenth Cavalry, say's (Chiarles Ilaywovit' woas ini aidvance :uia hallf oh P'ine IUidQe when three fin dia:i~n) roe til dressed as government ini lull sight oh the trilY eniardting tlie hhttill. Th'e I tooi toik prompt 11)1 and iii stant revenge. Yeseraythe frh lit'1 whlo ai.e i':itnged ona \Vh:it Ih Cv(reek, south~ oil thle :i'iim-v. realhed the Iaandoned ti'lt'is otl Lil e \\,'iii'.-, '7Two Striko's mol i l ('heut's ii:unil. All day long :1tir' wa:tons, lotle w tithi phlnder, wr 1 ot are Tiwir m N 1cs Now.v? I i:a:nvi iii.: s. ( ., Jan 5.-Therll News iloe timet agoI published( ani tac Smuithi muil llubert Muntford Carlton. The ay wee nmuarrliied near P'enleton, aind tho-c wthio readl the story will re:miembher 1rew ,lacson)I 'IiTns. IllS bride re htised to marray hun11 unitil his niamne wias chi:miged . A leit iion was prtesentid 1 lie I.tgishitur aiI'iskin 12Ilthat ody to chanmue Mr I. Tynnu111s' none tto Carl ton. One' housie oflh Le t2ishi:ture madte tIhe ihbanige, mat l contidenIt thalt, the other toi the marriarge aitil blie iveid th at she hadl b)ecomon Mr's. IIlubert Mutilford Carl Lon. It0I ilow sail thlat tIe hill chiaig inig Mr. TPymmatl' muneli iltdled to got thrioug,h hmoth hioutses andI ~I thdiscomd-h turie reigns nii tile T.'x iunIs-('arit on hotuse Twielvo MiIiner.I lon ii tol I'i,co' '.o i.t: l'. ,, Tlex:as, -la. .:)'. -Al nacc den'ut occurrei'nd at Ihe >ocobo ineii 1, sOvenl miilhes fro'm )Mopliine,) i>arango, Mexico, Mmau'aty. l"ifteeni iners(0 eitnere the IPo'' tder hlouse io gel tihe wteekly supply oI gi anhit poIwderl. .\ ier' eacih lman had secured&'i his allowanIllce,a: mitner, whlo hlad preliparedt a stick for at c; i mridIgo, attempt edi to secuiIre thle cal iy of a defctive fuse bv ihe use of' his teetlh. Thle cap exploded atimi set off thle en t irIe ix litvo~' conltents -of' (lie powdert' hiouis'. Theli building Iwats demi1olished' and4 moilst of tihe miners to)rn to piees 'T'welvo were killed ont right andi the others cannllot recover. Cottoni Fire inl Chauritetona. (CHA a 1,FsToN. S. C , J1 1n. 2. -Brisha st.ensh ip YersO, Silithi maister, laden w titlh 5.120 bales of cotton for Bremen, caught (ire this eve'ninlg. The tnre whIch Is conllnedi to I he forward hoIl is uinder control. TVhe miftn diama will omn from water