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L _ I':*-'** ' < :+ VOL. IX. ? THE NEW YORK POLICE EXPOSED. THK LEXOW COM MITT 10K INVESTIGATION. A Cess-Pool of Corruption ami InfUmy?The Metropolitan Police a Ilaml of Plunderers. Tho Lexow investigating committee in Now York is stifl unearthing tho cofrtipt practices of tho police in NewYork, and the revelations last week were quite astounding. Here are some of tbein : Those who woro fortunate enough to Eain admittance to the sessions c! tho roxow investigation committee today witnessod two scones decidedly dramatic in their nature. Mrs. Urchittel, tho Russian woman who, almost a stranger in the country, running a Binall cigar sUmv^ivhs arrested on tho charge of ke^i-f^MA disorderly house ^and kept in jail many months, " troat.. - ~ ed as even tho Czar of Russia would not treat an American," according to chief counsel Goff, was placed on tho witness stand. She alleged that her arrest was duo to her refusal to pay fcf>0 to tho police. Testimony of tho witness remained unshaken, but the oftlcei's who tried to oxplain the story could -not agroo as to the way the thing happoned. Mrs. Urehitte's ohildron are still in tho orphan asylum and the lamentations and tho upparont mental sulTerlng of the woman elicited sympathy from all those who witnessed her examination. Steps will bo taken to vccovor her ohildron for hor without '.oSs of time. -During her examination in tho court room, she caught sight of officer llussoy. She claims that tho wardmau is the L of her woes. Excitedly sprin^toSFwp, she started and demanded her ft^Mlren. It was with difficulty sho was pacified. Had she boon able | to understand the English languugc and the Amorican customs she must havo enjoyed exquisite rovongo a littlo later when officer HusBoy wuh called to tho stand. lie expected to bo called upon to explain away his connection with tho case, but chief counsel GofT indulged in anothor of those dramatic surprises which ho is continually springing upon tho Now York public. Instead of reverting to tho event*- of tho past few months, Mr. GofT inquired, " Now, Hussey, havo you just threatened to shoot a man Id this court room? The interrogatory was ansvored with a negative, but officer Hussey grow red and whlto iu the face by turns when half a dozen witnesses testified that ho threatened to shoot Norbarth PfefTer, an oast side Hebrew employed by Mr. GolT. Tho witness nearly fainted in tho court room at the evidonco presented against him to show that he threatened to kill PfefTer. Ho reached for a glass of water and drank it eagerly, intense silence reigning in the court room, members of tho committee, policemen and strangers -i- ' * intent upon his replies. Tho scene painful one, Hussey told Mr. jiOltwcD*e under tho doctor's orders, tfiat it would not do for him to get excited, that it was his family he cared for and not himself. With an intimation that he would look into the matter, Mr. GofT allowed the witness to go. One other event of unusual interest occurred. Annie Trywich, a young woman who is keeping a news stand on East Broadway, claimed that policeman Lynch asked her this morning if sho paid her rent. Receiving a negative reply, ho told her that she would havo to pay him $5. Sho failed to raise tho money and ho arrested her ahd took hor to Essex Markot, whore sho was discharged by tho police justico. Thon she came to tho Loxow committoo with the story. Favoritism in the board of police was tho subioct of a brief statement by Mr. Moss, tho Parkhurst society's agent, before the Loxow committee today. Two policemen had been convicted of -1rvfTnnena il nnrjlrnnnnua nm) /!/>. O I ill 1 mi UIIUIIOVOI ut U??nv/>(uwuu m>mv? V*v/ sorting their boats. One was fined a few days' pay and the other dismissed from the force and the supposition is that the first officer had a pull, which the other had not. Then Max Muscowvitch told of tho arrest of one of his friends and asso*tcd that before tho prisoner was permitted to sond word to another friend, he was compelled to pay the door man of tho p^r?^ station $5. William T. Meredith,'J'^bankor of 48 Wall stroot, who was i.Jontly assaulted on Fifth avonuo, told the committee about that affair. He had been sot upon by an organized mob of 300 men who wore In advance of a political club procession and who swept up Fifth avonuo assaulting and robbing citizens promiscuously. Mr. Go^saidthat there was no police < line "in front of tho procession, as the law provided. Mr. Meredith said the police had mado no arrest. The olubblng by Policeman Dunn of - Thomas Luccas was also taken up by the committee. Lucas's employer tes1 tittod to his good character and Luccas told his story. Policeman Dunn sworo that Luccas attacked him before ho used his club. The policeman found it difficult to explain why he used so much force. Then a colored woman told a sensaMonoJJffttry which implicated Captain SchraTJ-iftrgor and some of his men. She was SArah Brown of West Thirtyfourth street, who has a suit for dama" gos against Isaac Cohon, a lawyer! Another woman had advised her to drop tho suit against Cohen, as he was a friend of Captain Schmittberger. Tho Captain, she said, would arrest her. Later, two policemen called and adV?<>r tn dron tho suit. One of tho ' policemen tried to criminally assault her daughtor. Thon, Mrs. Brown said, she was arrested for keeping a disorderly houso and Policeman Callaghan told her Captain Schmittbergor would Bottle for $500. At this point, Elbridgo T. Gerry on* terod the court in a great state of excitement. He was bristling with indignation. at the statement made yester JP joy Mr. GofT that the Gerry society for the prevention of cruelty to children was vosted with too much power which was often abused. Commodore Gerry wanted to read a long typewritten statement. Tho time for that, Mr. GofT thought, was not opportune and Mr. Gorry withdrow. Sarah Brown continuing her testl' mony, told how a Gerry agent onco throatenod to put her child away unlets she gave nim $50. At the afternoon session a little wdmfcn dressed in black took the stand. Mr. Goff prefaced her examination I with a retmirkublo statoinont. "This morning," said he, "an attempt was made to get this woman out of the country." Mr. GoiT did not go into dotails. lie drew from the witness how sho had lavished her money on exwardman Frank Wilson, formerly under Captain Allaire. She was the keeper of a houso of ill-fame on Elizabeth street. Under throats of nulling the house, ho got from hor alxnit everything sho possossod. Sho furnished his houso, bought a silver set, diamond rings for his wife and clothing for his children. Wilson, sho said, resigned from the forco the day the committee opened its campaign. Ho was now living in Philadelphia. Then came a sensation. Inspector McLaughli ,'s name was dragged In. McLagnlln was formorly captain of the eleventh product. The woinau swore that sho paid $300 initiation fee to Wardman Burus under Captain McLaughlin. Every mouth sho paid $50 to Hums. When Burns wanted a diamond stud ho got $105 from her to purchase it. Sho said sho was now broken down and ponniloss. Her money had gone into the police coffers. Referring to tho Gcory society agonts, sho said tney coiiectou money irom au nouses | where the girls under ago woro kept. Mr. GotT made the most of this testimony. She told how Captain Cross had trapped Gerry agents, Becker and Finn, when they tome &">00 from hor. The men wero brought to trial. Becker was acquitted and Finn was sont to priron for nine months. Bockor escaped, sho said, becauso ho was the son-in-law of Superintendent Jenkins of the society. When sho loft Now York, tho witness says, sho opened in Newwark a saloon and was raided by tho police. Sho wont to Captain Cross and he sont Alderman Smith of this city to Newark and tho polico. thore gave her protection. Sho is now penniless and lives in Brooklyn. "This monlng," said sho, "a man carno up to mo and said: "You are subpoenaed to go before tho Loxow committee.' ' How do you know ?' I asked. 41 know,' bo answered. 4 You go right up to Inspector McLaughlin and ho will* buy you off. Don't go before the Loxow committee." 441 refused his advice," she said. When asked by Mr. Goff about how much sho had paid to tho police, sho answered from eight to ten thousand dollars. Wardon James W. Lodwith of Jefferson Market prison was then hauled over tho coals for visitiug David Ponder, a green goods man. on lllaokwoll's ! Island. Pender was mentioned in tho testimony of Applogate and it uppoars i that the warden, who is a friend of dotoctivo Sorgeant Flanley, interested himself in ordor to got a statement from Pondor which would help Hunloy. He was taken to task for impropor practios in his prison. Ho was charged with favoring certain lawyers and that tho beor cans was pormittod to be 4 rushod at night." THE GREAT OBELISK. Erected at the Nation's Capital to the Mdtimpv of Dot 'I he Pittsburg Catholic. The Washington monument, In the capital city of tho United States, istho loftiest structure over reared by man. From tho base lino, or, rather, sill of tho door of tho main ontranco, to tho apox of tho cap-stone, is exactly 555 feet and 4 iuehos. Tho famous Cheops pyramid in Egypt is 013 foot high. As it is of iinmonso area at tho base, and rises in easy . slopes to the summit, old Cheops con- 1 voys little more impression to tho eye than would a loftly mountain from a plain. Tho great cathedral at Cologno has a spiro which roaches into tho heavens 52-1 foot, and there is a cathedral at Antwerp whose spiro oxtonds upward 470 foot. St. Peter's spiro, or rather, dome, at Romo, is only 448 foot. An elevator carries myralds of sightsteers to tho top of the monumont, and long lines of people can be soon at any hour awaiting their turn. Thousands have made a^conts on foot, but it is a dreadful task. There are 900 iron stops to climb. True, tho staircase is broad, but the faces of tho steps are Worn smooth with the uad of many feet, and tho end?woll, tho end is afar. Long before you got to tho top you wish you had not started. The cornor-stono of the monument was laid, July 4, 1848. For six years the work progressed, whon it came to a stop, in 1845. $250,000 had been spont upon it. Tho monument was up 165 leet. then it was housed over and so remained. Nor was it until twenty years later, to wit, in 1870, that Con. 188 could bo induced to do anything. The spirit ongondored in tho centennial year sot the machinery in motion, a-.d tho press and people took the matter up in such vigorous shape that Con/vhauo mu/lA fin fi ? ^ i uoo IUuuw ?WJ'I v/j/l ill.uii/14 VU UUj^lIl the,work ofcompletion. The result was, that In oight years thereafter the work was complete. On December 0, 1884, the cap-stone was set and the work ended. It is a mistake to suppose that tho great shaft is a ' marble column." It is not. For tho first 400 foot, the main structure is of blue granite, the lower walls being fifteen feet thick. Tho thicknessiof tho walls decroasos until about tho 450 feet level, when they cease, and the rest of the altitude is reached by solid blocks of marble, from two and one-half feet thick to eighteen inches. Inside this, however, is built an interior structure and arch, with a" keystone which supports tho capstone, that weighs just one and one-half tons. On each of the four faces of tho pyramidal cap aro two lookout windows. From the ground thoy do not look largor than bull's oyos, but once up thoro, thero is room for ten peoplo at each window. Fifty people can move about on tho upper landing and novor once get in each other's way. An interesting study of tho monumont is the tablets?the memorial stones, which for more than a genera- , ?lnn o 1 1 _ J..I V4VU a UOVl AWiV/ (kliU illi ilUUJlUU^ world nave been Bonding to adorn tho interior of the structure. These tablets date from away baok in 18-49, and some of them are immensly funny vlewod at this late day. All sorts and kinds of human impulse seem to have prompted these memorials?national* patriotism, local pride, corporate vanity and rivalry, religious zeal, private greed, and hope of gain, all tnose conditions visible,,and not only visible but palpa: ble. Some of the tablets are olabor CONWAY, S. C. I uto, and must have cost a grout deal of I mouoy. Thoro was ono foreign memorial stone received in 1854, which does not appear in the monument. This was u frift from tho Pope. It was a boautlul block of African marble which had been taken from tho Toinple of Concord, at Uomo, and was inscribed with the simple words, " Home to America." At that tiuio, tho Know-Nothing fever was at its height ; on March 5, 1854, the block was taken from tho building whore it was kept, and, it is supposed, thrown into the Potomac. At any rate, tho stone was never found, though tho monument association offered a large reward for it. The olovAtor is ono of tho largest and strongest ever made. It is susStended by four two-inch cables and is Irawn by a 175 horse power engine In tho basement of the shaft. Everything about tho elevator gives way to safoty precautions. The safety clutches are double dutches. The framo of tho olovator is light, but made of the best of .steel. Tho olovator is limited to thirty people, but it would carry in weight throe times that numbor. It has often carried forty visitors, or iuet as many as could squeozo into it. Hut it runs very slowly?another moasuro of precaution. The view from tho lookout windows is ono of tho grandest ever spread bei fore the human oyo. Ono certainly sees all tho glory of vista, all tho beauty of landscape, all tho stretch of Southern and northern sky, of river and I WUs, that George Washington know oxisted when ho solectcd the capital city. WHAT THK SOUTH NMKDS. A Clear Statement of Our Wants and the UcnetktH of Immigration. At tho immigration mooting on salesday at Yorkvlllo thojfollowlng remark t, .woro made by Mr. Louis Shorfcsce, in which tho situation is presented with groat force and clearness: Tho country wo live in is ono of tho finest in the world. Our soil is fortilo and our climate is porfoot. Our people aro of tho very best; but tho trouble is. that they aro too few. We have more land than wo need, or than wo can cultivate. Wo need moro people? enegotic small farmers to take up our surplus lands, help pay taxes, support our euijuuis juiu uuier institutions, auu make our country more prosperous generally. The Northwest is tilled with intolligont, hard working well-to-do-farmers, who, after hitter experience, have learned that that section in a poor place to iivo. These farmers are mostly from Europo. They came over to this country from 10 to 110 years ago. When they arrived at Castle Garden, they wore mot by shrewd emigration agents who poisoned their minds against the South, and induced all who had money to go West. Those emigrants, considering the disadvantages of the country in which they settled, have performed wonders ; but now, on uccount of failure of the crops, drouth, forost fires and the rigorous climate that will permit only live work months in a year, they have commenced to look for hotter locations. All they want liow is somobody to give them satisfactory information as to tho best placo to go. Theso Northwestern farmers are gonorally mon of moans. They had moans when they llrst came to Now York. It was because they had means that the shrewd emigration agents scut them to tho West. They have moans yet, and are not only ablo tu vpay thoir way and bring thoir families into this sootion ; but they are able to buy lauds and establish themselves after they got hero. Now suppose wo could bring into this county from the Northwest 1,(MX> families, each having cash to tho .. e iti 1 aaa rni. * * ? iiinuuui/ui ti,uuu. x nut wouiu mean $1,000,000 added to our circulation, and one-half of this sum expended in lands for 1,000 families, would make tho romaindor of York county's land worth more than all of it was before tho now sottlers arrived. But this is not all. Look at Atlanta, Ashevillo, Birmingham and Chattanooga, and compare thorn with Charleston, Columbia, Savannah or Montgomery for instance. Tho first named cities havo sprung up sinco tho war, and outstripped tho othors that havo boon founded moro than a hundrod years. And why V Simply because the old citios have long since fallen into doop ruts and settled ways, while the new cites are made up of cosmopolitan populations, and stimulated with constant additions of now blood, are always pushing onward and upward. Immigration would produce the si-intellects on this soction. One of tho first things tho Northwestorners would demand would be better roads; next they would show our pooplo how success lies in the diversification of crops, and they would infuso new life into everything. Some people toll mo that thoy favor efforts to secure immigration ; but that they aro opposed to the idea of bringing in Poles, Hungarians and Slavs. Very well. Perhaps that is all right: but you will agree with me when fsay that the merchants all over tho State are constantly growing poorer in cash and richer in lands. Whether they aro growing richer or not, they aro i every year getting on hands more lands. Within fivo or ten years at the outside, theso merchants can hold mowu mnuH no longor, ant* inoy win do i forced to unload thorn choap, probably I to Home Northern speculator. The i speculator will certainly not allow the i lands to remain-idle and unproductive, i and ho will probably settle thom up i with Slavs, Polos and Hungarians? I the very olass of people you don't < want, lie will do it Docause the labor of these people is choap. and ho will 1 realize that even if ho aoesn't make, < he stands but little chance to lose. In view of those facts, it seems to me < that it is high time for us to begin to make a move. If wo wait a few years 1 .longer we are In danger of having I forced upon us a blass of people that wo do not want; wheroas if we com* ! menoo at once, we can have our pick i of the West. Not only that; we. are i in the position of the possible Northern speculator. Wo have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Our efforts, ? even if unsuccessful, con rosult in no harm ; and if successful, the. immig- i rants we bring in will, by increasing our values and diminishing our expenses, do more for us than we will ever have to do for thom. , THURSDAY, OCTOJ % WRECKED BY A CYCLONE. A NIGHT OF TlSUHOlt IN LITTLE HOCK. Heavy Loss of Life hiuI Pro^rtyTho Asylum and tlie Penitentiary Badly Damaged. The terriblo storm which visited Little Bock, Ark., on the 1st Inst, left doath and destruction in its wake. Tlio news from the State lunatic asylum has been continued as to the damage done that institution by the tornado. All tho male department and tho annex was razed U tho ground, four tloors falling in a iu: ss. Dr. Tngato. formerly of MobiW, Ala., and two patlor.ts wore instantly killed and four other patients serlout ly and perhaps fatally injured. The destruction in the residence part of tho city and tho vicinity of tho penitentiary is very great. State Senator Vest's daughter, who lived in that neighborhood, was injured by a falling roof. Her house was blown down and everything destroyed. The other occupants escaped serious injury. Stato Engineer Eggleston's house, in tho same neighborhood, was unroofed. Thomas Warner's house was demolished and a two-story tenement near tho penitentiary and Peter English's two-story house were wrecked. Tho Dibroll house, ono of tho oldest in tho city, was demolished. Young's grocery was unroofed and tho boarding house at Second and Broadway, whs blown down, but no one there was 'ejuri d. i no i 'roBbyterian church at Fourth iritl State streets, was unroofed. Abraham Olleneimmor's resldenco was wrecked. Tho damage to the reBidonco property in Went End will exceed $r>0,000. The name of tho convict killed at the penitentiary is Griffin. Two guards, Smith and Witt, wero badly injured and Beven trusty prisoners wore seriously hurt. Tno property Iobb to the State there is $^0,00U. Tho lint of killed us fur as can bo learned iH as follows: l)r. .J. T. Innate, Mobile, Ala.; two inHitno asylum patients; tho convict Gritlln; Jack Lloyd and baby, colored. Joseph Holloway, colored. The injured are : Lienrcsontativo-elcct C. T. M< uroo, nrobably fatally; John Eaton, employee at the Martin block, fatally hurt; Capt. S. O. Smith, hurt on head; Mrs. Janko, fatally injured ; John Fouterouwcz, fatally injured ; James Swift, injured in the head; Guards Smith and Witt, badly injur id. Many others are injured whose names were not learned. Several children wore covered with debris in tho ruins of the St. Charles Ilotol, but they have all been accounted for. The bell over the Torrent engine house, weighing 7(H) riounds, fell into tho street and doinoished tho engine house. The worst effects of the storm are to be seen at tho insane asylum, which is throe miles west of tao business center of the citv. The ? ntire south hulf of the main building Was boon demolished. The tower foil through Superintendent Itobinon's rooms, burying Dr. Ingate in the ruins. Mrs. Robertson escaped with -flight injuries. All but twenty in nates have boon discovered. Many voro found down town aud placed in jail, and some, it is feared, are buried in tho ruins. The loss to tho asylum will roach $loO,(KX). Tho storm oaiuo from tho southwest and swept n< arly everything in its path. lJod? strians and toamstors hastily sought shelter and places of safety, but tho velocity of tho wind was terrible and the list of injured w ill bo very largo. Ltoofs, signs and treos wore tossed about like paper. The path of tho tornado was not more than two hundred yards wide and its course was zigzag. Its duration wits not ever throe minutes, though the rain continued to pour afterwards for hours. Tho damago caused by tho tornado will undoubtedly roach thoofirst oatimate of $1,000,000. A most miraculous thing occurred at Fourth and Martin stroots. A carpenter named Clark, with his wife and baby, were occupying a room in tho house when tho storm struck it, blowing tho roof from over their heads and tearing away tho walls around thorn, leaving tho inmates untouched and unharmed in tho conter of tho floor. The insane asylum authorities roport tho following patients missing ; iVroy Jones, Dennis Callahan, Jamos M Doctors, William M. Mlllor, Willi um Suith tt, Joseph W. Johnson and ( George A. Askorman. Thousands of people went out to tho asylum, whore , a large force of mon were at work removing tho dobris. A RAILROAD MAN'S VERSION. , Charles Joseph, a railroad man who , lives in Memphis, was in Littie Kock ] during tho cyclone and makes the following statement: ] "I was standing on tho cornor of } Main and Third streets," said ho, ; " about 7:30 o'clock when I heard an awful noise and roaring. It was unlike any ordinary sound. In a moment thore was a Durst of wind and I ran 1 across tho street into a stairway. Like ' lightning the storm burfet in all its J fury. Tho roar of tho building in ' which I stood was torn away. Across 1 tho streot I saw a telegraph polo torn * to pieces. A horse and buggy stood 1 near the sidewalk. Thoy wore blown j across tho pavomont and slammed ' against tho side of tho wall. Main 1 street, from Third to Mnrkham, was torn to pieces and filled with debris. ' On Mara ham street opposito tho State ( building several houses wore unroofed. 1 Down Markham, oast, tho wind tore Dlf tho roofs of houses and toro down many others as far as Book street, a 1 distance of half a milo. This is tho t heart of tho businoss portion of Ldttlo < I took. Between Markham street and 1 tho river from tho State buildings as i far east as tho Littlo Bock and Fort 1 Smith depot great damage was done, < a number of buildings being torn 1 down. Out third street, west from < Main, tho wind did great damago, un- ' roofing many residences and tearing 1 down others. i " After two minutes tho wind ceased and then tho rain fell in torrents. I walked out into the streot and moved 1 up towards Markham stroet. All of i the oloctrlo light wires were blown 1 down and tho olty was in darkness, i 3ER 11, 1894 Around tho Western I'nlon telegraph oHlee every building was wrecked. Mark hum street was tilled with torn timbers, fallen walls, broken glass and other material. Tho whole city was In confusion and every one seemed to hnvo lost his head. " At 10 o'clock I crossed tho river into Argonta and the residents of that town know nothing of the cyclone. When 1 left all was still confusion." Out of a total loss of a million dollars or more, the only insurance held by tho sulTorers amounts to about $2,.r>00. Of that amount a plate glass insurance company of Now York holds policies amounting to $1,800. Tho remain'ng $700 was against losses by cyclone. 1 It was at tho insane asylum that the ' most complete wreck was to bo seen. 1 The buildings, built by tho State at a ! cost of $300,000, are located on a prom- 1 inonce tliroo miles west of the business ] portion of the city and offered a splen- I did target for the fury of the storm. KILLINO OK OK. 1NGATE. ' Dr. .1. T. legate, second assistant physician, and Dr. Kobinson, the super- ' lntendont, were standing in tho hall 1 talking just boforo the storm struck, and as they separated to go to their 1 Piinmu ll?n urn ... U I .*1 * ' . v?u ir..u w/mno which cru w null ' the mainoffice portion,crashed through 1 the three stories, burying Dr. Ingato 1 under the debris of one of tiiom. Dr. 1 llohinson had a narrow osoapo, but by ' pressing up against the wall while bricks and uoavy timbors were Hying 1 about his head in the dark, the lights < having at once been extinguished, ho ' succeeded in getting out without in- 1 jury, yv noavy force of men worked all night and the forenoon in removing1 the debris to find the body of tiio unfortunate physician, hut his remains woro not uncovered until 11 o'clock, lie was found under a muss of hrick and tiinlier in the vestibule of the main building, lying on his face and mangled beyond recognition. His remains wore forwardod to his parents at Mobile, Ala. the convicts weke in cells. The storm did damage at the penitentiary aggregating $.'10,000. The soutli half of the roof of the cell-house was completely torn away and carried outside the walls. Tho windows were all broken out, but very little damage was dono to the interior. Manv of the convicts were in their cells at the time and wore not hurt. Tho new workhouse, chapel and kitehon were badly wrecked. Tho third story and the oast wall of tho second story were blown down and are lying between it and the house, a vast mass of brick and mortar. The west wall was crucked at tho lloor and inclined to the east 45 degrees. It was in this building where the only death occurred. .J. II. Griffith, a white man sent up from Clay County for incest, was descending the stairway from the third story when tho wall caved in and buried him under tho debris. His remains, badly mangled, wore removed from tho ruins. The hospital building wus uninjured uxcept for tho wrecking of several chimneys and a portion of the roof. Tho two-story stable, blacksmith shop and woodshed that stood in tho center of tho yard woro badly wrecked. Womkn BOUQHT AN1) SOLD.?The " nows from Carlo that an Egyptian Pasha has boon arrested for purchas- ' ing women as slaves, is a striking : illustration of recent Improvement in j the condition of woman in tho East. ( A few years ago tho purchase of fo-. j male slaves was openly carried on in ? Cairo. Now Egypt lias stringent laws prohibiting the slave trade. Not only v in Kgypt, but in other Mohammedan " countries, tiie seclusion to which women are condemned by Mohammedan f| custom lias been in some degree alio- ( viated, and there is a tendency to adopt j tho manners and mothods of tho West. Among tho higher classes, whoso wo- c men have some opportunity for educa- j tion in Western language and literature, there is a marked loosening of ( tlie bonds which have hold Oriental rj woman in thraidom for so many centuries, and tho Turkish and Egyptian } woman is showing a surprising rosem- t bianco to her sister of Christian Eu- * rope. Among tho lower classes in the t Orient, circumstances have always ( tended to mako woman more of a ( partner and loss of a sla"o in hor domestic affairs and the greater freedom t and protection secured to the poor N under existing conditions are having a most beneficent influence in tlie infer- ' lor ranks of society. ( ?A groat sensation has boon caused \ in Washington by tlie kidnapping v from their mother in tho night timo of t 1 * vuu uyt\j nuiivii buhd ui ijr. iinu rnI'B. A. t H. Glennan, a surgeon in the marine c service. IIo separated from his wife c in 1889 and failed in an effort te got a t divorce. Ho charges Mrs. Glennan f with unfaithfulness. The two boys at r the time of tho separation were left in i charge of the mother and It is sup- v supposod that the father was instrumental in the kidnapping, in fact that t ho was one of tho four kidnannors. He t has again sued for divorce. Mrs. Glen- e nan is a sister of Congressman J. K. t Uaynor, of North Carolina. t ?Tho following, from Tho Spirit of [ the Timos, about horse marks, will enable many of our readers to call . them by right names : A white spot t In the forehead is a star : a white face . from eye to eye is a bald face ; a white j eye is a glass eve ; a horse has pastern not ankles, anil there is no such joint is hind knee or foro shoulder; white ' fxjlow tho pastern joint is a white pastern, above tho pastern a white ? eg ; white around tho top of the hoof s a cornet; a star, blaze, or bald face cannot bo anywhere except on the l nose. ?1 ? 1 - ?Robert Tuleo Toombs, a nephew of ,. fiobort Toombs, who attained fame as v i United StateH Senator from liod on the 1st Inst. at the smallpox tiospital in Chicago after a weok's 111ioss. Although he possed an estate 1' in Atlanta valued at $80,000, which a wan in the care of his grandmother, ? tie worked at his trade of a printer 14 when ho first went to Chicago several ^ yrcars ago. For the last two years he ^ had boon associato editor of the World, ' % weekly story paper. ?There Is this diflferenco between v those two temporal blessings, health I and monoy : Money is the most envied, e but tho least enjoyed ; health is tho t most onjoyed but the least onviod. u ATAIjK ON I'OIilTICS. Tho View of a l*rivat? Citizen hh to tlm Condition of our State- He Think* Tillman Ifa* Carried Out tlie ?""i ? Haiti more Ncwh. Dr. Thomas T. Karlo of South Caroliuu in spending tho day In tho oity. IIo arrived yesterday with his son, who is u student at the Maryland University. Dr. Karlo is not only a prom mem man mtnseir, but Is also the brother of Ex-Attornoy General Joseph II. Earlo, ono of tbo loading states* men of tho I'almotto State. General Karlo ran against Tillman for the governorship and is conceded to be the moat conservative man of ominence in the State- not in tho sense of re pre* renting any soculled conservative party, but as a moderate, who has impartially weighed tho claims of all parties and factions. At this critical time, when there are avidences of so many radical changes In Southern polities, Doctor Mario's opinions are especially valuable as giving a view of the condition of alTaira in the State which is considered by many to he tho political storm centre if the South. '1 he doctor was averse to talking politics, and when approachad hy a News reporter endeavored to turn the conversation into industrial channels. "Our State Is very prosperous just now," he remarked, cheerfully. " l'lte 3rops are splendid, and wo have even )odn benefitted by the hard times. Yes, the money stringency proven tea many from getting credit, and consequently mnning into debt, and having been forced to economize, they find, now that they have made a line crop, that they have a good deal of clear money. [ think tho recovery permanent, and ,hat wo will resume tho progressive mil prospermia work which was temjorarlly chocked by the financial deirossion." iteeurring to politics, he said, spoukn^ reluctantly, but decidedly : "The state of political affairs in our itate ia not a very pleasant one for inyone to contemplate, and isespooialy distasteful to a patriotic South Carolinian. The contest begun a few rears ago with the advent of the Pariusrs' Allianco into politics has now doreloped into a state not far removed rom chaos. There are divisions and lub-divislons, made not along lineH of irinoipjes, but wholly upon personalties. The contest from the beginning IIM linim .. i .... .4 1 ? %? . ?/v/v i I * UV/V Kill I UVl'lll 1/1WII I I 1 ri I/' ' ltd III i political one, despite the superficial mpourancos uud the ostensible causes >f quarrel. "The common people have conquered the aristocrats and nothing is left, or the latter have boon completely recoated to private life. Yet I can not >lame Tillman. True, he is lacking in ho spirit of cultivation which one oxloots in tho chief executive; but then le has strong provocation. If I had )oon treated as ho hus boon 1 don't say Mil that 1 might he as bitter as he is. When a man who Iiuh been lawfully deoted governor is ostracised, insulted md maligned, uh he has boon, it is title wonder if he remembers his power md forgets the virtue of forbearance md leniency. " Why, In Charleston and other duces there are those who refuse to iven speak to him, and are willing to oin any organized movement to resist lis lawful authority on tho slightest ecuslon. And for what? Because ho wis won. After all, Tillman has only arried out tho laws. " Mad as is the state of afTairs in our ituto, they are not near as had as outiders think they are. Tho blame for he erroneous impression which exists ill over the country as regards tho :ondition of South Carolina has boon irought about by our own newspapers. " Bogardless of the welfare of tho ituto, they have kept up a hopeless ight, whose only result has been to how their impotence for any purpose ixcopt Injuring the State abroad. L'hoy have persistently magnified ivory orror of tho administration, oxiggorutcd every mistake and belittled ivery worthy action. I think that, us .he rillmanitcs arc unquestionably in ho majority, it would bo bettor, and iortainly more graceful, for ua of tho ippoaition to remain In retirement, ind keep ailont unleaa wo had soinoriling bettor to offer than criticism, vhicn ia only futile when It ia not inurious. " It ia difficult to prophesy aa to tho lutlook. I think, however, that in tho litter warfare of factions tho negro vill again enter the arena of politics, vhonco ho waa expelled in lH7d. Not hat ho desires to do ho. Flo only wants 0 bo let alone. Hut the whites will 1 rug hi in in. TJiia will be done bolauae each faction will think that it :an get more of him than any other action. Which can really do so is noro than I can foretell. If it is a natter of money, the longer purae will vin. '' Ah to tho present contest, 1 think hat there ia not tho slightest doubt hat tho Tillman State ticket will lie ilected. and that Tillman will be sent o tho Senate. I would rather see him here than Butler. But'er la as much >f a populist as Tillman, and I would athor see tho latter in the Senate. Vhen Butler waa in the Senate ho did ill ho could do to conciliate the popuiat vote, and when they refused Mm he reward lie thought lie had earned 10 waa ho aore that. Vie Imlt.wl Hut iw. ias bolted ulone. " Ho has no backing and 1/ m moral tanding than ho had before. Matters n my State will doubtless adjust themolvos to an orderly basis after awhilo, iut not before there has been eonsidrablo more agitation. In the rueanimo we are prospering, despite the landicaps which all this turmoil has in nosed on us. Wo continue to marry no glvo in marriage, to sow and to cap, and just now wo are reaping cry abundantly." ?A clergyman, in a recont sermon n New York, quoted an anecdote of n old merchant, who instructed his lerks : " When a man comes into the tore and talks of his honesty, watch ilm ; if he talks of his wealth, don't ry to sell him ; if ho talks of his reIgion, don't trust him a dollar." ?" You are always exclaiming Groat Scott I' and yet you say that ou have novor read any of the Wavery novels." "True, but a man of your ixperionee ought to know that evoryKxly talks most about what bo least I inderstands." < NO 12 G Kit Kit All N KWS N (M M A K V. Latest Items ixiul Curious Notwt from Our KicliAiiKOfi. -The Locust Point Tin Works, Md., hiivo closed down indefinitely. ?Chauncoy M. Dopow is building a $20,(KM) mausoleum at Peoksklll, N. Y., in momory of Lin wifo. ?Tho Southern Hallway Company 1 haw boon mortgaged to tho Central Trust Company for $120,000,000. ?Seven of the Herriek family, who reside in Indiana, will divide an estate of $;100,000 left by an English uncle. ? In a deserted house at Florence, Ala., Luko Lavender, a tramp eighty years of age, blew off his head with a shotgun. ? Mrs. Kuthorino Koborts celebrated her centennial at Topeka, Kan., on Sunday, in a gown she had worn at 1H years of age. ?Tito oldest dally papor in tho United States is tho Philadelphia North American. It began on 21st September, 17K4. ?Secretary Carlisle has appointed William II. Pugh, of Ohio, superintendent of the income tux division of tho treasury department. - /vproposoi uiochangeor Appomattox to " Surrender " a Connecticut correspondent of the Now York Sun suggest* that Hull llun bo changed to " Skedaddle." ?A tablet recently sot up at Naples commemorates the bravest act done by a king in this century, tho visit of King Humbert to tho cholera sufferers In 1884. ?Charles O. Hardin, with confederates, is on trial at Nashville, Tonn., for stealing $36,000 two years ago while running as Adams Express messenger between Clncinnrti anil Nashville. ? Sir John Lubbock is authority for the statement that a single bee, with all its industry, energy and innumerable journeys, will not collect more than a single teaspoonful of honey during a season. ?Tho Adams Express Company has paid A. G. Gurney $6,(XX) to compromise his $25,lXX) suit against the company for falsely arresting him a year ago at New Orleans for stealing a packago containing $2f>,000. -?A spring in Austin, Lacledo County, Mo., supposed to be unfuiling, dried up last week, and when It resumed business furnished salt water instead of the fresh water it had supplied over since it was discovered. - Dr. Charlotte E. Benton has held the responsible position of dentul surgeon at tho New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for over a year, where she hu? had charge of nearly DiLl.innt.u i\( ?ill i* ifou orwl v ??? it^vo uuu i/uvu o^Aun, ?Miss Totnpklns, of Kentucky, an intelligent young woman who lms been acting oh purchasing clerk for the United States Supreme Court, has been appointed assistant marshul of the Court, a position never before hold by a woman. ?Gen. It. E. Colston, a major general In the Confederate army, and ufter the war a pasha in the Egyptian army, was recently stricken with paralysis and has been carried to the Soldiers' Homo in Richmond, Va. lie is in destitute circumstances. ?One of Chattanooga's largest industries may be removed to St. Gnu is. It is the Chattanooga Plow Company, which does am immense business in South America and keeps a force of 1100 hands at work the year round. Negotiations are now pending for the rumuvui m mi*) piant iu r.ii.it At. i xniis. ?About throo miles from tho town of Cordolo, Gil., in located a body of water called the " vanishing lake." It has an area of four square miles, and every autumn it dries up completely, although a week before this phenomenon takes pljw:e it is twelve feet deep in some places. The water reappears in the spring. ?Judge Charles A. Gayarro, the venerable historian of Louisiana, who has been seriously 111 during tho summer, is now restored to his usual health. Judge Gayarro will be bO years old 011 the 1st of next January. His home in New Orleans is one of tho most attractive spots in tho lower parts of the city. ?Phil I) Armour, when shown tho report from Hrunswick. Ga., that ho had offered $1,000,000 for the Jckyl Island club house and island, characterised tho story as ridiculous, tie had never hoard of Jekyl Island, did not have a million dollars to invest in anything, and if he had tie would not invest it in Jekyl Island. - At a rocont session of tho American Medical Convention at Montreal the question of the transmission of disease by kissing was discussed, having arisen from a paper against the practice. While Indiscriminate kissing did not meet with much favor, tho physicians did not seem to think well of the abolition of what may bo termed " oxclusivo " kissing. ?Mr. Georgo Vanderbilt's palatial country homo at Ashevllle, N. C., is ready for occupancy. It is as conveniently eouippod as a modern hotel, with its four elevators and complete suites, that includo private kitchens and dining rooms. Mr. Vandorbllt will spend Novembor there, and will entertain a series of house parties which will bo composed chiefly of his relatives. ?Mrs. A. M. Curtlss, a woman of culture and beauty, is being sued for ejectment from apartments rented on State street, Chicago, because it has b^on learned by the lessors that she had negro blood in her veins. Suit was begun by agonts for the property, who claim that in hiding her antecedent* Rt thi* t.lmn w ...w *??W IVUKJV Ul VIIO apartments was given, Mrs. Curtiss had acted fraudulently. ?The latest reports from China are that the emperor will bo deposed and a son of Prince Kuug placed on the throne, that Li Hung Chang: has tired in tho utterost sort of disgust :>< I that Gen. Sang Twins* has succe< ? d him in tho command of tho armi.s. Tho Chinese legation at Washington discredit all of this. Japan is said to be raising 100,000 meu who will march on Pekin. Gen. Yoh of tho Chinese forces is reported to havo boon .killed at the battle of Ping Yang. .l$E