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VOL. XLIII, ' ' WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 29, 1887, NO. 48. ? ?? H 1?|?MBMMHWBBi MM ' "rf,*r" **r'" n 3B - ? tt. ?T.IBMHWI r?'i WHITE CAP KNIGHTS. I A liKGlLAK BAND OF MASKJKD VXGI- j L ANT MS IN INDIANA. The I^iiv Ijjnore.1 l>y ? II:in<l of Kuttian* AVho Seek to Make the Punishment Fit ! the Crime?Death for Serious Offenders. The White Caps are to Southern In- j diana what the Bald Knobfcers were to j Missouri. Not so desperate in character j as the latter, their organization is iden-! tical and they have equally set law at j defiance. The headquarters oi the White Caps ! are in Harrison county, Indiana, but the ! organization extends over into Crawford, Jefferson and half a dozen other counties in the oldest civilization of the State. There is not a more intelligent, peaceable or orderly community in Indiana than Harrison county. Corydon, the county seat, was the first capital of the State, and its court-house, built in 1811, was for four years its capitol. The country is rich and schools and churches abound. A branch railroad has been lvnilfc to Cnrvdon. and its citizens are prominent in State and nation. In spite of all this, the White Caps, or "Knights of the Switch," as they are sometimes called, have existed for seventeen years. The courts have been set at defiance, ;'ails have been opened and prisoners liberated or punished. Men, women and children have been dragged out of bed at dead of night, and their homes burned before their eyes, while they themselves have been whipped, tortured with fiendish ingenuity and made to flee the country. Like the Bald Knobbers, the pro- j fessed motive of the White Caps is the i punishment of crime more swiftly and j fittingly than can be accomplished in j rnp rv>nrts_ For this reason there has ! been little outcry against them, and even i when public indignation has beenj arouse^ by some unusually flagrant act, j nothing has been accomplished. The identity of White Caps has been revealed time and again, but not one has ever been brought to punishment. There have been many attempts by grand juries to indict the offenders, but so far they have been ineffective. For years am: years hardly a circuit court is held in Harrison county that the jury is not in-; structed to investigate some case of re- j cent occurrence, but White Caps are on ! the jury and in the court room, and j notiung has ever been discovered in this j way. There have been but few confessions j of membership; but one of these farn-1 ishes information of the regular nature : of the organization. The White Caps, i or "KnigMs," are organized -with regu- { iar lodges. There are signs, grips and j pass words?crude, of course, but i sufficient for the recognition of and for ! communication between members. They meet at appointed places, but not often : at the same place, u*ncl <d L seldom & house. Secluded groves uro tL-.-ir ?aVor- i or>A nArA thev assemble uoon JLIC; i^SViVCj .V*. ? W v A , notification of the leader of tLe lodge. Councils are held, expeditions determined upon and punishments inflicted. The sign for the assembling of these "lodges" is the laying of crossed fence rails in the middle of the road. The earliest known band of this organization was in Scott township, Harrison county, seventeen years ago. James N. Kean, a small farmer, accused of petty thievery, was tied to a tree and | severely whipped. He was their first ? victim, but cases were frequent after that. Of late the White Caps have been very ; > A- -A i-t 1- | active. me latest ouxureua. was m Jefferson county, two miles from the i small village of Brooksburg. A band of masked men last Fr;day night broke into the farmhouse of Stout Brenson, dragged aim from bed with his wife and child, removed the furniture from the rooms, burned the dwelling and quietly disappeared. Neither Brenson nor his neighbors can assign any reason for the outrage, but it is supposed the White Caps were headed by a personal enemy. That _ the party was from the organization was I r* - - ?sHcnrn by their wearing the white masks which have given their name. The Knights were guilty ten days ago of & serious offence. At midnight a band of some twelve cr fifteen white masks visited the house of Jos. Lynch, a farmer who lives near Leavenworth. They broke in the doors, seized Lynch and his wife, entered the room where slept his daughter Mary with her three brothers and dragged the whole party into the front yard. The two younger boys broke loose and fled into the Jinshps. Five men held Lynch and the older boy, and the remainder whipped the two women with si out hickory switches. They mounted their horses when sufficient punishment had been inflicted and quietly rode away. The home of Lynch was visited and his wife was found at work laying a rail fence in front of the house. Her boys were around the house, and Mary got up out of bed to stare at the unaccustomed visitor. Very shabbily dressed were all. Mr. Lynch was at work at a .neighbor's, and his wife was so frightened that fche trembled from head to foot when questioned, thinking the reporter was one of the Knights. She said the Caps had been there & week ago and whipped her and Mary, but sh? couldn't remember anything. Whez: any trcuDie came ner nearc oeat so fast that it choked her and she fell down like dead, 2nd that was the way with her that night. She was evidently afraid to tell anything, but after long persuasion made the following statement: ^ . "I've lived here all my life, and I be: iong to good people, but I've had a hard < time. Mr. Lynch owns a farm and I'll ~^r get this place from my mother. We've had trouble and sickness. "My girl Mary got into trouble, but the young man Laid he'd marry her. They were to be married in the fall, but my son Willis got indicted and they couldn't be. Then they were to be married in the spring, but his family made such a trouble they couldn't. His name is Bryant Green, and he is the son of Wesley Green, our nearest neighbor. He says he'll marry her yet. "The other evening Andy Green, Bryants young brother, came "over and borrowed our shotgun. That night the 'vigilance* came and they whipped me and whipped Mary. I don't know who if ttoc Thftv ffhi-Dced as in our nisrht clothes. First one and then another lashed ns both, ixarj's so awful hurt I'm afraid she'll die/ I gness there's soma people -want our little propeety and are -jying to drive ns away." 3dary Lynch is not more than seventeen years old and rather good looking. She could tell no more than her mother. Wesley Green, father of Bryant Greer:, was found by the mporter and said that the Lynches" kept a bad place?playing cards and 'whooping' on Sundays. The vigilantes, he thought, had done right in -whipping them. Mrs. Lynch was a respectable woman, he guessed, and the 'cutting up' hau only been going on seven or eight months. Public opinion in the neighborhood is much divided over the matter, but the general opinion is thai the Knights ought not to have done the whipping. The whipping of women is too frequent in. the Knights to be pleasant. Generally their victims are charged with unchastity, but it is admitted that there have been cases when whippings were given as the result of disappointment or malice. In Blue River township Lcm Arnold lived a couple of years ago. He was apparently stout and healthy, but was accused 01 smraessness anu letting oxi* wife haul wood. That winter a band of the Knights visited him at midnight, took him out of bed and hauled up a good supply of firewood. Arnold drew the sled in his night shirt, and although he was liberally whipped to keep up the circulation he died a few weeks asterward of consumption brought on by the exposure. In the same township lived Henry Long, a lawyer, accused of being a disturbing element, especially at elections. He was brought to trial before a magistrate. "While the case was in progress a band of masked men with their coats turned surrounded the house. Long sprang to the door, and shot dead the first man who entered. The victim proved to be a respected Frenchman named M. Henriot, whom the mob had forced into the lead. Long tried to shoot again but his pistol failed him. He made a dash through the crowd, but received several shots, from the effects of which he died next day at Corydon. None of the band was ever brought to justice. Corydon was once captured by a band of the "White Caps." In May, 18S5, theie was talk of corruption in the county offices, but to the demands for investigation no attention was paid. On Saturday evening two men rode into town about dark, saying fhfy had come to see the ku-klux. Soon horsemen began to ride into town from every road. In half an hour between two and three hundred had gathered upon the public square. The men had their coats turned, and all wore white masks, with a dozen other forms of disguise. All the horses had white masks over their heads, with holes cut for their eyes and ears. A number of horses had "white strips tied around a fore-leg. The band rode through every street in the town in military order, tlien once around it, and then disbanded. Two or three were observed to ride into^ a livery stable and leave their horses. The next morning letters threatening lmrn tlie town and Id]] everv one of the officers unless an investigation was ordered were received by the county commissioners and several of the prominent citizens. An investigation was ordered the nest week. Discrepancies were found in the treasurer's and auditor's offices. Treasurer Bowling turned over a large sum of money he had collected, was sued on his bond and $000 more was recovered. The records in the auditor's office were mutilated one night, so a comp^^/int-Km wukl xxcv Iw uaa. AHQltor A. wr Brewster, however, paid over 82,000 which it was thought he owed the county. John Jacob Miller, a well-to-do farmi er living near Corydon, was brought be[ i'ore the grand jury as f.ne of the mob. He refused to testify and was ordered to j jail for contempt. He secured a few minutes' talk with the Judge and the prosecuting attorney, however, and the order was revoked. Miller went home and nothing more was ever done in the case. These instances could be multiplied by the score. Queerly enough the Indionians seem not to be much opposed to the "White Caps" and conclude they rarely make mistakes in punishments. The more thoughtful, however, admit that the organization is sometimes the weapon oi private malice and that great wrong is done. Still, nothing is done to break up the "Knights." Virginia Politics. It is understood among the Virginia politicians that ex-Governor Cameron I and Senator Biddleberger are acting in close concert in the maturing of plans to thwart General Mahone's ambition to succeed Bidalebergcr in the Senate. Amen2 other reports is one that thev contemplate making overtures to the Democratic managers in Virginia for a joint combination against Mahone. But although this rumor finds ready credence in some quarters, those in a position to know do not believe it to have the least foundation. Whatever influence the two young leaders have must be in the ranks of their own party, and there can be no inducement for the Democrats to make any personal alliance with them. That they both are resolved to leave no means untried to defeat General Mahone is undoubted. All Virginia politicians of experience agree that if a Republican Legislature is elected General Mahone is bound to be its choice for Senator. Probably the best course for Cameron and Eiddlebercer and their supporters will be to pursue a course of masterly inactivity, but they are too much interested to adopt such a course as this. The Virginia Democrats express the utmost confidence in their own ability to carry the Legislature. In the meantime General Makone, who is apparently keeping perfectly quiet, is undoubtedly hard at work laying his own plans and will be prepared to spring them in his own time. Speaker Carlisle is on a visit to Washington, to take part in a conference having far its object the framing of measures to be introduced in the next Congress, looking to a reduction of taxation. It is stated that Mr. Carlisle will confer with the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and a number of Congressmen, including 3Ir. Randall. A Washington dispatch, in reference to l this ftonferenc?. savs "it is verv evident to the most casual observer that "the tariff reformers are going to have a tough time of it in their efforts to get any legislation ; next session that at all meets the views ; of that wing of the party. It is quite as evident that the Randalfpeople are going to have just as tough a time to get what they want. That they are just as far apart as they were in the last Congress is quite evident, and it soe-ms quite probable that the struggle over the question will be quite as exciting as was that of j last winter/' It is certainly important that something be done to adjust the differences in the Democratic party on economic questions, and that something should be j done in full time for the campaign next i summer. The appending conference i will be watched with interest Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" is the debilitated woman's best restorative tonic. The work <>.' victing the strikers of the Pennsylvania salt works from tlie com pa ny's houses was begun Thursday. JOHN SHERMAN". HIS MOUTH. ! Talk With a Cincinnati Newspaper?Outlining Uis Presidential Campaign. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer.) ! "I notice that your brother, the general, has written an interesting letter to his comrades of the Grand Army at St. Louis," I said. "Yes, and don't you know I like that letter a grtat deal?" "Then you approve of the sentiments it expresses?" "Most certainly, and all thoughtful men -will take the same view of the subject when they reflect calmly upon it. The incumbent of the Presidential omce I is entitled to the respect of the people, J unless he is guilty of some offense I against public morality and the public interests. Men may very properly differ with those in authority as to political views and measures of public policy, but it will not do to carry these differences of opinion to the point of treating a President with discourtesy and disrespect, simply because there may be-men in a public assemblage or on a public occasion who differ with him politically, or upon the advisability or non-advisability of measures of public policy. He is first entitled to that courtesy that is due to every good and law abiding citizen on f 11 occasions, and second to that respect which belongs, under the genius of our institutions, to the position of chief magistrate of a great, a prosperous, an educated a civilized people." "Do you hold to the opinion that if the Force bill had passed Congress the j alleged suppression of the ballot in the South would have been prevented?" "That is something that no man can tell. We can form no adequate idea of what the result might have been. But I I have very serious doubts abont the JLC-aOJ.MAiJLLJ' UA v j protecting individual rights or preventing individual wrongs where the local government is not willing to interfere in behalf of the citizens. Free speech, a free ballot, and the exercise of the general rights of citizenship are not what may be termec3 constitutional rights, but inherent rights, and if they are denied in a community, tho general government can not interfere, unless the State authorities invoke that interference. The failure of the State to call upon the national government debars it from interfering in behalf of those who are wronged." "Will you please illustrate that idea, Senator?" "Let us suppose a case here in Richmond county. Suppose, for instance, that a majority of our people should combine together to deprive the Quakers, or the Catholics, or any other re" * - ' *? x- X"U ~ ngious seer or ueuoiumu.uuu, ui tuc right to worship occording to their religious tenets and forms; denied them the freedom of speech and the right of assembling, and the State took no action, the general government would have no right to interfere and protect them in their rights." "But would it not be the duty of the State to protect them?" "Undoubtedly. But suppose the State should not discharge that duty. No appeal would lie to the general government. It could not interfere unless the matter should rise io the heiglit of a. rebellion Ugainst the laws of the United States or an invasion of its territory for a hostile purpose. A community may be in rebellion against tho laws of a State, but the general government can not interfere to crush out that rebellion unless the State government invokes its aid and assistance." "How, then, would you remove the wrongs which you claim exist in portions of the South, and how would you prevent the suppression of the ballot, which you claim is suppressed?" "I would propose a remedy, but I rJonht, whether the rtennbliean r>artv would come up to it." "What is that, Senator?" "I would have Congress enact a law fixing the time, manner and circumstances of electing members of Congress, defining and providing for the rights of every citizen at such an election, and putting it wholly with the government for the conduct and regulation of Congressional elections. In other words, the entire supervision of the election of members, of Congress should be with the United States government." "But is there any warrant for that in the constitution?" "Clearly; that principle has been decided by the courts on several occasions, and tbe Supreme Court has laid down the doctrine unequivocally, and its decisions are in the line of its establish merit. With such a statute enforced, there could be no abridgement of the elective franchise, no suppression of ballots in elections concerning the interests of government. Then, if communities, or even States, should attempt to deprive citizens of their rights of franchise, the government could lawfully interfere, put an end to it and rehabilitate every citizen. With the right of every citizen to cast his vote and have it counted for members of Congress and electors for President clearly established and enforced, the same right at State and local elections would soon force itself, although there would be no government interfere! ce." "Then you would have the same law apply in the choice of Presidential electors that applied in the election of members of Congress?" "Certainly, and why not?" "Do yon think, Senator, that Congress will be called in extraordinary session?" "That is hard to tell, but 1 should not be surprised. It is true that if the President should call an extra session of Congress it would be a reflection upon himself, but the financial condition of the country demands an early assembling of Congress." "How would Congress improve the financial situation?" "By reducing taxation and preventing the accumulation of an unnecessary surplus in the treasury. If we go at the rate of accumulating over $100,000,000 annually of useless and unnecessary revenue, and locking it up in the treasury, all our industrial and commercial interests will be jeopardized." < Vi/-\TT? />OT> *? AVTS1" JL/U.U Xlvn utui VUMM*wvu h/u iivuuvuu* "By a revision of the tariff and modification of the internal revenue laws." "Will there be a revision and modification of the tariff laws?" "There will doubtless be a reduction on numerous items." "Where do you think the reduction siionla be applied?" "I thiiik that there should be a decided reduction in the tariff on s-'gar, uuu. luuii a. wvuiivj ojau uiu ?/AJ.U. v/^ American sugar sufficiently generous to secure the production of all the sugar in ; the United States that our people may ; consume.. We have the best soil in the ! world for the sugar best and sorghum > cane, covering almost limitless areas, i and we have a larger area adapted to the cultivation of West India cane as in Louisiana. We ought to produce all the i sugar we consume, and we may readily ; do so by a judicious tariff and liberal bounties to producers." If a person strikes an attitude is he liable : to arrest for assauit and battery? NO DANGER OF AN OUTBREAK. ij:e kepokxed negko insikkecXIOX IN LAUKEXS COUNTY. Holdiug r?Ieetinjj* at >Iidnight--Xo Authority for the Dire Xhreals Said to Have Been Made?"Principles" of the "CoOperative Workers of America." (From the News and Courier.) Laukexs, June 20.?Colonel J. H. Traynham, of the Governor's staff, and Captain L. E. Irby, of the Lanrens Guards, have returned from (Jeaar Grove, Young's township. Colonel Traynham refuses to be interviewed, but he will proceed to Columbia and report directly to Governor Richardson tomorrow. Captain Irby, however, is under no obligation to report officially, and has very kindly furnished me such information as he had. There is no doubt that some of the negroes are organized, and that they often hold meetings between midnight and daylight with the greatest precautions at secrecy, sentinels being stationed at convenient distances from the rendezvous. The various dire threats that have been so widely circulated can not be traced authoritatively to the organization. There will be no outbreak unless the negro leaders shall act rashly, as the whites preserve great caution. I neglected to say that the meetings are held near the lines of Laurens and Greenville counties, on the Greenville side, The organizations are known as the "Co-operative "Workers of America," and are the offspring of the Hoover in fluence, and many believe tiiey are lor the purpose of extorting money from the ignorant negroes. It costs each member one dollar and fifty-five cents to take all the degrees, and one dollar and fifty cents of that amount is forwarded to Hickory, >7. C. Several packages oi money have been sent from Simpsonville, Greenville county, anil Woodruff, Spartanburg county, to Hickory, N. C. I have secured some of the literature of the "Co-operative Workers of America," issued "by order of the executive board, H. F. Hoover, president; W. E. Killian, vice-president; John F. Ross, general secretary; C. L. Hawn, treasurer: J. A. Bolch, general auditor; Martin .solder, general committee agent." Under cover of a small pamphlet, signed as above indicated, I glean what purports to be the principles and objects of the organization. ' 'It is the proper object of government to make laws that will secure the greatest good to the greatest number, on the oasis 01 aosoiute justice, wiiu an aim toward universal liberty. "For many years our government lias been run to the advantage of a few, for the benefit of a privileged class?the moneyed aristocracy, while the masses, the useful people, have hard burdens hard to bear." The objects of the organization are declared to be: "To elevate and dignify labor; to secure to the laborer a just share of the products of his toil; to instruct him in a knowledge of his rights and his wrongs, and his duty to his country and his fellow-man; to use all rational means to better his social, moral and financial condition." To accomplish these objects they demand: "The establishment of bureaus of labor statistics; the abrogation of laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor; the adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of th 5se engaged in mining, &c.; the enactment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employees weekly in lawful money; the enactment of laws providing for arbitration between employer and employees; the enactment of laws to proinbit tne luring out 01 convict labor and to "work convicts on the public roads; that the importation of foreign convict labor be prohibited; that the poll tax be repealed; the establishment of a free co-operative school system; the abolition of child labor in mines, workshops and factories." They demand of CoDgress: "That the public lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers, <fcc.; the establishment of a national monetary system; that a graduated income tax be levied so that the greater the income the higher the rate of taxation; the enactment of a graduated forfeiture Act to be levied on the estates of the rich at their death; that the government shall organize financial exchanges, safe deposits, etc.; that the government construct pos tai teiegrapn or teiepnone system, <acc.; that United States Senators be elected by tlie people; that the Government establish and maintain a free ballot in every State of the Union; a radical reduction in the fees, salaries and perquisites of government officials is demanded; that the hours of labor be reduced." Then they say: "We are opposed to war, and consider strikes as dangerous to society, hurtful to the participants and contrary to the interest of good government." They promise co-operation -with the Knights of Labor and all similar organizations. Coioncl Traynliam's Keport. After stating that, in obedience to the order of the Governor, he visited Cedar Grove on the 18th instant and interviewed several prominent men in regard to the matter, Colonel Traynham say? "There is no doubt as to the existence of an organization among the negroes in that county. The object of it I could not ascertain with certainty. The negroes hold their meetings late at night, say from 12 to daylight. No person is admitted to them except members or parties seeking to become members. While the object of the organization is not known, the opinion prevails that it is in the nature of the Knights of Labor. There is some excitement among the whites in the community, but I could not learn of actual threats coming from the negroes, although there are some rumors of threats having been made. Som$ of th'e whites are of opinion that tlie negroes are not working as well as they have been, ana it is reported that some of them have said that there would be a change of things about the -ith of July. Under this state of facts I feel xuiible to make any definite recommendation and submit the -whole matter to your better judgment." Altogether a False Alarm. Columbia, June 21.?In accordance with instructions from the home office, I went to Laurens yesterday to investigate the rumors which have been so wildly circulated as to an uprising of colored farm laborers, and I came back to-day satisfied that nine-tenths of the reports have been without justification. The negroes have been tricked by Hoover and men of his stamp into entering a labor association, which is useless to them and which they do not understand. Hoover holds the fees and i they hold the meetings. They have a I blind idea that joining such an organiza! tion will help them financially. If, as is ! reported, not 2 per cent, of the negroes i in that section work for wages, it is impossible to see what good a strike would do them. They contract to cultivate the crops for a share, and as the crop is almost laid by now a violation of these contracts would simply save money to the farmers. As to the talk of insurrection the people hi the town of Laurens have no faith in it. It is impossible to trace the rumors to -this effect to any authentic source; There is less uneasiness and concern in the town of Laurens on this subject than there is in Charleston or Columbia. All work is going on quietly I ill IfUC DC^LUl/JJL auw^vu wv Ks\y www. I and the concurrent opinion of every one | I spoke to in Laurens was that nothing | could be ascertained or seen by going j thus far. The section where the labor organizations exist is near the Greenville and Spa^anburg lines^ The .whites are in the E&jority/ There is no county in the State t"where the negroes have been longer and more completely within the control of the whites than in Laurens. An insurrection would simply mean their own obliteration. Besides this, there is no issue which could so excite them as to make them desperate. There-' is no conflict of wages, such as led to the rice field strikes of 1876. They have the prospect of gathering the finest: crops they have had.for a decade. Their future is full of hope for material success. The sum of the whole matter is that the negroes have been kept so completely under control in Laurens county that organization of any kind is untuiual to them, and the fact that have now organized for an undefined agrarian purpose is enough to make some fooisn or unreasonable people imagine vain things. The people of the town of Laurens are infinitely more concerned in the building of their cotton factory than in this thing, which is a sensation to those at great distances from the scene of the reported trouble. Your Laurens correspondent has forwarded so full an account that it is unnecessary for me to say more than this. Colonel Traynham, of the Governor's staff, came down to-day with me from Laurens. He refused to make any statement for publication, but intimated that I had about heard all the facts from Captain Irby. My talk with Captain Irby assisted me in forming the conclusion set, forth above. Colonel Travnham made a brief verbal report to the Governor this evening and went to bed. His Excellency could not be found at home, nor would he be seen for a moment at the meeting of the trustees' of the University, which he is attending and which will last for hours yet, but it may be confidently assumed to-night that Col.* Traynham's conclusion agree* substantially with those of Captain Irby, and tnat neither he nor the Governor is alarmed at the prospect. | All Quiet in Spartanburg. Spaetanbukg, June '21.? Further investigation to-day strengthens me in my opinion that the negroes of this county ddnot contemplate a strike, or any violigpce. They are not fools enough to wait until their crops are nearly finished/ -XI a. ? i. XT wim me nuesfc pruopeuto uucj uo?o uau for years, to begin a revolution that would damage them in every possible way. _ _ IXVEXTOK KEELY'S IHOTOK. He Says it is Nearly Finished?Renewing His Past Promises. Inventor John W. Kee]y has just issued a printed card of instructions to those who may visit his workshop during the hour set apart for visitors. In it he says: "I am now engaged in what I term the process of 'graduating' or adjusting my engine, by which I mean securing a regulated and uniform speed or motion of it. This, when effected, will finish my work, which will be known as. the 'Sympathetic Etheric Motor,' and my new force will then be adapted to commercial purposes. Visitors will observe, on entering my shop, my power-developing structure, termed the 'Sympathetic Etheric Liberator,'which hangs suspended on the second floor in a tubular ring, and fiom which a wire of small diameter, and made of alternate sections of platinum and silver, extends to au attonliTYiflnf' ofliTOil fn /vno ATir? nf t.VlA IjVlftff". of the engine which I am graduating." He then goes on to explain the advantages of his "liberator," and to expatiate on the arduous duties he has been compelled to perform to reach the successful control of the motor on-which he is working. He repeats the promises he has made for the last ten years to explain by diagrams, etc., which he shall publish to the world, the wonderful mechanism of his motor?when he has completed his present process of adjustment. Money Made in Coffee. Among the people in Wall street who do not put on mourning over the break ?* " V T7 _ _1_ 3 in tne pnces 01 conee m j.\ew iors ana | in wheat in Chicago are the followers of Henry Clews & Co. Mr. Clews said recently that his firm had paid out to customers over $200,000 in profits un ccffee deals, and that the decline in wheat had made a difference of over $1,500,000 in the credits of his office. "We do a strictly commission business," said Mr. Clews; "but we do not propose to allow our customers to buy or sell through this house unless in our judgment they will realize returns for the money they will invest. A week or ten days ago the representatives of one of the local agencies came to me and said he had been deputed to get the opinion of the principal brokers of the street upon the situation and prospects. I told him I was a bear on everything, and told him why I believed stocks would go lower, and why the wheat corner and the coffee corner had reached about the limit. He laughed and said I was alone, for all the j men lie Ma seen Denevea in mgner j prices all around. I have not seen him since, but I feel much like laughing myself to-day. It is not luck; it is the result of close study of the situation. History repeats itself here as well as elsewhere. It has done so now; it will do so hereafter; and we have not seen the lowest prices yet. Wheat will go much lower, for the Chicago corner people are knocked out for at least a year to come." . G. 31. B. Walking down Broadway is very pleasant when you feel well, and T K never felt better than when his friend asked him how he got over that severe cough of his so speedily. "Ah, my boy," said T , "G. M. D. did it!" And his friend wondered what G. II. D. meant. He knew it did not mean a Good Many Doctors, for T ? had tried a dozen in vain. "1 have it." said he, just hitting the nail on the head, "you mean Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discovery,'" or Gold Medal Deserved as my friend J S always dubs it." Sold by druggists. The more you puff a cigar the smaller i: becomes And that is the case with some ' men. A lilt AVE YOUNG WOMAN. I Mary ".Vakeiield. the Heroine of the Chans| j:lain Disaster. | Chicago. June '2?.?The schooner Ka! cine, the crew of whicL rescued the survivors of the Champlain disaster, arrived here last evening. At the time the Champlain caught tire the Kacine was lying alongside a pier six mile3 from Charlevoix. Captain Hanson -woke up, saw the burning steamer, and sent part of his crew in a yawl to rescue the perishing passengers. With the remainder of his crew he ran down the beach to an old tish boat, launched it, and started for the wreck. The boat had not been used for a long time, and leaked. When about half way out to the Champlain Captain Hanson came across a young woman who was swimming toward the shore with a child. This was Miss Mary Wakefield, of Charlevoix. She had jumped overboard from the steamer, with the six-year-old child of Captain Kehoe clasped in her arms. Grasping a broken fender,, she clung to it, Mid seizing ttie clothang of the child in' her teeth, she bravely struck out for the i shore. Captain Hanson says she is the pluckiest woman he ever saw in his life. | When lie started to take her and the child into his boat she told him to hurry away to others, as she could take care of herself. She reached the shore in safety, and when another of the shipwrecked passengers was taken from the boat, in an almost frozen condition, she took off her flannel underskirt and wrapped it around him. When Captain Hanson reached the wreck the yawl of the Bacine had picked up fifteen persons. He saved six more, and seventeen others floated ashore by aid of planks and life preservers. Among the bodies picked up by Captain Hanson was that of Mrs. Ella Cooper Smith, of Charlevoix. It was found floating on the surface of the lake, and the position of the life preserver showed Mrs. Smith had worked it down so as to keep as much of her body as possible out of the icy water. Becoming benumbed and fatigued, her head had fallen over until it was submerged, and she was drowned. In speaking of Captain Casey. Captain Hanson said he never knew what courage in man meart until he witnessed the heroic fortitude displayed by the brave commander of the Champiain. The Cotton Movement. From the New York Financial Chronicle's cotton article of last week the following figures are gathered relative to the movement of the stapie during the past weeit: The total receipts readied 3,.>19 bales, against -1,032 bales last week, 7,599 bales tlie previous week, and 9,Too bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st of September, 1886, 5,183,-168 bales, against 5,232,830 bales for the same period of 1885-6, showing a decrease since September 1, 1886, of 49,362 bales. The exports for the weekreach a total of 8,528 balps, of which 2,S87 were to Great Britain, ? to France, and 5,641 to the rest of the continent. The total visible s upply of cotton, as made up by cable and tekfijgjgfr -or the week is as follows: Total of Great- Brit3Hft3-.^r870,000 bales, total of continental stocks 392,600 bales?making.a total of European stocks of 1,262,600 bales. The total visible supply for the world' is 1,993;970 bales; of this number 1,246,370 are American and 747,600 East Indian, etc. The imports into continental ports during the week were 25,000 bales. These figures indicate a decrease in the cotton in sight of 70,917 bales as compared with the same date of 1886, and a decrease of 3,300 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1885. The receipts at interior towns for the week were 2,421 bales. Old interior stocks have decreased 4,661 bales, and were 62,164 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts from the plantations, being ihe actual movement, not including the overland receipts nor Southern consumption, of cotton that reached the market through the outports for the week were 3,549 bales. The total receipts since the 1st September are 5,181,506 bales. Cotton in sight 6,309,203 bales, being a decrease, as compared with last vear, of 110,012 bales. Mr. Ellison's cotton figures, brought down to 1st June, give the taking by spinners of Great Britain 2,514,000 bales and the continent 2,627,000 bales, a total of 5,141,000 bales, against the tctal of preyious year of 4,55S,000 bales. The average weight oi deliveries in Great Britain is 4-iU pounds, against 454 pounds during the same time last year. Continental deliveries average 436 pounds, against 447 pounds last year. In reviewing the speculation in futures during the past week, the Chronicle says: The speculation in cotton for future I delivery at this market has been fairly active for the week under review, but the course of prices has continued quite unsettled, besides again showing some irregularity as between the current; and the next crops. A feature has been the weakening of the speculative confidence in September deliveries, which was at one tune very strong. Thus-on Saturday there was an advance for every month cxcept September and October. On Monday a general decline took place in the latter dealings, due in a measure to sympathy with the coffee market, with which many members of our Cotton Ex change hold close relations* On Tuesday a steadier opening was followed by a fresh decline, and then a partial recovery. Wednesday the market was active, but closed slightly easier. On Thursday a better report irom juiverpooi una improved tone and values in other speculative circles gave renewed apirit to the speculation for the rise in cotton. Friday there was a sharp decline, with the close at about the lowest ligures, due again, it was almost uniformly admitted, to sympathy with the decline in coffee. > Cotton" on "the spot has been quieter. The purchases for Prussia embraced 2,000 bales additional taken on Friday after i 'Change, making 9,000 bales in ah; after i which there was a fair demand for heme consumption. The Philadelphia Se>"ti.yix is edited by colored men. It agrees with Senator In galls that the negro has proven a failure as a voter, to the extent, at least, tbat he has "voted blindly against the negro's ov.-n interests, and for the main- i Tv>nir\r in?t. cnr-li mpn as S^'nafnr Yv.- ! galls, who voraciously gobble all they get, and smite the hand that gives it." The Sentinel further declares that the hour of real emancipation is yet to come?the liberation which shall follow the breaking away from false friends. A correspondent wants to know "how to preserve the hair.'7 One way is to have it worked into a watch chain. The ideal of the American is not yet right. Our almighty great man is the almighty smart man." Vv'e need to teach morality as much as Greek and Latin. The most dangerous man is the smart man without good morals. Terry's Lucky Widow. There is a long and curious story behind the announcement made, with a good deal of sensational flourish, that a fortune of .$7,000,000 has been left to Mrs. Kate Louise Terry by her late im.sbarul, Ivan Petro Terry, who died in Paris, where the lucky widow is still living. The ?7,000.000 will probably be cut down a good deal, but if the fortune reaches half that sum Mrs. Terry is an extraordinarily fortuuaic woman. Of the lady the Hartford Times says: Her life up to the present time,"if accurately depicted in a no.'ei, would ? - - Tr . T I mr.Kc interesting reading. i\:i:e i/ju:sc Norman (her maiden name) came hither from England in childhood with her father, who settled in Brooklyn, :md eventually became a judge there. She is now about 32 years of age. ",andof good figure, and a style that lias a good deal of dash in it. I; was to her good looks and her style that she owed her court-room marriage to Ivan P. Terry. Before that she had been the wife of the nb'torfous bank burglar, Charley Bullard, who is now said to be serving a long term of imprisonment in Belgium. The marriage to Bullard took place in England, where she was visiting, when she was about 1G years old. Bullard then went by the name of Charles Wells. He was a smart fellow, with :i fine address and plenty of spending money, and the girl Lie married knew nothing about his real character, lie took, her to Paris, where he opened a sort of American bar-room on a showy serJfi, and installed his pretty young wife as cashier. She naturally attracted a good deal of notice, and the venture prospered for a while. Bullard <rnvft it nr>. hnrvp.vnr. and bronchi' his r> " ry ?r ? ?? wife to New York. It was then she found out who and what he was. Another wife soon turned up. and the couple separated, never to m?t again. The*second wife took her two children and went off on her own account How she lived till she met Terry docs not appear to be known. He was the son of a millionaire sugar-planter m C:tba, and had made some money himself. They were married without any loss of time, but the subsequent proceedings were not entirely harmonious. A number of little unpleasantnesses occurred, and led up finally to a poiice-court sensation. Mrs. Terry was of a decidedly jealous turn, and once on going through her husband's pockets, after the maniTer of wideawake wives, she found a gushing letter from a young woman explaining why a certain appointment was not kept. It is needless to say that the letter did not improve Mrs. Terry's state of mind. After thinking a while she set a trap for the young woman, and caught her in it Then she called on her at her home to give her a talking to, and got turned out for her pains. That warmed her up still more, and her :ext step was to make a charge ugaiiist the young woman of appropriating certain money that she said she missed. Then came the police-court sensation, in which the two women played prominent mrf! ftJiH th?? rwmrlavj hud a* line time writing up. After a great deal of wrangling the charge was dismissed, and. the second woman, a Miss Atwood, soon arter retaliated by suing Mrs. Terry for slander. She claimed. '525,000- clam ages, and a jury awarded her $300, but as Mrs. Terry had no property in her name to levy on the judgment is still unpaid. Miss Atwood will try pretty hard to collect it when Mrs. Terry returns to L\ew York as a millionaire widow, if she does return. Her husband's will has been received '.here for probate, and she will probably follow it. The unborn child is expocted next month. A. Real English "Masher." A real English "masher" is among us! The fair-haired, briglit-lookingyou b, with beardless face, handsome features and dapper figure, who stepped nimbly from the broad decks of the Etruria yesterday on her arrival at the Cun:ird dock was Lord Grey de Wilton, the oi ly sou of the Earl of Wilton, and heir to one of the richest and oldest properties In England. "Your first visit?'' queried a reporter who saw him at his hotel. "Yes," he replied briskly, "I iiave come over just to see the country." "Have you any plans?" "Well, none very defined. I intend sroing out into society, as I have brougnt over a quantity of letters of introduction." "Will you hunt?" "Yes, rather! I am told that you have several good hunts here, among others at Rockaway and elsewhere. But what [ want more than anything is to get some good shooting. There is sonic very good duck shooting around New York, I understand, and then I propose <roing out west to get some large game. My stay here is indefinite, and depends on how. much amusement I can iind." "Has anything struck you since your arrival iu the city?" "There is one thing which looks to me particularly funny, and that is all those .vires you have overhead. Another, the large size of your hotel buildings. I have been wandering about all the aft ernoon enjoying your brisk atmosphere. Just fancy anyone strolling about iu London late on a December afternoon! Il seems to me that this climate must be very healthy."' Lord Grey de Wilton then expressed anxiety to know the winner of the Manchester November Handicap, for he is zealous in all turf matters.* Kis lordship takes much interest in the stage, although perhaps in the lighter form of entertainment, He has also had political aspirations, and contested the southeastern division of Lancashire at the last election, when he was beaten oy a majority of 457 votes. He is 2d years old, unmarried, and :i sireat favorite m London society, and i:; well known at Cannes and other fashionable resorts in the south o? France. -X. Y. Herald. Tired Out. When natural gas was lir?* made use of in Pittsburg for fuel die agent of a ompanv wanted an old Dutchman to become a customer. -I tell you aboudt dot," replied the old man. a> he felt of the back of his head, "it vhas all right if nature makes lot "as for nothings^ but I haf discovered dot when somebody vhorks for In s he gets tired oudt by and by } /-x*? i ctrt L-a tliot inolroc rnur tic:r.I shwim." Some of tho natural gas wells are now oa a strike which will probablv have no end.? Wall Street News. A St Louis clergyman preached last Sunday night against tiie ballet in opera. He probably thinks, and rightly too, that old ladies should be at home ia the evening.?New Haven News. A "turned u" in the word beau never worries a Boston girl. She is equally at home with the 'beau or the bean.? Surinafield Union. LOMMjys MWW LIUJN. BUFFALO L*i?. AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOR JL'AZROXS OF THE WILD WEST.S A Sample of the Yarns He is Tellinj His Royal Friends?How He Got His TitleOther Facts in the Career of Mr. Cody. I was born in February, 1812, in the State of Iowa. I need not go into detail respecting my family, and can dismiss my youth briefly by saying that when I was not on a horse I was just being thrown off one. I soon became a pretty smart rider, and my practice with a gun was pretty good, too. I was 12 years when I killed my first Indian. It happened rather sudden. I was waiting out by the river, near Fort Kearney, ona night about 10 o'clock. My companions had got on ahead somehow, and I was quite alone, when looking up toward the bluff bordering the river I saw, illuminated by the moon, the head and shoulders of a live Indian, watching me with evident interest. Now I had heard many stories of the doings of the red men, and had also been inculcated with a thorough distrust of their ways; so, quickly coming to a conclusion as to what 1 shoutd do, I brought my gun to my shoulder, and aiming at the head, fired. The report sounded louder than usual in the silence of the night, for it was past 10 o'clock, and was followed by a war whoop such as could only be built up by an Indian, and the next instant over six feet of dead Indian came down splash into the river. Snrcn after this I went to business. I took to the plains, and in the employ of Messrs. Russell and Simpson, soon learned the ins and outs of the wild life led with horses and cattle-driving teams, riding express ponies, and getting to know the land. Among other things, I somehow found out how to hunt buffalo, a sport second to none, if you know how. I shall never forget the faces of live officers I met o.i the prairie once, now many years ago. They were after a herd of buliklo. So was L We exchange^ views. I gave them my ideas, they gave me their sympathy. "You surely don't expect to catch buffalo with that Gothic steed," said they. "T am going to try," I said. "You'll never do it, man alive," said the captain. "It wants a fast horse to overtake buffalo." "Does it?" I responded. "Yes, but you can come with us, if you iike." And I did like. There were eleven buhalos in the herd, and while the officers rode straight at them, I headed the leaders and got up to them with ease. The horse which my companion had been chaffing was the famous Brigham, who knew as much about the sport as I did; he speedily did his part of the business. A lew jumps Drougnt us up to the herd. Raising "Lucretia Borgia," my trusty weapon, 1 aimed at the first animal, lired and brought him down, Brigiiam, like the ideal animal that he was, carrying me rapidly up to the next brute, not ten feet away; and, when I had dropped him, bounded on to the next, and so on, until I had slain the whole eleven animals, and then my horse stopped. I dismounted to regard my work with a feeling of satisfaction. Inose officers rode up shortly, and I shall never forget their expression as they surveyed the work of five minutes lying around. My horse Brigham was an exceptionally intelligent brute. He took the keenest delight in sport, and invariably took pains to aid me in getting game. AII.he expected of me was to do the shooting. The rest was his work. He would always stop if the buffalo did not fall at the at the first shot, so as to give me a second chance; but if I did not bring him down then he would go on disgusted. It was in 1867 that the Kansas Pacific track was in the bufialo country, and the company was employing over twelve ?? - 1 ?-? * ? +V?a minarea meii in uie mojuug ui uw ivaw. The Indians -were very troublesome, and it was not always easy to get sufficient supplies of fresh meat for the men. It was abeut this time that Messrs. Goddard, the contractors to the constructors, made me a handsome ofier, provided kI would undertake to hunt for them. They required twelve bufialos per diem. The work was somewhat dangerous, owing to the Indians, but the terms were handsome?00 per month. I look the offer, and in lt#s than eighteen months, during which time my engagement lasted, I killed 4,280 bufialos single-handed, and had many scrimmages with the Indians. and hairbreadth escapes. It was during this period of my career that I had my celebrated buffalo killing match with Billy Comstock, the noted scout, then at Jb'ort Wallace. The terms were settled as follows: We were to hunt one day of eight hours, from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. The stakes were ?500 a side, and the man who kiiled the most buffalo was to be declared the winner. The contest took place twenty m;1.es east from Sheridan, und many thousand people came from ail jjarts to see the sport. We were fortunate in finding animals, and had plenty of sport. We made three runs each, ana i killed sixty-nine bufialos, my rival being content with forty-six. Not a bad da\'s work, a day which is an, historical one for rue, inasmuch as since then I hive invariably been referred to in all parts of the civilized world as ^ r>?n JDUil&lU JJ-LLi. The Philadelphia. Times wants to know, if the proposition to return the battle iiags to the States by whose soldiers they were carried raised such an outcry, what will be the effect of the proposition now made by the soldiers of the Philadelphia Brigade to return to the veterans of Pickett's Division the iiags captured from them at Gettysburg? What will General Faircliild and the other excitable patriots have to say to this? Will they declare that the soldiers who stood at the stone wall on that critical 3d of July when the course of history was decided, are now no better than "rebels" and "cowards," and the like? Or will they not be forced to acknowledge that the real soldiers, the men who did the fighting, believe that the war is over ai:d the Union restored, and that if anybody should be called hard names, it is the demagogues who will not let us have peace? ?<jtia*k Fritters. One pint of cooked find well-mashed squash, one pint of milk, two eggs, a little salt and flour enough to make the batter stiff enough to turn on the griddle, and not too thick. The addition of a teaspoonful of baking powder will tend to make them lighter. Bake on a griddle. Let your talk be always adapted carefully to time and place. Don't prate about homeopathy to a doctor, or the blessings of celibacy to a young lady engaged to be married. " ?