The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 01, 1890, Image 1

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. : v il 1 <&* - V ' ? '-.-r? VOL. XLVI. . WLNXSBGEO, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 1, 1890. I ?? I 1-tif BimjDiTiTi: TSRORF.RS. I TDATTDTP TW fJFARfi! A I A. GREAT SCHEMeT^^^^ ; "the negro problem.' i ? j MEASURES INTENDED FOR ITS j GRADUAL SOLUTION. ( Federal Aid Proposed for Colored People IJeMznioir to tuuerair-^eisiur ?uiler'n I'lsiu Seconded bv Senatoyn Hampton nnil (^iboou?Seuntor Korean's Pr?i|>o?it ion.'General M. C. Cutler is giving much attention to the preparation cf ? speech in which he will discuss the race problem, which he seeks to solve in the bill which he has already introduced in the ... ' United States Senate. This bill is as follows: "Be it enacted, etc., That upon the application oi any person of color to the aemest United States commission, setting forth that he, she or they desire to emigrate from any of the Southern States, and designating the point to *hich he, she or they wish to go, with a view to citizenship and permanent residence in said country, and also setting forth that he, she or they are too poor ...n- rnf>(Vi8?rv trfivellinw exoenses (,./ -----J o i and that ibe move is intended to i>e permanent and is made in yood faith, aud shall verify said application under oath before said Commissioner, it shall be the duty i-.f said commissioner to transmit said application with a written statement. yiviair bis opiniou as to the merits and bona fides of said application to the quartermaster general of the array. [The sectiou then prescribes the fees for commissioners for services per- ' formed thereunder.] "Section 2. That it snail be the dutj of the quartermaster general, on receipt of said application, to furnish transpor 1 tnlion in kind for the person or persons embraced therein, by the rearest practi- 1 cable route from the home of the appli ' cant or applicants to the point of desti- 1 u<?tk>n, and upon the cheapest and most I - * * ? ?- J : I ^ I eCOnoTOieai plan, waeiaer uy r;uiruau ur water transportation, and shall account . tor the same to the proper accounting J otlicers of the Government, as is now ; provided by law. '"Section S. That the sum of five mil- ! lion dollars be, and the ?ame is hereby, ' appropriated out of any money in the I treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to * ~~ enable :be quartermaster general to carry . TvrrvTriei<\r? c nf fhlQ Ant WW.. U..V Section 4 directs the quartermaster 1 general to prescribe forms and carrying ou: the Act, and for preventing frauds and impositions under cover of its provisions. 1 Senator Butler, in explanation of the measure, says: "1st, I thialc it will be for the best interest of both races if a large number I of negroes should move into the North- 2 ern States and Western Territories, thus f relieving the Southern Statee of the too c great preponderance of that race. a 2nd. I believe this would be the best c solution of the race question. If not, r I am willing to adopt any other. t "3d. It will or ought to aileoce the a accusations brought against the South- 1 . eru people that they treat the negro c harshly and unjustly, because ic will ( show that we are willirg to transfer the s responsibility of their treatment to those t who make ttie charges. "*4th. It will improve the prospects of the South?socially, industrially and morally?and also help the negro by throwing him more on his own resources. Ha further says that the bill cannot induce any "exodus" of colored people, that it has do political character and that, as it is nowise coercive upon the negro, it caouot be considered as any wise affecting his rights or liberties. I WHAT SENATOR HAMPTON TUISKS. rTnm?\?An ?? or?oo L' 1 ni* An t V> ?> 1 '?39uauui iiaiiijiivu, 1U VU ?uv subject embrace 1 in the bill, said: I "I am earnestly in favor of any meas- ( ure looking to that end, which will i sccure such a result and which shall ] deal justly aud generously with the 1 negroes. 1 regard it as important for the best interests of both races that they shouid be permanently separated, leaving each to work out its own destiny. : Of course, I do not contemplate the . removal of the negroes against their will, nor should I be willing to see them leave fcthe country empty-handed. The Government certainly should deal with 0 these people generously and benevolently, and I think that it should assist all the negroes wno aesire to leave iae country. Should any large Dumber of negroes wish to establish a colony on some foreign soil, the Government should furnish transportation and make a donation to each emigrant, so as to 4 ?ive him the means of support for a time in his new home. Of course should any emigration of negroes on a general scale occur, years would elapse before any serious diminution of laborers would affect the material interests of the South, But the question involved iD this matter is too comprehensive to be treated fully in an interview. I can merely say that I shall support any measure wuicu v^ouiu, unuer proper limitations, sccure the Goal and absolute separation of the white and colored rices." SENATOR MORGAN'S PROPOSITION. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, entertains views similar to those of General * Under, and has introduced tho follow Resolved, That it be referred to the / committee on foreign relations to inquire :itid report upon the best method of ettcouragfog trade, commerce and inter( cursu between the people of the Free State of Congo and the United States, to ascertain what impediments, if any, exist in our diplomatic relations with the Free State of Congo and oth?r l'owers, that stand in the way of such trade, commerce and intercourse; and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise." skxatok gibsox's idea. 2>:nat<?r Gibson, of Louisiana, has presented a resolution, which is in line vhh the liutler bill: "Resolved, That the committee on foreign relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency and practicability of acquiring or setting apart territory for the occupation of the Re^ro or colored citizen* of the United States, and that fchey. further inquire how fur and in what manner the Government of the I out i STates can and ou^ht equitably t> nil tbs freed uc- n of the United S ate?, their families and des-ceodantss.to emigrate thereto and settle therein, and ! = ? istabi'sh m system of c.cntnon school education: and to report by bill 01 . ih-.T^ise." I ';e .'.'noic >ri '?*. ur ,njr*iiili?u? attention among the leading Uitui oi UoiU parties in Oon^re^, huu it; discussion prutuiiC3 to be very interest iog. m INFLUENZA. IN EUROPE. ItN Ruvxzett in Variou* Crticw. JJtiMness and Atuuseraeutn of all Kinds. 31 ere or Lens A fleeted. Paris, December 25.?The epidemic reigns and rajges. Tee conference of lawyers which was to have convened yesterday did not, because the majority of the speaker? were ill. Reports from Berlin are to the effect that there is no abatement of the evil there. In Brunswick it has assumed a malignant type and there have been many deaths. At Frankfort it is increasing. Tramways there have ceased operation f ecause the employees are all ill. Man heim has been very severely visited. At j Munich cases increase and the transac- t tion of business is much interfered with. [ Theatres announce that the programmes \ of plays are not to be depended on, as f the illness of the actors may make it [ necessary to chauge the names. ; At Antwerp the disease is incresing, but it is diminished amoDg both the garrison and people at Amsterdam. It has appeared at Dordcrich among soldiers and sa.lors and in factories. It is very serious in me oarracKs at rsrusseis, ana half tbe carbineers ani grenadiers of I Corps des Guides are ill. Vienna, December 25.?A frequent sequel to cases of influenza here is an attack of iDflammatiou of the luugs. A number of persons in hospital who had been suffering from influenza hare been stricken with iDflammati?n of the luogs and several of them have died. The influenza has made its appearance in the Jesuit school at Kalksburg, ths pupils of which are children of conservative aristocrats. Sixty-eight of the scholars have b:en attacked by the disease. TOASTED AND EATEN. The Horrible Fate ot a Party of s*ai!or* in the South Sen*. San Francisco, Cal , December 20,? fhe Sidney Herald of November 5 says j ihat according to a letter received from i 2apt. Woodhouse, of the tiading schooler Elma Fi9her, boat steerer Nelson, of :he schooner Enterprise, of Sidney, and ;hree of the :native crew of the Koterprise were killed and eaten by the canni3als of Solomon Islands. rP V* A Tnfo?>r\MOO TT?Ut3 on>? Anr* tVin n cko uuuiu^ auiuu^ tut slands, and natives from Hammond Is- ! apd, one of the Solomon group, induced kelson and others to go -ashore to make lome purchases. Once on shore they , vere knocked in the head, and it is re j lorttd that their bodies were then roast- , :d and eaten. The letter states that II. \ H. S. Royalist shelled the village on the sland, on Capt* Hand learning the par- j J iculars. ! \ A BIG FIRE AT ST. LOUIS. i Phe Eler-tor s?hafr Perform* its Part?Whaibe Losers Are?Three Hundred Persons Throw* Out of Work. St. Louis, Mo., December 21.?The , arge six-st^ry building 319 and 321 "forth Third Street and having also a rootage on Locust street in the shape , f an "L," was-totally deStryed by fire j ,t one o'clock yesterday. The fire ^ :aught in the basement and the flames < ushing up the elevators soon spread hroughout the building and in less than in hour it was a mass of rufns. The fhe Guernsey-Scudder electric plant oc- , :upied the JLhird street basement, ice t Commercial Printing Company the first, econd, third and fourth floors, and the ^ wo upper stories were used by Dicker- j ion & Hens, shoe manufacturers. Oa j he Locust strett side the first floor was [ occupied by Grant Bros., of New York, , iealers in bookbinders' stock, and the " lpper stories by the Commercial Print- j ng Company and F. M. Flanger, book- J tinder. Over three hundred people sere employed in the building and bad , he fire occurred in the day time there ' would doubtless have been fearful loss )f life. The old Mechanics' bank building, 327 Third straet, adjoining on the . south, was crushed by falling walls and ' nearly destroyed. This was occupied ' by Kohn & Co., bankers and brokers, j Darroll & Howell, insurandce agent, Ger- ! rettsell. Bowman & Co., and St. Louis " "n i m _ ii it uiiniDg j&xcoaoge. iwoor turee siuau buildings adjoining on Locust street were also crushed but the losses at this point were immaterial, Tbe total loss by fire is roughly estimated at between $150,000 and $200,000, but the individual losses are not yet ascertained. The use of the name of the Currell Oostock Company in connection with the fi'e was a mistake. They were in no way involved and are not damaged a cent. A New Indictment. UHiCAGO, uecemoer 3b.?Anew indictment for conspiracy to Jbribe Cronin j > rors has been returned by the grand jury against John E. Graham, A, L. Hanks, Fred W. Smith, Mark Solomon, Jeremiah O'Donnell, Thomas Kavanaugh and James Konea. It differs only in form ?in more careful and technical phraseology and ampler counts?from the omnibus indictment returned by the special grand jury which has investigated the conspiracy, SOUTH CAROLINA GRIEVES And Places a Chaplet Upon Henry W. Gradi'n Grave. The following concurrent resolution w<is unanimously adopted by both branches of the General Assembly. It was introduced in the Hou?e of Representatives by \V. C. Benet. Resolved, That the General Assembly of this State has heard "with sincere sorrow of the death of Henry "VY. Grady, of Atlanta. Resolved, That in the death of K. vv. uraciy, the bouthero fctates ana the whole country have sustained a great loss. The accomplished journalist, the matchless orator, the fearless champion of the land ho loved so well, and served so faithfully, his tongue and pen were the voice and the sword of the South. Resolved, That in the death of Henry W. Grady, the young democracy of the United States has lost its most brilliant exemplar. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed, and signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, be sent to the widow oi'ihe deceased. The Phonograph's Kival. M. Leon Ksquine, a Mexican, it is stated, has perfected a marvelous invention in electricity and phonography. By speakin" in a nbocophone transmitter, which consists of :i highly polished diaphragm u fleeting a-ray of light, this r.:v of !i?ht is set into vibration, and a photograph if n>arit; of it on a traveiits<? ban-i of ?en?. titul paptr. Now comes the worderful part. If the image of the photograph tracing is projected by means of an elec trie arc or osjhjdrogen light upon a selenium receiver, the original speech is then heard It is evident that there i; ; uo limit to the development of this pe i culiur combination of methods. This is very important, if tr':e. ? Popular Sci &uce Monthly. ISOLD WHITE CAPS. I [SOME OF THEIR EXTRAORDI[ NARY DOINGS. | They Kntcr th.?? Town of Valdottta, Ga., f \Vtii!i> Everybody is Asleep and Pour f Two J.en (Is of Haakshot Throusli the ) i Door of a "Scero Cabin. lint I'uil in Their Objee. ' Valdosta, Ga., December 21.?The .Constitution printed an account several j weeks ago of an attack made by masked ; men upou Xelson Jones near the Florida 1 line, ia this county. He was badly shot, I but escaped with his ILfe ana ne was : moved by his friend? to Valdosta, and he hns been slowly recovering- Jones had made numerous tltreats about avenging the lashiag which the regulators had given one of his neighbors, who had beaten an old white man ia the community. and he cllered. ten dollars reward for the regulators to cull on him. They Trent, find their encounter has already been described in the Constitution. It s rumored here to daj that a young man WAS MOHTA I.LY SnOT at)d tuai he has since tl:cd over in Madison countv. i This moruiug ab rat two o'clock a party of men on horse s entered the town - 1 * * * - -3 | i ana went tomecaom -occupisu > They broke the door <down, threw a cot-; ton bail saturated wi.th some inflamma-! ble substance into th< : house, to produce a liijht, doubtless, md then firsd two leads of buckshot i.ito the bed which Jones occupied. Jones, however, slept with his Winchester title and pistol in the bed with hicn, an 3 at the first demonstr'tion at the door . ! HE ALSO OPZ^'EU FIBS I and discharged four shots at his assail-1 an is A chair post saved Jo nes1 life. It I caught five of the buckshot and scattered the balance of the !aad. Three scalped his left temple, two entered the left arm, and tinee made slig ht wounds in his left side. The regulators had to do their work quick, for the neighborhood was aroused in a few minutes, and they doubtless left Jones belie viug that be was dead, but it will' takeanol her load to kill him, In a few minutes .Marshall Bamett iad Policeman Dinkens' and i>aa Spier ^J v...*. *Mnnfdtnril n^OWU VUG KCJUUU, IVUH tiiV -- | bad vaaisbe Several parties shw them is they gall peel oui of town, aad the lowest estimate of the number of ?hcm :s put at seven, and the highest at one hundred. This affair is deeply deplored herefrom beginning to ?na. An efforts sill be made to send Jont-s away. ENTIRELY TOO THIN. riiat'* What the Woman .^aidot tb?? iUan Who Oilierod ilcr si 5>cat. ceu* Yr>rk: Wfirlil. A fat woman with a very red face got Dn a crowded Broadway car yesterday. 5be was so exceedingly fat that it was a jreat effort for her to stand at all, and a ?ouu? man, as tbin as she was stout, 1 queczed up out of his seat, and lifting 1 lis bat gracefully, invited her to sit * iowa. ' The fat woman looked him over with 1 i contemptuous glint in ber eyes, and hen ia s ioud arid angry tone, she said: 4 l oung man, a suppose; you tuougut rou was awful cuutiia* to ask a woman as J :at as I am to sit in the six-Lnoh space :bat you have been ccctipjin1. I'm fat, ? )ut I'm not foolish, and if you thought rou would mortify me before all these < people, why yer burkin' up the wroDg ( iapiic'. rii lecyou know who's to be ^ jiomneci. t The tiiilj young raaa blushed crimson, 1 ind muttered that he "meant do harm; 1 iidc'c notice," &c, i "Oh, you didn't notice, didn't you? 1 Well, this'li teach you to notice next time isd not iosult respectable ladies in such t ? i v% i a wsiy. i ra ras, ana i m nac asnamea 01 1 it, but if I was thin and scrawny as you 1 are, I would go and pad myself from A to Izard." The young man tried again to say bis intentions were the best, but she cut him oil: "Shut up, you wasp-waisted cadaver, 1 or I'll pull you in two. Come b?.ck here * and sit down acain in this crack, you * loag-drawn-out link between a hard winter and hereafter." Sh<; reached for him, but the young I man had wisely lied the car at the last ] crossing.' 1 1 Tiii> Farmers Organization. 1 Mr. William A. Pefter, editor of the ^ Kansas Farmer, has made a stvdy of ; i lie extent to wnicn tne larmers are organized into alliances, wheels, granges and other such bodies. He has ! brought together the statistics of the membership of each of these organiza tions, and has collected facts bearing on their methods and purposes which ! show that the agriculturists are in a much more complete state of organiza- ! tion than they have ever been before, ; for the present associations far outnumber the membership of the old grange, and their growth shows a 1 greater spontaniety and a clearer pur- 1 pose than was shown by the grange. : Of the 4,500,000 farmers in the United : States at least 1.000.000 are organized, 1 and a movement is on foot to conso- < lidate all existing organizations and ; extend them, whereby the organizers expect in a brief period to include in this consolidation not less than 4,000,000 farmers. Soma of these associa^ i : ? ,i a. r,4 UODS JUive yrjjttuixeu iu lu<3 puutuncsu, souls in other parts of the South and ' some in the West. Their general pur* poso is so to impress the importance of the agricultural interests as to : cause other interests to pay greater heed to the farmer. The complaint of all these organizations is in substance that the middlemen and money-lenders have, in one way or another, great advantage over the farmer, which advantage has been used to his impoveri=lin!snt. All thpsA nrcr9.11ixn.ti on are [ sccret, ami although in a purely local sense none of them is political, in a larger .sense they all have a political significance, inasmuch as they all look forward to an opportunity for the farmers' vole to change legislation Apsch ihey conceivt to be particularly iq.uerse to the agricultural interests. Saturday morning thortly after daybreak the gas ineter of the Asheville, N. 5J., eas work? exploded with fatal effect. Friday nigh:, owieg to some defect iD the works, gas was cut off and the meo were engaged all through the night making repair*.. The water was drawn from I the gas meter that a man might get in! aide to stop a leak. Wbile so doing J with a i in'ern the gas was ignited and - ' ?-? 1^.-?/%r* toof-ontlrr r\nr>i\rrnc\ L-illinfr j 11IU l'.\ j'l'iOIWU ?u;muu J wwuitwvif ; : two iiua and slightly woundiDg two i oihl-is. Tiic bodies of the men killed were thi?>\vu same distance and..badly } mutilated. The ?as teeter - destroyed and other parls- cf badly injured. ' MORMON MONEY. _ | The CurlouN Currency C?e?l by the Latter Day !?atnt?. From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. J If you go into the principal office of the tithing house you wijl see a tall, young man handling what looks, like money. He is behind a counter and the c-mater is protected c? ^ high railing. The man glances through the window, then looks down at the bills and then * * * * -1 goes oa tnumomg laemuse ? u&ujb. ler. He goes to'and from a big safe, carrying bundles done up just as bills are with little bands of browu.paper pinned about them. Sometimes the young man doesn't stop to count, .but takes the amount on. '.be brown slip as correct and passes out the mouey. It is tbe.tithiiig scrip. "It is used "to facilitate" the handling of the grain and bay and lire stock ^nd produce that come in. If you pick up one of these," you will find it very much- like, a bank, noje in appearance. ..In one upper corner is the number of the:bill. In. the l.wap loft hand rnrner .is the hoc SiffUO' , * 7 <r. of Mormonism, a bee-hire. The face of the bill reads: -"Getferai tithing storehouse. Good only for merchandise and produce at the general" tithing storehouse,' Salt* Lake City/Utsfh/' Exch note bears the signature of ttfe-prfe-! siding bishop. On the back *is'the""3e I nomination again, ana a vjgneue 01 tue ew temple at Salt Lake City The back aiuo bear's the wording-: .^fThis note is not current except in the merchandise and prodi^e departments of the general tithing storehouse." The engraving is well executed and the printing is well doaje.The bills vary in color;- ? There are greenbacks "for one department of the tithing hoq$e,' -brownbacker for another, and so on. .By using.tffis scrip the church is able t9 -.create a market for considerable quantities of the tithtng. This scrip is ,grren out in difrjf pehsing charity. It Is used for paying-l for work on the temple-eo: far as'.tneworkmen 'Cai*-' m?ik<?u?e^oT jfi:} Jpmploypa of the tithing house receive their salaries or allowances .partJyrjn scrip. - In .numerous ways the 3Iormon money gets into circulation.;, ' . . ; v* DAVIS ANif> jEAIJREGA^b. **. ' Tlio DiHcrence?Beiwe^n the-Two?A-Mefe .">Ii?uu<ler.Htan'dius.' Xkw Yokk, Daeember25i--rMf. George; Cfiry Eggleston ha,s i written for the-; World an article -covering different iaci-": dents in the career of Jefferson'Davis.-; Writing of the differences between the"' Confederate President and GeneralB^ati- . regard, Mr, Eggleston gives-the follow-; l'ng: * ^ The absence of Gen, Beaur^ar.dV name from the list of Southerners wlio twok prominent part in the obsequies of Mr. Jefferson Davis recalls the long e.Cr mite- between the two men. . It;fieems.t0 . me a matter of curious' interest that'the bitterest jpoint.of the quarrel^ probably arose /rom so slight' a thing as the misplacing of a punctuarton mark in\ibe transmission or a dispatch by telegraph. As nobody," so Jar as I. know, has ever directed attention to the matter, and as either Mr. Davis por Gen. Beauregard ;er:mg"erer- to haveN discovered the cause if tie misuad^rstanc^-UJgj is' worth ; tvbjLle, peahaps, to ptxat 'it out. After the retirement oi^Beauregard's irmy from Corinth to Topelo, Beauregard vent away to recover his health" Mr. * 3avis placed GeD. Bragg in comm^d.t> ?u;, <? an Dcaui^aiu icauuica IUIS ? ^ 1 tffronL Davis justified his act on i.^j jround that, without askiDg leave, the ' General was at the time "about to leave i )o surgeon's certificate for four months." Beauregard's inspired biographer, Col. .t Alfred Roman, charges Mr. Davi3, by t replication, at. least, with falsehood in c naking this statement, and cites Beaure- t ?ardts dispatch to the adjutant-general, \ is follows: f "GeneralBragg has just communicated f :o me a telegram sending him to relieve, j; :emporarily, Gen'l Lovell. His presence t lere I consider indispensable, at this mo- c > i _ i i : r ,* ?. neat especially, ana am leading ior a i *hile an surgeon's certificate. '- For lour i nonths I :have disobeyed their urgent t ecommendations in that respect. I de- :1 lire to be back here to take the offensive 1 13 soon as our forces shall krwe peen suf- t iciently reorganized. I must haw a c ibort rest." Col. Roman says of the dispatch: ? "We *sk the reader to; exa.mine its I ohraseology. carefully and saywhether I t could be so construed as, to canvey the ^ dea that Gen'l Beauregard was 'abbut to i eave on surgeon's certificate for four 1 Booths.*" ' J / '-:i The candid reader will certainly answer I pes, if hp remembers that the dispatch { went to Mr. Davis by wire, and observes 1 :bat the transposition of a period not t Dnly renders such construction possible, 1 jut make3 that the evident meaning of .( message. Gen. Beauregard wrote: < "I am leaving for a while ?n physician's 1 certificate. For four months I have de- ] layed," &c. As Mr. Davis received the i i-L ft i.1_ 3 . LIT 1 aispaicu ic eviueuiiy reau: - i aui ie?v-. i ing for a while on surgeon's' certificate ] for four months. I have delayed," &c* A comparison of the dispatch as sent and the dispatch as received would have shown both men that a mere misunderstanding bad occurred through;a very simple error in the telegraphic'transmission. Bat no such comparison wrs made and each suspected the other of- deliber- ate falsification. i A Co-cperatirc City. Jnachim Kasoarv. the London hu-l: manitarian deist, proposes to establish a colony on humanitarian co-operative ' principles near New York city. Speak* ing of the project, he said: "My rea- 1 son for establishing a colony not in/ but near ?52iw York, is my desire to ' buy the laiiS for the humanitarian city, almost for- noming. The value of this land, of course, will increase with the. increase of population, but the increased land value will not be private, but common property. The .house will also be common property, and the rent for the apartment will not only be sufficient to pay the interest on th* capital borrowed to buy the land and build the house, but also for the gov? ernment, instruction and public entertainment of the humanitarian cooperator, for the necessary funds for IIJC aau uiamw.u?*uw v/a. humanitarian co-operation will always be a loan on the security of the common property, such as the land, houses ana factories, machinery, tools, railroads,-steamers and similar resources of nature and benefits of civilization. Married men alone will be full members, or receive an equal whole share of profit for their labor, but unmarried men and women of at least twenty years will receive only half a share of profit for their labor, and youths and maidens of at least fifteen years will receive only a third share ot profit for their labor. Married women and children below fifteen years will not be permitted to work tor money, as DI VORCE UN UHlUAbU. FORGERY AND BRIBERY COMMONLY EMPLOYED. * ? ? r*a PAnillf inn of '"iiirj iuiu untiunv.i ? v/wM-.-.-- ? IieDravltr Hard to Understand?A Specimen of Chicago Morality. A Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch to the Philadelphia Press says: "A case has .just .cort.e to light in this city which proves conclusively that a sudden and thorough exposure of certain divoice agencies in Chicago is' necessary. The .'facts*show that no married manor woman jte*8af&i?s3.thirtibere. js-pt this moment an agency in Chicago which does not ^heaitate aot onl-' to compass the; separa ition of niawied people, but which manufactures testimony and is ready to commit perjury and forgery in the accomplishment of it? designs. "A leading: lawyer of this city was some months' ago called on by a rather interesting young woman who aaid her husband had begun a suit for divorce against her. Her story was that she had beeu married but a snore time, ana mai her husband had been very jealous of her, but generally kind and proper in his treatment of her until he suddenly charged her with infidelity one day and announced his intention of procuring a divorce, He carried out hie intention and lived a part from his wife. The wife avowed her entire innocence, and said it ; was impossible to account for the confidence of her husband that she was : guilty. L -'The lawyer looked into the case a lititie'acd became interested in it, as he had '.reason to bslisye that his cljrnt was not iguilty 0/ any wrong nis nrsi ;theory was that the husband v$s insanely jealous, but when be discovered irotfi the opposing legal counsel that the husband ;nanied two correspondents and gave the dullest details ot his wife's misdoing, this theory ww abandoned, though he 'still believed the wife innocent. A further investigation made it plain that through a Chicago divorce and detective agqncy spies had been put upon the lady and one of them lived in a house near Shers for mouths. They discovered nothing, however, as the wife's lite was entirely proper - 06th before and after her husband left hei\ When the case reached' the ^ppint of deposition and Interrogtories'the counsel for the wife succeeded in makinc the other side show their *" ????9 hands, fully. Their case was that the womsn-. had committed the sin at her own house in Dubuque on a certain day with two men.whose names were given. "A searching examination proved that the crime was impossible, and the lady's lawyer now determined to get .at the bottom bt the case at any cost. After much labor be discovered that the wfcoje fcesti- j mony was worked up in Chicago-: tfcat j forgery .had been committed by inserting | names in ibe register of the leading hotel1 of the plsce, and that there was not a word of" trctis in the charges which the Chicago agency . siood ready to prove in court by two men witnesses the woman had never seen. When the names of these mc-a were mentioned to the wife, she, of , course, ?new notbjng. of tbea,~asd-ber ~ friends were able to corroborate her. li Finally the whole scheme was exposed, j * - /.MM. nvtnAOfd/) I ' IDQ lh(i V/QICagO iljJUUCJf UCYW ?(J^CQH;U Kj ti the Iowa courts. '] tTha curioti3 part of the case is that i he (fcte&go agency net only stood ready J o ruin* forever the woman, but that in t rder to extort money from the husband i he evidence was manufactured and he i vas "made So fcelievc .it,' and was bled j reely of large eamsvof money. Theunortunatc jnsn, Saving full belief in the c juilt of iis v,{fc iiiid ju nil the stories e old him by the Chicago people, was :ompletely misled, The agency, with a c : ? fni-mrniM nf*dp<i rrPVT P V- I L I\JUUI5L1 iVl uiww^j 1 - ? dence of the wife's guilt daily, and a >rought forth the men who, it was said, J iad-been intimate with her. and he v leard the story from their own lips to c he last detail. He was completely l luped. c "The time came.'howeve', a few days j igo, when the whole scheme was laid .g )are, and he soon saw that the meu who \ iad relieved him of almost bis last peDny r tndhad made him believe that-his wife r vas untrue were a set of villains who a ive by the invention of such crimes. 0 rlc wrote; his wife when the truth was ? ;orced-4ipon him a manly letter, laying t ill the blame upon himself, but without :ope of her'forgiveness. It is probable c ;hat no. man or-woman ever passed c :hrough such an experience as the result ^ )f a set of scoundrels who had no inter;st in the case except the money they ( were able to 'extort from the husband, r [t is not known whether the principals t n the plot will be prosecuted, in Iowa, ] 3ut:they certainly ought to be for the t protection of society in the West." " c '..THE COTTON BALE. J riiere 1? Danzcr of its Growlnz Too t Large-. J The compilation of Air. Henry G. Hes- * ter, Secretary of the Xew Orleans Cotion Exchange, of the average weight of :otton bales handled this year, gives ;<3?o /iF f-Vioir ranifl crr>wt.h. and is ;uujv v? ??v.- , ? is quite evident that unless some meant ^ can be found for preventing the bales ^ from growing larger, they will soon be- J come very unwieldly.- The cotton bale f was supposed, at one time, to average * 450 pounds. It has grown, however, 1 from year to year to 480, 470 and 480 J pounds. .- For some two or three years * past it has nearly reached 500 pounds, but 1 never qui.te got to that point. In 188G, t np.to tttis date, the average weight was ? 493^ pounds; in 1887, 48G pounds; in t 1888, 499 2 5 pounds. This year it ba? ( taken a big spring farward, ond aver- J ages 505? pounds to date. During Sep- ( tember it reached the maximum of 505j J nnnnds. and in Texas 532 pounds, or 1 twelve pouads more than three years ago. 1 ' Can any limit be put on the cotton ( bale so as to prevent its becoming too 1 large? It is already very clumsy and 5 difficult, too heavy and too bulky to tan] * die easily. Oar English.friends complain of the American system of packing and baling cotton; declare that our bales are too big and suggest that they j be made smaller, as in other countries: 1 Oq the other hand the advantages to the ' farmer from large bales, in freight, hauling and other charges are so conspicuous that the Datural disposition is to make them as big as possible, and t&e beiter compressing machinery in use renders this poiSible without any very great increase in bulk. It seems probable under these circumstances, that the cottoo bales will continue to grow larger aoci larger until the transportation comjoa^s and others eugaged in handling K protest vigorously against a furBrowtb. B A nu i ,avui uii aaj v The Rcpait of Immigration Inspector liSe. Which Shows A Most Heartless Sratcm of Oppression Toward Laborerf. Timothy F. Lee, the special immigration inspector of the United States treas. ury department, who was detailed to investigate the recent outrages upon the French and German laborers at the Horseshoe Phosphate miDes in Colleton county, hai; prepared his report to Secretary Winiom. Inspector Lee says: "The whole trouble at these mines is due to false representations made to people in New York who know nothing about our country and our laws, by the paid runners of William Orlando, who is a big 'padrone' in New York. Tbey represented to the last batch of laborers that they could easily make from $1.50 to $2.50 per day, When the men came here and tried the work they found they could not make fifty cents per day. Four of the meD, speaking a little English, upon being told if th?y got in debt to the company under the South Carolina laws they could cot leave, quit work at once and atarted secretly to walk*to Charleston. Hertz, tbe manager of the mines, got out a warrant for riot and had the four men arrested. "The Hcrseshoe Mining Company, of CoiletOD, is worked in a very inhuman manner. The Italians who <tre employed thereat present are treated like dogs; guarded wiih rifles, knocked down, aud reports saj on two occasions, shot, whether fatally or not I could not find out. This last batch of laborers are housed like cattle. They are given beds of rice straw, without any covering whatever. Toe eights here at this time of the year are bitter cold. The food furnished is not fit for a man who has to perform heavy manual labor. The' foreman and bosses are Italian padroDes, and you cannot get in a word sideways with ouc of the workmen without baviDg one of these dogs at jour side, and tbeu the workman is as close as an oyster through fear. "William Orlando is the head pa drone. He stays in New York most jf the time and sends bis runners to different places where Italian, French and German immigrants congregate. His special places of supply are an employment agency kept by a German n&med Heury Faigin, 118 Greenwich street., and a cheap French lodgiag house and restaurant, 23 Worcester street, I^er7 York. One of Orlando's runners is a French Jew named Julius Morris, who speaks French, Italian and' German. Morris paints io glowing colors the southern sunny country where the immigrants are wanted to work. He says nothing about the malaria swamps of South Carolina thai would break down a veteran army mule. 'The manager of the company is M. E Hertz Orlando, the head padrone, is paid a royalty on the head of each man furnished to the company and delivered at the mines. I uuderstand tbat Ens own countrymen must have found out how false bis representations were, for he has been unable to get aDy of them down hew lately. He therefore procures the FreQch ac4 German laborers. Orlando aod his brother have the store or sutler preyileges at the mic.es, and charge the poor slaves the most outrageous prices for all they get. A geitleciau :o)jl me ai sd aclus-1 fact -that?when payday, - Comes ^ Orlso4os_get 93 per cent, of .ando's heartless, grindu.c U ^esappr [ csnnot reach them under the. * - *$ ,ract labor laws, but I pray that tiiv,. icitor of the department be requested | j ;o see if there is not some statute that I. vill put a stop to this heartless injustice, ] jerpetrated on people vtho do not under- -j itand our language or our laws. j "The mine bosses had this last batch < )f poor fellows arrested for rioting and < .ndangering the lives of the bosses. I c iivlr n close investigation and found the g tharaes uituiiv untrue. The men we? ;ept in jail for four days, and when trie.d j ,t Walterboro were discharged. The \ French and German consuls at Charleston t vstc present and employed counsel to r lefend the prisoners. I candidly be- i ieve that if the French ancl German j :onsuls had not taken hold of the case e )roraptly that, with the power ef a e trong corporation behind the padrones, \ he men were liable to have been com- i nitted, and if committed, the company's t uiuruuca >vuuiu nave uanca inem out r ,nd carried them as slaves back to the ^ oines, and thereby strike terror to the \ learts of the Italians at present working here. ' j "The colored people tell me that they s :annot make a living in the mines, and c lone of them can now be induced to ( vork there. i j'There is a very severe law in South $ ;arolina which was passed to protect the I >lantcrs against the colored cropper on c be arms. It is outrageously one-sided.; If the planter brings in the cropper in 1: lis debt at the end of the year and the ] iropper attempts to leave, the planter can s iave him arrested and brought before a 1 ustice of the peace, who can fine him t rom $o0:.to $500 and also sentence him o Imprisonment; The planter then takes t be man to work out the fine and carries t iim back to bis form." [This happens i o be untrue.?Ed. ?'- . I J J. s?!iot the Mn.11 Who Teamed llcr. . t Louisa Epperson, daughter of a c vealthy farmer residing nearParkers-.. rille, Mo., shot and killed Julius Efofer, a young man employed by her ather, as he sat at the family table mating his dinner Monday last. Hofer 1 lad been in the habit of teasing the t ;iri about her admirers, and at the r jreakfast table Hofer made some re- a narks which incensed the girl. She a ,old Hofer if he repeated the remark foe would shoot him. Hofer promised t o refrain, but at dinner began again x km Vvi A/if ' I ^ r\ /vivl TtTif^Anf O til LUC a LLUC7 OUUJC^l;, Jk XI^ ^11 YT1VUVUU *J i. word, arose, left the table, walked \ ieliberately: nto another room, picked a lp a 38 calibre revolver, and return- t ng to the dining-room shot Hofer in V>a. Tinrlif cir?a Af tVio nuor t.ViA ;ar, and he fell to the floor dead. The nurderess is described as an unusually attractive girl about nineteen year >!<* - s Shadowln; Silcott. Montreal, December 26.?The police authorities here have discovered Silcott, the absconding treasurer of the United States House of Repfeseatatives, accompanied by his paramour, Hermiaie The bault. Lie arrived in Montreal Sattfrday, , December 7th. Herminie went to the bouse of her married sister, on Sanunient street, where she remained until Friday last when she left for New York on an early morning train. The New York police have been notified of Herminie's return there. Tboa. B. .Johnston, of Sumter, has beoD appointed collector of customs a Charleston. ? ?4.. lilUUJJJLili All UlJUiiy * jo.. A RIOT IN JESUP, IN WHICH NINE MEN ARE KILLED. The Trouble Cnused by Drunken Ne? S roeti Wlio Besiat Arrcst-Tlie Whites Come to the Assistance of tlie Police, aud the Xearroe* are Driven to a Ssvrainp. Savannah, December 25.?An attempt to arrest a drunken negro at Jesup, fifty-one miles from this city, this afternoon precipitated a riot which resulted in the killing of nine men and the wounding of eight or ten others. Seven of the killed are ne groes. The two white men killed are Wm. Barnhill, assistant marshal, and Wm. Wood, Jr. The white men wounded are Wm. Wood, Si., who was shot through the right cheek, and B. R. Leggett, marshal of the town, who was shot through both legs. All the other wounded are negres. During the fucilade the conflict re. solved itself into one of a band of blacks against a band of whites, with the former in the wrong and the precipitators of the troable. The blacks retreated to a dense swamp on the outskirts of the town, and a hundred I whit3 men quickly surrounded it as a skimish line. Governor Gordon was advised of the outbreak and this afternoon a detachment of the Georgia Hussars left for the scene of the trouble. An infantry , company from Brunswick is said to have also gone to the scene. Savankah, Ga., Dec. 26.?Advices ! received from Jesup at midnight says: Thesituatian is somewhat quieter at this hour, but an occasional shot is : heard. The streets are still paraded by armed men. A negro was found 1 dead in an alley a few moments ago * and two others of th? wounded are re* .} ported to be dying. ? ' Fear is now entertained for the safety of the people remaining in the neighboring towns, but as all the ne- ' groes and whites see? to be G&ngrejra- ( ted here very little danger is to be 1 apprenended. 3 JLHtJ IUUUW Itlg utio Ut/?u from Jesup, Ga.: A posse .of twenty ( men for Lumber' City to intercept ' Brewer and his gang, who, it is ru- ( mored, have gone there for rein- ] forements. Firing along th6 picket ] line keeps up, but it is principally by boys. A crowd of armed men have 1 iust returned from a tiip to the 1 swamp and they report that four col- j ored men were found dead. The jail at Jesup was broken into ? early this morning and two negro, prisoners were riddled with bullets. i Another negro was found at home shot through the heart and one with a 1 flesh wound in one shoulder. Thene* * groes are quitting their homes and 1 moving to other towns on the line of ! the railroad. A large number of ne* } - e- T groes were laicen iroiu ?t,ueir uumus this morning and whipped, many of ' them being prostitutes. A crowd of ] whitejgxe^ went to several ?fecmsaa, J after breakfast this morning and compelled the negroes to leave. They i punished some of them. News reached the authorities at Jesup that J. W. Hyau, a white man living therej was the iostigitor of the affair. A posse of men- was sent to ' * ?* bQnse arrest him, but he had li- escape. Men are on the ; Ti . .1?*. 1 juaue 11/ scoria bua,u mo ookout for _ '^,e Brewer's head jut bad ideas u. * otople to coir ibout the duty of whiu, ^ /n&fc he e?> >red folks, and reports say ... ^itder sited them by saying that the m. M * >f the colored man killed by Barnhiu ihould be avenged. . l' The Hussars, the dismounted com)any ordered to the sce^e of trouble a >y the Governor, returned to the city z his afternoon. The Brunswick com>any was retained on duty by the 0 nayor. The returned soldiers re- 0 >orted the trouble over. Their pres- ^ >nce was only required to quiet the a sxcitement of the citizens of Jesup, J3 vho remained in their houses last light to protect their families, and ^ heir kitchens and outhouses were tj tiled with colored people of the town a yho sought the protection of their vhite friends. Henry Anderson, one of the sruards . >ut over Ryan's house, was accidentiy hot and killed last night by one of his iwn party. He came over to Captain Jordan's headquarter .for reinforce- u nents, and was going back when a c< ;un held by Townsend, one of his tl >arty, was discharged, blowing An- d lerson's brains out. n Last night a colored man was shot &j :y a picket while coming from Mu- 41 Lilian's swamp. He attempted to ;tep by the officer, when-he was shot.- J Che wound is not fated- It is believed fi hat he was acting as a spy. s] There is sail great excitement fa throughout the country around Jesup, ti )ut affairs will doubtless quiet down o n a few days. It is a region of tur> p )entine distilleries and "saw mills, p 3ere thousands of negroes are em> h )loved and the Jesup trouble is apt e o disorganize labor for some time to o " 41 fuetheb details. v a. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26.?It is how v estimated that twenty negroes were j tilled during the rioting yesterday in $ he viciDity of Jesup. The excite- c aent has not entirely died out yet, i< .nd the Georgia Hussars, of this city, .re still patrolling the city to-day. Further details of the riot received A-/1?T7 thft rtacrrrtoa were Trail nrmerl . vith Winchesters and revolvers. Mar- c hal Leggefc and Station Agent Woods, V vho were badly wounded yesterday, ' Lre better to-day, and it is believed hey will recover. ^ TSOUBLE IX AUGUSTA. ^ r Augusta, Ga., December 25.?When a iffir.ftrs Williams and C!ra.wfY>rri went tn - irrest a party of drunken negroes today :hey resisted.and disarmed the police- 'c nan and beat them badly with their ^ ;lubs. Tbe police were subsequently g reinforced, and half a dozen of the ne- t aegro ringleaders were arrested and ^ locked up in the engine-house. A large < number of citizens, white and black, ( collected about tbe place, and great ^ rirAV7Qt! ^nrinrr tVir dood, . ] The negroes were subsequently removed from the eDgine-house to the jail, where they were safely guarded, add do further trouble is apprehended. ^ When the officers started to jail with the j prisonars a difficulty occurred between a 1 negro and several whites. First club9 : were used, then pistols. One negro was i killed outright and another badly wounded. All is quiet to-night. By Wiiicli Al! the Algerians Will be Benefited What the Originators Propese. Wheeling, W. Va., December 28.?Ia view of its great importance as growing out of the feeling that inspired the Pan- American congress, and of its gigantic proportions as a railroad enterprise, the recently-incorporated Columbia Railway and Navigation company, at Richmond, Virginia, is I likely to prove a sensation in comimercial circles. The following, explanatory of the plan, as gained from ^ parties directly interested, but who have heretofore refused to give out any information for publication, will appear in tomorlbw's Wheeling Intelligencer: It is authoritative. The purpose of the company is to construct railroads G/MifVi ImoriM ctaamahin linftS auu k;vuvu >?r ?. connecting these railroads with points in the United States, and incidentally everything necessary to properly cany on such a business. > The company's . capital is to be $100,000, and Captain H.C. Parsons, of Virginia, is at the head of it. Very shortly other steps necessary to conjplete organization wifl be taken, and at no distant day plans which have been carefully matured by some of the leading capitalists and most practical railroad men of this country, will be in readinsss for ap? plication, Briefly, the aims of the Columbia Railroad Navigation company are as follows: To construct a line of railroads from some point near the mouth of the Slagdalena river, which emties into the Carribean sea. in the United States of Columbia, southwardly along'the eastern bank of the Andes and headwaters' of the' Amazon to points in Peru, there to connect with the Peruvian and Argentine systems of raikods at present in operation or under construction. From the mouth of the Magdalena river, steamships , will be run to the .-.southern point of Florida and New Orleans, whence will sxfcend railroad connection toail pars* . . of '&$> country. T&b raitte ?f-fck? N ' .4 Ksbeji? eontomplafcefl $ apparent ftt> , moa?nt?s glance. A. continent, prob- ' ibly the richest in material resources rf all continents in the. world, and , still practically unknown, ia to be opened up to the purposes of comoaeree, immigration and civilization, ts products and people, are to be brought into easy communication with ihe rest of the world; and the best of ill, the direct and lasting benefit of shese purposes accrues to the United States, and especially to the southern States. j? - " Captain H. C. Parsons, whose home is now at Natural Bridge, Ya., but who was-formerly?ti resident #of Charleston and Huntington, ^ Ya, is the originator and controlling spirit of the enterprise- It is by no means the Srst difficult and hazamous uiffertair*?? mg in the "railroad line that he has been engaged in, though others were as nothing when compared to this. He made a contract with Mr. Huntington for the Chesapeake and Ohio line from Coyln^toff- KentHc5yr>*?-^hg^ Ohio from Charleston to Point PleasaTn?ilT" _ West Virginia, and finally having purchased the rights and privileges of i-v>q TdmM ?nd "Kanawha Canal company, built the Richmond and Alleghany-railroad from Richmond to Clifton Forge, Ya,, 250 mi'es in fourteen months, under a penalty of $500,000. For fifteen years Captain Parsons has given the subject of a north and south line of railroad in South America his attention. He has traveled and investigated., examined Surveys of the country and collected V^feri^atton until he has demonstra - feasibility of his great project ed tn_ - Vrougiit pojnfc of reajic ndatto.. ... ^ r * * v. * artier po-r In order to obtain - -.* rganization and secure peration the incorporator have sleeted and will shortly be named iu 11 the Southern States. When this bai - ( 7een done aEd|the organization compleidbythe selection of officers,' etc-, lbscription books will be opened and ie practical work of making - suryeys ad estimates inaugurated at once. SHE HEAHD'THE. NEWS. : Xeato Woman Sue* Her Former Master. Kansas City, December 28..?A ; nique case was decided in tbe probate , Dart of Cooper county today and it was iat of a colored woman who had Just iscovered that she is a free woman and ot a slave and who ' brought s?t ^ gainst her i^te master's estate for $1,00 wages. ? At the commencement of. the war amea Hickman, now the :*wealthiest * irmer ia the county, bought' ji negro lave in the market and took her to bis irm as a .sewing maid* Since that me she has never been _ allowed to cro eyond the bounds of the farm. In her. < etition she alleged that she had been _ emitted to hold converge -with none of er race, and ^one of the family were ver permitted to tell her the results f the war. When hor old master died bx?<s weeks ago she nw away to BoonilU, and while there heard that the lavoe had been emancipated and she ras fre<?._ She told her story to Lawyer Ivans, and he brought suit to recover 1,400 from Hickman's estate. The ourt decided for the plaintiff; and al?wed one half of the amount claimed. Into tue Rirer." Charleston*, Dec. 25.?The . engine rawing a train on the Charleston and 1 ;avannnah railway, which left here ast night, plunged into the Ashepoo iver on its way to Savannah. When he trafri was' nearing the Ashepoo iridge the engineer discovered that he draw was not in position. He oistookthe distance, however, and in mother second the train was at she ;ap. The, engineer and fireman saved hemselves by junipping from the cab. >ut the locomotive arid two care were jlunge& info. the river. The engine is *' ,till in the river. The .box cars were mraed, the fire originated from lime yhicfc was in the forward car. The . iamage so iar as the cars are cohserned, is estimated at $2000. The - _ ingiae and ..cab will,, be/, recovered." rrains are now running through.. Nobody was hurt.' " "" r - . ' 1 ...? - ? . - I '^<T. A Novel !wfcW?. '-'M,-Providence, R. L, Decrabef ^^. Joseph Stotr, forty-three y?ararot^?S^ * i jewelry merchant-whohas bcea ill sotoe time, left his house early thia morning * and went to the track of.the Old Colony railroad, waited for the Shore Line train, placed his neck across the rails and was beheaded. i* - - NJ- . r-T- ..