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VOL. XLVL WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ?, 1890. NO. 51.
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THE TWO CH AIRMEN1. !
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CAPTSHELL
AND COL- HOYT!
A i'roposition by the Latter Rejected by the i
Former?The Letters in Fall.
Greenville News.
The following letter was addressed
to the memo, io of the State Democratic
Committee:
Rooms of the State (
Democratic Executive Committee, )
Columbia, S. C., July 17th, 1S90. |
I
Dear Sir: It has been suggested
that, as a means of allaying the excitement
and contention "vvithin the
lines of our party in this State, the
Jommittee shall invite a
t an early day in the city
to Decomposed (in addi.
m member) of members
ory Campaign Commitrespectively
by Capt. G.
. Gen. John D. Kennedy.
. that such a conference j
he obiect had in view by I
ye Committee, in ordering
(Convention, so as to bring
derly and peaceful settlei
existing differences, and
tnbined influence of the
itive Committee and the
y Committees in securing
reement, on all sides, as
any cause for dissatisfactrifll
onf,c.mne of the nres
Ha, thereby assuring the
Burmony of the party when
confront the common enereneral
election.
ed with the force and perti[this
suggestion, coupled
esire to preserve intact the
>n of the Democratic party
fce. I resoectfullv submit
Kter for your consideration,
or not you will authorize me
H flme such a conference with the
^Ensory Committees aforesaid. If
B^^ou regard the matter favorably, and
think such a conference is advisable,
please telegraph at once to the Secre^
tary, Wilie Jones, Esq., Columbia, 8.
C., or send him a message to the col
Btrary, if you do not approve the proKposed
meeting.
|| Vei y truly yours,
mm James A. Hoyt.
Chairman State Executive Com.
B The answeis returned to this letter
m authorized the chairman to invite the
P conference whenever he was informed
I that the Advisory Campaign Ccm|
mittecs would unite i_ ouch a conference.
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The following letter was aciaressea
to Capt. G. TV. Shell and also to Gen.
Jolin D. Kenned}- as representing the
Advisory Committees:
Columbia, S. C., Tuly 16,1890.
i My Dear Sir?I have asked the
I State JDeinopratic Executive Committee"
to authorize me to invite a
v - "conference in this city at an early day,
to be composed of the said Executive
Committee, together with the Advi
sui\y vxtinpai^n wiuiiii
over by yourself and Capt. G. W.
Shell, for the purpose of agreeing, if
possible, upon such a line of policy
by each committee as will best insure
the unity and harmony of the party
in this State when existing differences
are settled. The object of this conference
is to talk frankly atd freely
over thj situation, as Democrats, and
to use tae influence of the several
committees in bringing about a better
state of feeling among our people. If
you are willing to unite with your
campaign committee in such a conference
for the welfare of the party
as a whole, will you at the earliest
practicable moment, so that Imaycall
the conference without delay, if the
. rt ill?
Jiixecuuve vjoiniiiittcc itppiuvco wuc
suggestion. Address me at Greenville.
Yours truly,
James A. Hoyt,
Chm. St. Dem. Ex. Com.
The following reply from Governor
Kennedy was promptly received:
Columbia, S. C., July 17,1S90.
Col. James A. Hoyt, Chair-man State
Committee:
3tly Dear Sir?I am instructed by
the Advisory Committee of which I
have the honor to be chairman to say
that if the meeting referred to in your
letter of July 16th inst., is called we
will accept the invitation and attend.
We appreciate the motives which actuate
you and will co-operate in every
consistent manner in effecting the
patriotic purpose you have in view.
Awaiting further advice,
I am. yours truly.
J. D. Kennedy, Chm.
[Captain Shell replied that he was
anxious to have an interview with the
chairman of the State Executive Committee,
but was prevented from coming
to Greenville on account of court
convening in Laurens, and asked for
a visit from the chairman. He was
- * e +1,
wining' iur a uvuucuriitc ucm CCJU mx;
Stato Executive Committee and the
Campaign Committee of the Farmers'
Association, and expressed his desire
to restore peace and harmony to the
party. Further correspondence ensued.
and resulted in a personal interview
at Laurens on the 23rd inst.,
in which Captain Shell was urged to
make a definite answer to the proposition,
and which was followed by the
annexed letters.]
Laurens C. H., S. C., July 24, 1890.
Col. James A. Hoyt, Chairman State
Democratic Executive Committee,
Greenville, S. C.:
Dear Sir?I have given the subject
of our interview of yesterday careful
thought, and can see no reason to
change my conclusion previously
made known to you. I will repeat
that it is my desire that unity and
good will be restored to the body
politic: that in future, instead of the
opposing factions indulging in abuses
and bitter denunciations,criminations,
all true Democrats should be willing
to unite in healing the wounds and
injuries complained of and let the
Democratic party present to the
world that magnanimous spirit characteristic
of South Carolinians, remembering
that "to err is human.
but_divine to forgive."'
For the State De.-ii <-rutic Execu -j
tive Committee I enteriain the highest
regard, so also with my distinguished
friend Gen. JolrnD. Kennedy,
for whom I feel more than ordinary
concern, but 1 can not, to save me, see
any good that could result from a
US?
WilBii I twtm I ! I
joint conference such as proposed by
yon.
The August Convention meets in
twenty clays. Its action will be conclusive
as f" the matter of primary
or no raimarv?the latter condition
being most probable. I deprecate j
the thought of precipitating a primary
upon the people during the campaign,
and nothing could be devised that
would contribute so much to divide
the Democratic party. The very
least friction just now is the most
desirable thing hoped for, and the
adoption of any suggestion looking
toward the perpetuation of conflicting
influences, such as would result
from ft hotly contested primary election,
a quarter of a century would
hardly heal the breach incident to
such a proceeding.
It is my opinion that the complection
of the ^August Convention will
reflect the ultimate result of the September
Convention, which if true,
would be sufficient to satisfy all reasonable
minds, and would also give
abundant time and opportunity to
heal all the bitter disappointments
caused by reason of defeat. For
fVioco rooc/mc f rnncf. vfifinAfitfilllv dc
cline to invite the committee over
which I have the honor to preside to
participate in the conference proposed
by you. I have the honor to be, very
respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
G. W. Shell,
Ch'm Cam: Com. Farmers' Assn. S. C.
Greenville, S. C., July 26,1890.
Oapt. G. W. Shell. Laurens, S. C.'
My Dear Sir?Yours of the 24th
inst., *.vas received last evening. I
regret that you adhered to a decision
against tkeproposed conference, as I
i j i."u ^
am sure you nave misconceive*.! me
main object of conferring together
upon the political situation. It is
also unfortunate that our interview
(which was held at your request to
avoid such a result, as I understood
it) should have failed to impress you
with the real purpose of the conference.
I sought to convey the idea
that the paramount object in view
was the concentration of forces to a
particular end, namely, the unity and
perpetuity of the Democratic party
in South Carolina, at the close of an
exciting and eventful campaign. It
was not my purpose to make the conference
an occasion for urging the
adoption of the primary' system in
in choosing delegates to the September
Convention. That matter will
be settled at an early day, but as you
seem to hinge much objection against
the conference on this score,allow me
to say that I do not at all agree with
you as to the effects of a primary
election for delegates, such as I proposed
for the consideration of the
August Convention. The people are
going to have primary elections in
every section of the State, and to elect
delegates by this method is not "preArv
r?nf irorif
Lip^L-m^ an J bum uxi^jr UV uvi; *? u^v.
It would be easy enough to arrange
for the election of delegates at the
same ft me the county officers are
chosen in this way, and it is possible
to do so without friction or unnecessary
excitement. I confess that the
adoption of this method of selecting
delegates would interfere with the
prevailing mode by which a few men
are deciding upon representatives for
whole counties, but nevertheless I
give the primary plan the preference
in all cases.
But, I wish to say on the main point
at issue that it was expected to meet
in conference for a free interchange
of opinion upon the political condition
nf fhp State. and not to srain advant
age for any faction, nor to bind any
one to a given course against honest
convictions of duty and responsibility.
The strained relations existing between
the factions and the unusual
heat engendered by the campaign
now in progress do not augur well
for the future harmony of the party
in South Carolina, and my chief object
in suggesting the conference was
to secure adherence to regular methods
and recognized usages, so that
there will be no reasonable excuse
for splitting the party in twain, as
has been threatened in certain con
tingencies, nor justification on the
other hand for the enactment of measures
that will prove offensive or degrading
to any portion of our party.
We are fellow-Democrats, and whatever
affects one of us will surely touch
the other in our political relations.
So long as there are open questions
to be considered, there will continue
friction and conflicting influences, and
it is idle to tell grown men that they
can secure place by an ignoble surrender.
Bat when the contest is
over between the factions.there will be
the test of time manhood and exalted
courage as to who can best serve a
united party, the manifest duty of
which is to preserve the honor and
uphold the integrity of our ancient
commonwealth. Believing that the
patriotic impulses of the gentlemen
comprising the several committees
would readily suggest the means for
that most desirable end, and relying
with confidence upon then willingness
and readiness to serve the whole
State, I made the suggestion for an
early consultation as to these means,
and very much regret that you have
declined to meet us for this purpose.
As tlie newspapers are already surmising
as to tlie brief interview we
had the other day, and to prevent
any possible misunderstanding of its
purport,I willfumish this correspondence
for publication. "With sincere
regard,
Vorv frnlv vnnrs.
James A. Hoyt,
Chairman State Dem. Ex. Com.
A Substitute foi Leather.
Mr. Younghusband: "Isn't there
a piece of old leather in the house
anywhere, Bess? I want some in the
worst way."
Mrs. Younghusband: "No. Charlie
there isn't. (Happy thought strikes
her:) "But, Charlie dear, there's that
steak you bought day before yesterday,
you know."
I
The ilacon Telegraph says: "Ben
Tillman made liimself ridiculous by
engaging a detective to accompany
j him while he was in Chaileston on
| his recent visit. Tillman seems to
feel that lie has done something awfully
mean. The people of South
Carolina lau<?h at his silly pretense
that he is in danger of bodily harm as
he cavorts thron^h the State."
A
ARP ON THE BOYCOTT.
WHY HE THINKS THE SOUTH SHOULD
USE IT
A Patriotic Appeal to the Men anil Women
ol the Sunny South.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Well boys, let's quit playing with
'em. They won't play fail* and they
are always fussing at us, and tliey
steal our balls and marbles, and
the less we have to do with Vm the
better."
I think that will be better for all
concerned. We won't nabor with'em.
AVe can pass and repass like the feller
did with his bull, but it's high time
to cut off all intimate relations. What
the South wants is to be independent
and self-sustainiug. That is what
anybody and any community wants.
The farmer who raises the most of
everything that he needs is the best
off. We have paid tribute and homage
to the North long enough. Let
us all begin economy at home and do
without the luxuries that our own.
section can't furnish. Mrs. Arp says
she will wait for a carpet until I can
get her one at home?wants an ax
minster, I recoil. fc>ne Jmows now to
do without luxuries. If she can get
them she wants them, but if she
can't she don't. She tried doing
without during the war when we had
to live on rye coffee and sassafras tea
and smokehouse salt and lye soap,
and sorghum and cornbread, and the
children wore shoes made of halftanned
leather, and their clothes and
hats were made of scraps. "Oh, yes,'"
she said, we did it in war and I reckon
we can do it in peace. Solomon says,
"Eat not the bread of him that hath
an evil eye, neither desire thou his
dainty meats." Well I would like a
little more codfish and mackerel and
cheese, but I will do without it. Cobe
^/^ama 1/vno ocm fnv
^OlJ Q O UUiiO V^Ct-LU IViljj XVJ.
the war left him with nothing but a
yellow mule and all he buy's is coffee
and tobacker. He says he'll be dogged
if he won't eat roots and drink branch
water if it's necessary. Well now,
speaking seriously, the South can do
without the things she cannot make
or raise or import. She wouldn't
suffer a day for food or clothing.
Wagon factories and carnage and
buggy factories and furniture factories
would spring up here like magic,
and give employment to thousands of
our young men. In a few years there
would be thousands of small indus~W7
/-\ TT*yMi1r] fiTT/lTV.
Ul UC ? \J U-LK. VTWJthing
from a hairpin to a locomotive,
and keep our money at home.
Friends, countrymen, patriots, let
us do that. Let us form a league
that will do something sure enough
and do it for all classes. Let the
North keep all that she has got and
run the government and shinny on
her own side and we'll shinny on ours
and quit plying with them until they
get friendly. "We are tird? tired. "A
continual dropping will wear away a
stone."
I wouldn't trust a Democrat ten
steps who would stay in partnership
with a bloody-shirt Republican.
The New York Herald makes a bigblow
about New York going fifty
thousand Republican majority if the
South boycotts her trade. Suppose
she does? Suppose they give a hundred
thousand, what is that to us?
"What is she doing for us now? Ever
since the war the South has given her
solid vote to help the Northern Democracy,
and what has that Democracy
done for us? "What is it doing
A wac? rrc* ia flio
JLVI UO " ^liUiVO wuiuiwinps) 10 vjL*.W
021I3- man who depends upon principle.
If a man is a friend, why don't ,
he show it? Why don't the Northern 1
Democrats ho]d public meetings and .
denounce all this unholy war upon us? "Why
don't they quit the church that allows
its preachers to abuse us and ]
tell lies upon us? "Why don't they
onm^fViinor nv move out of that l
country? You can't take up a North- (
em magazine that hasn't got some <
malicious scandalous piece in its <
columns. The very last "Centuiy'; is !
still harping on Andersonville, and ,
has a communication from a con- }
temptible cuss about our using bloodhounds
to catch runaway negroes before
the war, and says it was a common
thing. It was a very uncommon
thing, as every old-time negro <
if ttoo j
W J_LL LCi-i. IIII1I. JL-?UU 1U IFU.KJJ
what good can come of such a discus- ?
sion now? "What fair minded editor ]
would admit such things' It is all i
for hate and venom, and the mystery j
of it all is, what makes them keep on
hating us? It b said that Mrs. Can- ?
field's husband was dreadfully mcrti- 1
tied about his wife's letter being pub- <
lished. That's all. He was not mor- r
tified that she felt that way, but be- 3
cause lier feelings got into the papers. <
"Why don't he educate her to feel 1
some other way ? The truth is, he j
believed that way himself, or he wouldn't
have married such a "vicious, 1
malicious woman. If he was ?.eally :
friendly to the white people of the J
South, he should have made her stop 1
talking that way or quit her. i
Wiiat is tne use 01 temporizing i
with such a people? Let the New J
York Herald, and all tlie other Her- 1
aids, threaten us with increased Republican
majorities. A hundred
thousand is no worse than a hundred.
The result is all the same. "What
good has our forbearance done? Are *
not the relations between us getting :
more unfriendly every year? It is J
useless to cry peace when there is no
peace. This Congress is forging the 1
chains to bind us and our children 3
to submission, not only to them, but
to the domination of an inferior race.
The (Janfielcls are as thic? up there as
are "tlie leaves in Vallambrosa's
vale."
Now, let us all work together and ;
build up the South. Let us invite all
conservative people up North to come
down and help us build up. There !
are some who have visited us and
mingled with us and know what we
are, and how we live and how the
negro is treated. There are many
who have already made investments
here and have prospered. We will
give glad welcome to ail who come
kind hearts and good intentions.
Chicago has got the "VCorld's Fail*.
Now let the South liav? nothing to
do with it. Her loud-mouthed representatives
howled oger that Force
bill and swallowed Jwhole. Thev
belong to tlic Canfic' & stock, and we I
r
has put. us under the ban, and all J
that even their Democracy wants is |
our 153 electoral votes. If we are
mistaken about this we will take back
some things that we have said, but
not all. If they care anything for us
they have lost tlieir influence witn
their nabors. Bill Arp.
A TERRIFIED COMMUNITYA
TVitcli Makes life in Ohio Unpleasant?
Strange Tales.
Portsmouth. Ohio, July 29.?The
little community of Little Twin Creek
in Nile township, Scioto county, i->
just at present stirred from center to
hvumferenee over the advent of what
tfley believe io be a veritable witch in
their midst.
This woman came to the place
some time ago, and sincc has beeii
leading a mysterous life, and has become
the talk of the entire neighborhood.
In the day time she wandered
about the country side from one
house to another entertaining the
simple housewives with strange tales
of distant countries which she had
T-ioifo/l on/1 nf cfvnr>cr?? siTnATnflfnr.1.1
T V& tJVA -y v. j-s v?
phenomena which she has witnessed,
and of some of which she has been a
part. Her stock of whitch lore is
boundless, and she understands the
charm as well as the medicinal properties
of every plant in the Held or
woods.
At night she in some way disappears,
and, although on several occo.
sions she has been watched, she has
always managed to elude her spies
and make her nocturnal visits to witchland
unattended.
Recently she has been making some
rr /wTnlvt f i/vn ^ VlAV ITl
CCO LV-Ui-kJiUi-ICj \/A MVA fcw? V --connection
with a Mrs. yam Cooper
of that neighborhood, who for years
has beep suffering from a nervous
afiectici of the muscles of her neck
so that she could not keep her head
still. The witch told her that she
was under the spell of a certain man
of the community, whom she described,
and if she would examine the bed
and pillows whereupon she slept she
would find thirty-three witch balls.
TVi/a iiTomirifitinri wnc morlA ftnrl
curiously enough the exact number
of balls, ingeniously formed from the
feathers, were found. And now a
night has been appointed, when at
the hour of midnight these balls are
to be burned, and at such time the
croon declares, the man who is wielding
the spell will die at once and the
woman at onece be cured. The people
are anxiously awaiting the horn-,
and in the meantime the man described
by the mysterous woman is moving
nervously about and is unpleasantlv
conscious of beinc one of the
main characters in a most serious
tragedy or a most ridiculous farce.
A Newsboy's Great Luck.
A broker stepped out of the Broad
Street door of the stock exchange
yesterday, apparently after having
mads some money. He espied a little
mite of a ragged newsboy, not
three feet high, and a philanthropic
notion took possesion of him. He
caught up the little bunch of rags
ana, carrying n 10 a cigar sianu, pro-1
cured an empty cigar box. Tliis lie
placed in the dazed boj *> liands.
Then the broker dashed into the
exchange with a wild whoop that
directed general attention to him.
Instantly he was surrounded by a
crowd, and Broker Dick Halstead
threw a coin into the box, seized the
boy, passed him to J. W. Bass, who
also passed him on after dropping a
contribution into the box. Coins
and bills began to rain into it. The
sugar trust crowd was invaded, then
vr? tti?ij
uut: new juiiguiiiu uu>vu, turn iuc jjjuc
of money in the box grew rapidly.
The yells, the sight of the money,
md the general novelty of his trip
svere beyond the little fellow's comprehension.
He simply stared blankly
Finally he was released. There must
have been ?50 in the box. He shot
out of the exchange, and was last
seen running up Nassau Street hugTincr
fVio 1-?av fioplrf-.lv to liia Tvrftftfif,.
wv. "
Who lie was, where he lived, or
ivhat he would do with his fortune
ao one knew.?New York Special.
Acres of Lumber Burned.
Chicago, July 30.?A disastrous
jonflagration broke out tonight on
;he lake front, at the foot of Michigan
street. It began on the docks oi'
Fitzimmons & Connells, and quickly
5t>read to the lumber yards of E. E.
iyer & Co. and "Whitcomb & Co.
rhe place was a small street inaccessible
for fire engines, but the fire
joats provided for just such an
jmergency remedied the difficulty in
i measure. The scene of the fire is
penetrated by the tracks of the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad,
;vhich crosses the river near by for
unction with the Illinois Central and
Eastern trunk lines. Skirting the
Sorthwestem tracks are the lumber
fards of the Peslitio Company and
S. Paehcke & Co. Ten acres of lumber
were consumed, together with
:orty freight cars. The direction of
;lie wind alone saved the shipping
md warehouses in the vicinity. The
oss will not exceed $300,000.
The Virginia State Fair.
Richmond, Va., July 30.?The board
Df directors of the Chamber of Commerce
tonight decided to have a public
meeting of citizens at the Y. M. C.
A., hall tomorrow night to consider
the expediency of holding a State fannext
fall. So far 86.250 have been
pledged to a ?10,000 guarantee fund,
which the society requires before they
will hold the exhibition.
The committees of the Chamber of
Commerce appointed to solicit subscriptions
for buying a $60,000 lot for
a seven-story building for the organization
reported that they have received
pledges amounting to S32,000.
which probably guarantees the sue
cess 01 tne cnterpnse. committees
were appointed to confer with the
Grain and Cotton exchange with regard
to their occupying the building
with the Chamber.
?A collision has occurred on theNew
Manchester ship canal cut between
a x. *
IAVU UitUIS lLUtiU WiLil \\ Ux l\ i
Ten were instantly killed and some
sixty were injured, of whom probably
thirty are fatally liurt. A blun-!
der of a switchman caused the calam-1
ity.
NO TROOPS AT TOLLS.
THE REVISED FORCE BILL A MUCH
MILDER MEASURE
Hoar Says the Provision for Troops Has
Been Stricken Out?Edmunds Still nolds
Out Against a Change < f the Holes.
The Washington correspondent of
tbe 3Iacon Telegraph writes as follows:
The P.epublican Senators were not
numerous at church today. They
were at home, reading the sixty-page
substitute for the seventy-five page
Davenport-Lodge force bill, which
irAAMin AV./-1 CvNAAVkAW "UftTTA
ltLCSSI S. JULUiU. Ullll kJJJVUAACA ULU.JC J^JL C"
pared. The changes were made by
these two Senators without much :
consultation with their Republican
colleagues on the election committee,
Messrs. Frye, Evarts and Teller, but
in deference their well-known desires
for a milder measure. The es
pecial desire of Messrs. Frye, Evarts
and Teller was for an elimination of
the provision for troops at the polls.
This, Messrs. Hoar and Sherman say, .
they have stricken out, but it does not '
so appear from the copies of the resolution
they hrve furnished their Republican
colleagues. The section referred
to, which re-enacts the civil .
rights law, remains unaltered.
A MUCH MILDER BILL.
The other important changes have
been stated as the work was being
done. The bill is so much milder
that it will receive all but a few votes
at the caucus tomorrow night, provi- :
ded Hoar and Spooner demonstrate
that the provision for troops at the
pools is really out. But its passage i
is still most problematical, for it cannot
be passed without changing the
rules, and Edmunds still leads a heroic
little band of opponents to any such
action. So long at he stands firm it :
will not be done.
ONE OF IT'S WORST FEATURES.
"One of the most dangerous pro
? it, ? i i^;n
Y libiUilb Ui tue JL' CUCi ciJL CACUUiUil UJULl ID
the possibility of the appearance once
more of United State troops at the !
polls, which may be put under the .
marching order of any United States .
marshal or officer,'' said Representa- :
tive Mutchler of Pennsylvania to the
Sunday Gazette.
"It is a curious thing tnat the very
view which -was enacted by the Republican
Congress in the heat of war
times to put a stop to the outrages
against the elective franchise committed
by United States troops on
the border states should furnish the
lirst pretext for the exercise of that
power, but so it is. The act in question
was designed to restrict the use
of troops. It has, however, been prostituted
to partisan purposes, so as to 1
destroy the very object for which it
tvas enacted, and the little clause to :
keep the peace at the polls has served
as a pretext for the numerous infiu
ences with state and federal elections j
which were so numerous until the (
change of policy inaugurated by the
Hayes administration. (
NOT CONFINED TO THE SOUTH. .
"The use of United States troops 1
at the polls on election days has not
been confined to the South, as some
people suppose to be the case. They i
were used in Pennsylvania at a state 1
election in 1870. Without the request ]
of the State or municipal authorities, 5
an aimed body of United States ma
rines were brought to the polls in the
fifth ward of Philadelphia, took pos- '
session of them, kept them closed for <
an hour, and exercised the right of 1
challenging voters. Gen. John W. 1
Geary, a distinguished Republican, 1
who was governor at the time, pro- '
tested against this high-handed out- (
rage, and in a message to the State
Legislature denounced it in vigorous
language. The occurrence cited in
Pennsylvania was at an election for .
State officials.
TROOPS AT NEW YORK POOLS.
"A more dangerous attempt was
made in November, 1870, in- New 1
York, under the provisions of an act J
wmcn 11 is now prupuseu tu revive,
only in a more dangerous form, to ;
overawe voters and State officials, and !
but for the firmness of Governor Hoffman
and the yielding of the President
to milder counsels on the evening before
the election, scenes of riot and
of bloodshed and conflict between ,
State and Federal troops might have (
occurred that would have startled 1
the country." j
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Staved Off till September. ]
Washington, July 30.?Mr. Hoar '
went home to Massachusetts tonight. <
weary with the delay of the Senate !
in taking up the force bill. He spent '
another afternoon in the pleasant :
company of Johnny Davenport, shut ]
up in the hat committee room with 1
the substitute bill, trying to change 1
its amendments so as to conciliate a
few more Republicans. But he did :
not feel like reporting it to the Senate
before he left.
He will not have to hurry back.
The tariff bill is being very slowly debated,
only three pages having been
disposed of. and it will be set aside
Saturday for the appropriation bills
whenever necessary. Next week will
be given to the river and harbor bill.
Perhaps it may run into the week after.
It will be September before the
force bill can get a chance.
Carlisle's Maiden Speech.
Washington, July 30.?Carlisle
made his maiden speech in the Senate
today to a very attentive audience.
The Republicans have as much repect
for his intellect as the Democrats,
and they heard the tariff truth from
his lins as thev would not have heard
it from any other member of the Senate.
This was not his formal speech,
which is to be made later. He simply
saw that the Senate needed instruction,
and gave it some incidentally.
Too Great a Risk.
Father: -John, why don't you go
to work? You're old enough now to
earn your o\\u iivrn.
John: "Ah, father, but you don't
understand. Clara says she don't
care for riches. She loves me for myself
alone. Suppose I should become
rich. Don't you see, it would spoil
everything?"
\
DANCED HIMSELF TO DEATHRemarkable
Effect of the Bite of a. Texa
Insect.
Old stories of the bite of the tarnntnla
rndiiftinor fin uncontrollable
desire to dance have been recalled to
mind by the death of little Maurice
Benton, son of Lemuel Benton, a
prominent lawyer, which occurred
yesterday. The little fellow had
been playing on the lawn of his father's
residence and ran into his
mother, complaining that something
had stuck in his bare foot. The member
was examined by Mrs. Benton
and a small red wound, such as a
large sized needle might have punctured,
was found, but was accompa"kvr
Yin evrollinrr or>rl Tmf lifflo
pain; so applying a little camphor to
the place, his mother thought no
more of it.
During the night, however, she
was aroused by the child's uneasiness
and complaining, so she took
him out of his bed, and to her horror
discovered that the entire limb had
turned a purplish black. A physician
was sent for, but before he arrived,
the boy was in convulsions, of
? ? n in. 3. .1 I
so peculiar cnaracter mar ine doctor
at once suspected the presence of
some unusual poison. The spasms
seemed confined to the limbs, which
were so violently and continuously
convulsed as to keep the child dancing
up and down, throwing Jts arms
wildly and twitching its fingers.
These painful contortions lasted un
til the little fellow sank exhausted
and unconscious, in which state he
remained all the next day. dying in
the evening.
The bodv was perfectly livid, with
great spots of discoloration nearly
black on the limbs and stomach,
while a peculiar fungus growth made
its appearance between the parted
lips. The physicians were much
puzzled to account for the case, as
the limb was so swollen as to render
any examination of the wound impossible,
but old settlers say that from
the description of it and the convulsions
produced, that it was undoubt
edly caused by the bite of a tarantula.
These dreadful creatures have grown
veiy rare in these parts, so they were
not at first thought of in connection
with the case.
REVIVAL OF CANAL BUILDINC.
Have the Railways Failed to Meet the Ex
pectations 01 easiness.
One of the financial phenomena of
the country, and, indeed, of the tforlcL
has been the revival, within the past
twenty years, of an interest in the
projection and construction of artificial
waterways. A generation and
more ago the canal was the popular
means of transportation of freight.
In 1825 began an era in railway building.
The example of the Blackstone
canal, in our State, shows the result
of this new undertaking. As the
building of the Providence and TVbr
cester railroad was the deathblow to
the prosperity of the Blackstone
canal, so it was to universally. * *
But the year 1870 marks a revival of
Lnterest in canal building. This singular
fact and its explanation are
discussed in the most recent "of the
publications of ihe American Economic
Association, by Edmund J.James,
Ph. D., of the University of Pemisylrron^o
Po .Tomes fivsrfc nails attention
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to the increased activity in this class
Df projects in Europe and in this
country. In Prussia and in France
this interest has been very great. In
the East a canal is in process of construction
through the Isthmus of
Corinth, uniting the waters of the
iEgajan sea and the Gulf of Lepanto.
The North sea and Baltic canal and
the Manchester ship canal are projects
of great commercial importance.
* * He finds the chief cause in the
falure of the railway to realize tlie
expectations entertained of it. It has
failed, he says, to secure as low rates
is the public and shippers insist
should prevail. Charges of railroad
extortion, he claims, are life under
ill systems?American, English,
French and German.
A New Compound Lard Bill.
Washington, Suly 30.?The House
2ommittee on agriculture today desided
to report favorably the bill introduced
in the House by Mr. Conger
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do regulate me nimiuiauLuie auu ??ic
Df compound lard. The bill is similar
to the amendment of the bill already
repoi*ted by the committee, the
Drily material changes being a few
small reductions in the taxation and
the purpose of reporting this last bill
is to facilitate action on the subject
by substituting it for the amended
bill, the first reported, and thereby
it V UJLUJ-LISJ Lliti IICCCOOIOJ' 1U1 ot^ax u. o^VOteS
on the numerous amendments
made to the original bill.
A Wasted Life"Ah,
yes, his was a wasted life,;
sighed the bald-headed gentleman.
"Was he dissipated"? Had he antipathy
for work? Was he a gambler,
a lover of fast horses, a?"
"Nay, nay, interrupted the baldheaded
gentleman: none of these; but'
worse, far worse. He spent ins lile
endeavuring to raise vegetables whicli
should remotely resemble the gorgeous
specimens he had seen in the seed
man's catalogue."
Longed for a Carriage Ride.
The professor's .wife complained
that on a recent visit of curiosity to
the new cemetery he did not go with
her.
"But you must come with me some
time, won't you, dear?" she said
wheeclingly.
"I shall take the greatest pleasure
in doing so, love. And what is more
do not put it off too long, either."
First Burglar: "I've got a scheme."
Second Burglar: "What is it?"
'We'll form an unlimited burglin'
company an' get a charter from the
State of Louisiana."
"But we can't offer ?1,250,000 for
the privilege."
"We rouldn't nav it cash down, of
course, but we might offer to let tlie
State go halves."
A TIIOUSAM) SLAIN.
THE BLOODY RECORD OF THE ARGENTINE
REVOLUTION.
Five Thousand Wouuded in the Battles
Around Buenos Ayres?All Quiet in the
City?Disorders in the Country.
Buenos Ayees, July 31.?During the
insurrectien here the iron clad fleet
which had joined the revolutionary
movement bombarded the city for
two days. Serious damage was done
to many buildings, especially those in
the vicinity of the Plaza Victoria.
One thousand persons were killed
and 5,000 were wounded. The ship
ping in port sustained no damage.
Buexos Ayres, Judy 31.?Disorders
continue in the agricultural districts.
The Great Southern Kosario railway
has been torn up in places. Troops
have been dispatched to protect the
workmen repairing the road. Traffic
is suspended. The chambers are in
session.
The report that it is intended to
establish a forded enrrenev is denied.
Exchange is falling. The gold premium
is ?2.50.
New York, July 31.?A dispatch received
in New York from Buenos
Ayres today via Galveston says: "The
officials of the Mexican Telegraph
Company in this city say that the fact
that this message came over the
Trans-Andine line is an indication
that peace reigns throughout the Argentine
Republic."
London. July 31.?Sir James Ferguson,
Parliamentary secretary of the
foreign office, announced that the
government had received a dispatch
from Beuncs Ayres, stating that everything
was settling down and affairs
were assuming their normal aspect
Street traffic in the city had been resumed.
Paris, July 31.?A dispalch from
Buenos Ayres says: The banks are
open but the bourse is still closed. A
press censorship has been established.
The formation of a cabinet of conciliation
is under discussion. The city
is tranquil.
La Libebtad, San Salvador, via
Galveston, August 1.?Communication
with the interior of San Salvador
has been restored. Advices from the
"R
V/a^lbOi VI DJUits cvuiuv cm It? W
General Antonio-Ezeta ,was ordered
from the frontier, with about 2,000
men, immediately upon the outbreak
of the revolt, headed by Gen. Rivas.
Gen. Ezeta hastened with all speed
to the capital. Gen. Rivas's forces
had captured the artillery barracks,
but the few troops in charge had
fought desperately before they surrendered.
Indians then pillaged several
houses, and a panic ensued.
Rivas's forces were finally defeated
and neace restored. It is stated that
Guatemala has withdrawn her forces
from the frontier, and that all is quiet
at present. There is no telegraphic
communication with Guatemala.
A $1,0 CO Beauty Wanted.
Atlanta, July 30.?J. M. High, an
Atlanta dry goods man, has offered
?1,000 for the most beautiful woman
in Georgia to parade through the
streets as Lalla Rookh on the top of
the float Mr. High proposes sending
forth on the occasion of the promised
midsummer parade to be gotten up
in honor of the lion and elephant
expected here for the Gress Zoo.
On one occasion Mr. High induced
a couple newly married in public and
in Georgia-made cotton bagging to
sit for hours in his windows to attract
a crowd. The merchant is enterprising,
but he will not succeed in getting
the most beautiful woman in
Georgia for his side-show.
Beautiful women in this State happen
to be a trifle modest. Perhaps
Barnum's 8100,000 beauty will have
to be imported to fill the bill.
The East Shore Terminal.
Charleston, S. C., July 30.?The
East Shore Terminal Railroad Com
pany is gradually absorbing a good
deal of the east side wharf property.
To-day it purchased Kerr s wharf for
?18,000. This makes seven wharves
that have passed into the possession
of the company since it secured the
franchise to construct a belt line.
Counting the franchises and cotton
press property already acquired, the
company now owns upward of ?600,000
worth of property in this city. It
is stated, however, that they paid
only ?118,000 for the seven wharves
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now owneu uy it. mi wuese wmuvco
are below the Union wharf property,
and their acquisition is taken as an
indication that the Terminal people
propose to build their belt line along
the entire east water front with sidetrack
on every pier from the gi;eat
railroad depot to the battery.
The Cotton Season in Texas.
Sax Antoxio, Texas, July 30.?This
year's cotton product of southwest
Texas is beginning to come into the
market, and buyers are rapidly flocking
from New York and other eastern
cities. Ginning operations have already
commenced in many localities,
and "within a few weeks the market
will be in full blast. The increase
of acreage planted in cotton in southwest
Texas is more than twenty-five,
per cent., as compared with last year.
However, the yield will not be so large
this season, owing to the ravages of
the cotton wovm.
A Maf?aificient New Building.
Richmond, Va., July 31.?The contracts
for the new church tob? erect
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ea Dy tne <arace orreet baptist congregation,
011 the site of the old
building, were awarded to-day, and
the structure will be completed by
spring. It will cost 855,000, fronts
ninety-six feet, is of the Norman style
of architeeture and the audience room
will seat 1,500 persons, and the Sunday-school
rooms 1,000 more. The
building will be one of the prettiest
in the city.
A Murderous Grave Digger.
Louisville, Ky., July 31.?Peter
McCreary, a grave digger, became insanely
jealous of his sweetheart, Annie
Stocken, because sho was paying
attention to another suitor, and shot
her, inflicting a fatal wound. McCreaiT
then attempted to kill himself
with the same weapon, but was overpowered
by the police and safely
lodged in jail.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
?It has been suggested that the
head of Miss Susan Anthony ought
to be put on the silver dollar.
?Miss Louise Imogene Guiney,
the poetess, thinks nothing of walking
twenty miles on her poetic feet
--Mrs. Adare of Kathdore, Ire.,
has refused an offer of ?350.000 for
her cattle ranch somewhere in the
West She holds it at $2,000,000.
?The fat and particularly venerable
Kalakaua, king of the Sandwiches,
will visit England in October. His
sister, Princess Lilino, is going with
him.
?Olive Logan, the pioneer of newspaper
women, has the honor of be- s ..
ing elected a member of the in cor-,
porated Society of Authors, of which > *
Lord Tennson is president and Wal-^
ter Besant the secretary. ""
?The largest fruit farm in West
Virginia is the Becker farm, near Harper's
ferry. It containg 5,000 apricot
trees. 37,000 peach trees, 3,000 plum
trees, 5,000 miscellaneous fruit trees,
and 35,000 grapevines.
?Kobert Melhenny of Plainview,
Adams county, Pa., is the possessor
of a turkey hen that laid ten eggs
while she was hatchin; she hatched
out an even dozen of young turkeys,
and is still laying an egg every
day.
?All through New Mexico, Arizona,
some parts of Colorado and also
in old Mexico, no rain lias fallen for
months, and thousands1 upon thous\?
vrt-n/?A nvo 1 rrinrr
OCJJJ.U.O KJJ, JLcUUgt; OU.Cs XJXJJ.^
in tlie parched valleys and thousands
more are dying for want of grass and
water.
?The most monotonous city in its
buildings is Paiis. the houses there
being almost alike An attempt is
now being made to vary this by building
houses of the style of the Renaissance
and Louis XL, and hope is expressed
that the example will be followed
generally.
?A wounderful wedding dress was
rviorlfl in PnOCifl "fm* fllA
lit AVX VMV
daughter of a great Russian artist
It is of regulation white satiii, but ozi
the satin are innumerable little pictures,
chiefly allegorical, painted by
her fathers friend. What may be its
value in years to come? '--_J
?A. Montefiore, who "nas been
traveling in Florida and devoting care- ?.
fal study to the fruit growing dis.tricts
of that vaso State, calculates
that the Americans eat more meat 111
the course of twenty-four hours than
all the inhabitants of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, Belgium
Holland and Switzerland put together.
?An oculist inBreslauiias recently
treated 300 cases of defective eye- j
sight, for which the cause was not -
apparent It rose as sudden] ** is an V
epidemic, and was confined to men en
tirely. At last be found the reason /
for it in a new fashion of very tight
shirt collars. He made the young men
unbution their collars and their eyes
got well.
?In Maine a man lias been found
who has sold liquor freely for the
past thirty years, and who has never
missed attending district, county and
State conventions and advocating and
voting for resolutions asserting adhesion
to the principles of prohibition.
and demanding thorough and effective '
enforcement of the law. Well, he is a
Curiosity.
?There is an interesting scheme
for establishing a floating hotel at
Hong Kong. The vessel is to have
three decks, the lower being arranged
f<-vr /Km'-ncr VnTlftrrJe smnUn?and card
rooms. The main deck will contain
a drawing room, twenty-one bedrooms,
each with a full sized bath
and dressing room, while the upper,
or spar deck, has been arranged as a
promenade.
?English ladies are adopting the ^
fashion of putting their ladies who * / ,
wait at table in liyery. The skirts
are plain of these livery gowns and
of the heraldic color of the house.
All the pleats are thrown behind.
Then the waistcoat and jacket are
trimmed with livery bands, buttons
and crests or monograms in metaL
A hierh stiff white collar, white cuffs ^
and a tiny white cap like a topnot ~~J~
complete this livery.
Opposing General Wheeler.
Moxtgemebt, Ala., July 30.?News
has been received here that General
Joe "Wheeler, of the eighth district, is
to have opposition. The Moulton
Advertiser, published in Wheelers
district, today contains the announcement
*of A. C. Ashfordas the Alliance
candidate. He will not submit his
claims to the Democratic convention.
General "Wheeler, it is understood,
will be renominated without opposi+i/vr>
Tlio Vtprpfnforp. }>as
been working inside the Democratic
party in this State, and well-informed
politicians do not believe any considerable
number will vote against the J
regular nominees of the party in any / ,
of the districts- / V
Fourteen Lives Were Lost.
Baltimore, Md.. July 31.?The /
work of dredging the Patapsco river /
in the neighborhood of Fort Carroll f
for the bodies of those drowned by
the collision Monday night of the
excusion steamer Louis and the Norfolk
steamer Virginia, was continued
to-day. Two bodies were recovered
' > r Trr:n:? xr
mine loreiiuuii.? ytjlluc * i,aao ouu
Maggie Ellen, a boy and girL The
latter belonged to Washington. All
the "missing' are now accounted for.
The number of deaths now known to
have resulted from the collision is
fourteen.
She Gets Four Millions.
San Francisco, Col., July 31.?The
celebrated Blythe will contest which
, began July 15, 188S, and progressed
steadily for over a year, ended to-day
in Judge Coffey rendering a voluminous
decision in favor of Florence, the
illegitimate child of Thomas H. Blythe _
the deceased millionaire, awarding
her the bulk of the estate of a total
value of about ?4,000,000.
Notning so completely robs confinement
of the pain and suffering attending
it as the previous use of
The Mothers Friend. Sold b:' all
Druggists.
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