The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, August 27, 1890, Image 1

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VOL. XLVI WINNSBORO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890 NO. 2. r! TUBS TO THE WHALE. | CONGRESSMEN IN A HURRY TO PASS J AGRICULTURAL BILLS. ^ The Committee on Knles Flies the Whip? j Much l^jislation to be Rushed Throujrh ?The Acricnltnral Colleges Liberally Provided For. Washington, D. C., Aue. 19.?The j House to-day tabled a motion to reconsider the McKay bill, so it is finally passed. Then Cannon, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution setting apart to-day, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday and Wednesday of next week for consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Agriculture. The first bill to be taken up is the Senate bill to aid agricultural colleges, the previous question - on which shall be considered as ordered after two hours' debate. The next to be taken up is the bill providing for the inspection of meats for exportation ; and it shall be voted on aner two hours debate. Then the lard bill shall ; be takwi up and a vote ordered at four ; o'clock Saturday. On Tuesday of next week the bill defining options shall be . taken up and the previous question J shall be considered as ordered at three i o'clock Wednesday. On the days specified the House shall meet at eleven ' o'clock. The order also provides for a ; morning hour each day and gives place j to general appropriation bills or con- i ference reports thereon. I Drain, of Texas, inquired whether < (under the order the rive'r and harbors bill could be cons:dercd. ! Cameron replic d that he thought not but that the bill could be called up Fri- : day or Monday or during the morning : hou^fc^jfher days. ^^^^^Wlount, of the "Rules Committee, crit- ! OBB^cisid that committee for its action in j bringing in rules on such unimportant \ subjects w ithout opportunity for fair , discussion. The House had degenera- , ted from common respectability. He , thought that the agricultural bills had J ; been purposely excluded and could not 1 4>e considered. He thought that it . t rx on/1 fKq fimn "Tat* diiUUJU VC iUUUUCU auu cuv. uiuv. ivi . \ debate extended. McMillan, another member of .the Kules Committee, said that it must be ( admitted in view of the late hour in * the session that the proposed order put j the rivers and harbors bill iq a peril- . ous condition. Business had already M Kthe House until September ' K- unconsidered the rivers and H Hk bill with its S24,000,000 appro- , Ha. He warned the House now J B* that the friends of the rivers , bors bill might adopt the speci- , Hgith their eyes open. J |^kOf Kansas, chairman of the gfc>n Agriculture, said to the , rivers and harbors bill . Knocked out the Agricul- : H Hrmittee that committee ck the rivers and harbors bill ' it. trrmM n?vpr hp sppn Raughter.) He should think lentlcmen from Georgia and 9 Hie (Blount and McMillan) in the arising of farmers in their B Btates would concede a few days to the ^FCommit^ee on Agriculture. Hatch,-of Missouri, said that these V bills were among the most important offered to the House, behind these WK bil!s were more voting thousands than V were behind any other species of legisW lation on the calendar. These thousr ands were restless, excited and uneasy ^ from one end of the country to the B other for the reason that their measR ures had been cut out by such meas ures as the rivers and harbors bill. He BL warned his friends on the Democratic side to make no. mistake in voting against this order. It was the best that could be done; and any Democrat rep- i gjg resenting an agricultural district who threw an obstacle in its way would rue m . it before the first of November. He nronta/1 t/-v roif Dr'lffl what t.h P CPnf.lP I nouitu iv i utviui-v/ v ? I D man from Kansas, (Mr. Funston,) said ! B in regard to the rivers and harbors bill.! B0& If the adoption of the conference reD port on that bill was to stand in the H way of the consideration of these meas|B ures let the rivers and harbors bill wait rai -until December n? xt. Blount thought that there was a design in the proposed order to exclude action upon the r:v?-rs and harbors bill. The bills mentioned in the order were most important and he was content for them to have fair consideration under 1 I the rules of the House. He suggested k an amendment including the rivers ^ and harbors bill among the measures M-hich might interfere with the opera tions of the order. H McKinley said that there was no leg- \ 9 | islation demanded hv the country so j ? universally as that comprised in the | (pending resolution, in reporting mis i i>rder the Committee on Kules had but | responded to the agricultural senti-j ment of the country, both North and j South. The resolution was not antag- j onistic to the rivers and harbors bill.: The appeal which came from the other i side that the order fxelnded the rivers ! and harbors bill was ngt-^eca use g<rn-1 tiffnen on that- side 'th* rivt-rs 1 Hi harbors hill. ***=Stf^use they op-: Hsedthe di^patcl j flphe public busibs. He then in Vj?ed that the Com- j Rttee on Rules \\ ml map out the lat-: rpart of next week for the considerRion of measures reported by the Com- j iittee on Labor. * The resolution was adopted and the i rr?.>X.? . 1;..tn f'finciil- ! I* <1LXUlUAll&iJ VV vwv.x. , BT eratron of the Senate agricultural col-1 lege Bill. The time allotted for debate was uti lizedYby over a dozen members, and | vvbom in short speeches favor-! S ^Lill. The discussion closed and ! Has amended was passed with- j ttion. It appropriates out of j the sale of public i and Territory for j K endowment and Heges for the benefit j the mechanic arts | 9 wr the year ending j Ban annual increase j Rion for ten years j Rj Wcior.al sum of >1.000 { Hrg year. The annual j H Prreafter shall be 25,000! w mk His Bodv liroken. Bx. J., August 20.?Fritz ! ssian. employed in the ! HBBrill. Dobbins & Co.. at j Lantly killed by a cave- i B He was working be-j Kment that had been ungBbonsiderable depth, and Karned to leave the spot. ^Khe warnings and the! Hkim under more than j *girth. It took twoj DL Every bone in"j Bhtb.e corpse was' Bkb from ; ^kivhas i KMniir-1 H A DRAMATIC SCENE. Senator Vance Points Oat the Hypocriscy of the Republicans. Mr. John R. Morris, of Baltimore, in a letter published in the Wilmington, JN. (J.. Messenger, thus cecrioes a recent scene in the United States Senate during the discussion of the glass schedule: "You know that Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has charge of the tariff bill. The e-lass schedule had been reached. Vance asked Aldrich why common window glass, the glass of the poor man's house, was made dutiable atone hundred and fifteen per cent., while fine, polished plate glass, the glass of the rich man's mansion, was to sustain a duty of but fifteen per cent. Aldrich turned his eyes from Vance, smiled the smile of one disconcerted, and walked in the direction of Quay's desk. Vance receiving no answer resumed' his seat. Ingalis had vacated the chair, and called Piatt to preside. In a few moments Vance arose and | stood awaiting recognition from Piatt. 4-.?l line lie stuuu lie acciiJiiigi,) tar ler. Quickly raising his hand he threw a ?reat mass of iron grey hair from his forehead and exposed a brow red with the blood of emotion. He did not turn his eye toward the gallery?he seldom :loes." But all eyes in galiery and Senate were fixed on Vance. "The Senator from North C;rrolina "said Piatt,as he lightly touched the desk with his javel and inclined his head deferentially toward the majestic figure of the sreat Southern statesman. "Mr. PresiCvs .x acut, UIICU > rtuuc, lu a Miiiii, tiCLua[ous key of which I did not know his voice capable, "I want it to go abroad to all the American people that I have asked the Senator from Rhode Island why the glass of the poor man is taxed L15"per cent, and the glass of the rich i man but 15 per cent., and that 1 have received no answer." Raising his voice : still higher he almost shrieked the refrain of his own words, "Yes, I want the American people to know that I have received no answer." Vance was ; unconsciously aramauc. xne enect svas to bring a deep hush over the Sen- ; ite chamber. The Republicans could : ciot say anything without admitting too much.- They had to refrain from , idmitting the truth that they were i paying for Harrison's election, and ! :>wed much to the makers of common , jlass in America, but nothing to the nakers of fine plate glass in Fr^^ ! rhe Republicans did not soon irom the question and the terri ler in which Vance had hurl^H ftratrcrir^Donn bnerman ngured his stubby beard. Judge Edmunds, who effects indifference to everything and everybody by apparent absorption in some book, peeped over the top of his constant volume. Quay, the stolid dude, shook the lappel of his grayish flannel neglige coat. Allison rolled his eyes towards the frescoes, while Prank Hiscock, on whose shoulders rests Conklin's mantle of vanity, with severo 1 Kf IaaVA/I Kolnloec? ai auuioiuuai ui cautiio, AWACU uupitooIv toward his old colleague, poor old dried up Evarts, who himself shrank farther into the physical nothingness of an unsexed watch." A Good Showisg lor the South. Washington, August 22?The enumerators' returns to Superintendent Porter of the census of the Southern States shows an unexampled and astonishing growth of that section. Even the warmest friends of the South are. astonished at the figures. The returns prove that the South has had a genuine and substantial boom. They also show that the States of Alabama, West Virgiaia and Tennessee, where it was supposed that the greatest increase would be found, are actually lagging in the race for population. The States that are not distinctly mineral producing regions are.the ones that are the largest gainers. Texas and Georgia largely lead the column. On the basis of 151,000 for a Congressman, which is the nrp?spnt. basic wptv Simit.hprn with the exception of Delaware, will secure an additional Congressman, and some of them several. If the proposed basis of representation prevail of 181,000. all the States, with the exceptions of Florida and Delaware, will secure an increase. Texas shows the largest gain in population, her increase being 600,000. Alabama has gained 357,000; Arkansas, 369.475; Delaware 29,392; Florida, 2,700; Georgia. 298,000: Kentucky, 222,000; Louisiana, 176,000; Maryland, 466,000; Mississippi, 234,000; North Carolina, 241,000; South Carolina, 292,000; Virginia, 208.000; "West Virginia, 156,000; Tennessee, 258,000; Missouri. 400,fWYl Tf ic r>aw th?it inr>rAQCP in the South will exceed that of the States of the Northwest. A Batch of Xcw Doctors. Columbia, S. C., August 20?The State board of medical examiners concluded their labors at 8,30 to-night, having been almost continuously at work all clay. Twenty-four applicants for admission to practice appeared. Thirteen passed successfully, eight w-ere rejected and three left before the examination ended. The successful applicants were: W. P. Coan, Spartanburg; N.J. Kennedy, colored, Orangeburg; T. 15. Manning. Little Rock, Marion County; J. B. Minis, Lamar, Darlington County; W. 11. Clyburn, West,Kershaw County; Charles A. Teague, Newberry; Charles A..Jeffries, Home,Union County; T. E. Nott, Enoree, Spartanburg County; John M. Thompson, colored, Charleston; W. B. Cox, Landsford, Chester County; J. T. Jeter, Santuc, Union County; Charles E. B. Flagg, Georgetown County; J. Simpson Wise, Ilallsallville, Chester County. The two colored doctors admitted to practice passed exceedingly creditable examinations?News and Courier. Wuuts to Go to Congress. Gaffxev City, August 19.?W. W. Russell, the famous Greenback leader and the present postmaster at Anderson, passed here this afternoon on his way to Washington. He seemed in a happy frame of mind, but rather uncommunicative on the subject of his visit to the Capital. He said, however, that it was of considerable importance to the people of South Carolina. "You may say this, he added, "that I will be the next Congressman from the 3d district. I am just as sure to succeed Judge Cothran as the sun shines, and there is no power that can prevent it save from Heaven. The race among the Democrats in my district is very badly mixed and I am"thoroughly confident that 1 will be elected in the 'ides of November."' This was all Mr. Russell would say, preferring, he stated, to keep out of the public prints. ISad for Miss Winnie Davis. Syracuse, X. Y., August 21.?The beautiful "Wilkinson homestead at James Hill, the home of Alfred Wilkinsmi. Jr, the fiance of Miss Winnie Davis, widest roved by tire to-day, occasioKed by an explosion of benzine used by labers in cleaning the wood work. Two laborers were fearfully injurned by the explosion. Many valuable paintings and much of the furniture was saved, but the house is a ruin. The loss is 830,000: insurance $19,500. u According to Senator Carlisle every ?\an, woman and child, regardless of Kor, in this "land of the free and home BjJie brave," pays on annual tribute of Be cash to the protected mamifactuw>vho are still not satisfied or happy. STARTLED STATESMEN. I; ! THE ALLIANCE BLIZZARD BLOWING |j THROUGH THE HALLS. ' ' ] Many Members Hurrying Home to Look ( After their Fenees?The Sections Struck ' and the Men Threatened?The House ! \ 1 Demoralized and Distempered. ? i Washington, D. C., Aug. 20.?To- ( ward the end of July full half the mem- t bers of the House of Representatives ;; were absent from their duties, storm : clouds bad unexpectedly appeared in ; nearly every Congressional District in 1 agricultural sections of the country, ( South and West. The political sky was < ablaze with suggestive premonitions. Farmers's Alliance was at work. In a ? few districts it had roared like a torna- * do, overwhelming representatives seek- j ing a re-election. Republicans and r Democrats had been served alike. In c other districts it resembled a flood s sweeping over river bottoms and carry- | ing everything before it. There were r astounding reports from Kansas and J reports equally alarming from North k Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and the * Gulf States. Senators as distinguished as Ingalls and Vance were threatened, a There were anxious faces in the House. \ Experienced veterans heard the whist- i ling of the storm and Knew they were c in danger. They paired with men of l; opposite political faith in equal peril, r and sped to their districts to look after t their political households. In some a oases they were too late to save them- i: selves. In others they are still strug- e gling. p The rising of the farmers might aptly be compared to the rising in the de- s partments of France at the time of the n French revolution. Honest legislators, q who had never failed in devotion to the ii agricultural interests of the country, b struggled fc .heir political existence, a In Georgia *nere was a violent gale, d James H. Blount, of Macon, serving his h eighteenth consecutive year in the s House, was forced to raise his umbrella. Judge John D. Stewert was owerwhelmed. Tom Grimes and Judge Rffrnoe i?lcn uronfr nnHpr Thprp wprp ^ germing reports concerning the politiB^ture of that prince of Confeder Plw&fts-s., Gw.-Joku B. Gordon. . The famers were making theTighViu: U the Legislature with the intention of t putting one of their own number in the ^ United States Senate in the place of F Gov. Joe. Brown. Governor Gordon ^ had thrown himself into their ranks in e the hopes of securing the prize. , Such were some of the reports that f reached the House. In Mississippi such tried veterans as General Hooker, r James Bright Morgan, General Catch- t mgs and Thomas R. Stockdale were en- f dangered. Brilliant John M. Allen re- t ceived his re-nomination before the t storm bad fairly burst. In Alabama s Gen, William H. Forney was seriously i threatened. His loss would have been t a national loss. He well fills Samuel j J. Randall's place in the Committee on r Appropriations. c In Kansas, Iowa and Illinois every- ^ thing: is at sea. The political life of the Rev. John A. Anderson, rough-and ready Perkins, and of pertinacious Fun- r ston is at stake. Anderson is a born t fighter. His assault upon the Pacific r railroads alone ought to endear him to t the farmers. He will be in the field a despite all opposition, and if he must go, will fall like a hero. 1 Then there was alarming news from j South Carolina. The veteran George c D. Tillman alone was undismayed. He ^ is a brother of the Tillman who is shak- 0 ing up the political aristocracy of the * raimeno &iaie, ana wnose oouuary is ^ probably already in type in the com- r posing rooms of more than one daily e newspaper. Wild rumors came from the Xorth- t west. The sitting members were not t only exposed to the blasts of the Farm- j ers' Alliance, but were shaken by the a school question that had excited the v German Lutherans. This agitation N threw the, Republican Representatives e of the Badger State into a fever. It ^ threatens their supremacy to such an t extent that it is claimed the State will- f go Democratic. The great Caswell is said to have been knocked out of a re- ? nomination. There were also cyclones f in Congressional districts in Illinois, j Indiana, Minnesota and Michigan. All these rumors withered up the i House like a sirocco. It shrunk to the g smallest dimensions. The Speaker had { difficulty in counting a quorum. Many f an empty seat tells of the desperate j struggle. Both sides lind it jdifficult to ^ keep their lines. Telegrams are re- t ceived daily telling of the fortunes of a Representatives hundreds and thous- N ands of miles away. ? A quorum was found only when a vote was taken upon the most important measures. There were tiresome debates in committee of the whole on the original packake, the bankruptcy, 2 and other bills. Men spoke to empty p seats. The Committee on Rules kept 5 its grip on the throat of the House. 3 It not only directed what mils should t be taken up, but allotted the time for t consideration and specified the hour e for voting. Without this specification it would have been almost impossible t to have obtained a voting quorum at ^ the critical moment. There was no chance for the thotis- ^ ands of little bills upon the calendars} j These are usually shoved in to fill the j interstices of legislation by unanimous t consent. The list of bills on the print- t ed calendars toward the end of the r month filled 120 pages. The calendar < of the committee of the whole on the state of the Union took up twentythree; the House calendar carried nine. . and the private calendar was spread J over forty-seven pages. There was a J page of special oraers, live pages 01 un- t finished business, and h page of privil- ? eged reports. Over 1,700 bills remained ^ upon the calendar, only 237 of which ( were private pension bills. 1 The laboring men looking for labor ] legislation, the claimants seeking just '< dues from the government, and the : thousands interested in measures af-' ! fecting commerce, agriculture, and other business interests of the country, 1 can readily understand why nothing "is 1 done to relieve them. The rules, it 1 was said, were made to do business. They do business, but it is the business designated by the Committee on Rules under the rules. Privileged business eats up much of the time. If through importunity a member secures recognition from the Speaker and asks unani4 <-Ka r\f U1UU3 UUlidClllr 1U1 111U V^i-?OAV4\7l.?v *v/*? \y* it bill which takes not a dollar from the Treasury, somebody invariably objects. If by any accident, the objection is not heard, somebody is sure to raise the point of no quorum when a vote is taken. Xotan hour up to date has been given by the Committee on Rules, to the Committee on Labor, to the Committee on Patents, or to a dozen other committees eouallv important. Indeed. the Committee on Patents has had a terrible time. It got no day in the Fiftieth Congress, and has had no day in the Fifty-First Congress. The rules set down Friday as a day for the con sideration of private bills; yet under :he rules these bills have been robbed )f their da}' for over four months. Strange anomaly?a net that lets all the Dig fish through and catches all the lit:le ones. *"* - _ i.;_ _ n jjl. j iiere is a, om granung nueen uuys leave of absence to per diem men in the justoras service. The Secretary of the freasury favors it. It takes not a cent )ut of the Treasury. All the other employees in this service have leaves of i\ >CQnna tr\v f Kirfxr/ lore nri! K nor Thor iVl Villi VJ UHJO HlUil JL 1IVJ vork eight hours a day. These per iiem men work in relays" from sunrise ;o sunset and from sunset to sunris.*. A.11 are compelled to remain upon duty whether their services are needed or lot. In summer importations are not is heavy as in winter. One fifth of the :orce might easily be spared for fifteen lays while the other four-fifths did the ,vork. Yet thrice has unanimous con;ent been asked to consider this bill, md thrice has objection been m;ide. A. similar bill affecting post office employes remained hanging by the eyelids for i month 011 a motion to reconsider, enovo-? tu-n /I'li'o fjfttir ito n;iCC:?(TP "Vf> nan can get consent to bring up the right-hour back pay law, the bill to reitore the wages in the government >rinting aflice, and a score of similar rills placed on the calendar by the Comnittee on Labor. It is an ill-tempered louse. The Speaker lias made it so. fenseiess objections are made and the >oint of no quorum raised apparently vithout reason. Despite these overloaded calendars ind the absence of over 150 members vho are skirmishing with the Farmers' Alliance and the Lutheran preachers, AtnmJffnnt? ?rA tA rATiArf Kllle viuiiiii/ttco aig wv vuio ately introduced. The committee ooms, however, are even more deserted han the chamber of the House. Effort ,fter effort is made to secure a quorum n vain. All see that a measure reportd at this late hour, unless of vital imtortance, must fail of consideration. Lt times the clerk of a committee pends days in searching for enough nembers 'to make a quorum. This uorum is frequently secured by bringQg their signatures together upon the >ack of the bill to be reported. Many poor devil seeking private legislation eparts from Washington with a joyful eart after this is done?New York un. the cotton bagging boycott. rVhat a Georgia Journal Says About the of the Farmers' Alliance. A?^f r.\, Ga., August 22.?Speak-m^^xemaxked^ hat the boycott of the Jute Trust by he Farmers' Alliance has been a compete success. From 15 cents, the price lemanded by the trust, which was qual to a direct tax of 84,000.000 a ear on the Southern farmers, jute has alien to b%. But even at this price there is no deaand for jute bagging on the part of he cotton growers. As a matter of act the boycott has just fairly got ino working order, and it is not likely hat the farmers will again place themelves in the power of so vicious a com>ination as that formed by the jute nanufacturers. To resort again to ute as a covering for cotton would lot only be against the best interests >f the farmers, but would be unjust to he interests which have been built up is a result of the boycott. The greed of the jute men overeached itself in this instance, and all he indications go to show that the >rofitable market into which they en ered as highway robbers will never igain be opened to them. The Manufacturers' Record makes a ittle estimate that is of special interest u this connection. If the entire new :rop, which is estimated at 7,000,000 >ales, should be wrapped in cotton bagging, 35,000,000 yards of it would be equired. which is equivalent to 27,000,00 pounds of the staple, making: a new narket for 55,000 bales of 500 pounds :ach. At a very low estimate, it is believed hat this increased co .lsumption will add o the market price of tbe staple at east half a cent a pound, giving an idditional value of 82 50 to each bale, vhile the saving by the use of jute vould be but 23 cents a bale. It is not ixpected <uat tnis result win ue >rought about at once, but it is certain o follow the persistent refusal of the anners to use jute. We may say here that an Atlanta gentleman, whose process for extracting fibres has attracted attention even n foreign counties, is now experimentng with the fibre of the cotton plant. :Ie thinks that for a comparatively inignificant sum he can placo on each arm a machine for stripping the bark rom the cotton stalk directly the pickng is over, and before the plant has x'come dry and hard. From the bark he fibre can be extracted at a cost ilmost nominal, and it can then be vorked up in the same manner as jute md woven on the same machinery ? Atlanta Constitution. A Complicated Collision. Detroit, August 15.?An east-bound sorth Shore limited train on the Michi ;an Central Road was badly wrecked at * o'clock this afternoon at Augusta, Jich. The report says that the limited rain struck a protruding car of a freight rain which had been side-tracked. The ngine then jumped the track and crashid into the depot completely wrecking he building, and it is rumored two boys vho were inside were killed outright. Vfter striking the building the engine an a few yards and then exploded, blowng Fireman Gregg to atoms and instant i-:T. "C TV?Q y Kllilllg XjII^IIICCI i/O. JLA1V/ )articulars thus far received do not menion any passengers being killed, ilthoughthe number of injured is given it from twelve to fifteei. Hunting the Hyeuaa. Some of the Kansas people are making it warm for Senator Ingralls. Gen. Rice, of Fort Scott, is one of these. He joes at Ingalls "hammer and tongs," saying: "I am opposed to -Senator [ngall? because he is a political shyster )f the first water. Because he has no personal integrity, and therefore no political honesty. lie is a heartless iristocrat, cold-blooded in his nature *nd subordinates all his actions, words friendships to the notoriety of John J. [ngails. He has no idea of any moral ainniftnt in politics but brazenlv nro claims himself a politician buccaneer and a political leper." A Bad Place to Live. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 21.?A man must pray circumspectly in Perry County if he dares close his eyes long enough to pray at all. A correspondent writes "The Rev. J. J. Dickey of Jackson waj here when Joe Eversole was killed anc offered a prayer at the grave when h( was buried. This action of the Rev Dickey incensed another faction, anc his life was threatened. lie has nevei been in Perry since." A Fountain of Tar. Richmond, Va., August 18?It is saic that a veritable fountain of tar has been discovered three or four miles iron Raleigh, on th_e lands of Mr. R. S. Pul ler. Tfte stun in question exuaes iron a hank, and when the oezing stream ij cut oft it comes out :igain with the consistency of soft putty, having the look, taste and smell, and is to all appearances genuine tar. HANDS OFF! j The Xe,T York Herald's Advice to President Harrison. Our Washington correspondent tele; graphs, as was published in our edition l aF that President TTarricnn j has resolved to make the force bill an I administration measure. It is bard to | realize such a purpose on the part of the President. As a party man we can ! understand how he might be willing: to ! try the experiment of any measure com; mended by his friends in Congress, and ! that, if the force bill were to pass, he ; would see that it was honest# and j rigidly enforced. But to make it a government policy, to drive it through [ Congress?and by implication if not I directly secure its passage by the use of patronage, as President Buchanan did with the Lecompton constitutionwould bt; disastrous to his administration and his fame. The force bill is not even acceptable to the Republican party. Audible mur| mars of dissent come from Republican : sections. Mr. Ilalstead, a representa! tive Repu-blican, named by Mr. Karrison as Minister to Germany, is opposed to it. Republicans are tired of war issues. They see that the last force bill was repealed at Appomattox by a mighty Senate, representative in its character, presided over by Ulysses S. I Grant and Robert E. Lee. and that no j power, legislative or executive, has been able since to revive it. They feel that if after twenty-five years of peace it is necessary to resort to war measures more severe than those imposed by the war itself, then Republican statesmanship has been a failure. Nor can they believe that a force bill which even the overmastering influence of Grant could not attain will be of practical value in the modest and not overstrengthened hnnrte of Mr. Tfarrknn If the President identifies his administration with this measure it will be as much of a blunder as it was in President Adams to accept the alien and sedition bill. A President must think of the country as above the party, remembering that the judgments of history are pitiless. If the force bill were to pass to-morrow by the unanimous vote of .the Republicans in the Senate the administration could never carry it out. There are things which even governments cannot achieve, and this sinister experiment is one of them. We cannot change Southern conditions and must accept them. The first condition is that no community of white men will ever consent to be governed by an alien race?by the Indian, the Chinaman or the African. Mr. Harrison himself "t?TmV&rdeJ??jjrst to resent it were the alternative befo^Tir&vv^v__.^ What we expect from the wEitrrami in the South is the utmost tenderness, consideration and help for the negro. While there are spasmodic outbreaks of ruffianism toward the negro, dishertenj ing in their character, we believe that the sentiment as well as the interest of the Southern men inclines them to absolute justice and kindness in dealing with their colored neighbors and friends. There let the matter rest I Let the President keep his hands off! Let our Northern people look well to their own homes and mind their own business. They find at their thresholds problems more appalling than in any Southern community?poverty, want, ignorance, crime and shame, largely resulting from the manner in which we govern ourselves and our people. An observer will see more to grieve him in a week's tour through the mining districts of Pennsylvania than in a "journey to the uttermost limits of the Southern commonwealths. So, Mr. President, Senators and gentlemen, let the South alone ! Dismiss the force bill to the limbo of secession, abolitionism, know, nothingism, nullificationism and the other dead and damned "isms" f/vr ?n Inner a tinie nursed the na I tion.?New York Herald. SHE SHOT HIM DEAD. Judjje Max Stein Sho 'n the Presence of His Wife-and Daughter. JBkownsville. Texas, August 20.? At 1 o'clock last night County Judge Max Stein, of Hidalgo County, the leading merchant and one of the wealthiest and most popular citizens of Edinburg, Tex., was shot and killed in Renosa, Mexico, by Mrs. Dela McCabe, of Cams County, Texas. The murderess is the wife of ex-County Judge Homer T. McCabe. of Hidalgo. There is a fair at ltenosa, ana yesterday a large excursion went there from Matamoras. A Mexican theatrical company gave a performance, which Judge Stein, with his wife and daughter, attended. After the performance the party went to one of the booths in the fair for supper. The ladies were seated and Stein was just drawing up a chair when Mrs. McCabe, a tall, handsome, twentytwo-year-old woman, wild and untamed as the breezes of the prairies on which she was raised, appeared. Her long hair was blowing in the wind and her eyes flashed as she sprang upon Stein."grasped his left arm, and before he was aware of her presence, pressed her pristol against his breast and fired. As the unfortunate man fell dead his wife sprang toward the murderess. Mrs. McCabe felled Mrs. Stein to the earth with a savage blow on the temple with the barrel of the pistol. The Chief of Police of Renosa rushed up to arrest the beautiful murderess, when she knocked him down also, and then, like a lioness at bay, she brought her ready pistol down on the policemen who came up and defied them to arrest her. The cavalry, always in attendrnce at a Mexican border fair, came up, and some of the soldiers crept behind the woman and pinned her arms. After a desperate struggle they succeeded in disarming and securing her. The affair grew out of the election trouble in Hidalgo County. McCabe, who is a lawyer, went into Edinburg about ten months ago, and on a compromise as the only man not mixed in local politics who would accept, was nominated by the Republicans and allowed by the Democrats to take the position of County Judge. At the last term of the County Court he, being clearly ineligible, was unseated by District Judge Russell and on the earnest solicitation of all parties to conserve the County finances and against his own desires Judge Stein accepted the position. McCabe, at the head of a party of marauders, tried to forcibly capture 41 * *-4, florl t A ine cuuri/ iiuuac, <?uu idiiiu^ jitv* w 1 Renosa, Mexico, where he has since been . > It is said that letters were written to ! Cams County to get the records of the J McCabes, and that Mrs. McCabe heard about them and swore vengeance on 1 her husband's successor. " Mr. Stein's body was taken to Matamoras on a special train this afternoon and buried in the Jewish Cemetery. , All the leading people of both towns followed the remains to their last rest1 inff place. I w - Suicide of a Conductor. i Atlanta, August 18?Samuel W. ? Harris, a conductor on the Georgia i Central Kaiiroad, committed suicide toi dav by jumping in his well. Ill health and despondency are ascribed as the reason. SUICIDE IN A PAIACE. THE TRAGIC END OF A NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE. ] A Wealthy Broker Hanffs Himself with a J Sheet to the Door of his Bert Boom? j Illness and Loneliness the Supposed Canses of his Reckless Act. ^ New York, August 17?In the pala- < tial residence of his sister, Mrs. Amos J Cotting, 835 5th avenue, this afternoon ] was found the body of Joseph A. Jam- 3 esoru a Uroad street, broker and banker. 1 He had hanged himself from the bed I room door in his fine suite of rooms on the fourth floor. Jameson was reported to be a millionaire and was the Stock Exchange member of the firm of Jameson, Smith & Co, bankers and brokers, at the corner of Exchange place and Broad street. The second member of the firm is James D. Smith, commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Jameson's family are out of town, and from what canbe learned from his friends temporary insanity, caused by illness ana perhaps aggravated Dy a ieeung 01 * loneliness in the absence of his family, is ? thought to be the cause of the tragedy. ? Mrs Jameson and her youngest son, a mi- * nor 17 years old, are at Scarboro Beach, ? ?e. Two sons?Addison, the eldest, a a widower 33 years old, and Alexander, 28 . years old?and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas 1 S Manson, were spending Sunday at their * father's farm at Clinton Connors, eight c miles from Poughkeepsie, and the sec- a ond daughter, Mrs. Myra Murphy, widow fl of Richard Murphy, Jr, at Elberton ,N. J. ,, The last seen of Mr. Jameson was at 5 1 o'clock on Saturday, when he came home v from the gffice and. told a servant that f he would go to his room to rest. He ?] did not appear to-dav, and becoming lJ. alarmed the servent called a Park police- ? man, who entered the broker's rooms P through the one unlocked door. He j] found the body hanging with a sheet Jj! around the neck, the other end of which * had been thrown over the door and tied ~ to the knob. The suicide had knelt so V as to cause strangulation quickly, and 15 his knees almost touched the floor. The millionaire had evidently disrobed with " the tntention of retiring for the night 11 before the awful impulse seized him. He f_] was only clad in his night shirt and f drawers. ? The body was taken down and placed D on a bed Superintendent Jenks, of the 11 Murray Hill Hotel, a near friend of the 0 deceased, took charge of the funeral arwas found to in- J1 dicate th^RJose of the deeu. -^stmesonJ i] was taken sick three months ago, and a was still weak when, three weeks ago, he e was taken with throa??gg^?e. The lat- 8 ter affection was?W5erious that Prof. ?. a J. Jane way wajt kept in close attend- P ance. The trouble increased, and physical pain may have resulted in sudden a insanity. * c Jameson came to New York from St. ? Louis in 1865 with his brother-in-law, J' A mno Prvftinnr cirtna od is XJLiUVU VVUWU^,. tJlUVV UVVVWWUi M/ said to have brought SI,500,000 as the profits of a dry goods business. Abrok- y erage business was opened oil Wall street a and at first the firm belonged to the open tl board of brokers and later to the Stock n Exchange. Jameson was a man of ^ domestic taste and was regarded as a a conservative and prudent financier. His p business is said to be in good shape. a ~~ p Kefutlng a Base Slander. To the Editor of the Xews and Cou- [ rier: In your issue of August 15 ap- t] peared a special from Greenville, in t( which your correspondent repeats a story to the effect that "Capt. D. K. Js orris was forced to leave Orangeburg -TCounty in consequence of immoral con- ^ duct." jnow we, tne unaersignea, oia neighbors and acquaintances of Capt. D. K. Norris, among whom he was born " and reared, deeply regret and deplore ? chat such base and unfounded rumors should be circulated through the re- i; spectable press of the State to the injury of one of her best citizens, take J this occasion, unsolicited by any one, ? save our sense of right and justice to q our old neighbor, to denounce and deny, ^ and pronounce unqualifiedly false any and all such base slanders. We have ^ known Capt. D. K. Xorris all his life, ~ and a more honorable, upright and ? pure citizen Orangeburg County has ? never reared, and instead of being ? "forced" to leave this locality it was ? with great regret and a deep sense of ? ah*? IrtTTA fAi? ! *im fn oovor Hie i>ccnr>iij. ^ VUl XV TC* JVi. Ull^li IV UVI Vi. uiw tions from us and remove to Anderson a County. P E. L. Dantzler, P. M., H. \V. lihame, S. P. Wells, W. L. Stoutamire, J. F. Felder, J. S. Hart, S D. J.Avinger. C Vance's, S. C., August 18,1890. i< 0 Staring Starvation in the Face. A dispatch from Bad Axe. Mich., says: -N "The farmers of a portion of Huron ? County have asked for public aid because f( their crops were totally destroyed by the > terrific storm which swept the Eastern ? part of the county at harvest time. t: The appeal has been made by 200 of a' them in the face of absolute want and v possible starvation. The storm was a n phenomenal one, the hail falling in r clouds and covering the ground from four to eight inches, completely Durying all their crops.. The track of the storm was through Siegel and Bloojufield and "5 part of Paris townships, and covered an h area eighteen miles long and a mile b wide. Many of the farmers in that sec- ?tion live on rented farms, which only ag- h gravates the suffering as they cannot c pay their rent, besides having nothing v to live upon. Many will be in danger of 1 starving unless help is given. An in- v stance is reported where one man had d 600 acres rented and all in crops. Every t acre was destroyed. The estimated loss v is at least $40,000, ranging from 850 to t S3,000 for each farmer/' i t The North Carolina Democrats. X ru-l TUn I JLtALEIGH, -N. U., august -u.?jluc State Democratic Convention to-day v nominated a judicial ticket and adjourn- 3 ed. Police Justice Merriman and Justice h Clark were nominated by acclamation t and nine Superior Court Judges were 1 unanimously endorsed for re-election, f Senator Yance was cordially recom- d mended to the Legislature for re-elec- t tion to the United States Senate. Reso- I lutions favoring the free coinage of sil- c ver, increased currency, repeal of the c internal revenue system, abolition of s national banks, financial reform and i relief from the existing agricultural depression and denouncing the McKinley and Lodge bills, were adopted. K We Hope it Will Succeed. T Augusta, Ga., August 19Applica- < tion was made to-day in the Superior f -fn-r 1 off ore nf i n pnr n nrati on bv 1 VVU1W XVA AVVWtv v*. - - v capitalists who will begin the manufac- 1 tagre of cotton bagging from cotton stalk s fibre. The principal place of the manu- 1 factory and office will be in Augusta, i The ca'pital stock is $5000.000, with priv- 1 ileges of increasing it to $5,000,000. A Cloudburst in Colorado. Colorado Springs,Col., Aug. 15?A J tremendous cloudburst broke over this ] city yesterday, deluging the town, beat- \ ing in roofs" and undermining walls. 1 Twn npnni e were swent awav arid drown- ' ed. Twelve miles of railroad track were J I washed away; damage at least ?260,000. 1 ad ' DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. A. Fearful Cyclone in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. i Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 20.?A terrible cyclone struck this city this evenng. The telegraph wires are all down. : Loss of life is heavy. Hundreds of )uildings were blown down. The storm came up the river. From ;vhat point it originated is not known, rhe suddenness of its coming was one i-f if c mflct- aix'-fiil HrM Thp leavens were as biack as night; and the I -vind blew with most frightful velocity. ( Whole rows of trees were biow.n down. Following this hundreds of houses were ; inroofed, partially blown oVer'or'com>letely demolished. } The total death loss, so far as ascer- } ;ained is twelve. Four men are known ;o have been killed in the Hazard wire ope works. A house on Scott street, c >ccupied by miners, who had just re- j limed from work, fell in and three.of r he inmates were killed. The huge .mokestaekjof the Kytle planing mill 1 ell on a man and two horses and all c vere kiil^L^A Jittle.colored giri was. c :illed b va'faffincr building on Sdutfil r ifain strt5et,Two men suffered death C iy the falBcgola porti on of St. Maine's c rewery, a?sd[* third incurred the same s ate througir-the almost complete de- j Qolition of^St L. Brown's handsome c nick business block on East Market G treet. There are undoubtedly fifteen s r sixteen others killed. Other reports $ re coming in constantly to that effect. ^ Large districts in several sections of 0 be city are in absolute ruin, and j fomen and children are in the streets r rying and wringing their hands in ? /lJfnioir# TKa nrill uauiutc UIOU1C.) . xug u Q each hundreds of thousands of dollars. s Passenger trains and locomotives at j he depot were blown over, and every ^ .'ire in the city, electric light, telephone ^ nd telegraph, is down. The devasta- t ion is to be compared with nothing in j tie memory of the oldest inhabitant. <3 Iverybodv is rejoicing that no fires g ave as yet followed, for the streets are | upassable with fallen buildings and t! ie engines could not be drawn through. a "he Murray shaft fan house was blown g own and the fan stopped. There are j, tventy-seven men in the mine, but it ^ I hoped they can be got out safely. j ReDorts come from Suerar ^otch, a n lining town three miles from here, iat the destruction of property is ter- c, ible, and that fifteen persons were a illed. At Parsons and Mill Creek, the a ?rritory four miles from here, coal reakers in all directions have been c lore or less damaged, and the number i killed will reach ten. j A special dispatch from Scranton to ^ le Times says that a train coming in v :om Summerville, thirty miles west of ? canton, was struck by a cyclone'this c venin^^^Jiita.lly^annihilated. En- j ineer pHiam f ccount of his train expenra^H^^Bg assing through the cyclone^H^^ Tha onoino liffprl frnm thp. trjiftk I ,, nd all the windows in the cars were -y rushed in by the terrible cyclone. Two v f the train hands were seriously in- r ired." h Shocked the Senator. E Washington, August 22?The 1 oungjjrandson of the famous ex-Sen- a tor Nye of Nevada and a nephew of t he equally famous Bill Nye of Lara- v lire City and New York was a few t ays ago appointed a page in the Sen- s te. He is very popular with the other t ages in the chamber, and with nearly a 11 of the Senators. One of them, how- & 7er, Mr. Colquitt of Georgia, rather i: binks the new page has done him an S ijury. Soon after the boy had taken v lie oath to support the constitution and 6 o defend his country against all ene- v lies, foreign and domestic, he was call- E d upon to do an errand for Senator p Fade Hampton, who told him to get a i ottle of Congress water and a sand- 1 fitch at the restaurant, and place them v i the 'cloak room for him.. The page t lade a slight mistake in the order, and o DOk the articles of refreshment into V he Senate chamber and put them unin- Bntionally on the desk of.Mr. Colqujtt, y here they remained for some time the & ause of much comment. Senator Col- } uitt is an ardent prohibitionist, and 'J ' ? ?i t- - ?4. J n fas greatly. snocKea wnen ne emej.eu e tie chamber to find his desk adorned f rith a loDg necked black bottle and a e andwith covered with a napkin. At c rst he was inclined to think some of 1 is colleagues bad been playing a.prac- * ical joke. When he learned the facts I e gave young Nye a lecture, and warn- ^ d him to be more careful hereafter to ? istinguish between a prohibition Sen- s tor and one who is in favor of original ackages. t An Important Decision. Kaleigii, X. C. August 21.?Judges ( eymour and Bond of the United States t !ircuit Court recently rendered a decis- j )n the in case of the American Fertilliz- t r Company of Virginia against the Com- f lissioner of Agriculture of the State of , ?'orth Carolina. The Court decided ( tiat the law imposing a tax of S500 upon x ertillizer companies doing business in t rorth Carolina is a violation of the in- ( prstate commerce act and unconstitu- : LUJLUtJ . J. IIC LdA iCUIUCU iiVUi VU1KJ uywiw I mounted to $3&000 a year, and was de- ( oted maintaining the State Depart- \ lents of Agriculture and Mechanical g !ollege. t In Too Biff a Hurry. t A German named Huegel, of New c fork, is in a bad shape. A year ago is wife, to whom he was a devoted usband, was declared to be dying. She arnestly desired her husband to marry ^ er young^*i*t?iu-jm<l.^insisted on a ^ eremony being perforiiTeu^bT^what ^ ras supposed to be her dying bedside.; ?his was done and it took such a s weight from her mind that she imme- I iately got well. Huegel was left with , wo wives on his hands but the matter * fas kept quiet until last week when [ he birth of a baby to the younger sis- 1 /Mnoo/1 o rovoJqtinn nf t.hf? fafitS. ci vnujvu i? AV i >/<b ^ . < A Remarkable Woman. ' Kingston, N. Y., has a remarkable < roman among its inhabitants. She is < Irs. Deborah rowers, 100 years old, the t ;ead of several business concerns and 1 he possessor of about 3.000.000. Since 1 828 she has managed an oilcloth manu- ] actory started by her husband- In adlition she is the senior partner in the tanking firm Of D. Powers & Sons, at -ansingburg. She has founded and en- ! Lowed an old ladies' home. All her la- : :ulties remain unimpaired except her ight, which is slightly affected. She ' >assed her 100th birthday last week. Senator Vance Will Not be Opposed. Ashville, X. . August K.?The state Farmers* Alliance met hereto-day ,vith 500 delegates in attendance,-every bounty in the State being, represented. 5. 15. Alexander, u prummem ucic^atc ,vho will be the Democratic candidate for Congress- from the Sixth District, said to-day that the Alliance as a body youid not oppose the re-election of Senitor Vance, and he was certain that he vould be renominated. Two Detectives Killed. Albany. X. Y., Angst 15?Alfred Ludington and George D. Kossiler of Philadelphia, two of Pinkerton's detectives stationed at "West Albany, were silled by a passenger train this morning, rhey had been to get a drink of water md were returning to their post at the ame. SOLD AND SWINDLED. I CHALMERS PLEADS IN VAIN FOR THE PRICE OF HIS SOUL. . - Bitter Taunts for the Republicans and State- Slanders Against the South?His Conduct at Fort Pillow?Denied the Seat by a Strong Vote. " Washington. 1). C., Aug. 22.?In ;he House, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, jailed up the Mississippi contested Section case of Chalmers vs. Morgan. rhe majority report finds in favor of Morgan, the sitting member. Chalmers vas then granted permission toaddress . /tM ;he House for ail hour and a half in his _ * -v ':'-0? >wn behalf. After criticising the maority report, he asserted that there waS' iow, and had for years been, a conspiracy existing in the South for the :arryinJg,jof elections for the Demo :rati:c j>a^7. That party was deternined to carry elections honestly if it * J r .*i a. mt? B.' XHiiti, iorciuiy 11 10 iuusu me ouioe >f Mississippi was a leaderlrrtTiatrcoir---. piracy. Men who . dared-td run on a ? Republican ticket or to make Republian speeches carried their lives in their tvvn hands. That the.black.vote was uppressed could not .be .successfully . ienied. It was the suppression of this, ote that had justified the Eep.ublica'ris f the House in the passage of the ,odge bill. If the Republicans after massing that bill should turn around nd accept the majority report in this ase they would s*t themselyes in a uspicious attitude before the country. Jefore the meeting of Congress it had * een charged that the Remiblieans in ended to turn out enough Democrats o give them a good working majority. f after getting that majority they ecline to give him his seat they would ive color to that charge. It would/be aid that when they were undertaking - ' 0 pass a law to give them a chance for majority in the next House "they said bat certain testimony was true which 1 this case they said was not sufficient " d establish a conspiracy in Mississippi. le did not believe thatthe Republican arty could afford to place itself in hat attitude, and he did not think it ouid do it. He then proceeded to ex- " mine in detail the evidence of fraud nd intimidation in the various, coun-. * ies of the district to substantiate his harge that a huge conspiracy existed a defeat him for Congress. For the louse to sustain the report, was to say ; hat the stealing of a congressional seat ^|| ras nothing but .political purchase.^ le said that in order to prejudice his . _ ase the old ^llow hadbpc^ggn estigatioiraBJ Vhen the truth of mslH written calmly it would tot a single man nad been hurt who ad surrendered in the fort. Every nan killed had been outside the fort. Jut even if every one of the charges gainst him were true he had not- been he commanding officer. If the charges... ; ^ ?ere true, they brought disgrace upon ?'.iy he gallant Forest who stood by his ide. The fact that until the end of v he war he had served with that officer , s second in command was proof that te was guilty of no conduct unbecomog an officer and a gentleman. No entlenian on the Democratic side I'ould believe a story which "would Sisgrace the brave Forest, and the men i-ho had served under Grant and Shernan were too manly to bring disgrace ipon an American soldier. Continuog, Chalmers said that he felt that his republican form of government eas in daoger of being overridden and rodden under foot by a.Southern . iigarchy. For fifteen years, the -Re- . ':~M. mblican party had .-been fighting, the sorthern Democrats in the open field vhile exposed to a fiank fire from . '$3$* Southern Democrats intrenched behind ' vails erected by fraud and violence. l hey should see-to it that the national fovernment was not controlled oy raud and violence. A Southern govrnor who had without .protest seen i utrages like the killing'of negroes at Lazoo and Carrollton grew frantic vith rage over a fair fight between two >ugulists. It was a fair. question vhether the Democratic party was not foing to the devil as fast as it could tnd taking Mississippi with itKelley, of Kansas, offered a resoluion reciting the following paragraph 'rom the majority report: 'With respect to the other seven sounties there is a number of boxes as n vrV>i.-?V< r?n toet.imnnv wn<s tsilrpn hilt: . t may safely be affirmed in not one of hese counties, taken as a whole, was ;he election an honest one." Fraud in rarious forms, including intimidation >f voters, corrupt manipulation of egistration, stuffing and stealing of . jallot boxes- and illegal voting finds imple illustration in all of them;" and ~ ^7$ ecommitting the case with instruciions to the Committee on Elections to xclude from its count the unexamined >oxes. Lost, 31to 136. The minority ;ubstitute was rejected and the majoriy resolution, declaring Morgan en- ^ lbicu tu luc ccat, woo agi^ui wv/ it >iit division. :~ A Storm in Philadelphia. ~ ^~Tt Philadelphia, August 21?During' * l heavy storm which prevailed in thii icinity about 7 o'clock this evening the J outhern wall of the stable and car sheds jce^pying the square bounded by 12th tnd iiith streets and Susquehanna avenue and Dauphin street, used jointedly >y the 12th and 16th and 10th and 11th treets passenger railway companies, was >lown down, carrying a portion pf the oof with it and smashing a number of J :ars.1 Four persons were killed outright ind three are so badly injured that they J tre not expected to recover. Three >thers ' were less seriously injured and 4 >ne is missing and probably dead. Twenty or more horses were killed. All the cilled and injured were drivers, conduc- . :ors or stablemen in the employ of the railways. Forty-Five Horses Bnrned. New Yoke, Aug. 17.?Fire broke out co-night in the stables belonging to the -si Lion Brewing company, in which 138 ' norses were Kept, xne siauies are located very near the brewery, and fears were entertained that the letter would ' be burned also. All the force attached to stables and the brewery were at once put to work to aid the firemen and to save the imprisoned horses. Xinetythree horses were saved from the first floor of the building, but the other fortyfive which were located in the basfement, were roasted to death. The horses burned were valued at 820,000, and the stock ; of feed and harness, all of which was burned with the building, is estimated .. to be worth $100,000, and the building $75,000. The^rewery was saved. - Tarred and. Feathered. Azusa, CaL Aug. 15.?J. M. Bently, ; editor of the Xews, was yesterday taken out by armed men and tarred &nd feathr ~ ered, for publishing an articfe-reflecting on the conduct of Miss CL/B. Frasier, white, teacher of a Azusa grammar .v T: school. The parties implicated are be