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VOL. XLVI. WIXN8BORO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890. NO. 4. ri
A REPUBLICAN'S WRATH, j
SENATOR QUAY DENOUNCED BY A j
CONGRESSMAN.
An Ohio Member of the House Vents His j
Rase at the Defeat of the Force Bill and j
Pours Out the Yials of His "Wrath Upoy '
the Devoted Head of the Senate. _ j
Washington, September 3.?In the j
House to-day in the course of the debate
on the majority report in the Clayton-Breckinridge
confested election
case from Arkansas, Robert Patterson
JtYCiiiiCUV, WJ;gitcoi.uu^ v?.w w ?
district of Ohio, made a tremendous
sensation by a bitter attack on the
Senate as a body for its treatment of
the force bill and a scathing personal
denunciation of Senator Quay, as the
chief instigator of the course of the
Senate in that matter.
Mr. Kennedy drew from the details i
of the Clayton-Breckinridge case the j
rnnriusion that the Federal election j
law should be enacted. He made a \
fiery attack upon the Senators who j
have been opposed to the Lod^e bill.
For himself, confident in the doctrines
of the Republican party, fully committed
to the principles of that party,
he must forever dissent from the cowardly
surrender which hauls down the
flo" ctr-'bpc t.hft colors of the Re
uuu w* v
publican party to a defeated foe. Continuing,
he saidSpeaking
for myself, I shall nail the
banner of trie Republican party at the
masthead with the doctrine which has
become inseparable from the history of
its existence and which demands protection
of the numblest citizen in the
right to an honest ballot and the pro
tection of life and property, ana stanu i
ready to defend that doctrine to the
last.
That the election bill has been killed
by Republicans or pretended Republicans
is true. "Without fair treatment
the bill, which the House of Representatives
said imperatively was demanded
for the preservation of its own
honor and for the safety and stability
of its honor, and for the protection of
the whole country against outrages
and intimidation and violence, is des^i^anng
{ torv of legislation has one house of
Congress deliberately put upon the
other the mark of its derision and contempt?
The consideration of* this measure
* _ 1 3 i -- Af
was aemanaeu uv cvciy sense vi utwu-.
cy and hor,or. It was demanded by
the House of Representatives that its
floor might be purged of those who are
enabled to enter by reason of violence
and murder. The Senate of the United
States will learn there is a bar of public
opinion, and that at it it is now being
To have been a Senator in the
davs of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun,
was to have been part or a oodv tnat
won and held the admiration of the
people, Xoith and South. To have
been a Senator in the days of Wade,
and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to
have been associated with men whose
sense of honor would have scorned the
purchase .of a seat, and would have
denied companionship to one whose
^ name was tarnished by even the suspicion
of infamy or corruption.
If the Horn an toga had been bedrag wled
in the filth and mire of centuries,
HE Bk^ly the cloak of Senatorial courtesy
B>een used to hide the infamy and
E Vuption which has dishonored and
IKgraceci the body which was ouce the
H K>roudest in the land. The cloak of
H Senatorial courtesy has become a
I^Kstench to the nostrils and a byword in
Ikhe mouth of all honest citizens or tne
Band. It means a cloak behind which
ignorant and arrogant wealth can purchase
its way to power and then hide
its cowardly head behind the shameless
protection "of Senatorial silence. It
means a cloak which shall cover up
from the public gaze of an outraged
people infamies which demand investigation
and which merit the punishment
of broken laws and violated
statutes. It means a cloak behind
which petty party bickerers may barter
away the party's principles and play
the demagogue in the face of the people.
It means a cloak behind which
pretended fairness hides its dishonest
H head, while in secret it is traomg
trafficking in the rights and libgct?s
of the people. It means a clpair under
which not only the tim44-tfnd cowardly
Sfift politician can cover up his tracks, be
BH they foul or fair, as necessity demands.
The hour for Senatorial courtesy has
passed. The ox team of Senatorial
progress must give way to the motor
of a more enlightened and progressive
and determined age. Let tlie old and
threadbare cloak of Senatorial courtesy
be hunsr up with the sickle and Mail of
a bygone day.
Referring to the betrayal of Christ
by Judas Mr. Kennedy said: It was
meet and fitting that Judas should be
paid thirty marks of silver?it was still
part of the enternal fitness of things
that having been guilty of the basest
crime-of all the centuries he should go
out and hang himself. History is re
peatmgr itse:r. j ne great- ytuv> ui wic
Republic, having lived for thirty live
years, has never yet assisted in riveting
the shackles upon a human being, and
now, when it was to be expected that
it would redeem its pledges and be
faithful to its history, it is about to
prove false and oftrepeated promises
are not to he redeeir^x^lt comes victorious
from every Held, and if it fails
now it finds in its own partyThose who
are faithless to its trust, if it i*is> be
crucified it is only because its chosealeaders
haw; bartered away its principles
for the Tricks and petty schemes
of politicians. Xo Judas Iscanot of
2,000 years ago is to (ind a counterpart
in the Judas Iscariot of to-day. The
Judas who took thirty pieces of silver
and went and hanged" himselt has left
an example for the Matt Quays that is
well worthy of their limitation.
Some time since I stood up in my
place on this lloor and denounced a
Senator from my native State, because
when charged with corruption and i
branded with infamy he did not arise i
m ms seal ana demand an luvesu^a-1
tion and inquiry that should establish j
the purity of his actions and his per- i
sonal honor.
One other, occupying a high place in j
the councils of the party to which I be- j
long, has suffered himself, month in;
and month :>ut, to be charged with j
crimes and misdemeanors lor which, if j
guilty, he should have been condemned j
under the laws of his State and have!
had meted out to him the fullest mc-as- j
tire of its punishir.ent. This man is a i
Republican. fehaU 1 now remain |
silent? Is it just and honest to remain j
in my seat silent because one who is J
accused of crimes and refuses to seek :
for vindication, is a Republican, and!
taBMote^i^^ujan the recognized leader j
j^^either decency nor
OMC? HnMBCKAI JMM 1 MM ?? II 1 MB ?aKMl
honor would permit me to do so.
I do not know whether the charges j
made against the chairman of the:
National Republican committee are i /
true or false, but I do know they have j
been made by journals of character and j
standing again, and again, and I do j
know that in the face of those charges ! i
Matt Quay has remained silent and has |
neither sought nor attempted to seek
opportunity to vindicate himself from
them. I do know that as a great liepublican
leader he owed it to the great
party at whose head he was either to
brand them as infamies or to prove '
their falsity, or he owed it to that par-'1
ty to standaside from its leadership.- : 1
lie has not done either, and for this ; ]
I denounce him. The Republican party j
cannot afford to follow the lead of a j
branded criminal. lie has failed to s
justify himself, although opportunity c
and ample time has been given. lie [
remains silent. His silence under such
circumstances is a confession of guilt.
An honorable man does not long dally *
1- - - t r TT^ A r.
wnt'ii nis nouur is ussuueu. xic nus uc- >
layed too long to justify belief in his t
innocence, and he stands a convicted ,
criminal before the bar of public opin- '
ion. J
Under such circumstances he should *;
be driven from the head of a party ,
whose very life his presence imperils. The
Republican party has done enough ,
for its pretended leader. Let him be j
relagated to the rear. It is no longer a
question of his vindication. It is now
a question of the life of the party itself, j
Kennedy read his speech from manu- j I
scriot, occupying about half an hour in |,
its delivery."" ^
HE FELT AWFUL QUEE"?. t
The Hair liaising; Experience of a Tele- ^
graph Editor. ^
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.?Mr. Tom c
Murphy, telegraph editor of the Atlan- j
ta Journal, is glad that he is alive to- s
night. lie had a strange experience to ^
day while in the discharge of his daily t
duties. 1.
lie had opened a number of tele- s
grams, read them, wrote heading for t
them and sent them to the printers ^
when he had a hair raising experience. r
He opened a telegram, read it as his j
eyes grew t?ig with horror, and then s
getting up he went over to a fellow r
worker's desk and said very earnestly, %
t:Do I look like a dead man V" " \
"No, what makes you think so?"
"Just read that," and Mr. ilurphy ^
shoved the telegram under his friend's c
nose while he wiped cold beads of per- s
spiration from his reeking but massive j
brow. ^
The telegram was from Augusta, ;
Mr. Murphy's former home. It read ^
something like this:
'Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Ship the body ; r
of D. Murphy on the_ ne.YJV-f
train."" See that it is~ertCibse'?fTn a heat j n
casket and we will p;iv all expenses ? ! $
Chronicle." " h
Mr. Murphy was pulling his hair to tj
see if he was really alive, when he v
opened another telegram, and then it
was all that he could do to make him- a
self believe he was not a corpse. 2
It was from his father, and asked ^
that the body of his son be sent to Au- i j
gusta on the*first train and he would J r
meet it with some of his friends at! ^
Covington. i ^
The Chronicle's message was answer- t
ed by Mr. Murphy, telling his old pa- r
per tnai ne was me liveliest uui^ac r
imaginable. j
His father and his friends had left a
Augusta, so Mr. Murphy waited until t
the down train left, and took passage
upon it to meet them at Covington. t
The old man's feelings can batter be
imagined than described when he met ^
his son in the flesh, well and healthy, p
instead of meeting his lifeless body. f.
Mr. Murphy is at a loss to know how ^
the report of his death reached Augus- n
ta. c!
11 p snvc it. malct'S a fallow fee! awful ! r
queer to read about his own body being jJ
put in a neat casket for burial. j
Smallpox in Texas. C
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 31.?1The ,v
smallpox outbreak in this part of Texas
and along the Mexican border is becoming
so widespread as to cause .
much alarm in this city. The disease *
is spreading, and while a few days ago s
there were only a few cases, there are ,
now twenty-five or thirty. There is J1
seldom a time when smallpox does not L
prevail here to a greater or k-ss extent; .n
but heretofore the pestilence has been ^
con Lined to the Mexican and negro J
a?.?i r\ n-ot-nr fhflri oro st* i ^
y^UlliLClO. U >* , bUVi ^ (IJLV/ * *. v
least ;i dozen serious cases in the fash- c
ionable residence centner the city. !
The health authority's are taking no f
steps looking to tb^iermination of the 1;
disease, and of the patients has f
been remorfti. to the pest house. At ''}
Wa?j>*f?e outbreak of smallpox has be- 1
so serious as to necessitate the ,v
establishment of a quarantine. There ?
are a number of cases at Lockhart, J
while ?.agie 1'ass and several otner 01 the
towns along the Mexican border [
are under quanantine regulations. At 5
Eagle P;iss the disease is very fatal, r
and many deaths have occurred.
Rutker Die than Surrender. ?
City of Mexico, via Galveston, t
August 31.?A San .Jose, 3). E., Guate- i
mala, dispatch says everything was pre- t
pared this morning to capture the revo- c
lutionist, Ged Martin Uarrundia, who t
was un board a passing American steam- 1
er. The port captain, with several com
panions, uoaraeu ine steamer <mu ue- ?
manded the surrender of Barrundia from f
Capt. Pitts, who answered that he would i
deliver up the revolutionist and invited i
them to Barrundia's cabin. Assistant *
Chief of Police Capt. Calderon and three i
orticers were among those who went with (
the captain to the cabin. When there ?
Major.Torriello made known to Barrun- I
dia that the captain of the vessel had c
decided to deliver him up. Barrundia <
thereupon opened lire with his revolver
upon the party, who answered his lire. (
Barrundia fell,"riddled with bullets. His 1
body was taken to the port captain's J
v'i,lvv-- j
A Rise in Provisions.
Ma cox. Ga., September 4.?The Tele- j t
graph says the corn crop is estimated at i
l/)00.000,b00 bushels. In 18S9 it was 2.-1:
113.000.0iK) bushels, tlie largest ever har- j j
vested. The average crop for five years ;,
past has been 1.800.000.000 bushels." The j |
large surplus from last year renders it t
probable that the supply will not fall be-; j
low the average, notwithstanding this i ]
year's shortage. The oats crop is poor ; ]
in quality in many localities and will;.
not exceed 575,000,000 bushels, against I <
751.000,000 busliels last year, which was j J
the largest crop ever grown. Provisions ! ^
have advanced, owing to the increased }
price of corn. Ilogs for January deliv- ]
en- at Chicago are 25 per cent*, higher j,
than last year's prices. * ;.
Killed by Klectrlcity. i <
Wheeling, W. Va., August 25).? |;
At 7 o'clock this evening, a colored;!
man named Joe Solomon, employed in I
the Wheeling Terminal Railway com-;
pany's tunnel, now in course of con- i
struction, stepped on a wire which sup- I:
plied the current to the electric lights .:
in the tunnel headings ana was ins- ;
tantly killed. A man who is known I
only by his contract number stepped on
the same wire just as bolomon fell and ;'
was instantly killed. Two other men ;;
~w?;e shocked from the wire. Both men ;?
wore thick soled leather boots, and ! 1
[ neither's body were burned or mangled ;
! in an> way. * 11
VOUDOOISM IN FLORIDA.
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\ STRANGE TALE FROM THE LAND OF
FLORIDA.
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>v iiitc and mack reoj>le Flockins to llie j 1
! 1
Hut of a Negro Voutloo Doctor, WI?o j
Claims that he Can I)o any Thins: he is j
I 1
Paid for.
Savannah, Sept. 4.?Maxwell, a j:
lamlet in Florida seven miles south of j j
Baldwin, on the Florida Central and j (
?eninsula Railroad, is becoming fa-! (
. .. .. . i
nous judging l'rom the numerous p:isengers
for th;it place the past in*" <
>v two. The town has a store and three y
louses, and the surrounding country is ;
iparsely settled. Ordinarily not more s
han three or four passengers a week j
vould make up its quota, but when j (
he number increased to seventy-five,; j
tnd then to one hundred and fiftv. the !1
>ersons under whose notice the increase! 4
:ame begun an investigation. Your j.
:orrespondent made a Hying trip to| Uaxwell
yesterday, and" interviewed j1
Jr. 'Lisha* Wilkinson, the great magic , 1
lealer and voudoo of the negroes for;;
lundreds of miles around. j:
The reporter arrived at Maxwell at: I
light, and had to ride a mule back two j (
i.? i <
uUvO LUlUU?ll tUC UCCp JJ1UC XUiCDLO UC" j *
ore reaching the doctor's habitation, j
)n the way a c;imp of some fifteen or -v
nore colored people was passed, who, 1
he guide said, had come l'rom Xorth- s
!rn Georgia to consult the doctor, t
Chey were all ranged around a big fire r
loltling an excited consultation, and c
ixamining a big sheet of paper that s
>ne of them hel<l As the reporter ap>roached
they ran olT into the woods, i
md nothing could induce them to con- c
rerse with him. The guide said that 1
his was the usual custom, the paper 3
>eing some Kmu or magic vouuoo or i
pell the doctor had given to them, and I r
hey thought that if strangers saw it it J t
vould lose its force and power. The 5
>arty approached the house and the j c
lewspaper man went in. A short, j 0
tout man, with one eye bandaged, ap- j 1
>roached him, saying,""! was expecting i c
ou," and shook him by the hand. This \
ipset the reporter, and for a moment
ie stood still looking at the celebrated a
loctor. His rugged, tanned face was
>neof shrewd determination, and his (
mall gray eyes twinkled with unusual J
orce. A slouch hat was over his grayvhite
hair, while a rough flannel shirt, *
ean trousers without suspenders, and i a
>icr 1>rnty:in? pnmhi? pAcfmno
"Doctor," said tji'e reporter, "I've got jt
heumatism the worst way in my back, j s
' The 1
motioned for him to bare his back. lie j b
id so. The doctor then ran his open |
and over the br.re ilesh in circles and j h
h.en did the sau:e, using his index fin- i e1
er alone. An uncomfortable feeling! h
oon manifested itself, and it seemed j y
s if that finger was a piece of hot-iron, j h
le stopped shortly and abruptly told
lie reporter to resume his clothing, y
'aking up a small square of pasteboard ?
uled into i'( ur squares, with the num- c
ers 1,10,16,134 in them, he gave that i:
o the reporter and told him to read u
hose off backward every night as he P
etired for a week, and after that the
heumatism would never be felt again,
'he ret rter expressed his gratitude, ,.
n& then had a long conversation with I 4
he '"healer." j J}
He said that this power to cure byly.
ouch any disease, wound or hurt wasj
estowed upon him when a youn? man j n
y an utter stranger, and that he has: ?
racticed it lor sixty years. "I can j
ure dropsy, rheumatism, cancer, etc,' .v
y looking at the patients, sometimes |
ot even touching them," said he. "I j
an?t say what this power is. but do all 1:
can to cure them, and succeed when 'f
;>ts of doctors have given up the job. 1
can make absent and separated n
ouples return to each other, make a ;l
i ~ ~ I n i 1 U*
v ouictii iove vuu, aiju iiuu sto:ea ana ;
DSt property 1 knew to-day that you e
rere coming." The reporter soon found
ut that the old fellow would not give
nv real details of his work, and so f
ought out some of his neighbors. ~
"What do the niggers say about .v
iimT repeated one of the oldest set- 11
lers. "Why they come hundreds of T
niles just to see him on all sorts of .
msiness. I have known them to come
rom the C:irolinas, Georgia, Alabama, il
,na irom au pans or cms state, rney ;
amp out when they come here and *
ron't have anything to do with white ^
oiks. I've seen many a queer proceed- ,
og in their camps while here, dancing '
.round the fire, 'voudoo' practice, and
H that sort of mummery. They think (
he world of him, and they will go
vithout their last dollar to pay him a
iig sum. You see, he dosen't charge
hem anything. Oh, no! lie knows" a *
rick worth two of that. lie tells them r
o 'compliment' him, and they strive to ;
ee who will give him the largest and 0
nost expensive 'compliments' in the
ror nf mnnov TNra L-nntrn Kim Ia
?C V/A. IUV11VJ. JL T O ?? 11 111 111 w ut*rwv,
n from 850 to 8100 a day fof days tojether.
They go to him for fetishes to c
nake some woman look upon them, t
or'spells'to injure an enemy, or oven
,o kill some one. lie will look on one
>f them when brought before him and j,
ell him to go back home, and that he t
,vill be well when he gets there.
"But the whites are helping 'CulTee' j
;o fill this fraud's coffers. lie gets from ! (
ifty to two hundred letters a week,: x
nany of them enclosing money, asking I.
?or advice. lie cannot read a line and ! j
hesc letters are simply opened, the I j
noney taken out. and the letters burn-j i
;d. He has never been known to an- i *
;wer a letter of any kind, even by j
mwvtt TTa ?.)cctiroc hie rlnnnc th?it* hp
:an treat t'nem as well when they arc; j ?
it home as when near him. " | (
"White women from Xew York, |}
Chicago, Cincinnati, and other places \
risited him here last winter, and this !;
summer hundreds of white ladies from ' j
;owns within 200 miles have gone i j
.hrougb the mummeries that he some- i ]
;imes practices. lie is worth many | =
;housands of dollars arained in this way. I j
lie has no bank, but buries his money ? i
n the ground near his house, and stich ; \
s the reputation of the place that it; <
ivould be a bold robber that would defy :\
.rie "uoctor s speu auu ity uj stxuju: n.. .
Several negroes expressed themselves i.
n the utmost awe oi' the old doctor and j
lis spells. One said that his wife had!<
run off with another man. and that the i j
.loctor had changed her mind so that i j
;he returned home in a month. Another
had lost a span of a horses, and
:he doctor found them hundreds of
miles from home. Still another had j i
seen bitten by a rattlesnake, the doc- 1
tor put his hanc on the wound and he 1 <
went home cured. Sam Jackman' 1
shou-prt -a hi ft sr>..ir on his breast where i 1
i load of buckshot hit him. The doctor
simply washed the wound, muttered i;
something over Sam and dismissed him. j l
[t was well within two days.
Thf. rr>nnrf(>r Ip.irnpi! from the rail- : :
road officials that more tickets were |.
soiid lor this place than lor any place ;:
around with ten times its business, i1
Parties to the railroad office have been j
daily asking for information regarding j
the doctor's home. Herein Savannah j<
;i party is made up weekly, chielly of : i
colored people, and when "they return;!
home a grand pow-wow is held in ;
which hundreds gather to hear of this j1
much-advertised doctor. t<
THE COTTON CROP.
J-he Total Number of I5;iIos and the Movement.
New Orleans, Sept. 4.?The New
Orleans Exchange issued to-day the
jfiicial report of the cotton crop of the
United States for the commercial year
?nding with the close of August, 1690,
nade up by Secretary Hester.
The report states that the total crop
unounts to 7,311,322 bales, exceeding
:hc largest crop ever grown by 205,489
jaies, and the crop of last year by 373.)32.
The statement wiil bear the
closest scrutiny.
The report objects to the method of
leducting the cutTon consumed ia the
Southern cotton ports from the totals
)f the cotton shipped across the Ohio,
Mississippi and Potomac rivers. The
secretary lias obtained reports from
jvery mill m the South and claims that
lis statement does not contain a single
ilement of the estimate. The total
Southern consumption for the past
rear is reported at 540,303 bales, against
181,245 last year.
fPVw* aF in rtr.ovofion lo
I 1 1 C HUlilUUl VI liillio ill rtClVU AO
!T0, with 1,005,191 spindles. Thirtyline
new mills, with 241,864 spindles,
lave commenced work during the year,
md 15 new mills have been completed
tnd will be at work this fall. Forty'our
mills are idle, a number of which
'xpect to start up again at an early
late.
The total number of mills in the
south is now 330, with 40,S10 looms and
.,810,291 spindles. The increase of
;pindles durin? the past year is equival nt
to nearly one half of the entire
uunber reported in the South by the
:ensus of 1830. The census of that year
howed 104 mills, with 701,300 spindles.
The gain within the past ten years
ias been 172 mills with 1,220,477 spinlies,
the increase in the number of
>ales of cotton consumed having been
157,015 or more than 180 per cent.
AVith reference to the cotton movenent
for the year the statement makes
he net receipts at the delivery ports
,857,174, a gain over last year 300.S20;
>verland district to Northern mills,
>37,471, a decrease from last year of
228, Southern consumption (exclusive
if 30,217 bales taken from Southern
>orls) 510.077, a gain over last year of
17,710, and the total crop 7,311,322 bales,
l gain over last year of 373,032.
Foreign exports, including 55,401 to
-i v. 'i nrrr not ^
>ciinu:ii, w ific t,voo,voi, a yuiu uvci irtsi,
ear of 105,253.
Takings ot cotton during the year
or consumption in the United States
imounted to 2.310,152 bales.
Of this 1,799,258 bales went to Xorhern
spinners, against 1,785,979 last
c;ison. This shows an increase of only
3.279 bales, against an increase in the
of Dearly 68.000 bales.
Xot onfy Ts^Jihe crop of 1SS9-90 the
irgest ever producecf,'6u tvi-has moyd
"oil with unexampled rapidity and
rought full prices throughout the
ear; netting to the farming interest a
andsome surplus.
One of the curious features of this
ear's movements was the shipment of
lore than 20.000 bales of American
otton through Ontario, via the Canada
'aciiic railway to Japan. Fifty bales
;ere also shipped to Japan from the
ort of Xew York.
A Vierlih
Hazard, Ky., Sept. I ? The first conict
between troops and outlaws, which
as long been expected, took place on
aturday. For several days past Lieut,
ior.ta, in charge of a squad of three
len, has been out in search of indicted
atlaws. They succeeded in captuiing
:mr, and were on their way to Hazard,
. hen, coming through a narrow pass
n the mountains, they were ambushed,
'he ambushers were concealed in a
jrge gully and took the troops tinware.
rhey rallied, however, and reurned
the volley, killing one of the
nen. uDon which the outlaws turned
nd lied. The outlaw killed is not
nown by name or sight. The prisonrs
refused to give his name.
The volley from the outlaws seriousf
wounded one of the soldiers. Sereant
Fred Gordon of the Johnson
} wards received a bullet in his left leg
-hich will probably cripple him for
ife. Lieut. Bonta and his detachment
eached Hazard without further interference
and lodged their prisoners in
nil. Several of "the indicted outlaws
re stiil at large, and it is doubtful if
hey will be captured. Among them is
.'oin Smith, one of the murderers of
oe Ebersole. The troops left Hazard
o-dav. J utlge Lilley refused to allow
ail in any of the twenty-three murder
ases. The prisoners are confined in
!iark County jail at Winchester.
It lias Struck Terror to Europo.
New Youk. Aug. 31.?In the interiew
with Chauneey M. Depew cabled
roni London, and published here this
norning, Depew says: "I found the
ontinent oi' Europe almost in a panic
ver the McKinley tarill bill. In Gsrnany,"
he said, '*! found it a matter of
miversal discussion and even a guard
>n the railroad and a hotel keeper dismissed
it most anxiously with me. In
r.-ance the alarm is even greater, as
>eople seem to believe that to carry out
ts measures would entirely ruin "their
:ommerce. This terror has broken
hrough the official crust of the upper
:l;isses, and soaked well into the people
if the manufacturing districts. In
Germany and France particularly,
vhole villages and districts, where the
>eople subsist from year to year on noth
ng but the product of their labor sold
11 America, believe that the McKinley
uil means starvation to them."
Ghostly Indications of Crime.
Cedar Rapids, lovva, August 31 ? a
uiunted house is exciting people of the
rity of Pecorah ?uid promises to disclose
i tragedy of the darkest kind. The
louse was ocupied by a young woman
mda man named Johnson. The wonan
gave birth to a child which was disposed
of bv some means, as yet unknown.
Shortly after this a woman's
icreuins were heard in the house, and
rom then on no one has been seen or
ieard on the premises. This was
;hree months ago. The household
;oods remain untouched. It is thought
jy the authorities that both the woman
:.nd babe were murdered by Johnson.
An anoarition has been seen. it is al
ieged* by a number of the best people
jf the city, large crowds congregatiug
lear the house nightly. Investigations
is being made.
The County Debts.
Washington, Sept. 4.?The census
bureau a few days ago issued a bulletin
containing the linancial condition
}f the counties in -South Carolina. The
total decrease in debt, during the last
ten years was 8158,581. or 12 per cent.
Ine "counties having no bonded debt
ire Oconee, Anderson, Abbeville, Edgefield,
Aiken, Orangeburg, Newberry,
Fairfield, Lexington. Kickland, Darlington,
Georgetown, Williamsburg and
Marlboro. Having 81,000 and under
Ci 000. Sumter. Barnwell. Hampton.
Chesterfield and Marion; -55,000*and
under 810,000, Beaufort; ?35,000 and
under 850,000, Horry, York and Pickens;
875,000 and under 8100,000, Lancaster;
8100,000 and under 8250,000,
Laurens, Chester, Union and Kershaw;
S50,000 and under 875,0U0, Colleton and
Charleston; 8250,000 and under 8500,3U0,
Spartanburg.
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THE REPUBLICANS AGREE
That the Loss Said about the Quay Matter
The Better.
Washington, September 4?Much
indignation exists among Republican
i Senators over Mr. Kennedy's attack
j yesterday on the Senate as a whole and
C/mnf Af iw vrtwfi /v? 11 o t* Cavarol
ociicitui v^uav 111 paiiiuiiiai. U^VCMCU.
consultations have been held, but 110
plan of action has been agreed upon.
A prominent Senator, familiar with
parliamentary precedents and practices,
when asked what would be the proper
course to be pursued if it were decided
to do anything, said that if after a time
the House took no action, the Senate
should pass a resolution, courteous in
tone, calling the attention of the House
to the unparliamentary proceeding and
then leave it to deal with the question
as it saw tit. But this action would depend
on the manner in which the
knowledge of the delivery of the speech
reached the Senate. Kennedys remarks
do not appear in to-day's Record,
the reporter noting that they "are withheld
for revision." Unless" they come
before the Senate in the Kecord or some
other authoritative way it may be nothing
will be done.
Senator Quay knew nothing of the
delfVery of the speech till this morning
and after his arrival at the Senate
chamber he conferred with several colleagues,
spending considerable time
with Senator Ingalls. lie said to a reporter
that he had not determined
what course of action to pursue. lie
had under consideration the making of
a statement under the rule governing
questions of personal privilege, but he
was not fully decided what to do.
The Pennsylvania Republican members
of the House were very angry today
when they read Kennedy's publish,
ed speech. It so happened that as the
hour was late and it was understood
that nothing but debate was to occupy
the time, no Pennsylvania "Republican
member, and indeed very few other Republican
members, were present when
the speech was delivered yesterday, or,
they say, Kennedy would have been
called to order before he progressed far
in his attack.
"When their attention was attracted
by the published speech to-day the
Pennsylvania Republicans put their
heads together, and the result was the
preparation of a resolution instructing
the public printer to refrain from publishing
the speech in the liecord, as it
constituted a breach of decorum of the
rules of the House.
The resolution was entrusted to Mr.
Palzel for presentation to the House,
but before that could be done Mr. Burrows,
who is Speaker pro tern, was consulted.
By his advice representations
were made" to Mr. Kennedy which induced
him to withhold his speech from
4-Ua r\ n T*n a a
wis jjrii&iei iui a jlcyv ua)3, anu uuiidcquently
the resolution was likewise
^vithlield.
jfolhirrows, who was in the chair
when tfe?-Speech was delivered, was the
subject of* cttraKUsm at the hands of
some members because--^his failure to
check tlie speaker. But he jt^fied himself
by the statement that it hatf"*De*&2L
the invariable custom of the presiding
otlicer to refrain from passing judgment
upon the utterances of a member
until some member calls his attention
to an alleged breach of the rule.
Mr. Kennedy said this afternoon he
did not believe that he had said anything
actually constituting a violation
of the rules of propriety. He added
that he had not vet had an opportunity
to revise his speech, and untfl he had
had that opportunity it would be withheld
from the Record, but no longer.
Meanwhile the impression on the lloor
of the House is that the objectionable
features of the speech, if there were any
in a parliamentary sense, will be eliminated
before it is published, and that
the matter will end there.
The Winds of Death.
Chicago, September 4?The Tribune
says the year of IS'JO bids fair to be memorable
as a clyclone year. Every
month, except February, has contributed
to the list of fatalities by this cause
and the localities of disaster are so wide
spread as to controvert the favorite
theory that Kansas, Nebraska, Dekota,
Missouri and Iowa are the principal
centres of clyclonic disturbance. In
January. 11 lives were lost in Kentucky;
in March, 440 in Kentucky; in April, 15
in Arkansas; in May, 20 in Texas: in
June, 27 in Nebraska and Illinois; in
July, 110 in Minnesota and 9 in Massachusetts.
and in August, 35 in Pennsylvania.
The total number of lives lost
by clyclones in 1890 in the United States
(including all kinds of wind-storms), is
915, as compared with 163 in 1889, 350
in 1888,188 in 1887,272 in 1886 and 111 in
1885. It would not be surprising if the
completed record of 1890 should show an
9rr<rrofi+o Inrcr/ir tlian that rif t.ViA Inst. fivp
years combined. The old world has not
been spared in this record. It adds 4,22(5
to the list as follows: In February.
Japan, 3.000; in May, Siberia, 300; in
June, Bulgaria, 20; in July, Ariabia, 700
and I'oland 25: in August, France 10,
Germany 20 and Switzerland 150.
Wont Brck on Us.
Wasi i ixgtox, Sept. 4?Binding twine
could not hold the Republican party together.
so when that item was reached
in the consideration of the tariff bill in
the Senate to-day the financial committee
was overruled by a vote of 34 to 24,
tiuoluA W'psf-prn "Itamihlirtans vntfno*
with the Democrats to strike off the duty
of l}{ cents per pound on binding twine
and place it upon the free list. Senator
lilodgett, of Xew Jersey, was the only
Democrat to vote against it.
Futher along in the bill the item of
cotton bagging was reached, and the
Southern Democrats fully expected their
Western friends to come to the assistance
of the cotton-growers of the South,
but the mere fact that a Southern industry
was to be benefited was sufficient
cause for the "Western Republicans to
Hop back into their party lines and vote
to retain the duty on cotton bagging.
Senator Vance was outspoken in his
denunciation of the Republicans' trick,
I < ??-?/1 n/wniVk AA/I 11 O C
<11111 lie J IV/ UiiLt/U l/ll^ Mil; ?Q OtU"
ticnal in all its important provisions.
Thus the Western wheat-growers gets
cheap binding twine, while the Southern
cotton planters will be required to
pay dearly for the cotton bagging ?
I Xews and Courier.
Slaughtered the Family.
San Andreas, Cal., Sept. 3.?A terrible
tragedy occurred at West Point, a
mining town in Calaveras County, Friday
night. A man named Gallagher
shot his wife fatally and then committed
suicide. Gallagher had been drinking
heavily, and in a lit of passion killa/1
Kit* ? ?r?A 'PH<a ivifo
I ru iilO KUUllJ (4X1 \4 JlH\s
I is not yet dead, but she is not expected
to live. Mrs. Gallagher has kept the
j hotel at West Point several years, and
j lately her husband has been away, but
she sent him money to return" He
| came home recently and it is said
: wanted more money, but his wife reI
fused to advance further sums to him
Killed by an Electric Wire.
Cincinnati, August 30.? Thomas
! Dow, aged 22, a lineman of the Brush
| Company, was standing on an iron lire
: escape and was about to run a loop into
a second-story window. He caught a
live electriclight wire and instantlytell
back dead on the fire escape. Ilis right
hand was nearly burned off.
! A PRETTF KETTLE OF FISH.
DR. SMITH SAYS HE DID NOT TELL
I
about that caucus.
Capt. Shell Toes the Mark?He Says he
Knows Nothing of that Caucus?Senator
Smith Says he Was Misunderstood at
Walker's Cross Roads.
Greenville, S. G., September 4.?At
a meeting held in this county last Monday
Captain G. W. Shell, in speaking
of the recent charges preferred against
him by Dr. Smith, said he was not at
Walker's Cross Roads, and asked to be
allowed to say as a truthful man that
if he knew anything of the matter to
which Dr. Smith had referred to before
he had seen it in the Greenville
News he did not know it so help him
Almighty God.
As to the rumor of his candidacy for
Secretary of state ne caiiea on ms nearers
to look at his position in the March
Convention. lie had said he was a can- .
didate for no office and had so stated ;
there, notwithstanding the fact that he i
had been strongly urged to accept
something at the hands of the people. ,
No man could say that he had ever expressed
such a wish. He had even beg- ,
ged and besought the Hon. James E. <
Tindal, the present candidate, to ccme J
forward for the office. \
L1!. av* mwaaaa/^a/I f a ofof a (
L/<lplUlU OI1CU l/UCU piuuccucu liU OL<*LO ,
that during the last State Fair he had <
been in Columbia, and while he was there
there was a caucus held in his :
bed room at the Grand Central Hotel. 1
Some twenty gentlemen were present.
II. B. Buist, of Greenville, was among 1
that number. General Stackhouse was
not there, and if his memory was cor- 1
rect neither Dr. Smith nor Captain Tillman
was present. If Dr. Smith was
there he had no recollection of it.
Seeing Dr. Smith in the audience, ]
Captain Shell called on him to say k
whether he was there or not. Dr. Smith |
answered that he was not.
Captain Shell continued that he had '
told the Executive Committee that if 1
they meant active hostilities to the pres- 1
ent" government he could not serve
them. He had been instructed to issue 1
an address to the people of the State.
It was prepared and published. Captain
Tillman had said to him after he
had called the convention that he had
better select a man who would accept a
nomination. He went to General Stackhouse,
Captain Courtenay and to Col.
Y. J. Tope. Each had declined. No
oiher name was mentioned.
Referring to the McKissick statement
in theNews editorial Captain
Shell said^M^^bgl E. P. McKissick
had ask^H^HB^M&going to be a
candi<^H^^^^^^^BhyLle had tcld
h i n^^HNfflflBH^^^HB^^aptain
do in
the people, but he made noHpleag'e T
either to support or vote for Colonel j1
McKissick.
About the 20th of June he heard that P.
Dr. Mauldin would be a candidate for L
the seat in Congress. He sat down and v
wrote him saying that he would sup- c
port and vote* for him. If he had him- c
self published all the letters pertaining E
to the secret workings of the Farmers' c
Association what would the people
think of him ? He had also told Judge
Crawford, of Columbia, that he would ]
not be a candidate and invited that v
gentleman to come to Laurens and he o
would present him to the people. Judge t
Crawford had declined. Some time be- p
fore that he had talked with Gen. John ^
Bratton and had said to him that he a
(Hserved something at the hands of the c
State and he had promised him his vote r
and influence. At ttat time uenerai
Bratton contemplated running for a
Congress and it would have been bet- v
ter for him if he had held to the idea. ^
Captain Shell said it was the first c
time in his life he had been cnarged ?
with duplicity. In the recent primary v
in Laurens he had never raised his r
voice for or against any of the candi- t
dates. lie tried to have a kind word j
for all of them and not one man could ?
charge him with doing anything
against him. }
Captain Shell said that after the Alii- {
anpp ^nnfprpnpA harl fail pel to name a 7
congressman he had been urged by let- r
tcrs from all the counties in the dis
trict. Mr. Donaldson, of Greenville, \
had been offered the position but he \
had declined. The people had demand- <\
ed of him that he should enter the race, j
Not all the people had done so, but peo- j
pie from all the counties had. If any T
man had been honored by the people he
had. lie had a volume of letters at
home thanking him for the part he had
taken in delivering the people of the t
^ - * i s -a ^ l
oiaie lroui uonuujje ;tuu uypicaaiuii. 1
Dr. R. M. Smith spoke also and in re- t
fering to the recent newspaper state- j
ment, said that he seldom wrote c
his speeches but that he seldom for- i
got anything he said, At the Walk- j
ersville meeting he had started out by 1
giving a biographical sketch of his 1
political career. In 1868 he had been 1
elected to the legislature and remained t
a member till 1876. He cast the decid- t
ing vote which determined the course .
of the Democratic party in 1876 and ;
had at that time received a most severe <
lecture from Cant. F. W. Dawson, who j 1
favored the fusion ticket which had j <
been suggested. He had then taken up ,
how he had become a candidate for congressional
honors. lie had stated then
that in July 1889, he was at a meeting
of the State Alliance and was in a conference
with other gentlemen whose .
names he had mentionad. At that time '
the Governor had in his pocket the ,
Clemson College bill. Col. 11. "W. Simp- ,
son, Captain Tillman, Colonel Xorris j |
and others, trustees were present, j1
and they were discussing the pOVicy to j!
be adopted in case the Supreme Court I
decided against the will. Afterward ,
the talk turned on political matters.! j
General Stackliouse was spoken of for;'
Governor but said he had other aspira-'
tions. Captain Shell was spoken of for;
Secretary of State but said he did not
want it. He said he had Congressional
aspirations himself and Captain Shell
. -1 1- :C U- 1,3
naa asKeu miii u uc uuuiu wuj uyoitanburg.
He had replied that. he
thought he could. The other day he
had just learned that Captain Shell was
a candidate and he had said that he
was puzzled at it. Captain Shell's conversation
in the conference had ledhim
to believe that he would not be a candidate
and that gentleman had afterward
told him that he would not be. lie had
not authorized the use of his name in
the caucus. lie said that he had heard
somethiug of a letter he had received. ]
He had received no such letter. At the
Walkersville meeting he had said that
Captain Shell's action had puzzled him,
but he would not say that it was wrong
in him. He never saw the manifesto
in the conference. He had talked with !
Captain "sneu aoouc one. ue wouiu
say in justice to Captain Tillman that
when he had heard him abused he had
defended him and had said when he had
heard his motives questioned that he
had declined to run most empnaticaily.
The Greenville News, of September 2. \
in commenting on the above says:
Dr. R. M. Smith says he did not say at
Walker's Cross Roads what the Greenville
Daily News reported him as having
said. Captain G. W. Shell says if
Dr, R. M. Smith did say what the
Greenville News says he said at Walkers
Cross Roads he said what was untrno
W A TTimf: nf fhic
says he heard Dr. Smith say at Walker's
Cross Roads what the Greenville News
says he said and what Captain Shell
says is untrue. Lieutenant Governor
Mauldin says that he was at "Walker's
Cross Roads and heard Dr. Smith's j
speech there and that the report of that I
speech in the News is correct. We j
have not seen John T. Bramiett, county ;
chairman o? this county, but the reporter
who obtained the information
on which the report of the Walker's
Cross Roads meeting was based received
most of that information from Captain
Bramiett. We are informed that
that gentleman stands by his statement
made to the Xews reporter and says
Dr. Smith did say at Walker's Cross
Roads what this newspaper reported
that he said. We are further informed
that Perry Smith, of the Walker's Cross
Roads neighborhood, is another man
who understood Dr. Smith just as Major
Hunt, Lieutenant-Governor Mauldin
and Chairman Bramlett understood
bim, and that there are scores, and
perhaps hundreds, of men who will say
that he said what we reported that he
said.
This is one of the most interesting,
complicated and peculiar developments
Dt tins interesting, complicated ana pe !
culiar campaign. The gentleman wei
have quoted say Dr. Smith said at Walk- i
?r's Cross Roads that he, Tillman, Shell j
Stackliouse and Simpson got together
and divided four fat offices among
;hem in advance. Captain Shell says if
Dr. Smith said so he said what wasn't
;rue.
Dr. Smith savs he didn't say so, but
;hat he said something very different, j
That is what we call on the whole a
fery pretty kettle of fish.
In 2. Storm of Fire.
Maucii Chunk, Pa., August 30.?A
partyfof moonlight excursionists on the
Switchback Railroad here barely escap;d
with their lives last night. Mrs.
rheodore G. Mumford, the wife of the
proprietor of the Switchback, hacl ar anged
an excursion over the gravity
oad. Threatening clouds had portended
a storm, and when the gentlemen and
adies weie in the height of their enjoynent
it burst upon them in all its fury.
Forked lightning played over the btirnng
mines, the electricity communica;ed
with the ever arising* gases, and for '
??? I 1
lilies lilts s>uciie icscuiJjicu tuuo via
mrning prairie. While the merry ;
nakers were admiring the sight a fierce ;
jrighter blast lighted up the moun '
;ains. Closely following came a terrific
peal of thunder. It appeared as if the 1
leavens had opened up.and swallowed
;he hotel and its surroundings. Ladies !
swooned and even the bravest of the
jentlemen present held their breath, j
cnowing not which way to turn. A
:'orked tougue of fire passed completely '
through the house, entering at the rear (
l^he ballroom -citey-f
( fct?3?^a-way' everything in its J
iath and completely shattering every ,
rticle of glassware "in the bar. Every- {
ody in the house was stuuned, several *
tiore injured by the shock, but luck- *;
[y none were serioulv hurt. The storm '
/as one cf the* heaviest ever expcrien- 1
ed in this locality. The party were 1
ompelled to wait until morning before c
naking the return trip, as tho storm J
ontinued for several hours.
Republicans Draw a Color Line. "...
Charleston, W. Ya.,September 4? i
?he most- bitter political fight ever ]
i*aged in \Vest Virginia is now in pro- c
;ress in this county between the Nut- t
er and Dils factions of the Republican i
>arty. The fight is in reality a race (
vrar, the Natter men being composed t
lrnost exclusively of white Republi- i
ans and the Dils faction enrolls the t
icgro vote under a few white leaders. ?,
The Countv Convention three weeks i
igo became a disorganized mob, revol- t
ers were flourished, a dozen men i
mocked down, and the police were i
impelled to interfere and end the ?
ight. The same night Nutter was
vaylaid and shot twice. A week ago l
nembers ot' the Xutter faction r;tided l
he State Tribune office, beat Editor c
leber senseless and broke up the oftice (
ixtures. c
Two days later Nutter and John S. {
McDonald, custodian of the Federal j
milding, met P. "W. liussell, one of the i
)ils leaders, on the street, drew their t
evolvers and fired on him. liussell 1
iscaped without serious in j ury. Mem- 1
>ers of both factions go armed, and a
)loody light is imminent at any time. l?he
county gave over sixteen hundred !
Republican majority two years ago, l
>ut the Democrats expect to carry it ]
low. j
Monopoly's Latest Combination. !
T at-tc A i>or 31 The <5ivtr?on j
;ower companies of the United States <
lave formed a national trust similar to j
ihose cntrolling the manufacture and
Drice of white lead, linseed oil and j
cottonseed oil, and there is not one shot j
nanufacturing plant left out of the organization.
A Qnal meeting of the rep- (
esentatives of all the companies will
je held in Chicago to-morrow. Two of i
;he largest concerns, the Collier and ;he
St. Louis are located here. The
;itle of the new Association is the ,
American Shot Association capital ,
?3,000.000, incorprated under the laws ,
)f Illinois. All the plants will be
Dought outright for stock in the new
issociation. The omcers are rresiuent,
John Ferrell, L'ittsburg; secretary. E.
\V. Lower; treasurer, E A. Lellov. New
i'ork.
One Step Too Far.
Laxdsfoiid, Chester County, Sept.
3.?News reaches us that Tim Cureton,
the colored ferryman at Landsford, on
the Catawba River, a few miles from
here, lost his fifth child by drowning
on ths evening of the 31st ult. This
child, a daughter, known by the somewhat
ridiculous name of "Sweet Cheese,^
was aged about 12 years. She was engaged
in throwing leaves in the river
and catching-them as they lloated past
the rear end of the ferry boat, v nich
was anchored at the shore. Becoming i
careless, she leaned out too far. and,
losing her balance, fell into the stream.
The body has not been recovered.
Fatal ltailroad Wreck.
Pittsburo. .Sept. 4.?A special to the
Chronicle-Te^graph from .iJannington.
XV. Va., says: "Early this morning a
freight train ran into the "Spick up" on
the Baltimore and Ohio just east of
Mannington, causing a terrible wreck.
Engineer Cordell and an unknown man
were killed and sixteen cars were piled
on top of each other. The wreck took i
lire and the cars and contents were!
almost totally destroyed. Traffic was;
delayed several hours."*
Three Men Kille by l''oul Air.
Xew York. .Sept. 4.?At 9 o'clock this ;
morning three men were suffocated by
deadly gasses in an old cesspool on btaten
Island. One was employed to drain
nut. the renentade and clean out the cess
pool. Suspicious indications led a sec-1
ond to investigate and he was followed j
by the third, who saw that the first two j
needed assistance. All were poor labor-1
ing men.
MADE A RAIN OF IRON.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF A BIG GUN
LOADED WITH DYNAMITE.
~~i
The Fragments Sent Sky High and Scattered
Over 3Iany Miles?Nobodv was Injured,
but Scores Were Scared Nearly to
Death.
SYRACUSE, AUg. 30.?Dr. JOGi Or. J UStin,
the dynamite experimenter of this
city, made a third test of his dynamite
bombshell at Perryville last Tuesday.
The result was that the 12-ton gun
which he recently obtained from Boston
was blown into a thousand fragments
in the presence of at least two
hundred spectators. Xobody was injured,
but the pieces of the cannon arc
scattered all over a circle with a radius
of two miles. A number of pieces
barely missed the heads of some of the
DjJCTJUAlUid. X ULvlJ. Cawaj/C JLO
almost miraculous. The cannon was
placed for the experiment in a deep
gorge about a mile west from the village
of Perry ville, but two pieces were
seen flying over the village, and one
came down in a tree top between the
railway station and the hotel. The inhabitants
are very much excited, and
it is doubtful if they will allow the experiment
to be made again in this
vicinity, although the protection afforded
by the rocky ravine would seem to
be almost perfect.
What Dr. Justin was trying to do
was to prove that he had invented a
bombshell which could be filled with?^ -?'
the strongest kind of dynamite (75 per
cent, nitro glycerine,) and so thoroughly
protected that it could be projected
from an ordinarv cannon by the force
of gunpowder without exploding the
dynamite until it came in contact with
some substance outside. Dr. Justin's
plan is to project the shell any distance
the cannon will throw it, and thus ?
revolutionize heavy warfare. The cannon
used to-day was a twelve foot
rifled barrel with a nine-inch bore. It
weighed twelve tons and had been tested
in the Boston yards with forty-five
pounds of cannon powder behind a
shell weighing 375 pounds. The shells
to-day, when loaded with dynamite,
weighed 295 pounds each, and were projected
bv thirtv nounds of ordnance
powder.
It seemed at first as if success had . j
jrowned the inventor's effort. Preiminary
to the experiments a slight
jharge of powder. with wadding was
ired to clear out the bore. Next a shell
exactly of the weight aod style of the
Ivnamiter shells wa^Jjre^^twas fillor
the weight of d^M
[Thirty pounds of^|
and it, and it ufl
here were nj st?
heli (without^M
annon. Xo A
,nd then th<M
aining fojM
?f dynan*
pith the^H
if powde^
The
is mea
vith J
inicjfl
;argeiM
Uscha*
the
he noise^^j
lash was diso^HB
,he reeks and theaTa^^^WWlM H
vith sand and dirt and flying
:rom the dynamite explosion. The
;est had been a thorough success, thus
'ar, and cheers rang out from the sur ounding
hill tops, where most of thej
spectators had assembled.
Dr. Justin was warmly congratulated
jv his friends who had gathered around
lim. and preparations were speedily*?
:ompleted for shooting a second shell
>f dynamite to put success beyond a
loubt. The people again fell back to
rive the machine a wide berth and the
:use was applied. The dynamite shell
lever left the cannon at all, but scat;ered
itself over several miles of terri:ory,
and took the cannon with it in a
thousand pieces in as many directions.
The earthworks which had been built
ivent ud in a cloud of dust, taking the
lopes of Dr. Justin with them. A num- ^
jer of the spectators narrowly escaped^
[f the second shot had been as successluI
as the first it was to have closed the H
jxperiments of the day and general in- H
stations would have been issued toB
Government authorities and others to V B
see live other shells fired which have V
ilready been prepared.
Dr. Justin declined to say muchal??*,^M
ins plans for the future, but he has not V
jiven up his scheme. V
"IIow do you account for the acci- 1
lent?" asked a reporter. wj H
"It is very clear to my mind," he re- V
plied, producing a piece of the steel
wall of his dynamite shell. The shell V
had slipped easily into the barrel of the
cannon, but the piece which he pro- wj
rtuced bore distinct marks of the rifling
of the gun, showing that the steel had M
been pressei violently against it from
within. "You see," he continued, "the
inner brass magazine holding the dyna- A
mite is enclosed within a shell of steel
having an air space between-^em.
The breach of the outer sh . was of
three inch forged steel, but the sides
were of cast steel only nine-sixteenths ^
of an inch thick. Cast steel always has
more or less flaws or air spaces, and
there must have been one or more in
this shell, so thin that the high pressure
of powder gas forced an entrance
to the casting and swelled it out into
the lillinff of the cannon so tightly that
it could not move. The gunpowder
immediately exploded the cannon, together
with the dynamite. It will fce
necessary to make the body o'f'the outer
shell of the same material that was
used in the breach."
Lieutenant Davidson, of the regular
army, stationed at Oswego, was present.
lie said that the explosion must have
been of dynamite, ircm the fact that A
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Dr. J ustin's backers say they will get a
new cannon arid continue the experiments
with shells properly constructed.
A Cannon Spiked.
Chicago. September 3.?A Herald
special says the effect of the speeches
in Congress on Wednesday last by Congressman
Cannon, and the disgraceful
scene following, have just begun to be
felt throughout his district. Both Republicans
and Democrats alike censure
him in strong language, and the bad
break he made will cost him a great 1
many votes among the better class of
people who feel that the Fifteenth dis-.
trict has been disgraced andhuruiliated
by it representative. The outlook at
present is that he will lose every/ county
in his district. There are fourteen
Republican newspapers in this district
that refuse to support Cannon, and they
have a wide influence.