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COL. KEITHS MAD. HE MAKES A MOST SAVAGE ATTACK ON DR. J. W. STOKES. Says Seaator Irby is no Statesman and Accuses Dr. Stokes of Treachery and being Influeaced by Lis Own Per , /i T ?> rpi.^ 4:^ 6.?iiiy iui!)is week in i Order now id we Lave have a great To have a obligations I to the Ory neeessa^r' to j Economist, I )rder. pubIt will cost It is worth 10 you more man an me other newspapers put together. Y ou will learn i nrmwVlog or^rl ripmanrig nf I the Order and its great end and aim. If you do not take it, subscribe at once for it. There is great lack of knowledge among those who ought to be posted. The following will show the obligation of each Member of the Alliance to the Order to those organizations with whom we have confederated: St. Louis, Mo., December 6tb, 1S89. Agreement made tris day by and between the undersigned committee repre- j senting the National Farmers' Alliance j and Industrial Union on the one part, and the undersigned committee representing he Knights of Labor on the other part. Witnesseth: The udersignee committee representing the Knights of Labor having read the demands of the National Farmers Alliance and llndustrial Union which are embodied In this agreement, hereby endorse ; the same on behalf of the Kni shits of Labor, i and for the purpose of giving practical | effect to the demands heiein set forth, the legislative committees of both organizations will act in concert before Congress for the purpose of securing the enactment of laws in harmony with the. demands mutually agreed. And it is further agreed, in order to carry out these objects, we will support for office only such men as can be depended upon to exact these principlese into statute law uninfluenced by party caucus. National Economist, Vol. 2, No 4, page 214. Is it not clear from the above agreement that any member of Congress who j is a member "of the Alliance commits i nprinrv if he ?roes into a caucus of I either of the great parties ? If he is in any degree influenced by party caucus he "is perjured. There is no escape from it. On the heels of Mr. Irby's election to the position of United States Senator he was interviewed by the correspondent of The Xews and" Courier, and is reported as making the following statement: "I am going to the Senate as a Democrat - and in full accord with the National Democracy. I am in full sympathy with the Ailiance, but whatever" may be obtained by me for the Alliance must be obtained Vo+iAnol njirf.v " Ul^VUgU tuv aY UI'JLUUMA VJ . How does this statement of .Mr. Irby'swho is the Alliance lecturer of Laurens County, compare with his -obligations as a" member of the Alli_ .< ance ? Is he ignorant of his obligations. Sr' or is his conscience so seared that he is insensible of his sworn duty ? Brother Alliancemen, 'great principles and demands are the basis of our noble Order, and we have before Congress pressing for solution a measure of financial relief of the greatest magnitude. The Alliance is non partisan, but political. It rises high above men and parties. It is the creature of the times and the condition of the country. Financial reform is the imperative demand. It was that, and not tariff re form, that caused the recent great political revolution. The people of the North and Northwest are sick and tired growing corn for 12 cents per bushel and raising beef for 1 cent per pound. This is only the beginning of the revolution for the purification of the Government and financial reform. The time is near at hand when the Order will move out and, taking its position, will draw its blade in defense of its princi pies and demands, and, striEmg ngnt and left will spare no foe. "Whoever falters in the fight is a traitor, and should meet the traitors' fate. To permit a scurvy fellow, leprous with crime and without an element of statesmanship, to worm himself by political trickery into high position, is not only an impediment to the work, but a crime against the Order. A majority of the members of the General Assembly are Alliance men, and they could have 'elected a clean and able man to reprerent our Order in the Senate and push our measures to success. All was lost by the treason of one man, Senator Stokes, president of the State Alliance. How and why? On "Friday moraine. December 5,1S1K), the following appeared in the Charleston "World, the * organ of Tillman and Irby: "What I have seen and heard to-day confirms mem my previously expressed opinion that State Senator J." W. Stokes, who is also President of the State Farmers' Alliance, will cut no figure in the fight for the "United States Senatorship next Tuesday; but that on the contrary he is being carefully groomed for the Governorship in 1S94, when Tillman is more than likely, as I have already pointed out in mliimTis CllfVPPf? t.llfl Tlfm. M. (/. Butler in the United States Senate." The Tillmaiiite who inspired this knew his man. Stokes snapped lip and swallowed the bait with avidity, as the sequel shows. On the night of the next day, Saturday, there was a caucus of about forty Alliance men, which was Sresided over by Senator Stokes, presient of the State Alliance. A ballot was taken, with Donaldson in the lead, next Irby, then Keitt. Stokes, as predicted, in the Charleston World, cut no figure in the light, ilo got only four votes. lie was out of the race in an Alliance coucus. It was then agreed to hold an Alliance caucus on Monday night, when all the Alliance members of the General As-1 sembly would be present and select an I Alliance candidate. A committee was appointed to wait on Donaldson, Irby and Keitt and get them to state in writing their position on the principles and demands of the Alliance, to be read before the caucus. President stokes said j to the writer that his position was well j known, but the position of Donaldson ! :md Irby was not; hence the request that J they be'put in writing. I put mine in i writing and handed it in. Senator) Stokes", president of the State Alliance! and presiding oilicer of the caucus of i Alliance men on Saturday night, instead ; of convening the Alliance on Monday j night, as agreed, Jed olf into a caucus ux; Xon-Alliance men, Tillmanites: from I I which caucus Alliance men who did not i Bl support Tillman were excluded, and into ] IgW winch who tnose supported Tillman i would not go. Stokes sold out the Alliance for the I K shadow of being Governor ot the State j 88 four years hence. That is the logical I conclusion. The result was the Alliance j jft had no candidate. Alliance men were 1 free to vote for whom they pleased. ||ll Some rightly exercised it. |B ? Senator Stokes, from his position as M president of the State Alliance and his failure to convene the caucus of the Al ' liance nu-n 011 Montiay night. which was ! agreed on, and his leading oil' into a can-1 ; eus of Xon-Alliance men, is responsible i | for the failure on the part of Alliance j | men to send a representative man to the ; j United States Senate, who would do j ' honor to the state and our noble Order, j I The injury resulting to the Order j I from the treason of this one man can j not be estimated. True and brave men cannot tight under the tlag borne by a traitor. Respectfully, Ellison >. Kkitt. iluoree Plantation, December 2'J, lyju. lliotous Stvik-.ir*. Pittsduko, Jan. 1.?The strike of Hungarian iurnace men at Ktlgar Thom; son's steel works at JJraildock. Pa., resulted in a serious riot this afternoon, in which foiv men were seriously hurt | and a dozen others : .n< joivti and | ijftuised. iTt.n^arians quit work"aT^ niiurugnt" and the plant was partially | idle, only about 100 being at work re- pairing furnaces. : About 1 o'clock a crowd of wild strik- ' ers armed with clubs, picks, shovels, re- 1 vovers, bars of iron and every other ' conceivable weapon, made an attack on . the furuce. The men were w!lolly uu- , prepared for the assault, but they j bravely stood their ground, and a i, bloody riot was the rsult. The howling j i mob of Hungarians used their weapons I ( freely and the men were knocked down, clubbed, bruised and unmerciluilr h " I , ucali;u?v Pittsburg, Jan. '2.?Xo further 1 trouble has occur red at Edgar Thomson's 1 works. The striking Hungarianfurnacemen have been awed by the presence of ' the Sherilf with'his largo force of deputies, ' ground a repetition of yesterday's bloody ( scenes is not expected. This afternoon the strikers wore paid ; oil'and dismissed, j< The officials o:'E(Lrar Thompson works I; have decided to keep the blast furnaces |. burning at all hazards and to continue i < the force of guards until quietrestored. | (General Manager Scwab this morniug 1 said it had been determined to protect ; their workmen and continue operation ; if possible. Seventeen were arrested at | Braddock this morning and locked up ! a('ai r\i\ri 1U UCiUUit U1 Ci.VUU LMiU Conspiracy toMurder. Macon, Ga., Jan. 7 ? The jury in the Forsyth conspiracy trial in the [ Federal Court rendered their verdict j i last evening, after having been out:; forty-eight hours. The jury found the defendants, Luther A. ilall. Charles Clements and Wright Lancaster, guilty of conspiracy and murder with recommendation of life imprisonment, the defendants : Louis Knight and John W. Lancaster 1 guilty of conspiracy only and the de- 1 teudant James Moore not guilty. This ends, after a tedious trial of three weeks, one of the most famous j cases in Georgia's history. The evi-! dence produced during the trial was of i the most startling nature, revealing a | diabolical conspiracy among the defendants to get rid of J. C. Foroyth, the Georgia agent of the Dodge estate ofXewYork, who lived at Xorman dale. Dodge County. Charles Clements and Kich Lowry. a negro, were hired to murder B. Forsyth for SGOO. Together the> approached their victim's house o'n the { night of the Tth of October last, and i Long shot Forsyth through an open | window, while Clements waited at ai distance. Only .'--CO of the reward was paid. Lem Burch, whose house was the J rfln/Uvrnnc nf thr* vccvc* t.iirnpi! State's evidence, and it was cruelly on his testimony that the defendants were convicted. Lowry escaped and has never been caught. A government reward oi 8750 is outstanding for him, and to-' av Xormaa V\\ Dodge offered an addi.-^nalreward of SI,000. Lowry came from IS'orth Carolina ana is supposed to have gone back there. lie Is a bright mulatto, nearly white, with squint'eyes, sandy red hair, stubby sandy red mustache, weighing about 175 pounds, height live feet ten .nches. lie walks with head down and upually dresees well. "War on the Harvester Trust. Faiico. X.D., Jan. 7.?Arrangements are being made to light the collection of j nil Tintt-c r>mv 1-ie.lrl liv flio TTorvf-dtP-r Company in this J>tate. and it is said that! the amount is about S^,OOO,000. The i ground of the contest is that the no'es j were given for binders, with a contract j that repairs should be furnished free, and the recently combined American Harvester Company lias made a rule that all repairs mast hereafter be paid for in cash Another ground lor the contest will be that the new company is a trust and is therefore contrary to the laws of the United States and' the statutes of .North Dakota. Arrangements are also being i made to antagonize the business of the j ; new company and to favor the | i Independent Reaper Company. as the American Harvester Company announce prices forty dollars higher , per machine than has been the rule. Horror of a lv;u!s:;s Winter. .Medicine Lodge, Kas., January 4. j Two brothers. ' timed J Jell, aged 22 and I 9 years, and a sister l'J years old. attended a meeting here on Wednesday night, and a blizzard arose as t!:ey started for j home at 10 o'clock. When two hun1 drcd yards from their home the elder brother remarked that they could net I make the distance against the storm and ' would have to go with the wind. They j | drifted south about :i quarter of a mile and took refture in a canon, where they . . i i ' i were soon covered uy snuw. Thursday morning the elder brother crawled out ot the snow and attempted | to get home. lie called out to his sister that hp; was so still' lie could not travel, and in a short time was frozen. The younger brother was also irozen to death : under the drift. The parents started out ' Thursday morning to lind their chilkrtn. land in a short time searching parties! I were organized.' Friday morning the j j body of the young man v.*r.s 'bund, and j i then the searchers found the irirl. who ! [ was concealed beneath the drift. They ! had been out thirty-six hours. The irirl j did uot know her brothers were dead, j She is in a fair way to recovery. Wallace's l)e::tli Strugs;!*. Lkavi:nwoi:tti. Kansas. Jan. 7.?A ; letter from Pine Kidge Agency details j some hitherto unknown facts concern-! ing the death of ('apt. Wallace at j | Wounded Knee. AI'im- the light, the J letter states, (.'apt. Wallace was found at; the entrance of an Indian lodge with live ; dead warriors lying near him. each In-! clian corpse"1 showing a bullet wound. Five of tlie chambers in the captain's; revolver were found empty, and from : the nosition in which the bodies lay it ! I* presumed that Wallace killed iivo in : dians before he was overcome. Terrible Explosion. ! Vienna. Jan. 3.?A terrible explosion : ! of tire damp took place to-day in "The : Trinity pit, near the l'olish town 01 j jOstran. Fifteen bodies have been re-j covered and twenty-four miners arej missing. Three hundred and fifty other men in the mine escaped by the open 'shafts. ? HEAR THE OTHER SIDE, j PRESIDENT STOKES ANSWERS THE ATTACK Oc COL. KEITT. A Mild Kebuho to the Severe Diatribe-The t'iiar^o of HariusrSold the Alliance for :i Gubernatorial Shadow Positively Ucaied and Mercilessly Kidlculed. To the Editor of the Xews and Courier: I have just read in your issue of January :) the ill-timed, not to say illtempered article of Col. Ellison S. Keitt anent the Senatorial contest in which he ?vas interested as a candidate, "not in a common acceptanc/oT'th^S^Wd^ i ms^j? ut>,t" Your comments t hereon are eminent- ; y pertinent, entirely fair, size up the situation fairly well, and doubtless jive utterance to the undercurrent of conviction running through the minds jf ali thinking men at all acquainted with tin: facts in the case. At thesaine :ime, as von intimate, some expression s proper and expected from me; ' though, as you justly remark, no good an possibly result to the Order or to the public service by this public parade 1 )f a purely family affair. 1 feel sure, therefore, that vou will i-jt refuse to a reply the facilities of pour widely-read journal that have already been" at-corded the untimely attack. As a whole the article in question is unique. Analysis shows it to contain i modicum of argumentation, consid- ; drably more of declamation and innuendoes, and a column of animus. With its argument I shall deal principally; with its animus only incidentally, secondarily. Its declamation I" have a either time nor patience to discuss, it is strangely familiar, an oft repeat?d story. 1 Divested of its declamation and in- ! nutrndo. Cel. Keitt's propositions are I four, and to the discussion of these ' propositions I shall strive to bring absolute fairness, but at the same time entire frankness and rigid logic. If the application of these tests to asper- i <ions upon the characters of his brethren?aspersions as unworthy as unwarranted?results in apparent harshness on my part, such harshness must be attributed to the inexorable conditions of the case as made up by him, and not 1 to any unfraternal feeling on my part. The constitution of our Order forbids, 1 as 1 understand it, my indulging before the public through the press in animadversions upon a member of the Order. ; Provision is made within the Order it >plf for the adjudication of all differ enees between members. I shall endeavor, therefore, to conline myself to his propositions: 1. Col. Keitt holds that an Alliance man, who is a member of Congress, commits perjury '*if he is in any degree influenced by party caucus." In justification of "his chaige he quotes an agreement signed by committees of the National Alliance and of the Knights of Labor, which agreement, he intimates, every Alliance is sworn to obey. In view of his vim ultra manner on this point, one can scarcely help wondering whether Col. Keitt has .ever read the express reservation precedent to the pledge taken by every apulicant for initiation and upon whicn the pledge is conditioned. There are not a few men in the.Order as true, as honest and (if it be not treason to say it) as intelligent and statesmanlike as Col. Keitt, who think that the agreement quoted by him, in so far as it relates to party caucus, "conflicts with the freedom" of their political views." This question has never been adjudicated, and in cases of conflict of opinion, especially among brethren and equals, a commendable modesty would suggest the suppression of intemperate charges. 2. His second proposition, jus well as the third, is a corollary of the first, and stand or falls with it. The imputation of perjury to Senator Irby, therefore, is not justified ia the premises. Senator Irby, whose record as an Alliance * 1 ? L " ---511 r... ff/.w >/-? /J In man, it seems iu xue, wm suua uu uioparagement by comparison even with Col. Kiett't. proposes to work for the Alliance demands through the Democratic party. Col. Keitt's political conseienco is "not, offended by the parly caucus clause; Irby's is?that is the v,hole of it. In our judgment the shameful insinuations and offensive epithets aimed by indirection against ins brother Alliance man by Col. Keitt arc wholly unworthy and inexcusable upon any conceivable principle either ol public utility or of Alliance polity. JJut .Senator Irby is abundantly able to take care of himself, even if it were -- ? 11 AU ..X 4 U ~ 4-* proyauie in;iu me geuci<u puuuv;, tu whom Col. Keitt has appealed this case 01 distinctly Alliance jurisdiction, would not make just discrimination between the merits and the spirit of the two men. 3. His third proposition follows by in.plication from the second and falls to the iriound with it, but the Colonel must not evade the logic which he has invoked. 11' Senator irby is guilty of perjury, as charged by Col. Keitt under the terms of the agreement quoted, then is every Alliance member of the General Assembly involved in the same condemnation, Col. Keitt being judge, iurv an-i nrcsecutirisr attorney in the case?except those v. ho voted for Col. Keilt. 2s ow, since not even his supporters voted for him on the last several ballots, ail are perjurers by reason of their failure, to vote for Col. Keitt. This conclusion is unavoidable, because lh? agreement quoted reads: "We'will sKi>jtoj-{ for ojjh:a only such men ta can be depended upon to enact these'principles into statute law uninlluenced by party caucus." This, Col. Keitt says, every member of the Alliance is saoVe to obey. Very well?Col. Keitt was the only candidate member of the Alliance v. iio eunsiueieu iniib ncruum iiurn ;?aiiy caucus inihience was not in "conflict with his political views." But on the 1'ew ballots ;;1! the Alliance members of the Goner;;! Assembly failed to i' vote lor Cel. Keitt, and under his cod* strr.ction they all st-iid perjuredly reason uf that failure. This is a grave charge preferred against venerable Senators MHiill and liedfearn, against honest I)r. Strait. Joseph L. Keitt, and all the other Alliance members of the Senate ami House. On behalf of these men. whr.se honesty and intelligence, and may 1 add their statesmanship, is cerlainiy equal to Col. Keitt's, L repudiate utierly the imputation. He may be, :>ni! ! .1 brilliant. irun and ;i lovai lut-mbpr of the Order; but that r.ll the i :y;;i:y. honesty or even statesmanship m tho Order resides in him \vi!i be grudgingly admitted by a large majority. 1. As to myself. Cel. Keitt says "all was Just by the treason of one man, Senator Stokes." It would be ihteresting to know what the "a IF was that (. oi. ivt'iit says was iosi. ne presume j i'.e v.-rote from the standpoint of an Al-! iianf-e man, and how the Alliance could lose anything1 in the election of Co). irby, an lionered and trusted oflicit of the Order, pledged to its de- j i"?nds and a tireless woiker for its ciui^e. as United States Senator, passes lisy ^prehension. In the absence of an itfuiizfed account of loss we are driven to inference or else the method ? i mi?m? of exclusion. It could not be the loss of { Hampton he deplored, because Ilamp-! ton was a caucus man as a matter or course. It could Dot be Donaldson whose loss he deplores, for his (Donaldson's) political views did not admit of freedom from caucus influence. (History, by the way, furnishes no instances of nobler bearing during the light and defeat than that of Donaldson and Hampto .) Then ..'here and what is the loss? Col. Keitt was the only candidate (in an uncommon sense) who was not elected. The Colonel seems a good deal exasperated because I called in, as he says, the Alliance caucus, and he proceeds to state what transpired in the iormer Alliance caucus, ne must t-x-1 case me from discussing publicly what I. transpired an Alliance assuming that are correct, let us seerS^I sion3 follow. He says thai^^^^HH ance had a majority in theGenenffis^P sembly and could have elected its man. ' lie says, further, that the attendance J upon the Alliance caucus was about forty. It required eighty-one to elect ' a Senator on joint ballot. He cannot 1 certify that even all those forty mem- i bers present, as he says, at the Alii- 1 ance caucus were unpledged or agreed ; with him as to the party caucus clause; and yet he asserts without qualifiea- < tion that the Alliance could have elect- ? ed its man independent of the Reform J members, who were in full sympathy with the Alliance, had stood shoulder to shoulder with us, and had in many 1 instances come to the Legislature on 1 Alliance issues, but who were ineligible 1 to membership. For my part, even if J it had been possible to elect a Senator i within ourselves, which I deny under 1 existing circumstances, with Alliance i demands absolutely secure in the hands 1 of Irby, Donalson or Keitt?the only | men who were to come before that , general caucus as Reformers?I was ( opposed to excluding from participa cion men just as true to our pnuupies , aud honest, though they were ineligible to membership. " ( Col. Keitt lays much store by the J fact that some Alliance men could not 1 sain access to the Reform caucus, but < he fails to state that thost Alliance i men could not go into a caucus of Re- 1 formers became they were pleaded to ' Hampton. But I did not act wholly upon my \ own judgement in calling the Alliance \ causus. All the Alliance mem candi- , rlates were consulted either in person j or through their representatives, and I ( thought I had their concurrence in do- ! ingso. The only objection I heard was oft-or T haH the o-enpral .aiOCU JL UCIU liVVlUVU WiiW Reform caucus of our intention to : meet with them. Col Keitt says I "sold 1 out the Alliance for the shadow of be- ] ing Governor of the State four years hence." I deny the charge in toto and ' cite him to his proofs. I take it that i my denial is worth fully as much as his assertion that he was at no time a can- j ilidate in a common acceptance of that j word, and so some proof will be neces- ] sary on his part. And what does he submit in the nature of proof? A \ quotation from the World's Columbia ; ? ? ? ? "" WA/1 flf LIUlCb, 1U Wiliuii 10 wao dtatcu iiiuucutally that I was beiDg "carefully groomed lor the Governorship in 1894," only this and nothing more. These are the terms of the trade he says. The chikllikc simplicity of this conception is possible only in a mind ac- ( customed to uncommon attitudes, i Certainly one of us common minds , would not be content with a shadow. ! That sort of trading, I presume, is a peculiarity of uncommon minds. Here ( is his argument, lie says the "World published that shadow ; afterward I ; led off into a general Reform caucus, : therefore the shadow was the cause of : my leading off?post hoc propter hoc. 1 This is '-logical conclusion" with a ven geance. 11 is ine logic ul siuuiuiauru puerility. ' i Iso rational mind will accept this as proof. He says there was a trade. This necessitates a purchaser as well as a seller. Let him name the other party , to the trade, or else stand before the public to which he has appealed, rather than to the Order he is sworn to obey, | as having spoken against a brother without a cause. 1 lie should know I was not in the city ! when the World report was written, and had not been for a week. Let him call up the man to whom or from whom ' came any proposition concerning my- i self and* the Governorship. Let him ; call witnesses within or without the ; State. lie has the World behind him. He has had a good deal to say about loyalty to the Order; about crime agaiust the Order by the election of Irby, an honored member of the Order, to the Senate. In my humble judge merit, loyalty to the Order means lovalty to its" cardinal principles?brotherly love, charity; crime against the Order is inseparable from disregard of these principles. That quality of a man, as well as of an Allianceman, is highest which takes a brother by the hand and says to him, "Go, sin no more." Between this quality and that which thanks God "I am not as other men," there is the whole diameter of existence. J. Win. Stokes, President S. C. State Farmers' Alliance. Orangeburg, January 5, 1891. A Short Honeymoon. Denver, Jau 8.?Tbe honeymoon 011 Banker Dow's son and Millie Price, the a "tress, who were married here Friday night, came near ending a double murder last night. Dow's father refused to have anything to do with him or aid him liunncially. He was to have left iioro thm ninrnino with the com nan v. and several creditors, hearing of this, had the young man arrested Saturday uii a cuarge obtainuin^ goods under false pretences. Last night the couple retired to their room at the Windsor II )tel about 10 o'clock. Two hours later the door was tffrown open and Mrs. Dow rushed clown the hall clad in Iter night robe, screaming murder at the toj. of her voice. Several of the guests hurried into the hall Justin time lo see the husband emerge from his room and lircd a shot from his revolver at his fleeing wife. Seeing that he had failed to hit her. he re-catered his room and attempted to | blow his brains out. but the bullet ilew | wide of its mark, and he was over-: powered before he could make a second ' attempt. 2s*o one knows the trouble, but it was probably over money matters, j This couple have beaten tiie record." * ?* n r* , ml ? . I inejr mec lor nrsu ume on xourauay inornin? of last week, were married Friday evening and practically divorced on Sunday evening. The Alliance Triumphant. Lincoln, Xeb., Jan. 7.?The legislature organized to-day, the Farmers' Alliance having a clear majority and elect- j ing temporary officers without trouble, j C. II. Fiertie, secretary of the state cen- j tral committee of the'independent par-! ty. was elected the secretary pro tem of , thp Sfnntp hv a maioritv of onp P?. M. ! Elder was elected tempoary Speaker of | the House aDd Eric Johnson secretary. The temporary Speaker is without experiance and a turbulent^ession is conlidently expected. ^GHASTLY RELIGIOUS RITESI'eoi>Ie who Sleep in ColHns, Wear Chains and Undertake to "Work 21Iracle?. San* Fkaxcisco, Jan. 5.?There are five women and one man living at Xo. 1C2 Amherst Street who sleep every night in their respective coflins. A certain Dr. Jacques, a widower and graduate of the Victoria School of Medicine, has founded a community at the number aoove mentioned, and, in order to verify the reports as to the extraordinary character of the house in question, a visit was paid to the establishment. Dr. Jacqucs has the appearanc?_Qi_l or latere? ipon is head. "I made a bareM .he bonDieu,"be?:an the. zealoui^H ;the vear the smallpox raged inTS^ .real." says the Toronto Lmpire. "I risited no less than 1,200 cases, and in ftnvn f^nrl rrr^r.tlv favftrr?rl thp mission T :iave in hand, viz., the adoration of the Holy Face.'" Among the patients was a family from >t. Jerome named Aubin. and the father md mother, with Jive daughters, the eldest twenty-four years and the youmr;st thirteen, now live under the doctor's j roof. The parents live like ordinary I uortuls, but the live children lead a life I dmost as severe as the terribly austere | regime of a Carmelite nun. The house j n question is not of modern construction by any means, and when the visitor I ,vas shown into the courtyard in the rear I .he eider Aubin was engaged washing .lit; UUUCIUL 5 ? tU^ULl, ilLLU UI3 i^UUU ? 11V? >vas similarly occupied with" the wjnlows. As this worthy couple do not belong .0 the community proper, and consequently do not sleep in coflins, they were eft at their work and the uext floor was reached,, The five little sisters, as the j loctor calls them, were found robed in J red material, with a white hcad-dres3 j 'ailing ;do\vn over their shoulders, rhese girls have no education whatever, i-et their medical protcctor says they ire very learned in things pertaining to Lhe celestial sphere. They retire at 8:30 . _ /I ^4-1 1 ~"WU ~ *K *11 XllM cUiOC rib ULIU itltUUU^U Uil iUi the house, the greater, part of the day is spent iu adoration and prayer. By the side ofa. nicely decorated alter stands a post about six feet iu height, md upon the latter hangs an ox chain Len feet long, the use of which was explained as follows by the good doctor: When Montreal is siven over to 'carnivals, to balls and parties, and when the devil finds it easy to tempt frail men and women kind, it is at these seasons that the five sisters devote themselves most j intently to penitence and prayer. This heavy chain is hung around each sister's aeck for an hour at a time, while they kneel in nraver for their sisters of the world whom destiny has thrown in temptation's way. The doctor now draws aside a curtain, and IT large deep coSftrr -painted black and covered with grav cotton, meets the astonished gaze of the reporter. The :loth being removed, the pillow is found to be made of soft wood, and not a single article of clothing is visible. The tire sisters sleep upstairs, the second floor being divided into a half dozen small, checrless rooms or cells. The turniturc m each oitliese sleeping apartments cousists of a black coffin, a table and a tin wash basin, tire same absence ot clothing being quite as marked as on the lloor below. In reply to a question, Dr. Jacques stated the girls would rather die any time than leave the community, and he rattled oft" the most wonderful miracles that had been operated following a brief sojourn in his community. A brother from Oka had left his own estaoiisnmenturoKenaown wun disease, and after a sojourn of forty-eight hours at Xo. 1G2 Amherest Street had returned to his monastic home in Otland weighing sixty pounds more than when he left and being fjnite unreconizable by his religious confcrers. "In fact," concluded the doctor, "far more miracles are performed at Stc. Anne de Leaupre, and everything has been done but bringing the dead to life again." Tho Late Captain Wallace. Yokkville, S. C., Jan. (>.?The remains of Captain Geo. D. Wallace, who was killed in the late light with the Indians in South Dakota, arrived here 011 a special train last evening at S o'clock in charge of Col. Ji. M. Wallace. The body was met at the depot by a detachment of the Jenkins Ritles, who acted as a millitary guard over the remains at the' Presbyterian Church during the night. The funeral services were held in the Prpshvtfrinn Church this rnornin<? :it 11 o'clock, the R.G. Patrick of the Baptist Church and J. C. Galloway of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church officiating, after which" interment took place iiftlie cemetery with military honors by the Jenkins Rilles. During the furnal services business was entirely suspended.?Columbia Register. MI^plAced Confidence. CoxcoivD, X. IL. January ?>.?The Supreme Court, Chief Justice Doe deliverivior tVir> 7iint 1 r]a<-:.r\&r] +n./?:iv tr> r?i<i_ miss the case against Clerk .Jewett on the ground >j[ want of jurisdiction. This decision leaves the matter of making up the roll of members *f the House in Clerk .Jewett's hands, and the admission of "if entitled members will result in the election of Tuttle (Republican} for Governor and a Republican United States Senator. J Mysterious Assassination in Lonisiana. Xew Orleans, Jan. 2.?A TimesDemocrat Amite City, La., special says: C.C. Ilonye, a prominent citizen oi our town, was assassinated to-night at 7 o'clock on the corner of Railroad avenue and Mulberry street, the most conspicuous place in" town, yet where the killing v?s done was a dark place. lie was shot si:; times and instantly killed. The murderer escaped. Fire of the Crevf Liroivned. Mobile, Jan. 2?The British hark Topsy, (Japt. Knight, from Kingstoil to Grand Cayman, went ashore on Cayman beach ])ec. 18. and is a total loss. The captain, two mates, one seaman and the cabin boy were lost; seven of the crew were rescued. News was brought here to-dav bv the schoontr Union, Capt. Foster. Tko Minnesota Farmers' Alliance. St. Paul, Minn.. Jan. 2.?At yesteray's session of the Farmers' Alliance resolution to endorse tlie Ocala platrm was heavily defeated, and the subct of sub-Treasuries ignored in tiie egular resolutions, while the Conger lard bill was endorsed. Early in the session i:ie new cousimmuu v. no uifeated, but a little before midnight, after a warm session, that action was reconsidered, and the new constitution, which is a codification of the sugsestion of i'resident Donnelly, was adopted. BOnoMl MHBSMi nBHHKV (Thc n FallV spect^B Board cH lina Tei* superint? 11 bers, vifli former bookkeep^^^ that lie thought that the apparent shoriT age of Sl,80u was due to some error. The following resolution was thereupon passed by the board: 1 ^solved. That the Doard of Directors 1 shall employ an expert to investigate the books and accounts of the penitentiary and report at our next meeting, and that Mr. Pateman be allowed to be represented during the investigation, by proxy or in person, if he desires. The matter of the purchase of the DeSaussure farm was then taken up. This farm was contracted for by the old board under the authority of the Act of 1888 authorizing the expenditure of 840,000 of the Penitentiary funds for the purchase of a state farm, not subject to overflow. The agreement to purchase | was made bv the old board with the ! n A r- * n i representatives ui ^jl. ur. uia^n., ui Xew York, whose property it was, and although there had been for quite a long time a disagreement among' the members of the old board as to the advisability of the purchase of this particular tract, yet when the majority decided in favor of the purchase, it was generally understood that the rest had acquiesced. The question as to the liability of the swamp lands to overllow was discussed, Mr. Sanders expressing the opinion that if the dam was put in good order, these lands would be free from all overflow. i lr\i-r>r-T<r\r- Tillman tlirmcrht. that, t.hft board should inspect the farm before going any further with the transaction. The old board Laa paid earnest money and there was a question as to the legality of their action in the matter. The Attorney General would have to decide that, but at any rate whether this board carried out the contract of purchase or not it ought first to inspect the farm. With this view of the matter all of the members of the board agreed. The Governor then stated that in the opinion of the Attorney General the title to this property was good and the board would not have that question to consider, but they were to decide as to whether the oia uoaru naa iranscenaea its authority in purchasing lands said to be subject to overflow. If they had the Fight make sucL^purchasethen that clause about overflow might as well have been left out of the Act. Assistant Attorney General Townsend here stated that by the Act of 1887 there must be a unanimous vote for it before any purchase could be made. Colonel ^Nelson replied that the old board had inspected the farm and decided to purchase, their vote on it being unanimous. Governor Tillman here remarked that if the old board had overstepped its authority, Colonel Xelson, by the contract he'got out of them, had put the .State in a shape to be sued. The Act of 1887, continued the Governor, provided that no nurchase should exceed $12,000; that sum was increased by subsequent legislation, but still unanimity on the part' of the board was a necessary condition precedent to the purchase of any farm. Reference was then had to the min-1 utes of the old board to see what the i ; final vote in regard to this purchase had. ! been, but it was not recorded. Colonel J Xelson, however, reiterated his state- j ment that the purchase had been finally agreed upon by all, to which the Governor replied that the majority had car- J nrmif\ :inr! flip rmnnrit'.v ramp in on the home stretch. Col. Nelson?'The whole hoard ac- j cepted the purchase; that makes it unanimous in law." Mr. Sanders?"And the House com-1 mittee conlirmed our action." Gov. Tillman?"They had no author- j ity to do so; they could simply express an opinion." The question was then raised as to what funds could be used for the payment of the farm, and Col. Xelson said | that the old board had told Mr. Smith (Mr. J31ack's partner) that he woidd i?""i Kiirr ti-m fiv?tv? tlif> non ifpntiflrv | iillY ^ t \J VUJ Wltvu a a v?i* viiv I in order to enable them to raise the funds to pay with. Governor Tillman wanted t\? know how many bales of cotton were on hand. Col. Talbert?"About 500." Gov. Tillman?"That's a small crop for a large force of convicts to gather. They ought to be good pickers: one of them with a whip behind him ought to I pick two pounds !'or one picked by a | hand at uO cents day." The books ami safe were then exi amined to see what amount of cash was j 011 hand, and it was found that there I was S U!t)1.5s in bank and 4'J cents in the safe. Colonel Xelson said that before leaving he would express the hope that the board would get the matter in shape very soon, as 3Ir. .smith had taken nearly all of the hands away already, under the impression that the sale had been confirmed and would be put to great expense and inconvenience if the ! matter remained unsettled. ! Governor Tillman said that the board ivrmld hnvp three rmestions to deeide: 11st. The elevation of the land. 2d. j The interest of the parties. 3d. Whethj er or not the purchase was with the j unanimous consent of the old board, j lie then asked Colonel Nelson to ex! plain the contract with the board?the j "hidebound contract." as the Governor termed it. Colonel Nelson replied 1 that it \va? as'tijjht as could be made, j It was a regular written agreement, de! scribing the property and the price, and | stipulated that the board would buy as soon as the titles were made good.. Colonel Nelson ' . balance in one or two i Governor Tillman -;i!.^ or est?''J j < ,'olonel X elson?" Yes. ?3r ce^fi The Governor then remarked j State needed a good. farm. 'Jl^n : made some inquiries nbou^fl j blc force of convicts. andiS : bert said that there \ver^| I itentiary, and of tiiesejB , sick and decrepit. I the Aughtry 1'ariiM 1 had applied forJ^H I needed for the On motion^? : decided to^B I train thjtf officers anc^erson^WHIBBH side were admitted. All of the mem-"*1 bers were on hand promptly although they found great difficuity in pushing their way through the crowds that filled the" corridor and besieged the capitol at all points. The Alliance had taken possession of the house at 5 a. m. They placed the speaker in one cnair ana put a coraon of assistant sergeants-at-arms around him. When Lieutenant Governor McKiejohn appeared he was not allowed to take his seat but stood in front of the Speaker's desk ready to call the joint session to order. At 9 o'clock the Speaker issued an order for the arrest of Lieutenant Gov- : ernor McKiejohn on the charge of misconduct in office and a breach of the peace. The Lieutenant Governor detied the officer and was not taken into custody. Both sides had a force of sergeants-at-arms within call, and any at- : tempt on either side to proceed with a canvass of the vote would have precipi- < ated a row. To avoid this a committee from each party was sent with , a statement o* the case to the Supreme Court. Governor Thayer ordered out a company of the National Guards and at 11 o'clock they stacked arrm? in the corridors of the capitol. Crowds'are arriving on every train to attend the inauguration of Governor-elect Boyd and considerable impatience is shown over the delay in counting the vote. At 12:15 p. m. the Supreme Court issued a writ of mandamus ordering the Speaker of the House to canvass the returns. The Sheriff of Lancaster County, . with his deputies and the bailiff of the Supreme Court, burst in the doors of the House and fought their way through the crowd of Alliancemeu guarding the entrance. The writ was served on the Speaker. A motion to take a recess until 3 1 o'clock was declared carried by the Lieutenant Governor and the Demo crats and Republicans filed out of the hall. The Speaker of the House de- 1 clared that no recess had been taken and-all the Alliance members present remained in and others were called in for an attempt to proceed to the busi- ' nessof the joint session. THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. James E. Boyd, Democrat. ot" Omaha was elected last November by 1,145 plu- ; rality over James K. Rowers, Alliance 1 candidate, the Republican mac being third in the race. Prohibition was defeated, and its adherents put the Alii- : ancemen up to contesting Boyd's elec- : tion. It was stated that Boyd was not eligible to office, from the fact that his father only too* out his second papers last November, after the election. T?Atr/1 moc VvArn I Sir a Kic f o f K or in Tr/1_ uvj u. ?rao uvjin iin.G iiio xauugi, IU xigland, and was about fifteen years old when the family settled in Ohio. The present Governor of Nebraska, John M. Thayer, at first was disposed to yield his seat to Mr. Boyd, but now he has siezed upon Boyd's questioned citizenship as a pretext to hold over, lie has given it out that he will hold on to the chair, the seal, and the office of Governor till the cows come home. This has aroused the County Tyrone grit of Mr. Boyd. He says he will be inaugurated if he has to throw Mr. Thayer out of the window. The Democrats say Mr. Boyd will be seated. A duplicate State seal has been made in Omaha for use in case the present Secretarvof State refuses t. deliver up the one now in the State Ilotse. More Bloodshed. Washington, Jan. 8.?Gen. Schofield. has received a telegram from Gen. Miles detailing the circumstances of the killing of Lieutenant Casey by the Indians as follows: "Reports from General Brooke state that Lieutenant Casey, of the Twentysecond Infantry, was killed to-day. There has b?en tisrhtins: and skirmish ing on that part of the line for ? :veral days. Lieutenant Casey was out with his scouts watching the hostile camp and with one Cheyenne met two Indians, an Oirallalla and a Brule. The Oarallalla warned Lieutenant Casey that the Brules were bad and would shoot. As Lieutenant Casey turned to go away the Brule fired, striking him in the back of his head and killing him instantly. "Lieutenant Casey was one of the most brilliant and beloved officers of the service. There is a report of heavy firing in or near the hostile camp that may be between two elements of the Indian camp." Lieutenant Casey was a brother of luvmao y vuiv^i v-j. wuv Engineers of the Army, and was aboul, 40 } ears of age. He had been in command of the troop of Cheyenne scouts for about a year and was working earnestly in the interest of the Indians themselves. Col. Forsyth Suspended. Washington. Jan. 7.?A report reached here today, through an unotlici* '1 i- ' 1 t-? *1. 1 1 ai source, mat v^oi. xorsym i u.u ucuu relieved of his command of troops at Pine Ridge. This report was confirmed at the war department today. The officials, however, show a decided disinchuation to talk about the matter. Neither Secretary Proctor nor Gen ISchotield is willing to say very much on the subject, although both practically II admit that Gen. Miles did not act enBgl^ipon his own responsibility. j&jfc^^^cmadmithaviijg or side or selves opposed eacElimFTJ^^P^CT 300 Indians. Sooa-the hills began to swarm with 1,800 to 2,000 warriors and in twenty minutes more a tragedy would have gone to the world when the untiring Xinth rode in, as they rode before at the time of the Meeker massacre, attacking furiously the rear of the savages, scattering them in every direction. Before the enemy could rally from their contusion the boys in blue ' withdrew slowly and sullenly to Pine Ridge. The enemy are stealing horses and cattle in every direction. While the blizzard made the old men, women and children suffer, it will have little or no effect on the bucks and warriors. It is believed Little wound was me neaa tnac planned and directed the battle, as it showed more generalship than had been displayed since Red Cloud's figatimg days. Old Red Cloud sent in a letter last night claiming that he was a prisoner and begging the soldiers to come and save him. This is corroborated by the friendlies who say that when the stampede took place Monday old Red's wifi began to throw their things into a wagon and with true wifely spirit said she was for war and would go out on the bloody path even if her liege lord remained and fought on the other side. Aspecial to the Inter Ocean from Pine Ridge Agency S. D., says: All commuication with the rail road is cut off except to officers over the military wire. There has been no mail service since Sunday and no one except Indians to - * - ^ ?i?- J carry.leiegrams w mu rau ruau. crcuwal Miles sent out a telegram warning settlers along the rail road. Much has been said about the treachery of Indian scouts. There are cases enough to make every one tear them when away from the Agency, but they are not disturbed as a rule. Captain Taylor denies emphatically that any of his men turned against the soldiers, bnt says they fought bravely with him, and many soldiers confirm his words. Capt. Jacob Jackson, of the Seventh Cavalry, had a narrow escape, however, from some who wore the police uniform and the soldiers' scout fur overcoats and capes. The Captain had a squs^ of " ?-?^ twenty men chasing the fugitives a mil? or more from Wounded Knee when half a dozen of the traitors, or hostiles dis guisedin ponce ana scouts' ciormng, roae up with a pleasant greeting, turned, cantered off fifty .yards, wheeled and without warning, opened fire. At the same instant fully fifty more Indians appeared over the crest of the hill, and started for the little band who retreated for the creek, firing as they went."Captain 13urton, who escerted the wagon train of the Seventh Cavalry, says Charles Havwood was in advance of the train which arrived witliiu a mile ana a nan 01 irine ruage wneu uirce xudians rode up dressed as governmen^^^^^^ scouts. They spoke to poor HavrcflE in full sight of the troops guarding tH train ahd then shot him down in colofl blood. The troops took prompt and in? stant revenge. Yesterday the friendlies, who are W camped on White Clay Creek, s*uth vj of the agency, reached the abandoned H tepees ot Little Wound's, Two Strike^* and Red Cloud's B their wagons, load? streamed from the ajfl 59 What are Th^H Greenville. News some time count of the mafl Smith and Hubefl S| They were marri^B tnose wno add U.^ that the groom's? drew Jackson 'jfl fused to marry hfl changed. A pet-H the Legislature change Mr. Tyn^M One house of the hM change, and contidenr^^B would do so the young lady sal to the marr'age and believed had become Mrs. Hubert Munfifl ton. It is now said that the bifl ing Mr. Tymms' name failecM through both houses and that fl ture reigns m the Tvmms-CarltjS The Persecution ContinuffiP London, Jan. 8.?Advices fi Petersburg state that whole vfl Jews are being depopulated orfl| tence that they are within thffl den distance of the frontier jB R some instances where villagesfl really within fifty versts. aI father has been lined becauseS 9 did not appear for conscription having died when an infan v<wr? hofnrp tfR whifth H compelled to abandon are bfl tained by large speculators fM soug. Mb A Xecro K.votlusi^B Augusta, Ga., Jan. S.-1* week passes in which from live hundred negroes from SoH iina and Xorth Carolina do V through Augusta on their wa^fl Georgia. Alabama or Ark^affl night twenty-live can^g Knoxville train on