The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 21, 1891, Image 1

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* \ . *&/.' ':<~jz&&rm \ - , ? . ] --^r>:"v:-1 /?? VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1891. NO. 23. SUEFERIXG EUROPE. " j [ SEVEN WEEKS CF SEVERE WEATHER | AND NO ABATEMENT YET. I' England i<i "Wrapped In Snow, and Many j . llivers auu Streams are Frozen Over?:] Numerous Uonihs from Cold and Kun- i' , i Ser?Much Suffering. j , Loxj>ox, Jau. 11.?It is now the;] seventh week of ti-.e pre faience of frost j tlM-nii"'! tI "niter! Kingdom, with no i1 si^os of abatement of the severity ol the j weather. j < k From John O'Groat's house to Land's ] Hk End, the country is wrapped in snow, j1 p-jlk and canals ar.u streams are ice-bound, j ( Even numbers of tidal rivers are frozen j' FSHSfe ^rf -y-;:'-the frost period.1 this *s the greatest xv^er^^he een-! ( tury,jmd in point of severity the winters h of 1S13 and 181-1 alone exceeded it. Fa'?js were then held on the ice on the Thames, Severn, Tyne and Tweed. , Uths were reared on the ice, and all lsual fair frolics were held thereon. :ie Thames below Richmond reis par-Tally frozen and is covered ice floes, which are impeding navi>n. Above Leddington, ice on the nes is eig! t inches thick. Carrier's can traverse the rivei's frozen surKnitnn ('ourt to Abingdon. - TS have >. free stretch for many _ - .'above and below Oxford. Xumerou have resulted from extreme cold, /al of '.iie'n at the very gates of - ahous- stwl ere groups of poor people s waiti ig for shelter. " Jidland newspapers declare that - usands )' porsens in that regine are " I condition of semi-starvation, many borers being compulsoriiy idle without ^es or food. The mayors of cities, with the aid of local boarcis. are directing an organized distribution of bread and coal and are : starting relief kitchens; still they fail to i reach hosts of cases of distress. Xumer- j ous instances occur of coroner's inquests J > nn nf reor>ie found dead in bed j . V.-j where the verdict is that death resulted %' from cold or hunger. lu every country on the centineut v;- ? there is suffering because of severe -T weather. Iu Northern Italy snow began to fall \ Wednesday an I did" not cease till today. The inhabitants of that region are suffering acutely, such weather beinu entirely unknown to them, and it is feared numbers of people have perished in the | storm. At Mantua, Turin and Miian, railway trains are much delayed on ac| count of the heavy snowfall. | Dispatches from Vienna say com,->t ihnt fifr miUCUliULl V.iu: i.ViUlO ovw...* , Iff is greatly impeded, and on all railways centermg there the movement of trains m, is partially suspended. The coasts of Belgium. Holland and B North Germany are blocked with ice. f K* In the Scheldt river navigation is_nen-i^-'K or ice. A t the t $} - xerman port of Cuxhaven twen- t P*SP?P^%steamships are ice-bound. The f - --ierc are unable to communicate \ vessels oa account of ice fioas, t " ^ing the harbor inaccessible. t M* V- vessels were struck with im- 1 I passes of Heating ice ana suiik. ; v?instauce the crews were saved ( ; * h only with great difficulty. < -iber of steamers are drifting ( x v between Oldendorf and i . '..tel. They have lost their -Jaud have been considerably < ~ . by floating ice. < / - .11 burg navigation is greatly irn- I 'immense blocks of ice, which ! ver. The board of navigation i every offort to keep the river " empoying three of the strong. ' hat could be secured as ice M::nv vessele have also been : ( here by ice. but no serious ac- ' - % x v ' ve as yet i-eea reported. wen> ten thousand workmen ' thrown out of emplopcuent .the unusually severe weather. 1 v caused among the poorer : consequende is widespread y jf?.(:ynamite is about to be ea!< the ice at Copenhagen, al iteamshtps lie ice-bound. ; rts tugs are actively engaged . ; break the ice, but not with tfc. Oercsume is full of ice ' .tCtivS from the German ports ofj Stettn. r.ud swmemunde all tell .if inaccessibility of their harbors on ant ot :ce. .ind say thai navigation | i /ceased, thi.t there is much snow and j yA- there is n>.- opeu water visible. - Jin Berlin the temperature is at 10 de- , *' ^frces Fahrenheit. liar/, railway is} -^"saowblockc d. nnd ihe mails usually con-; ."7 veyed by its trains are now transported i All Bavaria ;s covered t\ iih snow, and j in the country betw.-en the Danube and ! - Alps snow is eighteen inches deep. In certain localities along the Rhine snowdrifts are piled m some spots seventeen feet high, threatening inundations when \they thaw. r: A telegram from Madrid reports - heavy snowfalls in Spain, and says that Communication with all the provinces j - \f Spain is dink-alt. It also reports the . -;evalence o:" "nteusely cold weather m ilencia, wane the orange groves have rn swept by storm, entailing heavy " . i.t Marseilles the hospitals are lilied j - suilcrer> iron: various affections j ' ed by cold weather. More snow j ; '/.""^fallen toi'.iy in Marseilles. The; ?laborers tV-re have lit. along quays.! Jiros. at which to warm themselves J I lent >tor:ns, accompanied by hail; - '',r,v and xtriu;:iJir a ion:r distance : ' are reported firm Algiers. The j s coupled with assurance that j L 'like such severe weather tvrs j " *<w :! in that region before. b> from 1'aris say that the Seine j "H with ice near Kouen and that | > is frozon above Lyons. x"^is from --iras and Xiuies j >u<!'--^ng is beinir caused at. I S wy cuu; v>v;uui;i, -. " \iibci" of persons have been ; Ncsjro Kwins . 'hi.. .Tan. S.?Hardly a; i in which from twenty to i n^roes Irom South Caro-: . r:h Carolina do not pass " ; 'sta oil their way to South & ;ira:\ or Arkansas. Last *ive came down on the a on their way to Ala I- 'UilUUlU liiuii uivuj;iu iii md for Southwest (j wording to work in the tur. \ , A car load number;.irots came in last night ;:olina train. They are SUING ON CONFEDERARE BONDS- j l'lie "Wild Goose Chase of a Hollander i Lirinj; jn GIh.sjjott. Baltimore, January 8.?Jacques | Vau Kaalte, a native of the city of Rotterdam, Holland, but residing and doing business In Glasgow, Scotland, where lie also represents tne jseinerianus as j consul, to-day instituted suit in the Cir- i 2uit Court of the United Stales for the i district of Maryland by W. Starr Gep-i liart, his solicitor, against James G. I Blaine, as Secretary of State of the United States of America. The bill sets forth that Win II. Seward. when Secretary of State, issued du July 28, 1808, a proclamation which recited that neither the United States . nor any State shall pay any dept or obligation incurred in aid ?f insurrection or rebellion against the United States, but all such debts shall be held illegal smd void." Prior to July 28, 18G8, the plnintill purchased for the;<- full value-$-I23;UUU of negotiable coupon bonds issued by the southern States as joint and several obligations. and he contends that the proclamation was illegal, in that it included past debts vr obligations, and Secretary Seward's proclamation contained an implied admission that without such prohibition the States referred to would owe a just and valid obligation. rn*- - f-flftl-# r?r> in f n JLIiC JLUcULUlU octi\o uu. Court to prove, first that the praclamatioa obliges the Secretary of State to take the curious position that although the States never lost their status in the Union, yet their obligations could be annulled as if they had. and second that the State obligations already incurred could be thus repudiated and vested rights taken awaj. The plaintiff also claims that being a. citizen of Great Britain and Holland j such acts on the part of the Secretary ot J State were also illegal and void, because j it was interference with his rights as a I citizen of a foreign country, between j which and the United States treaty stip- j ulations existed that protected him. The suit is to recover for destroying the value of negotiable bonds and their coupons. Interest is also claimed on the bonds, amounting to the same as the principal, the total amount being $250,000. Gephart says that as the Government or the United States cannot be sued. it was necessary 10 prucecu h^ihuji n.o officer, the Secretary of State. In that respect he thinks the suit involves the same principle as some of the recent suits against the officers of the State of Virginia. To Surround The Indians. Pine Ridge, Jan. 9.?Yesterday evening all the commands in the field were ordered to march from three to six miles nearer the hostiles. Last night the order was put in efi'ect. It of course attracted'the attention of the Indians. At intervals of two or three days trie cordon will be drawn more tightly round unfil tliov 0< rrf>P P.if.hfiF tO LUC UVOlur/O uuwt V.44V. t come in peaceable or be whipped into submission. ' The reluctance they display to accept the overtures of General Miles are sus.of Jput one interpretation and hat is that^thev prnn^sc to w^icuvitimu retain their arms or die in their defence. This is backed up by the lact that the nfiioritr oftaose who hare come in from .he hosti.-cs are squaws and children. ?rhe Is desired to get out of the way. >onie bucks come in occasionally. They iomesiicate with the alleged Friendhes md at the same time retain the feeling >f hostility which impelled them to flee .'rom the agency. The coming in of Red Cloud is variously interpreted. His good faith is % "? -v ioubted oy many oecause a is wen inown that he could not have stolen iwar at nigut, for the hostiles desired io retain him In their midst. The Fight for Connecticut. Hartfokd, Ct, January 13.?The senate this afternoon took the action that has been so long threatened, and swore in the Democratic candidates to Ihe State offices. The Senate sent a special committee Lo Governor Buckley inviting him to be present at the insuguration of his sucTT(? tnlrl the committee that he would not recognize the authority of oue branch of the Assembly to act in the matter aud warneu them that they do so at their individual peril. Senator Shumway protested airainst the resolution of the Senate which declared the ofiicers elected, for the yeas and nars. The vote was 10 yeas, all Democrats ; 7 nays, Republicans. Senator Cleveland, of Hard ford, a Democrat, retired lrom the Senate at the time of the vote, aud it is understood that he did not favor action at that time. After this was done the Senate ad- j journcd to meet next Tuesday. The per-; * .r *1._ I sons who had taKen tne oatn visitea me different otlices and made a demand for them. but the incumbents refused to give them up until it was shown that the n?w otlicers had been elccted and declared by the General Assembly. Koch's Rival. Chicago, 111., Jan. 11.?Dr. E. Fletcher lngalls, of this city, reports good progress with the use of the tuberculosis cure of Dr. Shurly, of Detroit, lie lias fifteen patients under treatment, and during the two weeks he has been usmir the cure he says signs of improvement are visible in every case. lie said tonight that unless he was mistaken Dr. Shurly had discovered a specific for the most dread?'! of all known diseases. Some of his patients, he said, were in the last stage of the disease, all of them baring tuberculosis in a pronouueed lorm. Or.e patient who two weeks ago was wasting rapidly, now coughs a great deal less. Another patient, who ten days ago was breaking down very fast and losing llesh, besides exhibiting other terrible siuns of disease, has gained two pounds under the new treatment. Dr. Ingalls says he" believes lirmly in Dr. Shurlv's treatment, as there is no danger in the adminstration of the iodine and gold chloride. The iodine kills one of the animal poisons and the uold chloride the other, there being two kinds of potmames in tuberculosis, Strange Criminal Kev*lation*. si'kixovielp. Ohio, January 1).? Kfiie Taylor, a crippled old maid, committed suicide hare to-day. She confessed that she aided J. M. C. Clark, a liaptist preadier, and Carrie Moss, to poison Clark's wife, succeed: injf after four attempts. The preacher two weeks later married Carrie Moss. The woman also said she had been in a i place one story below pugatory ever [since. It was brought out before the I Coroner to-day that J'r. Weinberger, ! who knew her secret, got all of "her ; money, and that Clark and Carrie Moss j blackmailed her. .She also said her | father and Carrie had lived together. ; Clark and Carrie Mess are in jail [charged with murder. A vigilance ; committee is talked of. All ot' the | parties are colored. NEW SOUTHERN PARTY. I WHY THE SOUTHERN PROTECTIVE j TARIFF LEAGUE WAS ABANDONED. | J Republican Promises and Pledges Uuful'iiio'i?Snmi> T?iti?restlnc* Kcadlnc for President Harrison, Lodge, Hoar and < Company. ' Washington*. Jan. 11.?The Manufac- 1 hirers' Record of Baltimore will pub- ' lish this week an article which Presi- ! dent Harrison, Senator Hoar and Rep- ji resentative Lodge wouid read with profit. It will state that the New YorK 1 Tribune, in pursuance of a plan to get .funds from Southern protectionists for ( the purpose of a campaign of education, addressed an appeal'to Major J. 1). West of Tedega, Ala., whom it describes as "the head of a land and industrial company that has 81,500,000 : capital: Jicra and educated at the North, and imbued with its ideas, he ' has always been a protectionist of the Henry uiav scnooi, ana an earn est, republican."" In an interesting reply which the Record will print, Major West says: "You will pardon me for expressing the conviction'that the movement is much like locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen. Three years ago was the time for such a movement," he says, and continues: "At that time I knew a number of Southern business men who were Republicans at heart,] and who would have come to the front with enthusiasm and force if thelparty had offered any guarantee that the next Republican administration would turn its back upon the objectionable negro and white people who then had control of the party organization in the South." Mo *>Antinnp?- "At, the time I write of, leading members of the American Protective Tariff League held out the idea that should the Republican partywin in the impending presidential cam-: paign, something not only tangible but great would be done to bring out the latent protectionism here; and party leaders were at the same period profuse in promises that a reorganization of the party in the mineral Southern States : would be accomplished in such a way ! as to give controllof the respectable elements of society and to make it possible for decent people to take an active part in party affairs. Their prospects and promises encouraged us greatly, especially a rter a delegation or -prominent protectionists visited the Presi dent-elect at inuianapons ana receiveu satisfactory assurances as to what would be the policy of his administration of the matter. "A Southern protective tariff league was put in process of organization, j Leading, cultivate*! and wealthy men in the Virginias, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana were actively engaged in the movement. A call for a convention at Chattanooga was printed and ready to send out. The writer, in conjunction with others, commenced the publication of the Southern Protectionist. Then they appealed to their Northern allies for help." lie continues: "We were told that all the money of the Northern people would be needed for the Congressional elections of 18'JO, and that if we wanted to undertake ;u?v Snnf h^r.n proposition wTe means o^prspr^es. "iNow, it became manifest verv soon afLer the inaueuration or* Ueniamin Harrison that the party organization j in the South was not to be changed; that none of the assurances extenatui! to the Southern protectionists were to be given practical effect. The elements 1 generally recognized were getting as 1 bad as ever. Conviction, which was universal on these points, dissolved : our embryo protection tarill league. We stopped publishing the Protectionist, and suspended the light. "Then the force bill gave the coup de grace to the whole thin (. republicans engaged in every department of material development, production or trade everywhere protested unanimously tKo fiill Thoir nrntpst.'s havp IJ ai^auiou cuv Kjxi.k. . been uheeded, except as to negroes and a few politicians. The Republican party died in the South with the force bill. Respectable men of affairs and family, miners, manufacturers and merchants in this section, prefer a low tariff without the force bill to a high tariff with the i'orce bill and consequent race and social disturbances. You will find that thinking Republicans here, who understand the social questions of the section much better than the Eastern dictarians can be expected to, would not be well pleased to have their interests or>,i Tirnffrpcc attacked liT a national "uu Jf? . party which is only humanitarian in the case of the negro, while it is at the | same moment highly and violently util- i itarian by the oppression of other colored race's, even to the extent of violation of solemn treaty obligations. "In short, what with indifference at a time when action might have been productive of good, with the violation of promises and the commitment of the party irretrievably to a policy vastly obnoxious to every element of decency i in the .South, our Northern protection- J ists and Republicans have at a blow j murdered protection and respectable) ii ; r, tKo SJniith^rn i j xvepuuiicauidiii iu mi hjk , j States with the conditions of which the I writer is at all familiar. Both elements are dead beyond the power of a iirst-class miracle. You will only waste your money in trying to work one of them in any of the commonwealths I have named above." .Major West's letter wa3 dated December 31. 1890. A T?rrih!e Accident. Pakis. Jan. 13.?A terrible accident by which nine persons lost their lives, ,.,,,1 Knrn Th? T1 P With I UUUU11CU HC1U WV/ V4CAJ. ^ VW.MX, the exception of the centre of the river, j has be^n frozen over for some time I past. Yesterday the whole river was covered with ice. the middle of the i stream however being hidden by what! the police judged to bn dangerously j thin ice. Consequently the authorities j j forbade the people to attempt to cross ! I the river and the police were instruct- J ed to enforce the order. In spite of this a number of venture- j { some men and boys, utteriy disregard- j I ingthe warning cry of the police and i j ot the crowd who were watching them, j attempted to cross the Seine on the ice. i As they neareu Liie middle of the stream i dull cracking1 repairs were nearu caus-1 ing a number of the foolhardy people j j to rush back to the side of the river j where the ice was much thicker, j Others, to show how daring they were, I i j umped on. Immediately, with a leng J j scrit-s of rumbling cracks, the ice gave I way and precipitated the crowd of peo; pie into the freezing water. Cries of horror and alarm arose on I the banks aud the police and the life | savers rushed to the scene of the disas i ter ana aia meir uimosi to save me. j In spite of their efforts, and though a ; number of people were drawn from the ! river, nine persons are known to have j been drowned. Twelve Men Killed. Sax Anpkkas. Cal.. Jan. 11.?Eleven j ; or twelve men were killed in Utica mine,! i Angel's camp, to-day. A load of men ' | were being lowere'd on a skip, and j when about one hundred feet from the , surface the rope broke, precipitating all . a distance of fo'- -hundred andlifty feet to the bottom %aft. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE, rhe Agricultural Department t>> be Brought Closer to the People. A vi.rocnv < c .T?n 11.? In its I last issue the People's Advocate published the following: In the course of a personal interview with Col. II. W. Simpson, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson College, he said that it is the purpose of the board to to bring the Agricultural Department in more direct contact with the people, and make it a medium of communication with the people, in keeping them posted on all matters pertaining to agricul- . ture and tiie experiments oi mut uuwic | conducted at the college, and tlidt it will be the aim of this department to put itself in close touch with the people by holding farmers' institutes during i summer vacation. 1 It is a well known fact that the items : of board and tuition is what debars many a poor youth of ability fr^m entering college, and it is on this line thaVClemson proposes to oiler superior advantages to the sons of poor men by reason of it handsome income of about $70,000, not a dollar of which ifc raised by taxation, and the imndsome real estate property which it owns, consisting of an immence body of the linest lands in the Piedmond belt, upon which it is proposed to raise the larger part of the cnnnlina nfth* moa* hall table and tllUS ?? furnish b?ard to the students at a minimum cost, it is thought not to exceed S3 or $4 per month. In addition to this, provision will be made for students to pay a part of this by laboring a certain number of hours daily in the field, and furthermore it is proposed to keep a larce number of sheep on the farm, from the sale of the wool of which it is proposed to furnish a clothing fund to aid poor young men in supplying themselves with clothing. No young man who wishes to acquire a technological training will be permitted to leave the college without having his education developed along other lines which go to make up a well rounded, practical man. Notwithstanding the fact lhat the Board is somewhat embarrasseed, by reason of the failure of the Legislature to appropriate the $G0,000 asked for to complete the buildings at once, it is contemplated to fill the faculty in June and open the college for students on the first of October, usius: as class rooms and dormitories such buildings as will them Un. on/I prppt tho main build UCi V.VUi|;ivbuvi, Ukiu . in? during the following year. Col. Simpson also stated to us that despite certain publications to the con-1 trary not a single member of the board j has received or will receive a bingie cent as compensation for services rendered, they being ontirely gratuitous. I and it is a matter of great surprise that the statement should have been made in certain papers that the Board of Trustees had voted to pay the three members of the Board of Control a salary of $3,000 each. There is not a syllable of truth in the entire statement, as they give their services to the college. earthquake in texas. the town of kusk, texas, startled about midnight wednesday. rusk, Texav Jan. 8.?At 12 o'clock last night this town and its vicinity experienced at least two well defined shocks, believed to have been of a serious \nature. j^aveil paroxysm was accumpameu oy a detonation loud and long, as if rolling from S'Dutk toXorth. Several chimneys were leveled with the earth, and sleepers in various portions of the town were shaken intl^ wakefulness. J. W. Mc-\Cardis, in charge of the County jail, very strong structure, declares that foi t fully one minute he apprehended the co- llapse of the building, and Thomas Millei < says that the Acme Hotel was shaken Uo its foundation during these disturbance^. There was no wind,'-, though a slight rain was falling and =\ome elcctrical force was prevailing, l>Uu> not of suflic.ient strength to produce shock. A few parties here who were through the Charleston shock of 1880 pronounced the phenomenon of hist night a -rrenuine earthquake. \ Galveston, Tex.. Jan. 8.?T^his morning at 1 o'clock a sevare shock earthquake was felt. Many chimneys were shaken out of their plumb. The vibrations were from South to Xorth and lasted forty seconds. a shock ix ohio. Toledo, Jan. 9.?At noon a shock of earthquake was felt here. It shook houses, rattled windows and frightened horses. The shock came apparently from the South and a slight rumble accompanied it. It was at first supposed, to be a dynamite explosion in the oil fields, but a telephone message by the Blade to all points within a radius of 50 miles to the South and Southeast showed that to be incorrect. The shock was about the same in itsofi'ectsat all points as at Toledo, and a similar shock was experienced all over the same area in the fall oT 1884. Two Governors. Lincoln, Xeb.. Jan 9.?The momirxr coocmn nf flip T\*molntnrr? WAS Wafit ed in a wrangle over the rainuies of the journal which were badly mixed on account of the confusion in the proceedings. This work was unfinished at neon. All of the newly elected State oilicers are in possession of their ollices except Governor Boyd. Powers, the Alliance candidate, took the oath of oilice at 1 o'clock to-day. and it is said that the Legislature recognize him as Governor. All the new State otlicers have been recognized except the Governor. McKeijhon was installed as Lieutenant, Governor and President of the Senate under protest. Governor lioyd lias been recognized by all of the new officers as Governor, and they will report to him. Another State Treasurer Short. St. Louis, Jan. 12.?'The Republic this morning prints a special dispatch from Little Kock, Ark., with referenco to the rumored shortage in the office of State Treasurer "Woodruff. Mayor Woodruff leaves the office on Thursday, and will be succeeded by Col. Morrow. A sensation was created yesterday by a statement made by ('. T. Walker and W. .T. Turner, two leading bankers, who have been at work on the treasurer's books, one of whom is reported to have said last niglit tiiat .Mayor wooarun s snoriage would not fall short of .Si'4,OUO. The investigation is not yet concluded, and it is likely that the shortage will reach a large amount. ISoiled to Death. Gosiiex, Ind., Jan. 12.?John Whiteman fell into a vat of boiling lye last ! night at the Indiana Paper Company ! vats at Mishawaka. He managed to keep his head above the boiling lye and ; screamed for help. "When rescued the | flesh fell from his bones and death was instantaneous. lie was fort\;*-two I years old and left a family. A BOMBSHELL. IRREGULARITIES IN THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. Investigation Shows IJetivepn iSl.000 and j JjSSjOOO of Protested Cliecks?Gen. Hon- J ham Acknowledges his llesponsibility j I an<l Makes Arrangements to Meet his I Liability. Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 15?Yesterday j ^ ^ " * / 1I^awTa.* Uam/Ia/1 f Ka i^ Avnrnr\v I u vicu x aiiu'v uauucu. out uu\n iu> j the following: statement, and last night j copies were given to the press. Later; the Governor decided to withhold it at the earnest plea of Gen. Eonham. Today permission was given to publish it, Governor Tillman saying that he considered it his duty to do so: Columbia, S. C., January 14,1891. His Excellency 13. It. Tillman, Governor of State of South Carolina, Co-! luHrfaia, S. C.?Dear Sir: Having in-! formally communicated to your Excel- j lency^and also the Hon. Attorney Gen-! eral rope on ye^Larany certain factsrelative^S^fSfe'^sbursements of the tfrppropriation for 1890 for the support and maintenance ol' the militia ot this State, I deem it my duty to submit the following statement of the whole mat ter with accompanying icucisauuiucij ( to await further instructions from your Excellency as to the course to be persued. On January 8,1801,1 received the enclosed letter "from the Hon. A. M. Youmans, of Hampton County, to the effect that "Capt. 11. A. Brunson. Troop A. 1st. regiment S. C cavalry, had received from (Jen. XI. L. Bonham a check on the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S. ;C, for $156, being the amount of the appropriation for his company for 1800: that the notice to him by Cen. Bonham that he had | drawn" and sent the check is dated No- i vember 19, 1800, and postmarked December 2 at the postoflice in Columbia. The chock has been received, and is made payable 'to order.' Capt. Branson endorsed the check, it has been presented to the bank lor payment, and payment refused by the bank, and the check cone to protest, as shown by the notice of S. X. Walker, notary public. Now what we desire you to do is to look into the matter at once for us and write at your earliest convenience the cause of the trouble, as it is creating excitement and unfavorable comment here." ' Gen. Bonham coming into this ofiice ( next morning, the 'Jth, I immediately brought the matter to his attention by handing him the letter received. lie said: "I have been away in Georgetown for some time and I will attend to the matter at once," as '-there is some mistake." I answered the letter from Mr. Youmans, telling him what I had done and repeating what Gen. Bonham said. Trusting that the matter was all richt, I said and did nothing until January 12, when I received the enclosed I letter from }Ir. Jiutier nagooci, 01 i Barnwell, dated January 10, 5t;j??jfc.Hs i-follows: "I have been requested by Capt. J, A. Haves to enclose you notice of protest issued by the Carolina National Bank of Columbia for a check for 8148, issued by Gen. Bonham for the quota of State appropriation to the Hagood Guards, and asking: 'Will you kindly look into the matter and write Capt. Ilayes at Appieton ?" On receipt of this letter I at once went to the Carolina National Bank to iiad if any other check had been protested, and found from the statement of the cashier that some eight or ten checks, averaging about $150 each, had been presented from various parties and had gone to protest from non-payment, no funds being on hand to meet" them. I again went to Gen. Bonham and told him of the receipt of Mr. Ilagood's letter and the contents, and also of the facts learned at the National Bank. He again informed me that these checks had been presented during his absence in Georgetown, and that he was prepared to meet every one of them, with other explanations as to the custom of paying these claims in the past. L'nder the circumstances I deemed it ^1.,+,. trt /-on?m)- with Attorney (Jen Ill V UUllJ . ^ eral Pope and yourself in regard to the matter, as I did on yesterday evening. Marly this morning after some confer. ence with Col. Wilie Jones, cashier or v the Carolina ^National Bank, as to the ^amount protested, I again aporoached Genq. Bon ham on the subject, and at my suggestion we came to the otiiee torney (- aim' had another statement of the matter. Gen. Bonham reiterated his former statement to the effect that checks had been presented during his absence, and that lie was prepared to meet them when pre sented again. After this conversation with Gen., Tope, by agreement. (Jen. Bonham and I went to the National Dank to see Col. Wilie .Jones, the cashier, and it was there arranged, at the instance of (Jen. Bonham, that Col. Jone> should recall the protested checks or drafts !for payment, and Gen. Bonham then drew and left with Col. Jones a draft [on the general manager of the Union! Central Life Insurance Company, 1 which he represents here, for 82,000,1 which, it was estimated, would cover all of the protested paper. At Gen. Banham's request the draft is to be forwarded to the general manager for his endorsement, and then sent to the general ollice in for payment, Gen. Banham stating that he h..,i olroo lv nrv.inrrpfl nnrl trivpn hnnd Jiciii cuicciu; . v.. and security lor the amount desired. Jt is impossible at this time for me to ascertain the exact amount covered by the protested paper or the amount of pay now due and in arrears to the troops, as all of the receipts have not yet come in to this office, and some of them represent checks which have not been honored, but it can be approximated as soon as the protested drafts are returned to the National Bank. Such is the situation at present, and I will make no comments until further developments. I would say, in conclusion, however, that as this is neither a bonded nor a disbursing office, properly speaking, 1 see no reason why the unnecessary custom which seems heretofore to have prevailed should continue. The amounts due the troops from year zo vear can be drawn from the treasury " ?.1 -vi 1.^ | on warrant ny me a;:u sjyucu uj i the in favor of and to "the order I of' the companies to whom the money lis due without passing through this oilice, which I do not think the law contemplates. Possibly if this had ;been done heretofore the apparent trouble now confronting1 us might have been avoided. i It may be necessary or well to add | that all that has been done so far has [been done with as Kincuy a spirit <i? ! possible and with a view to the impori tance of securing the money due to the t roops still left unpaid, l am, very reI spectfullv, vour obedient servant, ILL. Parley, Adjutant and Inspector General. | The notice of protest for the check I lor 814S, in favor of Capt. Ilayes, is appended, as also arc the letters from Messrs. Uutler Ilagood and A. M. Youmans. The former bears the date of j i'" i January 10 and the hitter that of January 7.' Gen. Bonham telegraphed for Col. Aldrieh, his brother-in-law, and he arrived on the night train from Barnwell. He was met at the depot by Gen. Farley and taken at once to the Executive mansion, where he held a conference with the Governor. After the consultation Col. Aldrich called at the .Bureau and stated that Gi n. lionham would to-morrow give to the press a full statement of his side of the case. lie will no doubt make a frank acknowledgment of the use of the money and assume the consequences. In an official way the above is a complete statement of the whole case, and there was little more to add. The matter in some way became known among many citizens this afternoon, and it was freely discussed in all its ueaiiugs. Sen. Bonham was visited at his resi-! deneeto-mght by The News and Courier's representative, and the columns of the paper offered him to make any statement he might desire. lie was found in bed, and said he was suffering from the grip. When told that the Governor had given the statements out for publication he seemed very jnuch surprised. lie thanked the Recalling, but said he had nothing moreTo sTryr?aiil-Courier. foVhenew congress; * ?: Men iu Both Parties Favor an Extra Ses-' slon. Washington, Jan. 13.?The belief that President Harrison will lind it necessary to call the Fifty-second Congress into extra session in the spring is gainingground among the Democratic Senators. and a good many Republican .Senators will not be surprised if it happens. On the Democratic side of the chamber the felling, is becoming quite general that an extra session will be a good thing for the party, and there are some Republican Senators who think it might be of advantage to their party. . Democratic Senators are looking for more or less friction and bickering in o-nrilInrr tVio Armrmriiis ma jority in the next House of-Representatives. composed of so many new men. They have a notion, too, that among the majority will be found several "cranks," who may have a ciiance to do the party luinn before they are found out, and the best means of suppressing whom will have to be developed as their traits develop. Wild and visionary schemes, which will never be enacted into law, but which will be annoying to financial and business interests, are sure to be brought forward, and the Democratic party will be held responsible for them. Even if every Democratic Representative was a conservative, it would take a long time to get a House having so many new ieyiai<tiui5 miu yuvu wiujvmg order. The Democratic Senators have constantly in mind the fact that a Presidential election will be held next year, and that the record made at the first session of the next Congress will have a great deal of inllnence upon the result. So. they argue, it will be a good thing if, at an extra session in March or April, the Democrats can have the chance 10 become acquainted with each other. The new members can "learn the ropes" of Congressional legislation, and then the Democrats can come back for the regular session in December in good working order and all prepared to avoid mistakes that will hurt in the Presidential campaign. Such lleoublicans as favor an extra session do so because they expect to see the .Democratic majority in the House get into trouble in consequence of its unwieldy size and the radical notions of some of its Alliance and other elements, and they argue that the sooner the Democrats begin making blunders and creating factional dissensions, the better it will be for the Republicans. Rut whatever may be the opinion of +li?> mninrit-c nf tl\A Spnntp AS tft tllP desirability of an extra session, the course of the Senate so far has been precisely that best calculated to force such a session. The present session began December 1, and will end March 4, so that less than two months remain! yet the entire time up to Monday last was wasted upon the partisian force bill, and since then the linance bill has held the iloor. -V few puplic building bill^and some private measures have beerracted on at odd moment, now and then, but none of the important public measures which ought to receive attention. and not one "of the great appro - nu i rrcreasSwli an extra session is to be avoided, has yet been acted upon. The linance bill will remain the unfinished business until at least the close tff Wednesday ssitting. so that one-half the session will have passed with not +1iovi nHQ imvK-vrtnufr moacnrp His posed of. Jf it had been the design of the Senate majority to force an extra session the record of its work for the i first half of this session would be regarded as convincing evidence that I the design would be successfully carried out. The Kulrtcd Cities of Yucatan. Chicago, Jan. 1??.?There are between sixty and seventy ruined cities in Yucatan. so far as they have been discovered. Within a radius of one hundred miles from Merida are such magnificent examples ;is Mayapan. Ake. ChickenI tza, Kabah and Labna, but none is more interesting and grand than Uxmal, | about seventy-six miles by road travel | from Merida. By far the linest building in the city, I Kntl. fpnm itc (irtmmnnilinrr nnsitirm fin II j lofty eminence and tiie comuleteness of j its "preservation, is the Royal Palace, otherwise known as the Casa cie (iober[ natlor in Spanish. It stands on the topj most of three terraces of earth?once, perhaps, faced *vi*h stone, but now | crumbled, broken and in state of heteroi geneous decay. The lowermost andlar! {rest is 575 fee't loner: the second 545 long, [ 250 wide 25 feet high, while the third ! and last is .'}?>0 feet in length, 30 in | breadth and I'.t in height. and supports the building, which has a front of 322 . -F?/vt .. nf at-)!v * !?i f'i->i4 nrirl a JLUCTl, ? UV|HH V4 vili; v .v.. , ? height of but 25 feet. It is entirely of stone, without ornament to a height of about ten feet, where there is a wide cornice, about which the wall is a bewildering maze of sculpture. The roof was Hat and once covered with cement, in the opinion of some travellers, but is now covered witli tropical j plants, trees and verdure. There are j three large doorways through the east j ern wall about eight feet square, giving J entrance into a series of apartments, the i Inmost of whirh is sixtv feet loner and | twenty-seven feet deep, divided into two {rooms* by a thick wall. The ceiling of each room is a triangular arch, capped by that ilat block at a height of twentythree feet above the iloor. The latter, like the walls and jambs of the doorway, is of smooth faced stones that have once j been covered with cement.?Tribune. A Case ol" Small Pox. j Charleston', S. C., Jan. 11.?A case j of small pox has been discovered at ! Ilardeevile. It is supposed to have 'come from Savannah. Precautionary ! measures have aiready been adopted | A physician will be appointed to watch | the case. REPUBLICAN RASCALITY. NOTICE TO PENSION BOARDSAn Imdortuut Circnlar from the Coinj>troller General. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 8?County ex- j amining boards of pensions are requir-; ed by law to meet on the third Monday 1 in January of each year for the purpose j of considering applications for pensions,! as provided for by the laws of South Carolina. There were no changes in the I pension law by the last Legislature and these boards are expected to follow the same rales governing them the previous : year. The law, as we understand it, does not j A^nfnrwnlota O rfl.OVQ TV) i 7> J} tf f"m Clf flnnll- I UVULdllj/iClL^ cc IV, ?ri cants passed upon and approved heretofore. but county examining boards of pensions will receive new applications under the rules heretofore governing them. When all applicationjfshall have been acted upon, then the County Examining Boards of Pensions and the Board of Pension Commissioners elected by the j survivors of the' respective counties, j shall meet together and examine the pension roll for such county, and select therefrom such number "of the most ? 1; - * ? -* ? -..ill f a needy applicants as win uc smuucuii w consume the appropriation of such county, allowing to each applicant so selected the sum of three dollars per month and'ffo " and also^toTnc^ . '" ' /j^?.i?of I the near relatives '^--rcTScVefal appli- J cants, and shall, in every instance, se-1 lect the most helpless and needy applicants for aid that can be found upon the j pension roll. I A majority of the members present composing the two said boards shall be j necessary to determine any matter pre- j sented to them, and a majority of each ' board shall be necessary, to form said joint board. Where survivors failed to! meet salesday in October, 1800, or in November, lbOO, and to elect the five members of the board of pension com-1 missioners, as required by Section 7b of an act to amend an act" &c., approved December 24th, A. D. 1888, county ex- j aming boards are requested to report such facts to this office at once, and when such meetings were held and the five members of the board of pension commissioners elected, report to us the name oi sue u commissioners. All applications approved by said County .Board, with the papers upon which they act, shall be tilled in the Comptroller (ieneral's ollice by the first day of February of each year, to be submitted by him to the State Board of Pensions for their review. Respectfully, W. II. Elleiibe, Comptroller General. Union's Bloody ltccord. Union, Jan. 11.?Xews has just reached here of a murder committed in the lower portion of this country on Tuesday night last. "Warren Worthy, colored. was shot and instantly killed by an other negro. The murderer and another negro, who was in some way implicated in the murder, have been arrested and placed in jail to a wait trial. Warren Worthy, the murdered man, was a very quiet, peaceable negro, and the owner of a large plantation. The negro, who is now in jail awaiting trial, was a tenant on Worthy's place. The tenant was making arrangements to leave Worthy's place and was getting ready to move when the murder was committed. The tenant had some cotton in Worthy's crib and went to Worthy to get the'key to the door to remove the cotton. The'tenant owed Worthy a debt and Worthy told him he could liot ' get his cotton until he settled the debt. Worthy told him that they would mane seiuemtm men, uuo tuc iicyiv : was not willing to make it and demanded his cotton. "Worthy would not deliv! er the cotton. The negro declared that he would have the cotton. Worthy re: plied that he w ould die by the crib before he would deliver the cotton, which r he (Worthy) had a claim on. The tenant left, and in a few minutes ! returned with a gun and again demanded the cotton. Worthy would not let the cotton go. .So the negro fired on him ' with his shotgun. Coroner Gregory left Wednesday to ' hold an inquest over the murdered man. ' This makes ten murder cases on dock| et to be tried at the coming March Court. ' The 1'orce Kill. ; Washington*, Jan. 12.?There is to [ be a renewal of the light over the force , bill as soon as the silver bill is disposed of, and every Republican Senator will be . expected to vote with li's party or sutler V^lie cocseojuences. _ TITis is the suostauce of an order sent out from the force bill headquarters today. The silver bill will probably be passed 011 Wednesday evening, after which there wlli be a general scramble Hip form hill t.hf? iinro. food hill. the international copyright bill, the apportionment bill for the right of way. A large majority of the Republicans insist as a matter of party pride that the force | bill will be pushed through at any cost, and if the measure is taken up alter the ! silver bill, an ell'ort will be made imme-1 diately to adopt the sag rule. The Democrats are not dismayed by i the hustling and bluffing indulged in on I the other side of the chamber, and they i are prepared to resist any move calcula-1 ted to revive the force bill. They are i not certain how many Republicans can be counted on to vote against the bill, i as the partisan pressure is very strong ! on those Senators supposed to be doubt- j ful. The two parties arc so evenly divided that none of the leaders are willing to make a prediction as to the result. Alliance 31 on Against Palmer. Spuing field, 111., Jan. 15.?The ; standing of the three farmer members j of the lower house of the General Assembly in the coming Senatorial light is no longer one of uncertainty. While it is not yet known who their candidate will be, it is certain that it will not be Johri M. Palmer. Representative Cockrell says that under no circumstances would he or his colleagues support Palmer. They had no objection to Palmer, except that he stands on the old Democratic doctrine that tho government can make nothing legal tender but gold and silver. We say. added Cockrell, that gold and silver as a circulating medium for the development of our country is inadequate. What we desire is a per capita circulation, and we want an American system of linance. We have come to the conclusion that money is neither silver nor gold nor any other material. If Palmer is elected he would spend j his six years in Washington lighting the tariff measure, while the money I trust issqueezing our values and profits j into their incomes and robbing us all | of our homes. We will elect our man , i or force the Democratic or Republican | party to adopt our policy. Stole a. Ked-Hoi .Stove. ! Kansas. City, Jan. 11.?W. li. C.regory was sent to jail by justice Worthen ! to-day for the unique offense of stealing ; a red-hot stove, the oven of which was ; filled with biscuits. Cregory obtained r the stove on J)ripp street, got an ex. j pressman to haul it away and sold it at 11 a seeond-hand store, buiscuit and all, for | three dollars. . V* -1^. " "V STEALING A STATE, AND THE POOL IN ^ Two Political Iniquities that were .; * Forced on the Attention of the Honse^ The Silver Steal and the New Hamp- tt-i' H shire Theft. Washington, D. C., January 12.? In the House to-day Mr. Blanchard ofCm. . ntnMndo flirt fWllntiMnor rfQnln-. IC1VA. *WA wwv, , tion: Whereas, il is alleged and believed that certain evil disposed persons have within the territory and jurisdiction of the State of New Hampshire, by conspiracy and show of force, recently set on foot and carried into execution plans by which the will of the people as legally expressed at the polls in the recent election has beea set aside, and the Government of the a fnKvnvf a/1 . nrt/7 _J J tci. UUVJ ?? ???? ?| alleged uulawful and revolutionary proceedings involve the title to the office 1 of Chief Magistrate of the Sfato and of the United States Senatorship: 1 Resolved, that the committee on the judiciary of this TTor^*r<^vdirecti??9 ed to investigate ' ^ondilio^ofjhe^'. ' _ uuitcu otaicar-^-q*^. Mr. Dockery, rising" r.r??l; , Vj * ' v.J privilege, offered a resolution rmTTrr : " ' ''1 the fact of the reference of his "silver pool" resolution to the committee on rules, and the fact that the committee * | had refused to report the same, and directing the committee on rules to re| port the resolution to the House for its i confirmation. i Mr. Dingley made the point that the ! resolution did not involve a question of I privilege. Mr. "Dockery held that inasmuch as the original resolution was a question of privilege, it lost none of that privilege by reason of its reference to the commit' v*r i 1 _l 1 tee. nc cnangeu me pnraseoiogy ui the pending resolution so as to discharge the committee on rules from the further considoration of the resolution, so as to bring it now before the House. In the discussion as to whether the original resolution presented a question of privilege Mr. Crisp said that there was no express rule authorizing the discharge of the committee, but this was not an ordinary case. The original resolution was unquestionably a question of the highest privilege. If the committee refused to report the resolution, a motion to discharge was privileged." The Speaker inquired whether the gentleman believed the orginal resolu- I firm waG riMi *rvf rvririloirA .r* "VU "?? ? ^l..nvav. Mr Crisp replied that he had assumed that the Speaker had so held. The Speaker stated that he had not. 1 On the contrary, in a somewhat similar ! case, he had ruled (and the House susI tained the ruling) that the resoultion did t not present a question of privilege. The j Chair desired that m thistcase fhe'mat| ter should be disposed of b(v the^ House, :and he therefore submitted tike question as to whether or not the pena&w re-^solution was one of privilege. ~ ^ ^ The House decided?yeas 148, nayjK^ SO?that the question was one of privi- ^ lege. ' Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, offered an amendment to the Dockery resolution providing lor the appointment of a special committee of live membes to inquire into all the facts and circumstances connected with silver pools in whith Senator and Represehtatives are alleged to be interested; also as to the alleged passage of the Act of July 14, 1890, including the names of persens purchasing or selling the same, and who are the owners of the 12,000,000 ounces of silver bullion which the United States is asked to purchase. Mr. Rogers's amendment was agreed to and the resolution as amended was agreed to. A Negro Colonization Project. Washington, Jan. 11.?Senator Teller of Colorado to-day introduced a bill, by ? _ request, in behalf of tie African-American Colonization Society of the District of Columbia. Accompanying the bill is a long petition setting forth a desire on the part of a large number of i colored people to settle in Lower Caliand they ask the governments "Tend tl 1 V16r a perfotT3 of forty years, at the smallest rate of interest possible. In Lower California the petitioners believe they have at last discovered their Utopia, and have aband- ? oned the Liberia-Congo colonization proposition, mey ciaim tnat it is aulicult lor them to get along with the white people, as the latter insist upon keeping them down and preventing their progress. They cite Hayti and Jamaica to show that the negro can prosper by himself if afforded sufficient opportunity. The bill and petition was referred to'the committee on foreign relations. Safe Kobbery. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14.?A ^ special from Key "West to the Times- \ . Union says that the sale in the postofflee there was blown open by thieves early this morning and $2,300 in money, - . " stamps, etc, was stolen, besides the con- > . tents of twenty-four registered letters. II. L. Iloter, of Barnwell, S. C. by, trade v a baker, has beer, arrested on suspicion v . _ -I Ilis chum, John Cline, is missing. The I amount of money in registered letters is supposed to be large. * The Georgia Fever. Marion, S. C., Jan. 16.?Over two hundred colored people left Marion one night last week for the turpentine woods of Georgia. In the number were : men from sixty years old to boys of I twelve and upwards. Several boys were along who had every appearance | of having rue away from their homes 1 in order that they might join the hap i py hand, who v\vre ail in high spirits j over the fact that they were "going to ! Georgia."?Fee Dee Index. Killed by an Klectric 'Wire. r Lynchburg, Va.. Jan. 11.?The i thirteenyear-Oid son of Councilman J. ! I). Sullivan, while walking on the street : to night, laid his hand on a guv wire ! from an electric pole and was instantly j killed. Ilis companion endeavored to ! release Sullivan from the wire and was j knocked down, hut escaped serious injury. A heavy rain has been falliug j since noon, and it is supposed that the wire became charged from that cause. Murdered In a Church. ? " Savannah, Jan. 12?Joi.n Wilson shot and killed James lay - '-?t. night : at a church on the Gib? . *> ^ -^ix ; fm Qoi'-orirniVj . * "'X ILiliro iiUUi KJi* ? Uituu", ^ road. T'oth parties ?' " - lor had been paying - , ' v ' N > son's wife, with v*' ' ' ; living. Wilson", . ' foil w:- . , - V tf. '4 " ^ ?- .. Sf . v" i?. '' ? ' ? , % . *? * *