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r r ~VQL7XLVIIT. WINNSBOJRO, S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1893. ? - L WANTS A SILVER BASTS 1 mr. l. w. youmans'i id?as cf na tional Finance. He Believe* Silver t ? t>? h More Correct j Standard of Valu?* than Gold, and | Therefore I>eHir*K to C. in.? Evet.tasilly j to a SHver IUhIh. To the Editor of the Xe vs and (Jour- j iei: In resDon<!in!? 10 your eunwai ui July 15 you say that I took up the statement in queslion without any reference to wbat had preceded it. I have carefully read your editoral alluded to and still think that I noted the only two prominent propositions in it, to wis: That you favored the tree mintage of silver, provided that a gold dollar's worth, ot bullion should be coined in the silver dollar and that the farmer, by the; frte coinage ot silver, would lose in the disposal ( his crop the dfl'crence between the commodity value of sroldanda silver dollar. In your editoral of July 31 you say: "We stated thai the farmer who received as a dollar a silver coin containing only G5 cents' worth of silver in ex? ? -? C-.- ? ixrorth nf fflt.i.On or I IV. i a. uviicu ~ ~? ? . /ther produce was cheated to the extent f 35 cents." And again that the silver miner would 2ain 35 cents. These propositions are impossible, either under m*"' present conditions or under the ir^e coinage ot silver. Under present conditions the 'armer may not only receive a silver dollar with a commodity value of G5 cents, but a paper dollar which, as a commodity, is worthless and not be cheatedatall, for the simple reason that neither of them are commodities, but money, and interconvertible with 20'd at their stamp value. Under the tree coinage of silver it wculc be impossible fjr the bullion holder to make 35 cents while the receiver lost 35 cents. For instance, when the bullion bolder goes to the mint with 65 cents' worth of silver, rt it is worth only 05 cents after it is coiued. he wold make nothing. If he should j;ain 35 cents the coin would be worth ore dollar, and the farmer or acy-oce else wh > would re ceive it would lose nothing, laiuuou attempt iu my article to controvert your statements that "a farmer who takes Co cento worth of siLv&r for a dollar's worth of cotton must lose 35 cents," but your statement that l*the farmer who demands the free <:?iD3jje of 05 cents dollars is demanding that he shall receive for his labor and preducts one. third less than they are worth." I did not deny vour statement that a farmer who takes 05 cenu' worth ot silver for a dollar's worth of cottou must base 35 cents, because I do not think you can tind anybody over ten years old outside or a lunat'c asylum who wc.uld cenv that a farmer who took f /-,? oilr/ir nr r?f nn\thiny U<_> CCUtC nvnu vic .?v4, ? else. for a dollar's worth wf cCttou or o* any other product, would lose 3G ceuts. A'ter admitting the validity of my reply to your statement that the farmer would lose a third of his product by the ?"? Irf-e coinage of_65 cents dollars, you sav, ' Bui when Mr. 1'onmaus proceeds to show how the farmers are to be benelited 1 by helping the silver miuers he gives bis whole case away in his very first proI position." IIesa>s: '"We would opeo a market for all Western silver." Il??w, and why? 1 wculd i.kc to remark en passant that, while their interest to a certain extent may be parallel, the 'aimers are not stimulated bv anv special desire to advance the interest ot the silver miners, but to help tlumselves. How wculd we open the market for all Western silver? How was the market . T 1:^0 TJ.. opened xor n m j.iiuis.- jl?v aun uulimitted conioa^u. In the same way tree and unlimited coinage in th United States would open it tor all Western silver. "Wh}?" This is a hi^ question, and requires a canvass ot the w;.n!o ?-ub 1'ect ot silver. A question of a similar | nature wasaskeo ; ihe Columbia S,a,,> I iB it3 issue of Jul\ 31, n the folio * it.j lacsuase: "Io would he <.>ratifying ii our Populiscic Iriends should S!>m<; reason wh\ silver sh- u <? hr urn> d at the ratio of 1G to I. * * * T"t-P?>t?uiists and their alines contend Ui-ittln imrinMc value of ihe metal has coiLim: to do with its value as currency." In tinswenos your question we haveto deal with silver, not only ts a "omxodliy, Hit as motiev. for, despite ti>e iact that it has been h fustd minute by all the irreat commercial mi. ions for t e past twenty jear*, it sun twusiituico nearly cue-half of cur iiietailic money, acul supplies tbe circulating medium of tbr( e-lourths of the world. ' Of all sub jects iuvolviug human action that of - iDocev is the most, complex. To eomj& preheud, lo investigate and tj u;-ni<>cstrate the leading truths* ua ccupiex subject rt qu;res acarUul examination oi all the elements whose sepeniie or combined action produces ti e phenomena." The inu lliirmt hancioi* of the silver branch of tiuance requires a knowledge of the functions oi money, of me chatL. nels or trade aod the value of the prect <>us metals, relatively *i:d otbttw;s<r, H m the different sections ot the ?iobe. Hffijjy Money, according to the accepted aufigg' thoiities, is a medium ott-xchaye. a repW? reseotative of values, and a standard tor deferred payments. A medium ot exchange, it is the instrument ot trade aod inseparably allied with commerce. Previous io the dwuhhni* ot'tLie Cape of Good Hope by Yasco di Gauuua it: i4yi me ureal cumins t>i hsua; uuucu on the shores ot the Levant, arid eonisistedotihe exchanges betwten the H ist und the West or the trutlic between Euhud Northern Africa and A*ia. in these exchanges the ptecit us metals took a prominent pari. Sa\s Air. Jacobs: "The proportionate value ot yold 10 silver was less in Asia than in Europe. At all tunes a pro til mi^hi be gaiLed by exchao^in^ oue tor tbe oih.t r." The Tvrian mariners excbanm d their supplies tA silver trom Spain with the Persians lor iroui ounce for oun.e. and ?s late as lb50 English aud Acuencan '.riders exchanged silver with the .Japanese i?c i:o!d at the ratio ot o\ to 1. The ciiinate ot the East is so uisld as to lender its people well ni^h independent o' fclotbin:: auj houses'. me son iirouuees two or more crops dancir the \ear. and the seasons are so uniformly warm auu iieady as to rentier human labor erttcli\e ail the year round. Tnese various iudusirial advantages havec.i:j$ed a poo pie whose wauls are but few and simple to export largely more than they buy? hence the balance of trade is always against the West auu requires a constant and i xtended snj piv ot silver to liquidate it. The cheaper th:s silver can be obtained the greater ihe profit tor be ii?ftit that eliects these ex jhanirvs. as the purchasing power ot silver has not ^ declined in the Orient. Whatever town or country t ec-true ihe ?k prime factor or mercantile iuiermed;ar> 8a? re conducting tbese exchanges has ^^""~>rowu opuiou-- aud powertul. Tue glo ry and magnidctuce ot Tadmoor, Tyre,,, Venice and Genoa attest the truth of this assertion. After the doubling of the Cape by the Portuguese and the conquest of E_'vpt by the ) urks which rendered unsafe the caravan trade across the country to the Levant, Lish ;*i became the disbursing centre ofthes. exchanges and eujoyea all the. grandeur and ma^nuieence of her predecessors. The Dutch succeeded the Portuguese as the masters of Oriental trade and iloiiand became in its turn the richest com* try in Europe. The lau transfer o> Uaeutal trade has been from the Dutcn t'? the English, who stdl enjoy it, wi h th? ^reat additional advantage of an ample supplv ??t cheap silver from the West to manipulate it. The situation. I think, has already been made sutliciently plain why Eag land should advocate the depredation of silver. I>ui whv should ths tarmeis, more than any other class, object to England's use of this silver? Western Europe tarnishes a market, annually for over two hundred million bushels of wheat and about two thirds ot the co'ton crop. The f'arme s ot the United States compete with silver standard countries lor this market. Euslaud so manipulates chtap silver in her E istern trade as to rnaKe a prutii of the decline in silver. Siie does Dot evau pay out sixty live dollars in gold for one huudred dollars worth of silver, but settles the debts of the United Slates in the East with her manufactured wares. That is as the Uuued States are purchases ot the Eist. Eaglaud receives of the United States sixty iive dollars worth of siiver bullion and sittles the dsbts ot t.h<? T'nit-pd Xfrues in the East to that ex tent, with her manufactured wares. Xheu she takes the bullion and buys eae hundred dollars worth of wheat or cotton, which places the farmer ol the United Stales at a disadvantage! ol 35 per cent. This discount is not con lined to exports, but as the surplu lisposed of in the neutral markets o: world L'xes the price, it equally affects the whole volume, both at home and abroad This situation has not been me result of natural causes, ot economic forces operating upon the choice ot individual producers and exchanges?it has been wholly a work ot mau's accomplishing as it was of man's desiring. .Eaglaud did not accomplish unaided this great financial tact, which uot only lurcished ready to her haud cheap silver in ample vo ume, Lo mauipuiate, at increased nrniirc thrpp tiiiiri.ha of her e.Oiamftive. !iut added 50 per cent to the value of her gild mines in Australia and 50 per cent to the value ot ner vast credits. S;ie had an ally?the northeastern portion ot these Uuued States, a section which has always entertained business ideas ot the partnership, a3 indicated by Governor Morris as early as the Constitutional Convention ot 17S7, when he saic: "Property is the main object, of society. The Savage State is more favorable to liberty than the civil iz id, ami was only renounced tor the sake ot prouerty." Aoout twenty years afterwards the same idea was advanced by Josiah Quincy, when, soca:tiu^ under the restriction oI' President Jefferson's proclamation ot emoar^o, he said, "But patriotism, to sav the least, was a very inactive a^sisia.:!. to the ?;eu yoi .New England, who saw their prohts and tdeir capital vasisniai? unuer a pom-/ i of Federal i;over;.inrnt." This section j appears lo have always regar Jed the Uoion as a lucrative airau^emeui b^u'fceu Uie States 10 be sacrificed or maintained by arms, a.s their luterest dictated. Perhaps n > other section with as lew natural auvauia^es under a popular goverumeut professedly organized to establish justice, {promote the geucal weliare aud secure the blessiu^ or lib? ; erty has ever so enriched and a^rand- i ized itself a*- the public expense through ' the mysterious agency ol le^isi alive div- 1 idends. Availing itself of the skill and valor 1 of the south to be freed from the colonial policy of Great JLJritam. it no sooner tound itself free than it enforced he very same shackles on the other : ~ T? f fhi.- rxstli/ttf OOiii.rs. i nr at; rt v ui. mio having aeeii checked by the nullilic-t- [ tion of South Carolina ia 1>>32, was suspended until the wuhdrawal of the : Coiion States Ironi tne Union in 1800, when this section assumed lull gov ernuienTal control. Daring th-i lour 1 years of war it legislated nearly all of ! tne outstanding obligations of the na- ! tiou into its pocket. The lace value j of these obligations was about 38 per cent. Despite the fact that these otdi- ' gations were legislated to par value in * com?a scheme which was stoutly opposed by A. T. Thurman, voted against < bv every Democrat and denounced at 1 tne time by Garrett Davis, and second- * ed bv Thomas F. B*yard, as a public ( robbery of SlHW.OOO/HX)?this very sec- ' tion had already b^en plotting with the ( bankers of Western Europe bythede- 5 monetizatioa of silver to double idem ( again, i ou saia m voar issue 01 j J'ine 2S: "The gold bugs of Wall ' street caunot be charged with the de- J a;otietiZiitioQ of silver. It silver were wortn intrinsically as much a-: gold ( tfcev would all be silvrr bugs. There : is no sentiment in Wall street." You 1 said something else: ' There is no ig- 1 norance so hopeless as the ignorance of the man who thinks he knows it all." : Let us inquire who led this lirst light against silver? The American dele- i gate to the International Monetary < Conference at '.'aris in 1807, one Sam- i uelil. Iluggles, an active member ot 1 the Chamber ?.l Commerce ot New i York city, mentioned, as the records 1 will show, by -John Sherman, (a man l who entered public life in moderate ' circumstances and is now worth mil < lions,) and coached, as he himself ac- i knowledges, by Michel Chevalier, tne < mmion and mouthpiece of the money ? power of Europe: "If silver were i worth intrinsically ;.as miicn as gold ' they would all be silver hugs." Silver i was at. a premium of 3 per cent. Was : Wail street sentimental m the person I of its representative, Mr. Ku^gles? j Read the report of his letters to Mr. Seward, and then judge. This Confer J enc*; assembled in response to au mvi < tation from the Emperor Louis X a ' pobon for tlie purpose of arranging c tor a uniform coinage of gold and sil- < ver that would circulate international- i ly among trie civilized nations. This meritorious undertaking of the . French Emperor, however, was con- f vetted into an opportunity bv capital- 1 ists to reduce the metallic basis of money by one ha'f and yivi? to the < bankers a practical monopoly of tne < currency. The powers of iiuance saw ] taeir opportuuity, delegations of capi- ; talists ilocked across the channel from ; London and Liverpool, a >iue meeting < was lield and the scheme of demoneti < zation and contraction was pressed ; with vigor and ability. Ruggles, in a ' speech l efore the Conference. alarmed < the capitalists by leading them u> believe that the mines of the I'mted 1 States would soon inundate the world with the precious metal*. Speakicg ; of this country he said: "Its annual product, now nearlv one hundred millions of dollars, may eventually reach three or tour Hundred millions. The money of the world must be unified now or never." The resolution discarding silver was passed and thus the, most colossal scheme ol' plunder ever devised by man put cleverly under way. Thus was projected the lioancial poison which is 10-aay congesting the world's liver. Demonetization of silver and dearth of gold are paralyziug iunustrv and causing: the wheels of commerce to screak: trade is crippled and production halts: the weight of existing obligations is being doubled and tne world's activities are being compressed into half their existing scope, jf, uit-aos to consign tie nineteenth century to a pauper's grave and to lay the heavy hand ot paralysis on the cradie ol the twentieth- The prediction of iiis-1 marok, that the gold basis would i>e like several men trying to cover with a small blanket?when one pulled the other would be exposed?has b<-en veriiied. Russia pulled this gold blanket and we had panic and reaction. Austrian Hungary pulled and our business men have failed and banks hrokeu by the hundreds?the sweet results ofbeingon a scant ri laucial basis common t j Europe. Mew England and OM Engl and were in a kind of cjnspir?cy axaiusr. the h W*<jrin iSl J notuMthstiind tng the fact that the war was being Wctged for the protection of Xorthr?stern seamen and New England maritime rights, and what might have transpired had not farther proceediugs been cat short by the treaty of Ghent no one knows. William Loyd Garrison and Exetei Ilall accomplished tiie dream ot Sir Robert Peel wh^n he advocated the appropriation of twenty million pounds tor the liberation oi the West India slaves, claiming that it would be an entering wedge between the Xcrth and south and a long stride towards the freeing of Southern slaves, hoping thereby to revive American ag riculture to beat down commerce in the West where England had competition, and build it up in the East where she enjoyed a monopoly. It was left, however, lor the Northeast, through the agency of S. 1>. Haggles, to form a n.irtnurehin iritn Tnhn liilll t.1 itmihlp the war obligations of The nation which she had amassed by the taril'l' and Government speculation aud I ad already nearly trebbkd by the fund.ng and specie paying Acts. For his lucre Haggles abused public coniide ice and betrayed the nation he was appointed to represent. He led the conspiracy to cat off silver l'rom the mints and cast it into the sea of commodities. Thus did the nation which uses 50 per cent of the silver and produces but 7 per cent beguile the cation which produces 50 per cent into s'riking down one-half of its vylue. The nation which is the greatest importer of wheat in the world inveigled the nation which is the greatest exporter of wheat in the world into a financial aud commercial deadfall, where 50 per cent was taken from the price of her wheat. The nation whose looii.s would be idle and whose people would be hungry and whose Government would be m upheaval upon the storm of riot if, without a supply of American cotion, det-^/H f-hii ii-jtiiMi ?-hifh ic tlio rrrosfuc? V/Ci Y tU i/UV iiiiwik/ii * i ?J uuv ? w ^ u producer of cotton into striking .";ij per ent from its value. Verily, it appears as though John Bull was bunco steerer and Uncle Sain the gentleman irom the rural district. Western Europe, large consumers o imported cotton, breadstuffs and other agricultural products, has n-jr, tj^en slow to learn through ttie medium of depreciated silver it is enabled to play the agricultural products of the E*st against those of the United States at a prolit marked by the decline in silver. Consequently every subsequent irifTuaiional monetary conference called by the United "Stales to undo the disastrous and treacherous work led by Saermtn and Ruggles, in regard to which said Sir Kobt. X. Fowler, M. I'., London banker and Ex-L >rd Mayor, at a meeting of the JLJrttisu and Colonial chambers of commerce held in London "that the eft'ect of the depreciation oi Ka fKu i?nin of fhu 911 YCL LLiUaii UUrtilj ur; nig x uai vi v?*v, wheat and coMuq industries of America and be the (ieVr-jopmeat of India," aas been a miserable failure and the Amencaa delegates regarded as little bet;er tnan poor unforiuu itt s, whose nation bad trilled away its tikiiirighr. The question iastantly occurs, why did the Northeast advocate such a-> ti?">n? Smiolv because her inn-rest was similar to that of England. She occupied the position of creditor and banker for the Sjuth and West and purchased largely of their agricultural products, hence her interest, to enhance Liie v-tlue of mon<*y and depress ttie price of agricultural produce. This view is now entertaiued in regard to jur linancial situation by the holders jf realized wealth, such as stocks, 3ond3, and various other securities, tae exchanges in the arteries of ir.-tde. :nose whose fees are fixed by law or ; custom and all annuitants and stipeniarii-s, ior tn? very pl-tin and simple , ,e*SOU ILlHi, its LLie pruuccua <Jl muui ieelirie, their inwmes remaining the same, they can live easier and mor^ ;ouifortably. Hence the disposition ihroughuut the United States to regard ;he farmers, wno are being ground between the upper and nether mill stjue )j the commercial and iin:-incial policy jf the Federal Government, as a set of soreheads a:;d noisy demagogues who ie?m bent on doing a great- deal of nlschief. it shouid be remembered that '* .h^atacd cotron growers of the tfed States have to pay 12 per c -nr. or the money used in the cultivation )f their crops; tint owing to resrrictve legislation, whicn prevents cirgoes from shipping this wav they h ive to pay doubie freights to European marcels when across the ocean; that they : mveto compete in the neutral markets i jf the world witn the pauper labor of i creation, the present labor uf the Medterranean, th?? fellahs of Egypt, the roolies of China and the ryots ot India md, by this very silver legislation, at a | jisaayant-asre oi p-r cem: that wn.cn < .heir produce is sol i they are not al- i owed by the laws of their country to i ivail themselves of the advantages of :his cheap labor against wnich thev lave to contend at a disadvaagent of 'j'j per cent, 'out, must take th-s money ?ack home and pay a bounty of over >U per cent to home manufacturers. If 101 they must pay to a United States justom receiver r>0 per cent, noton'y )n tirst cost, but also on all expenses t<> , and it at an American custom house. , i'hese uojust hardships imposed upon ; American farmers seem calculated to ' lave called forth a disorderly gro-.vl from old Job himself. I have answered your questions dis- 1 jursively. I will now do su catesori- ' . ally. Ia doing so, however, I shall j' proceed upon the supposition that they i ire asktd independent of and irrelevant to party surroundings. Of course, is I am a Democrat, 1 am in favor ot . arrying out the party platform. To innounce a ?et of principles, go before i ;he people, and after having now the Dllices upon tileni '.o disregard them, would be but to perpetrate a fraud upon trie public. Speaking independently ot 'Marty environments, iu reply t-> your q-.ifsiion?w.iat. Iihs any farmer j to gain by the free coinage of sliver?? j I j-ointedly declined to commit myselt j to the DroDrietv of anv such lmnrrdtate I ajtion, tor two reasons: 1st. Jiecausv such ac:iun would iraasier the benelit of' the signiorage lrom the Government to the bullion hoi<l?r. 2i. He-' cause nf an apprehension th*t the outilow of gold would cause a temporary contraction. Now, as to your question, how we would op-n this market V First, this appreheuded contraction should be provided against by the repeal cf the 10 per ct-nt t ax on each State's share of one billion dollars of IocmI issues prorated to the States according to their population, with the special requirement that each State should so prorate it, according to counties. The reai-. - ~ 4-1. i o rvKxrirvno 1UL LIUA JLCIJUU CUICUL rtiv ViMivusj aid conclusive. We are suffering more from an ill distributed than from a restricted volume of currencj'. As sood as lo; al banks were in operation I would recommend not free coinage, but the free and unlimited purchase of silver on the plan of the Snerman bill until the value of tne dollar unit sunk to the level of the bullion value. 412 graius standard silver, and then op?ru the mints to free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of 10 to 1. This policy would drive the volume of gold to Eropr, and though the mints mignt reuiam opto to it then as now, would practically put us up>n a silver basis. Of the advantages we would gaiu. and trie dangers and disasters we woui 1 avoid, space does not permit me to dwell. Why should we adopt the ratio nl' If; to 1? For the simple reason that silver wai shown itself to be the most reliable measure of values. Money is not only a medium of exchange, but a representative of values and a standard for deferred payments. Tiles-* two latter features require that rs volume should maintain a ratio uniform with the volume of commodities, so that its purchasing power would remain the same. Measured by commodities the result proves that the disparity between the two metals has been caused by a rise in gold, and not by a decline m silver. Four hundred and twelve and a half grains 01 stanaera suver in jreuruary 28, 1ST:., measued tnree feet in commodities. .lust twenty years afterwards, m 1803, it measured trie same tnree teec in c im modi ties. Tlie gold dollar in 1S73 lacked a fraction of measuring thee feet in commodities. Now it measures four and a half feet. Which is trie nouest yardstick? Wnich is the best representation of values, the most reliable standard tor deferred payments? I contained these prop ?sitions in live questions which 1 asked you about two years ago when you were d-'aounceing the silver dollar as a dishonest dollar, questions which you could not answer. The phrase, "A rise in value of gold," are words of ominous and threatening porten to the i - n Tfr Happiness aria wen are 01 uiauMuu. xu means that 50 per cent has Deen added to trie burdens of nil debts and taxes, Hud that thtt hours of the laboring man shall be extended from eight to twelve, it means tbe sacrilice of the landholder to the bondholder and the freehold ;r of productive industry to unproductive wealtn, and signals the victory of the drones over the bees. It menus that the deep-laid scheme crystalled at i'aris in 1807, in whichSheraiaQ and liugglej and the London and Liperpool bankers figured so conspicuously, has been successful; that the demonetization of silver has given to the bankers entire control of the volume of money and that the industrial world to-day is writhing in their Moaey is th^ great modern power; whoever controls it controls pontics and society. The brokers have made themselves the masters ot' the modern world. L. \V. Youmaxs. Fairfax. S, C, August 5. Thf? Growing Cotton Crop. Washington, Aug. 10,?The crop report, ol the Departm^ut ot Agriculture for ihe month of August makes the jon jiiitin of c.aton 8(J.4, a decline o! a little over 2 points since last month. This is the lowest average for August ever given out by the department The averages by Slates an.: Wginia 88, Xorth Carolina 84. South Carolina 75, Georgia 83, Florida 'J2. Alabama 71), Mississippi 81, r.nnisian i s'j. Texas 72. Arkansas 89. Tennussee 83. Tne general averages ia Auiu3i- for several years are as foliow>: 1802. 82.3; 1891, 88.9; 1890. >9.5; 1889. 89.3; S8S. #7.3- audic 1887 a was 93.3. Tne present low condition is in cot sequence oi an ercess oi raia in the eatly pari oi' Llie season, loilowed by hot, dry weather dnrirg the mouth oi July, ltust is reported as the cause 0- the injury to tne crop iu the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, and the boll worm and caterpillar have damaged the crop more or less thrcugaoui -.lie States ol Alabama, L misiaua. Texas and Arkansas. Sheddng is also repined as occurring in some localities. S.uce the 1st of August the drought has been broken and raiu has vlsi.ed the cotton be't, excepting parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas, where it is ba.iiv needed, lu some portions oi Mississippi and Alabama too '"men rain tor the. good ( i coLtoo is annouaced. Almortc ? I^ynchiu-. Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 9~CoIumbia has just JXd.cs enough lyncning for South Carolina, Out Abbeville came very near having one ins otner day. Mrs. Thomas IVrry. a charming brunette, who lias just Deen married a few mouths, went jfit walkiug a good ways from ihe house down towards the watermelon patch. When she got there, to ner surprise, a big biacK negro approached and made several proposals to her. Sne went to the hou->e and tne news spread iitce wild lire,a posse was organized ana trie search began. After a ddligent search of six or seven hours he was caught. As luck, would have it most ol tht? posse wer-i old iren living in Abbeville's charming suburb, "I)ue West." It was thereiore agreed as long as the would be rapist had not accomplished iiis purpose, for each man to give him seventy-live lashes and give him twentA-four h-Kirs to leave tie State of South Carolina.?Augusta Chrouicle. It mgh on t'ie C.msttbl*'. Laurens, S, C., Auir 0.?There? are hiui'.s m.?re potent, than ancient e^g?. ? ?: ? 1 iw.-? ?.,,i IjISL '.VCCK 11 cu:/?'ju liven ;iuc auu <ooti be^an to auuou:iee thai he wanted i df iik. (Jiter.siblv he was peddling a 'rn.iil mechanical contrivance but he was very soon suspected ol bein<* a T ill if an soy. iJe seemed painfully thirsty aid expressed contempt lor a town ivlioro a iieuileiuan could not ?et a Loihly. "onift ol the boys came to his rescue. I lis thirst, was quenched, but lie retired to private life for several days. Ifie story is that the to;My contained ;roto!i oil. A fr'e trial Accident. Clkvelank O., Au??, 9.?There was a horri file accident in the convert'ins ilepanmcnt of ti:e i^ssemer Sieel Woiks here this morning and live men were horribly burned and t.00Keu ny molten metn'. The workman were a hi >uL to make a cast and the apparatus ovcjiuj unm.ina^eable, wii.h a Ir.ss the metal il v.wd uro the pit under the coi.verier, and as n struck the water, there was a t^rritic explosion. Foreman .loha Lilley. I) >h McClond and Je3se Snell are ail terribly burned. Two laborers, names unknown, als > received fjjunestha' may prove tatal. I UNCONDITIONAL REPEAL OF THE SHERMAN LAW ADVISED BY PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. He Says tho People are Entitled to a Sound and StaDle Money?The Laboring Claxfl the Real m. Hirers from Financial DfpreMHlocs. Washington, 1). C., Aug. s.?The fr>l Irwin or is t.hp mpssstrp of President Cleveland sent to Congress at noon today: "To the Congress of the United States: ' The existence of an alarming and extraordinary business situation, involving the welfare and prosperity of all of our people, has constrained me to call together in extra session the people's representatives in Congress to the end j that through a wise and patriotic exercise of the legislative duty with which they solely are charged, present j evils may be mitieated and dangers threatening: ttu* foture may be averted. "Our unfortunate financial plight is not trie result of untoward events nor conditions related to our natural resources. nor is it traceable to any of the affections which frequently check natural growth and prosperity. With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to sate investment, and wi*h satisfacto ry assurance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side. Numerous moneyed institutions have suspended because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors; surviving corporations and individuals are content to keep in nand the money they are usually anxious to loan, and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find that the securities they offer for loans, though heretofore satisfactory, are no longer accepted; values supposed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural and loss and failu e have invaded every branch of business. 4,I believe these things are principally chargeable to Congressional legislation touching the purchase and coinage of silver by the general government. This legislation is embodied in a statute passed on the 14tb day of July 1890, which was the culmination of much <1?1UC1L1UU UU tliC ouujcou iuyuiycu nuu which may be considered a truce after a long struggle between the advocates of free silver coinage and those intending to be more conservative. Undoubtedly the monthly purchases by the government of 4,500,000 ounces of silver, enforced under that stacme were regarded by these interested in silver production as a certain guaranty of its increase in price. The result, however, has been entirely different, for immediately following a spasmodic and slight rise the price of silver began 10 fall atter the passage of the Act, and has since reacted to the lowest point ever known. This disappointing result has'led to renewed and persistent effort in; the direction of free silver coinage. Meanwhile not oniy are the evil effects of the operation of the present law/constantly accumulating, but the result, to which its execution must inevitably lead, is becoming palpable to all who ffivii the least heed to financial subjects. "This law provides that in payment for the four millions and five hundred thousand ounces of silver bullion winch the Secretary of the Treasury is commanded to- purchase monthly there shall be issued treasury notes redeemable on demand in gold or silver coin, *t the discretion of the Secretary of the Secretary of ihe Treasury, and that said notes may bcj reissued. It is however, declared in the Act to be the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided bylaw. This declaration so controls the actions of the Secretary of the Treasury as to prevent his exercising the discretion nominally vested in him if by such action the parity between gold and silver may be disturbed. Manifestly a refusal cy the Secretary to pay these treasury notes in gold would necessarily result in their discredit and depreciation as obligations payable only in silver, and wo-.M destroy the parity between the two metals by establishing a discrimination in favor of Tin tn 1"t-h Haw nf Tnlw 1SCI3 \u vw ivyu *-? A. V ?-* * J I *wvw, these noies hnd been issued ?a paymeut ot' silver bullion purchases to the amount of 8147,000,000, while all but a very small quantity of this bullion remains uncoined and without usefulness in the Treasury. Many of the note? given in its purchase have been paid in gold. This is illustrated by the state went that between the 1st day of Mav, 1892, and the 15th day of July, 1893, the nc^s of this kind issued in payment for silver bullion amounted to a little more than fifty-four milliois of dollars, and that during the same period about forty-nine millions of dollars were paid by the Treasury in gold for tue redemption of such notes. The policy necessarily ad ip'.ed of paying these notes in gold has not spared the eold reserve of 8100,000,000 long ago set aside by the government for the redemption of other notes, for this fund has already been sunjec:. to the payment of new obligations, amounting to about 8150,000,000 on account of silver purchases aud nas, as a consequeace for the (irst time since its creation been encroached upon. "We nave thus made the depletion of our gold easy and bave tempted oth erand more appreciate nations to add it toiherr stock. Tnat tire opportunity we nave offered has not been neglected rs shown by the large amounts of gold which have been recently drawn from our Treasury and exported to increase the financial strength of foreign na tions. Tne excess of exports of gold over the imports for the year ending June 30th, 1893, amounted to more thau eighty-s-ven and a half millions of dollars. Between the 1st ofjulv, 1890, and the 15th day of July, 1893. the gold coin and bullion in our i'reasiirv rl*>r?rAa<j^ri mnr^rhun r>nn hnnrtrftfi and thirty-two millions of dollars, while daring the same peJod the silver coin and bullion in the Treasury increised more than one hundred and forty seven millions of dollar?!. Unless government bonds are to be constantly issued aod sold to replenisn our ex hausted gold, only to be again exhausted, it is apparent that the operation of the silver purchase law now* in force, leads in the direction of the entire substitution of silver for gold in the gov ernment treasury and this must bo followed by tbe payment of all government obligations in silver. "At this stage gold and silver must part company, and the government must fail in.its established policy to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other. Given over to the exclusive use of a currency greatly depreciated, according to the standard of the commercial world, we could no longer claim a place among the nations of the firsf. nor could our government claim a performance of its obligations, so far as such an obligation has been imposed upon it, to provide for the use of the people the best and safest money. "If, as many of its friends claim, silver ought to occupy a larger place in our currency and the currency of the world through general international cooperation and agreement, it is obvious that th^ United States will not be in a position to gain a hearing in favor of such an arrangement so long as we are willing to continue our attempt to accomplish the result single-bonded. "The knowledge in busi^t-.s circles among our own people that our government cannot make its fiat equivalent to intrinsic value nor keep inferior money on a parity with superior money by its own independent effort has resulted in such a lack of confidence at home in the stability of currency values that capital refuses its aid to new enter pnser wnuc millions are actually withdrawn from the channels of trade and commerce to become i lie and unproductive in the hands of timid owners. Foreign investors a:e especially alert and not only decline to purchase American securities but make haste to sacrifice those which they already have. "It does not meet the situation to say that the apprehension in regard to the future of our finances is groundless, and that there is no reason for lack of confidence in the purposes or power of the government in the premises. The very existence of this apprehension and lack of confidence, however caused, is a menace which ought not for a moment to he disregarded. Possibly if the undertaking we have in hand were the maintenance of a specific and known quantity of silver at a parity with gold our ability to do so might be tstimated and gauged and perhaps, in view of our unparalleled growth and resource?, might be favorably passed upon. But when our avowed endeavor is to main tain such a parity in regard to an amount of silver increasing at the rate of 850,000,000 yearly, with no fixed termination to such increase, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented whose solution is free from doubt. "The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable currency and to money recognized as such on every exchange andm every market of the world. Their government has no right to injure them by fioaacial ex perimects opposed to the policy and practice cf other cilvilized "States, nor is it justified in permitting an exaggerated and unreasonable reliance on our national strength and ability to jeopardize the soundness of the people's money. "This matter rises above the plane of politics. Its vita1 fy concerns every businees and calling and enters every household in the land. There is one important aspect of the subject which especially should, never be overlooked at times likes the present. When the evils of unsound finance threaten us the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others. The capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values; but the wage earner?the first to be injured by a dt-preciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction ?is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his libor. One of the greatest statesmen our country has known, speaking more than fifty years ago, when a derangement of the currency had caused commercial distress, said: 'The very man of all others who has the deepest interest in a sound currency, and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in money matters, is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil.' These words are as pertinent now as on the day they were uttered and ought to impressively rominfl lis t.hot Si foilnrft in thoHicoh'jrfTO of our duty at this timemus: esp<-ci^lly injure those of our country, the men who labor and who, because of tneir number and condition, are entitled to to the most watchful care of their government. "It is of the utmost importance that such relief as Congress can afford in rhe existing situation be afforded at once. The maxim, 'he gives twice who gives qnicKly,' is directly applicable. It may be true that the embarrassment from which the business of the country is suffering arises as much from 'evils apprehended as from those actually e:* tinar. We may hope,too, that c*lm ctanstls will prevail, and that neither the capitalists nor tne wage earners will give way to unreasoning panic and sacrifice their property or tneir interests under the influence of exaggerated fears. Nevertheless, every d*y's delay in removing one of the pl*in and principal causes of the present state of thincr enlarges the miscnief already doiie and increases the resposibility of the government for its existence. Whatever else the people have a right to expect from Congress they may certainly demand that legislation condemned by the ordeal of three years as a disastrous experience shiif be removed from the books as soon as their representatives can legitimately deal with it. "It was my purpose to summon Congress in special session early in the coming September that we might enter promptlv upon the work of tariff reform, wb?ch the true interts's of the country clearly demand, which so large a majority of the people as shown by their suffrages desire and expecr, and to the accomplishment of which every effort of the present administration is pledged. But while tariff reform has lost notning of its immediate and permanents importance, and must in the near future'engage the attention of Congress, it has seemed to me that the tiaaccial condition of the country snould at once, and before all other sub j-rc's, b<j coosidered by your honorable oody. "I earnestly recommend the prompt repeal of the provisions of the Act passed July 14,18S0, authonziag the purchase of silver bullion and that other legislative action may put beyond all do'ibt or mistake tae inton don an'i the ability of the government to fulfil: ins pecuniary obligations in monej universally recognized by all civilized countries" ["Signed] "GkOTEB CLEVELAND. "Executive Aiaosion, Aug. 7, 1893." CifiiiHon College. Fort Hill, S. (J., Aug. 8.?The executive committee will meet here on ihe 9ih. No matters of great Importance are to be discussed, but a numoer ot miu r matters will be brought before the committee. Seeps are being taken to have a plot of the campus made, so that walks and drives can be constructed. The drill ground has been surveyed, and the b)ys will be at work :n a lew davs leveling it in shape before wet weather sets in. L:eutenant Donaldson is drilling the boys oa temporary,grounds, to the satisfaction of every ooe. Professor Tompkins, who is now at the World's Fair acting as one of the judge? of electricity, will return in a f;w diys and put the Mechanical department in order. The boys have an abundant supply ot fre3h water-melons, which are raised on the firm. The gardens are suffering severely tor raiu. There has been no substantial rain here for two months. The number of boys enrolled has now reached 423. Twenty-five more are expected, then the door3 will close to admission uutil the beginning of the February session.?State. MURDER WILL OUL " A SENSATIONAL CHARLESTON CASE CLEARED UPA Girl Confjese* That She Poisoned Her FtitUar and Sister at the lastlsatton of Her Stepinotlier?I?alon>iy tbe C tuxe. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 10.?Tbe mystery which surrounded the sudden and peculiar death of Isaac Mitchell and his daughter, Ada, has at last been solved, and tbe racts as they stand out. to view present a case of diabolical treachery and murderous malice seldom seen on the records of crime. Sarah Mitchell, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Isaac Mitchell, has confessed having poisoned h^r father and sister by giving them Rough on lints, and claims that, she did so at the suggestion and by the direction of her inhuman stepmother. Isaac Mitchell was a very respectable colored longshoreman, who lived at No. 103 Coming street. Plis family consisted of his wife, Maria, and two daugnters, Ada aged 18 and Sarah aged 14. There they had lived peaceably together, and Mitchell by dint of hard work and economical manage- ; ment had contrivrd to lay un a little i mooey for a rainy day. As far as was known his relations with all his family had always been of the warmest and closest kind. About the last of July Mitchell received an anonymous letter purporting ( to have betn written oy a "dear friend." As to its contents t'n^re is ( some doubt. Certain it is, however. ( that the i?*rfer c< ntaiaed news thai" was . QnT7th<r>rr hn, r\lt-. r Tr !" -? thu general effect iu;tt t-i.* -.Titer intended . tocome to the house'i!.d caake a deal \ of trouble, and furthermore that Mit- j chell and his eldest daughter would be ( poisoned. He did not think much 01 , the matter, however, and carelessly j threw the letter a-ude. This was HIS ONLY 'WARNING. . When M.icnril went riotu- to dinner j about 2 o'clock on Tuesday, July 11. he 1 suspected nothing wroug Tne dinner , had been prepared by his younger J daughter, who had always beea in the . habit of cooking the meaU fur tne fam ily. So he sat down to dine with that j sense of perfect security wbich is nat- , ural with a mau m bis own house s -r- j rounded by nis family. At the table were the tamily and another colored woman named Emily Hamilton. The j meal consisted of beef, rice, tomatoes, < bread and wa'ermelou, and to all ap pearance all ate out ot the same dishes. , Immediately arter dinner Isaac and "( Ada were taken violently ill. being sick . at the stomach and vomiting. The j Hamilton woman later became ill, and , Maria Mitchell was to all appearances' , so sick that she was unable to attend , to the wants of her husband and step j daughter, who were soon in a dying condition. iJr. W. D. Cram was called in, and did all he could for the sufferers, but they were already too far goue ' wnen h* was sent for, and the fattier ' and daughter died in a few hours. i The deaths of two members of one 1 family at the same time and in sj 1 strange a manner naturally aroused s suspicion, and Coroner C. H. Rivers <. was notified. He at once took the mat- \ ter in charge and neld an inqueot over j the bodies. Dr. C. B. Lauueau oer- ( formed the post-mortem examination, j After a carefui diagnosis of the case he grave as his professional opinion ( that it was A CASE OF ARSENICAL POISONING. ' 1 Beyond tnis oO ui.ift could be learned 1 about the c.-iu^e uf tn^ deaths. But 1 Coroner Rivers and Chief of Police 1 Martin were determined to leave no 1 stone unturned to unravel the mystery i and bring tne guilty parties to justice. \ They at least firmlv believed thut mur- ' der had been committed. c The investigation was carried on s with the urmost care and diligence, an-i 2 no two (tficials cuuld possibly have done more tban the chief ana coroner did. They searched the house time and again fur clues, and everything which l looked like a connecting link in the a chain of circumstances was carefully r preserved. 1 At length the Hamilton woman d died. Her death was said to be from a other causes. Maria Mitchell ana \ Sarah Mitcbt-11 were arrested and lodged a lnjiil. They had been under po'ice i surveillance all 'hewhilf, and everv- j where they went they were faithfully t kept in sight by Detectives Jobn Ho- t gan and James Miller. At this time c trie officers, who had collected enough t evidence on which to base a belief that r Maria and Sarah at least had consider- t able knowlKlgeof the aff ?ir, placed the p women iu Jail. An investigation was t beld at the Station House, and the d prisoners were closely questioned, t They still held out that, tney knew J nothing off he affair, though their stor- t les differed greatly in several particu- : lars. l Since that time the chief and Coron- ; er llivers have beea working quietly r but faithfully, and in cons*-queace of i their exceil-nt plans. skiiU tillv carriea I out by Detectives Miller and Ilogan, ^ the wnole thing has c >noe out. and s SARAH HAS CONFESSED. i It was supposed that an analysis of c the stom-ichs of the victims would cer- i; tainlv reveal traces of arsenic, aod so 1 he matter was referred to Mr. J. R >ss Hanahan. one of the most skill>?1 analytical chemisrs in tne city. His re- r port was as follows: Charleston, 3. C, August 7. isy3 jC. U. KiVrrs. C >r^ner, Cn^riestou S C.?Dear Sir: E jelosed is the rt-sult of c cuy invesi igauon upon the stomacn of c ui xaaciu JLiipaio uvu ?iu-? I vvi.l say that as arseoious oxide (tne v suspected poison) is only slightly solu- * ble, it is possibethata poison of this \ nature Could bare been ej -cted from 1 thestomicti by violentvoimttuer, nence c its presence c mid be de'.ect d iu the ' vomited matter. As this stom-ich con- * tained little of the food suspect d, it . would be advisable for >ou to fc*ve >he ^ vomited matter examined. Yours truly ' J. Ross Ilaunab^n, Analytical Chemist. 1 H Charleston, 6. C., August 7,1893 v C. H. RiVern. Coroner, Oharlesiou, s>, v C.?Dear Sir: Pursuant to your request to detect, if po-jsiblf', the presence of any poison in the stomach of Isatc B. t Mitchell, delivered me by Deputy J" Coroner SinKler, 1 have analyzed s^me. ? Ilind no poison, either inorganic or or- ^ ganic. c Tne stomach was very emptv, con- , taming very little food matter. It had ( evidently suffered depletion from vio- ^ lent vomiting. I am yours tuly. { J. Kos iiannanau, } Analytical Chemist. j As far as the analysis was concerned t there was no evidence to warrant con- / viction; but as it was indicated by the c "ietectives that Sarah had become penit eat and wanted to make a clean breast of the whole story, Ctiiet' Martin, Coroner Rivers. Deputy Coroner .Singer, Detective James Miller and Detective s John Iloean went to the Jail yesterday a mnrninor anri in Their Sirah ir Mitchell made the following solema i. depositiou v SARAH MITCHELL'S CONFESSION. c 1, Sarah Mitchell, make the follow-it . _ ~-'-K in? confession of my own free will and accord: On Tuesday morning, Jidy 11,1893 my stepmother, Maria Mitchell, told me that she wanetd me to write a letter forher. The letter was written abont three weeks brfore the poisoning by m^. Riley (tha''s what I call Maria Mitchell) told me to write it. It was in the letter that Maria is aroinz to poison vol] anr? Tiillr t.u'ft rixnirhfora nam /?n. lariy you"aud your eldest daughter. Riley tol<i me to sign Ada's najie. but not to sign her whole name, butj^st uut "A. M." The 1-tter was written to mv father, Is^ac Mitchell. I read it to Riley after I finished writing it. Riley gave me the paper and envelope to write it with. Riley gave me two cents to buy a stamp from Dr. Almar, which I did and mailed the letter. Ruey told me, just before I sat down to write the letter, r.hat she heard that my pa was engaged, and before any other woman should have him that she would put him in his grave. Monday afternoon before they were taken sick it was raining, and Riley said sne was sorry, because she wanted to send m^ out. It slacked jip raining aud she told me to go upstairs and change my clothes, and when I came down stairs sne told me toat she wanr,ed me to go to ihe doctor shop. She gave me fifteen cents, and told me to buy her a t>ox of "'Rou^h on Rats." I w*at to Dr. Burnham'sin King .street aad got it. I mean the "Rough on Rats." I brought it back and mve it to Riiey. When I fir^t came back she was standing in the street door, and as I came up she went in and I gave it to her, and went up-stairs and changed my clothes T did not see the box again uatil TuesJav. When I was cook's? dinner on Tuesi-iy Riley told me to take that tning jfE the ?ihelf. It was then in a bottle In i tin box on thesheif. Riley told me to put it in the rice. I empted it out ji the bottle into a cookiog spoon. The liirr ooaa - aroe T *-u" UJJ, IIOO UCQLl* 1UU. J. LLICU put/ it in the rice be^ausd Riley told me to io it. Wien 1 put it in the ric-: I knew tt wa "Rougnon Rits." I am certaia that Rtl-y told me to put it in ttie rice. T den; was a plate of cold ncc left from M miiay'3 dinner, wmch I put on the table on*Tues:Uy at din ler with the otner dinner, hut this cold rice was separate from the hot rice cooked that lay. My pa, Ada and Miss Hamilton ite the not rice that I cojKed that day. Me and Riley did not eat any of the hot rice that day; we ate the cold rice left from Monday's dinner. Riley helped Joay plate aod hers. -'f After dinner Louisa Brice and Sarah Wiiliman mixed up something for Riley to take. Neither Riley nor me was sick that day. On Wednesday morning A'hen Mr. Rivers, the coroner anri MV_ Sinkler, the deputy coroner, andttie ioctor were upstairs, I was on the piizza. Iti.ley called me in the front room to tier and said: "Mind, b<* particular how you taiK. If they ask you what you put m the rice tell them t&at pou did not put anything in there but >alc." I started to tell about it when I was with the chief of police and tue officers, when the coroner and deputy coroner vere there also, wheu the chief of police isked me what my <-pinion was about ,his poisning. Bai I got scared and va< afraid to do it then. The kind of l:llflf* in ia in ihis ^thmo Kwno . ?? ?utw VVA U'/A^o >t ciifiereot varieties of Rough od Rats" vere shown her) is what I put in the ice. Riley told oie that after this was >ver she was 20102 to Jacksonville, Florida, and wouid take me with her. While making the awful confession f naving murdered he: farther and siser the girl spoke in a straightforward manner and demonstrated that she was eilins what she kuew about the case vithoui anv constraint whatsoever. Itr stepmother, Maria Mitchell, was )resent during the interview and she rigoroursfv dedmed all that was said. Che two -vouittn oad been kept in differ;ut cells in the J-iil. Otherwise the treu torv might never have been told.? Sews and Courier. Shot by a Jealous Lover, Starke, FU., Aug. 8.?Miss May. the 5 yrar old daughter of Frank Nichols, l well-to do orauge grower, living one niieEiscot Hampton, was 3hot at three lmt-s last night by Arthur Hicks, her liscarded lover. It appears that Hicks ,ud Augus Jones are cousins and both vere vi-itmg Miss Xichols. They met it Mr. Nichjls' last nitrht. Hicks seeng that Miss May preferred Jones'comunv fr? hie hoogmo ???/"! on/3 A<3 r j vV VVVUUJU OUU UC" Qaudtd ot theyoun* lady that Jones be old to leave. Sbe declined to yield to tis wishes, and he to d ber if she'did not Le would Kill ber, and on a peremptory ^ efusal to obey. Hicks grabbed ber by he band, at the same time drawing bis nstol and begaa tiring. One ball went bruugb tbe front of the young lady's ire.~s,"cutting her corset, and marking be fl-sh and setting her clothing on nre. rhe second shot cut her arm a little and he third took efiVct in the left breast. klr. Nichols has resided joly one year in rinrirto f-To rtoma fr/vWft , avjliuu* ijlvy x1uxjll iuw xvlix ?tate. Ely Hicks, fattier of the young nan who did the shooting, is a highly espec'ed gentleman, who has lived in 3radtord Couuty all nis life. He has a ;uod wife and tni-* cowardly act ol' their on is a heavy blow to ' hem. The sherII left here early thi* morning after the ffender. It is thought r.bat Hicks will ighr. to a finish. Miss Xicaol's wound s considered lata!. Kjiled by *a El c rcc Shock . Mobile. Ala., Aug. 9.?Lucien A. loidirs, liu.-maa for the Bill Tele?noue Uompan., was killed by an elecric shock this afternoon at the corner if 6t. Micheal Lawrenct-and streets. He limued a pole when some wire he was i^rryiug came in contact with a guy nre fastened to the uole and this gay vire was he-iviiy charged with elecricitv and Hulines was instantly in a vl ,.,a C ?.V II. e. I i ._ i J iu?,c ul u;c. Ilr; mil IU IU^ jjrUUUU lead. Inves iga'toa snows that tnegay vice w<is counecttd with tbe electric roily wire by a pt^ce of which nad )-:fU tied around rtie two wires,the obect ot tlie tiemg oeing to keep the tol y wire; awav trom a tire aUrm wire vhieh is in p.oximity to the trolly wiie t is noc known wno tied tne wires tor^r.npr Tnic ia tho lineman ivvwv.t juhw ivj Wliv OVvWUU AAUVULhCai* vbu Has lost his life by shocks here vitiiin tae p-ist two weeks. Kidded Willi Ballets. Wayckoss. Gi., ilaz. 10?Jack "ham'-To, ejlored. w>?s takeu from oficers ?fp^ce f.ud Ciayton last night md lyuched be: ween this place and ? _ iVaresboro. Chamber's body was ridII J U IT.n a.' J * ~ ucu wiwi uuii-ts. u.e uuuiesseu uu laving ttken part in outraging Mrs. ie >rge Warren, the wife of a prominent anuer at Iloooken Ga., las'. year. Jaambers is the third negro who has >een lynched fur that crime, two others laving been shot down in the house at he time the outrage was committed. Cambers is now nangmg to a tree :ear the roa<l, h:s body being viewed >y a good cnaoy people* Struck N S wiuaikb; .Savannah, a.u*. 10 ?A meteor the ize of a Oarrel p . .i-d over the City it 'J o'clock t >nighf. aad struck in the n^rsa n*-ar the Isle ot' Hope, a subu rb i SHVnnnah, six ruiles out. The shock o.s f?lt in thy city, aad created ^reat xciiemeut in the seccion near where he meteor fell. *