The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 30, 1895, Image 1

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VOL. XLIX. ~ WINNSBOKO, S. C? WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1895. ~ ' NO. 25.-^^ - . PLAYING AT WAR. ||?-? and 2, SS5 r BATTLES THAT AMOUNT TO NOTH- 1.730 killed. INu MORE THAN SKIRMISHES. oa^Pefereb! wounded an Interestisi;; Comparison of the Chinese- The treme k Japanese "War "With the Late "?Va.r 25e- ^CtlOllS niUSi I federate Joss iween the Confederate States aiul the ?rue dospera we find Shil Unite*! States. * . , wounded, a: ~We are able by this time to study Manasses, <! the fighting which lias been going on wounded, ai between Japan and China, and to see tam cauipa how it compares with the bloody wounded, ai struggles known to us through tne sboro. 1.204 civil war. Japan has been celebrat- and 1,027 m ing her victories over China, and slit Battles, 3.47 celebrates well, since nearly all the and S75 m laurels of the contest have fallen to 1.005 killed, her. Yet it has been a war singularly missing: Ge t . 1 -J.il ?t, ? -C-rw>? nlnM J _ 1 . iaciang in. oatues ui /uo v.ouin The naval engagement oft' the \ alu Chickamaug t "was a really great encounter: but mounded, a: most of the land fights would have Tree Creek ? ranked as little more than skirmishes ;inti 7.500 w( in our war. We read sometimes of erate reckon |||||C desperate charges and stubborn de- a]so the moi 3^^. fences that might seem to belong to the death ro an Antietam or a Gettysburg: but the From thes story winds up with a tally of a dozen to others. 01 gig. or a hundred killed or wounded on indeed there PBHf each side. , four years' \ Take, for example. Count Oyama's the other lo: ||f campaign with the Japanese Second -wounded aL M Armv Corns. Leaving: Hiroshima, he battles were S landed forty miles north of Port Ar- iutensitv. i L thur. on the 24th of October, and pro- wit)i the ha! ||L ceeded toward the stronghold. His Q0rea. Bp first battle was at Kinchow, fought by js" |rue the First Brigade against perhaps 1,100 froril our an or 1.200 Chinese. The estimates of the Greater force Chinese loss was 20 or 30: that of the ^ Core; Japanese still less. Then followed the there is no c battle of Talien Wan. The Chinese ail(j bloodin are said to have been 3. ISO strong in q01. pox o-ji six forts, mounting eighty guns, and j regiments' t the Japanese had two divisions pres- [ from 50 to S( ent. An.v-uofficial account gave the I e(j md of < Japanese loss as two killed and ten I lo jt that per. J ? -> ^ AOA O O f t V I ... VV UUUCit/U ?iiIV.L \v/'UiiwL^/0^' XV-JO wo AU bj Si21"* 'XI Cii^C^" F;"n Oyama's own report makes the Japa- 'ma".tlv'if" ' nese loss ten, and the enemy's "incon- -pjie Fifteen lj/f ' siderable." We do not understand officers anu: tJ V- the strategic advantage gained at Tal- vivania' of rj ien Wan, for it opened the way to the ^ied of tlieii li * great objective point o'f the campaign; Massac! i but the fighting was' trivial compared -wounded an . v * "with what the case called for. " bor ?>out Qf -ij . Port Arthur being reached, we had morning ( ;J " striking accounts of the three days of cited both oi ws terrific righting that caused it to sue- federate side eumb. The place had been spoken of Qn ot as a sort of Gibraltar, defended by the nieJ{t is'that iiower of the Chinese armv. On the includes Pi I first day came a bombardment with arrnv ^ nearly 100 guns, and then a low range killed in bat ' of hills was carried with, a rush. On Xi-klev tin November >21, according to Oyaiaa's pU^s t|~e ^-nj official report, the right division jno. ?-ne four' stormed and- captured a fort in its 57^)53 in ; front and then carried by assault F?.<rt Wounds.' a t< Eokinsar. Meanwhile the left divis- -jp0 m^ke < ion carried a fort southeast of Hacha- ces cnrrarred, viso. On the third day, without re- losing at A* * spite from the arduous work, the two vvounded ai divisions captured all the other forts. oooWective: The victor adds that "the enemy i 3 glf_; woun] W - foug-.it bravely tarougnoux me ai- 0f about 13 tacks," and closes by observing that r>00 enfft Ippli--wounaedTexceeds200." Aam^"cll Carpenter's dispatch puts the Japanese iii^at'theW force at about 15,000 and the Chinese a ^-eek at s' mm at about 13.000 in this alt'air. The g wound if|k Chinese loss is somewhat uncertain, Wixtlj. Corps Mm- the gaiTispn escaping . . fordutvanc ||g|||| -Marshal xamagatas previous cam- vvounded ai |||||| paign further south, with the First jerness 'an, f|ifp?& Army Corps offers similar suggestions, p/ onfi' MM? "ft. was thorouo-hlv successful, like Wv,o? \~a I if O vama's; but the onlv combats rating [ VVAsV, an, m above a skirmish were at Ping Yang. "C" " jj?5 One of the first battles of the war was Llii |gf at Kasan in August. The Japanese -vim'-irk in B credit the Chinese with a loss of '*200 v.,. ||L killed and 200 wounded," evidently xJie letter h ||||[ round numbers, out of 2,800 engaged; furn}s| but their own loss they put at 75, or, nn}rp<5 fnr v,f ||l|f according to one account, 32 killed ?0.vltino- w gpland 50 wounded. When Count Yam- Ti?p nkrnf>cp. sijij agata afterward arrived he fought a eniHnrr* w*: well-contrived pitched battle at Ping fajj ^ s^01 jjj Yang his threecolumns combining armsinourc llll against the Cnmese army, on SeptemWM ber lb", and completely defeating it. j iSH General Xodzu gave the Japanese" loss j p.PTVVf I as "11 officers and 154 men killed; 30 andTrappers officers and 521 men wounded," be- ^iver bottom sides 40 whose fate was unknown. At aT1(j rep0rt *] utmost the Japanese loss in this greatest land battle; of the war, or "series rjm. ij-^ev of desperate battles," as one account a beartrvp puts it, was therefore 755. although accident nol strong works had to oe carried. The the bark an Chinese put their loss at G.GOO: but it found that seems that most of the army estimated i at'20.000, thre vv down :heir arms. It .-T, is said that 14 500 unbounded prison- ror thev dis ers were captured. The Japanese re- jJj m' 1 i Lorted that of the remainder 2.000 e"x,ilorations frere killed, but another account gives feOOO killed and wounded. The Japa- -Tltfk Ifese were the move numerous, per- Jeod men" w aps 30.000 or 34,000 strong1. had been des i About six weeks later, the First position had fcrruv Corps undertook the crossing kp p-ivp 4 < Ith'c Yalu timing itself admirably c'onta;ninga Ith tne landing ot the Second Army the irps above Port Arthur, the two lows ^"Jan fbvements thus co-operating. Gen- oTrfl(,t flnVn kl Xod'/u moved his troops over b _ temnor ithout difficulty, and the advance (}avs near th ught the enemy, estimated at 3,500, ";r v ;t~ ^ ; Fushang. The Chinese loss was re- *l ? Srted to be "over 200 killed." and camwii |j.e Japanese to be 20 killed, and S3 Xew Yor ounded. This proved to be the de- gade under c< sive encounter, since on the march Fitzgerald < I the main army 10 Chen-Lien- Governor %< bhing. "an important strong-hold." caused bv "th ;e Chinese, reckoned at ltf.OUO or 20.- r;VP(] "p,,n. ;0 fell back without lighting-. There are ov tComing at a later period we received <rade. f^e y K>ut a fortnight ago the details of a u-ere the :ttle at Kung-\Va-Sai? which had River to Br< en %,fou<rht with great obstinacy," sliortlv after I. JaPane:5e charges upon the stroug second Regis itrencbments being repulsed with shortly aftei eat loss, until reserves came up and whole brigac rried all before them. The Japanese ]yn. Before 5s was reported to be 350 killed and dered under >unded, while that of the (. hi nose 3.000 troops i is supposed to be 300. Finally, the duty in Br< nanese say that last Thursdav they soldiers of G pulsed 15,000 Chinese, with a loss of mand. either their own being- 1 killed and 40 reach their r [Sow if we turn i< < eras'3f our between 7.00' jil wa~ find the Union losses at ought to gi fcxysb^rg, ^ according to Col. ample prote< and .">.434; missing, making a total Sax A>"TO> '4001:atSpottsylvania. 2.72.") killed hundred thoi 16 wounded, and 2.25fc> missing: moved from Wilderness. 2.240 killed, 12,037 Louisiana ai fcded. and 3.3i>3 missing: at Anti-LMexico with |&not including South Mountain. This is the st galled, 9.549 wounded, and 7->'s Ellis, the ma ?|i^ at Chancellorsville, 14'OG ouization. cor 3|?gpkiff-> wounded, and 5.919 This- i tn"npd fmm led, and 4.20o missing: at POT JT1Y1 A I, P \ TiliSf) 1 killed. S.408 wounded, rVLUiUaij rAK0U nissing; at Mufreesboro, 7,802 wounded, and 3.717 COLORED PREACHERS TO he assults of June 15 to 19 HAND IN THE FIGHT jrg. l,0bb killed. S.yl3 d 1.185 missing. lldoUS aggregates in these ()ver t,lv Constitutional Convent , be increased by tlie Con- ejjates?Another >iov?? i>y the itt es. in order to show the tion Of the fighting. Here ~Ca11 For a second Convents i ?-W -i ~o.> i_ *n ? ,1; o AI o OJ1 WIIU 1,/Od Klli'cJU jLweusons, ad 959 missing: Second ^ ^ T fee.. 1.481 killed. 7.627 Columbia, S. C.. Jan. 22.ld 89 missing; the Antie- lowing call was issued last S; ign, 1,SS6 killed. 9.34S Columbia, S. C., Jan. 18 id 1.3(57 missing; Murfree- To the Negro Ministry in Sout killed. 7.945 wounded, lina: issing: the Seven Days' Dear Brethern in Christ: S killed, 10.261 wounded, greatly surpassing the glaring issing: Chancellorsville, ies in accordance with which: n riQi o?fi ) ins tions in South Carolina ha1 ', Vw?X >? VUUU^U, Uii\v ?w ttysburg, 2.502 killed. 12,- conducted for so many v< led. and 5,150 missing; methods that are a burning ;a. 2,312 killed. 14,G7-i to a civilized people, much les tid 1.4GS missing; Peach fessed democratic form of gov md Atlanta, l,o41 killed ?to say nothing of their ten >unded. In these Confed- prevent, vitiate and surely des ings the wounded include public's moral sense of hone rtally wounded, making right; by machination so gros 11 still higher. rageous that the alleged enc ;e battles we might go on viz: "To keep the negro e llv less tremendous; and down." is inadequate for tb were 112 battles in our handed means employed, a ( \*ar, in which one side or tional convention was "count st over 500 in killed and the recent election and acc< Dne. Some of the minor j called by che last Legislaure were most deadly in their at Columbia, septemoer. lsao. Such are the comparisons changing the very organic lai If year of hostilities in State the work of this conven be amendable to no power otl that the battles here c>ted the wishes of its members; fo nals were fought with far been decided that the doings ?s on each side than those body shall not be submitted tc ah war; but in any case pie for their approval, omparison for desperation Among other things of a ess in the average lighting, nature, provisions are to I res a list of twelve Union whereby the negro can be el; hat in single battle had and perpetually robbed of h ) percent, killed or wound- of franchise and, at the sai >ver sixty regiments that and by the operation of the vc rentage by adding the mis- law. the white man. in a sin ; where the latter were also more degraded condition, sha ? ' no nolitieal inconvenien Ii<JL JHUliCU Ui r .ih New. Jersey took 432 fact, the only argument offer men into action at Spotts- half of this convention has be whom 116 were killed or the line of more thoroughly i] r wounds. The Twenty- ing the already abnormal and liuusetts lost 53 killed. 139 cumstances, unwarranted | d 28 missing at Cold Har- against the unoffending ne; 310 reported for duty that the embezzler begins his a )tlier instances could be stealing smaller sums and usi] tithe Uniou and the Con- precaution that skill can cm pi >. genuitv invent to cover over her hand, the latest state- has done, grows more reckles up to December (5, which toss makes him the more invo ng Yang, the Japanese the greater rogue, and imall; :i all only lost 3i>0 men boldened despration takes ev< tie and 43Uby disease. Mr. in sight, leaving his suffering e well-known statistician the consolation contained in t ion deaths from battle dur- tion, "What" are you going to years of the civil war at it?" so has been the history of iction and" 43,012 from sent Democratic party in Sou >tal of 110,070. lina. It began its career by ] ;loser parallels in the for- every sugar-coated promise we find the Second Corps the negro by Hampton and ti ntietam 883 killed, 3,35Q sentatives of his government, id 39(5 missing, out of 15,- ing in the meanwhile, howev 5; at Gettysburg. 796 killed, outside world?both ;gh Jed, and* 3(58 missing, out men and powerful n?wspap< 000 present for duty and dishonesty was unknown in tl iged. The Fifth Corps, political realm: growing bol present for duty, lost 487 cause of the success attending -wcmhtiea. and 2.S2S ir.iss- hods of frauds-suppression an ilderness, anJ then, withjia- idation. aiidT as is natural, ; ?pottsylvania, J less sensitive of right and mor ed, and 375 missing. The to sentiment. We have, as a * ' ' A ' "* 1 * A > ? /?a m t h r\cck lOSt, OUt 01 3-i, 1U<5 present mc a?uiam,c givtii uj wxv^i. [equipped. 719"killed, 3.6G0 ered to speak, that our right id. 656 missing at the Wil- chise and all the accompanyir 3 6SS killed, 2,S20 wound- eges will be taken away from missing at Spottsylvania. out the question of how we li; consider the populations ing raised to the dignity of c( i China especially the lat- tion. ies put into the field seem The present is not the time, allowing for the lack of the occasion justify a mincing China and for the trans- much less a lack of activity, water needed by Japan, peration born of and foster* wucrf v>? righteous cause and a deep t iUUOV K/\y V* VUl KVM 1~) ling all the troops she re- what we have to gain or los<? ;r purposes, and also with fire us. Since our people a.< d enough always to beat have but few leaders in wh but it is seen how the re- have any confidence other th [es in severity of fighting preachers, and since it is o1 t of the great shocks of given, mission to cry aloud ivil war.?New York Sun. wrong at all times and in al - - - ? even in high places, we the ne l Horrible Find. is try of South Carolina, rega Jan. 23.?Two hunters denominations, must awaken t have come in from Cache sponsibilities which our vocal s smith wpst of thisdtv. demands of the hour and the o 2e finding, last week, of helplessness - of our people en in a cavern on White Too long already have we b ' were out arranging1 to set tent to lift up a standard of r: vhen one of them, by an honesty for the individual li ;iced a queer opening in governed, without even attem d upon investigation they manifest our righteous ind: it was quite a large and against the indisputable dishoi They struck a light to ex- j the part of those governing, terior, when, to their hor- preach with the ardor of our s covered the bodies of two ly awakened souls the doctrii This served to check their golden rule and obedience to 1 . and they quickly left the mand 'thou shalt not steal, "a ' J* J1 ? " y-wv* I P?A rvwwrt1 .t stopping- 10 J.00K iurtner wrung n aunug v^u. i/uc punu teries of the cave. The "an ounce of prevention is ere evidently white, and pound of cure," we do all in 01 id several days, as decom- by the employment of le set in. On the outside of i means to prevent ourfellowmc )ld envelope was found, from stealing or himself fro sheet of blank paper and robbed. The fact that the covet name and address*as fol- in question is a right which C les D. Carroll, 3,122 State given and civillized and ] go. Ills." The hunters had managed governmentsunques' arily camping for four grant, in no way changes the e cave, but knew nothing unless perchance, it is made lastly contents. the more obligatory upon oui sion to be other than nlacid sm a;; Among Churches. Now we do not forget that. K. Jan. 21.?Tire first bri- midst of so much political dis ommand of General Louis there have always been a la: ordered to Brooklyn by constantly increasing number ?rton to suppress the riots men who are sufficiently consc e trolley car strikers, ar- and far seeing enough to un< ?klvn early this morning. that dishonest methods in af er 4,COO men in this bri- government must, in the ver inth Regiment of 700 men of things, contain in themsel rst troops to cross East pient germs of bickerings, disc Doklyn. leaving this city a retarding, if not a complete 5 o'colck. The Twenty- tion of the common wealth's j aent. GOO strong, followed ty. Among the Reformers th * and bv* 9 o'clock, the are found. In the ranks of t le had started for Brook- servatives thev are not absent the first brigade was or- in the Republican party there; arms, there were about broad-minded, patriotic me .11 the Second Brigade on emergency which confronts i x>klyn. These with the ever, demands tkat we shall h General Fitzgerald's com- no party or party leaders?t in arms now. or who will shall stand and contend on tl egiments during the day. plane of eternal right rather imated. form an army of the circumscribed platform of a l> and 8.000 men. which lar party. Men and measures ve the trolley railroads our aim. :tion for the running of Moved by these consideratic views, we hereby call upon oui workers in the ministry in the sv;n-o Exodus. South Carolina to meet in a St no. Tex., Jan. 22.?One ventionat Columbia, Thursday jsand negroes will be re- ary 14. 1S95. at 11:30 a. m. in 1 the States of Alabama, very Baptist Church, that we : id Georgia to Northern liberately advise and wisely pi in the next six months, the means we shall employ to atement made by W. H. for our State an honest govei .nager of the Mexican col- to the poorer whites and igno; npany. who has just re- groes the public schools more di Atlanta, Ga. He states equipped and of longer terms, \T? vigorous campaign by the ministry A may bt; arranged for the purpose of getting the negro registered to a man Tite i.<>st Ca? TAKE A and standing ready to vote for any set of men regardless of their party name. who are in favor of an honestly man- WasiiixgT' .-io-a/) orrtTONiment and onnosed toradi- gentleman si iou i>ci- j oa.1, class or impracticable measures be- Cause to be r publican i ing- encouched in the new Constitu- know that c . tion. these words, }n ie,r disking your earnest prayers for this Democrat, of righteous undertaking and begging the House on - , you at a reasonable sacrifice to meet another and : your fellow-workers in the above men- growing out today; tioned convention, we are legislation.! .1S95. Your brethren in Christ Jesus, The imine h Caro- E. IT. Wilson, break was tl T. C. Daniels. to increase th ' fraud, E. H. Coit. of Gen. Abne 'robber- II. M. Raiford, sion another the elec- Jt. E. Hart, formed servic re been J.R.Wilson, during the w sars: bv W. 1"). Chaunelle. opposition of disgrace J A. P. Dunbar. 3lr. Coopei ;s a. pro- J. }I. Jhonson, took the plot eminent R. W. Baylor. Friday m<<hi dency to C. P. Nelson. temper lie^th stroy the j. (j. Tobin. lack of ejjji nnt1 THE MILLS ARE COMING. measures >=:r >si\ out- sex. He sa-< lSOaeht. Cheap Power :ir.<l a Good White Kleuicnt SHCCr, that ii iternally wanted. leader of the ie high- belonged, coi ^onstitu- Bostox, Jan. 22.?The Legislative be heartily as edin" in committee on mercantile a 1 Fairs gave 0f t]ie o-eniiei >rdiugly a hearing this forenoon at the State \Ir. "jones to meet House on the petition of the Boot and thai, he was n Though Merrimac Mills of Lowell for permis- asserted that v of our sion to manufacture goods outside of for th" char^ n J.1 f ,, ,V'_ . . -T1 lion I li tile OL'UKiiuii u UuHiit mc juhwi vvj ^/ui ct ^01* '1C Sc" 1CZ ier than, ticn also asking for authority to in- iav<- an(j r it has crease its capital stock from $2,500,000 -oen'sions to^tl of this to $3,500,000. E. C. Clarke, treasurer jiuentiaj." >thepeo- of the Boot Mills, first addressed the --J question committee and exhibited samples of tlemau fr<?m partisan the kind of goods manufactured by Cooper "-"I >e made the mills. These consisted of coarse pension bills fectivelv cotton goods, drillings, sheetings and t|jP'^ntirvp-ni is right shirtings., and a class of finer goods. Friday" ni*hi lie time Mr. Clarke said the Boot Mills were proud* of tile ;ry same incorporated by special charter in 1S35 jn the trenc lilar or for the manufacture of cotton goods taken an oat! II exper- in Lowell. For fifty years these goods that floats " ices. In has been made for export and home Speaker, (po ed in be- consumption.the only competition for Stripes above en along the greater part of the time, coming plays toward ntensify- from the Northern States and abroad, position as vv . by cir-1 v\ itiun me last iew years, uowevcr, tlnrtT vears a )rejudicc {competition has arisen in the Southern himself "savs. *ro. As States where fuel and labor are much >yf r> Sirnpsc ireer by cheaper. The increase in the number Cox l)en ag every of mills in the South has been phe- ^jr* mioses" oy or in- nomenal, the per cent, being in the took pail in what he past few years 50 per cent, to 12 per were bandi.ec s as sue- cent, at the North. All the Southern t;ine ft i00ke( lvedand Mills are making the same class of mi?-ht insue. y, in em- goods as are being made in the Boot wa| jl0t only jrything Mills and they are makingthem much t]ja^ a man": : victims -Reaper and if the Boot company is to COine }iere an he contiTive^r,- inribj'tfeSgdftds they must tha'-i7e~i do about mnke thein. where they ha^ - tllg-SUfflC "Cause-^a cau th.s* pre- advantage as the Southern companies. '(Jettinc- the tii Caro- At the present, the Southern ' compa- Simpson breaking nies are making a good profit at what Democrat of made to would be starvation for the Boot Com- controversies le repre- , sion nights < declar- He further said that the principal v-ere ^be rej er, to the desire of the company in its present se;s<5i0ns mad leading move is to preserve its trade mark. utmost x,,r* nrVti/kl-? ova vni>r voltioKlA v J /> r r> . 7"> Liia.0 'uv.,w.' uvil". J>r?'L/., x. le State's in the foreign markets, notably Chi- ra-p }jjm t0 or der, be- na. clown ti e cen its met- The company,if allowed to go South, ]atiu<r and shd intim- will devote its Lowell plant entirely reCated. he sa perhaps, to making finer goods on which living ^ seclS:tal--'' e defiant wages can be paid. The company in- ^hat us* climax, tends to keep the Southern labor on AVh0 wei!e inv empow- cheaper goods, although Mr. Clarke ble ill neace. of fran- admit ed to a member of the commit- jie --iti* igprivil- tee, in time it is probable that the ia- atlj cannot b us with- bor in the South will become as skilled causc 0f liber keit be- as that at the North. The capital of cumstances " msidera- the company is now permitted to be his fist in ad $1,500.000, but only $1,200,000 has publican side, nor does been issued, so that enough remains mcn of words authorized to allow the company to fjo-lit a^ain A des- build what it needs, -without asking VqU carTlum 2d by a for an increase. todav as mu< sense of Augustus Lowell, president of the bared mv bos / SHQUJ.ll CUili< Sitiu. cut/ iiuu y H'^llllS > a race, yet decided into what Southern State }fr> jones om they to go. and the idea of moving has not f0[, a'few mi) :an their yet been submitted to the stockholders. session and ir God- No decided step has yet been taken: it Jan'tnia^e to\ against is only seen that some move of this v.-orthv'of a ? 1 places, kind must be made in the near future, the "Lost Ca gromin- If the plant is established in the South answer a i way rdless of it will likely go to where the white ]ia(} then o the re- element predominates, rather than a^(| w]lcn' th lion, the where the negroes are. Nr. Lowell ]jeved it to be therwise said that the Boot and Merrimac com- j*know it was impose, panies are the Lowell concerns that kroUo-] een con- are likely to move, but that it is prob- 0f 10:30. at* ight and able some of the Biddeford, Maine, closed under fe of the companies will soon have to do. bv Mr. Martii pting to Howard Stockton, the president of it" was adiour; ignation the Merrimac company, said that the mcnt knots < lesty on reasons for his comprny asking to go the ajs]es an( We who out of the State to make goods are events of the piritual- the same as in the case of the Boot driven out bv le of the company. The Memmac company, the li^ht ;he com- however, desires an increase of capital ? * ? in do no because its capacity for printing is so , A ?,I< iplethat great that it will be necessary to erect Spartaxbu. worth a a large plant to supply coarse goods distillery, op lr power enough to meet the demands of the Clty' or se gitimate print works. At present the company penters and b m either makes each year 58,000,000 yards of work rem ode] m being coarse cotton goods and prints SS,000, the Trimmier ed thing 000, making it necessarv to buy 30. recently occu rod has 000,000 yards. " * ' man as a barr lonestly "It is a sad matter for Lowell, too." used saloi Lionably said Mr. Stockton, "that of the goods j but during th: matter. I buy about all are bought in the j pectea the pc thereby South, although they are made bv a uiwjumiwjc profes- Lowell concern next door to me." I ment. This i relators, cannot buy in Lowell because they sibility. and i: , in the cost too much. At present it costs us conclusion fr honesty $25,000 more a year for our coal than ^a.v discovere rge and it costs a mill at the seaboard, like The first th of white New Bedford, and $50,000 a year more tioii, was th ientious than if our mills were in Northwest- ground floor lerstaud era Georgia.'' No one appeared to ment?was o fairs of oppose the petitions and the ne - corners an(i r nature were closed. trench six feel ves inci- Murderers run to Ground. ^ these ditclies :ord and COLOIBTTS. Ga. January 24.?The rubbish, whi< destruc- nivstery surrounding tlie munder of taken from th >rosperi- J^rrett on the streets of _ Colum- into this refus esemen 0n Mondav evening last, is about substance, wi he Con- beino. solved. 'Colonel Harris, a noted streak, sugges Even neo-ro desperado was arrested in Opeli- es> Folio win ire some ka^vesterdav by chief of police for an investigations n. The offence committed in that city and . %VOrm. the ca is, how- carried to Montgomery last afternoon parts were urn e tied to /vhere lie was lodged " in jail. John any doubt' hat we another negro, his companion, a real, live, fu ie broad %vas arrested aud brought to Colum ous factory was 1 than on at noon. He answers the description square of this < -ivjytu'n- < ' o! tne ne?TO who was seen luunmg of the couit 1k mustbe froin the scene of the murder. 0f the revenut Holt confesses that lie and tiar- ; a capacity of )ns and were in Columbus on ilon- j-L now in a fellow- ?.dy -dUa were the men who had tion, and has Suite of a difficulty with Jarrett. He says nought that t ate con- Jarrett attempted to arrest them, they riiu the refuse . l-Vuru- resisted and Jarrett lired in the uir. there it was bi ? - - in the bB mav de- Jarrett, inilicting the tatal wound, olf the smoke an as to They both escaped \v running in dit- said. tne men secure ferent directions. is believed tnat \veregood one nment. Holt is the guilty party and has only derstand whv :ant ne- charged Harris in hope of beuelwng literated. xie >sirab]y HOT DEBATE. THE BROOKLYN STRIKE. ise Was the Thome that The Reasons Given for Its Kxistenc Caused It. State Board. dn, Jan. 24.?,,"\Vlien the Brooklyn. Jan. 24.?So far : ivs I believed the Lost al men havebeenkilled by these ight he slandered me. I who were sent here to put dou ause was right." With strike of the car conductors anc uttered by Mr. Jones, tormen. Several soldiers have Virginia, on the floor of been killed, and the end is not; e night last week, closed sight, but all are hoping that the ilmost riotous discussion, is over. of the proposed pension The State bcrad of mediatior arbitration met recently and ado; diate cause of the out- special report on the strike,whici le blocking of the hills submitted to the Legislature. . ? - - - \ +1,, .e pension OI the WKIOW say, mpun.: -V au I\c U. un :i* Doubleday and to pen- ployees on the five >. jctric s< widow who had per- street railways of the City of E es as a voluntary nurse lyn, who are members of Distri ar by the parliamentary sembly No. 75. Knights of Labo Mr. Jones. " bracing nearly all the operating- f , Democrat, of Indiana, took place on Monday morning le of Mr. Springer last nary LI. The Coney Island and! ?nd with considcraole lyn Railroad Company alone ati arged Mr. .Tones with a a settlement winch enabled it t< :alry in thus opposing tinue business without interru; the benefit of the fair This board made every possible i, with something like a to settle the differences betwee: : Mr. Jackson, the great ether companies and their empl< party to which they both but was successful only in the c ild be present ho would Brooklyn City and Newton Ra: ihamed of the Democracy Company, with which and its f< nan from Virginia. employees, an agreement was br responded with warmth about and contract signed, under1 ot lighting women, and traffic was resumed Thursday mo there was no foundation I and still continues wnnoui mw ?. "What I am fighting lion. "is equality before the "Investigation of the causes < nst the granting of large strike was made, and it was : le rich, powerful and in- that it proceeded from failure c part of the executive com mitt . the motives of the gen- District Assembly, Xo: 75. Knig Virginia," shouted Mr. Labor, to effect a renewal of the lis opposition to' these tract of 1S04 with the compani I believe, is actuated by J 895 with certain proposed *ch ; expressed by hipi last which involved principally a t, when he said he was vance of wages from *2 to $2.2 cause he had fought for day to conductors and motormer a ifii/vii<vi-> i-ia form the bulk of the employee l now to support the flag- establishment of tlie prop] above . your head. Mr. prominent regular unions inting to the Stare and special trips made for the desk), he now dis- gested travel at certain tim< it the same spirit of op- day, and an observance of the s lien he fought against it which prescribes ten hours' labc go. I say only wiiat lie formed within twelve conse< hours on street railways as z >n, Populist, of Kansas: work. The demand for an incre locrat. of Tennesse, and wages was finally withdrawn, ai Democrat, of Georgia, other two points of difference, 1 the colloquy. Epithets the men deemed vital, remain I about, and for a little the cases of the Brooklyn Heighl las if a personal conflict Atlantic avenue companies, whi Mr. Simpson said he Queens uountv ana suourorm surprised but ashamed pauy was willing to yield them from the South should could not effect a settlement be d say as "Mr Jones had of individual contracts made witi ; .d.t0,tliis ex?utiie so founded on slavery^ of District Assembly, io. ?, i i floor ostensibly to a_ssent- . a question. Mr. Talbert. "However, tu (T?.< ' South Carolina, whose the Brooklyn Street Railroad m with Mr. Pickler on pen- settled, the statute with regard jarlier in this Congress hours of labor will, unless amenc ieving features of these as to explicitly state and settle e a violent speech despite shall contitute ten hours laboi endeavers of the Chair main a constant irritant and sou emocrat. of Indiana.) to dissatisfaction and contention c der. He ranged up and part of the employees. tre aisle, wild'lv gesticu- The companies construe and er outing ioudl v. * He dep- the words "ten hours labor" to id, the continual appeal labor while the cars are moving >n,sc;ir>ns5 but he noticed the rail, without taking into ac ually came from those waiting time at ei i her end of the r 'isiblein war and invinci- Thus, by the evidence taken, ] t;As to the Lost Cause,"' shown that upon one line where 5 the everlasting cause, were eight regular runs a day, e lost because it is the was waiting time of three mint ty; under the same cii- each end. making-ib minutes pei "lie continued shaking during which the conductors an .efiant manner at the Re- termen were on duty and in c ' and for the same reason of their cars, but for which th 10 fought then would ceived no compensation. Hov You can like that or method of computation of tin pit. I love the cause labor came to be established, it is ;h as I did when a bov I b" not within the terms or int< om to the battlefields of the law. and is not just, as the e yees contend. With a view ther was accorded the Jloor to removal of this cause of the pi lutes at the close of the strike and prevention of its ager denounced Mr. Cooper s working further trouble on li' vard him as being un- street railroad, it is suggested cntleman. Referring to chapter 529 of the laws of IS! use." he said he would amended so as to prescribe tha s and evervwhere as lie 4'ten hours labor to be performed hat he was" proud of it. in consecutive hours, with reaso e gentleman said I be- time for meals," provided for a _.i. 1 A i_ . j ?? clioll f?r>mmAnr>c> Tvhpn t.Vi : n<riit Jic siaiiuereu mo. " . ? ; rio'ht " ployee reports for service as req it the House to the' hour by the rules of the employer, and which time the session when the employee, upon their e: the rules, and on motion tion. is relieved from duty foi a. Democrat, of Indiona. "ay tied. After the adjourn- Another Constable Sliot. df members gathered in Darlington. Jan. 23.?News re; 1 discussed the exciting Darlington this morning of the s session until literally jag. 0f ouc 0f the State constat the janitors shutting off Hartsville. whereupon The State' respondent repaired to the scene < >ojis!?ine Factory. crime and obtained an interview . /"N _ i it. n T r 1 r.. RG, Jan. 24.?An illicit <-:onsiaoie u. .jenKins. -ur. :rated in the heart of the kins is in the service of'the Z veral (lavs past the car- States, is a member of the Pmio rick masons have been at tective Agency, ami is employe [inn- the store owned, v the Governor or this State as a pi estate, which was until detective to aid in breaking up th pied by Charles Huse- cit sale of liquor in a section of oom. This store had been county known as jveilytow n. an for ten years or more, :'ias been boarding in that sectior at time no'bodv ever sus- smce the of ^ast December >ssibility of operea'in^a evidently had the confidence o attachment in the base- parties guilty of violating the 1 s found now to be a pos- ^or ye worked up forty-ji .-.i a acsmist. rlifForftiilnartfes. am uuceu a iiiusl jreasunauiu ~? - - - -?- - ? - -?. om the evidence vester- ^lxina to leave Hartsville anc j "Kelly town" companions whei ing that attracted atten- shooting took place in the Wyli< ie fact that the entire Hotel 111 Hartsville last evening of the place?the base- ocIock- Constable Jenkins had rc mossed by deep ditches. aud Hewitt Kelly came to his the various "sides and and insisted on Jenkins getting c empting into a long kcd. Jenkins sat up _ in bed, ai: I- wiflp On t^p Ivii'vN ot' chance was rubbing his head win there appeared piles of was shot through the window b :h had evidentlv been unknown party, the ball stnkm e trenches. Scratching third And second fingers of his e showed a white, mealv h-!ld- glancing and striking the than occasional black toid ooneon tne right side of the J tive of charcoal and ash- lllld then extending downward ; g the clue and pushing an inch. The shooting; was done the still, with the a 3S-<-il:ber pistol. Jenkins is a n p and all the working of Lu'aiv. C.. is o.> years ; old an * ^ l\rvr> >1 in rlr>t *?/ ?! t Ci jartiieu. mere is narci- v,^ ^ ?>-* - ? that some time or other, years. The wound is not very dai .11 fledged bug: juice fac- ous- and Jenkins is feeling-mud operated on the public terthan on lust e%ening. He v. us -it v within tvrcn.lv i'c6t tv^oicct from the pistol, <nit mse and within teti steps ^ n()t been ior the window glas< : officers. The still has ' hk hand. the results would have ibout 15 gallons per daw neighborhood ia m most dilapidated condi- Jenkins had been working up the i two holes in it. It is sale of liquor is thickly populated he trenches were used to I Reformers. ^ and the principal p: into the big ditch and ara reputed to oe strong numai irued. There is & fire* j ^ rru.nus liuve l)een issued, bu asement. which carried J arrests made so far. State. -iltogeihei it ma> be j Mur<l?*r and Suicide, who operated the plant j Henderson. Kv.. Jan. 22.-Ed s, but it is bard to ;iu-: pjverSi living near Brown ville, ir the tracks were no. ob-. m0L1(^0n county, killed his two _ I dren?a boy of 0. and a girl of S 1 ? i "1 i-? _ 1 . V 17 .a _ 1. _ 1* AN ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY e l>v a Of South Carolina in the Interest of Peace EX-C and Unity. sever- Columbia, S. C., Jan. 24.?The fol'Icliers lowing- address to the Democracy of 'ii the South Carolina speaks for itself: He T L mo- To the Democrats of South Carolina: fon also As an executive committee author- ^ yet in ized by those who put forth the recent e worst address in which they urged upon Cc you to consider the question of secur- been i and ing a non-partisan convention, we in fa pted a again call your attention to that sub- that Ii was ject and summon you to action. "Mo They Dissention in your ranks threatens ting 5 em- disaster. The purity of government, Unit jrvice the very safety of the State, depends look "nitv TV\ nrOCOT-VD tllACIl war- f) )-)(! nuua.- . JL\s ^ ^ MW ct As- rants your utmost endeavor, and the can ; r, em- burial of prejudice. Those in both one orces. factions, who would avert the catas- perh . Jan- tropJae of an appeal to fhe negro for the i irook- control of the convention, must come abou fected shoulder to shoulder at once. Let bis u ) con- white men, from the mountains to the recai ption. sea combine to make our convention penr effort- and new Constitution a bond and seal Fe a the of reunion between the white men of editc Dyees, South Carolina. This may be done mer' ase of by having the convention represent orga ilroad truly all elements of our Democracy, part; Drmer not a Taction mereJy. it win De a su- xieit ought prerae body limited by its own -will Jislii .vhich only and the Federal Constitution, big-' rning Its composition will be of the highest of t irrup- importance to the welfare of the State. Dem Therefore, in behalf of the earnest ers < of the men who have already spoken, we ail a found call upon any and all white Demo- new m the crats in accordauce with those views part ee of to meet at their several county seats the ' hts of on Saturday the second day of*March cam] con- next to select three representative Bt es for men from each county who will at- the 1 anges tend, a general conference which will mati " n^ i-ri fVvln mKict of ri r> m r>T? who II UU." acovii* '/iv JLJUi VVXUliiVAM. WW V hr. ?*?.. v? 5 per the following- Wednesday, starch 6th, of t i who 1S95, to consult how best to affectuate Unit s: an the purposes herein expressed, subject This otion to the regular Democratic organiza- mo, for tion. In order that full notice may be powi con- given we also request citizeus in each copj *s of county, who agree with us, to repeat Gov tatute the call for their respective county r per- meeting to be held on the second of Tho; iutive March. D( day's (Signed.) W. H. Tbdiermax, * r Jrd, tee of D. K. Norris, ' ^avc l<\ th,e J. To^*es Robertson, t?res >vhich John* R. Harrison. ed in j. E. Pettigrew. f*?t ts and d. E. Fdtley, lethe John "W. Lyles, Com- Thos. J. Kirexa^d, s5[ i, but Godfrey B. Fowler, s. 'cause j. E. Ellerbe, -be?] j new W. Henry Thomas, board D. McL. Therrell, de-~ vould Josh W. Ashley. an,a coin les on FOUNDERED IN THE ICE-^ crati , , Fate of a Steamer and her Crew on I^ike -err.. iea so " what " Michigan. - "W rceof BEXTO:'"aiRB0E>'*Ii<:h--Jan- 23-- Ste >n the ^ hope for the safety of the "then Graham and Morton screw steamer cam lforce Chicora has been abanoned here by ur^ mean the finding of wreckage from the rescount se- South Haven. The fate Of pjut Dutes.? .twenty-six men who are known to. the s .'x ?- - I^ ? T : ?v-jr _ __j_ A tt-? rr u \\as> nave oeen aoroau. wxien me - sieainei* a tliere left Milwaukee for this port Monday era." there morning is almost as hopeless.^ Vet- Clev ites at eran mariners number every man dow: r day, with the dead. > . ^ dmo- The ill-fated vessel was caught while jsre harge crossing the lake, and fell an easy the 3 ey re- prey to the seventy-mile an hour hur- ema: r this ricane which swept the icy waters of ^en ie of Lake Michigan throughout Monday clear- and which continued with little mod- Tf ent of eration for another twenty-four hours. ??nJ mplo- The fears of all concerned were con- ^m tions Uiuicu >* tug 1W11V1U 1 V4JU3^/C4.^V/4-i. resent was received from South Haven: Cap- cess? lcv in tain Donahue, the light horse keeper, to th ties of noticed this morning, through, the CJ: that hazy treather, postions of what seemed ties, 57 be to be wreckage floating abreast and t the on each side of the - harbor here, a in^u with- couple of miles outside and close to anar nable open water. Captain Matthews of as day's the life saving station led a party of e em- volunteers on a dangerous trip over exce :uired the moving ice until they came into a tarif cease lot of fresh wreckage. Seme of it was ers ^ icpira- wedged between the ice, but the out' -r\r\v?f*r\-r> ttroe i "dchs V**V UAVJ'XX ?T?0 UJiWVAUVUI-il . the ice. The parts which were brought g^ve here were easily recognized by vessel- na.n5 ached men as belonging to the ChicorJV"3f price shoot- Peril?us gale is stHJ^kr^-Ihg, the graii ?les at ^eaJ^er-'i&^uoK "and the darkness 15 P*; s cor- combined to prevent another search c.?^ >f the ^or further proof of the disaster. with The number of dead mavbe 29. pos- ^ Jen- statements being made that 4 St. I^0'vv" 'nited Joseph business men instead of 1. H^e 11 De- J?seph Pearl, were guests of Capt. elect 1 i Qti-noc 7^ollinov>?? r> ?)/">- OCK3.1 'CI DY . - ?? .. -irate ture, is the name of one who is said to 1:can e illi- be on board. . Pop; this -he disaster will prove a heavy fin- ca^iri pje ancial blow to the transportation com- & ' i ever Pan7? as there was no insurance ex- ?^sn and cePt a?ainst fire. fetra f the The following telegram was received th iqi;or ^ere the steamship company this simil ei<rht evening from South Haven:" "We JacK I ^-as have just found some of the Chicora's x i his uPPer yorks in the ice off this place. ^cto There is no doubt she has foundered." 5 Bell ^e vessel 1 was commanded by n01 r at 9 Captain Ed StinesofSt. Joseph, Micli. m?n< tired Captain Stines'son was second mate, relieJ room ^oss on vessel, exclusive of aem\ >ut of tiie carw0r amounts to ?165,000, and Jn id bv th0 cargo of thirty-eight carloads of en lie ^our f?r export was valued at $20,- -^e?P v an ^0. The Chicora was a screw steamer Quire '<t the ^ *ons burden, built by the De- wild* ri^ht ^oit Dry Dock Company two years 11 nTas- a??- The Graham and Morton Com- that' liead Pany carried no insurance on her ex- siiep] : ***+ tv,^Q I Ab IDOU1" 1iii v, auu VUVAv >?cuo jj^vy jllohj. with ance on ^ie fl?ur- Owing- to dull busi- Part ative uess s^e was taken out of commission can * dhas January 1. but last Saturday -was put t"ne; v-ter-n i;i commission. She was a strongly P j?.er. built boat and well manned. It is eran( i %et- liarclly possible that the victims are we Ci onlv a^rift on an ^ce field. 1 had Captain Stines is said to have had % and foreboding of impending disaster and been sometime ago said as much to friends. ^on ( *hich Tins is the first disaster that has over- jn</ 1 Illicit taken any steamer from this port since }->0rn with ^ie siting of the ill-fated Hippocam- jn c0: irties Pus'm ^ie tall of 1SS(J, from being over }tonr lites. l?a(ied. James R. Clark, who was ^cros t n0 filling the place of the regular clerk. J. W. Hancock, was ex-United States o-lass Marshal for the "Western District of j ; Tvr;?v.o IC-M ?+ . AH 1VT1 tiU 1,110111 ward Montereal and had resided in Michigan j$un(j 1 Ed- since ?two rears of age. He was a a|]T chil- telegraph operator in the army during an?* rears the war. After the war., he was en- ge ^ rain* ?aged by the Goodrich Transportation jk6 ' itual Company until 1876, when we became n :nder deputy sheriff of Berrien county, and:" id.of io.ur years, was elected From lojot-^94 he was Un\ ,Al ies marshal with headquarters ^ion has--J>een engaged LROLINA'S CROMWELL." GOVERNOR TILLMAN WANTS A > NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Frites a Letter Suggesting the Plat- \t ?Directed to tlie Leaders of the T.U. . >lumbia, S. C., Jan. 23.?It has . quite a long time, nearlv a year . ct since the statement was made Governor B. R Tillman, the" ses" of South Carolina, "was sethis cap for something beycndthe ed States Senate; that he "was ing to the possible, organization^'^i^^^ w National third party inrr&sSeri-' politics, and to being put up as or its leaders, jnearly everyone aps has forgotten the interview iew Senator gave along this line 7.. it the middle of March last, but iterances at the time will be easily [led when one .reads a letter he ?j| led a few days ago, - >r some time Thom^s.F >r of the Des Moin^H<?sa^3RM^^^f^? s Tribune, has been.-agitating nization of a new Rational r. to be known as >rm Movement.'' Hehasbeen^rab^J^^s:7> rig a series of letters from all the Western and Southwestern leaders he old Third Party and of the ' \ locratic party. Many oi tne leaddiffer on certain particulars, but gree that the time has come for a national party to be founded?a - - y differing in its demands from "* Third party in the last national paign. . rron, after getting the views of all s Westem and Southern men on the " ;er, wrote to ex-Governor Tillman, ~ ; m he refers to as the "Cromwell he South/' and asked the new ;ed "States Senator for a letter. letter was written on the 8th ultiand Byron considers the letter "a erful one." The follo^vSnff 4.?-<a^w of the letter as sent on by tne exernor: . . ' Trenton, S. C., Jan. 3, 1895. >. F. Byron, Esq: ; 7-v >ar Sir?Your valued favor of the > f- i with, marked copy of your paper, ^ jfi i been received and read with, init. Thanks for your kind words \ H it myself. I am called a "Popu* . . ? by the Republican papers and by Cleveland Democrat&r-God save ':>>*;? nark! )th of these names are beginning. ink in the nostrils of goodmen-. Jl iming? Alas, tliev are a byword1; - :j a hissing to the Democrats . ; J ;ve with Jefferson and -m the Republicans whoioUow^lSKv^t^H . I see no hope ofjrelie?orof our icu^vuand the farmers of the it quit voting the Republican ticket. 'e must get together, and names tld not divide us. But the Popuhave too many cranks among 1 and want to do too much. We ' - ' ' lot enlist the conservative masses ss we appeal to reason and eoSt-. , . sense; and.the more reforms. " > . and t.hp. fAxcpr tca -nrilT /AfftitiV.. ocracv is drunk with power an^*" juccess it has had in amalgamatRepublicans and so-called Demo- -Vlfc > under the lead of Sherman eland. The tops will be screwed n tighter and after awhile somes' mil explode. South Carolina J-M ady with baggage packed^ to join lew party of emancipation?the ncipation of the -massess of white from the slavery to corporations, s and monopolies. ie name "Democrat" no Inswr ures here. The name is dear for Lemories, not its present associa;. A new party name seems nelsv, and all' we ask is an adherence ^'principles of old-time Democra- "Equal rights, equal oppoittuaiequal burdens. America for tlie ' .. :ricans, an asylum for the honest, . j strious homeseeker but a terror to chists and law-breakers?the rich. ell as the poor. ^ Free coinage of and silver, and no paper money [ 1 x' J ? - A pi, icgai leuuer greenuacics. , f that will enable our manufacturd supply tlie hcine market withjecoming millionaires at the ex- ' e of the farmers; a tariff that will ^^system that will giveafe\ ; to the farmer for every bushel of 1 and every pound of meat." This' ?5 atf orm enough, and any more will ' use and divide us on these essen r the scoundrels and traitors who rule in Washington are to dictate policy and name the ticket bur ' ' / oral vote will not go to a "Demt" in '96. It cannot go to a Repub- . . under any circumstances; and _ ']:* ilism, as now organized and led, .ot get it. ^ is the part of wisdom and patrii for the Third party leaders to ce their steps and be'less radical - _ ^ eir platform. The p.r to those existing in '26 and'58. son and Lincoln were the outcome is hope the people will be again rious. "W tave great faith. This country is eady vet to sink into servitude to sy. " Ballots or bullets will bring C The Chicago strike caused a ^ md for an increase in the army. W OUO AJ.CCWi.VXJ.C^4. gucuu V/X JLXCUIX'O raized with the starving masses. le who have ballots should not re- * ! bullets.. The people are now beared but angry. Let us pray that :iists will clear away by 1896, and the lost sheep will have found a ierd. e Lincoln said: "You can fool of the people all the time: you .... ool all of the people part of the 7 but you can never fool^ all o 'eopie au or tne time." it is a j?- f iy<4 i truth, and while we believe it." " m hope. ' Yours truly, B. E. TimiAjr. A Fatal Accident. icago, III., Jan. 21.?Alage sec3f enclosed scaffolding surroundthe top stories of the Fort Dearbuilding. a twelve-story structure urse of erection at the corner of oe and Clark streets, was blown s the street by a violent gust of this morninc. smashino-the nlaf* windows of a number of stores njurins: eight pedestrains, one of .. , H. H. Erwin, agent for the [by automatic time recordej^^^rtMMj| Mr. Erwin's skull was he was also internalla? as taken to the counlw injuries of the otherM ot serious. Killed the &3L0Sy' Colo., . ipson shf^^^ u I- ? n,