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; , y--"; - ;' ;" i ' ' rjj VOL. LIII. WINNSBORO. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1898. NO. 14. 1L A LARGE CROWD. g The Signs Point to a Big Attenn dance at the Fair. THE "FALL OF MANILA." This Presentation of Itself Will Be a Great Attraction. Fireworks in Addition Good < ^Exhibits Already Assured. Columbia, Nov. 5.?Special:?la the past week the information received by Col. T. \V. Holloway, the ft secretary and general manager of the ! State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, confirms his previous opinion * as to the certainty of a fiae attendance from every part of South Carolina, at ?. the fair of the Society, commencing on ?!! Monday the 14th inst. Great interest j! is shown in this year's gathering, and the county papers especially are calling attention-to it. The railroad rates are very low, and the accommodations for ^\visitors will be all that can be desired. ^ Pain's Manila. The great spectacle?Pain's Fall of "Manila?will nf course constitute a a j leading attraction. The gentlemen in j charge of this feature are already busily engaged in making the necessary prefix parations at the fair grounds. In aadiHp tion to the presentation of the battle, B| as already noted in this correspondence Bf there will be a grand display of fireKf works, as follows: 1. Salute of 2 Aeriel guns, fired from 15 inch mortars. 2. Illumination of the grounds with powerful colored lights, changing color live times. 3. Ascent of two balloons, carrying magnesium lights, flooding the entire neighborhood with dazzling lights, finishing with a string of jewels 100 feet long, constantly change color as they float through space; and other pleasing fireworks. 4. Display of 50 one and two pound rockets, containing Paine's far us Man^ hattan Beach combinations, and fired ^ so as to. blend the continued varied tints. 5. Flying Pigeons of fire, crossing and recrossing the grounds. 6. Two batteries of large Saucissons. 7. Salvo of five fifteen inch bombs, with latest novelties and effects. 8. Flight of 3 Rockets, containing | twin parachutes. k 9. Bayonet Tourbillon or umbrellas " of fire, in ascent and decent. 10. The Star Spangled Banner in 11. 2 Large Mines of Serpents of ^ fire. 12. Salvo of 6 15 inch shells, Couleur de Rose, Amethysts and Rubies, . Pearls and Sapphires, Old Gold, L Corise, etc. 13. Ascent of 4 four pound hanging "stain rockets., first introduced into Pyrotechny by Paine. 14. Exhibition of 2 Batteries of Yar^gated Stars. ^BfefcAlladins' Jeweled Tree of Jb'ire. Large Deveil-among-the tailors : v onS of the most amusing pieces in PyIrotechny. ^ 17. Salvo of 24-inch shell, containing all the latest effects, invented by Paine for the 1893 seasons at vManhattan Beach. 18. Ascent of three pounds Paine's ^ Chromatic Star Rockets the most admired of all recent novelties in fire' works. 1 ft A /vf T\A11 r\A rA^l'^fa 117m -ulSUClil' \JL Ci.ilyvuuu AWMVVMJ the Pleiades or 7 Floating Stars. 20. Ascent of three pound rockets Opal Showers, Laburnam blossoms and Evening Stars. 21. Aerial Novelty, Salvo of 9 reIpeating shells. opening red, changing 4.0 white, finishing blue. 22. Fire Portraits of Admiral Dewey ? ? .i T ?x i rr-T tfenerai i>uuer, jjieuieuaat xiuusuu, Admiral Schley, General Wheeler, Lieutenant Victor Blue. etc. 23. Explosion of Two immense cracky * -er mines. 24 Salvo of 24 inch bombs, liquid . tfire, Comotic Bain, Alladin's Jewels, etc. 25. Display of Paine's Aerial Novelties. L 26, The Hanging Gardens. IL IT 27. The Great Bear. * D28. Peacock's Plumes. i 29 Xafcional Streamer. ?130. Magnesium star. 31. Electric Star. k32. Design in Fire?Peace with Honor, won by American Valor. 33. Batteries of two large Colored Saucissous. 34. Brilliant illumination of the Grounds with Kuby Compound, 35. Salvo of Paine's celebrated 24 1 T_ J.* T 1A?,. men D0II1US. iUUUU t/U^gteiv. JUMtavt of Moonlights,, etc. 36. Flight of 6 pound rockets, with floating festoons of. fire. Paine's speialty and not attempted by any other fc? Pyrotechnists. Called bv Mark Twain I "Aerial Sleigh Bells." 37. Beautiful Diamond Dust Screen, 100 feet long. 38. The Golden Cloud studded with jewels, produced by the simultaneous discharge of inch shells. 39. Battery of Italian Streamers. P 40. Battery of Electric Spreader Stars. *%?. Battery of Fame's Chromatic Codies. 42. Battery of Gold Showers. ^ 43. Salvo of 42 inch shells, Paine's Manhattan Beach Bombs, shooting w Oi.? n ^ CUUd. vtri uuuvj'iao, cit. 44. Ascent of 8 pound Congreve Rockets, with Cometic^Stars. 45. The starry flag, produced bysimultaneous discharge of 9 bombs. ^ 46, Ascent of prismatic whirlwinds. Bt 47. Quintuple Repeating Bombs, I turquoise, emeralds, rubies. Amethysts, Pearls, etc. All 1S9S Novelties. 48. 3Iother of Thousands. The 189S Bomb. 4y. Fight between the Spanish Flagship Maria Teresa, and the (J. S. S. Brooklyn; the Blowing up of the Maine the sinking of the Merrimac. / 50. Magnificent Aerial Bouquet, \ produced by simultaneous discharge of 100 large colored rockets. 51. The famous Reproduction of the Battle of Manila Bay, between the Spanish and American Fleets, the greatest fireworks spectacle ever ; resented to the people of the South. This portion of the display alone occupies a half hour or more. and is alone worth a trip to Columbia. Special trains on all the roads will - be held until the fireworks display is over. Comfortable seats will be provided ; for the spectators. There will be given a number of lifelike portraits of the leading military and naval heroes of the Spanish war, every one who can possibly do so should arrange to see the display. FORTUNE TELLER KILL?,7) HER. Girl Frightened to Death by a Prediction From Tea Leaves. In the sudden and still unexplained death of Letitia M. Hall at Wolcott, N. Y., the Society for Psychical Kesevch has ample field for investigation. The case is a nine day's wonder throughout Eastern "Wayne county, though all the facts are still far from being generally known. Miss Hall was 19 years old and the daughter of Hamilton Hall, a West Butler farmer living about 4 miles southwest of this village. She was the youngest of several girls, petite, vivacious and pretty. Socially she was popular, being generally known among the people by the quizzical nickname of ''Miss Seven-for-a-Cent," owing to her diminutive stature, whic-h was under 5 feet. Tnroughout her childhood Miss Hall was of marked nourotic temperament, being subject to prolonged fits of "the blues," with spasms, fainting spells and other symptoms of acute ner vousness, but in recent years she had been entirely free from such attacks. Hei parents and friends had not the slightest doubt that her health was completely restored. A week ago she accompanied Seward Thorn to this village and remained over night as the guest of his sister, Josie, and the following morning, as a youthful prank, the three decided to visit Madame Herter, the Roose secress, a woman famous throughout "Western New York, and have their fortunes told. In the highest spirits they drove to Mrs. Herter's home and were speedily closeted with her. Her particular ? C 4" /-V AAATlIf Id VlT7 iiiutiiuu ui vv/vuiv *>J *jj inspecting the grounds left from a cup of tea, a whirl of the inverted cup sufficing for each questioner. Miss Thorn's fortune was commonplace and increased the hilarity of the young people, but when Miss Hall's turn came the old witch hesitated, consulted the cup a second time and then called the girl aside to an adjacent room, her face being t rive, even awe^-stricken, while Miss Hall laughed lightly. When they returned a moment later, however, the laugh had disappeared, nnH frfcp fir] anneared frightened. She ?X-X- <=? begged her companions to leave the house at once, and they, vainly trying to rally her spirits, complied. Once upon the road, after mucli urging, Miss Hall told them that Mrs. Herter, with due solemnity, even with tears, had informed her that she had not three days more to live. So deep an impression had this made upon the girl's mind that she shuddered, seeming convinced of the absolute truth of the alleged prophecy. The three attended church on Sun^ /lair on(] immodlittplv a?ter f.flft uaj r<f r.uijus^ au;u uM,u*vmw? w ? service Miss Hall became ill and spasms followed. She soon died and the doctors report that her death resulted from paralysis caused by fright. A TRAVELING POSTOFFICE. Mail Wagon to Collect and Deliver Letters on a Thirty Mile Route. The postofftce department decided "Wednesday to make a new exp^iment in the rural free delivery system, which is, in effect, the establishment of a traveling postoffice. Some time ago a resident of Westminister, Md.. wrote to the department offering to build such a postoffice, to be drawn by two horses, and to establish a system between Westminister and the surrounding villages, covering a distance of thirty miles, for $1,375 a year. The plan was accepted Wednesday. The wagon will be similar to the postoffice wagons in use in the cities. The postman will start from Westminister in the mornitg and visit a number of small towns in the vicinity collecting and delivering mail en route. Any farmer living within two miles of the road along which the wagon passes will be allowed to place a letter box at the roadside, in which his mail can be deposited by the carrier, and from f,hich the carrier will take the out going mail. At several small places where there is no postoffice a number of boxes will be put up, which will practically form an automatic postoffice. The inventor of the scheme will act as postmaster, and will sell stamps, money orders, etc, ofimr\ onoccArf t.^om fnr f\l~>o mails. While driving out in the morning he will assort the mail for delivery! and, when returning he will prepare it to be placed on the tsain. He expects to barely make expenses, but the government will pay him a royalty on all similar wagons should the scheme be put in general operation. It is believed that bv this mothod much more work can be done than by a single carrier. Jiignway noDDery. A highway robbery was committed on the road leading from Lockhart to Mt. Tabor, in Union county, Wednesday evening about dark. The victim was Mr. Johu H. Inman, a prominent farmer of the Mt. Tabor community. Mr. Inman was returning from Lockhart, where he had been to sell cotton. When within a mile of his father's j home ne was attacKea oy tnrce men, two Negroes and a vrliite man, whe knocked him senseless and abstracted from his pocket $219 in cash, the proceeds of his cotton. Mr. Ipman was left lying in the road until about 9:30 o'clock, when he was found by two Negroes who passed along that way. These Negroes had a buggy brought up and carried Mr. Inman home. Search was immediately instituted for the guilty parties, and Wednesday Wade Jeter, a notorious Negro, was arrested and lodged in jail. The other two are ! spotted and their capture is only a mat | ter of time. Should Read Up. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, contin| ues to refer to Negro miners from Alaj bama as 'foreigners."' The governor ! should read up on the constitution, and learn that any citizen of one state has ; a right to enter peaceably the borders I of another. Governor Tanner will i have to relinquish his Gatling gun ! theory.?Augusta^Cbronicle. A BUGLE BLAST. ; What Senator McLaurin Said to a North Carolina Audience. A MOST FERVENT APPEAL. ! A Summons to the True Men of the old North State to Maintain the Civilization Inherited from their Forefathers. The following is a synopsis of the eloqent and powerful speech delivered by Senator John L. McLaurin, at Old Hundred, Richmond county, last Friday, prepared especially for the Wil-' mington Star: Fellow Citizens: In the various great cities of the land, ';Peace Jubilees'' are bein? held to celebrate the slorious I achievements of American valor in two ! hemispheres, on both the land and the sea. I have heard everywhere, except in this State, sounds of joy. They are extending the blessings of liberty to other lands, while there hangs over you the black shadow of Negro domination. North Carolina deserveo a better fate. She has never failed when duty called. In this war she gave the first sacrifice of blood when Bagley died at Cardenas. She gave my old schoolmate, the gallant JBili Shipp, at Santiago, and Victor 1*1 /? n / t -1 IT !. I5iue, 01 ooutn uaronna, am xiooson are both of good old Tar Heel stock. It does seem hard, just at this time, for the people of this State to be threatened with-a yoke more hateful, and more galling to race pride, than the rule of Spain over Cuba. In other States, campaign issues are being discussed, it is gold or silver, tariff or-war, Republican or Democrat. In North Carolina the one issue is white supremacy or negro domination. This, ieiiow citizens, is tne one paramount issue, all others are dwarfed into insignificance. No use to talk "Fusion," there is but one kind of fusion now possible in North Carolina. Be it said to their credit, the Negroes themselves have torn the mask from the bastard arrangement that has controlled under the rotten guise of "Fusion." The only "Fusion" now for a decent white man, ?is a "Fusion" into your "white unions," sealed^in the sacredness of the common blood of your race, and pledged to the redemption of this grand old State from the misrule and corruption that follow Negro domination. T* n _ \r._i.!. reuow citizens, in was upon norm Carolina soil that the first declaration of independence was madt, and it was the brave men of this State and my own who turned the tide of battle as Cowpens and King's Mountain so that it never stopped until the surrender at Yorktown. Your ancestors carved an empire out of a wilderness, redeemed it from savage red men, and then wrested it from the British Lion. Shall vou turn the -gpodtj-facrn.a.gtf uvcr w biavtfs auu ilc ciiltctren of slaves? All the proud traditions of the Caucasian race forbid. nn?o!an fn rnlf> I comes from God. Where he is found he governs. It is in his blood. His commission is printed on his brow by the hand of the Almighty, and the record of his race is marked in all the histories of the past in all the countries of the earth. Anglo-Saxon civilization in North Carolina will never retreat in the face of a conflict with an inferior race. Every State in the south has had this same ordeal to go through, but in sDite of the Dower of federal bay onets, in every struggle, thanks be to God, our civilization has been maintained, and in every conflict it has ultimately triumphed. The constitutions of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana tell the story. It does my heart good, and warms my blood to hear how grandly the white people of all political parties and shades of opinion are responding to that good old battle cry, "White supremacy!" This is the keynote. In the past it has saved our homes and protected our women from insult and degradation. It supplies a motive that makes strong the arm of feebleness and nerves even the craven heart. uWhite supremacy!" Under that inspiration, let us hope that on the 8th of November, the black clouds will roll away and the clear sun shine upon a people redeemed and free?free from terror of a worse than Egyptian bondage. The manner in which you are conducting your campaign reminds me of a story of two Irishmen. They landed in New York from the steamer and walked out into Jersey and laid down to spend the night alongside of the railroad track. DuriDg the night ouc of them woke up at the noise of an express train. The ground trembled with the rumble and roar while a great big fiery eye glared at them. Terrorstricken he shook his companion, t;wake up Jamie, wake up; these Americans are moving hell to same other place." Well, you Xorth Caiolinians seem determined to move hell to some other place, and I hope you will succeed; only don't move it down across the 11 Lie7 wcuu\c liau uui onai^ xn Carolina. Cuba would be a pretty good place to move it to. They ought to be used to hell there by this time. In North Carolina, as I view the case it is not even a question of a partly white 2nd a partly black government. There is no compromise and strange to say the color linti is drawn by the Negroes themselves. I am glad that it is so. Your troubles will end sooner. Had the Negroes been conservative and shown some judgment your State might i il l 1 P nave Deen comrojuea Dy iusitm iur i years, but ;'whom the gods would de- ! stroy they first make mad." The Negroes have openly announced their intention to make it a race matter and dominate to the exclusion of their white allies. This is the history of i every southern State. The Negroes by j themselves have never in a single in| stance been able to gain control, but have been led by the white men, wnom they always repudiate as soon as they gain power. The reason the negroes repudiate, as soon as possible, their white allies, is because the negro is ambitious. His one great ambition is o become a white man, and if he despises one thing more than another it is a white man who has become a ne gro, and the first neck his heel will tread upon is the white man's through whose vote he gains power. It is a question not of Republicanism, Democracy or Populist; it is the preservation of your civilization. It was Macauly, I believe, who said of the French revolution, ;"It destroyed liberty, but preserved civilization." It was an awful ealamitv. when, after the war. a vast horde of ignorant voters were enfranchised. 5lore than once have our people been face to face with the dread choice between liberty and civilization. Once in South Carolina Wade Hampton thrilled the hearts of our people with the words. "I will be governor of j South Carolina, or by the Eternal we will have a military government. Better for me a military despotism than a civilization inferior, degraded and corrupt." Social and political conditions under any government are rotten when a public speaker can give utterance to such ideas and sentiments as are reported at Mason's X Roads a few days ago. A white man advising negroes to assault white women! Great God! has he a white mother? has he sisters? Such a ^ i i J i i j monsier snouia oe scounjeu anu unvcu by decent Negroes themselves beyond the pale of civilization. The office holders read the handwriting on the wall. The letter of the Wilmington postmaster is ' a straw which shows which way the wind blows." It is the manifest intention of the Negroes to control this State, and I hrmly believe if they carry this election large numbers will come from other States. A determined effort is now being made in the eastern part of the State to terrorize the whites into subjection, and the basest, meanest J ' ? ?i 1- ^1 irung or an. is sucn tnreais against our women as are being made. It is manifest that the Negro is not satisfied with being accorded his constitutional rights. In no State in this Union is he in such a position as in North Carolina. There is not a New Engiand town that would submit for 24 hours to what the refined and cultivated people of "Wilmington, Xewbern and Greenville have for two years. Your people have been patient and long-sufAtitMM \T/vi rvAPCAO CI1JJ?. aWO UUUlUUt ? 1UJJL COsion of your municipalities and appoint ing negro justices and policemen they seemed inspired with a vindicative desire to make their sway as odious and oppressive as possible to their white fellow citizens. ''No taxation without representation," and yet people who pay no taxes assess your property and disburse your monev. I also read ;n the papers that an attempt is being made to import Federal troops, but I do not believe the President will be led into such a scheme. If he does the American people will hold him responsible for the consequences. If the troops come and see what the white people have to endure in the eastern counties, they will sympathize with you, just as they did with in If the President was here himself to see the humiliation thf; . -.v^rty pcupTc Tu tTiia section are suDjected to, he could not be deceived into sending troops here to assist Negroes in trampling upon the rights of white people. Fellow citizens, I have heard, seen and read enough in the past six months about affairs in eastern North Carolina to make me feel that if I had to stand it, life wouldn't be worth the living. I have heard of assaults on white women, and then read in a Wilmington paper a I'.iotifinotinn Vitt a trilo a1anH#>TV>r nn thfi J uouuuayivu vjj %m T V _ purity of the white womanhood of North Carolina. I read also of a young orphan girl in one of your cities. She was walking down the street, and finding the sidewalk blocked by three Negro men. stepped off to pass around them. One of the brutes overtook her, grabbed her roughly by the shoulder, turned her round and slapped her face for "putting on ears." Negro policemen were around, and, I am told, made not the slightest attempt to make an arrest. I am told that in some instances white ladies have been arrested and carried before Negro justices on some flimsy pretext. In some sections it is unsafe for a white girl or woman to walk the road alone. The disposition seems to be to aggravate and harass the whites into the commission of some overt act so as a pretext to import troops in here to bolster up the courage of those of whom conscience has made cowards. Take that occurrence at Ashpole. Who bothered the Negroes? They robbed a store and burned it down. When the warrants were issued the Negroes assembled and not only defied arrest, but swore they intended to bum the town. The whites assembled after this demonstration for the protection of their lives and property. The Negroes were driven off without a single one them being injured. The whites thought the trouble was over, but deemed it wise to watch the town during the night. While standing around a fire unsuspicious of harm five Negroes crept up under cover of darkness and shot three white men down. Yet, this is made the pretext to rush to Washington and beg for troops to protect the Negroes from violence. A State government that is so odious that the people of this State will not rally to the support of iaw and order inspires nothing but contempt. Troop-5 are wanted to terrorize the whites and carry the election; not to * XT T_ protect trie ^egroe?. id somu quarters we have been accused in South Carolina of depriving Negroes of too many political rights. I deny this. The Negro just emerged from slavery, and foisted by the bayonet into the full exercise of citizenship was unfit for the duties and responsibilities devolving upon him, he was the prey of designing white men and needed protection from his own folly. Today in South Carolina he has just as many rights as Vio nrmiprlv annreciate and eniov with benefit to himself and the public good. No one wishes to injure the Negro. We are spending thousands on his education. trying to fit him for the duties of full citizenship. Do you suppose for one moment the Republican party proposes to give all the citizens of Hawaii a voice in the government. Not a bit of it. Senator Lodge, the author of the force bill, was the first one to object to a resolution of Senator Pettigrew proposing '"manhood suffrage." _ When do you hear of white men .in suiting Negroes and wantonly pushing their women from the sidewalk? It is only when the Negro in my State gets out of his place that he is molested. Your people might as well let it be understood that the white men are to govern this State, it will sa/e trouble. In South Carolina, where the white people control, tbe Negro is treated with respect and consideration, and there is a sincere desire on the part of us all to make his condition as tolerable as we can. We don't wish to make our rule hateful and odious but we want to eet along as pleasantly as possible. "What a spectacle it is to us to see our brethren over here treated as they are, with the evident desire of the Negroes to make their sway as harsh ana oppressive as possible. We are watching events here where it is proposed if possible to pin Negro rule to your backs with Federal bayonets. After making conditions so intolerable that nature rebels, they would crush you with brute force. Fellow citizens, without good government and peace, permanent and assured, there can be no progress, prosperity or,happiness within the borders of your State. ( It is a fundamental rule in our socia and political economy that white men must control our State government, uriii t j tt nuuuii wiiiuc Buprcmciuj' aaouieu yc- j yond peradventure*, there can only be , turmoil and strife. I care not what you are?Republican, Populist, Silverite or Goldbug?your ] skin may be as fair as the lily, but your < heart is seamed with the blackness of ; hell in this crisis, forgetful of the glo- ] rious traditions of your own race, you < cast your lot with those who would put black heels on white necks. The | Negroes themselves have made the race i issue. Can you do less? Whether I from patriotism or self-interest, it is ] the paramount duty of every man to < stand by his race before party and be- 1 fore creed. I am not unmindful of th^ fact that J in North Carolina, especially in the 1 mountain regions, a great many emi- ' nently respectable families are Kepub- < lican from principle. I know many 1 whom I esteem and respect most high- * ly but I would say to them that the present issue rises far above party, and 1 they can as ill afford as you to have < this State controlled by Negroes. The black brute who insults your wife or 1 daughter on the streets will not be < more considerate of theirs, and the evils 1 of a corrupt and expensive State gov- ' eminent will not bear less heavily upon 1 their property than it does upon yours. < Let me say to those white men who hold office by' 'fusion" that I know that * many good and patriotic men were led ' through their belief in Alliance princi- < pies into the fusion movement. We had the same thing in South Carolina, but we have learned to settle our differ- J ences among ourselves. The Demo- 1 cratic party las enacted into its platform the very doctrines for which you 1 have been contending, and there is 1 nothing for yc u to do but to come back '< home. ' ' x'o lusiomsts ituiaiij? ~ur- ~ fice I say, "Jampot the flattering unction to your s*n, "it will not last. You ' are only tolerated for your votes, and ' then you will be thrown overboard. ' The Negro is determined to control if he can, and mark my prediction: The ' fusionist will suffer more than any one else. Come back while yet there is 1 time, "saving race" will be spent by ! the 8th of November. After then you : will be shunned and ostracised like a [ leper by your own race, and looked 1 upon with contempt by the Negro, . whose toel you have been. ; We had a crisis like this in 1876, and those men who failed in the hour of need hare never regretted it but once, and that is all the time. Like the revolutionary tory, the man who ; didn't vote for Hampton in '76 will 1 bear the stigma on to generations yet unborn. The office-holding white need not de- | ceive himself, he cau't use the Negro to ride into office as he did 20 years ago. Don't you remember the old joke told on Maiiooe in this campaign? A Negro said he dreamed that Mahone died and knocked at the gate of heaven and they told him no 4'foot passengers" could enter, so he went oft and fooled a Negio by telling him to get down on Itifl ? ? 11 TtTAnl/^ A VJIYV* in 11 ID <*n iuuio nuu nc nymu nuc uiiu iu? and both world thus get inside. But when they reached the gate Mahone hitched his i :hoss" outside and walked in. Well, he couldn't fool a "Tar Heel" Negro that way today. They are riding white Republicans aod Populists, and if they can they will hiich their "hosscs"' outside the party gate and valk in alone. A New Comet. Pmf Rrlcar Frishie. nf t.lift?Naval Observatory, is engaged in computing the orbit of a new comet. It was first seen by Prof. W. R. Brooks, of Gene va, N. Y., Thursday of last week. Prof. Frisbie says that he has made three observations, and the comet is wonderfully bright and moving with great velocity, proving, in his opinion, that it is unusually near the earth. "It appears to be a large, round body," says Jfrof. if'risbic, "and has moved over nine degrees in four days, going south and increasing its right aseention continually. It was first seen about ten degrees south of the principal star of the constellation Draco, not far from the second star of the Great Diper. It has moved steadily towards the contellatiou of Hercules, and is now passing through it. The comet is seen to the best advantage just after sundown or just before sunrise, as it is then closer to the earth. It is fully three degrees in diameter, and particularly interesting on account of it3 brightness and the great rapidity with which it is moving through the heavens. From the present outlook of its course, it will probably be visible to the naked eye in a few days. The northern heavens will then be brilliantly lighted and the visible movement of the comet will present a startling effect." Crew Only Saved. The schooner Jennie F. Willie, Capt. Bulger, which sailed from Jacksonville ? ? a ^ - t%- r on September 31, lor at. nerre, iuartinique, and Gonaives. and New York, encountered a hurricane on October 1 during which she was dismasted, her deck was blown off and she was partly sunk. She drifted, however, and stranded on October 26 at Walker's Cay. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The crew succeeded in reaching shore. A TALE OF HORROR. The Terrible Picture of a Flaming Fanatic. A WOMAN'S TERRIBLE ACT. Poured Oil on Her Garments, and, While burrounaea byi-ierv^nMdren, Applied the Match, and Perished in the Flames. One of the most tragic scenes in the history of fanaticism has just beeu enacted in the city of New York. Mrs. Muntag, a Catholic, repenting her marriage to a Hebrew, inspired by the zeal of fanaticism and tilled with remorse because she had taken an unbeliever for a husband, saturated her gown with kerosene and set it on tire. Surrounded by her children, she muttered prayers, and when the match was applied, the little ones ran shrieking away as the flames blazed about the unf'Arfnnof-d u'AmQn For the distorted image of the faith of her fathers that searad her brain this woman gave up her life in a most horrible manner as a voluntary sacrifice. There was in the awful act, not only the blind zeal of the Christian, but the savage rights of heathenish self-immolation. Believing that she had outraged her religion by linking hijr destiny to one jf a different faith, she made of herself i burnt offering in th e mad hope of appeasing the judgment which she circad2d. Even while pouriag the oil on her *own to feed the names, she murmured the formulas of her religion, fingered tier string of beads, telling of her last prayers before seekirg rest in a flaming ieath from the terror of doom beyond the grave. Five years ago she was married. As Kate Hart she was a happy young girl, noted for her devotion among the pious Catholics, her family and friends. No )ne was more firm in her faith either !n outward ceremony or inward conviction. But even this deep rooted reverence :or her religion yielded to the workings )f her heart. Charles Muntag, a Hebrew, loved ler. He sought her hand in marriage iespite the strong disapproval of her iamily and friends. When aione they pegged a,ad pleaded with her to give up ler sweetheart, but she turned a deaf ;ar to all entreaty. She could see no sin in lavishing her iffections upon an honest man, although he was beyond the pale of the ihurch. They were married. And although her family and friends efused to witness the ceremony slie i?as a happy bride. Muntag, as an insurance solicitor, made a good salary and was amply able to provide for his wife in their home it 301 East One Hundred and First street. aUinirle , Q,f, tier iriends did not change. They did not forbear to impress upon her on jvery occasion that she had wronged the church by giving her heart to one ffhom her faith consigned to ou'.jr iarkness. Yoked for life to an unbeliever, not ill the kindness of her husband, nor all the comforts of a good home, nor the innocent prattle of loving pretty chil1 II I !?. .1 1 aren couia nit cne weigut iroui uer cniad. She brooded over these things and lost the cheerfulness c- her youth. True in her three little children she found some relief from t'u? dark forebodings of her religious convictions. I But she was never entirely happy and as the years flew by her great fear gathered gloom aad strength. There were times wlicn, to her reproachful mends, she showed the intensity oi her feelings. She would speak of expatiating her error and of winning absolution. They paid little attention to these vague threatenings, but noticed that, with her deep dejection, ner religious zeal grew stronger. For the past few days she had been more silent than usual, and spent much time kneeling before her little shrine and counting her beads. She seemed to be always in prayer. When her husband had gone yesterday she seated herself in her room and called her little ones around her. While they stood there in all the innocence of childish wonder, she closed her eyes and fingering her beads rapidly, muttered prayers. Then she gave the eldest child some money and sent her to a store for kerosene. When the child returned the mother was still seated, whispering in prayer, with parched lips. She took the oil and poured it over her ^?>wn as * r 11? ? tliougti anointing nerseu iur a saunuuc. The children iooked on silently with wide open eyes. Still praying in broken whispers, the woman saturated her skirts with the oil. ?>hc then struck a match and touched it to the hein of her garment. Instantly tho flames leaped up and the children fled screaming. The mother, the beads slipping swiftly through her finger?, stili prayed, and the fire licked upward to her face. In the scorching flames the fanatic's zeal was swept away, and the broken words of prayer turned to a shriek of anguish. The neighbors, startled by the cries of the children, came runniug from 1 ?J onJ kni?a? infn flip aDOVC liuu uciuvT ttuu room. The woman was raving in the midst of the flames, the beads still clutched in her fingers. She was caught and flung to the floor and wrapped in blankets. Policeman Pape, ef the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, had heard the commotion and dashed into the house in time to assist in smothering the blaze. There was little left of the image of a woman in the sufferer, but she was carried tenderly to the Harlem hospital in an ambulance. The doctors used all their skill to allay her pain, though she tt-oc olmnsf Kp\*nnd feelinfr anv. They TTtlO ttimvi'v v & * said there was 110 hope that she could recover. She died at 6 o'clock. Election Bot. For pure election rot, this, clipped from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, takes the cake: "Spain is hoping that the election will go against the Republican party. It is Spain's last hope. If you are an American citizen you are entitled to assist in deciding the questson for or against Spain'' IT WILL NOT WOBK. What Some of them Think of the Philippine. The Spartanburg Herald says it looks now as if the President's plan of buying the Philippine will strike a rock in the United States Senate. It is by no means certain that a treaty which involves the assumption of Spanish debts or the payment of indemnity to Spain nrill now t-fiA as it mrist tr> be operative. Quite a number of Senators have already spoken. The plan is opposed by Democrats and Republicans alike. Senator Tillman is quoted as follows: Trenton, S. C., Oct. 31. I am opposed to paying any sum of money to Spain for the Philippines and equally opposed to holding them as c?nquered"territory. But if we demand their cession we should not assume any ]<;bts on that account, and we could then sell them to help pay the expenses of the war. B. R. Tillman. This is the true Democratic position, true Americanism, xne luea 01 Duymg islands in the far east is anti-Republican and foreign to the established policy of the government. Senator Hale, liepublican Senator from Maine, is even more emphatic againsc the President's scheme than the South Carolinian. He says: "I would not take the Philippines if Spain would give us $40,000,000 with them. The sooner we drop them the better. Eugene Hale. When the true inwardness of the transaction is known, when it becomes clear that large quantities of bogus bonds alleged to have been issued for "betterments" and included in the President's offer, have been bought by an American syndicate in close touch with the President, it will be found that this Philippine deal is a hot potato to be speedily dropped. Public opinion should stand firm Lobbyists will be found hanging around the capitol buying?here and there a Senator, but let us hope that the majority are still unpurchasable. CONFEDERATE REUNION. It Will be Held in Charleston Next May. The following order fixing the date for the next annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans to be held in Charleston, has just been issued from headquarters here: General Order No. .209. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans, La., Oct. 29, 1S98. 1. The general commanding announ- I ces that under the resolution passed at the late reunion at Atlanta, G-a., and unaer the custom established by the association, leaving the date of the next annual meeting and reunion, which is to be held in the city of Charleston, S. C., to the general commanding and the department commanders; by unanimous agreement, and at the desire of, and acreunion will be held at Charleston^ brC., upon the following dates, May 10, 11, 12. 13th, 1899. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday respectively. On account of the rapid growth of the association and the immense ac cumulation of business, which demands urgent attention at the coming session, four days will be given for this important session, unless the business is sooner disposed of by the del 2. With pride the general commanding also announces that 1,170 camps have now joined the association and applications received at these headquarters for over 200 more. He urges veterans everywhere to send to these headquarters for organization papers, form camps at once, and join this association, so as to assist in carrying out its benevolent, praiseworthy and patriotic objects. By order of J. B. Gordon, General Commanding. George Moorman, Adj. Gen. and Chief of Staff. She Was Tired of -Living-. Wednesday Rose Lanrar, aged 22, of Columbus, Ohio, and J. F. Clenckner, aged 32, of No. 264 Class avenue, walked out to the end of the dock of the Cleveland Yacht club at the foot of Erie street and tied themselves together with strips thorn from a bed sheet. They then jumped into the lake. Two Lake Shore railroad defectives dove into the icy water after the couple and rescued them. Both were taken to a hospital. Clenckner is a conductor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad. Beyond saying that they were tired of living the couple would give no reason for their attemDted suicide. Two Mules Drowned. The Greenville News says while attempting to cross a ford near Batesville recently with a wagon and two mules, Lewis Kennedy, coloed, experienced a runaway in mid stream that resulted in the drowning of his mules, and he himself narrowly escaped death. He started out with the team from M. L. Marchbank's place, about two miles from Batesville, to go to that town. At the ford near Batesville the mules became frightened and ran down the stream into deep water and wore drowned. After a hard struggle Kennedy got ashore. Hobson's All Eight. There is nothing the matter with Flobson. Of the Spanish warships sunk at Santiago he has already saved the Maria Teresa, after the wrecking firms said it couldn't be done; he says it will be boy's play to raise the Reina Mercedes, and that he will save the Colon and the Vizcaya if the government will give him the neccessary money for expenses. The Lieutenant is evidently resolved to add several fine vessels to the American navy at bargain-counter prices. Hundreds Sick. The steamer Penn arrived at Sail Francisco, Cal., Wednesday from Manila. When she left Manila there were 1500 sick among the men and the physicians were terribly dismayed at the progress smallpox was making. AcnnrHins? to Serceant Palmer, in one day o - w there were ten deaths from smallpox. Capt. Linn said he knew of but five deaths from that disease in a single day. The filth poured into the canals by the Chinese is said to be a prolific source of disease. A BIG STEAL In Which The President's Brother Had a Haul. AGENT FOR CONTRACTORS. His Houses Given Large Army Contracts Over Lower Bidders and the Government _i Was Swindled. The attack made by William Astor Chanler, Democratic candidate for congress in the fourteenth New York district, on Abner Mc&iniey, the -presidents brotner, in a public speech recently has been the subject of much comment among the politicians of both names in Waaninzton. Mr. Ohanler is a man of wealth and position and is responsible for his utterances. >V hiie addressing a meeting in his district he charged that Abner McKinley had made a pile of money during the war by acting as attorney for a number of clothing hrms which had obtained contracts from the secretary of war for supplying uniforms for the soldiers in tne Ueld. Mr. Unanler went on to say that in many cases, the clothing thus supplied was made of cheap and worthless material which fell to pieces when exposed to the rain. He insisted that it wuuld be the duty of the next congress to investigate tne methods by wnich these contracts were awarded, and that the investigation ought to he in the nands of a Democratic committee. It has been a matter of common t knowledge in this city for more than a year tnat Abner McKinley was doing a oavine business bv actimr as attorney I for claimants and contractors in the various departments. Jie was formerly an attorney at Canton, O., but soon after the election of bis brother William to the presidency he removed to New York, wnere ne opened a law office in Wall street. About the time that President McKinley took hold of the helm of state Abner McKinley came ?^ over to Washington and established himself at the Eboitt house. He remained in Washington, during the extra session of congress in the spring of 1897 and returned here again last fall. He was in Washington almost continuously from the time congress assembled last December until the peace protocol witn Spain was signed. During tne winter he nad a good deal of business m the interior department. in one mining case from Colorado he received a fee of #?0,000 and He also collected anotner princely fee for looking after tne interests of a wealthy ? ' rancnman in .New Mexico. Wnen tne trouble witli Spain began Abner McKinley transferred his attention to tne war department and it was a matter of common talk that he appeared as attorney for most of the successful contractors. Some time in May last ne was said to be interested in having awarded to a New ifork hrm a conout afterward tnat a responsible Phila| delpnia lirin nad submitted a bid $10,000 less than tnat of the New York manuiacturers. The Pmiadelphia concern threatened ! to make trouble, but was finally silenced with the promise that it should Have a good contract for supplying clotning as soon as another award was made. The promise was kept and the _ Philadelphia dealers secured an award at even better figures than had been obtained by their New York rivals. This method of paying "hush money" prevented the exposure of gigantic scandal. Mr. Chanler seems to be on the right track. If the bottom facts concerning the awarding of army and navy contracts are ever brought to light they will have to be dragged out by a Dem- _ ,? ocratic congress. An investigation by a Republican house would simply mean a liberal application of whitewash. Concerning the Rascals. The New York World presents documentary evidence to prove that in certain large government war purchases? rmp nf iSO 000 snlrHprs' nvprcnaJs and one of three whaleback steamers?the name of Abner McKinley, the president's brother, was used to promote the acceptance of bids; that a firm of New York lawyers were to get $75,000 commission out of the government payments for securing the overcoat order and $75,000 for the steamer sale; and it prints a photographic fac-simile of a letter from this firm showing that $30000 of the money to be paid by the government for the steamers was to go to certain tfnaamed "Washington friends" so as to "expedite the sale." The "World says it telegraphed to Mr, McKinley offering the use of its columns for an explanation from him, but two days later had received no reply. A Terrible Record. A special from Gloucester, Mass., says: The past season has been very severe on the fishing fleet. The reckoning for the year is 14 vessels a total loss, 82 men drowned in the pursuit of the fisheries, 23 wives widowed and 55 children made orphans. The loss will approximate $100,000. The terrible ^ gales which raged on the banks during Uctober, lblJY, are undouoteaiy responsible for the loss of three vessels and their entire crew, while the series of gales which prevailed during the winter also brought the fate of many a Gloucester fisherman. Mackey In Jail. Judge Thomas J. Mackey, the alleged bigamist, who Las been under bail for his appearance before the grand ~ jury of Jefferson county, Va.. at, the November term of the circuit coart, was arrested Wednesday night on a capias by Deputy Sheriff S. C. Youjjg. The bondsman of Judge Maekey having re- ^ fused to be longer liable for liis ap- " _ pearance and having notified the prose. cuting attorney, the arrest followed and the prisoner was lodged in jailTto answer the charge of bigamy. V On the Right Line. fl I "We are glad to know . that there is aj cf"Mnor diannsit.ion on the D.art of fari^B -a Jii^ ers to reduce their cotton ac&d year and raise their owjympjjl farmer who raisesjj^JB bacon, molass^j| only as on acc^ * Jfl| I