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The Press and Banner. ? ?= f BY HUGH WILSON. Jf Mi na AIIBKT1M.E, K. R, SOME HISTORY OF *70. t ed GEN. FARLEY REPRODUCES A SPEECH tic OF GEN. GARY. ac] by It Wan Delivered in KdgHleld In 1878 and 161 w] liocitett the Important Fart of ltutler ^ and Gary in Nominating Hampton. pa The debate on Saluda county in the ^ Constitutional convention has called j? fortii a letter from General Farley to "c the press, containing a warm tribute ?? to his friend Gen. "Mart" Gary, and "a the following which is printed as per- to tinent to the discussion on that occa- an sion. GENERAi. GARY IN 1876. J1,4 It is well known that General Gary ^ was an uncompromising "Straightout cri Democrat," not in the sense in which it is used now, but as opposed to all tic compromise with the Republicans, or th< fution with the negroes, both of Sti wLich were attempted and failed in Ce this State prior to and just after the on success of 1876. Wben General Gary G( returned to Edgefield, he entered the be practice of law and declined all con- ne nection with the efforts being made no on the compromise line up to 1876. He ag was remarkably successful in his prac- no tice, and soon became one of the most m< . distinguished, as well as successful on lawyers in the State, in both civil and shi criminal courts, and ere long he had co accumulated a fortune sufficient with wl his practice to make him an indepen- syi 1Q7<! /colair in Ri] UCUb JLUALL. uaiijr iii xwi v \0u1vuv4uj ? * January) he made a speech to the peo- au pie of Edgefield, in which he took the no ground that all of the failures to re- th< deem the State and break up radical an rule had been due to the fact that we for had not appealed to the white man as thf a white man; that he would respond fla to no other caill with enthusiasm; and ha that nothing but a straightout white ths man's ticket run on the Mississippi gel plan of campaign could redeem the tat State. In this he was soon joined by to General Butler, and the two worked ms harmoniously together for this com- Ca mon end until the close of the success- th< ful campaign and Hampton was inau- de] gurated. These two, ably aided and lie seconded by Hon. George D. Tillman, th< Col Wyatt Aiken, James Lipscomp, ty. Y. J. Pope, Cothran and others, so am vigorously prosecuted the straightout m] campaign that Chamberlain was real- Go ly driven from the political field be- Bu fore the final decision of the State con- ter vention, to nominate a straight ticket col with Hampton at its head, on the 15th caj day of August, 3876. If any one era doubts, at this late dav, that Gen. M. die W. Gary conceived and inaugurated ne: the straightout movement ef 1876, by ag which the State was redeemed from lie radical rule, let them read the follow- Hs ing speech from General Gary deliv- Gc ered two years afterwards, on August Ke 12, at the "Love Feast" at Edgefield no when they were celebrating the great ha victory won by Gary and Butler over the Chamberlain and Mackey on the sa^ne Ge day in 1876. Let the general speak gej for himself and remember that mis is Tin evidence beyond dispute, as it was de- ore livered in the presence of Generals vil - Hampton, Butler and Hagood, and tor others of the State ticket, and pub- sel lished without exceptions from anyone an but General Hagood, to whom Gener- dii al Gary readily yielded what he on considered an immaterial point, as to yo the use of the word "the," instead of is 4'our plans in Charleston." It settles mc conclusively the claim made by his pit life long friend, George D. Tillman, ut< that South Carolina owed more to Ch Mart Gary for the redemption of the mi State than she did to any other (sin- no gle) man. Sti GARY'S SPEECH. "J3 "Ladies and Fellow Citizens: I had [ * not anticipated speaking, since I expected the time to be consumed by our invited guests, but a large number of them have not put in an appearance, e I came here to be a looker-on and a i listener today. I had the honor to be an ac^oron the 12th of August, 1876, the anniversary of which day we cele- g{ brate. The events of that day have i.v: just become historical. Judge Mackey has just told you that it was the turning point in the civilization of this State, l nave nsienea wun pleasure iui to the wortls of wisdom that have been ty uttered by our chief magistrate, Gov- Cl ernor Hampton. It is with pleasure St) that we welcome him again to Edge- Be field. I have also been charmed with Ox the far-reaching statesmanship dis- Ed played in the witty and eloquent ha speech of Judge Mackey. General co Moise has just paid a high tribute to nr the leaders of Edgefield, and uttered sel passionate and patriotic sentiments on Oi the chosen line of the Democracy of frc the State, and we all have never lis- Ct tened as we have listened today to our tie eloquent friend and former citizen, an Attorney General Youmans. The al- no lusion of General Moise that Edgefield sti owed her deliverance to the manhood ca1 of her sons, and that this manhood fir was inspiration of her fair daughters, H< is true. It was our love for them that co insipred her brave sons (clad i^their re< red shirts, the handiwork or our So beautiful women) to strike the blow lai that made us a free people again. ca the keynote of edgefield policy. th "It has been asserted again and fie again that the success achieved by w< Edgefield has been the result of 'the Tt shot of accident or the dart of chance.' Y< Never was there a greater mistake, is! The Straightout plan of campaign was I t the result of long study, deep thought hi: and frequent counsels. Not a single rei move was made without due caution pe and deliberation. As far back as 1874 sp I announced in a speech that I made gu in the taxpayers' convention that in ne ii:y humble judgment the mistake wj that our leaders were making was in wl considering the difference between the se< negro and white man a difference of ch politics instead of a difference in point su of fact of race; that whenever the Cau- nc casian united upon this issue the negro bu had to go to the wall, as the Ruler of wj the Universe had made the white race j rei the dominant race of all the races. In Li 1S76 this same idea was incorporated al: in the State Democratic platform. It Ai was reiterated in the platform of 1878, in in the following language. 'We have Bs charged and convicted the Republican fr< party with arraying race against w] race.' Recognizing this as the funda- to mental difference between the whites ag and blacks, we have ever been opposed to fusion or coalition with the Repub- 15 lican party, and such has been the key- Hi note of the Edgefield policy. It has not ist been a policy founded upon force and C< fraud, or a 'shotgun' policy, as has wi slanderously been asserted against] nc by those who have been in fair of a fusion policy. It is a licy bused upon the history of the i lands of St. Domingo, Hayti and i auritius, upon the instincts of human itu re and correct poli tical ph ilosophy. : it I am glad to annunce to you that, addition to the approval and adhe)n given to the Edgefield or Straightit policy by most of the distinguish- . speakers who have preceded me, e recent State Democratic conven)n, by- its unqualified and unanimous option of the resolution introduced , r the Hon. George Lamb Buist, the ! *ding Democrat of Charleston, in ( tiich it was announced 'that the uniand integrity of the Democratic rty is of paramount importance to j e success of our cause and the ;welre of our people in the ensuing elec- ! m, and we repudiate all fusion or : alition with the Republican party,' s, I trust, given an effectual quietus j the fusion and coalition policy, , d has indicated the Straighout policy j d the wisdom of the Democracy of . Igefield. Her banner is still proud- ! waving in the van of the Demo- : icy of this State. j YAs today has become a sort of poli- j al love-feast, I will tell you some of j e secret history connected with the raightout movement. I went to the ] mtennial celebration at Charleston \ the 28th of June, 1876, to nominate \ sn. Butler for governor. He had \ en informally announced in several < wspapers and desired to decline ihe j mination, in order that we might < ree upon some one else. I put nis | mination in the Journal of Com- { jrce. When I started home I met ( the cars (Jen. Hampton, Gen. Ker- < aw and Gen. Hagooa. I had a short ] nversation with Gen. Hampton, in { rich I soon discovered that he was in ^ mpathy with the movement Gen. < itler and myself were trying to in- ( gurate. He to told me that he did ( t expect to return to Mississippi. I t 3n said to him that J'intended to try ] d have him (Hampton) nominated j governor on the Straightout ticket; it with Butler and myself on his nks we could win this battle as we c d won others in the war. He replied J it he was poor, had come back to j t the odds and ends of his former es- -i e together; that he did not desire i run for the office, but that he had . ide so many sacrifices for South rolina that if he was the choice of 5 convention he would run. I was 1 lighted at his acceptance, for I be- i ved that he could harmonize all of i differences of the Demorcatic par The contest was between Kersnaw . i Conner for fusion and Butler anfl ( rself for the Straighout Democracy; ' vernor Hampton had commanded . tier, Conuer and myself. We en- , ed the war as captains under him as ' lonel in the Hampton Legion. He ^ ne out of the war a lieutenant genii and continued to rank all of us. I I not believe that Kershaw and Conr and Butler and myself could have reed upon anv one man, but I beved that we all would rally under , impton. After this, conversation, , >v. Hampton and myself joined Gen. rshaw and Gen. Hagood. I anunced to them that Gen. Hampton i consented, if nominated, to run on5 Straightout ticket for governor, n. Kershaw replied: "Well, if the aeral is nominated 1 will fall into e and support him. I always obey ^ lers from headquarters. At Branch- , le Gen. Kershaw and Gen. Hamp- 4 i parted with Gen. Hagood and my- , f, they going on the Columbia road , d we on the Augusta road. After * mer Gen. Hagooa and myself were , the same seat. He said: "Gary, . uare an extraordinary man. This another one of your off-hand j >ves, or sudden inspirations, if you sase, that has knocked up in a min- , } all our plans in Charleston to run j lamberlain for governor, with a i xed tickent.' I replied that it was t off-hand move in regard to the * aiehtout ticket; that Butler and [ pself and other men of Edgefield and j 3 State had deliberately and mature- J considered the plan to run a Straight- j t ticket, but that I had suddenly acluded to run Gen. Hampton for j vera or, and that we would elect J ii. When I returned to Edgefield I k ated this incident to Gen. Butler, d he approved of it, and said that, his declination, he would nominate j impton. I thought it was just the ing, and he accordingly did so. CHAMBERLAIN IN EDGEFIELD. "Before any nomination was made r governor either by the radical paror the Democratic party, Governor lamberlain had begun to canvas the ate. He spoke in Charleston, in aufort and in several other places, i the 12th of August he came to Igefield. What was done that day d been deliberately planned in the unty executive comm ittee Butler and pself, Sheppard and Abney had been ected as tne speakers on our side, ir instructions were to lift the veil )m the Prophet of Khorassan, D. H. lamberlain, and expose his deformi s in such a manner that the ignor- . t negro could see them. We did t intend to puncture with a polished * lleto, but to hack him with a l^tchen ' seknife. I ascended to the platform ' st. General Butler had not arrived. ' 3 was superintending the rear of the lumn of two thousand men, clad in 1 i shirts and mounted on horseback. { soon as I met Governor Chamber- { n I introduced myself to him, and I ' ught his eye and he winced under ! e gaze of the 'Bald Eagle of Edge- * Id.' I felt that the victory was )n. He turned pale and I acked. ( lere was no fight in him on that day. ] >u all remember that when he fin- ' led his speech he tried to slip off, and hreatened to send a file of men after 1 m and bring him back if he did not ( turn to the stand, as I wished him es- ! cially to hear what I had to say. I j oke to him in rude and rough lanlage in order that the rude and rough 1 gro might understand it, and that 1 is my objective point. This was 1 lat killed the spirit of the negro, to ! 5 the governor of the State and the nwn lAAHer of their nartv abused in ch unmeasured terms. They would ?t stay to hear the speaking over, ( t left in great disgust. He after- J irds spoke at Newberry, where he seivea similar treatment by Colonel j pscomb, Colonol Aiken and others; ; >oat Abbeville, when again Colonels . .ken and Cothran poured hot shot j to him. He again spoke at Midway, irnwell county, and was there con- , jnted by the Hon. G. D. Tillman, lio also gave him such a severe j ngue lashing that he never spoke , am during the campaign. "The State convention met on the . th and we there met opposition to ] ampton's nomination. The fusion,s in the convention, led by Generals >nner and Hagood and others, inted Chamberlain nominated, or > nomination for governor. General Kennedy,* Colonel Rion and othei thought Gen. Hampton was too ultr a Democrat and had been too conspici ous a soldier in the war, that Gove nor Tilden desired a more moderal man. Colonel Caigle of Washington was there as THE EMBASSADOR OF TILDEN. 1 'He was there for a more moderal man than Hampton. In a discussio with him, I had occasion to say 1 him that we all were for Tilden an Hendricks, but we denied their rig! and questioned the taste of their a tempting to dictate who should be 01 candidate for governor; that we b lieved in the doctrine of self goverr ment and intended to exercise it; thi General Hampton had been electe ornvernnr Iwhen not a candidal against Governor Orr; that Orr ha been declared elected, but Hampto bad been elected; Governor Orr tol me this fact himself; and that sue popularity as that I intended to tr and avail ourselves of in the comin race. General Hampton was mort Bed at the opposition and spoke to Bu ler and myself of withdrawing froi the race. Pelton was telegraphed t in order to reach Mr. Tiiden's viewi and he telegraphed that Gen. John I Kennedy was in possession of then Butler and those acting with him di tormined to place the'name of Qam] ton before the convention, and he wi unanimously nominated. Edgefiel ieclined to run for any nomination o the State tiq^et. It was generally ui ierstood that the State offices woul be equally divided between the fusio ind btraightout members. It was s lone. Butler moved to reorganize th ixecutive committee, to reduce th lumber to seven, and to have thei ippoinied by the president of the coi mention and nominees for the Stal >ffice8. It resulted in putting onH\> >f the seven fusionists?the Stragh >uts were outwitted. The who] ;hing was intended to eliminate th 'usionists from the executive commi ;ee. "Governor Hampton began th campaign at Anderson on the 2nd c September, but during his entire can raign he did not encounter Chambei ain or any of his political associate: 3e had a walk over the track. Chan jerlain had been whipped out here o he 12th of August, and never coul allv after his defeat at Newberrj ibl>eville and Midway. When th ilection was over and I went to C< umbia on Saturday to the Stat sxecutive committee rooms. I wt vas received with if perfect ovation c hanks for what Edgelield had don< jovernor Hampton said that but fc )ur tremendous majority the action c he rest of the State would not hav ivailed anything; that Edgefield ha :aved the State. I modestly replie hat we had done our level best; ths ve had a great many obstacles to ovei some, amongst them seven companie >f United States troops were quartere ill over the county and that the baj met guarded the ballot box in viols ion of the laws of congress and th Constitution at almost every precinci "It was well known amongst th nembers of the general assembly, an (specially by tne Democratic Stat ienators that I have always favore i nomination of Hampton for govei lor; that he was to the State a polit :al necessity. Although I honestly dil 'ered with him as to the policy of th ! mill constitutional tax for educatior >n the bond question, the universit ?S11 nmiMTT Kill and ntner Kill /HI, tuo UOU1J VUJk HUU VIMVA ?... ouching the policy of the State, I noi say to him that Edgefield accepts whs le has so well said, 'we can honestl iiffer and still be mends.' Such, sii s the reciprocal sentiment of th?entir Democracy of Edgefield. "And in conclusion, I would stat hat Edgefield in the future will im ate the example of Cortez when h anded in Mexico, when he burnt hi .hip after him. We, in the languag )f the State platform 'turn from tb settled and final past to the great li\ ng and momentous issues of the prei int and the future.' We did our pai n the election of Hampton in 187t md by a strong and united effort w ntend to elect him and the entii State ticket in 1878." Coarse of Cotton. New York, Oct. 10.?This was ield day in the cotton market. Lh irpool showed decided weakness an January after opening at 9.07 and at /anting to 9.12 began to weaken i sympathy with the decline abroac January declined to 8.99 and then ra ied to 9.06. This was just befoi aoon. When the bureau report w? mnounced, makirtg the average cor lition of the crop 65.1 as against 82. it this time last year, there was a wil rush to sell and it seemed hard to g< i bid. In a moment January was sel ing at 8.88. A little later it sold ? 3.85 This was the lowest of the daj rhere was absolutely no justificatio in the bureau figures for this startlin break. The report was the worst Oi iober showing in recent years an tvas about as bad as was expectec But the market was loaded with Ion iotton and it was honey-combed wit orders to sell if the bureau figur< were over 65. Many orders were als to sell after the bureau announcemei whether prices were higher or lowei md still more to sell in case of a d< iline. The accumulation of these oi iers precipitated a mass of cotton upo the market in a moment and buvei seeing the state of things held off s is to get in as low as they could, bi when the selling orders had been ex< luted a quick recovery followed. Jai nary rallied fully 20 points from th lowest, selling up to 9.05. Then thos who had bought at the bottom ha tened to take profits and the sellin jaused another decline. Januarys acting to 8.98. The close was barel steady -with January at o.yo ana o.v. The feeling this afternoon as to th course of prices is very much mixec 3ur own opinion is that cotton soone Dr later will bring higher prices tha my we have yet seen this season. Riordan & Co. Six Cromated. Tweed, Ont., Oct. 10.?At Snydt Station, 30 miles north of here, th dwelling house occupied by Thomf Lindsay and family was destroyed b Bre and six of the occupants were cr< mated. The family consisted of Mi and Mrs. Lindsay and li; childrei Six of the children were burned 1 ieath. They were two young womer age 18 and 20 years, twin babies, age about one and one-naif years and others. Peter Laberage, his son an another young man who boarde with the Lindsays, and the other seve members of the family had narro escapes. "Where Is the Sheriff? Laurens, Oct. 7.?Three negro have been killed in this county in tl last six days by negroes. No "arrest ; THRILLING DAYS. |g l- I sitl P- SOME ROMANTIC REMINISCENCES wi: RECALLED BY OLD SETTrERS. so} i. a c r i Crime of Fourteen Years Ago Dlcussed by , an Eye-Wltness?A Marshal Who Had bet nii; n Too Much Faith in Moral Persuasion. " n P61 ^ Kansas City Oct. 10.?One of the it, it oldest settlers of Kansas, John D. Lan- a * t- caster, who arrived here yesterday to ir spend carnival week in Kansas e-1 Cliy, leiJS many lnieresuug reunuiol cences of border life in that State. 7 it He resides on a farm in the southwesd tern corner of the Sunflower State, ^ ? be near Caldwell, where in earl/ days d outlaws committed bloody deeds, js* n murdering neople aa if life amounted d to nothing and robbing them right h and left. They cared nothing for the ~~ y law and they had less respect for wog men. In a few words, they were hu- 5" l- man devils, bold and daring and des- If1 t- perate in their undertakings. The fv n wilds of Indian Territory were their o place of refuge, and far into the coun3, try, every nook and corner of which /J ). they knew as well as a bird knows its i. nest, they were safe from attacks and a- possible capture. Many were the ex) peditions of officers of the law that is were totally annihilated by these bandd its and many a brave life went out in r~ n battles with the desperadoes. Mr. r?^ i- Lancaster recounts many of these ex1 . .?_ ?S_!J ivvii i Ii: we a pious wna a vmuness mm ia Huti-mug, , , n and he also tells of a famous trial for o murder that will be held late this fall ^ e at Caldwell at which all old-timers of mc e the border who have escaped death at n the hands of adversaries or the hang- , i- man will be in attendance, either as , je witnesses or spectators. And tnereby J? e hangs a record of killings that has few t- equals in western history. Mr.^Lan- Ps e caster told the story vividly last even- ^ 6 inff- no: "Jim Talbot was the dashing king of by Kansas and Indian Territory outlaws njf e in 1881," said he, "a handsome fellow, >f tall, and fearless as a lion. Talbot l- was married about this time to. the 1 r- most beautiful gy:l in the southwest, in| }. and everyone said that surely he wr i- would settle down. But he had one rec n enemy in the town whom he had sworn hai d to kill. The then mayor of Caldwell, ev< r, Mike Meagher, had killed a stage dri- no' e ver,. Sir Powell, while marshal of bri y Wichita several years before. Talbot a t e and Powell had been chums^from ear- On is ly boyhood and Talbot swore to have wi< >f Meagher's life for his friena's. it < 3. "One day City Marshal Tow Wilson wh >r locked up "several of Talbot's gane at the if Caldwell, and the latter sent worlto bai e the mayor that they must be released. On d Meagher told the Marshal of Talbot's an* d demand and ordered Wilson to stand the it pat' This the marshal did. Hearing sht of this, Talbot said: % the a "If my boys are not out of jail to- eqi d morrow morning, I'll burn down the wh r- town and shoot Mike Meagher through his i- and through till he'll look like the top up e of a pepper-box.' sac t. "It aid not take long' for Talbot's ap] ' J TO 1 J_ 1 0 "warning lospreau. .niverj'uvu.y alio n ?i> d he was a man of his word, a hard shf e fighter and a dead shot. That night thi d the town was in a turmoil, and prepara- em p- tions for the battle of the next day int i- were hastily made. Weapons that ov< f- had not been used for years were shf e cleaned and new cartridges were sub- ev< i, stituted for the old ones. It was about doi y 9 o'clock when the trouble began, ap] a Mike Meagher retreated to a right hei n angle behind his saloon, and, while thi it the cowboys were careering widly sht y through the streets, shooting at every- in thing in sight, and the citizens were an: e returning tne fire from the housestops, bu Talbot deliberately walked down the ap] e alley until he caugnt sight of Meagher. ler i- Then began a battle royal of which I swi e was an eyes-witness. Meagher was a pie is dead shot, but for once he missed his tor e aim. The cowboy kine was more the e fortunate. He raised his revolver r. HoliKanaf*?lir one! nulled thft triccer. j- There was a flash, followed by a re- J rt port, and the bullet sent Mayor Mea- P* >, gher's soul into eternity. He 'bit the j? * e dust' with a bullet through his heart. "O e "After killing the mayor Talbot ral- nit lied his men with a wild cry and soon mi the desperate cavalcade dashed out of an' the city across the country and south a into the Territory, followed by a posse Pi* T' of enraged citizens. During the fight ^ d in the city and in the prairie sixteen .w '* people were killed. Although a large P .reward was offered for Talbot he es- els caped, and shortly afterward his pret- ^ ty wife also disappeared, and as years |? ^ rolled on the tragedy was almost for- ies 13 gotten. ^ l" "At the time the mayor was killed W1 J Mike Meagher had a brother, John, a P?! d killer, a miner and a man with the per- ^ sistencyof a bull dog. He was prospect- ^ ing in the mountain of Colorado when f 01 lt the fight took place and when he wc r- heard of it he swore he would have ?n1 n revenge. For twelve years John roam? ed the West with a picture of Jim Tals* bot in his pocket and murder in his b? d heart. A year ago the Kansas author- ?ic l* ities, through Jim Meagher's agency, sPe g located Talbot in California. He had an' 11 a wide reputation there as a daringde 58 tective, and was known as James Tal? bot Sherman, his real name. He was lt agoodofficer and had a host of friends. ^ p> His wife and family were highly re3" spec ted in the community. Sheriff r" Woodcock, of Sumner county, Kansas, c J1 and Captain Bill Lee, a reformed cow- ^ "s boy, now in the Salvation Army bar? racks of Kansas, who had known Tallt bot intimately, went out to California mj 3' to get the man accused of murder. He x* was taken to Wellington for trial. rp>. 16 The jury disagreed, and now he is to ^ 16 be tried again. Were it not for the tor s" hounding of John Meaerher he would 1 ? go free, so many years have elapsed jW( 5" since the tragedy,but the twin brother tjv y of the mayor of Caldwell swears that wa ' Talbot shall either swing for the kill.e ing or he will shoot him on sight if he wj, l* is released. for :r "Many other murders grew out of n this killing. George Flaff, a hand- fej some, kidgloved 'killer,' became mar- wa shal about the time of these troubles. op( He was an impoverished gambler with Jr a college education. Flaff married ie Mary Dearse,the wealthiest girl in the fej ls county. His name became a terror on y the border that he was asked to resign ^ j. the marshalship. He declined, and joi p with storms or wrath he swore he jnr j' would run the town on his own hook. ^ That settled it. One dark night agents t of the conspirators riddled Flaff with 1(j bullets. His pretty wife hired deteetrQ ives to hunt down the slayers of her i j murderous husband. They also died a p ^ with their boots on, very mysterious- ni{ jn ly. Meanwhile, Frank Hunt, who had th( w been Flaff's deputy, became marshal. Or Nobody ever doubted that he had a nei hand in the killing of his chief, and a \ perhaps fired the fatal shot. iu 3S "These stories found their way to str 19 the ears of Mary Flaff, the widow, and ar< s. she began to attend dances and con- tei t halls where she could meet Hunt, te night, at a ball, the marshall was ting outside the hall at an open ndow. During the whirl of a waltz neone, in passing the marshal', put ullet through him. 'He was killed instantly." After the leral Bat Carr, another gambler, jame marshall. Nobody ever inired who killed Hunt, but every rson seemed to think the widow did and when she killed Hunt she put >ad thing away. 'Bat Carr was no man to hold the irshalship. He was an easy going low and relied too much on moral j )oinr? ott/1 nnf Annnwli nn Wi'haIim. s and sixshooters. He could not get leputy to suit the occasion until one y a Texan named Hairy Brown and >rofessional 'killer' came to town, rr appointed Brown his deputy, but >n Brown decided to run the town nself, so he run Carr out of town, d then Brown notified the city counmen that he intended to act as marill and run the town to suit himself. this time everybody had discoverthe desperate character of the man d were afraid of him. He made Ben heeler his deputy, and together they rorized the Southwest. They held cattlemen on the streets and sysnatically robbed the gamblers. The men of the town had to pay tribute the fun. Brown and Wheeler ownCaldwell. One day they rode away vard Cherokee strip, rafter horse eves,' they said. On the way they re joined by two cowboys of the I Jime Talbot gang, and the four le into Medicine Lodce the next >rning about 9 o'clock and dis-, mntea in front of the First National nk. 'The president and cashier rr* aed be robbed, so the outlaws billed im both, mounted their horses and ide for tne Cedar canyons, pursued a posse under the command of a tea cattleman named Barney O'Conr. They were captured and hanged a mob at Medicine Lodge that jht. Here's a Nat to Crack. i have found the following interestr problem in an old note book, ites Sir Walter Besant. I hare no sol lection at all of its origin. Perps everybody'knows it. Perhaps jrybody does not. Those who ao twill find it, I think, unless they ng algebra to bear upon it, rather ough nut to crack. Here it is. ce there were three niggers?their skedness is a negligeable quantity? ioes not enter into the problem? io robbed an orchard, carried away ) apples in a sack, laid them up in a n for the night, and went to Dea. e of them woke up before' dawn, i, being distrustful of his friends, mght he would make sure of his ire at once. He therefore went to i barn, divided the apples into three lal heaps?there was one over, ich he threw away?and carried off share. Another nigger then woke with the same uneasiness and the no resolution. He, too, divided the ales into three heaps?there was one ir, which he threw away?took-his ire and carried it off. And then tne rd nigger woke up with the same otions; he, too, divided the apples o three portions?there was one jr, which ne threw away?took his ire, and departed. In the morning iry one preserved silence oyer his ings of tne night; they divided the pies which were left into three ips?one was over, which they ew away?and so each took his ire. How many apples were there the sack ? There are many possible jwers?a whole series of numbers? t let us have the lowest number of pies possible. Senior wrangs must be good enough not to aner this question. Moralists, if they iase, may narrate the subsequent hisy of these three niggers, apart from ) problem of their apples. Pleasures at Home. Che notion seems to be fixed in the nds of young people that amusement i luxury toT>e enjoyed beyond our me- We are to pay for the opportuy of sharing it at the theatre, opera, iseum, etc. But every wise parent d every virtuous youth should enirage the idea that home is an am) field for nearly every form of Lolesome recreation and amusement, e may use it as a concert room, a seum, recitation saloon, or whatever e we may fancy j and the more the smbers of a family unite in efforts improve and amuse each other, the s will they need or be disposed to k recreation abroad, and the less 11 the youth of the family be ex 3ea to evil miiuences. a uuia uiui parents, aided by the abundant and sap helps which may be found in the m of books, pictures music, etc., oild furnish a variety of useful and tertaining exercises in the family, which all might participate, and is create an attachment which would yielded to. It is because home is >omy and dull, that young people snd their evenings away from it, i feel that they must do so if they oild avoid moping away existence, id it is while they are in pursuit of joyment, out ol sight of parents, il they form habits and friendships lich entail lasting injury. Met a Horrible Death. Sparta, Ga., Oct. 9.?Little Frank, i four year old boy of Mr. Tom berts, a quiet, peaceable and indusdus farmer, who lives about one le from town, met with a most horle and cruel death a few days since, e little fellow was sitting in a wagon lich was being prepared to haul cotl to the gin and his father had gone ;he lot nearby to get the mules when o negro boys, brothers, aged respec ely 11 and 16 years, approached tne gon with a gourd, tne handle of nch wa/? open in the end and in iich was some diluted potash used washing clothes, and they presented s death-dealing draught to the little low's lips with the statement that it s swecntened water, and when he ;ned his mouth thej tilted the ird, pouring its contents like moll lead down his throat. The little low screamed and his father ran to n quickly and every thine: that could done for the little fellow's relief was ae but to no avail, his stomach bef literally burned out. The parents ve the sympathy of the whole counin this terrible affliction. A Policeman's Pistol. Atlanta, Oct. 9.?W. M. Hudson, toliceman, fired at a negro thief torht and shot two men who were on sir wav home from their day's work. ie of tne victims, James Decatur, a gro shoemaker, is dead. J. M. Deal, vhite tailor, is at the Grady hospital a dangerous condition. The bullet uck him first in the face, passed Dund his head and entered Decatur's nple. TORTURING THE PRJSONERS. ^ Shocking Methods Pursued by Chinese to THI Extort Self-Convlctlng^:vI<lence. London, Oct. 10.?The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a second letter Trom Mag its correspondent in Kucheng detailing Cj| the difficulties attending communica tion with Foo Chow and describing 111 the trial of a prisoner implicated in the A outrages upon the missionaries. When thir the court is ready, the writer says, the a^K), accused man is brought in handcuffed. < jon He is filthy in appearance and has the jg n wild and ghastly look of a starved ^ a man, which he really is. , The prison- ]ow er croens the uroceeainffs bv swearinc ttt. that he was nowhere near the scene ^0Q of the massacre and then the torture pres begins. The man is first compelled to ^ g kneel with his bare knees upon a coil wea of chain. His head is dragged back mor and his pigtail is fastened to a rack jsm high above his head. A pole is then 0f ^ thrust across his legs and two soldiers stand on each end of it, crushing the ferr poor wretch's knees into the coil of chain. The British consul could not stand this method of extracting testi- j^.n mony and insisted that it be stopped. ^ This was done as far as the proceed- nniri ings in the court room were concerned, cen| but for an hour afterwards the shrieks ^ of tormented prisoners could be heard eve] coming from an adjacent room, where jg n( the torture was continued. When the magistrates wanted to hear the confession of a tortured man, ang the prisoner was brought back into ex^, the court room. If he held back his a^,u' confession he was threatened with re- ( sumption of his torture. This was usually sufficient to secure the prisoner to tell all he knew rather than return to the torture chamber. Eesides the torture described the prisoners were pre. beaten with bamboo sticks until their yells were most horrible to heai*. One tbin prisoner appeared in the court room ajre unable to walk from the beating he 0f ^ had received, and another was unable to kneel because his knees had been broken by the chain links and his an(j thighs had been- lacerated bv the a]j strokes of the bamboo rods. In the ^he midst of such misery cakes, fruits, tea aj ^ and wine were served and partaken of on ^ by the native ofBciais, who could not ^ understand why the foreigners present tjon pushed these delicacies aside, refusing rp to touch them. The correspondent declares that the powers ought to de- ^ mand justice without torture, reaching use( the mandarin as promptly as the man mjE who works in the field. The whole ^ business, he says, lies at the door of jty> corrupt officials. e^. A Ten and a Half Cents Cotton. are? Mr. Hector D. Lane, president of a m the American Cotton Growers' Pro- com tective Association, recently issued a eve] i i.i a ? :~?: * "\t? -t. Circular WJ IUC nuiu IIOYY jyj Orleans advising them that they are evei masters of the situation, and begging QOfe them to hold their cotton until they this f et ten and one-half cents a pound. ma| n order that our readers may judge poW for themselves we print below the cir- p0^ cular in full. Mr. Lane says: mot "Twenty days ago, in advance of at y the bureau report, I issued a circular stating the crop conditions and warn- buil ing you against a hasty disposition or gqu; marketing of your cotton. The cotton g buyers and bear speculators ridiculed t that circular, but when it was more feet than confirmed by the government ^ bureau, they began to have some re- q spect for my investigations. Since 954! that time the crop has deteriorated to such an extent as to amount to disas- -w ter. No such weather has ever before been seen in the cotton districts. 05 c The worms have continued to dp much damage, and even from districts like the Tallahatchie river in Mississippi, where the crop was said to be good, -rr comes reliable information of a 40 per cent, deficiency. The best authorities !r put the Texas crop at 1,750,000 bales. The cotton plant is now practically p dead throughout the South, and a frost to-night would do little if any , , damage. In my opinion, the crop can- n not exceed 6,500,000 bales maximum. , ^ Even Mr. Neill has been compelled to s?? reduce liis estimate to a maximum of ? 7,000,000 or 7,250,000 bales, with possibilities of much less. What he termed ere? a 'possibility' when his circular was m issued is now an established fact, and it is difficult to see how Mr. Neill, as a eJj statistician, can fail to recognize this fact when he issues his next circular. "The situation as to the price of cotton is plain. The European manufac- "j turers, relying upon mistaken infor- ^ eP' mation given them about the size of this crop, and not realizing in time Jr that the world is on a trade boom, j have sold manufactured goods aheaa P ^ until Julv of next year. To make J? these goods they must have your cotton J; or ruin themselves by violating their contracts. They, as well as the Ameri- ?n can spinners, are caught in a trap, This crop is too small for all of them d to get their full share. America, Mex- .*J ico, Canada and Japan will consume a minimum of 3,000,000 bales. This will leave 4,500,000 to be distributed Ml? between Great Britain and the Conti- ana nent, against 6,800,000 bales last year. ??ia This will wipe out the visible supply and create a* public panic among cot- _r" ton buyers. The price of cotton has come to stay, and to go very much Duu higher. Last year the manufacturers ?P?r reaped a golden harvest by buying 5- ancl cent cotton. It is now your turn. They ^0^ know that the crop is all open and can be marketed before December 1st. ? Thev expected you to bite at the bait cu'" hela out by the present so-called great wrV rise and rush your cotton forwara and Wlt? press it for sale. They will then stay out of the market, hoping that the weight of the cotton offered would de- . Sress the price. I implore you not to * o this. Sell as they try to buy from ~, hand to mouth, and before January you will have the American, English r and Continental cotton buyers outbidding each other for every bale of ?aufi cotton you have to sell. Do not be de- 10 \ ceived by the advice of a New York ana 'bear' circular disguised under a bull's Prer hide. Under present crop and trade ^ssa conditions your cotton is worth 10$ j cents Do not sacrifice it because last 83 year it sold for 5 cents and now is sellfor 8i cents." f*ei fron Gen. Malione Dead t inOI Washington, Oct. 8.?Gen. Wm. bale Mahone died at Chamberlain's hotel Hob 1 tViia flftprnnnn fvnm t.hfi effects of a paralytic stroke sustained last Monday September 30. He has R been totally unconscious for more weli than 48 hours previous to death, and com passed away seemingly without pain, hon Mrs. Mahone, Butler and Wm, Ma- ing hone, Jr., his sons, Mrs. 0. M. Mc- ing Gill his daughter, L. L. Manry of bad Southampton county. Virginia, a hor; nephew, and Capt. Rogers, secretary kiss of the Virginia State Republican com- she mittee and former secretary to Gen. the Mahone, were at the bedside when the zle ( end came the . - m . . - - rONDER OF THE SOUTH. ? s . GREAT EXPOSITION IN ATLANTA. ?" m rnificent Monument to that Stirlng ty?Plenty to See and Where to See It. e Visitor Not Bobbed. tlanta, Oct. 10.?The man who iks there is any degree of failure Lit the Cotton States and internaal exposition is very far wrong. It ot "a great show for Atlanta. It great show for any city, and foling hot upon the heels of the , rld's fair and brought to compleduring the severest financial deision^it would do credit to any city ve times Atlanta's population ana lth. As it is, it is a magnificent lument to the enterprise, patriotnvi/1 r\ iMnii am 4-Iia /M^rrAina auu ucici miumiuu ui IUO vium7UO Ltlanta. This ci^"reflects credit on whole South. Let it never be reed to as a "Yankee town," for any ion of country should be proud to sess a city that has, what might be aed in this instance, the audacity inaugurate and the capability to iplete successfully such a magnifit enterprise. For such it is. . -?|| nd there is no use ''waiting until rythinffis finished." Everything ot yet finished, but there is more 1 enough to entertain and instruct larger majority of South Caroliniuntil their pocketbooka have been lusted. For those who have funds udant, and to whom time is of lit:onsequence, nothing will be lost delaying their visit for a few ks, for one realizes that more at- ' tions are yet to be added by being lght to (see the workmen who are mring places for those additions, one cannot but wonder what new ig is to be shown, for the mind is ady bewildered at the great variety isplays. rhat interests you? What do you itosee? Come to the exposition find it. Here is shown the best of -i creation. The animal kingdom, vegetable kingdom and the miner- ? ingdom have each been drawn up1 ' x> yield up its best treasures Jot the efit of the Cotton States exposii. he following buildings on the extion grounds are now complete: dministration building, 240x50 feet, 1 principally for offices for the adistration staff. uditorium, 200x135; seating capac- . 2,000; used for concerts, lectures, gricultural building, covers an i of 40,000 square feet, containing ost elaborate agricultural display; iplete in every detail and hardly before equalled in extent achinery building, 486x100 feet: ijr manufacture of machinery of 5 in the world is represented in building by some machine of his ce. In an adjoining building is the er plant from which is gotten the er to put all of the machinery in ion, so that it can be seen actually roric. Manufacturers and Liberal Arts ding, 260x351, having 103,000 ire feet of floor space. lectricity building, 262x80 feet. ransportiation building, 433x117 ire building, 139x50 feet. eorgia Manufacturers building, [84 feet, in which is displayed only works of Georgia manufacturers. Model school building, designed to esent its name, and in it each day hildrenare taught in a "model"' inerby Miss Minnie Holman of Peabody institute of Nashville, n. Roman's building, one of the handest on the grounds, designed by a nan architect of Philadelphia, 150 3 feet. < m lant Railway System building, in shape of a pyramid, 100 feet square ase and 60 .feet high. eorgia State building, in which are 5vn all of the vegetable and minerroducts of Georgia. egro buildiDg, 276x112 feet; it was ted entirely oy negro labor, and ces a very creditable display of the *ress of the negro race in every artment of life. nited States Government building. c80 feet, containing an exhibit well th the while of all who have never i through all of the governmental artments in Washington coming se, if they saw nothing else. Minerals and Forestry building, 320 feet, in which is a magnificent disr of all of the minerals and wood e found in the country. ine Arts building, generally conid to be the handsomest building he grounds. The total available ging wall space in this building is 00 square feet. 1 !- il%^. Knil^inop aen were is uxo mcauon i its great amphitheatre and scores uildines j the Japanese Tillage, the way Plaisance, with a thousand one attractions, and scores of ller buildings used for individual lays. volume could be written on the ibits in any one of the larger dings, and an entire day could be it with profit in any one of them an examination on the second day Id reveal wonders missed on the .? t 'uly it is a great show; one worth ing many miles to see, and in 3h many weeks could be spent l pleasure.?State. A South Carolina Convict* ilmington.N. C., Oct. 10.?Aspeco The Star from Maxton, Robeson lty, N. C. [reports that,"a negro asted and outraged two white women a colored girl Wednesday last a miles from Maxton. He first asted the colored girl and went on le farm of Mrs. Paris, a widow, learning there were no men on.the nises entered the kitchen, where he - ? _ . , ',A ultecl Miss Jfaris ana aiierwiu^ id Mrs. Paris in the house and asted her. The negro made his esi, but parties are in pursuit of him. s supposed to be an escaped convict a South Carolina, named McKimi -who recently stole a team and a ! of cotton in the upper part of eson county. A Ramrod's Fatal Mission. ? - t_u_ ? OCK Hill, uci. jlu?uujjlu a.mu, a l-to-do farmer living near here mitted suicide today. He came le from Yorkville from adminsterhis father-in-law's estate, and callhis wife, told her he was feeling [y and asked her to put up his sc. He put his hat on her head, ed her and said good-bye. When came back she found him lying on lloor dead. He had placed the muz>f a shot gun to his side and pushed trigger with the ramrod.