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VOL. XX. PICKENS, S. C., TIIUtS)AY, tjANUARY 22, 1891. NO. 18. SUFFERING EUlOPE. SEVEN WEEKS OF SEVERE WEATHE AND NO ABATEMENT YET. England Is Wrapped in Snow, and ilan Rivers and Streams are Frozen Ovev. Numerous Deaths from Cold and Huj ger.--Muchn Su.ffering. LONDON, Jan. 11.-It is now th seventh week of the prevalence of froQ through the United Kingdom, with n signs of abatement of the severity o1 th weather. From John O'Groat's house to Land' End, the country is wrapped in snow and canals and streams are ice-boun Even numbers of tidal rivers are froze fast. For the duration of the frost perio this is the greatest winter of the cer tury, and in point of severity the wintci: of 1813 and 1814 alone exceeded il Fairs were then held on the ice on ti Thames. Severn, Tyne and Tweet Booths were reared on the ice, and a the usual fair frolics were held thercor The Thames below Richmond r mains partially frozen and is covore with ice floes, which are impeding nav gation. Above Leddington, ice on th Thames is eight inches thick. Carrier' vans can traverse the rive.'s frozen su face from Sutton Court to Abingdor Skaters have a free stretch for man miles above and below Oxford. Numero deaths have resulted from extreme col several of them at the yery gates < workhousesjwhere groups of' poor peopl were waitinu, for shelter. Midland newspapers declare tiE thousands of persons in that regine ar in a condition of semi-starvation, man laborers being compulsorily idle wiithor fires or food. The mayors of cities, with the aid< local boards. are diecting an organize distribution of bread and coal, and ar starting relief kitchens; still they thil t reach hosts of cases of distress. Numci ous instances occur ofcoroner's inquest on bodies of peopic found dead in be where the verdiet is that death resulte from cold or hunger. In every ecuntry on the centinet there is suffering because of sever weather. In Northern Italy snow began to fa Wednesday and (lid not cease till todai The inhabitamts of that region arc su fering acutely. such weather being ei tirely unknown to them, and it is feare numbers of people have perished in ti storm. At Mantuna, Turin and Mili railway trains are much delayed on a< count of the heavy snowfall. Dispatches from Vienna say coir muication with points south of that cit Is greatly impeded, and on all railway centerimg there the movement of tNain is partially suspended. The coasts of Belgium, Holland an North Germany are blocked with ic< In the Scheldt. river navigation is nearl at a standstill on account of ice. At th North German port of Cuxhaven twer: ty-nine steamships are ice-bound. Th pilots there are unable to communicat with the vessels on account of ice foes thus making the harbor inaccessible. Several vessels were struck with in mense masses of floating ice and sunl In every instance the crews were save from death only with great diliculty. A number of steamers are driftini helplessly between Oldendorf an B3runsbuttel. They have lost thei anchors andI have been considerabi damaged by floating ice. At Hamburg navigation is greatly im peded by immense blocks of ice, whic fill the river. The board of navigatio Is making every offort to keel) the rive open, and employing three of tihe strong est tugs that ciould1 be securedl as ic breakers. Many vessele have also bee damaged here by ice, but no serious at cidents have as yet been reported. At Antwerp ten thousand wvorkmo have been throwvn out of emphlpmei owing to the unusually severe weathei The misery caused among tile p)oort classes in consequende is wvidesp)rea end intense. The use of dynlamite is aboulht. fo la triedl sto break the ice at Copenhaget whi several steamships lie icc-boumn At many ports tugs are actively engage in efforts to break tihe ice, but not wit much effect. OJeresume is full of Ie floes. Dispatchies fiom tile German plorts< Lubeck, Stettin andl Swmnemunde all te of the inaccessibility of their harbors o account of ice, and say that navigatmo has ceased, that there is much snow an that there Is no open water visible. In Berlin the temperature Is at 10 d< grees Fahlrenhbeit. Ilarz railway snowblocked, and the mails usually cor veyed by its trainls are now tranlsporte In sleighs. All Bavaria is covered with snow, ani in the country between the D)anube an Alps snow is cighlteen inIchISesde. I certain localities along the Rhine snov drifts are liled mn some spots scveintee feet high, threatening inlundatins whce they thlaw. A telegram from M idrid report heavy snowfalls in Spain, and says thn communication wvithi all tile provinct of Spain is diflcult. It also reports ti prevalence of intensely cold weathler I Valencia, where the orange groves hlal been swept by storm, entailing hieav losses. At Marseilles the hospitals are fille with sufferers from various affectior caused by cold weather. More sno has fallen today in Marseilles. TIl dock laborers there have lit, along quayi g reat fires, at which to warml thiemlselve during work hours. Violent stormis, accomp)anied1 by ha5 and snow and extending a long distamf Inland, are reported from Algiers. TI report is coupled with assurance ti nothing like such severe weather wi ever known in thiat region before. Advices from Paris say thaRt the Seini is blocked with ice near Rouen and ti the Taone is frozen above Lyons. Telegrams from Arras and Nimes sa much. suffering is being caused at them places by intensely cold weather, ar thlat a number of persons have bee fnd frozen to death. SUING ON CONFEDERARE BONDS. The Wild Goose Chase of a Iollander R Living in Glasgow. BALTIMORE, January 8.-Jacques Van RanIte, a native of the city of Rot terdai, Ilolland, but residing and doing Y business in Glasgow, Scotland, where - he also represents the Netherlands as consul, to-day instituted suit in the Cir cuit Court of the Uffited States for the district of Maryland by W. Starr Gep lhart, his solicitor, against James G. Blaine. as Secretar.y of State of the Uni ted States of America.' 0 The bill sets forth that Wim 11. Se e ward. when Secretary of State, issued on July 28, 1868, a proclamation which recited that "neither the United States nor any State shall pay any dept or ob , ligation incurred in aid of insurrection 1. or rebellion a-ainst the United States, a but all such debts shall he held illegal and void." Prior to July 28, 1868, the plaintifl d purchased for their full value $125,000 -of neotiable coupon bonds issued by the a Southern States as joint and several ob ligations, and lie contends that the proc lamation was illegal. in that it included past debts or obligations, and Secretary Seward's proclamation contained an im plied admission that without such pro hibition the States referred to would owe a just and valid obliuation. The plaintiff seeks an entrance into Court to prove, first that the proclama tion obliges the Secretary of' State to take the curious position that although the States never lost their status in the Union, yet their obligations could be an nulled as if they had, and second that the State obligations already incurred tcould be thus repudiated and vested rights taken away. e The plaintifl'also claims that being a citizen of Great Britain and Holland such acts on the part of the Secretary of State were also illegal and void, because Y it was interference with his rights as a citizen of a foreign country, between which and the United States treaty stip ulations existed that protected him. The suit is to recover for destroying the value of negotiable bonds and their coupons. Interest is also claimed on the bonds, amounting to the same as the principal, the total amount being $250, 000. Gephart says that as the Govern iment ot the United States cannot be sued, it was necessary to proceed against its e offlicer, the Secretary of State. In that respect lie thinks the suit involves the same principle as some of the recent suits against the oflicers of the State of Virginia. To Surround The Indiana. d PINE liinos , Jan. 9.-Yesterday e evening all the conimauds in the field ki were ordered to march from three to six miles nearer the hostiles. Last night the order was put in effect. It of course - attracted the attention of the Indians. y At intervals of two or three days the s cordon will be drawn more tightly round s the hostiles until they agree either to comc in peaceable or be whipped into d submission. The reluctance they display to accept y the overtures of General Miles are sus e ceptible of but one interpretation and that is that they propose to surrender e and retain their arms or (lie in their (he e fence. 'Ihis is backed up by the fact that the majority of those who have come in from the hostiles are squaws and children, who it is desired to get out of the way. i Some bucks come in occasionally. They domesticate with the alleged Friendlies and at the same time retain the feeling d of hostility which impelled them to flee r from the agency. y The coming in of Ried Cloud is vari ously interp)retedI. IIis good fith is -doubtedh by many because it is well b known that lie could not have stolen a away at nignt, for the hiostiles (desiredI r to retain him in their midst. strange Crimn,ai IRevelations. SI'ulx(onEwD. Ohio, .January 9. IClilie Taylor, a crippled old maid, committedl suicide here to-day. She confessed that she aided J1. M. C. 1Clark, a Baptist preacher, and Carrie t Moss, to poison Clark's wife, succeed .ing after four attempts. The preacher r two weeks later married Carrie Moss. d T1he woman also saidi she had been in a place one story below pugatory ever a since. It was brought out before the Coroner to-dlay that Dr. Steinberger, who knew her secrt, got allof her (1 noey,an tat lak nd arieMoss d 3',kaie her. She also said her fahe ad ari had lived together. 0 Clark and Carrie Moss are in jail charged with mnuirder. A vigilance fcommittee is talked of. All of the IIparties are colored. Koch's Rival. leCHerCA1o, 111., .Jan. 11l.-Dr. E. FlthrIngalls, of' this city, reports good progress wvith the use of the tuber culosis cure of D)r. Shurhy, of Detroit. IIe has fifteen patients under treatment, andl during thme two wveeks lie has been usimng the cure he says signs of improve ment are visible in every case, IIe said Stonight that unless lie was mistaken Dr. Shurly had discovered a specific for the most dIreadled of' all known diseases. Sonme of his patients, lhe said, wet'e in nthe iast stage of' the (disease, all of them Shaving tubeirculosis in ;a pironiouniced form. One patient who two weeks ago twas wasting rap)idlly, now coughs a great tdeal less. Another piatient. whlo ten Sdays ago was i>reakiing down very fast Canid losing flesh, besides exhibiting other terrible tigns of disease, has gained tw ponsunder the new treatment. Dr. Inga~1llssays h believes firmly in SDr. Shurly's treatmnent, as there is no (ldanger in the adiminstration of' the i odine and gold chloride. Theli iodine a kills one of the animal pioisons and the Sgold chloride the other, there being two kinda of potmamnes in tuber'culosis, A Neigro Exodus. il ACUUSTA, Ga., Jan. 8.--Ilardly a :e week passes in which from twenty to e live hundred negroes from South Caro ut iina and North Caoiado not pass a through Augusta on their way to South G.corgia, Alabama or Arkansas. Last a night twenty-five came down on the tKnoxville train on their way to Ala bama. The Columbia train brought in nearly fifty, bound for Southwest Geor y gla, who were going to work in the tur e pentine business. A car lead number d ng over fifty negroes came In last night ni on the South Carolina train. They are bound for Arkansan. A FATHER INDEED. Jacob Ross Takes a Cot by i1s Suflering Chi (1. NEW YORC, Jan. 9. -Tie remarka able and interesting surgical omeration is drawing near completiou at Manhattan hospital. It is the grafting of' the skin of a father to the torn-and mangled leg of his little 4-year-old son. The operation has been in progress sice Dec. 30th, some pieces of the skin being taken from the lather's body from time to time and placed on the raw spot on the Ioy's knee until the wound has been almost completely covered. The little fellow has borne the suffer ing incidental to a painflil operation with remarkable fortitude, and his bravery, the nurses say, is oiy equaled by his fattier's love, which has endured the tor ture of having the skin cut from his own quivering flesh that it might make his boy's limb whole. On Nov. 13, Jacob Ross was run over and frightrully cut by a cable car. The left thigh was crushed and the Ilesh was torn from theother side of the left knee, leaving the bone uncovered. Thie wound was fully eight inches long. The right thigh was also fractured, and both bones in the right leg below tile knee were broken. Little Jacob was taken to the hospital. Ile was very weak, and it was live days before the doctor dared to set the right leg in a plaster. With this difficuity overcome, the bones began to knit, anild by Christmas day they had all knitted. But the wound in the knee was still open and it was evident that this wound would not heal by any ordinary micans and the surgeons decided that only by grafting the skin from a healthy person could the boy be restored. In this emergency the boy's father stepped forward and offered himself for the experiment. Jocob Ross, Sr., then became an in mate of the hospital, and, lying on the cot besides his sullering boy, bared his body to the surgeon's keen knife. Piece by piece, bits of skin not larger than a silver half dollar, were cut from his thigh and placed Onl the little fellow's knee. Gradually the boy's flesi was covered wi-h his father's skin and nature began to do its work of healing. The condition of both patients is fav orable. and the doctor says there ld no doubt the operation will prove complete ly successful. ALLIANCE ACTION. A Love Feast of the Warritig Factions in Kansas. CHICAGO, iLL., lan. 10.-A special fromTopeka, Kansassays: The Alliance members of the Legislatu e and party leaders had a love feast last night in their headquarters. The best of good feeling seemed to prevail between the factions which have been engaged in bitter turmoil the last two days over the publiction of the Turner letter to Frank McGrath, president of the State Al !iance. McGrath made a statement regardin.-, the letter denying that Ie had ever had any conversation with Tarner upon) the subject of his candidacy for the United States Senate. but the following resoli tion was adopted: "Whereas, a letter dated Dec. Is, 1890, signed 'C. I. Turner,' has been re caived by Frank McGrath, president of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, containing inflaious suggestions and oers for the betraval of the most. sacred trust antdi conlidence; therefore. "Resolved, that we regard tile affair solely as anlothler chlaracteristic attempt, onl the p)art of pjoliticians ill Tlopeka anid Washingt.on to prove that mloral laws have no place in p)olities, and tile desire on1 their part, to thlwart the will of the p)eople by any meanls, however blase andl corruplt ; that we reLgardl it as only another reason for stand(ing firmly to gethier in earnest, unltlring and zealous dlevotionl to our cause ; that we deoprecate and coindemin all efforts or dlisposition t.o initroduce or foment, personal anltago nisms or private pique or jealousies in our party, holding tile collmmon cause higher, dearer~ and mlore sacredl than any indlividual interest.' ICALEIo ij, N. C., .Jain, 10.-Resolu tions mlstructinlg the Uinited Slates Seni ators from North Carolina to vote for the platform ad.op)tedl by the Alliance at Ocala were in thle State Senate referred to the comlmittee. Iln the llouse they amended "'shall vote for the ob)jects of relorm conltemplatedl ill the plaitforml adopted at O)cala.'' Anld thlus amlendled, receivedl the unanmmious Democratie vote. There is 1no opplositionl to Scui ator Vance. T1he caucus isseL for Tues (lay nlight. Thisl is a GOCEH One. LAGRANGE, Ga,, Jan. 9,-)uring' tile mnonthl of D)ecember, Mr. Boyd, of this county, employed a boy to cut,~downi one of the giant, oaks in the grove at his place, knlown as tile (line place, for lire wood. In tile center of tile tree, ahbout four feet from the ground, was found a fresh lien's egg, emnbeddled ill t,he solid wood,, there being no hollow or hole of any kiid that the eyes of the astoniishled beholders could discern, for ally 0one t,o lplace the egg-onily space enough to 1hold it, as a bullet miould holds the bul1 let whein closed. The tree was a little dlottedl around tihe egg. Nowv who can solve the wonlderful freak A Confederate, War Museum. limui MON', Va., Jan.1I1.-It Is settled that the old fashioned brick structure here, known dulrin g the war as' the Confederate White 1Llouse, is to be used( inl future for the preservation of Coin. f ederate relies. A movement was start ed more than a year ago by the Ladies' I follywoo(i Memorial Association to get this building for this purpose. Some legal objections was raisedh to this on thle groundic that the city (lid not have authority to suirrendier thle property for the object souight. Th'Iis, however, was overcome b)y making it at mulhseumI as well as a place for the preservation of war relies. A Case of Small l'ox. CH ARLESTON, S. C., .Jan. 1.-A case of small pox hlas been dliscovered at Hlardeevilo. it is suplposed to have come from Sayan nah. Precautionary measures have already been adopted. A physician will be appointed to watch the noan. NEW SOUTIHERN PARTY. WHY THE SOUTHERN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE WAS ABANDONED. Ittiublican 'romnisos anti Pleiges Unful filleld-Somo Interesting tiading for Presiient 1iarr-Nion, Lodge, Hoar and Companiy. WIVASinNWTON. .Jan. I L.--The Maufac turers' Rtecord of Baltimoro will pub lish1 this week inl article which Plresi dent Harrison, Senator floar and Rlep resentative Lodge wotild read with profit. It will state that the New Yoric Tribune, in pur.sianice of a plan to get funds fron Southern protectionists for the purpose of a campaign of educa tion, addresst,d an appeal to Major J. . West ofT edega, Ala., whom it de scribes as "the head of a land and in diustrial company that lhis 81,500,000 capital. Itorn and e(bicated at the North, and imbued with its ideas, he has always been a protectionist of the llenry Clay school, and an earnest Ite pulican." Il a an interesting reply which the Record will print, Major West says: "Yout will pardon me for expressing tihe conviction that tle movement is much like locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen. Three years ago was the time for such a movenent," he says, and continues: "At th.1t time I knew a number of Southern business men who were epablicans at heart, and who would have come to the front with enthusiasim and force if the 1party iad ofrered any giarantee that the next liepublican tdiniistration would turn its back upon the objectionable negro and white people who then had control of the party organization in the South." Ile continues: "At the time I write of, leading members of the American Protective Tariff League held out the idea that should the Republican party winl inl the im ponding presidential camn paign, something not only tangible but great would be done to bring out the latent protectiomismn here; and party leaders were at t he same period profuse in promises t hat a reorganization of thie party in tile mineral Southern States wolld be accomplished in such a way as to give controllof the respectable ele ments of society and to make it possi ble for decent people to take an active part in party affairs. Their prospects and promises encouraged us greatly, especially after a delegation ot promi nent protectionists visited the IPresi deit-elect at Indianapolis and received satisfactory assurances as to what would Ie the policy o' his ad-ministra tion of tht matter. "A Southern rotective tariff league was put inl process of organlization. Leadinir, cultivated and wealthy men in the Viiginizs, North Caroina, Ten nessee, Al 0ha.i1 l1nd Louisiania were acti vely en<mgaged inI the int)vemen t. A call for a convention at Chattanooga was printed and ready to send out. The writer, in collilluIction' with others, com llelced tlI publicat iol of the Southern IProtectionist. Then they appealed to their Northern allies for hell)." Ife continues: "We were told that all the money of the Northern people would be needed for th( Congressional elections of 1890, and that if we wanted to undertake any Southern proposition we mu-st find the means ourselves. "Now, it became manifest very soon after the inauiguration of lenjamin Harrison that the party organization im the South was not to be changed; that none of the assurances extended to the Sout heri protectionists were to be given practical effect. The elements generally recognizel were getting as bad as ever. Conv\,ictioin, whichi was 11niversail -1n th-ese .oints, dissolv ed t)llr embl lryo prottection tanriff league. We stoppetd plblishintg thle Pr'ote'ctioni ist, and suispenided thle light. "Tlhenl thle force bill gave tile coupl de-gra:e to) theit whole thin (, liepubli canlS engaged ini every (departinenlt of material dleveltolinent, p)rodulction or trade ('very, where protested unanimnoous ly againlst, t he bill. Their protests have been u heeded, excepit as tto negroes and a f ew politicians. 't'he llepublican par ty died ini the South with the force bill. Rlespectable men of affairs and family, miners, iluanuifacturers and mierchiants in this sectioni, prefer a low tarif wl ith Out the force bill to a hligh tar if wvith the force bill and conlsequment race and social disturbances. You will ind that thlinking llepiiblicains here, who under stand the~ social ques~tions of the sec tican much h . t!.r than the FEaste rn dieC tarians can lie expected to, would not be well pleased to have their interests and( progress attacked by' a national party w hich is only li unin itaian mini thme case( of the neg.ro, while it, is ait thle same mnomenlt hi ghly3 aind( vioently uitilI itariatn by the oppression of othter col oredl races, eveni t,o the extent, of vitola tion of solemni r t.reaty obligations. "'In short, what with indi fforence at a timIte whlen action mlighIthiave beten p)ro (ductive ol good, with the v'iolation)1 of proises5C and( the comm ii iten t of thle party irr'etrievab)ly toI a policy vastly obnioxiouis to t'very el emenit of decency in tile South, our N orthiern pro)tectioni ists antd Hell)uli:ms have at a blow "lurdr(eredl protect ion arid respectable itepu bllni simi in al l thle Soiuthen States withI thle coniihitioens of wvhichl thle writer is at all I amiiliair. Both ele mtents arne dead beIt(ond1 thle power of a first-class mitrael'e. You will only waste your money in trying to wvork one of them in any of thle coii inion wealths I have niamned above." Major West's lett e'r was dat,ed I )eceim bier 311, 1894). A no thtt li eii i oTasur or short'. STI. Ln):is, .Jan. 12.. Th liepiiblic this motring prinits a speiail <lispatchl fromt 1IleC icek, .\ rk., withI re feren ce toi thle rumot lredl short a e ini thIe tolhee of state Tlrea surer W~'oodruff hi, lavor Woodrui ff leaves the oilhee oni Thuir.Mday, anid will be' suiccededl by1, ('ol. Alotrrow. A senil naitioin was1 created yesterday b y a state mfenit made b)y C. TI. Wailker anid W. J. TIurner, tw~o leadin g ha iikers, whoi have beeni at wyork on the Iireasuire's Ibooks, onhe of whiom is repor)11ted to hai:ve sid last nlighIt that Mlayor W,oodriufra' short age would nitt faill shot of $9(X0. Thel investigation is iot yet conluded(C(, and it is likely that~ thle shortage will reach a large anmounit. 'Twelve Men', l(iiiett. SA N A NDR EAs, ('a n.,.Jan. 11.-- IEevent or twelve men we*re k illed ini Uticai mine, Anrgel's camp)l, t o-day. A load oi men were being lowered on a sikp, atnd when about one hlundlredt feet from the surface the rop e broke p)recipitating tall a distance of four hundred anid fifty feet to the bottnm of ihn abaft. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. The Agricultural Departmnent to be Brought Clemer to the People. ANDERSON, S. C., Jan. I.-In Its last issue the People's Advocate pub lishied the following: In the cour of a personal interview with Col. Rt. W. Simpson, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson College, he said that it is the purpose of the board to to bring the Agricultural Department in more direct contact with the people, and make it a medium of communication with the people, in keeping them post ed on all matters vertaining to agricul ture and the experiments of that nature conducted at tihe college, and that it will be the aimn of this department to put it self in close touch with the people by holding farmers' institutea during the simmer vacation. It is a well known fact that the items of board and tuition is what debars niany a poor youth of ability frm en tering college, and it is on this line that, Clemson proposes to ofiler superior ad vantages to tihe sons of' poor men by reason of it handsome income of' about $70,000, not a dollar of which is raised by taxation, aind the handsome real es tate property which it owns, consisting ofran iimence hody of' the finest lands in the Piedmond belt, upon which it is proposed to raise the larger part of tile supplies of the mess hall table and thus furnish board to the students at a iin imuni cost, it is thoug-!ht. not to exceed $3 or $4 per month. In addition to this, provision will he made for students to pay a part of this by laboring a cer tam numnber of hourzs daily in the field, and furthermore it is proposed to keep a larmc number of sheep on tile farm, from the sale of' the wool of which it is proposed to furnish a clothing fund to aid poor young men in supplying them selves with clothing. No young man who wishes to acquire a technological training will be permitted to leave tile college without having his education developed along other lines which go to make up a well rounded, practical man. Notwithstanding the fact that the Board is somewhat embarrasseed. by reason of the failure of the Legislature to appropriate tlie $G0,000 asked for to complete the buildings at onec, it is cou templated to fill the faculty in.June and open the college for students on the first of October, using as class rooms and dormitories such buildings as will them he completed, and crect tle main Luild ing (during the following year. Col. siipsou also stated to us that despite certain publications to the con trary not a single member of the board has received or will receive a single cent as compensation for services ren dered, they being ontirely gratuitous. and it is a matter of great surprise that the statement should have been made in certain papers that tile Board of' Trus tees had voted to pay (lie th-ree mnem bers of the Board of Control a salary of $3,000 each. There is not a syllable of truth in the entire statenient, as they give their services to tile college. EARTHQUAKE IN TEXAS. The Town of Rtunk. Toxaq, Startled A bout Midnight Wednesclay, ItusK, Texas, Jan. 8.-At 12 o'clock last night this town and its vicinity ex perlenced at least two well defined shocks, believed to iave been of a seri ous nature. Each paroxysm was accumpanied by a detonation loud and lon(g, as if rolhiig from South to Northl. Several chimneys weri'cyevled with tihe eart,h, and sleepers ini various por1tionls of' theO towni Were shaken into wvakef'ulness. J1. Wv. McCar<hs, ini charge of' the C;ounty jail, a very str'ong strulctulre, dleclar'es that, for fully one0 minute lie ap prehended the collaplse of the building. ando Thiomas Miller says thalt the Acme IIotel was shaken to its foundation (lur ing these dlistuirbances. There wals no windo, thlough a slight rain was falling and( some electrical force was prevailing, but, not of sufli c'ient str'engthl to prlothice a1 shlock. A fe~w par'ties here who( were throughl the~ Char'leston shlock of' 1886 pr'oounced thle pheno11menon! of' last nlight, a genuine ( A LV'iEsTlON, Tex., .hmii. S.'-Thlis mnorinig at I o'clock a sevai'e shock o1 earthquake was felt. Many cimniiIeys were shlaken out of' their plumb. Thc vibi'ations were from Southl to Noi'tl: and lasted forty seconids. A .SIIoCKJ IN 01110. ToIEmo, .Jan. 9.-At, noon a shoek 01 ear'thEuiake was felt here. It shook houses, raitt,led windtows aund fright*ned hoirse.s. T1he shoc0k camne apparently fr'oml t,he Sou th and a slight, rum ble ac coml)pamed'( it. It was at first supposed50( to be a dlynalmiite exp)Olosi inl the oil liehlds, but a telephone message b)y theI Blade to a11llIts witin aI radius of 50 miles to the SouthI and Southleast showed that to 1)0 incorrect. T1heC shock wa'us ab~out, thle same ini its ofl'ecs at, all poinits as at, Toledo, anid a similar shock was e'xp)erienlced all over' thme samie area ini time fall of 1884. Tw,o G.overnorg. Li N(0l.N, Neb,, . Jan 9.-The'll morn inig sessioni of' theo L egislature was wast, ed in a wmangle over the mlinlutes of' the journ'ial whichl were' badlly mixed oil ac.. ('oun1t Of thIe conflus ion inl the piroceed mils. Thlis wor'k was unifiniishied at noon. All of' time newly elected State oflicer's are in pbossession of' theiir oflices exceplt (over'nor lBoyd. I 'owers. the Al liaiice candtidate, took theO oaith of ollice at, I o'clock to-day, and it, is samid tha:t tihe Legislatuic recogmuize himn as G;overnor. All tile ne0w State oflicers hlave been recognized except, theO Gover' nor. McK(eijhon was inIstalled as Lieu tenlant Governor' and President, of tile Seniate under' protest. Govenor Bloyd hlas bieen recognized by all of the new oflicci's as Giovernor, andl thley will report to him. 11olled t D)eatha. U OsiIEN, nd , Jan. 12.-John WhIte lmain fell Into a vat of boiling lye last night at the IndIana Paper Company vats at Mishawaka. lIe managed to keep his head above the boiling lye and screamjed for help. When rescued the flesh fell from his bones and death was instantaneous. Hie Was forty--two years old and leftt a famil. NOTICE TO PENSION BOARDS. An lmdortant Circular from the Comp troller General. CoLU31111A, S. C., Jan. 8.-County ex amining boards of pensions are requir ed by law to meet on the third Monday in January of each year for the purpose of considering applications for pensions, ais provided for by the laws of South Carolina. There were no changes in the peinsion law by the last Legislature and these boards are expected to follow the same rides governig them the previous year. The law, as we understand it, does not coitemnplate a re-exaiination of appli cants nassed upon and approved hereto fore, but county examinig boards of pensions will receive new applications under the rules heretofore governing them. When all applications shall have been acted upon, then the County Examining Boards of Pensions and the Board of P)ension Coimissioners elected by the survivors of the respective counties, shall meet together and examine the pen sion roll for such county, and select therefrom such number of the most needy applicants as will be suflicient to consume the appropriation of such coun ty, allowing to each ap plicant so select ed the sum of three dollars per month from such appropriation. In selecting such applicants for pensions the sa Id board shall have regard to the physical and fimancial means of such applicants, ald also to the financial condition of the near relatives of the several appli cants, and shall, ill every instance, se lect the most helpless and needy appli cants for aid that can be found upon the pension roll. A majority of the members present composing the two said boards shall be necessary to determine any matter pre sented to them, and a majority of each board shall be necessary to form said joint board. Where survivors failed to meet salesday in October, 1890, or in November, 1890, and to elect the live members of the board of peision com missioners, as re(luired by Section 7b of all act to amend an act.. &c., approved Decemher 2ith, A. 1). 1888, counlty ex aming boards are requested to report such facts to this oflice at onice, and when such meetings were held and the five members of the board of pension com missioners elected, report to u1s the name of such commissioners. All applications approved by said County Board, with the papers upon which they act, shall be tilled in the Comptroller General's office by the first day of February of each year, to be sub mitted by him to the State Board of Pensions for their review. Respectfully, W. 11. I.Lsu Comptroller General. Union's Bloody Record. \'NIoN, Jan. I I.--.News hias just reach edi here of a murder committed in the lower portion of this country on Tues. day night last. Warren Worthy, color ed, was shot and istaintly killed by an other negro. 'I'le murderer and another negro, who was ill some way implicated in the murder, have been arrested and placed ill jail to a wait trial. Warren Worthy, the murdered milan, was a very quiet, peaceable negro, and the owiner of a large plantation. 'The negro, who is now in jail awaiting trial, was a tenant on Worthy's place. The tenant was making arranigemtients to leave Worthy's place and was getting ready to move when the imurder was coinnitted. The tenant had some cot ton iln Worthy's cril) anid went to Wor thy to get tle key to the door to remove the cottoin. The tenait owed Worthy a debt and Worthy told hii he colld not get hlis cottonl until he0 settled the dlebt. Worthy told himl that they would make settlement thlen, but tile negro was nlot willing to make it and1( demiand ed is cotton. Worthy wold( not deliv er the cotton. Th'ie negro declared that 1he would hlave tIle cotton. Worthy re plied thlat 1he would dlie by the crib be fore lhe woldl deliver tihe cotton, wvhich he (Worthy) had1( a claim on. The tenlant left, anld in a few m)inultes retuirnedl with a gu and1 againl demanld ed theO cotton. Worthmy would not let thle cotton go. So the ne'gro fired 0on him wVith iis shlotgunl. Coroner Gregory left Wednesdlay to 1h01( an inluIest over t he mrdr(ered man. This malkes tell mulrder cases on dlock et to ho tried lit tile coming March Court. The F'orce 1111l. WV Asmm I N(ITON. .1211. 1 2.-Th''lere is to be a renlewail of tile fighlt over tile force bill ais soon1 as tile silver blill is dlisplosed of, and1( every lRepublican Scnator will be explectced to v'ote wIih hlis party or suiffer tile conseucesCl~C. Tulsi Is tile subs5tance of an o>rder sent ouIt fr'oml the~ force bill1 headquaIlmrters to dauy. Theii silver 1)ill will pr'obably be palssed onl Wednesday evenling, after whichm thlere ill be a general scramble between tile force bill, the pure food bill, the mnternatdionlal copyrIght bill, tile ap portionmenClt bill for tile righlt of wamy. A large miajority of' the Rlepuiblicains insist as a matter of party l)ridle that tile force bill will b)e pulshed( thlroughl at any cost, andl( if tile meaOfsure is taken up1 after tihe silver bill, an effort will be malde imlme -diately to adopt tile Ltag r'ule. The Decmocrats are nlot dlismalyed by the hustling and bluflini inliged in oin tile othler side of tile chiambelJr, and1( theCy are prepared~( to resist any move calcula tedl to revive the force b)ill. They are nlot certain ho0w manly llepublicans can be counited on to vote aigainsat tihe bill, as. tile partisan pressure~ is very strong On thlose Senators supp)losed to be doubt l. Thie two parties are so evenly divid ed thalt nIone of the leaders are willing to imake a predictIon as to tile result. Mlysterious MuIrders. CHrAntoTrTE, N. C., Jan. 9.-Four mysterious mulrders hlave occurredl In Cranville county since Saturday night. Dick Page, a colored laborer, was thle first victim. His body was found Sat ulrday nighlt in an old fild on Col. Rto gers's plantation, with tile breecih of hlis guIn buiried ini his skull. On tile same nighlt W. T. Parker and Brock .Bailey were seen drinkmog together, andl shortly afterwards the dead bodies of both were found lying near where Page's b)ody was found. On Monday the coroner was called to a plantation to view tile body of' a colored woman, who, it was said1, was beaten to death by some unknown person, it is thloughlt the murders wore all committed by tile same personl, and there Is much excitement In the neOigh borhnnol. REPUBLICAN RASCALIT. STEALING A STATE, AND THE POOL I SILVER. Two Political Iniquitien thiat wevO Foroed on tho Attention of tho Hou. The Silver Steal and the New iam shire Theft. WASHINOTON, ). C., .Janury 12. In the viouse to-day NMr. ilanchard fered for relcrence the Collowin rest Lion Whereas, it is alleged and believed t certain evil disposed persois have wit the territory and jurisdiction of the S; of New HIImpshire, by conspiracy : show of force, recently set oni fiot uarried into execution plans by which will of the people as legally expresse the polls in the recent election has I set aside, and the Giovernmient, of State subverk-td; and whereas, dIh alleged ;unlawful and revolutionv proceedings involve the title to the ofl. af Chief Magistrate of the State ani the United States Senatorship: Resolved, that the committee on i e judiclary of this Ilouse is hereby dire. - ed to invcstigate the present polit: -a, colldition of the State ot New laui shire with the view of determindi whether or not a republican form1 0 governmentexists there willmitheme:m; ing and intent or tle Constittilionl of United States. Mr. Dockery, risiiL to :1 iqeiti hI i privilege, offered a resolutin rei :e the fact of the reference of hiss pool" resolution to the committee : rules, and the flet that the enmiii . had refused to report the sane. ri directing the committee on riles to r. port the resolution to th I louse for confirmation. Mr. Diingley made the point that resolution did not involve I quiestion io, privilege. Mr. )ockery beh thal, iniasimich the original resolution was a <luestin privilege, it lost none of fi:tt, iil o by reason of its reference to lthe con ou - tee. iIe changed the phraseolo-v tf the pending resolution so as to <iseli:tir_c the conmilittee on rules from the fin Ohr considoration of the resohiLioi, so ai to bring it now before the I1ouse. In the discussion as to whetier the original resolution presented a question of privilege Mr. Crisp said that, therv was no express rule auithorizinig tile F charge of the comimlittet, but thils not an ordinary case. 'he origin al r solution Was unipiestionab y a que n of the highest privilege. If [he konirv - tee refused to report the resolutie:i : motion to disularge was privileged. The Speaker uutuiredl withe gentleman believed the orgiial r tion was onle of privilege. Alr Crisp replied that, he had a-,w!d that the Speaker had so biel. The Speaker stated that he Ja: n, . Oi the contrary, in a somewhat siio case, lie had ruled (and tine lHouse tainedL the ruling) that tite resomlti,n iid not presenm t a ques(ioni of priviiege. T. Chair desired that In this case the - ter should be disposed o' by the I[ i, and lie therefore subiitted the qu as to whether or not the pellil. solution was on1 of privilege. The House decided-yeas I IS, 80-that tho (ItuesitonI was oe of loge. AIr. Rogers, of Arkansas, offe re n amendmnlielt to the 1)ockerv resol. providing for tihe a,ppoinItIme"it ofa cial committee of five memhes to ii. into all the lhts and cirtuunstances n nect,cd with silver 10ools in with . ator and lRepresehttatives are alleLe be interestedl ; also as to the :l f passage of thie Act, of Jiuly II I l or selling [lhe same, and who at owners of [,he 1 2,(0t00,Ui0t ounees -- ver bullion which thie I 'nitedf St.a asked to pulrchase. Mri. Rogers's ainldmtent was to and1( tihe r'esolution ts amle ndt agreed1 to. A Negro Colon izai on P'rojeel.' WAShI1NTOmN, Jain.11. -Senaitor of Colorado to-dlay int roduIed( a b request, in behialf of the Afrienn-. ican Colonization Society of [h trict of Columbia. Accomipatnyi hill is a long petition setting desire on [lhe part (of a large noii i colored peopile to settle in Lower fornia, and they ask the goverutni 1lend thiemi monley fonr a pieriodl of years, at the smallest rate of in possible. In Lowver Cauli fornia the tioners believe they have at la coveredl their U,top)ia, and have a oned the Liberia-Congo coloni proposition. They climii that it. ficult fo'r them to get along wi white peole(, as the latter insist keepIng them dlown and previ their progress. They cite Ilavi amaica to showv that the ntegr prosper by himself itf afforded suil opportunity. The bill andt petiti() referred to the commnittee oni F relations. Killed by ain Electric Wire. LYNCHniURG(, VA., JTan. 11. th!rteen--year-old son oIf CounibI 1). Sullivan, wvhde wvalking on the to night, laid his hand on a goi from an electric pole0 and wa~s in~ killed. hlis companion (endeavo release Sullivan from the wire mi knocked (down, htut escaped seri jury. A heavy rain hnas bienif since noon, and it is supposed th wire became cihargedl fromi fthat (can Tihe New Reogime in Iansans TOP0lEKA, NA s, Januiary I 2. Governor and other State oflivers sworni inito oflie this mingiilL by~ ciate Justice Valentine oif thne Su1 Court. Th'Ie Governor diiivere inaugural address and the( cereimon of the most sim.ple naitureC. CTe I laturo will have fih houses flitom and1 the combined Allhance antd It cratnc opplositioin to Ingalls will thirty majority. Stole a Redl(-H Ol, Stove. *KA NS, CIrY1 .Jan. 1 l.W h1 Ore ory was sent to jail by justice Wonr icn to-day for the unique offeinse oif st e:thI a red-hot stove, tihe ovenl of which wA s filled with biscuits. Gregory obi a t edl the stove on D)ripp street, got an! ex pressman to haul it awvay and sol it at, a second-hand store, buiscuit and all, I or three dollars.