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*OL. XXIT ICkENS, S. C., TIURSDAY, )CTO It 6 1892.NO TR WAM =t:I ). ',. I.I. .. Ae -V d... fara,aenstal._ A CRY OF FIRE THROWS HEBREW I CONGSEGATIONS IN A PANIC. '4 - WildIy 1rhey Daeb Down a Narrow stair 3ase-Women and Children ( round Un deir Foot-A iat Woman Blocko tihe Boad to Safety. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Four .Jewish t synagogues in a tename%;L house, No. 27 I AiPlow street, were all crowded this InOrning with devout Hebrews attending the festival services of the new ettr. I when some person in one of the places I of worship raised a cry of fire. immed iately there was a panic. EG,verybody rushed for the doors. Tho stairway, which are not very wide, became packed with peoole. They piled right on Lop t of one another on the stairway. Some person out on the street Lad enough I presence of mind to send out a fire alarnr C which brouAht the department to the T scepe. The firemen succeeded in eX tricatlug the people from the blocked I stairway and found four (lead and about a dozen injurcd. Four woman are known to have been 1 killed and a dozen or more Other per- 1 3008 seriously Injured by being tranipled o upon by the lear-maddenedl crowd. o Some of them will probably die. The dead are: Freda Becker, 41i years, c a Russian, of 38 Ludlow street; Maonmi Rosenthal, 30 years, married, 175 Lud- r low Itreet; Tvepe Boymn, a widow, 50 ye , a Russian, 140 Forsyt lie street; Mrs. Portmaun, a widow, 70 years, 222 Madison street. The following are the nanes of the in. jured persons at Gouveneur's I1opital: 1 Itebecca Freidman, 49 year3, fractured 'q skull; Tillie Stillker, 35 year3, skull I fracturcd atd will probably die; Julius s Altman, 9 years, thigh mnjured; Racbael v Bolauk, 47 years, skull fractured; Ida I Cohen, fractured skull, injuries tatal; 8 lerman Cohen, 15 years, wrist tractured i and internal mjuries; It,chael Beck owitz, skull fractured; Anme Cohen, 58 years, a widow, skull frat tured, injuries flatal Annie Smilowitz, severat ribs 1 loroken; Siton Greenburg, 35 years. skull fractured, injuries fatal. The alarm was caused by the setting a tire by a burning candle LO the cloth v, drapery over the altar "' the syanogue (I of the Talumud ThroaR, whicl is on the i second floor front. There were tour con-grega.ions, nun - bering nearly two thousand persons, men, women and children, worslipil2. t The stairway was narrow. and Mirs. Annie Smilowitz, a very stout woman, tell, blocking the passeugeway and caus ing the des1he of Ithose riaht behind. The four synagogues were th. Padolski Socibty, Talmud Thorah, Sons of Aroa 0 and Betti Achinanschet'. Theie was y also a Hebrew echool in the building. The rooms occupied by the congregations 0 wbre furnished widh rows of wooden v benches, set close togetlir, aLA the peo- d ple were packed into each room like sar- 1 .dines in a box. It is customary at the least season for the mnib ers of the vari ous synagogues to hire such roo us as these for daily reliious set vice and just I now the Jewish community is in the c midst of the ctlebration of the New t Year. il The hallways of the buildinz are dark h and narrow and thic stairwaN s steep tn( r unprotected by railinigs. As die crowd 1 surged into the narrow passagc way, it P became blocked almost imniediatelv. Women and children were .:tushed to gether in a wild struggle to gain the sreet and tumbled over and tranipled upon each other as they iel and slidL down the precIpitous stairwai s. Their y lrantic shrieks could be hed all over o the block, and the alarm quickly spread t tQ other congregat,ions which were also a gathered in the same building. They g p)ouredf ou' oh Li,b; a'joining rooms on ti each flooir and joined the paunie-stricken tl crowd1, addllug new horror to t,he situa- Il L,ion. t For a few m'autes it was imipossile to rendi ir any iusistan'ce whatever. ie uar'row' hallway was literally packed with li:hteut d peoiple. Somie of' them * were 3 mug ont the l.oor while others rushed over their fprobtrate b ioies ina a frenzied eflert to gaum t,be si,reet. 1t was a mad fight for life. Many cro wdedI p out upon the fire escapes on the secondl a floor 14 leaf ed in to t,he stree t. There was no fire to be set ni. Only a film of c atijoke was comning from the third floor Ii wind ws Tfhe ttictra' fInally r ucceeded in inik- ti itng some itenid va*y tnaamt the stretam of aI humanity that, wits pouring VuL of the r Sbuilding and edged( themselves within ( the hall way. W hen t.hey reached the I fout of Tie irst, at&trway they founti a C large, stout women, Annie Smilowitz, d0 .who hadl faileni at the lowest, a.ep, ~ blockcd the w. anid imiprisonitd those behind. lIotundsm.an Colton dlragzed i her out. Sihe was uncontcious and Ltr- a .rlIbly bi nised an(ld islgured, for hun- c (dreds mnust have tramipled over' her n bodly. As sooni its thei bu.ilduig fhad been cleart dI it wits foundm that no dlamnge hand been deone to ifhe triutme by the flre, and it,s onl., induiains were ;hae burned Torah anid chaired L.op of the altar. Almost all the buildings in the neigh- 1 borhood ate telitme:nt ilouses occupied 'j ptrincipafly by' lieb:ew s; ant the entire ( poputiltion huadl tuined out int,o the v, streeL,. Tihae piolie reserves had to t>e s suitlmoli-d t kie u.t excitail people ti b:ack. aistant, Solomnii, was lowinig t,he shoy Ier horn during the hiaterv.dl bet,w. en the - mnorning and mid-day rervices. 'I1.e congleg'atrin 111(mtd Itay .:n I altar wilh stood hear the middle ' he I Ir' pt-Wt .d 'l. le are three win * dowe. K(rameur turned( aroujnd und sa1w the candle oni t,he alter slowly IgnitLn the drapery on the wood w'ork thl it on. - stitutea the back of' the altar. The hoyi who had baen hirn d to attend ho ihe a wants of the congregation was callee and told to pt, nub t,he Iij e with a wet, towel. Iustead of dloiing that, the boy tried t,o b>low out the t iuame. Soime muen graha bed the f'ur-brat.h vf diandlestivk and K treet. By this time, the congregation ad broken into a panic aud was rush ng dow stairs. Some of the less orthodox worshipers aY the fire could huve beeni extinguished 11 i itO11ict I( the older members of lie coigregation had not had conscien. ions scruples about putting out the tire n a holiday. To do so they considered lesecration. Roltndsman Colton, wi'> pulled Mrs. imilowit z trom the toot of the seairway, himks thitt, Ill th People wotild have eLclped it' M\rs. Sn1illomwit z had iit block (I the way. 'ollee Captai ('rjs s taL it vast twent,Y-live per,,odns we~e tiiken to heir lililes without liny report 1?1m" unide. '1 hIe Slxart- Jaad Ui wo.it~mn. VAS 1 NwroN, Sep,. 22.-The follow ng report, of tile proceedings of a na ional nlomllinatilig c(nlvention Of we Mn su1fragists, which nfpears to have ol)duIcted it; Proceedings with unusual rivacy, h;ts been irnished to the Aitd 'ress, authenticated by the ignatures of Anna M. 'arker, presi eit, and Elizabeth 'owers, secretary: At the parlors of the Wilhlard Hotel esterday, under the call of April 26, a attional convention of woman suf r"Rists was h,,ld, through the auspicis f delegates from the Victoria League F the dilerent. States. Mrs. Anna M. Parker of St. Louis was flled t o the chair, a.t Elizabet h Pow rs ol' Providence, It. I., was made sec tt ary. The call fron the States brought ut twenty-eight reprisentatives select J by State conventions, from New ersey, New York, Michigan, Illinois, ndiana, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Colo do, Oregon, California, North Caro na, South Carolina, South Dakota, 'lorida, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, ennessee, Arkansas, Kansas, New lampshire, Mainel Minnesota, Wiscon in, Mississippi, Vermont, Pennsyl ania. The States of Wyoning, North )akota and Washington sent no repre antatives. There were 500 delegate3 1 all. On motion of Mrs. Vindish of New ork city, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull lartin, of New York and London, was oninated for President o the United tates. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard of New Jersey, Irs. Linda Slaughter of Washington, nd Mrs. Mary L. Stow of California, rere pit in nomination for Vice Presi ent. Mrs. Stow rvceived the largest tiber of votes for Vice 'resident. The platform reads as follows: "Whereas, tinder the fourteenth mendment, io citizen is deprived of tie francii.se through the law, but by uitotn and habit. Therefore, be it "iesolved TIHat we, the representa ive wonen of Ainerica, ask the officers i charge of election precincts through Ie nited States in t lie comint cam aign to give its the opportunity to east ur ballots on the first Tt sday in No ember, 1892, for our candidates. "Resolved, That by the united efforts f the women voters of this nation, we liil drive anarchy, crinie, insanity and runkenits froin ou r nidst, by our hit initarian efforts, backed by the bal >t.. Ruln of ICocICaway i0ca. RoCKAWAY 13EACir. Sept. 20.-The Lrgent conflagration that has ever oc uirred on the Long Island coast des royed over one itindred frame build tigs here,to day and left about one undred and sixty acres a mass of tins. Tihe main portion of this fa ioui old stminer resort has been com letely wiped out. 'The loss will range etween S 600,00 and $1,000,000. The tirned listic(t iiclules both sides of easide avenue froin the Long Island tilload track, and about half a mile orthi fromn Saside avene. Owing a the lateness of t he season there rere very few gitests at the hotel, the nly inmates ini most inst.ances being hie prop)rietors antd their faniihes and lewv of the s:-rvats, who were en ige,l itn ptt ing tihe noiel itn shape f or we winter .season. A bout, 10.30 l.'.M. ie flames wer*te uinder control,but the re was still hburning at nidanight in he cenitre~ of the bulrnied district. low the llatmes statrted is unrkntown b.ay believe thie Iirme was the wvork 1 inicendiaries, whlileI oithers think t.he tItnes resuit ed cit tier from careless (Pss or spont-anCotus Cotitbistion. To Sell Out. CuhlcAuo. Seji,0. 21.-A special dis atcht from St,Ii autis 1.0 the I mter- Oceani iy.s: Chaeiiti,an ':Tubenie(k, of the '.ople's paty na:Li m(:11 c,ltnmiittee, ie mived a sinous bi(15ly wAire i.o-dhay to aisteni to ind iaapoli5 t) attend( a itetinig of thle nattiial extcuitive' comt I tte 1(titorrowy. Whlen lie wvas asked bout the object of thle mneeting he re lied: I "will say that there is a big cal on and f i I (oose to miake it pnh-1) C I couild create a sensa!tion ini every' lose State in the eniotn anid several ther S'atrs which tare not consider'ed oubtful. There Is a gigantic dead otng Ont in. thes~e states. It wViIl Comie > a head in two or' three weeks arid oen I wAill bie prepiared to give (oit inte.startlinhg iniformiat.i(in. I don't are for ai seit an to) originate in the 'opile'5m, ! par t(adluarters if I can elp It." S OMIiSiT, ky, Sept.23. -The saiw till of A lIen AMiller, of Shopville, on 'laL Lick s. ine tent mliles east of t.his lace, ble up and iite ins tant ly killed 'iremnan Pieas WVhitIson andc w,oundedt'( ragg tand Alb nt M iller. Some of t he 'ougndedl cainnot live. ( eorge Whtit In was blowni across a cre e'k a dlis tnce of' twety-dlve yards. The saw lj'l! yard wva; a wept, as ucaan as a ttchen~ loor'. Tfhe ex plosicm was eard foir se'veral miles. sn',-b"iod.y ilitund,'ea. . A\lACuN ('TrY, La,1 Sept. f..--'I'hte voirst tail Iroot ac'ci<lh-'lt 1 that hs ever t'tiured in t Ihis sectlion oh the State Is eplor t'd frain New iilampt oni todlay . hia ppened( biit a shor[ di st arce from he isce'ne of t ne Wa,psic wr e('k of t.wo 'eairs ago. Toen ighit setven dh.ad( b)odies aid (oit ini N ulnr & Booth's under akingt estabi uimnt fells the story of omnebody's neghtgen,ce. Anud [his is 0ot all. One tlore~ botdy can now be een uinder the engine, ai,d it will be nany hi lis belore it. (ll be rearbe d. L. little girt's lilt and wvomani's cloak iave~ ben footnd in the wreek. It is eared tat least two are burled unzdc.r he debria. TIhe mien kilkd were tesi ents of Elmira andl vicinit y, and t heir odies have not. bee tien.lt.. GRtEI-VILLE, S. C., 82pt. 27.-The Confederate monument erected by the Ladies Confederate Memorial Associa tion was unveiled to-day in the presence of several Mhousand spectators. The paradc was one of the largest ever seen inl this city. 'Thie occasion Was made a pbl;lie holiday, and in the column were ovcr. a thousand pupils of the public tschools,*. regiment of State troops, 300 Coldfederate vettrans, the City Fire De prnent, the Ma%or and Aldermen of th. ('ity, I he LIdies' Conlederate .Nenio rial AR!Socaitioll and "a nuiber of(118in -ished visitors i1I citizens ot the ci.y m1111 Count y. Th'le noin ct it, is. VLecte1d at, t,he hlead of Maiu wreet, a high point which over looks th-, et,y. The shaft is of marble, resting vi a granite base surmounted by a statue ol a Conlederate soldier, the whole being thirty f.-tLhigh. The model It' the statue is the preseti, chief of po lice ol, Greenville City, Captain J. B. Ligon, who was an oflicer in the Confed erat army iromu thi;s county. The cere moines ol 'tavvihin' took place at noon. The platform% was occupied oy tie Lad ies Momorial As3ociation, youug ladies repreSenting the Soutlern Stutes, and lit,le g-ls representing each company Which Went, out, 1roml this cont,y. Lieutenant, Governor V. L. Mauldin presided. After an invocation by ReV.? .i. J. S. Mundy of' the Baptist Church. Governor Maulin introduced Judge J. S. Cothran as the orator selected to take the 'lac of (, e.era Capere, who was iot able to be present. .Judge Cothran paid a tribute to General Capers for his heroic performance of duty during the wir*, and pauseda miolent. At a signal from the chairman the cords were pulled and the canvas dropped from the statue. For a moment th-.re was a silence al most p:sitiul, followed by wild Conled erate yells foni three hundred veteran throats, which was taken up by the mili tary, fire men and thousands of specta tors, An order was given by the Colouel commanding, and the regiment lired a salute. As the smoke rilled up from the guns a large Confederate flag was shot across the street on a euspended wirc and i >ated just, above the stat,ue. Another wild yell and waving of hand kerichies !uame from the vast throtig standiug !azing at the "conquered ban nier." O:d grizzled soldiers wept like clil Iren as they recalled memories clus teriin abut, their bat,tle lla, and then thete wai silen.-e, as Jud..e Cothran be gall tO pt:ak. ' 'ol. James A. loyt followed .Judge Co' hran in an address. Both speeched breat.hed patrioki love ot the country and admiration of the heroic deeds of theilr dead comrades. The young ladies and children representing the Conled erat.e StaU:s and the companies tront the County sang the patriotlc hymn, "My Country, 'Tis of Tiee. Sweet Land of Liberty." The unveiling ceremomes clobed with a benediction by Dr. Mundy. Tie monument is iegarded as one of' th tiuest, in thie South, tbe statue being of pure Italian lilarble of the Ouest te.lure. A t the tap c1 the drum the military formed aid marlched away. slowly fol. lowed by tie vast concourse of specta tors. Many of the old soldiers remained, gazing at the silent comirale. Tnev, too, moved away, leaving tbe sileut sen - L.nerl on glard.-Itgister. A Tromenionrt Colision. C1,E-:*F:AN), Ohio, Sept.21.-What will lindoubtedly prove to be the most disistrotis accident, that ever occtirre(l in t he history of tie Pittsburg, Fort WIvne alul Chicago Railway, which is op<-i at I by the P.)enniisyl vania Railroad, took :i,e. this tiornlig at 3 o'clock in wha;t is kn town as . hrown's Cut, a muile arid a heat' West of' the village of Shrleve, W ayne Count,y, Ohio. TrainNYo. 8. t hie las-t I-'st hound plassenger ex. p)ress' traia, collidi-dl at tihat point wvithI the first 'netion of I reighit N(' 75 We's' botaii d. f lin p:tsMten ge" tra in was abou t one botiar l:ite nd( was runi 1tig att the rate of sixty miles an hour. It is st art ed that the engineer and lirenman on t he freight. while standing on a 5ide trackl att "ihrevei., tell asleep andO werle aw'akerled by he(aring at trinl rushning by. Tlhiinking that it, was 8, f,'i( engineer pulled ouit, on t he main track and hadi julst got uinder ways wnena'i tihe train c.une. Thle collision cculrred on a sharp cuirven and in a cut where neit,her crew wats able t,o see the other train ap proaching. T.lhe engines came together with such awful force that the mail car and smoking car of the express were throwun (in top of' the palssenger eni gine, andl a freight car, hiled with print,ing presses, wats thirowni over ths TheIi passengers aind traiunmen who es Capied sayv the accident had hardly taken plaice hi l ore flamues butrst forth, and they believe that. blit, two or three persons8 were killed outrighit, the others having been puitied down in the cars andi( slowly reoastedl to) death. T welve burineid andi blackenid t.runks have been taken l'rti thle wtreck. T1he liremani on t,he freight train mu lst have had a htorrible dent,bi, ats lhe wals cauLght ini the cab and his fright failily burned bodly dangled iln the air in view of' hundreds who visited the ec"ne, the wreckei s being tinable to get it beewase of the heitt. Th'le poor postal clerks llnprisonied in the mail cars which were thrown tipon the passeni gers engine hiaa no chanetoescatpe and they were douabt,less all burned to dtn ih. All fat,alites occurred In the two locomnot,ive*, the postal and smok ing car and the day coach. The sleep. era did not leave the track and the pats 8-ligers, be'yondl a shaking, escaped in jury. As soon as the people 01' Sherve hiear i'lof the wreck t hey hiastenied to the .5e4lie w it all phiysicsrns av'ailable.. The imj ured were tenderly (rcared for andl every lo rt possi blet m ade to rescue those who were petishtitg l,i the bur earn. ''hue heat wias so intense, hiowiver. lit,tle Cou!dl be (done. As soon111 as)ossible aftert the atce(ci denit, the ijured. none whom11 are be-' lie'ved to be fat ally huiirt, were taken in chairge by the railway oompaniy and all were removedl to their hiomes. TI we) poshtal cars, illed with mail, oute express car and three freight cars wer'e counsumrel by lire. WVreck trains w%ere seat to the scene withini an hour afte r the accident anid whlen they atrrive d the engines and destroyed cars were a mass5 of' red hot iron and embers. Tlhe~ Coroner hats be gunt an irmilest to ase'ertin the0 ,0guse of collisin. FINDS 1T T00 WARM. GEORGIA'S CLIMATE DOES NOl AGREE WITH WEAVER. Althnuoahl Assuredi of a F~air Hieartumg the Thirdi Party Styautartoarer l)e cilues to Spneak in Atlanta.-A Munt fento. ATl.AN ~ ,Sept. 23. -Pive thlousain people asseibled at t lie State Capito tonight Lo hear Gen. Weaver. Aftei WaILinig lialf an hour. it w ;t.iscertainvc that he would not colie. as8 he had do clared there was no freedom of specof inl Georgia, and had thrown up his en gagemients. G'overnor Northern then addressec the audience, vot,ching for theta thal they would give a fair hearing. A vot( was taken inviting ('en. Weaver t( speak, but he would not come(. Tite following comimunieation wat matle public to-night: ATLAr.NTA, Ca , Sept. 23, 1892. Mr. It. 1). Irwin, Chairman State Coin mittee People's Party, Atlanta, (a. DEAR Sit: At the urgent request o your committee, I entered this State or the 20th instant, for the purpose of ad. dressing the people of Georgia upon tht political situation and the issues ini vl ' in the present campaign. 'h<( p fignamed tor said meetings were Waycross, Albany, Columbus, Macon Atlanta, Madison, Augusta and Elber ton. I find the spirit of organized row. dyism at some of the points visite w ithin the Sl ate so great, as to render 11 unadvisable for me to atteipt to fill tht engagemnents at the points not already reached. Personal inuignit y was threat. ened at WaNcross, but was suppressec by the al tendance of a large number of our friendu and the careful manage, ment of Mr. Reed, the local chairman At Albany we met with a howling mob which refused to accord us a respectfu and uninterrupted hearing. The meet ing at Columbus wai a grand success thanks to the superior management oj Mr. C. .1. Thornton. About 3,L00 peoph attended this meeting, and gave t respectful and enthusiastic attention AL Macon the condtuct of the mot which greeted our advent into the cit, was simply disgraceful beyond descrip tion. Rotten eggs were thrown prioi to the introduction of the speaker, on( of which struck Mrs. Weaver upon tht head. Eggs were thrown repeatedlI during the continuance of the mob Turbulent crowds coatinued to how, and hoot until past mid-night. At At. lanta a similar crowd of rowdies gath. ered at the point of meeting, tent or tuiult and disorder. Learning of this Mis. Lease and myself refused to ap pear, either inl the forenoon or evening I am convinced that sinilar treat men awaits us at the points not yet visited I decline to meet said appointments. The members of our party, althoug) largely in the majority in the State, ar unable to c zure for us a peaceful ani respectful hearing. I wish to call e, pecial attention to the fact that the di order is almost exclusively confined t the young roughs who infest the town and who are incited to violence by per sons who keel) ic. the background. Thi country people are uniformly respect ful and anxious to hear. It is worthy of note that disorderl conduct does not proceed from the ex Confederate soldiers, who are manly al most without exception inl their coii duct, and generally in syiipathy witj otir movement. The police force at tlui disorderly points nawed inade no ef fort, so far as is known, to preserv( good order. In some instances the) gave open countenanlce to the tiintilt I think it is but fair to say that inanN good people who are not imi sympathm wi th the IPeople's patrty openly de nloti ce t hiese ouitrage.s, bu 't t hey steii powerl essa to assert,I themtselvyes. Tina mayor of W aycross made avery ( ifori to protuet oor meeting at. that poinit. (igned) .I. B. V iF.\ v i-:i. W.AshIniNx, Sept . 22.-Lient, ( S. Willey, commanding thle reven ut cutter Colfax, (if Wilmmngton, N. ('. reportedl having to wert i[n'to i afort S. C., the I rit ish schooner G leaner, Capt. I)a vis, bouind for I )ariena, Ga. to Mulgrave, N. C , lumbelr laden The crew wvere taken hick a few days out wit hi nalarial fever, of whichi two (lied and were buried at sea; twc others were sick, leaving only Capt D)avis and onie stamain to maa tIn ship and at.tend the sick arid bu ry the dead. Ini this condition the vessel wat blown across the gt stream thru tinmes, aiid when t Coifax met( hel Capt. I )avis and his one well seama3111 were w~ell nigh exhausted. I iut, foi assistance, it is st-aled the vessel mu ii have been Io.st. liar 0ien lo uic kMahael l)'IaTno, Mich., Sept. 22 .-Samut Rtver was buriedl alive for 3d hours a ,Jackson. iIe was in the bott.omi of 80 f oot wvell when q ttick and cause< the walls to fall ulpona him. A t houas and pJeop)le assembled to dig hiiti 01ut buat the moro they (lug thle miiore Lhb sand caved in. Lights we-re pro idle< and1( when night camie operat iona were not, at.opped. .J ust at. dark on the secoin day the was reached, terr ily er tshe< bt alive ~'. The stonaes in the wel h iat falleni upon himi, form inzg an arch ari giving him room to bire athle. Callect to a Tihr<,at-. ASlivILLIC, Tlenun., Sept. 20).-f. young negro who hias spent four year at the Cenitral TJennessee College in thi city has been called to a Ithronte. Ili name is Momoin .\Iassaqtuai, anid hi came from the Vey country, at regioi of interior Africa ad(joinin g L iberia lie . was converted some9 3( ears ago t< Chiristiananity by Mrs. Itriely, an Eng hls missionary, andI through tier ini fdtence and that oh Bishop P euicek o Louisvi lle was lbrouighit to his counitr andl put at school, lie receivedl th news today that his farther, Kinj Balah, had beeni killed ini war.and1( h is cailled to reign in Is stead. Tillman to Meet. WVatso)n. MA CON, C IA., Sept. 23.-1I, is said thia G overntor Benm TJillmnan of South Ci(aro linia is thfirst-ing for some of \Watson' gore and will come over and meet hii on the stump. TLhi(ni the fur will fly Ben -T illman is the strongest et uim1 spea ker in the South. iIe is chiampoi swmpster of the arena, and when lie get throughi with Watson there won't, b eniougli of him left to feed a hurngr chigger. By all means let Carolina (Governor Come. It wouIld h, wort.h trip acress thme continent to see the furi -News. CAMPAIGN GOSSIP. What Is Had In Washington About Iiq Presidential Chances. WASHINOTON, Sept. 23.- Here i some of the goFsip of the Presidentia campaign recently picked up in thit vicinity. The ltepublicans are count ing upon re-electing Mr. Harrison witi the aid of vo 's from several of th( Southern St:.Jes. Chairman Carter ii even quoted as saying that South Car. olina is expected I- break away fron her Democratic moorings and' throw I her electoral vote away upon the Third - 'arty nomine. Sensible men pro. noirce sich utterances as rot. A distinguished )emocrat ic Stnator, who is noteIl for taking acomnmon selw view of politics at every stage of a na tional or State caml paign, gave me the following report of his survey of the field: To begin with, the last Presi(len tial election .,howpel that, the poptihic vote of t lie 'nited Stat es is Democrat. ic. Since then the Democrats have made stealy gains in almost every State, as was deionstrated at the last ('ongresional election. Further than that they have cut down the Iepubli can majority in the UinitU d States Sen ate, with the bright prospects of wip ing it out entirely at an early day. All of this shows that the people of the colintry are becoming weary of Repub lican rule and they demand a chance. Politiciati-i may attempt, to pervert the wisles and the desires of the peo ple for awhile, b1ut in the long run the politieians are forced to give and ac cept the dictation of their Constituents. This was clearly (omoistrat -d at the two national conventions. There the politicians arrayed themselves against the people arid were defeated. In the pen(ing contest the iepublicanI leaders have hastened te get into the Ilarrison ice wagon, not because they love him any better than they did at, Minneapo lis, but because they inist accept the situation or be left outside the breast works. The )emocratic bosses lind them. selves in a sinilar situation. They were itclined to present a lukewarm front in the present contcst, but upon finding that the people were disposed to go right ahead and elcet Mr. Cleveland re gardless of their assistance they at onve concluded that seat oin the handof wagon are more confortable than a plunge in to the soup. For several weeks past the Lepublicans have been counting upon the election of Mr. Harrison, be cause they thought, the Anti-Cleveland )erocrats in New York woild bolt the ticket. I f that is their only hope they are apt t o be-eternally lost, for the New York city Democracy is in the p' esent light to wim, and even if they do not like Mr. Cleveland irs inuch is they dto Senator II ill they are neverthe. less )enocrats, and tfiey will disap. point. the Republicans by giving Cleve land a rousing majority in that State. Such ani opinion, coiing from th( source it does, should be encouraginN to those weakkneed brethern who be come frightened every time the namii ofT om I'latt., C.larkson, and a few other Republican leaders are mention ed. It is a mystery to those outside o: New York how Ton Platt manage, ' to keep to the front. lie has never ac complished a single victory througli his own ef'orts since he went out of tho -Senate as(Conkling's "Mo-too." Under his direction an(d guidance the State o New York has been captiured by the )emocracy, aid there is not the slight est chanca of his regaining the Legisla tire so long is t he Democratic party proceeds under its present leadership. There was a disposition on the part (if certain Denocrats, a few weeks ago, to (iarrel among themselves over the prospective spoils thatt would result irorn Mr. (levelaid's election. In al miost every instance till of the factional wrinikles have been smoothed out, and a solid l)emocracy will mieet thre lI e pl)hic:an hosts ini Novemrber arid de Nw Y"n.4 RK, Sept. 2t.-Someutini* of1 the naiture( of a1 eyelone sweprt Or,;r thre city of hrooklt~IyniI hit ateirn Ooni, loingi dlown i-six houses, k I ilig twoi ho y x and demnobsh~ling trees, lences, signs and everything ini its patth. Chiimneys wee. lo(wn down andlti one man ser-iou-dly il jued. Thiree snuil boy14VM, .los. ( oul, erilht, yearis old; Char111les iii owii samei atge, and onie ('thmer were lda~ymrg wh~ent the wmdio strutck a brnick hi ise at thre cor4nier of Kiekelrocketr av enu aindir( b)oys w-~ere butrie I henea'h th' runis. Thre uinknrown >o.y esicaped~r severely in-. jurc'd. Th'le izale struck live two story anid barsemient framue dwellings on Cor riehar street4 andl W.ick<+lf aIvenuei air'I down th Iey wenit ini the heat, el irumr. They liad jutst been erected. .1 ohnm IDeiriahi, emp loiyed or: thre Ihuidirigs, sus.'taireud a fract,ured skul inriri Ibrokeni legs. Frederick I 4ark in, ar coritracto r, was struck by ifaing tr-ee iel intailly Th'lis aflter-noon, about, 2 o'che)k, Ox. ,Judgec C. I'. Tiownireind wais hirnew%hi:p ped on the street hv Mr. A,.1J. W{)we. It appeatirs that MIr-. IUo e was a wit ness yeste rdiry hor thIe Chrilastorn, Sumi ter ari Northern It:tilroadl ComniOny ini a case being '.rled in th acourt , ini which J1uidge TIowniseiid wats tIre ouinisel ior tIre oppo(sit,ion. Mnr. Iliowe soay:, thr'it h:e re gar-de<o Juidge Townsend's remairrks ini refernce to his testimnony ats ia relection a on his veracity atnd chanracter. So bet 5 miet the .Judge on Main street, this aftr nioon arid proceeded to strike him with a buggy whip, gIiinu hini about hal a dozen s.irokes. Thre difliety occurr-ed near then ,Judre's o0i:e. iIe rtn into his ollike, and statrted out with a pistol, but1 wats prevenited tromn so doing by Iricnds. fThec Jugde dischtimns arny intention to ~ reflcec t Mt r ',oe in the coiur-t house. Sarid b'oth are memibers oi tire Methodliai 3 r:hnnrch. Fut,be ri nrl)ble in Ieared. State. 5allt,t aind RiulIlets., L l'ii.A r>j-:.r'nia. Sept. 28.- The A fro - American l'ress AssocIation, which in chides editors anrd putblishiers of news rpatpers dIevotedl to the ad(vancemenit, o: thle colored race frotn all points of th' Cnited Stattes Is nn anitillit session ii i this city todaty. l'residenrt Mitchell, ii a an address, aid that the editors wouliu e make a "declaraution of' inidepenidene h iere todaytV; there should lie no imor a cowardhs amntohg the negroes, of t.h a South, but that they would light It on r. there with tIe ballot, or, if irecessar' with t he bullne " A Couervative Conveution. Columbia, S. C.,Sept. 22.-"For the truth of history we will proclaim that the convention yesterday was the mnots representative body of South Car olinians, and the most conservative that has assembled in Columbia under the domination of Tillmanism." SUch is the judgement passed upin the st-te democratic convention by the Stato,the exponent of extreme anti Tillmnanism, and even the most rapid opponents of Govertior Tillman are bound to ccnciir in that judgemnt. E'ven to the most conservative of conservatives the convent ion was one of surprises. A great Inany radical aIt.iolis on the part of the Tillimanites had beet'n pred'cted, and it was with a breath of relief that the- ant is saw there was nto disposit-ion"oln the part of any one to do anything tih:t would leave the taint of stispecte I third-partyism oil the state; and many of the an1tis consider that the why and the wherefore of such forbearance was due to their opponents havitig come to the. conclusion that it was timo to call a halt ini order to pro serve the h:irmony of the party in the face of very grave impending dangcr. The speech (of (tovernor Tillmai in aocepting the nomination has received a great deal of commetirlation i,voin from the goveraor's hitterest political enemies. who did not belie that he could put on suse a chet-k rein after the way he hail heen slishing into them. It. was a concii atory spxeh, but is to whet her it, will conciliate is something thiat it, is impossible to speak with anything like currect fore Cast.. When the governor said that, he would cxtt-nd the right hand t friendship "that, w may brid*e the chasm it it may bu.". Ile wats lodly applauded, and there were loud cries of "God bless Sot O Carolinia," and "lurrah for l-ii Tillman." The samie seniments were echoed hv the ot her state officers in their speeches. Secretary of State Tindal said that it behooved the majority to study mod oration and not to exult in their vie tory.-Augusta Chronicle. 1110m1eleam and Frfenadlt sm LDOI , Sent 28 ---'.'e Ctnard steam ship line, having grown tired of maintaining t lie emigrants Irom l1am burg, who had bought, tickets by way of that line, at hoarding honses in Liverpool, and seeitig Ito early pros pects of being ab!e to dispose ol them by transportation to America, offered to return the emigrants the amoiit of' their fares. The lmajority of the emigrants relused to accept, the ollt-rl and insisted on being conveyed to the U'nited States. The company then notilied the keepers u' the boarding houses in witicn the emigrants had beenl inaintailiett that the company would no longer be responsible for their support. Tliereupon the land lords turned the inigiants out of doors. The emigrants applied to the aithorities, butt the latt-ur declined to admit the strangers to ie workhouse, as t,he poor house is called in -ngland, and now the untortinate foreigners are wandering about the streets, 'the police force not wishing to arreAt thein, and nobody is willing to have any thing to do with them. An Ugly AIair. WAsilNGT''ON, Sept. 28.-Count l.tt gene Mitkiewicz, whose connection with Chinese ilnancial aflairshas cat.stJ hii to be subjected to inch adverse crt.icism,has filed a complaint at the State Depirtmient, which hie claims is made i. behalf of the Chinese minister to this country. lie alleges that Charles E,. Huliirke, a New York lawyer, tried to extort from Minister Toui an al leged bill amounting to inore thmn 8100,X). The minister, according to Coni t Mitkei wicz's statement, refusisd to pay the bill, and asked the count to re' uiest protection from thle tl'nit -d State Gjovernment. Tlhe reason for ti.e on usual actioni of Minister '1' oulinm riot makm; g thle coinupla int o Iliciailly3 is I hatli e is tuitt on good tet*I r withI I is inteurlete'r andI thle hir'st, secretarto i.nu. Ib~irke is Inow in New~ 'o k A T1er'riableo wrt-ck. lblouxiio.i.or, Aila, Sept,L. 28,-- Ie <' last ex pr ess trnalin on It' e Wsterni i nl way of Albhama r'an into so0ine wild1( cas-s loadedoi w ith1 cot ton twoii mi les south of 1 ipelika, Ala., this miorninug at 2i o'cloick, aind( a terr ible wrek res uiltrl.I l~ ig ineer I. 1 m(iis Will is and( lfieman Tloin iil lis were*V inrstanitl y killed : they( were't lithters. I 'ost alI clei'ks Carter aed I auiirens were I attad3'lyi hrt. Six paisse' i ger's weirel inoe or' less seriouisl y huii t. The wreck cauight lire, and 108 bales of cotton were burnued. Th'le cars wi h I wi ch tthe piasenge'r traini colli ded hid biroken (lit o1 a swit ch at, ( )pelika anid run t wo miles dlown thle tr'ack. The The~ postal tar I' nd inai in at tr were~(i burned. o unor TIilhItunn yterda'Ly re('lye i aniI i inivit,at,tn i.o speak ini Atlanuta at the closinii. cam pa in iclet,ing in that, Stat e, but, it, ha rnot hknoiwni yet whe wther tie can aiccept or no1t. Geor i'in)aieocraits ex-~ lpect if 01ur G;overnior visits there to hear I some slogani licks Ior the D emnocracy, I and1( the'y woiuild nuot he diapupomrt d. Tlhue Demcnocrats ot' the (empire State are erent admirirers ofi Govenior [dTllman), and1( accord him infullI mieasure otf praise I for his eranid 'Victory won mn a st,raight-~l torward( man ner within the palrty ranuk8. I South Caruot inn, as i)onnning, the editor of the nitional party organii Saysp', is .he States satislact,orv of all t,he Scuthiern last andtc thec people ot Gieorgia give G overnorn Tillhnan credit, ir this satis fact,ory state Ofahfair'. "'Jlocks, of Ive", 8ceheome. Ni: w Yo oru, Sept. 21.- T1here is con siderale indigniatiomn at. Demnocrat headquearters over the c'on tdential let ter" which has been sent omut by the liepublican committee reqluest ing the uiame ol a good D)emocrat w~hio might lie "Irnduce<d to vote the Itepublcuan tibiket." T1he circular also assures the recipient thmat, his services wvill not tbe forgott.en. In an int.erview tonight with Mr. Charlres DeFrorest, chairn'an of the D)emocratic State campat gnt Scommittee, hue said: "Alr. llackett's ac tuon In sending o'it this letter will be I Closely watched. Thle D)emocr: tic 1, State colamittee is in a position t,o as sertain every step that he take's, and B the first attempt to violate the law will e be met by punishment of the violat-on, t no matter who he may be. We do mnot '. propose to have any 'blocks of five' scheme worked In this Sta this f.ll. STANDS TO THE RACK. THE NEW YORK STATESMAN'S STERN SENSE OF DUTY. In(lividiual Disappointmente and Petty Jealoutiaes Must lie Subordinated to FAilftla Perrormance of Political Obil gations. lBIrFF.., Sept. 24.-The Democratic campaign in Western New York was ushered in tonight with a grand mass meeting at Music Hall. Senator 1111 was the magnet which drew together the vast throng that crowded the build ing to its utmost capacity. - The Sena tor's reception was of the most enthu siastic description. Through a mul titude of cheering spectators, flanked by a line of rea fire and capped by a Jisplay of pyrotechnics, the Senator was'escorted from his hotel-to the hall jy the Cleveland Democratic Club, 600 itrong. When the Senator took his -at on the platform there was a great iproar of applause. Congressman Lockwood presided and called the neeting to order a few minutes before I o'clock. After some preliminaries, ,vnator 11111 was introduced and idvaiced to the front of the stage amid ,heer. After stating that lie was pres lit to aid in the promotion of Demo ,ratic principles and to advocate the lection of Cleveland and Stevenson. he Senator said: "For ten years it has ieen my custom at each annual elec ion to appear before my fellow olti nus and contribute my share toward ho discui':ion of the political ques ions of the hour. You did not believe hat this campaign would prove an ,xception to the usual rule, and you tre not disappointed. Among honorable nen the loyal discharge of political luty outweighs all minor considera ions, and in this crisis of our country's iistory, and, in this great emergency n our party affairs, individual disap. )ointments, or even alleged personal njustice should be subordinated to lie faithful perfomance of political >hligations-not as a matter of expe liency, but from a high and stern iense of duty. "P'ermit me to suggest that we have il, of us now a mission to fullill. Petty ealousies must be dismissed, regular )rganizations must be respected, party liwipline must be enforced, dissen ,ions must be healed, and apathy must Cive way to enthusiasm, in order that ,he grand old party, to which we are )roud to belong, may secure the ,riumph of right, principles and work mL the noble destiny which ought ;irely to await it. The control of :his gsveruineit for many years to :ome by one or the other of the two rreat polit ical parties is the prize at mizard in the pending contest, in 60iich all olher considerations should sink into insignilicance." lRefrring to the declaration he had imiade last February at the Democratic State Convention at Albany, that the choice of a standard-bearer was a mat ter of little importance compared with that supreme ob ject, a Democratic vic tory next November, the Senator Jechired that he had meant what he said then, and reiterated it now. lie iaid that t he test of true Democracy was the support of the party noni inations, irrespective of questions of personal pride or ambition or indi vidual preferences. The Senator then entered into an 3staborate discussion of the tariff juestion, very much upon the lines if his Brooklyn speech, afterwards levoted some time to the consideration >A the force bill,'.which he denominated t dangerous exercise of constitutional Luthority, a menace to our theory of tovLrnment anl an insult to the pe >le of thme South. lie thought that If hie liepulbicans carried the coming dlection they would again endeavor to >ass the force bill, in order to make hem'is(lvyes the arbiter of every federal lection. IIhe closed by saying. "We ust diligently exert ourselves (3 opp~ose this great issue of certraliza ion, which certainly confronts us. It >rOse(nts a more serious problem than Liy commi ceal, i nd ustrial or financial luestion, and is more essentail to the reseivation of our institutions." ECvery point ini t he Senator's speech v'as Punctuated with applause, and at is coniclulsion there was a great out mirst. Thlen Lieutenant Governor heehlan and .John Terample Giraves of eorgia spoke brielly. A n Amsericanx Heroine. L(JNI)ON, Seplt. 23.-Th'le Chronicle ontamins a letter from M. Zerlendi, a iritish maehant in Persia, describing hie horrors of the cholera epidemic in hait country. M. Zerlendi says: "T1he ondulict of Miss Bradford, the Amer 'anx lady who camneto Tauris for the Loerican Niissions, stands forth in uch striking relief' as to be worthy of ote. .in the face of the general anic, when everybody was deserting he cholera stricken town, she worked vith c'almi, unremit,ting attention un er great dilliculties, nursing cholera >atients anjd encouraging others under lhe awful circumstanmces of the battle vith the epidemic. I do not think it an xaggeration to state that hundreds of 'ersians owe their lives to the courage nd( dlevotion of this heroic woman." P'ianfos and Organu. Where to buy Pianos and Organs epresenting the world's greatest ma iers. Steinway &! 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They rerched thme mouth of the Momna on July 8 and tried to land, but the natives made hostile demonstrations that they an chored off shore for the night. On the morning of the 9th they started back for IHeira, but in going over the bar the launch cataizedi. All of the party ex epnt one na drowedm