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TIE WEEKLY UHI0I TIMES. XXI.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROliNA, AUGUST 29, 1890. NUMBER 85. 1 -I nirinii\i-i t\T 1 11 I T 1 nr Ti ns TO THE W11ALK. CONGRESSMEN IN A HURRY TO PAS AGRICULTURAL BILLS. The Committee on ltnleM Pilot* the Whip Much I.?'Bii>httloll to he ltiiHheil Throne ?The Aurlrultiirnl CollegeM I.ilierwl! Provided For. Washintiton, I). C., Auir. 19.?Th House to-day tabled a motion to recoi sider the McKay bill, so it is tinall passed. Then Cannon, from the Cor mitteeon Hides, reported a resoldtk - setting apart to-day, Wednesda \ Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday ai "Wednesday of next week for consider *v? ^ tfewou 01 gyrcrntntfe111 tanen up fa the Senate hill to aid jut' nullum) colleges, tne previou3ijuesuc on which shall be considered as" ordc ed after two hours' debate. The ne: to be taken up is the bill providing 1< the inspection of meats for exportati< and it shall be voted on after tv hours debate. Then the lard bill sh; be taken up and a vote ordered at foi o'clock Saturday. On Tuesday of ne: week the bill defining options shall I taken up and the previous questh shall be considered as ordered at thr o'clock Wednesday. On thedaysspe< lied the House shall meet at elevi o'clock. The order also provides for morning hour each day and gives pla to general appropriation bills or co ference reports thereon. Crain, of Texas, inquired wheth \inder the order the river and harbo bill could be considered. Cameron replied that he thought n Lut that the bill could be called up Fi day or Monday or during the mornir hour on oi her days. lllount, of the ItulesCommittee.eri iciscd that committee lor its action bringing in rules on such unlniporta subjects without opportunity for fa discussion. The House had degener . ^ ted from common respectability. I thought that the agricultural bills hi been purposely excluded and could n be considered. lie thought that should be included and the time f debate extended. McMillan, another member ol' t! Rules Committee, said that it must admitted in view of the late hour the session that the proposed order p the rivers and harbors bill in a per ous condition, business had alreai been outlined that would occupy t! time of the House until Septemb leaving unconsidered the rivers ai harbors bill with its :?24,(X)O,0<JO appi priation. He warned the House nc in order that the friends of the rive and harbors bill might adopt thespe* u! order with their eyes open. Funston, of Kansas, chairman of t Committee on Agriculture, said to t friends of the rivers and harbors b that if they knocked out the Agrici VOtfuid knoctr. tKe rivers and harbors b so high that it would never be se< again. (Laughter.) He should thii that the gentlemen from tieorgia ai Tennessee (Iilount and McMillan) view of the arising of farmers in th? States would concede a few days to t Committee on Agriculture. Hatch, of Missouri, said that tlu bills were among the most imports offered to the House, behind the ums were more voting moiisanus in; were behind any other species of leg lation on the calendar. These thoi amis were restless, excited and unea from one end of the country to t other for the reason that their mes tires had been cut out by such me; ores as the rivers and harbors bill. 1 warned his friends on the Democrat side to make no mistake in votii against this order. It was the best th could be done; and any Democrat rt resenting an agricultural district w threw an obstacle in its way would r it before.Lh/fr first of .November. J . . - - ? ? . J* - ?<? ? - ? ? -W??v ^VMV man from Kansas, (Mr. Funston,) sti in regard to the rivers and harbors bi If the adoption of the conference i port on that bill was to stand in t way of theconsideration of these me; ures let the rivers and harbors Dill w; until December next. Jllount thought Ibat there was a * sign in the proposed order to exelu action upon the rivers and harbors b The bills nientiom d in the order wi most important and he was content t ^ them to have lair consideration mill the rules of the 1 louse, lie suggest an amendment including the rive . * and harbors bill among the tueasui which niiidit interl't -re with tli.> nm-i n? - " ' tions of the order. McKinley suitl that there was no It islation demanded by the country universally as that comprised in t pending resolution. In reporting tl order the Committee on Utiles had b responded to the agricultural sen ment ol'the country, both North a: South. The resolution was not antsi onistic to the rivers and harbors b IflUt'TflP'oTder excluded the rivt ind harbors lull was not beciiuse gt tlemen on that side loved the rivt and harbors hill, but because they ci posed the dispatch of the.public l>u: 11 ess. lie tin ii intimated that the Col in it tee. on Utiles would map out the I; ter part ol next wt t K for the consult at ion of iiieasiirts it portcil by thcCoi mittee on Labor. The rt solution was adopted and tl House at cortliiiply proceeded to eonsi eration of the St nute agricultural ei lego bill. The time allotted for ih bat c was ul li/ed by over a do/en members, ai most of whom in short speeches favo etl the bijl. 'I lie discussion closed at the bill as amended was passed wit out division. It appropriatts out < money arising Iroin the sale of publ lands t<> each State and Territory h wit) mow complete endowment at maintenance ot colleges lor the heiicl ol agrii nltnre and the mechanic ar the sum ol $15,1 UN* tor the year eiwlir June Joth, IM'O. and an annual inerea; ot such appropriation lor ten yea t hereafter hy an adit tonal sum of ^51 over ttie pit-ciding year. The atinu sum tol c paid therealter shall he 'Jo.tX dollars. AccuiauMi to Senator Carlisleevei man. woman and child, regardless i color, in this "land of the tree and lion ^ ol the brave," pays on annual tribute < ^ S10 in cash to the protected maiuifacti rcrs, who are still not satisfied or hupp A DRAMATIC SCENE. * Senator Vance I'oInU Out the llyjmcrlscj g of the Kepubllcana. Mr. John H. Morris, of Baltimore, ii a letter published in the Wilmington N. <3., Messenger, thus decribes a recent scene in the United States Senat< during the discussion of the glas! u schedule: ,. "You know that Senator Aldrich, o Rhode Island, has charge of the tarif hill. The glass schedule had beer 10 reached. Vance asked Aldrich wh; i,. common window glass, the glass of th< poor man's house, was made dutiabh y atone hundred and fifteen per cent while fine, polished plate glass, tie >n glass of the rich man's mansion, was t< y sustain a duty of but fifteen per cent Aldrich turned his eyes from Vaoct !!!, ''jlod the smile ol. one disconcerted ir | and waljtfd fn trreMirectioi\ of Quay' rl- the onaitTTnid called in?tt to-jireside >n In a few moments Vance arose an< >r- stood awaiting recognition from Piatt xt While he stood he seemingly grew tal or ler. Quickly raising his hand he threw i )n great mass of iron grey hair from hi ro forehead and exposed a brow red witl ill the blood of emotion. He did not tun n r his eye toward the gallery?he seldon xt does. Rut all eyes in gallery and Sen l)e ate were fixed on Vance. "The Sena >n tor from North Carolina,"said Piatt, a ee he lightly touched the desk with hi ii- gavel and inclined his head deferential n ly toward the majestic figure of th a great Southern statesman. "Mr. Presi n/i ilnnf " oriiul "\ n on 111 ?i aRoill fr/.nn i Ui: viviivi v* ivu % mid , ah n o 111 ill* 1.1 U111 M n- lous key of which I did not know hi voice capable, "I want it to go abrosv or to all the American people that 1 hav rs asked the Senator l'rom Rhode Islam why the glass Of the poor man is taxe< ot 115'per cent, and the glass of the ricl ri- man but 15 per cent., and that I have ri ig ceived no answer." liaising his voic still higher he almost shrieked the rc it- train of his own words, "Yes, I wan in the American people to know that nt have received no answer." Vance wa iir unconsciously dramatic. The eiTec a- was to bring a deep hush over the Sen Ie ate chamber. The Republicans coul :ul not say anything without, admittin ot too much. They had to refrain fror it admitting the truth that they wer or paying for Harrison's election, an< owed much to the makers of commo he glass in America, but nothing to th be makers of line plate glass in Franc* in The Republicans did not soon recove ut from the question and the terrible mar il- ner in which Vance had hurled it n ly Aldrich. John Sherman figured hi he stubby beard. Judge Kdmunds, wh er effects indifference to everything an id everybody by apparent absorption i o- some book, peeped over the top of hi iw constant volume. Quay, the stoli irs dude, shook the lappel of his grayis ci- llannel neglige coat. Allison rolled hi eyes towards the frescoes, while Fran he Hiscock, on whose shoulders rest he Conklin's mantle of vanity, with sevei ill al additional breadths, looked helpless il- ly toward iiis old colleague, poor ol A-A.a mm niiv iizxx:at"ll snran ili larther into the physical nothingnes en of an unsexed watch." A (iood Showing lor the South. 'j* Wasiiinoton, August 22.?The em = monitors' returns to Superintended . Porter of tlie census of the Souther States shows an unexampled and astor ishing growth of that section. Eve ': the warmest friends of the South ar astonished at the figures. The return in l)rove ^at the South has had a genuin an:l substantial boom. They also shot ' " that the States of Alabama, West Vn '" ginia and Tennessee, where it was siif j * posed that the greatest increase woul be found, are actually lagging in th * race for population. The States thfl j" are not distinctly mineral producin .:(. regions are t lie ones that are t he large? gainers. Texas and (leorgia largel h lead the column. On the basis of 151 (XX) for a Congressman, which is th ho l)resent' basis, every Southern Stati with the exception of Delaware, wi I,, secure an additional Congressman,an C ?./ *? -<*"i. basis of representation prevail of 181 OCX), all the States, with the exception of Florida and Delaware, will secure a . * increase. Texas shows the largest gai in population, her increase being tkx) " (XX). Alabama has gained 357,(XX); Ai 1 Kansas, 3(511,475; Delaware 29,392; Flor , da, 2,700; (leorgia, 298,000: Kentucky 222,(XX); Louisiana, 17(1,?xx); Marylani iM 4(5(5,000; Mississippi, 234,000; North Cai olina. 241,000; South Carolina, 292,(XX ' Virginia, 208,000; West Virginia, 15(5 i (XX); Tennessee, 258,(XX); Missouri, 400 ' i (xx). It is now claimed that the increas in the South will exceed that of th ' States of the Northwest. ra- A ltutcll of New Doctor*. Cobi MliiA, S. ('., August 20.?Th g- (stale board of medical examiners cor so j eluded their labors at 8,30 to-night, ha\ in inn iM t-ii inmost continuously at wor lis all day. Twenty-four applicants to ut. admission to practice appeared. Thii ti- teen passed successfully, eight were n nd jectcd and three left before the exam ig- nation ended. The successful appli (Jil."!? >Ye.;e: , rs 15. Manning. Little Hock, Marion Com: n- ty; .1. 15. Minis. Lamar, Darlingto rs County; W. It. Clyburn, West, Kershat >p- County; Charles A. Teague, Newberry >i- Charles A. Jeffries, Home. Union Conn ii- ty; T. K. Nott, Lnoree, Spartanbnri it- County; John M. Thompson, colored r- Charleston; \V. 11. Cox, Lundsfon! n- Chester County;.I. T. Jeter, Santiu I'tiion County; Charles 10. |{. Flag*! lie (Jeorgetown County; J. Simpson Wisi d- Ilallsallville, Chester County. Th d- two colored doctors admitted to prnc tiff passed exceedingly creditable ex i- animations. News and Courier. ill * p. W II it I h to Do to id (iai i nky City, An.-list U?.?W. \\ I,. Russell, tin* famous Croon back leade i,l and tin- present postmaster at Ander ic son, passed here tins afternoon on hi L,r way to Washington. Hi* seemed in i >d happy frame of mind, but rather on lit ooniinunieative on the subject of hi: ts visit to llie Capital. He said, however that it Wiis of considerable important s(. to the people of South Carolina. "Vol rs may say this," he added, "that I will hi Ki the next Congressman from the Jd dis id trict. I am just as sure to succeei K) Judge Cothran as the sun shines, am there is no power that can prevent i save from lleaven. The race anion) ry the Democrats in my district is vert f badly mixed and I am thoroughly con ie latent that 1 will be elected ill thc'ldei ?f ol November.'" This was all Mr. Kus <- sell would say, preferring, he stated, ti y. keep out of the public prints. SOLD AND SWINDLED. r z CHALMERS PLEADS IN VAIN FOR THE l PRICE OF HIS SOUL. t ? 1 \ Hitter Taunt* for tlio Republican* and J 3 State Slander* Aealnnt tlie South?111* f Conduct at Kort Pillow?Denied tlie Seat f by a Strong Vote. y Washington. 1). C., Aug. 22.?In b the House, Dal/ell, of Pennsylvania, 3 called up the Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers vs. Morgan. 0 The majority report finds in favor of ,. Morgan, the sitting member. Chalmers |? was then granted permission to address j now.^and had for yours ^rrn/a eoiispiJ racy existing in the South for the carrying of elections for the Derao" cratic party. That party was detera mined to carry elections honestly if it j 3 could, forcibly if it must. The State ! 1 of Mississippi was a leader in that con-1 11 spiracy. Men who dared to run on a 11 Republican ticket or to make Republi" can speeches carried their lives in their l" own hands. That the black vote was 8 suppressed could not be successfully 3 denied. It was the suppression of this ' vote that had justified the Republicans e of the House in the passago of the l" Lodge bill. If tlie Republicans after passing that hill should turn around 3 and accept the majority report in this d case they would set theinselves in a G suspicious attitude before CTie country. [| Refore the meeting of Congress it had d been charged that the Republicans info tended to turn out enough Democrats to give them a good working majority. 0 If after getting that majority they decline to give him his seat they would | give color to that charge. It would be 1 said that when they were undertaking 3 to pass a law to give them a chance for :t a majority in the next IIouso they said 1 that certain testimony was true which : d in this case they said was not sufficient K to establish a conspiracy in Mississippi.! 11 He did not believe that the Republican e party could a/Tord to place itself in I d that attitude, and ho did not think it n could do it. lie then proceeded to ex-1 e amino in detail the evidence of fraud J. and intimidation in the various counr ties of the district to substantiate his i- charge that a huge conspiracy existed I ^ to defeat him for Congress. For the is House to sustain the report was to say , 0 that the stealing of a congressional seat [ d was nothing but political purchase, i ? lie said that in order to prejudice his 3 case the old story relating to Fort d Pillow had been revived. In the Fnr. h ty-sisth Congress charges had been 3 made against him in connection with k Fort l'illow. He had asked for an ins vestigation and it had been denied him. i-- When the truth of history came to be *- written calmly it would be seen that fl RAtjl ftihirio mnn U?d I>? >? '*ua C Willi 1 nffa surrendered in the fort. Every '3 man killed had been outside the fort. But even if every one of the charges against him were true he had not been the commanding ollicer. lfthecharges were true, they brought disgrace upon n the gallant Forest who stood by his side. The fact that until the end of n the war he had served with that ollicer ,e as second in command was proof that s he was guilty of no conduct unbeeomp ing an ollicer and a gentleman. No v gentleman on the Democratic side 1. would believe a story which would disgrace the brave Forest, and the men {j who had served under Grant and Shere man were too manly to bring disgrace upon an American soldier. Continu' ing, Chalmers said that he felt that this republican form of government y was in danger of being over ridden and . trodden under foot by a Southern 'e oligarchy. For fifteen years the Hepublican party had been lighting the j{ Northern Democrats in the open field . walls erected by fraud and violence. Jg They should see to it that the national government was not controlled by n fraud and violence. A Southern gov_ ernor who had without protest seen outrages like the killing of negroes at j_ Yazoo and Carrollton grew frantic , with rage over a fair light between two j' pugulists. It was a fair question r_' whether the Democratic party was not ). going to the devil as fast as' it could ' and taking Mississippi with it. Kelley, of Kansas, offered a resolution reciting the following paragraph ? from the majoritv renort: "With respect'to "the other seven counties there is a number of boxes as to which no testimony was taken, but e it may safely be allirmed in not one of i- these counties, taken as a whole, was the election an honest one. Fraud in k various forms, including intimidation r of voters, corrupt manipulation of r- registration, stalling and stealing of i- ballot boxes and illegal voting finds i- ample illustration in all of them;" and i- recommitting the case with iustrue n.w cimiuiiiice on ejections to exclude from its count the unexamined i- boxes. Lost, 31 to 13d. The minority n substitute was rejected and the inajoriv ty resolution, declaring Morgan entitled to the seat, was agreed to with* i- out division. g Korty-FIvn IIoikc* Itnrncil. I, New Yokk, Aug. 17.?Fire broke out , to-night in the stables belonging to the ;, Lion Hrewing company, in which 138 *, horses were kept. The stables are )<>0 cated very near the brewery, and fears - were entertained that the latter would > be burned also. All the force attached to stables and the brewery were at once put to work to aid the liremen and to , save the imprisoned horses. Ninety three horses were saved from the lirst r lloor of thebuilding, but the other forty live which were located in the basement, s were roasted to death. The horses burn* 11 ed were valued at 820,000, and the stock - of feed and harness, all of which was s burned with the building, is estimated ' to bo worth 8100,000, and the building " 875.000. The brewery was saved. !? Senator Vance Will Not l?e 0|>|?ohciI. Asiiville, N. ('. August 12. The 1 St ?#? EflrmiTu' All;.. ? ? ' . , ...VK . ?. > %' r> itlllilliir Illl't, IHTf lO-IUiy 1 with 5500 delegates in attendance, every t County in tlu? State being represented ( S. It. Alexander, a prominent delegate 1 who will be the Democratic candidate - for Congress from the Sixth District, ? said to-day that the Alliance as a body - would not oppose the re-election of Sen? ator Vance, and he was certain that he would be renominated. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. A Fearful Cyclone In VVIlkeitlmrro. I'eiuiftylvanla. Tl WlLKKSBAHItE, 1*A., Aug. 20.?A terrible cyclone struck this city thii evening. The telegraph wires are alldown. Loss of life is heavy. Hundreds of buildings were blown "down. A The storm came up the river. From what point it originated is not known. " The suddenness of its coming Mas one , of its most awful features* The heavens were as black as night, and the wind blew with most frightful velocity. w; Whole rows of trees were blown down. . Following this hundreds of house? were unroofed, partially blown over or coin- w pletely demolished. ch The total death loss, so far as ascer- nc tained is twelve. Four men areknown to have been killed in the Hasard wire rope works. A,house on SoQtt street, * the inmates were Tinge f 1 smokestack of the Kytle Mailing mill c fell on a man ami two hotses and all 'hi were killed. A little colored girl was in killed by a falling buildinr on South j)( Main street. Two men suffered death oy me railing or a portion oi St. Marge's; "v brewery, ami a thinl incurred the same ! l'ate through the almost complete de- in molition ol S. L. Hrown's handsome as brick business block on East Market re street. There are undoubtedly fifteen C; or sixteen others killed. Other reports <; are coming in constantly to that elTect. as Large districts in several sections of I Tl the city are in absolute ruin, and j K: women and children are in the streets lit crying and wringing their hands in I in absolute dismay. The damage will; of reacte hundreds of thousands of dollars.; at Passenger trains and locomotives at! th the depot were blown over, and every ea wire in the city, electric light, telephone se and telegraph, is down. The devasta- gl tion is to be compared with nothing^n the memory of the oldest inhabitant. h< Everybody is rejoicing that no iires pi have as yet followed, for the streets are j F impassable with fallen buildings and j w the engines could not be drawn through, ,*q The Murray shaft lan bouse was blown st down and the fan stopped. There are It twenty-seven men in the mine, but it ,1; is hoped they can be got out safely. et Reports come from Sugar Notch, a II mining town three miles from here, .Ji that the destruction of property is ter- w rible, and that fifteen persons were P killed. At Parsons and Mill Creek, the a! territory lour miles from here, coal ci breakers in all directions have been al more or less damaged, and the number T of killed will reach ten. tl A speeial dispatch from Scranton to pi the Times says that a train coming in U from Sumuierville, thirty miles west of (i Scranton, was struck by a cyclone this h; evening and totally annihilated. En- tl gineer William Fisher, in giving an account of his train experience while r< passing through the cyclone, said: ti "The engine was lifted from the track J and all the windows in the cars were, u crushed in by the terrible Cyclone. Two d pf Mm train 1, ? J* w jured." __J $1 Shocked the Senator. Washington, August 22.?The f young grandson of the famous ex-Sen- :i ator Nye of Nevada and a nephew of . the equally famous ltill Nye of Laramire City and New York was a few .. days ago appointed a page in the Sen- ., ate. lie is very popular with the other pages in the chamber, and with nearly all of the Senators. One of them, however, Mr. Colquitt of Georgia, rather 'j thinks the new page has done him an :j injury. Soon after the boy had taken , the oath to support the constitution and j) to defend his country against all eneniies, foreign and domestic, he was call- 0 i'd upon to do an errand for Senator ? Wade Hampton, who told him to get a c bottle of Congress water and a sand- a witch at the restaurant, and place thein in the cloak room for him. The page made a slight mistake in the order, and 1 took the articles of refreshment into J: the Senate chamber and put them unini 4a* Mr ? where they remaineoior some time the cause of much comment. Senator Col- , quitt is an ardent prohibitionist, and was greatly shocked when he entered ^ the chamber to lind his desk adorned ,1 with a long necked black bottle and a ' sandwith covered with a napkin. At lirst he was inclined to think some of his colleagues had been playing a practical joke. When he learned the facts ^ he gave young Nye a lecture, and warned him to be more careful hereafter to " distinguish between a prohibition Sen- . ator and one who is in favor of original packages. __ I An Important Derision. I!ALKinu, N. C. August 21. -Judges d Seymour and llond of the I'nited States a Circuit Court recently rendered a deeis- si ion the in ease of the American Fertilliz- k erCompany of \'irginiaagainsttheCom- c< missioner of Agriculture of the State of II North Carolina. The Court decided a that the law imposing a tax of SiiOO upon fertilli/.er companies doing business in v North Carolina is a violation of the in- ti terstate eoinmeree ac* and uneonstitu- d tiuuai. Tiie tax realized from this source tl amounted to J?Jd,OUOa year, and was de- a voted maintaining the State Depart- s< meats of Agriculture and Mechanical il College. I In Ton liljf il lliirry. ^ A (Icriimn ii;iiiww 1 '-r v- C? -- .?>CM iYork, is 111 a bad shape. A year ago , his wile, to whom he was a devoted . husband, was declared to be dying. She .. earnestly desired her husband to marry her younger sister and insisted on ii ceremony being performed by what was supposed to be her dying bedside. = This was done and it took such a weight from her mind that she iminediately got well. 11 uegel w as left with two wives on his hands but the matter was kept quiet until last week when . the birth of a baby to the younger sister caused a revelation of the facts. We Hope It Wilt Succeed. <>' AvtirsT.v, (la., August lb.?Applies- P1 tion was made to-day in the .Superior 11 Court for letters of incorporation by ''I capitalists who w ill begin the inanufae- u t ure of cotton bagging from cotton stalk w fibre. The principal place of the manufactory ami oiliee will be in Augusta. The capital stock is ?.">000,000, with priv- d ileges of increasing it to $5,000,000. A Cloudburnt In Cnl?ra?l?. o COI.OKADO Sl'KINOS, ('of., Aug. 15.?A CI ii< uuoim rioiiiioiunt uruKU Over 11118 (1 city yesterday, deluging the town, beat- v ing in roofs and undermining walls. 'J Two people were swept away and drown- <1 ed. Twelve miles of railroad track were u washed away; damage at least j*2?'iO,OUO. ei STARTLED STATESMEN. IE ALLIANCE BLIZZARD BLOWIN( THROUGH THE HALLS. uiy Mriuhern Hurrying Home In I^iol Lftcr their Fcncctt?The Sections Strucl iint the Men Threatened?The Mouh leniorRllzed itinl Distempered. Washington, D. C., Aug. 20.'?To ird the end of Jul> full half the mem >rs of the House of Representative ere absent from their duties. Storn juds had unexpectedly appeared ii arly every Congressional District ii [ricultural sections of the countrj mth and West. The political sky wa daze with suggestive premonition! uriners'rtBllancG wilSttfcork. In \v districts it had roared like a torn:i >. overwhelming representatives seek ? a re-election. Republicans an emocrats hail been served alike. I her districts it resembled a lloo seeping over river bottoms and earn j? everything before it. There wer ,founding reports from Kansas an ports equally alarming from Xort irolina, Alabama, (Jeorgia, and th nil' States. Senators as distinguish!' Inpalls and Vance were threatenei here were anxious faces in the llousi uperienced veterans heard the whisl lg of the storm and knew they wer danper. They paired with men r >posite political faith in equal peri id sped to their districts to look alti eir political households. In soui ises they were too late to save then Ives, in others they are still striq ing. The rising of the farmers might aptl ?. compared to the rising in the <1? irtments of France at the time of th rench revolution. Honest legislator ho had never failed in devotion to th rricultural interests of the eountr niggled for their political cxistenc' 1 (leorgia there was a violent gal lines II. lJlount. of Macon, serving h ghteenth consecutive year in th ouse, was forced to raise his umbrelh uilpe John I). Stewert was owe helmed. Tom (Irimes and Jud? arucs also went under. There wei arming reports concerning me pom il future of that prince of Confede :e soldiers, Gov. .lolin 11. Gordoi he farmers were making the light A le Legislature with the intention < utting one of their own number intl nited States Senate in the place < ov. doe. llrown. Governor Gordo ad thrown himself into their ranks i ic hopes of securing the prize. Such were some of the reports thi ;ached the House. In Mississippi sue ied veterans as General Ilookt ames 1 Iright Morgan, General Gate! lgs and Thomas It. Stockdalo were e< angered, llriUiant dohnALaAllen r jowl hin -rtr-WFmmaticniiefore tl ;Atn had fairly burst. In Alabau en. William II. Forney was serious ireatened. Ilis loss would have bei national loss. lie well tills Samu . Randall's place in the Committee t impropriations. In Kansas, Iowa and Illinois ever hing is at sea. The political life < le Rev. John A. Anderson, rough-ar ?ady l'erkins, and of pertinacious Fui .on is at stake. Anderson is a hoi ghter. His assault upon the l'acil lilroads alone ought to endear him le farmers. He will be in the lie espite all opposition, and if he inn o. will fall like a hero. Then there was alarming news fro outh Carolina. The veteran Geori >. Tillman alone was undismayed. I i a brother of the Tillman who is sha ig up the political aristocracy of tl 'almetto State, and whose obituary robably already in type in the coi osing rooms ol' more than one dai ewspaper. . Willi riliOAMi A9IUA frain UM^iKortl rest. The sitting members were 11 nly exposed to the blasts of the Fari rs' Alliance, but were shaken by tl uhool question that had excite'd t lerman Lutherans. This agitata hrew the Republican Kepresentativ f the liadger State into" a fever. Iireateus their supremacy to such i xtent that it is claimed the State w 0 Democratic. The great Caswell aid to have been knocked out of a r omination. There were also eyclon 1 Congressional districts in lllino ndiana. Minnesota and Michigan. All these rumors withered up tl louse like a sirocco. It shrunk to tl inallcst dimensions. The Speaker h; illiculty in counting a quorum. Mai u empty seat tells of the despora iruggle. Both sides lind it (difficult eep their lines. Telegrams are r uived daily telling of the fortunes < [epresentatives hundreds and thou nds of miles away. A quorum was found only when ote was taken upon the most impc int measures. There were tireson ebates in committee of the whole ( ne original packake, the bankruptc nd other bills. Men spoke to emp Hats. The Committee on Utiles ke :s grip on the throat of the IIous t not only directed what bills shou e taken up, but allotted the time f nnsideration and specified the hoi >r voting. Without this specillcatk . would have been almost impossib > have obtained a voting quorum i ic critical moment. There was no chance for the thou tuls of little bills upon the calendai liese arc usually shoved in to till tl itcrstices of legislation by unaniinoi msent. The list of bills 011 the prin 1 calendars toward the end of tl lonth tilled 120 pages. The calcnd; f the committee ol the whole on t.1 ate of the Union took up twent; iree; the House calendar carried nin nd the private calendar was sprea ver forty-seven pages. There was age of special orders, live pages of ui nished business, and a page of privi ?ed reports. Over l,7(X)bilIs remainr l?on tli(5 calendar, only 237 of whic ere private pension bills. The laboring men looking for lab< gislation, the claimants seeking ju nes from the government, and tl tiousands interested in measures a Beting commerce, agriculture, an ther business interests of the countr; an readily understand why nothing one to relieve them. The rules, ,as said, were made to do busines 'hey do business, but it is the busine: csignated by the Committee on Ituli tider the rules, l'rivileged busine: its up much oi the time. If throng importunity a member, secures recoj nition from the Speaker and asks unan mou? consent for the consideration < 3 a hill which takes not a dollar froi the Treasury, soujpbody invariably ol jects. If by any accident, the objectio is not heard, somebody is sure to rah the point of no quorum when a vote * taken. k Not an hour up to date has bee given by the Committee on Rules, t the Committee on Labor, to tho Con mittee on Patents, or to a do/en othi committees equally important. Indeei " the Committee on Patents has bad i- terrible time. It got no day in tt 3 Fiftieth Congress, and has bad no d;i in the Fifty-First Congress. Theruli set down Friday as a day for tho coi 11 sideration of private bills; yet undi n the rules these bills have been robbt r of their day for over four month ' Strange anomaly?a net that lets all tl big l'wh through and catches all the 11 uu uuuo. a Flere is a bill granting fifteen da; t_ j leave of absence to per diem men in tl customs service. Tho Secretary of tt Treasury favors it. It takes not a cei ' out of tho Treasury. All the other er u ployces in this servico have leaves i (1 absence for thirty days with pay. Th< work eight hours a day. These p diem men work in relays from sunrii ''j to sunset and from sunset to sunris (1 All are compelled to remain upon dul I' whether their services are needed i '' not. In summer importations are n< <1 as heavy as in winter. One fifth of tl force might easily be spared for fiftei ' days while the other four-fifths did tl -- work. Yet thrice has unanimous CO (' sent been asked to consider this bi '1 and thrice has objection been made. similar bill affecting post ofiiceemplo >r ees remained hanging by the eyelids f ? a month on a motion to reconsider, e 1- teredtwo days after its passage. T1 >- man can get consent to bring up tl eight-hour back pay law, the bill to i y store the wages in the govern me 2- printing aflice, and a scoro of si mil >e hi lis placed on the calendar by the Coi s. mittee on Liabor. It is an ill-temperi House. The Speaker has made it t Yt Senseless objections are made and tl point of no quorum raised apparent without reason 's Despite these overloaded calenda 10 and the absence of over 150 niembc who are skirmishing with the Farme r_ Alliance and the Lutheran preache committees are urged to report bi 0 lately introduced. Tho committ i- rooms, however, are even more desert r" than tho chamber of the House. EiTc after effort is made to secure a quoru ,r in vain. All see that a measure repoi ed at this late hour, unless of vital ii portance, must fail of consideratic 3f At times the clerk of a committ ? spends days in searching for cnoui n members to make a quorum. Tl quorum is frequently secured by brin iff ing their signatures together upon tl <h back of the bill to bo reported. Ma 'r. a poor devil seeking private legislati l" departs from Washington with a joy I n* heart after this is aone.?New Yo e- Sun. le 1A THE COTTON BAGGING BOYCOT1 ly in A\ hut a Georgia Journal Hays About ( Fight of the Farinern' Alliance. >n Atlanta, Ga., August 22.?Spea v. ing of boycotts, it may be remark that the boycott of tho Jute Trust . j the Fanners' Alliance has been a coi plete success. From 15 cents, the pri demanded by the trust, which \v ic equal to a direct tax of ?4,000.000 ,n year on the Southern farmers, jute h l, j fallen to 5^. ? But even at this prico there is no i mand for jute bagging on the part m the cotton growers. As a matter ^ fact the boycott has just fairly got i j to working order, and it is not like i, that the farmers will again place thei i.v" selves in the power of so vicious a co is bination as that formed by the ji ? manufacturers. To resort again . " jute as a covering for cotton wot y not only be against the best interei l. of the farmers, but would be unjust tnR interests which havo been built n_ as a result of the boycott. ie The greed of the jute men ov ll0 reached itself in this instance, and )n the indications go to show that t es profitable market into which they < j't tered as highway robbers will nei in again bo opened to them. The Manufacturers' ltecord make: is little estimate that is of special inten >e_ in this connection. If the entire nt ,,s crop, which is estimated at 7,000,t is bales, should be wrapped in cotton b?i '' ging, 35,000,000 yards of it would l,e required, which is equivalent to 27,00 tie 000 pounds of the staple, making u n< market for 55,000 bales of 500 poun each. At a very low estimate, it is beliov to thatthisincreasedconsumptionwilla< to Mlft marlict nrifii of ft.*. ot-.nl/. 0f least half a cent a pound, giving ; s. additional value of 82 50 to each ha while the saving by the use of ju a would bo but 211 cents a bale. It is n ,r_ expected that this result will )U brought about at once, but it iscerta )n to follow the persistent refusal of t ... farmers to use jute. ly We may say here that an Atlan ,)t gentleman, whose process for extrai I,, ing iibres has attracted attention evi m' in foreign counties, is now experimer l)r ing with the iibre of the cotton plat ljr lie thinks that for a comparatively i )n significant sum he can place on ea< j0 farm a machine for stripping the bai from the cotton stalk directly the pic ing is over, and before the plant h s. become dry and hard. From the ba s? the Iibre can be extracted at a co l(, almost nominal, and it can then I 1S worked up in the same manner as ju and woven on the same machinery. 1R Atlanta Constitution. ir A it.i,i I'lHcn to l.ltt, 10 Lovisvillk, Ky., Aug. 21.?Ann y- must pray circumspectly in Ferry Cou v' ty if he dares close his eyes longenouj l(l to pray at all, A correspondent write 14 "The I lev. .1. J. Dickey of Jackson w J- here when Joe Kversole was killed ai '* offered a prayer at the pftave when 1 1(1 \t' ? CI hlirS/wl Tl.Jr. -X- ? Mi?o %j uuru. 11113 iictiuil U1 till) lit I1 Dickey incensed another faction, ai his life was threatened. lie lias nov ^ been in l'erry since." 10 A Fountain of Tar. I Ric hmond. Va., August 18,?It is.sa id that a veritable fountain of tar has bei y, discovered three or four miles tro is ltaleigh, on the lands of Mr. R. S. Pi it ler. The stuff in question exudes fro is. a bank, and when the oo/ing stream ss cut off it comes out again with tl t'S consistency of soft putty, having tl ss look, taste and smell, and is to all a ;h pearances genuine tar. SUIUIUU IDI A 1ALA0J&. 5f n THE TRAGIC END OF A NEW YORK ^ MILLIONAIRE. ,0 iH A Wealthy Itroker Hangi Hlnmelf with a jj Sheet to tlio Door of hia Ile<l Boom-O I line** mu?1 '^nellnru the Supposed 1>r Causes of his lteckloss Act. New York, August 17.?In the pala? tial residence of his sister, Mrs. Amos iv Cutting, 835 5th avenue, this afternoon us was found the body of Joseph A. Jamll" eson, a Hroad street broker and banker. lie had hanged himself from the bod lS< room door in liis line suite of rooms on ie the fourth lloor. Jameson was reported to bo a millionaire and was the Stock Exchange member of the firm of Jamie eson, Smith & Co, bankers and brokers, ie at the corner of Exchange place and Hroad street. The second member of n* the linn is James 1). Smith, commodore of the New York Yaclit Club. W Jameson's family are out of town, and er from what canbe learned from his friends 80 temporary insanity, caused by illness ' * and perhaps aggravated by a feeling of W | loneliness in the absence of bis family, is thought to bo the cause of the tragedy. ot Mrs Jameson and heryoungest son. a mi10 nor 17 years old, are at, Scarboro lieach, 1,1 fc^e. Two sons?Addison, the eldest, a 10 widower 33 years old, and Alexander, 28 ,1" years old?and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas S Manson, werespenuing Sunday at their father's farm at Clinton Connors, eight y* miles from Poughkeepsie, and the socor ond daughter, Mrs. Myra Murphy, widow of ltichard Murphy, Jr, at Elliorton,N.J. * ? The last seen of Mr. .1 a meson was at 5 00 o'clock on Saturday, when he came homo e" from the ollice and told a servant that nt he would go to his room to rest. He ar did not appear to-day, and becoming 11 * alarmed the servent called a Park police0(1 man, who entered the broker's rooms |p* through the one unlocked door, lie 'J? found the l>ody hanging with a sheet ?y around the neck, the other end of which had been thrown over the door and tied rs to tin) knob. The suicide had knelt so >r3 as to cause strangulation quickly, and rs his knees almost touched the lloor. The |"s? millionaire had evidently disrobed with 113 the tntention of retiring for the night 00 before the awful impulse seized him. lie 00 was only clad in Ids night shirt and ,rt drawers. The body was taken down and placed rt" on a bed. Superintendent Jenks. of the ra" Murray Hill Hotel, a near friend of the in- deceased, took charge of the funeral ar00 rangements. Nothing was found to lnS" dicate the cause of the deed. Jameson 113 was taken sick three months ago, and was still weak when, three weeks ago, ho 110 was taken with throat trouble. The latny top nffn/ifi nil wnfl ha flnrinna that, l'rnf W 011 J. Janoway was kept in close attendu* auce. The trouble increased, and physirk cal pain may have resulted in sudden insanity. Jameson came to New York from St. Louis in 1865 with his brother-in-law, , Amos Cotting. since deceased. Each is said to have Drought 81,500,000 as the profits of a dry goods business. A brokik erage business was opened on Wall street e<l and at lirst the linn nelonged to t lie o|m>ii by board of brokers and later to the .Stock in- Exchange. Jameson was a man of ce domestic taste and was regarded as a as conservative and prudent financier. His a business is said to be in good shape. ll!! llefutlnif ? llitie Slander. le. To the Editor of the News and CouGf rier: In your issue of August 15 ap0f peared a special from Greenville, in n. which your correspondent repeats a qy story to the effect that "Capt. D. K. jn_ Norris was forced to leave Orangeburg m. County in consequence of immoral conkto duct." Now we, the undersigned, old to neighbors and acquaintances of Capt. D. K. Norris, among whom he was born Jtg and reared, deeply regret and deplore to that such base and unfounded rumors up should be circulated through the respectable press of the State to the Iner J?ryof ono ?f her best citizens, take ajl this occasion, unsolicited by any one, he save our sense of right and justice to ;n. our old neighbor, to denounce and deny, Jer and pronounce unqualifiedly false any and all such base slanders. We have j a known Capt. I). K. Norris all his life, ?g? and a more honorable, upright and jvv pure citizen Orangeburg County has 100 never reared, and instead of being "forced" to leave this locality it was ho with great regret and a deep senso of O. our love for him to sever his associany tions from us and remove to Anderson (i? uounty. K. L. Dantzler, 1?. M., II. W. Hhame. P(i S.P.Wells, W. L. Stoutamire, J. P. Folder, J. S. 11 art, ... D. J. Avinger. ,'in Vance's, S. C., August 18,1890. Sttiriiie StitrvAtion In the K?oe. ltx? A dispatch from Had Axe, Mich., says: ot wjjjjj farmers of a portion of Huron j County have asked for public aid because .ll? their crops were totally destroyed by the ,1U terrific storm which swept the Eastern part of the county at harvest time. V* The appeal has been made by 200 of ;l" them in the face of .absolute want and [>.n possible starvation. The storm was a ' phenomenal one, the hail falling in lt* clouds and covering the ground from n" four to eight inches, completely burying all their crops. The track of the storm wftS t',rouK'1 Siegcl and Jilooinfield and ' , part of Paris townships, and covered an a? area eighteen miles long and a mile wide. Many of the farmers in that. j'""' tion live on rented farms, which only agl,? gravates tlio suffering as they cannot _ pay their rent, besides having nothing to live npon. Many will be in danger of starving unless help is given. An instance is reported where one man had m MX) acres rented and all in crops. Every n- acre was destroyed. The estimated loss ?h is at least 840,000, ranging from 850 to s: 83,000 for each farmer. ]('j The North Carolina Democrats. I,e Ualkioii, N. C., August 20.?The )V# State Democratic Convention to-day id nominated a judicial ticket and adjourn er ed. Police Justice Merriman and Justico Clark were nominated by acclamation and nine Superior Court Judges wero unanimously endorsed for re-election, id Senator Vance was cordially recoinen mended to the Legislature for re elecin tion to the L'nited suites Senate. Itesoil lotions favoring the free coinage of silm ver, increased currency, reneal of the is internal revenue system, abolition of lie national banks, financial reform and he relief from the existing agricultural dep pression and denouncing the McKinley and Lodge bills, were adopted.