Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mr. .Kennedy drew from the details of the Clayton-Breckinridge case the COncln?sinn thill the "Poiloou! jw should be enacted. lie made a srv attack upon the Senators who have been opposed to the Lodge bill. Por hiniseir, conlldcnt in the doctrines of the Republican party, fully committed to the principles of that party, lie must forever dissent from the cowardly surrender which hauls down the Hag and strikes the colors of the Republican party to a defeated foe. Continuing, he saidSpeaking for myself, 1 shall nail the """ ? banner of the Republican party at the masthead with the doctrine which has become inseparable from the history of its existence and which demands protection of the numblest citizen in the pr- righ#to an honest ballot and the protection of life and property, and stand ready to defend that doctrine to the 1 last. That the election bill has been killed by Republicans or pretended Repub' cans is true. Without fair trcatmr it 1 the bill, which the House of llepres :tatives said imperatively was demanded for the preservation of its own honor and for the safety and stability of its honor, ami for the protection of ' the whole country against outrages 1 and intimidation and violence, is de- ( liberately put aside without a hearing ( and without opportunity of consider;! Mon. wnen ueiore in an the past his- ? tory of legislation has one house of 1 Congress deliberately put upon the 1 other the mark of its derision and contempt? ( The considcrat ion of this measure * ^^^vasdohiiludtJll by every sense ol' decen- } cy and honor. It was demanded by the House of Representatives that its floor might be purged of those who are enabled to enter by reason of violerce ? and murder. ThcSenate of the United 1 States will learn 1 here is a liar of public ? opinion, and that at it it is now bain? ' tried. To have been a Senator in the , days of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun. ' was to have been part of a body that * tVon and held the admiration of the people. North and South. To have J been a Senator in the days of Wade ' and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to ' have been associated with men whose 1 sense of honor would have i corned the purchase of a seat, and would have ! denied companionship to oue whose 1 name was tarnished by even the suspicion of infamy or corruption. 1 toy If the Roman toga had been bedraggj. gled in the filth and mire of centuries, surely the cloak of Senatorial courtesy has been used to hide the infamv anil corruption \fhich has dishonor 1 and disgraced the body which was once the proudest in the land. The cloak of Senatorial courtesy has beeomo a stench to the nostrils and a byword in the mouth of all honest citizens of the land It means a cloak behind which ignorant and arrogant wealth can purchase its way to power and then hide its cowardly head behind t he shameless protection of Senatorial silence, it means a cloak which shall cover up from the public gaze of an outraged people infamies which demand investigyj&on and which merit the punislinieiiT"'of broken laws and violated statutes. It means a cloak behind Which petty party bickerers may hart r away the party's principles and play tho demagogue in the face of the people. It means a cloak behind which Eretended fairness hides its dishonest cad. while in secret it is trading and trafficking in the rights and liberties of the people. It means a cloak under which not only the timid and cowardly politician can cover up his tracks, be they foul or fair, As nwwysit.y demands. The hour for .Seuatonffr ixmrtwy passed. The ox team of Senatorial progress must give way to tho motor of a moreenlightcne'-' and progressive and determined age. Let the old 'and threadbare cloak of Senatorial courtesy be hung up with the sickle and Hail of a bygone day. Referring to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Mr. Kennedy said: It was meet and fitting that Judas should be 'Uilrlu tvidrliy nf silver it. was si ill - part of the enternal fitness of things that having been guilty of the basest crlnio of all the centuries he should go out and bang himself. IPstory is repeating itself. The great party of the liepublic. having lived for thirty live years, has never yet assisted in riveting the shackles upon a human being, and now, when it was to be expected that it would redeem its pledges and be faithful to its history, it is about to prove false and oilrepeated promises are not to be redeemed. It coir es victorious from every Held, and if it fail? ? 11 " ? -'* ' * ' * n ?oi*f tr f K/\un utile HOW 10 IIUIIB III i in un ii jmu v y inunv *? ii\i are faithless to its trust. If it is tola crucified it is only because its chosen leaders have bartered away its princl H plea for the tricks atid petty scheme} of politicians. No Judas Iscanot ol 2,000 years ago is to find a counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of to-day. Tin Judas who took thirty pie< -s of si've and Went and hanged himsell has let . an example for the Matt Quays that i ' well worthy of their limitation. Some time since I stood up in m place on this lloor and denounced Senator from my nalivelitate, hecaus when charged with corruption an branded with infamy lie did not nris lu hia seat and demand an invcstigi owiini IIUIIUI. One other, occupying :i high place i ^ the councils of the party to which I he long, has suffered himself, month i and month out, to ho charged witl crimes and misdemeanors for which, i guilty, lie should have been cor.demnei under the laws of his .State and hav had meted out to him the fullest meas 111*0 of its punishment. This man is i Republican. Shall 1 now remair silent? Is it just and honest to remair in my seat silent because one who it accused of crimes ami refuses to seel for vindicatio i, is a 1? publican, ami that Republican the recognized leadci of my party? Neither decency nor honor would permit me to do so." i do not know whether the charges made against the chairman of the National Republican committee are true or false, but I do know they have btiiii made by journals of character and nHtber sought nor attempted to Seek opportunity to vindicate himself l'rom them. I do know that as a great ReI iblican leader ho owed it to the groat p ty at whose head he was either to brand them as infamies or to prove their falsity, or he owed it to that party to stand aside from its 1* .dcrsliip. Ue has not done either, and for this I denounce him. The Republican party cannot afford to follow the lead of a branded criminal, lie lias failed to justify himself, although opportunity and ample time has been given. Tie remains silent. Ilissilence under such circumstances is a confession of guilt. An honorable man does not long dally when his honor is assailed. lie has delayed too long to justify belief in his innnnnnnn ??? "" 1 * " ! cwim iiu siiiutis a convicreil criminal before the bar of public opinion. Under such circumstances he should he driven from the head of a party whose very life his presence imperils. The Republican party has done enough for its pretended leader. Let him be relagated to the rear. It is no longer a question of his vindication. 11 is now a question of the life of the party itself. Kennedy read his speech from manuscript, occupying about half an hour in its deli very. HE FELT AWFUL QUEER. The Hikir UiiUInc Experience of u T?-loKrapli Editor. Atlanta c v ?> ,n~~ * ?mi. J uui Murphy, telegraph editor of the Atlanta Journal,is glad that hois alive tolight. IIo had a strange experience to lay while in the discharge of his daily lu tics. lie had opened a number of telegrams, road them, wrote heading lor .hem and sent them to the printers when ho had a hair raising experience. lie opened a telegram, read it as his !.ves grow big with 1 error, and then jetting up he went over to a fellow worker's desk and said very earnestly. 110 I |(mK liKon ... .. ??V' ? "No, what makes you think so?" ".lust read that," and Mr. Murphy iho ed the telegram under his friend's lose while he wiped cold beads of peripiration from his reeking hut massive >row. The telegram was from Augusta, Mr. Murphy's former home. It read iomething like this: "Journal, Atlanta, (la.: Ship the body if Thomas I). Murphy on the next train. See that it is enclosed in a neat jasket and wo will pay all expenses.? Uhronicle." Mr. Murphy was pulling his hair to see if he was really alive, when lie opened another telegram, and then it was all that he could do to make himself believe he was not a corpse. It was from his father, and asked that the body of his son be sent to Aug" ta on the lirst train and he would 111 .t it uritli nf l.ia i'rinn.lo at Covington. The Chronicle's message was answered by Mr. Murphy, telling his old pajjrthat he was* the liveliest corpse imaginable. His lather and his friends had left Augusta, so Mr. Murphy waited until the down train left, and took passage upon it to meet them at Covington. The old man's feelings can better be imagined than described when he met his son in the llesh, well and healthy, insteail of meeting his lifeless body. Mr. Murphy is at a loss to know how the report of Ids death reached Augusta. He says it makes a fellow feel awful queer to read about his own body being put in a neat casket for burial. Uutlier Dlu than Surrender. City ok Mkxico. via (Iai.vksto.x, August 31.?A San Jose, 1). 15., (juntomala, dispatch says everything was prepared this morning to capture the revolutionist, (led Martin Ihirrundia, who was on board a passing American steamer. "The port captain, with several companions, hoarded the steamer and de ' tiinndtt/i n?, uip-rendtrof Bnrnmdia I ron Capt. Pitts, who answemi mmn.. ..??. deliver up the revolutionist and invitei them to I lam India's cabin. Assistan Chief of Police ('apt. Calderon andthret otllcers were among those who went witl the captain to the cabin. When then Major Torriello made known to llarrun din that tho cnptnln of the vessel hw decided to deliver him up. Mnrrundi thereupon opened lire witli his revolve upon the party, who answered liis lin Harrundia fell, riddled with bullets. Hi body was taken to the port captain oflice. A lllxo ill i'|-4>Ylxioll>t. Macox, (la., September !. The Teh graph says the corn crop is estimated : 1,<500,000,000 bushels. Jn iss*.? it was 2 113,(XX),000 bushels, the largest ever ha | vested. The average crop for live yea | past has been 1,800,000,000 bushels. T1 , large surplus from last year renders probable that the supply will not fall b | low the average, notwithstanding tli ( year's shortage. The oats crop is poi , in quality in many localities and w not exceed 575,000,000 bushels, again 751,000,(XX) bushels last year, which w j the largest crop ever grown. I'rovlsioi ? have advanced, owing to the increasi L prico of corn. Hogs for January deli ,, ery at Chicago sire 2? per cent, high ~L than last year's prices. t Killed l>y an Klfclrir Wire. s Cincinnati, August 30.- Thorn Dim, Hged 22, a lineman of the llru y Company, was standing 011 an iron II a escape and was about to run a loop in e a second-story window, llc'caught il live electric light wlreand instantly! ts hack dead on the lire escape, llis rig 1- hand was nearly burned off. P A STRANGE TALE FROM THE LAND OF u FLORIDA. h f I 'Willto anil Itlurk People Fluckiuu to llie B Hut of u Negro Voudoo Doctor, Wlto j OlitliiiH tluit lie Citu l>o itny Tiling ho is I l'ulil for. I , Savannah, Sept., 4.?Maxwell, a ; hamlet in Florida seven miles south of \ I laid win, on the Florida Central and ; Peninsula Railroad, is becoming fa; mo us judging from the numerous pasi sengcrs tor that place the past month i or tivvo, The town has u store and three j houses, and the surrounding country is j sparsely settled. Ordinarily not morel the number increnseaTto^Bw^Mtve, iind then to onSfiundred and lii'ty, the persons under whose notice the increase came begun an investigation. Your correspondent made a dying trip to Maxwell ^yesterday, and interviewed l)r. 'Ijisha Wilkinson, the great magic healer and voudoo of the negroes for hundreds of miles around. The reporter arrived at Maxwell at night, and had to ride a mule hack two I 111 litis mrougti the deep pine forests boI'oro reaching tlie doctor's habitation. On the way a camp of some fifteen or more colored people was passed, who. the guitle said, had t on e from Nort hern Georgia to consult the doctor. They were all ranged around a big lire holding an excited consultation, and examining a big sheet of paper thai one of them held. As the reporter approached they ran off into the woods, and nottiing could indi ce them to eonverse with him. The guide said that this was the usual custom, the paper being some kind of magic vouduo or spell the doctor had given to them, and they thought that if strangers saw it it would lose ifs force and power. The party approached the house and the newspaper man wer. in. A short, 1 .stout man, with o- e eye bandaged, up- ( preached him, sa\ dig, "I. was expecting , you," and shook him bv the hand. This ' upset the reporter, and for a moment. ho stood still looking at t lie col oh a ted ! doctor. Ilis rugged, tanned face was 1 one ol" shrewd dotoriiiination, and his 1 small gray eyes twinkled with unusual ( force. A slouch hat was over Ins gray- : white hair, while a rough tlanncl shirt, jean trousers without suspenders, and big brogans completed his costume. ' "Doctor," said the reporter, "I've got rheumatism the worst way in my hack. ' What can you do for mo?" The doctor motioned for hi in to bare his hack. He 1 did so. The doctor then ran his open ! hand over tlie bare llesh in circled ami ' then did the sauie, using ins index lin- | ger alone. An uncomfortable feeling ' ouuit 1.1nnitested itself, and it seemed ffinrtinii) nn?.ui iiuuuiUfinuriim ?nw? q lie stopped shflYtlv and'abruptly tdld J the reporter to resume his clothing. ; Taking up a small square of pasteboard ' ruled into l'< uvsquares, with the numbers 1,10,1(>, 31 in them, he gave that ; to the reporter and told him to read those off backward evorv night us li* retired for a week, and al'ter that the rheumatism would never he felt again. 1 The reporter expressed his gratitude, , and then had a long conversation with the "healer." lie said that this power to cure by , touch any disease, wound or hurt was ' bestowed upon him when a young man bv an utter stranger, and that he has practiced it for sixty years. "I can cure dropsy, rheumatism, cancer, etc, by looking at (he patients, sometimes not even touching them," said he. "I can't say what this p< ver is, but do all I can to cure them, and succeed when Intu nf dnet.nr* hiive jriveti mi the ioh I I can make absent and separated couples return to each other, make a woman love you, and lind stolen and lost property. 1 knew to-day that you were coming." The reporter soon found out that the old fellow would not give any real details of his work, and so sought, out some of his neighbors. "What do the niggers say about him V" repeated one of the oldest settlers. "Why they come hundreds of miles just to see him on all sorts of business. I have known them to come from the Carolinas, (Jeorgia, Alabama, and from all partsofthis State. Tliey camp out when they come here and won't have anything io do. with white folks. I've seen many a queer proceeding in t heir camps while here, dancing around the lire, 'voodoo' practice, and , all that, sort of mummery. They think the world of him, and they will go without their last dollar to pay him a big sum. You see. he dosen't charge ? them anything. Oh. no! He knows a trick worth two of that. He tells them to 'compliment' bim, ami they strive to see who will give I in the largest and i most expensive 'compliments' in the i t gether. They go to him for lexftYrT.Viu a make sortie woman look upon them, i for'spells'to injure an enemy, or even e to kill some one. lie will look on one i- of them when brought before him and [1 tell him I ) go back home, and that he :i will be well when he gets there, r "Hut the whites are helping 'CulTee' j. to till this li i.id's coffers. lie gets from is fifty to two hundred letters a week's many of them enclosing money, asking for advice. lie cm not read a line am tliese letters are simply opened, tin money taken out, and the letters hum ed. IIohas never been known to an , swer a letter of any k.nd, even b; proxy, llea.sures his dupes that hi '* can treat them as well when they ar at homo as when n' r him. "White wo nen from New V??rk ' Chicago, Cincinnati, anil other place l" visited him here last winter, and thi ^ summer hnnd-eds of white ladies froi ... towns within 2<>0 miles have gon a through tho mummeries that lie some times practices. lie is worth man ' thousands of dollars gained in this wa; lie has no hank, hut buries his tnone in the ground near his ho.tse, and -sue 1 is the reputation of the place that would he a hold robber that would tlel the 'doctor's spell and try to secure it Several negroes.expreascd themselvt as in the utmost awe of the old doctor an sh his spells. One said that his wife hn ire run off with another man, and that tl to <loctor ha<l changed her mind so tin , a she returned home in a montll. Ai ell other had lost a span of a horses, an ht tae doctor found them hundreds ? miles from home. Still another tui tor put his ham mi tin* wound and he went home cured. Sam Jack man shown d a big sear on his breast where aioad oi buckshot liitiim. The doctor simply washed the wound, muttered soihething over Sam and dismissed him. It was well within two days. The reporter learn d from the railroad oltieiiils that more tickets were solid for this fl:* *u than for any place around with ton times its business. Parties to ihe r;ulro:;d ollicoliave been daily :u!.i"j; l( r ii I'm mat ion regarding tin*doctor's ho ui'. Here in Savannah a party is made nn weekly, eliielly of colored people,and when they return | homo a grand now-wow is held in i which hundreds gather to hear of this j much-advertised doctor. THE COTTON CP.OP. Tim Tola! Nuiiiiici* of Italt'H iiinl tli? .Movement. United States for the commercial year ending with the close of August, IMHi. made up by Secretary llcstcr. The report stat es hat the total crop amounts to 7.1511.:?22 bales, exceeding the largest crop ever grown liy 2(?5,!S'.i hales, and the crop of last year by li"::. o.{_:. Ill- statement will hear the closest si rut inv. Tin* report objects t o the method of deducting the cotton consumed in the .Sout hern colion ports from the totals of Hie cotton shipped across the Ohio, Mississippi and I'otomae rivers. The secretary has obtained reports from every mill in the South and claims that his statement doe*- i ?t contain a single clement of the estimate. The-total Southern consumption for the past year is reported at 5 Id,3t>3 bales, against is 1,215 last year. The number of mills in operation is ?70. with l.ii 15,191 spindles. Thirtynine new mills, with 2II.Sdi spindles, have commenced wovk during tho year, and 15 new mills have been completed and will bo at work lliis fail. Fortylonr mills are idle, a number of which expect to start up again at an early llat e. The total number of mills in the , Sout h is now 5di>, with !0,$19 looms and 1,819,291 spindles. The increase of ( spindles during the past \ i ar is equivalL-nt to nearly one half of the entire ( number reported in t he South by the | census of ls$<i. Tho census of that year , showed id I nulls, with 7i?l,5f. ) spindles. 'J'ho gain within the past ten years \ has hceii 172 mills with J,22i?,117 spin- j tiles, the increase in the number of | bales of cotton consumed having been J 157.0.5 or more than Wiper cent. 1 H mi ivierence to the cotton move- ' meat for Ike year the .statement makes Jiejiet receipts at tue delivery ports * a, tf'1'!1 />ver Jasl year 30U.829; , 137.-17I, a decrease from last rear' of ' 'ff rt ( '.niada^'A . r, a gaiu^ver last rear of l?i"?.2'?o, , Takings ol eotton *1 nr?npr the year ; lor eonsnmpii<*n in tlie L'liited States amounted to 2.3'(>,132 bales. Of this l,7!U,2."i> balrs wont to Nor- , Lliern spinners, against 1,785,070 last season. This shows an increase of only 13,270 bales, against an increase in the south of nearly f?S.(;00 bales. Not only, is the crop of 1889-90 the la rarest ever produced, hut it has moved oil' wilii unexampled rapidity and brought full prices throughout the year: netting to the farming interest a handsome surplus. One of the curious features of this year's movements was the shipment of more than 20.0.)0 bales of American cotton throe 'h Ontario, via the Canada I'acilic railway to .Japan. Fifty bales were also shipped to Japan from tho port of New York. A I'iulil willi Oiiltitw*. * ilA/AKD, Ky., Sept. 1.?The first eonlliet between troops and outlaws, which has long been expected, took place on Saturday. For several days past Incut. 1'ionta, in charge of a squad of three men, has been out in search of indicted outlaws. They succeeded in cupluiing lour, and were on their wav to Hazard, when, coining through a narrow pass in tin; mountains, they were ambushed. The aniltusliers were concesiled in a large gully ; id took lint troops unaware. I'liey rallied, however, and returned the volley, killing one of the men, uj >n whicii the outlaws turned and lied. The outlaw killed is not known by name or sight. The prisoners refused to give his name. The volley from the outlaws seriously wounded one of the soldier*. Sergeant Fred (jordon of the Johnson Guards received a bullet in his left leg which will probab'" cripple him for life. Lieut. Jiontaand Ids detachment reached Hazard without further intcrjiilT'^'SVvWA. 'uj-t'.d their printers in are still at large, and it is dojiAthiws they will he captured. Among theni U Thm Smith, one of the murderers of Joe Kbersole. The troops left Hazard to-day. Judge Lilley refused to allow , bail in any oi the t.wcntv-thrce murder eases. The prisoners are confined in 1 Clark County jail at Winchester. Oliontly I mi Ion i Iohh of C'ri inc. ' Ckdak IIai'm):-;, Iowa, August 31.- A ' haunted house is exciting people of the ' city of Decorah ami promises to disclose * :i tragedy of the darkest kind. The f house was oeupied hv a young wotuat B and a man named Johnson. The wo e man gave birth ton child which wasdis posed of hy some means, as yet mi ' known. Shortly after this a woman': s screams were heard in the house, ant 8 from then on no one has heen seen 01 " heard on the premises. This wn e three months ago. The householi '* goods remain untouched. 11 is though v hy the million! ies that hoth tiie womai end habo were murdered l?y Johnsoi y An apparition lias been seen, it is a! leged, hy a number of the peopl it o! the eity, large crowds congregatiu v near the house nightly. Investlgatioi is being made. (| CIltHH It iltWOI M ill AllgllRlu. d AcrorsrA, Sept. 3. Thirty-live gla ie blowers nud their families arrived i it Augusta to-day from Philadelphia ai a- C. inden to work in the Augusta gla d works waich will start up in tiie ne )f ten days. 'I hey will mnnm'neture b< id i ties of all kinds. ; a ri;Mi l Y KK'ITLKOF MSII. OR. SMITH SAYS HE DID NOT TELL ABOUT THAT CAUCUS. Clip:, shell Toes the Miuk~II? Says lie K hows Nothing of that Cations?Senator I Smith Says ho Has >1 isitmlerstooil at Walker's Cross Knails. (Ikkkn villi:,S.C.,September !.--? At , a meeting livid in I his county last Monday Captain (J. \V. Shell, in speaking ' of the recent charges preferred against j him bv Dr. Smith, said he was not at Walker's Cross lioad.s, and asked to he i allowed to say as a truthful man that it he knew anything of the mutter to , which Dr. Smith had referred to be- j I SSWS'S" dill not know it so help him * Almighty (iod. J As to the rumor of his candidacy lor s .Secretary of State lie called on his hear- C ers to look at his position in the March s Convention. He hail said he was a can \y didate l or no olliee and had so stated y there, notwithstanding the fact that lie s had been strongly urged to accept ^ something at the hands of the people. (. No man could say that Jie had ever ex p inrsHtHi Mien a wisli. I lr hail even beg- " god and In-sought tin-'Hon. .lames 1-1. ( (?i Tindal, (he present candidate, to come forward for the ollice. tl Captain Shell then proceeded to state 11 thai during the last Statu Fair lie had j; heen in Columbia, and while he was y thero there was a caucus held in his tl bed room at the (irand Central Hotel. K Some twenty gentlemen were present. \\ II. I>. linist, of Greenville, was among j?i that number. General Staekhouse was di not there, and if his memory was cor hi reel neither 1 >r. Smith nor Captain Till- p. man was present, if Dr. Smith was tl there he had no recollection of it. sa Seeing Dr. Smith in the audience, Captain Shell called on him to say r, whether he was there or not. Dr. Smith answered that he was not. c, Captain Shell continued that ho had j1; told the Executive Committee that if they meant active hostilities to the pros- ^ ent government he could not serve 0l. them. He had been instructed to issue y, an address to the people of the State, y It was prepared and published. Cap- y hnin 'Pilliri!iii V??.l o..!.l ?-. > ?. ?? . u?i linn cuit'i nt; qskI called the convention that ho had better select a man who would accept a nomination. IIo went to General Stackhouse, C aptain Courtenay and to Col. vc V. J. l'opo. Each had declined. No other name was mentioned. Referring to the McKissick state- , . ment in the News editorial Captain L. ^heu.said that ("apt E. I\McKissick ["mi asked him if he was going to he a Vi iajjfttit ptfRdate. ile torn mui s*y *0 eu rather to come to Laurens and he would i.,, to all in his poster to present him to .lie people, but he made no pledge rather to support or vote for Colonel jr McKisslok. i, About the 20th of ,J une he heard that m Dr. Mnuldin would he a candidate for j, the seat in Congress. He sat down and ni wrote him saying that he would sup- [, port and vote for him. If he had himself published all the letters pertaining to the secret workings of the Farmers' j ( Association what would the people think of him? He had also told Judge SN Crawford, of Columbia, that he would not be a candidate and invited that ^ gentleman to come to Lauren.. and he j, would present him to the people. Judge t| ('raw ford had declined. Some time be- 0 fore that he had talked with (Jen. John ,, 15ration and had said to him that he dt served something at the hands of the ., State and he had promised him his vote j, and influence. At tl at time General ,, llralton contemplated running fur y Congress and it would have been bet- v ter for him if he had held to the idea. ,. Captain Shell said it was the first c time in his life he had been charged ? with duplicity. In the recent primary in Laurens he had never raised ins Cm. ... .wxiinul ?r It,I. dates. lie tried 11> have a kind word for all oil hem and not one man could s charge hi'ii with doing anything i against, him. f Captain Shell said that alter the Alii- s ance conference had failed to name a I congressman he had lieen urged by let- l t' rs from all the counties 111 the (lis- I trict. Mr. Donaldson, of (ireenville, I had. been offered the position bathe 1 had declined. The people had demand- 1 ed of him that he should enter the race, t Not all the people had done so, but peo- I pie from all the counties had". If any 1 man had been honored by the people he 1 had. lie had a volume of letters at home thanking him for the part he bad taken in delivering the people of the State from bondage and opp assion. Dr. It. M. Smith spoke also and in refcring to tlie lecent newspaper statetnenfpeeehos but' inhc we'doju wrote got anything he said, At the Walkersville meeting he had started out by rifiiwr ! 1,1/,nrr-i nhin.1 f nkfitl-h llf his political career. In 18i>8 lie had been elected to the legislature and remained a member till 187<>. lie east the dee- ding vote which determined the course of the Democratic party in 187<> and had at that time received a most severe i lecture from Cant. F. W. Dawson, who j favored the fusion ticket which had , been suggested. lie had then taken up , how he had become a candidate forcon. gressional honors. lie had stated then . that in July 1889, he was at a meeting . the State Alliance and was in a cons 1'erence with other gentlemen whose I names ho had mentionad. At that time r Hie (lovernor had in his pocket the 3 Clcmson College bill. Col. K. W. SimpI son, Captain Tillman, Colonel N orris j, and others, trustees were present, n and they were discussing the policy to be adopted in case the Supremo Court I- decided against the will. Afterward e the talk turned on political matters, ^ (ieneral Stackhouse was spoken of for 1S (lovernor but said he had other aspirations. Captain Shell was spoken of lor Secretary of State but said he did not want it. lit; said he had Congressional ss aspirations himself and Captain Shell in had asked him if he could carry Sparid taiihurg. He had replied that hr ss thought he could. The other day lie xt had just learned that Captain Shell was it- a candidate and he had said that ht was puzzled at it. Captain Shell's con vcrsation in the conference had Icdhuu to believe that ho would not be a candidate and that gentleman had afterward told him that he would not he. lie had rot authorized the use of his name in the caucus, lie said that lie had heard something of a letter he had received. 1 le had received no such letter. At the Walkersville meeting he had said that Captain Shell's action had puzzled him, hut he would not say that it was wrong in him. lie never saw the manifesto in the conference. He had talked with Captain Shell about one. lie would say in justice to Captain Tillman thai when he had heard him abu >d he had It lendcd him and had$hid when hole 1 heard his motives questioned that he had declined to run most emphatically. The Greenville News, o I Sept em oor 2, in commenting on the above s \>s: Dr. It. M. Smith says he did not say at Walker's Cross lioads what the Greenrille Daily News reported him as hav'fru\v ,tWst ifr jSreenvilIe News says lie said at Walkers Cross Itoads he said what .was u*irue. Major W. A. Hunt, of this cLy. lays he heard Dr.Smith sa\ at Walker' Toss l.oads what t he Greenville News ays he said and what Captain Shell ays is untrue. Lieutenant Governor fauldin says that he was at Walker's Toss ltoaus and heard Dr. Smith's peeeh the e and that the report of that I?eech in the News is coirect. We ave not seen John T. llram'ett, county hairtnan of this county, hut. the r<orter who obtained lite inform iti"ii u which the report of the Walker's toss lioads meeting was based reeeivil most of that information from Caplin llramlet.t. We are informed that nit gentlcmui stands by lr.s statement lade to the News reporter and says >r. Smith did say at V.'alker's Cross loads What this news' repoi. d Kit he said. We are fn: iierinforo d Kit i'errv Smith, of the Wnlker'st'i s oads neighborhood, iss' ioCier mail iiu iiiiurrtstoou nr. tsmit h just as Mail* Iillllt. Li(!ill?n!inU!..iui'iun- -XI....j ii and Chairman Bramlei t understood iiu, and that there are scores, ami i :rhaps hundreds, of men who will say tat lie said what wc reported that ho id. This is one of tlie most, interesting, ' implicated and peculiar developments < t!r> interesting', complicated and pe . iliar campaign. The gentleman we , ive ipiotedsay Dr. Smith said at Walk's Cross lloads that he, Tillman, Shell 1 ackhouse and Simpson got togeth- l and divid d four fat oflices among i em in advance. Captain Shell says if r. Smith said so he said what wasn't ue. Dr. Smith says ho didn't say so, hut ( at he said something very different. ] That is what we call on the whole a , ry pretty kettle of fish. I lit Storm of Fire. Match Ciirxic, I'a., August 30.--a , irtyjof moonligl i excursionist son the ' iritcliback Kuilroad here barely escan- . orked Uy^dng played over the burn-T i with t'lio ever arising gases, and lor ilea the scene resembled that oi a *.iing prairie. While the merry s were admiring the sight a fierce gli -r blast lighted up the nioun lias. Closely following came a terrific vol uiunuei. it appeared asu me Mveiis had opened up and swallowed it? hotel and its surroundings. Ladies vooned and even the bravest of the tleiren present held their breath, nowing i ot which way to turn. V liked tongue of lire passed completely irough the house, entering at the rear I tlit! ballroom and emerging at the rout, tearing away everything in r -> th and completely shattering every rticle of glassware in the bar. Kveryody In the house was stunned, several ore injured by the shock, lmt luckiv none wereserioulv hr-t. The storm ,as one of the hr iviost ever expeiien<n\ in this locality. The party were ompelled to wait until morning before miking the return trip, as the storm on tinned for several hours. A Coiiuoii S|illi??l. ClIICAtiO, .September !1.?A Unlaid pedal says the ell'ect of the speeeiies II Congress on Wednesday last by Congressman Cannon, and the disgraceful icene following, have just begun to be 'elt throughout bis district. Both llemblicans and Democrats alike censure 11111 in strong language, and the bad weak he made will cost him a great nany votes among tiie better class of people who feel that the Fifteenth disl ict has been disgraced and humiliated by it representative. The outlook at present is that he will lose every county in his district. There are fourteen Republican m. vspapers m this district that refuse to support Cannon, and t.hey have a wide inlluence. One Stop Too I'.ir. l a ni >s ; "< i n i >, C11 r.s r k r. C??i vi v, s j >t i!.?News reaches us that fiin Cureton, C.ve,' olored ferryman at Landsford. on here, lost his litth ciul'u ??y iilw.Xv.uv on the evening of the olst ult. Tliii child, a daug iter, known by tin* some what ridiculous name of "Sweet Cheese,' was aged about 12 years. She was en gaged in throwing leaves in the rivei and catching tlicm as they lloated p.isi the rear end of the ferry boat, whicl was anchored at the shore. IJeconiini careless, she leaned out too far. an* losing her balance, fell into the streau The body has not been recovered. Unilroii<l IV roc I:. l'lTTsiirno, Sept. 1. .V special to ti Chronicle-Telegraph from Mniniingtoi \V. Vra., says: "Karly this morning freight train ran into the "Spick 'np" o the 1 faitimore and Ohio just cast * Mannington, causing a terrible wrec Kngineer Cordell ami an unknown ma were killed and sixteen cars were piU on top of each other. The wreck to* tire and tlie cars and contents we almost totally destroyed. Traffic w; ueiuyeu severm ihmi is. Thrro Men Kllle l?v l'oul Air. New York, Sept. 4. At ?o'clock ti morning three men were suffocated deadly gasses in an old cesspool on St ten Island. One was employed to dra out the receptacle and clean out tlieeei s pool. Suspicious indications led a s< und to investigate and he was follow < 1.y the third, who saw that the lirst ti s needed assistance. All were poor lalx - mg men. MADE A RAIN OF IRON. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF A DIG GUN LOADED WITH DYNAMITE. Tile Fi-agini'iits Sent Sky III^Ii anil Scnttorcil Ovor Many !M ?los~Ni?)??nIy was InJui'C(l< lint Stores Wiire Scnroil Nearly In Dciitlt. Syracfsk, Aug.P?<>. -Dr. .loeltJ. .lustin, the dynamite < xperiinen'or of this city, made a th'rd l< - t, of It is ?lyn;iniilc bombshell at Perry vi'.lo last TiicmIhv. The result was that the prim which he recently o'.d.t'tied from Po.-ton was blown in n a thousand lragXobo'iy"r ~~~ iurfliljjw^ ti|p f|{~|jces of tho cannon are scattered all over a circle with a radius of two miles. A number of p'ooes bareiv missed the heads of some of the specialtirs. Their e*-?*ape is eonsiiieretl almost, miraculous. Tho eannoii was placed lor lliy ex ranpr. n a dorp gorge about a n: le w a fro o toe village ol I'erryvillo. bo* '.wo j> c<-s vn r> seen living over the village, and one came down in a tree top between tho railway station a:i I the ho'."!. The inhabitants are very much e.\oi,?-1, and it is donb' t'u! if t! ey will a'low the experiment to l>e made again m this \ minify, although the protect ion.ilforded bv the rocky r vine would seem to be almost pcrft. t. What Dr. .Fusiin was trying to do was to prove that he hail invented a bombshell ..a..-.a. fm ituetl Willi the strongest kind of dynamite (To per tteiit. liitro glycerine.) and so thoroughly protected that It could hi: projected Irum an ordinary cannon hy the force i)?' gunpowder without exploding the [lynaimle until it c?me in contact with some substance outride. I>r. .Justin's plan is to prnjoc* I he he!! any distance Lhe cannon will tluow it. and thus revolutionize heavy warfare. The cannon used to-day was a twelve foot rilled barrel with a nine-inch bore. It weighed twelve tons and had licen testid in the Host on yards with forty-live pounds of c union powder behind a shell weighing f.7"? pounds. The shells to-<' y, when .loaded with dynamite, weighed 2b."? pounds each.ami were projected .nout.ds () ' ordnance lowdeiyd TJia^OveuVm;? ?^ it cxpt^nmn.s a slight li'O y_vi?A!y " ?Vi?..^A\;ttid.iig Oils ore?::i s'" *' S^^Breand and -aw lust. to make tip wT HjJjTeiglit ol dynamite to lie used. ilauiPv1 powdw were put bethetBfccrc no met ural f'-at nr-sof t he shelmvitbout dynamite) to explode the cannon. No ill effects were produced, and then the same kind ol' a shell, containing fourteen and a quarter pounds of dynamite, was put m the cannon with'the same amount (thirty pounds) of powder behind to project it. The sh'-!( left the gun as handsomely as the lirst had done, and was banged with its load of d\ nainite up against a 1 1 ! IM ' Sl< MM' 1*11 II , J." I "1*1 III^II ill Ml ?l IMll.l of a mile away, w hich was used for a target. About two seconds ait or the <lis?-harsf?* "I tl?o cannon the explosion of tin; shell was heard nejirlv us luinl as the noise-of the trim had been. The llash was distinctl\ seen its it struck the rocks and then the air was tilled with sand and dirt and dying1 rocks from the dynnmMo explosion. The test had i ceii a tho oiigh success, thus far, and eheers rang out from the surJ rounding hill lop-;, where most of the spectators had a- "inblod. Dr. .lustin was w.-nniy congratulated hv his iriends who had gai lie: eil around him. and preparations were speedily completed ior -homing a : cond shed of d\ iiainitc to p it success hpvond a doubt. The people again : !! hack to g ve the macl ne a w ule In h and the fuse was apph d. The dyu ne shell never left the cannon ar alt. luit scattered itscli' o\ sever;'I mi c;o: territory, and look 1 lie cannon with it in a thousand pieei > in ;is many directions. The earthworks which hud been built, went lip in a cloud o*"oiist. taking the hopes of Dr. .1 us! :i w htlicni. A number of the spectators narrow'v escaped. If the second -hot had been as siicccs fill as the lirst it was io have closed the experiments of t he day ami general invitations would have been issued to Government authorities and o'hers to see live oilier shells tired which have already been prepared. Dr. .1 list in declined to say much about ' his plans for the inline, but he has not given up Irs scheme. m u\SilJ r? ../Ao- von mnt for the aceiI "It is very e'ear to my nimu. n< i, plied, producing ;i piece ot uic sieet wall ol' his dynamite shell. The shell " had slipped C'silv inl ?t he barrel ol the . cannon, but the piece which he pro' dueed bore dis! inet marks of the rilling oJ the kiiii. showing that the steel had ? been i>rcssed violent!v against it from ' within. "You see." he continued, "the ' inner brass mavrazno holding thedvnamite is enclosed within a shell of st -el having an air space between them. 1(. The breach of the out ?r shell was of n three inch forced slee', but the sides were of cast steel on'v n ire-six teen. lis of an inch thick. Cast steel alwa' has ,( more or Jess tlaws or air spaces, and lc there must have been one or more :n u, this shell, so thin that t he hijfh pr< ,,11 sure of powder K;1S l?rced tin enirar -a a, I to tho casting and swelled it out 'to the tilling of the cannon sotight'y that 11K it could not move. The gunpowder iininediiitely exploded tlio cannon, together witii the dynamite. It will he necessary to make the bodv of tlje outer lis shell of the same material that was by used in the breach." a- Lieutenant Davidson, of the regular iin army,stationed at Oswego, was present, ss lie said that the explosion must have .?( - been of dynamite, irom the fact that ed the gun was so utterly demolished, ivo Dr. .Justin's bnckcs say t'lev will get a or- new cannon and continue fiia experiments witii shells properly constructed.