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\ " V \ \ m WEEKLY mm UNION TIMES. *i _ ^.__ _ ~ >^_ _ Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Polite Literature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. ( XXI.?NEW SERIES. UmoTT (V"TT.. SOUTH OA R< )LH^3V.-^)CTr)T{TO^' 3, 1S90. NUMBER 40. ^/\\| I,1 1)1 4 1\! T 4 I L* i <lis;ii>i??*ur. anil tluTP u*tt;iiri ln> litic?:?-1 II T l\T V/i iw\nr\" TitlJ niri ii'n I n"?? ** ' " OViU I'i I Ij/ilit laijIV. t UNCLE GEORGE1TILLMAN TEARS UP J v THE SUB-TREASURY. fci t His Hpuech Acreptlng the Noin' ttlon for J1 Cougronn?A Tra|> for Southeru Fhtiiikm t -About "Our lirethrrii of the Went? ^ Ifantlllnie IIacuho Without Olovrn. s Auousta, Ga., Sept 25.?The follow- ^ log is George I). Tillman's speech be- t fore the nominating convention at ?'i Aiken Friday as reported in the Angusta Chronicle: o Mr. Chairman, gontlemen of the Con- y vention and Fellow-Citizens :?For the f1 eighth time in succession have I had the proud gratification to receive the nomination of the people of this dis- 11 trict for Congress. To say that I am t( grateful and proud of it would be to ^ tell the simple truth. To be chosen so ^ often as representative from this his- n torical county, to serve longer than any other congressman in this State, a dis- [j trict once rcnrcscntcd liv f 'jilhmm mul >. his distinguished successors, says a t< great deal either for nie or for the peopie of tiiis district, cr for both. I am not vain enough to take this display of regard as evidence of any ability in T me, but because you have faith in me. You know that I will serve you to the p' best of my ability, and under no cir- i cumstances betray your trust. p< What adds to this gratification is that l>1 have been chosen during most trying times. We have just come out of a war. We have been plundered ever h; since we were conquered, but all con- |>< quered people must suffer. Unfortu In nately we have an unfortunate race in Aour Qiidst, whom our enemies have sought to raise to our standard, or y\ rather level us to theirs. I am sorry to say you are a conquered people, and d your enemies are trying to see how far w negroes can be made into whiter men, ^ how far a people can *be taxed and pay S(I tribute to the conquerer and survive. The harder the agricultural ciass ^ works, the more self denial they prac- ju tiee, the poorer they get. The reason jt' of it. is the hicrhor tares vnn must. t?nv to go out ill pensions. High taxes uou't impoverish a people provided or they are spent among the people who is pay them, but when they are paid out in to another people the one who receives ,n grows richer. .So as Ireland is impov- (|. erished to enrich England you are being impoverished to enrich the ll(1 North, but the taxes they pay they get ^ hack in appropriations and pensions. You nay between forty and fifty mil- ol lions a year taxes simply because you ^ were on the wrong side. Your children must continue to pay these taxes and your grand children. Neither the sub-treasury nor any other device can stop it. There is too much taxation and too little money in circulation to ... meet the taxes. You ought to do all you can to have an income tax to the ot rich men of the North. The East 1(| owns the West and South. They own all the rail roads. There are 34 char- rj, tered reads in South Carolina and tin? citizens of the State do not own a ma- S|T jority of the stock in any and the tracks all go one way. ;i By the time you meet the interest on your debts and pay your taxes and fixed charges there is not enough tr money left to bring fair prices on your products. You want an income" tax, and you want to abolish the tax on e> whiskey and tobacco. I do not mean ar to have free whiskey and tobacco, (1 ju see one friend shake his head over ^ there) but to get rid of the horde of m official verinin who go around and smell your bottles and nose around your tobacco and who as much as say, help yourself, it yon dure. T.nt the jf; State and the counties and cities get ,l: the benefit of the whiskey and tobacco ^ tax. '1 I am sorry 1 can not go into a long 11 speech on the sub-treasury and give Jj you something better than that hill. ^ You ought to issue more money. It you do not the North will own you J" bodv and soul. Thev own the West too. 11 .'a. t>r . !. . * a JU Din me west, is iiu;rc oilier against. me 4k 'South than 1 lie North is. They pot a ' tax on Southern cotton see I oil so n that it will ha lit for nothing hut ina- S1 nure. Where were your Western suhtreasury friends when Congiess taxed your cotton seed oil; when it added !kK) percent.on your cotton ties; when that V infamous force hill was passed, and ^ when the West ret used to vote for free silver. , It ia sickening to see the South talk c< about foriiung a political alliance with () tii? West. It is not worth while to go 11 into details ahout the suh-treasury. s< (Cries of go on; tell us all ahout it.) ? Well, 1 will tell you ahout it. Mr. Tillman then recited the pro- I* visions of the hill. Continuing lie 11 said; It is paternalism and protection run mad. It is a proposition to let. the goveminent take care of your crop and after a while tell you how to run it. . Hampton and Colleton would not get ^ a ware house. B A Voice?Hut does not the lull pro ^ vide that two or three counties mav combine and get a ware house? Mr.Tillman Yes, hut it. stipulates . that you must carry your produce to .. the nearest ware house. ' McCune is the originator of that bill n lie is a reformed Itepubliean, who f.iil- J at dentistry in Indiana, tloatcd ahout. .. California for a while, and Dually went . down to Texas, where he manipulated Alliance money. -J" Is there any justice in taxing otle-r (, Industries to hinhl warehouse lor the | products of the fanners. The Alliance ' professes equal justice to all and special favors to none. If that aint special favor what is it ? Two Republicans framed that bill. .1 There is no Democracy in it. It is a d bridge to carry the Democratic party o over, horse, loot and diagoon, to the h Republican party. It provid- for ttic si election ot warehouse managers, but a the constitution says federal otlicers li A must In* appoint ! and not elected, and a you know whom the Republicans will tl appoint. It says there shall be an elec- ti tioti to decide where the warehouse* e shall be built. It will be a federal elec- fl tion, not a Mate election. The negroes t< would \ote, and whites would divide, c Would not that, be a nice state of tl affairs? Then there would be lots of p stealing and embezzling; cotton would s< ion. Some of you might take a littl oo much whiskey ami get into lights rou would be on Federal ground/ A1 vould have to be tried in the Uuite: Itates court. You could not brinj hem into your own eourt-s. There 5 10 more chance for that bill to pas huii there is to pass a bill to build ; ower to the moon. There were only two congressmei k'ho were avowed supporters of tin ub-treasury bill. They had their pa iers as lawyers annulled, but the Alii nee thought they were too enthusias ic, and did not nominate them foi nother term. The most stupid thing to me in tin rhole bill is that NO per cent, advancec n products in the early part of th< ear and at the latter end of the yeai he money is burned. What you neeti $ more money, all the time to keef rices up and keep them steady. The bill was gotten up by a comlittee of three? a dreamer, a specula?r and a scurvy politician?who want11 ty provide a popular scheme for roken down politicians. Senator ranee introduced it into the Senate by liiillo. t If.* ...... 4- * -- i ?[ur?ii. tir ? ?ia Minn uuuut it lUl >ur months, aud at the end of which me lie denounced it. In the ineanme though the Alliance papers and ramp orators cried it aloud that Sena>r Vance endorsed it, and what Sena>r Vance endorses is right. Mr. [emplull has whipped it out in his istrict. In Georgia all the strong sliticians went back in spite of it. wo of them did not seek another rin. Major llarnes was not defea ii accoeut of it, but on account of t tie rejudice of country against the city, seek to protect the Alliance, to keep iliticians from prostituting it. Stand v the Alliance and vote for Alliance ten and measures, but not as a secret Kly. It is time I should close, thonjrh I ive not said one-tenth part that could i said against this preposterous .iumIf the West is being robbed by the ast they will come to us. At the No1 ruber elections we will see whether le West is inclined to unite with us. on't he in too great a hurry. We ere in a hurry in 'HO, but we have en repenting it ever since. Wait ami o if the West will come to us. Put an incline lax on tliu wealth of ie East. There are four reasons why I ive no use for the sub-lieasury L>i 1 i?is a crude,, impracticable, Republican, iconstitutioual measure. Livingstone, Polk, MeCune and two three others were put upon the leglative committee at the St. Louis eeting to suggest the outline of the easure, but McCune and Waddill aftcd it. The live cents you se.id up ere will go. They must pretend to : doing something to earn those big laries they are getting. Mr. Thomas Whittle, m the audience, jjected to Mr. Tillman's attacks on cthine et al. lie said he was going vote lor him, hut he did not think it ir to run those men down. Mr. Tillman?1 admire your pluck. Mr. Whittle?I admire yours. Mr. Tillman?Then it is mutual adirat ion. Mr. Tillman continued his discussion the sub-treasury. Distillers he said irnished their own warehouses, the ivernment furnished the watchmen id the guagersonlv. Mr. Whittle thought the fanners lould have the same advantages. Mr. Tillman?Can two wrongs make right? Air. "Whittle?Then remedy that. Mr. Tillman?That's what I've been viug to do. A I.ITTLK KXCITIvWKNT. At this juncture there was a little tcitement created. Captain Markei t ose to ask Mr. Tillman to explain >vv the Federal ollieers would handle ic farmers' cotton and jokingly rearked about Mr. Whittle's interrupons. Mr. Whittle took offence and said uit he was a native born South Carontan and cnpliilu Mnrkort wafi not. ir. Alex White, who knew Captain larkert's war record to be as good as iat of any native born South Caroliian and better than even some of the tate's own sons retorted that Captain larkert had heard the whistle of more ullt-ts around him than did Mr, White. l'he latter resented the remark ml there was considerable confusion >r a few minutes, but quiet soon was stored and Mr. Tillmau concluded his seech. The great, just (Jood, he said, is teniering the wind to the shorn lamb, he production of cotton is not keepig pace with its manufacture. The nuth raised fine provision crop last ear and a few more will bring the I'est to its knees. It will have to burn u n for fuel again and it will be a drug n the market, bringing 110 price. Then 10 West will come to the South and ek an alliance to raise the moneyed ppression of the Fast. Mr. Tillman closed with a strong upeal never to suliinit to negro dotninuon. Koimiiirt- of it Curl. Chicago, Sept. 24. About thirty ears ago Captain .lames II. Miller, ol le I'nited states Volunteers, sat be iud Jennie .lames, a pretty miss ol ightecn, at a camp meeting, Jennu ad bewitcbingly long curls which tin aptain could not. ret rain from pulling rom the shock of that pull his feeling.' ever recovered. The two became in mutely acipiainted, and when the Cap tin was ordered to Virginia with hi; giment he took away the heart and i mg of Jennie's, since then J.mnie red of waiting, has married three times lie Captain has also married, but th? ifatuation of the curls always remain il with him, and the other day, when In ied. he left Jennie S'id.ooo. Jennie was nind to-day in squalid rooms with fi pialling baby, she was overjoyeti 'lien the news was broken to her. Heiiiiirkaltle Mintl K.-.xl I n t'. Clil('A< 10, Sept. lit. Paul Alexandei olmston, the mind reader, opened : illicult combination safe in the present's f many well-known people at a hote ere recently under remarkable eircuin lances, lie was blindfolded, his ears ml nostrils were packed with cotton is hands covered with thick kid gloves ml hi his mouth lie held a cigar, so evei lie sense of taste was temporarily ties roved. The proprietors and book-keep r of the hotel stood behind him am liought of the combination. With oul inching either of them Johnston turn d correctly to the numbers and swuttt lie door open. Johnston says thil roves that man has more than livi ruses. 111 1Mi>Ij UUNJJ Uin HUTIII. j VENABLE AND ELLIOTT UNSEATED i WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON. s * Tlit> KnpubllcauH S?cure h Quorum, miuI, without Morn A?lo, Sent the Negro ConJ tOHtanti* from Vlrginln mul South Curoll nn. Washington,Sept. 23.?Six minutes r after the Republicans in the House voted to seat Langston they turned out J Col. Wm. Elliott and gave his place to 3 Tom Miller. The h:iste in disposing of r the South Carolina contest was as bru' tal US it Was unprecedented it. vir;?? ' after 1 o'clock to-day before enough Republicans put in an appearance to make i up n quorum. The Democrats remained out of the J hall and consequently there was no one ( * to demand a roll-call but Mr. O'Ferrall, ( and his request had no avail with 1?W 1 hot-headed partisans. As soon as the presence of a quorum was announced ( ' Langston was voted in by a viva voce < vote. The greatest confusion prevailed s in the meantime, as the galleries were ! crowded with negroes enthusiastic for \ Langston. The Republican members t were equally wild and uncontrollable, ' and the yelling and stamping of feet 1 was tcrrilic when Speaker Reed declari ed Langston entitled to a seat as Representative from the 4th Virginia district. Amid shouts and applause Langston was sworn iu. The Republicans then shouted wildly to the committee on j '"'itions to call up the next case, which was wit. M'lteT-Elliott contest. There , was no debate and the reading of the committee resolutions was even omitted, so desperate was the majority and so eager were they for Democratic , scalps. Mr. O'Ferrall and several Republicans protested against such summary proceedings, but Speaker Reed heeded 1 them not, and without permitting a di-; vision declared Tom Miller a Representative of the 7th Congressional district of .South Carolina, vice Elliott. The following is the details of the proceeding by which Congressmen Venable and Elliott were robbed of their seata i Mr. O'Ferrall was the onlv Democrat, I c in the chamber this morning during the delivery of the praver. The clerk immediately began the*call of the roll on the approval oi Friday's Journal. The clerk having called the roll, announced the pairs and recapitulated the list of those vot ing. The Speaker hesitated before he announced the result, t here being but t wo lm-U li.fr of .? Mr. O'Ferrall demanded that the result. be announced. In order to delay the announcement. Republican after Republican rose and requested to know how he was recorded. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, inquired how the gentleman from Virginia (O'Ferrall) had voted. Mr. O'Ferrall replied that he had never voted to perpetrate larceny, and he did not propose to do so in this case. Mr. Allen, of Michigan : "Thegentlemen doth protest too much. The gentlemen has evidently stolen the whole of the other side." J. 1). Taylor "May 1 ask the gentleman a question ?" Mr. O'Ferrall: "That is a dilatory question." [Laughter.] Mr. Taylor inquired whether the gentleman from Virginia (O'Fenall) when he was seated by the Democratic House, considered it larceny. Mr. O'Ferrall retorted that keeping him out of his seat had been larceny, and that the Democratic Congress had vlntllcated him. Mr. Taylor : "The only ovidenoe that you had the right to the seat was that you were seated by a majority vote." 1 Mr. O'Ferrall: "It would be well to remember the course of the Kepresen1 tatives of the last Congress when for days and weeks they refrained from voting in the contested case of Sullivan j vs. Felton." Mr. Allen, of Michigan : "Whvdid! ' you not count us?" The vote was then announc-d to be ? yeas 15."), nays 1? no (|Uoriiin, ami a call of the House was ordered. .lust as the clerk began to call the roll, Mr. Sweeny, of Iowa, one of the ' absentees, entered and was received I?y ! his colleagues with applause. Shortly ; afterwards. Mr. Mudo, of Maryland, made his appearance and received a reception of mingled applause ami hisses. During the roll-call the camera was 1 again brought into requisition and photographers again reproduced the array of empty Democratic seats. One hundred and sixty-four incmlieis responded to the call and without any announcement of the result, further , proceedings were dispensed with, and the vote again recurred on approving Friday's Journal. ^ While this roll-call was in progress , applause and hisses were given when , Mr. Milliken entered the hall. For a time Mr. <'beadle, of Indiana, who is ' opposed to Langston's claims, joined the absentees, lie located himself on a lounge in the lohby, declining to . enter the chamber. Hut the requests J and supplications of his party associates proved too strong, and upon this ' vote lie recorded his name in th<* atlirrn- j ; ative. The vote resulted -yeas I?. j nays nothing?the clerk noting aj quorum. 4 .Notwithstanding the protests of Mr. J t i?? ! err.ui, t in* .speaker directed the read- j I ing of Sat onlay's Journal. Air. ()'Fcrralt demaiiiled a division on , its approval, and while the Heptlbli-1 cans were being n 'nted he retired to i * i the cloak room amid victorious shouts ! i from the Itepublicc'is and expressions of regret at his desertion. 1 As soon as Mr. OTerrall was out ol , - the hall, Mr. Ilaugcn asked uiiatniiioiis I t consent to dispense with a division,; , and there being no Democrat present , to object, it was so ordered, amid laughi ter and applause. Then Air. OTerrall returned, but the Journal had been approved. I Monday's Journal was approved witht out objection. The question then recurred on the I first of the majority resolutions to tin-' I; seat Mr. Venable. It was agreed to > yeas l."?l, nays 1, (Cheadfe,) the clerk j 1 noting a quorum. i u?.- Kiicuu ansentces were : Messrs. T. M. Browne, of Indiana, Hutterworth, Council, Kwart. Finley.Hans-1 hrough, l'eters. ami Wilson, of Kentucky. Those Republicans present and i * not voting were : Messrs. Hliss.Brownc, I of Virginia, Cooper, of Ohio, Dehaven, j Frank, MeHord.McKenna. Stoekbridge,! Waddell. Wade, Wright. Yard ley and / the Speaker. Then came tiie <|uestinn on the seat-, ing of Langston, and it was carried on division, O'Ferrall and Clieadle alone j voting in the negative. Mr. llaugen then escorted Langston i to the bar of the House, while the Republican side and the galleries broke 0 out into loud applause and cheers,1 c whie'? were redoubled as the Speaker j p administered the oath. ; a Th*?n came a chorus from the Re- j publican side : "Call up another case." I c And in response to the chorus Mr. j n KoWt-ll, of Illinois, called up the South I > Carolina case of Miller against Klliott. | Mr. O'Ferrall raise.' " ^'"witiuu of , consideration, and on a Viva voce vote j the Speaker stated that the IIousu had ti determined to consider the election j a l iiJM-. : Mr. O'Ferrall made a point that there , was no quorum present. ; al The Speaker declined t?> entertain ci the point, stating that the last vote had \\ jhown a quorum, and tiiat since then several Demeerats had entered the hall. The previous question was ordered, tnd despite the protest from Mr. Kerr, j fi if Iowa, that some reason lor its adop- ! (; .ion should he given, the resolutions i . inseating KUiott and seating Miller1 ivere agreed to without th visum. I I'1 COTTON MERCHANTS EXCITED. j in \ Movement wliloli TlireittciiH Serin tin : Cnimequonccii. ; tl N knv York. Sept. 21.- -The C'nmmcr- 1 ^ ::al Itullotln of this city savs advices from at Birmingham. Ala., slate that the > lit farmers' Alliance in Alabama arc hold-; tli ng meetings ay,,).'.'jmliJig_UUUUi>crg is.y j R esolutious anhlvitTUit agreements, not to sel their cotton crop until the price as been forced up to a price sutislue.tory ri .o the Alliance. The members readily j lit niter into these agreements, believing , ai liev can liohl the hulk of the cot ton crop m mill tlic pri?.ecan nc lorced up to 12cents ir higher. 1 II this arrange incut is carried out it , v' neans ruin to thousands of merchants , ai md many hankers in the Shouth. Ninety . T ?er cent, of the cotton crop is sold when or t is planted, and the crop is grown on ol iredit. The tanner owes the.merchant, |() lie merchant owes the banker and bankx in many cases owes his Knsicrn corcspondont. The merchant's notes to dt lie hanker fall due from October 1/i to November I, ami the banker's paper in v sTew York is due a litle later. If the 0<j inner does not sell his cotton he can- ? ot pay his merchant and the latter can- w iOt pay the banker. jn It has just been announced, as com- t,i ig h'om high Alliance authority, that cl iienls width Kuiopean eapiffests to ad- ' "hi ance the farmers s?M2 per baie on all ! h otton stored in the ware house. This r< could enable the farmers to pay the hulk | J' it the money he owes his mediant and | 1,1 irevent anything like a panic, hut it is ^ louhti ul if any such airaugenicnt has i j iccli made. Hut even it lie tails to make j }|, in arrangement to borrow money on his ; j care house receipts, the farmers, at least ju lie Alliance farmer, proposes to hold ju lis cotton anyway and let the merchant j md hanker squirm. The farmer says ; I hat w ten he was the helpless worm tu he i? chant and banker combined to rush him without mercy, and now ho n' las the power he will not grieve over K( heir sufferings. I Merchants and hankers in all the 11 .owns and cities ol the cotton State raukly admit that the situation looks ^ ;eri< *, hut they still hope for the best, jj kVI ere the merchant holds a mortgage on (j( he e. ops he will attempt to force the dc- ai livery of the cotton at the time specetied ol in his mortgage, but the farmer has sever- | fi til cards in Ids slouvje he can play if neces- 11< snrv, and delay delivery" vtvciAt weeks, j He can harvest his crop late, his gin . tl inav break down, os other accidents 1 happen that will prevent his getting his i J' cotton to market until late in Novem- ! ,M'r' - - ?- U l?icil 111 i I it I'ulpit. Ai.iiion, N. V., Sept. 21. The Itev. I (ieorge F. <'ain, pastor of the First I'res- ! e hyterian Church, undone of the most '] popular preachers in this County, met tl death at a singular lime Sunday morn- tl ing. lie appeared in his pulpit appear- { h eutly enjoying his usual good health and n went through the services preliminary tl to the sermon with accustomed fervor, j n lie took as t he subject for his morning's discourse the story of N'aaman the Sy- j < rian, who was healed of leprosy by faith \\ in the directions given him by Klishu to i si bathe in the waters of the Jordan. The u minister oiauoraieu ?>ii mis story. a|?- ) si pealing eloipi^iitly to his hearers to put j all their faith in tin- Lord, ami was dis- c, coursing on the power of the Almighty ci to save those who trusted 11 im. not only I from the troubles of life hut from all g punishment after death, when lie j V brought his uplifted hand suddenly tl down to his heart and without tittering tl a word fell on the plat form and died hefore any of the congregation could si reach him. d Wluit Itiitf .InIce Will l><>. , " Macon, (?a.. Sept. 'Jl. -While Ollicer j'' Kllison was on his heat.at about - o'clock ^ in the morning, near the Urown house, ! ^ he was amil'onehcd to iiem-oes. w lio ------- r -- r?- - - - him Hint a white man wan lyimr across ,, tlir railroad track, m ar tin; old Kock n mi!l. The policeman wont to the scene, i? and found tins fell nv's head resting on e one rail and his lei's acros the other. Ho 1' was dead drunk. A whisky holtle was d nearby. lie removed (lie man Irom the v track and carried hjm t > the city har- ?* racks. In Mtccn m'hintes more he would } have hCeii ground to deatli. as a train ' came thumicrin 'alongin that time. . f (Imngfil Ills Mlml. (] Nasii vi i.i.k. Teun.. Sept. 21. A 11! special Irom Howling tJreen, Kv., says t tlint President >. It. < Irwin, of the Farm- r era' Alliance of Kentucky, ami editor of * the otlicinl organ, Hie Kentucky State ' 11 Union, published then*, has come out, ho|dl\ against the sulMreusurv scheme. *' and has created much comment by so * doing. The Democratic Wheelers of v that section are upholding him. and it H has made lnm more popular than ever, i] lie had previously heeiiquoted as fuveor- I in? it. 11 n THRILLING STOKW in awful experence in the wilds of central america. in Indian ICnten Allvn bj an Army of Tarantulas?Thousands ot the Wloknl Heptllrn, Some an I.arit?< as Turtles, Creep Out of the flrans. San Francisco, Sept. 2fl.?In it reI'nt number of the Kxamincr of this ity l)r. J. S. Davis, au extensive exlorer says lie has just returned from n expedition into the interior of Ytint an and Compeaelie, during which he let with an awful and unusual adcnture. The story in the Doctor's vvn words is as follows: "in the latter part of May last I went > Central America from San Francisco t the request of the Munich Society ir Prehistorical Research, of which 1 in a member, to investigate the ancnt ruins which cover that country. itli a view of obtaining, if possible, >tne cluo to tlio period to which they filong. I got the clue I sought for roiii some hieroglyphics among the onquestador ruins, which, according > my theory, are about 8.< K) years old, at, ot course, absolute proof Is not mailable. 1 had as a guide a most itelligent half-breed, Manuel llesero, id he informed me that, according to ie traditions of his Indian progenitors, icre were some ruins of still greater itiquity 110 miles to the Northward, ar the Kio Seen. Indeed, he said, at this dry basin was once the bed of river that nad been turned from its mrse by the inhabitants of these same tins. Thinking that 1 might possibly id some corroboration for my theory nong these earlier relics of the lost ice, I started to find tl.em, accominied by my faithful guide. It was iry bard traveling through the jungles id we made hardly fifteen miles a day. he difficulties were multipled by the lormous number of snakes and poisonis insects that infest this section. We st one of our pack mules through a te or a sting of some sort on the third IV. On tlie afternoon ot the fourth day e camped in a little opening, clear expt for grass. This was soon burned f. We had just finished supfer, audi as sitting at the base of a tree smnkig my pipe when an enormous taranila came out of the grass into the eared circle. He was positively the 5 tMe'siartfrncrnVA-o^ I im, I noticeii a curious,dull, indefinite ddish line down his back, i regretted lat 1 had not the means to pre. rveit, at Manuel settled my regrets by rushing it with a billet of wood. It ad hardly censed moving when anther and equally huge one at >eared t the other end of tie burned patch, did not fear them much, as I wore *avy leather leggings, reaching to my ps.' "We have made a bad camp, Manuel," Haul, "there seems to bo many tarandas." "One place Is about as another," he iswered in Spanish. "They usually i by twos." He appeared more troubled, however, lan his careless answer seemed to ink-ate, and while 1 killed the second unelcoine visitor he began to poke round in the grass with a long branch, le uncovered more of the great spiers and killed them. When he turned round there were fully half a dozen f them in the cleared space. They iatencil on the dead ones end seemed > suck their blood. "We must get out of this." screamed ie Indian. At this moment our remaining ir ale egan to struggle and kick. lie soon roke his p'eket rope and disappeared, 'hen I became aware of a steady rustng in the grass. More tarantulas iime out. "I have heard of it from the Indians," ried my guide. "It is the devil's army, 'hev say that the people who lived in tie dead cities were killed by them, and lint no one can live there. They come y thousands, like red ants, and leave othing alive where they pass. I nought, it was a squaw story. We nist light them with lire.' lie seized a (laming brand from the amp-lire, and yelled to ma to do likewise. lie tried to lire the grass on all Ides of us. but where the trees grew it as too rank and wet, and the tires we tar ted would not go. Meanwhile the spiteful spiders beanie more and more numerous. 1 rushei at least one of them every step took. Many of them hit at my legirigs, and hung there by their fangs. Vv turned our lire-brands to crushing tie tarantulas, but they seemed to come dicker than we could drive them off. "1 am bitten," I heard the Indian ream. I passed him my flask. I could o nothing more for him. r id. dropping ly stick, I started to run. Every step ito the grass seemed to bring nie into rorse quarters. 1 tried every direction, ut they set ined every wlie. I noticed hat they were in the bushes and on t ho ra.-s, so high that inv leggings would ot protect me, and presently I found iy.seif hack at the camp. There, at ast. they could not reach me without, limbing up. The ground was perfect v black with them. 1'oor Manuel was own on his knees ami the great insects ere all over him. He seemed crazy, nd I have no doubt his mind was near- j v gone with terror and the pain of the | ites. 1 could barely keep the tarantulas mm getting above my leggings. Sudenly it occurred to me that I might, nd safety in one of the trees. I knew hat 1 would soon be exhausted if 1 emuilicd among the black beasts, and hat would end it. In a moment I h: I ny arms about a small tree. 1 crush* d be insects that clung to my legs gainst the bark as 1 dragged and erambled up. A dozen tcet troni the [round there was a branch from which ire had hung some small game I had hot. I pulled myself up on to this ranch and got the I'.rst moment's rest had had since the tarantulas first, apteared. 1 had had no time to think be I ttnx' this. but now I began to real 1 what had happened. It seemed nit I like a nightmare than anything' re I looked and almost felt off my bran i at the horrid sight below. My Indi was now fairly on the ground. 1 eon not see him for the poisonous thin that covered him, but the irregul black mass wriggled and squtrnv like a wounded snake, and I knew 1 | was not yet out of his agony. On eve side were more tarantulas hungri searchiiif, for more victims. The crushed fellows were almost torn pieces so tierce were they in their hu ger. They were nil enormous; some them were as big as turtles, and win the sun struck them 1 eotilu seethe r line that distinguished theui from tl non-gregarious species that are famlli in other plai es. Thev crawled over oi another in their desire to tlnd soin thing into which to sink their faiif I'oor Manuel's writhing body was tl objective point of most of them. TIu fought tiercely for a spot of tiesh win* they could strike, and every niovemei of the still living man seemed to mul them yet more llerce. It diil not take mo :is long to noti< all this as it does to describe it, and soon saw that I was not yot safe froi the horrible fate that had overtake my guide. Tho insects began to crawl up tl trees, though not in any coiishlerabl numhers at lirst. I brushed thei down with a small branch, and thothat were hurt at all were immediatel set upon by their follows. My recital of these things may seei tame, but. I have no pen to describe th awful horror of it all. There wei about two boursoi daylight left me. knew this and 1 wondered what 1 coul do in the dark. Then i renieniberi1 reading that suakesor centipedes won) not cross a hair rope, and I thougl that pe haps the same rule might a] ply to tarantulas. The game was swinging from tl braueh bv a luiLr-'viin.roita audit ? nie a very -.<-w minutes to cut, the ral bits loose and wind the rone about tl trunk just below mo. Pretty soo more of tho big spiders came up. Mai ui'l wits quiet now at last, and tlu wanted another victim. My hair rope did some good. Tin could not swarm over it in such nun hers that I could not sweep them hue with my branch. How long I stayi there lighting the insects hark I do m know. Hut tho light was lading when I in tired aeommotion among the lardtiU las.---At the same line- I observed number of hlue-bbiek wasps dartin iihout. I recognized them as belong ing to the hymetioptera family, an leabzed that ihey were the tarautul hawks of which I had read. In li minutes the four or live wasps had l?i come hundreds, and live minutes lati there was not a tarantula to be seei except the numerous dead ones at th foot of t he tree. Manuel's hodv nwnllon and I'd by the venom of the spn ers, stare u[i at. me. I waited an hour and the da and on the way I did not gle tarantula. HIS NECK BROKEN. II > >1itmpint; from n TrMln Wlilln In M lion?I nut itnl ly lillletl. A i ia sta, (la., Sept. 21. A sad are dent indeed was that which happenc lo a young man named Daniels at He zclia on the (ieorgia railroad Sunda morning. He was returning home t spend the Sabbath with his father an mother, and instead of the anticipate pleasure of loved ones' greeting, he mt a cruel fate. The young man's full nan is A. A. Darnels. lie was 17 years of and his home was Her/elia. The young man has been employed ft some time as a section hand on tl (Seorgia railroad, with headquartere r Carr's on the Macon branch. Durin last week he secured a pass to go hon to spend Sunday with his family. II came from ('arr's on Saturday night < a train as far as Catnak, at which pla< lie got on the night express coining t ward Augusta. When the train approached ller/el early Sunday morning, young Dank saw his father in his buggy waiting receive him. As Her/.elia is only a Ih station at which the train docs not st< unless flagged down or unless there is pa .senger who wishes to get. oil', the e press hardly slacks its speed. Youi Daniels had a pass, hut did not give up to the conductor or say nnylhit about desiring to leave the. train at tl sis.:nn. lie thought it uunccessa probably, having determined to jnn from the rapidly moving cars. lie made the jump, but unfort unate the poor fellow miscalculated the di taico or speed of the train,and in pla of landing on his feet struck, just tl reverse, on his head. His hciui strm a erosstie on a side track, death resul ing almost instantly. The sad accident occurred before h father's eyes, who rushed to his soi assistance, but the lad was already b vond human aid. The father return* home not with his son's joyous voi sounding in his ears as he expected, h with his lifeless body. Augusta Chro iele. IV. \V. ICtiM.fl I III tlifi Soii|>. (1kkknwooi>, Sept. 23. -John It T< hurt has at last received recogrntu from his fellow lte{>ul>licaus and their nominee f.>r t'ongrcss from tl Third District. I'lu-eon vent ion wlu< did this work convened here to dav 12 o'clock and was in . don I ft 'I'h. inMii.-i. i 11< <'i ^,i111/ >'i<>ii was easy. II. Owens was ?*l?*ct?-tl chairman wi | no opposition and II K.Tolhert, sen j I ar v. A commit tee on credentials w j : ppninted and the emita sting deles ! t ions from Oconee was consider* | The llrycc faction was seated and It* sell at the head of the Thomas facth Ictt the hall. There was a great ki l>y the fuction rejected and great dis< der characterized the meeting dur this business. When thir-a were some extent calmed the order of bu ncss was the nomination of a candid; and Tolbert received the nominati without an opposing vote, liryce in lirly went over to To'oert, and if Fi ey received any votes nobody knew When Uiis'ellsaw bs chances slim left the hall and declared that ho won appeal to the people. The convent; j W composed of SO members. Wi Ilussell the Anderson and two of t 1 Pickens delegates left the hall.?(irec | ville News. j*S MENAGERIE LET LOOSt. ?' ch WILD BEASTS AT LARGE IN A SOUTH ",1 /l^RICAN TOWNgS :,r A Fiend 0|H>nn thr |)oori or CtfM Confined f1(, Iiik Wild Animal* and 8?t Them Free, ry Terrible Scene* Follow?Men and Woly i ijr men Torn to l'leoe*. | London, Sept. HE?Mail advices from jjj! Kimberly. South AfricA.tellof an awful pu orcurrcnct! there at midnight on the j8t rd of June last. Soma person, evidently tu> one beuring ill-feeling toward the proprietor of Fillis's menagerie, opened the doors of the cages confining the ;s. wild animals and set them all free. The most terrible scenes followed this liberation. Four attendants sleeping !t on the premises were mangled Iwyond f,? run/,?HI ?--? oemg torn actually llml) from limb, bitten and gashed in the I most siekening manner, while the enm tire population within a radius of a 'u mile was aroused by the roaring of the ^ , lions, the trumpeting of the elephants, I,, the growls* and shrieks of the leopards, n chetahs, jackals and frightened horses. Tour enormous mail lions?Pasha, -v Abdul, Caliph and Mustapha?sprang n from their rages and made for the e stables, where Pasha leaped upon the "? back ol' Murat. the great jumping stallion, and buried hU teeth in iiio anlj mill's neck. The screams of the horso id aroused the attendants, a Scotchman named Patterson and three Kaflirboys, l>" who, armed with stable forks, rushed to t ho relief of M n rat. V ..>*ro?i the dying words of ono Kaflir, " wl o was the only one able to speak when aid caine, it was learned that they ' rushed to unspeakable torture and met n a fearful death. He and his mates endeavored to licat Posiia back, when they ' were attacked in the rear by three other lionsand onechetah. They were thrown 'y to the ground, their arms and legs bit!" ten and dragged off, their Ixxlies mani | gied J'*?d t(?rn open, their lames smashed into bits, and. with the excepton of the single Kaillr. their heads crushed into a mil p. The one man, who lived just '* long enough to tell the story, was with out either arms or legs, and hi* body ' was a mass of lacerations. rk Having tasted blond, ihe lions, che\ talis, wolves and leopards regained all their natural ferocity and sprung at ' everything that came in their way. Four performing Hungarian horses, of " which the equine beauty, lllaek Hess, w'iis one of the number, were killed al' most instantly, and a number of ponies were devoured. An enormous elephant, known as J lllood, burst through the heavy iron gate in his fright and rushed into Curry street, followed by nearly every animal* I that was in the menagerie. Jn*s eytrttgrriTrTOTR"tiKihmt? <?p palled by the uproar within, but did not suppose the beast could escape beyond the walls. Suddenly, as he describes It, he saw the animals come forth, first the elephant loudly trumpeting,closely followed by a tumbling, writhlng.snurli ing mass of lions, hyenas, jackals, ,i baboons and every other quality of brute. r* Nelson sprung for a post that supy ports an awning around Glover's athleto ic bar and clitnlied into safety, while liis horses risHhcd madly down the l)utoitspan road, snorting with fear, clo" sely pursued by two lions and four t wolves. The remainder of the wild anlt. imals distribut d themselves in overy , direction. A little child of James ' Grindley, happening to be in a rear room opening on a garden, was pounced ?r upon by a ehctah and dragged into the ie open air, where its agonized mother ; saw it torn to pieces and devoured without any power to help it. iff Other and equally harrowing indie dents are reported, among which is the I?1 killing of five women, who were fear,n) fully mangled. When the mails left I there were at large four lions, two lionesses, two tigers, three bears, two wolves, one hyena, two chetals, one elephant, one camul and seventeen ' ? halioons. The police were organized I" into hunting parties and the town was >g almost in a condition of siege. l(M(I Outdone. x*. Washinoton,Sept.20.?In the Mouse )i; to-day OTerrall objected to theapp evil al of the journal. ,,r The Speaker counted only thiity-sevl,,. en Democrats, not enough to order the r.. yeas and nays on the question presentiii The yeas ami nays were demanded lv and the Speaker then counted fortyeight Democrats. r(, lireckcnridgc "Von only counted l1(, thirty-seven before." k The Speakers ?"This is not the lirst H. time the gentlemen on that side have apiieared and disappeared." jH lireekenridge "And this is not the first time the count of the Chair has lU. turned out to he incorrect." ^ The Speaker?"The Chair desires to " say that yesterday the count by tellers llt showed two less than the count by the Chair, and that was because of two members disappearing after the Speaker's count." Crisp "There was a difference of >). six." hi I he Speaker -"The gentlemen is mis is taken." In- ilrecken ridge "The country will h know the facts." at The yeas and nays having Urn orderal ed, there was a I >emocratic exodus and H. in a moment the Democratic seals were tb nigh deserted. The vote resulted ? v?':is 15. IlilVS lionn no nnrtriim inwl ?li? as 1 louse,'lit f o'clock, adjourned. '!" Conflict In m HyDN(o(uii. | ' Trknton, N. J., Sept. 17.?During rm services in the Polish Hebrew synack gogne here to-day a fight occurred over n_ the attempt of ex-ltahbi Max Roddeo n.r and some of his followers to take a part in the pray ere,after they had been warni ed to keep away. During the struggle Hodden and Harris Adolpluis, it Is on claimed, were roughly handled, and ,jj. Harris's coat collar was torn on. The in~ two men went before Justice Mills and i t*. I' ad warrants issued for the arrest of Moses SkomwiUohki, the new rabbi, |I(1 and several offers of the Synagogue fU1 as their assails' ts. 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