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Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Eoonomy, Polite Literature, Polltios and the Current News of the Day. XXI.?SEW SERIES. UJNIOH C- H., T50UTH CAROLSjfir^CTOBlSI^ 3, 1890. N UMBER 40. SOME PLAIN TALK. ^uight'fakf I RIDING DOWN THE RIGHT.| M^e? THHTI T in<i vtTTpv ~SBTiS^= rn=i ?. ? ...nnk ...I.I..I 1 1 " " ' UNCLE GEORQEITILLMAN TEARS UP THE 8UB-TREA8URY. Hti Speech Accepting the Nomination for CoDgraw?A Trap for Southern Termer* About "Oar Hrethren of the West? Bundling Bfecune Without Gloves. Augusta, Oa., Sept 26.?The following Is George D. Tillman's speech before the nominating convention at Aiken Friday us reported in the Augusta Chronicle: Mr. Chairman, gentlemen of the Convention and Fellow-Citizens:?For the eighth time in suooession have I had the proud gratification to receive the nomination of the people of this district for Congress. To say that I am grateful and proud of it would be to tell the simple truth. To be chosen so often as representative from this historical county, to serve longer than any other congressman in this State, a district once represented by Calhoun and his distinguished successors, says a great deal either for me or for the people of this district, or for both. I inn not vain enough to take this vdisplay of regard as evidence of any ability in mfl hut vrtll hnvn /ollh In mn r ? w ? ^ mmmm 1 V AM4VU ?U 14-1V/. You know that I will serve you to the best of my ability, and under no circumstances betray your trust. What adds to this gratification is that I have been choeen during most trying times. Wc havo just come out of a war. We have been plundered ever since we were conquered, but all conquered people must suffer. Unfortunately we have an unfortunate race in . ^our midst, whom our enemies have '^sought to raise to our standard, or rather level us to theirs. I am sorry to say you are a conquered people, and your enemies are trying to see how far negroes can be made into whiter men, how far a people can "be taxed and pay tribute to the conquerer and survive. The harder the agricultural class works/the more self denial they practice, the poorer they get. The reason of itis the higher taxes you must pay to go out In pensions. High taxes don t impoverish ^rpeople provided they are spent &jribng the people who pay them, but when they are paid out to* another people the one who receives grows richer. So as Ireland is impoverished to enrich England you are being improverlshed to enrich the North, but the taxes they pay they get back in appropriations and pensions. You pay between forty and fifty millions a year taxes simply because you were on the wrong side. Your chlldron miict nnnMnni? *?? ? * 1 uivn ujuob tuumuuo tu yaj iiirot) ittACD 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 rich roeu of the North. .The Bast owns the West and South. They own ail the rail rhhdf. There aro 34 chartered reads in Sonth Carolina and the citizens of the State do not own a majority of the stock in any and the tracks all go one v/ny^r By the time you meet the interest bn your debts and pay your taxes and fixed charges there is not enough money left to bring fair prices on your products. You want an income tax, and you want to abolish the tax on whiskey and tobacco. I do not mean to have free whiskey and tobacco, (1 see one friend shake his head over there) but to get rid of the horde of official vermin who go around and smell your bottles and nose around vour tobacco and who as much as say, nelp yourself, it you dare. Let the State and the counties and cities get the benefit of the whiskey and tobacco tax. 1 am sorry 1 can not go into a long speech on the sub-treasury and give you something. better than that bill. Vou ought to issue more money. If you do not the North will own you body and soul. They own the West too. but the West is mere bitter against the I 'South than the North is. They put a tux on Southern cotton see,I oil so that it will bo tit for nothing but manure. Where were your Western sul?treasury friends when Conciess taxed your cotton seed oil; when it added 300 per cent, on your cotton ties; when that infamous force bill was passed, and wneu i.ne mm reiuseu io voie ior iree silver. It Is sickening to see the South talk about forming h political alliance with tiwW?l. It is not worth while to go into details al>out the sub-treasury. (Cries of go on; tell us all about it.) Well. 1 will tell you aboutit. Mr. Tillman then recited the pr??visions of the bill. Continuing he said: It is paternalism and protection run mad. It is a proposition to lef, the govS ernment tako 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?Outdoes not the bill plMr " vide that two or three counties may combine and get a ware house ? Mr. Tillman- Yes, hut it stipulates that you muat carry your produce to the nearest ware house. McCune is the originator of that bill. He Is a reformed Republican, who f<iilat dentistry in Indians, floated about California for a while, and Anally went down to Texas, where he manipulated Alliance money. Is thers any justice in taxing other industries to build wsrehouse for the products of the fanners. The Alliance professed equal justice to ail and special rayon to none, ir mat alnt special favor wh'Mt Is It V V Two Republicans framed that bill. There la no Democracy In It. It la a bridge to carry the Iiemooratlc party oyer, horse, foot and diagoon, to the Republican party.* It prnvld* for the election of warehouse managers, but the constitution says federal officers m must be appoint .1 and not elected^and T/> you know whnuy.ha. RepuMWhnrVlll Ik tfonto diji M the warehooihti shall Uwbuilt. It will be a federal ele?. ^Unak not a 8tats election. The negroes would vote, and whites would divide. Would not that be a nice state of affairs V Then there would be lots of stealing and embesaling; ootton would East they will come to us. At the No- ? vember elections we will see whether 1 the West Is inclined to unite with us. 8 Don't be in too great a hurry. We 8 were in a hurry in (30, but we havo been repenting it ever since. Wait and c see if the West will come to us. P Put an income tax on the wealth of 1 the East. There are four reasons why I v have no use for thesub-lieasury bill? 81 it is a crude, impracticable, Republican, uDconstitutional meaaure. Livingstone, Polk, McCune and two P or three others were put upon the legislative committee at the St. Louis meeting to suggest the outline of the measure, but McCune and Waddill }! drafted it. The live cents you send up there will go. They must pretend to 11 las doing something to earn those big ? salaries they are getting. 1 Mr. Thomas Whittle, in the audience, {* objected to Mr. Tillman's attacks on 11 McCune et al. He said he was going to vote for him, but he did not think it .n fair to ruu those men down. l" Mr. Tillman?1 admire your pluck. Mr. Whittle?1 admire yours. Mr. Tillman?Then it is mutual ad- .. miration. " Mr. Tillman continued his discussion T of the sub-treasury. Distillers he sal d w furnished their own warehouses, the . government furnished the watchmen j; and the guagersonly. Mr. Whittle thought the farmers should have the same advantages. P Mr. Tillman?Can two wrongs make afrWhittle?-Then remedy that. ? Mr. Tillman?That's what I've been " trying to do. A LITTLE EXCITEMENT. At this juncture there was a little excitement created. Captain Markert arose to ask Mr. Tillman to explain (i how the Federal officers would handle the farmers' cotton and jokingly re- ? marked about Mr. Whittle's interrup- * tlons. * Mr. Whittle took offence and said thut he was a native born South Caro- ? liniail ana captain Uarkort wiu not. Mr. Alex White, who knew Captain Markert's war record to be as good as that of any native born South Carolinian and better than even some of the State's own sons retorted that Captain Markert had heard the whistle of more bullets around him than did Mr, Whittle. The latter resented the remark and there was considerable confusion for a few minutes, but quiet soon was restored and Mr. Tillman concluded his kpeech. The great, just (lood, he said, is tempering the wind to the shorn lamb. The production of cotton is not keeping pace with its manufacture. The South raised fine provision crop last year and a few more will bring the West to its knees. It will have to burn corn for fuel again and it will be a drug on the market, bringing no price. Then (he West will come to the South and seek an alliance to raise the moneyed oppression of the East. Mr. Tillman closed with a strong appeal never to submit to negro domination. ltouinnc* of it Curl. Chicago, Sept. 24.?About thirty years ago Captain James H. Miller, of the United States Volunteers, sat behind Jennie James, a pretty miss of eighteen, at a camp meeting. Jennie fcMT bewitchingly long curls which the Captain could not refrain from pulling. From the shock of that pull his feelings never recovered. The two became intimately acquainted, and when the Captain was ordered to Virginia with his regiment he took away trie heart and a ring of Jennie's. Since then Jennie, tired of waiting, has married three times. The Captain has also married, but the infatuation of the curls always remained with him, and the other day, when he died, he left Jennie $<13,000. Jennie was found to-day in squalid rooms with a squalling baby. She was overjoyed wnen the news was broken to her. Ramiirkabl* Mind Handing. Chicago, Sept. 84.?Paul Alexander Johnston, the mind reader, opened a difficult combination safe in the presence of many well-known people at a hotel here recently under remarkable circumstances. He was blindfolded, his ears ntld nna?p<l> , I ?lA II ? rr "WMO nmc WIWI UOllOIl, J his hands covered with thick kid gloves, I and in his mouth he held a cigar, so even 1 the sense of taste was temporarily dee- 1 troyed. Thaproorietors and book-keep i IK, of _th<EgkHftaod behind him aiid ed correctly to the numbers and miff I the door open. Johnston says UuB i proves that man has more than flurd 1 senses. fj vuw iiiuvw t??luact UI1U 1UIU UgtllS; you would be on Federal ground. All i would have to be tried lu the United States court. You could not brlog them into your own courts. There is no more chance for that bill to pass . than there is to pass a bill to build a ' tower to the tnoon. There were only two congressmen who were avowed supporters of the sub?|.reasii|y bill. They had their papers as lawyers annulled, but the Alliance thought they were too enthusiastic, and did not nominate them for ? another term. \ The most stupid thing to me in the { whole bill is that 80 per cent, advauced on products in the early part of the ] year and at the latter end of the year t the money is burned. What you need t is more money, all the time to keep prices up and keep them steady. The bill was gotten up by a com- I mittee of three?a dreamer, a specula- t tor and a scurvy politician?who wanted tq provide a popular scheme for . broken down politicians. Senator " Yance introduced it into the Senate by t request, lie was silent about it for a four months, and at the end of which time he denouueed it. In th? inpj?n. time though the Alliance papers and ? tramp orators cried it aloud that Sena- I tor Vance endorsed it, and what Sena- y tor Vance endorses is right. Mr. j, Hemphill has whipped it out in his district. In Oeorgia ail the strong politicians went back in spite of it. I fwo of them did not seek another v term. Major Barnes was not defea'-d a on account of it, but on account of t he prejudice of country against the city. v I seek to protect the Alliance, to keep e politicians from prostituting it. Stand p by the Alliance and vote for Allianc.. a men and measures, but not as a secret body. It is time I should close, though I v have not said one-tenth part that could s be said aguinst this preposterous uum- e bug. * If the West is belntr robbed bv the s /ENABLE AND ELLIOTT UNSEATED WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON. Che Kepublloaua Secure Quorum, and, without More A<to, Rent the Metro Contestant* from Virginia and South Carolina. Washington,Sept. 23.?Six minutes ifter the Republicans in the House roted to seat Langston they turned out 3ol. Wm. Elliott and gave his place to Dom Miller. The haste in disposing of he South Carolina contest was as brual as it was unprecedented. It was ifter I o'clock to-day before enough Ue>ubllcans put in an appearance to make ip a quorum. The Democrats remained out of the tail and consequently there was no one o demand a roll-call but Mr. O'Ferrall, nd his request had no avail with 166 tot-headed partisans. As soon as the resence of a quorum was announced jangston was voted in by u viva voce ote. The greatest confusion prevailed a the meantime, as the galleries were rowded with negroes enthusiastic for jangston. The Republican members fere equally wild and uncontrollable, nd the yelling and stamping of feet fas terrific when Speaker Reed declard Langston entitled to a seat as Reiresentative from tho 4th Virginia i strict. Amid shouts and applause Langston ras sworn in. The Republicans then houted wildly to the committee on lections to call up the next case, which Vas the TT/ifcrst. TTrerC4 vas no debate and the reading of the. ommittee resolutions was even omited, so desperate was the majority and 0 eager were they for Democratic calps. Mr. O'Ferrall and several Republians protested against such summary roceedings, but Speaker Reed heeded hein not, and without permitting a diision declared Tom Miller a Repreentative of the 7th Congressional disrict of South Carolina, vice Elliott. The following is the details of the roceeding by which Congressmen renable and Elliott were robbed of ieirseat* v, Mr. O'FeiTall was the only Democrat 1 the chamber this morning during le delivery of the prayer. The clerk nmediately began the call of the roll n the approval o? Friday's Journal, he clerk having called the roll, anounced the pairs and recapitulated the st of those voting. The Speaker hesitated before he anounced the result, there being but two loking of , Mr. O'Ferrall demanHwafyhat the reiilt be announced. In order to delay the announcement, Republican after Republican rpse and squealed to know how he was recordMr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, inquired how le gentleman from Virginia (O'Ferill) had voted. / , , . Mr. O'Ferrall replied' that he had ever voted to perpetrate larceny, and e dtd^inH propose to do so in this case. Mr. Allen, of Michigan : "The gentle len doth protest too much. Thegentlelen has evidently stolen the whole of tie other side." J. D. Taylor : "May 1 ask the gentlelan a question ?" Mr. O'Ferrall: "That is a dilatory uestion." [Laughter.] Mr. Taylor inquired whether the entleman from Virginia (O'Feriall) /hen he was seated by the Democratic louse, considered it larceny. Mr. O'Ferrall retorted that keeping im out of his seat had been larceny, nd that the Democratic Congress had 'indicated him. Mr. Taylor : "The only evidence that ou had the right to the seat was that ou were seated by a majority vote." Mr. O'Ferrall: "It would be well to eraember the course of the ltepresenatives of the last Congress when for lays and weeks they refrained from rnting in the contested case of Sullivan 's. Felton." Mr. Allen, of Michigan : "Why did rou not count us?" The vote was then announced to be? eas 1K5, nays 1?no quorum, and a call ?f the House was ordered. Just as the clerk began to call the oil, Mr. Sweeny, of Iowa, one of the absentees, entered and was received by ds colleagues with applause. Shortly Jterwaras, Mr. Mudh, of Maryland, nade his appearance and received a retention of mingled applause and hisses. During the roll-call the camera was igain brought into requisition and motographers again reproduced the aray of empty Democratic seats. One hundred and sixty-four mcmbeis esponded to the call and without any innouncement of the result, further iroceedings were dispensed with, nnd he vote again recurred on approving Friday's Journal. While this roll-call was in progress ipplause and hisses were given when dr. Milliken entered the hall. For a .ime Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, who is >pposed to Langston's claims, joined ;he absentees. He located himself on i lounge in the lobby, declining to ?nter the chamber. But the requests and supplications of his party associates proved too strong, and upon this yote he recorded his name in the affirmative. The vote resulted?veas 160. nays nothing?the clerk noting a quorum. .Notwithstanding the protests of Mr. O'Ferrail, the Speaker directed the reading of Saturday's Journal. Mr. O'Ferrail demanded a division on its approval, and while the Republicans were being cc >nted he retired to the cloakroom amid victorious shouts from the Republic*" and expressions of regret at his desertion. As soon as Mr. O'Ferrail was out of the hall, Mr. Ilaugen asked unauimous consent to dispense with a division, snd there being no Democrat present to object, it was so ordered, amiu laughter and applause. Then Mr. O'Ferrail returned, but the Journal had been approved. Monday's Journal was approved without objection. The question then recurred on the Arato&the majority resolutions to upleaWWiL Venable. It was agreed to? ftm 15D nays 1, (Cheadle,) the clerk noting f quorum. ,7 . .... wa. i Iiuiuua, Dili terworth, Council, Kwart, Finley.IIans brougb, Peters, and Wilson, of Ken tucky. Those Republicans present am not voting were : Messrs. Bliss.Pro wnc of Virginia, Cooper, of Ohio, Dehaven Frank, McBord.McKenna, Stockbrhlge Waddcll, Wade, Wright, Yardley am the Speaker. Then came the quastion on the seat ing of Langston, and it was carried 01 division, O'Ferrall and Cheadle alon< voting in the negative. Mr. Haugen then escorted Langstor to the bar of the House, while the lie publican side and the galleries broki out into loud applause and cheerfl whic'? were redoubled as the Speakei administered the oath. Then came a chorus from the lie publican side : "Call up another case.' And in response to the chorus Mr llowell, of Illinois, called up the South Carolina case of Miller against Elliott Mr. O'Ferrall raised a question oi consideration, and on a rr?v voce vot< the Speaker stated that the House had determined to consider the election case. Mr. O'Ferrall made a point that there was no quorum present. The Speaker declined to entertain the point, stating that the last vote had shown a quorum, and that since then several Demecrats had entered the hall The previous question was ordered, and despite the protest from Mr. Kerr, of iowa, that some reason for its adoption should be given, tlio resolutions unseating Elliott und seating Miller were agreed t^without division. COTTON MERCHANTS EXCITED. A Movement which Threaten* .Serious Conaeqnonrei. New York, Sept. 24.?The Commercial Bulletin of this city says advices from Birmingham. Ala., state that the Farmers' Alliance in Alabama arc holding nmahngB apAVmling nymtwrp hy resolutions anoTrirteTfiigreeinents, not to sel their cotton crop until the price has been forced up to a price satisfactory * OS vvr n.c xt umiice. 1 nc members readily enter into these agreements, believing they can hold the bulk of the cotton crop until the price can be forced up to 12cents or higher. If this arrange ment is carried out it means ruin to thousands of merchants aud many bankers iu the Sliouth. Ninety per cent, of the cotton crop is sold when it is plauted. and the crop is grown on credit. The farmer owes the merchant, the merchant owes the hanker and banker in many cases owes his Eastern correspondent. The merchant's notes to the banker fall due from October 15 to November 1, and the tmnkcr's paper in New ?ork is due a iltle later. If the farmer does not sell his cotton he cannot pay his merchant and the latter caunot pay the banker. it has just been announced, as cominft from high Alliance authority, that ments width European capiJktw&ts to advance the farmers $32 per baie on all cotton stored in the ware house. This would enable the farmers to pay the bulk ot the money he owes his mechant and prevent anything like a panic, but it is doubtiTul if any such airangement has been made. But even it he fails to nake an arrangement to borrow money on his ware house receipts, the farmers, at least the Alliance farmer, proposes to hold his cotton anyway and let the merchant and banker squirm. The farmer says thatxv.ien he was the helpless worm the ii - /chant and banker combined to crush him without mercy, and now he has the power he will not grieve over their sufferings. MnrclionU ""'1 > *- "n " " mv.viiuudq duu unuacrn ill nil Lllc towns and cities ot the cottou State frankly admit that the situation looks serir s, but they still hope for the best. Where the merchant holds a mortgage on the c. ops ho will attempt to force the dciivery of the cotton at the time specefled in his mortgage, but the farmer has several cards in his sleegahe can play ifueces sary, and delay deliVetyNt/terah weeks. He can harvest his crop late, his gin may break down, or other accldenU happen that will prevent his getting hit cotloii to market until late in Novcm her. I>le<l In His Pulpit-. Albion, N. Y., Sept. 24.?The Hev George F. Cain, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, and one of the mos popular preachers in this County, me death at a singular time Sunday morn ing. He appeared in his pulpit appear ently enjoying his usual good health an< went through the services preliminary to the sermon with accustomed fervoi He took as the subject for his morning* discourse the story of NaamantheSy rian, who was healed of leprosy by faitl in the directions given him by Elisha t< bathe in the waters of the Jordan. Tin minister elaborated on this story, ap pealing eloquently to his hearers to pu all their faith in the. Lord, and was uis coursing on the power of the Almighty to save those who trusted Him, not onl< from the troubles of life but from al famishment after death, when In >rought his uplifted hand suddenly down to his heart and without utterinj a word fell on the platform and died be fore any of the congregation couh reach him. What Bub Juice Will Do. Macon, Ga.. Sept. 24.?Whilo Olllcc Ellison was ou his beat.at about 2 o'clocl in the morning, near tiie Hrown house he was approached by negroes, who tol him that a white man was lying acros me raiiroaa track, near the old Roc mill. The policeman went to the scene and found the fellow's head resting 01 one rail and Ids legs acros the other. II was dead drunk. A whisky bottle wa near by. He removed the man from th track and carried hj#n t) the city bai racks. In flteeft Wmute* more he woul have been ground to death, as a trail came thundering along in that time. Changed Hli Mind. Nabhvillk, Tenn., Sept. 24.?j special from Howling (ireen, Ky., say that Presidents. B. Orwin, of the Farnc ers' Alliance of Kentucky, and editor < the official organ, the Kentucky Stat Union, published there, has come 01 boldly against the sub-treasury schem? and has created much comment by a doing. The Democratic Wheelera c that section aro upholding him. and I has mado him more popnlar Uian evei He had previously been quoted as faveoi ing it. U1V11 1 . j AN AWFUL EXPERENCE IN THE '* WILDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 'f 1 An Indian Katen Alive by an Aruij of Tarantula*?'Thousand* of the Winked 1 Keptlle*, Home a* I.arve a* Turtles, 9 Creep Out of the Grass. 1 San Fuanci8oo, Sept. 20.?In a rej cent number of the Examiner of this i, city Dr. J. 8. Davis, an extensive exr plorer says he has just returned from an expedition into the interior of Yu> catan and Compeache, during which he . met with an awful and unusual adi venture. The story in the Doctor's * own words is as follows: A in the latter part of May last I went I to Central America from San Francisco 1 at the request of the Munich Society j for Prehistorical Research, of which I am a member, to investigate the ancient ruins which cover that country, 1 with a view of obtaining, if possible, 1 some clue to tho period to which they belong. I got the clue I sought for , from some hieroglyphics among the ' Conquestador ruins, which, according to my theory, are about 8,< X) years old, but, ot course, absolute proof is not i available. I had as a guide a most < intelligent half-breed, Manuel Bescro, \ and he informed me that, according to j the traditions of his Indian progenitors, i there were some ruins of still greater I antiquity 110 miles to the Northward, 1 near the Rio Seca. Indeed, he said, that this dry basin was once thejbed of I - a river that "had been turned from its i course by the inhabitants of these same J ruins, thinking that I might possibly , find some corroboration for my theory i among these earlier relics of the lost 1 race, I started to find ti.em, accom- ( panied by my faithful guide. It was j very hard traveling through the jungles \ and we made hardly fifteen miles a day. j The difficulties were multipled by the enormous numlipr nf a nab-.... ...1.1 ? VI Uiiniwmiuu JAilOUII' ( ous insects that infest this section. We i lost one of our pack mules through a ' bite or a sting1 of some sort on the third j day. i On the afternoon of the fourth day i we camped in a little opening, clear ex- \ cept for grass. This was soon burned ( off. I We had just finished supyer, and I ( was sitting at the base of a tree smok- | ing my pipe when an enormous tarantula came out of the grass into the ( cleared circle. He was positively the i kS tae srarcinv^vojA-oi' %QJ1 ? h.im, I noticed a curious,dull, indefinite ( reddish line down his back. I regretted j that 1 had not the means to pre. >rveit, but Manuel settled my regrets by crushing it with a billet of wood. It had hardly ceased moving when an- ] other and equally laige one av .eared at the other end of tl e burned patch. I did not fear them much, as I wore heavy leather leggings, reaching to my < hips. I i "We have made a l>ad camp, Manuel." . i I said, "there seems to bo many taran- ' i tulas." 1 i "One place is about as another," he i i answered in Spanish. "They usually j go by twos." He appeared more troubled, however, ' , than his careless answer seemed to in- 1 dlcate, and while I killed the second un- i welcome visitor he began to poke , around in the grass with a long branch. He uncovered more of the great spi1 ders and killed them. When he turned f ' around there were fully half a dozen < of them in the cleared space. They { fastened on the dead ones and seemed . to suck their blood. ' "We must get out of this." screamed ( [ the Indian.' i At this moment our remaining ir Jle a began to struggle and kick. He toon . broke his p'cket rope and disappeared. Then I became aware of a steady rustling in the grass. More tarantulas came out. 1 "I have heard of it from the Indians," - cried nay guide. "It is the devil's army, t Thev say that the people who lived in t. th?H??wi ..?.i ---? - ...? v.. .... V1IIWI ItliD m1icu uy iiicii1, tlllu - tlmt no one can live there. They coine - by thousands, like red ants, and leave 1 nothing alive where they pass. I y thought it was a squaw story. We *. must tight them with tire." s He seized a flaming brand from the - camp-fire, and yelled to me to do liketi wise. He tried to lire the grass on all ? sides of us. but where the trees grew it b was too rank and wet, and the tires we - started would not go. t Meanwhile the spiteful spiders bei cainu more and more numerous. 1 y crushed at least one of them every step Y I took. Many of them bit at my leg1 gings, and hung there by their fangs. b We turned our firebrands to crushing Y the tarantulas, but they seemed to come I thicker than we could drive them off. "I am bitten," I heard the Indian I scream. I passed him my tlask. 1 could do nothing more for him. r id, dropping iny stick, I started to run. Every step into the grass seemed to bring me into worse quarters. I tried every direction, but they se? med every whei j. I noticed ' that they were in the bushes and on the d grass, so high that my leggings would * not protect me, and presently I found k myself back at the camp. "There, at , least, they could not reach me without climbing up. The ground was perfect e lv black with them. Poor Manuel was s down on his knees and the great insects e were all over him. He seemed crazy, .. and I have no doubt hift mind was near,1 ly gone with terror and the pain of the 1 bites. 1 could barely keep the tarantulas from getting above my leggings. Suddenly it occurred to me that I might I II nd safety in one of the trees. I knew s that 1 would soon be exhausted if I l? remained among the black beasts, and >f that would end it. In a moment I h; l i my arms about a small tree. 1 crushed the insects that clung to my legs \ against the bark as I dragged and ' scrambled up. A dozen feet from the f ground there was a branch from which |j we had hung some small game I had II shot. I pulled myself up on to this r? branch and got the first moment's rest r- I had had since the tarantulas first appeared. I had had no time to think be ? ?W ?f M. UVJI au VII I Cttll/. what had happened. It seemed mor< like a nightmare than anything real I looked and almost fell off 107 brand at the horrid sight below. My Indiai was now fairly on the ground. I couh not see him for the poisonous thing! that covered him, but the irregulai black mass wriggled and squirmer like a wounded snake, and I knew hi was not yet out of his agony. On everj side were more tarantulas hungril] searching for more victims. Theii crushed fellows were almost torn tr pieces so fierce were they in their hun ger. They, were all enormous; some ol them were as big as turtles, and when the sun struck them I could see the red line that distinguished them from the non-gregarious species that are familial in other places. They crawled over one another in their desire to find some' thing into which to sink their fangs Poor Manuel's writhing body was the objective point of most of them. Thej fought fiercely for a spot of flesh where they could strike, and every movement of the still living man seemed to make them yet more fierce. It did not take mo as long to notice all this as it does to describe it, and I soon saw that I was not yet safe from the horrible fate that had overtaken my guide. The insects began to crawl up the trees, though not in any considerable numbers at first. I brushed them down with a small branch, and tho?e that were hurt at all were Immediately set upon by their fellows. My recital of these things may seem tame, but I have no pen to describe the awful horror of it all. There were about two hours of daylight left me. I knew this and I wondered what I could do in the dark. Then I remembered reading that snakes or centipedes would not cross a hair rope, and I thought that pe haps the same rule might apply to tarantulas. The game was swinging from the arapch nv a b/jLr-vv*vn rwta and4t afe" a very few minutes to cm the rabaits loose and wind the rope about the trunk just below me. Pretty soon nore of the big spiders came up. Manlel was quiet now at last, and they wanted another victim. My hair rope did some good. They lould not swarm over it in such nutn jers that I could not sweep them back with my branch. How long 1 stayed here lighting the insects back I do hot enow. But the light was fading when I no.iced a commotion among the tarantuas. At the same time I observed a lumber of blue-black wasps darting ibout. I recognized them as belongng to the hymenoptera family, and ealized that they were the tarantula tawks of which I had read. In ten minutes the four or Jive wasps had become hundreds, and live minutes later there was not a tarantula to be seen, except the numerous dead ones at the Toot of the tree. Manuel's body, swollen and discolor'd by the venom of the spn'ers, stared lp at me. I waited an hour and theD '"iivW'c... - _ ia and on the way I did not sdotf~8ii{r ?le tarantula. HIS NECK BROKEN. By Jumping From n Train While In Motlou?Instantly Killed. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 24.?A sad acci dent indeed was that which happened to a young man named Daniels at Ber celia on the Georgia railroad Sunday morning. He was returning home tc ipend the Sabbath with his father and mother, and instead of the anticipated pleasure of loved ones' greeting, lie met % cruel fate. The young man's full name s A. A. Daniels. He was 17 years old. Hid his home was Berzelia. The young man has been employed for tome time as a section hand on the '.Jeorgia railroad, with lieadquartere at Parr's on the Macon branch. During last week he secured a pass to go home to spend Sundav witl\ his familv lit came from Carr s ou Saturday night or a train as far as Camak, at which plac< he got on the night express coming to ward Augusta. When the train approached llerzelii early Sunday morning, young Daniel: saw his father in his uuggy waiting t< receive him. As Berzelia is only a tlaj station at which the train does not stoj unless (lagged down or unless there is s passenger who wishes to get off, the ex press hardly slacks its speed Vounj Daniels had a pass, hut did not give i up to the conductor or say anythinj about desiring to leave the train'at tin sta.:on. lie thought it unnecessary probably, having determined to junij from the rapidly moving cars. He made the jump, but unfortunate); the poor fellow miscalculated the dis tance or speed of the train, and in plac< of landing 011 his feet struck, just th( reverse, on his head. His head strucl a crosstie 011 a side track, death result ing almost instantly. The sad accident occurred before hii father's eyes, who rushed to his sou'i assistance, but the lad w;is already be frond human aid. The father returnei lome not with his son's joyous voic< sounding in bis ears as he expected, bu with his lifeless body. -Augusta Chron icle. %mr *? 11 ?? * - - ' ?* ?? * minsru in Hie HOUp. (JllEKNWOOD, ?S(?pt. 23.?John Iv. T??l bert has at last received recognitioi from his fellow Republicans and i their nominee for Congress from th Third District. The convention whicl did this work convem'd here to day a 12 o'clock and was in ; ?rsiou severs hours. The organization was easy. H II. Owens was elected chairman" wit no opposition and R. It. ToUart, seen tarv. A committee on credentials wa i ppointed and the contesting delegs tions from Oconee was considered The Bryco faction was seated and ltu? sell at the head of the Thomas factioi left the hall. There was a great kid by the faction rejected and great disoi der characterized tho meeting durn this business. When IhlDTl were t I some extent calmed the order of bus ness was the nomination of a candidal andTolbert received the nominatio without an opposing vote. Bryce nul licly went over to To'oert, and if Fii *ey reeeived any votes nobody knew i When lius^ell saw b's chances slim h left the hall and declared that he woul appeal to the people. The convenlio w 1 composed of 2A members. Wit llussell the Anderson and two of tt Pickens delegates left the hall.?Greei ville News. ;i Jft KNAG ERIE LET LOOSfc. * WILD BEASTS AT LARGE IN A SOUTH AFRICAN TOWN. I J A Fiend Opens the Doors of Cage* Confln lot Wild Anlmsli and Set Them Free. r Terrible Scenes follow?Men and Wor . men Torn to Pisoes. > London, Sept. 19.?Mall advices from r Kimberly. South Africa, tell of an awful i occurrence there at midnighton the 1st I of June lust. Some person, evidently | one bearing ill-feeling toward the pro' prietor of Fillis's menagerie, opened . the doors of the cages confining the . wild animals and set them all free. ' The most terrible scenes followed this , liberation. Four attendants sleeping , on the premises were mangled beyond > recognition, being torn actually limb from limb, bitten and gashed in the most sickening manner, while the entire population within a radius of a mile was aroused by the roaring of the lions, the trumpeting of the elephants, , the growls and shrieks of the leopards, chetahs, jackals and frightened horses. > Four enormous mail lions?Pasha, Abdul. Calinh nml ? ? r.. ?? A?Movo|nirt from their cages and made for the stables, where l'asha leaped upon the 1 back of Murat, the great jumping stallion, and buried his teeth in the animal's neck. The screams of the horse i aroused the attendants, a Scotchman > named Patterson and three Kaffir boys, who, armed with stable forks, rushed to the relief of Murat. From itM dying words of one Kaffir, wl o was the only one able to sneak when aid came, it" was learned that they rushed to unspeakable torture and met a fearful death. He and his mates endeavored to beat Pasha back, when they were attacked in the rear by three other lions and one chetah. They were thrown to the ground, their arms and legs bitten and dragged off, their bodies mangled rnd torn open, their bones smashed into bits, and. with the excepton of the single Kaffir, their heads crushed into a pulp. The one man, who lived just long enough to tell t he story, was without either arms or legs, and his body was a mass of lacerations. Having tasted blood, the lions, chetalis, 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 heauty. Black Hess, was one of the number, were killed almost Instantly, and a number of ponies were devoured. An enormous elephant, known as Blood, burst through the heavy iron gate in his fright and rushed into Curry street, followed by nearly every animal* [that was in the menagerie. | h7*eWtvKge oeiuielriethiTmittytf palled by the uproar within, but did not suppose the tieast 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, writhing,snarl. ing mass of lions, hyenas, jackals, I baboons and every other quality of brute. Nelson sprung for a post that sup' ports an awning around Glover's athlet> tc bar and climlied into safety, while i his horses dashed madly down the Dutoitspan road, snorting with fear, clo* seiy pursued by two lions and four ; wolves. The remainder of the wild an, imalsdistribut d themselves in every direction. A little child of James 1 Grindley, happening to be In a rear room opening on a garden, was pounced lirifin hlf St P.hftilh anH ilrflornroH tntsa tba , open air, where its agonized mother saw it torn to pieces and devoured without any power to help it. Other and equally harrowing incl1 dents are reported, among which is the > killing of five women, who were fear1 fully mangled. When the mails left ? there were at large four lions, two * lionesses, two tigers, three bears, two wolves, one hyena, two chetals, one * elephant, one camel and seventeen * baboons. The police were organized > into hunting parties and the town was X almost in a condition of siege. * Krad Outdone. Washington,Sept. 20.?In the House T to-day OTerrall objected to theapp.-ovt al of the journal. , The Speaker counted only thh ty-sevI en Democrats, not enough to order the y yeas and nays on the question preeent9 4 The yeas and nays were demanded y and the Speaker then counted fortyr eight Democrats. 0 llreckenridge?"You only counted o thirty-seven before." c The Speakers?"This is not the first r time the gentlemen on that side have appeared and disappeared." B Rreckenridge -"And this is not the B first time the count of the Chair has . turned out to be incorrect." j The Speaker?"The Chair desires to B say that yesterday the count by tellers * showed two less than the onnnt. >?v #ti? " Chair, and that was because of two members disappearing after the Speaker's count." Crisp-"There was a difference of I- six." n t he Speaker?"The gentlemen is mis * taken." e Breckenridge-"The country will h know the facta." ,t The yeas and nays having been order\\ ed, there was a Democratic exodus and [. in a moment the Democratic seats were h nigh deserted. The vote resulted? yeas 1ft, navs none, no quorum, and the g House, at 1 o'clock, adjourned. |" Conflict In n Synagogue. ^ Trenton, N. J., Sept. 17.?During n services in the Polish Hebrew synai, gogne here to-day a Qght occurred over , the attempt of ex-Rabbi Max Rodden a and some of his followers to take a part ? in the prayers,after they had been warn ed to keep away. During the struggle Rodtlen and Harris Adolphus, It is n claimed, were roughly handled, and 3_ Harris's coat collar was torn off. The . iwu meu weui oerorfl justice Mills and }' had warrants issued for the arrest of g Moses Skomwit.ohki, the new rabbi, d and several offers of the Synagogue n as their assaiia* ts. ,h Monthly Irregularities are relieved 16 and cured and much suffering saved to *" woman by use of Bradfleld's Female Regulator.