Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ 5/3 l WDJ1 BUSH FOB LAUD. TBS'NEWS EPITOMIZED. Opening of the Sisseton Indy Beserration. Thousands of Home-s^kers Cross the Line at the Btfgle Signal. The Sisaeton Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, has bMen opened to settlement in aocordance^lfith the proclamation made by Presideq^Harrison. itch from Ledger^ood, South Da- gives the following description of the rush for the new land: At five minutes to noon a United States cavalry bugler, with a long yellow plume streaming from his helmet and a brand new bugle sus pended from his shoulder by a bright yel low cord, rode to the crest of the hills which separate Brown’s Valley from the Sisseton reservation. Scattered along in an uneven line to the north and south of him were three companies of cavalry, each man fully armed with sabre, revolver, and carbine. Back of these were grouped, or rather herded, a heterogeneous mass of men—white, yellow, and black—all national ities of the Caucasian race, with a liberal mixture of half breeds and colored people. There were women in the crowd, too, and here and there could be seen a baby held in the arms of its mother as she sat on her horse, deter mined to be one of the first to enter the prom ised land which was to bs opened. A splen did Kentucky thoroughbrea carried a man who hstd thrown aside everything which could impede him in the ride for the reser vation. Next to him, on a wiry bronco, was a half breed who sat his horse as if a part of it. Further down the line was a big colored man astride a diminutive mule. All were impatient for the race to begin. As the sun neared the meridian Major Bernard glanced as his watch. The bugler lifted bis instrument to his lips, and the crowd of land seekers gathered up their reins and awaited the signal. At last Major Bernard, watch in hand, nodded to the bugler, who began to sound the reveille. At the first note there was a crack from the carbine of the soldier next to him, which was quickly echoed by one further down the line. The shots rang out clear in the crisp air, and as the volley rattled down the line on either side it was answered by the hoof beats of hundreds of horses spurred on by riders reckless of life or limb. A cloud of alkali dust rose as the motley army charged for the line of the reservation, and soon all that could be seen from the crest of the ridge was a black mass of huddled horsemen closely pursued by a whirl of yellowish dust. The man on the Ken tucky thoroughbred got a good start, and when the line was reached he was ten lengths in advance of the next rider, a tall cowboy, who rode like a centaur, but who was at a disadvantage as to bis mount. Behind the two leaders strung out a long line of horsemen, men in buggies, others in spring wagons, and others still in huge prairie schooners, the rear being brought up by a man from Pike County, Mo., whose wile, children and household ef fects were contained in a Conestoga wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen. Within half an hour the last man and vehicle had vanished from sight beyond the foothills, and the soldiers, at the word, wheeled and returned to camp, their duty in opening tbe reserva tion being finished. There are now fully 5900 settlers on the reservation. They are pretty well divided between the northern and eastern borders. Tbe squatter is monarch of all he sur- is literally out of fernor Mellette had the reserve, acted to maintain ral rows. Wells ad all the squat- pn their land. Jg plows will lere will be weeks, for lato of the tie posses- about the lian blood team ob- vnsitefroi is the dller by her driver. Try, -aTTTT ie field. She straightaway ling her shanty, assisted The Sisseton Indian reserI atlon surplus lands just opened to settleme? 1 are located in the northeastern corner of Sd^h Dakota, covering the most of Robert fcounty, lap ping over on the edge °‘ Mar shall and Dar Counties, crossing the panhandle of Grant and tlf sharp point of the triangular-shaped reser va< d° n i extending down to the centre of CoddiiStcm, a few miles from Watertown. The n^h ern base of tbe triangle extends over il t0 Sargent and Richland Counties in NortL. Dakota, and for that reason filings may be made at Fargo. The reservation is the source of the Red River of the North, which flows ultimately into Hudson’s Bay; of the Minnesota River, and of the Big Sioux River, which flows south and joins the Missouri. The lands are rich, and numerous lakes covers the entire extent of the reservation, a good portion of of which is wooded and of a hilly character. In fact, the character of tbe lands reflects much crediton the judgment of the Sissecon Indians who chose this land as their reward for their help to the settlers in the Indiau war of 186i. For nearly thirty years they held the reservation intact, but finally con cluded they would prefer to have their lands in severalty and live like whites. Ths In dians have selected many of the oest lands on the reservation, but it is estimated that enough for about 4000 claims of 1(50 acres each still remained up to tbe time of open ing. The reservation is forty-five miles across the northern side, and seventy miles on the southeastern and southwestern sides of the triangle respectively. This reservation is right m the heart of well-settled country, and small towns and cities are within easy reach of the settler on whatever part of the reser vation he may make his home. The Great Northern and Milwaukee railroads run all around the reservation, while other roads are within easy reach, running to some of the many near-by towns. CATTLEMEN SURRENDER. United States Troops Arrest Forty- six of the “Rustlers’” Foes. The following despatch has been received from Buffalo, Wyoming: Early in the morning the Sheriff and reinforcements from Fort McKinney, consisting of three troops of United States Cavalry, reached the T. A. ranch. Tbe cattlemen, fortv- six in number, were still barri caded in the ranch buildings and the besieging party was firing brisk vol leys into their intrencuments, but few shots were returned. As the troops appeared the besiegers ceased firing. Colonel Van Horn, in command of the troops, with the Sheriff, reconnoitered the ground, aoM then marched within long rifle range °f the ranch and dismounted his men. Colonel Van Horn and tbe Sheriff, with flags of truce, advanced to within 100 yards ot the outer fortification, where thev were met by a representative of the besieged cactismen. ..After a short parley the stockmen, under Major Walcott, sur rendered to?" Colonel Van Horn, and were at once escorted to Fort McKinney, under the protection of troops. In the almost inc?s«ant firing which was kept up for two days on the besieged party, onlv two men were wounded, one seriously. None of the “rustlers” was burr. Eastern And Middle Stntee. m F. Wawsn, Republican, was City. N. J., by Allan L. elected Mayor of Jersey about 2000 majority, defeating McDermott, Democrat. It has just leaked out that Gamble Weir, Superintendent of Police of Pittsburg, Penn., who died suddenly three months ago, was poisoned. Police Sitpxbivtxxdicvt Murray, of New York City, has been retired on a pen sion of $3000 per year at his own request, and Inspector Byrnes, the famous detective, was chosen to succeed him. Louis Aubertht,alias Louis Harriott, the voung French farmhand who strangled Mrs. Charles T. Leonard to death at her home near the Atlantic Highlands last November, was banged at Freehold, N. J. Rudolph Sherkle and George Pfeiffer, workmen employed on the new As tor hotel, the Waldorf, in New York City, fell from the roof and were crushed to death ninety- five feet below. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg and adopted resolutions indorsing Grover Cleve land for tbe Presidential nomination. The Vermont Republican State Conven tion met at Montpelier and selected dele gates to the National Convention, who are favorable to the renomination of President Harrison. Ex-Speaker Reed addressed the Convention. The Government paper mill at Dalton, Mass., has been damaged by fire. Tbe mill is owned by the Crane family. Much valu able machinery for making distinctive paper for Government bank notes aud bonds and considerable paper was destroyed. Fire burned over eight blocks at Hunter’s Point, Long Island, N. Y. It started in the storerooms of the Long Island Railroad Company. It destroyed a planing mill, the railroad’s electric power station and a mil lion feet of lumber. The loss amounts to $120,000. John E. Milholland, Chief Contract Labor Inspector at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, has been asked to resign by Secre tary Foster. A heavy rain and snow storm put out all of the forest fires in South Jersey. It was estimated that the numerous fires had done over $100,0(»0 damage. A great amount of valuable timber has been destroyed and much cord wood. South and West. The entire piant of the Winters’ Art Litho graph Company, of Chicago, was destroyed by fire. . Tbe company published all the lithographic World’s Fair advertisements. A large stock of lithographs of the various halls and other buildings of the Fair was in the establishment, as well as the stock of the official lithographing of the Fair. Reports from all parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas tell of heavy rains or snow, aud seeding was everywhere delayed. Central Iowa also reports the worst storm of a back ward and unsettled season, b»ing a hurricane of wind accompanied by snow, hail, sleet and rain combined. While the life saving crew at Bandon, Oregon, were practising, their boat capsized and Captain Nelson and three of a crew of eight were drowned. E. D. Campbell, Professor of Qualitative Analysis m Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich., was at work over a glass re ceiver containing hydrogen sand oxygen, when an explosion occurred. Bits of glass flew into his eyes, inflicting such severe in juries that both eyes have been removed. Relatives of Mrs. W. E. Ormand, the wife of a mechanic, of Saginaw, Mich..found her body and that of her baby in a cistern near his home. It is supposed che mother took the child in her arms to lift a pail of water, when she lost her balance and fell in. Mrs. Ormand was eighteen years of age and her son nine months old. Colonel J. J. Van Horn, of the 0lghtb Infantry, at the head of three troops ot United States Cavalry, has compelled the Wyoming regulators intrenched at “I” Ranch to surrender. The troops were or dered out in accordance instructions sent out from Washington.request of the acting Governor of l^Hkng. A PISTON head, full of ^^^^carelessly ’s shops. OARq^y^V^plodei The Michigan Republican State Conven tion elected dr' * m " - ble to the candidacy stes to Minneapolis favora- Geneiai Alger, but elega ididacy of uninstructed. The North Carolina Republican State Convention met at Raleigh. A resolution was adopted instructing the delegates to the National Republican Convention to vote “first, last and all the time” for Benjamin Harrison fbr President. Deputy Sheriff Louis T. Grant, of Shelby County, Ala ..has absconded to South America, after spending $10,0J0 of other people’s money. At the Wyoming Democratic State Con vention, held at Douglas, six delegates to the National Convention were chossn. Four of these men favor Cleveland, and there vill be no warm opposition from the other ffvo. The Republicans of Florida met in State CoF«ntiou and after electing delegates to thev* ational Convention decided to put no can Jdates in the field in that State this year. '« BENr?IT rsviL . L,E ’ S. C., was visited by the most terf^ c hail storm that has ever been known in 'that State. The hailstones were two iuches'dp diameter and covered the ground to a <£jpth of six inches. Birds, chickens and hdgwere killed, and many f lasses were brok^L. Men and horses were nocked down, vegetables and cotton were completely cut down. The Democrats of Nelya ska ruet in State Convention at Omaha. KSsuTuSons were adopted in favor of Cleveland, but the con vention refused ta instruct the delegates for him. A severe April blizzird raged in Minne sota, Iowa, South Dakota and Illinois. Great damage was inflicted on crops. John Waner, a full-blooded Choctaw, about fifty years old, was hanged in the jail- yard at Tablequah, Indian Territory, for the murder of John Daugherty, of Flint Dis trict, 1 ast July. The Wyoming Democratic State Conven tion met at Cheyenne and elected delegates to the Chicago National Convention. The only instruction given was that the delega tion should vote as a unit in the National Convention on candidates and measures. Robert Stevenson, Paymaster of the Empire State Phosphate Company, at Her nando, Citrus County, Ala., and Mr. Payne, a mail-carrier, have been murdered am robbed of $1890 by unknown assassins. The New Mexico Territorial Republican Convention was held in Silver City. Un instructed delegates were sent to tbe National Convention. Fire destroyed the main building of the Clarke University, for colored students, near Atla'-rn. G*..; los- $lot>.<)00. The Washington Republican State Con vention assembled at Seattle and chose eight uninstructed delegates to tbe National Con vention. The platform adopted indorses the Administration of President Harrison and reaffirms devotion of the party to all its well-known principles. The Georgia Republican State Conven tion, after being in continuous session in Atlanta for over twenty-four hours, ad journed. A Harrison delegation to the National Convention is the result. FIRED HIS COUCH. Sensational Suicide of a Well-to Do Illinois Farmer. Fred Base, a well-to-do farmer, living fi va miles south of Momence, 111., committed suicide in a peculiar manner. He went to a thicket of timber remote from any dwelling, built himself a bed of dry hay, set fire to his couch, and then shot himself with a shotgun. < A neighbor saw the light of the fire, which led to the discovery of tbe remains before fchey were badly burned. Busehada family and was in easy cir- E instances and no cause for his act ia own. ’Washington. Secretary Elkins directed the Depart ment Quartermaster at St. Louis to send immediately 300 tents to the Mayor of Columbus, Miss., for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent floods. The United States Senate has dismissed its executive clerk. James R. Young, on the edarge of having betrayed tbs secrets of tae executive session. The President has approved the act re lating to life saving appliances on steamers plying exclusively on lakes, bays and sounds of the United States. James W. Cooper, one of the colored jurors who served in the Schneider murder trial at Washington, died in the Court House from mental and physical exhaustion. x uk loarxn annual convention ot state Railroad Commissioners began its session in the rooms of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, Washington. Nearly all of the States were represented. E. P. Jarvey, of South Carolina, was elected Chairman. Lieutenant-Commander G. M. Book. United"States Navy, hf" the President to Coma~ ldeir - been promoted by ^Secretary Sed a bill Blaine 1 to per- otber offi- □s from i to At the request Senator Sherman in trod mit Admiral George Bro cers of the navy to accept Hawaii in recognition of their tbe late King Kolakaua. Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, has been instructed by Secretary Blaine to re turn to Rome. The Secretary of the Treasury was in formed that the mill at Pittsfield, Mass., where is manufactured the distinctive paper used by the United States Government for paper currency, had been destroyed by fire, and that all the stock of paper with the ex ception of 240,000 sheets of note paper and 90,000 sheets of check paper had been burned. Tbe stock of paper now in tbe hands of tbe Department is limited. The Chief Postofflce Inspector has pre pared a statement showing that 104 arrests were caused by postoffice inspectors during the month of March, 1892, for various viola tions of tbe postal laws, which is an un usually large number. P 1c Fore Urn. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, Argen tine Republic, says that the election for President in the provinces has proved a walk-over for Saenz Pena. Revolution has started in the State of Matto Grosso, Brazil. The Legislature has proclaimed it independent of the Republic. The river is obstructed by hulks. Colonel Barbosa is in charge of the rebels. Fire at Nogoya, Japan, destroyed the tern- le and tower and 1300 houses, entailing a loss of $350,000. Anna Sainio, wife of a professor at the State College at Tevastehuus, Finland, has beeil found guilty of murdering her husband. The Court sentenced her to be beheaded and ordered that her body be afterward burned. Another bomb was exploded by anarch ists in Valencia, Spain, doing much damage to property. The Marquis Rudini, Premier of Italy, and the Italian Cabinet have resigned in conse quence of dissension in the Cabinet on finan cial questions. The King accepted the resig nation, but charged the Marquis di Rudini with the task of forming another Ministry. The state of siege in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, has been raised. Mrs. Kruse, convicted of the murder of her husband, and her elder son Wilhelm, her accomplice, were executed at Dortmund, Germany Two petards were thrown into the ranks of a religious procession in Cadiz, Spain; many persons were injured by the explo sion. The Bohemian village of Deutschrol- liken was burned and four persons perished. Forty-five houses were burned in Moeidlan, I Moravia. Both fires are supposed to have • been caused by Anarchists. People in Spain were afraid to attend the Holy Week ser vices owing to Anarchist threats to put ex- j plosives in the holy water. A. G. Brown, the defaulting broker of Toronto, Canada, has fled to Mexico. It is also stated that his pilferings will aggregate over $150,000. Twenty-eight Brazilian Radicals have been exiled. The United States steamer Tallapoosa has been sold at public auction at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, to the highest bidder for $1590 United States gold. An ep demic of black smallpox is raging in Poland, especially on the Galician fron tier. Most of those who are attacked die on the third day. Winnipeg, Manitoba, was partially flooded and the Canadian Pacific tracks, were under water, owing to the rising of the river there. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the well known novelist, lecturer and Egyptolo gist, died in London, England, a few days ago. She was born in 1831. WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. Wisconsin will hava * $80,000 building at the Fair. orange tree, from the exhibits an- FIFTY-SECOND C0N&EES5. In tbe Senate. 72d Day.—After the routine morning busi ness the House bill to place cotton ties on the free list was referred to the Finance Com mittee Mr. Stewart, offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information connected, with the purcl an4com~ • ■' ‘ — me ill lavor o: select a site for a sanitarium for consump tives, and the bill was referred. 73d Day.—The Senate devoted half an hour to bills on the calendar, passing a large number The resolution offered by Mr. Morgan, calling for information as to reciprocity with Germany and Hayti, was agreed to The proposed constitutional amendment for pop ular election of Senators was discussed Mr. Stewart spoke on his silver resolution The Senate appointed Messrs. Dawes, Cullom and Call conferrees on the Indian Anpropriation bill. 74th Day.—In three hours, fifty-two bills were passed, among them one for promoting the safety of National banks and four re lating to the Army The Geary Chinese bill was adversely reported; Mr. Dolph’s substitute Chinese bill, continuing existing laWs, was placed on the calendar Mr. Morgan delivered a speech on the silver question. 75th Day.—At the close of the routine morning business the calendar was taken up and bills were disposed of as follows: The amendments to the bill creating the Circuit Courts af Appeal were passed: appropriating $500,000 for the erection of an additional fire-proof building for the National Museum, on tbe grounds west of the Smithsonian Institution. Passed. Appropriating $75,000 for the foundation and ! pedestal for a bronze statute ^L-Qhffr^ttJthlef ' Columbus, at the west eRfer&nce of the Capi tol grounns, on Pennsjj^ania avenue, where the Peace monu: Extend ingjb<g privileges of the free delivery of njftils-s*^) cities and towns with a popula- *£lon of not less than 5000, and where the postoffice gross receipts for the previous year amounted to $5000. Passed. A 100-year-old bearinc Bon Gabriel, is One of . ncu need from California. Ostrich eggs, artistically painted in a prise competition, are to be a feature in the exhibit made by Cape Colony, South Africa. The Washington State World’s Fair Building will be constructed in sections at Tacoma and sent to Chicago next Septem ber. New Hampshire, which claims to be the “Switzerland of American,” has appropri ately planned to erect a Swiss chalet for its World’s Fair Building. A number of owners of steam yachts in New York intend to utilize them to trans port themselves and their friends to the Ex position by way of the St. Lawrence and Welland Canal. The main Exposition buildings require for their ornamentation 160,678 separate pieces of staff work. Of these, 108,000 have been cast and more than 59,000 have been put in place on tbe buildings. The directors of the celebrated Ward’s museum, at Rochester, N. Y., have decided to expend $25,009 in making at the Exposi tion a display of specimens from all parts of the establishment. The value of the exhibit will exceed $100,000. Fifty public spirited citizens of Utah have guaranteed $50,000 for an exhibit at the Fair from that Territory. A like amount was similarly raised in Connecticut recently,and in both cases it is the expectation that the Legislature will reimburse the donors. In front of the Administration Building at the Exposition the largest fountain in the world will toss graceful streams and excite the admiration of millions of spectators. It Is now being constructed in Paris by Sculp tor MacMonnies, who is acknowledged to Lb one of the very best of living artists. Major Meigs, the Government Engineer, in charge of river improvements at Keokuk, la., is preparing for exhibition at the World’s Fair working models of the Government dry docks and engine house, the various boats used in making river improvements and sec tions of dams, showing the manner of their construction. R. S. Moore, of Newbum, N. C., claims to have fragments ot the chain which re strained Columbus when he was in prison, and he intends to exhibit them at tbe Fair. J. C. Calhoun, of New York, says he has pieces of tbe house in San Domingo in which Columbus was imprisoned and ha has a similar desire. Italian Commissioner Alexander Del Nero Writes from Rome to the effect that there will be a fine exhibit of the mosaics, tapestries, Columbian relics, and other treas ures of the Vatician which have never yet been on exhibition. He further reports that tbe Ethnographic Museum of Rome will probably loan many Columbian antiquities to the Exposition. The Missouri World’s Fair Board has for warded to Chicago nine tree trunks to com pose three of tbe columns of the rustic colon nade around the Forestry building. These trunks are typical specimens of yellow pine, white oak, red oak, ash, cypress, red gum aud hickory. It has also sent thirty pieces of timber all of different variety, for the rustic interlaced work between the three col umns. The Great Western Railway of England will exhibit in the Transportation Building the famous old locomotive, “The Lord of the Isles,” which was built at the company’s works in Swindon in 1851, from designs by tbe late Sir Daniel Gooch. This locomotive was a notable exhibit at the first World's Fair in London in 1851. From that time un til July, 1881, it was continually in service, and ran during that period a distance of 789,- 309 miles without being fitted with a new boiler. From tbe reports and estimates prepared by the Exposition authorities for the Con gressional Investigating Committee the fol lowing interesting facts,among many others, appear: To compirte the Exposition and conduct it to its close will require of the Di rectory a total expenditure of $22,246,403. Up to March 1, the total expenditure was $3,869,934. The liabilities under contracts already made are $4|f92.724. The receipts hav^feeen $6,252,4WMiud the amount due subscri^HNs^nd city bonds. $190,009 for SWEPT BY ILOODS. In the Hoase. 8Cth Day.—The House passed tbe Cotton Tie bill by 166 to forty-five The bill placing tin plate on the free list was then reported The House passed a joint resolu- tiod anthorizing the State of Wiscon sin to place in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol a statue of Pere Marquette The River and Harbor bill tor the fiscal year ending June 39, 1893, was formally reported. 81st Day.—On motion of Mr. Wise, a bill was passed establishing West Point, Va a sub-port of entry and delivery Mr. O’Neil reported a bill to establish a life sav ing station at Gay Head, Mass. Committee of the Whole The floor was then accorded to the Committee on the District of Colum bia Mr. Coombs introduced a bill placing German looking-glass on the free list. 82d Day.—The Naval Appropriation bill was discussed Mr. Allen, of Mississippi, asked consent for the present consideration of a joint resolution appropriating $59,009 for the purchase and distribution of subsis tence stores to the sufferers from the overflow of the Tombigee River and its tributaries. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, objected, and the resolution wasreferrea On motion of Mr. Peel, o£ Arkansas, Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were non-concurred in Messrs. Peel, Allen and Wilson, ot Wash., were appointed conferrees on the bill The House then went into tbe Com mittee of the Whole (Mr. O’Ferrall, of Vir ginia, in the Chair) on the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation bill. S3d Day.—The House passed a bill grant ing the right of way to the Gainesville, Okianoma and Gulf Railroad through the Indian Territory The remainder of the session was devoted to the Naval Appropri ation bill, several hours being consumed in the discussion of a point of order on t icitem providing for a new battleship. Pending action the matter went over. 84th Day. — The Naval Appropriation bill was discussed during the entire day's session. 1:5th Day.—When the Speaker called the House to order at noon the vacant seats far outnumbered those which were occupied. The bill for the relief of the heirs of H. H. Sibley, tbe inventor of the Sibley tent, again proved an obstacle to the transaction of business, and the whole day was consumed in its consideration. No quorum was pres ent. and after two roll-calls emphasizing this fact, the House took a recess until eight o’clock, when an evening session for the con sideration of private pension bills was held. John Good, engineer, and William Noble, fireman, saved an excursion train near Den - ver. Col, and the passengers gave him $750. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Seven Men and a Powde Into Atom^ A frightful explosion ol pletely demolished the mill] Powder Company, tweut Wilkesbarre, Penn., at 11 explosion was in the drying tion of a second later the stoj up. Tbe shocks w ?re felt cl forty miles, and thousands rounding towns rushe 1 out ing an earthquake had c] shocks were distinctly heard twenty miles away. The ir 1 to the smallest atoms, anc'l fragments found lorger than| Seven men were instantly fatally injured. Tne names J John Gibbon.-, Daniel Caret baugh, Moses Tucaer, Edw^ berg, Allan Small and Carat] fatally wounded we; a Daniel Billings The was blown 159 feet idttt/the | Reese was found sixty feet of the explosion. Moses Td 150 feet away from the mill J were found from 150 to 200 f| The terrible scene of grief plicate those of frightful The iron framework on the j ing Railroad near the scene, I screen, was tom and twisted! absolute desolation of the pictured in words. The Is them mills was eighteen ye several men were also killed. | reach $20,000. SETTLEIEST WITH ITALY. The Difference With the United States Amicably Adjusted. The Victims of the New Orleans Lynching Paid $25,000. The diplomatic differences between the United States and Italy, growing out of the lynching at New Orleans, La., last year, have been amicably adjusted, and indemity for the relatives of the victims has been paid. Tbe sum of money paid to the Italian Government for distribution among the rela fives of the Italian subjects killed in New- Orleans is 125,000 francs, or about $25,000. The indemnity, as is explained in the corre spondence, is given as a voluntary offering and not in discharge of an express ooliga tion recognized by this Government. The money was taken from the contingent fund of the State Department, and no legis lation was therefore require 1 te enable the President to close the New Orleans incident by this action toward a friendly nation. Diplomatic relations between tbe two countries have now been fully resumed. Minister Porter will soon return to Rome, and an Italian Minister will be ordered here. The following is the correspondence with which the incident was closed by Secretary Blaine and the Marqnis Imperial!’: Department of State. ( Washington, April 12, le>92. \ Sir: I congratulate you that the difficulty existing between the United States and Italy, growing out of the lamentable massacre at New Orleans in March of last year, is about to be terminated. Tbe Presi. dent, feeling that for such an injury there should be amole indemnity, instructs me to tender you 125,000 francs. The Italian Gov ernment will distribute this sum among the families of the victims. While the injury was not inflicted directly by the United States, the President never theless feels that it is the solemn duty, as well as the great pleasure of the National Government, to pay a satisfactory indemnity. Moreover, the President’s instructions carry with them the hope that tbe transaction of to-day may efface all memory of the un happy tragedy; that the old and friendly relations of the United States and Italy may be restored, and that nothing untoward may ever again occur to disturb their har monious friendship. 1 avail myself of this occasion to assure you that your prolonged service at this Capital as Charged’Affaires has been marked by every quality that renders you grateful and acceptable to the Government of the United States, and to renew to you the as surance of my high consideration. James G. Blaine. To the Marquis Imperiali, Charge d’Af faires of Italy. His Excellency. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, etc., etc., Washington, D. C., April 12, 1892. Mr. Secretary of State: You were pleased to imform me, by your note of to-day that the Federal Government had decided to pay to Italy, by way of indemnity, the sum of 125,000 francs, to be distributed by the Italian Government among the families of the roval subjects who were victims of the massacre which took place March 14, 1891, in the city of New Orleans. Your Excel lency also expressed the hope that the decis ion reached by the President would put an end to the unfortunate incident to which that deplorable occurence gave rise, and that the friendly relations between tbs two countries would be firmly re-established. After having taken note, with much pleasure, of the language used by the Presi dent in his message of December last, and after having fully appreciated the words of regret and ceosilre uttered with so much authority by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic. and likewise the recommendations to Congress ■ that were suggested to his lofty wisdom by the unhappy incident, the Government of . His Majesty is now glad to learn that the . United States acknowledge that it is their ' solemn duty, and at the same time a great easure, to pay an indemnity to Italy. ■he King’s GoverntnepL rlQ ‘' 1 L^ait .‘-u WITH MUCH POMP. The Investiture ot the K-heffive of Egypt at Cairo Appalling Loss of Lite and Property in the SoutL A dispatch from ColunaJUS. Miss., says: The recent heavy rains have swollen all streams in this section of the country to a point never before known, Vnd as a result the destruction of life and property has been frightful. All farms along !the Tombigbee River valley have been abanjdoned, houses of all kinds washed away. All fencing is gone and cattle and mules by bun dreds have been drowned. Many floating bonses p^ss®^ down the river. Every available cral t has been used day and night relieving the sufferers, car rying out food and bringing in the destitute people. On one small mound t here were forty people and as many more ca ttle and mules. On another there were sev enty people and cattle by the’hundreds. The colored people on all the low lands have los t everything on earth they had and there a re hundreds of them being fed by the city. Twelve colored. jHicn’uRvebeen drowned withfln tnree miles of this city. At points on the river below here the loss of life is very- large. Tbe railroads baveT abandoned all trains westward and there an-e many wash outs. The trestles are sweptl away and all of the roads have large ft irees repairing damages, but it will be a weak before trains will be running. One rescuing party was r ipset, and three colored boys were drownt a three miles above town. All the other s climbed trees and were found. Another rescuing party was upset and spent twenty -three hours in the trees. Seventy-five colored peopli > are known to have been drowned, and mat y more will be found dead when the waters subside. The greatest loss of li fe and injury to property was along the line of the Tombigbee River. 1 his river is not large enough in the < iry teason to float a small steamboat, but now it is ten miles wide. Its valley is ext remely fertile, and is thickly populated. AT of the planta tions along its border for four or five miles are submerg3d from five to ti venty feet. So great is the devastation in Northern Mississippi that tbe people ha ve appealed to Congressman Allen for assist a nee from the general Government. The | greatest suffer ing is among the colored peoj ile. Thirty is the lowest estimate of tbe num ber of drowned in Alabama. _ Che judicial steps which it may be pi ope > for the parties to take, and, considering the redress obtained sufficient, it sees no reason why the relations between the two Govern ments, which relations should faithfully re fleet the sentiments of reciprocal esteem and sympathy that animate the two Nations, should not again become intimate, cordial and friendly, as they have traditionally been in the past, and as it is hoped they will eve;- be in the future. In bringing the foregoing to vour knowl edge, in virtue of the authorization given me bv His Excellency, the Marquis di Rudini, President of the Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the name of the Government ot His Majesty, the King of Italy, my august sovereign, 1 have the honor to declare to your Excellency that the diplomatic rela tions between Italy and the United States are from this moment fully re-established. I hasten, moreover, in obedience to in structions received, to inform you that, pending the Minister’s return to this capita , I have taken charge of the Royal Legation, in the capacity of Charge d’Affaires. pleased to accept, etc., Imperiali. H -31 f,r KHEDIVE ABBAS. The investiture of Egypt’s Khedive took place at the Abdiu Palace, Cairo, a few days ago. Tbe ceremony was celebrated with much pomp. All the British and Egyptian troops were masse 1 in Abdin Square, front ing the palace. Tribunes had been erected on the sides ot the square, and these were filled with officials and others. The Khedive and his Ministers assembled on a dias in front of the palace, where they received Ahmed Eyoub Pasha, who arrived at ten o’clock, accomdanied by a brilliant escort of cavalry. The firman of investiture was read by an official, who also read a telegram from the Sultan of Turkey, conferring upon the Khe dive the administration of the Sinai Penin sula. Upon the conclusion of the reading the assembled troops thrice saluted the Sultan, and a band played the Turkish anthem. After this the troops saluted the Khedive three times, and the Egyptian anthem was played. Then a salute of 102 guns was fired. The native spectators displayed the greatest enthusiasm throughout the whole ceremony. Afterward the Khedive received the con gratulations of the Ministers and diplomats. The city was decorated with flags aud bunt ing, and the day was generally observed as a holiday. That night the city was illumi nated. Mill Blown powder com- of the Moosic miles from M. The first i ill, and a frac- qge house blew rer a radius of If people in sur- |f doors think- JcurreL Both it VVilkesbar.e |ls were blown there were no foot long. Lilled and two |f the dead are: Aaron Coo.- *d J. Vander- [>g Reese. Tne rge Alls and John Gibbons ur. Caradog rom the scene ;ker was found Other bodies it distant, id anguish du- ine accidents, rie and Wyom- as a spark |ike paper. The ?ne cannot be explosion of r s ago, when The loss will PB0MINENT PEOPLE. President Harrison receives over 100, 000 letters a year. Ham-and-spinach is a favorite dish of President Harrison. Lord Tennyson has, in his old age. become an inveterate novel reader. Lady Tennyson has composed the music for thirty of her husband’s lyrics. Govkrnor-elect Brown, of Rhode Isl and. will receive only $1000 a year for his services. William Waldorf AsTOR,the New York millionaire, is writing a book on society in the sixteenth century. Prince Bismarck’s physician has selected Nervi, Italy, as a place of future winter residence for the ex-Cbancellor. John Russell Young, journalist and dip lomat, has been appointed Fourth Vice- Presidqpt of the Reading Railroad. Senator Carlisle recently received a $25,000 fee for winning a suit involving $200,000 before the Kentucky Court of Ap peals. Senator Leland Stanford, of Califor nians rapidly losing all power of locomotion, and he can scarcely walk across a room without assistance. Ex-Senator Edmunds has latelv been the guest of Senator Blackburn, in Kentucky, and surprise ! some of the good people there by his thorough knowledge of horses. Sir Edward Watkin, of London, aged seventy-two, was recently married to Mrs. Ingram, aged eighty-two. Watkin is a rail way king and his bride brings him $5,000,- 000. Archbishop Ireland was an Irish emi grant to this country forty-three years ago. Part of his clerical education was received in France. He was chaplain of a Minnesota regiment during the Civil War. Dean Bradley, of Westminster Abbey, London, has decided that there is no room for the proposed monument to Janies Rus sell Lowell, hut has suggested a memorial window in the Chapter House where Mr. Lowell delivered some of his addresses. Speaking of Cbauncey M. Depew’s boy hood. one of his classmates says that he was not conspicuously bright, but he was studi ous and methodical. The one thing that he seemed to have his mind set on was to be come a speaker. He had no natural oratori cal gifts, but he practiced recitation con stantly. Mrs. John Sherwood, of New York City, the popular writer on etiquette, de lightful narlor reader and society leader, is said to be past seventy, and although suffer ing much from rheumatis n and forced by reverses of fortune to support herself and invalid husband, is always cheerful, gracious and entertaining. Edward Pardridge, the grain “plung er” of the Chicago Produce Exchange, who, in the opinion of “Old Hutcli,’’ is the most daring speculator on the short side of the market in the United States, is a native of New York State, and was, not many years ago, a dry roods merchant in Buffalo. He is careless in his dress, almost to the point of shabhiness, and has a dull-looking but de termined lace. T0KI0 SWEPT BY FIRE. OOOO Houses Destroyed and Over lOO Persons Killed. Advices from Japan report that Tokio, ths capital of the Japanese Empire, has been visited by a most disastrous conflagration, involving great loss of life. The fire appears to have spread with great rapidity in the older and more poorly built section of the city, and did not cease until 6000 houses were destroyed, making many thousands of people homeless. The police and the fire departments of Tokio did excellent work, and succeeded in saving the new portion of the capital. The loss of life was chiefly due to the efforts of natives to save.their effects. Many of the people remained in their dwellings to the last moment, gathering their belongings for flight, and were caught by the flames, which licked up the unsubstantial structure like paper, Tne firemen found great diffi culty in fighting the flames owing to the half-crazed behavior of the populace. The number of dead is over one hundred. Tokio or Yeido, the capital of the Jap anese Empire, is situated on the eastern end of the Island of Hondo, the main island of the Japanese group, on the Bay of Yeddo. The Tonogawa River divides the town into two parts. The word Tokio in Japanese means city or port. The town coyers sixty square piiles of ~xi _ arid, a ia: ^opBruua u>. .. ih g . ud witn gardens, temples, sacred groves and the like. The city proper is divided into three districts: Sire, the Imperial citadel, surrounded by a maze of moats and em- battlements; Boto-Siro, the middle ground, outside the citadel, but within the city’s walls; Midzi, the outer parts, beyond which entend a line of defences. The population «f Tokio is over 925,000. HOMES SWEPT AWAY. Two Hundred and Fifty Persons Drowned in the Tombigbee Flood. The list of the drowned in the Tombigbee flood in Mississippi has, by a late estimate, been placed at two humired and fifty per sons, more than two hundred of whom are colored. Three relief parties have recov ered 150 bodies. A family of nine were rescued from a raft on which they bad been floating six days without food. One boy was insane and the others not able to walk. A colored woman and a babe were found floating on a mattress. They were the only survivors of a family of ten. More than five hundred homes have been swept away and all stock drowned. It rained' for two weeks. The country is very flat and swampy and the only place of safety was in the tops of the big trees. Seventy-five men, women and children have been taken from the trees by the relief parties. They had been up in the trees from four to six days. The stories of the rescued show that the water rose suddenly daring the night, flood ing tbe bottoms, which are seven miles wide. Cabins were swept away like leaves and the unfortunates drowned before they realized their danger. The waters are now subsid ing, leaving the country a dreary, black waste. There are more than two thousand home less, and an appeal has been made for State and Government aid. Those who escaped on rafts and in boats are destitute. TRAIN ROBBERS ROUTED. One Kilted and ThreeCaptured Alter a Desperate Fight in Alabama. Four colored desperadoes attempted to rob a car of a Louisville and Nashville freight train as it was taking water at Wilhite, sixty miles from Birmingham, Ala. The engineer discovered what was up and pulled out, the robbers firing upon the train men as they Officers 'frere notified at Falkville. They found tbe bandits not far from Wilhite, and had a fight, in which Tom Wright, one of the robbers, was shot dead. Two escaped, and the fourth was captured. Another of the gang was caught later. They confess that they participated in the tram robbery at Wiems two weeks before, and have giv/i the names of accomplices. The American Baptist Year Boo», iust out, gives the total Baptist membership last year as 3,164,227. The total this year is 3,- 269,806, an increase of 105,679. The number rjrted baptized in 1890 was 149,058; in 189^ 160,217. The total contributions re ported in 1891 were $11,215,579; total in 1892, $11,886,558, a slight increase, not propor tioned to the increase in numbers and wealth. In the contributions of this year three States exceed $1,000,009, in the follow- iuz order: Massachusetts, $1,937,498; New York, $1,640,584; Pennsylvania, $1,012,710. The United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross and the revenue cutter Corwin have gone to Alaska 011 a scientific exped.tion to investigate the habits of fur seals on the breeding grounds. Both of tde vessels took sealing boats, naturalists and seal hunters. It is their intention to follow the herds and kill seals in open sea to ascer tain what percentage thus killed are lost. They will investigate the matter fully in ^cunection with the British Commissios. Mr. Deacon and Lieut. Hethering- ton must not be accepted by foreign nations as typical Americans. Tbe sanctity of the American home is not guarded by tbe husband’s pistol, but by the wife’s loyalty. WI\ NOW THAT YOU buy any article of TOITURE, Cooking Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Cor-| nice Poles, BABY CAKRIAGES, Clocks, Mirrors, Pic- |tures, Dinner Sets. Tea Sets, Chamber Sets, Mattresses, Comforts, Blankets and a thousand and one articles needed in a house delivered at your depot at the same price that you buy them in Au gusta? I CARRY EVERYTHING You need, and can quote you prices that will sat isfy you that I am giving a dollar value for every dollar paid. Special Offer No. I ■ To introduce my business in every neighborhood in the quickest possible manner, I will ship you one Bedroom Suite complete, consisting of One Bed stead, full size and high head. One Bureau with glass, Wash Stand' On (.^Centre TaH°» Gan* Chairs, erne ivocker to match, well worth $20; but to introduce my goods in your neighborhood at once I will deliver the above suite at your railroad depot, all charges paid, FOR ONLY $16.50, When the cash comes with the order. BESIDES this Suite, I have a great many other Suites in Walnut, Oak, Poplar, and all the popular woods, running in price from the cheapest up to hundreds of dollars for a Suite. Special Bargain No. S | Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven I I pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in I 1 plush in popular colors, crimson, olive, | olue, old gold, either in bandea or in I I combination colors. This suite is sold I | for $40.00. I bought a large number of I I them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago, hence I will deliver this fine Plush Suite, all charges paid by me, to your nearest railroad depot, for $33.00. Be- J sides these suites 1 have a great many I other suites in all the latest shapes and I styles, and can guarantee to please yon. Bargain No.,3 J Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid. Special Bargain No. 4j Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove, I trimmed up complete for $11.50, all I charges paid to your depot; or a 5- 1 hole range with trimmings for $15. Besides these 1 have the largest stock I of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ- I ine tbe gauze door stoves and ranges, and the CHARTER OAK STOVES with patent wire gauze doors. I am delivering these stoves everywhere, all I freight charges paid, at the price of an I ordinary stove, while they are far superior to any other stoves made, r ull particulars by mail. 100 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the roll, $5.50 per roll. 1009 Cornice Polls, 125 cents each; 100 Window Stuides, 3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned, at 37>^ cents each. You must pay vour own freight on Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Clocks. i Now, see here, I cannot quota you | everything 1 have got in a store con taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be- I sides its annexes and factory in another | part of the town. shall be pleased to send you anvtning above mentioned, or will send my catalogue free if you will say you saw this advertisement in The Aiken Recorder, published at Aiken, 8. C. 12UNo goods sent C. O. D., or on consignment. I refer you to the editor and publishe r of this paper, or to any banking concern in Augusta, or to the Southern Express Co., all whom know me personally. Yours, etc ; L. F. PADGETT, DYER BUILDING, 805 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA, [ Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture, Stove and Carpet Stores. Factory, Harrison Bt.