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NEW YORK SLAVETRADE ADOLPH METZGAR, AN IMMIGRANT. AND I4 OTHERS IN BONDAGE IN NEXICV. Two Drowned Themselves-Sufferers First from Fever and Agne, Then from Heat and Cruel Overwork-Agents In dicted for Sending Men to Their Death. NEW YORK, June 1.-The results of the infamous, human traffie carried on by certain down town employment ageuts, who scud ignorant, newly landed immigrants to Southern task masters to be abused, starved and mal treated, was well illustrated in a letter handed to Superintendent Jackson at Castle Garden yesterday. The letter was written by Adolph Metzgar, one of seventy-five'men sent down to Progreso. Mexico. It was ad dressed .to Adolph Tirck of No. 144 Lewis street. New York, who handed it to the superintendent. The letter was dated at Progreso on May 25, 1589, and the wavering lines showed that the writer penned it while suffering from great physical weakness. Jack Fitzpatrick, -Liverpool Jack." is now said to be under three indictments for sending men to death in this way He has a place at No. 32 Greenwich street. Here is Metzgar's letter: "DEAR FRmEND- We were eleven days on the water. After the fifth day the heat became unbearable. We went by way of Newport News. After losing sight of the Florida coast on the sixth day I felt unwell and got the fever and ague. Twenty-five of my fellow pas sengers suffered the same way. "We did not go by the steamer City of New Mexico as per agreement, but on the Tropic, a fruit steamer. My sit uation while on the ocean defies descrip tion. I shudder when I think of it. I lay four days sick on the ship and six days ashore in a miserable hospital without windows. The heat is so in tense that the skin peels from the face and hands. The water is hot, there is no beer and the wine is not fit to drink. We sleep on the sand out of doors and the mosquitoes troubled me so much that I am again in the hospital. "We have to work harder than a slave. We were all cheated by the company and are in a frightful condition. Pro gress is in the tropics in the hottest part. I am not well able to write, as my hands are benumbed from hard work and my whole appearance is miserable in the ex treme, so that you would hardly know me. "The greatest misery is caused by the heat and the natives, who as yet have not seen many white people, and are very hostile. Two of Qur party, dis heartened at the condition of affairs, have drowned themselves. Three that ran away were caught and arrested. We intend to go to California if we can get .way. "We don't get any news from any where and we are like prisoners. What wti become of me God knows. * "I have kept a diary which I shall send to you when I think my end is near. "If you hear nothing from me in four weeks write to my friend in Vienna. Any letters you have for me send to me. in 'care of Agencia Commercial, in Progreso, Mexico. Write to me as if you were my brother and state in the ]etter that 'father is dead and that I should start at once for Vienna. This is the only way I can think to be able to get away from here. "ADOIPH MFETZGAR." Detective Groden was at once de ...aieLt investigate the case. The where the men were engaged. Mr. Tirek, who handed in the letter, said lietzgar was a man who could be de pended upon, and that he had not ex aggerated. Detective Groden said that the sending of poor, ignorant immi grants to Southern ports to be worked to death was no uncommon occurrence. In some eases the victims are kidnapped. -and if they ever escape they rarely make a complaint. The agents know this, and trust to the long distance from New York to hide their rascally trans actions. It matters not a jot to the employment agent whether the men hiring the immi grants are human devils or not, so long as he gets his money for securing the victims. The men are genlerally treated like brute beasts, and when they arrive in the Southern port they are turned over to foremen, who divide them into gangs and are worse tyrants than the slave drivers of the South.. Hardly had Adolph Tirek left the Gar den vesterday when two pale faced men -entered. They gave their names as Mi ehael- and Franz Poppe. They were SAustrians, they said, and arrived in America early in May. On May 14 they . were engaged at No. 10 Battery Place to work for a farmer near Witzburg, L. I.. at $14 per month. They worked one month and were then dismissed, the man refusing to pay them one penny. *They were poorly fed-during the month employed. Superintendent Jackson said the case would be thoroughly investi gated. AN APPEAL TO EPISCOP ATITANWS. Bishiop Howe Solicits Contributions Sto Rebuild St. Mark's Church, Johnstown. Caann~sTos, S. C., June 17, 1889. To the Clergy and Congregations of the Diocese of South Carolina-My Dear Brethren: We have all of us most deeply synapathized in the disaster of Johns town, and have with our fellow-citi zens throughout the country sent aid to relieve the sufferers. I now. howvever, write to ask that you will contribute to 'rebuild the.Church of St. Mark's. John town, which was totally destroyed by the flood,. together with the death of its rector and his family. The parish is an important one in the Diocese of Pitts burg, numbering 239 communicants, but in their present heavy private lnsses will scarcely be able to think of rebuilding. I feel for them very deeply in this par ticular, because it was our condition after the earithquake, and because the 'Diocese of Pittsburg and its congrega tions, and among them this very St. Mfark's, Johnstown, came to our help. I say thi.s, not so much to stin:aliate von in your offerings as to inform you of our indebtedness. Before addressing you this letter I made inquiries of the ~Bishop of Pittsburg, who replies in these words: "We shall need all the help' our brethren can give us in rebuilding our church-at Johnstown. Everything has been -lean swept away by the flood. andl the place where the church stood is now a place for tents for laborers who are cleaning away the debris." I ask, there fore, that an offering be made in all of our churches and nission stations to aid in rebuilding the Chturch of St. Mar'Enstown, on the second Sun day in July, being the 14th day of the month, or as soon thereafter as may be most convenient to the congregations. and that such offerings and donations be sent to the Rev. .John JTohnson, Charleston. S. C.. as treasurer, who will lsentd the:n, when all in. to the Bishop Sof Pittsburg, the Rt. Rev. lDr. White head. F'aithfully yours, WV. B. W. HowE. Canadian Spinning Mill Burned. CoRNwALL, Onut.. .1 une 20.-The Corn wall spinning Mills wecre burned yester ,a Los $140,000. LYNCHING A LUNATIC. Rockton, Fairfield County, the Scene of the Extra Judicial Execution-The Ne gro an Escaped Inmate of the Insane Asylum. \WINNsaono, June 21.-[Special to The Registeir.j-This morning, about 9 o'clock. Andy Caldwell. a negro. attempted to commit an assault upon Mrs. J. C. Beck ham. a white lady living on the planta tion of Maj. T. W. Woodsvard, three mile-s from here. Mrs. Beckham. at the time of the as sault, was some distance from the house in which the family lived. attending to some gardening operation. In her com pany was her 14-year-old daughter. Her husband. Mr. J. C'. Beckham, was away from home, having left early in the morning to go to his work at or near Winnstoro. The negro came up and threw Mrs. Beckham down and begun choking her and treated her very violently. The little girl ran to the house and got her father's gun and came back to the scene of the outrage, where she pointed the gun at the ruffian, attempting to shoot him. The gun snapped. whereupon the negro released Mrs. Beekham and took the gun away from the child. lie told her she must give him all the money in their possession, which she promised to do: but when she turned to go and get it, he discharged the gun at her and hit her in the leg near the knee. The whole of the contents of the gun entered her leg, but she is not danger ously wounded. The name of this brave and heroic little girl, who acted so nobly in defense of her mother. could not be learned. The negro did not accomplish his purpose. although he came very near killing the child. Immediately after the news reached town, a number of gentlemen started out in search of Caldwell. who was soon captured. Caldwell was found to be an escaped lunatic. He was sent to the asylum some time during the early part of the present year, but made his escape on or about the 9th of May. At the time of his capture he was going through some kind of invocation which he claimed he thought would re lease him from the spell of the conjuror. He was found burning roots and hold ing a looking glass over the tfame in order that the charm might be, as he said, cured He is evidently in sane, and but for this, he certainly never would have another opportunity to assault respectable ladies. THE VENGEANCE IN THE EVENING. The particulars of the vengeance wreaked on the perpetrator of the out rage are given as.follows in a later dis patch from Winnsboro: WINNSBORO, S. C., June 21, 1889. Special to The Reg.ster. ]-Andy Cald well, the negro who assaulted Mrs. J. C. Beckham at Rockton to-day, was taken from the guard on the train and lynched. When the negro was turned over te Sheriff Milling be telegraphed to the asylum authorities that he was in his custody. A guard came up on the 2:15 train and took him in charge, and left for Columbia by the 4 o'clock train. There was some rumor that Caldwell would-be lynched, and this coming to the ear of the Sheriff he promptly made arrangements to defend his prisoner. He called upon Captain Jordan of the Gordon Light Infantry and received his assurance that in case of need he would order the company out. Several parties from the neighborhood of the crime came to town and made observations which aroused the suspi ions of the Sheriff, who wired the ope rator at Rockton to find out if there was any gathering at that place. The operator, misteking the calm that pre cedes the storm for security, replied that all was right so far as he knew, whereupon he put him on the train. As the Sheriff led the prisoner out of the jail yard, one of the observing party [twa sth *jo01s immediately arrested the party. The balance of the party got on board the Southbound train. When they neared Rockton some one in the train made a signal by waving a handker chief or some other article, and as- the train stopped the prisoner was forced off by those inside and itmmediately LED AWAY TO EXECUTION. The lynching party consisted of forty or fiftyv men, none of whom were masked. The mnan was hurried away, amid the excitemant which prevailed, to a tree about 200 yards from Rockton, on the public road leading to the rock quarry. The intention seems to have been to hang him, but the lynehers afterwards changed their minds and shot him.. He was shot anparently with a shot gtn loaded with 'buck shot. Only one wound oould be discovered tupon his per. son, and that was in the side of his head, and from the aperture the brains oozed out. While being carried away Caldwell asked most piteously that his life be spared, buf no heed being paid to him, he asked fo'r time to pray. Whether his request was granted could not be learned. At the time of his arrest it was not known that he had ac comphshed his purpose. This was riot known until some time after he had been in the custody of the Sheriff. The inquest will be held by the Corn nr as soon as a jury can be summoned. TROUBLE AT JOHNSTOWN. Overbearing Bosses and Short Rations at Xigh Prices Cause a Strike Among the Laborers. JoH~srowN, Jutne 20.-The strike among the laboring men here is fairly on, andl this morning there are not 1,000 men all told at work. Those employed by McKnight, the Pittsburg contractor, are idle, arnd the dissatidfaction and dis cord is spreading to other workmen. Overbearing bosses and short rations, for which the men are made to pay libe rally. are the grievances. The military arc on active dty this morning. and a lcal company of the Fifth Regiment has been ordiered out: and while every thing appears quiet on t he surface, there is fear that an undercurrent of discord will break out at any time and a riot will follow. A largely attended meeting of strikers was held in the open square this morn ing and their grievances freely dits cussed. A committee was appointed to cofcr with those men at work and find outhe exact numb~er of men in sy mpa thy with the strike. This committee will report to another meeting to be held at noon to-day. Three car~ loads of Italians arrived here this morning from the East, but a commit tee of striking Italians met them at the station and persuaded them not to leave the train until the present labor trouble is set ted. They were sidle-tracked and will ~e fed by the strikers. A Gigantic Foundry. SAmre idea of the extent of Messrs. Krupp's estmlishmenut may be gathered from a work just published at Essen. It appears that in 183I: there were only nine wor kman and in 184s seventy-four. In JIulv, 1898, the establishment em )loei 20,960 men, of whom 13,620 were at Essen. Including the families of the workmen they supported a popu lation of 7:3.769 souls, of whom 24,193 lived in hotuses provided by the firm. There are at Essen 1.195 furnaces of various construcetion, 296 boilers, 92 steam hammers of tfromn 100) to 50,000 kllogramm res, :370 steam engines, with a total or 27,oO0 horse power: 1,724 (if ferent machiines andl 361 cranes. Of coat and coke e,r33 tons are used dlai ly and 11 high furnaces ot' the latest con: struction produce nearly 600 ions 4 STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY. Prof Dabney's Statement of the Views of Jackson on the Conduct of the War. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN, June 13.--I was greatly pleased to learn that Mrs. Anna Jackson proposes to give the public a biography of her husband, Gen eral T. J. Jackson. This estimable and accomplished lady will doubtless give a portraiture of that good man's private character and life of the greatest cor rectness and value. We hope that her readers will be numerous. The Chronicle of Charlotte N. C., in timates. on the authority of Gen. Rufus Barringer, that one cause necessitating another biography is the obscurity or ignorance or misconception of my life of Jackson upon two important points General Jackson's preferred plan for the war and his views concerning pris oners of war. To-the Chronicle and to .the public I have a few words to say on these two poin . During the \ alley campaign and that around Richmond, in 1862, I was Gen. Jackson's chief of staff. His prudent reserve was noted; it was such that he never disclosed anything of his owtn military designs except the necessary orders to his chief of staff, or even to his Major General next in command, and he was chary of expressing to them his thoughts on the general conduct of the war. Col. Alex. R. Boteler, an ac complished scholar and statesman and honorary aid to the General, was the foremost civic representative of the peo ple in Gen. Jackson's military district. He seems to have employed him as such occasionally as a medium of communi cation with the government. The state ment of his views fo: the subsequent campaign of 1862, chapter 15, Cedar Mountain, was given on the express au thority of Col. Boteler, and, indeed, almost in his words. I believe he is yet alive and will attest his own facts. They may be relied on as perfectly accurate and intelligent as far as they go. I was selected, not by myself--not hav ing taken up the faintest idea of such an attempt-but by Gen, Jackson's fam ily to write his biography. I sought the help of all suitable documenF which the family possessed. All which were allowed me 1 employed diligently and faithfully. It scarcely need be said that I was not responsible for such as were withheld. General Barringer shows that Jack;on was thinking out, in addition to an im mediate threat upon Washington with 60,000 men, a permanent plan for the future conduct of the war. The details given are full of interest. I am forced to believe that the types here played a trick upon General Barringer in describ ing General Jackson as planniag four or more "light columns" of 50,000 men each. General Jackson was certainly aware that General Lee's heariest masses would hardly exceed 50,000 men and would usually be under that number, as General Johuston's always were. Such being the real size of the two grand armies of the Confederacy, four or more "light columns" of 50,000 men appear entirely improbable: the numbers should have been probably 5,000. Upon the other point-General Jack son's view of taking prisoners -he prob ably spoke as fully to me as to any one. If I am asked why, then, I did not ex plicate these views in the biography, the simple answer is that General Jack son gave them to me in a confidential conversation, the privacy of which he did not give me' the right to disclose. Now that the Charlotte Chronicle asserts; the authority of his family for revealing this point. I may do so without impro pricty. On the 18th day of May, 1862. (be tween the battles of McDowell and Win chester.) 1 was ritding alone with th~e General along the Valley of Mossy Creek, in Augus a County, to visit the bivouac of the famous Twelfth Georgia Regiment, i ~. He was, what verse with me. Our thoughts traveled naturally upon the prospectof our strug gle. Encouraged by him, I expressed my own conclusions with the unreserve (perhaps the indiscretion) of one of tbose citizen-soldiers whom General Jackson thought so well of. I said that the manner adopted by the Confederate government for conducting the war tilled me with apprehensions. The gov ernment, dominated &y the technicalities of West Point, and ot professional sol diering. seemed to forget what was needed in a revolutionary war such as ours. They were relying upon the rou tine methods, good for mercenary standing armies, but iiappropriate to our circumstances. In this species of tactics the enemy's superior numbers and riches, backed by Europe, would in the end beat us. The longer the catas trophe of the was was delayed the more we should lose of that splendid ad vantage we now possessed in the martial spirit of our gentry and yeomanry, for mere drill carried to compltteness would replace their elan; that a defensive war would be sure to wear us out- and crush us in the end. The supineness of the authorities in failing to reach out after the fruits of our victory at First Manas sas had especially discouraged me. I seemed to hear the voice of history and of God at once demanditng, in view of that fatal omission, "How can ye escape who neglect so great salvation?" (This inaction at First Mfanassas the General pronounced '-a terrible blunder," enipha sizing the phl-ase with a stern frown and a forcible gesture.) But he replied to me by reminding me of how much had been done by the Confed erate government in the first year in creating resources and armies. He spoke of the victories already gained hope fully, and of the kindness of the good Providence in which he believed. I pro ceeded further to argue my apprehen sions, when he tturned himself towards me in the saddle and said, with a smile more sad than cheerful: "Stop. Mfajor Dabney; youi make ine low-spirited." L. of course ceased to speak, with an apal-. ogy for my insistence. After riding in silence for t wenty paces he said, with an air and tone of profound seriousness: "Well, I do not profess any romantic sentiments as to the vanity of life. Cer ainly, no man has mor-e that should make life dear to him than I have in the relations and affections of my home. But I do not desire to survive--the in dependence of my country." The con versat ion, when resumed, turned upon some recent threat of bloody retaliation which Mir. Davis had been compelled to make by some one of the numerous outrages. The General said, in words to this effect, that such ani emergency would not now appear had the war been begun on that plan which commended itself to his judg ment. I exclaimed, with much inter est, that a rumor had flitted through his army that he would have begun the war unde~lr the black flag, and that I was curious to knowv from him whether it had any foundation, or what. Hie re plied very sqtuarely: Yes, he belicyed we should have not begun to take any prisoners in this war, and that he should have adopte'd this plan distinctly in the interest of humanity. Because he felt sure the war wvould have been thus ended with far less effusion of blood. He added that this could not be. like other diplomatic wars, a struggle for a boundary or a province, but for our people, a struggle for life and death, and it would have been ibest for the people to have its true character unmasked to them from the fir'st. This war. before its end, will certainly dis close its piratical character. Thus Mi-. Lin-'oln is reported as now declaring that mL is not a war of aboliition. But ,.+other he knowvs it or not, it is surely detined to beonme such. Then they will proceed to arm our own slaves against us. Then, said he, when these outrages are perpetrated, of course it will be absurd and impossible for us to treat that -war as civilized war! To do so- will be perdition to our oause. It. will be the practical admission of claims damnable to our pretensions of right and ruinous to the morale and self-respect of our people. Thus, before this war is ended. Mr. Davis is going to find him self in this dilemma: The enemy will adopt means such that he will be obliged to meet them with ex tensive bloody retaliations or be ruined. But then these enemies will have in their hands, it may be, thou sands of our friends, so that it will be attended with the fearful conse quence of thereby consigning our sol diers to massacre. ' Now, he added, fore seeing these things. I would have ad vised taking no prisoners, and teaching our volunteers at the outset that when they went into action it must be victory or death literally fof them, as it is going to be for their country. Since the ad ministration had adopted other ideas, he obeyed. He had all along been as careful and scrupulous to preserve the lives and health of his prisoners as Mr. Davis himself could have been. Such were unquestionably General Jackson's thoughts at that time. How prophetic they were any well-informed man must judge for himself. R. L. DABNEY, Prof. of Phil., University of Texas. THE FAT MAN'S FUNERAL. They Had to Saw a Hole in the Side of the House to Get the Casket Out. ELMIRA, June 19.-The single-story red house on Hart street, near the water works fountain, was to-day the scene of a remarkable funerhl. John Lawe", the fat man, who weighed 040 pounds, and was the biggest man in America, lived there a number of years and died there on Monday. Many curious people went to see him in life and a crowd stood around the little house and tramped over the lawn this morning in a fruitless at tempt to see the face of the dead. De composition set in early, and this morn ing the big casket was not opened. The minister engaged for the funeral at 10 o'clock did not appear, and the services were delayed until 11 o'clock, when the Rev Mr. Wright of Grace Church con ducted the services. The casket could not be taken through the door, and a carpenter sawed out the side of the house. Twelve men carried the coffin out, placed it in an open wagon, and it was drawn by two horses to the ceme tery. Sexton Abbott had prepared a grave that looked like a cellar. Two oak planks were placed across it to hold the casket. Mrs. Lawes and her five children wept while nine stal rart men lowered the coffin into the grave, which was forty-two inches wide. The average grave is only twenty-three inches. The interment was in a lot in the Northeast part of the cemetery. DARK DEEDS. A Widow Seventy Years Old Makes a Terrible Confession. INDIuNAPOus, June 20.-On Novem ber 12, 1888, Richard 0. Allen, an aged farmer living near Washington, Ind., was found tied to a tree near his house, with his throat cut from ear to ear. The death was thought to be a case of sui cide, and no inquiry was made. A few days ago, while laboring under religious excitement, Mrs. Charlotte Allen, seventy years old, widow of the dead man, confessed to two colored servants that she committed the crime. She said se ed-her-tmnsband had trouble as to who was the rightful owner of the farm, and in order t:' settle the dispute she gave her husband morp- his heten procur~ a table knife rctif rope, and tied the rope around his body, and making sevcral slashes at his throat, half severed the head from the body. She then dragged the body to the tree aiid tied it there. Pour Boys Murder a Companion. INDIANAPOLIS, June 20.-A boy named Snyder, 13 years old, residing at High land. near Terre Haute was murdered by four boys whose ages range from 9 to 15. The boys are two brothers named Pearman and two named Doug las. Snyder's body was found in a creek. He had been stabbed and shot. All the boy; are under arrest. Charged With Murdering Their Two Daughters. LINcoN,Neb., June 20.-Mr. and Mrs. John Leavitt were arrested yesterday, charged with the murder of tbeir twc daughters near Gresham on Sundaynight. GUSSIE'S STORY OF THE FLOOD. A Seven-Year-Old Survivor Gets Lost in Jersey City. NEw YORK, June 18. --A little girl, hatless and shoeless. was found wander ing around the streets of lower Jersey~ City on Sunday. She said she was lost, and she was taken to the First Precinct Police Station. Sergeant O'Connor asked her what her name was and she said: "Gussie Miller, and I come from Johns town. I'm a survivor." She said she was seven years old. and that she came from Johnstown last Thuisday with her aunt. Mrs. Buckhart, and Mamie, Anna and Rosa Buckhart, three other little girls. She went out for a walk, and couldn't find her way back to tne house where her aunt was. She didn't know in what street the house was. Captain MKaig, Sergeant Archibald and Ser geant O'Connor got her talking about the flood and she tol the following story: 'My papa worked in the steel works and we lived down near the works, mamma and papa and me and Mr. Buck hart and Mrs. Buckhart and Mamie and Rosie and Annie, and we heard an awv ful noise, and papa ran in and told us all to run after him up the mountain. He carried me and Rosie part of the way, and Annie and Mamie ran awful fast after us. My mamma didn't run so fast and she got caught between two ars and got crushed, and Mr. Buck hart and Mrs. Buckhart went down. We lived in a house on the hill for two days and papa went to work. Mrs. Buckhart, my aunt, not Mamie's mam ma, brought me on to Jersey City two or three days ago." The child's friends were found and she was returned to them. They lived in Jersey City a year ago. A Colored Priest to be Ordained. Cardinal Gibbons will shortly per form the initiatory ceremony toward ordaining the first colored priest in the Umited States by admitting Randolph nles to the clerical; state. The cere uony of the tonsure, the act of cutting the hair, and receiving the robes of the hurc-h will take place at the Cathedral n the 21st inst. The candidate is a Baltimorean and one of the first of everal students to enter St. Joseph's sminary. He is studying at that in titution and attending lectures at St. iary's Seminary. If he is ordained he will work among the colored people. r'ho only colored priest in the country was ordained in Rome and is stationed n Illinois. -Baltimore Sutn. A Colored Murderer Hanged. MAYS LANDING, N. J., June 20. rimes, the colored murderer of John fartin, mate of the schooner Annie .ar, at Atlantic City, last Chritsmas D~ay, was hanged here this afternoon. other Arrest Made-Martin Burke Pos itively Identified. CHICAGO, June 20.-Detectives last night arrested a grocery clerk named Kuhn, who is familiarly known as "Coonsey," to make him explain his close intimacy with Dan Coughlin during the month of March and April. He was the ex-detective's constant compan ion and accompanied him to Peoria, where Coughlin made threats against Cronin. Chief Hubbard said last night he did not think Kuhn was a participant in the murder, but he thought that ow ing to his intimate association with Coughlin for such a long period, he might be able to tell more about the ex detective than anybody knows now. Chief Hubbard received the following dispatch this afternoon from Officer Collins at Winnipeg: "I have identified the prisoner here as Martin Burke. He has employed a lawyer, but tbere is no chance of his getting away. Chief of Police McRae retained counsel yester day." ST. PAtL, June 21.-A Winnipeg spe ial says: Burke will come up for trial to-day, though Detective Collins will make an attempt to obtain a full confes sion from Burke before taking further proceedings. It will now be necessary, in order to secure his extradition. to make out such a case as would secure his commitment for trial at a higher court were he charged with committing the offense in this country-that is, to make a prima facie case against him. This will necessitate the bringing of witnesses for the prosecution from Chi cago. Should a case be made out, the Judge will issue an order for his extra dition. He will be- then given fifteen days in which to appeal, and if no ap peal has been entered before that time expires, he will be handed over. It will probably take at least a month to secure Burke's extradition, should he not con fess in the meantime. The source of Chief McRae's informa tion, on which Burke was arrested, is mystifying a great many people here. The Chief says he has an object in main taining secrecy at present, and when the proper time comes he will give publicity to all be knows about the matter. He says it is not in his province to divulge his source of information, but he has telegraphed complete details to Chief Hubbard of Chicago, who can likely make sorne further use of them in work ing up the case against the Cronin mur derers. THE SPIRIT OF CAMERON'S PASS. A Wild Woman is Found in the Rocky Mountains. In the summer of 1882 W. C. Hart, the geologist, and two other enthusiastic collectors of specimens were encamped near the lava -beds between the head waters of the Cache de la Poudre River and North Park. It was a rough, broken region, and the desolation was heightened by the proximity of the crater of an extinct volcano, while tare rocks and dead timber were everywhere. The hope of securing rare formations for their cabinets attracted the gentlemen to the uncanny spot, for every one averred that Cameron Pass was haunted by the spirit of an emigrant's daughter. Joe Shepler, a well-known mountaineer, who was piloting the party through the hills, had often seen the ghost and promised his companions that they should view the strange I apparition before returning to their homes. He said the spirit was a thief, and frequently stole food and furnmture from ihe camps of hunters wvho ventured within the precincts of her uninviting domain. At~ dinner August 12, 1882. Shepler calmly announced that the spirit of Cameron Pass was approaching. and pointed to a strange being which was swiftly moving towards the camp. The marauder came to withi -.~.-.hundred yards of m nd seznPfeiad-i son wh~ ad been placed on a ston4 ran with it. H'artpickedup his rifle, and. calling on his coliirades to follow, started in pursuit ot the thief. She-they were sure it was a woman-led thema lively race directly toward the lavabeds. Being close pressed, the hunted creatur( dropped the meat and sped onward tc the opening of a cave. The pursuer: entered the cavern on the heels of the strange robber and found the wanut body of a dead woman. The fright and exertion had killed her. The corpse was that of a woman about twenty-five years old. Her only clothing was a rude gown fashioned of skins. Her hair was very long and she was sunburned and barefooted. The -remains were buried decently. An exploration of the cave disclosed the fact that it had for some time been used as a habitatior by the alleged spirit. The ground was covered with bones, and, although there were cooking utensils about, it was evident that they had never been used. The unfortunate girl had subsisted on stolen meat and roots and leaves. She had dried meat for winter use. For several years the wild girl was thought to be a spirit...-Chicagc Hefrald.* Sensational Scene in Court. A sensational scene was enacted Saturday morning ini Judge Outcalt's court-the Common Pleas-in Cincin nati. He has had on hearing and under consideration for several months an un usual habeas corpus case, where two~ women claim to be the mother of the child for whom the writ was issued. Miss Kate Schaller averred that she gave birth to an illegitimate child and placed it in the hands of Mrs. Humser, the midwife, to dispose of, and that Mrs. Humser placed it in the family of Mr. W. J. White. to be adopted. Subse quently Miss Schaller wished to recover possession of her i ild and applied to Mrs. White, when ihat lady informed her that the baby she had was not an adopted child, but was her own. The testimony before the court was most conflicting, but Mr. and Mrs. White brought manylwitnesses to show that the baby was theirs. They have had it in charge during the trial. Saturday the Judge was to render the decision, but Mrs. White appeared in court with out the child. When asked bf the court where it was Mrs. White. in a determined manner, answered: "Judge Outcalt, I was submitted to severe examina tion the other day, and I understood you were going to decide against me and I have protected my child. 1 know the consequences and am here to abide by thlem, and if I have to stay in prison ten years I am satisnied, so if at the end of that time I have my darling." This reply, of course, made a sensation. Her attorney promptly disclaimed having advised this course of action and asked that his client have time to reflect. The Court said that if Mrs. White did not produce the child she must suffer the conse quences of contempt of court, and he allowed her until noon to consider. The resolute mother for two hours was urged by her attorney and friends to produce the child, but at the end of the time she remained firm and went bravely to jail under sentence of the court for contempt. Meantime the Judge with holds his decision of the merits of the case. Not Works of Necessity. INDIANAPouis, June 20.-The Supreme Court yesterday decided the case ot an appeal by a barber named Knox. who wa. arrested and fined for keeping open on Sunday. The Court holds that shav ing and hair-cutting are not works of necessity within the meaning of the statute, and the judgment of the fine THE CONErAUGH FLOOD. The Stupendous Power of Water Strik ingly Illustrated. The stupendous power of w ater was never more forcibly illustrated than in the Conemaugh Valley. As the liquid sparkles in the dew drop, when con gealed clinks merrily in the glass and invites the weary and heavily laden to rest and refreshment, as it sings in the tea kettle a song that to the expectant hungry man is sweeter than the sweetest notes from the most successful diva, it gives no bint of the strength it exhibits when its particles are combined and made mad at the criminal carelessness of man. A correspondent of the Ulobe Democrat has recently been going over the path plowed by the flood from the South Fork dam and what he saw he tells in terms that are graphic. He'de scribes where in one place a locoumo tive. that probably weighed not less than sixty tons, had been picked up by the resistless tide at the Pennsylvania round house and carried a distance of two and a half miles and thrown down on Vine street, in Johnstown, and then lie mor alizes: "Cyclones have overturned en gines, and floods have moved them from their tracks, but where is there a prece dent for such a trip?" This engine was not rolled along as bowlders are rolled smooth on the bot om of some rapidly running stream, for it was not disman tIed and ruined, as it would necessarily have been had such been its experience. It was picked up like an eggshell. and rushed along with the rest of the endless wrecks of houses, of factories and every thing else that seemed firm and stable. With the iron tracks and ties. so thoroughly imbedded in the road ballast that it seemed as if nothing but an earth convulsion like that sustained at Charleston could move them, the floods toyed as if they had been nothing but spiders' webs spanning au half dozen frail straws. In one spot the waves lifted one side of the track with a gradual slope urtil the ties stood almost perpen dicular and with the rails in position formed what at a distance looked tike a powerful picket fence. "There is a spot in the bed of the river," says the corres pondent, "where a gigantic granite bowl der stood eight feet in diameter and five feet high. Its general shape was rounded so that a.iy ordinary object striking it would glance off. A wave struck that bowlder and split it in two, carrying part of it a dozen rods downstream." There are acres of territory in the Conemaugh Valley from which all soil has been as thoroughly stripped as it a river had flowed over it for a million years. The soil is not only gone, but the earth and rocks in places to a depth of six, eight and ten feet. Streets there were in this valley whose length was measured by the mile. There were shade trees of half a century's growth on each side and beneath them were lo cated beautiful houses. One of the streets in particular as a boulevard had made the valley famous. There is now no vestige of it left; not a board or brick to mark a house, not a stone to inaicate a foundation wall, not a root to tell where once grew an elm or maple. Everything was swept away and the country there is as barren of vegetation or possibilities of vegetation as the bot tom of a coal mine. This tremendous Titan of the Conemaugh laughed at gravitation's laws as a giant would laugh at the resistance of an atom. Cincinnati Times Star. EVEN HAWKINS MUST GO. President Harrison Discharging All Co] ored Employees of-the White House. WASHINGTON, June 16.-President Harrison doesn't like to have colored servants about him any more than he likes to have the malodorous ailanthurs tree in the grounds around the White House. The Tresident has had all the ailanthus trees cut down and taken away from the lawn, and his environ 'pt is soon to be as clear of colored peo coog and moseof the colored servants whel used to be around the White House'-in Mr. Cleve land's time have been dispensed with, and the few that remain will be given their liberty during the Summer season when the Presidential household is away at Deer Park, anid will not be invited to return when the summer season is over. White men and women vil[ take their places. One part of the late lamented Lord Saekville's domestics are now on deck at the White House. The kitchen mates and area belles of the British Legation under Lord Sack ville will soon have a complete reunion at the White House under Mr. Harri son. Lord Sackville's French butler, who has been spending the tedium in Paris. is understood to he about to return to the United States to rejoin his accomplished French wife, who has been for some time in charge of President Harrison's "wittles." Even poor old Hawkins-the historic Hawkins-is not to be spared. A white man is hence forth to sit on the box of thre White House carriage, and as Harrison insists upon a footman, which Mr. Cleveland never did, the whir e coachman will he reinforced by a white footman. Behring Sea Seal Fisheries. S. H. Webb of New Westmrinster, British Columbia, says he has infornma tion to the effect that England and the United States have come to an under standing, in accordance with which no seizure of British vessels will be made in Behring Sea this season. As soon as the existing contract with the Alaska Fur Company expires an effort will be made to hold an international confer ence for the purpose of taking steps to jointly protect the seal fur fisheries there, as well as in the South Pacific Islands. Mr. Webb says the Unitetd States has undoubtedly superior rights. The indiscriminate slaughter of seals is having a bad effect. For seven seals shot only one is secured. George IL Cunninghaim, of Charleston. has been appointed United States Mar sal for this State Hie is a liberal' Re publican and is regarded as an honest man. JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORXEY AT L.AW, MANNING. S. C. OHN S. WILSON. Attorney and Counselor at Lau-, MANNING. S. C. F. WILSON, INS URtA CE AGENT MANNING. S. C. REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Mlain Street. in buness'~ ortion of the town, TWO STORES, with nitable lots: on Manning and R. R. stre.-ts 'WO COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 4 arnd 6 ooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS uitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. Mir G. Bryant.JAs. M1. LEL.GD, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PnoPrIr.ToBs. Columbia, South Carolina. Tho grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia. located in the EX CT BUSIXESS CENTER OF T H E (.'ITY, here all Street Car Lines pass the door, nd its MENU is not excelled by any in the Suth. R. C. Bamzy, President. C. BISSEL JENILNS, Gen'l Manager. RIcBer S. GA&or, Sec. & Treas. The Cameron & Barkley Geontanyi COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS F)R Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the Famous Little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have in stock one each 60, 65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn that we are offering way below cost. z&Send for prices. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supplies. &We Guarantee Lowest Prices for Best Quality of Goods.ga CAMMERON & BARKLEY CO.. Charlestoii. S. . Mrs.A.Edwards - Keeps always on hand at the MANNINGBAKERY, a full supply, and choice assortment, of FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES. Bread, Cake,Candy, Fruit, Ete. I always give a full 100 cents worth of goods for the )ollar MRS. A. EDWARDS. Manningr, 5. C. ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroa1, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. ? Repairs executed with pronptcess and I)spatch. ewnd" r p . East Bay, Cor, Pritchard St, Charleston, S. C. SCOTT S ICUR EMmULSION I OF PURE COQ LIVER OIL FITM M HYPOPHOSPHITES when I say Crae I do not mean uerely to stop them for a time, and then have tlhem re Almost as Palatable as Milk. turn aga mein. I tlh A % i caL d. I have made the diseaso o So disguised that it can be takenT, " I digested, and assimilated by the most STS, EPILEPSY or entiv stomach, when the plain oilt FALLING SICKN SS, bination of the oil with the hypophw Al-L I bites is much more efficacious. iA life-long study. I WARRANT my~ renmedy to p earab esm a eecihoue. CURE the worst eases. lecause others have Remarkable as aflesh producer. - sailed is no reason for not now receivmn a cure. Persons gain rapidly while tak g Send at once for a treatise and a FE !AoITL2 gain rpdyOf nmv INFALLIBLE REMEDY. Give Expres SCOTT'S EMULSION is acknowledgedby and Pot Office. It iicots you nothing for a physicians to be the Fittest and Best prepa- tiO C and it will cure you. Address Cation in the world for the relief and cure of .0. ROOT, M.C.,183 PEARL ST.. NEWYORK CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, GENERAL DEBILITY, WASTINC DISEASES, EMACIATION, PHILADEIA SC. COLDS and CHRONIC COUCHS. LADL fil M The great remedy for Consumptian, a d Hgh LOW Wasting in Children. Sold bji all Druggists. $28. $20. RICE BEER! RICE BEER! We are the sole manufacturers of this de licions and healthy beverage, which aftert e r liaving been analyzed by all the eminent chemists in Atlanta. Ga., during '"Prohibi- - - tion" and after the most searching scrutiny for traces of aleboLol, was allowed to be sold free of State and city license, and so also more recently after further analyzing in Flor ida. It fills a long felt want for a stimulant ~ an d appetizer th it is not intoxicating; pleas- -- ant to the taste, contains nourishment and ~ *6, specially suited for persons of weak and del icate constitutions. It has the taste of lager beer of the tinest flavor; besides, to add to & its purity an d imedicinal qualities, is special- - - - I~ k- nade of our celebrated world renowned original Artesian well water. Put up in cae of onet doze'n pints at 51 25 perv dozen; END y~r live dKozen at si per do:zen, and in casks of ~~ ten dozen ech at 91) cents lher dozen. Cash II ORSE*UEBVR O A must ac ~any eaceh ordef.' Copyri t~ otaa n 1 rgf We have no Agents1? none genuine unless orderedi direct tromi CR A3ER & K{ERSTEN, Steam Soda and Sliner:d Water Works< A HN R PN YUR ETTO UB SFOR YO PA Charleston, S. C., U. S. A. CATRRHFOR SALE ! COL Dc M~ T h eolo~aedn IN I mteAgn o teCl REELVNGD.A Trythe Cure -IDL o' Engines adeBomlers Eleans theNaal assaes Al-sl geti hs out o lays Tnfammation. Healsthe lores. Restores the Senses of Taste, Smell BO and Hearing. - A particle Is applied intoeachnostrH and Is agreeable. Price 50c. at Druaggiet or by Con ilsPueySat mail. ELYBROTHERS,56WarrsSt.,NewYork. L. Wx. FOLSOM, ~Alti ahnr s-drc SUIIER C.To he Pcople owlaestdon: Pice. willth e etfo the Cel-tag PRi.W ACTT.HARIN, LnManiCo .' C. Egie s .Tc a In Y Boiler. -- -~ Geo.E --To:l& o - gh. 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H AMILTON.edotn. \TEW WAVERLY HOUSE, IN BAE,$.0$20 ND$0O dthe llend of King S'reet, Charl'eston. ohsRerdti/M rfhl"ap Tht.V, Waly, havng been thoroughly -- eovted the past summ~ler and n~ewly fur- LE, ished throughout, makes its accomumoda-A ions unsurpassed. Incandle-ent Electric ~ichts and lectric Bells are used in all ATONYT A o~a ad allay. ate $51) ad %Ch arlesn, S. . C~. 1' ALFORSuprpieto.doayPi with s enl.mpoent