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VOL. VI. MANNING., S. C., WEDNESDAY,1JANUARY 1, 1890. .N.4 THE NEGRO PROBLEM. MEASURES INTENDED FOR ITS GRADUAL SOLUTION. Federal Aid Proposed for Colored Peeplo Designing to Emigrate-.-euator But ler's Plan Seconded by lienatops Mamp ton and Gibson-Senator Morgan's rropoaltion., General M. C. Butler is giving much attention to the preparation of a speech in which he will discuss the race prob lem, which he seeks to solve in the bill which he has already introduced in the United States Senate. This bill is as follows: "Be it enacted, etc., That upon the application of any person of color to the nearest United States commission, set ting forth that he, she or they desire to emigrate from any of the Southern States, and designating the point to which he, she or they wish to go, with a view to citizenship and permanent resi deice ia said country, and. also setting fort that he, she or they are too poor to ay the necessary travelling expeuses and that the move is intended to be per manent and is made in good faitb, and ativerify said application under oath fore said Commissioner, it shall be the duty of said commissioner to transmit said application with a written state ment, giving his opinion as to the merits and bona fides of said application to the quartermaster- general of the army. [The section then prescribes the fees for commissioners for services per formed thereunder.] "Section S. That it snall be the duty of the quartermaster general, on receipt of said application, to furnish transpor tation in lind for the person or persons embraced therein, by tae nearest practi cable route from the home of the appli. eant or applicants to the point of desti notion, and upon the cheapest and most economieal plan, whether by railroad or water fransportation, and shall account for the same to the proper accounting officers of the Government, as is now provided by law. "Section 3. That the sum of five mil lion dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to enable the quartermaster general to carry out the provisions of this Act. Section 4 directs the quartermaster general to prescribe forms and carrying out the Act, and for preventing frauds and impositions under cover of its pro visions. Senator Butler, in explanation of the measure, says: "1st. I think it will be for the best interest of both races if a large number of negroes should move into the North- - era States and Western Territories, thus f relieving the Southern Statee of the too 0 -great preponderance of that race. 2nd. I believe this would be the best c solution of the race question. If not, r I am willing to adopt any other., "8d. It will or ought to usilence the accusations brought against the South ern people that they treat the negro harshly and unjustly, because it will show that we are wiflieg to transfer the responsibility of their treatment to those t who make the charges. 4th. It will improve the prospects of the South-socially, industrially and morally -and also help the negro by throwing him more on his own resources. He further says that the bill cannot induce any "exodus" of colored people, that it -has no political character and that, as it is nowise coercive upon the1 negro, it cannot be considered as any wise affecting. his rights or liberties. WHAJT sENATOR EAMflON THINKs. Senator Hampton, in speakIng on the subject embracel in the bill, said: "I am earnestly in favor of any meas ure looking to that end, which will secure such a result and which shall deal justly and generously with the negroes. I regard it as important for the best interests of both races that they should be permanently separated, leav ing each to work out its .own destiny. Of course, I do not oontemplate the removal of the negroes against their will, nor should I be willing to see them leave jthe country empty-handed. The Government certainly should deal with these people generously and benevolent ly, and I think that it should assist all the negroes who desire to leave the country. Should any large number of negroes wish to establish a colony on some foreign soil, the Government should furnish transportation and make a donation to each emigrant, so as to give him the means of support for a time in his new home. Of course should any emigration of negroes on a general scale occur, years would elapse before any serious diminution of laborers would affect the material interests of the South, But the- question involved in this matter is too comprehensive to be treated fully in an interyiew. I can maerely say that I shall support any measure which vrould, under proper limitatiops, secure the final and abso lute separation of the white and colored races." SENiAToR MoRGAN's PRoPoSITION. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, enter tains views similar to those of General Butler, and has introduced the follow ing: --Resolved, That it be referred to the committee on foreign relations to inquire and report upon the best method of encouraging trade, commerce and inter sourse between the people of the Free State of Congo and the United States, and to ascertain what impediments, if asy, exist in our diplomatic relations with the Free State of Congo and oth r Powers, that stand in the way of such trade, comroerce and intercourse; and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise." aENATOR GIBSON's IDEA. Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, has pre sented a resolution, which is in line with _the Butler bill: -"Resolved. That the committee on foreign relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency and practicability of acquiring or setting apart territory for the occupation of the negro or colored eitizens of the United States, and that they further iniuire how far and in what ma.nner the Government of th< United States ecn and ought equitab13 to aid th~e freedmen of the Unitec States, their families and descendants,t( emigrate thereto and settle therein, anc to establish a system of common schoo education; and to report by bill o The whole questipn appears to be at tracting attention among the leadini men of both parti'es in Congress, and it discussion promises t'e\ be very interest jng. INFLUENZA IN EUROPE. Ite Itavazeg in Various Cities. Bouiness apd Aimusements of all Kinds. More or Less A f'ected. PARis, December 25.-The epidemic reigns and rages. Tee conference of lawyers which was to have convened yesterday did not, because the majority of the speakers were ill. Reports from Berlin are to the effect that there is no abatement cf the evil there. In Bruuswick it has assumed a malie nant type and there have been many deaths. At Frankfort it is increasing. Tramways there have ceased operation lecause the employees are all ill. Man heim has been veryvsevereiv visittd. At Munich cases increase and the transac tion of besiness is much interfered with. Theatres announce that the programmes of plays are not t,3 be depended on, as the illness of the actors may make it necessary to change the names. At Antwerp the disease is incresing, but it is diminished anong both the gar rison and people at Amsterdam. It has appeared at Dorderich among soldiers and sailors and in factories. It is very serious in the barracks at Brussels, and half the carbineers ani grenadiers of Corps des Guides are ill. VIENNA, December 21.-A frequent sequel to cases of inflenza here is an attack of inflammation of the lungs. A number of persons in hospital who had been suff(ring from influenza have been stricken with inflammati-n of the lungs and several of them have die:'. The in fluenza has made its appearance in the Jesuit school at Kalksburg, the pupils of which are children of conservative aris tocrats. Sixty-eight of the scholars have been attacked by the disease. TOASTED AND EATEN. The Hiorrible Pate ot a Party of Rallors in the South seas. SAN FRANcIsco, CAL, December 20, [he Sidney Herald of November 5 says that according to a letter received from ,apt. Woodhouse, ofrthe tiading schoo 2er Elma Fisher, boat steerer Nelson, of he schooner Eaterprise, of Sidney, and bree of the :native crew of the Enter >rise were killed and eaten by the canni als of Solomon Islands. The Enterprise was trading among the slands, and natives from Hammond Is ad, one of the Solomon group, induced .'elson and others to go ashore to make ome purchases. Once on shore they vere knocked in the head, and it is re )orted that their bodies were then roast d and eaten. The letter states that H. I. S. Royalist shelled the village on the sland, on Capt- Hand learDing the par iculars. A BIG FIRE AT ST. LOUIS. he Elev.:.tor shaft Performs its Usual Part-Who the Losers Are--Three IHun dred Perso'n Thrown Out of Work. ST. Lovis, Mo., Decembe.r 21.-The trge six-st)ry building 319 and '21 forth Third Street and having also a ontage on Locust street in the shape f an -L," was totally (Iestryed by fire t one o'clock yesterday. The fire aught in the basement and the flames ushing up the elevators soon spread roughout the building and in less than n hour it was a mass of ruins. The 'he Guernsey-Scudder electric plant oc upied the Third street basement, the t ommercial Printing Company the first, econd, third and fourth floors, and the wo upper stories were used by Dicker on & Hens, shoe manufacturers. On he Locust street side the first floor was ~ccupiedl by Grant Bros., of New York, ealers in bookbinders' stock, and the pper stories by the Commercial Print ug Company and F. M. Flanger, book ~inder. Over three hundred people rere employed iD the building and had be fire occurred in the day time there rould dcubtless have been fearful loss f life. The old Mechanics' bank build g, 327 Third street, adjoining on the outh, was crushed by falling walls and early destroyed. This was occupie d y Kohn & Co., bankars and brokers. ~arroll & Howell. insurandce agent, Ger ettsell, Bowman & Co., and St. Louis ining Exchange. Two or three small uildings adjoining on Locust street were also crushed but the losses at this oint were immaterial, The total loss y fire is roughly estimated at between ;50,000 and $200,000, but the individ al losses are not yet ascertained. The se of the name of the Currell Costock ompany in connection with the tre was s mistake. They were in no way invol red and are not damaged a cent. A New ]ndictment. CHICAGO, December 2.-Anew indict eat for conspiracy to bribe Cronin ja ors has been returned by the grand jury against John E. Graham, A, L. Hlanks, Fred W. Smith, Mark Solomon, Jeremiah 'Donnell, Thomas Kavanaugh and ames Konen. It differs only in form -in more careful and technical phrase logy and ampler counts-from the om :ibus indictment returned by the spe ial grand jury which has investigated he conspiracy, SOUTH CAROLINA QRIEVES And Places a Chaplet Upon IHenry W. Gradfs Grave. The following concurrent resolution was unanimously adopted by both branches of the General Assembly. It was introduced in the House of Rep resentatives by W. C. Benet. Resolved, That the Gjeneral Assem bly of this State has heard with sincere sorrow of the death of Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta. Resolved, That in the death of H. W. Grady, the Southern States andI the whole co.untry have sustained a great loss. The accomplished journal ist, the matchless orator, the. fearless well, and served so faithfully, his tongue and pen were the voice and the sword of the South. Resolved, Tha in the death of Henry W. Grady, the young democracy of the United States has lost its most brilliant exemplar. Resolved, That a copy of these res olutions, suitably engrossed, and signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, be sent to the widow of the deceased. - The Phonographi% Rival. M. Leon Esquine-, a Mexicvn, it is stated1, has perfected a marvelous invenioni in electricity and phonography. By speak ing in a photophone transmitter, which consists of a highly polished diaphragm reflecting a ray of light, this rav of light is set into vibration, and a photograph is roade of it on a traveling band of sen altiaed paper. Now comes the wornder ful part. If the image of the photograph tracin~g is projected by means of an elec tric arc or oxy bydrogen light upon a sel enium receiver, th- original speech b then heard. It is evident that there iu ao limit to the development of this pe culiar combination of -nethods. This h -very important, if tr'ie.-Popular Sci. ence Monthly. BOLD WHITE CAPS. SOME OF THEIR EXTRAORDI NARY DOINGS. They Enter the .Town of Valdosta, Ga.. While Everybody In Asleep and Pour Two Leads of Buckshot Through the Door of a Negro Cabin. Bat Fall In Their Ohjce. VALDOSTA, GA., D-cember 21.-The Constitution printed an acc-"'nt several weeks ago of an attack made by maisknd men upon Nelson Jones near the Florida line, in this county. He was badly shot, but escaped with his life and he was moved by his friends to Valdosta, and he has been slowly recovering- Jones had made numerous threats about avenging the lasbiag which the regulators had given one of his neighbors, who had beatcn an old white man in the commu nity, and he offered ten dollars reward for the regulators to call on him. They went, and their encounter has already been described in the Constitution. It s rumored here to-day that a young man WAS MORTALLY SHOT and that he has since died over in Madi son county. This morning about two o'clock a party of men on horses entered the town and went to the cabin occupied by Jones. They broke the door down, threw a cot ton ball saturated with some inflamma ble substance into the house, to produce a light, doubtless, and then fired two loads of buckshot into the bed which Jones occupied. Jones, however, slept with his Winchester rlfle and pistol In the bed with him, and at the first dem ostretion at the door RE ALSO OPENED FIR] and discharged four shots at his assail- 1 ants. A chair post saved Jones' life. It aught five of the buckshot and scatter ed the balance of the load. Three icaiped his left temple, two entered the eft arm, and three made slight wounds n his left side. The regulators had to Jo their work quick, for the neighbor ood was aroused in a few minutes, and bey doubtlesa left Jones believiug that ie was dead, but it will take another load :o kill him, In a few minutes Marshall Barnett nd Policeman Dipkens and Dan Spier rere on the ground, but the regulators ad vanished. Several parties saw them s they galloped out of town, and the c owest estimate of the number of them s put at seven, and the highest at one C undred. This affair is deeply deplored r ere from beginning to end. An effort vill be made to send Jones away. ENTIRELY TOO THIN. h 'hat's What the Woman Said of the Man Who Offered Her a seat. ew York world. A fat woman with a very red face got a n a crowded Broadway car yesterday. P ;he was so exceedingly fat that it was a t reat effort for her to stand at all, and a oung man, as thin as she was stout, queezed up out of his seat, and lifting n is hat gracefully, invited her to sit s' own. * 0 The fat woman looked him over with * contemptuous glint in her eyes, ard hen in a loud and angry tone, she naid: a "Young man, I suppose yon thought ou was awful cunnin' to ask a woman as at as I am to sit in the six-inch space at you have been occupyin'. I'm fat, a ut I'm not foolish, and if you thought 8 ou would mortify me before all these C ople, why yer barkin' up the wrong plin'. I'll let you know who's to be1 ortified." The thin young man blushed crimson, ad muttered that he "meant no harm; idn't notice," &c, "Oh, you didn't notice, didn't you? a el, this'll teach you to notice next time d not insult respectable ladies in such t way. . I'm fat, and I'm not ashamed of , but if I was thin and scrawny as you rc, I would go and pad myself from A ~ o Izard." The young man tried again to say his ~ tentions were the best, but she cut r im off:s "Shut up, you wasp-waisted cadaver, r il pull -you in two. Come back here E nd sit down again in this crack, you ~ eg-drawn-out link between a hard win er and hereafter." She reached for him, but the young i an had wisely fled the car at the last ~rossing______________ The Farmers Organization. Mr. William A. Pefter, editor of the ansas Farmer, has made a stvdy of f 1he extent to which the farmers are >rganized into alliances, wheels, gran es and other such bodies. He has roght together the statistics of the nembership of each of these organiza ions, and has collected facts bearing m their methods and purposes whichI show that the agriculturists are in a mch more complete state of organiza ion than they have ever been before, for the present associations far out umber the membership of the old range, and their growth shows a greater spontaniety and a clearer pur pose than was shown by the grange. f the 4,500,000 farmers in the United Sates at least 1,000,000 are organized, nd a movement is on foot to conso lidate all existing organizations and extend them, whereby the organizers exect in a brief period to include in this consolidation not less than 4,000, 000 farmers. Some of these associa tions have organized in the Southwest, some in other parts of the South and some in the West. Their general pur p)ose is so to impress the importance of the agricultural interests as to cause other interests to pay greater heed to the farmer. The complaint of all these organizations is in substance that the middlemen and money-lend ers have, in one way or another, great advantage over the farmer, which ad vantage has been used to his impover ishment. All these organisation are secret, and although in a purely local sense none of them is political, in a larger sense they all have a political significance, inasmuch as they all look forward to an opportunity for the farmers' vote to change legislation Apch they conceiva to be particularly iq~nerse to the agricultural interests. Saturday morning shortly after day break the gas meter of the Asheville, N. la., gas works exploded with fatal effect. Friay night, owing to some defect in the works. gas was cut off and the men were engaged all through the night mak ing repairs. The water was drawn from the gas meter that a man might get in side to stop a leak. Wbile so doing with a lantern the gas was ignited and the expl'.sion instantly occurred, killing two mien and slightly wounding two others. The bodics of the men killed were thrown same distance and badly mutilated. The gas meter was badly destroyed and other parts of the works aly irriured. MORMON MONEY. 'ho Curlous Currency Used by the Latter Day Satnts. From the St. LOUIS Globe-Democrat. If you go into the principal office of the tithing house you will see a tall, young man handling what looks like money. le is behind a counter and the counter is protected by a high railing. The man glances through the window, then looks down at the bills and then goes on thumbing them like a bank tel ler. He goes to and from a big safe, carrying bundles done up just as bills are with little bands of brown paper pinned about them. 30taetimes the young man doesn't stop to count, but takes the amount ou the brown slip as correct and passes out the mouey. It is the tithing scrip. It is used to facilitate the handling % the grain and hay and live stock and produce that come in. If you pick up one of these, you will find it very much like a bank note in appearance. In one upper corner is the number of the bill. In the lower left hand corner is the hoc signo of Mormonism, a bee-hire. The face of the bill reads: "General tithing storehouse. Good only for mer cbancise and produce at the general tith ing storehouse, Salt Lake City, Utah." Each note bears the signat of the pre iding bishop. On the t 7s the de omination again, and a vi tte of the ew temple at Salt Lake City The back lso bears the wording: "This note is not urrent except in the merchandise and produce departments of the general tith og storehouse." The engraving is well xecuted and the printing is well done. rhe bills vary in color, 9 There are greenbacks for one depart. nent of the tithing house, brownbacks or another, and so on. By using this crip the church is able to create a mar :et for considerable quantitice of the I ithing. This scrip is given out in dis )ensing charity. It is used for paying or work on the temple so far as the orkmen can make use of it. Employes I if the tithing house receive their salaries r allowances partly in scrip. In numer- 3 us ways the Mormon money gets into irculatien. DAVIS AND BEAUREGARD. t he Differences Between the Two-A Mere t Mimunderstanding.: t Nxw YoRK, December 25.Mr. George arv Eggleston has written for the a Vorid an article covering different inci- b ents in the career of Jefferson Davis. t riting of the differences between the t onfederate President and General Beau- h egard, Mr, Eggleston gives the follow- e ti The absence of Gen. Beauregard's ne from the list of Southerners who h ok prominent part in the obsequies of Y r. Zefferson Davis recalls the long en- 0 tity between the two men. It seems to v ie a matter of curious interest that the itterest point of the quarrel probably l rose from so slight a thing as the mis- It lacing of a punctuation mark in the t< ansmission of a dispatch by telegraph. lf As nobody, so far as I know, has ever n irected attention to the matter, and as f( either Mr. Davis nor Gen. Beauregard n; ems ever to have discovered the-cause 0: the misunderstanding, it is worth 7 hile, peahaps, to point it out. C After the retirement of Beauregard's c< my from Corinth to Topelo, Beauregard b eat away to recover his health and Mr. n 'avis placed Gen. Bragg in command. C< Beauregard bitterly resented this as an f? front. Davis justified his act on the F ound that, without asking leave, the a eneral was at the time "about to leave 1r surgeon's certificate for four months." auregard's inspired biographer, Col. ti Ifred Roman, charges Mr. Davis, by t< plication, at least, with falsehood in 01 aking this statement, and cites Beaure- t) rds dispatch to the adjutant-general, ~ follows: fl "General Bragg has just commuuicaa d f< me a telegram sending him to relieve, g ~mporarily, Gen'l Lovell. His presence t< are I consider indispensable, at this mo- c< tent especially, and am lea-iing for a fi hile on surgeon's certificate. Fior four 1t oths I have disobeyed their urgent h ~commendations in that respect. I de- h ire to be back here to take the offensive h soon as our forces shall have peen suf- tl iently reorganized. I musS hate a d ort rest." Col. Roman says of the dispatch: aj "We ask the reader to examine its b braseology carefully and say whether h could be so construed as to canvey the a ea that Gen'l Beauregard was 'about to ~ ave on surgeon's certificate for four 1l onths.' " The candid reader will certainly answer fi es, if he remembers that the dispatch a rent to Mr. Davis by wire, and observes h hat the transposition of a period not t aly renders such construction possible, t ut makes that the evident meaning of C e message. Gen. Beauregard wrote: e 'I am leaving for a while on physician's v ertificate.' For four months I have de- I ayed," &c. As Mr. Davis received the i ispatch it evidently read: "I am leav. b g for a while on surgeon's certificate l r four months. I have delayed," &c. A comparison of the dispatch as sent nd the dispatch as received would have own both men that a mere misnnder tanding had occurred through a very1 imple error in the telegraphic transmis ion. But no such comparison wrs madc ad each suspected the other of deliber te falsification. A Co-operatiyo Citr. Joachim Kaspary, the London hn anitarian deist, proposes to establish colony on humanitarian co-operative rinciples near New York city. Speak~ :ng of the project, he said: "My rea son for establishing a colony not in, ut near New York, is my desire to uy the land for the humanitarian city dmost for nothing. .The value of this Land, of course, will increase with the increase of population, but the increas ed land value will not be private, but ommon property. The house will also be common property, and the rent for the apartment will not only be sufficient to pay the interest on the~ capital borrowed to buy the land and build the house, but also for the gov ernment, instruction and public enter tainment of the humanitarian cc operato,s, for the necessary funds for the establishments and maintenance of humanItarian co-operation will always be a loan on the security of the com mon property, such as the land, houses and factories, machinery, tools, rail roads, steamers and similar rescurces of nature and -benefits of civilization. Miarried men alcne will be full mem bers, or receive ani equal whole share of profit for their .. ut unmar" red men and women~ y ut twenty years will receive only ik~gare of profit for their labor, and M hs and maidens of at least fifteen years will receive only a third share 01 profit for their labor. Married women and children below fifteen years will not be permitted to work for money, as' the husband, the fahter or thelcom munity will provide for their mainten DIVORCE IN CHICAGO. FORGERY AND BRIBERY COMMON LY EMPLOYED. A Story that Discloses a Condition of Depravity Hard to Understand---A Specimen of Chicago Morality. A Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch to the Philadeiphia Press says: "A case bas just con.e to light in this city which pioves conclusively that a sudden and thorough exposure of certain divorce agencies in Chicago is necessary. The facts show that no married man or woman is safe, and that there is at this moment an agency in Chicago which does not hesitate not onl - to compass the separa tion of married people, but which man ufactures testimony and is ready to com mit perjury and forgery in the accom plishment of its designs. "A. leading lawyer of this city was some months ago called on by a rather interesting young woman who said her husband had begun a suit for divorce gainst her. Her story was that she bad been married but % short time, and that aer husband had been very jealous of er, but generally kind and proper in his reatment of her until he suddenly :barged her with inffdelity one day and Lnnounced his intention of procuring a livorce, He carried out hie ittention Ld lived a part from his wife. The wife owed her entire innocence, and said it ras impossible to account for the confi ence of her husband that she was uilty. -'The lawyer looked into the case a lit le and became interested in it, as he had eason to believe that his client was not uilty of any wrong doing. - His first heory was that the husband was insanely ealous, but when he discovered from the pposing legal counsel that the husband amed two correspondents and gave the C ullest details of his wife's misdoing, his theory was abandoned, though he e till believed the wife innocent. A fur- ( her investigation made it plain-that 5 brough a Chicago divorce and detective 1 gency spies had been put upon the lady nd one of them lived in a house near ers for months. They discovered no- t ing, however, as the wife's lite was en rely proper both before and afier her J usband left her. When the case reach- F d the point of deposition and interrog- f iries the counsel for the wife succeeded n a making the other side show their ' ands fully. Their case was that the t omsn had committed the sin at her t wn house in Dubuque on a certain day n ith two men whose names were given. "A searching examination proved that E ie crime was impossible, and the lady's Is Lwyer now determined to get at the bot- f )m of the case at any cost. After much a Lbor he discovered that the whole testi- c ony was worked up in Chicago; that fb )rgery had been committed by inserting b ames in the register of the leading hotel h the place, and that there was not a F ord of truth in the charges which the a hicago agency stood ready to prove in P urt by two men witnesses the woman P d never seen. When the names of these fc en were mentioned to the wife, she, of a urse, knew nothing of them, and her C iends were able to corroborate her. ti inally the whole scheme was exposed, ad the Chicago agency never appeared is the Iowa courts.I "The curious part of the case is that ti e Chicago agency nct only stood ready i ruin forever the woman, but that in t< der to extort money from the husband u e evidence was manufactured and he p as made to believe it, and was bled si ely of large sums;of money. The un rIunate man, having full belief in the 0 UI f :.a w se and in all the stories e ld him by the Chicago .e '-. we' i mpletely misled, The agency, en a i ndish greed for money, added new ev- k lene of the wife's guilt daily, and a rought forth the men who, it was said, F d been intimate with her, and he a card the story from their own lips to d e last detail. He was completely i1 ped. e "The time came, howeve-, a few days p go, when the whole scheme was laid 5' are, and he soon saw that the me-a who ti d relieved him of almost his last penny n d had made him believe that his wife p ras untrue were a set of villains who a e by the invention of such 5crimes. n fe wrote his wife when the truth was b rced upon him a manly letter, laying t 1 the blame upon himself, but without ope of her forgiveness. It is probable c hat no man or woman ever passed n rough such an experience as the result ' a set of scoundrels who had no inter st in the case except the money they ( ere able to extort from the husband. I t;is not known whether the principals t a the plot will be prosecuted in Iowa, I ut they certainly ought to be for the I rotecton of society in the West." C THE COTTON BALE. where Is Danger of its Growing Too Large. The compilation of Mr. Henry G. Hes er, Secretary of the New Orleans Cot n Exchange, of the average weight of otton bales handled this year, gives ome idea of their rapid growth, and is a quite evident that unless some meant an be found for preventing the bales rom growing larger, they will soon be fome very unwieldly. The cotton bale as supposed, at one time, to average 150 pounds. It has grown, however, rom year to year to 460, 470 and 480 pounds. For some two or three years1 aast it has nearly reached 500 pounds, but 2ever quite got to that point. In 1886, ap to this date, the average weight was 3 pounds; in 1887, 486 pounds; in 888, 499 2 5 pounds. This year it has taken a big spring farward, ond aver ages 505k pounds to date. During Sep tember it reached the maximum of 505j pounds, and in Texas 583 pounds, or twelve pounds more than three years ago. Can any limit be put on the cotton bale so as to prevent its becoming too large? It is already very clumsy and ifcult, too heavy and too bulky to han die easily. Our English friends com plain of the American system of pack ing and baling cotton; declare that our bales are too big and suggest that they be made smaller, as in other countries. On the other hand the advantages to the farmer from large bales, in freight, hauling and other charges are so con spicuous that the natural disposition is to make them as big as possible, and the better compressing machinery in use renders this possible without any very groat increase in bulk. It seems proba ble under these circumstances, that the otton bales will conticue to grow larger and larger until the transportation com panies apd others engaged in handling them protest vigoronsly against a fur ther gowth. THE PHOSPHATE LABORERS. The Report of Immigration Inspector Lee. Which Shows A Most Beartiess System of OppressIon Toward Labor ers. Timothy F. Lee, the special immigra tion inspector of the United States treas ury department, who was detailed to in vestigate the recent outrages upon the French and German laborers at the Horseshoe Phosphate miles in Colleton county, has prepared his report to Sec retary Windom. Inspector Lee says: "The whole trouble at these mines is due to false representations made to pe3ple in New York who know nothing about our country and our laws, by the paid runners of William Orlando, who is a big 'padrone' in New York. They represented to the last batch of laborers that they could easily make from $1.50 to $2.60 per day, When the men came here and tried the work they found they could'not make fifty cents per day. Four of the men, speaking a little English, upon being told if they got in debt to the company under the South Carolina laws they could not leave, quit work at nnce and started secretly to walk to Charleston. Herts, the manager of the mines, got out a warrant for riot and bad the four men arrested. "The Horseshoe Mining Company, of Jolleton, is worked in a very inhuman' nanner. The Italians who are employed :here at present are treated like dogs; guarded with rifes, knocked down, and eports say on two occasions, shot, hether fatally or not I could not find >ut. This last batch of laborers are ioused like cattle. They are given beds if rice straw, without any covering vhatever. The nights here at this time if the year are bitter cold. The food urnished is not fit for a man who has to >erform heavy manual labor. The fore nan and bosses are Italian padrones, and ou cannot get in a word sideways with ne of the workmen without having one f these dogs at your side, and then the vorkman is as close as an oyster through ear. "William Orlando is the head pa. rone. He stays in New York most if he time and sends his runners to differ nt places where Italian, French and rerman immigrants congregate. His pecial places of supply are an employ. ient agency kept by a German named [enry Faigin, 118 Greenwich street, and cheap French lodging house and res iurant, 23 Worcester street, New York. ine of Orlando's runners is a French ew named Julius Morris, who speaks 'rench, Italian and Geaman. Morris aints in glowing colors the southern sun y country where the immigrants are anted to work. He says nothing about ie malaria swamps of South Carolina at would break down a veteran army ule. - "The manager of the company is M. . Hertz. Orlando, the head padrone, paid a royalty on the head of each man irnished to the company and delivered the mines. I understand that his own .1 untrvmen must have found out how Ise his representations were, for he has een unable to get any of them down .re lately. He therefore procures the rench and German.jaborers. Or1a:da 2d his brother have the store or sutler revileges at the mines, and charge the >or slaves the most outrageous prices ir all they get. A gentleman told me 1 i an actual fact that whten pay day mes the Orlandos get 95 per cent. of te money paid. "All the foremen or overseers are Or- I ndo's heartless, grinding countrymen. cannot reach them under the alien con act labor laws, but I pray that the so itor of the department be requested >see if there is not some statute that ill put a stop to this heartless injustice, r petrated on people who do not under and our language or our laws. "The mine bosses had this last batch poor fellows arrested for rioting and dangering the lives of the bosses. I ado a close investigation and found the larges utterly untrue. The men were ept in jail for four days, and when tried ;Walterboro were discharged. The1 rench and German consuls at Charleston re present and employed counsel to tiend the prisoners. I candidly be eve that if the French and German nsuls had not taken hold of the case romptly that, with the power of a ;rong corporation behind the padrones, me men were liable to have been comn itted, and if committed, the company's1 adrones would have bailed them out d carried them as slaves back to the ines, and thereby strike terror to the earts of the Italians at present working iere. "The colored people tell me that they sannot make a living in the mines, and one of themi can now be induced to~ lork there. "There is a very severe law in South |arolina which was passed to protect the lanters against the colored cropper on Le 'arms. It is outraag'aly one-sided. f the planter brings in toe cropper in is debt at the end of the year and the ropper attempts to leave, the planter can ave him arrested and brought before a ustice of the peace, who can fine him rom $530 to $500 and also sentence him o Imprisonment. The planter then takes hc man to wor.< out the fine and carries im back to his farm." [This happen. o be untruie.-ED. Mhoc the Man Who Teasedi Her. Louisa Epperson, daughter of a vealthy farmer residing nearParkers rille, Mo., shot and killed Julius lofer, a young man employed by her 'ather, as he sat at the family table ting his dinner Monday last. Hofer mad been in the habit of teasing the irl about her admirers, and at the >reakfast table Hofer made some re narks which incensed the girl. She old Hofer if he repeated the remark he would shoot him. Hofer promised o refrain, but at dinner began agai~n mn the same subject. The girl, without t word, arose, left the table, walked leliberately into another room, picked ipa 38-calibre revolver, and return .ng to the dining-room shot Hofer in ~he right side of the head, over the mar, and he fell to the floor dead. The murderess is described as an unusually attractive girl about nineteen year old. 3I10NEAL, December 2.- The police authorities here have discovered Silcott, the absconding treasurer of the United States House of Repfesentatives, accom panied by his paramour, Hierminie The bault. He arrived in Montreal Baturday, Dcember 7th. Herminie weint to the house of her married sister, on Sanun ient street, where she remained until Fri day last when she left for New York on an early morning train. The New York police have been nc-tified of Hlerminie's return there. Thos. B3. Johnston, of Sumter, hais beon appointed collector of customs a Charleston. A. GREAT SCHEME. Er Which All the Amerians Willbe Bea. efited What the Originators Propese. WHEELING, W. Va., December 28.-In i view of its great importance as grow ing out of the feeling that inspire&. the Pan-American congress, and of its gigantic proportions as a railroad en! terprise, the recently-incorporate& Columbia Railway and Navigatio.1 company, at Richmond, Virginia, is likely to prove a sensation in corn mercial circles. The following, es planatory of the plan, as gained fromni. parties directly interested, but who have horetofore refused to give out any information fur publicerion, will appear in tomorrow's Wheeling Itm ligencer: It is authoritative. The purpose of the company is to construst railroads and South America steamship lines connecting these railroads with pointa in the United States, and incidentally everything necessary to properly carry on such a business. The company's capital is to be $100,000, and Captain7 H. C. Paraons, of Virginia. is at. the head of it. Very shortly other steps necessary to complete organization will be taken, and at no distant dayplan which have been carefully matured by iome of the leading capitalists nost practical railroad men of yountry, will be in readiness for ap. lication, Briefly, the aims of the Co- . umbia Railroad Navigation cempanyt Lre as follows: To construct aline of ailroads from some point near t nouth of the Magdalena river, wb- h, )mties into the Carribean sea, inthe Jnited States of Columbia, southward y along the eastern bank ofthe Andes: nd headwaters of the Arnason to, )oints in Peru, there to connect witliu he Peruvian and Argentine syste f railrods at present in operation or nder construction. From the moutk I the Magdalena river, stamshps rill be run to the southern point of 'lorida and New Orleans, whencewil xtend railroad connection to all parts f this country. The value of cheme contemplated is apparent at aoment's glance. A continent, prob bly the richest in material resources. f al continents in the world, and till practically unknown, is to be; pened up to the purposes of com-' ierce, immigration and civilization a products and people, are to be rought into easy communication 2e rest of the world; and the best 11, the direct and lasting benefit of xese purposes accrues to the Unite& tates, and especially to the southern tates. Captain H. C. Parsons, whose home, now at Natural Bridge, Va., but ho was formerly a resident of harleston and Huntington, Va., is ie originator and controlling spirit of> ie enterprise. It is by no means the rst difficult and hazardous undertak -en engaged in, though others were nothing when compared to this. He ade a contract with Mr. Huntington r the Chesapeake and Ohio line from ovington, Kentucky. to the Ohio om Charleston to Point Pleasant in rest Virginia, and finally having rchased the rights and privileges of te old James River and Kanawha', anal company, built the Richmond 2d Alleghany railroad from Rich .ond to Clifton Forge, Va., 250 iles-. Sfourteen months, under a penalty -. $500,000. For fifteen years Captain arsons has given the subject of a - arth and south line of railroad in )uth America his attention. He has aveled and investigated, e-ramined rveys of the country and collected formation until he has demonstra ud the feasibility of his great project ad at last brought it to a point of reali 1tion. In order to obtain more thorough 'ganization and secure heartier co eration the incorporator have been ilected and will shortly be named in 1 the Southern States. When this has se '.one andithe organization comple 6d by the selection of officers, etc-.'>. toscription books will be opened andl . te practical work of making surveys ad estimates inaugurated at once. SHE HEARD THE NEWS. Negro Woman Sutes Her Pormer Master. Kissis CITY, December 28.-A ique case was decided in the probate >urt of Cooper county today and it was - iat of a colored woman who had jut2 iscovered that she is a free woman and 9 ot a slave and who brought soit gainst her late master's estate for $1, 00 wages. A t the commencement of the war ames HIclkman, now the wealthiest rmer in the county, bought a negro lave in the market and took her to' his arm as a sewing maid. Since that2 jine she has never been allowed to go 'c'i syond the bounds of the farm. In herg itition~ she alleged that she had been permitted to hold converse with none of er race, and none of the family werej ver permitted to tell her the results '' >f the war. When her eld master died br:: weeks ago she ran away to Boon riile, and while there heard that the iaves had been emaneipated and she ~a free. She told her story to Lawyer: iar.e and he brought suit to recover 1.400) from Hickman's estate. The - ourt accided for the plaintiff, and al owed one half of the amount claimed. Into the Eiyer. CH ARLES TON, Dec. 25.-The engine !awing a train on the Charleston and avannnah railway, which left here ast night, plunged into the Ashepdo iver on its way to Savannah. When he train was nearing the Ashepoo ridge the engineer discovered that he draw was not in position. He nistook the distance, however, and in mnahder second the train was at the ap. The engineer and fireman savei hemselves by jumpping from the cab. ut the locomotive and two cars were pianfged into the river. The engine is ~till in the river. The box cars were urned, the fire originated from lime which was in the fo'rward car. The iamage so far as the cars are ,o :erued, is estimated at $2000. The engine and cab will I>e recovered. rains are now -running through. Nobody was hurt. A Neyel Suleide. Pntovrnatcl, R. I., December 2. Joeph Stotr, forty-three years of age, a je wclry merchant w bo has been ill some 'irce, lett his house early this morning and went to the track of the Old Colony rairoad, waited for the Shore Lijie train, placed his neck across the rails and was TROUBLE IN GEORGIA. A RIOT IN JESUP, IN WHICH NINE'MEN ARE KILLED. The Trouble Caused by Drunken Np% groem Who Resist Arret-The Whites Come to the Assistance of the Police, and the Negroes are Driven to a swanp. SAvANNAH, December 25.-An at tempt to arrest a drunken negro at Jesup, fifty-one miles from this city, this afternoon precipitated a riot which resulted in the killing of nine men and the wounding of eight or ten others. Seven of the killed are no groes. The two white men killed are Wm. Barnhill, assistant marshal, and Wm. Wood, Jr. The white men wounded are Wm. Wood, Si., who was shot through the right cheek, and B. R. Leggett, marshal of the town, who was shot through both legs. All the other wounded are ne gres.' During the fucilade the fict re. solved itself into one of a band of blacks against a band of whites, with the former in the wrong and the pre cipitators of the troable. The blacks retreated to a dense swamp on the outskirts of the town, and a hundred white men quickly surrounded it as a skirmish line. Governor Gordon was advised of the outbreak and this afternoon a detach ment of the Georgia Hussars left for the scene of the trouble. An infantry company from Brunswick is said to have also gone to the scene. SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 20.-Advices received from Jesup at midnight says: The situatian is somewhat quieter at this hour, but an occasional shot is eard. The streets are still paraded y armed men. A negro was found lead in an alley a few moments ago nd two others of the wounded are re ported to be dying. Fear is now entertained for the afety of the people remaining in the eighboring towns, but as all the ne roes and whites seem to be congrega ;ed here very little danger is to be I ippreiended. The following has been received ; -om Jesup, Ga.: A posse of twenty s nen for Lumber City to intercept c 3rewer and his gang, who, it is ru nored, have gone there for ren- i brements. Firing along the picket b ne keeps up, but it is principally by t )oys. A crowd 6f armed men have a ust returned from a ti ip to the t manp and they report that four col- S )red men were found dead. , The jail at Jesup was broken into ,arly this morniig and two negro i risoners were riddled with bullets. N .nother negro was found at home C hot through the heart and one w.th a t, Lesh wound in one shoulder. The ne' roes are quitting their homes and noving to other wns on the line of e railroa A ar nu mber oLne' b roes were taken from their homes & his morning and whipped, many of m hem being prostitutes. A crowd of f vbite men went to several housas C fter breakfast this morning and com- fr ielled the negroes to leave. They 1 anished some of them. p News reached the authorities at ti esup that J. W. Ryan, a white man C ying there, was the lostigator of the a ifair. A posse of men was sent to i house to arrest him, but he had nade his escape. M~en are on the ekot for him. It seems that he r ut bad ideas into Brewer's headn out the duty of white people to col-b red folks, and reports say that he ex- t ited them by saying that the murder the colored man killed by Barnhill 5, hould be avenged-.t The Hussars, the dismounted com- a: any ordered to the scene of trouble y the Governor, returned to the city his afternoon. The Brunswick cam lany was retained on duty by the nayor. The returned soldiers re-s orted the trouble over. Their pres- al nce was only required to quiet theb sxcitement of the citizens of Jesup, t< rho remained in their houses last s tight to protect their families, and heir kitchens and outhouses were lled with colored people of the towna vho sought the protection of their rhite friends. Henry Anderson, one of the guards A ut over Ryan's house, was accidently 2ot and killed last night by one of his wn party. He came over to Captain ~ordan's headquarters for reinforce- U nents, and was going back when a e un held- by Townsend, one of his t arty, was discharged, blowing An- d lerson's brains out. Last night a colored man was shot a y a picket while coming from Mc- 4 Nillan's swamp. He attempted to tep by the-officer, when he wgs shot. J The wound is not fatal. It is believed f that he was acting as a spy. S There is still great excitement throughout the country around Jesup, t but affairs will doubtless quiet down I n a few days. It is a region of tur. I pentine distilleries and saw mills. Here thousands of negroes are em loyed and the Jesup trouble is apt o isorganize labor for some time to< eame. FURtTHER DETAILS. SAvANNAH, GA., Dec. 26.-It is now estimated that twenty negroes were illed during the rioting yesterday in the vicinity of Jesup. The excite-< ment has not entirely died out yet, 1 nd the Georgia Hussars, of this city, are still patrolling the city to-day. Further details of the riot received to-day say the negroes were well armed'< with Winchesters and revolvers. Mar shal Legget and Station Agent Woods,1 who were badly wounded yesterday, are better to-day, and it is believed they will recover. TROUBLE IN AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA, GA., December 25.-When officers Williams and Crawford went -c3 arrest a party of drunken negroes today they resisted and disarmed the polhce-I mn and heat them badly with their :lubs. The police were subsequently reinforced, and half a dozea of the ne-: negro ringteaders were arrested rana locked up in the engine-house. A large number of citizens, white and black, collected about the place, and gre'at excitement prevailedl during the after Tne negroes were subsequently re moved from the engine-house to the jail, where they were safely guarded. and no further trouble is ayprehenced. When the ofiicers started to jail with the prisonrs a dimculty occurred between s . negro and several whites. First clubs were used, then pistols. One negro was killed outright and another badly wouan. Al11 is quiet to-night