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VOL. VI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890. TUBS TO THE WIHALE. CONGRESSMEN IN A HURRY TO PASS AGRICULTURAL BILLS. The Committee on Rules Plies the Whip Much Legislation to be Rushed Through -The Aaricultural Colleges Liberally Provided For. WASIIINGTON, 1). C., Aug. 19.-The House to-day tabled a motion to recon sider the McKay bill, so it is finally passed. Then Cannon, from the Com mittee on Rules, reported a resolution setting apart to-day, Wednesday, Thursday. Saturday and Tuesday and Wednesday of next week for considera tion of bills reported from the Commit tee on A griculture. The first bill to be taken up is the Senate bill to aid agri cultural colleges, the previous q uestion on which shall be considered as order ed after two hours' debate. The next to be taken up is the bill providing for the inspection of meats for exportation and it shall be voted on after two hours debate. Then the lard bill shall be taken up and a vote ordered at four o'clock Saturday. On Tuesday of next week the bill defining options shall be taken up and the previous question shall be considered as ordered at three o'clock Wednesday. On the days speci fied the House shall meet at eleven o'clock. The order also provides for a morning hour each day and gives place to general appropriation bills or con ference reports thereon. Crain, of Texas, inquired whether under the order the river and harbors bill could be considered. Cameron replied that he thought not but that the bill could be called up Fri day or Monday or during the morning hour on other days. Blount, of the Rules Committee. crit idised that committee for its action in bringing in rules on such unimportant subjects without opportunity for fair discussion. The House had degenera ted from common respectability. He thought that the agricultural bills had been purposely excluded and could not be considered. He thought that it should be included and the time for debate extended. Mchlillan, another member of the Rules Committee, said that it must be admitted in view of the late hour in the session that the proposed order put the rivers and harbors bill in a peril ous condition. Business had already been outlined that would occupy the time of the House until September leaving unconsidered the rivers and harbors bill with its $24,000,000 appro priation. He warned the House now in order that the friends of the rivers and harbors bill might adopt the speci al order with their eyes open. Funston, of Kansas, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, said to the friends of the rivers and harbors bill that if they knocked out the Agricul tural Committee that committee would knock the rivers and harbors bill so high that it would never be seen again. (Laughter.) He should think that the gentlemen from Georgia and Tennessee (Blount and McMillan) in view of the arising of farmers in their -States would conede a few days to the Committee on Agriculture. Hatch, of Missouri, said that these bills were among the most important 1 offered to the House. Behind these bills were more voting thousands than were behind any other species of legis lation on the calendar. These thous- 1 ands were restless. excited and uneasy from one end of the country to the I other for the reason that their meas- I ures had been cut out by such menis ures as t he rivers and harbors bill, lie warned his friends on the Democratic I side to make no mistake in voting against this order. It was the best that could be done; and any Democrat rep-'( resenting an agricultural district who I threw an obstacle in its way wonld rue1 it before the first of November. He wanted to reiterate what the gentle man from Kansas, (Mr. Funston,) said l in regard to the rivers and harbors bill ( If the adoption of the conference re- C Sport on that bill was to stand in the way of the consideration of these mecas ures let the rivers and harbors bill wait ( antil Decembe-r next. Blount thought that there was a de sign in the proposted order to exclude i action upon the rivers and harbors bill. 4~ SThe bills ment ioned in the order were <: .most important and he was content for ' them to have fair considerat ion under C the rules of the MIouse. He suggested C 7an amendment including the rivers and harbors bill among the measures M which might interfere with the opera tions of the order. McKinley said that there was no leg- y islation demanded by the country so universally as that comprised In the pending resolution, in reporting this a order the Cxmittee on Rules had but. responded to the agricultural senti ment of the country, both North and South. The resolution was not antag onistic to the rivers and harbors bill-. c The appeal which came from the other side that the order excluded the rivers and harbors bill was not because gen tlemen on that side loved the rivers and harbors bill. but because they op-. posed the dispatch of the public buid-C dess. He then intimated that the Comn mittee on R ules would map out the lat ter part of next week for the consider ation of measures reported by the Coin mittee on Lahor. The resolution was adopted and the House accordingly proceeded to considl eration of the Senate agricultural col lege bill. The time allotted for debate was uti-. lized by over a dozen members, and' most of whom in short speeches favor ed the bill. The discussion closed and~ the bill as amended was passed with- 1 out division. It appropriates out of a money arising from the sale of publics lands to each State and Territory for y the more complete endowment and b maintenance of colleges for the benefit e of agriculture and the mecbanic arts y the sum of $15,000 for the year ending t June 30th, 1890, and an annual increase t of such appropriation for ten years a thereafter by an aditional sum of $1,000 t over the preceding year. The annual t sum to be paid thereafter shall be 25,000 .j dollars. ___ ____t Every Bone in His Body Broken. BURLING TON, N.J., August 20.-Fri Sitamann, a Russian. employed in the brickyard of 31urrill. Dobbins & Co.. at Kenkora, was instantly killed by a cave in this morning, lie was working be-. neath an embankment that had been un dermined to a considerable depth, and was repeatedly warned to leave the spot. He did not heed the warnimgs and the bank fell, burying him undler more than j a hundred tons of earth. It took twos hours to dig hiin out. Every bone in v his body was broken and the corpse was reduced to pulp. A Girl's Ferocity. CHICAGO, Aug. 14 dispait-h from Hazard,y.,saiys:. The grand jury has returned nineteen indiet mientsifor mur der to daite. Outlaws are fieeing the country in haste. Near Booneville. Owens county, John Bowuman knocked r his cousin, Henry Bowmian. down, af ter jc which his sister cut his heart out with o a bowie. The girl claimed that Ihenry insunted her.r A DRAMATIC SCENE. Senator Vance Points Out the Iypocrisi of the Republicans. Mr. John R. Morris, of Baltimore, i a letter published in the Wilmingto -N. C.. Messenger. thus decribes a rece scene in the United States Sena during the discussion of the gla schedule: *'You know that Senator Aldrich, Rhode Ishand. has charge of the tari bill. The glass schedule had bee reached.. Vance asked Aldrich wh common window glass, the glass of tb poor man's house, was made dutiab] rat one hundred and fifteen per cent while fine. polished plate glass, th glass of the rich man's mansion, was t sustain a duty of but fifteen per cen Aldrich turned his eyes from Vanc< smiled the smile of one disconcerte and walked in the direction of Quay desk. Vance receiving no answer r( sumed his seat. Ingalls had vacatei the chair, and called Platt to presid( In a few moments Vance arose an stood awaiting recognition from Platt While he stood he seemingly grew tal ler. Quickly raising his hand he threw ; great mass of iron grey hair from hi: forehead and exposed a brow red witl the blood of emotion. Ie did not turr his eye toward the gallery-he seldon does. But all eyes in gallery and Sen ate were fixed on Vance. -The Sena tor from North Carolina,"said Platt, a, he lightly touched the desk with hi. gavel and inclined his head deferential ly toward the majestic figure of the great Southern statesman. "Mr. Presi dent," cried Vance, in a shrill. tremu lous key of which I did not know his voice capable, "I want it to go abroad to all the American people that I havE asked the Senator from Rhode Island why the glass of the poor man is taxed 115 per cent. and the glass of the rich man but 15 per cent., and that I have re ceived no answer." Raising his voice still higher he almost shrieked the re frain of his own words, "Yes, I want the American people to know that I have received no answer." Vance was unconsciously dramatic. The effect was to bring a deep hush over the Sen ate chamber. The Republicans could not say anything without admitting too much. They had to refrain from admitting the truth that they were paying for Harrison's election, and owed much to the makers of common glass in America. but nothing to the makers of fine plate glass in France. The Republicans did not soon recover from the question and the terrible man ner in which Vance had hurled it at Aldrich. John Sherman figured his stubby beard. Judge Edmunds, who effects indifference to everything and everybody by apparent absorption in some book, peeped over the top of his constant volume. Quay, the stolid dude, shook the lappel of his grayish tlannel neglige coat. Allison rolled his eyes towards the frescoes, while Frank Hiscock, on whose shoulders rests Donklin's mantle of vanity, with sever 1 additional breadths, looked helpless ly toward his old colleague, poor old fried up Evarts, who himself shrank Earther into the physical nothingness f an unsexed watch." A Good Showing for the South. WASHINGTON, August 22.-The enu nerators' returns to Superintendent Porter of the census of the Southern states shows an unexampled and aston shing growth of that section. Even :Ie warmest friends of the South are istonished at the figures. The returns ?rove that the South has had a genuine mnd substantial boom. They also show hat the States of Alabama, West Vir finia and Tennessee, where it was sup >osed that the greatest increase would .e found, are actually lagging in the ~aee for population. The States that re not distinctly mineral producing egions are the ones that are the largest ~ainlers. Texas and Georgia largely ead the column. On the basis of 151, 00O for a Congressman, which is the resent basis, every Southern State, vith the exception of Delaware, will ecure an additional Congressman, and ome of them several. If the proposed iasis of representation prevail of 181, 00. all the States, with the exceptions f Florida and Delaware, will secure an ncrease. Texas shows the largest gain n population, her increase being 600, 00. Alabama has gained 357,000; Ar ansas, 369,475; Delaware 29,392: Flori a, 2,700; Georgia. 298,000: Ketntucky, 22,000; Louisiana, 176,000; Maryland, 66,000; Mississippi. 234.000; North Car lina, 241,000; South Carolina, 292,000; rirginia. 208.000: West Virginia, 156, 00; Tennessee, 258,000; Missouri. 400, 00. It is now claimed that the increase a the South will exceed that of the tates of the North west. A Batch of New Doctors. COLUMBIA, S. C., August 20.-The tate board of medical examiners con luded their labors at 8,30 to-night, hav ag been almost continuously at work 11 day. Twenty-four applicants for dmission to practice appeared. Thir een passed successfully, eight were re-~ eetedi and three left before the exami ation ended. The successful appli ants wvere: W. P. Coan, Spartanburg; . 1. Kennedy, colored, Orangeburg; T. . Manning. Little Ilock, Marion Coun ~; .J. Bi. Nims, Lamar, Darllngton ounty; W. R. Cly burni. West,Kershaw ount y; Charles A. T1eague, Newberry; harles A.Jeffries, Ihome. Union Coun r; T.~E. Nott, Enoree, Spartanburg ounty; John M. Thompson, colored, harleston; W. B. Cox, Landsford, hester County; J. T. Jleter, Santuc, Tnion County; Charles E. B. Flagg, eorgetown County;.Simpson Wifse, allsallville, Chester County. The w'ocolored dloctors adlmitted to prac ce passed exceedingiy creditable ex minations.-News and Courier. Wants to Go to Congress. GAFFNEY CIrY. Aui'ust 19.-W. W. tussell, the famous Greenback leaderl nd the present postmaster at Ander an, passed here this afternoon on his ray to Washington. ihe seemed in a appy frame of mind, but rather un-, ommunicative on the subject of his isit to the Capital. He said, however, hat it was of considerable importance o the people of South Carolina. "You aay say this," he added, "that I will be he next Congressman from the 3d dis rict. I1 am just as sure to succeedI udlge Cothran as t he sun shines, and here is no power that can prevent it ive from Ileaven. Trhe race among be Demnocrats in my district is very adly mixed and I am thoroughly con dent that 1 will be elected in the -ides f November.'" This was all Mr. Rus eli would say, pI eferring, he stated, to eep out of the public prints. Bad for Miss Winnie Davis. SYRtc.sE. N. Y., August 21.-Thme eautiful Wilkinson homestead ati ames 1111l, the home of Alfred Wilkin-1 n. .Jr. the fiance of Miss Winnie D~avis, **as destroved by lire to-day, occasioned y an exlos0ion of benzine used by la ers in cleaning the wood work. Two iborers were fearfully injurned by theI xplosion. Many valuable paintings nd much of the furniture was saved, ut the house is a ruin. TJhe loss is$30, JO: insurance $i19,500. Accomanix" to Senator Carlisle every! um,.woman and child, regardless of f h rv, ason annual tribute of 10 in cash to the protected manufactu :nns, who are still unt satisfied or happy. STARTLED STAT.ESM1EN. THE ALLIANCE BLIZZARD BLOWIN( THROUGH THE HALLS. Many 3embers IHurrying Home to Lool S After their Fences-The Sections Struel )f and the Men Threatened-The Housm ff Demoralized and Disteinpered. y VASIIINGTorx, D. '., Aug. 20.-To e Iward the end of July full half the mei bers of the House of Representativec e were absent from their duties. Storm o clouds had unhxpectedly appeared in nearly every Congressional District in agricultural sections of the egmtry, South and West. The political sky was ablaze with suggestiva premoniti'us Farmers's Alliance was at work. In a few districts it had roared like a torn do, overwhelming reprcsentatives sceX - ing a re-election. Republicans and Democrats had been served alike. In other districts it resembled a flood sweeping over river bottoms and carry i ing everything before it. There were astounding reports fron Kansas and reports equally alarming from North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and the - Gulf States. Senators as distinguished as Ingalls and Vance were threatened. -There were anxious faces in the House. Experienced veterans heard the whist ling of the storm and knew they were I in danger. They paired with men of opposite political faith in equal peril, and sped to their districts to look after their political households. In some cases they were too late to save them selves. In others they are still strug gling. The rising of the farmers might aptly be compared to the rising in the de partments of France at the time of the French revolution. Ionest legislators, who had never failed in devotion to the agricultural interests of the country, struggled for their political existence. In Georgia there was a violent gale. James 11. Blount, of Macon, serving his eighteenth consecutive year in the House, was forced to raise his umbrella. Judge John D. Stewert was ower whelmed. Tom Grimes and Judge Barnes also went under. There were alarming reports concerning the politi cal future of that prince of Confeder ate soldiers, Gov. John B. Gordon. The farmers were making the fight for the Legislature with the intention of putting one of their own number in the United States Senate in the place of Gov. Joe. Brown. Governor Gordon had thrown himself into their ranks in the hopes of securing the prize. Such were some of the reports that reached the House. In Mississippi such tried veterans as General Hooker, James Bright Morgan, General Catch ings and Thomas R. Stockdale were en dangered. Brilliant John M. Allen re ceived his re-nomination before the storm had fairly burst. In Alabama Gen. William H. Forney was seriously threatened. His loss would have been a national loss. le well fills Samuel J. Randall's place in the Committee on I Appropriations. In Kansas, Iowa and Illinois every- 1 thing is at sea. The political life of the Rev. John A. Anderson, rough-and ready Perkins, and of pe:tinacious Fun ston is at stake. Anderson is a born fighter. His assault upon the Pacific railroads alone ought to endear him to the farmers. He will be in the field despite all opposition, and if he must go. will fall like a hero. Then there was alarming news from South Carolina. The veteran George D. Tillman alone was undismayed. lie is a brother of the Tillman who is shak- I ing up the political aristocracy of thie Palmetto State, and whose obituary i probably already in type in the cm| posing rooms of more than one daily- lj newspaper.I Wild rumors came from the North- t west. The sitting members were not t only exposed to the blasts of the Farm-1 ers' Alliance, but were shaken by the school question that had excited the German Lutherans. This agitation threw the Republican Representatives of the Badger State into a fever. It1 threatens their supremacy to such an t extent that it is claimed the State will go Democratic. Thle great Caswell is said to have been knocked out of a re nomination. There were also cyclones in Congressional districts in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and M1ichigan. '5 All these rumors withered up the House like a sirocco. It shrunk to the ' smallest dimensions. The Speak-er had If difficulty in counting a quorum. Many an empty seat tells of the desperate struggle. Both sides find it ;diflicult to b keep their lines. Telegrams -are re- It ceived daily telling of the fortunes of Representatives hundreds and thous-a ands of miles away.I. A quorum was found only when ai vote was taken upon the most impor tant measures. There were tiresome debates in committee of the whole on the original packak-e, the bankruptcy. ) and other bills. 31en spoke to empty seats. The Committee on Rules kept 5 its grip on the throat of the Ihouse. 3 It not only directed what bills should t be taken up, but allotted the time for t consideration and specilied the hour for voting. Without this specification (1 it would have been almost impossible tI to have obtained a voting quortim at j w the critical moment. There was no chance for the thous- rt ands of little bills upon the .calendars 'it These are usually shoved in to fill the 1h interstices of legislation by unanimotus consent. The list of bills on the print- i ed calendars toward the end of the a month tilled 120 pages. The calendar a1 of the committee or the whole on the state of the Union took up twenty three: the H~ouse calendar carried nin.. and the private calendar was spread 1 over forty-seven pages. There was a I I page of special orders, live pages of un- g finished business, and -n page of privil- s eged reports. Over 1,700 bills remained 1 upon the calendar. only 237 ofi which .0 were private pension bills. P The laboring men looking for labor p legislation, the claimants seeking just a dues from the government., ami the thousands interested in measures af- I fecting commerce, agriculture, and I other business interests of the country, C can readily understand why nothing is done to relieve them. Tihe rules, it 1 was said, were miade to do business They do business, but it is the buisin--ss~ designated by the Committee on lesl'' n under the rules. Privileged business eats up much of the time. If through t importunity a inembher secures recog- . nit ion from the Speaker and asks unam- hi muous consent for the consideration of a bill which takes not a dloilar irom the Treasury, somebody invariably ob- 11 jects. If by any accident, the ob'jection hi is not heard, somebody is sure to raise ib the point of no quorum wvhen a vote is,! taken. Not an hour up to date has been given by the Committee on Rules, to It the Committee on Labor, to the Coin mittee on Patents, or to a dozen other committees equally important. Indeed. 1, the Committee on Patents has had :ma terrible time. It got no day in the e Fiftieth Congress, and has had no day e in the Fifty-First Congress. The rules 1< set: down Friay ia rhiv for the coin- j sideration of private bills; yet und( the rules these bills have been robbe of their day for over four month Strange auomaly-a net that lets all ti: big fish through and catches all the Iil tle ones. Here is a bill granting fifteen day leave of absence to per diem men in th customs service. The Secretary of th Treasurv favors it. It takes not a cer out of tie Treasury. All the other ein iplovees in this service have leaves c absence for thirtyd:ays with pay. The work eight hours a day. These pe diem) men work in relays from sunris to sunset and from sunset to sunris. All are compelled to remain upon (ut whether their services are needed o not. In sunimer importations are no :s heavy as in i inter. One fifth of th' 'orce might c siy be spared for Lift.ee das while the other four-ifths did h i work. Tet thrice has unanimous cnn sent been asked to consider tlh is bil and th rice has object ion been miad. ? similar Jill affecting post Ofijeem play e(- remained hanging by the ey:--lJd- fo L m11onth o'n a not ion to reconsider. en, tered two days after its passage. N( man can get c(o.sent to bring up tht eight-hour back pay l aw. the bill to re store the wages in the governiment pirnting aflice, and a score of simii!m bills placed on the calendar v the Coi. mittee on Labor. It is an ill-tempierd llouse. The Speaker has made it so. Senseless objections are made and the point of no quorm raised apparetly without reason. Despite these overloaded calendars and the absence of over 150 members who are skirmishing with the Farmers' Alliance and the Lutheran preachers, committees are urged to report bills lately introduced. The committee rooms, however, are even more deserted than the chamber of the House. Effort after effort is made to secure a quorum in vain. All see that a measure report ed at this late hour. unless of vital im portance, must fail of consideration. At times the clerk of a committee spends days in searching for enough members to make a quorum. This quorum is frequently secured by bring ing their signatures together upon the back of the bill to be reported. Many a poor devil seeking private legislation departs from Washington with a joyful heart after this is done.-New York Sun. THE COTTON BAGGING BOYCOTT. What a Georgia Journal Says About the Fight of the Farmers' Alliance. ATLANTA, GA., August 2.-Speak ing of boycotts, it may be remarked that the boycott of the Jute Trust by the Farmers' Alliance has been a com plete success. From 15 cents, the price demanded by the trust, which was equal to a direct tax of $4,000.000 a year on the Southern farmers, jute has Fallen to 5,3. But even at this price there is no de mand for jute bagging on the part of .he cotton growers. As a matter of "act the boycott has just fairly got in o working order, and it is not likely ,hat the farmers will again place them ;elves in the power of so vicious a com ination us that formed by the jute manufacturers. To resort again to ite as a covering for cotton would iot only be against the best interests )f the farmers, but would be unjust to ;he interests which have been built up I is a result of the boycott. The greed of the jute men over -eached itself in this instance, and all he indications go to show that the )rofitable market into which they en ered as highway robbers will never Lgain be opened to them. The Manufacturers' Record makes a ittle estimate that is of special interest n this connection. If the entire new rop, which is estimated at 7,000,000 anles, should be wrapped in cotton bag ring. 35,000,000 yards of it would bel equired, which is equivalent to 27,000, 00 pounds of the staple, making a new larket for 55,000 bales of 500 pounds ach. At a very low estimate, it is believed hat this increased consumption wvill1add o the market price of the staple at east half a cent a pound, giving an dditional value of 52 50 to each bale, hile the saving by the use of jute; c'ould be but 23 cents a bale. It is not xpected that this result will be rought about at once, but it is certain a follow the persistent refusal of the| armners to use jute. I We may say here that an Atlanta ' entleman, whose process for extract ig fibres has attracted attention even 1 fe-eign counties, is now experiment .ug vith the fibre of the cotton plant. - [e thinks that for a comparatively in gnificant sum be can place on each irm a machine for stripping the bark comn the cotton stalk dlirectly the pick ug is over, and before the p'lant has I ecome dry and hard. From the bark ie fibre can hue extracted at a cost ~ loost nominal, and it can then be - orked up in the same manner as jute j od woven on the same machiner.- I .tlanta Constitution. - A Complicated Collision. DEu~louT. August 15.-A n east-bound I 'orth Shore limited traini on the 3Michi- ii mn Central Road was badly wvrecked at I: o'clock this afternoon at Au gusta. ich. Time report says that thme limited ain struck a protrudling car of a freight 2 ain whlichihad been side-tracked. The e igine then jumped the track and crash-| into thme depot completely wrecking w( building. and~ it is rumored t wo boys r ho were inside were killed outright.| fter striking the building the engine it ni a few yardls and then exploded, blow- ' : g Fireman Gregg to atoms and instant killing Engineer 3Meloberts. Theh irt iculars thus far received do not meni on any p)assengers being killed- a though the number of injured is given s from twelveto fifteen. ! Hunting the llyeana. Some of the Kansas people are mak- ( ig it warmi for Senator Ingalls. Gen. ice, of Fort Scott, is (one of these. Ie t aes at Ingalls "hammer and tongs,' V yin g: "1 am opposed to Senator ~ igalls because he is a political shy ster r E the first water. Because he has no li er'sonal integrity, and the'refore no alitical honesty'. lIe is a heartless Ii -istocrat, cold-blooded in his nature 1P :dl subordinates all his actions, wvords iendships to the notoriety of JIohn J. ~ mails. lie has no idea of any muoral s einent in politics but brazerily pro- t aims himself a politician buccaneer C aid a political leper." A iiad P'lace to Live. LOuiisviLLmE. I'Ky.. Aug. 21.--A man must pr'ay circumspectly in Perry Coun-: it lie dares close his eyes long enough pr: y at all. A correspondent wi-ites: lfue 11ev. ,J. J1. D ickey of Jackson was i-re whJen -Joe Eversole was killed anid ( h-ered a prayer at the grave when lie as buried. This action of the Rev a ickeyv incensed another factioin, and! is life was thmreatenmed. ie has never Leen iin Perry slice." A'* Founitaina of Tarn:. llliND.Va., Aumgust 18.-It issaid hat a veritale fountain of tar hias been iscovered three or four iles Irom lalcigh, on the lands of ir. I. S. P'ul er. The stufT in qust ion exudes~ from bank. and when the oozi ng streamn is] uit oil it comels out again with the( niecofsell put, aing~ the( eaance genuine tar. r HANDS OFF ! The New York Ierald's Advice to Pre, dent Harrison. Our Washington correspondent tel raphs,as was puiblished in our editic or yesterday, that President Ilarrisc e has resolved to make the force bill a te administration measure. It is hard 1 t realize such a purpose on the part( the President. As a party man we ca understand how he might be willing 1 try the experimf nt of any measure con mended by his friends in Congress, an that, if the force bill were to pass, b would see that it was honestly an rigidlv enforced. But to make it overnment policy, to drive it throng Congress-and by .implication if nc directly secure its passage by the use c pat rounge as President Buchanan i w.i the Lecompton constitution w11l be disasi rous to his ad!iiiistri tion :ind his fame. Tie force bill is not evei accel tabl to the Republicani party. Al 1ile muri iiirs of dissent come from Republical sections. Mr. Ilistead, a representa tive Republican, named by Mr. liarri son as Minister to Germany, is oppose( to it. Iepublicans are tired of wa issues. They see that the last force bil was repealed at Appomattox by mighty Senate. representative in it! charaiter. presideid over by Ulysses S Grant and Robert E. Lee, and that n( power, legislative or executive, ha. been able since to revive it. They fee that if after twenty-five years of peaci it is necessary to resort to war measure. more severe than those imposed by the war itself, then Republican statesman ship has been a failure. Nor can they believe that a force bill which even thE overmastering influence of Grant could not attain will be of practical value in the modest and not overstrengthened hands of Mr. Harrison. If the President identifies his admin istration with this measure it will be as much of a blunder as it was in Presi dent Adams to accept the alien and Qedition bill. A President must think of the country as above the party, re membering that the judgments of his tory are pitiless. If the force bill were to pass to-morrow by the unanimous vote of the Republicans in the Senate the administration could never carry it out. There are things which even gov ernments cannot achieve, and this sin ister experiment is one of them. We cannot change Southern conditions and must accept them. The first condition is that no community of white men will ever consent to be governed by an alien race-by the Indian, the Chinaman or the African. Mr. Harrison himself would be the first to resent it were the alternative before him. What we expect from the white man in the South is the utmost tenderness, consideration and help for the negro. While there are spasmodic outbreaks of ruffianism toward the negro, disherten ing in their character, we believe that the sentiment as well as the interest of the Southern men inclines them to ab solute justice and kindness in dealing with their colored neighbors and friends. There let the matter rest! Let the President keep his hands off! Let our Northern people look well to their own homes and mind their own business. They find at their thresholds problems more appalling than in any Southern community-poverty, want, gnorance, crime and shame, largely re ;lting from the manner in which we ;overn ourselves and our people. An >bserver will see more to grieve him in i week's tour through the mining dis :ricts of Pennsylvania than in a jour ley to the uttermost limits of the 3outhern commonwealths. So, Mr. resident, Senators and gentlemen, let he South alone! Dismiss the force bill ~o the limbo of secession. abolitionism, ino w nothingism, nullificationism and he other dead and damned "isms" ,vhich for so long a time cursed the na .ion.-New York Herald. SHE SHOT HIM DEAD. Fudge Max Stein shot in the Presence of ils Wife and Daughter. BROwNsvILLE. TEXAS, August 20. it 1 o'clock last night County Judge dax Stein, of Ilidalgo County, the ending merchant and one of the wealth est and most popular citizens of Edin uutrg, Tex., was shot and killed in tenosa, Mexico, by Mrs. Dela McCabe, if Carns County, Texas. The mur [ress is the wife of ex-County Judge Iomer T. McCabe. of Ilidalgo. There is a fair at Renosa, and yester ay a large excursion wvent there from I atamoras. A Mexican theatrical omipany gave a performance, which udge Stein, with his wife and daugh er, attended. After the performance the party cent to one of the booths in the fair or supper. TIhe ladies were seated and tein wvas just drawing tip a chair when irs. McCabe, a tall, handsome, twenty wo-year-old woman, wild and untam d as the breezes of the prairies on chich she was raised, appeared. IHer >ng hair was blowing in the wind and er eves flashed as she sprang upon tein.~graspcd his left arm. and before e was aware of her presence, pressed er pristol against his breast and fired. As the unfortunate man fell (lead his ife spranir toward the murderess. irs. McCabe felled Mrs. Stein to the arth with a savage blow on the temple ith the barrel of the pistol. The Chief of Police of Rtenosa rushed p to arrcst the bieauitil murderess. hien she knocke~d himt dowvn also, and i ben, like a lioness at bay, she brought I' em ready pistol down on the policemen 'ho caime up and delied them to arrest er. The cavalry, always in attendrnce att Mexican border fair, caime upD, and >me of the soldiers~ crept behind the oman and~ pinned her arms. A fter a esperate struggle they succeeded in isarminig and secuiring~ her. The affair gre out of the election. rouible in Hiidalgo County. MIcCabe, -o is a lawyetr. went into Edinburg bout ten months ago, and on a com romise as the only man not mixed in >cal politics who wvouild accept, was ominated by the Republicans and al >wed by the Democrats to take the( osit ion of County Judge. At the last term of the County Court e. being elearly ineligible, was tun- . 3atedl by District Judge Russell and on1 ne earnest solicitation of all parties to 1 onserve the County finances andI gainst his owvn dlesires .Judlge 'stein ac epted the position. McCabe, at th- head of a party of1 iarauders, tried to forcibly capture be court house, and failing lied to tenosa, Mexico, where lie has since: eenl It is said that letters were written to arns Cou ntv to get the records of the IeCabes, and that Mrs. McCabe heard1 bout thiemi andl swore vengeance ou er husband's successor. Mr. Stein's body was taken to Mata toras on a special train this afternoon nd buried in the Jcwish Cemetery. til the leading people of both towvns ollowed the remains to their last rest og lace. Suicide ofta Conductor. ATLANTA. Atugust 18.-Sauiel W. Iarris, a conductor on the Georgia< entral Railroad. committed suicide to-i biy byv jumping in his well. Ill1health ndl despondency are ascribed as the eaon. SUICIDE IN A PALACE. THE TRAGIC END OF A NEW YOR) - MILLIONAIRE. n A Wealthy Broker Hanxs Himself with i o Sheet to the Door of his Bed Room Illncss and Loneliness tho Suppose< 0 Causes of his Reckless Act. Niw YoRK, August 17.-In the pala e tial residence of his sister, Mrs. Ano d Cotting, 835 5th ave:ue, this afternooi was found the body of Joseph A. Jam eson, a Broad street broker and banker f le had hanged himself from the be( room door in his fine suite of rooms or - the fourth floor. Jameson was reporte< to be a millionaire and was the Stoc] e Exchange member of the firm of Jam. eson, Smith & Co, bankers and brokers at the corner of Exchange place and Broad street. The second member o I the firm is James D. Smith, commodor( r of the New York Yacht Club. I Jameson's family are out of town, and from what canbe learned from his friends temporary insanity, caused by illness and perhaps aggravated by a feeling of loneliness in the absence of his family, is thought to be the cause of the tragedy. Mrs Jameson and her youngest son, a mi nor 17 years old, are at Scarboro Beach, e. Two sons-Addison, the eldest, a widower 33 years old, and Alexander, 28 years old-and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas S Manson, were spending Sunday at their father's farm at Clinton Connors, eight miles from Poughkeepsie, and the sec ond daughter, Mrs. Myra Murphy, widow of Richard Murphy, Jr, at Elberton, N.J. The last seen of Mr. Jameson was at 5 o'clock on Saturday, when he came home from the office and told a servant that he would go to his room to rest. He did not appear to-day, and becoming alarmed the servent called a Park police man, who entered the broker's rooms through the one unlocked door. le found the .body hanging with a sheet around the neck, the other end of which had been thrown over the door and tied to the knob. The suicide had knelt so as to cause strangulation quickly, and his knees almost touched the floor. The millionaire had evidently disrobed with the tntention of retiring for the night before the awful impulse seized him. He was only clad in his night shirt and drawers. The body was taken down and placed on a bed. Superintendent Jenks, of the Murray Hill Hotel, a near friend of the deceased, took charge of the funeral ar rangements. Nothing was found to in dicate the cause of the deed. Jameson was taken sick three months ago, and was still weak when, three weeks ago, he was taken with throat trouble. The lat ter affection was so serious that Prof. E. J. Janeway was kept in close attend ance. The trouble increased, and physi cal pain may have resulted in sudden insanity. Jameson came to New York from St. Louis in 1865 with his brother-in-law, Amos Cotting, since deceased. Each is said to have brought $1,500,000 as the profits of a dry goods business. A brok erage business was opened on Wall street and at first the firm belonged to-the open board of brokers and later to the Stock Exchange. Jameson was a man of domestic taste and was regarded as a conservative and prudent financier. His business is said to be in good shape. tefuting a Base Slander. To the Editor of the News and Cou rier: In your issue of August 15 ap peared a special from Greenville. in which your correspondent repeats a story to the effect that "Capt. D. K Norris was forced to leave Orangeburg County in consequence of immoral con duct." Now we, the undersigned, old neighbors and acquaintances of Capt. D. K. Norris, among whom he was born and reared, deeply regret and deplore that such base and unfounded rumors should be circulated through the re spectable press of the State to the in- I jury of one of her best citizens, take this occasion, unsolicited by any one, save our sense of right and justice to our old neighbor, to denounce and deny, and pronounce unqualifiedly false any and all such base slanders. We have known Capt. D' K. Norris all his life md a more honorable, upright and pure citizen Orangeburg County hast never -reared, and instead of being "forced" to leave this locality it was with great regret and a deep sense of :>ur love for him to sever his associa tions from us and remove to Anderson County. E. L. Dlantzler, P. M., H. W. Rhame, S. P. Wells, W. L. Stoutamire, J. F. Felder, J. S. Hart, D. J. Avinger.( V ance's, S. C., August 18, 1890. i Staring Starvation in the Face. A dispatch from Bad Axe.3Mich., says: 'The farmers of a portion of Huron lounty have asked for public aid because f heir crops were totally destroyed by the errific storm which swept the Eastern t )art of the county at harvest time. ti ['he appeal has been made by 200 of a hem in the face of absolute want and y >Ossible starvation. The storm was a n >henlomenal one, the hail falling in c louds and covering the ground from our to eight inches, completely burying 11l their crops. The track of the storm vas through Siegel and Bloomfield and 3 >art of Paris townships, and covered an hi rea eighteen miles long and a mile h~ vide. MIany of the farmers in that sec- ei ion live on rented farms, which only ag- h ~ravates the suffering as they cannot eC >ay their rent, besides having nothing V o live upon. Mfany will be in danger of 'J tarving unless help is given. An in- I tance is reported where one man had d 00 acres rented and all in crops. Every t cre was destroyed. The estimated loss v s at least $40,000, ranging from $50 to t. ~3.000 for each farmer." t The North Carolina Democrats. R.LEIGHl, N. C., August 20--The tate Demnocratic Convention to-cday n tominatedi a judicial ticket and adjourn- I d(. Police Justice MIer riman and Justice Ih 'lark were nominatE d by acclamation t] nxd nine Superior Court Judges were 1 mnanimously endorsed for re-election. f ~enator Vance was cordially recoin- d nended to the Legislature for re-eec- b ion to the United States Senate. RAeso- L utions favoring the free coinage of sil- d -er, increased currency, repeal of the c uternal revenue system. abolition of si iational banks, financial reform and r -elief from the existing agricultural de >ression and dlenouncinig the MIcKinley md( Lodge bills, were adopted. We Hope it Will Succeed. ArorsT A, Ga.. August 19.-Applica- C ion was made to-day in the Superior 'ourt for letters of incorporation by x ,apitalists who will begin the manufac- f ure of cotton bagging from cotton stalk s; ibre. Th le principal place of the manu- x 'actory and ofilee will be in Augusta. a1 rhe capital stock is $5000.000. with priv- ' leges of increasing it to $5,000,000. A Cloudburst in Colorado. C'OLonADO SPRINM~s, Col., Aug. 15.-A I :remendous cloudburst broke over this 1 :ity yesterday, deluging the town, beat- t: ng~ inl roofs and undermninlg walls. I 1'wo p~eople were swept away and drowi'l :d. Twelve miles of railroad track wvere a ,vashed away; damage at least S260.100. jt : DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. A Fearful Cyclone in Wilkesbarre, Pem ( sylvania. WILKESBAURE, PA., Aug.20.-A te: rible cyclone struck this city this evei ag. The telegraph wires are all dowi . Loss of life is heavy. MIundreds c buildings were blown down. The storm came up the river. Fror what point it origihated is not knowr The suddenness of its coming was on -of its most awful features. Th i heavens were as black as night, and th wind blew with aost frightful velocit% Whole rows of trees were blown d1ow.r Following this hundreds of houses wer unroofed. partially blown over or com pletely demoliihed. The total death loss, so far as ase-r distwelve. Four men arc know to have been killed in the Hazard wir rope works. A house on Scott street occupied by miners, who had just re turned from work, fell in and three o the innates were killed. The huge smokestack of the Kytle planing mil fell on a man and two horses and al were killed. A little colored girl wa. killed by a falling building on Souti Main street. Two men suffered deatt by the falling of a portion of St. Marge', brewery, and a third incurred the samt fate througir the almost complete de molition. of S. L. Brown's handsomE brick business block on East Market street. There are undoubtedly fifteen or sixteen others killed. Other reports are coming in constantly to that effect. Large districts in several sections of the city are in absolute ruin, and women and children are in the streets crying and wringing their hands in absolute dismay. The damage will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Passenger trains and locomotives at the depot were blown over, and every wire in the city, electric light, telephone and telegraph, is down. The devasta tion is to be compared with nothing in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Everybody is rejoicing that no fires have as yet followed, for the streets are impassable with fallen buildings and the engines could not be drawn through. The Murray shaft fan house was blown down and the fan stopped. There are twenty-seven men in the mine, but it is hoped they can be got out safely. Reports come from Sugar Notch, a mining town three miles from here, that the destruction of property is ter rible, and that fifteen persons were killed. At Parsons and Mill Creek, the territory four miles from here, coal breakers in all directions have been more or less damaged, and the number of killed will reach ten. A special dispatch from Scranton to the Times says that a train coming in from Summerville, thirty miles west of Scranton, was struck by a cyclone this evening and totally annihilated. En gineer William Fisher. in giving an account of his train experience while passing through the cyclone, said: "The engine was lifted from the track and all the windows in the cars were crushed in by the terrible cyclone. Two of the train hands were seriously in jured." Shocked the Senator. WAshING TON, August 22.-The younggrandson of the famous ex-Sen ator ' ye of Nevad-aand-a-nephew of the equally famous Bill Nye of Lara milre City and New Yurk was t, few days ago appointed a page in the Sen ate. He is very popular with the other pages in the chamber, and with nearly ill of the Senators. One of them, how ver, Mr. Colquitt of Georgia, rather hinks the new page has done him an njury. Soon after the boy had taken ;he oath to support the constitution and In defend his country against all ene nies, foreign and domestic, he was call ~d upon to do an errand for Senator Wade Hampton, who told him to get a >ottle of Congress water and a sand witch at the restaurant, and place them n the cloak room for him. The page nade a slight mistake in the order, and ;ook the articles of refreshment into ,he Senate chamber and put them unin :entionally on the dlesk of 31r. Colquitt, t-here they remained for some time the :ause of much comment. Senator Col juitt is an ardent prohibitionist, and vas greatly shocked when he entered he chamber to find his desk adorned vith a long necked black bottle and a andwith covered wyith a napkin. At irst he was inclined to think some of uis colleagues had been playing a prac ical joke. When he learned the facts ue gave young Nye a lecture, and warn d him to be more careful hereafter to istinguish between a prohibition Sen tor and one who is in favor of original iackages. __________ An Important Decision. RALEIGH. N. C. August 21.-Judges eymour an'd Bond of the United States1 lircuit Court recently rendered a decis on the in case of the American Fertilliz-1 rn Company of Virginia against the Comn-1 aissioner of Agriculture of the State of Eorth Carolina. The Court decided hat the law imposing a tax of 5500 upon ertillizer companies doing business in1 forthi Carolina is a violation of the in rstate commerce act and unconstitu ional. The tax realized from this source1 mounted to 83*,000 a year, and was de otedt maintaining the State D~epart 1ents of Agriculture and Mechanical ollege. _______t Ini Too Big alHurry. A German namedl Iluegel, of New ork, is in am bad shape. A year ago is wife, to whom he was a clevoted usband. was declared to b~e dying. She! rnestly desired her husbaand to marry er younger sister and insisted on a eremony being performed by what -as supposed to be her dlyinig bedside. 'his was done and it took such a -eight from her mind that she imme iately got well. Iluegel was left with hvo wives on his hands but the matter as kept quiet uutil last week when 'e birth of a baby to tihe younger sis- ~ ~r caused a revelation of the facts. A Remarkable Woman. Kingston. N. Y., has a remarkable C oman among its inhabitants. She is [s. Deborah Powers, 100 years old. the sad o.f several business concerns and ie possessor of about 3.000.000. Simnce i28 she has managed an oilcloth manu- I tctory started by her husband. In ad iion she is the senior piartner in the anking firm of ID. Powers & Sons. at ansingburg. She has founded and en owed an old ladies' home. All her fa allies remain unaim paired except her ght, which is slightly affected. She assed her 100th birthday last week. seuator Vance W1ini Not be Opposed. ASUVILLE, N. C. August 12-TheI tate F~armers' Alliance met here to-day ith 500 delegates in atteiidane, every ounty in the Statec being representeu .B. ~Alexander, a promin'ent delegate 'ho will be the Demuocratie candidate ir Congress fromt the Sixth District. aid'-to-day that th A' lliancee as a body 'ould not' o~lpose the re-i'lectimin of Sen- I tor Vamnce. and he was certin tha t lhet could be reniomina~tedi. Tv'wo Dc :cetive-s illed. ,udington an~d Geiorge I. llossiler of hiladelphi:1. two of Linker toni's de. eem ves stationed at Wes;t Albany, wce illed by a passen.:r train this niuirnog.: 'her had been to get a dinku of water r'dw'ere returning to their post1 at the SOLD AND SWINDLED. CHALMERS PLEADS IN VAIN FOR THE PRICE OF HIS SOUL. 1. Bitter Taunts for the Republicans and State Slanders Against the South-His Conduct at Fort Pillow-Denied the Seat by a Strong Vote. SWASH INGTON. 1). C., Aug. 22.-In e the House, Dalzeli, of Pennsylvania, called up the Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers vs. Morgan. The majority report finds in favor of Morgan, thesitting member. Chalmers was then granted permission to address the Iiouse for an hour and a half in his own behalf. After criticising the ma jority report. he asserted that there was now. and had for years been, a conspi racy existing in the South for the carrying of elections for the Demo cratic party. That party was deter mined to carry elections honestly if it could, forcibly if it must. The State of Mississippi was a leader in that con spiracy. Men who dared to run on a Republican ticket or to make Republi can speeches carried their lives in their own hands. That the black vote was suppressed could not be successfully denied. It was the suppression of this vote that had justified the Republicans I of the Iouse in the passage of the Lodge bill. If the Republicans after passing that bill should turn around and accept the majority report in this case they would set themselys in a suspicious attitude before the country. Before the meeting of Congress it had been charged that the Republicans in tended to turn out enough Democrats to give them a good working majority. If after getting that majority they decline to give him his seat they would give color to that charge. It would be said that when they were undertaking to pass a law to give them a chance for a majority in the next House they said that certain testimony was true which in this case they said was not sufficient to establish a conspiracy in Mississippi. Ile did not believe that the Republican party could afford to place itself in that attitude, and he did not think it could do it. He then proceeded to ex ainine in detail the evidence of fraud and intimidation in the various coun ties of the district to substantiate his charge that a huge conspiracy existed. to defeat him for Congress. For the I-ouse to sustain the report was to say that the stealing of a congressional seat was nothing but political.purchase. He said that in order to prejudice his case the old story relating to Fort Pillow had been revived. In the For ty-sixth Congress charges had been.. made against him in connection with' Fort Pillow. He had asked for an in vestigation and it had been denied him. When the truth of history came to be written calmly it would be seen that not a single man had been hurt who had surrendered in the fort. Every man killed had been outside the fort. But even if every one of the charges against him were true he had not been the commanding officer. If the charges wcre true, they brought disgrace upon the qallunf: leetwAs~o~wM side. The fact that until the ~end-cf, the war he had served with that officer as second in command was proof that he was guilty of no conduct unbecom ing an officer and a gentleman. No gentleman on -the Democratic side would believe a story which would disgrace the brave Forest, and the men who had served under Grant and Sher man were too manly to bring disgrace upon an American soldier. Continu ing, Chalmers said that he felt that this republican form of government was in danger of being over ridden and trodden under foot by a. Southern. ligarchy. For fifteen years the Re publican party had been fighting the . - Northern Democrats in the open field wyhile exposed to a flank tire from Southern Democrats intrenched behind walls erected by fraud and v:.olence. rhey should see to it that the national gorernment was not controlled by. Eraud and violence. A Southern gov ?rnor who had without protest seen utrages like the killing of negroes at Yazoo and Carroliton grew frantic ~vithi rage over a fair fight between two ugulists. It was a fair question ~vhether the Democratic party was not oing to the devil as fast as it could md taking Mississippi with it. Kelley, of Kansas, offered a resolu :ion reciting the following paragraph. ~rom the majority report: "With respect to the other seven ~ounties there is a number of boxes as :o which no testimony was taken, but .t may safely be affirmed in not one of ;hese counties, taken as a whole, was ;he election an honest one. Fraud in various forms, including intimidation. >f voters, corrupt manipulation of. cegistration, stufling and stealing of >allot boxes and Illegal voting finds unple illustration in al. of them;" and -ecommitting the case with instruc ions to the Committee on Elections to ~xclude from its count the unexamined ,oxes. Lost, 31 to 136. The minority uibstitute was rejected and the majori y resolution, declaring Morgan en itled to the seat, wvas agreed to with ut division. A storm in P'hiladelphia. Pmta~ iu-nterr, August 21.-During heavy storm which prevailed in this icinity about 7 o'clock this evening the outhern wall of the stable and car sheds eupying the square bounded by 12th uid 13th streets and Susquehanna ave ne and D~auphin street, used jointedly v the 12th and 10th and 10th and 11th treets passenger railway companies, was lown dlown, carrying a portion of the oof with it and smashing a number of ars. Four personis were killed outright nd three are so badly injured that they re not expected to recover. Three thers were less seriously injured and ne is m issinlg and probably dead. Twen y or more horses were killed. All the illed and injured were drivers. conduc ors or stablemen in the employ of the ailwavs. Forty-FIve Horses Burned. NE~W YORK, A ug. 17.-Fire broke out o-night in the stables belonging to the ion JBrewing company, in wvhich 138 iorses were kept. The stables are lo ated very near the brewery, and fears vtere entertained that the latter would >e burned also. All the force attached o0 stables and the brewery were at once >ut to work to aid the firemen and to ave the imprisoned horses. Ninety hree horses were saved from the first loor of the building, but the cther forty ive which were located in the basement, vere roasted to decath. Thew horses burn d were valued at 820.000, and the stock if feed and harness, all of which was >uirned with t he building, is estimated a be worth $loogh) and the building 975.000J. Thle brewery was saved. Tarred and Feathered. AzcUSA, Cal.. Aug. 15.-J. M. Bently, ~ditor of the News, was yesterda~y taken ut by armetd meni and tarred and i th :red.~for publishing an article ret:teetinlg n the conuiitct of aliss C. E. Frasier, xvhite. teacher of a Azusa grammar ~chool. The parties implicated are be no- arretd