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VO T Vi MANNING, S. C., WEINESILAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890. NO. 39. A mP BLICAN'S W R ATI. SENATOR QUAY DENOUNCED BY A CONGRESSMAN. An Ohio Member of the House Vents ills Rage at the Defeat of the Force Bill and Pours Out the Vials of His Wrath Upon the Devoted Head of the Senate. AsuIxNGToN, September 3.-In the House to-day in the course of the de bate on the majority report in the Clay ton-Breckinridge confested election case from Arkansas, Robert Patterson Kennedy, Congressman from the 8th district of Ohio, made a tremendous sensation by a bitter attack on the Senate as a body for Its treatment of the force bill and a scathing personal denunciation of Senator Quay, as the chief instigator of the course of the Senate in that matter. Mr. Kennedy drew from the details of the clayton-Breckinridge case the conclusion that the Federal election law should be enacted. He made a fiery attack upon the Senators who have been opposed to the Lodge bill. For himself, confident in the doctrines of the Republican party, fully com mitted to the principles of that party, lie must forever dissent from the cow ardly surrender which hauls down the Ilag and strikes the colors of the Re publican party to a defeated foe. Con tinuing, he said Speaking for myself, I shall nail the banner of the Republican party at the masthead with the doctrine which has become inseparable from the history of its existence and which demands pro tection of the numblest citizen in the right to an honest ballot and the pro tection of life and property, and stand ready to de.fend that doctrine to the last. That the election bill has been killed by Republicans or pretended Republi cans is true. Without fair treatment the bill, which the House of Represen tatives s:,il imperatively was demand ed for the presorvation of its own honor and for the safety and stability of its honor. and for the protection of the whole country against outrages and intimidation and violence, is de liberately put aside without a hearing and with out-opportu nity of considera tion. When before in all the past his tory of legislation has one house of Congress deliberately put upon the other the mark of its derision and con tempt? The consideration of this measure was demanded by every sense of decen cy and honor. It was demanded by the House of Representatives that its floor might be purged of those who are enabled to enter by reason of violence and murder. The Senate of the United States will learn there is a barof public opinion, and that at it It is now being tried. To have been a Senator in the days of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun, was to have been part of a body that won and held the admiration of the people, North and South. To have been a Senator in the days of Wade, and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to have been associated with men whose sense of honor would have scorned the purchase of a seat, and would have denied companionship to one whose name was tulrnished by even the sus picion of infamy or corruption. If the Roman toga had been bedrag gled in the filth and mire of centuries, surely the cloak of Senatorial courtesy has been used to hide the infamy and c:rruption which has dishonored and disgraced the body which was once the proudest in the land. The. cloak of Senatorial courtesy has become .a stench to the nostrils and a byword in the mouth of all honest citizens of the land. It means a cloak behind which ignorant and arrogant wealth can pur chase its way to power and then hide its cowardly head behind the shameless protection of Senatorial silence. It means a cloak which shall cover up from the publie gaze of an outraged people infamies which demand inves tigaon and which merit the punish ment of broken laws and violated statutes. It means a cloak behind which petty party bickerers may barter away the party's principles and play the demagogue in the face of the peo ple. It mieans a cloak behind which pretended f'airaess hidets its dishonest head, while in secret it. is trading and traficking in the rights and liberties of the people. It means a cloak tider which not only the timid and cowardly politician can cover up his tracks, be they foul or fair, as necessity demlands. The hour for Senatorial courtesy has passed. TVhe~ ox tearm of Senatorial progress must give way to the miotor of a more enlightenied and progressive and determined age. Let the old atnd thread bare cloak of Senatorial court esy be huing up with thle siekle and flail of a bygone day. Referring to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Mr. Kennedy said: It w:as meet and titting that .Judas should be paid thirty marks of silver-it was still part of the enterilo! fitness of things that having been guilty of the basest crime of ail the centuries he should go out and hang himseclf. H~istory is re peating itself. The great party of the Reublic. having lived for thirty live years, has never yet assisted in riveting the shackies upon a human being, and now, wvhen it was to be expected that it would redeem its pledges and be faithful to it history, it is about to prove false mi. . oltrepeatedl pr .nises are not to be~ redeemed. it con~es vic torious fromi every field, and if it fails now it tinds in its own party those who are faithless to its trust. If it is to be crucified it is only because its chosen leaders have bartered away its princi ples for the tricks and petty schemes f politicians. No Judas Iscariot of 2,000 years atgo is to find a counterpart in the .Jud::s Iscariot of to-day. The Judas who 'ook thirty pieces ot silver and went and hiantged himselt has left an examlpl- for the Matt Quays that Is wvell wvorthy' of their limitation. Some time~ since I stood up in my place on tis floor and denounced Senator fro my]li' native State, becauise when clhar'ed with corruption and branded ilth infamy lie did not ari in his seat and demnand an investiga tion and ingiry that should establish the purity of his actions and his per sonal honor. One otier. occupying a high place it the coun.cils of the party to which I be long hais sulfered himself, month .i and month :>ult, to be charged wiitf crimes andf misdemeanorS for which.: guilty, he hould have been condemnet Ender the laws of his State and hay' had mett d out to him] the fullest meas r of its punlhishmenlt. This man isf Rlepublical;. Shall 1 now remari sletnt ? Is it just and honest to remmni in my seat silenit because one who 1 accused et crrimrs and ref uses to see) for vindication, is a Repubflican, an< that Republcanl the recognized leade of my party ? Neither decency no honor would permit me to do so. I do not know whether the charges made against the chairman of the Natioral Republican committee are true or false, but I do know they have been made by journals of character and standing again, and again, and I do know that in the face of those charges Matt Quay has remained silent and has neither sought nor attempted to seek opportunity to vindicate himself from them. 1 do know that as a great Re publican leader he owed it to the great party at whose head he was either to bran~d them as infamies or to prove their falsity, or he owed it to that par ty to stand aside from its leadership. le has not done either, and for this I denounce him. The Republican party cannot afford to follow the lead of a branded criminal. He has failed to justify himself, although opportunity and ample time has been given. He remains silent. His silence under such circumstances is a confession of guilt. I An honorable man does not long dally when his honor is assailed. He has de layed too long to justify belief in his innocence, and he stands a convicted criminal before the bar of public opin ion. Under such circumstances he should be driven from the head of a party whose very life his presence imperils. The Republican party has done enough for its pretended leader. Let him be relagated to the rear. It is no longer a question of his vindication. It is now a question of the life of the party itself. Kennedy read his speech from mana script, occupying about half an hour in its delivery. HE FELT AWFUL QUEER. The Hair RaiLsing Experience of a Tele graph Editor. ATLANTA, GA.. Sept. 2.-Mr. Tom Murphy, telegraph editor of the Atlan ta Journal, is glad that he is alive to night. Ile had a strange experience to day while in the discharge of his daily duties. He had opened a number of tele grams, read them, wrote heading for them and sent them to the printers when he had a hair raising experIence. le opened a telegram, read it as his eyes grew big with horror, and then getting up he went over to a fellow worker's desk and said very earnestly, "Do I look like a dead man ?" "No, what makes you think so?" "Just read that," and Mr. Murphy shoved the telegram under his friend's nose while he wiped cold beads of per spiration from his reeking but massive brow. The telegram was from Augusta, Mr. Murphy's former home. It read something like this: "Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Ship the body of Thomas D. Murphy on the next train. See that it is enclosed in a neat casket and we will pay all expenses. Chronicle." Mr. Murphy was pulling his hair to see if ha was really alive, when he opened another telegram, and then it was all that he could do to make him self believe he was not a corpse. It was from his father, and asked that the body of his son be sent to Au gusta on the first train and he would meet it with some of his friends at Covington. The Chronicle's message was answer ed by Mr. Murphy, telling his old pa per that he was the liveliest corpse imaginable. His father and his friends had left Augusta, so Mr. Murphy waited until the down train left, and took passage upon it to meet them at Covington. The old man's feelings can better be imagined than described when he met his son in the flesh, well and healthy, instead of meeting his lifeless body. Mr. Murphy is at a loss to know how the report of his death reached Augus ta. He says it makes a fellow feel awful queer to read about his own body being put in a neat casket for burial. Smalipox in Texas. SAN ANTON1O. TEXAs, Aug. 31.--The smallpox outbreak in this part of Texas and along the Mexican border is be coming so widespread as to cause much alarm in this city. The disease is spreading, and while a few days ago there were only a few cases, there are now twenty-five or thirty. There is seldom a time when smallpox does not prevail here to a greater or less extent; but heretofore the pestilence has been conined to the Miexican and negro. quarters. Now, however, there are at least a dozen serious cases in the fash ionab le residence centre of the city. The health authorities are taking no steps looking to the termination of the disease, and none of the patients has been removed to the pest house. At Waco the outbreak of smallpox has be come so serious as to necessitate the establishment of a quarantine. There are a number of cases at Lockhart. while Eagle Pass and several other of the towns along the Mexican border are under quannutine regulations. At Eagle Pass the disease is very fatal, and many dleaths have occurred. Rather Die, than surrender. Cm-Tv () MxICO, VIA GALVESTON, August 31.-A San Jose, 1). E., Guate mala, dispatch says everything was pre p~ared thismoring to capture the revo luinit ed MIartin Barrundia, who was on board a passing American steam er. The port captain, with several com panions. boarded the steamer and de manded thie surrender of Barrundia from Capt. Pitts, who answered that lie would deliver up the revolutionist and invited them to Barrundia's cabin. Assistant 'hief of Police Capt. (Calderon and three oilicers were among those who went with the captain to the cabin. When there 3ajor.TIorriello made knowni to Barrun dia thatt the captain of the vessel had decided to deliver imu up. Biarrundia teepnopened fire with his revolver upon the party, who answered his fire. Barruiidia fell, riddled with bullets. Ihis body was taken to the port captain's ollice. _______ ___ A Rise in Provisions. M1ACON, Ga., September 4.-The Tele Igraph says the corn crop is estimated at 1,600,000,000 bushels. Ini 1889 it was 2, 113000,000 bushels. the largest ever har vested. The average crop for hive years past has been 1,800,00,000 bushels. The lag isrls from last year renders it probble hatthe supply will not fall be low the average, notwithstanding this year's shortage. The oats crop is poor in quality in many localities id will not excee'd 575.000.000 bushels, against 751.000.000 bushels last year, which was the largest crop ever growvn. Provisions have advanced, owing to the increased price of corn. I logs for January deliv ery at Chlicago are 25 per centt. higher thaii last year's prices. Kildby Electricity. WHEEING y. A ugust 29 At 7 o'clock this evening, a colored man named Joe Solomon. employed in the Wheeling Terminal Railway comn pays tunneh; now in course of con Istrution, stehpped on a wire which sup plied the current to the electric lights in the tunnel headings and was mns tatly killed. A man who is known only 'by his contract number stepped on the saine wire just as Solomon fell and was instantly killed. Tiwo other men were shockedl from the wire. Both men wore thick soled leat her boots, and rneither's body were burned or mangled OU100I91 IN FLORIDA. A STRANGE TALE FROM THE LAND OF FLORIDA. White and Black People Flocking to the Hut of a Negro Youdoo Doctor, Who Claims that he Can Do any Thing he is Paid for. SAVANNAH, Sept. 4.-Maxwell, a hamlet in Florida seven miles south of Baldwin, on the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, is becoming fa mous judging from the numerous pas sengers for that place the past month or two. The town has a store and three houses, and the surrounding country is sparsely settled. Ordinarily not more than three or four passengers a week would make up its quota, but when the number increased to seventy-five, and then to one hundred and fifty, the persons under whose notice the increase ame begun an investigation. Your :orrespondent made a Ilying trip to Maxwell yesterday, and interviewed Dr. 'Lisha Wilkinson, the great magic ealer and voudoo of the negroes for undreds of miles around. The reporter arrived at Maxwell at right, and had to ride a mule back two miles through the deep pine forests be fore reaching the doctor's habitation. Dn the way a camp of some fifteen or more colored people was passed, who, the guide said, had come from North rn Georgia to consult the doctor. rhey were all ranged around a big fire tolding an excited consultation, and ?xamining a big sheet of paper that >ne of them held. As the reporter ap proached they ran off into the woods, nd nothing could induce theni to con verse with him. The guide said that his was the usual custom, the paper being some kind of magic voudoo or spell the doctor had given to them, and bey thought that if strangers saw it it vould lose its force and power. The party approached the house and the 2ewspaper man went in. A short, tout man, with one eye bandaged, ap proached him, saying, "I was expecting r'ou," and shook him by the hand. This ipset the reporter, and for a moment ie stood still looking at the celebrated loctor. Iis rugged, tanned face was >ne of shrewd determination, and his ;mall gray eyes twinkled with unusual orce. A slouch-hat was over his gray hite hair, while a rough flannel shirt, ean trousers without suspenders, and )ig brogans completed his costume. "Doctor," said the reporter, "I've got heumatism the worst way in my back. What can you do for me?" The doctor motioned for him to bare his back. He lid so. The doctor then ran his open and over the bare flesh in circles and :hen did the same, using his index fin ,er alone. An uncomfortable feeling oon manifested itself, and it seemed s if that finger was a piece of hot-iron. He stopped shortly and abruptly told he reporter to resume his clothing. raking up a small square of pasteboard uled into f( ur squares, with the num bers 1, 10, 16, 54 in them, he gave that :o the reporter and told him to read :hose off backward every night as he retired for a week, and after that the rheumatismn would never be felt again. rhe reporter expressed his gratitude, nd then had a long conversation with the "healer." Ie said that this power to cure by touch any disease, wound or hurt was estowed upon him when a young man by an utter stranger, and that he has practiced it for sixty years. "I can :ure dropsy, rheumatism, cancer, etc, y looking at the patients, sometimes not even touching them," said he. "I :an't say what this power is, but do all [ can to cure them, and succeed when lots of doctors have given up the job. [ can make absent and separated :ouples return to each other, make a woman love you, and find stolen and Lost property. 1 knew to-day that you were coming." The reporter soon found put that the old fellow would not give any real details of his work. and so soght out some of his neighbors. "What do the niggers say about him ?" repeated one ot the oldest set ters. "Why they come hundreds of miles just to see him on all sorts of business. I have known them to come from the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and from all parts of this State. They amp out when they come here and won't have anything to do with white folks. I've seen many a queer proceed ing in their camps while here, dancing around the fire, 'voudoo' practice, and all that sort of mummery. They think the world of him, and they will go without their last dollar to pay him a big sum. You see, he dosen't charge them anything. Oh. no! ie knows a trick worth two of that. ie tells them to 'compliment' hi m, and they strive to see who will give him the largest and most expensive 'compliments' in the way of money. I've kno wn him to take in from $50 to $100 a day for days to gether. They go to him for fetishes to make some woman look upon them, for 'spells' to injure an enemy, or even to kill some one. Hie will look on one of them when brought before him and tell him to go back home, and that he will be well when he gets there. "But th'e whites are helping 'CiTee' to fill this fraud's coffers. Ie gets from fifty to two hundred letters a week, many of them enclosing money, asking for advice, Hie cannot read a line and these letters are simply opened, the money taken out. and the letters burn ed. Hiehas never been known to an swer a letter of any kind, even by proxy. H~e assures his dupes that he can treat them as well when they are at home as when near him. "White wvomen from New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and other places visited him here last winter, :nd this summer hundreds of white ladies from towns within 200 miles have gone through the mummeries that he some times practices. IIe is worth many thousands of dollars gained in this way. Hie has no bank, but buries his money in the ground near his house, and such is the reputation ot' the place that it would be a bold robber that would defy the 'doctor's spell and try to secure it." Sev'eral negroes expressed themselves in the utmost awe of the old doctor and his spells. One said that his wife had run off with another man, and that the doctor had changed her mind so that she returned home in a month. An other had lost a span of a horses, and the doctor found them hnndreds of miles from home. Still another had been bitten by a rattlesnake, the doc tor put his han( on the wound and he went home cured. Sia Jackman showed a big scar on his breast where a load of buckshot lilt him. The doctor simply washed the wound, mnuttere'd something over Sam and dismissed him It was well within two days. Trhe reporter learned from the rail road oflicials that more tickets were solid for this ilace than for any place around with ten times its business. Parties to the railroaid oflice hav'e been daily asking For information regardling the doctor's home. Ihere in Savannal a party is made up weekly, chiefly o: colored people, and when they return home a grandl pow-wow is held ix which hundreds gather to hear of thu~ much-adivertisedi dloctor. THE COTTON CROP. The Total Number of Dales aud the Move- ' inent. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4.-The New Orleans Exchange issued to-day thei oflicial report of the cotton crop of the United States for the commercial year y ending with the close of August, 1890, made up by Secretary Hester. c The report states that the total crop r amounts to 7,311.322 bales, exceeding the largest crop ever grown by 265,489 | bales, and the crop of last year by 373. 032. The statement will bear the closest scrutiny. t The report objects to the method of deducting the cotton consumed in the t Southern cotton ports from the totals t of the cotton shipped across the Ohio, tl Mississippi and Potomac rivers. The secretary has obtained reports from every mill in the South and claims that his statement does not contain a single r element of the estimate. The total Southern consumption for the past t) year is reported at 546,363 bales, against h 181,245 last year. b The number of mills in operation Is 270. with 1,665.191 spindles. Thirty nine new mills, with 241.864 spindles, have commenced work during the year, and 15 new mills have been completed and will be at work this fall. Forty- c four mills are idle, a number of which 1E expect to start up again at an early N (date. The total number of mills in the N South is now 336, with 40,819 looms and 1,819,291 spindles. The increase of spindles during the past year is equlval-a ent to nearly one half of the entire number reported in the South by the census of 1880. The census of that year b showed 164 mills, with 761,360 spindles. d The gain within the past ten years has been 172 mills with 1,226,477 spin-h dles, the increase in the number of tl bales of cotton consumed having been tI 357,615 or more than 189 per cent. With reference to the cotton move ment for the year the statement makes i the net receipts at the delivery ports a 5,857,174, a gain over last year 306.829;' overland district to Northern mills, . 937.471, a decrease from last year of 1228, Southern consumption (exclusive b of 30,217 bales taken from Southern ports) 516,677, a gain over last year of 67,719l, and the total crop 7,311,322 bales, a gain over last year of 373,032. p Foreign exports, including 55,491 to Canada, were 4,955,931, a gain over last c( year of 165,253. rt Takings o cotton during the year for consumption in the United States amounted to 2,346,152 bales. b Of this 1,799,258 bales went to Nor- b thern spinners, against 1,785,979 last rt season. This shows an increase of only . 13,279 bales, against an increase in the South of nearly 68.000 bales. ti Not only is the crop of 1889-90 the largest ever produced, but it has mov ed off with unexampled rapidity and w brought full prices throughout the year; netting to the farming interest a handsome surplus. One of the curious features of this c year's movements was the shipment of se more than 20.000 bales of American i cotton through Ontario, via the Canada tf Pacific railway to Japan. Fifty bales m were also shipped to Japan from the 1 port of New York. tc A Fight with Oultaws. HAZARD, Ky., Sept. 1.-The first con- d lict between troops and outlaws, which ti has long been expected, took place on 0 Saturday. For several days past Lieut. tl Bonta, in charge of a squad of three t( men, has been out in search of indicted h. outlaws. They succeeded in capturing h( four, and were on their way to Hazard, when, coming through a narrow pass o in the mountains, they w~ere ambushed. f( The ambushers were concealed in a i large gully and took the troops un- " aare. They rallied, however, and re- tl turned the volley, killing one of the men, upon which the outlaws turned and fled. The outlaw killed is not known by name or sight. The prison- s' ers refused to give his name'. The volley from the outlawvs serious- ta ly wounded one of the soldiers. Ser- t geant Fred Gordon of the Johnson a Guards received a bullet in his left leg which will probably cripple him for life. Lieut. Bonta and his detachment reached Ilazard without further inter- c ference and lodged their prisoners in jail. Several of the indicted outlaws are still at large, and it is doubtful if they will be captured. Among them is Tom Smith, one of the murderers of c Joe Ebersole. The troops left Hazard ,I to-day. Judge Lilley refused to allow bail in any of the twventy-three murder. ases. The prisoners are confined in Clark County jail at Winchester. It has Struck Terror to Europe. 16 .NEW YORK. Aug. 31.-In the Inter- ci view with Chauncey M. Depew cabled ai from London, and published here this y' morning, Depew says: "I found theb continent of Europe almost in a panic 2 over the McKinley tariff bill. In Ger- J many," he said, "I found it a matter of J universal discussion and even a guard a on the railroad and a hotel keeper dis- 6 cussed it inost anxiously with me. In France the alarm is even greater, as people seem to believe that to carry out c its measures would entirely ruim their commerce. 'rhis terror has broken through the ollicial crust of the upper classes, and soaked well into the people , of the manufacturing districts, in t Germany and France particularly, t' whole villages and districts, where the people subsist from year to year on noth0 ing but the product of their labor solda in America, believe that the McKinley1 bill means starvation to them." Ghostly Indications of Crime. c CEDA R RA PIDs, Iowa, August 31.-A 5 haunted house is exciting people of the ' ity of Decorah and promises to disclose a a 'tragedy of the darkest kind. The b~ house was ocupied by a young woman ti anda man named Johnson. The wo- C man gave birth to a child which wa dis-- 1 posed of by some means, as yet uin- t known. Shortly after this a woman's screams were hleard in the house. and d fothnon no one has been seen or ai her nthe premises. This was t three months ago. The household 'l goods remain untouched. It is thought C Iby the authorities that both the woman ~ :.ndI babe were murdered by Johnson. p An apparition has been seen, it is al leged, by a number of the best people of the city, large crowds congregatihug near the huse nightly. Investigations isbig The County Debts. WAsuiNGToN, Sept. 4.-The censuss bureau a few days ago issued a bulle-t tin containing the linancial conditioni of the counties in South Carolina. Thee Itotal decrease in debt during the lasti ten years was $138,581, or 12 per cent. The counties having no bonded debt .1 ae Oconee, Anderson, A bbeville, Edge- 1 field, Aiken, Orangeburg, Newvberrv, s~ Fairfield, Lexington, Rickland, Darl-c inton, Georgetown, Williamsburg and Matrlboro. Ihaving $1,000 and underi .00 Sumter. Barnwell, 11am pton, Chetefield and Mariqn; $5,000 and under '810,000, Beaufort; 335,000 and under 850,000, Ilorry, York andi Pick ens; $75000 and uinder $100,000. Lan- ( 'caster; s100,000 and under $250,000. Laurens, Chester, Union and Kershaw; '.-0,000 and under $75,000, Colleton and1 Carleston; $250,000 and tinder $500,- I 000. Snartanburg. THE REPUBLICANS AGREE 'hat the Less Said about thc QuLy 3attter The Better. WASUIINGTON, September 4.- ludh ndignation exists among Republican enators over 'Mr. Kennedy's attack esterday on the Senate as a whole and enator Quay in particular. Several onsultations have been held, but no lan of action has been agreed upon. A prominent Senator, familiar with arliamentary precedents and practices, rhen asked what would be the proper ourse to be pursued if it were decided D do anything, said that if after a time [le House took no action. the Senate hould pass a resolution. courteous in one, calling the attention of the House the unparliamentary proceeding and ien leave it to deal with the question sit saw fit. But this action would de end on the manner in which the nowledge of the delivery of the speech ached the Senate. Kennedy's re iarks do not appear in to-day's Record, ie reporter noting that they "are with eld for revision." Unless they come efore the Senate in the Record or some ther authoritative way it may be noth ig will be done. Senator Quay knew nothing of the elivery of the speech till this morning ud after his arrival at the Senate lamber he conferred with several col agues, spending considerable time ith Senator Ingalls. Ie said to a re Drter that he had not determined hat course of action to pursue. Ire id.under consideration the making of statement under the rule governing aestions of personal privilege, but he as not fully decided what to do. The Pennsylvania Republican mem ,rs of the House were very angry to 'y when they read Kennedy's publish, I speech. It so happened that as the ur was late and it was understood iat nothing but debate was to occupy te time, no Pennsylvania Republidan ember, and indeed very few other Re iblican members, were present when te speech was delivered yesterday, or,r Ley say, Kennedy would have been iled to order before lie progressed far his attack. When their attention was attracted r the published speech to-day the ensylvania Republicans put their ads together, and the result was the ,eparation of a resolution instructing te public printer to refrain from pub- t ;hing the speech in the Record, as it istituted a breach of decorum of the t les of the House. The resolution was entrusted to M\r. I alzel for Dresentation to the House, t it before that could be done Mr. Bur Iws, who is Speaker pro tem, was con lted. By his advice representations ere made to Mr. Kennedy which in iced him to withhold his speech from te printer for a few days, and conse iently the resolution was likewise ithheld. Mr. Burrows, who was in the chair hen the speech was delivered, was the ibject of criticism at the hands of >me members because of his failure to teck the speaker. But he justfied him If by the statement that it had been c e invariable custom of the presiding ficer to refrain from passing judge ent upon the utterances of a member t itil some member calls his attention e an alleged breach of the rule. Ar. Kennedy said this afternoon he d not believe that lie had said any ing actually constituting a violation t the rules of propriety. He added at he had not yet had an opportunity revise his speech, and until he had td that opportunity it would be with- t ld from the Record, b t; t no longer. Mfean 1ile the impression on the floor t the Ho.se is that thie objectionable atures of the speech. i there were any a parliamentary sense, will be eli inated before it is published, and that e matter will end there. The Winds of Death. CmICAGo, September 4.-The Tribune ys the year of 1890 bids fair to be me orable as a clyclone year. Every onth, except February, has contribu d to the list of fatalities by this cause d the localities of disaster are so wide read as to controvert the favorite eory that Kansas, Nebraska, Dekota, issouri and Iowva are the principal ntres of clyclonic disturbance. In muary, 11 lives were lost in Kentucky; Mfarch, 440 in Kentucky: in April, 15 .Arkansas; in M1ay, 20 in Texas: in ne, 27 in Nebraska and Illinois; in dy, 110 in MIinnesota and 9 in MIassa usetts, and in August, 35 in Pennsyl ma. The total number of lives lost Sclyclones in 1890 in the United States acluding all kinds of wind-storms), is .5, as compared with 163 in 1889. 350 1888, 188 in 1887, 272 in 1886 and 111 in 85. It would not be surprising if the >mpleted record of 1890 should show an ~greate larger than that of the last five ~ars combined. The old world has not en spared in this record. It adds 4, 6 to the list as follows: In February. pan, 3.000; in M1ay, Siberia, 300; in ne Bulgaria, 20; in July, Ariabia, 700 id Eoland 25; in August. France 10, ermany 26 and Switzerland 150. Went Blrck on Us. WAsIINGTON, Sept. 4.-Binding twine uld not hold the Republican party to 3ther, so when that item was reached Sthe conisideration of the tariff bill in me Senate to-day the tinancial commit e was overruled by a vote of 34 to 24, velve Western Republicans voting ith the Denmocrats to strike off the dluty E1% cents per pound1( on binding twine. id place it upon the free list. Senator lodgett, of New Jersey, was the only emocrat to vote against it. Futher along in the bill the item of tton bagging was reachedl, and the uten Democrats fully expected their estern friends to conic to the assist nee of the cotton-growers of the South, ut the mere fact that a Southern i ds v was to be benetited was sullicient tuse for the Western Relpublicans to op back into their party lines and vote reain the duty on cotton bagging. Senator Vance was outspoken in his enunciation of the Republicans' trick, nid lie again denounced the bill as see onal in all its important provisions. 'hus the Western wheat-growers gets heap binding twine, while the South rn cotton planters will be required to y dearly for the cotton bagging. Eews and Courier. slaughtered the Family. SAN ANDREAS, Cal.. Sept. 3.-A ter ible tragedy occurred at West Point, a aining town in Calaveras County, Fri .ay night. A man namned Gallagher hot his wvife fatally and then commit ed suicide. Gallagher had been drink ng heavily, and in a lit of passion kill d his family and himself. 'rhe wife s not yet (head, but she is not expected o live. Mrs. Gallagher has kept the otel at West IPoint several years, and ately her husband has been away, but he ~sent him money to return, i~e ame home recently and it is said vanted more money. but his wife re used to advance further sums to him Kmled by an Electric Wire. CINCINNArI, August 30.- Thomas ow, aged 22, a lineman of the Brush ompany, was standing on an iron fire scape and was about to run a loop into second-story window. I~e caught a ye electric light wire and instantlylell >ack dead on the lire escape. llis right and1 was nearly burned oif, A P1 ETTY K ETTLE F FISI. DR. SMITH SAYS HE DID NOT TELL' ABOUT THAT CAUCUS. Cfapt. Shell Toes the 3Mark-lIe Says he Knows Nothing of that Caucus-Senator Smith Says he Was Milsunderstood at Walker's Cross Roads. GREENvILrm, S. C., September 4.-At i meeting held in this county last Ion lay Captain G. W. Shell, in speaking Af the recent charges preferred against iiin by Dr. Smith, said lie was not at Milker's Cross Roads, and asked to be illowed to say as a truthful man that if he knew anything of the matter to yhich Dr. Smith had referred to be rore he had seen it in the Greenville Kews he did not know itso help hiii lmighty God. As to the rumor of his candidacy for ecretary of State he called on his hear rs to look at his position in the March ,onvention. Ile had said he was a can lidate for no office and had so stated :here, notwithstanding the fact that he I lad been strongly urged to accept omething at the hands of the people. so man could say that he had ever ex ressed such a wish. Ile had even beg red and besought the Ilon. James E. Cindal, the present candidate, to come 'orward for the office. Captain Shell ther. proceeded to state hat during the last State Fair he had >een in Columbia, and while he was here there was a caucus held in his >ed room at the Grand Central Hotel. ome twenty gentlemen were present. I. B. Buist. of Greenville, was among t hat number. General Stackhouse was tot there, and if his memory was cor- ' ect neither Dr. Smith nor Captain Till an was present. If Dr. Smith was here he had no recollection of it. Seeing Dr. Smith in the audience, ,aptain Shell called on him to say vhether he was there or not. Dr. Smith ,nswered that he was not. Captain Shell continued that he had I old the Executive Committee that if r hey meant active hostilities to the pres- r nt government he could not serve hem. le had been instructed to issue .n address to the people of the State. r t was prepared and published. Cap ain Tillman had said to him after he ad called the convention that he had t etter select a man who would accept a r omination. le went to General Stack ouse, Captain Courtenay and to Col. . J. Pope. Each had declined. No I ther name was mentioned. t Referring to the McKissick state- r ent in the News editorial Captain a hell said that Capt. E. P. McKissick t ad asked him if he was going to be a s andidate for Congress. Ile had told 1! im that he would not be. Captain h cKissick said his father would be a f andidate. He told him to say to his t ather to come to Laurens and he would 0 .o all in his power to present him to f he people, but he made no pledge r ither to support or vote for Colonel a cKissick. About the 20th of June he heard that r )r. Mauldin would be a candidate for 1 he seat in Congress. le sat down and v vrote him saying that he would sup- C ort and vote for him. If he had him- c elf published all the letters pertaining r o the secret workings of the Farmers' C tssociation what would the people hink of him? Ile had also told Judge Prawtord, of Columbia, that he would 'j Lt be a candidate and invited that s ~entleman to come to Laurens and he ~ could present him to the people. Judge t rawford had declined. Some time be ore that he had talked with Gen. .John 5 ratton and had said to him that he a served somethlng at the hands of the c .tate and he had promised him his vote r .nd infiuence. At t at time General ratton contemplated running for :ongress and it would have been bet- 5 er for him if he had held to the idea. g Captain Shell said it was the first e ie in his life he had been charged f vith duplicity. In the recent primary , n Laurens he had never raised his r 'oice for or against any of the candli- t [ates. Ie tried to have a kind word j or all of them and not one man could f harge him with doing anything gainst him. Captain Shell said that after the Alli- 1 nee conference had tailed to name aI ongressmnan he had been urged by let- r rs from all the counties in the dis- e rnct. MIr. Donaldson, of Greenville, t adl been offered the position but he t ad declined. The people had demand d of him that he should enter the race. 1 Kot all the people had (lone so, but peo- t >e from all the counties had. If any r nan had been honored by the people he tad. e had a volume of letters at tome thanking him for the part he had aken in delivering the people of the t tate from bondage and oppression. I Dr. R. 31. Smith spoke also and in re-t ering to the recent newspaper state nent, said that lie seldom wrotec ls speeches but that he seldom for rot anything he said, At the Walk ~rsville meeting he had started out byji iving a biographical sketch of hi s'l olitcal career. In 1868 he had been I dected to the legislature and remainedt nimember till 18~6. H~e cast the decid-t ng vote which dletermnined the course >f the Democratic party in 183l and . a at that time received a most severe< ecture from Cant. F. W. Dawson, who I favored the fusion ticket which had >een suggested. ie had then taken up lowv he had become a candidate for con ressional honors. Ie had stated then hat in .July 1&.S9, he was at a meeting >f the State Alliance and was in a con rerence with other gentlemen whose 2ames he had mentionad. At that time ie Governor had in his pocket the ~lemson College bill. Col. R. W. Simp on, Captain Tillman, Colonel Norris m~ others, trustees were present, md they were discussing the policy to e adopted in case the Supreme Court. ecided against tile will. Afterward the talk turned on political matters, Leneral Stackhouse was spoken of for Governor but said he had other aspira tions. Captain Shell was spoken of for ecretary of State but said he did not want it. Ie said he had Congressional spirationls himself and Captain Shell liad asked him if he could carry Spar-j tan burg. ie had replied that he1 thought he could. The other day he had just leatrned that Captain Shell was candidate and he had said that he was puzzled at it. Captain Shell's cont versation in theC conflerece had led hm to believe that he would not be a candi .late andi that gentleman had afterward told him that he would not be. le had not authorized the use of his name i the caucus. ie said that he had heard somnethig of a letter he hlad received. IIe had received no such letter. At the Walkersville meeting lie had said that Captain Shell's action had puizka him. but ie would not say that it was wrong in him, ie never saw the manifesto) in the conference. ie had talked with Captain Shell about one. Ie would ay in justice to Captain Tillman that wen he had heard him abu:sel he hi-l lefended him atnd had said when he? haid heard his motives questioned that he The Creenville News, of Septemoebtr 2. in commenting on the above says: Dr. I. 3!. Smith says he did not say at Walker's Cross Roads what the Green ville Daily _News reported him as hav ing said. Captain G. W. Shell says if Dr, It. M. Smith did say what the Greenville News says he said at Walk ?rs Cross R'oads he said what was un true. Major W. A. IHunt, of this city. says he heard Dr. Smith say at Walker's ross Roads what the Greenville News says he said and what Captain Shell says is untrue. Lieutenant Governor Mauldin says that he was at Walker's ross Roads and heard Dr. Smith's ;peech there and that the report of that speeeh in the News is correct. We inve not seen .John T. Bramlett, county :hairman of this county, but the re worter who obtained the infornation mn which the report of the Walker's ross R oads meeting was based receiv d most of that information from Cap ain Bram!ett. We are informed that hat gentleman stands by his statement nade to the News reporter and says D)r. Smith did say at Walker's Cross R1oads what this newspaper reported hat he said. We are further informed :hat'Perry Smith, of the Walker's Cross Ioads neighborhood, is another man vho understood Dr. Smith just as Ma or IHunt, Lieutenant-Governor Maul lin and Chairman Bramlett understood iim, and that there are scores, and )erhaps hundreds, of men who will say hat he said what we reported that he aid. This is one of the most interesting, omplicated and peculiar developments if this interesting, complicated and pe uliar campaign. The gentleman we ave quoted say Dr. Smith said atWalk r's Cross Roads that he, Tillman, Shell tackhouse and Simpson got togeth r and divided four fat offices among hem in advance. Captain Shell says if )r. Smith said so he said what wasn't rue. Dr. Smith says he didn't say so, but hat he said something very different. That is what we call on the whole a ery pretty kettle of fish. In a Storm of Fire. MAUCII CrUNK, Pa., August 30.-A artytof moonlight excursionists on the witchback Railroad here barely escap d with their lives last night. Mrs. heodore G. Mumford, the wife of the roprietor of the Switchback, had ar anged an excursion over the gravity oad. Threatening clouds had portend d a storm, and when the gentlemen and idies were in the height of their enjoy ient it burst upon them in all its fury. 'orked lightning played over the burn ig mines, the electricity comnunica d with the ever arising gases, and for iles the scene resembled that of a urning prairie. While the merry akers were admiring the sight a fierce righter blast lighted up the moun ins. Closely following came a terrific eal of thunder. It appeared as if the eavens had opened up and swallowed e hotel and its surroundings. Ladies ooned and even the bravest of the entlemen present held their breath, nowing not which way to turn. A rked tougue of fire passed completely rough the house, entering at the rear f the ballroom and emerging at the ront, tearing away everything in its ath and completely shattering every rticle of glassware in the bar. Every ody In the house was stunned, several ore injured by the shock, but luck v none were seriouly hurt. The storm Eas one of the heaviest ever experien ?d in this locality. The party were omnpelled to wait until morning before iaking the return trip, as the storm ntinued for several hours. Republicans Draw a Color Line. CHARLESTON, W.YA., September 4. 'he most bitter political light ever aged in West Virginia is now in pro ress in this county between the Nut er and Dils factions of' the Republican arty. The light is in reality a race ar, the Nutter men being composed liost exclusively of white Republi aus and the Dils faction enrolls the egro vote un-!er a few white leaders. The County Convention three weeks go became a disorganized mob, revol ers were flourished. a dozen men nocked down, and 'the police were ompelled to interfere and end the ght. The same night Nutter was mylaidl and shot twice. A week ago iembers of the Nutter faction raided bie State Tribune oflice, beat Editor eber senseless and broke up the oflice 1 %ares. iwo days later Nutter and John S. IcDonald, custodian of the Federal ilding, mnet 1P. W. Russell, one of the )ils leaders, on the street, dre w their evolvers and fired on him. Russell scaped without serious injury. .Mem ers of both factions go armed, and a lody light is imuinent at any time. 'he county gave over sixteen hundred epublican majority two years ago. ut the Democrats expect to carry it .ow. Monopoly's Latest Combination. ST. Lot'rs, Aug. 31.-The sixteen shot ower companies of the United States .ave formed a national trust similar to hose cntrolling the manufacture and rice of white lead, linseed oil and ottonseed oil, and there is not one shot aanufacturing plant left out of the or -anization. A final meeting of the rep esentatives of all the companies will le held in Chicago to-morro w. T wo of he largest concerns, the Collier and he St.~Louis are located here. The itle of the new Association is the imerican shiot Association capital 3,00.00, incorprated under the laws f Illinois. All the plants will be ought outrlght for stock in the new .ssociation. The oflicers are President, ohn Ferreli, Pittsburg; secretary. E. . Lower; treasurer, F A. Le Roy. New ork. One step Too Far. L ANDsFORD, CHIEsTER CotNTrY,.Sept. .-News reaches us that Irimi Cureton, he colored ferrymnan at Landsfo rd, on he Catawba River, a few miles from iere, lost his fifth child by drowning n the evening of the 31st alt. 'lis hild, a dlaughter. knotvn by the some that ridiculous name of "Sweet Cheese.'s vas aged about 12 years. She was en aged in throwing leaves in the river Ld catching them as they iloated past he rear end of the ferry boat, which ras anchored at the shore. Becoming ~areless, she leaned out too far, and, osing her balance, f'ell into the stream. [he body has not been recovered. Fatal Railroad Wreck. PiT'rsnUnG. Sept. 4---A special to the 1hron icle-Tlelegraph fram Mannmngton, . Va., says: "Early this morning a reight traini ran into the "Spiek up" on he Baltimore and Ohio just "e t of' Iannington, causing a terrible wreck. F:ngineer Cordell and an unknown man vere killed and sixteen cars were p)iled ~ top (of eac'h other. The wreck took ire and the cars and contents were fmost totally% destroyed. Truafile w'as lelaed several hours." Thiree Mert Kile b~y F"oul A ir. nornng thurc' men were suffocated by eadly galsses inl an old e'Ispoo)Il on Ma :en lI land. One was emiployed to drain t tihe receptaele and cleanl out the cess i001. Suspicious indications led a see md to inivestigate and he was followed A the third, who saw ihat the tirst t wo 1~eeded assistance. All were poor la bor MADE A RA!N OF IMON. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF A BIG GUN LOADED WITH DYNAMITE. The Fragments Sent Sky High and Scat tered Over Many Mles--Nobody was In jured, but Scores Were Scared Nearly to Death. SYRACUsE. Aug. 30.-Dr. Joel G. Jus tin, the dynamite experimenter of this city, made a third test of his dynamite bombshell at Perryville last Tuesday. The result was that the 12-ton gun which he recently obtained from Bos ton was blown into a thousand frag ments in the presence of at least two hundred spectators. Nobody was in jured, but the pieces of the cannon are scattered all over a circle with a radius of two miles. A number of pieces barely missed the heads of some of the spectators. Their escape is considered almost miraculous. The cannon was placed for the experiment in a deep gorge about a mile west from the vil lage of Perryville, but two pieces were seen flying over the village, and one came down in a tree top between the railway station and the hotel. The in habitants are very much excited, and it is doubtful if they will allow the ex periment to be made again in this vicinity, although the protection afford ed by the rocky ravine would seem to be almost perfect. What Dr. Justin was trying to do was to prove that he had invented a bombshell which could be filled with the strongest kind of dynamite (75 per cent. nitro glycerine,) and so thorough ly protected that it could be projected from an ordinary cannon by the force of gunpowder withont exploding the dynamite until it came in contact with some substance outside. Dr. Justin's plan is to project the shell any distance the cannon will throw it, and thas revolutionize heavy warfare. The can non used to-day was a twelve foot rifled barrel with a nine-inch bore. It weighed twelve tons and had been test d in the Boston yards with forty-five - pounds of cannon powder behind a shell weighing 375 pounds. The shells to-day, when loaded with dynamite, weighed 295 pounds each, and were pro jected by thirty pounds of ordnance powder. It seemed at first as if success had rowned the inventor's effort. Pre iminary to the experiments a slight harge of powder with wadding was ired to clear out the bore. Next a shell xactly of the weight and style of the lynamiter shells was fired. It was fill -d with sand and sawdust to make up for the weight of dynamite to be used. Lhirty pounds of powder were put be iind it, and it was fired to prove that there were no structural features of the shell (without dynamite) to explode the annon. No ill effects were produced, md then the same kind of a shell, con taining fourteen and a quarter pounds f dynamite, was put in the cannon with the same amount (thirty pounds) >f powder behind to project it. The shell left the gun as handsomely is the first had done, and was banged with its load of dynamite up against a imestone cliff,126 feet high and a third f a mile away, which was used for a arget. About two seconds after the iischarge of the cannon the explosion f the shell was heard nearly as loud as he noise of the gun had been. The lash was distinctly seen as it struck he rocks and then the air was filled ith sand and dirt and flying rocks rom the dynamite explosion. The est had been a thoroughi success, thus far, and cheers rang out from the stur ounding hill tops, where most of the pectators had assembled. Dr. Justin was warmly congratulated by his friends who had gathered around im, and preparations were speedily ompleted for shooting a second shell f dynamite to put success beyond a. oubt. The people again fell back to ~rive the machine a wide berth and the. fuse was applied. The dynamite shell ever left the cannon at all, but scat ered itself over several miles of terri ory, and took the cannon with it in a housand pieces in as many directions. The earthworks which had been built ent up in a cloud of dust, taking the__ opes of Dr. Justin with them. A num er of the spectators narrowly escaped. f the second shot had been as success ul as the first it was to have closed the xperiments of the day and general in vitations would have been issued to oyernmnent authorities and others to see live other shells fired which have lready been prepared. Dr. ,Justin declined to say much about is plans for the future, but he has not iven up his scheme. "Ihow do you account for the acci ent ?" asked a reporter. "It is very clear to my mind," he re plied, producing a piece of the steel all of his dynamite shell. The shell ad slipped easily into the barrel of the :annon. but the piece which he pro :uced bore distinct marks of the ritiing of the gun, showing that the steel had been presse:1 violently against it from within. "You see," he continued, "the inner brass magazine holding the dyna mite is enclosed within a shell of steel having an air space between them. The breach of the outer shell was of three inch forged steel, but the sides were of cast steel only nine-sixteenths of an inch thick. Cast steel always has more or less flawvs or air spaces, and there must have been one or more in this shell, so thin that the high -pres sure of powder gas forced an entrance to the casting and swelled it out into the filling of the cannon so tightly that it could not move. The gunpowder immediately exploded the cannon, to gether with the dynamite. It will be necessary to make the body of the outer shell of the same material that was used in the breach." Lieutenant Davidson, of the regular army,stationed at Oswego, was present. ie said that the explosion miust have been of dynamite, from the fact that the gun was so utterly demolished. Dr. J ustin's backers say they will get a new cannon and continue the experi men its with shells properly constructed. A Cannon Spiked. CroCAoo. September 3.-A Herald special says the effect of the speeches in Congress on Wednesday last by Con gressman Cannon. and the~ disgraceful scene following, have just begun to be felt throughout his district. Both Rle publicans and Democrats alike censure him in strong language, and the bad break he made will cost him a great many votes among the better class of pepe whlo feel that the Fifteenth dis trict hais been disgraced and humiliated by it re'resenltative. The outlook at precnt i's that he will lose every coun t in his district. There are fourteen lepulican newspapers in this district tat refuse to support Cannon, and they hav e a wide influence.