The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, December 17, 1890, Image 1

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VOL. VII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1891. NO. 3. COL. KEITT IS 1AD. HE MAKES A MOST SAVAGE ATTACP ON DR. J. W. STOKES. Saya Senator Irby is no Statesman ani Accuses Dr. Stokes of Treachery ani With being Iafueneed by his Own Per sanal Ambition. NEWBERRY, S. C., Jan. 3.-The fol lowing article appeared this week ir the Newberry Observer: Alliance men, our noble Order non covers thirty-five States, and we hav( millions of members. We have a grea1 and holy work before us. To have o clear understanding of the obligations of each one to the other and to the Or der education is absolutely necessary To get that education I invoke you tc subscribe for the National Economist the official organ of the Order, pub lished at Washington city. It will cost you only one dollar a year. It is worth to you more than all the other news papers put together. You will leart from it the principles and demands ol the Order and its great end and aim. If you do not take it, subscribe at once for it. There is great lack of knowledge among those who ought to be posted The following will show the obligation of each member of the Alliance to the Order and to those organizations with whom we have confederated: S. Loum, Mo., December Sth, 18M. Agreement made this day by and be tween the undersicned committee repre senting the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union on the one part, and the undersigned committee representing he Knights of Labor on the other part. Witnesseth: The udersignee committee representing the Knights of Labor having read the demands of the National Farmers Alliance and'Industrial Union which are embodied In thisagreement, hereby endorse the same on behalf of the Knightts of Labor, and for the purpose of giving practical effect to the demands hetein set forth, the legislative committees of both organizations will act in concert before Congress for the purpose of securing the enactment of laws in harmony with the demands mutually agreed. And it issfurther agreed, in order to carry out these objects, we will support for office only such men as can be depended upon to exact these principlese into statute law uninfluenced by party caucus. Na tional Economist, Tol. 2, No 4. page 214. Is it not clear from the above agree ment that any member of Congress who is a member of the Alliance commits perjury if he goes into a caucus of either of the great parties? If he is in any degree influenced by party caucus he is perjured. There is no escape from it. On the heels of Mr. Irby's election to the position of United States Senator he was interviewed by the c3rrespon dent of The News and Courier, and is reported as making the following state ment: "I am going to the Senate as a Democrat and In full accord with the National De mocracy. I am in full sympathy with the Alliance, but whatever may be obtained by me for the A llance must be obtained through the National Democratic party." How does this statement of Mr. Irby's who is the Alliance lecturer of Laurens County, compare with his obligations as a member of the Alli ance? Is he ignorant of his obligations, or is his conscience so seared that he is nsible of his sworn duty? Alliancemen, 'reat prin ciples and demands are theCasis of our noble Order, and we have before Con gress pressing for solution a measure of financial relief of the greatest mag nitude. The Alliance is non partisan, but political. It rises high above men and parties. It is the creature of the times and the condition of the country. Financial reform is the imperative de mand. It was that, and not tariff re form, that caused the recent great lihti cal revolution. The people of the orhand Northwest are sick and tired growing corn for 12 cents per bushel and raising beef for 1 cent per pound. This is only the beginning of the rev olution for the purification of the Gov ernment and tinancial reform. The time is near at hand when the Order will move out and, taking its position, will draw its blade in defense of its princi ples and demands, and, striking right and left will spare no foe. Whoever falters in the fight is a traitor, and should meet the traitors' fate. To permit a. scurvy fellow, leprous with crime and without an element of statesmanship, to worm himself by po litical trickery into high position, is not only an impediment to the work, but a crime against the Order. A major ity of the members of the General As sembly are Alliance men, and they could have elected a clean and able man to reprerent our Order in the Senate and ?push our measures to success. All was losthby the treason of one man, Senator Stokes, president of the State Alliance. How and why ? On Friday morning, December 5, 1890, the following appeared in the Charles ton World, the organ of Tlman and Wht I have seen and heard to-day confirms me in my previously expressed opinion that State Senator J. W. Stokes, who is also President of the State Farm era' Alliance, will cut no figure in the fight for the Uinited States Senatorship next Tuesday; but that on the contrary lie is being carefnlly groomed for the Gover norship In 1894, 'when Tillman is more than likely, as I1 have already pointed out in these columns, to succeed the Hon. M. C. Butlerin the United States Senate." The Tillmnanite who inspired this knew his man. Stokes snapped up and swallowed the bait with avidity, as the sequel shows. On the night of the next day, Saturday, there was a caucus of about forty Alliance men, which was prsded over by Senator Stokes, presi detof the State Alliance. A ballot was taken, with Donaldson in the lead, next Irby, then Keitt. Stokes, as pre dicted, in the Charleston World, cut no figure in the fight. H~e got only four votes. He was out of the race in an Alliance coucus. It was then agreed to hold an Alliance caucus on Monday night, when all the Alliance members of the General As -> sembly would be present and select an 'Alliance candidate. A committee was appointed to wait ont Donaldson, Irby and Keitt and get them to state in writ ing their position on the principles and demands of the Alliance, to be read be fore the caucus. President Stokes said to the writer that his position was well known, but the position of Donaldson and Irby was not; hence the request that they be put in writing. I put mine in writing and handed it in. Senator Stokes, president of the State Alliance and presiding officer of the caucus of Alliance men on Saturday night, instead of convening the Alliance on Monday night, as agreed, led off into a caucus of Non-Alliance men, Tillmianites; from which caucus Alliance men who did not support Tillman were excluded, and into which who tnose supported Tillman would not go. Stokes sold out the Alliance for the shadow of being Governor ot the State four years hence. That is the logical conclusion. The result was the Alliance had no candidate. Alliance men were free to vote for whom they pleased. Some rightly exercised it. Senator Stokes, from his position as prsdent of the State Alliance and his ajue to convene the caucus of the Al, liance men on Monday night, which was agreed on, and his leading oiY into a cau cus of Non-Alliance men, is responsible for the failure on the part of Alliance men to send a representative man to the United States Senate, who would do honor to the State and our noble Order. The injury resulting to the Order from the treason of this one man can not be estimated. True and brave men cannot fight under the flag borne by a traitor. Respectfully, ELLISON S. KEITT. Enoree Plantation, December 29, 180. Riotous Strikers. PITTSBUVG, Jan. 1.-The strike of Hungarian furnace men at Edgar Thom son's steel works at Braddock, Pa., re sulted in a serious riot this afternoon, in which four men were seriously hurt and a dozen others werA battered and bruised. The Hungarians quit work at midnight and the plant was partially idle, only about 100 being at work re pairing furnaces. About 1 o'clock a crowd of wild strik ers armed with clubs, picks, shovels, re vovers, bars of iron and every other conceivable weapon. made an attack on the furnce. The men were wholly un prepared for the assault, but they bravely stood their ground, and a bloody riot was the rsult. The howling mob of Hungariens used their weapons freely and the men were knocked down, clubbed, bruised and unmercifully beaten. PITTSBURG, Jan. 2.-No further trouble has occurred at Edgar Thomson's works. The striking Hungarian furnace men have been awed by the presence of the Sheriff withhiis large force of deputies, ground a repetition of yesterday's bloody scenes is not expected. This afternoon the strikers were paid off and dismissed. The officials of Edgar Thompson works have decided to keep the blast furnaces burning at all hazards and to continue the force of guards until quiet is restored. General Manager Sewab this morning said it had been determined to protect their workmen and continue operation if possible. Seventeen were arrested at Braddock this morning and locked up in default of $1,000 baii. Conspiracy to Murder. MACON, GA., Jan. 7.-The jury in the Forsyth conspiracy trial in the Federal Court rendered their verdict last evening, after having been out forty-eight hours. The jury found the defendants, Lu ther A. Hall. Charles Clements and Wright Lancaster, guilty of conspira cy and murder with recommendation of life imprisonment, the defendants Louis Knight and John W. Lancaster guilty of conspiracy only and the de fendant James Moore not guilty. This ends, after a tedious trial of three weeks, one of the most famous cases in Georgia's history. The evi dence produced during the trial was of the most startling nature, revealing a diabolical conspiracy among the de fendants to get rid of J. C. Forsyth, the Georgia agent of the Dodge estate of New York, who lived at Norman dale, Dodge County. Charles Clements and Rich Lowry. a negro, were hired to murder B. For syth for $600. Together they ap proached their victim's house on the night of the 7th of October last, and Long shot Forsyth through an open window, while Clements waited at a distance. Only 8200 of the reward was paid. Lem Burch, whose house was the rend^zvous of the assassins, turned State's evidence, and it was chiefly on his testimony that the defendants were convicted. Lowry escaped and has never been caught. A govern ment reward of $750 is outstanding for him, and to-day Norman WV. Dodge of fered an additional reward of $1,000. Lowry came from N orth Carolina and is supposed to have gone back there. He is a bright mulatto, nearly white, with squint eyes, sandy red hair, stubby sandy red mustache, weighing about 175 pounds, height five feet ten1 inches. He walks with head down and usually dresees well.1 War on the Harvester Trust. FAEGO, N. D., Jan. 7.-Arrangements are being made to fight the collection of all notes now held by the Harvester Company in this State, and it is said that the amount is about $3,000,000. The ground of the contest is that the notes were given for binders, with a contract that repairs should be furnished free, and the recently combined American Harvester Company has made a rule that all repairs must hereafter be paid for in cash1 Another ground for the contest will be that the new company is a trust and is therefore contrary to the laws of the United States and the statutes of North Dakota. Arrangements are also beingi made to antagomze the business of the1 new company and to favor the Independent Reaper Company, as the American Harvester Company announce prices forty dollars higher per machine than has been the rule. Horror of a Kansas Winter. MEDICINE L.ODGE. KAS., January 4. Two brothers, named Bell, aged 22 and 9 years, and a sister 19 years old, attend ed a meeting here on Wednesday night, and a blizzard arose as they started for< home at 10 o'clock. When two hun-] dred yards from their home the elder brother remarked that they could not make the distance against the storm and would have to go with the wind. They drifted south about a quarter of a mile and took refuge in a can on, where they were. soon covered by snow. Thursday morning the elder brother crawled out or the snow and attempted to get home. He called outrto his sister t that he was so stif' lie could not travel, and in a short time was frozen. The younger brother was also frozen to deatht under the drift. The parents started out Thursday morning to find their chilkren, and in a short time searching parties were organized. Friday morning the body of the young man was found, and then the searchers found the girl, who was concealed beneath the drift. They had been out thirty-six hours. The girl3 did not know her brothers were dead. She is in a fair way to recovery. Wallace's Death Struggle. LEAVENwoRTH. KANSAS. Jan. 7.-A letter from Pine Ridge Agency details some hitherto unknown facts concern ing the. death of Capt. Wallace at Wounded Knee. After the fight, the letter states, Capt. Wallace was found at the entrance of an Indianlodige with fiv-e dead warriors lying near him, each In dian corpse showing a bullet wound. Five of the chambers in the captain's revolver were found empty, and from the position in which the bodies lay it is presumed that Wallace killed five In. dians before lie was overcome. Terrible Explosion.] VIENNA, Jan. 3.-A terrible explosion< of fire damp took place to-day in the Trinity pit, near the Polish town of Ostran. Fifteen bodies have been re-1 covered and twenty-four miners are< missing. Three hundred and fifty other men in the mine escaped by the open iEAR TILE OTHER SIDE. PRES!DENT STOKES ANSWERS THE ATTACK OF COL. KEITT. A Mild Rebuke to the Severe Diatribe The Charge of Having Sold the Alliance for a Gubernatorial Shadow Positively Denied and Mercilessly Ridluled. To the Editor of the News and Cou rier: I have just read in your issue of January 3 the ill-timed, not to say ill tempered article of Col. Ellison S. Keitt anent the Senatorial contest in which he was interested as a candidate, "not in a common acceptance of that word." as he himself puts it. Your comments thereon are eminent ly pertinent, entirely fair, size-up the situation fairly well, and doubtless give utterance to the undercurrent of conviction running through the minds of all thinking men at all acquainted with the facts in the case. At thesame time, as you intimate, some expression is proper and expected from me; though, as you justly remark, no good can possibly result to the Order or to the public service by this public parade of a purely family affair. I feel sure, therefore, that you will not refuse to a reply the facilities of your widely-read journal that have al ready been accorded the untimely at tack. As a whole the article in question is unique. Analysis shows it to contain a modicum :f argumentation. consid erably more of declamation and innuen does, and a column of auimus. With its argument I shall deal principally; with its animus. only incidentally, sec ondarily. Its declamation I have neither time nor patience to discuss. It is strangely familiar. an oft repeat ed story. Divested of its declamation and in nuendo, Col. Keitt's propositions are four, and to the discussion of these propositions I shall strive to bring ab solute fairness, but at the same time entire frankness and rigid logic. If the application of these tests to asper sions upon the characters of his breth ren-aspersions as unworthy as unwar ranted-results in apparent harshness on my part, such harshness must be at tributed to the inexorable conditions of the case as made up by him, and not to any unfraternal feeling on- my part. The constitution of our Order forbids, as I understand it, my indulging before the public through the press in animad versions upon a member of the Order. Provision is made within the Order it self for the adjudication of all differ ences between members. I shall en deavor, therefore, to confine myself to his propositions: 1. Col. Keitt holds that an Alliance man, who is a member of Congress, ommits perjury "if he is in any degree influenced by party caucus." In justi ication of his charge he quotes an agreement signed by committees of the National Alliance and of the Knights of Labor, which agreement, he inti mates, every Alliance is sworn to obey. [n view of his ne pins ultra manner on this point one can scarcely help won dering whether Col. Keitt has ever read the express reservation preqedent to the pledge taken by every appacant for initiation and upon which the pledge is conditioned. There are not a few men in the Order as true, as honest and (if it be not treason to say it) as in telligent and statesmanlike as Col. Keitt, who think that the agreement iuoted by him, in so far as it relates to party caucus, "conflicts with the free loin of their political views." This Inestion has never been adjudicated, and in cases of cnnflict of opinion, es pecially among brethren and equals, a :ommendable modesty would suggest he suppression of intemperate charges. 2. His second proposition, as well as he third, is a corollary of the first, and tand or falls with it. The imputation >f perjury to Senator Irby, therefore, s not justified in the premises. Sena or Irby, whose record as an Alliance nan, it seems to me, will suffer no dis >aragement by comparison even with 301l. Kiett't, proposes to work for the Allance demands through the D)emo ~ratic party. Col. Keitt's political con cience is not cffended by the party auc-us clause- Irby's is-that is the hole of it. In our judgment the hameful insinuations and offensive ~pithets aimed by indirection against 1is brother Alliance man by Col. Keitt ire wholly unworthy and inexcusable pon any conceivable principle either >[ public utility or of Alliance polity. But Senator Irby is abundantly able otake carec<f himself, even if it were yrobable that the general public, to wihom Col. Keitt has appealed this case >f distinctly Alliance jurisdiction, would not make just discrimination yetween the merits and the spirit of the wo men. 3. His third proposition follows by mplication from the second and falls o the ground with it, but the Colonel nust not evade the logic which he has nvoked. If Senator Irby is guilty of erjury, as charged by Col. Keitt un Ir the terms of the agreement quoted, ,hen is every Alliance member of the jeneral Assembly involved in the same ondemnation, Col. Keitt being judge, ury and prosecuting attorney in the :ase-except those who voted for Col. Keitt. Now, since not even his sup orters voted for him on the last sever L ballots, all are perjurers by reason of ,heir failure to vote for Col. Keitt. 'his conclusion is unavoidable, because he agreement quoted reads: "We will uipport for office only such men as can >e depended upon to enact these prin iples into statute law uninfluenced by >arty caucus." This, Col. Keitt says, very niemober of the Alliance is s worn ,o obey. Very well-Col. Keitt was the mly candidate member of the Alliance ho considered that freedom from par ,y caucus influence was not in "conlict with his political views." But on the ast few ballots all the Alliance mem >ers of the General Assemubly failed to rote for Col. Keitt, and under his con truction they all stand perjured by eason of that failure. This is a grave arge preferred against venerable enators MicGill and Redfearn, against ionest Dr. Strait, Joseph L. Keitt, and till the other Alliance members of the ;enate and House. On behalf of these nen, whose honesty and intelligence, Lnd may I add their statesmanship, is ertainly equal to Col. Keltt's, I repudi ite utterly the imputation, lie may be, Lnd I believe lhe is, a brilliant man and Sloyal member of the Order; but that dl the loyalty, honesty or even states nanship in the Order resides in him vill be grudgingly admitted by a large najority. 4. As to myself. Col. Keitt says "all vas lost by the treason of one man, senator Stokes." It would be ihterest ng to know what the "all" was that Jol. Keitt says was lost. We presume i wrote from the standpoint of an Al iance man, and how the Alliance :ould lose anything in the election of Dol. Irby, an honered and trusted offi er of the Order, pledged to its de ands and a tireless worker for its :ause, as United States Senator, passes: ny apprehension. In the absence of mn itemized account of loss we are: Iiven to inference or else the method of exclusion. It could not be the loss of Hampton he deplored, because Hamp ton was a caucus man as a matter of course. It could not be Donaldson whose loss he deplores, for his (Donald son's) political views did not admit of fieedom from caucus influence. (His tory, by the way, furnishes no instances of nobler bearing during the fight and defeat than that of Donaldson and Hampton.) Then where and what is the loss? Col. Keitt was the only candidate (in an uncommon sense) who was not elected. The Colonel seems a good deal ex asperated because I called in, as he says, the Alliance caucus, and lie pro ceeds to state what transpired in the former Alliance caucus. le must ex cuse me from discussing publicly what transpired behind the closed doors of an Alliance meeting. The pledge at initiation expressly forbids this. But, assuming that the brother's premises are correct, let us see how his conclu sions follow. le says that the Alli ance had a majority in the General As sembly and could have elected its man. le says, further, that the attendance upon the Alliance caucus wasabout forty. It required eighty-one to elect a Senator on joint ballot. He cannot certify that even all those forty mem bers present, as he says, at the Alli ance caucus were unpledged or agreed with him as to the party caucus clause; and yet he asserts without qualifica tion that the Alliance could have elect ed its man independent of the Reform members, who were in full sympathy with the Alliance, had stood shoulder to shoulder with us, and had in many instances come to the Legislature on Alliance issues, but who were ineligible to menibership. For my part, even if it had been possible to elect a Senator within ourselves, which I deny under existing circumstances, with Alliance demands absolutely secure in the hands of Irby, Donalson or Keitt-the only men who were to come before that general caucus as Reformers-I was opposed to exciuding from participa tion men just as true to our principles and honest, though they were ineligible to membership. Col. Keitt lays much store by the fact that some Alliance men could not gain access to the Reform caucus, but he fails to state that those Alliance men could not go into a caucus of Re formers becaue they were pledged to Hanpton. But I did not act wholly upon my own judgement in calling the Alliance causus. All the Alliance mem candi dates were consulted either in person or through their representatives, and I thought I had their concurrence in do ing so. The only objection I heard was raised after I had notified the general Reform caucus of our intention to meet with them. Col Keitt says I "sold out the Alliance for the shadow of be ing Governor of the State four years hence." I deny the charge in toto and cite him to his proofs. I take it that my denial is worth fully as much as his assertion that he was at no time a can didate in a common acceptance of that word, and so some proof will be neces sary on his part. And what does he submit in the nature of proof? A quotation from the World's Columbia notes, in which it was stated inciden tally that I was being "carefully groom ed for the Governorship in 1894," only this and nothing more. These are the terms of the trade he says. The childlike simplicity of this con ception is possible only in a mind ac-. customed to uncommon attitudes. Certainly one of us common minds would not be content with a shadow. That sort of trading, I presume, is a peculiarity of uncommon minds. Here is his argument. He says the World published that shadow ; afterward I led off into a general Reform caucus, therefore the shadow was the cause of my leading of f-post hoc ?ropter hoc. This is "logical conclusion 'with a ven geance. It is the logic of sublimated puerility. No rational mind will accept this as proof. lie says there was a trade. This necessitates a purchaser as well as a seller. Let him name the other party to the trade, or else stand before the public to which he has appealed, rather than to the Order he .is sworn to obey, as having spoken against a brother without a cause. He should know I was not in the city when the World report was written. and had not been for a week, Let him call up the man to whom or from whom came any proposition concerning my self and the Governorship. Let him call witnesses within or without the State. lie has the World behind him. Hie has had a good deal to say about loyalty to the Order ; about crime against the Order by the election of Irby, an honored member of the Order, to the Senate. In my humble judge ment, loyalty to the Order means loyal ty to its cardinal principles-brotherly love, charity ; crime against the Order is inseparable from disregard of these principles. That quality of a man, as well as of an Allianceman, Is highest which takes a brother by the hand and says to him, "Go, sin no more." Be tween this quality and that which thanks God "I am not as other men," there is the whole diameter of exis tence. J. Wmn. Stokes, President S. C. State Farmers' Alli ance. Orangeburg, January 5, 1891. A Short Honeymoon. DENVER, Jan 8.-Thie honeymoon of Banker Dow's son and Millie Price, the actress, .who were mlarriedI here Friday ight, came near ending a double mur der last night. Dow's father refused to have anything to do with him or aid him financially. He was to havceI fet here tis morning with the company, md~ several creditors.. hearingz of this. had th young man arrested Saturday LaI a enarge obtainning goods under false pretences. Last night the couple retired to their room at the Windsor Hitel about 10 'clock. Two hours later the door was ,brown openf and M1rs. Dow rushed down the hall clad in her night robe, screaming murder at the top of her voice. Several of the guests hurried into the hall just in time to see the hus band emenge from his room and fired a shot from his revolver at his fleeing wife. Seeing that lie had failed to hit her, lie re-entered his room and attempted to blow his brains out, but the bullet flew ,vide of its mark, and lie was over powered before lie could make a second ttempt. No one knows the trouble, but it was probably over money matters. This couple have beaten the record. They met for first time on Thursday norning of last week, were married Friday evening and practically divorced on Sunday evening. The Alilance Triurpphant. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 7.--The legisla ture organized to-day, the Farmers' Alli ance having a clear majority and elect ing temporary ollicers without trouble. C. HI. Piertie, secretary of the State cen tral committee of the independent par ty, was elected the secretary pro tem of the Senate by a majority of one. B. 3M. Elder was elected tempoary Speaker of the House and Eric Johnson secretary. The temporary Speaker is without ex geriance and a turbulent session is con ,identhr expectd.d GHASTLY RELIGIOUS RITES. People who Sleep In Coffins, Wear Chains and Undertake to Work Miracles. SAN FRANcisco, Jan. 5.-There are five women and one man living at No. 162 Amherst Street who sleep every night in their respective coffins. A cer tain Dr. Jacques, a widower and gradu ate of the Victoria School of Medicine, has founded a community at the num ber above mentioned, and, in order to verif y the reports as to the extraordinary character of the house in question, a visit was paid to the establishment. Dr. Jacques has the appearance of a very sincere man, but is evidently touched on the religious question. and, in fact, he admits that Archbishop Fabre is not pleased with the work he is carry ing on. However, he believes God is with him, and that the ecclesiastical ap probation will sooner or later - descend upon is head. "I made a bargaiu with the bonDieu, "began the zealous doctor, "the year the smallpox raged in Mon treal," says the Toronto Empire. "I visited no less than 1,200 cases, and in return God greatly favored the missionI have in hand. viz., the adoration of the 'Holy Face.'" Among the patients was a family from St. Jerome named Aubin, and the father and mother, with five daughters, the eldest twenty-four years and the young est thirteen, now live under the doctor's roof. The' parents live like ordinary mortals, but the five children lead a life almost as severe as the terribly austere regime of a Carmellte nun. The house In question is not of modern construc tion by any means, and when the visitor was shown into the courtyard in the rear the elder Aubin was engaged washing the doctor's wagon, and his good wife was similarly occupied with the win dows. As this worthy couple do not belong to the community proper, and conse quently do not sleep in coffine, they were left at their work and the next floor was reached. The five little sisters, as the doctor calls them, were found robed in red material, with a white head-dress falli4g down over their shoulders. These girls have no education whatever, yet their medical protector says they are very learned in things pertaining to the celestial sphere. They retire at 8:30 and arise at 4, and although all work for the house, the greater part of the day is spent in adoration and prayer. By the side of a nicely decorated alter stands a post about six feet in height, and upon the latter hangs an ox chain ten feet long, the use of which was ex plained as follows by the good doctor: When Montreal is given over to carni vals, to balls and parties, and when the devil finds it easy to tempt frail men and women kind, it is at these seasons that the five sisters devote themselves most intently to penitence and prayer. This heavy chain is hung around each sister's neck for an hour at a time, while they kneel in prayer for their sisters of the world whom destiny has thrown in temptation's way. Tile doctor now draws aside a curtain, and a large deep coffin, painted black and coyered with grav cotton, meets the astonished gaze of the reporter. The cloth being removed, the pillow is found to be made of soft wood, and not a sin gle article of clothing is visible. The five sisters sleep upstairs, the second floor being divided into a half dozen small, cheerless rooms or cells. The furniture in Each of these sleeping apart ments consists of a black coffin, a table and a tin wash basin, the same absence of clothing being quite as marked as on the floor below. In reply to a question, Dr. Jacques stated the girls would rather die any time than leave the community, and he rattled off the most wonderful miracles that had been operated following a brief sojourn in his community. A brother from Oka had left his own establishment broken down with disease, and after a sojourn of forty-eight hours at No. 162 Amherest Street had return ed to his monastic home in Otland weigh ing sixty pounds more than when he left and being gnite unreconizable by his religious conferers. "In fact," con eluded the doctor. "far more miracles are performed at Ste. Anne de B3eaupre, and everything has been done but bring ing the dead to life again." The Late Captain Waiiace. YORKVILLE, S. C., Jan. 6.-The re mains of Captain Geo. ID. Wallace, who was killed in the late fight with the In clians in South Dakota, arrived here on a special train last evening at 8 o'clock in charge of Col. R. M. Wallace. The body was met at the depot by a detachment of the Jenkins iiies, wvho acted as a miillitary guard over the remains at the Presbyterian Church during the night. The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church this morning at 11 o'clock, the R.GU. Patrick of the Baptist Church and J. C. Galloway of the Asso Diate Reformed Presbyterian Church otliciating, after which interment took place in the cemetery with military honors by the Jenkins Rifles. During the furnal services business was entirely suspended.-ColumbiaRegister. Misplaced Confidence. CoNcoRD, N. II., January 6.-The Su preme Court, Chief Justice Doe deliver ing the opinion, decided to-day to dis miss the case against Clerk Jewett on the ground of want of jurisdiction. This decision leaves the matter of mak ing up the roll of members of the House Li Clerk Jewett's hands, and the admis sion of "if" entitled members will result in the election of Tuttle (Republican), for Governor and a Republican United states Senator. 3IysterIous Assassination In Louisiana. NEWV ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-A Times Democrat Amite City, La., specialsa: C'. C. Hlonye, a prominent citizen o:t our town, was assassinated to-night at7 o'clock on the corner of Railroad avenne ind Mulberry street, the most conspica us place in town, yet where the kill ng was done was a dark place. He wvas shot six times and instantly killed. The murderer escaped. Five of the Crew Drowned. 1 M3InLE, A LA., Jan. 2.--The Britishi bark Topsy, Capt. Knight, from Kings :on to Grand Cav man. went ashore on Cayman beach Dec. 18, and is a total Loss. The captain, two mates, one sea man and the cabin boy were lost; seven >f the crew were rescued. News was rought here to-day by the schooner1 Union, Capt. Foster. DIdn't Liks His Neighbor. RALEIGII, N. C.. Jan. 7.-Delegate T. L. Bryan of Wilkes County created i sonsation in the House to-day by loud- i .y refusing to occupy the seat which wasi issigned to him between two colored 1 nembers. All othier seats having been saken on othier could be furnished him, md he left the hail in disgust, and his seat has been vacant all day.' He openly leclared that' lhe will not occupy that seat and will quit the Legislature first. lie is awe~l known Republican politician df Wikre hmouty PENITENT[ARY BOARD. FIRST MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PENITENTIARY DIRECTORS. The Books to be Evamined by an Ex pert-The DeSauisure Farm Matter Fuy Discussed and the Board to In spect the Farm. CoLnIA, S. C. Jan. 9.-The new Board of Directors of the South Caro lina Penitentiary met yesterday in the superintendent's otlice; all of the mem bers, viz: Governor Tillman and Messrs. Sanders, Oliver and Cunning ham, were present. Superintendent Talbert, Assistant Attorney General Townsend and Colonel P. 11. Nelson, attorney for Mr. A. G. Black of New York, were also present at the meeting Mr. J. T. Cunningham of Chester was chosen as chairman, and Bookkeeper Talbert as secretary. Colonel Talbert made a statement as to the condition of the books and funds of the institution when he took charge, and said that he did not believe that any actual wrong had been done by the former bookkeeper, Mr. Bateman, and that he thought that the apparent short age of $1,800 was due to some error. The following resolution was thereupon passed by the board: Resolved, That the Board of Directors shall employ an expert to investigate the books and accounts of the peniten tiary and report at our next meeting, and that Mr. Bateman be allowed to be represented during the investigation, by proxy or in person, if lie desires. The matter of the purchase of the De Saussure farm was then taken up. This farm was contracted for by the old board under the authority of the Act of 1888 authorizing the expenditure of $40,000 of the Penitentiary funds for the pur chase of a State farm, not subject to overflow. The agreement to purchase was made by the old board with the representatives of Mr. A. G. Black, of New York, whose property it was, and although there had been for quite a long time a disagreement among the mem bers of the old board as to the advisa bility of the purchase of this particular tract, yet when the majority decided in favor of the purchase, it was generally understood that the rest had acquiesced. The question as to the liability of the swamp lands to overtlow was discussed, Mr. Sanders expressing the opinion that if the dam was put in good order, these lands would be free from all overflow. Governor Tillman thought that the board should inspect the farm before going any further with the transaction. The old board had paid earnest money and there was a question as to the legality of their action in the matter. The Attorney General would have to aecide that, but at any rate whether this board carried out the contract of pur ,hase or not it ought first to inspect the farm. With this view of the matter all of the members of the board agreed. The Governor then stated that in the pinion of the Attorney General the title to this property was good and the board would not have that question to onsider, but they were to decide as to whether the old board had transcended ts authority in purchasing 2nds said to be subject to overflow. If they had the right to make such a purchase then that lause about overflow might as well have been left out of the Act. Assistant Attorney General Towns nd here stated that by the Act of 1887 there must be a unanimous vote for it before any purchase could be made. Colonel Nelson replied that the old board had inspected the farm and de iided to purchase, their vote on it being Lianmmous. Governor Tillman here remarked that if the old board had overstepped its authority, Colonel Nelson, by the con tract he got out of them, had put the State in a shape to be sued. The Act of 1887 continued the Governor, pro vided that no purchase should exceed $12,000; that sum was incre2.sed by sub sequent legislation, but still unanimity on the part of the board was a necessary condition precedent to the :purchase of any farm. Reference was then had to the min utes of the old board to see what the fnal vote in regard to this purchase had been, but it was not recorded. Colonel Nelson, however, reiterated his state nent that the purchase had been finally agreed upo~n by all, to which the Gov arnor replied that the majority had car cied their point and the minority came in on the home stretch. Col. Nelson-"The whuole hoard ac :epted the purchase; that makes it nanmmous in law." Mr. Sanders-"And the iiu.use com mittee confirmed our action." Gov. Tillman-"They had no author ty to do so; they could simply express an opinion." The question was then raised as to what funds could be used for the pay nent of the farm, and Col. Nelson said :hat the old board had told Mr. Smith Mr. Black's partner) that he would save to buy cotton from the penitentiary nu order to enable them to raise the ~unds to pay with. Governor Tillman wanted to know iow many bales of cotton n ere on hand. Col. Talbert--"About 500." Gov. Tillman--Tnat's a small crop ~or a large force of convicts to gather. They ought to be good pickers; one of ~hem with- a whip behind him ought to ;ck two pounds for one picked by a aand at 50 cents a day." The books and safe were then ex amined to see what amount of cash was mn hand, and it was found that there v-as $4,661.58 in bank and 49 cents in :he safe. Colonel Nelson said that before leav ng he would express the hope that the >oard would get the matter in shape .ery soon, as 31r. Smith had taken 2early all of the hands a'way already, mnder the impression that the sale had >een confirmed and would be put to reat expense and inconve -lience if the natter remained unsettled. Governor Tillman said that the board vould have three questions to deeide: st. The elevation of the land. 2d. [he interest of the parties. 3d. Wheth ~r or not the purchase was with the manimous consent of th e old board. Ie then asked Colonel Nelson to ex ain the contract with the board-the hidebound contract," as -the Gover ior termed it. Colonel N 2lson replied hat it was as tight as could be made. t was a regular written agreement, de cribing the property and the price, and tipulated that the board would buy as oon as the titles were made good. Governor Tilman-"What are the erms ?" Colonel Nelson--'8$8,000 cash and the >alance in one or two years." Governor Tfillman--Any interest ?"1 Colonel Nelson-"Yes, seven per cent. >n the time payments." Trhe Governor then remarked that the tate needed a good farm, but it must >e one that was all right, ie then nade some inquiries about the availa le force of convicts, and Colonel Tal iert said that there were 760 in the pen tentiary, and of these about 300 were ick and decrepit. There were 200 at he Aughtry farm. Clemson College< ad applied for 100 more and some were1 eed~ for the farm in Le:dn'gton.' On motion of Mr. Cunningham it was ecided to go down on t:he 9 o'clock The board will reach there by 11 a. m. and have four hours to ride over the lands and be back to the city by 7 p. n An application was received from Mr. R. S. Pringle for 100 more convicts The board took no immediate action on his request. but allowed him to return the 47 he now has for two months with privilege of retention to three months at 81 per day. Colonel Nelson is of the opinion that the Act of 1887 is repealed by the Act of 1888, and that when the amount to be paid for a State farm was increased, the clause requiring unanimous consent was not retained, and in this opinion many other able lawyers concur. At the meeting of the board held last night it was decided to give to Clemson College at once the sixty additional convicts applied for by that institution. -Columbia Register. NEBRASKA POLITICS. A Lively Time in the Organization of the House of Representatives. . LiNoN\, Neb., Jan. 8.-All of the doors of the representative hall were closely guarded this morning and none but members of the Legislature, State officers and persons having business in side were admitted. All of the mem bers were on hand promptly although they found great difficu.ty in pushing their way through the crowds that filled the corridor and besieged the capitol at all points. The Alliance had taken possession of the house at 5 a. m. They placed the Speaker in the chair and put a cordon of assistant sergeants-at-arms around him. When Lieutenant Governor Mc Kiejohn appeared he was not allowed to take his seat but stood in front of the Speaker's desk ready to call the joint ses.sion to order. At 9 o'clock the Speaker issued an order for the arrest of Lieutenant Gov ernor McKiejohn on the charge of mis conduct in office and a breach of the peace. The Lieutenant Governor de lied the officer and was not taken into custody. Both sides had a force of ser geants-at- arms within call, and any at tempt on either side to proceed with a canvass of the vote would have precipi ated a row. To ayoid this a com mittee from each party was sent with a statement of the case to the Supreme Court. Governor Thayer ordered out a com pany of the National Guards and at 11 o'clock they stacked arn*s in the cor ridors of the capitol. Crowds are ar riving on every train to attend the in auguration of Governor-elect Boyd and considerable impatience is sho vn over the delay in counting the vote. At 12:15 p. m. the Supreme Court is sued a writ of mandamus ordering the Speaker of the House to canvass the returns. The Sheriff of Lancaster County, with his deputies and the bailiff of the Supreme Court, burst in the doors of the House and fought their way through the crowd of Alliancemen guarding the entrance. The writ was served on the Speaker. A motion to take a recess until 3 o'clock was declared carried by the Lieutenant Governor and the Demo crats and Republicans filed out of the hall. The Speaker of the House de clared that no recess had been taken and all the Alliance members present remained in and others were called in for an attempt to proceed to the busi ness of the joint session. THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. James E. Boyd, Democrat, of Omaha was elected last November by 1, 145 plu rality over James H. Powers, Alliance candidate, the Republican man being third in the race. Prohibition was de feated, and its adherents put the Alli ancemen up to contesting Boyd's elec tion. It was stated that Boyd was not eligible to office, from the fact that his father only tooK out his second papers last November, after the election. Boyd was born like his father, in Ire land, and was about ti fteen years old when the family settled in Ohio The present Governor of Nebraska, John M. Thayer, at first was disposed to yield his seat to Mr. Boyd, but now he has siezed upon Boyd's questioned citizenship as a pretext to hold over. He hasgiven it Out that he will hold on to the chair, the seal, and the office of Governor till the cows come home. This has aroused the County Tyrone grit of Mr. Boyd. He says he will be inaugurated if he has to throw Mr. Thayer out of the window. The Dem ocrats say Mr. B~oyd will be seated. A duplicate State seal has been made in Omaha for use in case the present See retary of State ref uses to deliver up the one no w in the State Hotse. MIore Bloodshed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.--Gen. Scho field has receivea a telegram from Gen. Miles detailing the circumistances of the killing of Lieutenant Casey by the Indians as follows: "Reports from General Brooke state that Lieute~nant Casey, of the T wenty second Infantry, was killed to-day. There has been tighting and skirmish ing on that part of the line for several days. Lieutenant Casey was out with his scouts watching the hostile camp and with one Cheyenne met t wo Indi ans, an Ogallalla and a Brule. The Oaallalla warned Lieutenant Casey that the Brules were bad agd would shoot. As Lieutenant Casey turned to go away the Brule fired, striking him in the back of his head and'killing him instantly. "Lieutenant Casey was one of the most brilliant and beloved officers of the service. There is a report of heavy liring in or near the hostile camp that may be between two elements of the Indian camp." Lieutenant Casey was a brother of Gen. Thomas L. Casey, Chief of the Engineers of the Army, and was about. 10 y ears of age. He had been in comn mand of the troop of Cheyenne scouts for about a year and was working earnestly in the interest of the Indians themselvyes. Col. Forsyth Suspended. WAsHINGTON, Jan. '7.-r-A report eached here today, through an unoflici ali source, that Col. Forsyth had been cdleved of his comnmand of troops at Pine Ridge. This report was confirmed it the war department today. The >)licials, however, show a decided dis nchnation to talk about the matter, Neither Secretary Proctor nor Gen schofield is willmg to say very much on the subject, although both practically idmiit that Gen. Miles did not act en ;irely upon his own responsibility. Neither of them admit having or ]ered Col. Forsyth's suspension from ;he command, but both say Gen. Miles probably acted upon a suggestion from lere. A Diiastrous Cyclone. CurcAco, 111., Jan. 8.-A special from Thernman, Texas, says a clyclone passed E~ast of that town yesterday afternoon. several houses were blown down, an in 'ant killed and four adults seriously vounded. John Schmidt was blownl ver a barbed wire fence, lie seized he wire as hie passed, and one of his iands was almost torn off. Household goods were scattered about for miles mnd the loss great. A further search nay reval1 many more dad bodies. INDIANS IN A TRAP. TrE HOSTILES SAID TO BE SUR ROUNDED. Narrow Escape of the Seventh Cayalry from >Iassacre-The Ninth Rides in Jas6 in Time-Bringing in Women and Chil dren from the Battle Fields. CHICAGo, Jan. 4.-A special from Pine Ridge Agency. S. D.. says:' It is evident from the testimony of officers and men that the Seventh Cavalry escaped the tragic fate of Custer in the battle of White Clay Creek. The troops had passed the Catholic Mission and were dis mounted in a big valley one and a half miles wide just beyond the school. At the end of this valley Is a narrow canon not over 75 yards wide and 300 yards long, opening into a small circular park. It was the object of the Indians to draw them into this valley. The In dians were getting ready to make a rush on foot for the top of the hill when the cry arose among the troops that they were surrounded. Advancing now In one, now in another direction on either side of the valley they found them selves opposed each time by 200 or 300 Indians. Soon the hills began to swarm with L,0 to 2,000 warriors and in twenty minutes more a tragedy would have gone to the world when the untiring Ninth rode in, as they rode be fore at the time of the Meek er massacre, attacking furiously the rear of the savages, scattering them in every direction. Before the enemy could rally from their confusion the boys in blie withdrew slowly and sullenly to Pine Ridge. The enemy are stealing horses and cattle in every direction. While the blizzard made the old men, women and children suffer, it will have little or no effect on the bucks and warriors, It is believed Little Wound was the head that planned and directed the battle, as it showed more generalship than had been displayed since Red Cloud's fighting days. Old Red Cloud sent in a letter last night claiming that he was a prisoner and begging the soldiers to come and save him. This is corroborated by the friendhes who say that when the sta. pede took place Monday old Red's wife began t0 throw their things into a wagon and with true wifely spirit said she was for war and would go out on the bloody path even if her liege lord remained and fought on the other side. Aspecial to the Inter Ocean from Pine Ridge Agency S. D., says: All com muication with the rail road is cut oft except to officers over the miltary wire. There has been no mail service since Sunday and no one except Indians to carry telegrams.to the rail road. Gener al Miles sent out a telegram warning settlers along the rail road. Much has been said about the treach ery of Indian scouts. There are cases enough to make every one tear. t when away from the Agency, but they are not disturbed as a rule. Captain Taylor denies emphatically that any of his men turned against the soldiers, but says they fought bravely with him, and many so!diers confirm his words. Capt. Jacob Jackson, of the Seventh Cavalry, had a narrow escape, however from some who wore the police uniform and the soldiers' scout fur overcoats and capes. The Captain had a squad of twenty men chasing the fugitives a mins or more from Wounded Knee when half a dozen of the traitors, or hostiles -dis guised in police and scouts' clothing, rode up with a pleasant greeting, turned, cana tered off fifty yards. wheeled and with out warning, opened fire. At the same instan' illy fiftty more Indians appeared over t. crest of the hill, and started for the litcle band who retreated for the creek, firing as they went. Captain Burton, who escorted the wagon train of the Seventh Cavalry, says Charles Haywood was in advance of the train which arrived withili a mile and a half of Pine Ridge when three In dians rode up dressed as government scouts. They spoke to poor Haywood in full sight of the troops guarding the train ahd then shot him down in cold blood. The troops took prompt and in stant revenge. Yesterday the friendlies, who are camped on White Clay Creek, senth of the agency, reached the abandon'ed tepees of Little Wound's, Two Strike's and Red Cloud's camp. All day long their wagons, loaded with plunder, streamed from the abandoned camp. What are Their Namnes Now?* GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 5.-The News some tIme ago published an ac' count of the marriage of Miss Anna Smith and Hubert Munford Carilton. They were married near Pendleton, and those who read the story will remember that the groom's original name was An. drew Jackson Tymms. His bride re fused to marry him until his name was changed. A petition was presented to the Legislature asking-.thiit' body to change Mr. Tymims' name to Carlton. One house of the Legislatui-e. mad'e the change, and confident that the -*other would do so the young lady sensented to the marriage and lielieved thati she had become Mrs. Huberti MunfoiTarl ton. It is now said that the bill-e an ing Mr. Tymms' name faileda tik get through both houses and that discbmfl ture reigns in the Tymms-Carltonhouso hold. .___________ * The Persecution Con-tiirre* LONDON, Jan. 8.-Advices from St. Petersburg state that whole villages of Jews are being depopulated on the pre tence that they are within the forbid den distance of the frontier, and in some instances where villages are not really within fifty versts.~ A Jewish father has been lined because his son did not appear for conscription, his son having died when an infant many. years before. Eistates which Jews are compelled to abandon are being ob lained by large speculators for a hiere soug.. _________ A Negro Exodums. ALGrTSA, Ga., Jan. 8.-Hiafa wveek passes in which from tweeny to ive hundred negroes from Soulth-Caro ina and North Carolina do. fiot pass bhrough Augusta on their way to South Gieorgia, Alabama or Arkansas. Last aight twenty-live came down on the Knoxville train on their way to Ala bama. :The Columbia train brought in aearly fifty, bound for Southwest Geor ;ia, who were going to workin the tur. pentine business. A. car load number tng over fifty negroes came in last night >nI the South Carolina train. They are bound for Arkansas. Gett ing Too Near. - SAVANNAr, Jan. 8.-The sanitary board publishes a card to-day announe ng the fact that there are three cases >f smallpox in the city, one of which, a :hild on Broughton street, is convales cent. The other two, both negroes, have een removed to the pest house, and vig arous steps have been taken to stamp mt the disasea.