The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 18, 1891, Image 1

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SAO9 VOL II. MANIG S. C.ENSDAY FERU RY 18 1891.. I -. k 311NSSACREDBY MILES. THE INCIAN NARRATIVE OF THE SLAUGHTER AT WOUNDED KNEE. Turning -awk and American Horse Tells a Touching, Terrible Story of the Sav age Butchery of Women, Girls. Boys and Babies by the Soldiers. WVAsmeToN, Feb. 11.-The Sioux Indian conference was concluded to day and the Indians will statt for home to-morrow or on Frway, going by way of Philadelphia and Carlisle. The feature of to-day's meeting was the story of the fight at Wounded Knee. which was told by Turning Hawk and American Horse. In be ginning his story Turning Hawk de scribed in picturesque language how "% certain falsehood," the Messiah erase and ghost dance, came to his agency from the west, and how, after a time, hearing of the approach of sol diers and frightened because of it, the Indians fled into the Bad Land, and how they were induced to return by their friends. Turning Hawk then continued: i; When our people, who had been fiightened away, were returning to Pilne Ridge, and when they had almost reached the agency, they were met by soldicrs and surrounded and finally taken to Wounded Knee Creek, and there at a given time their guns were demanded, and when they had deliv ered them up the men were separated from their families, from their tepees and taken to a certain spot, their guns having been given up. "When the guns were thus taken, and the men thus separated there was a crazy man, a young man of very bad influence, and in fact nobody, among a bunch of Indians, fired his gun, and of course the firing of the gun must have been the breaking of a military rule of some sort, because immediately the soldiers returned the fire, and an indis criminate killing followed." The commissioner here interrupted to ask: "Did the man fire at the sol diers, or did he simply shoot in the air?" Spotted Horse: "He shot an officer in the army. The first shot killed this oilcer. I was a voluntary scout at that encounter, and I had just asserted that I saw exactly what was done, and that was what I noticed, that the first shot kiled an officer." Commissioner: "Did the soldiers re turn the fire immediately, or did the Indians keep up their firIng?" Spotted Horse: "As soon as the first shot was fired the Indians immediate ly began drawing their knives, and they were exhorted from all side to de sist. but this was not obeyed. Conse quently the firing began immediately un the part of the soldiers." Turning Hawk: "All the men who were in the bunch were killed right there, and those who escaped that first fire got into a ravine, and as they went along up the ravine for a long distance they were pursued on all sides by sol diers and shot down, as the dead bodies showed.afterwards." Commissioner: "In this fight did the women take any part?" Turning Iawk: "They had no fire arms to fight with." Commissioner: -The statement has been made in the public press that the women fought- with butcher knives, and this has been given as a reason , hv women were shot." turning Hawk: "When the men were separated and were bunched to gether at a given place of course only men were there. The women were at a different place entirely, some distance off." e .Comnmissioner: -'Was it impossible r a soldier to tell the dif~erence be tween an Indian man and an Indian woman? The statement has been made in the public press that the soldiers shot the women because they were dressed in such a way that they could not tell they were women." Turning 'Hawk: "I think a man would be very blind if he could not -tell the difference between a man and a woman. I bave told you that the women were standing off at a different place from that where the men were stationed, and when the firing began those of the men who escaped the first onslaught went in one direction up the ravine, and then the women, who were bunched together at another place, went an entirely different direction through an open field, and the women fared the same fate as the men who went up the deep-ravine." Commissioner, to interpreter: "Tell those that are present I would like if he (Turning H awk) makes any state ment which they do not accept that they will correct it. I want to get at the truth." American Horse: "The men wcre separated, is has already been said, from the women. and they were sur - rounded by soldiers- Then came the next village or indians, and that w a entirely surrounded by soldiers also. When the firing began, of oourse the people who were standing immediately around the young man who tired the first shot were killed right together, and then they turned their go-ms, the Hotchkiss guns, etc., upon the w omen, who were In the lodges, standing there under the Ilag of truce, and, of course, as soon as they were tired upon they fled. the men fleeing in one direction and the women running in twa direc tiens, so that there were three' general direct-Ions in which they took flight." Commissioner: "Do y ou mean to say the-re was a white flag in sight over the women when they were fired upon ?" American IHorse: "Yes, sir. the-y were fired right upon, and there was a wo man with her infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the fhg of truce, and the w omen arid chil-, dren, of course,.were strewn all along the circular village until they were dispatched. Right n~ear the ihig of truce another was shot down wvith her infant. The child, not knowing that its mother was dead, wra still nursing, and th it was especially a very sadJ sight. The women -is they were 1lee ing with their babes on their backs were killed together, shot right through, andl women who were very heavy with child were also killed. All the Indians ied in these three diree tions." --After most of them had all b~een killed the cry was made that all those who were nort killed or wounded comne forth and they would be safe, and lit tle boys who were not wounded came out c~f their placesi of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butch ered them there." Commissioner, to Interpreter: "I wish you would say to him that these are very serious charges to make against the United States army. I do not want any statements made that are not absolutely true, and I want any one he're that feels that the statements are too strong to correct them. American Horse: "Of course, we all feel very sad about this affair. I stood very loyal to the Government all through those troubleseme days. and believing so much in the Government and being so loyal, so my disappoinlt ment was very strong and I have come to Washington with very great blame against the Government on my heart. 0Of course it woul-J have been all right it onl men were killed. We would feel almost grateful for it. But the fact of the kiliing of the women, and more especially the killing of young boys and girls who are to go to make up the future strength of the Indian people-those beng killed is the saddest part of the whole thing, and we feel it very rorely. "This is all I 1:now about that part of the story, and my good friend here (pointing to Turning IIawk) will con tinue his narrative." Commissioner: "Does American Horse know tiese things of his own personal knowledge, or has he been told1 them ?' American Horse: "I was not there at the time before the burial of the bodies, but I did go there with some of the In dian police and an Indian doctor and a c great many of the people from the I agency, and we went through the bat tiefleid and saw where the bodies were from the track of the blood." The Rev. Mr. Cook, a Sioux half breed, pastor of an Episcopal Church at Pine Ridge, who has at times acted as interpreter during the conference, 1 arose, and among other things said: Niach has been said about the good spirit with which the members of the 7th cavalry went to that seat of action. It has been said that the desire to r avenge Custer's death was entirely ab sent from their minds. In coming to wards Chicago, in company with Gen. Miles, I talked with one of iis own < scouts, who was almost killed because I he was compelled to fly with the In- t dians, being fired upon by men whom he tried to serve and help. He told me that after he recovered from his flight and succeeded in getting amongst the soldiers after they all got in from kill ing the Indians, an officer of high rank, he did sot know who, came to him and said with much gluttonous thought in his voice: "Now we have avenged Cus- t ter's death,' and this scout said to him: 1 6Yes, but you had every chance to fght < for your lives that day.' These poor I Indian people did not have that oppor tunity to protect and fight for them selves. If that is an indication of the spirit of a number of men in that com pany 1 am sure the 7th cavalry cannot be free from any charge of going there with other than the kindest of motives simply to bring these poor people back." After several others had spoken the commissioner declared the conference atan end. Sale of the Columbia Canal. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 11.-The City Council has virtually sold the canal to a syndicate of Northern capitalist, and as soon as the trustees have completed it to Gervais street and turned on the water, it will be put in the possession of these gentlemen, and they propose then to Immediately darry on the work as far as Grantby. The nominal par chasers are Messrs. W. P. Ilix, W. II. Chew and John R. Abney. but it is gen erally understood that these three gen tlem'en are not the sole purchasers and represent others as well as themselves. When the canal has been transferred to these parties, It is said that they will form a joint stock company, and as, with the canal and the canal sites which they will control, they will have in their hands a property worth fully one million dollars, the stock subscrip- j tions can be easily secured; in fact one t gentleman, a prominent dry goods s merchant of our city, has already ex- 1 pressed a willingness to take $10,000 t stock in the company. A gentleman well versed in such mat ters. expresses the opinion that the canal company will be able to transmit ower to any point in the city,'and it is said that it can be carrled to a point three miles from the canal at a loss of only 15 per cent. of power in 100 horse power. :Edison has demonstrated what can be done in this way at Niagara Falls, the power from which has been trans mitted by an electric motor for over ~ 100 miles, and at some points in the 2 West the same thing has been done on I a smaller scale. r Those best informed on such sub-i jects predict that in the course of the 1 next few years Columbia machinery-t will all be run by our water power from the canal, and that we are but at the t beginning of the most wonderful andr almost incredible era of industrial pro gress. All that will deter capital from now pouring in upon us will ba the de sire to be too grasping, and that must be avoided by those who desire to see 2 our fair city reap the full benefit of its 4 great ad vantages.-Register. Twenty-Seve~n Tea-:s in Bed. r MITCH ELL, Ind., Feb. 3.--Mitchell i has the most stubborn man in the coun try. About twenty-seven years ago. there lived near Paoli. Ind., a family of colored people named Bond, consisting of mother, two daughters and a son named John. They were in comforta-t ble circumstances, owning their own frmu, &c. Tnce mother decided to sell I the farm. but upon nmakingher decision known to the children, met with opposi- j tion from her son, who declared if the farmi was sold he would go to bed andi never geOt up again. But no attention < was paid to his threat. The farm was was sold and the family moved to Mitchell. The first night they staid int their new home John went to bed as us ual. but in the morning refused to rise. and has stubbo-'nly fulfilled his threat for about twenty-seven years, with onei exception. that being at the time of the death of his mother. At first Bond's case caused considerable comment, andr p iciaus examnined him and in perfect health. All etf'orts were made to get him out of bed, but every scheme proved futile. When told the house was ou fire or that burglars had broken in, lie made no eiro--t whatever to arise. For the last few rears his health has been grad ual ialig, and lie lied with his head and bjody coveesekn on n unles spokcn t. sekn on n TmHe iIccoughing Girl Saved. Dumt~Nc.imt Conni., Feb. 11.-Miss 1 Alice' Woodu an-, who has been suffer ing withi icecughs for over three 1 weks. is vcr c much improved. Shei h:s nut had a return of the violenti spasms siace S;durday night, althoughi she has had less painiul attacks. The 1 remedv used w-.as suggested by the mtht 'editor of the Associated Press 1 in'New York, who wrote J. D). Dayton a letter on Saturday advising himi to try nitrate of amyle. Five or six drops of the nitrate was dropped on a handkerchief an:d placed over the pa tient's nose and she inhaled the fumes. Thle first time it was administered theL young girl was immediately relieved and soon fell asleep and slept over ten hourr.. Immediately upon her awak ening she was given the amyle again and passed Sunday very comfortably. She takes no substantial food, only stimulants being used. llelgn of Terrin Texas. LiEON d U'NcTION, Tix., Feb. 13.-A reign of terror exists here. A few days ago Newton Davis was killed. The persons accused of murdering him will have a preliminary hearing next Wed nesay. Witnesses are afraid to re main,~and are preparing to leave. One is the postmaser, and he has resigned. AN OUTRAGE ON CIVILIZATION. 'ruelties Heaped Upon the Helpless Jew' in Russia. LONDON, Feb.~ 11.-The St Peters )urg correspondent of the Daily Tele traph telegraphs important facts in con kection with the possible result of the eturn by the Czar, without comment, >f the Guild Hall memorial in favor of he unfortunate suffering Hebrews of lussia. He says: "British sympathy has aggrayated the ews' hard lot, which was already so vretched that it seemed impossible for t to be worse. Yet provincial govern rs have redoubled the severity of the aws. Where the statutes were inappli able the governors have issued circu ars and ukases to replace them. The ews bitterly repent the British well eaning but injudicious zeal which has xasperated instead of soothing the Rus ian Bear. The daily severity prac iced against the families of unoffendn2 en, women and children are incredible Lnd wanton. "Russia's reply to the Lord Mayor's espectful petition consists of secret cir ulars ordering her officials to rigorously dminister the anti-semitic laws and to upply legal deficiency by their own de isions harmonious with the Govern nent's intolerant spirit. The Poles, af er the rebellion of 1864, were less cru :ly and less inhumanly treated than the Fews after the London indignation meet "Gen Gurko, Governor of Warsaw, ias issued a circular regulating how rewish recruits are to be brought for edical inspection. The Jews, through he wretched lives they are forced to ead, are physically degenerate and be ome the most striking embodiment of iuman life continuing in spite of the radual decay of the vital functions. 'he majority of Jewish recruits are found o be unfit for service. In the event of hristians being found unfit to perform he duties of a soldier they are sent home nd are finally released from military ervice. Jewish recruits, on the other tand, are worried to death. They are ent home and are subject during a per od of three years to be recalled at any noment on suspicion ofmalingering. A -ecruit consequently returns to his home. indreds of miles away, resumes his iccupation and a month later is sudden v ordered to reappear for medical ex Emination. This process is repeated at atervals of a few months during three ears. Gen Gurko considers this meth >d to be insufficient, as it leaves the Jew sh conscript the option of transporting timself, on foot or otherwise, to the town rhere the medical committee sits, and ,ves him dangerous liberty and oppor unity to simulate illness. The result s that thenceforth the police are order d to convey the Jews on foot to the own where the committee sits. The >ohce are to arrest and imprison the ecruits until a convict gang arrives, ith which they are to proceed to the Lext prison in company with murderers d the dregs of society until they reach heir destination. 'Young men beginning life are sub ect to a repetition of this process during bree years, until the youth wishes him elfa soldier, serf or gally slave to save limself from the society of murderers and hieves, who, while Jewish recruits are their gang, have the power of lite or leath over them, can blackmail them, rhip them, maim them, even kill them vith impunity. The victims are frne uently in delicate health and include onsumptive patients whom Russian loctors declare are unable to bear the tardships of military service." An Interesting Exhibit. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-The esti ates of the numbers and values of farm nimals made at the end of each year and eturnable in January to the Depart aent of Agriculture have been consoh ated. There appears to have been but ttle change in the numbers, except oa he Pacific coast and in certain portions f the Rocky Mountains, where the win er of 1889-90 was unusually severe. The losses were especially heavy on the acific slope. The number of horses on the farms as eported is 14,056,750 ; average price of 1 ages, $67 ; a decline from last year of 1.84. The number of mules is 2,290, 32, having an average value of $77.88S; declIne from last year of 57 cents. 'he lowest, $8.40, in Arkansas; in Tex s $8.89. The estimated number of sheep are 3,431,136; average value $2.51, an in rease of 24 cents, or more than ten per ent. All other kinds of farm animals lave declined slightly in price. The endency to the increase of numbers is een in most of the States, though heavy sses from the severe winter of last 'ear on the Pacific slope have decreased be aggregate. The aggregate of the number of swine S50,625,106. The number of milch ows is 16,019,591, an increase of 00,708 com last year; the average value per Lead is $21.02 which is 52 cents less an last year's average. There is a tendency to an increase of airying in the South, especially in the aountain region, which offers the in ucement of cheap lands and abundant raze. The other cattle agrgregate 0,875,648, including those on the anches. The highest value is $28.t34, howing a decline of nearly 2 per cent.; he average value is $4.15, a dlecrease o1 7 cents per head. The scarcity of orn caused a slaughter of stock, as hogs re in a poor condition andJ tendmng to lut the market and reduce the price enmporarily. This Law Muist be Respected. NEW ORtLE~As. LA.. Feb. 13.-Stu zope Turnbull is a member or a reput ble family, with influential connec ions in Louisiana and Mississippi. Cwo weeks ago Turnbull married in .his city a mulatto woman namedi Char ty Hampton. There is na law against niscegenation in Louisiana, but there s in 31ississippi, so when Ti rnbull ook his dusky bride to his home in oodville he~ was arrested for viola ion of the laws, but was discharged pon a technicality, lie had hardly eft the Court House before he was eized by a mob, stripped of his clothes. loused in tar and rolled in a bag of ?eathers. H~e was then placed on a rai] td ridden through the town; couriers receded the mob to warn ladies to keep within doors. Turnbull was then :aken o the State line and told nevr o return to WAoodville or he would bie illed. lie promised to heed the warn .ng. The woman was unmolested. Began stealing at the Jump. LITTLE ROCK. Feb. 13.-The legisla tive coimmittee has completed its over auling of ex-Treasurer WoodruUs books for his first term, and discovered a shortage of Sl16,000. This is surpris ing, and will largely increase the total, other discrepancies having already been discover'ed. It was not believed that his peculations began until he had een in offie four years. WATTERSON TO RILL. A STRONG LETTER ON THE PRESI DENTIAL SITUATION. The Democracy of the Country Want Clevelard to be the Nominee or the Par ty in ISW9-A Chance for Hill to Prove Illnmself a Warwick. BALTIMORE. Feb. 10.-The Sun to morrow will publish a letter written by Henry Watterson to Governor Hill which the Sun says was probably in strumental in bringing about the meeting between Governor Hill and ex-President Cleveland, and also of Hill's taking the New York Senator ship. Watterson's letter was promp: ed solely by his own convictions and without the least consultation with any one. It is as follows: "CoiIEr.-JOURNAL OFFICE," LoIisVILLE, Nov. 21, 1890. My DEil Siin: I take leave to ad dress you this letter as one of some millions of Democrats who never sought or held office, and who could not be induced to do so, but who are deeply concerned in the party welfare and who believe you to hold the key to it. Outside of the State of New York the:-e is a well nigh unanimous demand among the rank and file of the Demo crats for the nomination of Cleveland. This is too strong for party leaders and managers to resist. I think I have some influence in Kentucky, bat on that point I should be overwhelmed in the State convention. If you should come to the National Convention with the New York delegation solid against it, you would be overwhelmed. You are powerless to prevent it; but you cain defeat the election of the ticket. "There are Democrats in every part of the Union who believe that you did this in 1868. I know that to be false. I know exactly what happened and have steadily defended you in public and in private. But it will cling to you as long as you live-even as the bar gain, intrigue and corruption story clung to Clay-and will meet you in every national convention, if it be not dissipated by some act on your part great enough to blot it out. In defense of this, if you have any hope of the Presidency, it will defeat that. "My judgment is clear that if you could reconcile it with your judgment and feeling to make peace with Cleve land and to take the delegation to the National Convention in 1892, to put him in nomination, you wiil save the party and place yourself upon an eleva tion you can never attain if you fail to do it. You would be received by the country with enthusiasm; be accepted at once as a Warwick, and I do not see how you could be kept out of succes sion. On the other hand, even if you succeeded in defeating the nomination of Cleveland, you will stand upon sin ister. and dangerous ground, with a stormy future before you. "These are plain words and I have no relations with you which give me the right to offer you counsel. They may be disagreeable words and I have no desire to obtrude upon your privacy. But they are true words, and I claim the right of a Democrat who has some knowledge of the country at large and has given some procf of intelligent de votion to party interest to ignore cere mony and 3end them to you. In con clusion, let me say that I shall in any eyent be glad to know you better, and that meanwhile T am most sincerely your friend. "(Signed) HENY WATTERSON. "The _Ion. David B. Illl." All a Hoax. Ata ANY, N. Y., Feb. 11.-Governor Hill this afternoon was shown the let ter purporting to be from Henry Wat terson, published in the Baltimore Sun this day. H~e said: "I never receiv ed any such letter. It is the first I have heard of any such thing. It must be a forgery. Watterson is a good Demo crat andia gentleman, and I believe him incapable of addressing any such in sulting and impertinent communica tion to me. The resort to such silly and impudent forgery was probably in tended to place me in a false position by reason of recent events in that State. But it will surely injure the cause it was designed to aid and react upon its authorities." Col. Watterson Wrote It. Lot-IsvILLE, Feb. 12.-Mr. Watter son did write that letter to Governor Ilill. This afternoon he prepared the following statement for the press: "I wrote the letter to Governor Ilill, and I was impelled to do so by motives the sincerest and most disinterested. There appeared in many of the great newspapers last Sunday a sensational account of. how a caucus of United States senators had resolved upon retir ing Governor Ihill from the Presiden tial arena, of how I had been selected as the instrument of these senators,!and of how 1 had dispatched him a letter potent enough to alter his plans. Whence this story emanated, I cannot divine; but it is so absurd. and did such injustice to both Governor IHill and myself, that I thought, as I still think, that there could be no objection on the part of anybody to the publication of the truth, whicn flatly contradicted it. "I was induced to this by the circum stance that Governor Ihill had seemed to have adopted a course suggested by considerations alike honorable to his character and creditatble to his judg ment, t he more so, indIeed, since the let ter in ouestionl furnished him and his friends impartial testimony to answer and refute a most odious and widely circulated calumny. "1 confess that I am surprised that tile izovernor should make such haste to disavow and disown a course which, however proimpted. gratilied every Democrat in the t'niited States outside the state of New York, removing him at once from the field of miere political shming and self-seeking, and placing him in the front rank of statesmen having the good of their country and party at h!'art. "I am ecually distressed by the repre sentation1 that Go~v. Hill1 should regard my plaini but friendly words as imper tinenlt and insulting. I did not so in tendI them. I cannot help thinking tihe sam e w r,!s might be, with propriety, adressed to him or any De'mocratic as piranlt by the humblest Democrat in the land, ad I still hope that, annoyed by a loublietionkh wich annfoyed mne as wel.lit h as proceede~d on a mnisappre hensioni of facts of the case. "I cau assure him that neither in the writing nor printing of the letter was there any purpose to take advantaigc of him, and least of all to do him injus tiee. I am no man's man, and exist in no man's interest. To use his ownm hap py expression "I am a Democrat'' who has passed a lifetime inservice of prin ciples and policies from which I have never soughlt the slightest personal re cognition or reward. I am only humil iated by the reflection that this service was not suflicient in the estimation of Governor 1l1ll, to protect me against his disoleasure, and that in the harsh construct ion which he puts upon a genuine, and not a forged letter, he v isits mie 'with what I miust regard as unmuerited suspicion. (Siged.) IIENnY WArTERSON. CLEVELAND WRITES A LETTER. He Conics Out. Squarely Aa.tinst Free Sii ver Coinage. NEW YonE. Feb. 11.-Between 00 and 700 people attended z mass meet ing at the Cooper 1nion to night to op pose the silver bill, in re.;onse to the call of the Reform Club. Charles S Fairchild, Ex-Secretary c: the Treasu ry, nominated E. Ellery Anderson, president of the Refor- Club, for chairman of the meeting, and he was elected by acclamation. ;Meution of Grover Cleveland's name was the signal for a prolonged burst of applause, and when the secretary had fnished reading his letter the applause was deafening. The Ex-President wrote as follows: 816 MADIsON AVENUE, Feb. 10, 1891. -E. Ellery Anderson- My Dear Sir: I ha-e this afternoon received your note inviting me to attend to-morrow eve ning a meeting called for the purpose of voicing the opposition of the busi ness men of our city to the free coinage ofisilver in the United States. I shall not be able to attend and address the meeting as you request, but I am glad that the business interests of New York are at last to be heard on the sub ject. It surely cannot be necessary for me to make formal expression of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest perils would be initiated by the adoption of the scheme em braced in the measure now pending in Congress for an unlimited coinage of silver at our mints. If we have devel oped an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a largely ircreased vol ume of currency, and even if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase, these conditions fall far short of insuring us against disasterif in the prerent situation we entEr upon the :angerous and reckless experiment of free, unlimited and independent silver oinage. Yours very truly. Girovitn CLEVELAND. The following resolutions were passed unanimously: :- Resolved, That the first -equirement of a sound metalic curren::y is that its value shall be permanently stated. Resolved. That the equality of value between 412% grains of standard sil ver and 25 8 grains of standard gold asserted in the bill for the free coinage )f silver is untrue in fact, is contradic Led by the record of the market price f silver bullion for many years and annot be sustained against the finan cial policy of all civilized nations. Resolved, That the free coinage of silver on the basis of eq uality of value t the ratio stated], in ou.r judgment, will cause a premium on gold and its immediate banishment from circula Lion, and will debase the value of our ollar to the bullion value of the silver it contains. Resolved, That the proposed debase ment of our currency is dishonest. It will impairpiyasate andi.'blic credit, [Iwill confuse an1~hmr erD'om - mercial relations with gold paying yountries, it will curtail legitimate business, it will violate the obligations Af existing contracts and disastrously dlect many industries. It will fAll with peculiar severity on depositors in avings banks and trust companies, and those holding life ir.surance and mutual benefit policies. It will lessen the purchasing power cf money in which are paid the earnin;s of laborers, and of the salaried clas;es, It will jenefit no one except the temporary 3wners of silver or silver mines, who Iay secure an enhanced price for their product and properties, and the holders f gold or of ~gold values at financial entres, who would be enabled to dis harge their obligations on debased urrency and retain the advantage of he premium on gold. Resolved, That we shall oppose with all the means at our command the Dending bill, or any one which favors he free coinage of silver without the o-operation of other nations. A committee of ten memb~ers of the Reform Club will be appointed by President Anderssn to go to Washing ton and oppose the passage ot the silver bil. Gen. Jackson's Cup. Niw YOn;K, Feb. 12.-The Sun of a recent date says: Col. J1. .J. Miartin is ane of the twenty survivors of the old Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina who are running a life race for a histor e trophy. JTust after the war of 1512 the ladies of South Carolina presented [en. Jackson with a beautiful and cost L cup indicative of their appreciation f the bravery and gallantry displayed by him at the battle of New Orleans. When Gen. Jackson died his will order ed the cup to be given to the bravest soldier from South Carolina in the next var which should occur. The cup was arefully put away in the state archives at Columbia to await the outcome of the next war. The next war wvas the 3Mexican wvar. South Carolina sent out the Palmetto legiment, 1,100 strong. It fought in rany battles, and only 300 of the 1,100 vent back. Then the question as to vho should have Jackson's cup arose. The legislature appointed a commission to decide the matter. The commussion ould reach no conclusion. Every mem ber of the regiment had fought well. Not one haid run away ce shown the slightest signs of cowardice, and it was round impossible to award the trophly. Thereupon the legislature decided that the cup should go to the last survivor of the 300. There are only 202 left, and it is the especcial ambition of each to outlive the others so as to posess this trophy. Shot His~ Wife andi H[i:eif. CoLr~t1s, Kan , Fekb. 11.-The wed ing of Wtchard lasey and the dauugh ter of one of the most pe(;n~ciet eiti des of Baxter -prings~ was follow ed neveral years ago 'y th e pration~- of the couple on a'ccount of in-ompat4ibil ity of temper. \lrs . !alsey I ha be a n this city for some time boarding at the Emnoire lous- !r. I1 sey tc-a sent in a card reruesting a intervie-w, which was grantel A short tm af 1ter he ,:en o . room severa l- hred (1 (1uick4 sur cession, wer- e. and (1w!.en thi door was broku- down" \irs. iiary was seen ying on the Iloor coverHi wI bl, and at her side was her hiaand in tue same condition. Ialsey hal shot his wf an-m - self, les. hlasey will re mver. -ut heC diied withmn an hour. Mrs. lIasey wais in a swoon and no inforwr'ation could be obtained as to the causn Iiiun!cr Near A in AKEN, S. C., Feb. 12- Three prom inent merchants were bencoed in the woods near Aiken yesterday and fleeced to the extent of $10 00~0 or more. Two line looking men, one at the Buish Iouse and the othler at the Iiighland P'ark Ihotel, had been here for nearly two weeks, and they took m the prom inent merchants and a planter at Wil liston, to the above stated amfount, with a so-called gold brick (in the shape of gold) tilled with lead. One ot the party came here yesterday with his (ratIt on a Charleston factir and had it cashed thrcugh a bank here for live STHE SILVER QUESTION. Cleveland's Letter on the Subject Dis cussed in the House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The house this rorning went into the committee of the? whole on the legislative appro propriation bill. In speaking to a verbal amendment, v G rosvenor sent to the Clerk's desk, with d his hearty endorsement. an account of the meeting at Cooper Union last night, and the letter rddressed by Grover Cleveland to E. Ellery Anderson. The letter having been read, Grosve nor said he had thus placed this impor- e tant and statesmanlike documert in the permanent records of the country, to the end that in the coming campaign it should be available under the frank of the members of the next Congress to be used in disseminating informa tion throughout the country. [Repub- a lican laughter.] Kerr also commented upon Cleve- a land's letter. s Iland-"I thought the gentleman 0 was in favor of free coinage." v Kerr-"I am." Bland-"Then you ought to be called 'Young-man-afraid-of free coinage, for a you Dever vote that wa)." h Kerr-"I never had a chance, though a I was a member of the last Congress I when the gentleman was Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights c and Measures." Bland-'You had a chance the other t day, but you did not vote with us. Now that Cleveland has been con- C irned in his views by such a great n statesman as the gentleman from Iowa, I cannot see how he can ever change e his views and be converted." In speaking to a verbal amendment Hooker referred to the printing of Cleveland's letter in the Record and 0 said that for one, and speaking only tl for himself, he was not disposed to per mit that letter to become a part of the 9 Congressional Record of the country without saying something in regard to it, so that he might express the senti ment of the people he in part repre- n sented. He had very great deference for the P views of the distinguished statesman. t] He had very great deference for the . distinguished men who in the other n branch of the Legislature had declared n that the judgment of the American ! people, as experienced on many occa- a sions, and especially at the last elec tion, was unalterably fixed in favor of the free coinage of silver. (Applause.) And although the business men of the 0 great metropolitan city of New York miay have met and resolved that it would disturb the business interests of the country, he thought they ought to S( pause a moment and reflect that in that ti great city not one brick would have been piled upon another had not the great agricultural interest cf the coun- ti try scwn in good season and brought its produce to the seaboard. It was B something for New York to be a me- L tropolis. She would be like a king n witho;ut subjects to obey her if agricul- n ture did not bring its produce to her a port. It must be remembered that while ttsiness men might shake, there was a power Tbehind -the th-rone-of hus.:ne men, behind the banks, behind the goldI. men an- behind the silver men-the ci power of the people of the country, G who had declared in unmistable terms It that they were in favor of the reissu ance of the silver dollar, the dollar of the fathers, the first unit of value on this n continent. It could not be said that tE those who were in favor of free coin- ti age of silver and bi-metallic currency e( were in favor of displacing anything e( that had a superior value to silver, be- 01 cause silver constituted the orignal unit of value. The people had arisen tc in denunciation of the outrage perpe- ai trated in Congress when silver was de- pl monetized by a fraud upon the govern- al ment so flagrant that the President did te not kno w it and Congress did not w know it. H~e wished to say (while he I[ would not call in question the opinion G of men who differed with him) that there was no man in the country, tI whether he had held a distinguished G position or whether he had the ;'mbi- W tion to hold the highest position within A the gilt of the American people, (be he wV of one party or another), who could lay v: (own the law to the great masses of ni this country who thought for them- hi seves. [Applause.] In regard to the publication, he H wished to say for himself, and he be- tI leved for his constituents, that they tl wntedl free coinage of both metals. al Whatever might be the opinion of any one man, whether he had occupied an V eminent position in the past or expect- h ed to occupy it in the future; whatever w might be the opinion of any one man o twhether he sat on the Republican or tl Democatic side), no one man had the h right to speak for the great laboring h interests of the country, which stood to H the back andl behind the Constitution c< and law. [Applause.] Cannon-"I would like to ask the ti gentleman whether he is in favor of ei Cleveland for the next President ?" Hlooker-"I will say that I do not a] think that a man on the continent of 82 America will ever be the candidate of h the Democratic party for President of the United States who is opposed to the free coinage of silver. [Applause.] Without disposing of the bill the c( committee rose, and the IHouse ad- S journed.b A Military Outraae. BARCELONA. Feburary 5.-The re- i volutionary spirit smouldering through- d4 out Spain nearly burst into flame in this tI city to-day. There was a peaceful de- d< monstration, of which a parade and ti sneeches were the main features, going on in favor of the Republican leader, Don ti Nicolas Salmerony, Alfonso Iloullas ln and their co-workers in the the propaga- s tion of Republican ideas, and naturally tC the crowds whicht were attracted by the n: pocesion became somewhat excited. a This attitude of the populace seems to a have alarmed the oflicer in charge of a rc lroop of mounted gendlarmes who had - bea detailed to maintain order and in al case of such emergency arising to sup- it press any revolutionary proceeding. In t nur case the oflicer seeins to have lost 3 his head and to have ordered the gend- u armes~ to charge the crowd. They did -i so. IBring pistols and carbmness right and a le. The result was that several pecr- tl SOls were more or less dangerously wVonded and a number of bullets from g, the: gendarnmes' weapons flattened s, aro'nf(l the balcony and windows of the C hotel from which Salmerony was speak- si in. The action ot the gendarmes deep- , lv~ enraged the people, but the crowd1h sucms to have dispersed without anye opni action. It is understood that the Government _ will be asked to order an inquiry into te conduct of the officer in charge of the gendarmecs. Salmerony's friends claim that the bullet marks around the S widow from which he was speaking I Ishow that the gendarmes tried to shoot. a smallpox in Kansas. I :A rroN, KAN., Feb. 11.-T wenty li e cases cf smallpox are said to exist in this village. One patient has died. Strict quarantine regulations are en- ~ Iforced, and the only means of comn- a m iunication with'the outside world is t CLEVELAND AND HIS CHANCES. 'ill He be Hart by Having The Courage of His Convictions? WAsHINGToN, Feb. 12.-The letter of x-President Cleveland, committing imself against the free coinage of sil er policy, was the absorbing topic of iscussion at the Capitol to-day. It was lively day, too, for the representatives E the press, and the opinions of leading Len from all sections of the country 'ere solicited, the intention being to tel ,raph these expressions to all news cen 'rs in the United States. A variety of opinions were obtained, for 'hile many of the leading Senators and epresentatives would not talk, the av age Democrat espressed a decided will igness to be interviewed on so import at a subject. As a rule the Democrats om the Eastern and Middle States ;reed with Mr. Cleveland in his oppo tion to the free and unlimited coinage E silver. Senator Wilson, of Maryland, ae of the few Democrats who recently ted against the free coinage bill, ex ressed himself cautiously and conserv tively. He said that Mr. Cleveland ad a right to his views on the question, ad called attention to the fact that the 'emocratic party had never yet in a na onal convention decleared for free )inage. Senators Gorman, Vest and many ,hers, who were prominent in putting irough the bill that recently passed the mnate, preferred not to be quoted. ther Southern Senators were, however, At so cautious, and they freely express I their opinions. Senators Pugh, Regan, Coke, Barbour, ance and others declared emphatical that Cleveland by his course had not aly alienated many of his hitherto anchest supporters, but his views on Lis great question disposed of his iances for the Presidential nomination L 1892. Quite a number, while not agreeing ith Mr. Cleveland, could not help ad iring his boldness in coming out squar against a policy that is so generally )pular in the West and South. Among the members of the House ere was a wide difference of opin n. The New York members com Lended the Ex-President for his course, id so did Mr. Wilson, of West Virgin , Mr. Dargan, of South Carolina, and few more from the South, but the eat body of Democratic members om the South and West expressed the >inion that Mr. Cleveland had practi tlly lost the nomination in 1892 by ritting such a letter. Others took a more modified view and emed to regret that the Ex-President ould have adopted this course when te overwhelming sentiment of the par is for free coinage. Among the prominent Democrats of e House who do not agree with Mr. eveland may be mentioned; Messrs land, Hatch, Dockery, Heard and Tars y, of Missouri: Crisp, Blount and Tur r, of Georgia; Wheeler and Oates, of labama. Bynum and others.-New id Courier. Hurrah for Gov. Northen. ATLANTA, GA., F 1_.-While Jay ottidas being wir- d dined in this ty Saturda ' le absence of vernor Northerr fro all mention in .e programine was sever imes co - ented upon. The receptions were mu cipal, commercial and social in charac r, yet neither at the city council recep >n nor at the Capital City Club lunch in, nor at the evening reception tender t by Hugh T. Inman did the Governor any member of his family appear. It was at first supposed that, owning Governor Northen's limited personal quaintance in the city, his name had obably been overlooked. It was reed on all sides that there was a mis ke somewhere. Some Alliance men ere disposed to think that a slight was tended, as Northen had been elected overnor by them. The facts leaked out to-day. It seems at Governor Northen did not meet Jay ould because he did not wish to. He as duly invited to join the citizens of tanta in doing honor to Mr. Gould. It as represented to him that Mr. Gould's sit to Atlanta meant much in a busi ~ss sense; that Georgia would gain by s proposed transcontinental alliance th the Richmond Terminal system ore than any other State, since it meant e pouring of the grain shipments of e West into the ports of Savannah id Brunswick. "I did not want to meet Mr. Gould," as the Governor's reply. "His visit re has no official character. While I ould like to meet the other gentlemen the party, I cannot do so because of e presence of MIr. Gould. I objiect to m personally, because I disapprove of s policy of monopoly and his business ethods. I regret to be forced to this melusion, but the common people owe .r. Gould nothing, and as chief execu ye of Georgia I cannot do him rever ce." This is why Governor Northen's name >peared nowhere on the list. There is eat diversity of opinion in regard to s course. Help for Clemson from Hampton. PENDLETON. Feb. 11.-The Clemson rilee received a few days ago from aior Hampton some three hundred oks. We have not seen them, but wc e told they are very valuable. being ostly boois of reference. We are also forned these books, being the first mation to the Clemson college hibrary. .ey will be numbered and the honored mor's name will be duly enrolled on .e library-register. There is something peculiar about ese books. Some time in September st Senator Hampton wrote to Colonel mson, president of the board of trus s, informing him of his desire to do ite these books to the Clemson college ad requested him to designate to whom id where they should be sent. But eunaccountable reasons this letter was >t received by Colonel Simpson until out two or three weeks ago. Where was all this time no one can con jec tre, but from the number of post ollice amps on the envelope it has had many as and downs before it reached its dles ation. Colonel Simpson immediately iswered the letter so long delased, and te books were promptly received. Senator Hampton has also in the last w days sent to Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, ~cretary and treasurer of the Clemson ollege eleven hundred packages of aed, each package containing four pa: ars of didlerent varieties, and requestea m to distribute them among the farm s as far as they would go, and in such 'ay as would do the most good possible. -Greenville News. A Fearless Judge. CINCINNATI, Feb. 12.-A Times tar dispatch says that J udge Wilson ewis of Pineville, Ky., who has been etive in the prosecution of the despera oes who have been carrying on the oody feuds in that region, was shot nd kiilled last night by his own son, idney Lewis. Th le Judge had put his on under bond as one of the unlawful au. The son visited his father last .igit, a quarrel resulted and Sidney fired e alls into his father's body. DIABOLISM IN CHICAGO. PLOT TO BLOW UP A BREWERY AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN. The Secretary of the Whiskey Trust the Concocter of the Terrible Scheme-How a Government Detective Caught the In human Wretch. CnIcAGo, Feb. 11.-George J. Gibson, secretary of the Whiskey Trust, was arrested this morning. He is charged with an attempt to bribe an official of the Government. It is asserted that when the facts in the case are devel oped they will be of a sensational char acter. When arrested Gibson had in his pos-, sion a gripsack, which, it is said, wqs found to contain all the evidences of the plot. The name of the revenue of ficer to whom the bribe was offered is Dewar. It is rumored that Gibson made a confession. Gibson was taken before United States Commissioner Hlayne, and, waving examination, was held in $20,000 bonds. Among other rumors it was stated that the plot was to blow up Shufeldt's distillery. Gibson was arrested upon the com plaint of Solicitor Hart, of the internal revenue bureau, who arrived here this morning. Solicitor Hart tells the story of the plot as follows: "Some months ago the treasury de partment was assured that thinas were not just straight, from the fact that the trust people tried their best to have a certain man appointed inspector of the department for this district. We set a watch. Soon after this Dewar was communioated with, and this man, Gibson, opened up a correspondence. with him; we have the correspondence. Gibson felt his man cautiously, telling him at first that Shufeldt's concern was in the way and that they were try ing to get it out of the way. He got a little bolder soon, and finally, led on by' Dewar, who was all the time in consul tation with the department, he made a straight proposition. He offered Dewar $10,000, and then increased the offer to S26,000, to blow up the concern. Gib son stated that he had a dynamite ma chine that could be located just outside of one of the large tanks, so that a few moments af ter it was placed it would explode. There would be plenty of time, Gibson told Dewar, for him to' get away, and that he was the only-, man who could place it, because of the fact that as a Government officer-he. had access to all parts of the-building. "The result of the success of the con spiracy," continued Hart, "would have been that the machine would have ex ploded between two of the immense tanks, making terrible destruction and. leaving a sea of alcohol on fire. "Gibson lied when he told Dewar, that the machine would not go off un til he had time to get out, for it would have exploded at once, killing the man who placed it at the very instant, be fore he could possibly get away, thus. destroying the only evidence against the trust people, and at the same time saving to them the $25,000 that Dewar was to have received. In addition to. the destrictignaf --n...of?~ ruiI~tl1 gs the success of the plot meant unquestionably the death of one hun ired and fifty men working in the place. "As I say, Dewar under our instrue ions went to the length of the conspir icy to the point of doing the diabolical leed, and when Gibson was arrested-he as waiting uneasily, expecting to ear the explosion and destruction of ill those lives and all that property. "We have in our possession all the evidence to substantiate Dewar's story, he dynamite machine, the letters, the :ontract between D)ewar and Gibson, l fact everything. The case is practi ally over, so far as our department is :oncerned. The case is made." "Have you any evidence to show that athers besides Gibson were implicated n the conspiracy ?" Hart was asked. "Gibson is secretary of the Trust, and while we might say 'Gibson was ot alone in this, and that somebody igher up in the Trust was the respon sible party, we have not a bit of .ey1 lence tending to implicate anyone else." "Everything we have points to Gibi son, and to no other person. The ma 3haine, the materials to make it effec tive and the inculpating documents were in a satchel wvhich Gibson carried. &t the time of his arrest some un known person who had knowledge of the conspiracy warned the owners of the distillery on Monday of the danger which beset them, and fixing the date for the explosion for yesterday or to iay, and they were carefully guarding the premises day and night." T wo previous attempts, which were attributed to the Whiskey Trust, but cot proved, were made to destroy Shun teldt's place with dynamite. One of them occurred two years ago last fall.. Detective Coughlin, of the city police force, was detailed in the case. and it was while at work on it that he made the acquantance of a little German, John P'. Kunze. Both of them were afterward tried for complietty in the assassination of Dr. Cronin. Coughlin is serving a lif, sentence for the crime, but K~unze was acquit This afternoon Gibson was taken be fore United States Commissioner Herne and released on bail of $20,000. He de lined to make any statement in regard to the matter. The Comptroller3 Opinion. Comptroller General Ellerbe holds the opinion that there should be but >ne disbursing oflicer in the State, and ais opinion is based on sound reason md judgment. The sinking fund commission, the penitentiary board, and the Adjutant and Inspector General under the pres sent law, are disbursing odicers with aut bond. In speaking of these offi 3ers len. Ellerbe says: "They ought all be made to deposit their money in the State treasury, and the expenses of either the commission or the penitentiary ought to be paid upon the warrant of the Comptrc Iler General. The penitentiary has a Dri vate treasury, and in neither iasta~c~e is a bond given. The law upon this matter only requires that the sdrpks, after the conclusion of the year's bus. ness, is to be deposited in the State treasury. My id'a is t'aI there ought to be but one dihbursing oflicer in the State. Tfhe same application may be made of the funds derived from thA royalties and privileged tax on fertili zers and phosphate. They now go to the Clemson College authorities. The best plan is to give them a direct ap propriation and let all money go into the State treasury." The income of the State, from what ever source it may be derived, shuuld all go into the State treasury and be treated in the same manner as money derived from the tax on real estate. Clemson College and every other insti tution of the State should be supported by direct appropriations to be paid by the treasur er. One treasurer is enough. Make his bond sufficient and let him receive and disburse all the funds of the State.