The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 11, 1891, Image 1

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V VSD VOL. VIL AANN I NG, S. (l., WED-NES1)AY, MARCH IL 81 ____N. 2 A CITY DESTROYED. THE C!TY OF YUMA WIPED OUT BY THE FLOOD. *ater Covers the Conutry for Fifty miles Around-Hundreds of People Reudered Homeless and Destitne-Appalling Loss of Life Reported. YUMA, Arizona, March 1.-Over 250 houses are in ruins in this place and 1,400 people are homeless. It is feared that hundreds of lives have been losst in the Gila Valley. -No reliable reports can be obtained from that locality, as the roads are impassable and all the wires are down. Above Yuma the river is seven miles wide, and below 'the town the water covers the coantry in one grand lake over fifty mi1's across. Over 1.000 per sons are be-ng fed daily at the Southern Pacific Hotel, and the town has pro visions suffic'ent for eight days more. The blockade of West bound trains, it Is expected, will be raised in about four days, but it will be at least two weeks before they can go East. Reports from Jenkins, f'teen miles above heie, were to the effect that the flood drove the people into the tree tops. Many became exhausted from cold and hunger before the flood abated and dropped into the water and were drown ed. It is estima'Ad that anywhere be tween thirty and 100 lives were lost in the valley. Desolrtion reigns supreme all along the valley. Every house on the hills has been thrown open to receive the homeless, and bundieds are quartered in tents and in the old goverment buildings. The rerchants have opened their goods in ti-e streets in order to help the sufferers. The water is still high for two hundred miles east of this poirt, and all this must pass here. Mar; fear that the worbt is yet to come, espec'ally if there should be any further ra'nfall. The losses in this county will foot up nearly $2,000,000, and t'e darrage suffered by the raiload company will amount to more than $20,000. - The comwoa loss has brought all classes of citizens together, ard all have worked with a will, first m trying to save the town by construc~ing a rude levee, and when that effort proved futile, in sav ing as much as poasile from the ruins. The old town will probably not be re built, as both merchants and residents will erect their stores and houses on the hills, in order to be out of reach of any fuher damage. A boat which arrived from Mohawk, sixty miles up the Gila River, brings re ports of teirible loss of life, all the coun try being under water. The areatest sufferers are the poor Mexicans, whose entire possessions have been swept away and who have no reserve to .all back upon. Their is yet a vast stretch of territory to be heard from, every one fears that when full returns are in. the loss of li'0 will prove of appalling magnitude. Reports from the valley of the Colo rado, below this place, state that hun dreds of the Cocopah Indians have been drowned. They are located abut sixty miles South of here, and their tribe is about 5,000 strong, Their villages are all on low land, and as there are no hills on which the Indans could take refure. an immense number of them must have been cauaht m the flood and swept away. The waters rose six feet in twelve hee'rs and came on them almost without iwarning. In this city the ruin has been most complete, tte Catholic church being the only building left a'ding on the main street. The convent and adjoiningschoo stood the wear of the waves for uanv hours, but flially crumb'ed into ruins. The Yuma Sentmnel Luoved its office four imes yesterday, but finally sac ceeded in getting out on time. Tne Times was less fortunate, and its office and material went down in the wteck. Fears were entertained that the fine railroad bridge would be carried away. but fortunately the piers stood the test, and unless some eztra her.; wreckage should, lodge on the superstructure and cause a jam, it will not be materially in jured. The officers of Fort Ynma have done everything in ;their power to assist the sufferers, and fortunately there was a good supply of tents on hand, and these were at once placed at the disposal of the homeless families and much suf fering thereby prevented. Should there be no further rainfall, it is hoped that there will be little further loss, and that with the restoring of com munication with the West sufficient trains will be brought ;in from|San Francisco and Los Angeles to prevent any serious troble. THE LATEST FROM FLOoDED YUMA. YVAm, ARIZONA, Marih 2.-The Yuma river has fallen to almost the level of the water before the last flood. News from the valleys say that every thing is under water, and much destrue tion to property is reported. Gila River changed its course In several places. A i Gila City the railroad track was covered for miles by water ten fee., deep. The statement iis made that the stories of ~Le first loss of life are untrue. One man is, so far, known to have been drowned. Reports of the death of others in tile valley are reported, but they have not vet been confirmed. A Swindler for Twenty Years. SAAN, GA., Feb. 27.-After twenty years continued swindling, by which he has managed to defraud lirms in Georgia and other States out of amounts aggregating S50,000, A. .J Dickson, of Mershon, is now on trial in the United States Court for using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Ac cording to the testimony he would send for a small bill of goods and refer to a fictitious firm at Mershon, where he served as postmaster. When the let ters of inquiry came he would answer them, giving himself a first-class busi ness rating. The first bill he would pay as a bait, then lie would order a large lot of goods, for which the pay never came. Earried to Get His Legacy. ANN A RBOR, Mich., Feb. 28--dames L. Babcock, the young man whose uncle in 1888 left himn a fortune of $500,000 on condition that he marry within niye yasisabout to take a wife. The rieelect is Miss James, a sister of C. S. James, a prominent merchant of Waukesha, Wis. Mr. Babcock has been the recipient of more love letters an~d proposls- probably than any othei young man or woman of his time. Wrecked on Tybee. SAVAiNA, Feb. 27.--An unknowr small two-mnasted schooner went ashbor on Tybee iNorth breaker on Thursday evening, in a northwest gale, and sunk The crew are supposed to be lost. The vessel is believed to be the Robert Mc Carrel, of Charleston, and w as on voyage to this port from Coosaw, S. C. with phosphate rock and carried e =wcre offve men. THE MODERN ALARIC. Some Truths About the Vandalism of Sherman's March to the Sea. DUE W EST, February 24.-The mem ory of Gen W. T. Sherman is clearly not without a stain. No one will question his brute bravery, but every right-mind ed mam must regard him as a cruel monster. A large amount of the region .f couutry traversed by him in his "marci to the sca" was at the time bereft of all its population except the old men. women and children. The able bodied men were all in the Coniederate ar-av, and the force by N hich his pro 1 -re-s N as opposed was not adequate for tiie purpose. It is a fact beyond doubt that he burned, or caused to be burned, houses of every description and destroy ed property of all kinds. By his orders or with his full consent all the stock was destioved. In all this wholesale destruction there wa-s not the shadow ofnecessity, viewed fro-n a military point of view. The North may laud him as much as it pleases, but the solemn truth is "Sher L an's march to the sea" is a disgrace to the whole American nation and a foul bt on the cvilization of the nineteenth century. The barbarities perpetrated by his army, and with his appiobation, exceeded any recorded in moderin histo . y, except it be tho e practiced by the Spaniards. His "march to the sea" was a St Bartholomew's Day repeated on a grand sca'e. Gen Wm T. Sherman had a spleneid opportunity to display the chivalry of a corqueror, but he chose to p'ay the part of a black-bIearted murder er. It is to hoped that he repented of all his sins. If Gen Sherman had taken the horses and mules of the courtry and used them this would, by the laws of war, have been regarded as proper, out this he did not do. The horscs and mules, in every section of the country through which he passed, were collected and shot. The co -n and fodder and e;verything on which rai.,n o. beast could live were burned up. Everything was destroyed. Domestic low s and domestic animals-even the dogs and cats were illed. Houses, in whih +here were none bu; old men and ladies in humble ci, cu.stances, were entered, destioyed. Milch cows were sl-o' down in the yard, the crockery was all broken up; the pails and pots were smashed into pieces, the clothing of the fa'mily was violently taken out of the houses and sometimes off the persons of old men and old momen of little boy3 and girls and burned befo:e their eyes. Tais was not all. Those who were reduced to want wf re cured and abused as if they hod not the feelings of brutes Gen Sherman en his "march to the sea". ac.ed as if he believed that the only good Southern man was a dead Southern man, and the only mercy that the South de served was to be burned up. The probability is that in the course of a few months .ome book agent will be tramping over the SouLh endeavoring to sell to the people of Georgia and South Carohna the life of Gen Sherman. It is to be hoped that our people will have enough of self respect neither to buy it nor read it. Some Southern man ought to write the history,ofS'erman's "March to the sea," that coming generations might know the truth. All that is really necessary is to siate uuvarnished the factb-the truth; nothing but the truth. We have no desire t o blacken the name of Gen Sher man. He is dead. But it is doing the South a great injustice for the Northern press, and especially the religious press of the North, to point to the march of Gen Sherman to the sea as the pilgrim age of an unselfish saint.-News and Courier. An Interesting Libel Suit Ended. AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. 27.-Au inter esting case was tried in the City Ceurt o? Augusta to-day-that of Jesse J. Whitehead, of Oconne County, vs. Au gsta Chronicle, an action for libel. The Chronmele, last August, published an item wbich alleged that Whitehead had become involved in a row in which a ian named Shipp was killed and an other named Atkinson mortally wournd ed. The Chronicle pleaded in defense that the article was copied into its co lumns from a reputable and reliable pa per in Georgia ; that no malice was in tended ; that it offered to print an expla nation, but that the only reparation ask ed by Whitehead was under considera tion. Whitehead's counsel held that the ar.icle was en~irely new and originated at the hands of some neighbors with whoa Whitehead was in a feud. Judge Eve decided that the article did not charge any particular crime, avd the case against th~e Chroniele was non-suited. The case attracted much attention by its novelty. This was the first libel case tried here in twenty-five years. Anna Dickinson Insane. W ILKESBARRiE, PA., Feb. 26.--Anna Dickinson, the once favorite lecturer and female abolitionist, is now an in mate of the Danville asylum. She was taken to that institution last evening by Dr. Hlileman, her family physician. For six months it has been plain to Miss Dickinson's friends that she wa losing her mind. At times she acted very queer. Mi1ss Dickinson is fifty yea-s of age. She gave all her wvealth away to the poor. She bought property for all the poor people for miles around. At present she is the prosecutrix in a suit in the New York courts against Matt Quay for services rendered the Republican party in the campaign of 1888. The gifted lady has lived for years with her sister, Susan E Dickin son in West Pittston. For some time hehealth has been in a precarious con tion and she has been constantly uder the eyes of her physician, who treated her for insomnia. This disease has been undermining her vitality for some tme, and although she has been care fuy nursed t-y her devoted sister no iprovement was perceptible. senator Hearst Dead. WASH ING TON, Feb. 28.-Senator Geo. Iearst of California died at his resi dence on New Ilamnpshire Avenue in this city at 9:30 o'clock to-night. lie had been ill for a long time, and in De cember last went to New York city to consult with Dr. Charles S. Ward in re gard to his condition. The physician found that he was anlicted with a com plication of diseases, resulting primarily from a serious dierangement of the bowels. IHe will be buried in San Francisco. Big Blow at Jacksonville. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 27.-A high gale prevailed in this city yesterday and considerable damage is reported. The front of the St. James Ilotel was blown out and about sixty feet of the Iwarehouse roof on the Clyde pier was blown ol and demolished. A hole fif teen by forty-five feet was blown in the Sub-Tropical build:ng and two houses in Ithe suburbs were completely wrecked. Wires are down in all directions. No loss of life is reported. ONE OF REED'S LAST RAIDS. The Shipping Subsidy Scheme Shoved Through Congress. WASH INoTON, Feb. 27.-The House devoted the entire day to debate on the shipping bill and began voting on amend ments to the measure at 5 o'clock. The House substitute was finally agreed to, yeas 144, nays 47. The vote then recurring on ordering the Senate bill, as amendcd by the sub stitute, to a third reading, the roll was called amid intense excitement. Everv response was anxiously awaited, and as the call came to a close, and it was known that the motion had been de;eat ed, there were many ianifestations of pleasure on the Democratic side. At the last moment Mr. Diuley changed his vote to the negative, anl the Speak er announced the vote to be yeas 142, nays 148. The announcement was greeted with wild applause by tho Democrats, and then Mr. Dinaley moved to reconsider a motion, which Mr. Mc'Millen promptly moved to lay on the table. This niotion was defeated-yeas 146, nays'149-and the Republicans were jubilant. Then came the vote on the motion to reconsider. This motion was agreed to yeas 142, nays 143-and the question again recurred on ordering the bill to a third readin. The third reading of the bill was ordered-yeas 147, nays 145. Mr. Cannon, of lilinoi2, moved that the bill be recommifed to the commit tee, with instructions to report back, forthwith, a bill, similar to the Senate bill on the same subject, to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports. This bill is identical with the substitute which Mr. Candler, of Massachusetts, desired to offer, except that it eliminates the free ship clause of the latter measure. Mr. Bland. of Missouri, raised the point of order that the committee could act be directed to report I-iorthwith." The motion to re-commiI w as carried yeas 143, nays 142 ard the substite te having been, repo:ted at once by Mr. Farquhar, of New York, a fusilade of points of order was directed from the Democratic side of the House, which were overruled by the Speaker. At 11:15 the postal subsidy bill was passed-yeas 140. nays 120. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, moved that a conterence be orde- ed ; pending which Mr. Bland, of Missoui, moved an adjournment. Lost-yeas 74. nays 111. Pending action on Mr. Farquhar's motion, the House. at midnight, ad journed. - Unhappy Children of Israel. LoNDON, Feb. 27.-The friends of the Russian Jews are much stirred up )ver the growing disposition to prevent further immigration of that class into England. Oswald John Simmons, the noted champion of his race, writes: "It is a fiendish invention to assert that this portion of the human family can be ormidable competitors in the labor markets of the world. They have the same right to live as any people on earth. I trust that an international arrange ment may be come to by wlch the Jews of Rassia may be distributed io countries where they can be taken under the pro tection of Lhe English. the French and American governments." Mr. Simmons recommcnds that a pow erful committee be organized with this view, consisting of delegites from Lon don, Paris and the United States. Mean time it is said passages are being bought by the steamner load for the transfer of the Russia Jews to the United States. One of the Jewish fauilies expelled from Novgorod has arrived at Willen berg, Prussia, ne r the Russian border. They report the total number of families expelled from the city of Novgorod as 17, and from the rural districts adjoin ing ninety-four. The family, whose name is Keplan, give a hideous account of the suffering caused by the enforce ment of the anti-Jewish laws. One Jew ish merchant was found dead, with hit wife and their five children also dead, in their house, where they had lived for many years. It was supposed they had taken poison. In the merchant's hand was grasped the notice of banishment. The property of the exiles is being bought up for a song by Russian specu lators. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Honoring Wesley. LONDON, March 2.-To- day being the 100th anniversary of the death of John Wesley, the great theologian and founder of the Methodist Church. a statue erect ed to his honor was unveiled in the pres ence of a large crowd in front of the City Road Chapel, the headquarters of the Wesleyans. Rev. Frederick William Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster. took part in the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue, and after ward, with Sir Robert Fowler, one of the members of Parliament for London City, addresssed the meeting in the City Road Chapel. The Archbishop delivered a long and eloquent eulogy of John W ealey, during the course of which he said that he regretted as a churchman th the churchi of a hundred years ago had not the wisdom to assimmilate with, the mighty enthusiasm which give mo m entum to the Wesleyan movement. It seemed, said the Archdleacon, shock ing and disgraceful in Christians bound by common Christianity to trgat each other with mutual coldness. John W esley himself, he adacd, set an exam ple of splendid tolerance. The Arch deacon, in conclusion, reminded the cor - gregation of the words of William Penn, that the humble, meek, merciful and just are all of one religion, and will so reco gnize each other while in another world ivith the mask off. ____ Many Found Watery Graves. NoFoLK Va. March 2.-Informa tion from 'Newport News to-night it that the terrific gale of last Thursday night played havoc on and in the vicini ty of the James River, where property was destroyed to a considerable extent, Among the losses reported is that of a large sloop, capsized at the mouth of Warwick River, about ten miles from New Port News, resulting in the loss of the entire crew, composed of fourteen. At the mouth of Waters Creek, near the James, a yacht capsized, and it alsc went to the bottom, seven men Ibemn precipitated into eternity thereby. Two men in a canoe near the saine place were out in the gale, and no in formation has been received of them leading their friends to believe they, too found a watery grave. It is thought thE list, which has already swelled to 32, will reach many more when full reports fron: the storm swept region are received., 11 is said that dead bodies Iloating by N ew. port News yesterday was a commor sight. _ _ _ _ _ Two Miners Kiled. C~iTwELL, Tenn.. Feb. 28.--A cabit of the inclinal Coal llines broke thiu morning as the miners were going tC work, and a car dashed down the moun ta. Two men were killed instantly and eleven seriously hurt. The others t is thht wim di from ther inju CONGRoESS IEVIEWED, A SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK ACCOM PUSHED BY THE FIFTY-FIRST. A Most Reuarkable Session-The Iupor tatnt Meaisures Adopted-The Appropri ations Exceed Those or Any **1eace" Con;res the Foundation of the Govern iment. WASniNOTON. March 4.--At noon to day the Fifty-firs. Congress (in the opinion of iany veter-n legislators the most remarkable Congress since the war) came to an end by constitu tional limitation. From the first to the last the-session was interesting and eventful and at no long periods were they ever characterized by the dullness, which. occasionally for (lays at a time, marked lie proceedings of nearly every Congress and especially of those t'ongrt-sses in which the first session is usually prolonged. The actual working time of the Fifty-first Congress exceeded that of any of its predecessors and the nominal working time of all except the Fiftieth Con gress, and in the number of measures brought to ils attention and the num ber, variety- and importance of those acted on,it likewise surpassed all previ ous Congresses. Three measures, any of which ini intrinsic importance and pop ular interest would be sufficient for a national issue, stand forth pre-eminent among all others: The McKinley tariff bill, which became law. Second. the silver bill, on which in the first session a compromise was effected, based on the monthly purchases of 4,500,000 ounces of silver, which in turn was fol lowed by a more radical measure that failed of passage; and third, the Feder al electiorns bill, which, af ter a protract ed, bitter, hotly fought and intensely exciting preliminary struggle, failed in the Senate to reach a decisive vote on its merits. The radical innovations in the rules of the House added interest to its proceedings, and the determined but fruitless efforts to adopt the most vital of these innovations, the former part of the history of the lost part of the session of the Senate. Even in its mortuary records Congress was re markable, the call of death having summoned no fewer than twelve of its Representatives and three of its Sena tors. Many of the bills enacted into laws appropriated an unusually large amount of money, and the expenditures authorized will exceed of those any "peace" Congress since the foundation of the coverument. The total appro priations by the Fiftieth Congress were, during the first session 3395,337, 516, and during the second session 522,626,343, or an aggregate of 6817, 965,859; while the appropriations for the first session of the Filty-first Con gress were $460, 627,607, and those of the second session will probably bring the total appropriations for this Con gress to one thousand million dollars. A comparison of the work of the Congress just closed with that of its immediate predecessor makes the fol owing exhibit: Bills introduced in the House in the Fifty-first Congress, 14,033, against in the Fiftieth Congress 12,654; increase, 1,379; joint resolutions, 279; increase of ten. Senate bills 5,129, against 4,000, or an increase of 1,129; joint resolutions 169. increase of 24. The number of bills passed by the House were 1,748, of which 1,513 be cane laws, and by Senate 1,305, of which 672 becam6 laws, making a total rumber of laws during the Fifty-first Congress 2,186, against 1,824 in the Fiftieth Congress, an increase of 36. The Senate also postponed indefinitely 616 Senate and 18 House bills, this be ing equivalent to their defeat. During the Fiftieth Congress 161 bills were vetoed, and during the Fifty-first Con gress 14, the most important of which were the Act establishing the record and pension office of the War Depart ment, and the Act providing for a pub ie building at Bar Iharbor, Me., Dallas, Texas, Ihudson, Ne w York, and Tusca loosa, Ala. Out of the eighteen contested elec tion cases the House seated eight of the Republican contestasnts and de clared the seat of Breckinridge of Ar as vacant. Two cases, Goodrich vs. Bullock, from Florida, and 3IcGinnish vs. Alderson, from West Virginia, in which the committee recommended the seating of the Republican contestants, were not disposed of. and the Elections Conmittee itself never- acted on Eaton vs. Phelan, a Tennessee case. The Sen ate disposed of its sole contested elec tion case by seating two Republican Senators from Mlontana. As the result of the work of Csngress a great number of measures wich have for years occupied more or less of the attention of the legislativa branch of the government will be transferred to the Executive and Judicial Depart ments of the governme it-there, per haps to become equally familliar ac quaintances. Amrong the "old stagers" which are now laws are the copyright bill, the private Land Court bill (to set tle disputes arising over the Mlexican grants in the Western States and Te'r ritories), the s.ubsidy bill, the Indian depredation claims bill, the timber and pre-ertion law repealed (making a general~ revision of the land laws), the customs administrative bill, the gener al land forfeiture bill, the bill to re lieve the Supremje Couirt by the estab lishment of Inter-State Circuit Courts Iof Appeals; the United States J1udges saar ies bill and the district tax refund bV"l The Blair educational bill, the Ibill for the appointment of an aleo Iholic liquor com mnission and the "eight hour" claim bills are measures which were (defeatedl on test votes, while among those which, after passing one house failed of action in the other and will doubtless be wrestled with by suc ceedig Congresses, are the bankrupt cy bill, the Conger laid bill, and the army reorgaiization 1bil1, the P'addock pure food bill, the~ \icaragua Catnal bill, the Pacifle Railroad funding bill and the Inter-State Commerce bill.ito permit limiting pooling of earnings by railroad companlies) are among the measures wich failed to reach a vote in either house. Among the measures on which neither Ihouse acted, except in some cases by committees, wvere the sub treasury and fai mn mortgag e bills, the service pension bill, the Canadian re ciprocity resolutioni, the bill to encour age the construction of an Inter-Conti ncntal Railway, the piostal savings bank and postal te-legraph bills, the Butler bill to aid negroes to immigrate to Africa. womsan suffrage and prohi bition Constitutional amendment, the income tax bill and various other radi cal financial and pol;tical measures. Fatal Rtailroad Accident. MIACON, GIa., Feb. 28.-The North bound Georgia Southern and Floria passenger train ran into an op~en switch t Titon this morning and colided with a freight train on the siding, and wvas ~adly wvrecked. Fireman Adam Arnold, colored, was killed and several passen gers were injured. After the accident it was fotund that the switch had beer locked open-it is believed with mali ius intent TILLMAN IN WASHINGTON. How Our Governor Looks to The Habit ues of the Capitol. WASINCx0N. Feb. 27.-Governor Ben Tillman, whose remarkable cam paign in South Carolina is familiar throughout the political world by reason of the novel methods he employed on the hustings, is in Washingtoii for the first time in his life. Ile visited the city to-day with his venerable brother, Geo. D. Tillman, who represents the 2d Con gressional district of South Carolina. Governor Tillman attracted general attention on the lLoor ot the House and was presented personally to a large num ber of the Democratic members. Ile is a typical farmer in appearance, but in conversation lie is quick, direct and plain spoken. I1is words flow freely, but there is a cautiousness about him which indi cates shrewdness, but fully justifies his reputation for being one of the greatest rough-and-tumble political campaigners in the South. Referring to the political situation in Sonth Carolina, he says there is not the slightest danger of his friends (the Till man faction) breaking away from the National Democratic party, and he pro poses to try and make his administration of State affairs so pure and clean that even his political enemies will be oblig ed to admit that they did him an injus tice in charging that he was seeking to destroy the Democratic party in the old Palmetto State. He does not heritate to say that there is still hostility to him in various ssctions of the State, and he supposes a certain element will continue to oppose him at every point. Notwithstanding this op position to him and his methods, he will endevor to administer the affairs of the State in accordance with the wishes and desires of an overwhelming majority of the people who cast their votes for him last November and placed him in the Executive Mansion at Columbia. Concerning the report that he has as pirations to succeed Senator Butler when the latter's term expires in 1895, Governor Tillman is non-committal. He simply says that the election of Sen ator Butler's successor is too far off for speculation. Senator-elect Irby, who succeeds Sen ator Hampton, is expected to join Governor Tillman here to-morrow. Gov ernor Tillman's visit here is in connec tion with the phosphaze beds in the nav igable waters of South Carolina. le wants the superintendent of the coast survey to send an officer down there to make a survey for the State.-News and Courier. A Daring Diamond Robbery. BInMINGnAX, ALA., Feb. 28.-A dia mond robbery of unprecedented bold ness is the sensation of Birmingham to night. Rosenthal's jewelry store is on the most prominent corner in the city, on the main thoroughfare and where numbers of street cars and dun my lines centre. One front is composed of two large plate glass windows, at least ten feet square. Before one of these windows several trays of diamonds were displayed. About 7 o'clock to night a man suddenly threw a thirty pound rock through the window, shat tering the glass to fragments. Quick as thought he dashed his hand through the opening. picked up the tray of; dia monds and dashed up the street. By standers and passersby were numerous and pursued him instantly. He turned down te first alley he came to, and in the darkness and rain made good his escape, tbough several shots were fired at him. Four large diamonds and a handful of pist6l cartridges were picked up in the alley where the robber had dropped them. It is not known what the loss is, but it amounts into thousands. Rosenthal and one cus tomer were in the store at the time. The former made a dash thr ough the broken window after the robber, but cut an artery of his wrist on the broken glass. The daring highwayman was white. An Important Decision, CHIARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 28.-The United States Court to-day decided the suit of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company 'c. the Town ship of Cane Creek, in Lancaster County. A bill was brought to enforce the delivery of $19.000 or bonds of the Township issued in aid of the Three C's Road. The refusal to issue the bonds was based on the ground that the amo'mnt was in excess of the 8 per cent. Constitutional limit aflixe:1 to the in debtedness of municipalities, it was submitted in proof that 8 per cent. of the assessed value of the taxable prop erty in the Township is $18,50 or $430 less than the debt incurred. The Court dismissed the suit on that ground, tak ing the valuattion of 1888. the date of the Act of the Legislature creating the debt. The -Court rules that "the Act having created a debt obnoxious in amount to the provisions of the Con stitution, the whiole debt is invalid, and it is not competent for the Court to declare so much valid as comes within the Constitutional provisions." This throws out $19,000 of the bonds issued in aid of the Three C's Road. An Alliance Trust. TOPEKA, Kan.,3March 2.-A new Alli ance move completes the formation of a huge grain and live stock trust, includ ing )Nebraska, Kansas, Nissouri and Iowa. Frank McGrath, President of the Farmers' Alliance, say s that the roject is one of the results of the fail re of the Alliance to pass certain bills. McGrath savs "that district Alliances are being forfmed in every Congressional district and provisions are being made for building a cold storage anid grain depot. The new scheme is modeled in detail after the whiskey trust. Of course, you will say that our principles will not admit of thiat, but we have decided that we must light the devil with tire-that is we must light trusts and combinia tions. While this scheme will reverse matters by putting stockmen and grain men at our mercy. we do not think any injury will result. The scheme looks visionary, perhaps, but will surely be a great one. Southeren Meloa Fields The Southi Georg~ia Melon Growers Convention was held in Albany, Ga.. the 18th of February. The object of the meeting was the consideration of in creaed acreage in melons this year, and Ito provide methods ior the prompt handling and movtfement of the crop)S. Mitchell and Lee Counties, Georgia, will inease their acreage by one-fourth over 'last season. Thomas County will have twice the number o1 acres. It is thought the entire crop of South Georgzia will be fully double that of 1890. Georgia and Alabama had 21 .000U acres in melons last year. This season there will be at least 0,000 acres. South Carolina shows an increase of nearly 50 pcer cent, over her .000 acres of 1$90. The Louisville and Nashville and the Cincinnati Rlords car red ~35.000' carloads of melons last year With 500 ncw fruit cars, they expect :o double the record this year. Twenty-four Urowned. RIemioxN. Mlarch 2.-A special to the Dispatch states that in a terrible gale which swept the lower .James River Thursday night twenty-four oystermen, mostly colored, were drowned at points, just above and below the mouth of the Warwick River. hand is worth two in the bush' and ap ply for license. It might be well for all to reminmber that the State of South Ca-rolina is our common mother, and that an expression of the will of this mother requires that we should listen respectfully and yield obedience!" News :nd Courier. BURNED TO DEATH. The Iiorrible Fate of a Prominent Flo: eice Lawyer. Fi.om-I:xe. S. C.. Feb. 27.-A few mmiutes a1ft-er 10 o'clock to-ni'ght an alarm f sire was sounded. The dwelling of B. O'Ncal e Townsend, a promineut lawyer, in the extreme western portoni of the to)wu. was on fire. In an extreme ly short timo the bulhd:ng. a two-stcry -ottage. was enveloped iii flames. The cry went uo. -Townsend is in the house!" Several firemen entered the bu1rning building in search of him, but to no avail. Qne went to a room where Mr. Townsend was supposed to be, but the room was one mass of flame. The enguines finally extinguished the [ire, so that several firemen could go into the ruins. Aster fishing around in the burning embers for some ti-ne, one of the negro firemen found the body, and a nass of burning. sizzlinz human flesh 6vas pulled out and -aid upon the garden alk. There are many theories about the ifab.ir. Sonie persons say that Ir. Town end was seen on his porch in the after anon, and that he seemed excited. as hough something was worryleg him. Others seemed to think he committed suicide and set the house alire himself. Eis waiting boy says that he left Mr. yownsend lying on his bed, reading. at 3 o'clock this evening, and that he was ierfectly calm and rational. Still others aint at Ioul play, and think it probable Liat he may have been murdered and obbed, and that the criminal set fire to the building to conceal the crime. Mr. Albert Theime, the nearest neigh bor. says that when lie went to bed be )oticed a light burning In Mr. Town end's bedroom. He had just got in bed when lie heard a report like the explo tion of a lamp. Ile ran 'over, but by he time lie got to the bedroom door the ocm was nothing but flames. IHe eems to think the lamp exploded while Ir. Townsend lay asleep, and before lie ould wake he was stilled with smoke. Belton O'Neale Townsend was per aps one of the most promnent young awyers of the State. le was originally 'rom ;ociety Iill, Darlington County, but has been practicing in Florence for he past eight years with marked sue ess. lIe leaves a wife and two little irls, who were at the time of the fire on i visit to relatives in the country. The remains were cared for by rela ives and friends, and will probably be aterred at his old home in Society Hill. The building was owned by Mr. Town end, and valued at $1,500, but was not nsured. The furniture was insured for 500, in the Springfield Fire and MIarine Insurance Company.-State. A North Carolina Iolocaust. IONROE, N. C., March 5.-Fire was liscovered in the Monroe High School arly this morning. An alarm was at )nee scat in and the students of the chool were aroused as soon as possible, ut it was too late to save the building and two unfortunate young men, Thos. E. Pemberton of Little Ibck, Ark., and lbert Post of Post's Mill. N. C., perished in the flames. At the first larm tbe young ladies who roomed on Ehe ground floor made their escape. 'he young men roamed on the third loor, and when the elarm reached them ll means of escape were partially cut of and the building filledi with smoke and 11ames. Albeit Post and A. C. Rhodle were in a ronm together. Al bert awaked first, and discovering the ire awoke Rhodes. In trying to escape Albert stamrted for the West entrance which was in that part of the building where tile lire originated. He was suf focated by the smoke and overcome by the heat and went down with the build ing. Rhodes sought the East entrance and mAnaged to escape, after bemng severely burned about the neck. head and arms. Thomas Pemberton was not seen at all and his remains were found on the wire springs of his bed, leading to the belief tnat ne did not awake at all. The head, arms and legs of the bodies we re burned off, leaving a mass of charred flesh. The building was completely destroyed together with the school furniture, four pianos an I the library. The origin of the fire is3 not kno wn. Loss $15,000. Explosion of a Fly Wheel. D)AsunY, Conn., MIarch 5.-The breaking of a governor belt on an en ine ~in Green & Fenton's hat factory ased the engine to "run away" about i clock this evening, and the increased speed caused the three-ton !!y wvheel to burst. The explosion was so terrific that nearly every one in the building was thrown down. Flying iron shatter ed the floor anid roof for fifty feet, and a piece weighing half a ton fell on the factory of D avenpart and Vogal and broke ~in twenty feet of the roof. Sev eral pieceCs went through the trimraing room, where sixty girls were at work, and caused a panic. Two girls leaped out ot the window, twenty-five feet fronm tie ground, and received serious imju res. .Snow Biocikade in the Wet. D)EN VE , Col.. March 5.-A D~urango. Col., special, says.."he snowv blockade is stilt on, but the rotary snow plows ex pect to) have the road opened by Satur day next. No mail has been received for seveniteen days and business is almost paralyzed. T1he? telegraph wires to Siiverton are down and under the snow in mandhy places. No trains will be able to reach there for many days yet. The towni is out of ilon--. fresh meat and and sugar, unless relri goes to thicm soon there will be suiferirag for the want of provisions.______ Lucky "R:ty Dou~aa.'' M;::eniis, March 3.-The will of Mrs. Catherine A. Thompson. wife of the late Jaco) Thlompson. Secretary of the Treasuary under President 1 uchmanani has been ~admitted to the Probate. The bulk of the estate goes to her grand daughter, 3Mrs. Kirkmnan, and to Mlrs. Montgomery, another granld-daughlter, known to the stage as "flay D)ouglass,' is begnieathed a half interest in a hotel at Oxford. Miss., and about $3->0.000 worth of jewelery and plate, and 85;0000 is set as ide to be invested for her benle fit. The estate is valued at 81.00le0 The Chicago Dynamuite Pltot. C( w ao, March 5.-- eo. . G iont secretary of the Whiskey Trust, arived fromi IPeoria. this moorinmg and gave bonds oil four neLw indictments t urned in by the last grand jury against hi m. Tie indictment originally returrned wa s dis mise . Thle new~ oines chatrge conspir acy with someI person or personms un knowni to destroy tihe property of Shu fetdt D istilling Company, and having in his possession diynamite, gunpowder. nitro-glycerineC or other explosives, for the jusp)ose of destroying life anid prop* THE COOSAW WAIL. GEN. POPE'S CONTRIBUTION ON THE SUBJECT. Au Exhaistive Ieview of the Contest Be tween the Peopl and the Coiporation from the Origin of the Latter Until the Present Time. COLu1itA, March ~>.--,s the (osaw company and the phosphat- c1mmis sion are still proninently in print be fore the State, Attoroey General Pope was called upon thi- morning and asked if he had stiicl-it lei.;urc, to give an expression of his views in regard to the recent event connected with the Coosaw Mining Company. .I cannot say," rephed Mr. Pope."I hat I have time in the ndst of the legiti mate demands ttpon nie as Attorney General, still I an not unwilling to state my impressiOns of the recent events that you refter to. The aitation as to this monopoly of t he State s phos phate territory near Chisoulm's Island, in the Coosaw River, by the Coosaw Mining Company. is not a iww thing. Nearly fourgen years ago our people were startled to find the inroads made upon their rights of every kind, made by the Legislatures that had made laws froul 18G8 to 1876 inclusive. So we find that on the 9th of .1une, 1877, the Gen eral Assembly, by joint resolution, re quested Attorney General James Cou ner to investigate and repart upon the charters heretofore granted to the phosphate companies. so that the rights of the State might be defined and pro tected. In December, 1877, General Conner made his report. It was in his best slyle; clear, logical, convincig. Right here it would ibe well to rememki ber the love the people bore the splen did lawyer and the wonderful conii dence they felt in any work of his hands. "In this report he stated that the Coosaw Mining Company was a joint stock company that had no charter from the State, but enjoyed a certain portion of the State's phosphate teri tory as the lessee or assignee of the River and Marine Phosphate Compa ny, which latter had received a grant from the State therefor on 1st March, 1870, for twenty-oue years; he also stated that this Coosaw Mlining Com pany after having mined nearly six vears received additional privileges under an Act of the General Assembly approved 28th March, 1876, but General Conaer stated that after 1st Mareb, 1891, this Coosaw Mining Company would have no power over such phos phate territory, and the State has ac quiesced in his judgment ever since that time. Gen. Conner, with almost I nrophetic eye, saw and foretold the trouble this company might give the people of this Cowmmonwealth by rea son of certain words in the third sec tion of the Act of 28th March, 1876. "I suppose it would be hardly fair to enter into any extended reference to the objections Gen. Conner urged against the construction certain friends of the Coosaw Mlining Co'npany even now urge in their defence as to the con struction of the Act of M3erch, 1876. One was that the section referred to was clearly unconstitutional because the power ciaimed under the words there used was in direct violation of that section of our -tate Constitution that requires every Act to relate to one subject, and that subject to be expressed in its title. Another objection was that the canons of construction require that all statutes bearing on the same. subject matter shall Le so construed as to give effect to each, unless the earli r were plainly and manifestly repealed by the~last, airectly or by implication,i and that inasmuch as this Coosaw ining Company was by the terms of the Act of 1870 limited to an enjoy ment of its mining privileges tor twen ty-one years, and as the Act of 18713, in question, diC not repeal this provi.sion directly or by necessary implication, ~t was bound to abandon its use of this territory after Miarch 1, 1891, unless the State should renew its power. "Our people. and all free, liberty-lov ing people, hate monopolies. They perceive instinctively the danger to their rights lurking in the wake of such creations. H ence at the last Gen eral Assembly this question was con sidered and an Act was passed creating a board of phosphate commissioners, and by the terms of that A -t such com missioners were directed to take pos session and control of the phosphate territory in the Coosaw [liver lately occupiea by the Coosaw Mlining Comi pany, and to grant licenses to nune theren, just as in the other navigable streams of the State." "Then I understand you to maintain that tihe State. having accepted the re port of Gen.' Conner, in 1877, on this subject, limiting the Coosaw. Mining Company to M1arch 1. 1891, ma its occu pancy of the Coosawv River, all that the Legislature did under the A.et creating the phosphate comirnission was to put that former construction into propec legislative expression ? "You understand me exactly, for that is precisely what I maintain. Now, therefore, when the phosphate companies are criticised for their re lusal to recognize tile Cosaw hmng Company as havinig any rights in the territory of the tcoosawt iliver after the ].st MIarch 1891, their reply is that you criticism must not be directedeit usI btt at the Commowe~al 1 or Sout' Carolina, whose ser vants we are in all that we do. lhence L esteem such edi torials in the newspapers tnat cast re proach upon the phosphate commis sioners for ext cuting. the provisions oif this Act tes unjust. llemember I hold that, as oilicers, we are amenamh to criticism for our acts when outside~ of the pale of the law. htut bedg unr a~t solemn orath to aduinister the law, it it is harsh or unjtust the I w making po er is responsible.tt I do not consider the action of the (General Assem blv either harsh, unjcst or illegtal. (J3 the contrary, 1 inaian that its heys lation on this s;ubject was entir'ly proper. .l igh~ft have w ~ished a little iarger discretion as to the powers et the comission, but after all. eve'n this particular, sumtimes the api-e ance -f saernness is salatry. "The Coosaw alining Compiany and is satel:ites were nlot deiCn~-i a license to nine I or phosphate rock in the ( C. saw River. Ihe co1l-it'io woni have gladly givenl to th li c lens u'tn der whic'a every dredge totuld hav~ie been kept anc every emnploy'e retained at work. It only asl what the la re q iird . Tat evers' one' should. ha'e air play was their ~aim. I dio object to any attempt to inwti suea ideas as that the Engi.,h capitalist is bAng pre ferrel over the ownaers of the Coosaw Mining Company .stock, and I ask what nalvity is assignied to the owners of the F'armiers- M ining Comupany?, I always 1inderstood that the l'inckneys ad ite GJreggs, of the Farmers' Coim pany, were to 'the m~aniner born, so with the stockholde~rs in other coau "Can you tell mee anyhog as to the probable legal proceedirgs that rumor says are in store br tus "I prefer not to aniticipaite trouble. The truth is that all these companies now associated with the Coosaw would do wel to remember 'tht a bird in the TILE Plt0SPhATE WAR. THE COMMISSION TAKE POSSESSION OF THE COOSAW TERRITORY. The Compauy to Appeal to the United Statesc Court for an Injunction-All Work Stopped-Over 1,000 Hands 1d14. Lam1 Phosphate Miners Jabiant. CIm:LE.rroN, March 2.-The war be tween the State and the Coosaw Phos phate Comp:ny was inaugurated to-day, when the Phosphate Commissioners, who wt-nt down to Beaufort yesterday, embarked in a tug chartered by the State, and with Governor Tillman on board went down to Coosaw and took posse.,ssion of the territory to which the Coosaw company claim exclusive right. Possession was taken by each member of the Commission dropping a lead line overboard ana sounding the bottom. The Coosaw company has shut clown its machinery and is now idle with its 1,000 or more employees. It is understood that in case any per son or company attempts to move rock in their territory the company will apply to the United States Court for an injunction, as the river now is a navi gable stream and un !er the jurisdiction of the United States. It is understood that it is going to be a war of freeze out. The Coosaw company will not mine any rock itself and the United States Court will be invoked to prevent anybody else from mining phosphate in the disputed territorv. The Coosaw company last year ,ship ped 100,000 tons of rock to Europe, and if the litigation is prolonged this much rock will be withdrawn from the market The land phosphate miners are jubilant and already talk of raising the price of land rock to 89 a ton. The litigation also is expected to boom the recently dis covered Florida phosphates. No process has yet been issued by the United States Court here.-Register. A PIIOSPJIATE MANS VIEW. A well-known phosphate miner, not connected with Coosaw, has this to say of the action of the -State commission to-dav: "Tfie phosphate commission took for mal possession of the Coosow territory this morning. At least they say they did. They took a tugboat and went to Coosaw River, expecting, of course, to lifn( all the Coosaw dredges in full oper ation, but they were mistaken. Mr. Moses Lopez, the superintendent of the Coosaw Mining Company. had quietly given orders that all the dredges should remain idle, not a pound of rock being mined from the waters of the Coosaw. The commission were no doubt greatly surprised, but they had come to take possession of Coosaw, and this-is aboat: the way I understand they did it. A meeting was held aboard the tug Brit-# annia in the cabin. Capt. Walter was called to the chair, then a resolution was passed by the board declaring that Coosaw River was open to general rights. A lead line was thrown overboard, the lead touched bottom, and the people of South Carolina are told by this wise and great commission that the Coosaw ter rito-y is no longer under exclusive rights. Was there ever such a redica-. Ious sight before? The Coosaw super intendent was in his own tug, the Ivan hoe, within hailing distance all the time when this was happening. Not a word was said to him and no formal notice. was given the Coosaw Company. The whole scene would appear nonsensical to a set of school boys. Yet these are the men to whom is entrusted one of the greatest industries in the State. T1iE LOSS TO THE STATE. "The shutting up of the Coosaw Min ing Company is a much more serions matter than most neople suppose. The company employs about three hiindred laborers, eighty of whom are white men with families to support. The weekly pay roll of the company is more than. 6,000. The State to-day alcne lost $500. in royalty, this being about the daily production of the dredges under the control of the Coosaw Company. How long can the State stand such a loss as this ? The State counts on $225,000 per annum from the royalty. I will venture to say it won't get $150,000 this year un ess some compromise is made, and that soon. "The Coosaw Mining Company liave the finest plant invested in the phos phate business, has always paid its royalty regularly, and has contributed to the State's treasury in the past $1, 300,000, and is certainly entitled to some cnsideration at the hands of the State. Instead of this, it appears as if it is the policy of the State and its officials to wreck and ruin this company. I be lieve if the Coosaw Mining Company had been properly approached by the phosphate commission that a satisfac tory adjustment could have been agreed upon. Mr. Robt Adger's dignified and well-timed letter to the commission at Columbia certainly would -lead to this supposition. The commission in its ride has seen lit to take no notice of Mr. Adger's letter, which certainly would seem to have called for a cour teous reply." ________ Scattered to the Winds. Nxv YORK. March 1.-The comn mittee 'of four from the Staten Island Schutzen crops. appointed to carry out the request of Henry Meyer, proprietor ot the Puck Hotel, at Port Richmond, that his remains bc scattered to the winds ITim the top of the statue of Liberty, on Bdoe's Island, fulilled their mission to-day. Waen the top of the pedestal was. reached by the committee, the metal urn that contained the ashes of Meyer was, opened andh each committeemen put a oc4-ton of the contents, which weighed about four pounds, into a paper bag. T:e delegation then climbed the stair case leading to the crown of the statute, where a brief adderess was made by the 1.mster of ceremonies. after which the four comm~tteeman, each holding one of the bais containing the ashes in his right hand, (>ronounced these words together: - -Here g.oes the last of Puck Meyer's happy 'days." and then scattered the ashes to the four- winds. The ceremony was concluded by the opening of two bottle-s ofchampagne and drinking to the memory of "Fuck" Meyer. Unavailable. Cr NeINxxATr, Feb. 28.-Senator Voor hees. im a published statement, declares that Cleveland is unavailable as the Democratic c:endidate for President be eause of his attttude on the silver ques ton. ie mentions Gormn and Chief dustice Fuller as possessing the neces sary- requisites for success. Storm Swept. (;a \Lys1roN, Feb. 2S.--Advices from the ( tv of M1exico say that the port of san Felipe has been visited by a bad storm. Mluch shipping has been wreck ed and eighteen ihouses destroyed. Many funiles we re made homeless. A nuim b "r of lives wxere lost and a great deal of ire stock~ ias perished. n-'rt-Six Below Zero. S-r P1 Lii, 31NXx., Feb. 28.-The cold est wether of the winter is swee'ping downf the Northwest. At Prince Al m'rt yesterdiay the therm'.mfeter regis tered 4?0 d -gree-s below zero. Quappelie had a temnparature of 40 degrees below ad ' a inn epn 38 dcgrees.