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)LFEBRUARY 20MANN95 SAFETY OF A STEAMIER NEWS THAT BROUGHT TEARS OF.JOY TOTH E EYES OF MAMY. The Long Missing Steamship Arrives at Last The News Received at the Offices of the Company with the Greatest Ex citement. NEw YoRK, Feb. 15.-When the news reached this city last Tuesday morning that the La Gascogne, a large ocean steamer with some four hundred passengers aboard, which left Havre for this city over three weeks ago, and which was given up by many as lost, was sighted off the bar, there was the greatest excitement around the com pany's office, which was crowded -with anxious inquirers, who had relatives and friends on board the steamship. They had been standing around with pale faces, expecting at any moment to hear the worst. When the word came that the ship was safe for a moment stillness reign ed which was almost painful in its in tensiW. Agent Forget for a moment wa rendered speechless, which evi denced how anxiois he had been for the safety of La Gascoone. Then he lgained himself and tecame wildly hilarious. He shouted, ran here and there, grasping the hand of this one and that one, and fairly jumped .up and down'over the floor in the excite ment of the moment. Then he put on his coat and started for the French Line pier, where a tug had been in readiness for several days to take him to meet La Gascogne s'hould she be sighted. Several of the anxious ones waitg for news starte4 from the of fice to rd the tug with Mr. Forget. Many wet eyes could be seen in the French Line 'office when the good news was ascertained and the tears were not from the eves of women alone. Strong men wept as little chil dren. The strain of days of worry had been too much for them. One man, a Mr. Riche, broke down completely and sobbed as if his heart would break. Mr. Riche had three daughters on board La Gascogne, two of them of tender years. He had abandoned all o whin the joyful tidings came. The delay of the steamer was due to a broken piston rod and to the terrific gales which have swept the North At Iantc for the past week or more and brought disaster to many a staunch craft. . Capt. Baudelon and officers and caew of La Gascogne brought the ship and passengers through the gales and made port without help. From the time they left Havre on January 26, until Monday, they spoke no trans Atlantic steamer and saw only a four masted schooner, the one which re portedat St. Pierre, Miquelon, N. S.. as having seen a large steamer off the banks apparently in distress last Sat urday. THE CAUSE OF THE DELAY. The steamer left Havre January 26. - On the first day out 449 miles were logged, on the second day 407 miles: .on the third day, after traveling 3S0 miles, the piston rod broke and eigh teen hours were spent in makin' re pairs. When -1hev were completed the ship steamed at nine miles an hour making in all sixty-six miles on the 29th. On the 30th, 31st and February 1, 215, 215 and 2S0 miles a day were made- respectively. On February 2. the piston rod broke down again. The break was more serious this time. Sea anchors were put out and for forty-one htourt the ship was hove to, making repairs. On the- 4th the first severe weather was experienced, and the ship was blown 150 miles out of her course. On the 5th the repairs having been completed 103 miles were made. The ship was then clear to the northward of the track of the trans-Atlantic line, and was therefore not seen by the maysteamers which passed over th~e rglrtrack. On February~ 6th 160 ilswere made. On the 7t'h the ma chinery broke down for the third time. The heavy cyclone struck her on that day and the'ship lay hove to with sea enchors out all day. No headway was made and owing to the motion of the ship, repairs were difficult. On the next day the chief engineer who had -been athis' post day and night, com pleted the repairs and the ship proceed ed 131 miles. On the 9th, for the fourth time, the machinery broke down and only seventy-four, miles were made; and to the great rejoie of all on board, Fire Island was sigrhted and the ship crept up to her anchorage off the bar. The United Press tug was received with a cheer by the anxious passen gers. They crowded to the rail, veiled and clapped their hands with all the enthusiasm of the French race. The officers refused to allow any one on board, and would not come to the rail to talk. The passengers were more obliging. Julius Matrigrim, a repre sentative of the colove firm of Perrim Frerers & Co.,ofl aris and New York, was interviewed over the side of the ship. He said: "We broke down on the third day out. We did not become alarmed, as we did not know very much about what was the matter. The captain said it was all right, and we had confidence in him. Our first ex perience with gales was on February 4th. We had a terrible blow then, and one of the boats was badly damaged.' "Was anything carried away "No, the ship stood it well. 'We had plenty of provisions, and fared first rate. We were blown away off our course and spoke no steamers until yesterday .when we saw an American: liner bound for Philadelphia.'' THE ENGOEE'S STORY. From Chief Engineer Adolph Mar tin was obtained a more detailed des cription of the nature of the break in the Gascogne's machineyr. The break occurred mn one of the miston rods about half way between t'he traveler and the piston. It was due to a flaw. Though there were facilities aboard for making repairs, the location of the break was such that an attempt to re pair it would have required the mnov ing of machinery and would have beer attended with even more delay and dfficulty. Therefore it was decided t( disconnect the affected cylinder from the other two, which used indepen dently. This necessitated the taking out of the injured piston, a delay of seventeen hours. The cutting out of this cylinder reduced the power from 9,000 horse to 4,500, bringing the sp~eed down to one-half. -Later the crank shaft got heated, and the bear ings had to be changed. The break was not caused by any strain from 'oad weather, but simply to the flaw which existed in the new machinery. The engines at e &i the quadruple expan sion type. There are six cylinders, set tandem fashion in two tiers of three cylinders of seventy-nine inches it diameter each ;one intermediate cylin der of seventy-nine inches diameter: one high pressur" cylinder of forty two inches diameter, and two inter mediate cylinders of forty-two inches diameter. She has twelve boilers of the single end type, each nine feet six inches in length and tifteen feet in diameter. Before the first break down the aver age revolutions to a minute were six ty-two. When repairs had been made they could not do better than thirty five and after meeting the storm it be came necessary to reduce it to thirty. The first break down occurred 1,230 knots out at sea. It was the piston of the intermediate cylinder that cracked. The second mishap was the occasion of most delav. It was on the fifth of February that it occurred. The isolat ing of the injured cylinder affected the control of the steam, which passed directly from the high pressure to the quadruple expansion cylinders. The after cylinder became so heated that the celtre become disabled. It was necessary to wait for it to cool before anything could be done. After the second reparis, La Gascogne got along without further trouble to her engines. Before the repairs were made the second time, however, La Gascogne's passengers learned something of the terrors of the sea. The strom which the steamer ran in on February Cth was doubdess resnonsible for the see nd accident, b ecause of the strain it put on the lessened power facilities which had ben strengthened by some new work. This new work readily heated from friction. Steerage way was lost and the steamer rolled into the trough of the sea. The passengers all remained below. It was 10 a. m. of the fourth that the cyclone started. That night and the following one were sleepless ones. Many who retired on the second night got up after the accident. The rolling of the vessel was frighful. Huge seas dashed against the port lights, and one hea;,y wave reached its bulk up nearly to the bridge. It damaged one boatand carried away twenty feet of rail on the main deck. The broken piston rod weighed seven tons. Chief, Engineer Martin says that it will take about five, days to repair th daniage done, and will cost about $5,000. La Gascogne will be started out on Wed nesday next. Eighty men, the full complement of the engineers staff, are entgaged in disconnecting the broken A Murderer Caged. COLUMBIA, S. C.. Feb. 15.-The fol lowing interesting story was published in the Evening News of Tuesday: "The negro, Joe Averick, who has many aliases, as Sam Roberts. Abe Small, Mack Lee and Sara Grant, is in the grip of the law. He is charged with murder and various crimes ress heinous in their nature. His story as given at the trial is a most interesting chapter of crime. He first lived with Mr. Christian Riser at Ashton Station, Colleton coauty. Averick then went to Georgia where he killed a negro. After this he assumed the name of Sam Roberts and went to live with Mr. Levy Harvey. of Screven county. Ca. He killed a white nian named Howard while there, becoming en raged with Mr. Howard at the result of a transaction about some cotton. He escaped, took the name of Abe Small and began operations in Savan nah. For some depredation committed there the police attemped his arrest. when he killed Lieutenant Navey. of the police department. Averick again eluded justice and fied to the Pocatahigo region, where lie took the name, of Sam Grant and commenced living with a woman form Fairfield county, claiming her as his wife. Shortly af terwards lie went up to Fairfield and got work from M1r. Darean Brown. He made frequent trips from there to Col leton, his former home. Detectives have been on his trail for months. He was some weeks since located in Columbia, and from here traced to Fairfield. After much trouble he was arrested on the line between Richland and Fairfield by a posse composed of R. C. Williams. Durham Brown. Dar an Brown and Cook Brown. He was rought to this city early this morn ing and committed to jail by Trial Justice Troy to await requisition pa pers from Georgia. Mr. Howard was murdered in Uetober, 1893; $500 re ward is offered for the murderer. Lieutenant Navey was killed in Fe bru ary, 1894,.$700 reward is offered in this case. So there is a total rewrrd of $1,200 for Joe Averick. It is a case where justice traveled with a leaden heel. may she strike the guilty with an iron hand." Au Insane Mlother. PiTTsnLPnoPa., Feb. 15.-Mrs. Ame lia Selbert, carrvine her son. William Selbert, nine niontlis old, and drag ing along her daughter. Marie Eliza eth, five years old, plunged to death in the Ohi'o river near her home at Corapolis, about noon Monday. The woman was the wife of William Sel bert, a contractor and coal dealer of Corapolis. She was thirty-four years old and had but the two children she took with heri to her watery grave. Mrs. Selbert is supposed to have been insane. She was a mild-mannered, motherly woman of nervous tempera ment. Bhe was devoted to her hus band and children. Last Friday the home of Mrs. Selbert's brother-in-law was destroyed by fire. She brooded over this and today had her brother in-law and his family conme to heri house to live. Shortly before noon today Mm's. Selbert abanidoned her work and started towards the river with her children before any of the inmates knew what was up. James Noss was on the opposite side of the riv er bank and saw the woman hurry along the stream to the open place. where she plunged in. Hie siw the little girl pull aw~ay from the water and endeavor to escape, but in vain. A search for the bodies was instituted and the mother wxas found with her baby in lier arms, while with her left hand she held the right hand of her little girl. Suicide whiile insane, was the verdict of the coroner's jury. Fireman as inicendiari-.. YPsILANt. Micr., Feb. 17.-Samuel Graham. captain of House Company No 2. was ar-rested this morning char'g ed with incenduisaism. For the past eigheenm .nolh lires, destroying va :ant housi an~d ou- b'uildinigs, hzave been freque-nt onl tihe east side, ard the fact that Capt Graham's men were al was ready to r'espond caused suspic ion, whichl the police follow.ed up. Ch.rles M1. Walker last night made a confession implicating C'apt Giraham and Fireman Archie Hiarrmison. GIra ham was arr-estedl hut Harrison cani not be found. The mysterious iires -ceased whien several weeks ag-o the de partment was reorganized anid the ulsystem of paying firemen by the hour Ifo~r work performned was abolished. INTERROGATING CARLISLE. The Secretary Before the Committee of Ways and Means. WVASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-For three hours today the ways and means com mittee of the House was in session. For two hours of this time. Secretary Carlisle was before it. He furnished the committee a copy of the contract made between the administration and the foreign syndicate which recently agreed to purchase the new bond is sue. The coitr-act.was very short,but at the Secretary's request, a resolution was adopted by the committee that none of the proceedings connected with this document should be made public. The Secretary was subjected to a running fire of questions from the members present. Mr. Gosvenor, of Ohio, waited to know why these bonds are to be sold to the syndicate at a price six per cent. below the quo tations of the fours. The Secretary replied that the administration had made the best terms with the syndi cate it could. Being asked if an attempt had been made to secure the sense of the coun try upon it, the Secretary replied in th'e negative. This precipitated a dis cussion in which the attitude of the administration was severelv criticised not only by Republicans but by cer tain of the Democratic members as well. Before leaving Secretary Car lisle suggested that a proposition be reported from the committee to re lieve the Treasury from redeeming national bank currency and compell ing the banks to establish an agency for the redemption of their own cur rency. The effect of this proposition would be practically to restore the law as it stood before 1874. Mr. Tarsney. of Missouri, offered a resolution that power be given to the admiuistration to issue a 3 per cent. old bond whenever such action be came necessary to protect the gold re serve in the Treasury. It also pro vided that none of this money should b used for the current expenses of tile overnment. 0 The resolution offered by Mr. Wil son, of Wcst Virginia, the chairman of the committee, yesterday, looking to the issuance of $62,000.060 of bonds payable in gold also came up for con sideration.and it drew from Represen tative Bourke Cockran, of New York. an emphatic declaration that he would oppose this proposition and any other which looked to the endorsement of the contract with the foreign syndi cate. Messrs. Reed and Hopkins. between them, questioned Secretary Carlisle at considerable length regarding the nec essity for an issue of gold bonds. Did he tnink that such an issue of bonds would stop the drain of gold and would not some of the money be used to meet current expenditures They also asked about the estimate receipts of the government for the remainder of the calendar year,.and if the See retary really believed there would be a surplus within the next eight or ten months. The Secretary answered these questions frankly. and coming back again to the questton of contractin for the sale of the bonds, lie insisted that no favoritism had been shown; that the administration had consulted with the leading Eastern bankers up on the subject; had made the best terms it could and would have done better. After the Secretary's withdrawal from the committee room, the variouts popositions pending were ordered to be referred to a sub-committee, to be reported to the full committee later in the afternoon. The Democratic mem bers of the sub-comnmittee are Wilson, Turner and Mryan, Paynie and Hop kirs were added on the part of the Re publicans, but it was subsequently agreed that the Republican members of the committee should select their own representatives. After the com mittee adjourned the Republicans met informally arnd seleg4ed Reed and Hopkins. Later in the afternoon fuller details of what occurred between Secretary Carlisle and the committee became public. Secretary Carlisle explained his reason for asking that an injunc tion of secrecy be observed regardino the terms of the contract on the gromu4i that if the manner and time of paying for the bonds were made knownibank ers and others might cornier the gold which the syndicate must procure to pay for the bonds, and thus greatly embarrass them. As a matter of con sideration for the syndicate, therefore, he preferred that nothing should be said outside of the committee room re garding the contract, although he ad ded that so far as the government is concerned, there is nothing to con ceal. At one point in the hearing Mr'.R'eed1 referrect to the drain of gold from the Treasury and repeated thie argument that has frequently been made that if tre greenbacks were retired, the gold reserve would not need further re plenishing. Mr. Carlisle then inform ed the committee that under the law of 1874, National Bank notes may b~e offered at the Treasury department and redeemed in greenbacks. It was for this reason that Ihe suibse quently sauested that an a - endment be ma<de to'tle law which will relieve the Treasury from redeeming the na tional bank~ notes and comipelling thec banks to establish an agency for thre redemtion of their currency. No i considerable par-t of Secretary Car lisles r-emarks had reference to this provsion of the national bank law upon wich tire nmemnbers seemed to desire the fullest informatin anid which lie gave them in detail. IALIFAH, N. S., Feb. 15.-Tele grahi advises received from South ~ay, Cape Breton,. state that the place has been wiped out of existenlce by the storms of last week. Thre pr1opertSv washed into thre seai inciandes fish houses, wharves. boates. st or-es anrd nisnerens dwellings. No lives were lost, but several f-am;ilies livinrg on the beah were rescu~red with gr-eat dili culty, arid saved nothingi but the clothes they wore. Green cove report' that theC storem was the mnost disastrous ever known on that coast. Boats and tre fish houses were nrearly all swept out to sea o? wrecked on the beach. No mail has been received since Fecb. 2 and there is no telling when-r thre roads will be cleared. Kirled the Natives. S!hEY. N. 8. W.. Feb. 15.-A di patch faomnt Perth. West Au:tralia, si-vs that severn men have been arrest ed in Coolgardie for mnassacremg~ air entire native tribe, including women and children. Th~e men had gone out gold sc-eking, and were encamped near tihe village of the tr-ibe which CARLISLES CONTRACT AS MADE WITH THE EUROPEAN SYN DICATE FOR GOLD. Through Chairman Wilson of the Ways and 3Ieans Committee, It is Presented to the House--On Our Knees to the Man ly Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-MIr. Wilson, the chairman of the ways and means committee. yesterday afternoon report ed to the House the joint resolution agreed upon in committee authorizing the issuance Of a thirty-year 3 per cent. interest bearing gold bond. The report accompanying the reso lution includes a copy of the Presi dent's recent message to Congress bearing upon the subject and also a copy of the contract made by the Treasury Department with the Euro pean syndicate for the purchase of the new bonds. Continuing. the report says: -The conunittee have had the bene fit of a conference with the Secretary of the Treasury, who exhibited to them the orighial contract entered in to by himself on the Sth day of Feb ruary, and ekplained its details to them. A full and complete copy of said contract is here added. From a reading of this paper it will be seen that the arrangement of the Secretary with the parties to this contract effects the purchase of :,500,000 ounces of standard gold coin of the United States (amounting to '65.116.275.) at least one-half of which shall be obtained in and shipped from Europe. For this gold coin he has contracted to issue to the parties furnishing it. under au thority of the act for the resumption of specie paynents. approved .January 4. 1895. 4 pei cent. thirty-year coin bonds of the Uniteld States at a price which realizes them interest at the rate of : pei cent. But the Secretary of the Treasury has reserved the right, f authority is given him by Congress, to substitute at par any bonds of the United States bearing 3 per cent. n terest, of which the principal and in tertst shall be specially payable in United States gold coin o7 the present weight and fineness, said substitution, however to be niud- within ten days from the date of the contract. -It is the object of the joint resolu tion herewith reported to give to the Secretary of the Treasury authority to substitute such bonds to the amount of the contract. '-The saving to be effected to the oovernment, as set forth in the Presi aent's message, will be 5339.159 per year for every year the 3 'per cent. bonds run, and of the amount of 416. s , 770 should they run thirty years. As it is not believed by that commit tee that the issue of bonds speciallvpay able in gold will impose any addition al burden or liability upon the govern ment than if they are made payable in coin under its pledge and policy to preserve the parity of the coins in the two metals, the saving of this large amount becomes a matter of substan tial moment and adtIntage to the gov ernment. And as the parties to take the bonds are under contract to furnish gold for them, it seems no hardship on the government to contract to pay them back in the same coin that they furnish to it. Following is the text of the contract between the Treasury and the syndi cate: "This agreement, entered into this 8th day of February, 1895, hetaveen the Secretary of the Treasury of the Uni ted States of the first part, and MIessrs. Belmont & Co.. of Newa York on be half of Messrs. N. M. Rothschilds & Son of London. England, and them selves and Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York, on behalf of Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Co. of London and them selves, parties on the second part "Witnesseth: Whereas, it is provid ed by the Revised Statutes of the Uni ted States (section 3700' that the Secre tary (of the Treasury may purchase coin with any of the bonds or notes of the United States authorized by law at such rates and upon such terms as he may deen. most advantageous to the public interests; and the Secretary of the Treasury now deems that an enmer gency exists in which the public inter ests require that hereinafter provided. coin shall be purchased with the bonds of the United States of the description hereafter mentioned, authorized to be issued under the- act entitled, 'An act to provide-for the resumption of specie payments.' approved January 14, 1875, being bonds; of the United States des cribed in an act of Congress, approv'ed July 14, 1870, entitled, 'An act to au thor-ize the refunding of the national debt; nowv, therefore the said narties of the second part hereby agrece to sell and deliver to the United States three million five hundred ounces of stand ard gold coin of the United States, at the rate of $17. 804.41 per ounce, paya ble in United States 4 per cent. thirty year coupon or register'ed bonds, said londs to be dated February 1. 1895. paable at the pleasurie of the United States after thirty years fronm date. is sued under the acts of Congr.:ss of July 14. 1870, January 20..1871, and January 1L. 1875. heai'ig imuterest at the rate of 4 per cent. per' annuam, pay able quarterly. "First-Such pur~ichase and sale of gold coin being nude onu the following conditions: (1.) At least one-half of all coini delivered hiereinunder shall be obtained and shipped froum Eur'ope. but the shpipments shall not be re quied to exceed 300,000O ounces per' imoth, uniess the parties of the sec ud part shalil consent thereto. <u.) All delive r'ms shall be made at any of 'de sub tirearies or at any oter legal deposit ry of the United SL" tes. ':; All grold coins del i'ed shahll be receive~d on the basis of i i grains of standard' god erdola . withinu the limit of tolece~ii. ''4.) Bonds delivered undler this contract are to he delivered~ fr'e of ac erued interest. wichl is to> heC assuaird and paid by the par'ties of thme' secoud themi. Trasur.y des ~ii ei toi oie or -cell ~ ay fore October 1 'n h sIal SLdr to f'or the same' ' the par"'es of the free frmi evecry such oblgi a Ito thle patie's of the~ secondi~ p)ar he'rbv retser'ves theC iht, within ten days from the daete. here'of, in ea' lhe shall receive a athority h~l fro tIoupess herefor' to substitute any bod of the Enited States beain~g :s 'per cenlt. ir est of wvhich the pr'incipal and( iuntere'st shall be snecilicale naable in United States go(i coin of tie' pres'ent weight and finenmess for the b)ond~s herein all accepted by the partiesof the second part at par. That is. at ,18.06;5 per ounce of standard gold - "Fourth-No bonds hall be delliver ed to the parties of the second part. or either of them, except in payment for coin from time to time received here under;whereupon the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall and will deliver the bonds as herein provided at such places as shall be de signated by the partied of the second part. Any expense of delivey out of United States shall be assumed and paid by the parties of the second part. "Fifth-In consideration of the pur chase of such coin. the parties of the second part, and their associates here under. assumed and will bear all the expense and inevitable loss of bring ing gold from Europe hereunder; and as far as lies in their power. will exert financial influence and will make all legitimate efforts to protect the treas ury of the Unitted States against the withdrawals of gold. pending lie con plete preformance of this contract. -In witness hereto, the parties here to have hereunto set their hands in five parts his Sth day of February. 1895. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary of the Treasury. 'August Belmont & Co.. in behalf of N. M. Rothschilds & Sons. of London, and themselves. 'J. P. Morgan & Co.. in behalf of 1essrs. 3Iorgan & Co.. of London, and themselve. Attest: W. E. Curtis. "Francis Lvnde Stetson.' A Dispen~serS hort. COLUMBIA. Feb. 15. -The first of the dispensers to come to grief on account of shortages is Mr. B. 0. Evans. the dispenser at St. MIatthews. in Orange burg County. Governor Evans is very nuich interested in the matter and will see it through to the end. He says that there is but one thing for him to do and that is to have the dispen ser arrested and prosecuted on the charge of fraudulent breech of trust and larceny. How the shortage oc curred is no concern of the State, and it will lose nothing by the shortage, as the bond has already been turned over to lawyers Lo sue and collect for the amount of the shortage. which is re ported to be from A2.200 to $2,300. The bondsmen are F. J. Buyck and Philip Rich, and they are more than able to pay as large a bond as might be re quired. Governor Evans says that he cannot possibly understand how the shortage could have gotten to be -as large as reported. If the county board had checked up the accounts and in sisted on settlements he does not see how the amounit could have gone up to $2,U0. The dispensary only carries a stock of $3,oo. and the shortage charged up must have been the result of a s.. of months. The whole mitter. Go ervnor Evans says, will be carefully in:vestigated and dealt with as it ought to be. 'Mr. Scrug, one of the inspectors, went to St. Y4atthews at the order of Governtor Evains and I checked up the business and stock and has the stock ready to turn over to the successor of 'Mr. Evans who will be put in in.mediate charge. It is the in teniion of Governor Evans to have the dispensary reopened at once, and with that vier the board for Orngeburg County has been ordered to elect Mr. Evan's successor immdiately. The State will not lose a sou, Governor Evans says, and so far as lie can un derstand the settlements that are be hind are with the county Ind town authorities, and oigght not to have been allowed to run as long they have. Governor Evans says that he will lose no time or opportunity in prosecuting any of the dispensers whose accounts are short and that the inspectors have instructions to visit all of the dispen saries just as soon as possible. The bonds are to be scrutinized as well as the accounts of each and every one of the dispensers.-News and Courier. Wrecked by Gas. 31EADvILLE, Pa.. Feb. 10.-A gas explosion, followed by fire, complete ly wrecked the residence of G. H. Cut ter, the lumber office building of Cut ter & Bro.. and caused the death of George Cutter and serious injuries to his wife, son and house maid. There had beent for some time, a leak in the fuel gas supply pipe in the street. .and this morning at 8 o'clock, George H. Cutter. Willard Cutter. Charles Cut ter, son of George. and W. 3M. 3McClin tock were in front examining the leak. A locomotive and caboose passed and the gas ignited from the engine's fire box. T wo deafening explosions fob lowed, comp)letely wrecking the two story residence, which fell as if it were a heap of rubbish and kindling wood. The warehouse and office ruins took fire instantly. The 1low of gas added to the fire. andl ini less thtan five min utes nearly the entire mass was in a blaze. Mirs. Cutter and the servant ir'l. who where in the house, were ~adly burned andic injured, but will problably live. The boy. Charles, was fastened in the wreck by a huge timber which reCstedl on his leg. It was thought his leg would have to be cut off', but a peisistent ef'fort was made to fight tie lamies away from him, and by heroic work. the iiremen'f wer'e given time enough to secure p)owerful jack screws and he was liberated. It was n-eeessary to cover' him witut clothing to priotect him from the heat of the ~fire. which was butt a few feet away. All three victims were taken to Spencer Hospital. \mn. Cutter was badly burned by the exlosltin. and~ was thr'ownt clear' :cioss the sired Cihar'les was also in jur'ed. but not seriously. George Cut tr whlo died shortly at'ter the explo sionu. was badly mangled. lHe was ear. :ed to a neighbor's hious' and died ini a few inutes. Thxree' Geor;z.;ia st ories. ATLvNT~. I- eb. 1.-"tDr. J. D. Jar iard. of Mossy. Creek. hats a young Jersev calf which di:h'ers fronm calves 1 tin Immon in tat its front feet are etly~~t liii thoske of young muitles." wid Col. .oe Undlerwood. of Cleve land. the oth.-r' day. --That's. nol bing. i'epl iedr Rev. Sim mtons"\~.1 ho as ini the igrou p of listen - ers "Isawa ole drov~e of hogsr oin the' ro&ad be'tween' I Fayttfevill. anid Firb'kur'. an:d the~ feet of the wbile ot of tin . Cere r'ounid lik a voung co:s anz' . ' a elovCui foot amuong them. T: belonked to amian nained "ee"', andl~ he prob)ably is in p)osse-' iO' ofk te br'eed today a iall int7IIiueeri~~ dre~ssed in the convet'ti~onal iro wni iens. ''you fehllers don't know no0hki' I wats stanidmi I . tl .-n'rbut don' say anyvthmii. abtout that parit of it-whein I pulledl down on the darn'idest thing you ever saw. It dra'pe'd wheni I shot. and wheni I went to cut its th~roat I notic(d oneI foit was~ like a bear's, onie legs had wool on it like a wtilderat's, sharp claws and all, and blamed if the other warn 't mik a game mooers'".-Constitutioin. WILL THE GOLD STAY? THE QUESTION NOW ASKED BY WALL STREET MEN. Variations in the Gold Supply in the Past Two Years--How the Treasury Has Been Drained-A Thoughtful Review of the Situation, N'~W YORK, Feb. 16.-The World of a few days ago published the fol lowing article, which shows very plainly the absurdity of the present plan of trying to preserve the gold re serve. Here is the article: Will the gold stay That is the query which Wall street men are thinking if they are not ask ing concerning the last deal of the gov ernment with the bankers. The teach ing of history and very lively history, is that as soon as the gold gets into the treasury it will be taken out main ly by the same people who put it in. So far as the history of the bond deals has been shown in operation a game somewhat worse than the gold brick s vindle, for in this game the victim is allowed to keep at least the gold brick, while the government gives away its good bonds and is then promptly de prived even of the gold brick. Since the panic of May. 1893, the ups and downs of the heap of government gold has been the text of thousands of columns of newspaper talk, of talk in and out of financial and legislative circles enough to crowd thousands of volumes of the Congressional Record, and incidentally of profit to the bank ing wbrld far up into the millions. Stated in a bulk sum, the govern ment is trying to keep $100.000,000 in gold in a seive. It saw 13z,000,000 go through the seive once. Then the seive was filled, and it saw $45,000,000 slide through, Once more the seive was filled, and $58,000.000 went through like sand. So the govern ment, with the aid of Messrs. Belmont, Morgan and Rothschild. is again about to fill up the same old seive the treasury o! the United States. So to keep this seive full the government has gone into debt to the tune of $162, 000.000, and contracted to pay out while the debt r, as more than $107, 000,000 in inttrest alone. All around the edges of the seive. apparently working with might and main, to assist the government in fill ing it, stand representatives of pretty near every banking house in the coun try and of foreign ones as well. While below the seive catching the golden shower as it falls through the partners of these same financialconcerns catch ing the coil and bagging it up ready to pass back again, over and over again ad infinitum. or as long as the seive holds together. That is the situation in a nutshell. While over the whole matter have hung no end of clouds of talk, surmise, advice and speculative inzerest. The first loan cai ae in January, 1S34, after a summer and fall spent on the part of a number of money-dealing houses in carrying off the yellow coin from the ever-open United States Treasury. It was on January 17, 1S94, Secretary Carlisle issued his first bond call. saying that he would receive bids for $50.000.000 in ten year bonds. Ile fixed the price at $117,223 for $100 bonds wl.icha was equivalent to a 3 per ceut. return for the investor. There was a loud storm of protest, and every body dealared it was rediculous to ex pect to get the use of their gold at such figures. The money-loaning clas were expecting with the anticipated revival of trade that there would be a demand for their waiting millions, and it was not until the government agents came on to New York city and begged, ca joled and bullied those who had semi Govern mental positions as heads of na tional banks that the cash was turned over for temporary use to the Govern ment. "Temporary use" is the exact term to use in the transaction, because immediately after the sudden drop in the specie holdings of the banks in cident to the taking of the bonds the "specie holdings" started to climb and did so steadily until the Government was ready for anothe replenishment of the sei-e, The inside history of that call loan of gold to the Govei-nment has many chapters which are floatigg about in whispered gossip. How one large in surance company made a bid got its share of bonds and then with the most shallow pretense at concealment, took the gold from one end of the sub-treas ury to pass it in at the other to assist in retaining the reserve. What was not downright rascality ini the selfish pro ceeding was supremely comic. Then came the drainiing process. All during the summer of 1804, with an occasional attempt at damning the flow on the part of the government. until in the fall of la-st year the reserve of $100.000,000 stood at the $55,000,000 mark. The moment of breathless sus pense with which the financial world saw the reserve encroached upon dropped to a mild sort of spasm when the $65.000,000 low point before the January loan was reached in Novem ber then the 55,000.000 mark only brought a slight chill. and the bond cali came, with hundreds of money holders and lenders scramblihng for a slice of the big melon which the coun try seemed tobe cutting with such reg ufarity'. The pressure was so gr'eat that a'svndicate who had worked the whole thing out calculated on making a neat turn of a million by passing the bonds along to final holders. They bid $117.07 en November 22, 1894, ~and took the wh le instalment. proceeding to at once miark up the piceO to 110, andl wez e opening uip a very profita ble trade wthen they were practically tripp~ed upj by tue fellow in~ trade. Tuie decor is withd:-awal of gold be. caue nmad rushes, raids and lootings. of the gov.ernmnent gokd hleap. It dis Iappeared to the extent of over' fourteen utiilion in a single week. It was no wodrthat the drop L:o $42,000.000 was accomplished in about t wo months timue. Many experts were learing the same. andl calcuLlationis were miade as to how muenh .2 the idle m,>jney in the baniks cen :id be g'otten rid of through these loan, -.I how long it would oc before the en-iding rate for money would be stiffened in to paying figures. Aga~rin the gold heaped uro in the banks un'til the Associ d IBan!ks of this city whIichi does. not u.elude the entire list, hia'e s'82.UU0 mn specie, while the .37 national baniks of the country avte about $225,000,000 in specie and with a fair sujtraction~ for silver, about $'M uO0,0 Uin hard ylo w dollars rest todnay in thiese vaults, without taking into accont the rich and influential .State banks. Thiere iS no0 claim that the banks are gathering into the vaults any hereto fore hoarded gold. instead, their man agers contess that their stores are de and avaricious ones who are bent on hoarding. There is only one ultimate source for the gold coin held today in the bank vaults subject to statistical enumera tion, and in the scores of deposit com panies and private vaults out of all numerical ken. That source is the United States government vaults. and a survey of the several deals shows how profitable has been the process of taking the gold out and putting it back again. It is a standing joke the country. over about the silly granary keeper who bought at the front door the grain, which the clever chiffoniers had drawn from a leak in the rear of hisgrain bins. The laugh on the buyer smothers the blame on The tricksters, but the trickery is there, whether the grain be gold dollars, the granary the United States treasury, and the~ ma nipulators financiers of the first water. It is business to lend mony. It is busi ness to lend a man his own money, if he has not tie wit to see through the traisaction and strength enough to stop it. The three gold loans from those who will always be ready to loan the coin as long as thegovernment is ready to borrow it, have been so crowded to gether that no citizen, however short his memory, can fail to grasp their whole bearing. The acts follow so fast on each other that there is no time to go out between them if one wishes to watch the whole farce through. In the sunner of 1s33 the government had its coveted u100.000.000 and more. Then came the strat of the game and the climax of the f&st ronner wheni $57,000,00 of "new" gold poured into the sleve-like vaults. Ten months later more "new" gold, this time 85S, 000,00C, poured from ditto to ditto. Now, tWo months later, and the io ures change to -65.000,0, and the same act is gone through with. The tom-tom beat a ditferent tune as each act in the Chinese draua is gone through. and this last act u pon which the curtain is going down has an ele ment of delicious uncertainty in the promise that it is to be new gold this time and that it is not to be drawn from the treasury by any subterfuge. There is an implied charge in this that Uncle Sam has been sadly buncoed in giving something for uothiing. and the facts of history in the case prove it be yond doubt. But the natural query is, has the bunco game stopped Iso, why so? There have been eminent financiers as Uncle Sam in every one of the other deal.. In fact, some of the names ruu through from act to act. To the lay mind with a memory a year long there is something incredi ble that the government should have promised to pay out i100.000,000 for the use of a few millions of gold for a few days. The two loans already practically closed out show that for the use of $57.000,000 of gold from February 1 to about October 1 last year the government must pay the money lenders over $15,000.0o. For the use of another $58,000,000 for less than two months the government ;s under obligations to pay another $15, 000.000. so that for the permission to hold a little over a hundred million of their gold for less than a year the lead ing bankers or financiers or fools or syndicate have exacted over 30,000, 000 in interest, or about 30 per cent. for the use of the gold. and this same new gold still waits in the vaults other than Uncle Sam's for a repetition of the sad farce an infl aitum. Clemson Conlege Refitted. CALHOUN, S. C., Feb. 1G.-The work of furnishing and refitting the interior of Clemson College is being rapidly a.dvanced and everything will be in order for the reoping on the 21st instant. Messrs Hunnicutt and Bel lingrath, of Atlanta. have the contract for putting in the heating apparatus. A test was recently made by Trustees Donalson and Bradley to see if every thing was in \vorking order and with the exception of one or two minor matters, the radiators were found to work successfully. The exterior paint ing of the College and chapel has been delayed by the excessive cold prevail ing of late. The Colliege people think that the action of the board -at their last meeting, when it was decided not to pay for student labor, will have the effect of keeping away- a great many boys. President Craighead is receiv ing many letters from parents who want to send their sons, but who say that they will be prevented from do ing so if there is to be no payv for labor. It is thought that there will not be more than 250 to :300 boys at the open ing. Last year the number went at one time to 580.-News and Courier. A True Sol)dier'. X\ASHINGTON, Fetb. 16.-Se-nator' Hunton has received a letter- from Lieut. Gen. Scholield acknowledging the latter's thianks for Senator Hlan ton's remarks in the :'enate urging the confirmation of the General's nomr ination apropos of the fact that Gien. Schofield was military Governor of Virginia. The letter is as follows: My Dear Senator: Many times dur ing the past twenty-live years pleas ant personal messages have come to :ae from Virginia, but it has remained for you :o make the 1irst (oUicial and Shas always been so dea' to me,. that. I had gained the friendship and conti dlence of the big hearted peop L: of' Vir' ginia. This is ani honior iair more' dear to me than any iliitare riank. and I thank you very' since'rly for having takeun so littinmg an occas?ion to .uake pulic declarationi of that g'reat honor'. Very resp)ectfully aid ltonly yours, J. M. Schoe 'eld. An Uii C.c. IC'ALouN. S. C'.. Fecb. 1(a uglyt case~ of poisonllig has ben bi'oi'ht to light ini this nei~ighoood by whi'ch Gioodioe Davis has lost his le. The facts as far as ascertain'ed "re thi:t Polly D~avis.the wife of the dea.d :.z~ii Janie Sharp. a gizl. Jasper Oliver. all negroes, conspired to pis~.I(on Goo Davis. Janie Sharp was sen.tobu some rat poison. wich .liie ,ut in to whiskey. which Davs drnk -r g etting sick from the efts of u draugtht he told some oneitha hewa poisoned and lived only- a few hIo1. The two wome'n have oeenipu'm::1 Oliver made his "'cape. b'n h- ' n since captured. It is "ad -ht h womianl wanted to ge(t rid of her' h' band so that sne eeuld 'mn C' .1 sotld tihe church' bmile and a c'-'o't im this city, eiiing~ that C he( boUght tucem fromi a negro. but he c'an no) nanme or' iden~tify the negro. The youngr man claims to conle from Greenville and to have go 'd family connections. The bible hmas beenre covered.-Advertiser. NO GOLD BONDS. THE HOUSE SITS DOWN HEAVILY ON CLEVELAND'S PROPOSITION. - The Bill Authorizing the Issue of 30 Year 3 Per Cent. Gold Bonds, and Advocated by the Administration, Killed by 47 Ma jority. W'ASmsaGToN. Feb. 15.-Anothey day's debate in the House upon - the fi nanieal question has but served to em phasize the fact that no legislation af fecting the financial situation is to be expected from the Fifty-third Con a'ress. A week ago the House refused, v a vote of 162 to 135, to adopt the last Springer banking and currency bill, which confained a provision au thorizing toe issi't of long-time, low interest bx nd;, and yesterday by the still more dc' isive vote of 167 to 120, it declined t, authorize the issue of :4)5.000.600 3 per cent. gold bonds with which to replace the 31 per cent. bonds negotiated with the .Morgan Belnnt syndicate in payment for the purchase of 3,500.000 ounces of gold coin. The consideration of the joint resolution for this purpose reported yesterday from the committee on ways and means by Chairman Wil son, occnpied all of the session of six and a haif hours, and the discussion attracted an attention of spectators which overflowed the public galleries and encroached upon that reserved for the diplornatic corps and other dis tinguished visitors. The debate fol lowed in. a general way the lines of the debate on the Springer bill last week, but the opposition today was much more aggressive than on that occasion. Mr. Wilson was aided in advocacy of the measure by Mr. Reed (Rep.) of Maine. Paine, (Rep.) of New York, Turner (Dem.) of Georgia, and By num (Dem.) of Indiana, all members of the committee on ways and means, who urged that the joint resolution was a buiness matter merely, disasso ciated from politics or anything of that kind, the passage of which would result in a saving of $16,000,000 to the people. Their efforts were seconded by Daniels (Rep.) of New York, Stone iRep of Pennsylvania, Coombs and Hendrix (Dem.) of New York, Sprin ger (Dem.) of Illinois, and Cooper (Den.) of Florida. The opposition to the passage of the joint resolution was led by Mr. Hop kins (Rep.) of Illinois, and Bryan (Dem.) of Nebraska, members of the committee on ways and means, and it developed some startling points. Mr. Hopkins asserted that the President ,vas not animated by patriotic motives in sending his latest message to Con gres, but a desire to urload upon that body the responsibility for a transac tion negotiated by his former law part ner that would net the syndicate rep resented by him $25,000,000. kr. Ervan declared the scheme proposed in the joint resolution to be but another step in the accomplishmentof the con spiracy to strangle silver, and solemn lv assured the House that so serious 1id he consider it to be thatwere there any probability of its passage, and the forfeiture of his life would prevent it, he would gladly lay down his life in that behalf. Mr. Cannon (Rep.) of Illinois hinted at impeachment, and Mr. Hepburn (Rep.) of Iowa said that Republicans who favored the measure, proposed a new policy, a repudiation of all the declarations of the party in the past and the institution of a new pohcy that called for a new following. Other speeches against the joint res olution were made by Messrs. McMil lin of Tennessee, Wheeler of Alabama andl Grosvenor (Rep.) of Ohio, meni bei-s of the committee on ways and means. Living'ston (Dem.) of Georgia, Northway and Hulick (Reps.) of Ohio, Bland and Hatch (Dems.) of Missouri, Kem (Pop.) of Nebraska, Simpson (Pop.) of Kansas and Van Voorhis (Rep.) of New York. The vote was taken at 5 o'clock upon the question, "shall the joint resolution be engrossed and read a third time?" the result be ing as stated-Yeas 120; nays 167. "The bill is dead," officially declared the Speaker, and at 5:30 o'clock the House adjourned until tomorrow at 11 o'clock. All the South Carolina members, except Murray. voted against the bill. The Governer's Staff'. Co~rmmu-'. Feb. 15.-The following general order was yesterday issued by the Adjutant and Inspector General, making the long delayed announce meint of the appointees onl the staff of Governor Evans: 'The persons named below, having ben app~ointed on the military staff ofI Gle Go' ernor, are assigned to duty and wihi be obeyed and respected ac cordinly:J~ "Col'onel W. W. Bruce, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General,- Co lumbia. "Colonel 3M. B. McSweeny, Quarter master General, Hampton. "Colonel Georgi S. McCrary, Com missary General, Laurens. "Colonel D. W. McLaurin, En -icrinCif Marion. Colonel J. A. Mood, Surgeon Gen G-lnel H. T. Milecr, Paymaster GeeaCharleston. --Colon'el A. Howard Patterson, Judg'e \dvocate General. Barnwvell. ColoneliJ. W. Floyd. Chief of Ord nace erhaw. Aides to the Commanderin-Chief: L ieutenanit Colonel Dan H. Behre, Wa lter boro; Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Robins~on. Pickens: Lieutenant Col onel W. R. Bullock. Abbeville; Lieu tenant Colonel Oscar R. Lowman, Or angecburg: Lieutenant Colonel WV. J. Ra'.linson.~i York'.ille: Lieutenant Col onl Thomas Martin. Beaufort: Lieu te'nant Colonel L. Bradwell. Aiken. --B oder of the Governor. --J Gaar' WATTs. --Ajuan and( Inspector General." . "'ad St ory. ('iMmun, S. C'.. Feb. 15.-A sad itoryv comes" fr'o'n Edgetield County. \. e'slo ed woman had a son, about 17, ..; :(a'ited with a neculiar mal bd e. Sh ".as advisedi t'o carry him :Auguta and on Monday shie start . staa: place with the boy in a wa >n ondoe country produce to sell >bar the medicine. While on the 'amsow began falling and the boy wa~s frtozen to death in his mother's arms. The grief stricken mother left the cor'se ini a house artd went to Au gustat to buy a cofin for her child. Wht a4)oote. W\At-HAi-W.u., Feb. 15-Ge-nerai Taof tihe Japanese arnmy has comi mitt'Ytsuie -.de in a miomni-t of anger on account of I he' deCsertionl of a number