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VOL. NV.MANNING, S. C,. W E D NESDAY., APRIL 4.,90.N, 9 SI IS IHEM I'll Senator Tdirnan Uscs His Pitch foik cn Republicars THEY ARE ALL HYPOCRITES. Euirgises and Defends the South in Her Treatment of the Negro. Recently &nator Tilman in the United States Senaie had a running do bate with Senator Foraker, of Ohio, upon ti c ai-itude of the P;csiient and the Seuator from Olo in regard to free trade in Plor:o Rico, quoting the Chic3ge Times Herald at length in its criticism of the atninistration. le asked Mr. Foraker to say whether he was for free trade or not, and prodded him with changirg his attitude because the Chicago Tiames Iherald was advocat ing free -ide in Porto Rico. Senator Tilman alld d to the relations exist ing betwcen Foraker and Koisaat. the edItor of the Times Herald, which have been atbticg else than cordii.1 and Irierly: )ir Tillman. The cdi-oria- which I have re d h-re harpn! to Ie frot the Ciicago T!imes-Lr.d. and . mr body k now the brotherly Dazuon ani Py thia, :ke relations v hneh exist bet -- en My fr.nd from Viio arnd Mr Khlsaat. acd I fe-lt constrsi,< d to believe, kniw ing the Kreat love that these penth mei h.vc for each othir. and knOwir- that they are bo I loyal to Mr. )e1Koley ata the R ;iilican party, that the Senator from Ohio sitirly got on- of the free-tra'ie boat b cause Nir. Kehisaat got if.to it; thmt he could rot live in an atmo-tphere contaminated by the pres ence of that person. Mr. Inrker. In answer to the Sena tor's rewark, I will frank!y cLt.fe-s, in the pretcuee ot the Senate. tIhat I have felt i, enis of .\r K-hiaat's attitt.de a gr. at deal more conticence in my tre.ent position (Laughter 1 Mr. Tillwan. Mr. Presiuent, I have been rig.t aol g that read my zelf. 1 have it- career cowe across tuttorials in papers thot had ft-ught and lied on '%e for years io which my action was eow meLdtd. ai d immediately I set about to invetk.,itee in order to find out when 1 got the approval of such patets and ui-dersiad why the Senator from Ohio shou! desErt his own principits atd his own calmiy selected position becaue Kobhlaat took a position along side of him. But at the same time it does not ex;lain why the President, who was a warm friend and to whom Mr. Kohlsaat is a trubtcd adviser, has changed front, if he did charge front. Nobody can tell us whether Le did or Uot. I want some gentiemaa here to explain to me the prestnt attitude of the President. I have been trying to stand by him. I bore teatimony the other day to what I said was his patriot ism and n-bility of ebaracter. I do not hcsitate any time to say that I think 'N imiiim .icKiujey is ete of the most lovable men we have had in public life in America, but the trouble is Mr. McKinley will 1.ot stand up and have backbone sometimes. R~epublicatns wonu have been in a Leap better fix politically if he had stood by his free trade proposition and let you gentlemien go on and fight it out among a ourselves and pass a free-tradie measure or not. *But whom the gods would destroy they firat made mad," and confuaion of Coun set is the beginning of madness. ~That is my interpretation of the present situation. We had testimony the other day that God Almighty lad given us the Philip pines; that the honored President pro tempore of the Sanate and his cola borers on the Paris commission had very little or nothing to do with it; that it had come directly from the Almighty; that lie had held us in the hollow ol Ilia hand, that the glory of our future hinstory was to came from the fact that we were to rea'.h out and grab up that islariu and this idland; that we were to treat the colortd races of those jslande, not like we treat the co~ured people inz the South, or uot like yen gentleman once tried to treat them, but as we of the South have t econst raiuted to treat them; that you gentlemin have ebangtd front on tha: subject. and that we were to have a eou, tunure. with so miuent mot'Ley and tnm-lunmeits and wealth fl..w a g into our e.-ders in cusequieuce (f thts uew pey that we eou u not descend so low as to give the cedit to the Senator triti Mlinnesoia and the Senator frow Maine anti their brethren on t he coa?t-aO, who had giue over to Pdris and demnandd thte cession of these islaznds in toe Paeio and had erf orced that deniand to t he point tatt we got them, or got what title Spain had. Nobody will tell us, as I said a me nint ago whether the President is for fre trade or inot. I wish I knew. I wan tea to have the p!easure ot support itig some nsasure that he had bent here andi that I could indorse honestly as Aumerican anthout regard to being a houth Carolinian or a De mocrat, andi now I atu robbed of that pleasure. You gentemtan are cruel to us. hy. do ',ut not let us GO suiet ring some time as An er:cans atnd not force us alway s back to the narrow rut of Dumocracy; an wh byGo you not do somnethlng some time as Amuei icans and not be suelt narrow, bitter partisans here? 3M. IPkits. Qr course I am not aut to.z: t o spe.ak for tihe President; ut I am ineined to thit~k that his vi. ws--imay have imtitate~d them. in that respest-weCre i tiue nced by what was zecentd to b5 LLs intend, the Sena tr fiotn South Ca vhta, that great usts were being bor.aued in Puerto 'too for tibe puri os of contral.ing the s aar tra.ne. Tlie Rh pubtiean p-arty 1n' opj'i o5d to tru-ts a.nd combina-l.Dn, anti knows that the only .oluu on of that probem is the establshment of l'xal beet ser Ia.:tories, such as there are Ia Nedra-ka and in Utah and in Iowa andi in Micl'gau and in Calhfornia which has somxe ten or twelve, indepen dent bet-sugar factories. They buy the raw prouuct fromi the faraner, re fine it in their own factories, an-d send irto , 'te mertis' table. That is the antidote for trusts. r. mu.an. You nit an the sugar tru-t? Mr. Perkins. For the sugar trust. eer ee.t-a faetories are buying neeessary in order to prevent future Democratie successes. At that day no one dared to prophesy that the old Democratic party of the war times would live very much longer; no one foresaw its wonderful vitality. The Republican party enacted that legislation, wisely or unwisely, because there had been enacted in the South. era States what were called "black codeF," which almost restored the col ored man to slavery. The Republican party enacted that legislation in order to give the Negro a weapon of defense against such legislation; and they en acted it, Mr. Persident, in order to maintain in the sight of God and be fore all the world in good faith, in letter and in spirit, the proclamation of emancipation which had been signed by Abraham Lincoln; God bless his memory forever! Mr. Tillman. In the first place, Mr. President, let it not be forgotten that in dcaling with the race question in the South those of the Southern people who were engaged in the civil war, the Confederate war, had inherit ed those slaves. They had been taught from childhood that the existence of slavery was not wrong, morally or legally. The author of the Declartion of ldependence was a slaveholder; the co-stitution rtcognised slavery; and after the strife was over and the issue had been s.ttled by the sword, the question as to the disposition of the emancipa:ed slaves was, of course, a very perplexing one. The Senator says that but for the enactmeUt by the Southern legislatures of the "black codes," in which there was to be a practical restoration of !lavery under the guise of liberty, there would have been no enfranchi went of the ex-slaves; that they would not have been given the ballot. [listory does not state that, and the condition of politics at the time does not war rant it. Those who voted for it, or sone of themr, were no doubt honest in the beli-f that it was nece.sary, but there is no earthly doubt but that ulterior and baser motivet were at the root of it. There was first a deire of revenge by putting the ex-slaves in control of the Southern States and put ting white necks under black heels. There was next a desire to perpetuate t he domination of the Republican party in the United States. Then when it -:omes to a comparison of the action of the two parties, I say to the Senator that there are a great many wrongs that the Negroes have to suffer in the South, and there will con tinue to be many. Neithcr he nor any body else can help it; and no legisla tion which can be enacted can help it. It can only cure itself in a better at mosphere, and be solved by the people concerned, because outside influence and outside interference would only aggravate the trouble and more em broil the fray. But I want to call the attention of the Senate to the fact that we have in the past month had introduced bere from a Repulican committee a pro vision upon the Hawaiian bill by which contract slaves in that iland were to be governed under a similar black code to that which we enacted in South Carolina and in other Southern States. You sought to perpetuate that condi tion in your own bill, for the benefit of the sugar planters, unttlit was stricken out by a motion on the part of the Senator from 31assachusetts. Will Support Bryan. The Washington corroepondent of the New and Courier says: "Among the latest converts to Bryanisma are former President Grover Cleveland and hi. ecetary of State, John 0. Carlisle. 'his information comes direct from a well known gentleman who is on inti mate terms with alr. ~Dieveland and 31r. Larhtsle. At a recent informal gather ing in New York Mir. Cleveland and 3Mr. Carlisle were both present. The subject of Bryanism came up for dis usion, whs reupon M1r. Cleveland an nounced his intention to vote for M1r. Bryan at the next election. M1r. Car lisle echoed the sentiment of his former chief and added that not only did he intend to vote for Mlr. Bryan, but he was astonished to find so many [esorats, who previously opposed M1r. Br) an, now d e aring their intention to ote the regular Democratic ticket next al. This information comies in such a cirect form that it can not be chal lenged and, in addition, it is said on he same authority, that the rank and ile of the gild Democra's in New York prol o-eto vote for Mir Bryan, or who ever way be nomioated by the Detmo eratic party at the Kansas City conven tion." Will Be Held. At a mass meeting of the representa tive bustness men and tuerchants of Charleston held at the Thomson audi oriumn Thursday night it was unani mously decided to hold the proposed South Carolina Interstate and We-t ldian exposition here during the au tma of 1901i. Prominent men fromt all parts of the State were present, atnd the big entrprise was launched aulid the greatent enthusiam. It was an ounceed that over a thttd of the capital -tok of the expoeition had already been subsc-ribed by a few enterp.rising men of the city, and assurances wete given that the full amount would be forthcoming as soon as~ the publie was ci'en a chance to take the shares. The project has the ht arty endorsement of the people of the whole State of South Carolina, as well as those of Charlkston. The g~ neral assembly has a'ready given its sanction. A-surareces were received f rom s-ators arnd congressmen that every effort would be used to scure a large government exhibit. A Fatal Miistake Dasniel Broughton, of Lyor.s, Ga , is dead and John 31eEtcheru, his friend, is at the point of death fram drinkingz wood alcohol by mistake. Both are prominent men in the cmmnunity. M1r. Broughton was having his store painted ad at the request of the painter order ed some wooli alcohol for mixing. Sone of it was put into bottles labeled "root beer" and one of these bottles the painter left on a shelf. Sup'posingt the bottle to contain root beer, 31r. Brough ton asked 31eEachern to have a drink and both drank. Twelve hours after wards 31r. Broughton was dead and r. M~cEachern was at the point of death, notwithstanding the best efforts f physicians. o oih Carolina the coton cloth tLa: is IUar uracturcd from the cotton grown in their filds. We are buy it:g those sias iU which to put the -urar that we may senad it out to our nmchanic ard our workinemcn. We are paying f rom $1.50 to $- a day for labor in thne factories. and each farmer who is cultivating the soil and raisingr -us ar beets is an independent sovereign in this fair land cf ours. We are pav ing $0lo, t0,00 annually for sugar in this couttry. We want to manufacture it at homC, from our beet sugar, raised by American farmers. We do not want the cheap pron contract labor, receiving 10, 15 or 20 cents a day, to come nto competition with the labor ot South Carolina and California. I think, pe.rhap, that is one of the. rea 'ons which iltuenced our good Presi dent, because his ahole life has been devoted to protection to American in dustries and the elevation atd dignity of labor. Mr Tillman. I have read some where that in the Koran there is a de scription of Moihamanend's bridge over hell by which those entering heaven must pass, ard I think he describes it as being so attenuated that it is about the breadth of a single hair on a wo man's head. That is about the size of the br:dge my friend, the Senator frou Califoruia, has given the Pred dent to crawl out of te hole in which he was put %hen he sent the free-trade mes ,age here and then backed water .nd charg- d front on it. Mr. Pc-kins H.>x about the tobcao industry of South Carohna? Mr. Tillan. Speaking about the allusion which my friend has wade, 1 will say to lui. a. to the purchase by the suear producers of the eotton hags in which to put tie sugar of the few factories in the United States, that we are very xlae to furnish the cotton cloth. if it comes from my S:ate. but the manufactu ing itdu.iry tf South Carolina-tie manufje ure of cotton I; rincipali -wLich we will S1 in 1890 Showed that tht re were only 400.0oU , pindles. has doubled and trebled since. until they have now eighteen hundred thousand spiedles at d a proportionate number of looms. Since the 1st <f Jar.utry we have organized new mill. or given charters to new enterprises to build mills to the au.ount of $4 000 - 010 and we are reacbing out hand over tst to overtake .Masaebusetts. Ve are already the sceiud State in the manufacture of cotton. We do not a hit of protection from the Ding icy tariff. be cause we ex,ort all of that cloth to China; and we have to clm pete with England; and we do it. and we whip them, and make 20 to 40 per ctnt. diicerds on our cotton factories. Senator Spooner, f Wiscorsin, ex press-d the opinion that Siuth Caro lina was the lart place on earth to orig iniate any impeachtrent of the Repub ican party as to the principle of (qual ity atong men. and said he based the observation partly upon the testimony of Senator Tillman, who stated the other d xy that they had made aL great effort in South Carolina to disfranchise the "nigger;" that they had srufftd the ballot boxes, and that they had used the shot-gun again.t them. That is why I say that from South Carolina thcre ought not to come critieism upon the Republican party as being opposed to equality among men. Mr. Tillman. Mr. President, in rising here to explain my language, and to justify it, I have not the doen ments at hand to sustain all the charges I niake, but 1 will, briefly and in the best way I can, recapitulate the condi tions which brought about the neces ity for stuffing ballot boxes, for shoot ing Negroes, and for using violenee and fraud in taking charges of our State government in South Carolina. The Senator, 1 suppose, did not understand me to say that fruch conditi> exist there now, because I have never made any such acknowledgment. I proclaim~ed the t act that in 1876, when we had stood eight ye ars of car pet bag govern men: arid there was noth ing left us of our civilization unless we rose in our might and took the govern ment back from the carpetbag horde of thieves arid scoundrels and their scalawag alhes. the native-born rap scalions, who had been foisted upon u at the point of the bay onet-when governnment c'asi d to yield protection, when there was semri-anarchy. wh n 800 armed Negro tmilitia were parad ing up and down the roads, threaten ing our aiives arid our children and our houes. when at night burning hou-cs wre lighting up the hor:z,>n in almnost every county, whe-n the conditions were so appal;i-.g that ary kind of g .verrnrnt, any mnihutry desp tisai. was ;rf rable to that, we made up our tind- th4 the fouteenth andi fifteenth atenduments to the Constitution were themselives null and voi I; that the acrs of Congre~s usd--r thetm placing our State under caribag rule were nutl ard va-d; that oaths ri quired by such laws were riull and void, we resolved that the irntelbge-ne, the wealth, arid the patriotism of the S ate, belonging only to the white people, should seize the goveruim.-at from the horde~ of ig norance and vice; t hat we would not longer tolerate bribe-takers ou the neneh and thieves in our bish placei-; that life was not worth having on the erwa and under the conditious forced on us. We swore by the memories of revolui tinary sires that we would redeemn our Sate fromn the gras-p of aliens atnd . groes, and we did ii; arid I have rio apoloies to make for it. If you con tend that no indict ment of Rcpublicans an come from South Carolbna, 1 will tell y ou that the R-epui-lican psrty wie responsible for :hat cond ition ef t hings; I wil tell 'ou that Grant, whto ws th n Pre~idenit, sent the army there to hold do-wn the whiites an-d perpetuate the condition cf misrule' arnd anarchy and robbery w hieh prev.siled, and w hrere the troops were the white majorities. the Democratic mijoriis, we-re the greatet-not by reason of the troops. but because the whites did not hesitate to vote eariy and often and to carry the elections in any way that was found neesary. The Rapublican party did all that wrong blindly, but it does not now treat the colored races that have come to us as it treated the Southern Negroes, and that is reason why 1 charge Iit with hypocrisy. Mr. Spooner. Mr. President. the R epublican party was not responsible true, after the war had ended. gave to the colored man the right to vote. The Republiean party did not enact that .egisatin upon the theoy that it was A NEW BLIND TIGER. The Charleston Custom House Stores Contraband Liquor, AN UGLY LOOKING AFFAIR. Special Agents of The United States Treasury Department Will Investigate the Matter. It is charged by State constables that contraband liquor was being stored in the United States StatesCustom House at Charleston, and the matter is te be investigated by special.agents of the United States treasury department. The Columbia State says Thursday tele grams were fl ing back and forth be tween Charleston, Celumbia and Wash ington. The liquor constables are to keep a close watch on the custom house pending the investigation by the Federal authorities. Thursday Gov. N1c Sweeney made public all the telegraohic and other corre-pondence over the thoroughly intere-ting matter. On Weduesday the governor received the following letter: Charleston. S. C., March 27th, 1900. Governor Miles B. MeS seeney, Colum Dia, S. C. Dear Sir: I Blink has liquor stored in the United States cu-tom house here on the ground floor. Messrs. Dudley and Nunnatnaker saw Bark's wagon go out fron the custom house loaded with whiskey early this morning; the driver ran the horse and made his es cape. I have known for some time that Blauk was keeping his liquor there. I know that he has a qiantity there now. I went at onec to Judge Simonton's of flee and stated the facts to him. He said that the government did not allow such tr~fie on their premises. le told me to go at once to the collector at the custom hou-e and state to him the facts. I told Judge Simouton that, from my information, one would judge that the collector was friendly with Blank and would not allow me to go through the department. Ile said that if the col lecton refused, to state thE facts to So licitor Jervey. I then went to the col lector. He got mad, refused to allow me to go through the departments and deLied that there was any whiskey stored there. I then went to the solici tor and reported the facts to him. He referred me to the ULited States mar sha', who, with Judge Simonton, could make arrangetents abuut it. I saw the marshal, who said to have the building guardtd and to make a full report to you at once and ask 3 ou to wire the secretary of the treasury at once. We wi:1 guard the building, and hope that you will wire at once. Since I have been on this matter I have learned that this is a general stoting place for blind tiger and wholesale liquor dealers, and that there is a quantity of whiskey stored there. I know this to be true and can furnish proof if necessary. Respectfully, S. TI. Hlowie, Chief Constable. This was sent to Blowie: Columbia, S. C., March 28. S. T. Hlowie, Charleston, S. C: Continue to carefully watch building. Will give matter attention at once. M. B McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina. Then the following same from Charleston: Charleston. S. C., March 28. Gov. McSweeney, Columbia, S. C.: In addition to thbe iettermailed liquor, is not imported. Bank gets it from Savannah, has been storing there six years. Marshal says to wire secretary of the treasury. S. T. Howie. This message was sent to the secre tary of the treasury: Coltumbi, S. C., March 28. Honorable Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. L.: Have inforamation that contraband liquors are stored for illicit sale in cus tom house at Charleston. Upon the sggestion of Jugde Siwonton and the United States marshal. I ri q est that you direct the marshal to investigate the case and pierwit the Sia'e dispen sary constables to accompany him. M. B .\eS.weeney, G..vernor of South Carolina Testertiay this reached the governor from Washington: Wahingtn, D C., March 28. Goy. M B McS.weeney, Columbia S. C: Your telesrami of this date was sub mitted to the United States attorney general for such action as he may deem proper. O L Spaulain, Assiant Secretary. The reply was as follows: To 0. L. Spaulding, Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury, Washington, Have ascertained that contraband whiskey from Savannah. Ga., has been stored itn customn house for several .tars. lease direct attorney general to coaniuuicate with this office by wire at once. M. B. MeSweeney, Governor. Senator Tillmnan was in the city and he took a hand in the mater, wiring as folowvs: To' lIon: Lyman Gaze. Secretary of the Treasury, Wa.,hington, D C.: Governor McS.vceney wired you yes trday about contrabaud biq.r stored in the custom house at Charleston. I learn that it has been the custom of ilhii sel~ers to u-e that as a place of storage for sonme time. I urge prompt aetion on your patt to assist State aua thorities to seize the liquor and to get all the facts. Please instruct marshal o: go with constable, as governor desired to avoidelash with Untit ed States govern uent. Anuswer. I. R. Tillmnan, Untited States Senator. Thursday evening the following set ting forth the action of the federal Officials was received: Washington. D C., March 29. His Eclleney M B~ MeSweeney, Gov ernor of South Carolina; You ttlegram of today was also re-I ferred to the attorney general for sucht action as he may deem proper, and an invetigation has been decided upon by special agents of this department. L. J. Gage. Secretary. MAGISTRATE MOORER'S REPORT. Thunersdaywerenn the Charlesn magistrate made the following report by wire: Governor M. B. McSweeney, Columbia S. C. Sir: Subject to your instructions, I beg to submit the following report con cerning the status of the case: A search warrent was issued yester day against the custom house for son traband goods consigned to Vincent Chicco, and ask further instructions. The right of search under the warrant on the custom house seems clear, under express reservation by the State in ced ing the property to the government. My present information is that it is in no way discriminated from any other depot where contraband goods may be stored. At first there was considerable opposition made by the collector to the search and seizure, but on my offer ing to submit the question to the legal advisers of the coliector an interview was held between Deputy Collector Ostendorf, B. A. Hagood. assistant dis trict attorney, and myself. Mr. Hagood advised the collector that it was proper to submit to process in order to protect the collector's bond from any possible loss. However, he suggested a com promise this morning by the collector giving receitut for the goods, viz: 25 eases Burke's Scorch malt, 10 cases Burke's Ttiree Star Irish whi.key, 10 ca-es Nonpariel O.d Tem gin, 5 oases finest dry gin, two. barrels sherry wine, which he pledges him-elf to held in tact, subject to directions which he may receive from the secretary of the treasury upon submi-sion of the mat ter to him. The re.eipt as finally made out was not in accordance with the terms which I underatood had boen agreed on, namely, that the goods would be held subject to proper legal process. Oa further advice and inquiry the receipt, however, maintains the status, and protects the State tempo rarily. My view of the matter is that the process is entirely valid, and it is per tectly competent to carry it out by force if necessary. But I do not conceive that it is your excellency's wish that this be done if it can be avoided, and submit it to your better judgment and await further instructions. A brief hbtory of the facts may give you light: The goods were shipped in bond by the Clyde line to the collector, subject to consignee's call. They were received on March 8, and after three days grace were put in the warehouse as unclaimed goods, without entry having ever been perfected by the consigee, Vincent Chicco, either for immediate consump tion or for warehouse. There was no bond given by Chicco. Deputy Collec tor Ostendorf informed me that it was the practice to hold goods thus stored subject to the duties and warehouse charges for one year and a day, after which they would be sold at public auc tion as unclaimed. The consignee, however, was at liberty at any time during that period to take them out by piece meal by five or any other number of packages at the time on paying the pro rata of duties and - warehouse chaiges. It is, of course, unnecessary for me to suggest how excellent an ar angsment this"is for the purDoses of illicit dealers if the contraband can be held at their convenience under the custody and protection of the govern ment, in defiance of the State's process. Awaiting your further instructions, J1. H. Moore, Magistrate. Suicide or Murder. A remarkable case is reported from Townville in Anderson County. A Negro, Sam Jackson, was the victim. The scant clothing having been satur ted with kerosene oil and then ignited, the poor Negro, enveloped in flames that lieked savagely as they ate their way into the flesh, with shrieks that told of his horrible agonies, ran from his little cabin, until charred and burned, he fell exhausted by the road side and soon expired. From informa tion it is learned that there had been some friction in Sam's connubial lire; that on the day of the deed his father in law had taken Sam's wife from him. This, it is supposed, is the cause of the Negro resorting to the determination of his life. Further developments may show that this dusky spon~e returned to ihe scene of ihe unplea-antness and decided upon this method of dispatch ing her disecable contemporary, which would seem more credible and probable than the suicidlal theory. A Republican Row. Senator Hanna's indignant denial of the statement creditedI in the Wash ington Star to a liepublican congress man, who said the Puerto Rico tariff was the re-ult of a trale for campaign cntribution's, is met by this from Trhe Star: "I'ha interview was had. as re ported in The Star Friday, with a Re iublican membier of the house who sup'ported the Puerto Rican tariff bill with his, vote. It was written a very shorr. time after conversation between the re presentative and The Star reporter losed. This fact can be suj ported by the oath of the man who wrote the in terview, who is perfectly willieg to take oath to it." Inasmuch as The Star is the acknowledged ad-.ninistration or gan, through which the presidIent's ilans and views are often made public, the situition affords some interest. Columbia State. Was He Murdered. A dispatch from Nev York s-&ys after n autopsy on the body of William lenderson, the wealthy Brookl~n min eral water manufacturer, who was found ead at the Riverview hotel, Merritt is land, Indian river, Florida, Coroner's Physician Hlarting r p rted that death was due to cerebral hemorrhage orig inating from violence either directly or indirectly or by a fall. The top of his skull had a cress-shaped cut and another cut ran towar ds the forehead. 'he left temple and left cheek were iscolored and there were abrasions of the fingers A Wrecked Steamer. The Morgan line steamer El Sud., Capt. Higgins which arrived at New Orleans from New York Thursday even ing, reports that on March 27 about 32 miles north of Cape Fioridas he passed a loaded steamer on shore. She had four short masts, no topmast and a black smokestack. There were ro wreckers in sight. The cargo was be ing jettisoned and ;oundings made from a boat on the outside of the steam er. The weather was thick and raining, with fresh southerly winds but not snah sea GZTTING AT THE TRUTH. Some Startling Deyelopments in the Goebel Assassination Case. There were some startling de veln--ents in the Goebel assassination case at Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday. That afternoon W. H. Culton, who waived examination and was h# Id over to the circuit court, went to the Capi tol hotel, where he was in conference with the attorneys for the prosecution for over two hours. He was ac,:om panied by his brother-in-law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attorney. Cul ton was reported to have made a cou fession, but later it developed that the information gained was not as sweeping as thought. His friends admit that he gave the prosecution such information as he had and which had heretcfore not come nut. Henry E Youtsey, Republican Audi. tor Sweeney's clerk, was arrested at noon and locked up in jail, charged with being an accessory to the assas sination. He is a half brother of Hon. L. J. Crawford, a prominent Republi can of Newport, and deteotives arrest ed him as the man witb the black moustache whom Golden mentioned as being given the key to Caleb Powers' office. Youtsey complained that the prosecution had broken faith in arrost ing him, and it is stated he is ready to make a public statement for which the prosecution is not anxious at this time. At the examining trial of the Repub lican Secretary of State Caleb Powers, the court room was cleared of all per sons except attorneys, newspaper rep resentatives and court officers. The de fense announced they would introduce no testimony and tendering Governor Ta)lor's pardon of powers, asked the defendant be dismissed upon the evi dence. The commonwealth disputed Taylor's right and the court overruled the motion. Bail was asked for. Judge Moore said: "It is not my belief that Powers fired the shot which killed Gov. Gobel, but from the evidence it is my opinion that he was connected with the conspiracy to kill him. I shall therefore order that he be held over without bail to-the Franklin county grand jury that the case may be further investigated." Culton's counsel announced that Cul ton would waive his examining trial and by agreement of the attorneys he will remain at home with his sick wife, un der private guard Capt. John Davis also waived examination and was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. He was locked up for the night. The Demo cratic milita will be retained here till after April term of the circuit court which begins Monday and at which Secretary Powers and others are to be aied. A WEIRD CEREMONY. Two Young Ladies Wedded by Their Sister's Corpse. The Rev. Charles P. Grover, of Penns Manor, N. J., married two of his daughters in the parsonage while another daughter lay dead in the next room. The unusual ceremony took place a few days ago and the facts have just come to light. Invitations were sent out some time since for a double wedding at the home of the Rev. Mr. Grover. His elest daughter, Helen, was announced to marry Dr. Davenport, of Newark, and the other contracting parties were An nie Grover and William Proudfoot, of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. At the .time the invitations were issued the youngest daughter of the family was ailing, but her condition was not considered se nious. Complitations set in and the young woman grew rapidly worse. A few days before the date of the wedding the invitations were revoked, but the family was adverse to postponing the ceremony. The young men came on to Per. Manor from their homes, arriv ing on the night that the young girl died. There was a consultation in the fam ily, at the conclusion of which the an nouncement was made that the double wedding bhould go on as originally planned, save that there would be no guests. In the ordor of flowers about thtir sister's coffin, only a few feet away, Helen Grover became Mrs. Dav enport and Annie Grover became Alrs. Proudfoot. Dr Grover performed the ceremony, which was held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Toe quartette of newly married did not go on a bridal tour- Theny attend ed the funeral of the dead girl the next day, and at this the father officiated also. The interment to<,k pulace at Mt Airy Maryland, and besides the parents the chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs. D.aven port and Mr. and Mrs. Proudfoot. A Duty to the State. Editor Aull, of the Newberry Herald and News, who is also private secretary to Governor MeS weeney and presiden t of the State Press Association, writes to his paper: "I noticed in the pa pers the other day that Mr. C. A. Woods, of Darlington, had been sug ested as the man to succed Dr. Car lisle as president of Wofford College, and that Mr. Woods promptly came out in a card and said he hoped there would be no necessity for a successor to Dr. Carlisle for many years yet. I most heartily concur. Though I see very little of Dr. Carlisle, yet I know of his work and of the great influence he is exerting for good over the lives of the young men of the State, and I hope to see him remain in his present position ntil the summons comes from above for him to lay down his armor and pass his mantle to other saoulders and ,ioin the hosts who have gone before. It will be time enough then to discuss his successor. The truly great men in this State, like Dr. Carlisle, should remain where their influence will be grca est in shaping the lives and characters of he young." KIled Himself. Col. Win. F. Wickman. who in some way unknown shot himself several days ago, died at his home in Powhattan ounty, Va., Thursday night. He was a son of the late Gen. Wickman, the onfederate cavalry general, and for many years president of the Chesa peake and Ohio railroad, and had been prominent in Republica politics in A NEW INDUSTRY. Man and Woman Follow the Country Pair Circuits With Profit. "I am afraid that this is a very wicked world," said the Rev. Charles W. Sutherland, of Detroit, recently. "MY congregation was kind enough to offer me a vacation last fall, and I seized upon the opportunity to visit the little towns in the state where I was formerly located, and rene q old ac quaintances. "At one of the towns that 1 visited a country fair was being held, and I re ceived an invitation to visit the grounds and perform a wedding that had been put forward as one of the leading attractions of the week. The business men of the place had contrib uted liberally towards the wedding presents which were to go to the first couple who would come forward and agree to be married on the grounds. . 'A pair having volunteered I was asked and married them in the midst of a cheering crowd. "A week later I was in another small town, and it so happened that a fair was in progress there, too, and a wedding was the star attraction. I chancec to visit the grounds during the day, and the minister who had been engaged to perform the ceremony fail ing to appear, I was called upon to act in his place. "When I faced the pair I was thun derstruck to find that they were the same people that I had married the week before. I vas so surprised that I married them again without having time to think whether I was doing right or wrong. "After the ceremony the groom got me to one side and asked me as a favor not to give him away, using his lan guage. He said they made a business of going around country fairs getting married, and a word from me would spoil it all. He said farther that they were going up in a balooa to be mar ried the following week, and he would get me the 'job' if I wanted it. But I had to decline as politely as I could. I really think he was disappointed when I refused." No Comparison. The absurdity of comparing Cronje's capture with Mtjaba is well disclosed by the celebrated London journalist, W. T. Stead, as follows: "Nineteen years ago 551 Britishtroops established on the top of a mountain were -ittacked in front by 200 Boers, who swarmed up the sides of the mountain and de feated them in a straight. stand-up fight. The B.>ers lost 8 killed and 9 wounded, while we lost 221 killed and wounded and 59 prisoners. It was an honest, straightforward, stand-up fieht, in which we outnumbered the Boers by three to one, and where we also einj yed all the advantages of po bition. That was the defeat, the some thing on the slate, the stain of which after 19 years this Christian nation ex ulis that it has now wiped off with a bloody sponge. Four thousand Boers, with six nine-pounder cannon and two Maxim;, held at bay for eight days 40,0O0 British troops, supported by a park of powerful artilery, field pieces, naval guns and howitzeis, which pumped lyddite shells upon-an impro vised laager in a river bed, from dis tances which were practically out of range of the Beer rifies. After stand ing it for eight days the Beers capit ulated to an overwhelmning force. And this was the avenging of Majuba! Be cause they licked us when we only outnumbered them by three to one, we derive satisfaction because we have defeated them when we outnumbered them by ten to one."~ Postal Money Orders. First Assistant Postmaster General Perry J. Heath has just sent out an im portant order having reference to the cashing of money orders by postoffices of the first and second-.:lass. The gist of this order, which Major Smyth has received is to caah all money orders irrespective of the place of payment named therin. For instance, if a man in Atlanta has a money order drawn on Augusta he can get it cashed at the Atlanta postofflce, provided he is pro perly identified and the order is perfect ly regular. in the same way money orders can be cashed at any first or sec ond-class postoffiees, although drawn upon offiees at other points. Further, by the order many orders can be caahed at fir.t and second class postoffises wihout the corresponding advice hav ing been received of their issuance. A maa here, for example, who has a money order from Nishville can get it cahed before the "advice" has been re ceived at this office, provided he is properly identified and the order is regu lar. Heretofore the rule was that all money orders must be paid at the post office on which they are drawn, and money orders could not be cashed at all unless the corresponding advices had been received from the points where is sued. Straigt 'Talk. The Washington Post, which is one of the fairest and most infiuential inde. pendent newspapers in the United St ates, has been exceedingly kind to the administration of late, but cannot ap prove the action taken in Porto Rico. Tfhe Post say: "If Porto Rico is to be sacriiced to the sordid uses of a politi cal contest, if these innocent and trust ful people, who welcomed us with open arms and confided their destinies to our honor and generosity, are to be immo lated on the altar of a detestable and mean party emergency, if it be true that the Re- publican congr4ss, backed by the Re publican ad uinistration, deliberately intend to tread upon the misery and the helplessness of a people who have thrown themselves upon our mercy, then we say-and we believe-that the country will make haste to denounce and to condemn and to rebuke an in famy so monstrous and so i ndefensible." Two at a Shot. A dispatch from Greensboro. N. C., says three men who were serving out their sentences on the county roads about nine miles from there, made a break for liberty Wednesday afternoon. The guard fired and two of the convicts being in line the bullet passed entirely through one of them, killhng him in stantly, and wounding the other mor tality. The third, a white man named Enna., escaned. BLOW TO BOERS. Their Greatest General Dies of Disease at Pretoria. HONORED AND ADMIRED. Press of England and France Pay Tribute to the Patriot and Gallant Gen tleman. A dispatch from Pretoria says Gen. Joubert, the abiest Boer commander, lied at that place on Wednesday from a stomach trouble. The dispatch also says the town is plunged into mourning for the true patriot, gallant general and upright and honorable gentleman. The Pretoria correspondent of the London Daily Mail telegraphed Wednesday as follows: "Gen. Joubert died of peritonitis. The funeral will take place Thursday. The government is pleading with Lhe widow to allow a temporary interment here, with a state funeral. Joubert always expressed a desire to be buried in a mausolem built on his fa-m. His successor in the chief command will probably be Gen. Lewis Botha, now commanding in Natad." The London newspapers publishlong biographies of Gen. Joubert, referring to him in a kindly tone. The P411 Mali Gazette says: "Piet Joubert was the one contemporary Transvaal Baer, except ex Justice Kcnze, whose death could call forth a sincere tribute of re spect from E iglishmen of all parties. Ile was the antiphodes in the Trans vaal world of Leyds, and personally, was honest, straight and clean handed." A dispatch from Paris says the press of that city is unanimous in ealogizing the late Gea. Joubert, whose death is considered a serious loss to the feder als. All the papers agree in thinking that a change in the chief command is bound to have grave consequences f ar the Boer operations. Many think, however, that President Kruger is ful ly equal to the task, and that, consid ering his military reputation the resist ance of the Baers is likely to beomes more stubborn than ever. L't, L t : - I . r . The recent marriage of Albert 3. Talbott, of Paris Ky., to Miss Lucy Biggstaff, of Batn county, brings to light some very romantic features, as told by one of the chi'ef actors in the drama. A bout a year ago, Martin Tal bott, a middle aged farmer, residing near this city, while on a visit in Bath county, became acquainted with Miss Lucy Biggstaff, a pretty young women of Oingsville, and they became be trothed. 0 ie day Talbott took his younger brother, Albert Talbott, the horseman, to Miss Biggstaffs home. Albert, in turn, fell a victim to her charms. On the day set for the mar! riage Martin Talbott, accompanied by Albert-who was to be the best man proceeded to Owingsville, where he secured a license to marry Miss Bigg staff. Albert remarked to Martin: "Look here, Martin, you are too old to marry that girl. Let me have her." Martin would not consent, but pro posed to lay the matter before the young woman and abide her decision. When the case was laid before Miss Biggstaff, to Martin's great surprise, she said that she loved Albert best. Mar tin relinquished all claims, the license was destroyed, a new one authorisiag the marriage of Albert R. Talbott and Lucy Biggstaff secured, and they were married. Martin took the matter philosophically and acted as beat man at the ceremony. Some Good. Advice. We all know how some women after a year or two of married life, get care less about their dress," says a laly novelist. "They seem to think that their fortune is made, and it isa't necessary to arrang, the hair beco:ning ly, and put on a pretty gona, jast for their husbands. This is an error that arises from laz'.ness. Men like to see their wives look pretty, just as they did when they were sweethearts. Taste a womn a's advice, aai if yoa can have but one attractive goava, let thrt be the one yin wear indoors. laE i vor to have datatily arraapi. ht aila a neat and simple costa~n: fir bre ukfast. 'Go in largely for laes. A mia is very fond of frials; bits of white an3us the neck and wrists allays appual strangly to him. Have well fitting boots, or slippers, as the case miy be, san, is fact, stuiy to make yourself just as winsome after the fish is hanled as when you were nt so sure of him." Declares for McKinley. As between McKinley and Brysn The Greenville News is distictly for 31cKinley. We rerard him as reper senting not our puitieal principles, but the progress and commiercial prosperity of the country. Oa the o:her hand Colonel Bryan is in our vies, as far from democratic priaciples as McKin ley is, and represents stagnation and commercial disaster. Between a Res publican representing prosperity and sanity and a populist representing disaster, lunacy and irresponsibility, we are for the Republican. This because we are interested in the good of the contry more th'an in the sue cess of any special crowd of politicians. -Greenville News. - A Queer Postoffice. The smallest, simplest, and best protected postoffce in the world, says an exchange, is in the Straits of Magel Ian, and has been there for many years. It consists of a small painted keg or cask, and is chained to the rocks of the extreme cape in such a manner that it fi ats free, opposite Terra del Fuego. Each pasaing ship sends a boat to take letters out and put others in. This curious postoffice is uprovided with a postmaster, and is, therefore, under the protection of all the navies of the world. Never in the history of this unique "office" have its privileges been abused. Senators have passed a resolution calling upon Secretary Root to explain his action in granting an exclusive con cession to G. W. F.&terly, deputy au ditor in the state department, to mine the gold hed of the sea of Uane NIomeb