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TOL.XIIMANNING, S. C., WEDNESD MAA OLD VETS STiRRED. General Gordon Almost o'bbed by Enthusiastic Comrades. NEW ORLEANS FLOOLDED AGAIN. This Time It is a Flood of S>nth ern Oratory. The Old thier tain Kissed by a s Maiden. The thirteenth annual reunio" f the United Confederate \'eterans was opened in the great auditorium at the fair grounds in New Orleans on Tues day of last week. The weather was perfect zaid all the arrangements by the local entertainment committees the most successful. There were thousands of veteraE soldiers. hun dreds of beautiful women and ;bove and around on every hand a profusir. of fluttering Llags and waving stream ers. There was martial mu!ic with out limit and enthusiasm unhounded. Over the beauty and success of the day there was but a single shadow. and that promises to disappear before the mrrning. This was the illness of Gen. Gordon. the commander-in-chief of the organization. le was not well when he left his hotel for the audi torium and has not been in his usual health for several days. His strength was not in reality surbicient for the -ordeal to which he subjected himself and before the close of the opening session he was a greatly wearied man. Nothing but his grin fighting spirit carried him through the day without something akin to a collapse. Ile was not able to attend the afternoon ses sion at the auditorium, and remained quietly in his room at the hotel, re ceiving no visitors. His condition is in no manner serious, but it is pos sible that he may not be able to pre side at all tbe sessions at the audito rium between now and Friday noon. He expects. however, to be present Thursday. When the hour for opening the convention arrived the platform was crowded with fair women and men whose names are household words throughout the south. Gen. Gordon was delayed somewhat in reaching the grounds and his entrance into the hall was an ovation. Cheer after cheer rang through the building as he came rapidly down the aisles leaning on the arm of Adjt. Gen. Mickle. He was surrounded instantly by a group of friends as he reached the rostrum and for a time was unable to reach his chair. No sooner was he seated than a fair young woman, Miss Tarlton of Waco, Tex.. approachied and bending down kissed the general. le sprang quickly to his feet to acknowledge the honor with repeated bows. Gen. J. B. Levert, commander of the Louis iana division of the Confederate vet erans, called the assembly to order and introduced the chaplain general, Rev. J. William Jones, who delivered an eloquent invocation. Then, in suc cession came speeches of welcome to the veterans fromi Paul Capdevielle. mayor of New Orleans: Loys Char bounet, who spoke for the local or ganization of the Sons of Veterans: Mrs. William J. Behan, representing the Confederate Southern Memorial association, and Gov. W. W. I eard, who spoke of the people of theC State of Louisiana. After a few opening words of welcome the governor said: GOT. BEARD. "Yeterans, the outcome of the struggle that you carried on for four long years against the most powerful forces and armaments that the world has yet seen, in no manner or sense can obscure the glory and fame that you woni for D~ixie's land. With a total enlistment of 600,000 you con fronted 2,800,000. Of these in round numbers 500,000 were of foreign birth and had Europe been in formal alli ance with the north, it could scarcely have been expected to send more than this number of its organized soldiery for its quota in such a coali tion. Considering the 200,000 negro soldiers, the 500,000 foreign soldiers and the 2,100,000 native Americans,' it is not extravangant to say that the 600,000 Confederates confronted a coalition of America, Europe and Africa. When we consider these in disputable facts we cannot but have commisseration for the person who would seek to detract from the un paralleled resistance made by the armies in gray, uby impugning the motives by which they were impelled to make this truly legendary defense of their homes and constitutional rights as they construed these rights to be." The governor concluded his address by repeating the welcome of the people of Louisiana E. B. Kruttschnitt of New Orleans, chair-, man of the local executive committee, in charge of all the arrangements for the reunion then made a most ha ppy address. GEN. GORDON's sPEECH. As Gen. Gordon rose to reply he was enthusiastically cheered. Gen. John B. Gordon said in part: "To my thought it is most fitting that this proud and patriotic organiza tion shor ld meet again in this historic city which gave it birth. The meet ing of such men as you welcome today. whose past deeds will remain forever an inspiration to American valor and to future sacrifices for constitutional freedom, is an auspicious event in the country's history, whenever and wher ever it may occur: but how peculiarly inspiring is this reunion in Louisiana. on this 100th anniversary of her birth into governmental alliance with American States. A Roman eye would have discovered in a meeting of such men, at such time, an omen of good to th; cause of liberty; and. Ameri-! can eyes should see in it nothing but good to the whole republic. It must! of necessity be beneficent and only beneticent. We will not indulgre on this centennial--this political millenial morning--nor at other times in any bitterness. We feel none. We pity those who do. We have long since drawn the curtain of oblivion over the regretful and unseemly things of the past: and weecherish as A mericans the valor and noble deeds of both armies nd of all sections. We are satistied with our record: and tie power that would attempt to make us blush for it would he ioth stupid and blind. We are heirs. joint heirs, with the re publie-s children in the inheritance of freedom left by our sires. We are proud of all the past. Moreover, we are now facing a future pregfnanl with tremendous possibilities: but we face it with a strength of hope and assur ance. born of an unswerving purpose to discharge our every duty to all races. and to the whole country. We are growing old: but we still stand tirmly on the narrow strip of land which separates us from a wOundless ocean. ".And as we go home, we will calmly drop our mantles on the shoulders of our suns. who will worthily wear them: and in no crisis of the republic wheth-er in forum or tield. will they be found wanting. At the conclusion of Gen. Gordon's address he turned to greet a lady gowned in black, who had come to the front of the rostrum during the latter portion of his address. Ti;en. lead ing her to the frout of the platform he said: "It was my fortune and I will never cease to thank GOd tihat it was my fortune to follow. to know w:I, an.i to love Stonewall -Jackson. lIe is no-, here. but the best half of him is here in the person of his wife. Comrades, I present to you, Mrs. Stonewall Jack son. "To your feet. boys, to your feet. was the cry of a veteran in the Ten nessee delegation, but swift as came his cry, it came too late. The "boys" were up, every man of them. and in the wild cheers that swept the hall. the fairfaced lady from North Caro lina was made to know once more how southern love remembers. "And here's a young Jackson," called out the general, leading forward a very pretty girl. Miss Julia Jackson Christian, the granddaughter of the famous soldier. As lie spoke he kissed her, and the ::hee.-s were redoubled for the general and the girl. Judge John Reagan, the sole surviv ing member of the Davis cabinet, then spoke from one portion of the rostrum, while numbers of the old soldiers threw themselves upon Gen. Gordon at the other end. The recep tion was smothering Mr. Reagan's voice and Gen. Gordon at the same time, when Gen. S. D. Lee interfered with the gavel, beseeching the crowd to be silent and to allow Gen. Gordon to rest. Mr. Reagan spoke but brielly after this. and an adj!'urnment was taken ntil afternoon. Immediately the mobbing of Gen. Gordon was resumed with redoubled energy. Oae old sol dier, intoxicated by his enthusiasm, sank on his knees before the general and would have hugged him had not the by standers interfered. THE ANNUAL ORATION. The oration of Judge Rogers con sumed the entire afternoon session. is address. which was remarkably well delivered, was a brilliant success. A synopsis of Judge Rogers' speech is published on the next column. It should be read by all and especially our young people. Uncle Sam's Ukase. Regardless of the outcome of the present negotiations respecting the olitical domnnation of Manchuria t can be stated this government is prepared to insist to the end upon ommercial privileges for United States merchants in Manchuria equal to hose enjoyed by the merchants of ther nations. Russia included. The state department has had pledges from Russia that even in the event of anchuria passing undler Russian ontrol our commerce and trade rivileges should not suffer and it will hold that our commerce would suffer if Russian goods can enter Man huria free while United State.s goods are forced to pay duty. This attitude f the state department will, it is be ieved, go far toward reassuring the outhern cotton interest which have ecome alarmed at the p'ssible loss f their best market. Paid kier Well. The bank account started from con tributions received by Lulu Spence, the chambermaid who lost her posi tion at the Hotel English at Indian polis, Ind., for refusing to make the bed occupied by Booker Washington, was increased by $1.044l Thursday. The largest contribution yet received was sent to her by citizens of New Orleans. It was a check on the First National bank of that city for $1,000. The list of subscribers was not sent, nd the letter which accompanied the hek congratulated her on the stand she took, and was signed " Southern ers." Killed His Neighbor. Joseph .Jernigan, a white farmer, surrendered himself to the sheriff Wednesday afternoon and made the statement that he had killed Win. Golden, a neighboring farmer, on the public road~s several miles from Tip ton. Ga. According to Jernigarn's story he and Golden had not been friends for a long time. Tuesday after ternoon they met in the road. A quarrel was begun when Golden drew a knife and rushed on Jernigan, who shot him dead. There was-no Sit Fatal Explosion.. There was a territic explosion in the town of Reus Catalonia, Spain, Wednesday. Fire started in a tire works factory early that morning and fter destroying one portion of the building reached a point where a large amount of gunpowder was stor ed. The powder exploded destroying five buildings, killing ten persons and injuring fourteen. H-el~ed Himself. A dispatch from Washington says the treasury department Wednesday received a telegram from National Bank Examiner Perkins announcing the close of Southport National bank, of Southport, Conn. This action, it is said, was taken in consequence of the defacation of the cashier, which is believed to have approximated .SI00, Three Lynched. Amos E. Randall, white. and D)an Kennedy and Henry Golding. colored, were lynched at Mulberry, Fla.. early Wednesday mnorning4 for the murder of 3arney IBrown, a prominent far mer. Randall was a saloon keeper and Brow h.2d ben ad vocating prohibi A GREAT SPEECH Which Should be Read by Our Boy and Girls. THE SOUTH AND THE LATE WAR 'Did Any Other People Ever7 Fac and Overcome Adversity as Did the Southern People After the War?' The following is a synopsis of th oration delivered by lion. .J:hn 11 Rsogers. of the United States Distric Court. at New Orleans on Tuesda, week, before the annual meeting o the Confederate Veterans: "Why are we here? No fanatica religious crusade prompted this im mense coneourse. Here are to b found all creeds and faiths and be liefs. in perfect peace with each otber freed from antagonism to excite th< passions of men. In yonder sky ar no angry cliouis of pestilence or war. No impending danger th reatens oui land. demanding consultation anc means of protection from -nemie within and wi':hout. We are at peac< at home and aboad. Neither are %v weary pilgrims to a holy Mecca, seek ing absolution from our sins. Nor arE we aspirants for social or political pre ferment. This is no vast political con. vention or mass meeting assembled for purposes of considering grave nat ters of state or seeking to confer hon ors on favorite sons. Nay, nay, none of these. What is it that has brought us together? This great assembly hal) festooned with bunting and flags, em blems of liberty and power, its am pitheatre filled with the grare man hood and lovely womanhoon of the south, these venerable men, the survi vors of the tremendous conflic; of the sixties-all thes.e things tell of a deer underlying cause. This great sea o1 upturned faces, glowing with life, in telligence and sympathy-if not with joy unmingled with sorrow- proclaim that the purpose of our assembling has made a deep impression upon our hearts. We need not repress the de votions by which we are agitated. Whenever and wherever these re unions occur, we are standing amid the sepulchers of our dead. Every foot of our beloved southland is distin guished by their courage, their su blime fortitude, their self-denial, their unwavering devotion and patriotism, and sanctified by the shedding of their blood. 'Time and nature have nad teir course' in diminishing the num bers of those whd surrendered at the close of the great Civil war, but neith er time nor nature can relieve those who survive of the duties they owe to the memory of our unrecorded dead, to our posterity, to our beloved south land and to ourselves. We are here today to discharge as we may those duties and to renew old friendships forged in the white heat of common sufferings and hallowed and sanctified by the conscious convictions that in the hour of trial and peril we were true to the constitution as it was framed handed down to us by Wash ington and his compatriots. We are here also to pay tribute to the noble band of southern women, the mothers and daughters of the Confederacy. "If we would not have our very chil dren in the rear future, if not asham ed and apologizing for us, then unable to defend us, we must not be idle in preserving, recording and teaching the real facts upon which the righteous ness of our actions must depend. "I find no fault with the New Eng land States that from the moment the Pilgrim fathers touched foot on Plym outh Rock they began and [ave con tinued day by day to record their own deeds: but it cannot be truthfully said that their writers and statesmen have always been as just and fa.ithful in their interpretation and treatment of the actions of others as they :aave been diligent in recording their own deeds, and afterwards escaping their respon sibility and logical consequences. It is a misfortune to the south that her sous, if not indifferent. then carelessly neglected to preserve for the historian like records. Tbe true records of the south, if it can be related with historic accuracy, is rich in patriotism, in in tellectual force, in civic andi military achivements, in heroism, in honorable and sagacious statesmanship, of a proper share in which no A merican can afford to deprive himself. So much genius in legislation, in administa tion, in jurisprudence, in war, such great capacities, should expel partisan and sectional prejudices. "The south is reproached for dis union-Secession. 1t is the basis for the charge of treason, of disrupting the union, of violating the constitu tion, of rebellion, of making war on the United States. It must not be for gotton that there is a wide difference between secession and rebellion. The south made no war on the States re maining in the union. Secession meant disunion so far as the seceding States were concerned, but it neither meant war or rebellion. I1 meant a union intack so far as all the States were concerned which did rot secede. and a union, too, under the constitu tion. As the States entered the union, each under acts of ratification of its own so secession meant the resumption by each State of its delegated powers~ b~y repealing the acts under which each seceding State entered the compact: but the repeal of such acts did not and could not affect the acts by which the remaining States entered into the Confederacy. "1 atlirm, if odium is to attach~ to the south for the act of secession it must attach also to the p reat north and east, where it was for political, economical and industrial reasons sedulously agitated and inc~ulcated up to the Mexican war, and the rights distinctly recognized by its leading statesmen up to 1860. History ought not to allow them to slip this odium, if odium it be, from their s;houlders to the shoulders of the south. "Our children should know that the Coufederate States, by the act of seces sion made no war on the United States: that the War between the States was not rebellion. It was the result of an effort by the l'uited I will to remain in the union, a power E not to be found in the constitution. a I power which all the earlier fathers be- I lieved did not exist, a power utterly 1 inconsistent with the right of seces sion, which it is believed all parts of the country recognized when the con stitution was framed and for many I years thereafter. -If the southern States had the, power, notwithstanding the constitu- t tion, to withdraw from the union in I 1803, in 1812 and in 1845, as New Eng- I land statesmen then affirmed. they I had the same power in 1861. No 0 change of the constitution had been S made and the relation of the States to I each other were unaltered. If that r power existed at all. the expediency of wit.hdrawing was one solely for each I State to decide for itself. t "It was not a question of the con- j L trol of the government or an economi- i cal or industrial question: it was not a I question of preserving the balance of t power or the equilibrium of the sec- t tions. such as was felt in New Eng- 1 land when the Louisiana and Florida c purchases were made and Texas ac- v quired. It was a question of civiliza- '1 tion, of constitutional liberty, of the t preservation of the principles of the I ( constitution; and the south when the t alternative was presented of abandon ing the nrinciples of the constitution c or giving up the union with alacrity, c but with deepest reluctance that the h re.es-sty existed, chose the latter. n .he was overcime: she has suffered. S but she ought not to be maligned or b misrepresented. C "I must not be misunderstood. This 0 whole question of secession and dis- V union has been forever settled, so far e. as the domain of constitutional law t is concerned. The decree was render- 1h ed at Appomattox and was written irn P the best blood of all sections of this U land. It was rendered in the high d court of last resort, where all laws ai hut those of war are silent. From it t no appeal can be had except to revolu- e tion. which God forbid. From the ti clear skies His blessed finger points to h a restored union and His benificient smile is :;pread all over the land where P, dwells a people, the strongest, the P. most enlightened, the most prosper- t ous and happy to be found on the 01 habitable globe. Ii all our struggles cl we had not been forgotten. His t mighty hand has been felt, lifting us P( up from our calamities, chastened but d( made better and stronger by His lov- of ing kindness. "Slavery perished, like secession, as al one of the incidents and results of the u1 ul war. Thank God that it is gone for ri ever and that we have a reunited country under one flag, the emblem of a free people in an inseparable union h of coequal States and never destined, we pray God, to become the emblem of i mpe:ial power at home or abroad, M or to float over vassal States and sub ject peoples anywhere against their will us "We are assembled here for no fl ignoble ends. We are here to revive gr no issues settled by that unhappy con- ar 11ict. We are not here to defame ed others or pervert or wrap the truth. ra We are not here to exaggerate or ci magnify the glory and virtues of one dt section of our common country at the tb expense of the other. We are here tb that mankind may not forget nor of falsehooci nor calumny cloud or tarnish the calm judgment of posterity as to the sincerity of the motives and the honorable conduct of Confederate hI soldiers. We affirm our desire hr that our children may understand i these things that they may the more reverence their ancestry, that they d may know of their suffering and sac rifices and be able to defend their good h( names, and proud of their achieve- s ments, emulate in the great struggles SC of the future, if such await our coun- fr try the fidelity, patriotism, love of tv home and country attested by the I veterans of 1861 on a hundred bloody w battlefields. B "Who would have them forget the Lees, the Johnstons. the Jacksons and., the Hills? Who would have them for get Bragg, Beauregard, Hardee, Price, Polk and Ihood? Who would have them forget the great wizard of the saddles, Bedford Forrest: and our own little Joe Wheeler, Pat Cleburn, the lamented Walthall and innumerable Si others? Who would have us forget C the grand old man (Gen. John B. Gor- t don) yet with us, and others still spar- Si ed and the hosts who made for them U names that can never perish from the tl: earth as long as genius and courage O0 and patriotism challenge the admira- tI tion of mankind? "Did any other people ever face 6) and overcome adversity as did the southern people? The same spirit which gave her armies unity, power hi and endurance followed the survivors back into ci vil life to point the way of anwbrh such as no other country U has ever esperienced. The south gaveT to her armies all of her male popula tion, including beardless boys and gray-haired men, and they went from st every walk, profession, calling arnd ed station in life. Neither the bench. m the pulpit nor the institutions of or learning were spared, All answere'i sa with alacrity and determination the cc call to arms. When the war closed or there were none upon whom to j.1 rely but the ex-Confederate soldier. pl ie it was who took up the new prob- cc 1m s which the changed conditions of hi his desolate land presented. Stand- bt ing by the graves of his comrades, in- w; spired by their noble deeds, chastened a and disciplined by the horrors, self- ca denial and sufferings of war, encourag- b) ed by the high achievements of his revolutionary sires, and loving venera tion the traditions of his anecastry, interwoven as they were with the his- Si tory of his beloved south, undismayed su but hampered by the prejudices and w; assions which the war had left be- ec hind, he began the work of rebuilding pi her shattered fortunes and rehabilita- 10 ting her dismantled commonwealth. But as the south had fought for the p) principles of local self-government and or lost, so in the disjointed logic of tc the time she was to be denied its w application in the reestablishment ti of her State govrnment. Tne great north sent the carpetbagger, who, aided by those who had never ex ercised the simplest rights of citizen- te ship, were expected to set up and tC administer such governments as N were lit for a people who, for n: nearly threequarters of a century ti had, in the main, guided and directed al the splendid progressand development gi of the geat republic. The riotous hb .nd debauched condition into which t ielpless and defenceless people were >lunged by this characterless herde of nsatiable comorants wbo assembled at ur State capitals to blaspheme the ,ry name to civil government and >lot schemes to oppress a faflen foe hat they might prolong their op tortunities for peculation, must be eft for the future historian in the in crest of truth and as a lesson to osterity and as a warning to us all hat there is no freedom where one aan is permitted to govern others gainst their wills, to drag away the heet that covers the rotten corpse of econstruction. It fell, as in the ature of things it could not endure. "With the south's overwhelming roblem still unsolved she has, never beless, under the auspices of her own eople, fallen into safe and peaceful I not happy and prosperous times. fer sons and daughters have resumed heir rightful station and whatever be future has in store of good for er must rest upon the trains and haracterisetics of her people. She ,ill be patient, she will be prudent. 'o all the knightly and queenly vir ues she will hold fast, trusting to od and the future for the noble and ie good. The south will not despair. "Greed of gain and lust of power, alminating in plutocratic usurpation L all the branches of the government as never found favor or encourage ent here. Our population, Anglo a.xon still, has never been dominated y foreign elements, ignorant and reless of the principles of our govern ent and the practice of our fathers. e still have our splendid inheritance cept as mod!ted-let us believe for ie better-by war. I believe as I ve, that if our institutions are to be reserved, much, so much, will depend on this goodly south of ours, Our epest concern should be for a better d more righteous natioaal charac r. All the bounteous elements of rth and sl;y beckon us away from ie base fascination of pelf which dis anors and destroys our country. "Let us invite all her people into ths of law and order, inculcating ace, and keep alive our sense of jus ze and human freedom and let all ir advancement and growth be arcterized by such a recognition of te rights of man as shall make her ople feel that the blessings of Provi nce are theirs, under a government just and equal laws. "May our beloved southland build I her temples, not upon the shifting icksands of seltish expediency, but on the everlasting principles of ght. Let us not forget that in the eat armory of Divine Providence, stice forges her weapons long before r battles are fought; that in the erlasting courts of heaven every man ust suffer the penalty of his dis edience and all nations the penalty injustice and wrong. Whatever y be our burdens or calamities, let bear them with that courage and rtitude that becomes a just and a eat people, and may our children d our children's children be inspir to walk along the very mountain nges of an enlightened Christian viliation, always in the paths of ty, and preserve and keep sacred e same great qualities that made eir ancestry respected and beloved mankind." Cut His Throat. Washington Seligman, banker and oker, son of James Seligman and other of Jesse Seligman, was found his room at the Rossmore Hotel in aw York Thursday night with a ep gash in the right side of his roat. He was taken to Roosevelt pital a prisoner for . attempted icide. To Police Capt. O'Connor Mr. ligman said: "I have been suffcring >m a nervous ailment for the past] renty years, and only a few days ago noticed that it was getting much rse, and I was afraid to face it. side, I have been having a whole Sof trouble in 'Wall street lately, Ld so I determined to end it all." 2e doctors say that there is no ubt that Seligman will be able to ve the hospital in a few days. South Carolina's W ar Showing. It is a matter of record that this ate furnished to the armies of t.he nfederacy nearly 30,000 men more an the voting population of the ate In 1860. The census of the nited States shows that at that time ere were in this State 55,046 men er the age of 31. The records of e war department of the Confed acy show that this State furnished ,60 men for service. (f that num r 24,248 died in battle, in the hos tals and in the prisons. Nearly one If of the State's troops never came me after they set out to establish a vernment which they thought to be eir acme of civic organization. 2e State. Was M~2urdered. A dispatch from Langley to The ate says a gruesome picture present itself to some passers-by Wednesday orning on the Langley dam about e-fourth mile from the mill. They w the body of a human being lying ld In death. Upon examination it 'oved to be the body of Joe Wertz, a gro man who has been in the em ny of the Langley Manufacturing mpany for a number of years. Wertz Ld been struck a heavy blow on the .ck of his head and then his throat is cut. The coroner's jury rendered verdict to the effect that Wertz me to his death by a violent attack unknown parties. A Bank Suspends. A dispatch from Greenwood, to The ate says the City bank of that place spended Wednesday. The news is as astounding as it was unexpect .The first intimation of the sus nsion was the posting of the fol wing notice on the front door: 'ombinations of circumstances, cou ed with unusually heavy demands us, absolutely forces the City bank suspend: creditors and depositors ill be paid in full, but it will take Served Him Right. Dr. Leland Dorr Kent of Rloches r, N. Y., was sentenced on Monday 20 years imprisonment for inducing is Dingle, a trained nurse, to com It suicide. They had agreed to kill 1emselves. She carried out the freement, but he cut his throat and yt well. Mrs. Kent, the wife, has ucme insane nor the affair. MASSACRE OF JEWS In Russia the Most Hideous Crimi of the Century. HORRI LE TALES OF CRUELTY Particulars or the Terrible and Un provoked Murders ofU noffend ing Jewish Men. Women and Children. Stories of the many great massacres, which have been occurring in Russia, are just beginning to arrive in this country from the newspapers of foreign lands. According to papers all these bloody outbursts against the Russian Jews were occasioned by the bitter condemnations of a Mr. Kree shvan, editor of The Reserabiac, a newspaper published in the province of Beserabia. This paper, shortly af ter the second Holy Easter of the Greek Catholic church, published a statement to the cffect that a Jewish mob had, on the Holy Easter day, de spoiled the Michael Angelsky church, one of the most holy of the Russian churches. The paper also printed a tatiment that two priests of the Greek Catholic church had been bru tally murdered by a .Tewish mob. Instantly the entore Xishenov prov Ince was in an uproar. Small parties f Russians, said to be members of the Greek Catholic church, rose up in .rms, and the massacre of the Jews had begun, Some of the individual ortures, show that a Russian m:2b is prepared for devising cruelties which would bring a blush of envy to the race of the savage Sioux. Men, wo men and children were murdered in :old blood. Others, captured by small >arties of the Russians were held, while every bone was br:oken and they ere left to die in the most frightful gonies. Arms and legs of men and Nomen were broken in several places, vomen were assaulted while their usbands were compelled to stand and ee the Russians murder tlem. A. soon as the riots were begun, orrespndents of The Nevoste, were ;ent to the scene of the rioting, and he stories they relate of the mas ;acres are enough to curdle the blood f a semi-civilized Zulu. In one place, he home of a high Jewish teacher was entered by a small mob. The enerable teacher, who bad been dec )rated with a medal for his work ,mong his people, asked the mob to pare him to continue his work. He qas told that his life would be spared or three roubles. He managed to aise this sum, and the mob took the oney, took away his cherished medal, ut to pieces all his clothing ransacked s home, and left him without a ,hing. The writer states that he was )resent during the great massacres of Eeiff, in 1882, when the brutality of 'he Russians shocked the entire civil zed world, but that the former riots ere child's play compared with those ow going on throughout the pro ince. On April 7th of this year, the N~e oste sent a correspondent to the seat f the trouble to ascertain the facts re arding the many massacres which 'ere then occurring without abate ent. "As soon as I arrived," said his correspondent, "I came upon a ob which was torturing an aged man. 'hey were heaping all kinds of indig ities upon him and were torturing im. I could not keep still. I beg ;ed them to desist in their attacks pon the old man, and a second later I el with pistol wound in my head. I vas beaten almost to death. The ound on my head was only a flesh ound, and I am better. I heard ~ome one say, while the mob was eating me, 'Stop; that man is not a ew. He is a Greek Catholic.' And o they stopped beating me. The writer of this. Andre Nazarov, s a Russian of high order,.and an ex ~ellent writer. In the same paper ap eared a signed article by the bishop f the Greek Catholic church of the rovince of Kishenov, In which he ~alls upon the people of the province to ;top their massacres and to let the ews abide in peace. His card, which s printed first in The Beserabiac, hose editor started 'the riots, is as ~ollows: "Dear Editor-On the second day f our holy Easter you began a rumor ~hat the Jews had assaulted the ~hurch Michael Angelsky, had broken .n tbe windows and had despoiled the ~anctuary. You next started a rumor hat two Greek Catholic priests had jeen murdered by the Jews. In the ame of the Higher Bishop of the rovince of Kishenov, I say that all ;hese things are false. "I sign my name, "E. Kazakovich." The man Kreeshvan, after seeing he bloody riots which had been in ~ited by his attacks, is now said to be noving every power he commands to ut a stop to the riots, but to no vail. He is hated by every oIne and ais etlorts are meeting with no suc In another paper appears an ac ount of the brutal murder of an aged Jew. He was slowly tortured to leath, and nails was driven into his ;kull, and his body (cut open and stuf ed with feathers. His teeth were torn out and his body otherwise mu tilated. This is said to be but one of mndreds of similar cases. The writ rs say that it is impossible for them to tell in words of the horrible sights that have met their eyes since the rioting began. The frenzied mobs broke open all the wine cellars in the province, and, crazed with drink. began committing more horrible crimes than ever before. Women were ravished and their bod ies mutilated. Instead of killing the men outright they were injured and left to slowly die. In one of the Jewish synagogues, the janitor refused to giye up to the Russian mob the key to the apart ment where the scrolls of the church were kept. He was killed, and the mob, posessing itself of these scrolls, :arved them on his body as a momen to of the man who refused to do as -hey told him. An immensely wealthy Jew. a Mr. Rudey, locked "all his 'valuables in a large safe. For ten hours the Rus sians worked on this safe, managed to open it, stole everything worth taking and then burned his house. The Jews were not allowed by the police to protect themselves. When they gathered together in bodies for self-preservation, the police made them disperse, and go. one by one to their homes. Here they were mur dered by the Russians. Many chris tians. it is said, were murdered be cause the drunken Russians could not discriminate between them and Jews. Dr. Doroschewski, the head pbysi cian of the National Hospital at Kishneff, after examining the dead' and wounded, has given the following specific instances of hideous cruelty in a dispatch from Kishineff. Besarabia, to the New York World: ' Jewess named Sara Fonarschi was brought here with two nails seven inches long driven into her brain through her nose. "A Jew was brought in with one hip, both ankles and wrists broken, t and severed hands and foot dangling by the skin. "A Jew named Charifon lost her up- t per and under lips, which had been cut away with a kitchen knife, after which the tongue and windpipe had been pulled out through the mouth with pinchers. "The ears of a Jew named Selz had been cut away and her head battered into twelve pieces. She was a raving g maniac, a "A carpenter was, surprised at his work and both bands were sawed off with his own saw. "A Jewish girl was assaulted by sev eral brutes, who then cut her eyes out with a pocket-knife. "One woman, after trying to defend a her children, was thrown to the pave- g ment, disembowelled and feathers and horsehair from her bed was stuffed in- C to her body. "Small children were flung out of the windows and trampled upon by a the mob. "Forty-seven were kill, d on the spot, and eighty died from their in- b juries, and three hundred are under k treatment, many being crippled for or life. "Four thousand Jews are without d food or shelter and It Is impossible for o them to get away." NO PATENT ISSUED t cc ti To Mr. ). G. Zeigler for a Perpetual Motion Machine. tC b The Washington Evening Star says: hi The commissioner of patents, Mr. m Frederick I. Allen, has stated posi- m tively that the patent office will not, be under any conditions, issue patents on so called "perpetual motion" machines tc and that no patents for such machines la have been issued by the office for the p past forty years. This statement of the commissioner was made in re- fr sponse to an inquiry of a reporter for w, the Star regarding the alleged issue of w, a patent for a perpetual motion ma- a hine to a man in South Carolina. er This man claimed to have received a a patent for his machine, and long N articles praising him and the machine tt have appeared in several of the lead ing Southern papers. It was a clip- tt ping from one of these papers, which contained, among other things, an alleged statement of the patent offce r offcials regarding the utility and prac tical merit of the machine, which brought forth such an unqualified de nial from Commissioner Allen. t The clipping was brought to the commissioner by a Star reporter with t a request for a statement as to its t truth. Mr. Allen did not hesitate to d pronounce the statement false. It sd has never come from the patent offce, s hesaid. i "The article to which you call my attention," said Commissioner Allen, "published in a daily paper of Colum bia, S. C., and .entitled 'Perpetual a Motion Machine Patented. Firsta Patent in Forty years. The Inventor$ a Sumter Architect, Mr. D. G. Zeigler -Generates Power for Effective h Work,' is absolutely false where it says, in respect to this invention: I h is the first perpetual motion invention ~ that the United Sta-es government has allowed a patent for in forty years.' because the patent offce is noth allowing patents upon perpetual mo- h tion machines at the present time. "A long description appears in this article, preceded by the words: The ~ United States patent offce has the A a following to say about the machine, and at the end of it--'This indorse ment by the patent bureau shows that Mr. Zeigler has- hit upon a practical machine. * * Mr. Zeigler took his machine to Washington and illustrat- t ed it, putting it to practical test, anda the commissioners were so well pleas- ~ ed with it that they told him that his' application would be filed and al- ~ lowed.'h "These statements are so utterlyh false in their application that the patent office would do anything sot foolishthat it is diffcult to conceive for what purpose this article was writ- k ten, unless it was prepared to cast discredit upon the operations of the i United States patent otfice, or else to induce ignorant people to embark n their money in a fraudulent enter- 0 prise. "It is enough to say that thea United States patent offce does not intend to assist in any schemes of such ~ nature.' Act ofta Brute. A brutal and shocking act in Y bor City, Fla., has greatly incensed the people of that section against a Span-r iard named Candido Ballejo. Ballejo has a fine peach orchard and boys have been poaching on it. He caughtg one, and in a fit of rage plied a hot iron to his body, branding him badly on the stomach. The boy may die? si and Ballejo is in jail. The people I would have lynched him had not the s authorities taken him in charge.i Twelve Kied. A special dispatch from Madrid an nounces that during a bullfight Sun day at Algecieres the amphitheatre collapsed and twelve persons weres killed and fifty injured. Several wo- I men and children were gored by thec LEFT TO PERISH. Shocking Bratality of Capt. Fernan dez of the Bark Vera Criz. EE DESERTED HIS PASS!.NGERS Without Water and Food. They Were Crazed and Dying When Rescued by a Revenue Cutter. All the resources of the secret ~ser vice of the treasury departnvo are being brought into play to capture Jpt, Fernandez, the master of )ark Vera Cruz III that was beached tear Ocracoke Inlet, N. C., more than L week ago, with 417 starving immi ,rants on board. Tbe story of the voyage of the Vera Oruz III remains one of the days of he slave ships. The immigrants are natives of Cape Terde islands. They were indueed o come to America by the fact that here is a large and prosperous Portu uese settlement in eastern Massachu tts. The brig of which Captain 'ernandez was master, was owned in be Cape Verde islands. It is a very,, Id vessel and unseaworthy. The captain got his cargo of immi rants by sailing from point to point round the islands. Most o( them - aid exorbitant passage money, and hen they went on board deposited 1 the funds they possessed in the orld with the captain for safekeep g. The brig was inadequ.-tely pro isioned, had scanty supply of water, Ad the immigrants were packed to ther like cattle. The ship made ad weather most of the time, and the ptain was intoxicated during the ip. The destination of the brig ,as New Bedford and the vessel had small cargo of oil. She met adverse ; inds and was blown out of her. >urse and the provisions which had ,en scarce at the start, soon ran so w that the immigrants were put on 2e meal a day. Water also ran out and for several tys prior to the beaching of the Vera ruz in Ocracoke Inlet, not a man, oman or child among the immi ants had a drop to drink. The cap- : in said that he would run into Ocra ike to get food and water, and would,: ten proceed to New Bedford. When the ship'went ashore he im edixtely disappeared, made his way the mainland and no trace baa -. ' en had ofhim since. He took with m the seamen's wages, the passage oney paid by the immigrants and ore than $5,000 in cash tha had *n intrusted to his care by the pas ngers. When the life saving service went the assistance of the Vera Cru st Sunday a scene was presented im-, ssible of description. Scarcely .7 ... ul on board the brig that was able stand. They were almost skeletons om the lack of food, their tongues re swollen with thirst, most of thEm are crazed from drinking salt water, d all were violently ill. In the nergency quick action was neessry' id the revenue cutter Boutwell, 'at orfolk, was sent to the assistance of ie crew and passengers. When the immigrants received food ieir stomach refused to retain it, id the whole 417 had to be carefully arsed back to life. , They were finally nioved to Newborne, where they ere housed in a large building, hich was inadequate for their ac >mmodation, and many were sent to ie hospital. There thiey have re ined for several days, -while the -easury department has been busy ying to solve the problem what to >with these aliens cast away on the iores of United States. - Bertram M. Stump, an immigrant-".. ispector, and Surgeon Glover, of the nmigration service at Baltimore, ere sent to the assistance of the im igrants, and Mvr. Stump made report suggesting that the tax of i a head on each immigrant be waiv i, and that they be transported to ew Bedford, where most of them - ve friends. Inspector Stump, in is report received at the treasury de irtment Wednesday says: "The manifesting of passengers was .se, the captain took all the money a could lay his hands on, and, from ie statements of those examined,1 lf starved them, was intoxicated ost of the time, and they find them lves here in a most pitable condition. ssistant Surgeon Glover and myself :e still of the opinion that the best ling to do is to have these people -ansported, preferable by sea, to ime point in Massachusetts, where ey can communicate with their rela es and friends. The crew are also solutely without funds, and with no >ssibility of shipping from this point. respectfully urge that you make >me arrangements, by Monday next >have them moved from here. The sad tax money and fines for not prop ly manifesting aliens cannot be set ed at present for the reason that 1ere is no representative of the bar autine here. The agents in New edford disclaim any responsibility. "The treasury department author ed inspector Stump to make arrange Lents for the all-rail transportation the immigrants to New Bedford, ad the treasury department will pay le bills, it is quite likely that the hole matter will cost the government Sleast $20,000. A Serious Charge. Daniel 0. Hart, who for the past iro years has been night clerk in the partanburg postolice, has been ar ~sted on the charge of abstracting aluables from letters. He was re arded as an excellent young man. Bad Shooters. Two editors exchanged thirteen 2ots at each other on the streets of >irango, Col., on Tuesday without rious results, the only casualty be ag a slight flesh wound in the leg of ne of them. Many Slaughtered. Capt. Pershing's American forces n the Philippines have engaged in everal fights with Moros during the ast month. The Americans lost ily two killed and four wounded, but iumred of Moros were slaughatered.