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VOL. X. BARNWELL, B. C.; THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887. rntmem WHITE CJSI’ KNIGHTS. A HEGULAK BAND OF MASKED VIGI LANTES IN INDIANA. The Law Ignored by a Band, of Ruffians Who Seek to Make the FnnUTtfnent Fit the Crime—Death for SerlonsOffenders. The White Caps are to Southern In diana what the Bald Knobben were to Missouri. Not so desperate in character as the latter, their organization is iden tical and they have equally set law at dehanoe. The headquarters of the White Caps are in Harrison county, Indiana, but the organization extends over into Craw lord, Jefferson and half a dozen other coun ties in the oldest civilization of the State. There is not a more intelligent, peace able or orderly community in Indiana than Harrison county. Cory don, the county seat, was the first capital of the State, and its court-house, built in was for four years its oapitol. country is rich and schools and churches abound. A branch railroad built to Corydon, and its prominent in State and nation. In spite of all thb<, the White Ci or '’Knights of the Switch," ae they are i called, hams existed for w mam hare been set jMijS SKSSSBWJSrtC •** d o' o. t, th. lule The courts ails have tiwwtsd or and children out of bed at dead of night, before their eyes, been whipped, with firndiah ingenuity and inde to fire the eoantry Like the Held Knobben, the pm- 1 motive of the While Caps is the of crime mors swiftly and Foe little outcry Bryant’s yoong brother, came over and borrowed our shotgun. That night the •vigilance’ came and they whipped me and whipped Mary. I don’t know who it was. They whipped us in our night clothes. First one snd then another lashed os both. Mary’s so awful hurt I’m afraid she’d die. I guess there’s some people want our little propeety and are trying to drive us away. Mary Lynch is not more than seven teen years old and rather good looking. She could tell no more than her mother. Wedey Green, father of Bryant Green, was found by the importer and said that the Lynches kept a had place—playing cards and ‘whooping’ on Sundays. The vigilantes, he thought, had done right in whipping them. Mrs. Lynch was a respectable woman, he guessed, and the •cutting up’ had only been going on seven or eight months. Public opinion in the neighborhood is much divided over the matter, but the general opinion is that the Knights ought not to have done the whipping, , The whipping of women is too fre- S the Knights to be pleasant their victims are charged with j, bnt it is admitted that there have been cases when whippings were 1811,1 given ss the result of disappointment or The' “Mice. In Blue Hirer township Lem Arnold . | lived a couple of yean ago. He was ap- HX ' n parently stout and healthy, but was ttr ’' i accused of ahiftlnsness and letting his wile haul wood. That winter a hand of the Knights visited him at midnight took him out of bed and hauled up a of flrwwood. Arnold dn e of platinum and silver, extends to an at- t tachment affixed to one end of the abnft mgnt shirt. dowi re.■ In the same township Long, a lawyer, accused of turbtng rinamt cstxciailr at He «sa brought to trial brfon trale. While the case was ini ■efMMmsuvtthl first man who mfimud. Tbs scored to bsfl Henry a dis INV K KEELY’8 MOTOR. I He Says It la Nearly Finished—Renewing; His Past Promises. Inventor John W. Keely has just issued a printed card of instructions to those who may visit his workshop during the hour set apart for visitors. In it he says: "I am now engaged in what I term the process of 'graduating’ or adjosting my engine, by which I mean securing a regulated and uniform speed or motion of it This, when effected, will finish my work, which will be known as the ‘Sympathetic Etheric Motor,’ and my new force will then be adapted to com mercial purposes. Visitors will observe, pended on the second floor in s tubular ring, and fiom which a wire of small diameter, and made of alternate sections of ad- affixed to one end of the engine which I am graduating. He then goes on to explain the a< vantages of his “liberator, ’ and to ex patiate on the arduous duties he has been compelled to perform to reach the successful control of the motor on which he is working. He repeats the promises he has made for the last ten yean to ex plain by diagrams, etc., which he shall publish to the world, the wonderful ban ism of his motor—when be has pleted his present process of adjust From tbs New York Financial Chron i article of last week the fol lowing figures an gathered relative to the movement of the staple during the NO DANGER OF AN OUTBREAK. THE REPORTED NEORO INSURREC TION IN LAURENS COUNTY. Au- Holdipf Meetings at Mldnight-No thorlty for the Dire ThreatsSadd to Have Been M«.lr- ‘Prlnclples” of the “Co- Operative Workers of Aniericn.’’ (Prom the News and Courier.) Laurens, June 20r—Colonel J. H. Traynham, of the Governor’s staff, and Captain L. E. Irby, of the Laurens Guards, have returned from Cedar Grove, Young’s township. Colonel Traynham refuses to be interviewed, but he will proceed to Colombia and report directly to Governor Richardson to morrow. Captain Irby, however, ia on- dor no obligation to report officially, and has very kindly furnished me such in formation as he had. There is no doubt that some of the negroes are organized, and that they often hold meetings between midnight and daylight with the greatest precau tions at seer Toy, sentinels being station' sea from unable to make any definite recommen dation and submit the whole matter to your better judgment" Altogether a Falsa Alann. Columbia, Jane 21.—In accordance with instructions from the home office, I went to Laurens yesterday to inverti- gate the rumors which have been so wildly dnmlated as to an uprising of colored farm laborere, and I came back satisfied that nine-tenths of the have been without justification, nsgroea have been tricked by Hoover and men of his stamp into en tering a labor association, which is use less to them and which they do not un derstand. Hoover holds the fees and they hold the meetings. They have a ed at convenient distances the rendezvous. The various dire threats tbs 1st of 7..VIW H.TtiA Imira total receipts Hswtembsr, M81ft»lA.- |al &,2SS.«0 bal«a for the y"?? —— ±isE±^Z^a^ SC not be trees*! authoritatively to the or- There will be do outbreak the negro leaders shall set rashly, ss the whi tee preserve great caution. I ne^jecteil to asy that tbs a Greenville counties, on the Greenville The orsanitaUias “Co-operative Wot Bare ee, ana many believe they are for the purpoes of extortiag blind idea that joining such an organiza- them financially. If, as is tion will hel reported, noil 2 per cent of p tnem financially, it 2 per cent of toe negroes in that section work for wages, it is im> possible to see what good a strike would do them. They contract to cultivate the crops for a share, and aa the crop is al most laid by now a violation of these contracts would simply save money to the farmers. As to the talk of insurrection th# peo- t in the town of Laurens have no faith it It ia impossible to trace the ramors to this effect to any authentic source; There is lea concern in the town of subject than there ia in Columbia. All work is going on quietly ~ ad to be threatened opinion of every one I spoke to in Laurens was that nothing could be ascertained or seen by on or mmumm Senator?" - “Let us suppose a ease here if Rich mond county. Suppose, for insteaem that a majority of our people should combine together to deprive the Quak ers, or the Catholics, or any other re ligious sibt or denomination, of the right; to wotship oocording to their re ligious tenets Hid forms; denied them the freedom of specoh and the right of assembling, and the State took no ac tion, the general government would have no right to interfere and protect them in their rights." - “Bnt would it not be the duty of the State to protect them?” “Undoubtedly. But suppose the State should not discharge that duty. No appeal would lie to the general gov ernment It could not intrefere unless the matter should rise to the hciglil of a the United rebellion against the laws of : the States or an invasion of its territory for a hostile purpose. A community may be in rebellion against the laws of a State, but the general government can not interfere to crush out that rebellion unices the State government invokes its aid and assistance." i “How, then, would you remove the wrongs which you claim in por tions of the South, and how would you prevent the suppression of the bahot, which you claim is suppressed?" “I would propose a remedy, bat I doubt whether the Republican party would come up to it” “What ia that. Senator?" “I would have Congress enact e law fixing the of eteetiag members of whites ere ia is no county is the cremcnt for the < it wholly with the gov- uudoet and regulation la oth LONDON’S NEWEST bluff bordering the rirer I me, nated by Ihei den of a live 1 oentoa* fc hardly e that the jury is n»t m- I to taveetigste Mime ease of ro- eent aerumocr. hat White Cape ere on the jury and in the court room, and nothing has ever beta disco in ml ia "K-. have Urn bat few of membership, hat one of — 1 — informetiou of the rewuUr ualura of the organuatina. The White Capa, or “Kaignta,” are organised with regu lar lodge*. There are Mgaa, grips and , poos word*—cruder of course, bat for the recognition of and (or a* bat not ottea, Mur piece. Hid but Secluded and piarv, sad out atUum ut a ^ — , md here they ■meaiblr upoa rttihaadul of the leader of the kxise. f , expeditions dett-rm- for the i is the laying of the middle ol the rend. ■Ohryoua wan onee naptaied by e band of Ike M WhM| Capa." la Mm, l-ltt, these wfis talk of eorruptiua la thecuun- ty ofliom, bat to the deammls for iavew Ugatioo no ntfitotioo was paid. Oa Saturday evening two men rode into town ahuot dark, myiag they had e»aw to ase the ko-klax. Moon hurusmso bo- ran to nde into town from every Deal In half an hoar betwira two and three hundred had gathered upon ti eiusre. The men bad thru coeJ amt *tt w ire white aio-A*. w-.Ui s other forms of disgutre All the bad .Liu- amahs over tW bsadi botes eat for ttete eyes and care. A number of hormsUd white strip tied Itere-teg The band rode m the town in nal- ouce around it, and Two or three were ob- to nde into S livery ttnbte and leave their horses.'*'* The next morning letters threatening to hum thn josm and kfllB Inn ini ■Oi/si. ■ell ll,J«t2,a*» bntea. The y for the world is I.FA'Jto] areHH and 7l? 1 »i*»i fjmt He. The imports into continental ports daring the weak Wore TIko, figunu indicate s Ucnrea in cotton m Sight of 7U.V17 balm ss I pared with the same dale of Irewi. a fimrmss of S^OO bates as compared with the oorreapoadmg data of imST ■Tbs iweoipts at interior towns for the I were 2,4*1 bates. . have decreusmj balsa &i.l»H bales 1«b than at the are or- of this thwnahip, Har- aty, seventeen years ago. James N. Kean, n small farmer, accused of petty thievery, was tied to a tree and severely whipped. He was their first victim, but caeca were frequent after received by the county and severei of the prorni- Of late the White Gap have been very active. The latest outbreak was in Jefferson county, two miles from the smell village of lirooksburg. A band of masked men last Friday night broke into the farmhouse of Btout Brunson, dragged him from bed with bis wile and child, removed the furniture from the rooms, burned the dwelling and quietly disap peared. Neither Brenson uor his neigh bors can assign any reason for the out rage, but it is supposed the White Cap were bended by a personal enemy. That the party was from the organization was shown by their wearing the white masks which have given their name. The Knights were guilty ten days ago of a serious offence. At midnight a band of some twelve or fifteen white masks visited the house of Jos. Lynch, a farmer who lives near Leavenworth. They broke in the doors, seized Lynch and his wife, entered the room where slept his daughter Mary with her three brothers and dragged the whole party into the front yard. The two younger boys broke loose and fled into the bushes. Five men held Lynch and the older boy, and the remainder whipped the two women with stout hickory switches. They mounted their horses when sufficient punishment had been inflicted and quietly rode away. The home of Lynch was visited and his wife wiw found at work laying a rail fence in front of the house. Her boys were around the house, and Mary got op out of bed to stAre at the unaccus tomed visitor. « Yjtty shabbily- dressed were all, Mr. Lyhch was at work at a neighbor’s, Hid his wife was so fright ened that she trembled from head to foot when questioned, thinking the reporter was one ol the Knights. Bhe said the Cap had been there a week ago and whipped her and Mary, bat she couldn’t remember anything. When any trouble came her heart beat so fret that it choked her and she fell down like deed, and that woe the way with her that night. Bhe was evidently ~[ to tell anything, bat after long made the following »os ordered the next found in the treasorer's and auditor's offioee. Treasur er Bowling turned over a large sum of money he had collected, was sued on hia bond and more was recovered. The records in the auditor's office were mnti- June, gire‘thTtekmg by rest Britain 2.514,000 Sales luted one night, so a complete investiga tion could not be had. Auditor Brewster, however, paid over #2,000 which it wae thougut he county. John Jpob Miller, a well-to-do farm er living near Corydon, waa brought be fore the grand jury as one of the mob. He refused to testify and was ordered to jail for contempt He secured a few minutes’ talk with the Judge and the prosecuting attorney, however, and the order was revoked. Miller went home and nothing more was ever done in the case. These instances could be multiplied by the score. Queerly enough the In (banians seem not to be much opposed to the “White Cap” and conclude they rarely make mistakes in punishments. The more thoughtful, however, admit that the' drganization te sometimes the weapon of private malice and that great wrong is done. Still, nothing is done to break np the “Knights." re-ipte am otKlbalSB. Cotton in aght balsa, being Jsewaas, aa compared with teat yen, of 110,01* fantei Mr. Ellison’■ down to 1st _ mnen of Great and the continent 2,827.000 bntea, a total of 5,141,000 balm, against the total of previous yen of 4,558,0U<) bales. The average weight ol deliveries in Great Britain ia 440 pounds, against 454 pounds uring the mme time last yen. Conti- ental deliveries average 430 pounds, against 447 pound* last year. In reviewing the speculation in futures during the past week, the Chronicle says: The speculation in cotton for future delivery at this market has been fairly active for the week under review, bnt the coarse of prices has continued quite unsettled, besides again showing some irregularity as between the current and the next crops. A feature has been the weakening of the speculative confidence Virginia Polities. It is understood among the Virginia politicians that ex-Governor Cameron and Senator Riddleberger are' aoting in dose concert in the maturing of plans to thwart General Mahone’s ambition to succeed Riddleberger in the Senate. Among other reports is one that they contemplate making overtures to the Democratic managers in Virginia for Mahone. joint combination against Mahone. Bat although this rumor finds ready credence in sooie quarters, those in a position to know db not believe it to have the least foundation. Whatever influence the tirt) young leaden have must be in the ranks of their olrn party, and there can be no inducement for the Democrats to make any personal alliance with them. That they both are resolved to leave no means untried to defeat General Mahone is un doubted. All Virginia perience agree that if a- isiature ia elected Get bound to be tie choice Probably the best course and li;ddlebergtr anil .ticians of ex- blioan Leg' Mahone is for Senator, for Cameron their supporter! of wagre. reek as led te tbs rt«e ikm pf^lfiW, TWy hare the with the Unitod rims i if M “But te there any 1 up*. ■ * tbs constitution r to £1 Court r-1 to «e l to the greokot Bum bar, oa tbs —dsd so Ifull as aseuual timl it to an- **• ^ ^ offirerero a to Iks advaatoga of alow, for IteEtotia. Ha refusal to makeaay rtate Thl bard to c aptan. Irby. My toll with U rion set forth abore. ColoaLl Trai dignify labor; to ao- r a just share of tho root him In a *.2 STS in September deliveries, which was at one time very strong. Thas on Satur day there was an advance for every month except September and October. On Monday a general decline took place in the latter dealings, dne in a measure to sympathy with the coffee market, with which many members of our Cotton Ex change hold dose relations. On Tues day a steadier opening was followed by a fresh decline, and then a partial reoov- Wednesda; “ ery. the muket was active, but closed slightly earner. On Thursday a better report from Liverpool apd im proved tone and values in other specula tive circles gave renewed spirit to the speculation for the rise in cotton. Fri day there was a sharp decline, with the dose at about the lowest figures, due again, it was almost uniformly admitted, to sympathy with the decline in coffee. Cotton on the spot has been quieter. The purchases for Russia embraced 2,000 bales additional taken on Friday after 'Change, making 9,000 bales in all; after which there was a fair demand for home consumption. Tons wants to Tax Philadelphia know, if the proposition to retornthe battle flags to the States by whose soldiers they were carried raised such an outcry, what will be the effect of the proposition now made by the soldiers of the Phitoddphia Brigade to return to the veterans of Pickett’s Division the flags captured from them at < What will General General Fairchild other excitable petrioto have to my to this? Will they declare that the sokuen who stood at the stone wail a when the course of history hereof Oc ‘OortaiBlj Do; will be salted Thalia hard to toll, bnt! * * 14 to 1141" II nor would bs be ses ■of the I warily, which be te will teat for bonml labor rtattetics; the abrogation of tews that do not ben equally upon capital and labor; the adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of th we engaged in mining, Ac.; the en actment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employees weekly in lawful money; the enactment of laws providing for arbitration between employer uu>l loyeea; the enactment of laws to pronibit the hiring out of convict labor and to work oonviqto on the public roads; that the importation of Ih there of fiber be at m y AE Qotet te Spartaabarg. SPAwrAnuaa, June 21.—Further in stigation to-day strengthens me in my union that the negroes of this county do not eoatomplsts a strike, or any vio lence. They ore not fools enough to wait until their crops are nearly floi they nave for yean, to "begin s revolution that would damage them in every possible way. foreign convict labor be prohibited; that the poll tax be repealed; the establishment of s free co-operative school system; the abolition of onild labo JOHN SHERMAN, HIS MOUTH. labor in mines, work- ops and factories.” They demand of Congress: “That the public lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for sctoal settlers, Ac.; the establishment of a national monetary system; that a graduated income tax be the greater the inooine the levied so that the greater the higher the rate of taxation; the enact-' merit of a graduated forfeiture Act to be the ei levied on the estates of the rich at their death; that the government shall organ ize financial exchanges, safe deposits, Ac.; that the government construct pos- XT; tal telegraph or telephone ay steal, Ac.; that United States Senators be elected peopl and ‘ >n: a i salaries by the tablish and maintain a free ballot in every State of the Union: a radical re daction in the fees, salaries and per quisites of government officials is de manded; that the hours of labor be re duced." . Then they say: “We He opposed to war, and consider strikes as dangerous to society, hurtful to the participants and contrary to the interest of good government" They promise oo-operation with the Knights of Labor and all simitor organi zations. Colonel Traynham’* Report. After stating that, in obedience to the order of the Governor, he visited Cedar Grove on the 18th instant and inter viewed several prominent men in regard to the matter, Colonel Traynham mys: “There ia no doubt aa to the erietenoe of an organization among the negroea in that county. The objeet of it I could not ascertain with certainty. The gross hold their meetings tote at night, sey from 12 to daylight No perron to to them except members or to become of oar Talk WBh a CteeteaaU Newapaper-Oat- llnlng P U Prmktenttel Caw paisa. (From the CtectenaU Enquirer.) ‘il notice that your brother, the gen eral, has written an interesting letter to his comrades of the Grand Amy at St. Look,” I said. “Yea, and don't yon know I like that letter a gnat deal?’’ "Then yon approve of the sentiments itexpremes?” certainly, and all thoughtful men will take the same view of the sub ject when they reflect calmly upon it. The incumbent of the Presidential office is entitled to the respect of the people, unkas be to guilty of some offense against public morality and the public interests. Men may very properly differ with those in authority as to views and measures of public poEcy, but it will not do to carry there of opinion to the point of treating a with discourtesy and disre spect, simply because there may be men in a public asmmblage or on a public occasion who differ with him politically, or upon the advisability or non-advisa bility of measures of public policy. He to first entitled to that courtesy that to dne to every good and tow abiding citi ■aw on f 11 occasions, *"8 second to that respect which belongs under the genius ms, to the position of ofagRatta ed nested a “Do yon hold to the opinion that if the Force bill had pre of the ballot in the .u ■to will be •But how can taxation be •By a revision of the tariff end modi- tetion of the internal revenre “Will there be a re virion and cation of the tariff towST There will doubtless be a on numerous items.” “Where do yon think the should be applied?" "I think that there should be a sided redaction in the tariff < and then a bounty bs American sugar sufficiently ureinma to secure the production of all the United States that our _ consume. We have the befif ebU in worM for the sugar beet and cane, covering alnu and we have a larger area adapted to the cultivation of West India Louisiana. We ought to produce all the sugH we consume, and we may readily do w by a jodkaons tariff sad liberal bounties to prod Moaoy Mad* te I Among the people In Wall street who do not put on mourning over the 1 in the prioesof coffee in New York tad wheat in Chicago are the followare of Henry Clews A Co. Mr. Clews mid re cently that his firm had paid out to tomere over #200,000 in profits on deals, and that the decline in wheat had made a difference of over #1,600,000 to the credits of his office. “We do « strictly commission bostoea^” mid Mr. Clews; “but we do not propose to allow our customers to buy or sell this house unless to our will realize returns to will invest A week ox ten days ago the representatives of one of the loeal agen- tell We can tom no adequate what the result aright have *