The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 30, 1887, Image 1
VOL. X.
BARNWELL, B. C.; THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887.
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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 *