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WORSE AND WORSE. A Stream of Stone and Mud Half a Mile Wide. PARTICULARS FROM ST. FIERRE. sffiy i ???? Thousands ol" People aw Killed on the Islands h\ tln-l.ava Thai linos llown Mountain Side. A dispatch from Fort dc France says tile Fnilcd States government tuj? Potomac left there for the island of St. Vincent where conditions are reported to tie worse. La Koul'riere, on St. Vincent, was in full eruption May 10. A stream of stone and mud half a mile wide was then issuing from the volcano. Stones two inches in diam eier leu uvcivc nines awu.v. At Kingston, the capital of the islam!, the ashes were two inchsdccp. Seven hundred dead were reported Sunday, May 11. It is estimated that the total numltcrof deaths on St. Vincent reaches two thousand. Most of the victims are said to he Carib Indians. Seven estates on the island have been burned to ashes, and it is authentically reported that two earthquakes occurred. It is believed t he submarine cables at S . Vincent havebeen broken l>y the disturbances. The present volcanic eruption on St . Vincent is ? tlie tirst since 1812. LOOT1NO TIIE DEAD. The dispatch further says the tug Potomac cruised ailing the coast of Martinique. Sin- encountered an inky black column of smoke which made it necessary for her to go five miles out of her course. Words fail to describe the present situational St. Pierre. A small detatchment. of French t roups is making efforts to inter the dead, although the government seems to be strikingly unconcerned as to what is done in this direction. The looting of the dead has begun already. While coming to l'rt de France the Potomac picked up a boat containing live colored and one white man whose pockets were tilled with coin and jewelry, the latter evidently stripped from the lingers of the dead. Lieutenant It. It. McCormick, the commander of the Potomac, arrested these men and turned them over to the commander of the French cruiser Suchet for punishment. The Potomac also brought a ton of supplies to Martinique. A famine here is imminent. The nort hcrn section of the island is depopulated. BUT FEW IIODIKS KOl'Xl). Strange to relate, in view of tlie number of Inhabitants of St. Pierre who IVCl'n swept t<? death bv the volmm noic waves from Mont I'elee. on Thursday last, very few corpses have - been found by those who are engaged in the work of cremating the dead bodies. This is due to t be fact that - ^the most populous quarters of tictown are buried under a thick layer of cindered lava which apparently entirely consumed tile t todies of t lie victims. Public interest centres in the stories of the survivors and in the efforts being made to succor the refugees. A woman named Laurent, who was emnlnverl :i<j :i vi-rv-mt -it -SI in the household of M. (Librel, and who was anions lliose taken to the hospital in this city, in describing her experiences, said that on the day of the terrible disaster she heard a loud report and thereupon fainted. When she regained Iter senses, a few hours later, she was horribly burned, and. glancing around, site saw two members of the Gabriel family still alive but they died before assistance could reach them. Mi 11c. Laurent. although she lived for sometime after being taken to the hospital and was conscious while under the care of physicians, died without being able to impart any additional information concerning t lie catastrophe. STUANor: SIGHTS. The path of the volcanic torrent which swept over.St. Pierre is marked out in a strange manner. The vicinit y of the shore fvhere vessels anchored was swept by a whirlwind of volcanic gas, which ripped, tore and shattered everything in its passage, tint left few traces of cinders behind. < in the other hand the fort, centre and adjourning parts of St. Pierre arc hurled under a thick bed of cinders which consumed everything beneath it. The scenes within the dead city are strange and gruesome, says the dispatch. In the section of the city known as the Moiilege, no sign of lire is visible, but everything seems to have been rent and scattered as though by a tornado. The iron bedsteads in I he hospitals untwisted, but bear no mark of beat. The bedclothes and all textiles in the hospital simply vanished. About two hundred corpses have been found in the streets of St. Pierre, most of litem lying face downward. The central quarter of the town and the fort are buried several yards under cinders. In the neighborhood of the creek, several houses were found intact, but their inhabitants were all dead and appeared to have been killed by light uing. Here the ttodies were lying, sitt ing and reclining in curiously lite like attitudes. TilK ntSASTKU DltscUlUKII. I luseribing 1 he ilesl rue! i< u of i lie island city a correspondent i\s licit last Monday wee k Mount IVlee poured forth a stream of molten lava 2'i feet ;incl liall' a mile wide. Its progress was appaling. Pushing down the (lry lied of 111viere Itlanchc it reached the sea. The force ol the impact w;is sueli tliiit I lie sea receded foi .'too feet for miles along the western coast. Loud detonal ions followed at short irregular intervals, nhsohitch aw-inspiring and so loud that thc.\ were heard :<oo miles away. At night the volcano crater was a mass of lurid flames which shot high up overt Id mountain, while all the time the cannonading went on. It continued at Intervals on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday morning it was relat ively still. St. Pierre was as usual, earl> astir and business was partly going or about 7 o'clock, when a sort of whirlwind of steam, boiling mud and tin suddenly swept with incredible rapid once the town was in a blaze. The lire seemed to run overall. The ships were instantly canted over and began simultaneously to burn and sink in the sea. which was then raging cauldron. The whole destruction had taken place wit bin less than 2d minutes ot the t eruption. Ill'UN I NO It'll)] KS. In the destroyed city of St. 1'ierre, I the work :.mong the ruins is being ; continued n an unsatisfactory manlier. says c Fort de France dispatch to The lift-Id. rrho dead are being burned, i h ? pyr being fed with petroleum and tar. eat tires are kept going, which at night light up the entire island, and which, being seen at St. Lucia, led to the belief that Fort de France had burned." Although thousands have been burned, many still remain to lie cremated. Searchers, while walking through the aslies, often step upon what appears to lie a charred 'pillar of stone, only to learn, as it yields gruesoniely under foot, that it is the trunk of another unfortunate. ..r 11... ,.t* 11... i...i.11,..? i still stand, crumble and fall al touch. Some idea of the terrible heat that poured down from Mont Pelee may be had when it is known that the iron j rollers of the Prinolle sugar mills were molted as t hough t hey bad been put through a furnace. TI1K ISLAM) TUKMHUiK. No persons have as yet been able to approach within eight miles of the new crater of the Sonfriers volcano. ! I tut judging from what can be seen from a considerable distance the old I lake at the summit of the mountain has disappeared. The numerous lissures in t he mountain's sides cont itxie to throw out vapor and the subterranean murmuringsaud tremblings indicate continued unrest. During the afternoon of Monday a dense volume steam and smoke rose from the volcano and the w hole island was covered by a peculiar mist. The inhalation of noxious vapors here is increasing the spread of sickness. Starvation threatens the poorer classes of the atltictcd (list rict. Nearly every remaining negro hut in Carib county contains decayed lmdics, and the horrible stench isdriving people away. Mutilated bodies are tied with ropes and uragge . to the trenches j where t hey are buried. Somet imes bodies are cremated. The loeal government is feeding and sheltering , about 11.000 refugees. KKSTUOYK!) IN TKN M1NI TKS. The eorrespoiulent of The London | Times at Paris. M. De Ilia wits, suppled his paper this morning with an account of the St. Pierre disaster. J telegraphed to him by a friend from Port de Prance. Martinique, under Thursday's date, by way of the island of Malta. It says: "For three weeks Mount Pelee had been vomiting clouds of smoke, but the smoke seemed, so ; normal that it was permissible for i even those were inclined to look on the I dark side not to dread a catastrophe. At fort de France, where the agitation of Mont Pelee, attracted, as it j went on much attention and anxiety j which existed gradually eiod down, , May ."> a violent eruption of mud, hot lushes having been mingled with water in the crater, overwhelmed Duerin's works, killing twenty-three persons, and the river in the north of the j island, now swollen by a muddy torrent. noisily ovortlowed. On May *, , while there were still dclihcrat ions going on at Port de Prance and St. Pierre, where the night had passed in CAUGHT IN CANADA. Green and Gaynor, Fugitives from Savannah Kidnapped AND THEN ARRESTED IN 3UEEEC. The Del'emlmitM Were Snm^lnl Out of City It) OlliecrH am) Were Caught Itet'ore " They Knew It. Colonel John F. Gaynor, who forfeited his hail of $10,000 because of his disappearance from Savannah, Ga.. where he was indicted on a charge of conspiracy todefrand the UnitedStates government and his partner, Captain W. I>. Greene were smuggled out of Qii?-l>ec Thursday by an American detective named Itennettand live assistants. Itcnnctt hail been in Quebec since the arrival of (lavtmr and Greene and has kept a keen watch on their move I monts. Thursday morning he was joined by live others who carried outa seemly well laid plan to rapture the accused. About 11 o'clock (Ireene was coming out ?>t the postoltlee when three of the men approached him and one of them producing a document showed it to (ireene. The lat ter stood dumbfounded and asked permission to speak to some one, but was hurried into a cab and rushed to lower town, where he was placed on the Montreal tug Spray. In the meantime. Mcnnett and the two other detectives went to the Chat eau Krontenac, where (iaynor and (ireene were staying. I Sennet t remained outside while his comrades went into the lobby. At t lie t ime ( clone (iaynor was talking to the clerk, both men went up immediately and invited him outside, where Hennett was awaiting theld in a cab. The detectives and (iaynor started for Lower town and in a short time (iayjior was iti company with (Ireene on the tug and with the detectvies on the way to Montreal, or some place further tip the river, vdicre they can land. M HS. OA Y SOU IN IT USUIT. These proceeding:; occupied about : 20 minutes. The hotel people notified Colonel (iaynor's counsel of what had occurred. The attorney general's department and .nidge Chauveau were not Hied and they in turn asked the police to investigate the matter. Half an hour after the departure of t he Spray, another t ug was engaged i by Sirs, (iaynor. She v.ent on hoard , with Hetective Walsh. The pursuit of the Spray was given up at ('ape Itougc, eight miles from tlie city. The spray was then almost out of sight down the river. I'pon the return of Mrs. (Iaynor to the city the lawyers in the ease had a short consultation with her, and ini- ! mediately two petitions for habeas corpus, ordering t he return of (Iaynor and (ireene to this city, were prepared, and two orders were signed to that effect by Judge Andrews in the superior court. in the meantime four members of the provincial police left by the 1 :lf> Canadian Pacific railroad train for three iti vers with othersdo secure a tug there and tr> to intersept the Spray. The latter town is '.III mill's frnin I liii'lwi' 11111 in^i I,.ilf way between here and Montreal. The petitions were sworn toby Mrs. tf ay nor, who alleges Licit her husband and (ireene were taken away against tItoirconsent and without giving them time to see counsel or t ake legal measures to prevent their arrest. While the petitions were being prepared a special train was over t he Canadian l'acitic railroad and at :t;."?othe chase j began. < >n train are Messrs. Cannon and Chauvcau, attorneys in the case, who are bearers of tlie petition: high Constable tiale and eight detectives. W11KN TIIKY KSCAPKD. It. I), (ireene and John F. Cay nor escaped from the Savannah federal court set era I weeks ago while their ease was pending before Judge Kmory Spcer. of the Coiled States court. Moth defendants had been realised on i>ond and were guests of the DeSoto hotel.awaiting, supposedly, the bear iug of the court. Saturday preceding Monday, the day set for their hearing, they left the city, cither in disguise or by a circuitous route. Their attorney ex-! pressed even as great surprise as did the government when neither one of the defendants was present in court; on Monday. it was declared by counsel repicsenting (ireene and (Jaynor that they had j either been in error as to the day set i for trial or were unavoidably detained in New York. The court ordered their arrest at any cost. hut the ottleers had not the; slightest clew to work upon unt il 1 he j court was informed by press reports | that the two fugitives were in New i i oik, Almost instantly came tile if-1 port that (ircenc and (laynor had llefl I to Canada, where 1 hey smilingly admitted llieir identity, declaring thc.v would remain across tin* border just as long as they wished. 10very elTort has been made since, to accomplish t heir arrest by decoying them across the Canadian line and] seizing them when upon American soil. Thcil every movement has been ! watched by some of the best federal and rinkerton detectives in the j count ry. Since their escape the officers of the Savannah court have been very active in the preparation of the case the government has brought. Will licllecl it ltuilroiul. It is reported that the Mexican Central railway will dcllcct its line under construction from a point on its ( uadalajara division in order to avoid proximity to the volcano of Colima, which has been more or less active ever since the earthquake at Chilpuneingo. There is much alarm at present among residents of Colima owing to the activity of tlie volcano which is smoking. Many slight earthquakes have been experienced, terrifying the people engaged in farming. | .ni.i i^iiuiuiiri;, .n I" Wlll'lliri tin: eruption of mud \v:is the precursor of the end of the disaster, St. Pierre was within ten minutes annihilated."' ONia (INK I.KKT. Margaret Stokes, the nine-year-old child, who is one of the survivors of the Steamship Poraima. which was destroyed at St. l'ierre, is the only remaining member of a family ot live that lived in Itrooklyn up to a few months aj;o. The child's fat her was Clement Stokes, at one time a well to no merchant of Itarhadoes, It. \V. 1.. inn ti r the last few vears bookkeeper for a department store in Itrooklyn. Stokes died recently and the widow decided to return to the home of a wealthy sister in Marhadoes. Tinwidow packed her property and with a faithful colored nurse, Clara Kinj.', who had heeii with the family in 15a rhadocs. she st a rt ed on t he journey 1 hat I was to he t he last undertaken by the | famih. Ilia.O IN MoNTKK\C. When the Spray arrived in Montreal Friday mornino the party drove the to I the Windsor. At 7 o'eloek they again li-l't the lintel, just as the pursuing; | force in.in 4>iieliee which came up from | Sore 1 on the lyncher hoat reached the ] hotel. < 'liief < 'arpenter took his prisoners to Judge Ha font nine's lesidenee and an improinpt u court was convened | in the judge's library, hetective Carpentci handed the judge the warrants J with the return marked upon the ! hack as is usual. The prisoners were I asked if they were guilty or not guilty, and not replying, the judge's clerk accepted their failure to plead as a plea of not guilty. Judge Lafontaiue then said: "Prisoners. I remand you for trial until Monday, the PMh of this , month, without hail." The prisoners howed. and the judge informed < arpenter that he remanded the prisoners to his east oily. In the meantime High Constable i Hale of 'Quebec with the writ of habeas corpus was searching diligently for Mr. Carpenter. At to o'clock he found him in bisollice and served the writ. Mr. Carpenter was placed in a dilemma, lie was in possession o! a document calling tin him to produce the bodies ol (>aynoi and tireene lie-| forejudge Andrews in ijiiehcc l"iida\ and lie no longer had t lie prisoners | in his possession. ha\ing been relieved j by Judge l.afontaine. lie consulted i his Kin use I and was informed I hat if lie , attempted to ret 111n the prisoners to (Quebec he would be liable to arrest for ] contempt of the local court, whose madute lie had received and executed. | ' So an answer set ting fort h the facts . in the matter was prepared and sent! . down to (Quebec, and with that it is' expected the (Quebec people will have j to remain sat istied. The jurisdiction . of an extraction commission extends r j over the entire dominion am' the ar, rests of (ireene and Haynor was made i . by an otllcer (pialitied to make arrests ' . in any portion of the province; conse- i . nucntly there is no doubt that they I j will hold. VOLCANOES CAUSED Bi 3TEAM. ; Immense Force Stored Ileneatli Furlti Hurst* Forth. Dr. (!. Hartwig, in his book, "Vol canoes and Earthquakes," gives the following as his views of tlie origin of volcanic eruptions: The phenomena attending an eruption can leave no doubt that below j every active vole a no a large subterraj nean cavity must exist in which meltfed lava accumulates. The partisans of the theory which supposes the earth to consist of a central tin id mass, with a solid shell resting upon it, attribute the formation of volcanoes to rents or I fissures in this crust, through which I ! the lava is cast forth: but the local ! development of heat by chemical ac-:. I tion or some other unknown cause, is ' quite sufficient to account for the ex- ! istonce of liery lakes imbedded in a i solid mass, and which, though iusig- , nuicum wncu coin pared wnn tiic sur- i face <?r the glotie, may still be largo I enough to produce volcanic phenomena f 1 on t he grandest scale. i The cause of the reaction of such a i | reservoir against the surface of the \ earth must, in all probability, he j sought for in the expansive force of | steam: for when water, penetrating i through ere vices or porous strata, cornea in contact witn the heated ? suht rranean mass it is evident that !i the steam thus generated must press ; < upon the lava, and, when formed in : sufficient quantity, ultimately force it up the duct of the volcano. Inother cases we may suppose a continuous i column of lava mixed with liquid h water raised to a red-hot or white-hot:? temperature under the influence of h pn ssure. A disturbance of equilibrium j 1 may tiist bring mi an eruption near ! the surface by the expansion and conversion into gas of the entangled 1 water, so as to lessen pressure. j | More and more steam would then ? tie liberated, bringing up with it j?-ts ; i of liquid rock, and ultimately ejecting | a continuous stream of lava. Its force i being spent, a period of rest succeeds > until the conditions for a now outburst (accumulation of steam and melted rock) arc obtained, and another i cycle of similar changes is renewed. I THE ROUND BALE*TRUST. \ I < ?iii:i|>ct it ion in the South l.ikety to | Destroy Cotton (litis. A four cornered tight between the round cotton hale, the cotton gin. the i oil mills and the compresses has broken I out in Texas which threatens tore- t volut ioni/.e the cotton ginning tiusi- | ness for next season and destroy the t ginneries unless the Texas farmers' t congress, wcieh meets at College sta- 1 tit in duly, can take some steps or sug- i gest some legislation to protect the i owners of gins. 4 The trouble is due to the hound t Hale trust, which lias made itself felt > in Texas, particularly during the last | year. The trust got such a large share \ of the (Mtton t hat the compress com- t panics and cotton seed oil men began l to feel it. ! I formerly, the cotton went to the J1 gin. which sciterated the seed and t the lint. The seed was sold to the jc oil mills and tin* lint, which was hal- ; ed. was subsequently taken to tlu* t ( (impress to have the I tales pressed so i that they would occupy less room and \ could he carried on vessels or rail- s roads. s When the trust took more cotton | the girts got" less, and so did the com- i presses and the cottonseed oil mills, j. They appealed to the owners of gins * In mnL'o ? ,.itl. il... i.-...i .....I bid for t lie cot ton, but the gin men t refused to do this. ^ Finally, seeing thiit they eouid not i depend upon any assistance, the mill \ men and the compress men dcterinin- 1 ed tn no into the ginning business. The cotton seed oil mills in Texas are s now erecting ginneries at which they i will gin the cotton free, retaining only i the seed for their mills. The com presses a re now buying seed s cotton and doing the ginning as well c as the haling. In fact, all four inter- ;i ests, the oil mills, compresses, pinners | and round hale men are prepared to t gin and will bid on the seed cotton < this fall, ii is thought that the local <. gins will be the worst sufferers from ;i this too active competition. I Itiinicd in a Hotel. Five persons were hurlied to death in t lie A meriean I Intel at l'oint I'leas- j ant. \V. \ a. 011 Thursday night and | three other persons were seriously ( I turned. The dead: John Slack of Kanawha county. Klias Mamhrick <>t (ilenwoofl. John Woodall. of Mason county, two unidentitied men. The : lire started in the hotel which was a ' frame building and burned rapidly. 1 Slack. Mamhrick and John Woodall ; were farmers summoned here as grand f jurors at the criminal court. They I were sleeping on the second lloor and means of escape was cut oil by the 1 (lames. It is not known how the lire ' started. 1 1 Col. A. I*. Itirtler Head. Col. Andrew I'iekens I hitler of A I- ' ken (' mnty died Wednesday at the ' Fuller home. Colonel Fuller was I rleken wit hparalysis of t lie heart Sat- ' urda.\ night. He never regained consciousness. lie was TO years old. lie leaves two daughters, who are married. a son and several grandchildren. The funeral was held this morning at II o'clock from Sweetwater Church, near Aiken. Isveryttilng IIletter. 1 There is nothing in the way of household supplies which has not been made dearer by t he protect ion olTorded monopolies and legislation in favor of (classes. The times are supposed tone I good, but the man who keeps a family on $1,000 a year finds that it will go 1110 farther than $8oo would a year ago, and its purchasing capacity is steadily decreasing. The trusts and the La rII if are responsible for this. Pardoned. (ieorgc Washington an old fashioned "white folks" negro convicted of rape in 1S7C> lias been pardoned by the governor who discovered a case of blackmail on the part of the negro woman w ho secured Washington's ar- j , rest. t _ :i A 8A1,UI?A MYSTKHV. An Illiterate Mulatto Preaches Admirably While He Is Sleep. A TEST IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE lly S?nilinf( ol" tin* County and flat* Pi-oof In Conclusive Tliuf It In No Fake. A Dispatch from Saluda to The News and Courier says the "Sleeping Preaeher" was here Thursday nl^ht, i i larj.*c crowd went out to hear this! itruntfe man. '"Major Perry." fortliat , is ttie preacher's name, was in the I liaise Messrs of II. P. liotiknitfht and j I. I'. Itodie. two of this comity's most reliable citizens. Perry has been living with Mr. Poukni^ht. a few miles m'Imvv this place. for twelve or fourteen years and, with.the exception of i few nights, he has never failed to preach a sermon on going to sleep during this long period. Perry is f?l years of aye, of medium size, copper colored and wears a llowny heard, lie was raised in Fairlleld L'ounfcy, hut not h.v a Itaptist p reach er.. is has been said in explanation of this strange phenomenon. Mr. Itouknight has been in the community where Perry was horn and raised and lived until It; years ago, and >niphaticaUy states that Perry did not Mclong to a preacher. The place of lis birth was near t he present town of llidgewav. One of the peculiar things altoiit Perry's sermonizing lies in the fact that his preaching dates from the time >f Ids being paralyzed on the left side n 1*88. He was never known to preach before then and he has never railed to preaeli a sermon every night >ince then save occasionally on Friday night. A test made by your correspondent revealed that Perry is very illiterate. Iieing scarcely able to spell out the simplest words, even with book in (land. He is ext remely reticent on the mhject. of his nightly preaching, and if pressed will resent too close questioning. Another peculiarity noticeible is that Perry can go to sloop surrounded by a curious crowd as quickly is a babe in its mother's arms. Thursday evening Perry's wife arranged a lied in the school building icrc and at s?.40 the strange man tinIressed and "turned in" apparently tor the night. In fifteen minutes, amidst Jie gaze and hubub of the crowd, lie iV's sound asleep. Four minutes later ic commenced Co sing in low and neasured tones an old hymn, beginling "Come, ye that love the Lord." \fter "lining out" and singing two erses he slowly turned on his right ;ideand reverently repeated the Lord's (Mayer, making but one change in it, ,dr., inserting the word "all" liefore he words "our trespasses.'' lie folowed the Lord's Prayer with an cxcmporaneous petition, the logic and anguage of it being as good as that of lie average white preacher. At the conclusion Perry turned on his hack ind. after a moment's pause, stated hat his tc^t would tic found in the Jlli chapter of Matthew and 28 th erse. This he quoted and a com parion ? ' toe .flotation with tlie original hows that he repeated the words verlatim. 1 lis discourse lasted forty-live uiuutcs and the reading of a stent 'rapine report made ny .Mr. Padlock hows a closely reasoned (with some J xeopt ions) Gospel sermon, instead of I leinj! a senseless neyro harangue, l ew rammatical errors were made and 1 nany of his citations lroin the bible vurc substantially correct. At times ; ie was really eloquent. For the most part he spoke in a moot I), conversational tone, hut occasionally he became impassioned and nade the welkin ring. Twice during the sermon he had I omethincc like convulsions, and whence r seized by one df these, he immedi- 1 itely left olT speaking, his heart and ; uilse ceased to beat and. except for he strange inoveinent of his muscles, me would suppose life extinct. These onviilsions lasted but a minute audi is si win as over he would commence ' ds sermon Just where he left off audi n t he same tone. An examination of the eyes while reaching showed the pupils motioness and a brijfht lip'ht placed close to lis face while the lids were pushed iack did not cause him to move or tincli. During his preaching period it has 1 ilways been found impossible to wake urn. I'ins have Ih-cii stuck into his lcsli, burning acids have been put i In ait bis eyes, but all to no effect. iave that lie sutTeretl from there experiments on awaking. Perry is part icularly severe in his rlticisms of the present-day preachers. lie stated that "we are told there were t welve disciples or teachers, and one of these was a devil. Hut today I think about eleven and a half out of twolve arc devils." In daboratinn ??f this statement he referred to t lie "man-sent preacher") ind "t,lie self-sent preacher" and "the | money-making preacher." i'erry mnde no gestures at ill. hut when under the impression that he: was reading from some hook in the bible would run the tinners. .f his right hand across the bed covering as if folfowing the lines. lie closed his sermon with an earn- : est exhortat ion and when the end was j reached lay perfectly still and slept , quietly unt il awakened hv a physician, i who closely watched him throughout. On belli# awakened he appeared i frightened for 1 lie moment. Although he had greatly exerted himself several 1 times during his sermon, he stated) that he did not feel tired or at all ex-! haustcd; yet his pulse Iteat rapidly and his breath came quickly. Whatever else may be said of the, strange "sleeping precher," the per-1 formance Is no fake. Time after time i various citizens in this county have gone to I'erry's home after night and secreted themselves to detect the fake as they supposed, but Invariably af- j tor watching him through the cracks, in his house go to bed, and giving him i time to go to sleep, he would sing a | PETRIFIED SHIPS Found One Hundred Miles from llie Pacific Ocean. On the bleak and barren hillside of the Arctic coast, near the headwaters of the Porcupine River more than 4,000 feet above sea leve , and a long way above timber line, where none save the Indian hunter ha?. ever placed foot, there lie complete hulls of two large ships, petrillcd. This find is so remarkable that the discoveries of remains of mastodons, which have been made from time to time, sink into insignificance by comparison. Mr. Liskclie, a printer of Seattle, Wash., who returned from the Kovukuk country recently, broinrht, the hymn, offer a prayer, announce his text and preach a sermon, lie never uses the same text and the body of Ills discourse is always different. II?? rarely ever fails, however, to give the preachers "Hail Columbia." The effect of this strange phenomenon on a spectator cannot l>e imagined. Perry's father is said to be a white man and lie lias Indian blood in hiui also. This lie shows unmistakably, as does Ins wife, who of late years always accompanies him to prevent the cruel experiments which were at iirst practiced by some in trying to awaken her husband while in the midst of a sermon. Men of a sclent!He turn of mind have an Interesting subject in ''sleeping preacher,'" and Saluda County in his person possesses one of the mysteries of the new century. FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. ???? An Aeronaut l-Vli Fifteen Feet and Wan l>iislie<l to Pieces. As already wired, from Paris, Severn. the aeronaut, and one of his assistants were killed by the explosion of Severn's airship in making a trial trip Tuesday mourning. Severn had invited a number of friends to witness the ascension and his wife and relatives were following the course of the balloon in motor cars. Suddenly the spectators were horrilied by a bright Hash of light, followed by a loud explosion. The balloon, which at this time was t,."?00 feet above the ground, fell rapidly, landing on the roof of a house. The aeronaut fell in the street and was dashed to pieces. The hones of his legs were forced through the soles of Ids I>oots. The engineer who accompanied him was burned to death. The accident ir. said to have been caused by a leakage of gas. Severo started with the intention of sailing to the military parade ground at Issy. With an engineer named Sachet . Severo sailed out of his balloon house near t lie Boulevard de Yaugirard, in excellent spirits, and full of confidence. The acronut put his airship through a series of evolutions before starting in the. direction of Issy. There seemed to be some hitch with tlie steering gear and the rear propelling screw turned with difficulty. Nevertheless, after several stoppages the airship sailed off. moving steadily enough through a light breeze. Suddenly a pulT of wind caught the ship and whirled it over tile Avenue Dutnaine. The ship turned completely around and veered about in a fashion showing that control of her had been lost. Then from the center of the outer envelope, a tongue of tlame darted out. This was followed by a loud report re semnung a cannon snot and the ship sank like stone, falling on tlie roof of a house, thence into some trees, ami filially reaching the Avenue Dumaine, almost on top of its occupants, who had previously been precipitated to the stone pavement. The fearful mangled corpses of Severn and Sachet were conveyed to a neighboring police station. The bodies presented a horrible spectacle. especially that of Sachet. The tlame which caused the explosion burned the engineer in a most shocking manner. Practically not a hone of either victim was left unfractured and ltoth skulls were terribly crushed. FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER A.C. Jnpsou, A Popular Citizen of Florence. in tlie Itacc. The Florence Times. May 12, says A, C. .lepson. one of the best known veterans of the Atlantic Coast Line, announces positively that he will Ik* in the race for railroad commissioner. Hi' has talked with his friends in Florence and elsewhere, and has received the greatest encouragement. Mr. .lepson lias been fortv years a practical railroad man, and as years creep up on him he wants to retire from tlie throttle and give the younger men a chance Lo run the trains while he runs the railroads a little. The life of an engineer is a hard and exacting one, and takes him away from home too much uf t iie time. Mr. Jcpson came to Florence in 1884 and lias been with the Coast Line continuously ever since, and is one of the Itest men on the line, lie lias served many roads in his time, tlie Louisville a"d Nashville. Cent ral of Georgia, and Mobile and (Jirard among them, lie says that 111 his forty years of service lie has never been dismissed, suspended or reprimanded. in: ncl' II \r III I IIU employ Ol tlir construct ion department and t he rest ?if l lie time in the engineering, lie is a skilled workman, and among nt her employments in his life he made percussion caps for the nse of the Confederate government, lie claims to have made nearly half of the number used by the army. Since Mr. .lepson has been a citizen of Florence he has made a host of friends, and stands high with bis fellow craftsmen and employers. From his long, practical experience in railroad work, he is regarded as a man wiio is particularly well titted for the position and as one who would bean ac<|iiisit ion to the board. Murdered liy u Itui'Kliii-. I'. It. Davis, a wealthy wholesale merchant of Fort Smith. Ark., was stabbed live times Wednesday in an encounter in his bedroom with a negro burglar. Davis shot the burglar in I III' H'K <111(1 I KM I 111111 OI( I in- III HM Willi his revolver, hut t!io man escaped. A started itnnicrliately in search of him. The nego, whose name was learned to tie John Williams, was run down, with two negro companions, about four miles from town on the border of Indian Territory. < >ne of the negroes, Frank Carter, opened tire on the posse. His aim was poor, hut a return shot struck him ami he died an hour later. Williams and his other companion escaped. The posse continued the pursuit. Mr. Davis" wounds are serious. I'oor I'ellow. A western New York man committed suicide on the day he was to have been married because he was impress ed with t lie solemnity of the marriage service, lie should have spent a few months In Chicago and had that sort of feeling taken out of hi in Spartanburg Journal. news of the find to Dawson, lie says that Dr. Cleveland, who is known from one end of the Territory to the other, has gone to investigate the matter. The manner of the discovery was this: A party of Chandelar Indians was hunting near the headwaters of the Porcupine lliver, which they had reached by following the Chandelar Creek. One day while on the side of a mountain one of the party, looking aliout for game, chanced to spy high on the mountain side al>ove him a rocky formation of a shape lie had never seen before. 11e was alxnit to continue search for game, but changed his mind, and toiled up the side < f the mountain toward the strange object. It was not till he got it that he discovered that there were two objects very much alike, and then it suddenly dawned upon him that there, more than one hundred miles from the sea. and high above it, weietwo ships, the larger probably too feet long, turned to stone. That night when the party was in camp the hunter told his story. It was not believed, but lie was so persistent that it was true that next day several hunters went w ith him to see the wonderful ships, and their surprise and partial fear was as great as his own. They examined the hulls more closely than lie had done and the result of this examination was such that the story cannot lie doubted. They went to the inferior of the I vessel and brought hack with them some cups and plates made for table purposes, and of an ancient and tmn derous description. Only a few of them could be brought out by the Indians. It was only the recollection of the manner in which they had been disposed to treat their comrade that induced them to bring anything away with them. They knew they would not be believed if they had no evidence other than their words?hence the tableware. The Indians also found a petritied forest of tropcial growth even higher on the mountain, though in the immediate vicin ty of the ships. They describe these trees of stone as having leaves as long as a man's body and very broad. IS BARTOW WARREN ALIVE? A better Which It in Claimed tie Wrote to a Relative. I From The Times and Democrat.] A few days ago we received a letter from a prominent citizen of Colleton County enclosing a letter which be says was written by liartow Warren. In his letter the gentleman says under date of May 13: "Editor Timks and Democrat: "I enclose copy of a letter which 1 would be glad if you would publish. 1 have always maintained Ilartow Warren's innocence, and now that lie hits left the United States 1 give you bis letter to publish. I ?iw a near kinsman of Ids who asked me to have his letter published. 1 send it to you. He lias left for parts unknown I know not where. He will never return I copied lhis letter from the original, leaving out certain tilings not necessary or right to lie published." At the request of the gentleman who wrote the above letter we withhold his name, hut as we said alxive, he isa prominent citizen and is known to many of our people. Here is the copy of the letter which is signed by I tar tow Warren. It is dated March, 11)02, and reads as follows: "As 1 am alxiut to leave my native country forever, 1 write you for the last time to tell you good-bye. 1 have been hunted and hounded down for a good while. Now that it is reported 1 am drowned 1 have an opportunity to escape. The prowling detectives have constantly been trying to capture me. hut could not. 1 am not guilty of the rohliery at Fifty-eight, when 1 wastirst arrested, and would have been acquitted, if it had not been for one st ublxirn juror. The bribed testimony of Watson and Connor was against me and the I0\press Company used all their power to convict me, hut thanks to the efforts of Judge l/.lar and Mr. Itrunson 1 was not convicted. 1 had to lie in jail for awhile t ill 1 could give hail. Well, I was a ooorlmy, and driven to desperation. 1 determined to kill Tom Watson and Connor. 1 shot Watson ti> death liccuu.se he had lied against me, and I vowed to kill Connor, hut did not have the opportunity. After this, every crime committed, was laid to my charge. I was accused of robbing the jiostollice at Walterlwro and of at tempt ing to hold up t he t rain at Fifty-eight. and finally 1 was accused of stopping the train near t lie same | pla *e, and taking the express safe and carrying it to the Fdisto. and finally liny body was found drowned. Whileall | these things wa re going on 1 was alxnit my old home near lluckhcud, and had I nothing to do with these things. My | oiils crime was shooting Tom Watson, i For this I would have lieen hung, so I kept out of the way. This (lodging life dot's not suit me, so I have concluded ' to leave my country and State forever. : A |HK?r orphan ln>y now goes to livV in j foreign lands, so good-bye. Tell all i my kindred and friends good-bye for revet. Yours, J. Baktow Wakukn." The Times and Democrat publishes | this letter as requested, but as to whether it was written by Bartow Warren our readers must decide for themselves on the testimony given above. The gentleman who sent it to us is i man who is prominent in church and State and he seems t < havi 110 doubt but that the letter was written by Warren. "Our'holy war'in the Philippines,'1 says the Norfolk Landmark, "has collided with a counter one engine red hv the Sultans and Datos of Minj danao." A GREAT SYSTEM 11 Of Railroads Formed by the Merging | _____ PLANT SYSTEM AND THE A. C. L. I'limt Sywtem Will Probably He Operated I iiilcpciiiloiitly of'the Coast I I tie and With ItM Otliccrfi. The agreement lor Ltic merger of the Plant system of railways with the Atla'itie Coast Line railway company j was rat'dcd Friday by meetings I of the .stockholders of t he Savannah Florida & Western railway in Savannah and of the Atlantic Coast Line In Richmond. The merger will actually take place on .1 uly 1. The articles of agreement, consolidation and merger of tlie Atlantic Coast Line railroad company and the Savannah. Florida & Western Railway company bears the date of April 10, 1902. After setting forth the various line, aggregating 1,755 miles, owned by the Atlantic Coast Line, and the various lines, aggregating l,7.'Ct miles owned by the Savannah, Florida & Western, to be included in the merger, the agreement leads up to the mode of carrying into elTect the consolidation. The union will be into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, the agreement shows, which will continue as the name of the consolidated company. There will be twelve directors of the consolidated company, and the oilicers will he a president, three or more vice presidents, secretary, one or secretaries, a treasurer one more assistant treasurers, treasurer or ditTerent persons, tlx- II The directors and officers of the Coast Line company will be, the first directors and officers of the consolidated company. The consolidated company will take the property of ' B| each company and ljecome responsible 1 for all debts and liabilities. Thecapi- 9 tal 8took < >t consolidated company will Ixj 420,000 shares of par value of $100. ^ of which 188,000 will be preferred, * the dividends not to exceed 5 percent, non cumulative, and 231,O(J0 common stock. 4 The consolidated company may in- I crease the stock to n</t exceeding $100,000,000. Present holders of the J A. C. L.. will retain shares of pre- J ferred and common stock as they m outstand as preferredand commog^. _ stock of the consul bSSWF"company. Holders of the preferred stock of the Savannah, Florida and Western will . receive .">*? pei cent, of the par value i of their respective holdings in the ^ common stock of the consolidated > company at par. The holders of the common stock of the Savannah. Fl< ida and Western will receive 25 per cent, of the par value of their respective hfilHimn: ill t tin I'Am rr?/? 11 c?,u.L- , .f the consolidated company at par. Any holders of the preferred or ~ _ common stock of the Savannah, Florida and Western who may refuse to convert it on these terms will be paid for it at an agreed valuation in 4 per cent, mortgage bonds of the consolidated company or in cash, or if no agreement can be reached, at such price as tl j law may determine. The Flori la southern, the Sanford and St. Petersburg and St. John's and Lake Gustis are the three lines of the Plant System that are not included in the merger, not l>cing incorporated with the Savannah, Florida and Western railway. They will, however, pass under the control of the Coast Line. The Plant System will probably be operated independently of the Coast Line and with its present officers. \ St. IMerre, Martinique. Island has an area of .'ISI square miles. Fort de France is the capital. Population is, approximately, 102,- a 500. There are 12,000 whites. Othexs 1 are negroes or of inlxec racial types. 1 St. Pierre was t lit* largest and most important city commercially, having a population of aliout 2*5,000. Principal products of the islands are Jfl H sugar, cotTec. cocoa, tobacco, cotton Imports for 1 Stiff aggregated aliout 95,721,000, and exports were $5,358,III Ilk In the same year the I'nited States sent to the island goods worth 11,">02,. {.'12. This country takes almost nothing frm Martinique, hut our products, chlelly food stuffs, are neccessary to it. Annual revenues of the island a^tfrebate $1,.'142.000. < >f this sum onefourth is spent for educational purposes. Martinique is a favored colony of France, having heen settled by colonists from that country in l(>t>.*?. Island was taken by England in 1704 and held till 1810, when France attain | secured possession of it. St. Pierre was built on high cliffs overlooking the harbor. Mont 1'elee, the volcanic eruption of which destroyed St. Pierre, is 4,4."?0 feet high. It is often in obscurity because of t he dense clouds of smoke that have enveloped its summit. Sucble of Subtler. Cliffords. Huberts of Co. 1), Tnlrd infantry, committed suicide Friday at Fort /Thomas, Kv., by taking morphine. Mis officers and comrades say the deed was due to affections that followed privations of hard campaigning in the Philippines. Mis mother and brother at Savannah, (la., have , been notified. Roberts was formerly a printer and stood high in his rogij mcnt. Monument to Sumter. 1 Itepresentat ive Lever received assurances from the house committee on library that bis bill appropriating 2.">,ooo for the ercetlon of a monument to the memory of Gen. Thomas Sumter, the Revolutionary hero, ; would be favorably* reported this sesI slon. The bill provides that the monument shall he erected In the town of Sumter, upon a suitable location.