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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April,. 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Eeiabiiehed Jane, 1266
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1895.
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Bearding the Gilded Lion.
British Bimetallists Gain Un?
expected Success.
LONDON, Feb 26.-In the House of
Commons to-day, Robert L. Everett,
Liberal member for Woodbridge Di?
vision of Suftblk, introduced the fol?
lowing motion : That the House re?
gards with increasing apprehension,
the constant fluctuation and growing
divergence of values of gold and silver
and heartily concurs in the rece
expressions of the governments of
France and Germany in regard to the
serious evils arising therefrom.
Speaking to the motion, Mr.
Everett appealed to Sir William Har?
court to give heed to the real posi?
tion of the question, put aside theo
. rizing and open his eyes to the enor?
mous revolution of the values which
has not been brought about by natural
causes, but by legislation. He ex?
pressed the hope that the government
would co-operate with the other
powers in au effort to bring back a
happier state of things which existed
when the two metals stood upon a
common ratio.
England, Mr. Everett said, was rich,
but that was no reason why she
should unjustly increase the burden
of other states. Surely, he said, she
was not interested in the bankruptcy
of other nations which were owing
her money ; but that was exactly what
was going on and what would con?
tinue unless something was done to
check it.
Right Hon. Henry Chaplin (Con?
servative) in seconding the motion,
said that the government had aimed
blow after blow at 6?!ver ; and closed
the mints of India, depriving silver of
its last great market, and afterwards
had imposed a duty upon the silver
imports of India. The constant fluc?
tuations of the metal, he declared,
were directly traceable to the mone?
tary laws of Englaud. He chaiged
Sir William Harcourt with having
misjudged the views of France and
Germany on the question and pre?
dicted that although the opposition
to bimetallism was now bitter,
that system would at no distant date
be victorious because it had upon its
side expedience, justice and scientific
truth.
Sir William Harcourt said he had
never denied the existence of evil in
consequence of the growing diver?
gence of the values of gold and
silver. Wheu other countries had
desired a monetary conference, the
government bad not refused to join.
The last conference at Br?ssel had
shown that a majority of the Europ?
ean countries declared in favor of a
monometallic currency He did not
think that Germauy had changed her
opinion. When a proposal from Ger?
many orauy other couutry reached
the government, it would be time
enough to consider the question o?
England's joining in another confer?
ence.
To concur in proposals to confer
upon subjects of commou interest
was what belonged to international
courtesy. He would suggest that if
another conference were held it
should be understood that it was not
for mere academic discussion, bul
that the delegates ought to be em?
powered to make definite proposals
embodying their views. The re6-,
pective ministers fully recognized
the magnitude of the problems. The
interests of the country as the
greatest trading and monetary cen?
tre of the world were bound up in
the soundness of her currency and
it ought to be borne in mind that
England couducted her trade upon
relatively the smallest basis of any
country. She did so because she had
the largest credit. "(Hear, hear.")
Leaving the international con?
sideration for the national aspect of
the question, he contended that there
ought to be continuity of the cur?
rency policy which the nations had
attained. Though hoping little from
an international monetary conference,
inasmuch as a motion had been
brought forward on common grounds,
declaring that evil* existed which
the government admitted, and as he
had only been invited to co-operate
with the powers on the sucject, lie
had decided no to oppose the resoln
'tion. (Cheers)
The parliamentary bimetallist com?
mittee, immediately after Sir William
Harcourt had announced his accept?
ance of Mr. Everett's motion, tele?
graphed to the Berlin Bimetallist
League, asking it to urge upon Prince
Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor,
the expediency of opening negotia?
tions for a monetary conference at
Berlin. The league responded with a
telegram congratulating the English
bimetailist8 upon the success of Mr.
Everett's motion. The opinion pre?
vails in the lobby that an interna?
tional conference on the subject is
assured.
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No Cotton Option.
The Arrangement Made by
The Alliance Exchange.
The State Feb. 23.
All the railroad freight magnates
were here yesterday and appeared be?
fore the State railroad commission, in
regard to the matter of the proposed re?
duction in the fertilizer raies Among
tho?e present were .Messrs. So). Haas,
J. D. Drake and Culp of the Southern
system ; T. M. Emerson, of the Atlan?
tic Coast Line : E.P. McSweeney, of
the ?harleston and Savannah; L. A.
Emerson, of the South Carolina and
Georgia ; W. J Criag, of the Port
Royal and Western Carolina, and H.
C Beattie.
There was a long aod exhaustive dis?
cussion of the whys and wherefores, the
railroad men showing most conclusive?
ly the injustice of any reduction at this
time. Most of the railroad men pre?
sented written arguments and state?
ments of great force. Inasmuch as it
seemed to bo the desire of the railroad
men and the commissioners to exclude
the representative of the press so much
so that they were excluded-The ?State
though knowing all that was said on
both sides, does not care to give the
arguments. It is only necessary to say
that the showing made was well-nigh
unanswerable. The commission bas
taken no action. It ??ill remain in ses?
sion several days.
In this connection it might be
mentioned that the "cotton op?
tion'' demand made by the
farmers on the fertilizer manu?
facturers does Dot seem to be heeded.
All remember the terms of the demands
made by the recent convention. It will
be interesting to compare those terms
with the following arrangement made
by the Alliance exchange with nearly
all the Charleston companies, which
has just been announced. It will be]
easily seen that the two are most ma?
terially dig?rent. Here is the announce?
ment of the exchange :
We quote fertilizers, per toD, in car
load lots, f. o. b. Charleston, S. C., to
be paid for on or by October 15, 1895, j
in middling lint cotton, as follows:
Dissolved bone, per ton 185 lbs
Acid phos. 1 to 2 per cent, potash 195 ' '
Kainit , 200 ''
Guano (2 to 2J per cent. 325 "
Guano (2i to 3 per cent. . 335 "
The company will prepay and carry
freight at the rate of 8 per cent, per
annum, charging the number of pounds
of cotton as 5 will go into the freight
and interest. To illustrate : If the
freight is $3 and the interest say 15
cents, the total will be $3.75. and 5
into this will go 75 times, or 75 more
pounds of cotton to be added to the
above prices to pay the freight and
interest. The cotton is to be middling
lint and to be delivered on or before
October 15, in good marketable condi?
tion at the station where the fertilizers
were received, unless otherwise agreed
upon. It is to be middling, according
to the Charleston exchange classifica?
tion, and upon actual weight by sworn
weighers at the time of delivery. All
grades below middling will have to be
made good and none below good ordi?
nary will be received except by special
agreemeut. This is not a "cotton
option,'' but a cotton trade, and if you
buy for cotton you must pay in cotton
and nothing else.
FERTILIZERS-CAR LOTS.
Mav Nov.
1 '95*. 1, '95.
Dissolved bone per ton $ 9 50 ? 9 90
Acid phosphate, 1 to 2 per
cent. t itash, per ton 9 75 10 15
Kainit, per ton 10 15 10 56
Guano, 2 to 2* per cent 16 25 16 90
Guano, 2J to 3 per cent 16 75 17 40
Freight from Charleston, S. C., to
your stati a to be added to the above
prices In lots of fifty tons to be ship?
ped to one shipping point we have a re?
duction of 5 cents per ton on carload
prices, except on kainit. Let the sub
Alliances and dubs send in their orders
so as to aggregate fifty tons and we can
get the reduction in price.
On less than ten tODs there will be
$1 per too drayage and freight will be
20 per cent, higher than carload*.
The Princess Callatro de Colonna,
the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mr
John W. Mackay, is now in Paris with
her children and will make her resi?
dence there. A compromise has been
effected with her husband, and she will
not press her divorce suit, for the time
being, at least.
A Religious Riot
Checked by the Military in
Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Feb. 26.-Savannah es?
caped a riot to-night through the in?
tervention of the military. The
trouble was precipitated by ex-Priest
Jos. Slattery's lecture on the Roman
Catholic Priesthood. For several days
efforts have been made by members of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians to re?
voke the ex-priest's permit to deliver
the lecture, but the mayor, upon legal
advice, replied that it could not be
done. Threats were openly made
against the lecturer and the chief of
pelica aud a detail of officers were
ordered ou duty at the hall where the
lecture was to be delivered. The lec?
ture contained no offensive language,
but the crowd which had gathered on
the outside began to buri stones
through the windows aud among the
audience. The police ordered 'the
crowd to disperse. It refused to do so
aud kept shouting aud jeering.
The mayor was notified, and after a
consultation with the chief of police,
decided to order out the military. The
riot alarm was sent in, and io half an
hour eight companies of infantry and
a troop of cavalry, dismounted, were
on the scene. The lecture was over by
the time the military arri'.ed, and most
of the audience had left the hall. A
detail of mounted police stood guard
at the outrance. The crowd numbered
2,000 by this time, largely spectators.
A portion of it kept yelling and hurl?
ing bricks at the windows of the hall
where the ex-priest was. A few
shots were fired in the air by the riot?
ers, but no one was hurt.
The electric lights around the hall
were broken by missiles, and for a
time the neighborhood was in darkness.
After the military arrived on the scene
there was comparative quiet.
The streets were cleared for a block
in every direction and the troops re?
mained on guard until the disturbance
had subsided, when the lecturer was
brought out of the ball and escorted by
a squad of tweoty police, surrounded
by two battalions ot soldiers, walked
to his hotel. The crowd followed aud
jeered along the streets, but there was
no attempt at an opeo attack.
Half an hour after, the ex-priest's
wife was escorted from the hall to the
hotel by a squad of police.
Quiet in Savannah.
The Ex-Priest Will Lecture Again
To-day-Protection Guaranteed.
SAVANNAH, Feb. 27.-Everything
has been quiet in Savannah tc-day.
The disturbance last night precipitated
by Ex-Priest Jos. Slattery's lecture
has subsided and no further trouble is
anticipated. The police remained on
duty all night io the vicinity of the
hotel where Slattery and his wife were
stopping. A de.tail of military was
kept in readiness in case of a renewal
of the disturbance or an attempt should
be made to attack the ex-priest.
This morning both the police and
military were dismissed. Slattery and
his wife were on the streets during the
day. Mrs. Slattery was to have lec
trred at Masonic Hail this afternoon,
but the Hebrew Association, which has
the hall under lease, cancelled its con?
tract with Slattery and the lecture and
his own lecture, which he was an?
nounced to deliver to-night, were post?
poned. Five hundred ladies assembled
to hear the ex-priest's wife and finding
the bail closed, went to ber hotel.
Failing to secure a renewal of his
contract for Masonic Hall, arrange?
ments were made for Odd Fellows Hall,
and his lectures will be delivered there
to-morrow. Slattery asked Mayor Myers
for protection to-day and was assured
that every protection will be afforded
bim. Rumors have been in circulation
of attempts to fire Masonic Hall, but
no such attempt bas been made.
The outbreak, which is the result of
the effort oo tne part of the members
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
to prohibit Slattery's lecture, is depre?
cated by prominent Catholics. Vicar
General Cafferty, of the Roman Catho?
lic Diocese of Savannah, has advised
all Catholics to refrain from violeoce
and has used his influence to prevent
any further trouble. Slattery has re?
ceived assurance from the authorities
that he will be protected from molesta?
tion. He will be furnished a police
guard during his lectures and at bis
hotel if there is any danger of a de?
monstration.
The United States Consul at Haida.
Austria, writes that immense quanti?
ties of cutlery and ceramic ware are
exported from that region to tho
?Joited States, aud that handsome ex?
hibits are likely to be made at the i
Cotton States and International Expo- j
sition.
The late minister to Mexico. Isaac i'ii>
ey '?ray. like many other politicians ol
the Quaker stock, began his career as a
know-nothing. One of his ancestors
came over with Peon and was a mem?
ber of the Pennsylvania provisional ,
government.
Thirty-Nine Dead.
Terrible Mine Disaster in
New Mexico.
CERRILLOS, N. M., Feb. 27.-A
disastrous mining accident was reported
from White Ash, three miles from here,
this afternoon. At 4 p. m. eleven
bodies had been taken out. The acci?
dent occurred this morning in the
mines of the Santa Fe Company. It
was caused by an explosion. At that
hour, the employees at the entrance to
the mine heard a terrific roar, followed
by the ground trembling. A dente
volume of smoke poured from the
entrance, making it impossible to enter
until it had partially cleared.
The first body recovered was that of
a driver, who was near the mouth
when the explosion took place. Judg?
ing from his fate,'there is little hope
for any io the mine. Over half of the
men employed io the mine have fami?
lies and they are gathered around the
mouth of the mine in dire distress.
The fir*t intimation of the disaster
was a muffled roar and clouds of smoke
and dust rolling from the mouth of the
mjne. Nearly 300 men are employed
tn the mine, but only fifty were at work
when thc explosion occurred. Only
eleven of them escaped alive and some
of them may die' yet.
Twenty-eight dead bodies have been
takon from the mines and it is doubt?
ful if those remaining are alive.
Keiays of men have been working he?
roically all day to reach those who are
still imprisoned io tbe mice, but little
progress can be made on account of the
gas, which permeates every shaft and
overpowers trie workers in a short time.
Up to 4 o'clock those on the inside
could be heard trying to work their
way out from the caved-in, but as noth?
ing has been beard since thin, the im?
prisoned men in all probability have
succumbed to the deadly gas.
Tho scene at the mouth of the shaft
after the explosion was heart-rending.
Men cursed, while womeo cried and
prayed for their fathers, husbands and
brothers, who were entombed alive or
brought up dead. One woman, sup?
posing her husband to have been killed,
tried to commit suicide by throwing
herself in front of a moving train.
Herbusband was afterward rescued alive
and the reaction from insane grief to
delirious joy was nearly fatal. The
mine was known to be badly ventilated
and full of bad air and gas, and a catas?
trophe of this kind has beeu frequently
predicted.
A bill was introduced in the New
Mexico Legislature this afternoon to
appropriate ?5,000 for the relief of the
widows aud orphans. It will probably
pass.
The cause of the explosion is not yet
known and the facts are hard to get.
All the efforts of men in the vicinity
are being put forth to liberate those
imprisoned in the mine.
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The Sugar Bounty.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Senator
Blackburn to-day, by direction of the
majority of the committee on appro?
priations offered an amendment to the
sundry civil bill, which provides for
the payment of the sugar bounty
claimed to be due by the domestic
sugar growers. It provides that
there shall be paid by the Secretary
of the Treasury to those producers
and manufacturers of sugar in the
United States from maple sap, beets,
or sorghum, or sugar cane grown in
the United States who complied with
the provisions of the bounty law as
contained in schedule E of the tariff
act of 1890, a bounty of 2 cents a
pound on all sugars testing not less
than 90 degrees by the polariscope,
and 13-4 cents per pound on all
sugars testing less than 90 and not
less than 80 degrees, manufactured
and prodiiced by "them previous to
August 28, 1894, and upon which no
bounty has previously been paid;
and for this purpose the sum of $238
289 is appropriated.
That there shall be paid to those
producers who complied with the
McKinley bounty law by filing appli?
cation for license and the bond re
quired, prior to July 1, 1894, who
would have been entitled to receive
a licencse, bounty of eight-tenths of
a cent a pound on the sugars actual?
ly manufactured and produced in
the United States testing not less
than 80 degrees, during the period of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895,
comprised in the period commencing
August 28, 1894, and ending June
3D, 1895, and for this purpose $5,
000,000 is appropriated. The usual
precautions are taken to prelect the
government, and the bounty is to be | ?
paid only upon proof satisfactory to !
tho commissioner. After providing
}'<?r the details in connection with thc
payment ?jj tho bounty, tho amend?
ment concludes with a provision that j
?uti prison not entitled to tlu; bounty I
wini shall, with intent to defraud. ap
ply for or receive the same, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction, be lined not exceeding
?5,000 or imprisoned not eqceeding
live years, or both.
The Forty Still Active.
Tbey Intend to go Right
Ahead and do Something.
Columbia State, Feb. 27.
It now begins to look as if the
"Forty'-' had awakened from the
shock they sustained by the scheme
of Messrs. Tillman, Evans, Ilemp
hill, Barnwell and others to forestall
them in their efforts to bring the
white people together and take the
credit of the movement which ori?
ginated entirely with them. When
their committee was here the other
night and its members heard of the
conference and agreement readied,
they seem to have suffered from
partial paralysis and the indications
were that they would giv? up and
let the schemers go ahead. But now
things seem to have changed, and it
looks as if the ''Forty'' will stick to
their guns and have a conference on
the matter in which somebody-the
people-will be represented, to dis?
cuss the outlook and reach some
agreement that will be acceptable to
the rank and file of all political fac?
tions.
The following was issued last night
and it shows that the "Fort}7" are
still alive and may yet cause the
beautiful plan already presented to
drop into the back-ground, and one
much more satisfactory to take its
place :
"The committee of the Forty have
resolved to proceed with their plan
before the people without asking
anybody's permission, while grati?
fied at having already accomplished
so much.
"THOMAS J. KIRKLAND,
"Secretary."
It looks as if the Forty regard the
action of Ex-.Governor Tillman and
Governor Evans in coming down to
an agreement as a consequence of
its efforts. They do not seem to be
willing to have small coteries repre?
senting nobody but those composing
them dictate terras. Their original
plan was to let the rank and file
select men to a conference in which
all factions could be represented
Messrs. Hemphill, Barnwell, Tillman,
Evans, Gantt, Irby, Bowden and all
the others recognized as leaders
of factions. In this way they pro?
posed to let the people come together
and after joint discussion agree
among themselves upon some basis
that would satisfy everybody. Per?
haps they are all the more deter?
mined now to go ahead with their
work of their reconciliation because
of what Ex-Governor Tillman had
to say in talking of the scheme
agreed upon at the small conference
the other day.
Tom Watson Wants Har?
mony.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 28-Hon Thomas E.
Watson, Populist candidate for Con?
gress in the Tenth district, and a
man who claims to have been elected
to the seat which Congressman J. C.
C. Black holds, addresses a large
audience in the opera house to-night.
He made a plea for harmony and
for more friendly criticism of himself
by the people. His speech was
principally devoted to the financial
question and of course advocated the
retention of gold, silver and green?
backs. His speech was well received
and will have a good influence in
healing dissensions in the district.
It was the most conservative speech
Mr. Watson has ever made.
The color of the sea is usually des?
cribed as blue, but it is by no means
uniform. lu the fopics it is some?
times an indigo blue, at others a deep
green.
Brazil grows a diminutive corn (be
ears of which are as large as a man's j
little fiuger, and the grains are the size
of mustard seed.
The stride of an ostrich is sometimes
as much as twelve feet, and, when
frightened, he can travel at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour.
The Gould CVr Coupler Co., of Chi?
cago, bas secured .large space for an
exibit at the Cotton States and Inter?
national Exposition, and it goes with?
out saying that this important enter?
prise will be well represented. It is
not a great while before every freight
car in America will have to be sup?
plied with an automatic coupler, and
the magnitude cf this business is ?
hardly realized It is expected that ?
the Gould Company's exhibit will be a j
revelation to the public.
I Bisseil Resigns.
The Postmaster [General Sur?
renders His Portfolio.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Postrnaster
Geoeral Bissell set at rest all doubt as
to bis purpose of remaining in the
Cabioet, by tendering bis resignation
to President Cleveland this afternoon,
j Tbis action was not taken hastily. As
I far back as early autumn, Mr. Bissell
j felt that his law practice a'; Buffalo
; required bis personal attention and a;
i that time he notified the President that
! sooner or later he would be compelled
I ro retire to private life. Nettling fur
! ther pased between the two gentlemen
j with reference to the matter until
; ten days ago, when Mr. Bissell again
! assured the President that be must
'? .-oon resign bis portfolio. The Post
! master General's resignation was not.
j known until a late hour this evening to
j his private secretary; nor w ll it be
\ known in all probability to any of his
subordinates at the Department until
: its publication in the morning papers.
The letter of registration is said to
j have been brief and to have been
I couched in tbe usual formal terms. It
I recites the fact that he deems it advis
j able to retire from the Cabinet and
j that he wili do so upon tbe appoint
I ment abd qualification of his tuccessor.
! The letter was written by the Pos--eur.s
i the General at the cloie of office hours
; to-day and was by him personally
! handed to bis chief a little after 5
o'clock.
Hon. W. L. Wilson, cf West Vir?
ginia, will probably succeed Mr. Bissell.
Mr. Wilson's friends announced last
I night that the position bad been ten
I dered him.
Wm. L. Wilson.
Nominated as Postmaster General.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 -The Presi?
dent this afternoon sent to the Senate
the name of Wm. L. Wilson of West
Virginia, as Postmaster General in
place of Mr. Bissell, who yesterday re
I signed The nomination of Mr. Wil?
son was compelled to take tbe ordinary
j course io the Senate and went over un
I der objection until to-morrow. It was
! thought that confirmation wou.d imme
; diateiy follow, especially as Mr. Vilas,
; chairman of the postefnee committee had
: meanwhile seen ali the members of the
, committee and bad bren directed to
i make a favorable repoit. Accordingly
when the doors wert* ch .-ed. Mr. Faulk?
ner (Dem.) of West Virginia, made an
appeal to the Senate for the case to be
taken up and acted upon by unanimous
conseut, but this was denied him. Mr.
I Wilson's nomination will, however, be
! confirmed at to-morrow's SCSS?DO.
When a prince of the Austrian royal
. family dies, his horse follows tbe funer
i al covered with black cloth, and
; lame in one hoof. The lameness is
j produced by driving a nail through the
i horseshoe. This is the sign of the
! deepest possible mourning.
Tbe gypsy moth which is taking
I possession of New England ie an im
j migrant from France. It reached New
I England in 1870, and has sin.;e multi?
plied in an alarming way Its cater?
pillars are very destructive, and New
England would like to have a Federal
appropriation of $200,000 to use io
i preventing it from interfering with io
i terstate commerce.
Great interest in the Cottcn States
and International Exposition las been
aroused by an elaborate article in the
Textile Mercury an organ of trade in
the Manchester region. The editor of
! that journal devote? severa! pages to
! the subject, and urges the English
! manufacturers of cotton machinery to
! be well represented at Atlanta.
Hinton Sr. George, the Somersetshire
estate of Earl Paulet, is offered for sale.
The earl is the lineal representative of
Sir Amias Paulet, the jailor of Mary
Queen of Scots, and is father to Vis?
count. Hinton, who grinds the ^rgan in
the London streets. The entire com?
prises over ten tbousaud acres; the old
castellated manor house lies in a park of
1,300 acres. It contains a picture
gallery with 320 paintings, some by
Reubens. Correggio Murrilla, Rem?
brandt and Vandyke. Evervhing on
the estate is in perfect order, and for
it all. pictures, furniture and heirlooms
included, ?3.000,000 are asked.
- - -->^M?- !? -
Mrs. Emily Thorm\ who resides at Toledo.
Washington, says srv ha? never been able to
procure HU y medicine for rheumatism that
relieves the pain so quickly and t-tT-ctuaily HS
Chamberlain's Pain Hal ni, and th*! she has
??so used i; for lame back with treat success.
r\ir sale t>y Dr. A J China.
THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, ,i s 5o. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's'' THE TRUE SO?TSROK, Established jaae. 136(5
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1895. New .Series-Yoi. XIV. Xo. 29.